Ff.2.38

Summary

Described Hardwick & Luard: ii. 404–8; Wakelin p. 109; Repertorium i.15–16. See F. McSparran and P. R. Robinson, Cambridge University Library Ff.2.38 (London, 1979); also Octovian, ed. F. McSparran, EETS os 289 (Oxford, 1986), pp. 6–9.

[1]

f. 33ra

The fyrste artycle of these twelue ys þat god ys oon substaunce and þre persones in hymselfe wythowten begynnynge and wythowten endynge and made all þyng of nought by hys worde þys poynt suffysyþ to lewyde peple to vndurstonde and beleue as hooly churche beleueth the ijde ys þat þe sone of god toke flesche and bloode …

… þat þe sacramentys of hooly chirche han vertue to fulfylle þat [f. 33va] þyng for whych þey ben ordeynedd and thus hyt ys wryten in þe myrroure of seynt edmunde of pounteneye.

‘Here suen þe xii articlis of þe beleeue’. The Twelve Articles of Faith or Apostles’ Creed extracted from chapter 13 of The Mirror of Holy Church or The Mirror of St Edmund (Speculum Ecclesie of Edmund of Abingdon). IPMEP 800; Wells Rev. 7:2510 [38] and 9:3460–62 [72].

Other texts: Wells Rev. 9 lists 23 MSS of The Mirror of St Edmund, both the full text and various extracts and fragments. For the Interpolated Version see Ii.6.40 [10]; for another MS containing extracts see Ii.6.43 [11]. For other MSS of the Apostles’ Creed see Wells Rev. 7 which lists 13 MSS of the prose version (though the reference to CUL Gg.4.12 f. 12 is an error), including two derived from the Speculum Ecclesie: BL Add 60577 ff. 139–41 and Edinburgh University 93 ff. 80v–81v. MS Huntington HM 501 f. 145 has a similar incipit, but is not identified as this text in IMEP 1, HM 501 [15]. See also [2] below. For other copies already indexed see IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 25 [4]; IMEP 11 indexing Camb. Trinity Col B.14.50 [3]; IMEP 12 indexing BodL Eng. poet a.1 [11]; IMEP 14 indexing Peniarth 395 [1]; and cf. IMEP 1 indexing HM 502 [5]; and IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Queen's Col 324 [7].

[2]

f. 33va