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Religious poems and legends by 'Jon Awdelay', a blind and deaf canon of Haughmond abbey, of Austin Canons, in Shropshire, written in about the second quarter of the 15th cent.

They are very fully described in the 1840 Catalogue, and some have been printed by the Percy Society (1844), vol. 14. At least eleven leaves are lost at the beginning (see note on fol. 2), but the following colophon on fol. 22v may cover all that is written up to that point, ' Finito libro sit laus & gloria Christo | Liber vocatur. Concilium Conciencie sic nominatur | Aut Scala Celi & Vita [Via?] Salutis eterni | Iste liber fuit compositus per Johannem Awdelay capellanum, qui fuit…
Collection: Douce Manuscripts
Shelfmark: MS. Douce 302
Extents: 36 leaves, in double columns
Dates: written in about the second quarter of the 15th cent.