MS 156

Summary

Described Thomas James 250; Stanley P. 21; Nasmith 156; James, Corpus 156; Index of Images 51.

[1]

f. 60^v (new foliation)

Here begynnyth a sermon of pardon & specially of the pardon of syon ﹛t﹜ibi dabo claues regni celorum matheus in euangelio huius festiuitatis et pro themate hodierno the gospell of this fest tellith howe oure lord askede of his disciples what opynyon the peple had of hym and they told hym howe sum seyd one and sum seyd another than he askem what they hemself seid of hym and the holy apostelle saynt petur answerd oone for all & seide tu es christi filius dei viui …

f. 60^v (new foliation)

… and this power oure lord expressith more pleynly in wordes of byndyng and of losyng saynging for the withe in the gospell thus et quodcumque ligaueris super terram erit ligatum & in celis that is and whateuer thowe byndyst vpon erthe it shal be don also in hevene.

Opening of ‘The Syon Pardon Sermon’. 18 lines only, the remainder of the page and the next two leaves are blank. Wells Rev. 11:4300 [48]. The present text is not noted there, nor is it mentioned in Repertorium, which only notes the (complete) copy in BL Harley 2321 (vol. 2, pp. 1322–1326). That text edited Michael A. Hughes, ‘The Syon Pardon Sermon: Edited from MS Harley 2321 with Introduction, Notes and Glossary’, unpubl. M.A. thesis, Univ of Liverpool (1959). Cf. also CBMLC 9, SS1 nos. 653 (K. 43) and 889 (N. 35). Sermon discussed Spencer, p. 408, note 147; Susan Powell, ‘Preaching at Syon Abbey’, Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 31 (2000), pp. 233; 252_n46. Powell and Repertorium (p. 1327), suggest that Harley 2321 (and not Sloane 2321 as CBMLC 9 notes in the K. 43 entry) may be the ‘sermo de indulgenciis’ attributed to Simon Winter in the Registrum of the library of the Brethren of Syon (i.e. CCCC MS 141).

Other texts: BL Harley 2321, ff. 17–62.