The festial of English sermons

Principal contents: ff. 1r-116v The Festial of John Mirk; ff. 117r-138v Sequentiale, with partial interlinear gloss in English.

Festial written in secretary with anglicana e, g and r. Sequentiale written in late 15th-century mixture of anglicana and secretary.

A type B copy (cf. Wakelin), with the sermons arranged in temporale and sanctorale sequences.

2-line initials and highlighting in red, with occational pointing hands in the margins, throughout the Festial.

Several leaves missing and damaged, getting more fragmentary towards the end.

Principal contents: ff. 1r-116v The Festial of John Mirk; ff. 117r-138v Sequentiale, with partial interlinear gloss in English.

Purchased for the Brotherton Collection from M. Breslauer, 4 June 1958.

See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 70-71. See also: M. F. Wakelin, 'The Manuscripts of John Mirk's Festial', in: Leeds Studies in English, N.S. i (1967), pp. 93-119, and O. S. Pickering and S. Powell, The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist VI (1989) pp. 12-26. The sermons are edited in M. F. Wakelin, 'An Edition of John Mirk's Festial as it is contained in the Brotherton Collection MS', unpublished University of Leeds M.A. thesis, 1960.