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DIMEV 5662
IMEV 3581.5
NIMEV 3581.5
This book showeth to clerks mystical cunning
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 — aa



Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 1478, Parts I, II (SC 7642), Part II, ff. 90-90v
First Lines:
This Booke shewith to clerkes misticall comminge
This booke to laymen of iustice is any mentinge…
Last Lines:
…fortune to hime shall chance
þe time & hour of small Esperaunce
2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 1479 (SC 7643), Part II, ff. 299v-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’.