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Description: ff. 1-44; f. 44v blank. [Edward Plantagenet] Master of the Game. Incipit: The hare ys a comune Beest ynogh þerffor me nedeth nat to tell off hys makynge ffor þer be ffew men that ne haue seyne some off heme. Explicit: Also whan his tuskes above ben lowe and ywered off þe nether tuskes it is a tokne of a grete Boor. Ardua lucra labor pariens non est honorosus/ Sepe dulcia gravi sub pondere munera crescunt. Here endeth þe Bokke of venerye Called þe Maystre off þe Geme which Spcyfyeth all þe Nature Off þe beestes of venerye And of here huntyng. Rubric: Here Endyth the Prologe and ffyrst Begynneth the Table off the hare and off hys Nature. Capitulo primo ut hic. English. Opens with a chapter list and a prologue that begins "To the honoure and Reuerence off þow my Ryght Wyrshypffull and dredde lorde Henry by the grace off gode eldest sone and heyre vnto the hyh excellent and Cristyn prynce henrye the iiiite." W. A. and F. Baillie-Grohman, eds., The Master of Game, by Edward, Second Duke of York (London 1904) printing the Middle English and a modern translation in parallel texts; EL 35 B 63 described on pp. 242-43. The second Baillie-Grohman edition (1909) gives only a modern translation. The order of chapters of this manuscript according to the text printed by the Baillie-Grohmans is 1-11, 27-36, 12-18, 20, 19, 21-25; Baillie-Grohmans' chapter 25 occurs here in 3 parts as chapters 34-36; their chapter 26 not copied in this manuscript.

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"The Mastyr off Game by the Mastre of the Game to Henry IV, King of England" by Edward, 2nd Duke of York
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Translation of Higden's Polychronicon, along with other translations of works into Middle English : [manuscript]
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ff. 1-5v: [Pseudo William Ockham, translation of Dialogus inter militem et clericum]: Rubric: Dialogus inter militem et clericum. Incipit: Clericus y wonder sir noble knyȝt þat in fewe daies tymes beþ chaungid riȝt is yburied lawes biþ ouertorned. Explicit: Also in þe tyme of gospel hit is writen þe holy day is made for man and nouȝt man for þe holy day. Explicit dialogus inter clericum et militem. ff. 5v-20v: [Richard FitzRalph, translation of Defensio curatorum]: Rubric: Incipit sermo domini archiepiscopi Armacani. Incipit: Demeþ nought by þe face but riȝtful dome ye deme. John 8o co. Holy fadir in þe bigynnyng of my sermoun I make a protestacioun. Explicit: þerfore I conclude & pray mekelich & deuoutlich as I prayed in þe first þat I touchid: demeþ nouȝt bi þe face et cetera. Explicit. ff. 21-23v: [Pseudo Methodius, translation of Beginning of the World and the End of Worlds]: Incipit: In þe name of crist here bigynneþ þe boke of methodii þe bisshop of þe chirche of paterenis and martir of martir of [sic] crist. Explicit: And wicked men wiþout ende shul suffre peyne. Wherefore þe lord vouche he saaf to delyuer vs. qui cum patre et cetera. Explicit liber metodii episcopi. ff. 24-40v: [Alphabetical subject indexes to the Polychronicon in Latin and then in English with reference to books and chapters]. ff. 41-42: [Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation]: Incipit: Siþþe þat babel was ybuld men spekiþ diuerse tonges. Explicit: þan alle þat ben ywrite in þe boke of lyf shal wynde wiþ him into þe blisse of heuen and be þere in body and soule and se & knowe his godhed and manhed in Ioy wiþout eny ende. Explicit dialogus. f. 42r-v. [John Trevisa, Epistle to Sir Thomas of Barkley]: Incipit: Welþe and worshipe to my worthy and worshipful lord sir Thomas lord of Berkley. I Iohan Treuysa youre prest and youre bedman. Explicit: to se god on his blisful face in ioy wipout eny ende. Amen. Explicit epistola. ff. 43-319v: [Ranulph Higden, translation of Polychronicon]: Prologue: Incipit prefacio prima, Aftir solempne and wise writers of art and of science þat had swetnesse & likyng al her liftyme ... Prologue [f. 44v]: Prefacio secunda ad historiam, And for þis cronicle conteyneþ beringes and dedes of meny tymes ... Prologue [f. 44v]: Prefacio tercia ad historiam, To hem þat wole haue ful knowelech of stories it nedeþ eiȝte þinges to knowe ... Rubric: De orbis dimensione priscianus in Cosmagraphia [sic]. Incipit: Iulius Cesar by Counsaile of þe senatours and elder men of Rome loked and serched stories ... Explicit: þis translacion is endide in a þursday þe xviii day of Aueril þe yere of oure lorde a þousande þre hundred foure score and seuen þe tenþe yere of king Richard þe second aftir þe conqueste of englande þe yere of my lordis age sir Thomas lorde of Berkeley þat made me make þis translacion fiue and þritty. Explicit. ff. 320-325v: [115 verses on the kings of England from Alfred to Henry VI; followed by several documents concerning Richard II (his renunciation of