Description
Book SynopsisSince its rediscovery by nineteenth-century scholarship, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61 has never been ignored, though it has also not gained a great deal of notoriety beyond the scholars of Middle English romance. It is hoped that the present volume will encourage study of the entire manuscript as a valuable witness to the devotional habits, cultural values, and popular tastes of late medieval England.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction
Codex Ashmole 61 1. Saint Eustace 2. Right as a Ram's Horn 3. How the Wise Man Taught His Son 4. How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter 5. Sir Isumbras 6. The Ten Commandments 7. Stans Puer ad Mensam 8. Dame Courtesy 9. Latin Epigram 10. The Rules for Purchasing Land 11a. Latin Epigram 11b. Latin Epigram 12. An Evening Prayer 13. A Morning Prayer 14. The Ten Commandments (False Start) 15. A Prayer to Mary 16. The Debate of the Carpenter's Tools 17. A Prayer at the Levation 18. The Knight Who Forgave His Father's Slayer 19. The Erle of Tolous 20. Lybeaus Desconus 21. Sir Corneus 22. The Jealous Wife 23. The Incestuous Daughter 24. Sir Cleges 25. The Feasts of All Saints and All Souls 26. The King and His Four Daughters 27. Ypotis 28. The Northern Passion 29. The Short Charter of Christ 30. The Lament of Mary 31. The Dietary 32. Maidstone's Seven Penitential Psalms 33. Stimulus Consciencie Minor 34. The Stations of Jerusalem 35a.The Sinner's Lament 35b. The Adulterous Falmouth Squire 36. The Legend of the Resurrection 37. Saint Margaret 38. The Wounds and the Sins 39. Sir Orfeo 40. Vanity 41. King Edward and the Hermit Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Glossary
