Cambridge, Magdalene College, 17
| England |
| Cambridge |
| Magdalene College |
| 17 |
| F.4.17 |
| s. xv |
| English |
| Scribal Dialect: Scribe 1: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin note 'language apparently mixed with Warwicks and NE Midland components' (1986, vol. 4, p. 246). Hand B: pp. 151-234, Scale of Perfection 'Ely' (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 63). |
A fifteenth-century copy of Walter Hilton's
Scale of Perfection written by two scribes.
Item: 1| pp. 9-234 |
| Scale of Perfection (IPMEP 255) |
| 'This book žat folweth may skilfully be cleped the scole of perfection. For whoso wole rede besily and vnderstonde spedfully'. |
| 'maye see more in an houre of swilke gosteli mater than wy?te be writyn in a grete booke. Explicit hic finis'. |
| The text is preceded by a table of contents on p. 1 that begins, 'Here begynne the titles of the chapitles folewynge in the book of reformynge of manes soule'. |
See Bestul 2000; Underhill 1923.
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| Codex |
| Parchment |
| x |
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1 flyleaf, 1-98, 1014 (12-14 canc.), 12-148, 156 (wants 4-6).
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| 28 lines |
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The manuscript has not been examined. James notes that there are two scribes with the second hand being the best.
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| Manuscript not examined.
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Manuscript not examined.
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| ff. 118 + i. |
| The following lines have been added, on the leaf following the text, in a sixteenth-century hand, 'How the soule of man is ordayned by the myghty poure and provydence of allmightye god and hevenly ffather after that god had created man of the earthe vnto the hevenly Jerusalem whiche is Jesus Christe our Lord and Savyour'. |
| Good. |
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, August 2003. Manuscript not examined. Described with reference to James 1909.
- Bestul, Thomas, H. ed. 2000. The Scale of Perfection, Middle English Texts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, published for TEAMS in association with the University of Rochester Institute Publications, Western Michigan University.
- James, M. R. 1909. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the College Library of Magdalene College Cambridge, Cambridge: University Press, pp. 44-45.
- 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.
- Underhill, E., ed, 1923. The Scale of Perfection, London: John M. Watkins.
