A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

purificashon of owr lady as of Candylmes day, iij of the Salutacion of owre lady as of owre lady day in lent, iij of the resurrecshon of owre lord as of Ester day, iij of the Assencion as of holy Thursday, iij of the holy gost as of Whyts[onday], iij of the Trenite as of trenite sonday, iij of the assumpcion of owre lady, iij of the nateuite of oure lady.

De nateuite domini de Epiphania domini de purificatione marie de annunciacione marie de resurrecione domini de assencione domini de pentecoste de trinitate de assumpcione marie de natiuitate marie

Of eche of thes, iij messes.

A CAROL OF THE ANNUNCIATION. [This is in a hand nearly resembling that of the longer poems in the first part of the manuscript.] [folio 79b]

                                    
                                      Newell! Newell! newell! newell!
                                    
                                      Thys ys þe songe of Angell Gabryell,
                                    
                                      Tydynges trew þer be cum new sent ffrome þe Trynyte
                                    
                                      Be Gabryell to nazaret, sytte of gallalye.
                                    
                                      A clene maydyne, a puer vergyn, throw hyr hvmylyte
                                    
                                      Conseyvyd þe secund persone in devynyte.
                                    
                                      Wan he fyrst presentyd wos be-for hyr fayire vyssage,
                                    
                                      With most demver and goodly wysse to hyr he did vmmage.
                                    
                                      And seyd, "lady of hevyne so hey, þat lordes herytage

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Title: A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.
Canvas: Page 122
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
Subject terms: Commonplace-books

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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Full citation: "A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ajd3529.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.