Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript was probably copied from an almost contemporary exemplar, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 322, and includes: 1. John Lydgate, Kalendar, a poetical paraphrase, in stanzas, of the Sarum calendar, incipit: 'Ihesu lorde for holy cyrcumsicioun' (New Index, no. 1721) (...
Miscellany of devotional literature in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
1. Complainte of the dying creature (ff. 96r-105v); Apart from this manuscript, this text is found only in four editions by Wynkyn de Worde (1506, 1507, 1514, and without a date, perhaps of 1531-34), but with different rubrics. According to Doyle 1958 (p. 230), both versions may have had a comm...