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Add MS 60577
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- The 'Winchester Anthology', a collection of verse and prose, including Francesco Petrarca, Secretum; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees off Old Philosoffres; the Dicta philosophorum, translated by Anthony Woodville; and excerpts from Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae
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Miscellany of verse and prose (the 'Winchester Anthology'). For a full list of contents, see Wilson and Fenlon 1981.
Principal contents:
1. (ff. 1v-3v): Excerpt from a Latin herbal. Incipit (f. 1v): 'Est enim una herba aput Caldeos vocatur yrnos apud grecos maruluel apud latinos eletropia'.
2. (ff. 3v-6v): Excerpt from a Latin lapidary. Incipit (f. 3v): '[C]um dictum sit superius de virtutibus quarumdam herbarum'.
3. (ff. 8r-22r): Francesco Petrarca (b. 1304, d. 1374), Secretum, translated into Middle English verse. See Wilson, 'Petrarch' 1980. Rubric (f. 8r): 'Assit principio Sancta maria meo ffranciscus Petrarcha'. Incipit (f. 8r): 'I am soore astoned. whan I remembre me / How I entred thys lyff & how I schal oute a gayne'.
4. (ff. 22v-24r): Poem addressed to William Waynflete (b. c. 1400, d. 1486), bishop of Winchester and founder of Magdalen College, Oxford. See Wilson, 'Wayneflete' 1983; Boffey and Edwards 2005, no. 2825.55. Incipit (f. 22v): '[R]yght noble & blessede fader to whom of excellence / The flour ys proclamed thorowe ought thys realme wyde'.
5. (ff. 24v-37v): John Lydgate (b. c. 1370, d. 1451) and Benedict Burgh (d. in or before 1483), Secrees off Old Philosoffres. Middle English verse translation of the Secretum secretorum. See Boffey and Edwards 2005, no. 935. Rubric (f. 24v): '[T]his is the boke of the gouernaunce of kynges and princes'. Incipit (f. 24v): '[G]od almyghti save and conferme oure kynge / In all vertue to hys encrees of glorye'. Imperfect: ends at the bottom of f. 37v, with the loss of four quires of text (See Wilson and Fenlon 1980), comprising the end of this item and the beginning of the next. Explicit (f. 37v): 'Off good reporte shortly determyne / Hys sonne of vertues thorow the world shal shyne'.
6. (ff. 38r-44v): Anthony Woodville (b. c. 1440, d. 1483), 2nd Earl Rivers, The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers (printed by Caxton in 1477), a Middle English translation of the Dicta philosophorum by way of the French translation by Guillaume de Tignonville (d. 1414). Imperfect: missing its beginning, due to the loss of four quires of text before f. 38r. Incipit (f. 38r): 'synne ffor hit satysfyethe not to spare metis and doo euyll dedys'.
7. (ff. 47r-49r): John Lydgate, 'Thoroughfare of Woe'. See Boffey and Edwards 2005, no. 1872. Incipit (f. 47r): 'Lyfte vp the eeys of your aduertence / yee that be blyndede wt worldes [corrected to 'worldly'] vanytee'. Colophon (f. 49r): 'Dan John Lyddegate Monke of Bury'.
8. (ff. 49r-v): Brief text on thirteen masses. Incipit (f. 49r): 'Thes xiij Masses folowynge muste be devoutly sayde and begonne vppon the wednysday and euery dayly aftur the seyde wednysday'.
9. (ff. 50v-51r): Brief text on a comet. Heading (f. 50v): 'Oxonforde'. Incipit (f. 50v): 'Clerkys of Oxenforde haue determynid appon this lemynge sterre & sayn that hit hathe aperid from the beginnynge of the worlde vn to this vj tymes'.
10. (ff. 52r-v): 'Esto memor mortis', a poem on death in English and Latin. See Boffey and Edwards 2005, no. 3122. Incipit (f. 52r): 'Whan thou leste wenythe. Veniet mors te superare / Thus thy grave grenethe. Ergo mortis memorare'.
