GB-LON-BLI-Add.MS.22283 | The Digital Schoolbook

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Add. MS 22283

British Library

London

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United Kingdom

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119r-119v

DSB Title:

NE: The Simeon Manuscript; origin "?North Worcestershire" per DM; note that the BL websites misrepresent these items; they are as I describe here, and as described in the DIMEV, as I determined by checking the digital facsimile photo

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The "Little Cato" (NIMEV 247)

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Latin (DC) | French (DC) | English (DC)

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Incipit:

The Distiches of Dionysius Cato. In Lat., Fr. and Eng . verse. (per Catalogue of Additions) | "Luytel Caton" (DIMEV no. 425)

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…Þeore sone I schal þe teche / Þe maners of my wille… (per DIMEV no. 425)

History

Dionysius Cato

Catoun

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XIV

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1301-1400

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England

Digital reproductions:

"Scribe 2 of this manuscript is also Scribe 2 of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet.a.1 (the 'Vernon Manuscript'), whose dialect has been identified as North Worcestershire (see Angus McIntosh and others, A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English, 4 vols (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986), I, p. 148).'Awdri Norwood': inscribed with her name, 2nd half of the 16th century (f. 172v).Purchased by the British Museum from Sir John Simeon (b. 1815, d. 1870), 3rd Baronet and M.P., 1858." (per DM)

Physical reproductions:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22283&index=0

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Bibliography:

SOCAM (http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-002034756) | CIM (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6398&CollID=27&NStart=22283) | DM (http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22283&index=0) | Catalogue of Additions, 1854-1860, pp. 623-26, no. 22283 | DIMEV (http://www.dimev.net/Records.php?MSS=BLAdd22283)

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