DIMEV 6649
IMEV 4153
NIMEV 4153
Whoso will of nurture lere
Urbanitatis — ninety-eight lines in couplets
Title(s):
Urbanitatis
Subjects: manners, treatises on; courtesy books
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Cotton Caligula A.II, ff. 88
rb-88
vb
First Lines:Who so wyll of nurtur lere
Herken to me & ȝe shall
here…
Last Lines:…Amen amen so moot hit be
So saye we all for
charyte
Note: Nineteenth-century transcription is London, British Library Egerton 2257, ff.
136-137v.
Attributed Title: Vrbanitatis (f. 88rb, by scribe in upper margin and as RT
on 88v); Explicit tractus Vrbanitatis (by scribe, following
last line, f. 88vb); Vrbanitas a poeme (f. 1, sixteenth-century list
of contents)
Facsimiles: Speth, George William,
ed.
Quatuor Coronatorum Antigrapha.
Margate: H. Keble, 1889: 1, part i>.
Editions: Furnivall, Frederick James,
ed.
The Babees Book, etc.
EETS
o.s. 32 (1868); rev. ed. Early English Meals and
Manners London: Trübner, 1876; repr. 1973: 262-4 (rev. ed.).
2.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ 19.3.1, ff. 28-29
v
First Lines:When þu commys befor a lord
In hall in bowre or at þe
bord
hoode or cappe þu of doo…
Last Lines:…Cryst þen of is greyt grace
gyff yow boþe wytte
& space
Note: 92 lines; omits lines 1-2; ends, ‘Explicit quod hyheng’ (f.
29v).
Attributed Title: Stans puer ad mensam (f. 28, top margin, by scribe)
Facsimiles: Hardman, Phillipa.
The Heege Manuscript: A Facsimile of National Library of Scotland MS
Advocates 19.3.1.
Leeds Texts and Monographs, n.s. 16. Leeds: School of English,
2000.