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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.167–9; T. H. Ohlgren, ‘Richard Call, the Pastons, and the manuscript context of Robin Hood and the Potter (Cambridge, University Library Ee.4.35.1)’, Nottingham Medieval Studies 45 (2001), 210–28, with an appendix by L. M. Matheson ‘Dialect Analysis of Ee.4.35.1’ pp. 229–33. MS now separately foliated in two parts.
[1]
Part 1, f. 14
Itemized list of expenses (with 25 entries for meat, fowl and fish) for a marriage feast with the heading ‘Thys ys the exspences of flesche at the mariage off mey ladey marget þt sche had owt off eynglonde’.
The occasion is identified by Ohlgren (2001), 217–8, as the marriage of Edward IV's youngest sister Margaret of York to Charles, duke of Burgundy in Bruges, 3 July 1468.
Other texts: the list is unique, but for a first-hand account of the wedding festivities recorded in the Mémoires d’Olivier de la Marche see the edition by H. Beaune and J. d’Arbaumont, 4 vols (Paris, 1883–8) iii.101–23.
[2]
Part 1, f. 21
In ynglond ther ys a schepcote the wyche schepekote hayt ix dorys and at yeuery dor standes ix ramys and euery ram hat ix ewys and yeuery ewe hathe ix lambys if yeuery lambe hayt ix hornes and euery horne hayt ix tyndes what ys the som of all these bette.
Mathematical conundrum. IPMEP 344. Wells Rev. 10:3811 [222]. Ohlgren (2001) p. 220 gives a transcript and supplies the answer 7380.
Other texts: unique copy.
[3]
Part 1, f. 24
The wrathe of god forsoyt ys torned into excey in a weked sowle shall enter no wesdom yn the body that ys he þat ys seruant to son sapiens.
He þat ys weked to hemselfe to hom schalde he be god eccl xiiij co.
Fals tonge leueyt no trowyt and a scle per tonge wercheyt meche sorew prouerbiorum xvj.
He that kepys well hes mowte and hes tonge he kepyt hes sowle fro angwysshe prouerbiorum xxj.
Four biblical quotations with citations from, respectively, Wisdom 1:4, Ecclesiasticus 14:5; Proverbs 21:23 and 26:28.
[4]
Part 2, f. 1
Prose list of contents to the Prick of Conscience (NIMEV 3429) which follows; there are also similar lists to subsequent books of the poem at the appropriate points. Wells Rev. 7: 2486–92 [18] lists 125 MSS; this copy is of version b (the southern recension).
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