MS 142

Summary

Described Thomas James 155; Stanley R. 2; Nasmith 142; James, Corpus 142, Doyle diss., vol. 2, p. 72; Auvo Kurvinen, ‘The Life of St. Catharine of Alexandria in Middle English Prose’, unpublished D.Phil. diss., Oxford University, 1960, pp. 70–72. Richard Hamer, Three Lives from the Gilte Legende: Edited from MS B.L. Egerton 876, Middle English Texts 13 (Heidelberg, 1978), p. 32; Sargent, Critical, p. lxxvii; Sargent, Full Critical, p. 108.

[1]

f. 1^ra

At þe bigynnyng þe proheme of þe booke þat is cleped the myrrour of þe blessid lijf of ihesu the first partie for þe monday a deuote meditacioun of the grete counseile in heuene for þe restoringe of man and his sauacioun primum …

f. 2^ra

… of þe sendyng down & the comyng of þe holy goost lxiij^m of þat excellent and most worþi sacrament of cristis blessid body lxiiij^m.

Table of contents for Nicholas Love's translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi, the Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. Ed. Sargent, Full Critical, pp. 3–6. The two Latin notes ‘Attendite lector’ and ‘Memorandum’ follow on f. 2; the latter is printed in full by James, and ed. Sargent, Full Critical, p. 7.

[2]

f. 2^va

Quecumque scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt vt per pacienciam et consolacionem scripturarum spem habeamus ad romanos .xv. capitulo these ben þe wordis of þe grete doctour & holi apostil paul considering þat þe goostly living of alle trewe cristen creaturis in þis world stondiþ speciali in hope of þe blis & þe lyf …

f. 4^va

… to þe profiʒt of symple & devoute soulis as it was seide bifore and þus endiþ þe proheme aftir folowiþ þe contemplacioun for monday in þe first partie þe firste chapitle.

Proheme to Nicholas Love's translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi, the Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. Ed. Sargent, Full Critical, pp. 9–13.

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f. 4^ra

Aftir þe tyme þat man was exilid owt of þe hiʒ citee of hevene by þe rightwijs doom of almyʒti god souereyn kyng þerof for his trespas & his synne so wrecchidly lay in presoun & was holden in þe bondis of þat turaunt …