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Composite manuscript, two parts (English): 1. (ff. 1r-116r) Poems / John Lydgate, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 117r-135r) Testament / John Lydgate, VGG Q 9

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Title	Composite manuscript, two parts (English)
Subtitle	1. (ff. 1r-116r) Poems / John Lydgate, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 117r-135r) Testament / John Lydgate, VGG Q 9
Content	Part 1: Contains poems of John Lydgate, unless otherwise stated (some poems by Chaucer or anonymous), all in English: (ff. 1r-7v) "Vita sancti Egidii" (Legend of St. Giles). - (ff. 7v-8r)"Oratio ab eundem" (Prayer to St. Giles). - (ff. 8v-16v) Added title "Just decimation" (Legend of St. Austin at Compton). - (17r-28r) Added title: "Danico invasio regnante Ethelstano una cum historia Guidonis de Warwik" (Guy of Warwick). - (ff. 29v-41v) "Macrabiorum"; added title: "Macrobius, or the power of death over all" (Daunce of Machabree). - (ff. 42r-48v) "Fabula de ave et rustico"; (The churl and the bird). - (ff. 49r-61r) "de fideli amore duorum marcatorum" (Fabula duorum mercatorum). - (ff. 65v-74v) "Arthorus conquestor" (Fall of princes, fragment: King Arthur); (ff. 75r-80r) "De Constantino Imperatore Romano" (Fall of Princes, fragment: Constantin the Great). - (ff. 80v-92r) "Disputatio inter equum aucam et ovem" (Debate between the horse, goose and sheep). - (ff. 92v-94r) "compilation de regibus Anglie" (The kings of England sithen William Conquerour). - (ff. 94v-96r) "Disputatio inter conquerulatorem et fortunam" = Ballad of Fortune / Geoffrey Chaucer. - (ff. 96r) "La bon Conceil de l'auctour" = Truth / Geoffrey Chaucer. - (ff. 96v-98r) "Ffacetia vocata Stans puer ad mensam" (Stans puer ad mensam). - (ff. 98v-101r) Dietiarium or a booke of good counsel" (A doctrine for pestilence; A dietary). - (ff. 101v-102r) "Descriptio Garsichiyis" (Jak Hare). - (ff. 102v-103r) "Littera missiva domini Johannis Lydgate ad dominum Gloucester" (Letter to Gloucester). - (ff. 104r-107r) "Compilatio facta contra Gulosos" (Fall of princes, fragments: The golden world; John the Baptist and Diogenes). - (f. 107r-v) "Preservaryum" / N.N. - (ff. 107v-108v) Added title: "A booke of proverbes of the wise man" / N.N. - (ff.109v) "Jesu Maria" / N.N. - (f. 110r) "Balad" / N.N. - (ff. 110v-111r) "Balada" / N.N. - (ff. 111v) "Paris disgising [?] pallas venus, Mynerva pallas loquitur ad paris de troye" / N.N. - (ff. 112r) "Ballad" / N.N. - (ff. 112r-115v) Incipit: "Most glorious lord, with thy cros be thou my spede, And me defende fro ye fendis Temptacyon ..." (An ABC to the Virgin). - Empty (originally): 109r (notes), 116r (notes, owner inscription), 116v (owner inscription; transcription of the beginning of Lydgate's Testament in part 2). Part 2: Contains: (ff. 117r-135v) Testament / John Lydgate.
Creator/other	Lydgate, John (c. 1370-c. 1451)
Shelfmark	VGG Q 9
Subject (topical)	Reading culture literature (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 15th century
Note	Collation: (part 1) Outer and inner double leaves of the quires are of parchment, the double leaves in between are of paper. - 4VI (1-48) + V (49-58) + 4VI (59-106) + VI-2 (107-115, 116). - (part 2) 2III (117-128) + III+1 (129-134, 135). Foliation: (1) In pencil (modern) 1-135. - (2) Four series of roman numerals in ink (15th century) covering both parts: i/xi-xl (= 1-30), ii/i-xl (31-70), iii/i-xl (71-110), iv/i-v, viii-xxviii) (111-135). The first ten leaves of part 1 (a quinio?) and two leaves between ff. 115 and 116 are missing. - (3) Pagination in ink (16th century) covering only part 1: 1-214 (1-107). Corresponds with the later added index on f. Iv, but shows many gaps (focuses on comparison with Lydgate poems in another source?): 2-60, 70, 80, 83-103, 105, 107 109-110, 120, 130, 134, 140, 148-150, 160-197, 200, 202, 204-207, 212-214. Script: Part 1 is written in two hands: ff. 1r-112r and ff. 112v-116r. Part 2 is written by a third hand. A later hand, in lighter brown ink, supplemented the index, added Latin titles (ff. 7v, 42r, 49r etc.) and copied the beginning of Lydgate's Testament (f. 116v); this hand is identified as Franciscus Junius Jr. (Bremmer 2001). Binding: Post-medieval binding (17th century). Textual: Manuscript titles derived from explicit/incipit formulas; also added titles, partly transcribed from the explicit/incipit formulas. Titles of Lydgate's poems between brackets according to MacCracken 1911-1934. - (ff. 107r-112r) Titles of anonymous poems according to Brown & (1943): Proverbis of Wysdom (107v-108v), On Fortune (109v), A nightingale poem (110r), The Discryviyng of a fayre lady (110v-111r, on the marriage of Joan of Navarre to Henry IV in 1403), The Judgement of Paris - (ff. 112r) Title of anonymous "Ballad" according to Van Dorsten 1960: A dream. Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399 Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Reference	Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 Bremmer 2001 (p. 53) = R.H. Bremmer Jr, 'Franciscus Junius reads Chaucer: but why? and how?'. In: T.A. Shippey (ed.), Appropriating the Middle Ages: scholarship, politics, fraud. Cambridge 2001, p. 37-72, Brown & 1943 = C. Brown & R.H. Robbins, The index of Middle English verse. New York 1943. Carley 2000 = J.P. Carley, 'The writings of Henry Parker, Lord Morley: A bibliographical survey'. In: M. Axton & J.P. Carley (eds.) 'Triumphs of English': Henry Parker, Lord Morley, translator to the Tudor court. New essays in interpretation. London 2000, p. 27-68, Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), MacCracken 1911-1934 = H.N. MacCracken (ed.), The minor poems of John Lydgate. Vol. 1. The Lydgate canon; Religious poems (London 1911). Vol. 2. Secular poems (London 1934) Senguerdius & 1716 = W. Senguerdius & al., Catalogus librorum tam impressorum quam manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden 1716, Van Dorsten 1960 = J.A. van Dorsten, 'The Leyden Lydgate MS'. In: Scriptorium 14 (1960), p. 315-325.
Language	English
Country	United Kingdom
Extent	electronic resource
Published/created	Parts 1-2: British Isles ; England, 15th century, second half
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1523394
Published (digital)	Leiden University Libraries,