Regiment of princes : [manuscript]

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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)

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  Register of writs : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-104v: [Register of writs; beginning defectively in the section on trespass and ending defectively in the section on writs of attaint; at least 7 quires missing with loss of text at the beginning (2 quires), after f. 56 (3 quires), f. 64 (1 quire), f. 72 (1 quire) and an unknown amount at the end].

  mssHM 45147

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  The Departure : poem

  Manuscripts

  Manuscript (holograph) draft of the poem "The Departure," a poem in 10 stanzas of 4 lines each (the 9th stanza has 6).

  mssHM 13184

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  Book of Hours, Sarum use : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-187v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar; ff. 7-84v: Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use, missing the illuminated opening leaves before ff. 7, 22, 55, 65, 69 and 77, with suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Edmund king and martyr, Lawrence, Stephen, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, and for peace; ff. 85-118v: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms and litany; ff. 119-184v: Office of the Dead, Sarum use (one leaf missing before f. 131 with loss of text); ff. 185-186: [added, 14th/15th c.] St. Gregory's Trental; f. 186v: [added, 14th/15th c., in a different hand from above]: Advowsons of 35 churches mainly in Somersetshire and in Devonshire; f. 187: [added, early 14th c.] Prophecy of the Lily, the Lion and the Son of Man; f. 187v: [added, early 14th c., in the same hand as the prophecy]: Reasons for the deposition of anti-Pope John XXIII.

  mssHM 1346

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  Agnus castus with additional medical recipes : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-40v. [Agnus castus]. Incipit: Agnus castus is an herbe that men clepyn Tutsayn other parkeleuys and this herbe hath leuys sumdele red yleke to the levys of Arage. Explicit: Also if a man haue grete itchyng in his Bodi take the Ius//. English. G. Brodin, ed., Agnus Castus: a Middle English Herbal Reconstructed from Various Manuscripts. Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature 6 (Copenhagen and Cambridge, Mass., 1950) 119-201; HM 58 not recorded; the text shares characteristics with Brodin's groups I and II, but many readings resemble the variants listed for London, Brit. Lib., Roy. 18.A.VI, the representative of group II. One leaf missing after f. 8 with loss of most of the entry for "Betonia"; between the entries for "Costus" and "Dragancia," ff. 15v-16, fourteen herbs not copied (contemporary note, f. 16, lists seven missed herbs); on f. 18v, ten lines cancelled and f. 19, a singleton, inserted by the scribe to allow for otherwise missed entries; other herbs occasionally missed; breaks defectively in the entry for "Rosa marinus," although the text may have been completed on the 4 leaves now missing after f. 40. See also A. Zettersten, "A Manuscript of 'Agnus Castus' in the Huntington Library," Notes and Queries 216 (1971) 130-31. ff.8v, 11v, 19v, 23v, 31v, 33, 34, 38v, 39, 41-42v. [Medical recipes]. English. Twenty-nine medical recipes added by several contemporary and later hands in the blank spaces left by the scribe of Agnus Castus in order to begin a new letter of the alphabet at the top of a page; ff. 41-42 were blank leaves completing the quire at the end of Agnus Castus; the recipe on f. 41 begins defectively. On f. 19v, a charm in verse against worms in children; on f. 41v, a charm "For to wynne at dyce." A recipe on f. 31v ends "probatum est per Iohannem Denys," referring to the surgeon John Denyse, whose name appears in records 1475-96/97; see C. H. Talbot and E. A. Hammond, Medical Practitioners in Medieval England (London 1965) 140-41. In a seventeenth century hand in the lower margin of f. 41v: "Master Whettons electuarie for the stone. It is to be sold at Master Spichforkes an apothicarie in chepeside nere the greate cundit there...it is also to be had att the golden morter next shopp to Master Spichforke in chepeside...". f. 43-93v. Forto make a water that is ycleped maidons melke that shal don awai sausefleme and the rede Goute in the visage [i.e. Medical recipes and charms]. Incipit: Take lytarge of Golde and stamp itt ynto poudre. Explicit: And then stille itt yn a lymbak with eesy fyre. Rubric: Forto make a water that is ycleped maidons melke that shal don awai sausefleme and the rede Goute in the visage. English. Approximately 253 recipes, including 2 for the ointment Gracia dei, "that the Ladi Beauchamp used the Erlis wiff of Warweke" (f. 52v) and another "that þe gode Erle of herforde used þat was yhold a noble and Gracyus Surgierer" (f. 53); the non-medical recipes are: f. 69, an incantation against thieves; f. 75v, an incantation to staunch blood; ff. 81v-82, indices to determine if a sick person will live or die; f. 82r-v, means of determining if a pregnant woman is carrying a boy or a girl; f. 84, an incantation for a speedy delivery in childbirth; f. 84r-v, an incantation to deliver a stillborn child; ff. 87v-88v, a passage on the virtues of "betayne." In the margins next to the 4 incantations, in the hand of the scribe, "Prohibitum est exercicium ab Ecclesia catholica." Nine recipes added in contemporary and later hands on ff. 76, 86, 88v, 93v. On ff. 43-62 only, initials added in the margin representing the main word of the rubric, as if in preparation for an alphabetical subject index, e.g. f. 43: "m" for "maidons melk," "p" for "polus rubius," "o" for "oynement"; f. 43v: "c" for "cancrum," "w" for "webbe." On ff. 94-95v (misbound), part of a table of contents for these recipes but possibly copied from a different book.

  mssHM 58

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  Book of Hours, use of Châlons-sur-Marne : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-77v. [Book of Hours]: f. i r-v [added 16th c.]: Prayer to the Virgin; ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v, 10-11: Pericopes of the Gospels (and on f. 11r-v, continuation of the responsorial prayer from f. i verso); ff. 13-14v: Obsecro te; ff. 40, 39, 41-43, 23, 12, 20-22, 27, 15, one leaf missing, 30, 25-26, 34, one leaf missing, 9, 16, two leaves missing, 19, one leaf missing, 35-36, one leaf missing, 37-38, one leaf missing; 24, two leaves missing, 29: Hours of the Virgin, apparently use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 44-54v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 54r-v: prayer added, 16th c., in the same hand as on f. i r-v: [M]ediatrix ..., [A]uxiliatrix ..., [R]eparatrix ...; ff. 31-32, 17-18, 33, 28, 55-71v: Office of the Dead, use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 72-77v: Prayers in Latin and French to the Virgin with a woman as suppliant; f. 77r-v: completion of prayer from f. 54v: [I]lluminatrix ..., [A]lleluiatrix ...

  mssHM 1265