San Marino, CA., Huntington Library, HM 502
| United States |
| San Marino, CA. |
| Huntington Library |
| HM 502 |
| Phillipps 11929 |
| s. xv1 |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 420 281, LP 4675 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). |
A manuscript from the first half of the fifteenth century (Dutschke 1989, p. 237) containing Wimbledon's sermon
Redde Racionem, Rolle's
Form of Living, and the
Mirror of St. Edmund among others.
Item: 1| ff. 1r-26v |
| Redde Racionem Villacacionis Tue (IPMEP 560) |
| 'My dere frendis ?e shullen vnderstonde'. |
| 'ženne schulle žilke false seruauntis goo'. |
| 'Redde racionen villicacionis tue luc. xvi'. |
| Sermon |
Knight 1967. Owen 1966.
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Item: 2| ff. 27r-34r |
| Form of Perfect Living (IPMEP 351) |
| 'He puttež in vs oure hertis žat bote ?ef we ete wel'. |
| 'he makež no sorowe for his synne as he schulde do & disposež hym'. |
| Epistle written to the recluse Margaret Kirkeby, 1348-49. |
Allen 1931, pp. 91-99; 1927, pp. 256-62, 268; Ogilvie-Thomson 1988.
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Item: 3| ff. 35r-60v |
| Life of Soul (IPMEP 243) |
| 'Brožer as seiž seynt poule we han no cite here žat is dwellynge'. |
| 'ri?t so seruauntis of že same vertues schulen be parteneris of žat same blisse amen'. |
Moon 1978.
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Item: 4| ff. 60v-74r |
| Mirror of St. Edmund (IPMEP 800) |
| 'I seež ?oure clepynge žis word of že apostel biloungež to ?ou men & wymmen of cristes religioun'. |
| 'swatte so harde žat že dropes of blod droppeden of his face to že erže'. |
| 'Now here bigynnež že sermoun of seynt edmond of poyunteney žat was yclepid myrrour of holy chirche'. |
| Devotional treatise translated from Anglo-Norman and Latin versions of the Speculum Ecclesie of Edmund of Abingdon. |
Horstmann 1895; Robbins 1925
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Item: 5| ff. 74r-87r |
| Pater Noster |
| 'Sežžen že pater noster is že beste preyer žat is'. |
| 'žat we mowe come to wone wiž hym in ioie & blisse wižouten ende amen'. |
Arnold 1869, vol. 3, pp. 98-110; Hudson 1973, p. 451, n. 14.
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Item: 6| ff. 87r-90v |
| Sins |
| 'Pryde wražže & envie ben synnes of že fend coueitise & auarice ben synnes of že world'. |
| 'by whiche blynde ordenaunce god že cheef lord'. |
| Incipit has been copied by a later reader at the foot of f. 87r in a seventeenth/eighteenth-century hand.
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| 145 x 105 mm |
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124 (wants 4 and 9, after ff. 3 and 7), 2-3(8).
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| Pricking: occasionally visible in the outer margin. Writing space of 105-110 x 74 mm. Single columns with 20-23 lines. |
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One scribe writing in a Textura Semi-Quadrata script varying in size. Characteristics: fairly angular text; 2-shaped r in medial position; short ascenders and descenders, not much above minims; 8-shaped/diamond bowled g; dotted y with straight descender bearing to the left; d not looped; ž; long s in initial position; 8-shaped s in final position; forked ascender on h and l; elongated and spurred ascenders on top line.
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| Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Red rubrics. Red paraphs. |
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Eighteenth century brown calf over pasteboard.
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| ff. iii + 90 + ii |
| F. 34v originally blank but now carries a late fifteenth/early sixteenth-century letter: 'Ryght welbelouede father and mother i haue me recommendede unto yow dessyereng youe to sende me yower daly blessyng že wyshe is batter to me than all že worldly godes i praye youe to send me a grote for to paye my quarterege & i pray youe to send me a payer of shoues & soues & i praye yow to send me a cape & a gerdelle & i paray yow to send me a purese' (IMEV 1151). In the same hand is 'He that in youthe no vertue wyll use In age all honour wyll haym refues so be it' added in a different hand 'he that may thyse & vill not'.
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| Good |
| Unknown |
| F. 56r, c. 1500, ' owe this boke wytnes iohn fuller edmund baker damyd'; John Baker's name also appears on ff. 33, 41v, 48v, 52v, 53v, 57v. John Wood' in a sixteenth-century hand on ff. 34v, 86. On f. 59r, '' in a seventeenth-century hand. F. 31v, '' in an eighteenth-century hand. For later ownership see Dutschke 1989, p. 239. |
| Obtained by Henry E. Huntington from Quaritch in April 1925. More details in Dutschke 1989, p. 239. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. Consulted on microfilm and described with reference to Dutschke 1989. Owing to the Huntington Library's stipulations on the web publication of images, it has unfortunately not been possible to include images of this manuscript in the Catalogue.
- 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.
- Allen, H. E. 1931. English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Arnold, T., ed, 1869-71. Select English Works of John Wyclif, 3 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- De Ricci, S., and Wilson, W. J. 1935. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Unitied States and Canada, New York: Wilson, 1, p. 71.
- 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, p. 39.
- Dutschke, C. W. 1989. Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library, San Marino, Ca.: Huntington Library, 1, pp. 237-239.
- Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist 1. Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Henry E. Huntington Library, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, pp. 30-32.
- Horstmann, C. 1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers, Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1.
- Hudson, A. 1973. ‘Contributions to a bibliography of Wycliffite writings’, Notes & Queries, 218, 443-453.
- Knight, I. K. 1967. Wimbledon’s Sermon. Redde rationem villicationis tue: A Middle English Sermon of the fourteenth century, Duquesne Studies 9, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, pp. 10-11.
- 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.
- Moon, H. M. 1978. Že Life of Soule: An Edition with Commentary, Salzburg Studies in English Literature, Elizabethan & Renaissance Studies, 75, Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur Universität Salzburg.
- 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. xlvi.
- Owen, N.H. 1966. ‘Thomas Wimbledon’s Sermon: Redde rationem villicationis tue’, Mediaeval Studies, 28, 176-197.
- Robbins, H. W., ed, 1925. Le Merure De Seinte Eglise by Saint Edmond of Pontigny: An Early Example of Rhythmical Prose in the Anglo-Norman Dialect, from the Manuscripts at Oxford, Cambridge, London, Durham, and Paris, Lewisburg, Pa.: H. W. Robbins.
