Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 302
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Country:England
Settlement:Oxford
Repository: Bodleian Library
Idno:Douce 302
AltName:SC 21876
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Date and Language
Date:s. xv1
Language: English
Dialect:Scribe 1 - Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 336, 189 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Scribe 2 - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but Benskin and McIntosh state 'N. Staffs language, very like that of the main hand' (1986, p. 239).
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Contents
A mid fifteenth-century (c. 1420-1426) collection of devotional and didactic texts with some in Latin, compiled by the author, .

Item: 1
Locus:ff. 1r-2r
Title:Instructions in Christian Living (IMEV *39)
Incipit:'In hel ne purgatore non ožer plase'.
Explicit:
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Item: 2
Locus:f. 2r
Title:Verse on the day of doom
Incipit:'The day of dome shuld come in here'.
Explicit:
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Item: 3
Locus:ff. 2r-7r
Title:Counsels to Those in Religious Life (IMEV 947)
Incipit:'God haž grauntyd grace vnto oure lerny[n]g'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De concordia inter rectores fratres et rectores ecclesie'.
Bibliography:

Item: 4
Locus:f. 8r
Title:On Nine Virtues (IMEV *71)
Incipit:'To ži ne?bour fore loue of me'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Explicit de salutare'.
Bibliography:

Item: 5
Locus:ff. 8r-9r
Title:Prayer on the Blood of Christ (IMEV 292)
Incipit:'An holy prayer here begynnes'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De effusione sanguinis christi in remissione peccatorum'.'Explicit de sanguine christi'.
Bibliography:

Item: 6
Locus:f. 9r
Title:Prayer on Christ's Passion (IMEV 2452)
Incipit:'O god že wyche žou woldust lorde'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Quomodo ihesus fuit reprobatus a iudeis'.
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Item: 7-11
Locus:f. 9r-v
Title:Psalter of the Passion
Incipit:'De psalterio passionis'.
Explicit:
Note:A sequence of Latin prayers with English instructions.
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Item: 7
Locus:f. 9r
Title:Instructions for prayer (IMEV 3888)
Incipit:'Wele is him žat wele can'.
Explicit:
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Item: 8
Locus:f. 9r
Title:Latin verse prayer
Incipit:'Anima christi sanctifica me'.
Explicit:'Amen'.
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Item: 9
Locus:f. 9r
Title:Instructions for prayer
Incipit:'And say on ži bedis in žis manere'.
Explicit:
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Item: 10
Locus:f. 9r-v
Title:Latin verse prayer
Incipit:'O deus qui voluisti'.
Explicit:
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Item: 11
Locus:f. 9v
Title:Latin prose prayer
Incipit:'Tu domine per has sanctissimas penas tuas'.
Explicit:
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Item: 12
Locus:ff. 9v-10r
Title:Seven Utterances of Christ on the Cross (IMEV 2468)
Incipit:'O ihesu crist hongyng on cros'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De septem verbis ihesu christi pendentis in cruce'.'Explicit septem verba domini nostri ihesu christi'.
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Item: 13-18
Locus:f. 10r-v
Title:Devotions at the Levation
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'De salutacione corporis ihesu christi'.'Explicit salutacio'.
Note:A sequence of prayers and instructions.
Bibliography:

Item: 13
Locus:f. 10r
Title:Instructions for the Salutation to Christ's Body (IMEV 4052)
Incipit:'When žou seyst že sacrement'.
Explicit:
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Item: 14
Locus:f. 10r
Title:Salutation to Christ's Body
Incipit:'Hayle gracious lord in ži godhede'.
Explicit:
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Item: 15
Locus:f. 10r
Title:Instructions for the Prayer at the Levation (IMEV unnumbered, p. 186)
Incipit:'He žat wil say žis oreson'.
Explicit:
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Item: 16
Locus:f. 10r-v
Title:Prayer at the Levation (Not in IMEV)
Incipit:'O lord ihesu christ fore ži hole flesche most worži'.
Explicit:
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Item: 17
Locus:f. 10v
Title:Latin prose prayer
Incipit:'Adoramus te christe'.
Explicit:'Amen'.
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Item: 18
Locus:f. 10v
Title:Latin verse prayer
Incipit:'Laudes deo dicam per secula'.
Explicit:'Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 19
Locus:ff. 10v-12r
Title:Virtues of the Mass (IMEV 1986)
Incipit:'Lordis ?if ?e wil lyže'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De meritis misse quomodo debemus audire missam'.'Explicit meritis misse'.
Bibliography:

