Marston_MS_242

[upper roundel:] Tha mar [lower roundel:] Zaram.

Iudas had thre sones. Her. Onan and Sela. Her weddid by ordinaunce of his fader awo[m]man that hight Thamar. Her died with oute childe. his broder Onan weddid the same wo[m]man. and he died with oute childe. bothe breder wer wicked. wherfore god slue ham. ¶ The lawe was at that tyme if ther wer many breder: if the eldest toke awife and died with oute child by his wife: his next broder shuld wedde the same wo[m]man. and if he died with oute childe the thrid broder shuld wedde hir. and so furthe odir til the wo[m]man had child. And if she ony had: it shuld be callid the first sones child. further. The thrid broder Sela was not of age to take awife. Wherfore Judas sende Thamar to his fader hous to abide there or Sela war of age. Whan Sela came to age. Thamar had aspiance that Judas after his wifis deth wold to sheryng of shepe in to a place callid thamnas. she cast away hir widewe clothis. wherfore Judas knew hir not and lay by hir: and gate hir with child. ¶ After this: Judas as a juge of the cuntri herd she was with child: and wold haue brende hir. She brought aryng and astaf that Judas toke hir whan he lai by hir and brought hir with child. and so the wo[m]man was sauyd. and brought furthe two childer ph/a\res and zaram.

[Upper roundel:] Darda nus.

[Lower roundel:] Ericto mus.

Dardanus after the answer that he had of hys goddys lafte hys place where he dwelled and come in to the countre of frigie. and after hys name he called it dardanye.

wide left margin continues bloodline [blue] [Stermo..?] -- Steph. [red] [P..ines] [Abisne?] [Ornate blue motif containing gold capital] Of eleazar wer the preestis the which ben put in this lyne o the left hand descendyng- Un to the tyme of ...st after the order and by rowe of the Kynges. Juges. and p[ro]phetis. [Ornate penwork, in blue ink capital letter] After the deth of Josue afore Othomel su[m]me sai that the dede befelle of the ydolt of ....[?] and of the dekenys? wife. [Ornate blue motif, gold letter]Othomel gate astrenght that was callid cariathsepher. Wherefore he had Rlya? and she praid of hyr fadir to have the wete feeld after the drye. [Ornate red motif, blue cap. letter] Ayoth was a fighter with bothe handes. He slue Eglon and delyvered Isreal fro thraldom. [Ornate blue motif, black cap. letter] Sangar slue fore[?] hundred men with afhere of [...?]. and delyvered Israel fro subjeccion. [ornate red motif, blue cap. letter] Delbora was wife to Barack o .....[?] and [and repeated here and crossed through] delyvered Isreal fro sore oppression of Javin [abb?] Kyng. whos prince of werres was Cisara [?]. This Cisara flie fro the batell and came to the house of [Aber cinei?]. whos wife syght Jahel. Jahel sawe hym comyng and had hym in to hyr tabernavel. And Cisara was sore athruste and asked water. She toke hym milk. And anone Cisara slept. While he slept [...?] toke alonge naile in the lift hand and an hamer in the right hand and drove the naile thurgh the brayn and fastned it to the ground. Bi delbora Kyng Javin was slayn. And than she made along

[At the top right of the page, beside the main text, is the continuation of a sentence from the preceding image of the manuscript. It says: and Abo [above] hundred and fifty with hym.]

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an so of leuy. Wherfore the erth opened and deuoured ham [ie ‘them’]. and clo sed fast after .

Nadab ['N' is two lines deep, in gold] and Abin the sones of aaron wer brende with fire that came fro god by vengeann ce in desert. therfore no more of ham here.

