London Thornton Manuscript

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 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

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