Item: 20-22
Locus:f. 12v
Title:For Remission of Sins
Incipit:
Explicit:
Note:A devotional sequence to obtain a reduction of time in purgatory.
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Item: 20
Locus:f. 12v
Title:St. Gregory's Indulgence (IMEV 3834)
Incipit:'Apon a day saynt gregore'.
Explicit:'žen loke žou say anon Dewowtle žis confession'.
Rubric:'Quomodo dominus ihesus christus apparuit sancto gregorio in tale effugie'.
Bibliography:

Item: 21
Locus:f. 12v
Title:Prayer of General Confession (IMEV 3233)
Incipit:'Swete ihesu crist to že'.
Explicit:'Loke ?e say žis orisoun Dewoutle with deuocion'.
Rubric:'De confesione generali'.
Bibliography:

Item: 22
Locus:f. 12v
Title:Prayer for Forgiveness (IMEV 2489)
Incipit:'O [l]ord ihesu crist hongyng on cros'.
Explicit:'Amen'.
Rubric:'Quomodo ihesus in cruce rogabat patrem pro inimicis. Oracio'.
Bibliography:

Item: 23
Locus:ff. 12v-14v
Title:On Visiting the Sick and Consoling the Needy (IMEV 2853)
Incipit:'Saynt ancelyne žat hole bischop'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De visitacione infirmorum et consolacione miserorum'.'Explicit visitacio infirmorum et consolacio miserorum'.
Bibliography:

Item: 24
Locus:f. 14v
Title:Instructions for reading items 25-26 (IMEV unnumbered).
Incipit:'I pray ?ou serys pur charyte When ?e han red žis treuly žen redis žis passion What cryst sofryd fore synful m[o]n Here schul ?e here a treu lessoun Hou fayž and charyte away is gon'.
Explicit:
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Item: 25
Locus:ff. 14v-15r
Title:On the World's Folly (IMEV 1211)
Incipit:'Mone days now agone'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Multis diebus iam peractis...cauete' .
Note:Translation of Latin aphorisms.
Bibliography:

Item: 26-28
Locus:ff. 15r-16r
Title:Devotions on the Passion
Incipit:
Explicit:
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Item: 26
Locus:f. 15r-v
Title:Pope John's Passion of Our Lord (IMEV 2764)
Incipit:'Pope ion že xii at auyon was'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De passione domini nostri ihesu christi et de horis canonicis'.
Bibliography:

Item: 27
Locus:f. 15v
Title:Audelay's Signature to Pope John's Passion (Not in IMEV).
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'Amen ihesu now i že pray Haue mynd and merce on blynd Audlay Žat mad in englesche žis passion Fore synful men to haue mynd žeron'.
Bibliography:

Item: 28
Locus:ff. 15v-16r
Title:The Hours of the Cross (IMEV 623)
Incipit:'Crist žat was crucifyd on cros for our synnus sake'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hic incepiunt hore canonice passionis ihesu christe'.
Bibliography:

Item: 29
Locus:ff. 16r-17r
Title:Lord's Epistle on Sunday (IMEV 2324)
Incipit:'Now here žis pistil I ?ou pray'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Audite hec omnes gentes'.'De epistola domini nostri ihesu christi de die dominica'.
Bibliography:

