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London Thornton Manuscript

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The London Thornton Manuscript is a medieval manuscript compiled and copied by the fifteenth-century English scribe and landowner Robert Thornton. The manuscript was long considered a miscellany, but is more properly called a collection of spiritual texts.

Contents

  • Wynnere and Wastoure (unique)
  • [[The Parlement of the Thre [sic] Ages]] (only complete copy)
  • The Sege of Melayne (unique)
  • The Four Leaves of the Truelove (one of two extant copies)
  • Rowland and Otuel
  • "Have Mercy of Me" (Psalm 51)
  • alliterative rendering of Psalm 51. Since at least two leaves are missing, translation breaks off after l. 134; a complete version would have had more than 240 lines.
  • The Virtues of the Mass

    • References

    London Thornton Manuscript Wikipedia
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