A Middle English satirical Letter in Brogyntyn MS II.1.(ESSAYS)

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Brogyntyn MS II.1 (formerly known as Porkington MS 10) is a miscellany of a kind frequently found in Middle English, containing a wide variety of entertaining, instructive, and religious texts. In the first quire, eight scribes contributed a total of nine items on such topics as prognostication, astronomy, astrology, and venesection (Marx 19); in the remaining twenty-six quires, eight other scribes recorded forty-one more texts, including an Arthurian romance and a large number of diverse shorter poems, plus several prose works: some practical treatises, a saint's life, a ...

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