11. (ff. 52v-53r): Latin poem on the transitory world. Incipit (f. 52v): 'Cur mundus militat: sub vana gloria / Cuius prosperitas: est transitoria'.
12. (ff. 53r-v): English translation of the preceding poem. Incipit (f. 53r): 'Lorde wherto ys this worlde soo gaye / whos blysse so soone ys shake awaye'. Colophon (f. 53v): 'Explicit'.
13. (ff. 54r-56r): Middle English verse sermon on Psalm 23:3-4. Rubric (f. 54r): 'Quis Ascendit in montem domini: aut quis in loco sancto eius. Innocens manibus et mundo corde'. Incipit (f. 54r): 'Lystenythe a while: and thenke [ye] nott longe / Turne to that lorde as the prophete can saye'.
14. (f. 56v): 'The ABC of Aristotle'. See Wilson 2000; Boffey and Edwards, no. 3793. Incipit: '+ Cystys [sic] cross be oure spede: wt grace mercye in all oure nede / A to amerous to aventurous a vyse ['or' cancelled] ye answere'.
15. (ff. 57v-58v): Poem on the wickedness of the world. Rubric (f. 57v): 'totus mundus in maligno est positus'. Incipit (f. 58v): 'Complayne we maye miche ys a mise / helpe ys ny gon to haue redresse'.
16. (ff. 59r-60v): Series of verse proverbs in alphabetical order. Heading (f. 59r): 'Here folowyth the propre treatyse / althow yt goo by .A.b.c. / Yet In it good Reson ys / Redede ouer & yow schall see'. Incipit (f. 59r): 'And yff thou wyst what thyng yt were / connyng to lerne and wt the bere'.
17. (ff. 61v-62r): Text on catarrh. Heading (f. 61v): 'Of the catarhus and rewmes'. Incipit (f. 61v): 'Catarhus cum whan as the humur fall frome the brayne. in to the mowthe. and iawes'.
18. (ff. 63r-64r): 'Omnipotentem semper adorant'. See Boffey and Edwards 2005, no. 2676. Incipit (f. 63r): '[O]mnipotentem semper adorant / Operacions heuenly and erthely all'.
19. (ff. 64v-65r): A verse prayer. Incipit (f. 64v): 'Hyghe & almyghty creator of alle / Spyryte of lyff & gyffer of gladnes'.
20. (ff. 65v-66v): 'Lord what is this world weal'. See Boffey and Edwards 2005, nos. 11.55 and 1982. Incipit (f. 65v): '[A] lorde what ys thys worldes wele / Rychesse revell or grete araye'. Colophon (f. 66v): 'Explicit'.
21. (ff. 67r-77r): Grammatical text (vulgaria), in Latin and English. Imperfect: a bifolium has been lost at the middle of the quire, between ff. 66 and 67, resulting in the loss of the beginning of this text, which starts midword at the top of f. 67r. Incipit (f. 67r): 'larium in gramatica disputancium optimo idiomatum doctissimus ab antistitate est premonendum'.
22. (ff. 80v-81r): Poem in French. Rubric (f. 80v): 'Die[v] chastell damours vous demand nomes le premier fundement'. Incipit (f. 80v): 'Apres nommer le maistre mure / Qui plus le face fort et steure'.
23. (ff. 81v-85v): Prayers (bidding-prayers) for use in Winchester (see Wilson and Fenlon 1981). Rubric incipit (f. 81v): 'Omnibus dominicis diebus per totum annum dicantur preces publice'. Incipit (f. 81v): 'In the honour reuerence and wyrshype of oure lorde cryse Ihesu. we schal lyfte vp oure hertis and meke oure sowlys vn to almyghty goddys mercy'.
24. (ff. 87r-89r): St Gregory's Trental (see Wilson and Fenlon 1981). Incipit (f. 87r): '[H]oc modo tricenarium primo inventum est. Quondam fuit Rome quidam nomine Gregorius. Hic habuit materm honestam et bone fame ut ab omnibus putabatur'.