Item: 30
Locus:ff. 17r-18v
Title:Vision of St. Paul (IMEV 3481)
Incipit:'Že sononday is godis oun chosyn day'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Incipit narracio quo michel duxit paulum ad infernum'.
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Item: 31
Locus:ff. 18v-20r
Title:An Appeal of God to Men (IMEV 171)
Incipit:'All cristyn men y bid ?ou cum'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hec dicit dominus deus conuertimini ad me et salui eritis'.'De misericordia domini'.
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Item: 32
Locus:ff. 20r-22v
Title:Counsel of Conscience: Epilogue (IMEV 1200)
Incipit:'Here i conclud al my makyng'.
Explicit:
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Item: 33
Locus:f. 22v
Title:Colophon to The Counsel of Conscience
Incipit:
Explicit:
Colophon:'Finito libro sit laus et gloria christo liber vocatur concilium conciencie sic nominatur aut scala celi et vita salutis eterni iste liber fuit compositus per iohannem awdelay capellanum qui fuit secus et surdus in sua visitacione ad honorem domini nostri ihesu christi et ad exemplum aliorum in monasterio de haghmon anno domini millesimo ccccmo visecimo vito cuius anime propicietur deus. Amen'.
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Item: 34
Locus:ff. 22v-23v
Title:Salutation to Mary with embedded salutation to Christ (IMEV 1068)
Incipit:'Hayle mare to že i say'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hic incipiunt salutaciones beate Marie virginis'.
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Item: 35
Locus:f. 23v
Title:Prayer rubric in two couplets (Not in IMEV)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'I pray že fader omnipotent Graunt mercy to-fore žy iugement And alle žat don ?ow here seruyse Žou graunt hom part of paradyse'.
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Item: 36
Locus:f. 23v
Title:Prayer (Not in IMEV)
Incipit:'O allmy?ty god euerlastyngle'.
Explicit:'Amen'.
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Item: 37
Locus:23v
Title:Instructional Conclusion to Prayer
Incipit:'Wel ys hym žat wil and may Say žis prayere euerday'.
Explicit:
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Item: 38
Locus:ff. 23v-24r
Title:Salutation to Mary (IMEV 1083)
Incipit:'Haile že fayrst žer euer god fond'.
Explicit:'Explicitur'.
Rubric:'Alia oracio de sancta maria virgine'.
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Item: 39
Locus:f. 24r-v
Title:Gabriel's Salutation to the Virgin
Incipit:'The angel to že vergyn said'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hec salutacio composuit angelus gabrielus'.
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Item: 40
Locus:ff. 24v-25r
Title:Song of the Magnificat (IMEV 2271)
Incipit:'My soule my lord hit magnefyž'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hic incipit psalmus de magnificat'.
Bibliography:

Item: 41
Locus:ff. 25r-26r
Title:Salutation to St. Bridget (IMEV 1058)
Incipit:'Hayle maydyn and wyfe h[ayle] wedow brygytt'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hic incipit salutacio sancte brigitte virginis...quod awdelay'.
Bibliography:

Item: 42-45
Locus:ff. 26r-27r
Title:Devotions to St. Winifred
Incipit:
Explicit:
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Item: 42
Locus:f. 26r-v
Title:Carol Salutation to St. Winifred (IMEV 413)
Incipit:'As žou were marter and mayd clene'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Wenefrede žou swete may Thow pray for vs bož ny?t and day'.
Bibliography:

Item: 43
Locus:ff. 26v-27r
Title:Salutation to St. Winifred (IMEV 1084)
Incipit:'Hayle wenefryd žat worchipful with ži vergenete'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hic incipit salutacio sancte wenefrede virginis'.
Bibliography:

Item: 44
Locus:f. 27r
Title:Latin verse prayer to St. Winifred
Incipit:'Virgo pia wynfryda pollens in myraculis'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hic incipit oracio'.
Bibliography:

Item: 45
Locus:f. 27r
Title:Latin prose prayer to St. Winifred
Incipit:'Deus qui beatam virgenem tuam wenfredam'.
Explicit:
Rubric:First scribe: 'Oremus'. Second scribe: 'collecte'.
Bibliography:

Item: 46
Locus:f. 27r
Title:Salutation to St. Anne (IMEV 894)
Incipit:'Gaude felix anna že moder of mari'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Quicumque hanc salutacionem in honore sancte anne matris marie...morietur'.
Bibliography:

