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 (unique)
 * The Parlement of the Thre [sic] Ages (only complete copy)
 * The Sege of Melayne (unique)
 * The Four Leaves of the Truelove (one of two extant copies)
 * Rowland and Otuel
 * "Have Mercy of Me" (Psalm 51)
 * 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