Hereford, Hereford Cathedral Chapter Library, P.1.ix
| England |
| Hereford |
| Hereford Cathedral Chapter Library |
| P.1.ix |
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| s. xiv2 |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect (ff. 141-153): Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 395 241, LP 7830 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 250). |
Part 1
A manuscript of the second half of the fourteenth century (Mynors and Thomson 1993, p. 69) in two parts. Only the second part is in English; it contains prose by Richard Rolle.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-93r |
| Meditatio Vitae Christi |
| 'Inter alia uirtutum et laudum preconia'. |
| 'domini nostri iesu christi amen'. |
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Item: 2| ff. 93v-140v |
| Vita et Miracula Francisci (Legenda Maior) |
| 'Incipit prologus in uitam beati francisci'. |
| 'Expliciunt miracula post transitum beati francisci ostensa'. |
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 215 x 160 mm |
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1-1112, 128
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| Single columns of 37 lines ruled in pencil to the foot of the page. |
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One Anglicana Formata hand.
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| Item 1: 'Champe initials (gold on blue and purple with white tracery) ff. 1, 4, 93v, 126v, 128, 141' (Mynors and Thomson 1993, p. 69). Item 2: blue initials with red penwork flourishing.
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Late nineteenth-century binding. Parchment over pasteboard with four bands on spine.
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| ff. iii + 140 |
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| Manuscript not examined. |
Part 2
Item: 1| ff. 141-150v |
| Form of Perfect Living (IPMEP 351) |
| 'In vche sinful man or womman žat is ibounde in dedliche sinne'. |
| 'brynge že to ži spouse žat žou hast take že to že wiche is euerlyuynge god wižoute ende amen'. |
| 'Informacio sancti ricardi de hampull scripta margarete incluse de hampull'. |
| Epistle written to the recluse Margaret Kirkeby, 1348-49. |
Allen 1931, pp. 85-119; Horstmann 1895, pp. 3-49; Ogilvie-Thomson 1988, pp. xxxvi-xliv.
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Item: 2| ff. 151v |
| Nine Points (IPMEP 11) |
| 'Man žat wilnež forto profite in že wey of perfeccion'. |
| 'ožer loue ne for sinne he be neuere departid fro že amen'. |
| 'Hic incipit doctrina ffratris henrici chambernoun magistri in viam perfectionis'. |
Allen 1927, p. 261, n. 1.
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Item: 3| ff. 151v-153r |
| Treatise on Love |
| 'For encheson žat loue mai al do wižoute eny misdo and loue is že rote and frut and že perfeccion'. |
| 'and že minde of ham euer be dwelling freschliche in myn herte amen'. |
Allen 1927, p. 261, n. 1.
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 160 x 110 mm |
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1312 (+ 1 after 12). A bifolium.
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| Single columns ruled in pencil for 39-43. |
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One scribe writing in an Anglicana Formata script. This hand annotates Part 1.
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| Red or blue paraphs. Red underlining.
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As above.
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| ff. 141-155 |
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| Manuscript not examined. |
| Unknown |
| Various inscriptions indicate that the volume belonged to the Oxford Franciscans. F. 154r 'Tantum oras quantum desideras quod Foxholes', the same hand wrote the title of art. 3 and a few other notes. Mynors and Thomson note that this is probably OFM, who was at the Lichfield convent in 1436-41, and then at Oxford c. 1451, and archbishop of Armagh from 1471, and who had died by November 1474. F. ii verso carries 'Iste liber constat conuentui fratrum [minorum er.] Oxonie quod Salford', a Richard Salford was Warden of the Oxford convent in 1488 and 1489. On f. 154r is the fifteenth-century inscription ' est bonus filius amen'. annotates ff. ff. 87v, 106v (Pl. 58) whilst his distinctive 'Iesus Maria' is at the head of ff. 106v, 117, and 121v. |
| An eighteenth-century Hereford Cathedral Pressmark is on f. iiv. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. Manuscript not examined. Described with reference to Mynors and Thompson 1993 and Edden 2000.
- 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. 261.
- Allen, H. E. 1931. English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Bannister, A. T. 1927. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Hereford Cathedral Library, with an Introduction by M. R. James (Hereford), pp. 105-6.
- 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, ii, pp. 74-5.
- Edden, V. 2000. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist XV. Manuscripts in Midland Libraries, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer , pp. 27-28.
- Horstmann, C. 1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers, Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 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.
- Mynors, R. A. B. and Thomson R. M. 1993. Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, p. 69.
- 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. xxxviii-xxxix.
- Schenkl, H. Bibliotheca 1891-1908. Patrum Latinorum Britannica, 3 vols., Vienna, 3, p. 23, n. 4188.
