Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. A. 389
| England |
| Oxford |
| Bodleian Library |
| Rawl. A. 389 |
| SC 11272 |
| s. xivex |
| English |
| Scribe of ff. 13r-20r, 85r-99r, 99r-104r - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 239). Scribe of ff. 77r-81r and ff. 81r-84r - Scribal Dialect: NE Lancashire 'Written probably at Lichfield' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 150), Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped, LP 21. Ff. 81r-84r - Scribal Dialect: South Nottinghamshire 'but written by a scribe of Lichfield' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 150), Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. |
A late fourteenth-century manuscript copied at Lichfield containing various texts in English and Latin including ones by Richard Rolle, Pecham, and Richard Maidstone. Doyle dates the manuscript to 1386-1398 (Doyle 1974, p. 334). Some later additions.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-11v |
| Emendatio Vitae |
| 'Hic est libellus de emendatione siue de regula'. |
| 'Explicit libellus ricardi heremite de emendacione per catonis'.
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| F. 12r-v blank. |
See Comper, Mysyn and Underhill 1914, pp. 193-242.
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Item: 2| ff. 13r-20v |
| Penitential Psalms (IMEV 3755) |
| 'To goddis worschipe žat dere us bou?te'.'Graunte žou god and persones žre'. |
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Printed from this manuscript in Edden 1990.
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Item: 3| ff. 21r-25v |
| Philomena |
| 'Philomena ...' |
| 'Explicit cantus philomene deuotissimus'. |
| 'De cantu phylomene'. |
Blume and Dreves 1922, pp. 50, 602-603.
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Item: 4| ff. 25v-31v |
| Devotion of St. Brigitte |
| 'Benedicta ...' |
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| 'Hic oracio ...' |
| Extract of the life of the Virgin from Revelations of St. Brigitte. |
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Item: 5| ff. 32r-72v |
| Incendium Amoris |
| 'Incipit liber qui uocatur incendium amoris'. |
| 'in secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit liber de incendio amoris'. |
See Deansley 1915, p. 23.
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Item: 6| ff. 72v-73r |
| Prophecy: 'The Lion, the Lily and the Son of Man' |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 7| ff. 73r-73v |
| Ampulla prophecy |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 8| ff. 73v-74v |
| Historical prophecy of kings and emperors |
| 'Rex ierusalem rex francie rex anglie'. |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 9| f. 74v |
| De mirabilibus Anglie |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 10| f. 74v |
| Derivations of words |
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| Derivations of words: terra, tellus, humus, arda, sicca and solum. Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 11| f. 75r |
| Record of Battles of King Edward 1333-1347 |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 12| f. 75r |
| Latin verses |
| 'Non tempestate non fame ve posse moneri'. |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 13| f. 75v |
| Latin verses |
| 'Domo ?cephis mille canis catulus & cocadrillus'. |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. F. 76r blank. |
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Item: 14.1| f. 76v |
| Miscellaneous notes |
| 'De dei quinque modis operandi'. |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 14.2| f. 76v |
| Miscellaneous notes |
| 'Quatuor elementa'. |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 14.3| f. 76v |
| Geographical notes |
| 'Terra diuiditur in tres partes'. |
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| Filled in by a later fifteenth-century hand. |
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Item: 15| ff. 77r-81r |
| Ego Dormio (IPMEP 160) |
| 'Ego dormio'. |
| 'In heuen witouten endyng. Amen'. |
| 'Richard hermit'. |
See Ogilvie-Thomson 1988, p. xliv. Horstmann 1895, vol. 1, p. 50-61. Allen 1931, pp. 61-72. A second version is on ff. 95v-99r.
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Item: 16| ff. 81r-84v |
| The Commandment (IPMEP 660) |
| 'Že comaundement of god is žat we lufe oure lord in al oure hert'. |
| '& come to ye ioye of luf žis nome'. |
| Written in a south Nottinghamshire dialect but by a Lichfield scribe. Three leaves cut out after f. 84. |
See Ogilvie Thomson 1988, pp. 34-9. Allen 1931.
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Item: 17| ff. 85r-95r |
| Form of Perfect Living (IPMEP 351) |
| 'In vche synful man or woman žat is bounden in dedly synne aren žre'. |
| 'In heuen wižout endynge. Amen'. |
| 'Explicit quoddam notabile richard rolle heremite'. |
| Includes IMEV 2017.5, 4056. |
See Ogilvie-Thomson 1988, pp. 1-25. Horstman 1895, vol. 1, p. 106. Allen 1931.
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Item: 18.2| f. 98r |
| Cantus Amoris (IMEV 2270) |
| 'My sange es in syhtyng my lyfe es in langynge'. |
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| Verse lines in Ego Dormio above. |
Cf. Horstmann 1896, vol. 1, p. 60. Cf. Allen 1931, p. 70.
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Item: 19| ff. 99r-104v |
| Almighty God in Trinity (IMEV 244) |
| 'Aly?ti god in trinite ffadur & son & holy gaaste žat is god and persones žre'. |
| 'In heuen žer euer is ioye inowe'. |
See Horstmann 1895, vol. 2, pp. 36-45. Comper, Misyn and Underhill 1928, pp. 293-294.
