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Epithet: of Add MS 34360

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Epithet: of Stowe MS 69

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1212

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Epithet: Monk of Bury S Edmund's

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 299

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 2577

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Epithet: of Add MS 39547

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Epithet: of Add MS 38179

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Epithet: Poet

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Epithet: of Add MS 36523

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Epithet: of Add MS 16165

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Epithet: died in the middle of the fifteenth century

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1785

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referencedIn CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, in English. Begins with the rubric "Here may a man here," proceeding "In the noble londe of Sirrie." Ends in the middle of the description of the siege of Rouen in 1418-19, with the words " and manfully countred with our Engli... British Library
referencedIn THE STORIE of Thebes; a poem by John Lydgate, monk of St. Edmundsbury, f. 1; "De Regimine Principum;" a poem by Thomas Occleve, compiled from the "Secretum Secretorum," attributed to Aristotle, the treatise "De Regimine Principum" of Egidius de Colon..., 14th century-15th century British Library
referencedIn English-language manuscript verse in the Houghton Library: First-line index, ca. 1000-ca. 1820. Houghton Library
referencedIn THE LIFE of the Virgin Mary, "compiled by John Lidgate, monke of Bury, at the excitacion and steringe of oure worschipful Prince Kyng Herry the fifthe." Imperfect at the beginning and end. Vellum, earlier half of the XVth cent. Quarto. [Add. 19,452.] British Library
referencedIn Vellum, small folio, ff. 80, xv. cent., written for William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk whose arms, De la Pole quartering Wingfield, are emblazoned on fol. 4. It afterwards belonged to William Gylpyn, and more recently to Bevell Ball. John Lydgate's ... British Library
referencedIn A COLLECTION of English Poems by John Lydgate and others; chiefly in the handwriting of John Stowe, the historian. The contents are:-1. "A pece of ye battayll of the psalms:" beginning, "That every man in his degree." Copied "out of M[a]ster. Blomfe..., 1558 British Library
referencedIn John Lydgate: Fall of Princes, Book i. chapp. 3-7: 15th cent.: Fragm.Giovanni Boccaccio: Metrical version of his "De casibus virorum et feminarum illustrium " by J. Lydgate from L. de Premierfait's French paraphrase: 15th cent. British Library
referencedIn COLLECTION of English poems and romances, written in a northern dialect by Robert Thornton, the scribe of a similar book in the Lincoln Cathedral Library, viz.:-1. Fragment of the latter part of the " Cursor Mundi," beginning at the 56th line of the..., 15th century British Library
referencedIn LIFE of the Virgin Mary, in verse, by John Lydgate, monk of Bury St. Edmund's. Wanting five leaves. Vellum; early part of the XVth cent. Folio. [Add. 19,252.], 15th century British Library
referencedIn Sloane 1212Paper, in 4to. ff. 102, XV Century.Thomas Occleves poem intitled, de regimine principis. ff. 1-102.Begin: —'Musing upon the restless bisynesse.'End. —'That Knoweth he whom nothing is hid froo.'At the beginning and end are six leaves of vel... British Library
referencedIn COLLECTIONS of miscellaneous tracts, as follows:-1. The Boke of Kervynge; without title and beg. "Thow shall be pantere or butler." Printed by Wynken de Worde in 1513, re-edited by F. J. Furnivall for the Early English Text Society, 1868, vol. xxxii... British Library
referencedIn Medicine: Charms and Receipts. Orationes et receptæmedica.: 10th-18th centt.Law OF ENGLAND: Commonplace book extracted from statutes, year-books, etc.: 15th cent.: Fr.: Imperf.History of France: Discourse touching, by Sir F. Bacon: 17th cent.includes... British Library
referencedIn John Newton, Abbot of Battle: Gave MS. to Battle Abbey.Owners of Manuscripts: Saunder (William).Owners of Manuscripts: Dacres, Family of.Owners of Manuscripts: Carew (Lady Elizabeth), of Beddington.John Lydgate: Metrical version of L. de Premierfait'... British Library
referencedIn John Lydgate, Poet: Grant to, as Prior of Hatfield-Regis, in Hatfleld-Regis: 1425. British Library
referencedIn A COLLECTION of English poems, chiefly by John Lydgate, with a few by, or attributed to, Geoffrey Chaucer.; together with three Roundels (art. 6) in French. Sonic of the titles, etc., ate insertions in the hand of John Stow. 1. Tale of two perfect fr... British Library
referencedIn PARHAM MS. LXXVII. THE FALL OF PRINCES: a poem in nine books by John Lydgate, translated from Laurent de Premierfait's French prose version of Boccaccio's Latin prose work, De casibus Virorum Illustrium. See H. Bergen, Lydgate's Fall of Princes, E.E.... British Library
