Digital Index of Middle English Verse: Found Records

The Digital Index of Middle English Verse

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Found Records:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Takamiya Deposit 15 [Sotheby’s, 10 Dec. 1969, Lot 43; acquired by Takamiya in 1976]

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 608 (WRY).

1. ff. 1ra-73ra Almighty God in trinity / In whom onely is persons three

William of Nassyngton, Speculum Vitae — in couplets

2. ff. 81ra To wit on what manner and how

Rhyming rubric heading in New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Takamiya Deposit 15 [Sotheby’s, 10 Dec. 1969, Lot 43; acquired by Takamiya in 1976] to 1293

3. ff. 81ra-81vb Father of heaven all wielding

A ‘bok of wisdom’ — 208 couplets

4. ff. 81vb-83rb Failing of friendship oft time we find

‘On the Evils of Covetousness’ — seventy-five quatrains

5. ff. 83rb-83vb Jesu thy sweetness who so might it see

A Song of Love to Jesus — fourteen 8-line stanzas (abababab)

6. f. 83vb-84ra Jesu was of Mary born / For sinful man that was forlorn

A Dialogue between Christ and Man — 76 lines in couplets

7. f. 84ra Undo thy door my spouse dear

‘Ecce sto ad hostium et pulso’, Appeal of Christ to his leman and the reply — two 6-line stanzas and five couplets