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Item: 20| ff. 104v-105v |
| Song of Love to Jesus (IMEV 1781) |
| 'Ihesu ži swetnes whoso my?te it se And žerof haue a clene knowyng'. |
| 'And lede me lord in to ži blis Wiž že to wone wižouten ende. Amen'. |
See Horstmann 1895, vol. 1, pp. 368-369; Comper, Misyn and Underhill 1928, pp. 287-292.
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 250 x 170 mm |
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iii + 18, 24, 38, 412 (wants 12 - neatly cut), 512, 610, 7-812, 912 (wants 4 (neatly cut), 9-12 (roughly cut)), 10-118, 125 (probably lacks 6-8) + ii.
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| Pricking: where visible small horizontal slits. Writing space: prose - single columns: 190 x 130 mm and 39 lines; verse - double columns - 90 x 65 mm and 37 lines; verse - single columns - 200 x 70 mm and 40 lines. Ruling in drypoint. |
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Scribe of ff. 1r-11v writing in an Anglicana hand.
Scribe of ff. 13r-31v and ff. 77r-105v writing in an Anglicana Formata hand with the Latin in a more formal display script.
Scribe of ff. 32r-72v writing in an Anglicana hand.
Another scribe writes in an untidy cursive hand of the fifteenth century. His work fills blank spaces in ff. 72v-76v.
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Text 2, ff. 13r-20v: three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing along margin (first letter of each Psalm). One-line red and blue Lombardic capitals. Red underlining.
Text 3, ff. 21r-25v: three-line blue initial with red penwork begins text. Two-line blue initials with red penwork. Verses bracketed red. Red paraphs.
Text 4, ff. 25v-31v: Six-line blue initial with red penwork begins work. Four lines in red introduce work.
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Not medieval - first half of seventeenth century; rebacked in the nineteenth century. Size: 260 x 180 mm. Cover of brown leather with stamped gold shield over pasteboard (armorial bearings of Langley family). Five bands across the spine. Evidence of two metal clasps.
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| ff. iii + 105 + ii. Edden - 'iii (vellum) + 112 + ii. Foliation modern, includes folio cut out at 1(4) excludes one leaf between ff. 32 and 33 (ie E2) and the folios cut out at D12, I9-12' (Edden 1990, pp. 12-14). |
| Insertions (see Contents). |
| Good |
| Probably written during the episcopate of Richard Scrope at Lichfield (Doyle 1974, p. 334. McIntosh 1963, p. 7). |
| Various scribbles on f. 105v 'liber est ' in a fifteenth-century hand. 'liber est thomas rynald?'. Ker notes that, 'Reedhill was prebend of Upton from 16 February 1451-2, Rynold from 27 January 1471-2; the manuscript belonged to the prebends of Lichfield from at least the second half of the fifteenth century' (1985, pp. 281, 288-289). The manuscript was at Lichfield Cathedral from c. 1470 until 1627. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004.
Related Manuscripts and other documents
Scribal
Scribe of ff. 1-11v was also responsible for Cambridge, Trinity College, MS 383 (R.3.8) (McIntosh 1963, p. 7). The fragment of the
Penitential Psalms found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e. 17 was also written by a scribe of this manuscript.
- Allen, H. E. 1927. Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole and Materials for his Biography, Modern Language Association of America Monograph series, 3, New York and London: Modern Language Association of America, p. 214, 247.
- Allen, H. E. 1931. English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Benson, C. D., and Blanchfield, L. S. 1997. The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: the B-version, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, p. 465.
- Blume, C., and Dreves, G., ed, 1922; rpt. 1961. Analecta Hymnica, Leipzig: London. .
- Comper, F. M. M., ed, and Misyn, R., trans, and Underhill, E., intro, 1914. The Fire of Love or melody of love, and the mending of life or rule of living, London: Methuen, pp. 193-241.
- Deansley, M. ed., 1915. The Incendium Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Manchester.
- Doyle, A. I. 1974. ‘The Shaping of the Vernon and Simeon Manuscripts’, in Beryl, R., ed, Chaucer and Middle English Studies in Honour of Rossell Hope Robbins, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, pp. 328-341, p. 334.
- Edden, V. 1986. ‘Richard Maidstone’s Penitential Psalms’, Leeds Studies in English, 17, 77-94.
- Edden, V., ed, 1990. Richard Maidstone’s Penitential Psalms: edited from Bodl. MS Rawlinson A 389, Middle English Texts, 22, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pp. 12-14.
- Horstmann, C. 1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers, Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1.
- Horstmann, C. 1896. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers, Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 2, II, 36-45.
- Ker, N. R. 1985. ‘Patrick Young’s Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lichfield Cathedral’, in Ker, N. and Watson, G. A., ed, Books, Collectors and Libraries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage, London and Ronceverte, W. Va: Hambledon Press, pp. 273-91, pp. 281, 288-9.
- McIntosh, A. 1963. ‘A New Approach to Middle English Dialectology’, English Studies, 44, 1-28, p. 7.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1.
- McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary, 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4.
- Ogilvie-Thompson, S. J. 1988. Richard Rolle: Prose and Verse edited from MS Longleat 29 and related manuscripts, EETS, os, 293, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. xxxvi-xlv.
- Robbins, R. H. 1940. ‘Two Fourteenth Century Mystical Poems’, Modern Lanugage Review, 35, 320-329. , p. 329.
