Prologue to
Certayne Principall Questions drawen oute of Raymundes
Questyonary [actually a translation of Norton’s Latin Prologue to his
Ordinal; cf.
6014] —
twenty couplets
Author(s): Thomas Norton
Title(s):
Certayne Principall Questions drawen oute of Raymundes Questyonary
Subjects: prologues, to prose texts
Versification: —
two-line —
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2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 1479 (SC 7643), Part II, ff. 299
v-300
First Lines:Thys bokes vnto clarkes declaryth syence great
& here in laye
men maye increase of Iustyce geat…
Last Lines:…good lorde lete þat daye come must hertely we desyer
we
trustyth to se þi glory o lorde we þe requyer
Note: 10 stanzas. Follows Norton’s Latin Prologue to the Ordinal. At the
beginning on f. 299v: ‘The inglyshe of thys latten’. At
the end: ‘thus endyth þe ordynall of Mr norton made by hym in anno
1477. Coppyed by Rychard Waultowne alias Walton the 20 of october anno 1565 to
our god gyve alle honor. finis Telos’.