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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). |
Creator/other | Lydgate, John (c. 1370-c. 1451) |
Shelfmark | VGG Q 9 |
Subject (topical) | Reading culture |
Subject (temporal) | Middle Ages |
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). |
Reference | Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 |
Language | English |
Country | United Kingdom |
Extent | electronic resource |
Published/created | Parts 1-2: British Isles ; England, 15th century, second half |
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