First edition. Presents a wealth of interesting material, texts on astronomy and heraldry, macaronic sermons, Lollard tracts, and a heretofore unnoticed fragment of Love's Mirror. A lengthy critical introduction assesses the importance of Vernon as a record of religious prose, and discusses the generation of Middle English devotional prose for the traditional instruction of enclosed women and for parochial instruction. The Index to Middle English Prose is an international collaborative project to locate, identify and record all extant Middle English prose texts composed between c.1200 and c.1500, in both manuscript and printed form in medieval and post-medieval versions. The series of Handlists, each recording the holdings of a major library or group of libraries and compiled by scholars, includes detailed descriptions of each prose item with identifications, categorizations and full bibliographical data as well as a series of indexes including listing of opening and closing lines, authors, titles, subject matter and rubrics.