<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The Abbey of the holy ghost and other works</dc:title><dc:date>[ca. 1400-1470]</dc:date><dc:language>enm</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript, on vellum, in several hands, containing several Middle English devotional texts. The Abbey of the Holy Ghost is followed by The Meditation of St. Anselm; The Five Sorrows of the Virgin; and an explanation of how to say the Psalter of the Virgin. These are followed by a poem to the VIrgin ("Mari moder well [th]e bee"); a six-line political poem referring to Edward IV ("The lyon sens thre days"); and a recipe for a medicine for pestilence, in a later hand</dc:description><dc:description>In Middle English.</dc:description><dc:description>Script: several hands.</dc:description><dc:description>Decoration: Abbey of the Holy Ghost has initials in blue with red penwork.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: modern full red morocco.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>