the throne), Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI and Edward IV (his claim to the throne of France with 2 genealogical tables]: Rubric: Hic metrice tractatur de regulis ab aluredo primo fundatore universitatis Oxoniensis circiter Annum domini D CCC lxiii usque ad henricum sextum. Incipit: Aluredus rex anglorum primusque monarcha/ Belliger invictus in scripturis bene doctus ... Explicit: Hoc tunc in fine verborum queso meorum/ Prospera quod statuat regna futura deus. Amen. [f. 325v, ruled but blank]. ff. 326-337v: [Pseudo Turpin, translation of Historia Karoli Magni; ending defectively in the 26th of 36 chapters]: Prologue: Turpine the Archebisshop of þe Bataille of Rouncivale. Here begynneth þe prologe of Turpines Story, Tvrpyne by the grace of god Archebiship of Reynes a bisye ffoluere and of grete Emperoure Charlis a ffelow with leoprande Dene of Akim gretinge and helthe euerlastinge in god ... ; [Chapter list]: B[rubricator's error for H]ere beginneth the Titulus of þe Chapitres of the Storye of the Bataille of Rouncivale of grete Charles the Emperoure, Capitulum 1m, [H]ow seynt Iame aperid to Charlis; Capitulum ii, [H]ow þe wallis of pampilione fylle down by hem selffe ... Rubric: How seint Iame apered to king Charles, Capitulum 1. Incipit: After oure lord ihesu criste had sufferid deþe and paid þe Rawnsome for synfulle man. Explicit: þen Roulonde lete him goo, and he callid to god to helpe him. And anone//. The text is preceded by a prologue and a chapter list:
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ff. 19v-103v. Psalter, Wycliffe translation. Incipit: Blessid is þe man þat ȝede not in þe coun[sel] of wickide men. Explicit: herie ȝe him in cymbals of iubilacioun: ech spirit herie þe lord. English. The psalter is introduced by four prologues of which the first and the fourth attribute authorship to Richard Rolle; the prologues and psalter are preceded by a section of Deuteronomy (beginning defectively), followed directly by Baruch ending defectively, and a section from Tobias (beginning defectively). ff. 103v-113. Canticles, Wycliffe translation. Incipit: Lord I schal knowleche o þee for þou were wrooþ to me. English. Old and New Testament Canticles, followed by the Quicumque vult salvus esse, and the litany. ff. 113-117. Psalms, excerpts, Wycliffe translation. Incipit: God seiþ þi his profete, my people parseyue ȝe my lawe, bowe ȝoure eere into þe wordis of my mouþ. Explicit: Schal not he heere þat plauntide þe eere, eiþer biholdiþ not he þat made þe iȝe, ps, lxxxxiii. English. Twenty-three excerpts from the psalms in the later Wycliffite version, apparently unique. ff. 117-121v. Rubric: Here bigynneþ ieroms sautir, Lord god vouchesaaf to take up þese psalmes þat ben halowid to þee, which I synful & vnworþi desire to seie in worschip of þi name. Incipit: Lord parseyue þou my wordis with þin eeris. Explicit: þat glorie & honour and worschip be to god þe fadir and to þe sone and to þe holy goost in alle worldis of worldis. Amen. Here eendiþ Ieroms sautir. English. See A. C. Paues, A Fourteenth-Century English Biblical Version (Cambridge 1902) lxiii-lxiv for the prayer and a discussion of the English text of the psalter of St. Jerome; complete Latin text in HE, 116-22. ff. 122-145. [Clement of Llanthony] Oon of foure. Incipit: In bigynnynge or first of alle þingis was goddis sone & goddis sone was at god. Explicit: I deeme þat þe world schal not take þe bookis þat schulen be writen. Rubric: Here bigynneþ þe gospel on cristemasdai at hiȝ masse. English. Oon of foure, the English translation of Clement of Llanthony's Concordia Evangelistarum (see Brit. Lib., Harley 1862, Roy. 17.A.XXVI and Roy. 17.C.XXXIII), normally in 12 parts, but here only Parts 1-2, 11-12; breaks in the text of 2 leaves after f. 132 and of 8 leaves after f. 134. ff. 145-146. Rubric: Here bigynnen þe xii articlis of oure bileeue. Incipit: The firste article of oure bileeue is þat god is oo substaunce & þre persones in himsilf. Explicit: for þe word of god to fulfille is liif & ioie wiþouten eende. Amen. English. Twelve articles of faith and seven sacraments. ff. 146v-147. Rubric: Here bigynneþ þe gospel of ascencioun day. Incipit: And þe enleuenþe disciplis wente into galilee in to an hil. Explicit: & aftir to regne wiþ oure lord ihesu crist & sauiour & hise holy seyntis into worldis of worldis. Amen. English. Gospel pericopes from Matthew and Mark. ff. 147v-150. [Poem]. Incipit: Blessid god souereyn goodnesse/ mercy to me thy synfull creature. Explicit: with angellis & senttis synggung in kynd/ Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus lord god with out ynd. English. IMEV 532; C. Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century (Oxford 1939) 86-89, from this manuscript. Followed on ff. 150v-151 by the table of contents, added towards the middle of the fifteenth century in a secretary script; ff. 151v-152v blank.
