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- (f. 1r-v) [Prière à Jésus-Christ, en anglais]
Incipit: O Ihesu Crist kepe oure lyppes from pollucioun
as thow suffredist deth for almankynd…Explicit: - (f. 1v-2r) [Prière à la Vierge, en anglais]
Incipit: Al hayle Mary ful of grace
Oure lord of heven is with the…Explicit: - (f. 2v-4r) Verses on the kings of England, par John Lydgate
Incipit: This myghti William Duk of Normandye
as bokes old makith mencioun…Explicit: - (f. 4v-5v) Dietary, par John Lydgate
Incipit: For helth of body couer for cold thyn hede
ete no raw mete take good heede therto…Explicit: - (f. 6r-7r) Letter to Gloucester for money, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Right myghty prince and it be youre wille
condescende leyser for to take…Explicit: - (f. 7r-8v) Epitaphium eiusdam ducis Glowcestrie, A.D. 1447
Incipit: Souerayne Immortal everlastyng god
Almyghti most mercyful verray well of grace…Explicit: - (f. 9r-v) On kissing at "Verbum caro factum est", par John Lydgate
Incipit: Ye devoute people whiche kepe one obseruaunce
mekely in chirche to kysse stone or tree…Explicit: - (f. 9v-10r) Stella Celi extirpauit, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Thow heuenly quene of grace oure loodesteree
with thy chast mylke pentevous of plesaunce…Explicit: - (f. 10v-11r) A prayer for king Henry VI and his queen and the people, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Most souerayne lord o blesful crist Ihesu
ffrom oure enemyes defende vs of oure foon…Explicit: - (f. 11v-13r) Consulo quisque eris, par John Lydgate
Incipit: I counceile what so euer thow be
of pollicye foresight and prudence…Explicit: - (f. 13v) A dyte of womenhis hornys, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Off god and kynde prodeithe al beaute
Crist may showe aforeyn apparence…Explicit: - (f. 14r-v) A satyrical ballad against Jack Hare, par John Lydgate
Incipit: A froward knawe plainly to discryve
and a sluggard plainly to declare…Explicit: - (f. 15r-16v) Midsomer rose, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Late noman boste of konnyng nor vertu
of tresour richesse nor of sapience…Explicit: - (f. 17r-18r) An aureate prayer to the Virgin Mary, attribué à John Lydgate
Incipit: Rex Salamon summus of sapience
the whiche the sterrid cercle hath set in substaunce…Explicit: - (f. 18r-18v) Veni coronaberis
Incipit: Surge mea sponsa so swete in sight
com se thy sone that soke so shene…Explicit: - (f. 19r) Rammeshorne, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Ipocrise chaunged hath his weede
taken anabite of vertuous gladnesse…Explicit: - (f. 19v-22r) Everything draweþe to his semblable, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Trete euery man like as he is disposed
with holy men trete of parfitnesse…Explicit: - (f. 22r-24v) On the mutability of man’s nature due to the seasons, the elements, the complexions, and the flanets, par John Lydgate
Incipit: The world so wyde the ayre so removable
the cely man so litel of stature…Explicit: - (f. 26r-27r) Rime without accord or On the inconsistency of men’s actions, par John Lydgate
Incipit: All thyng in kynde desirith thyng I like
but the contrary hatis euery thyng…Explicit: - (f. 26v-27r) Verses against haste, par John Lydgate
Incipit: The hasty man failith neuer woo
hast contrarious enmy to sadnes…Explicit: - (f. 27v-28v) A song of iust mesure, par John Lydgate
Incipit: By witte of man al thyng that is contrived
standith in proporcioun plainly to conclude…Explicit: - (f. 29r-30r) On the mysteries of Creation
Incipit: O man thow marrest in thy mynd
to muse how god hath marked and made…Explicit: - (f. 30r-32v) Ave Iesse Virgula, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Haile blissed lady the moder of crist Jhesu