Item: 47
Locus:f. 27r-v
Title:Latin prose prayer to St. Anne
Incipit:'Deus qui beatam annam diu sterilem' (face drawn in initial).
Explicit:
Rubric:'Ora pro nobis beata anna quia de fructu ventris tui est nobis gratia data. Oremus'.
Bibliography:

Item: 48-51
Locus:f. 27v
Title:Meditations on the Saviour's Face
Incipit:
Explicit:
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Item: 48
Locus:f. 27v
Title:Latin accessus to Salutation to Our Saviour
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'Quicumque hanc salutacionem in honore...saluatoris'.
Bibliography:

Item: 49
Locus:f. 27v
Title:Drawing of the Holy Face on the Vernicle
Incipit:
Explicit:
Bibliography:Fein 2003, fig. 1

Item: 50
Locus:f. 27v
Title:Salutation to our Saviour (IMEV 3073)
Incipit:'Salue i say hole face of our saueour'.
Explicit:'Signatum est super nos lumen vultis tui domine dedisti leteciam in corde meo'.
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Item: 51
Locus:f. 27v
Title:Latin prose prayer to the Holy Face
Incipit:'Deus qui nobis signatum vultis tui memoreali'.
Explicit:
Rubric:First scribe: 'Oremus'. Second scribe: 'collecte'.
Bibliography:

Item: 52
Locus:f. 27v
Title:Introduction to collection of carols
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'I pray ?ow syrus boothe moore and las Syng žese caroles in cristemas'.
Bibliography:

Item: 53
Locus:f. 27v
Title:Ten Commandments (IMEV 304)
Incipit:'And loue ži god ouer al žyng'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Hic incipiunt decem precepta in modum cantalene'.'A mon ?if žou wold sauyd be'.
Bibliography:

Item: 54
Locus:ff. 27v-28r
Title:Seven Deadly Sins (IMEV 858)
Incipit:'Foresake ži pride and žyn enuy'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De septem peccatis mortalibus'.'In wele be ware ore žou be woo'.
Bibliography:

Item: 55
Locus:f. 28r
Title:On the Seven Works of Mercy (IMEV 792)
Incipit:'Fede že hungere že žirste ?if drenke'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De septem opera misericordie'.'Wele is him and wele schal be'.
Bibliography:

Item: 56
Locus:f. 28r
Title:Five Senses (IMEV 3346)
Incipit:'Že furst hit is ži heryng'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De quinque sensus'.'Thy v wittis loke žat žou wel spende'.
Bibliography:

Item: 57
Locus:f. 28r-v
Title:On the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit (IMEV 2173)
Incipit:'Mynd resun vertu and grace'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De septem dona spiritus sancti''God haž ?euen of my?tis most'.
Bibliography:

Item: 58
Locus:f. 28v
Title:Day of the Nativity (IMEV 3877)
Incipit:'Welcum be žou heuen kyng'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'In die natalis domini'.'Welcum ?ole in good aray'.
Bibliography:

Item: 59
Locus:f. 28v
Title:On the Day of St. Stephen (IMEV 3057)
Incipit:'Saynt steuen že first martere'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'In die sancti stephani'.'In reuerens of oure lord in heuen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 60
Locus:f. 28v
Title:On the Day of St. John the Evangelist (IMEV 2929)
Incipit:'Synt ion is cristis derlyng dere'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'In die sancti iohannes appostole et ewangeliste'.'I pray ?oue breder euerechon'.
Bibliography:

Item: 61
Locus:ff. 28v-29r
Title:On the Day of the Holy Innocents (IMEV 601)
Incipit:'Crist crid in cradil moder baba'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'In die sanctorum innocencium'.'With al že reuer[en]s žat we may'.
Bibliography:

Item: 62
Locus:f. 29r
Title:St. Thomas of Canterbury (IMEV 838)
Incipit:'For on a tewsday thomas was borne'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De sancto thome archiepiscopo cantuarienci'.'I pra[y] ?ou sers al infere'.
Bibliography:

