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1. (f. 1r-11v) Palmistry, par John Metham

   Incipit:	Thales Mylesyes, the qwyche was the fyrst phylysophyre in the cyte of Atene, be the ansqwere off god Appollo, fyrst dyd wryte the syens off cyromancy in the langage of Parce, and mastyr Arystotyl tranlatyd yt owte of Parce into Grwe; and owte of Grw, doctor Aurelyan…
   Explicit:	… a persone that pasyth twelue yere off age. Thus endyth myne autoure doctor Aurelyan in Latyne. And thus I ende in Englysch vndyr the supportacion off my masterys in this syens; — be the skoler Jon Metham.Here endyth the syens off cyromancy. Quod Jon Metham. . . . Metham.

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3. (f. 17v-56v) Amoryus and Cleopes, par John Metham

   Incipit:

   Thys ys the story off a knyght, howe he dyd many wurthy dedys be the help off a lady, the qwyche taught hym to ouercome a meruulus dragon, the qwyche was a .c. fote longe. And this knyght was clepyd Amoryus, the lady Cleopes. The chauns of loue and eke the peyn of Amoryus, the knyg[h]t, for Cleopes sake, and eke how bothe in fere louyd and aftyr deyd, my purpos ys to endyght. And now, O goddes, I the beseche off kunnyng, that Lanyfyca rhyght!…

   Explicit:

   … in vertuys; for he off rymyng toke the besynes to comfforte them that schuld falle in heuynes. For tyme on-ocupyid, qwan folk haue lytyl to do, on haly-dayis to rede, me thynk yt best so. Here endyth the story off Amoryus the knyght and off Cleopes the lady.

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Possesseurs

• Sir Miles Stapleton (1408-1466), d'Ingham, Norfolk, et sa première femme, Katherine de la Pole (1416-1488)
• Famille Lloyd (à partir du XVII^e s.)
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther, de Hintlesham Hall, Ipswich
• Libraire Bernard Quaritch, à Londres
• Robert Garrett (1875-1961), Baltimore, qui l'achète de Quaritch en 1903 et en fait don à Princeton en 1942

Bibliographie

• The Works of John Metham, Including the Romance of Amoryus and Cleopes, edited from the unique MS. in the Garrett collection in the Library of Princeton University, by Hardin Craig, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 132), 1916, xliii + 184 p. (ici p. vii-x) [GB] [IA]
  Réimpression:

  • Millwood, Kraus Reprint, 1974
• Ricci, Seymour de, et W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, New York, Wilson, 1935-1940, 3 t. (ici t. 1, p. 893, n^o 141) [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
• John Metham, Amoryus and Cleopes, edited by Stephen F. Page, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), 1999, 152 p. [metseditions.org] DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv13gvjc4
• Skemer, Don C., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Princeton, Princeton University, 2013, 2 t., 483 p. + 88 p. de pl., 558 p. + 40 p. de pl. ISBN: 9780691157504
• Catalogue en ligne de la bibliothèque

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> Wikidata: Q140289499

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