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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.286–90; R. H. Robbins, ‘The Findern Anthology’, PMLA 69 (1954), 620–1; Beadle & Owen; K. Harris, ‘The Origins and Make-Up of Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.6’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibligraphical Society 8 (1983), 299–333; Seymour 1, pp. 19–20.
[1]
f. 59v
A note of ‘A rekenyng betwene Iohn wylsun and mester fynderne’, added by a mid s. xvi hand. See the transcript by Robbins, ‘Findern’, p. 620.
[2]
f. 70
An inventory of ‘the parcellys off clothys at fyndyrn’, added by a mid s. xvi hand, perhaps the same as that of [1]. See the transcript by Robbins, ‘Findern’, p. 621.
[3]
f. 110
Brute com after þe makyng of þe world into þys uur londe of albyon nowe yngland ml iiij lx xvij ʒere newe troye þat nowe ys clepid london was fowndet be brute after þe makyng of þe worlde ml iiij c xxiiij ʒere rome was fowndyd be remo and by romolo ml iiij c iiij xxiiij iiij ʒere …
f. 113
… and fro þe incarnacion of iesu crist til þe xx of kyng herre vj ml iiij c xlvj ʒere and þe sum of all aboue seid vj ml vj c xlvj ʒere.
‘The cronekelys of seyntys and kyngys of yngelond’ (f. 110). Brut, Peculiar Version. Ends in 1436. IPMEP 374; Wells Rev. 8:2833 [12]. Ed. Brie; see Matheson, Brut, p. 320. Facsimile ed. by Beadle & Owen.
Other texts: Folger Shakespeare Libr. V.a.198 ff. 1–3v. For other versions of the Brut see Ee.4.31 [4].
[4]
f. 113
The emperour of allmyen he beryth goold an egyll wiþ ij heedes dysplayed sabull membred an goowlis his best a sarantien the emperour of constantin nobull he beryth gowles a cross vert betwyn iiij anell of goold his best a tyger the kyng off fraunce he beryth asure iij floure de lyce …
f. 113v
… the kyng of scotlond he beryth gold a lyone in a dowble tresour counter floret gowlis his best an olyffaunt.
Brief heraldic notes in prose on seventeen European kings. The text ends at the bottom of f. 113v but may be incomplete since the next 3 leaves are missing.
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