Item: 63
Locus:f. 29r
Title:On the Day of the Circumcision (IMEV 21)
Incipit:'A babe is borne of hye natewre'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'In die circu[m]cicionis domini'.'What tyžyngis bryngst vs messangere'.
Bibliography:

Item: 64
Locus:f. 29r-v
Title:On King Henry VI (IMEV 822)
Incipit:'Fore he is ful ?ong tender of age'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De rege nostro henrico sexto'.'A perles pryns to že we pray'.
Bibliography:

Item: 65
Locus:f. 29v
Title:On the Four Estates (IMEV 1588)
Incipit:'In wat order or what degre'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Fac ad quod venisti'.'Hit is že best erele and late'.
Bibliography:

Item: 66
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:Childhood (IMEV 840)
Incipit:'Fore pride in herte he hatis all one'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Cantalena de puericia'.'And god wold graunt me my prayer'.
Bibliography:

Item: 67
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:On the Day of the Epiphany (IMEV 3526)
Incipit:'Žer is a babe born of a may'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'In die epephanis'.'Nowel nowel nowel'.
Bibliography:

Item: 68
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:St. Anne (IMEV 3244)
Incipit:'Swete saynt anne we že beseche'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De sancta anna matre marie'.'The moder of mary žat merceful may'.
Bibliography:

Item: 69
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:On Mary, Flower Sprung of a Tree (IMEV 3603)
Incipit:'Žis flour is fayre and fresche of heue'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Alia cantalena de sancta maria'.'There is a floure spr[u]ng of a tre'.
Bibliography:

Item: 70
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:Mary, Mother and Maiden (IMEV 895)
Incipit:'Gaude maria cristis moder'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Et alia de sancta maria'.'Aue maria now say we so'.
Bibliography:

Item: 71
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:On Mary, Peerless among Women (IMEV 536)
Incipit:'Blessid mot žou be žou berd so bry?t'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Et de sancta maria'.'Heyle of wymmen flour of alle'.
Bibliography:

Item: 72
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:On Virginity of Saints (IMEV 535)
Incipit:'Blessid mot be oure heuen quene'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De virgin[i]tate'.'For the loue of a maydon fre'.
Bibliography:

Item: 73
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:On Virginity of Maidens (IMEV 1595)
Incipit:'In word in dede in wyl in žo?t'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'I pray ?oue maydys žat here be'.
Bibliography:

Item: 74
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:On Chastity in Married Women (IMEV 1630)
Incipit:'Hit is ful heue chastite'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De matrimonio mulierum'.'Avyse ?oue wemen wom ?e trust'.
Bibliography:

Item: 75
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:Love of God (IMEV 831)
Incipit:'Fore loue is loue and euer schal be'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De amore dei'.'I haue a loue is heuen kyng'.
Bibliography:

Item: 76
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:On Dread of Death (IMEV 693)
Incipit:'Dred of dež sorow of syn'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Timor mortis conturbat me'.'Lade helpe ihesu merce'.
Bibliography:

Item: 77
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:St. Francis (IMEV 44)
Incipit:'A hole confessoure žou were hone'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De sancto fransisco'.'Saynt frances to že I say'.
Bibliography:

Item: 78
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:Instructions to the 'Meditative Close' (IMEV 2795)
Incipit:
Explicit:
Rubric:'Rede thys offt butt rede hit sofft And whatt žou redust for?eete hit no?t For here že soth žou maght se What fruyte comež of žy body.'
Bibliography:

Item: 79
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:The Sins of the Heart (IPMEP 124-25)
Incipit:'These synnys of že hert arne žese'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De peccatis cord[is]' - in margin.'[Q]uicumque inspexerit'.
Note:Prose extract from Richard Rolle's The Form of Living (IPMEP 351).
Bibliography:Allen 1931. Horstmann 1895.

