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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: i.530–1. Now bound separately in nine sections; items 1–4 and A24–27 cited below are found in section 3.
[1]
f. 1v
A very clene crysten sowle is fulle fayre and lyke to ymage of god now yf þou couette to knowe how it standys wythe þi sowle and wheþer it be lyke to þe ymage of god or noun þou mayste ransake þi nowne consciens and loke what þi wylle is for in …
f. 2
… and wythe ful purpose and wylle to do no more þan is þi sowle reformyd to þe lykenes of þe ymage of god.
De anima pulchra; a brief extract from Cibus Animae. Wells Rev. 7:2538 [159]. No. 22 in a series of devotional items in Latin and English. MS begins and ends defectively with series running 21–66.
Other texts: Camb. Trinity Hall 16 f. 92v. Cf. similar treatises in Ii.6.39 [3], Ii.6.55 [9], and Kk.6.26 [4].
[A24]
[2]
f. 34
Prey ofte and enderly þoʒ þe thynke it sauour þe not þoʒ þou fele noʒt þoʒ þou here noʒt þoʒ þou se noʒt þoʒ þou thynke þou may noʒt for þe thanke and worchyppe þat we schulle haue for oure prayer it passes þe understonddynge of alle erthely creatures. Instruction to pray, all in red.
[A25]
[A26]
[A27]
[3]
f. 45
Owre lorde god seyd to seynt mawde his blesseyd virgyne and holy spowse yf þou wyste be to me a dere doʒter study euer to haue a restfulle herte and pesabulle þoʒtes and þat þou gyf solas and comforthe to þem þat be in tribulacioun and temptacion and alwey study to be meke …
f. 46
… also when disciplyne is takyn for þe quyke and for þe dede aungels eueyon fendys fle and sowl.. be relesydde of payne and ther cheynes brokyn.
God's Words to Saint Moll (or Mawde), paraphrased extracts from Mechtild of Hackeborn's The Book of Gostlye Grace. Wells Rev. 7:2534 [142], version A; see also Wells Rev. 9:3458 [65]; Jolliffe I.31.a. Ed. T. A. Halligan, The Booke of Gostlye Grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn (Toronto, 1979); see p. 48 for the identification of the extracts.
Other texts: No other copy of version A is known.
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