referencedIn Sloane 2027Paper, in folio, ff. 108, XV Century.1. A translation of the work of Flavius Vegetius Renatus intitled, De re militari, with a preface. (Imperfect at the beginning and end.) ff. 1-36.The preface begins, 'Here begynnyth a schort tretys, the... British Library
referencedIn includes:f. 1 Quintus Septimius: Dictys of Crete's "Wars of' Troy"; interpreted by: 17th cent.: Fragm.f. 1 Dictys Cretensis: Argument of his "Warres of Troy": 17th cent.: Imperf.ff. 3-68 John Lydgate: Practise "de lapide Philosophorum,": 16th, ... British Library
referencedIn Paper, in folio, ff. 130, formerly belonging to T. Wall, Windsor Herald, whose arms are emblazoned on the first leaf, and afterwards to Sir Robert Cotton. 1. Thomas Occleve's Poem De regimine primcipum. fol. 1. 2. A book falsely ascribed to Aristotle... British Library
creatorOf John Lydgate, Troy Book and Siege of Thebes, with verses by William Cornish, John Skelton, William Peeris and others , 1457-approximately 1530 British Library
referencedIn Vol. II (ff. i + 61). Transcripts by Ainsworth, annotated here and there by Urry, of the following pieces "out of S. Pepys Esq. Mss of Chaucers fragments" [now Pepys MS. 2006, in Magdalene College, Cambridge, described by H. J. Todd, Illustrations of... British Library
referencedIn THE PILGRIMAGE Of the Life of Man: a translation into English octosyllabic verse of the second recension [1355] of Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. The French poem forms the first book of the author's Trois Pèlerinages, the s... British Library
referencedIn Sloane 1785Vellum, in Octavo, ff. 60, XVI and XV Cents.; formerly belonging to Henry Spelman.1. Alexandri Magni Epistola ad Aristotelem de Mirabilibus Indiae. ff. 2-13.2. The life of the Virgin Mary in verse by Lydgate; imperfect both at the beginnin... British Library
referencedIn Vellum, small folio, ff. 130, xv. Cent., formerly belonging to Campseye priory, Co. Suff., by the gift of Dame Katherine Babyngton, Subprioress of the same house. 1. The life of St. Katharine, a poem in stanzas of eight lines, by John Capgrave. fol. ... British Library
creatorOf John Lydgate, Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund, 1434-1439 British Library
referencedIn Owners of Manuscripts: Guide, Family of.Richard Jones: Collections on alchemy: 17th cent.includes:f. 1 John Lydgate: Catalogue of his poems: 17th cent.ff. 3-12 London; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC. ROYAL SOCIETY: Notes from their Philosophical transacti... British Library
referencedIn ROMANTIC and religious poems, in English, viz.:-1. Titus and Vespasian, or the Destruction of Jerusalem; in 5166 lines of octosyllabic verse, in rhymed couplets. This poem, other MSS. of which are in Harl. 4733 and Douce 78, Digby 230, and Laud 622 ... British Library
referencedIn LETTERS and transcripts of ballads, by Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore (1782-1811), editor of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765. 1. Letters (ten) to his wife, [Anne] Percy, with the addition of one mutilated letter (f. 15) to Lord [Algernon] ..., 1680-1782 British Library
referencedIn "LE Livre de Johan Bochas des cas des nobles hommes et femes translate de latyn en ffrancoys per Laurence de Premier fait Clerk de diocese de Troics, et fut compile ceste translacyon le xxve jour daurill, mil cccc. et ix." The Book of Giovanni Boccac... British Library
referencedIn Philip, of Paris: Metrical version of Aristotle's "Secreta Secretorum": 15th cent.Owners of Manuscripts: Moone (Thomas).John Lydgate: Poem called Secretum Secretorum Aristotelis: 15th cent.Aristotle SUPPOSITITIOUS WORKS: English metrical version by L... British Library
referencedIn MISCELLANE0US letters, papers, and fragments of manuscripts, 13th-20th centt., 13th century-20th century British Library
referencedIn Vellum, in folio, ff. 159, xv. Cent. John Lydgate's Poem on the Siege and Destruction of Troy, translated from the Latin of Guicio de Columna at the conmmand of Henry V., when Prince of Wales. Imperfect, ending in book V. with the line, "Wolde fully ... British Library
referencedIn includes:ff. 3-7 b John Lydgate: Practise "de lapide Philosophorum,": 16th, 17th centt.ff. 8-10 Henricus Khunrath, MD, of Leipsic: Confession of the Philosopher's Stone: 1596.ff. 10 b-19 Bernardus, Trevisanus, Conte della Marca di Treviso: De l... British Library
referencedIn A VOLUME containing various old English tracts in prose and verse, viz.:-"Boicius de Consolatione, prosed in Englisshe by [Geoffreyl Chaucier;" with the following colophon :-" Thus endethe the translacon of Boece," . . " translated by the moral and ... British Library
referencedIn Paper and Vellum, folio, ff. 85, xv. Cent. 1. A poem to the Virgin Mary, consisting of an introductory stanza and 22 others, of which the initial words follow the succession of the letters of the alphabet; the stanzas are of eight lines. fol. 1. Begi... British Library
referencedIn includes:ff. 2-134 John de Bordeaux, alias Burdegalia alias Burgundia; dit La Barbe, Physician at Liège: "Gouernale of helth": 15th cent.ff. 134-136b John Lydgate: "The gouernynge as welle off body as off saule", in verse.: 15th cent.: Imperf. British Library
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