25. (ff. 90r-91r): Debate between 'masters of divinity' on how best to please God. Incipit (f. 90r): 'Here bygynnethe a lytyl Shorte tretis þat tellythe howe þat þere were .vj. Maystris doctorus of dyvinite. assemblede to gedur and eueriche of them axed other. what maner þinge they myght beste speke of. þt myght pleas god beste'.
26. (ff. 91r-v): Prose text on 6 holy thoughts. Incipit (f. 91r-v): 'There ben also vj holy thoughtis. þat euery man and woman schulde dayly haue in mynde'.
27. (ff. 92r-v): 'Tyed with a Line'. See Boffey and Edwards 2005, no. 3436. Incipit (f. 92r): 'Euer þe ferther I goo þe ferþer I am behynde / The ferther I am be hynde þe nere my weyis ende'.
28. (f. 93r): 'On days when I am called to the school'. See Boffey and Edwards 2005, no. 2683. Incipit (f. 93r): 'ffrangens scola disculus est mercator pessimus. / A mornyngis when I am callide to scole'. Colophon (f. 93r): 'Explicit bonus cantus'.
29. (ff. 95r-107v): 'Demands of Love', translated from the French (see Wilson and Fenlon 1981). Incipit (f. 95r): '[F]are sir I aske you. whether ye hadde leuyr reioye wt out desyrynge. or to desyre wt oute reioyinge'. Colophon (f. 107v): 'Here endythe þe demaundes off loue. Mo. CCCCo lxxxo vijo'.
30. (ff. 111r-v): The vision of a holy man. '[Y]t was an holy man that besought longe tyme Almyghty god. to sende hym grace and wittynge of the beste vertues to vsen in his lyf'.
31. (ff. 111v-13v): Biblical quotations. Incipit (f. 111v): 'Sapiens xxiijo capitulo. [T]he wrathe of god. forsothe is turnyd in to mercy. Machabeis libro ijo. capitulo viijo'.
32. (ff. 113v-14v): Prayer to the Virgin. Rubric (f. 113v): 'An Oryson of oure lady seynt Marye'. Incipit (f. 113v): '[H]aue mynde I beseche the my moste gracyous layd moder'.
33. (ff. 114v-15r): The 'Short Charter of Christ'. Rubric (f. 114v): 'Carta generis humanj. Sciant presentes et futuri. & cetera'. Incipit (f. 114v): '[W]yte ye welle all þat be here: / And shall here aftur leef & dere'.
34. (ff. 117r-18v): Short Latin text on the planets. Rubric (f. 117r): 'Ad prenotandum diversam disposicionem aeris futuram propter diversitatem motuum superiorum'. Incipit (f. 117r): 'Necesse est potestates signorum naturas planetarum. qualitatem quoque quartarum circuli descripti per revolucionem diurnam perstrutari'.
35. (ff. 119r-v): 'A tretys of diverse herbys'. See Boffey and Edwards 2005, no. 2627. Incipit (f. 119r): 'Marye golde ys an herbe full gracyouse / who so knowethe all his vertuouse'.
36. (ff. 120r-v): An alphabet and simple prayers (Lord's prayer, Hail Mary, Creed).
37. (ff. 120v-28v): Middle English texts on the ten commandments and those who break them. Rubric (f. 120v): 'These bene the ten commaundementys of god that eche man sholde kepe yf they wolle be sauyde'. Incipit (f. 121r): 'The lord god spake all these wordis I am thy lord god that ledde the out of the lond of Egipte'.
38. (ff. 128v-29r): Middle English text on the seven corporal works of mercy. Rubric (f. 128v): 'Here endythe the brekynge of the ten heestys and bygynnethe the seven werkys of bodyli Mercy'. Incipit (f. 128v): 'Cryste shal sey at the day of dome to hem that shal be sauyd. Come ye blessyd of my fadyr'.
