Cursor Mundi — in couplets

Note: For a Prologue and 3 parts in some MSS, see 1155; for separate insertions, see 1285, 1687, 2931, 2945, 3092, 6363.

Title(s): Cursor Mundi

Subjects: treatises, devotional; instruction, religious

Versification: — two-line — aa

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Attributed Title: Here begynnyth the boke of stories callid Cursor mundi (f. 66); Explicit Cursor mundi (at the end)

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Attributed Title: þis is þe best boke of alle / þe tours of þe werlde men dos hit calle (f. 4ra)

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Attributed Title: Here bigynneþ þe boke of storyes þat men callen cursor mundi (f. 1)

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Attributed Title: Explicit þe begynnyng off þe worlde off þe trenite þe Fadir & Son & holigost þe Making off þe worlde & of adam & Eve & afftir of Noye & So Fro noye to Abraham & So doune þe Genelagy of our lady & þe birth off Crist & his pascion & Resurrexion & So Many oþer dyuers maters & So to þe day of dome & þe Comyng of antecrist & So to þe laste day of Iugement (f. 174v)

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Note: Two binding fragments, portions of bifolia, top and bottom, by same fifteenth-century hand; text beginning line 25684.

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Note: Fragment, misbound and imperfect at beginning and end(?), with two folios missing between 45 and 46; lines 18989-23944.

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Attributed Title: [ ]ursor mundi (f. 1ra)

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Note: Fragment of four leaves: lines 20129-20314.