London, British Library, Egerton 826
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Shelfmark
Country:England
Settlement:London
Repository: British Library
Idno:Egerton 826
AltName:Halliwell 219
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Date and Language
Date:s. xiv/xv
Language: English
Dialect:Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 411 280, LP 4682 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244).
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Contents
A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century manuscript containing the Paternoster, Ave, Creed etc.

Item: 1
Locus:f. 1r
Title:Paternoster
Incipit:Unreadable due to damage.
Explicit:'lede vs not in to temptacioun bote delyuere us of yuel amen'.
Note:
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Item: 2
Locus:ff. 1r-v
Title:Ave Maria
Incipit:'Heyl marie ful of grace god is with žee & blessyd be žou among ane wymen & blessid že fruyt of ži wombe ihesu amen'.
Explicit:
Note:Given here in full.
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Item: 3
Locus:f. 1v
Title:Creed
Incipit:'I byleue in god fader almy?thi maker of heuene & of erthe'.
Explicit:'without ende amen'.
Rubric:'Credo'
Note:Rubric in red.
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Item: 4
Locus:ff. 2r-4v
Title:Seven Deeds of Mercy
Incipit:'Of že dedes of mercy god will speken at že day of dome to alle on his r?t side'.
Explicit:'žerfore good it is to knowe hou on castež out anožer'.
Rubric:'že seuen dedus of merci'.
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Item: 5
Locus:ff. 4v-6v
Title:Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost
Incipit:'& firste ?ifte žat is loue drede of god castež out of a man pride'.
Explicit:'nou may be hole withoute hem'.
Rubric:'The seuen ?iftes of že holigoost'.
Note:Rubric in red.
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Item: 6
Locus:ff. 6v-26r
Title:The Eight Blessings of Jesus Christ
Incipit:'_s onsweruing to že firste'.
Explicit:'in heuene alle žinges to vs bote we han loren oure taste'.
Rubric:'The ey?te blessynges of ihesu crist'.
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Item: 7
Locus:ff. 6v-26r
Title:The Harp of Ten Strings
Incipit:'žis bok is že harpe & že cantrye of ten strynges žat dauyd biddež vs synge'.
Explicit:Too faded to read.
Rubric:'The harpe of ten strynges'.
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:145 x 100 mm
Collation: 16, ff. 1r-6v, catchword; 28, ff. 7r-14v, catchword; 38, ff. 15r-22v, catchword; 48, ff. 23r-30v; 58, ff. 31r-38v, catchword; 56, ff. 39r-44v; 66, ff. 45r-51v; 76 + 1, ff. 52r-57v.
Layout:Pricking not visible. Writing space of 105 x 70 mm. Single columns with 20 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint.
Writing: Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-46r) writing in an Anglicana Formata script. Characteristics: backward 3-shaped s in final position; very few hairlines; long s in initial position; double compartment a; single compartment g with lobe detached from descender; short ascenders. Body height: 3 mm. Scribe 2 (ff. 46v-51v) writing in an Anglicana Formata script. Characteristics: 8-shaped s in final position; z-shaped r in medial position; h formed of detached strokes; g detached but descender more of a curl than Scribe 1; slightly forked ascender on l. Body height: 2.5-3 mm. Scribe 3 (ff. 52r-57v) writing in an Anglicana Formata script. Characteristics: dotted y; nearly flat-topped t; less neat than the previous scribe's work; long s in medial position; 8-shaped g; descender of y is a very short hairline. Body height: 3 mm.
Decoration: Titles in red. Red paraph on f. 31r. Red running titles.
Binding: Not contemporary. Size: 150 x 115 mm.
Foliation:ff. 57
Additions:
Condition:Good
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History
Origin:Unknown
Provenance:Unknown
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, February 2004.
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Related Manuscripts and other documents Scribal Scribe 1 of this manuscript is probably scribe 1 of Sidney Sussex 74 (Fletcher, p. 152) (Atlas - Scribe 1 of Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 74 - north-east Worcestershire - iii, 550-51, LP 7591) - not more than 8 miles apart. Related MSS - thought to have been produced at a scriptorium with Lollard tendencies: Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 74; Wisbech Museum MS 8; Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2616.
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