Item: 80
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:Over-Hippers and Skippers
Incipit:'Ouerhippers and skippers moterers and mumlers'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:

Item: 81
Locus:ff. 29v-33v (Items 66-81)
Title:An Honest Bed
Incipit:'Whan že chambur of ži soule is clensid fro al syn'.
Explicit:
Note:Prose allegory.
Bibliography:

Item: 82
Locus:ff. 33v-34r
Title:Pater Noster (IMEV 3445)
Incipit:'The pater noster to expone may no man hit prise'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Pater noster qui es in celis'
Bibliography:

Item: 83
Locus:f. 34r-v
Title:Three Dead Kings (IMEV 2677)
Incipit:'An a byrchyn bonke žer bous arne bry?t'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'De tribus regibus mortuis'.
Bibliography:

Item: 84
Locus:f. 34v
Title:On Worldly Vanity
Incipit:'Cur mundus militat sub vana gloria'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Non honor set honus assumere nomen honoris'.
Bibliography:

Item: 85
Locus:f. 35r
Title:Conclusion (IMEV 1210)
Incipit:'Here may ?e here now hwat ?e be'.
Explicit:'Cuius anime propicietur deus'.
Rubric:'Sapiencia huius mundi stulticia est apud Deum'.
Bibliography:
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:270 x 195 mm
Collation:Uncertain. Possibly originally ten quires of six . Collation: Quire 1(lost); 2(lost; 3(lost); 46 (lacking 1-2); 56 (lacking 3-6); 66; 76; 86 (lacking 1); 96; 106 (See Fein 2003, p. 98, n. 3). There appear to be four sections to the book: 1. ff. 1r-22v - Audelay's The Counsel of Conscience (acephalous). 2. ff. 22v-27v - Audelay's Salutations and Prayers. 3. ff. 27v - 32r - Audelay's Carols. 4. ff. 32r-35r - A meditative close. English prose and alliterative verse, Latin verse, Audelay's Conclusion.
Layout:Pricking for frame visible. Double columns with 45-51 lines. Each column is 220 x 70 mm with a gap between the columns of 10 mm. Left margin - 17 mm; right margin - 22 mm. Ruled in drypoint - very slight hint of russet in places.
Writing: Scribe 1: Anglicana. Wrote the texts and left room for incipits and colophons. A small neat hand. Characteristics: dotted y; hooked ascender on d, b and h; double compartment w. Probably an Augustinian canon at Haughmond Abbey. Scribe 2: Provided titles, incipits, explicits, numerals, coloured initials, paraphs, indicators (item 3), a long colophon (item 33), last poem (item 85) and drawing (item 49). Probably an Augustinian canon at Haughmond Abbey.
Decoration: In red: scribal numbering; titles; colophons; brackets; paraphs. Two-line red initials. Three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Drawing of the Holy Face on the Vernicle. Nine lines deep over one column with lips of the Holy Face tinted red (Fein 2003, p. 106, fig. 1).
Binding: Not medieval.
Foliation:ff. iii + 35 + ii. The initial flyleaves, i-ii are modern paper as are the final two flyleaves.
Additions:A U.V. photo of f. 35rb is pasted onto f. 37r. A print has been pasted onto the inside of the back cover which depicts a hunting scene, c. ?sixteenth century.
Condition:Only 35 of the original 60 folios remain.
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History
Provenance:F. 22v - - scribal colophon in Latin to The Counsel of Conscience: 'Finito libro sit laus et gloria christo liber vocatur concilium conciencie sic nominatur aut scala celi et vita salutis eterni iste liber fuit compositus per iohannem awdelay capellanum qui fuit secus et surdus in sua visitacione ad honorem domini nostri ihesu christi et ad exemplum aliorum in monasterio de haghmon anno domini millesimo ccccmo visecimo vjto cuius anime propicietur deus. Amen'. F. i - , fifteenth-century hand. According to Doyle 1995, 'John Audelay, a blind chantry priest at the Augustinian Haghmond Abbey, Shropshire, in and possibly after 1426', p. 181. The manuscript 'later passed through the hands of a Coventry minstrel to an Austin canon of Laude, Leicestershire', p. 182.
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded by Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, July 2003.Described with reference to Fein (2003).
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Bibliography
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