Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.505–9; J. Y. Downing, ‘A Critical Edition of Cambridge University MS Ff.5.48’ (PhD diss., University of Washington, 1969; facsimile published by University Microfilms, 1980); T. H. Ohlgren, ‘Robin Hood and the Monk and the Manuscript Context of Cambridge University Library MS Ff.5.48’, Nottingham Medieval Studies 48 (2004), 80–108.

[1]

f. 9v

Here suethe a tabulle of diuerse monethe in the ʒere if thondur be herd in theym what it betokenethe aftur her seyng that ar holdyn wyse men of soth thyngiis.

Prognostications from the amount of thunder in the months of the year. Prose prologue which precedes 60 lines of verse ‘When thonder comeþ in janeuere’ (NIMEV 4053). Ed. from this MS by M. Förster, ‘Beiträge zur mittelalterlichen Volkskunde VII: 10: Mittelenglische Donnerbücher’, Archiv für das Studium der Neuren Sprachen und Literaturen 128 (1912), 285–91 (pp. 284–7).

Other texts: none.

[2]

f. 32v

smyth i d godleff i d vicar i d west i d osmwnd ij d.

A tiny list of accounts written at the top left-hand corner of the page, cancelled.

[3]

f. 114

An hote wyntur a drye somer a wyndy hervest plente of whete of frute a gode sede tyme deth of childur and of bestis murduryng of men and feʒtyng of pelers sum thyng of þe kyng a comyn wyntur a wete begynyng of somer and a hote hay tyme a comyn gode heruyst …

f. 114v

… in corne mych fyre gode flax deth of olde men a feyre ʒere gret plente of hay and gret drede of schepe.

New Year's Day Prognostications. Wells Rev. 10:3782 [119h]. Edited from this MS by J. Y. Downing, ‘An Unpublished Weather Prognostic in Camb. Univ. MS Ff.5.48’, English Language Notes 8 (1970–71), 87–9.

Other texts: Wells Rev. 10 lists 9 MSS of variant forms. For similar texts already indexed see IMEP 2 indexing Chetham's 6680 [8]; IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 393 [9] and [10].

Inscriptions: f. 43 ‘… quod dominus gilbertus pylkyngton amen’; f. 112 ‘Wytnes That I have Reseved of Rychard’, s. xv/xvi; f. 114v ‘Bryan hys my name iet’, both s. xv or s. xvi.

s. xv2. LALME I:67 (2 entries) localizes the language of Hand A (ff. 1–78v, 93–135v, by the scribe Gilbert Pylkyngton) to Derbyshire, and that of Hand B (ff. 79–85v) to Yorkshire, LP 199.