39. (ff. 129r-30r): Middle English text on the seven spiritual works of mercy. Rubric (f. 129r): 'And as the soule passethe the bodye in worthynes; soo bethe these gostly werkys of mercy more nedfull'. Incipit (f. 129v): 'Teche. Counceyl. confort. Chastyse fforyeve. Suffre. and Praye A man techithe the vnkunnynge goddis lawe by the wey of Charyte'.
40. (ff. 130r-31r): Middle English text on the five 'bodyly wittis' (five senses). Rubric (f. 130r): 'Asoo [sic] vs behouethe to be ryght well ware. that wee myspende none of oure fyve bodyly wyttis'. Incipit (f. 130v): 'Every man and woman grevously synnethe in Myspendynge the wytt of herynge'.
41. (ff. 131r-v): Middle English text on the five 'gostly wyttis'. Rubric (ff. 131r-v): 'Also we ought to busy vs more abought these gostly wyttis for more mede. or mercy'. Incipit (f. 131v): 'Thou shalte haue mynde on the blysse of hevene and how thou Mayste come therto'.
42. (ff. 131v-33r): Excerpt on the seven deadly sins, from chapter 7 of the Middle English translation of the Speculum ecclesiae by Edmund of Abingdon (b. c. 1174, d. 1240). See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Imperfect: f. 131* has been nearly entirely torn away, with the loss of some text; only a fragment remains at the bottom corner of the page, with a small amount of text. Rubric (f. 131v): 'And yf we spende welle the wyttes aforeseyd'.
43. (ff. 133r-v): Middle English text on the virtues. Rubric (ff. 133r-v): 'Every man shuld eschewe these foule synnes and busye hym to vse theese vertues that folowethe'. Incipit (f. 133v): 'Mekenes roote of all other vertues; ys remedye a yeyns the synne of pryd'.
44. (ff. 133v-35r): Excerpt on the 'Sevene yiftys of the holygost', from chapter 9 of the Middle English translation of the Speculum ecclesiae by Edmund of Abingdon. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Rubric (ff. 133v-r): 'Also Every man shuld comforte and Strenght hys soule withe these Sevene yiftys of the holygost the whiche here aftur folowythe'. Incipit (f. 134r): 'The Spyrit of wysdom and of vnderstondynge. The Spyrite of counceyle and of Strengthe'.
45. (ff. 135r-38r): Middle English text on the four cardinal virtues. Includes an excerpt from chapter 14 of the Middle English translation of the Speculum ecclesiae by Edmund of Abingdon. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Incipit (f. 135r): 'To thees accordythe welle the iiij cardynall vertues. withe feythe hoope. and Charyte. Prudence. Ryghtwysnes Strenght. Temperaunce'.
46. (ff. 138r-39r): Excerpt on the seven sacraments, from chapter 13 of the Middle English translation of the Speculum ecclesiae by Edmund of Abingdon. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Rubric (f. 138r): 'And See wee nowe whiche bene the Sevene Sacramentis of holy churche'. Incipit (ff. 138r-v): 'Seynt Eadmonde of pounteney Seythe that Baptyme ys the ffurste Sacrament that Makethe Man clene of the furste synne that he hathe of hys furst fadur Adam the whiche ys callyde Orygynall synne'.
47. (ff. 139r-41r): Excerpt on the twelve articles of faith, from chapter 12 of the Speculum ecclesiae by Edmund of Abingdon. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Rubric (f. 139r): 'Also see we nowe whiche bene the twelfe artycles of the beleve of holy chyrche'. Incipit (f. 139r): 'The ffurste article of these twelfe ys: that god ys oon Substaunce and thre persones in hym selfe'.
48. (ff. 141r-45r): Commentary on the Lord's Prayer, excerpted from chapter 16 of the Speculum ecclesiae by Edmund of Abingdon. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Incipit (f. 141r): 'Now suethe a Shorte exposycione on the pater noster of Seynt Eadmonde of pounteney. Thou shalt vnderstond that thoo wordys that camen by fore; That ys to sey Pater noster qui es in celis'.
