London Thornton Manuscript
The London Thornton Manuscript is a medieval manuscript compiled and copied by the fifteenth-century English scribe and landowner Robert Thornton. The manuscript was long considered a miscellany, but is more properly called a collection of spiritual texts.
Contents
- Wynnere and Wastoure
- The Parlement of the Ages
- The Sege of Melayne
- The Four Leaves of the Truelove
- Rowland and Otuel
- "Have Mercy of Me"
- *alliterative rendering of Psalm 51. Since at least two leaves are missing, translation breaks off after l. 134; a complete version would have had more than 240 lines.
- ''The Virtues of the Mass''