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MS 114: Composite manuscript containing twenty-nine texts, early 16th century
Item
Identifier: MS 114
Contents
Contains twenty-nine texts, all in the same hand. The collection is a curious one, and contains at the beginning and end a number of curious proverbs (copied in full by Catherine Borland, see Appendix IV, pp. 335-6 of her catalogue). The end papers have been taken from an English manuscript of the early 15th century, and contain interesting fragments of English religious verse (also copied in full by Catherine Borland, see Appendix IV, pp. 334-5 of her catalogue).The manuscript...
Dates:
early 16th century
Proverbs, early 16th century
part
Identifier: MS 114/f. 9r
Contents
Collection of proverbs in Latin and what seems to be mainly a form of Middle Dutch, perhaps with some German influence. The first one, in Latin, begins with the words De locucione. Intercedit sapiens quid quoniam quando loquitur. The proverbs have been copied in full by Catherine Borland, see Appendix IV, p. 335 for those contained on f. 9r.
Dates:
early 16th century