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Proverbs

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...
Dates: Circa 1480.

Composite volume of English origin, containing works of Ovid ('Fasti') and Claudian (major poems), the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13
Scope and Contents In the margins of both parts (folios 26 verso, 46 verso, 63 verso, 102 recto and verso) are written English proverbs in the same 16th-century hand.Pastedowns and flyleaves from an earlier binding consist of two bifolia folded in half and used sideways, containing in a 14th-century hand part of an unidentified commentary on Isaiah, dealing at length with 19.1 to 21.5, and to be read in the order viii recto + vii verso, viii verso + vii recto, ii recto + v verso, ii verso + v...
Dates: Late 12th century-13th century.

Manuscript of major poems of Claudian., 13th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13(ii), folios 48-106
Scope and Contents There remain `De bello Gildonico` 464-526 (folio 48), `In Eutropium` i and ii preface and 1-337 (folio 49), `Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti` 78-341 (folio 64), `Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti` (folio 68), ‘Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti` (folio 72), `Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro Consuli` (folio 82 verso), `De consulate Stilichonis`, i, ii.1-90 and 154-476, iii preface, 1-85, and 149-369 (folio 88), `Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii...
Dates: 13th century.

Manuscript of the `Fasti` by Ovid., Late 12th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.13(i), folios 1-47
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Verses 305-472 (two folios) and 726 to the end (more than one gathering) are lost.

The text agrees mostly with A (Vatican, cod.Reginae 1709, 10th century), but shares some errors with U (Vatican lat.3262, 11th century), D (Munich lat.8122, 11th century), and G (Brussels MS.5369-5373, 12th century). Occasional interlinear and marginal notes.

The initials of books are alternately in blue and red.

Dates: Late 12th century.

Mid-14th century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270

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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.6
Scope and Contents The first author, Guillaume de Lorris, wrote, circa 1230, a courtly allegorical poem of about 4000 verses, which sought to be an ‘art of love’, and which was continued, circa 1270, by Jean de Meun, who added about 17000 verses in a very different style and ideological frame. The whole opus is one of the most important literary works of the late Western Middle Ages, its influence upon the world of literature running until late in the Renaissance. This encyclopaedia of love (which also, in the...
Dates: Mid-14th century.