Abstract
The East Anglian Croxton Play of the Blyssyd Sacrament survives in a single copy, Dublin, Trinity College MS F.4.20, fols. 338–356. The play is part of a composite manuscript that was brought to Ireland in the late seventeenth century by John Madden when he was appointed President of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland in 1694.1 In 1703, John Stearn, then dean of St. Patrick's, purchased the manuscript, giving it to Trinity College Dublin in 1741. Discolouration occurs at fols. 338 and 356, suggesting that, for a time at least, the play circulated independently of the other materials in TCD MS F.4.20. A terminus a quo is provided by a note on fol. 356, consistent with the hand of one of the play's three scribes: Thus endyth the Play of the Blyssyd Sacrament, whyche myracle was don in the forest of Aragon, in the famous cité Eraclea, the yere of owr Lord God M cccc. lxj, to whom [be] honowr, Amen.
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