Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 5649

DIMEV 5649

IMEV 3571

NIMEV 3571

Thirty days hath November

The number of days in the twelve months — two couplets

XTerry, F. C. Birkbeck. “Thirty Days Hath September.” Notes and Queries 8th ser. 4 (1893): 77

XNorthall, G. F. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places and Persons, Customs, Superstitions, etc. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1892

, 530; see also Opie and Opie (1951)

XIona Archibald Opie, and Peter Opie. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford: Clarendon, 1951

, 380. Also printed in Grafton (1570)

XGrafton, Richard. Chronicle. Abridgments. [London]: Richardi Tottyll. Cum priuilegio, [1562]

. A variant, with first two lines reversed, pr. in Winter’s Cambridge Almanac for 1635, ed. Halliwell-Phillipps (1839)

XHalliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard. Rara Mathematica, or, A Collection of Treatises on the Mathematics and Subjects Connected with Them. London: John William Parker, 1839

, 119.

Subjects: calendar

Versification: — two-line — aa

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: London, British Library Harley 2341, f. 5

Editions:

Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed. Secular Lyrics of the XIV and XV Centuries. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1955: 62.

Silverstein, Theodore, ed. Medieval English Lyrics. York Medieval Texts. London: Edw. Arnold, 1971: 144.

Luria, Maxwell Sidney, and Richard L. Hoffman, eds. Middle English Lyrics. New York: Norton, 1974: 109.

Gray, Douglas. The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985: 131.

2.Source: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales Mostyn Welsh 129, p. 3

Editions:

Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh Language. 2 vols. in 7 (1898-1910) [numbered 48 in Guide]: 1.65.

3.Source: Ripon, England, Ripon Cathedral Cicero’s Epistles (Basle 1546), flyleaf

Transcription:

thirtie daies haith September
Aprill Iune and November
Februarie eight & twentie alone
All the rest haue thirtie & one

Note: Added in a later hand on the flyleaf.

Editions:

Fowler, Joseph Thomas. “Ripon Minster Library and Its Founder.” Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal 2 (1873): 371-402: 401.

4.Source: Untraced, Present whereabouts unknown olim Davies Cooke 21, flyleaf

Note: Listed in Hamer (1995)

XHamer, Richard. A Manuscript Index to the Index of Middle English Verse. London: British Library, 1995

as missing, unidentified or destroyed.

Editions:

Historical Manuscripts Commission, Sixth Report, with Appendix. (1877-78): 419.

5.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HU 1051, f. 48

Transcription:

xxxti days hath Nouembre
Iune aprill & Septembre
Of xxviii there is but one
& all þe remenunt xxxi

Note: Written two lines of verse per line of manuscript.

Editions:

Historical Manuscripts Commission, Report on the Manuscripts of… Ashby de la Zouche. 4 vols. (1928-47): 1.419.

Wilson, W. J. Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Alchemical Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Brugis: Officina Sanctae Catharinae, 1939: 427.