49. (ff. 145r-46v): Middle English text on the nature of meekness. Rubric (f. 145r): 'Thees bene the viijthe tokenys of Mekenes'. Incipit (f. 145f): 'The furste tokyne ys. that a verray Meke man or womman. haue noo dysdeyne. or ys nott yvell a payede thoughe he be vndernomen or snybbyd of oon that ys of lasse degre than he ys'.
50. (ff. 146v-50r): Excerpt from chapter 8 of Walter Hilton (b. c. 1343, d. 1396), Eight Chapters on Perfection. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Rubric (ff. 146v-147r): 'Here begynnethe a tretys nedefull and Necessarye for all men and wymmen that yeuethe hem to parfection; ffor to knowe howe goostely love ys turnyde in to fflesshely love'. Incipit (f. 147r): 'Itt fallethe ofte tymes that a deuoute man louethe a nother deuout Man. Or ellys a deuoute woman in good honeste loue; louethe a deuoute Man'.
51. (ff. 150v-57r): Short excerpts from the bible and church fathers. Incipit (f. 150v): '[S]eynte Austyne seythe in the persoone of cryste. The that bee nott my discipuls Maye haue other gyftys of me. Als kynde. lyff. wytt. reason. ande bodylye helthe'.
52. (ff. 159v-80r): Form of confession, in Latin and English. Rubric (f. 159v): '[H]ere begynnethe howe and in whate wyse a crystene mane schulde lede hys lyffe from that he be of lawefulle age vnto hys laste [ende] of dethe. In wylle In worde In werke and thought. Mynde vnderstondynge ymaginacyon & reson. as hit folowethe here afture'. Incipit (f. 159v): '[C]onfiteor deo celi beate marie beate benedicto et omnibus sanctis eius et vobis peccavi nimis in corde cogitacione locucione omissione et opere mea culpa'.
53. (ff. 184r-89v): The Twelve Degrees of Mekenes. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Incipit (f. 184r): '[R]elygiouse & goostlye belouyde Syster in oure lorde Ihesu cryste I recomende me vn to youre Charyte and lowelynes. as youre pore brother & seruaunt in god'. Colophon (f. 189v): 'Louethe god and hatehte synne'.
54. (ff. 190r-v): Sheet music. Heading (f. 190r): 'la galantyne'.
55. (ff. 191r-204r): Sermon by John White (b. 1509/10, d. 1560), bishop of Winchester. Rubric (f. 191r): 'Laudavi mortuos magis quam viventes Sed feliciorem utroque indicavi qui nec dum natus est / A sermon of the late bosshop of winton John whit made before quene Elysabeth'. Incipit (f. 191r): 'Thes be the wordes of Salomon the fowrthe chapter of the booke of prechars callid ecclesiastes. They may be englished thus'. Colophon (f. 204r): 'This sermon the busshop of winton made At the burall of Queen Mary whose name was John whit And he was put in prison for his labor'.
56. (ff. 204v-08r): Sheet music: variations on 'Hugh Aston's Maske'. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981.
57. (ff. 209v-14r): Sheet music. The bottom of f. 212 has been cut away.
58. (ff. 217v-18r): Medical recipes. Incipit (f. 217v): 'To claryfie the voyce C A purgacion wth pils of hiera in Agarico'.
59. (ff. 221r-22r): Sheet music: canons. See Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Incipit (f. 221): 'Ave maria gracia plena dominus tecum'.
60. (ff. 223v-24v): Text on digestion. Incipit (f. 223v): 'That meate the stomacke delitithe in ys beste digestid / Avicen saith that good figis norishe more then any other frutis'.
In addition to these principal contents are many other short items, prose and verse, in both English and Latin.
Decoration:
Large red pen-flourished initial (f. 8r). Decorative scrolls: on f. 9v, in red, around 'Incipit liber primus' at the bottom of the page; on f. 24r, in black, around the colophon 'ffinis' at the bottom of the page. Foliate decoration on some ascenders and descenders (e.g. ff. 18r, 18v, 21r, etc.). Red ink used throughout for some large (2- or 3-line) initials, rubrics, titles, headings, the first lines of stanzas (e.g. ff. 24v-37v), Latin quotations, paraph marks, and some capitals. Some blue staining or highlighting of initials at the beginning of lines (e.g. ff. 33r-35r). A large number of spaces have been left, with guide letters, for large capitals that have not been added.
