MS. Ashmole 189
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MS. Ashmole 189 – I (fols. 1-69)
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“Iste liber constat Roberto Daniell”
“John a Parke dwellynge in mylke strete [London]”
“y Gylbart Banystur.”
MS. Ashmole 189 – II (fols. 70-109)
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Language(s): Middle English with some Latin
IMEP, p. 5, no. 14, including two lunary texts at fols. 91r-93, IMEP nos. 15-16.
This article, which filled up 2 vacant leaves, seems to be in the handwriting of the Prior of Muchelney (see below, Provenance).
The refrains and first lines are—
(12 st. of 3.)
DIMEV 5082The virgin Mary’s doleful exhortation.
(41 l.) With indulgence of 26030 years and 11 days.
DIMEV 6769(8 st.) After each follows “Amen, pater noster, Ave maria.”
DIMEV 3941The last begins and ends thus—
Followed by four verses
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Richard Wraxall (?): on the upper corner of the second page is a distich, written in a cypher of Arabic numerals for the vowels; which may be read thus— ‘Qui scripsit certe Ricardus nominatur aperte | Quod si queratur recte Wraxall cognominatur.’ On the middle of the last page but one is the following inscription, in the same hand (without cypher): “Dominus Ricardus Coscumbe prior de Muchelney est possessor huius libri.”
Fols. 70-115: Muchelney, Somerset, Benedictine abbey of St Peter and St Paul: "Dominus Ricardus Coscumbe de Muchelney est possessor huius libri" on fol. 115r, s. xv/xvi. (MLGB3: evidence from an inscription of ownership by an individual member of a religious house (which may not, however, be evidence for institutional ownership)). Coscombe occurs as prior in 1522: Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3, 1519-1523, ed. J S Brewer (London, 1867), no. 2610.
MS. Ashmole 189 – III (fols. 116-200)
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For a full inventory see L. S. Chardonnens and J. G. M. Kienhorst, ‘Newly Discovered Notebooks of a Sixteenth-Century Flemish Astrologer Physician’, Queeste: Journal of Medieval Literature in the Low Countries, 25.1 (2018), 1–31. Includes:
Chardonnens and Kienhorst, no. 24.
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MS. Ashmole 189 – IV (fols. 201-215)
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See Sophie Page, 'Richard Trewythian and the Uses of Astrology in Late Medieval England', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 64 (2001), 193-228, who identifies the hand as Trewythian's.
Ecclesiastical and astrological. Continuation of the tables of Nicholas of Lynne for three cycles: 1463-1482-1501 (van Dijk).
Full text given IMEP p. 6, no. 18. Fol. 211v blank.
Fols. 212-218 misbound: the order should be 216 —7—9—3—8—2—4—5
Cf. EETS 276 pp. 10-17, as noted IMEP p. 6 no. 19.
The ninth page ends thus, in the judgements on the 23d day of the moon’s age:
Fols. 212-218 misbound: the order should be 216 —7—9—3—8—2—4—5
DIMEV 3247Preceded by 13 lines of verse (DIMEV 5154, beg. 'That man ys best yn mynde, and wel ymade yn kynde') forming a link with the preceding text.
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-10: Revised to include full details from Quarto catalogue.