Johannes, Lelandus, ca. -1427/33

Note-book of Walter Pollard of Plymouth: proverbs, charms, grammatical, moral and religious texts, verse, etc., in Latin and English. Two main sections (fols. 1-6, on parchment, c. 1400; fols. 7-194, paper, c. 1445-1489, perhaps mostly in the hand of Walter Pollard). The contents are most fully described by D. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Middle English Grammatical Texts (1979), 290-315 (with some corrections in IMEP XXIII: see bibliography), which the following summary abbreviates considerably, and to which the reader is referred for fuller information. In addition to the longer items listed below Thomson describes a large number of shorter notes and additions, including proverbs, historical notes, hymns and verses, grammatical and theological notes, and documents and letters, all in both Latin and English. MS. Rawl. D. 328

Thomas Sampson, John Leland, Bede, Servius — before 1470, with additions of 1471–1472; English MS. Bodl. 832