1. Pearl’s Hyperbola/e and God’s Spotless Spot: Beautiful Excess and Deficiency Arnold Sanders, Associate Professor of English, Goucher College Medieval Institute International Congress, 2013

2. Folio 45v, lines 469-503 "Cortaysé," quoth I, "I leve, And charyté grete be yow among. Bot my speche that yow ne greve,..... Thyself in heven over hygh thou heve To make thee quen that was so yonge. What more honour moghte he acheve That hade endured in worlde stronge And lyved in penaunce hys lyves longe Wyth bodyly bale hym blysse to byye? What more worschyp moght he fonge Then corounde be kyng by cortaysé? 9 "That cortaysé is to fre of dede Yf hyt be soth that thou cones saye. Thou lyfed not two yer in oure thede; Thou cowthes never God nauther plese ne pray Ne never nawther Pater ne Crede - And quen mad on the fyrste day! I may not traw, so God me spede, That God wolde wrythe so wrange away. Of countes, damysel, par ma fay, Wer fayr in heven to halde asstate Other elles a lady of lasse aray - Bot a quene! Hit is to dere a date." "Ther is no date of Hys godnesse," Then sayde to me that worthy wyghte, "For al is trawthe that He con dresse And He may do nothynk bot ryght. As Mathew meles in your Messe, In sothfol gospel of God almyght, In sample He can ful graythely gesse And lyknes hit to heven lyghte. 'My regne,' He says, 'is lyk on hyght To a lorde that hade a vyne, I wate. Of tyme of yere the terme was tyght To labor vyne was dere the date.'

3. Folio 45v, lines 469-80 "Cortaysé," quoth I, "I leve, And charyté grete be yow among. Bot my speche that yow ne greve,..... Thyself in heven over hygh thou heve To make thee quen that was so yonge. What more honour moghte he acheve That hade endured in worlde stronge And lyved in penaunce hys lyves longe Wyth bodyly bale hym blysse to byye? What more worschyp moght he fonge Then corounde be kyng by cortaysé?

4. Fol. 38r and 38v

5. Hyperbola: showing the two foci, the axis of symmetry connecting them, and the asymptotes they pursue to infinity

6. The Four Conic Sections

7. Folios 48v-49r, lines 685-756

8. Fol. 48v, l. 720 and Fol. 49r, l. 721-4

9. Folio 51v, lines 901-11and 912-35

10. Fol. 51v, ll. 901-19

11. Folio 38r

12. Poem as Circle Poem as Hyperbola ) (