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Materials: parchment; paper (ff. 9-11, 14-16, 19-21, 24-26, 29-31, 34-36, 39-41, 43-46, 49-51, 54-56, 58-61, 64-69, 72-74, 77-79, 82-84, 87-89, 92-94, 97-99, 102-104, 107-109, 112-114, 117-118, 121-123, 126-128, 131-132, 135-137, 140-142, 145-147, 150-152, 155-157, 160-162, 165-167, 170-172, 175-177, 180-182, 185-186, 189-190, 193-195, 198-200, 203-205, 208-210, 213-215, 218, 220-222).
Dimensions: 210/215 x 135 mm (text space: 160 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 225 + 131* + ii (ff. i and ii are the front and back parchment pastedowns, respectively; f. 131* is a torn paper leaf following f. 131, of which only a fragment remains, repaired with modern paper to make up a full-size leaf).
Collation: mostly in quires of 10: i8 (ff. i-7), ii-v10 (ff. 8-47), vi10-1 (ff. 48-56; final leaf cancelled after f. 56), vii6 (ff. 57-62), viii10-2 (ff. 63-70; centre bifolium cancelled after f. 66), ix-xii10 (ff. 71-110), xiii10-1 (ff. 111-19; 7th leaf cancelled after f. 116), xiv-xix10 (ff. 120-78), xx10-1 (ff. 179-87; 7th leaf cancelled after f. 184), xxi10-1 (ff. 188-96; 8th leaf cancelled after f. 189), xxii-xxiii10 (ff. 197-216), xxiv10-3 (ff. 217-23; 3rd, 4th and 5th leaves cancelled after f. 218), xxv5-2 (ff. 224-ii; 1st and 2nd leaves cancelled before f. 224).
Script: Gothic cursive. 8 hands: Hand A (1487), a monk at St Swithun's Priory in Winchester, is the main scribe, with additional texts added later by: Hand B (16th cent.), Hand C (16th cent.), Hand D (c. 1550), Hand E (1549), Thomas Dackomb (Hand F, b. 1496, d. c. 1572), William Wey (Hand G., fl. 1559).
Binding: 15th-century blind-stamped binding with clasps, by the 'Virgin and Child' binder, c. 1480-1500.
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Origin: England (Winchester).
Provenance:
An unnamed monk at St Swithun's Priory, Winchester, 1487: inscription by the main scribe (f. i verso): 'Omnibus apertum fiat fiat quoque certum Sancti cenobij veteris me esse swythuni'; colophon (f. 107v): 'Here endythe þe demaundes off loue. Mo. CCCCo lxxxo vijo'.
?John Brinstan, 16th cent.: sold the manuscript to John Buriton (see below).
John Buriton, monk of St Swithun's, Winchester, early 16th cent.: inscription (f. ii recto): 'Iohannes Bury[ton] Monacus sancti Swithuuni y bowthe hym of brynstane coste me 3s 4d Erytike otherwyse callyd whythere postata I pray God he may repent and recant' (see Wilson and Fenlon 1981, pp. 10-11).
Thomas Dackomb (b. 1496, d. c. 1572), petty canon of Winchester Cathedral (see Wilson and Fenlon 1981, p. 12), 1549: inscriptions: 'Liber de thome dak[faded]' (f. 1r), 'Liber dominj Thomas dakcomb precium xxd' (f. 2r), 'per me dominum Thomam dakcomb Ao d 1549' (f. 60v).
William Wey, lay singing-man at Winchester Cathedral, fl. 1559 (see Wilson and Fenlon 1981, pp. 12-13): inscribed with his name: ff. 57r, 222v, 224v ('God haue mercy on the sowle of william wey'), f. 225r ('God haue mercy on the sowle of william wey'), f. 225v ('God haue mercy on the sowle of william wey Amen say ye'); inscriptions: f. 223r ('God haue mersie of my sowle'), f. 223v ('god haue mercy').
