Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Legendae Catholicae. A Lytle Boke of Seyntlie Gestes
Author: W. B. D. D. Turnbull
Date of publication: 1840
Publisher: Edinburgh Printing Company
Edition: 1
The full Rossetti Archive record for this transcribed document is available.
Legendæ Catholicæ
A LYTLE BOKE
OF
SEYNTLIE GESTES
IMPRINTED AT EDINBURGH
IN THE YEAR OF THE INCARNATION
MDCCCXL
![Image of page [titlepage]](http://www.rossettiarchive.org/img/thumbs_small/turnbull1840titlepage.jpg)
A LYTLE BOKE
OF
SEYNTLIE GESTES
- “ — to heuen God your soules sende
- That readeth this boke ouer all
- Chryst couer you with his mantell perpetuall”
Cocke Lorell's Bote
IN THE YEAR OF THE INCARNATION
MDCCCXL
Transcription Gap: pages i-xvi (to be edited later)
Transcription Gap: pages 1-138 (to be edited later)
Transcription Gap: page 139, lines 1-6 (to be edited later)
- So reynable ~t queint ſche was
- Of witt ~t of dede
- That ich man hadde of ſo ȝong thing
- Wonder ~t eke drede
- Sche nas neuer ſen ones wroth
- No leiȝeand ones gon
- No miſſigge to no man
- Bot euer more in on
- Sche ſuewed ~t ſpan ~t kembede alſo
- 10Bothe wollen ~t linne
- Other erthelich gode hadde ſche non
- Her liiflade for to winne
- Ich werke days bi riȝt tides
- Euen ſche deled on thre
- Ich morwe fort vnder were
- In her bedes ſche wald be
- And fram vnder to mid ouer none
- To hir werk ſche wald ſitt
- Weuen or ſpinne or ſewe
- 20Gode ſche was of witt
- Fort euen ſche was in hir beden
- With word ~t with thouȝt
- An angel come to her eueriday
- And fram heuen hir mete brouȝt
- Litel other mete men ſeiȝe hir ete
- Ac that ſche wrouȝt with hir hond
- Among pouer ſche delt it ich del
- And liued bi Godes ſond
- When ſche of ani ſike herd telle
- 30Anon to hem ſche went
- And comfort hem ~t made hem hole
- Thurch the grace that God hir ſent
Transcription Gap: page 141 last 8 lines on the page (to be edited later)
Transcription Gap: pages 142-end (to be edited later)
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
Source File:
turnbull1840.rad.xml