I'm going to see it the week after next and will report.
I gather it is a guild accounts roll, 4 ft long, for 1399-1400. (How did they lose it? Apparently it was around in the 19th century and then slipped out of view.)
Think the second statement ('sheds light on the 'origins of the Mystery Plays') may be over-egging the cake!
Meg Twycross
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From: REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion on behalf of Abigail Ann Young
Sent: Mon 19/02/2007 18:39
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Subject: [Fwd: News on the York Pater Noster Play]
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Subject: News on the York Pater Noster Play
University of York press release
Campus Teams Historic Find (from York Press)
A new find in York of a document belongong to the Pater Noster Guild
that not only sheds light on the Pater Noster Play but also, the reports
suggest sheds light on the 'origins of the Mystery Plays'.
Something to send shivers up the spine of all REEDers.
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