of pees and concorde haile fresshest on lyve…Explicit: - (f. 33r-34r) Mystical invitation of the Virgin Mary to man
Incipit: Regina celi qwene of thy sowth
a fourmed by Salamon his sapience…Explicit: - (f. 34v-35r) Ave regina celorum, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Haile luminary and benyng lantern
of Ierusalem the holy orders nyne…Explicit: - (f. 35v-36r) Regina celi letare, par John Lydgate
Incipit: O thou Ioieful light eterne ye shyne
in glory with laureat coronall…Explicit: - (f. 36v-37v) Birds’ matins, attribué à John Lydgate
Incipit: As I me lenyd vnto a Ioyful place
lusty phebus to supervive…Explicit: - (f. 37v-38v) Tyed with a line
Incipit: The more I go the further I am behynde
the further behynd the nere the weyes end…Explicit: - (f. 39r-39v) Riȝt as the crabbe goth forward, par John Lydgate
Incipit: This world is ful of stabilnesse
there is therin no variaunce…Explicit: - (f. 40r-42r) Testament, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Beholde o man lift vp thy eye and se
what mortal peynes I suffre for thy trespas…Explicit: - (f. 42r) The uncertainty of worldly honour, attribué à John Lydgate
Incipit: Worldly worship is Ioye transitorye
vnsure assuraunce highnes declynable…Explicit: - (f. 42v-44v) A lamentacioun of our lady Maria, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Who shal gyve vnto my hede a welle
of bitter teeris my sorw to compleyne…Explicit: - (f. 45r-46r) Balade of Fortune, par Geoffrey Chaucer
Incipit: This wrecchid worldis transmutacioun
as weele and woo now poore and now honour…Explicit: - (f. 46r) Complaint of Venus, par Geoffrey Chaucer
Incipit: Princis receyvith this complaynt in gree
vnto yowre excelent benyngnite…Explicit: - (f. 46v-48v) Amor et Pecunia, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Eche man folwith his owne fantasye
liche as it fallith in his oppinioun…Explicit: - (f. 48v) Gentilesse, par Geoffrey Chaucer
Incipit: The first stok was fader of gentilnes
and who that claymeth gentil for to be…Explicit: - (f. 49r-51v) ABC hymn to the Virgin, par Geoffrey Chaucer
Incipit: Al myghti and al merciable qwene
to whom that al this world fleeth for socour…Explicit: - (f. 52r-54v) The craft of lovers, par Geoffrey Chaucer
Incipit: To moralise asymilitude who list these balettes fewe
the craft of lovyers curyous argument…Explicit: - (f. 55r-70r) Fabula duorum mercatorum, par John Lydgate
Incipit: In Egipt whilom as I rede and fynd
ther dwellyd a Merchaunt of hye and grete estate…Explicit: - (f. 70v-72r) Legend of Dan Joos, par John Lydgate
Incipit: O welle of swetnes replete in euery veyne
that almankynd preserued hast fro deth…Explicit: - (f. 72v-73r) The Prioress’s Prologue, par Geoffrey Chaucer ‘O lord oure lord thyn name how mervelous / Is in this large world I spred quod she’ [DIMEV 3970-31]
Incipit: Explicit: - (f. 73r-76v) The Prioress’s Tale, par Geoffrey Chaucer
Incipit: There was in Asye in a grete Citee
amonges cristen folke a Iewrye…Explicit: - (f. 76v) A praise of St Anne, par John Lydgate
Incipit: He that intendith in his hert to seke
to love the doughter of any womman fre…Explicit: - (f. 76v) On removing spots made by wine, water, and milk
Incipit: Of wyne awey the moles may ye wasshe
in mylkes white the fletynge oyle spot…Explicit: - (f. 77r) The monk of Paris
Incipit: Remembryd by scriptures we fynde and Rede
holsum and holy it is to thynke and pray…Explicit: - (f. 77v-78r) Legend of Wulfryk the priest
Incipit: In Wiltshire of England two priests there were… Explicit: - (f. 78r) Jesus to the Virgin Mary, the Rose of Womanhood
Incipit: My fader above beholdyng thy mekenesse
as dewe on Rosis doth his bawme sprede…Explicit: - (f. 78v) On the folly of heaping up riches
Incipit: Long wilbe water in a welle to keche
