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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
Emmanuel College 11
Described James Emmanuel College, 10–11.
[1]
f. 182
Fifteenth-century Memorandum of houshold items, continued on f. 182v. It bears the name of John Raby and gives as its date the ‘furste yere of kyngge Rycharde the iij hys rayne’ [=1483].
MS s. xii. Donor: The name Thomas Leigh (c. 1667), who donated other manuscripts to the College in the seventeenth century occurs on f. 1ra. Ker, MLGB p. 87, states that the manuscript came from Faversham Abbey, Kent.
Emmanuel College 21
Described James Emmanuel College, 21; FM, I, p. lvi (MS 118).
[1]
f. 1
Here bigin[ … ]þ [… ] table wiþ a rule þat teechiþ in what book and chapitre of þe bible me shal finde eueri le[…]oun \at masse/ pistil and gospel þat ben rad in þe chirche biginnyng atte firste sondai in aduent …
f. 6
… the vigile of þe natiuite of oure lord wiþ alle þe twelue dayes and þe vtacis of hem as þei stonden bi ordre so þou shalt finde hem stonde tigidre in þe temporal and euere þanke we oure lord eendeles in trinite
A table of readings for the liturgical year, with rubrics marking the divisions in the readings for dominicals and ferials and those of the commemorations: ‘here endiþ þe temporal and biginniþ þe commemoraciouns first þe commemoracioun of oure lady in aduent’ (f. 4), and between the commemorations and the Proper and Common of the Saints ‘here endiþ þe commemoraciouns and beginniþ þe sauntorum comwn and propre alle vnder oon as þei fallin in þe ȝeer bi ordre biginninge next aftir þe vtas of þe twelfþe day’ (f. 4). The table precedes the Wycliffite Bible.
[2]
f. 7ra
In þe bigynning god made of nouȝt heuene and erþe forsoþe þe erþe was idil and voide and derknessis weren on þe face of deppe and þe spirit of þe lord was borun on þe watris and god seide liȝt be maad and liȝt was maad and god siȝ þe liȝt þat it was good and he departede þe liȝt fro derknessis and he clepide þe liȝt dai …
f. 283vb
… is delitable so to men redinge if þe word be euermore souȝt to ech part it shal not be couenable of plesinge þerfor here it shal be endid
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