Manuscript

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 45

Date of origin15th-17th century
MaterialMixed
DimensionsWidth: 205mm | Height: 145mm
Notes

This is a composite volume of four manuscripts bound together.

A: ff. 1-41, 16th century (probably around 1520s-30s), paper

B: ff. 1-56, second half of the 15th century, parchment

C: ff. 1-2, 17th century, copied by Elias Ashmole, paper

D: ff. 1-55, 17th century, paper

Only parts A and C are listed here.

Contents

Folio Content item IMEV Details
Part A: 1r

Three medical recipes on the virtues of parsnips

Prose.

2v

A petition for the payment of a debt owed to William Fitzwilliam by John Worte of the Queen's guard

2v

A record of a marriage dated 1602

3r-31v Erle of Tolous 1681
31v

Medical recipe for a poultice

Prose.

32r

A critique of Papists

Prose.

32r

Becon in the juell of joye

32v-33v

The hard and troubelsome lyfe of Willyam Fytzwillyam vj sone of John Fytzwillyam of Sprodbrought and Haddelsaye, from his chyeldhod

Prose.

34r

Moral and religious proverbs

Prose.

34v-35r

A short lyne howe to leade your lyfe

Prose.

35r-38v

Prayers

Prose.

39r

List of eight virtues

Prose.

39v-40r

Verses on popes

40r

Paraphrase of James 3.13-18

Prose.

40v

The four properties in man's soul

Prose.

41r

Draft of the verses on 39r-40v

Part C, 2v-18r Gamelyn 1913

Seventeenth-century copy by Ashmole.