Manuscript

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Brogyntyn ii.1 (formerly Porkington 10)

Date of origin1453-1500
Place of originWest Midlands, Shropshire?
MaterialMixed
DimensionsWidth: 142mm | Height: 105mm
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Notes

Ff. 1-20, 23-24 are parchment; the rest is paper.

The first quire (fols 1r-11v), of principally astrological medicine, is thought to have joined the rest of the manuscript early in its production.

Contents

Folio Content item IMEV Details
1r-2r

Six short prognostics

English prose and Latin verse.

2r

Notes on planets

Latin prose.

2r-2v

Geographical divisions of the world.

Latin prose.

2v-3v

Chronology from the beginning of the world to 1415

Prose.

4r

Table of oppositions, or full moons, for the years 1463-67.

Latin.

5v

Table of planetary hours ('Hore diei incipiende ab ortu solis' and 'Hore noctis incipiende al occasu solis')

Latin prose with explanatory notes in English.

6r

Planetary influences at birth

Latin prose.

6v

Explanation of a calendar made in 1463

Prose. Calendar not included.

7r

Twenty rules for venesection

Prose, with human figure.

7v-8r

Table of the eclipses of the sun and moon for the years 1462-81

Latin prose.

8v-11r

Meteorological text

Prose.

11r

Instructions to find the position of the moon in the zodiac

Prose.

12r-26v Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle 1888

Unique copy. 660 lines.

27r-33r

Treatise on grafting and planting trees

Prose.

33r-52v

The crafte of lymnynge of bokys (On illuminating books)

Prose.

53r-56r

Dialogue with a bird

2018
56v-59v

The Tale of Ten Wives

1852
59v-61r

Parody of a Lover's Complaint

1957
61r-63r

An Old Man's Lament

349
63v-79r

Vision of Philibert regarding the Body and Soul

3330, 1932
79v

An admonition to prepare for death (Lo Worldly Folks)

1932

Epilogue to Visio Fulberti.

79v-81v

Erthe upon Erthe (B version)

704
81v-83v

The Complaint of a Hare

559
83v-86v

The knyȝt and his wyfe (The knight and his wife)

1641

Marian miracle.

86v-87r

The holly mane sente marttayne (Saint Martin derived from Northern Homily Cycle)

3289
87r-v

Narracyon of sente tantene (Saint Anthony derived from Northern Homily Cycle)

3289
87v-89v

Ave Regina Celorum

2610

Marian devotion.

89v-90v

Ten medical recipes

Prose.

91r-129r

Sente cattronys Lyfe (The Life of Saint Katherine)

Prose.

129r-130r

Parody of letter-writing formulae and satire on medical practice

Prose.

130r-v

Love poem. Be trewe and holde þat ȝe have hyȝt (Be true and hold that thee have hight)

479
130v-132r

Love poem

4
132r-135v

The stacyons of rome (The Stations of Rome)

Prose.

135v-138v

The good wyfe wold a pylgremage (A Good Wife's Counsels to her Daughter)

3363
139r-150r

The Friar and the Boy

977
150r-152r

Moral poem (Ever say well or hold thee still)

369
152r-154r

Trvtallys (nonsense verse)

1116
154r-v

Love-letter to a lady

1241
154v-155v

Love poem (Have my hert)

1120
155v-157r

Moral poem (As I came by a forrest syde)

341
157v-184r

þe sege of Jerusaleme (The Siege of Jerusalem)

Prose.

184r-187r

List of 107 hunting terms taken from Juliana Barnes

Prose.

187v

Precepts in -ly

324
187v-188v

Continuation of hunting terms from Juliana Barnes

Prose.

188v-192r

Extracts from Juliana Barnes' 'Treatise on Hawking'

Prose.

192r-193v

The Cock in the North (allegorical political prophecy)

4029
193v-194r

Balthasar's letter (Burgundian crusade propaganda)

Prose.

194v

List of gifts purportedly given to the Pope for use against the Turk

Prose.

195r-198r

Timor mortis conturbat me (A Song of Old Age)

3743
198r

Stanza from John Lydgate's 'Fall of Princes'

674
198r-v

Religious carol

298
198v-199v

Carol for Epiphany

1785
200r-v

Religious carol (veritas verbi domini)

4001

English verse with Latin refrain.

201r-202r

Dialogue between Mary and her child

22

English and Latin verse.

202r-v

The Boar's Head Carol

3314
203r-207v

Debate Poem (Mercy and Righteousness)

560
207v-211v

The Marchand (How the Merchant did his Wife Betray)

1897