Manuscript

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 61

Date of originEnd of the fifteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth century
Place of originNortheast Midlands
MaterialPaper
DimensionsWidth: 137mm | Height: 415mm
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Notes

George Shuffleton's edition of the complete manuscript can be found here.

Contents

Folio Content item IMEV Details
1r-5r

Saint Eustace

211
5v-6r

John Lydgate's 'Right as a Ram's Horn'

199
6r-v

How the Wise Man Taught His Son

1985
7r-8v

How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter

1882
9r–16v Sir Isumbras 1184

822 lines.

16v-17r

The Ten Commandments (from Speculum Christiani)

1111
17v-19v

John Lydgate's 'Stans puer ad mensam' (longer version)

1694
20r-21v

Dame Curtesy

4127
21v

Latin epigram

Latin.

21v

The rules for purchasing land

4148
21v

Latin epigram

21v

Latin epigram

22r

Evening prayer

2345
22r-v

Morning prayer

1720
22v

Repetition of the first two verses of the Ten Commandments on 16v

1111

Slightly altered.

22v-23r

Prayer to the Virgin Mary (from Speculum Christiani)

2119
23r-26r

The debate of the carpenter's tools

3461
26r-v

Prayer at the Levation

3883
26v-27v

The knight who forgave his father's slayer

516
27v-38v Erle of Tolous 1681

1211 lines.

38v-59v Libeaus Desconus 1690
59v-62r

Sir Corneus

219
62r-65v

The Jealous Wife

1987
66r-67v

The Incestuous Daughter

1107
67v-73r Sir Cleges 1890

570 lines, 6 lost.
 

73r-78v

The founding of the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls

1685
78v-83r

The King and His Four Daughters

1677
83r-87v

Ypotis

220
87v-105v

The Northern Passion

1907
106r

Short Charter of Christ

4184
106r-107r

The Lament of Mary

1447
107v-108r

John Lydgate's 'Dietary'

824
108r-119v

Richard Maidstone's 'Septem psalmi penitentiales'

1961

Latin and English.

120r-128r

Stimulus consciencie minor

244

Shortened.

128r-135r

The Stations of Jerusalem

986
136r-136v

Prologue to The Adulterous Falmouth Squire (Sinner's Lament)

172
136v-138v

The Adulterous Falmouth Squire

2052
138v-144v

Legend of the Resurrection

3980
145r-150v

St Margaret

2673
150v-151r

On the Seven Deadly Sins

4200
151r-156r Sir Orfeo 3868

Complete text of 603 lines.

156v-157r

Vanity

2576
157r-161v

King Edward and the Hermit

1764