## Information on cmmirk.m34

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | Mirk's Festial
> File name | cmmirk.m34
> Manuscript | Gough Eccl. Top. 4, Bodleian Library, Oxford
> Date | a1500 (a1415)
> Dialect | West Midlands (Shropshire?)
> Genre | Sermons
> Edition | Erbe, Theodore. 1905. Mirk's Festial: A collection of homilies, by Johannes Mirkus (John Mirk). Part I. EETS E.S. 96. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
> Sample | Pp. 1.4-5.36, 82.9-85.10
> Remarks | A free reworking of the Legenda Aurea (a sermon cycle written in Latin about 1260-1270 by Jacobus a Voragine), with many additions from the Gesta Romanorum and comments, as well as two sermons from local sources. It is a full festival sermon cycle with many narrations, much of it apparently from local oral tradition.

### Helsinki Corpus information

> File name | CMMIRK
> Text identifier | M3/4 IR SERM MIRK
> Text name | FESTIAL
> Author | MIRK JOHN
> Period | M3/4
> Date of original | 1350-1420
> Date of manuscript | 1420-1500
> Contemporaneity | NON-CONTEMP
> Dialect | WMO
> Verse or prose | PROSE
> Text type | SERMON
> Relationship to foreign original | X
> Foreign original | X
> Relationship to spoken language | X
> Sex of author | MALE
> Age of author | X
> Social rank of author | PROF
> Audience description | X
> Participant relationship | X
> Interaction | X
> Setting | X
> Prototypical text category | INSTR REL
> Sample | SAMPLE X