Henry Bauy, late 16th cent.: inscribed with his name (f. 86v).
Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1979: purchased from a resident of the North Riding in Yorkshire (see Wilson and Fenlon 1981) in a sale at Sotheby's, 19 June 1979 (see Sotheby's Catalogue 1979).
Acquired from Quaritch by the British Library in 1979.
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- England (Winchester).
- Information About Copies:
- Digitised copy available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_60577
- Publications:
- Sotheby's, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, London, 19 June 1979, pp. 52-60 (lot 57) [auction sale catalogue].
Edward Wilson, 'Some New Texts of Early Tudor Songs', Notes and Queries, new series, 27 (1980), 293-95.
Edward Wilson, 'A Newly Identified Middle English Translation from Petrarch', Notes and Queries, new series, 27 (1980), 500.
Michael Benskin, 'A Linguistic Atlas for Late Mediaeval English', Mediaeval English Studies Newsletter, 4 (1981), 5-13 (p. 12).
Judith Blezzard, 'A New Source of Tudor Secular Music', The Musical Times, 122 (1981), 532-35.
Iain Fenlon, 'Instrumental Music, Songs and Verse from Sixteenth-Century Winchester: British Library Additional MS 60577', in Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, ed. by Iain Fenlon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 93-116.
Vincent A. Gillespie, 'The Literary Form of the Middle English Pastoral Manual, With Particular Reference to the Speculum Christiani and Some Related Texts' (unpublished doctoral thesis, Oxford University, 1981), chapters 2 and 3.
The Winchester Anthology: A Facsimile of British Library Additional Manuscript 60577, ed. by Edward Wilson and Iain Fenlon (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1981) [facsimile].
Edward Wilson, 'An Unrecorded Middle English Version of Petrarch's "Secretum": A Preliminary Report', Italia Medioevale e Umanistica, 25 (1982), 389-90.
Edward Wilson, 'A Newly Identified Middle English Lyric in "The Winchester Anthology"', Notes and Queries, new series, 30 (1983), 389.
Edward Wilson, 'A Poem Presented to William Waynflete as Bishop of Winchester', in Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of his Seventieth Birthday, ed. by Douglas Grey and E. G. Stanley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 127-51.
William A. Ringler, Jr., Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript 1501-1558 (London: Mansell, 1992), nos. TM 16, 28, 157, 189, 255, 312, 328, 358, 438, 463, 478, 538, 596, 632, 672, 703, 727, 753, 845, 873, 890, 899, 903, 944, 980, 988, 1190, 1232, 1237, 1288, 1292, 1357, 1369, 1373, 1438, 1456, 1493, 1567, 1568, 1576, 1767, 1781, 1807, 1832, 1874, 1876, 1916, 1984, 1999, 2030.
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, New Series, 1976-1980, 2 vols (London: The British Library, 1995), I, p. 155.
Edward Wilson, 'A Middle English Verse Sermon in the Winchester Anthology', Notes and Queries, new series, 46 (1999), 17-20.
Edward Wilson, 'A Newly Identified Copy of The ABC of Aristotle in the "Winchester Anthology"', Notes and Queries, new series, 47 (2000), 296.
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards, A New Index of Middle English Verse (London: British Library, 2005), nos. 11.55, 906, 935, 1825, 1872, 1875.55, 1982, 2627, 2676, 2825.55, 3122, 3436, 3793, 3985, 4184, 4215.
Derek Pearsall, 'The Whole Book: Late Medieval English Manuscript Miscellanies and their Modern Interpreters', in Imagining the Book, ed. by Stephen Kelly and John J. Thompson, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 7 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 17-29 (p. 23).
Lawrence Warner, 'An Overlooked Piers Plowman Excerpt and the Oral Circulation of Non-Reformist Prophecy c. 1520-44', Yearbook of Langland Studies, 21 (2007), 119-42 [passim].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)