Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction MS Harley 2253: Texts and Translations Booklet 5 71. Ludlow Scribe, Estoyres de la Bible / Ludlow Scribe, Old Testament Stories 72. Nomina librorum bibliotece / Names of the Books of the Bible Booklet 6 73. God that al this myhtes may / God Who Wields All This Might 74. Lustneth, alle, a lutel throwe / The Sayings of Saint Bernard 75. Le jongleur d'Ely e le roi d'Angleterre / The Jongleur of Ely and the King of England 75a. Les trois dames qui troverunt un vit / The Three Ladies Who Found a Prick 76. Le dit des femmes / The Song on Women 77. Le blasme des femmes / The Blame of Women 78. Nicholas Bozon, Femmes a la pye / Nicholas Bozon, Women and Magpies 79. Un sage honme de grant valour / Urbain the Courteous 80. Talent me prent de rymer e de geste fere / Trailbaston 81. Mon in the mone stond ant strit / The Man in the Moon 82. Le chevaler e la corbaylle / The Knight and the Basket 83. De mal mariage / Against Marriage 84. La gagure, ou L'esquier e la chaunbrere / The Wager, or The Squire and the Chambermaid 85. A bok of swevenyng / A Book of Dreaming 86. Ordre de bel ayse / The Order of Fair Ease 87. Le chevaler qui fist les cons parler / The Knight Who Made Vaginas Talk 88. Of rybauds Y ryme ant red o my rolle / Satire on the Retinues of the Great 89. Mon that wol of wysdam heren / Hending 90. When man as mad a kyng of a capped man / The Prophecy of Thomas of Erceldoune 91. La destinccioun de la estature Jesu Crist Nostre Seigneur / Distinguishing Features of the Bodily Form of Jesus Christ Our Lord 92. Lutel wot hit any mon hou love hym haveth ybounde / The Way of Christ's Love 93. Lutel wot hit any mon hou derne love may stonde / The Way of Woman's Love 94. Enseignements de saint Lewis a Philip soun fitz / The Teachings of Saint Louis to His Son Philip 95. L'enqueste que le patriarche de Jerusalem fist / The Land of the Saracens 96. Les armes des roys / Heraldic Arms of Kings 97. Scriptum quod peregrini deferunt / Letter for Pilgrims on the Relics at Oviedo 98. Legenda de sancto Etfrido, presbitero de Leoministria / The Legend of Saint Etfrid, Priest of Leominster 99. Quy chescun jour de bon cuer cest oreisoun dirra / Prayer for Protection Booklet 7 100. Quant vous levez le matyn / Occasions for Angels 101. Quy velt que Dieu sovyegne de ly / Occasions for Psalms in French 102. Gloria in excelsis Deo en fraunceis / Glory to God in the Highest in French 103. Confiteor tibi, Deus, omnia peccata mea / Prayer of Confession 104. Gloriouse Dame / Prayer on the Five Joys of Our Lady 105. Rex seculorum et Domine dominator / Prayer for Contrition 106. Um doit plus volentiers juner le vendredy / Reasons for Fasting on Friday 107. Quy est en tristour / Seven Masses To Be Said in Misfortune 108. Cely que fra ces messes chaunter / Seven Masses in Honor of God and Saint Giles 108a. Je vous requer, Jaspar, Melchior, e Baltazar / Prayer to the Three Kings 109. Mundus iste totus quoddam scaccarium est / All the World's a Chess Board 109a. Quy chescun jour denz seissaunte jours / Three Prayers That Never Fail 110. Contra inimicos si quos habes / Occasions for Psalms in Latin 111. Seint Hillere archevesque de Peyters ordina ces salmes / Occasions for Psalms Ordained by Saint Hilary of Poitiers 112. Eulotropia et celidonia / Heliotrope and Celandine 113. De interrogandi moribundis beati Anselmi / Saint Anselm's Questions to the Dying 114. Dieu, roy de mageste / Against the King's Taxes 115. Contemplacioun de la passioun Jesu Crist / Seven Hours of the Passion of Jesus Christ 116. De martirio sancti Wistani / The Martyrdom of Saint Wistan Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Appendix: Full Contents of MS Harley 2253 Volume 3: Index of First Lines Volume 3: Index of Manuscripts Cited Volume 3: Index of Proper Names Bibliography

About the Author

Susanna Fein is Professor of English and coordinator of the Arts and Sciences minor in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Kent State University. David Raybin is Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. Jan Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University, and director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.