Manuscript

Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.1.6 (Findern)

Date of originc.1446-1550
Place of originFindern, Derbyshire
MaterialPaper
DimensionsWidth: 150mm | Height: 210mm
Paper facsimile

The Findern Manuscript: Cambridge University Library MS Ff.i.6, ed. by Richard Beadle and A. E. B. Owen (London: Scolar Press, 1978).

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Notes

Defective at the beginning and end. 29 leaves missing. Quires of varying sizes.

N. B. The contents listed here follow the old foliation, as in Guddat-Figge (1976) and Beadle and Owen's paper facsimile. The manuscript has been refoliated for digitisation (omitting the missing/stubs of folios), and the images found in the Cambridge Digital Library (linked above) follow the newer foliation.

Contents

Folio Content item IMEV Details
3r-5r

Part of story of Philomene and Tereus, from John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' (Bk V, ll. 5921-6052; opening lines missing).

2662
5r-7r

A lover's plaint, from John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' (Bk IV, ll. 1114-1244).

2662
7r-10v

Story of Herypus, King of Armenia, from John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' (Bk IV, ll. 1245-1466)

2662
15r-17r

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Compleynt unto Pite'

2756
17r-18v

A Lover's Plaint

402
19r-v

To his Mistress

828
20r

A Lover's Plaint

1331
20v

To his Mistress

4059
20v

To his Mistress

4241.5
22r-28r

The Book of Cupid, or The Cuckoo and the Nightingale

3361
28v

To his Mistress

383
29r-42v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Parliament of Fowls'

3412
45r-51r

Three Questions, from John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'

2662
51r-53r

Parliament of Love

2383
53v

The Rule of Fortune

3948
53v

Gnomic verses

2742
56r

On Feigned Love

3917
56v-58v

Give me License to live in Ease

373
59r

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Complaint to his Empty Purse'

3787
61r-63v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Anelida's Complaint'

3670
64r-67v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

100
68r-69v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Complaint of Venus'

3542
69v

Love song

2279
70v

Household accounts

Later addition.

71r-76v

Thomas Hoccleve's 'Litera Cipidinis'

666
81r-84r

Introduction to the Story of King Antiochus, from John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'

2662
84v-95r

The Story of King Antiochus, from John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'

2662
96r-109v Sir Degrevant 1953

1904 lines.

110r-113r

Chronicles of saints and kings of England

Prose.

113r-113v

Arms of the kings of Europe

Prose.

117r-134v

La Belle Dame sans Mercy

1086
135r-136r

A love cycle

3878
136v-137r

A slighted lover's complaint

3179
137r

Desire to serve his mistress

3125
137v

A pledge of loyalty to his mistress

2381
137v-138r

The distressed lover

139
138v

The Vicissitudes of Love

159
138v-139r

The lover's plaint

657
139r

A complaint against Fortune

2269
139v

The Delivered Lover

3180
143v-144r

A love song

853
144v-145r

A moral lament

1489
146r

A hymn to the Virgin Mary

2202
146v

A prayer to Christ against perils

2401
147r-150r

John Lydgate's 'The Wicked Tongue'

653
150r-151r

The Tongue

3535
150r-151r

Extracts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

3237
151r

Tied with a Line

3437
151r-152r

Seven Wise Counsels

576
152v-153r

John Lydgate's 'Complaint for lack of mercy'

1017
153r

On the cruelties of his mistress

3613
153r-153v

A complaint against his mistress

2277.8
153v

The Faithful Lover

734
153v-154r

A love lament

4272.5
154r

Ballad

3849
154v

To his Mistress

380
155r-156r

The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage

919
156r-159v

A prayer for England

2317
159v-161v

A complaint against Fortune

2568
162v

On the Four Complexions

2624
164r

A tretise for laundres

4254
166r-177v Alexander-Cassamus 586.5

Unique copy. 566 lines.

178r

A complaint against Fortune

12

178v is blank.

181r-185v

Cato Major

854