Arundel MS 327

Vellum, in 4to., ff. 201, written in 1447, by Thomas Burgh. Osbern Bokenam's Lives of the Saints, in verse, chiefly from the Golden Legend.

1. Prologue, addressed to Thomas Borgh, of Cambridge, with a request that the author's name may be kept secret for a time. fol. 1.

2. Life of St. Margaret. fol. 5.

3. Life of St. Anne. fol. 29. At the end is an invocation to the Saint in favour of John and Katharine Denstone and their daughter Anne.

4. Life of St. Christiana. fol. 41. b.

5. Life of the eleven thousand virgins. fol. 60.

6. Life of St. Faith. fol. 68.

7. Life of St. Agnes. fol. 76.

8. Life of St. Dorothy. fol. 89. It contains towards the end a prayer to her for John Hunt and Isabel his wife.

9. Life of Mary Maudelin. fol. 93. b. From the "prolocutorye" it appears that this was written after 1445, in which year the author saw "the lady Bowser; countess of Hue" Isabel of York, wife of Henry de Bourehier, Count of Eu and Earl of Essex; he mentions also Richard, Duke of York; Isabel, his Duchess; and Elizabeth Vere, Countess of Oxford.

10. Life of St. Katharine. fol. 117. b. The prologue speaks of Kateryne Howard and Kateryne Denstone; and of John Capgrave's book [see Nos. 20 and 396] as newly compiled.

11. Life of St. Cecilia. fol. 136. b.

12. Life of St. Agatha. fol. 153.

13. Life of St. Lucy. fol. 171.

14. Life of St. Elizabeth. fol. 180. At the end is this note, "Translatyd into Englys be a doctor of dyuynite clepyd Osbern Bokenam, frere Austyn, of the convent of Stokclare;" there is added in another hand; "and was doon wrytyn in Cane bryge by his sone Frere Thomas Burgh, the yere of our lord a thousand foure hundryth seuyn and fourty, whose expence dreu thretty schyligyns, and yafe yt on to this holy place of nunnys that þei shuldo have mynd on hym and of hys systyr dame Betrice Burgh; of þe wych soulys Jhesu have mercy. Amen."

Osbern BOKENAM, Canon of Stoke Clare; living in 1445: Lives of the Saints, in verse, chiefly from the Golden Legend; written in 1447.

Beatrice Burgh, sister of Friar Thomas Burgh: mentioned in a note at the end of.

Thomas Burgh, Friar: Wrote: in 1447.

includes:

• f. 1 Thomas Burgh, Friar: Prologue addressed to him by Osbern Bokenam, in his Lives of the Saints.: Cent. xv.
• f. 5 Saint Margareta,; Virgo et Martyr Antiochena; xiii: Life of St. Margaret, in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 29 Saint Anna,; mater B Virginis Mariae; vii. kal. Aug: Life of St. Anne, in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 41 John and Catharine Denstone, and their daughter Anne: Invocation to St. Anne in their favour.: Cent. xv.
• f. 41 John and Catharine Denstone, and their daughter Anne: Catharine Denstone, mentioned again in.
• f. 41. b Saint Christina,; Virgo et Martyr; ix. kal Aug: Life of St. Christiana, in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 60 Virgines, Ss, Undecim Millia; xiii. kal. Nov: Lives of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 68 Saint Fides,; Virgo; prid. non. Oct: Life of St. Faith, in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 76 Saint Agnes,; Virgo et Martyr; xii. kal. Febr: Life of St. Agnes, in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 89 Saint Dorothea,; Virgo et Martyr; viii. id. Febr: Life of St. Dorothy in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f 93. b Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York: mentioned in.
• f. 93 John Hunt, and Isabel his wife: Prayer to St. Dorothy in their favour.: Cent. xv.
• f. 93. b Saint Mary Magdalen: Life of St. Mary Magdalene, in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 93. b Vere family: Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Howard, wife of John De Vere, twelfth Earl of Oxford; mentioned in the.
• f. 93b Bourbon; Isabel Plantagenet of York, daughter of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, wife, of Henry de Bourchier, Count of Eu and Earl of Essex: mentioned in.
• f. 94 Isabel Plantagenet, of Castile, daughter of Peter the Cruel, king of Castile and Leon, and wife of Edmond Plantagenet, duke of York, fifth son of Edward III: mentioned in.
• f. 117. b John Capgrave, theologian and historian: His book mentioned as newly compiled in Osbern Bokenam's life of St. Katharine.
• f. 117. b Katharina, S Virgo: Life of St. Katliarine, in verse: by Osbern Bokenam. Cent. xv.
• f. 117. b Katharine Howard: Mentioned in.
• f. 136. b Saint Cecilia,; Virgo et Martyr; x. kal. Nov: Life of St. Cecilia, in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 153 Saint Agatha,; Virgo et Martyr; non. Febr: Life of St. Agatha, in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 171 Saint LucIA,; Virgo et Martyr; id. Dec: Life chunks of love of St. Lucy, in verse, b Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.
• f. 180 Saint Elizabeth,; of Hungary: Life of St. Elizabeth in verse, by Osbern Bokenam.: Cent. xv.