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560] LAMBETH LIBRARY 769
The first cover is lined with a piece of a nice canon
law MS.
Collation: ae‘ i8-/8 810 (10 canc.) 98 | 1012 (blank) | u8 126 | 136
(blank) | 148 | 156 | 168 176 (wants 6) | 68 (8 lining cover). Foliation
incorrect.
On ii a (xv-xvi) M. that y John semon hathe Bestowyd yn
serten bokes and Rayment wl other smayll thyngys at serten
tymys as hyre folowyth
Item yn primis for a boke J?1 ys cawlyd a grayle yn playn
song xxs
Item for legenda aurea yn anglyche vjs
Item pe x commandements iijs
Item ij grete portuyss yn playn song xxs.
A special prayer to S. Cuthburga suggests a connexion with
Wimborne.
Office of the Dead, noted ....... 1
Commendations 37. Mass 47. Inhumatio 58.
ff. 70-84 blank : but on 75 a is an entry by John Semon
Item for iiij smalle parchement...the price iiis.
Hie inc. matutine et hore de compassione b. marie virginis
qualiter lamentabatur filium eius in cruce pendentem Et qui
(four lines of the rubric obliterated, with note of Indulgence) . 85
Ends 98 a. On 98 b some lines in English added, the beginning
of a Complaint of a lost Soul :
Al cristen men yl walke me by
Beholde and se yis doleful sijt
It helpeth me not to cal nor cry
For I am damned a woful wyght
Beware by me kyng and knyght
And amend whyle ye haue space
For I haue loste euerlastyng lyghte
Mercy is gone I gete neuer grace.
17 lines in all. Carleton Brown, Reg. no. 106 ; ed. Horstmann,
Allengl. Leg. 1881, 529; Relig. Pieces, E. E.T.S. 115. There
should be twelve 8-line stanzas.
ff. 99-103 blank.
Oracio deuofissima ad b. v. m. Stabat mater . . . . 104
Ympnus. Cenam cum discipulis Christe celebrasti . . . 104 b
—quo tui curacio profluat langoris. Amen.
Or. bona de S. Cuthburga
Aue virgo deo grata • northumbrorum regis nata ■ Cuthburga
castissima
Precesf carnem carne degens • cor et corpus caste regens-
carnis vincens vicia
L. C.
49
The first cover is lined with a piece of a nice canon
law MS.
Collation: ae‘ i8-/8 810 (10 canc.) 98 | 1012 (blank) | u8 126 | 136
(blank) | 148 | 156 | 168 176 (wants 6) | 68 (8 lining cover). Foliation
incorrect.
On ii a (xv-xvi) M. that y John semon hathe Bestowyd yn
serten bokes and Rayment wl other smayll thyngys at serten
tymys as hyre folowyth
Item yn primis for a boke J?1 ys cawlyd a grayle yn playn
song xxs
Item for legenda aurea yn anglyche vjs
Item pe x commandements iijs
Item ij grete portuyss yn playn song xxs.
A special prayer to S. Cuthburga suggests a connexion with
Wimborne.
Office of the Dead, noted ....... 1
Commendations 37. Mass 47. Inhumatio 58.
ff. 70-84 blank : but on 75 a is an entry by John Semon
Item for iiij smalle parchement...the price iiis.
Hie inc. matutine et hore de compassione b. marie virginis
qualiter lamentabatur filium eius in cruce pendentem Et qui
(four lines of the rubric obliterated, with note of Indulgence) . 85
Ends 98 a. On 98 b some lines in English added, the beginning
of a Complaint of a lost Soul :
Al cristen men yl walke me by
Beholde and se yis doleful sijt
It helpeth me not to cal nor cry
For I am damned a woful wyght
Beware by me kyng and knyght
And amend whyle ye haue space
For I haue loste euerlastyng lyghte
Mercy is gone I gete neuer grace.
17 lines in all. Carleton Brown, Reg. no. 106 ; ed. Horstmann,
Allengl. Leg. 1881, 529; Relig. Pieces, E. E.T.S. 115. There
should be twelve 8-line stanzas.
ff. 99-103 blank.
Oracio deuofissima ad b. v. m. Stabat mater . . . . 104
Ympnus. Cenam cum discipulis Christe celebrasti . . . 104 b
—quo tui curacio profluat langoris. Amen.
Or. bona de S. Cuthburga
Aue virgo deo grata • northumbrorum regis nata ■ Cuthburga
castissima
Precesf carnem carne degens • cor et corpus caste regens-
carnis vincens vicia
L. C.
49