‘A lytell geste how the plowman lerned his pater noster’ — 207 lines in couplets

Subjects: exempla; tales; instruction, religious; plowman

Versification: — two-line — aa

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Note: Written in a 16th-century hand in the lower margin. Whether these lines were continued on the top of the verso is unknown because the MS was damaged in the Cotton fire. The primary text on the page is a Chronicle of England, and the section under which these lines appear recounts events from the Battle of St James, 1425.Witness and transcription provided by Sonja Drimmer; text identified by Mari-Liisa Varila.

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Note: CUL Sel.5.22.

Attributed Title: Here begynneth a lytell geste how the plowman lerned his pater noster (f. 1)

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