Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 519

DIMEV 519

IMEV 302

NIMEV 302

And I it lose and you it find

A Book Plate — two couplets

Note: See 2368: apparently this was of common occurrence in the fifteenth century.

Subjects: book plates

Versification: — two-line — aa

Bibliographic Ghosts: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 140 [olim Phillipps 8299], f. 170v (referenced in Hanna (1980)

XHanna, Ralph. “The Index of Middle English Verse and Huntington Library Collections: A Checklist of Addenda.” Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 74 (1980): 235-58

, n. 1; but see 5660; London, British Library Addit. 39659: see 2368-2.

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Lyell 16, f. i

Transcription:

Iohn brack own this booke
yf I it loost and you it finde
I prai you take so muche paine
as to bringe me my booke againe

2.Source: London, British Library Cotton Titus C.XIX, f. 144

Transcription:

Thys ys Iohn Orms booke
And he hyt loose and you hyt fynd
I praye you hertile…

Note: Text incomplete.

3.Source: London, British Library Egerton 1151, f. 159

Transcription:

Mysterys felys owyth thys boke
And she yt lose and you yt fynde
I pray you to take the payne
To brynge my boke home agayne

4.Source: London, British Library Harley 1251, f. 184

Editions:

Wanley, Humphrey. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum. 4 vols. London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12; ed. Wanley et al: 1.635.

Wright, Thomas, and James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, eds. Reliquiae Antiquae. 2 vols. London: Smith, 1845: 2.163.

Benham, Sir William Gurney. Benham’s Book of Quotations, proverbs, and household words. London: Harrap, 1948: 495b.

Littlehales, Henry, ed. The Prymer or Lay Folks’ Prayer Book. EETS o.s. 105 (1895); 109 (1897); repr. as one volume, 1973: xlviii.

Wordsworth, Charles, and Henry Littlehales. The Old Service Books of the English Church. London: 1904: 61.

Coulton, George Gordon. Life in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: at the UP, 1931, and New York: Macmillan, 1931: 2.118.

Bennett, Henry Stanley. England from Chaucer to Caxton. London: Methuen, 1928: 161.

Sisam, Celia, and Kenneth Sisam, eds. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970: 563-4.

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED