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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.172–4; Manly & Rickert i.170–82; M. B. Parkes and R. Beadle, Geoffrey Chaucer: Poetical Works: A Facsimile of Cambridge University Library Gg.4.27 (Cambridge, 1980); Seymour 1 pp. 19, 68–70, 83; Seymour 2 pp. 47–51; Binski & Panayotova pp. 276–8, no. 130. Now bound in 2 parts as Gg.4.27.1 and Gg.4.27.2
[1]
Part 1, f. 327
… ʒoureself dystroye senec seyth the wyse man schal nat take to greet disconfort for the deth of hise childeryn but certis he schulde sufferyn it in pacience as wel as he abydyth the deth of hise propere persone this melibeus answerde anoone and seyde what man quod he schulde of his wepynge stynte …
f. 349v
… i preye ʒow that in this necescite and this neede ʒe caste ʒow to ouercome ʒoure herte for senek seyth that he that ouercomyth …
Chaucer, ‘The Tale of Melibee’. Begins (at line 2173) and ends imperfectly (at line 3049) due to loss of leaves from MS. IPMEP 18; Wells XVI:66.
Other texts: See Dd.4.24 [2].
[2]
Part 1, f. 401
… men in certeyn cas as for to goon perauenture nakid in pilgrymage or barefot pryue penaunce is thilke that men doon alday for certeyn synnys that been priue of whiche we schryue us pryuely and receyue priue penaunce now schalt thow undyrstonde what is behofly and necessarie to verray parfit penytence …
f. 443v
… the plente of ioye wiþ hungir and thurst and the reste by trauayle and the lyf be deth and mortificacioun of synne.
Chaucer, ‘The Parson's Tale’. Begins incompletely (at line 105), and has several omissions, due to loss of leaves from MS. IPMEP 529; Wells XVI:89.
Other texts: IPMEP lists 48 MSS containing ‘The Parson's Tale’. See Ii.3.26 [2] and Mm.2.5 [2]. For other copies already indexed see IMEP 2 indexing Manchester Rylands Eng 113 [2]; IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Christ Church Col 152 [2], Corpus Christi Col 198 [2], New Col 314 [2], and Trinity Col 49 [2]; IMEP 11 indexing Camb. Trinity Col R.3.3 [2] and R.3.15 [2]; IMEP 16 indexing BodL Laud misc 600 [2]; IMEP 18 indexing Camb. Fitzwilliam McClean 181 [2].
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