a vessell made of yerdis that wil nat holde…Explicit: - (f. 78v-79r) On the mutability of man’s nature due to the seasons, the elements, the complexions, and the planets, par John Lydgate
Incipit: The Sangwyne man of bloode hath hardynes
made to be lovyng and large of expence…Explicit: - (f. 79r-v) Of the four complexions
Incipit: Off yiftes large in love hath grete delite
iocunde and gladde ay of laughyng chiere…Explicit: - (f. 79v-80v) Lines for a mumming, spoken by Law
Incipit: The high Astrapotent auctor of all
vnder whos clayme conciste the clymates…Explicit: - (f. 80v) Devoute and vertuos wordes
Incipit: There is non so wise a Man
but he may wisdam leere…Explicit: - (f. 81v-145v) The fall of princes, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Sodeyne departyng from this felicyte
in to myserye and mortal hevynesse…Explicit: - (f. 146-147v) Song of vertu, par John Lydgate
Incipit: As of hony men gete oft swetnes
of wyne and spicis is maad ypocras…Explicit: - (f. 148r-149r) Stans puer ad mensam, attribué à John Lydgate
Incipit: Be symple of chiere cast nat thyn ye aside
agenst the post lete nat thy bak abyde…Explicit: - (f. 149v-150r) Beware of deceitful women
Incipit: Loke wele aboute ye that lovers be
late nat youre lustis leede yow to dotage…Explicit: - (f. 150r-v) The pain and sorrow of evil marriage
Incipit: After this story tellith also
in confirmatioun of wymmens fragilite…Explicit: - (f. 150v) Four things that make a man fall from Reason, attribué à John Lydgate
Incipit: Worship wymmen wyne and vnweldy age
make men fonde for lak in theyr Reason…Explicit: - (f. 151r-152v) A wikked tong wol alway deme amis, attribué à John Lydgate
Incipit: Considre wele with euery circumstaunce
of what estate euer that thow be…Explicit: - (f. 152v) On the evils of prosperity, attribué à Geoffrey Chaucer
Incipit: Right as pouerte causith sobrenes
and febilnes enforchith continence…Explicit: - (f. 153r) The abuses of the age
Incipit: Yift is made domesman
Gyle is made chapman…Explicit: - (f. 153v-156r) Scogan’s Moral Balade, par Henry Scogan
Incipit: My noble sones and eke my lordis dere
I yowre fader vnworthily…Explicit: - (f. 156v-167v) Sayings of old philosophers
Incipit: The tyme approached of necessite
to reherse the marshal sentence…Explicit: - (f. 168r-168v) Seven wise counsels
Incipit: By sapience tempire thy corage
of hasty Ire daunt thy passiouns…Explicit: - (f. 169r-169v) Parvus Cato, par Benedict Burgh
Incipit: Whanne I aduerte to my remembraunce
and see how feele folkis erren greuously…Explicit: - (f. 170r-178r) Cato Major, par Benedict Burgh
Incipit: For that god is inwordly the wit
of man and yevith hym vnderstandyng…Explicit: - (f. 178v) Scogan’s Moral Balade, par Henry Scogan
Incipit: I compleyne sore whan I remembe me
the sodayn Age that is vpon me falle…Explicit: - (f. 179r-188r) Interpretacio misse, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Ye that beth of goode deuocyoun
to here youre masse with al your cure…Explicit: - (f. 188v-224r) Secrees of old philisoffres, par John Lydgate et Benedict Burgh; incomplet
Incipit: God almyghti save and conferme ouer kyng
in al vertu to his encrese and glory…Explicit: - (f. 224v-227v) Procession of Corpus Christi, par John Lydgate
Incipit: This high feste for to magnifye
now fest of festis most hevenly and devyne…Explicit: - (f. 228r-v) Of the Sodein Fal of Princes in oure Dayes, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Beholde this grete prynce Edward the secunde
whiche of dyuers landes lord was and kyng…Explicit: - (f. 229r-234v) A sayenge of the nyghtyngale, par John Lydgate
Incipit: In Iune whan Titan was in Crabbes hede
towardes Even the Saphyre huwed sky…Explicit: - (f. 234v-235r) Gaude virgo mater christi, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Be gladde mayde moder of Ihesu
