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Article: A Middle English text on planting and grafting in Cambridge, Trinity College, 0.5.26.
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- January 1, 2006
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The Manuscript
Cambridge, Trinity College, 0.5.26 is a miscellany, likely from the late-fourteenth century. It is written primarily in the hand of one scribe in the vernacular, Anglicana script. According to Linne R. Mooney, it was noted by John North "as '15th or very late 14th century' and as presumptively identical with a volume missing from New College, Oxford" (2: 89-90, qtd. in Mooney 116). (1) The presence of a text in the manuscript forecasting a conjunction between Saturn and Jupiter in January 1405 likely indicates a date earlier than the fifteenth century, and Irma Taavitsainen gives an estimated date of 1395 for the manuscript (Taavitsainen 95, fn. ...