Dublin, Trinity College, 155
Ireland |
Dublin |
Trinity College |
155 |
C.5.7 |
s. xvin |
English |
Scribe 1 - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 418 327, LP 215 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribe 2 writes a Latin text. Scribe 3 - Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 385 237, LP 7810 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 250). Scribe 4 - Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 416 335, LP 184 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 77). |
An early fifteenth-century manuscript (Allen 1927) containing various religious treatises, including Richard Rolle's
Ego Dormio, Wycliffite material, and Wimbledon's
Sermon, among others.
Item: 1pp. 1-18 |
Ego Dormio (IPMEP 160) |
'In ŝe boke of loue i fynde wrytyn ŝes wordes'. |
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'Ego dormio'. |
Allen 1931; Horstmann 1895.
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Item: 2pp. 21-68 |
Treatise of Divine Love, upon 'Amore langueo'. |
'Ŝese wordes byŝ wryten in ŝe boke of luf or in ŝe song of songes'. |
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'Amore langueo'. |
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Item: 3pp. 69-90 |
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'Yow schalt loue ŝi lord god with al ŝi hert with al ŝy soule with al ŝi ŝout'. |
'euer more to wone wiŝ hym ŝat ys kyng of ioye and pees world wiŝouten ende amen.' |
A contemporary hand, but in black ink, has added three more lines 'charite sufers alle thyng mekely for godes sake...'. Another hand has added other lines but these are now largely illegible. |
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Item: 4p. 91-108 |
Redde Racionem Villacacionis Tue (IPMEP 560) |
'My dere frendes ?e schulleŝ vnderstonde ŝat crist ihesus auctor & doctour of treuŝe in his boke of ŝo gospel likenynge ŝo kyngdom of heuene'. |
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'Redde rationem villicationis tue'. |
Knight 1967.
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Item: 5pp. 109-119 |
Song of Love-Longing to Jesus (IMEV 3238) |
'Ihesu swete now wole iche syng To ŝe a song of luf longyng Doo in my hert a well to spryng'. |
'but pees & myrŝ wiŝ gret lykyng Swet ihesu to vs bryng Amen Amen'. |
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Item: 6pp. 120-127 |
Adoration to Jesus, on 'Oleum effusum nomen' (IPMEP 506) |
'Ŝat is to sey oyle owte ?ette is ŝi name ŝe name of ihesu anone as it was comen in to ŝis world it smelled swetenes of grace'. |
'of my mynde ŝerfore blessed be ŝe name of ihesu in ŝe world of worldes. Amen'. |
'Olium efusum nomen tuum'. |
Furnivall 1866; Horstmann 1895.
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Item: 7pp. 127-135 |
The syxtene conditions of charite |
'Of alle uertues ŝat byn charyte is ŝe beste'. |
'world withouten ende charyte be wiŝ us amen'. |
'ŝe syxtene condicions of charite'. |
Rubric in red. |
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Item: 8pp. 136-148 |
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'Lorde ihesu criste schelde vs fro hell & fro ferdenes of ŝe fende' |
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Item: 9pp. 149-238 |
Speculum huius vitae |
'Byfore ŝat any creature was wrou?t Or er any bygynnyng was of ou?t And byfore alle tymes as we shul trowe'. |
Unreadable, faded/worn. |
'Speculum huius vite' |
This section pp. 149-238 by one scribe. P. 238 is last page of MS, a verso. |
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Codex |
Parchment with parchment tabs on some folios.
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155 x 120 mm |
Catchwords: pp. 36; 52; 88; 172; 213.
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Pricking, where visible, of vertical slits on fore edge with a writing space of 120 x 80 mm. Single columns with 24-28 lines. Frame ruled in purplish crayon in some quires and lines in drypoint but often not visible. |
Scribe 1 writes in an Anglicana Formata script on pp. 1-18, top; 21-90; 109-135; 149-238. Characteristics: the scribe has a tendency to move from a small hand to a larger hand as the stint progresses; forked tops of ascenders, eg. k, h, l; yogh;; ŝ; B-shaped w with distinct first stroke; 2-shaped r in final and medial position; long s in initial and medial position; 8-shaped s in final position. Body height 3mm.
Scribe 2 writes in a small Secretary script on pp. 18-20 (an inserted Latin text). Characteristics: long, thick descenders. Body height c. 1.5 mm.
Scribe 3 writes in a cursive script on pp. 91-108 in light brown ink. Characteristics: v-shaped r in medial position; 2-shaped r in medial and final position; ŝ; hooked ascenders on b, l, and f; sigma s in initial position; ?; ascenders and descenders fairly close to body of graph; double compartment a with top lobe higher than rest of minims; double compartment g; double compartment d. Body height 2mm.
Scribe 4 writes in a rougher cursive script on pp. 136-148. Characteristics: v-shaped r with loop/hook; thorn without descender; double compartment a; 2-shaped r in final position; long s in medial position; double compartment d; 6-shaped s in final position; looped ascender of l; looped ascender on h. Body height 2mm.
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Item 1 - rubric: two-line red Lombardic initial E of 'Ego', underlined in red. Incipit: initial I of 'In' tinted red, m of 'muchel' tinted red. Red paraphs. Initials in text tinted red.
Nota bene (hand), pp. 5 and 10.
Item 3 - rubric: three-line red Lombardic initial A. Underlined in red. Red paraphs. Some letters tinted red.
Item 4 - red rubric. Incipit: eight-line red initial Y. Red paraphs. Latin underlined in red. Explicit: small man's head in profile to left at end of line, hair/hood coloured red.
Item 5 - red rubric.
Item 6 - incipit: three-line initial I. First letter of each stanza tinted red.
Item 7 - rubric: two-line red initial O; underlined in red.
Item 8 - incipit: two-line Lombardic red initial O.
Item 9 - rubric in red. Incipit: two-line red initial B with red infill. Couplets bracketed with red. One-line red initials. Descenders on bottom line extended and tinted red. Latin lines/titles tinted red. Seven-line red Lombardic ŝ on p. 160.
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Not contemporary. 165 x 125 mm. Cover of tan leather over pasteboard with floral motifs in blind tooling around edges on front and back cover. Five raised bands.
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Paginated 1-238 with 3 paper flyleaves at front and 3 at back. The second paper flyleaf carries the note, 'Paged June 1916'. |
Before 'amore langueo' is a Latin text inserted by a later/near contemporary hand. 'Marke this well & take' written on p. 16 in a fifteenth/sixteenth century hand.
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Good |
Unknown |
' I let the _ now ŝat last hoste I ponde a now' written in a sixteenth-century? hand on p. 36. ' good boke' and 'Robert heffer_ __' written on p. 53 in a seventeenth-century? hand. ' has written his name in a large, child-like hand on pp. 29, 48, 50, 54, 66-7, 104-5, 132-3. Perhaps the Cheshire family (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237).
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Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, May 2004.
- Abbott, T. K. 1900. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, p. 20.
- 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. 68.
- Allen, H. E. 1931. English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Doyle, A. I. 1953. A Survey of the Origins and Circulation of Theological Writings in English in the 14th, 15th and Early 16th Centuries with Special Consideration of the Part of the Clergy Therein, University of Cambridge, PhD thesis, 2, p. 86.
- Furnivall, F. 1866. Political, Religious, and Love Poems, EETS, os, 15, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner.
- Horstmann, C. 1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers, Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1.
- Knight, I. K. 1967. Wimbledons Sermon. Redde rationem villicationis tue: A Middle English Sermon of the fourteenth century, Duquesne Studies 9, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.
- 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, p. xli.