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Cambridge, Jesus College Q.G.8

Introduction

Manuscript Contents

  • ff.1r-19v
    • The Testament of John Lydgate
  • ff.19v-21r
  • ff.22v-25r
    • Consulo Quisque Eris
  • ff.25r-27v
    • Midsomer Rose
  • ff.27v-29r
    • A dyte of womenhis hornys
  • ff.29r-33r
    • Look in thy merour and deeme noon othir wiht
  • ff.33r-36r
    • On the Mutability of Man’s Nature due to the Seasons, the Elements, the Complexions, and the Planets
  • ff.36r-37v
    • Song of Vertu
  • ff.37v-41r
    • A Praise of Peace
  • ff.41r-44r
    • Misericordias Domini in Eternum Cantabo
  • ff.44r-44v
    • A Doctryne for Pestilence
  • ff.44v-46r
    • Dietary
  • ff.46r-47v
    • Verses on the Kings of England
  • ff.47v-53r
    • Exposition of the Pater Noster
  • ff.53r-58r
    • Fifteen Joys and Sorrows of Our Lady
  • ff.58r-60v
    • De Profundis
  • ff.60v-65v
    • Letabundus
  • ff.65v-70v
    • Fifteen O’s of Christ
  • ff.71r-71v
    • Why artow froward sith I am mercyable?
  • ff.71v-72v
    • Verses On the Five Joys addressed to the Virgin Mary
  • ff.72r-73r
    • On Kissing
  • ff.73r-73v
    • Stella Celi extirpauit
  • ff.74r-75r
    • Prayers to Ten Saints
  • ff.75v-76r
    • A Prayer to St. Leonard
  • ff.76r-76v
    • De tribus Virginibus Katerina Margareta & Magdalena
  • ff.76v-77r
    • Prayer to British Saints
  • ff.77r-78v
    • Stans Puer ad Mensam
  • ff.78v-92v
    • Cato Major

Physical Structure

Support

92 leaves 21.6 16.5 1

A6-P6 Q4 (wants 3,4): 92 leaves

Layout

The page consists of 32 lines, ruled in drypoint, with the text beginning below the first line.

The poem is written in eight-line ballade format, written continuously with a space left between stanzas.

The title of the text is slightly larger than the text of the poem proper, marked off on its own line with red lines both above and below.

Scribal Hand

The text is written throughout in Anglicana.

Ascenders, descenders, and otiose marks

The beginning letter of each line after the first in a stanza is capitalized and touched in red, and words are periodically underlined in red for emphasis throughout.

Capitals and illumination

The initial letter of each stanza is rendered in red ink and written in Insular. A space is provided in the first stanza of the poem for three line illuminated initial, but this remains empty. A possible guide letter occurs to the left of the margin next to this space, but it is indeterminate whether this is in fact intended to be a guide letter.

Notes
  1. 16 ↩

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