A Poem on Gardening, ‘Liber qui vocatur Anglice Mayster Jon
Gardener’ — 196 lines in couplets
Title(s): ‘Liber qui vocatur Anglice Mayster Jon Gardener’
Subjects: gardening
Versification: —
two-line —
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1.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.9.38 (1450), ff. 18
v-20
v
First Lines:ho so wyl a gardener be
here he may both hyre &
se…
Last Lines:…Three ynchys depe they most sette be
And thus seyde
mas mayster Ion gardener to me
Note: A nineteenth-century transcript is London, British Library Addit. 20091, ff.
75-8.
Attributed Author: Ion Gardener (f. 20v)
Attributed Title: Explicit hic Liber qui vocatur Anglice Mayster Ion Gardener (f.
20v)
Editions: Tyssen-Amherst, Alicia M.
“On a Fifteenth Century Treatise on Gardening by ‘Mayster’
John Gardener.”
Archaeologia
54 (1888): 157-72: 157-72.