whiche conceyvedest only be heryng…Explicit: - (f. 235v-236r) Criste qui lux es et dies, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Crist that art both day and light
and sothfast sonne of al gladnesse…Explicit: - (f. 236r-238v) Paraphrase of Psalm 102, par John Lydgate
Incipit: O thow my soule gyf lawde vnto the lord
blesse hym and preyse and forgete hym nought…Explicit: - (f. 239-242v) Gloriosa dicta sunt de Te, par John Lydgate
Incipit: In holy hilles whiche bien of grete Renoun
reysed on heyght from the valeys lowe…Explicit: - (f. 242v-244v) Valentine to Our Lady, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Seynt Valentyne of custom yeere by yeere
men have an vsaunce in this Regioun…Explicit: - (f. 244v-246v) Bycorne and Chychevache, par John Lydgate
Incipit: O prudent folkes takith heede
and remembrith in youre lyves…Explicit: - (f. 246v-249v) Thoroughfare of woe, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Lyft vp the Ieen of your aduertence
ye that beth blynde with worldly vanyte…Explicit: - (f. 249v-250v) Balade on a new year's gift of an eagle presented to king Henry VI in 1428, par John Lydgate
Incipit: THis hardy sowle this bridde victorious
this stately sowle most Imperial…Explicit: - (f. 250v-251v) A gentlewoman’s lament, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Allas woful creature
lyveng betwene hope and drede…Explicit: - (f. 251v-253v) To king Henry VI on his coronation, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Most noble prince of cristen princes alle
fflowryng in yowth and vertuous Innocence…Explicit: - (f. 253v-256v) On the Duke of Gloucester’s approaching marriage to Jacqueline of Hainault, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Thurgh gladde aspectis of the god Cupide
and ful accorde of his moder deere…Explicit: - (f. 257r-270v) Isopes fabules, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Wysdom is more of pris than gold in cofres
to theym that have savour in letture…Explicit: - (f. 271r) Chaucer’s Complaynt to his empty purse, par Geoffrey Chaucer
Incipit: To yow my purse and to nonother wight
compleyne I for þow my lady dere…Explicit: - (f. 271r-273r) Complaint of a prisoner against Fortune
Incipit: Allas fortune alas what have I gilt
in prison thus to lye here desolate…Explicit: - (f. 274r-276v) The order of fools, par John Lydgate
Incipit: The order of foles ful yore ago bigonne
newly professed encresith the covent…Explicit: - (f. 277r-287r) Hors, goose and shepe, par John Lydgate
Incipit: Controuersies plees and al discorde
betwene persones bien yit of ij or iij…Explicit: - (f. 287v-293v) The court of sapience
Incipit: All busy swymmyng in the stormy floode
of fruytles worldly meditacioun…Explicit:
Description matérielle
| Copiste: | Inconnu |
| Lieu: | Londres |
| Date: | Entre 1460 et 1483 |
| Nombre de feuillets: | 299 |
| Foliotation: | [i-iii] + 1-293 + [i-iii]; ancienne à la plume 1-322 |
| Format: | 295 × 210 mm |
| Justification: | 225 × 105 mm |
| Support: | Papier |
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| Reliure: | Cuir vert foncé (XIXe s.) |
| Notes: |
Possesseurs
- Mr. R. Jones
- Robert Harley (1661-1724) puis son fils Edward (1689-1741)
- Acheté par l'État britannique en 1753 avec le reste de la collection Harley
Bibliographie
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1808-1812, 4 t. (ici t. 2, p. 578-582, no 2251) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
- Lydgate's Horse, Goose and Sheep. Mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen herausgegeben von Dr. M. Degenhart, Erlangen et Leipzig, Deichert (Münchener Beiträge zur romanischen und englischen Philologie, 19), 1900, viii + 104 p. (ici p. 2-3) (sigle: H) [GB] [IA]
- Catalogue en ligne de la bibliothèque
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