London, British Library, Arundel 286
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London |
British Library |
Arundel 286 |
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s. xvin |
English |
Scribe 2 (ff. 20-81): Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 430 264, LP 8010 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 245). |
An early fifteenth-century anthology (first quarter of the fifteenth century, Barratt 1983, p. 9) containing devotional and mystical texts including the
Cloud of Unknowing.
Item: 1ff. 1r-19v |
Treatise upon the Passion of Christ |
'Worschipful lady hauynge a symple spirit ful of heuenly'. |
'ŝat wiŝ his blood vs bo?t ihesu goddes sone. Amen'. |
A three-line red cross begins the text (in place of a capital). |
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Item: 2.1ff. 20r-81v |
(IPMEP 390.5) |
'Ŝes beŝ wordys of seynt paule ŝe apostel'. |
'ŝi herte wilfuly to god by lechynge hym of his mercy seyinge ŝes wordes'. |
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Item: 2.2f. 81v |
Prose prayer |
'Thanke ŝee my derworŝe lord ihesu criste wiŝ al my pore herte'. |
'& to alle men & wymmen enemyes & frendes. Amen'. |
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Item: 3ff. 82r-99v |
Epistles |
'D. t. d. his derworŝe broŝer in crist.' |
'& sad rewme dwellinge into worldis of worldes amen.' |
'Her bygyneŝ a pistle maad of richard hampul as some men supporten but who euer made it myche deuout ŝinge is ŝerine'. |
'Here endiŝ ŝe ij pistle maad of richard hampul eŝer some oŝer deuout man in whiche pistle ben many deuout ŝingis & excelent & profitable''Ŝe latyn book by which y translatide was ful fals in ŝe lettre & poyntinge also & ŝerfore I had ŝe more trauel to come to ŝe open & trewe sentence'. Scribal colophon. |
Two epistles, the first is a translation of the Epistola continens Viginti Quinque memoralia of St. Bonaventura (here ascribed to Richard Rolle) and the second is a transcription of St. Bonaventura's Meditatio XIII. |
Allen 1927, pp. 357-358.
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Item: 4ff. 100r-115r |
The Boke of Tribulacyon (IPMEP 143) |
'Ŝe holy prophete spekeŝ in ŝe persone of mankynde.' |
'ŝou schalt be wiŝ hem in ioy & blis in heuene and ŝerfore sey trustly to god'. |
'Of ŝe grete comford ŝat man schuld haue in tribulacion.' |
A new hand. |
Barratt 1983, pp. 134-143.
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Item: 5ff. 115r-129r |
Life of Soul (IPMEP 243) |
'Dere fader as seynt paule seiŝ we haue here no cytee ŝat is dwellynge but sethen on ŝat is to come her after. |
'And god graunt ŝat we so doo Amen Amen Amen'. |
'Here bygynneŝ a tretis ŝat is de put ŝe lyfe of soule'. |
Begins with a four-line capital D. |
Moon 1978.
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Item: 6ff. 129r-134r |
Meditation (IPMEP 202) and (IPMEP 800) |
'to be departed fro ŝee lord of euerlastynge ioy & blisse. Amen'. |
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'Contemplacion byfore matyns ŝat ŝou schalt inwardly ŝenke & haue in mynde'. |
An interpolated translation of St. Edmund's Speculum Ecclesie. |
Robbins 1925, pp. 82-92.
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Item: 7ff. 134r-148r |
Of Maidenhood |
'Loo seiŝ ŝe holy profete ysay a mayden schal conceyue and bere a child'. |
'here a schorte tyme to haue ŝe ŝat ioye & worschip world withoute ende. Amen'. |
'Of maydenhede'. |
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Item: 8ff. 149r-160r |
Ave Maris Stella |
'Heyle sterre of ŝe see ŝe holy moder of god & alle tymes virgyne blessed ?ate of heuene'. |
'to god & to his comaundmentis & to alle creaturis aftir goddis wille'. |
'Ave maris stella'.'Amonge alle ŝe songes ŝat men vsen in holy chirche...on ympne we vsen ŝe wheche begynneŝ ŝus'. |
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Item: 9ff. 161r-178r |
Benjamin (IPMEP 4) |
'A grete clerke ŝat men clepiŝ richard of seynt victor in a boke ŝat he makeŝ of ŝe studye of wisdome wittenesiŝ'. |
'is Beniamyn ŝe ?onge childe in raueschynge of mynde'. |
'Explicit de +ii filiis iacob'. |
Translation of Richard of St. Victor's De Preparatione Animi ad Contemplationem. This is an independent booklet written in one hand. F. 178v is blank. |
Hodgson 1982, pp. 129-45. Hodgson 1955, p. xii.
