Digital Index of Middle English Verse: Found Records

The Digital Index of Middle English Verse

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Found Records:

Oxford, Bodleian Library Addit. A.106 (SC 29003)

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 491; Grid 480 407 (Lincs: Hand A); 1.144 (Leics: Hand B, ff. 198-219v); LP 492; Grid 518 406 (Lincs: Hand C, ff. 232v-266r); 1.144 (Lincs: Hand D, f. 266v); 1.144 (Lincs: Hand E, ff. 267-276v, 279-285v).

1. ff. 6v-14v In a morning of May when meadows should spring

The Quatrefoil of Love — forty 13-line stanzas

2. ff. 14v-15 How should I now thou fair may fall upon a sleep

Dialogue between the Virgin Mary and her Child — four 12-line stanzas with refrain, ‘It is my fader wyll’ and 4-line burden: ‘Lullay lullay my lityl chyld / Slepe & be now styll / If thou be a lytill chyld / Yitt may thou haue thi wyll’

3. ff. 15v-27v All childer that will clergy con

Cato’s Distiches — in 6-line stanzas

4. f. 139 Ipocras this book made yare / And sente it to the emperor…

A rhymed preface to an English prose tract on medicine — five couplets

5. ff. 192v-194 Masters that war of crafts seres

A poem on Lucky and Unlucky Days — 90 lines in couplets