Manuscript

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C. 86

Date of originLate fifteenth century
Place of originLondon area
MaterialMixed
DimensionsWidth: 293mm | Height: 217mm
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Probably four different manuscripts collated together. 

Part I: ff. 1-30: Mid fifteenth century. Paper with parchment inner and outer bifolia.

Part II: ff. 31-89; 141-177. Late 15th- early 16th century. Paper.

Part III: ff. 90-140. 16th century. Paper.

Part IV: ff. 178-189. Late 15th- early 16th century. Paper.

Contents

Folio Content item IMEV Details
1v

Miniature of the crucifixion with Mary and John

2r-30v

The Northern Passion

1907
31r

Moral verses from 'Peter Idle's Instructions'

3847
31v-50r

Ranulf Higden's 'Polychronicon'

Prose. 

50r-v

Biblical geneaology

51r

On the Redemption

2719

With diagrams of hands below.

52r-59r

The tale of Jake and his Stepdame

977
59r

On the evils of age

3113

In English and Latin.

59v-60v

Fabula

4090
60v

A good medicine for the pains of a horse

Prose.

61r-62r

John Lydgate's 'Dietary'

824
62v-64v

John Lydgate's 'Testament', section V

2464
65r-66v

Christ's Appeal to Man

1841
67r-69r

Complaint of God

1460
69v-71r

Lamentation of the Blessed Virgin

1460
71r-72v

Confession of a sinner

1511
72v-74r

Lamentation of the Virgin

1447
74v-76v

Lamentation of the Virgin

404
77r-79r

Fabula

3503
79r

Medical recipe

Prose.

79r

Medical recipe for the treatment of migraines

Prose.

79v-81r

John Lydgate's 'Song of Virtue'

401
81r

Medical recipe

Prose.

81r

Medical recipe

Prose.

81r

Medical recipe to reduce temperature

Prose.

81r-83v

John Lydgate's 'On self love'

3798
84r-86r

John Lydgate's 'Against Haste'

186
86v-88r

John Lydgate's 'Stans pvre ad mensam'

2233
88r

Medical recipe for the treatment of migraines

Prose.

88r

Medical recipe for the treatment of the palsy

Prose.

88v-89r

John Lydgate's 'Against the forked head-dresses of women'

2625
89v

Ballad of good counsel

2737
91r-100r

John Lydgate's 'A moral tale of the horse, the goose and the sheep'

658.3
100r-106r

Piers of Fulham

71
106v-113r

Colyn Blowbols Testament

4020
113r-119v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Complaint of Dido' (from 'The Legend of Good Women')

100
119v-128r Sir Landevale 3203

535 lines.

128v-140r Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle 1916

Unique copy. 853 lines, lacking at least one leaf after line 628 and a number of individual lines throughout.

141r-142r

John Lydgate (?) 'Fabula'

3531
142r

Latin quatrain

143r-155r

Gilbert Banester's 'Gwyscard and Ghismonda'

4082
143r

Medical recipe for the relief of pain in the foot or arm

Inserted into Gilbert Banester's "Gwyscard and Ghismonda". Prose.

155r

Medical recipe for the treatment of gout

Inserted into Gilbert Banester's "Gwyscard and Ghismonda". Prose.

155v-156r

Quene Elizabeth

2179
156r

Topographical notes

Prose.

156v-173v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Clerk's Tale'

4019
173v

Two Latin quatrains

Separated by the medical recipe for the treatment of gout listed below.

173v

Medical recipe for the treatment of gout

Prose.

173v

Medical recipe for the treatment of hemorrhoids

Prose.

174r

Elegy on the death of Edward IV

Latin.

174v-177v

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Prioress's Prologue and Tale'

4019
178r-186r

John Lydgate (?) 'On the expedition of Henry V into France'

969
187r-189r

John Lydgate's 'On the Kings of England'

3632
189r

Note on the claim of Edward III to the Throne in France