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Item: 10f. 161v |
Drawing |
'Wan iiii lightes begines to shine'. |
'dothe com no change withe till comes ŝe doome'. |
Full page coloured drawing of a man in blue dress with red sleeves. The text, in a later hand, is written around the drawing. |
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Item: 11ff. 179r-191v |
Prose treatise on the Ten Commandments |
'Alle maner of men schuld hold goddys hestis'. |
'ŝe more wilfuly be hade in mynde ben departyd in ten'. |
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Codex |
Parchment |
c. 205 x 140 mm |
18, ff. 1r-8v, catchword; 28, ff. 9r-16v, catchword; 33, ff. 17r-19v; 412, ff. 20r-31v, catchword; 512, ff. 32r-43v, catchword; 612, ff. 44r-55v, catchword; 710, ff. 56r-65v, catchword; 812, ff. 66r-77v, catchword; 912, ff. 78r-89v, catchword; 108, ff. 90r-97v, catchword; 113, ff. 98r-100v; 1210, ff. 101r-110v; 1312, ff. 111r-123v; 1412, ff. 124r-135v, catchword; 1512 + 1, ff. 136r-147v, catchword; 1612, ff. 149r-160v; 1712, ff. 161r-172v, catchword; f. 189v catchword; ff. 173r-191v too tightly bound to ascertain quiring.
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Item 1: Pricking not visible. Writing space of 150 x 95 mm. Single columns with 30 lines. Frame ruled in drypoint. Item 2: Pricking slits visible on fore edge. Writing space of 150 x 80 mm. Single columns with 23 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. Not usually visible. Other texts similar layout. |
Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-19v, 82r-99v) writing in an Anglicana Formata script. Characteristics: long s in medial position; 2-shaped r; hooked ascender of h; double compartment a; dotted y; double compartment g; ascender of d at 45 degree angle; B-shaped w; ŝ. Body height: 2mm.
Scribe 2 (ff. 20r-81r) writing in an Anglicana Formata script. Characteristics: B-shaped w; long s in initial position; forked l; more open g; ascenders not much above body; 2-shaped r; descender of y without hook.
Scribe 3 (ff. 100r-160r). Anglicana Formata.
Scribe 4 (f. 161v).
Text surrounding a coloured drawing.
Scribe 5 (ff. 161r-178r), an independent booklet. Anglicana Formata.
Scribe 6 (ff. 179r-191v) perhaps another hand. Anglicana Formata. |
Decoration varies with text. Item 1 - red cross to start text, red paraphs, red Latin phrases/lines. Item 2 - two-line red initials to start paragraphs, red paraphs, some initials tinted red. F. 100r - two-line blue initials, red Latin phrases, red rubric; f. 100v - six-line blue initial with rudimentary red penwork; f. 107v, 111r - six-line red initial Ŝ; f. 115r - five-line red initial D. Some hands with cuffs in red in the texts.
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Not medieval. 220 x 145 mm.
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ff. ii (modern) + 191 + i (parchment original) 2 paper (modern).
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F. 161v, is a full page coloured drawing of a man with surrounding text (see item 10). |
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F. 1r: 'Soc. Reg. Lond ex dono Norfolciensis'. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, March 2004.
- http://searcharchives.bl.uk.
- 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, pp. 357-358.
- Barratt, A., ed, 1983. The Book of Tribulation, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pp. 9-10.
- Hodgson, P., ed, 1955. Deonise Hid Diuinite: And Other Treatises on Contemplative Prayer, EETS, os, 231, London: Oxford University Press, p. xii.
- Hodgson, P. 1982. The Cloud of Unknowing and Related Treatises on Contemplative Prayer, Analecta Cartusiana, 3, Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik.
- 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.
- Moon, H. M. 1978. Ŝe 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.
- 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.