Digital Index of Middle English Verse: Found Records

Found Records:

London, British Library Cotton Cleopatra D.IX

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986)

XAngus McIntosh, M. L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. = ‘LALME’. Aberdeen: Aberdeen Univ. Press, 1986

and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013)

XMichael Benskin, Margaret Laing, Vasilis Karaiskos, and Keith Williamson. An Electronic Version of A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. = ‘eLALME’. Edinburgh, 2013. [http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/elalme.html]

LP 7180; Grid 373 226 (Gloucs: ff. 118-149v); LP 7430; Grid 371 236 (Herfords: ff. 149v-167).

1. f. 118r1 Saint John the evangelist that Apostle is

Life of St. John the Evangelist in the South English Legendary — couplets

2. ff. 118r2-148v Gilbert was Thomas father name that true was and good

The ‘Harley text’ of the Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury, in the South English Legendary — in couplets

3. ff. 148v-149v Saint Thomas the holy man under the earth lay

The Translation of St. Thomas of Canterbury — seventy-four lines (appendix to the Life of St. Thomas in the South English Legendary)

5. ff. 151v-152 A Jews child in Buterie while by old daw

The little Jew, a miracle of the Virgin, in the South English Legendary — in couplets

6. ff. 152-153 A knight there was by old daw lither man enow

The Devil in Service, a miracle of the Virgin, in the South English Legendary — in couplets

7. ff. 153-154 A knight was while a rich man that honoured much mid all

A miracle of Our Lady, the Virgin Mary comes to Devil instead of Victim, in the South English Legendary — in couplets

8. ff. 154-154v A knight there was in land while great man withall and wise

Saved by learning Two Words, a miracle of the Virgin, in the South English Legendary — in couplets

9. ff. 154v-155 A knight there was in England by north here beside

The Oxford Scholar, a miracle of the Virgin, in the South English Legendary — in couplets

10. ff. 155-155v Jews hateth our Lady much and Her sweet Son also

A miracle of Our Lady, ‘Toledo’, in the South English Legendary: twelve couplets

11. ff. 155v-158v Saint Cecilia of noble kind I-bore was at Rome

Life of St. Cecilia in the South English Legendary — couplets