Pricke of conscience : [manuscript]
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ff. 1-100; f. 100v blank. [Pricke of Conscience]. Incipit: Here bygynnepþ þe firste part of þis bok, Ferste whan god all þynge made of noȝte/ Man of þe fouleste mater was ywroȝte. Explicit: To whiche ioye he vs brynge __torn___/ þat for oure loue made alle þ__torn___. Here endeþ þe pricke of concie__torn___. Finem composui penite__torn___. English. IMEV 3429; Southern Recension; R. Morris, ed., The Pricke of Conscience. The Philological Society (Berlin 1863), from London, Brit. Lib., Cotton Galba E.ix. See also Stacy Waters,"The Pricke of Conscience: The Southern Recension, Book V," unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1976 (this manuscript the base text). R. E. Lewis and A. McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the 'Prick of Conscience.' Medium Aevum Monographs n.s. 12 (Oxford 1982) 145-46. The text is preceded by a prologue," þe myȝt of þe fader of heuene/ þe witte of þe sone with hys ȝiftes seuene . . .". ff. i-ii verso. [Canon law]. Incipit: //subintelligitur si comode potest alii dicunt quod potest dispensari in voto peregrinationis et non in voto continencie. Explicit: quia filius approbavit, pecuniariam vero satisfactionem bene potest iniungere. Et numquam//. Latin. Questions on canon law or moral theology concerning vows. Script: Littera textualis. Layout: 2 columns of 36 lines, ruled in dry point; prickings in outer and upper margins remain. Span folios: ff. i-ii verso. Inner bifolium of a quire. Assigned Date: s. XIII/XIV.
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Tenures : [manuscript]
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ff. 1-10v. [Old Tenures]. Incipit: //Tenir en pure villenage est a faire tout. Explicit: a sa partie que a luy fuist aliene et si//. French. Old Tenures, beginning defectively, continuing beyond the 1521 Pynson edition with a section on Rent annuell and a series of short definitions, Suyt service through Tenauntz en comen, which ends defectively. On ff. ii, notes, s. XVII, in Latin referring to another legal text by page number; once a separate sheet, evidently tipped in after the volume entered the Bridgewater collection: a note on the verso, "Loose leaf in T 3 8," misreading the early Bridgewater pressmark, "I.3/8.". f. 11. [Carol]. Incipit: hey noyney I wyll loue our ser Iohn & I loue eny/ o lord so swett ser Iohn dothe kys/ at euery tyme when he wolde pley. Explicit: with praty plesure For to assay/ Furres of the Fynest with other thynges. English. IMEV 2494. R. H. Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford 1955) 20-21 from this manuscript, and R. L. Greene, ed., The Early English Carols (Oxford 1977) 278 from this manuscript. The burden is repeated in the margin of f. 73v in a different form, "hey troly loly hey troly loly I must loue our sur Iohn & I loue eny o lord.". f. 11v; f. 12r-v blank but for indenture. [Sir Thomas Wyatt] [Poem]. Incipit: I must go walke þe woed so wyld/ & wander here & there/ in dred & dedly fere. Explicit: but when your bewty I do thynk/ & all For lowe off on. English. IMEV 1333. Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics, pp. 14-15 with the 4 stanzas from this manuscript; stanzas 1-2, 4-5 of the 15 stanzas in K. Muir and P. Thomson, eds., Collected Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt (Liverpool 1969) 150-52. Stanza 1 repeated on f. 108v, stanzas 2 and 4 repeated on f. 107v, and the first 4 lines of stanza 2 also on f. 109. ff. 13-132; f. 132v blank except for pentrials. [Sir Thomas Littleton] Tenures. Incipit: Tenant en Fee simple est celuy qi ad terres ou tenementz a tener a luy et a sez heures a toutz iours. Explicit: plus tost aviendra a la certeynte et a la conusaunce de la ley. Lex plus laudatur quando racione probatur. Expliciunt nove tenure secundum Lyteltoun. French. T. E. Tomlins, ed., Lyttleton, his treatise of tenures in French and in English (London 1841).
mssEL 34 B 60 (EL 1160)