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The Digital Index of Middle English Verse
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Found Records:
Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh MS Cursor Mundi, Northern Homily Cycle
Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 375 (Yorks: ff. 16-36v); LP 14 (WRY: ff. 37-50v); Laing and Lass (2007) Index # 297; Grid 486 447 (Yorkshire, East Riding: Entry 1, Hand A, ff. 1-15v); Index # 298; Grid 455 476 (Yorkshire, North Riding: Entry 2, Hand B, ff. 16-36v); Index # 296; Grid 460 452 (York: Entry 3, Hand C, ff. 37–50v).
Number 5020-3
1.   ff. 10rb-14rb   Spell yet I would speak if I could
Dialogue between the Virgin Mary and St. Bernard on the Passion (incorporated in the Cursor Mundi — in 104 6-line stanzas preceded by a six-couplet introduction
Number 3092-3
2.   ff. 14rb-15vb   Listen goodmen with your leave
Founding of the Feast of the Conception (in Cursor Mundi)
Number 1282-5
3.   ff. 16ra-16va   Father and Son and Holy Ghost / That onefold God is aye steadfast
Prologue of the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 1202-7
4.   f. 16vb   Ere the fulfilling of time was come / Satan had all the folk I-nome
Ratio quare presens opus incipiat dominicam primam aduentus domini, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4689-9
5.   ff. 17ra-17vb   Saint Mark begins his gospel
Gospel for the First Sunday in Advent in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6795-9
6.   f. 17vb   Worlds wealth girt Mary weed
Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6047-7
7.   ff. 18vb-19va   Today Saint Luke tells us
Gospel for Second Sunday in Advent, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4621-3
8.   ff. 19vb-20ra   Saint Jerome says that signs fifteen
The Fifteen Signs of Doomsday in the ‘expanded’ Northern Homily Cycle — forty-seven couplets
Number 11-12
9.   ff. 20ra-20va   A black monk in an abbey / As fermerer as I heard say
The monk who returned from death, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 4720-10
10.   ff. 20vb-21rb   Saint Matthew the evangelist / Says that Saint John the Baptist
Gospel for the Third Sunday in Advent in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5353-3
11.   ff. 21rb-22va   The king Herod with mickle unright
Herod and John the Baptist: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6049-5
12.   ff. 22va-23va   Today says John the good gospeller
Gospel for Fourth Sunday in Advent, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 2760-10
13.   ff. 23va-24rb   It was a man as I heard say / That to Saint James took the way
The Pilgrim to St. James, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 6771-5
14.   f. 24va-24vb   Woe and wandreth walks wide
Gospel, ‘In nocte natalis domini’, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 476-9
15.   ff. 25ra-26va   An archbishop beyond the sea / was woning in a faire city
The Archbishop and the Nun, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 6318-9
16.   ff. 26ra-30ra   When holy kirk bigan newly
St. John and the Boy, a Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5511-7
17.   ff. 26va-28rb   The twelfth day from Christs birth
Gospel for Epiphany in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5347-7
18.   ff. 28rb-29ra   The Jews woned in sere country
Gospel, ‘Domnica infra Octavas Epiphanie’, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4631-7
19.   ff. 30ra-31ra   Saint John tells us a tale
Gospel for the Second Sunday after Epiphany in the Northern Homily Cycle, with a short Narratio, The Mother of St. Thomas of Canterbury
Number 4714-7
20.   ff. 31ra-31va   Saint Matthew says in our gospel
Gospel for the Second Sunday after the Octave of Epiphany in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 4723-7
21.   ff. 31ra-32vb   Saint Matthew the evangelist / Tells us today how Christ
Gospel for the Third Sunday after the Octave of Epiphany in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5223-9
22.   ff. 31va-32ra   The Book of Kings tells us
Giezi and Naaman: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle — couplets
Number 64-9
23.   ff. 32vb-33va   A holy man beyond the sea / Was bishop of a great city
The Knight who did penance among worms, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 5982-7
24.   ff. 33va-34ra   To his disciples said Jesus / As Saint Matthew here tells us
Gospel, ‘Dominica iiij. post Octave Epiphanie’, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 528-9
25.   ff. 34ra-34vb   And of this seed that Satan sawes / A good tale
The Devil as Physician, in the Northern Homily Cycle — in couplets
Number 2516-8
26.   ff. 34vb-35vb   In holy book find we / That this day has names three
Gospel for the Feast of the Purification, in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 169-9
27.   ff. 35vb-36va   A tale of this feast have I heard / How it once of a widow fared
The Widow’s Candle, in the Northern Homily Cycle (Purification) — in couplets
Number 5161-8
28.   f. 36va-36vb   That may ye see by a lady
The Abbess who went with Child: Narratio in the Northern Homily Cycle
Number 3474-9
29.   ff. 37ra-50vb   Men yearnen gestes for to hear / And romance read in diverse manner
Cursor Mundi — in couplets
Number 6363-6
30.   ff. 43rb-50vb   When Jesu Christ was done on rood
The Assumption of Our Lady, added to the Cursor Mundi (3474) — 784 lines