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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: i.15–26; Seymour, ‘Travels’, pp. 179–80; C. D. Benson and L. S. Blanchfield, Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: The B-Text (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 32–8.
[1]
p. 550
My dere sone or doughter in god it semees þat thow hiest the fast in the way fra this lif to godward thare shalt thow shalt se al thi forme faders apostels martirs confessours virgynes and alle men and wymmen that ben saued and for gladnesse of swich felawschip be than of good conforth in god …
p. 552
… for i woot of thy goodnesse it shal fare better than it hafe disserued receyue it and help it for in thy merciful handes i put it amen.
‘How men that ben in hele sholde visite sike folk’, De Visitacione Infirmorum. IPMEP 460; Wells Rev. 7:2565–66 [215] version E; Jolliffe L.5.b and N.9.b (where the foliation is given as ff. 31–32). Ed from this MS by Krochalis & Peters, pp. 194–202.
Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 29 MSS of 6 different versions and 1 related text. Version E is extant in 13 MSS; for copies already indexed see IMEP 8 indexing Univ Col 4 [1] and Univ Col 97 [7]; IMEP 13 indexing Lambeth 432 [4]; and IMEP 16 indexing BodL Laud misc 210 [6]. See also Nn.4.12 [8]. For other versions see Ee.5.13 [1].
[2]
p. 553
For as muche as the land ouer the see that is to say the haly lande þat men calles þe lond of by heste amang alle othir londes that is most worthi lad and souereygne of alle othir londes and it is blissid and halowed of the preciouse blood of oure lord ihu crist in þe wilke land hit lyked hym …
p. 594
… he that his in the trynyte fader and sone and holy gost that lyuees and regnees god withouten ende amen amen per charite.
Mandeville's Travels, Defective Version A-text. Same hand as [1]. IPMEP 233; Wells Rev. 7: 2452–7[5]; STC 17246.
Other texts: Seymour, Defective lists 31 MSS which contain the full text of the Defective Version and 6 which contain fragments or extracts. He assigns this MS to subgroup 1 which contains 9 MSS; see Ff.5.35 [1] below, and further IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Balliol Col 239 [1] and Queen's Col 383 [1].
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