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The Findern Manuscript (CUL MS Ff.1.6) is a paper codex written entirely in Middle English and compiled in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries by a series of gentry who were neighbors in the countryside of Derbyshire. A list of its major texts creates a “greatest hits” of fourteenth-century secular love literature; however the volume also contains around two dozen anonymous lyrics, which have been added in the blank spaces left at the bottoms of pages and the ends of quires. There are several names and scribal signatures written into the book, including the names of five women. ==Contents of the Manuscript== ow god þat syttyst An hygh in trone" -How myschaunce regnyth in Ingeland; Capitulo xxvij) | Anon. |- | 57 | 159v-161v | "O þou fortune why art þou so inconstaunt" | Anon. |- | | 162r | Blank | |- | 58 | 162v | Off yff tis large in loue hayth gret delite" -The Complexions | |- | | 163 | Folium is missing (stub) | |- | 59 | 164r | "Yee maistresses myne and clenly chamberys" -A Tretise for Laundres | Lydgate |- | | 164v | Blank | |- | | 165 | The scholar Henry Brandshaw speculated that quire O had an additional bifolium 165/180 because of the abrupt beginning of item 60, so he speculatively added this bifolium when creating his hypothetical collation and paginating the manuscript. | |- | 60 | 166r-177v | "Cassamus roos aftre this talkynge" -The 'Alexander-Cassamus' fragment, a translation of lines 1604-1977 of ''Les Voeux du Paon '' | |- | 61 | 178r | "A mercy fortune haue pitee on me" (A Complaint in the manner of William de la Pole) | Anon. |- | | 179 | Folium is missing | |- | | 180 | See note for folio 165 | |- | 62 | 181r-185v | "Chaunge not thi ffreende that thou knowest of oolde" - ''Distichs of Cato '' | Benedict Burgh (translator) |- | | 186-188 | Folia are missing | |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Findern Manuscript」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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