Iosue ['I' is two lines deep, in blue] succeded to moyses in ledyng of the childer of israel. and sende Abo messagers out of sichi[m] Shittim [?] to se the cuntri of jeri cho. And whan the kyng of Jericho had aspied ham he wold have slayn ham. ne had Raab Rahab the woman holpe ham . and by hyr thei escaped. ¶ [Gold pilcrow] Josue Joshua with the arke of god and al the peple pas- sed over the water of jordan. and the water by the heigher side stode stille. Thei toke twelf drie [?] stones and laid ham in the ryuer with lien [?] there yith. thei toke also twelf stones of the ryuer and brought ham i[n] to galgala. Gilgal ? and there: with stonen ciltres [?] or knyves circumcided al the childer of israel that wer borne after thei went out of egipt. for while thei were i[n] desert thei circumcided not. ¶ [indented blue pilcrow] The citi of Jericho at seuen goynges aboute. he destroied. and charged the peple upon peyn of cursing no thyng to take therof as for har [their] use: but fle al that ever thei found with [inne ?]. ma[??]. wife. and child. and aged man. oxon. shepe. and asse. ¶ [Gold ? pilcrow] Achar Achan the son of charmi Carmi that came of Zare Zerah the son of jude. he saw at the spoyling of the citi Areed [A red?] mantel and Abo [above ?] hundred [?]de[?] of siluer. and aruel [?] of gold And stale [stole ?] it pryueli [privily]. and for that sinne se[??] and thritti [thirty] men were slayn of the childer of israel by the men of the citi of hay Ai ?. Wherfore Achar Achan was stoned to deth. and al his houshold and good brend [burned] with fire. than Josue Joshua

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toke the citi of hay Aiand

[The main text (above) forms a central column between two parallel columns indicating lines of descent, in which names are written in circles within squares. The right-hand column is far more richly decorated than that on the left.]

[Six names appear in the column on the left, which are (in descending order): Josue [Joshua], Othoniel [Othniel], Ayoth [Ehud ?], Sangar [Shamgar], delbora [Deborah], Gedeon [Gideon].]

[Four names appear in the column on the right, which are (in descending order): Aram, Aminadab [Amminadab], Naason [Nahshon], Salmon.]

[in circles on left:] Aram

¶These ben the names of the fourti and two mansions of the peple of israel by thre yere.

[three blocks of text set out under an arcade from left to right, block 1:] .XII. Ramesse. Socchot. Ethan. Phiairoth. Marach. helym. mare enbru?. Desertu[m] syn. pheta. halus ???adyn. Desertu[m] syna.

[block 2:] .XXI. Sepulcra conspiste[n]tie. Asseroth. Rethma. Fe monphares. Lebua. Fessa. Celatha. mons sepher. Arada. macheloch matha. Thare. metha cha. Esmona. maseroth. Benaichan. mons galgad. Jethebatha. Ebrona. Asiongaber. Cades.

[block 3:] .IX. mons hor. Selmona. phinon. Oboth. Fiabaxun. Dibongad. helimonde. Blathaim. mons abavi[m] con[n]tea nabo. Campestria moab.

[in circles on right:] Tros [connected to] Ilius. lame don pria mus [connected to] Eccuba wife to p[ri]am[us] Troil[us] Cr[e]usa wife to Eneas Hector

Tros was son to Eractonius and he was comendable in al rightwesnesse. and to that entente that hys name shuld evermore be i[n] remembrance he made a cite and called it Troye.

[in circles on right, connected to Tros:] Assarat[us] Capis Auchises.

[Tabernacle diagram, the four cardinal points on the four sides with east at the top] ¶Oriens meridies. ¶Occidens Spetentrio.

[In the centre:} Tabernaculu[m]

[In roundels arranged in two concentric circles, but also connected by lines, the names of four cities in the inner circle and the twelve tribes of Israel in the outer circle:] Ysa-char Judas. Ruben. Symeon. Gad. Effra-im. Be[n]ia-min. Manasses. Naptalim. Aser Dan. Zabulon.

.XIIII. civitates sac[er]dotu[m]. .X. Civitates caa???? .XIII. civitates g????? .XII. Civitates ????