John Lydgate, Verses On the Five Joys addressed to the Virgin Mary — seven 8-line stanzas(ababbcbc) and an Envoy of 28 lines (3 8-line stanzas, ababbcbc and four-line verba compilatoris, abba)

Author(s): John Lydgate

Subjects: Virgin Mary, joys of; envoys

Versification: — eight-line, four-line — ababbcbc, abba

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Note: Envoy complete, not only 20 lines as recorded in Brown and Robbins (1943).

Attributed Title: Here begynneth a prayer on to our lady (f. 17)

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Note: Envoy complete, not only 20 lines as recorded in Brown and Robbins (1943).

Attributed Title: Here begynneth a prayer on to our lady (f. 17)

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Note: Lines 1-54; at the beginning in the same hand: ‘Maria Ihesus Iohannes’.

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Note: Second occurrence in this MS; written by a different hand(?); ten 8-line stanzas and one quatrain.

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Attributed Author: Lydgate (f. 199); Quod dan Iohn Lydgate (f. 200v)

Attributed Title: Here…begyneth an holy preyer to oure moste blesset Lady Seynt Mari of here V Ioyes. Lydgate (f. 199)

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Attributed Title: Incipit de sancta maria (f. 71v)

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Attributed Author: Lydgate (added next to ‘lenuoy’, f. 168; added next to ‘Explicit’, f. 168v)

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Attributed Author: Explicit quod lidgate (f. 113v)

Attributed Title: Incipit de Sancta Maria (f. 111v, in rubric)

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