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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.264–5; Repertorium i.32–5; V. O’Mara, A Study and Edition of Selected Middle English Sermons: Richard Alkerton's Easter Week Sermon preached at St Mary Spital in 1406, a Sermon on Sunday Observance, and a Nunnery Sermon for the Feast of the Assumption. Leeds Texts and Monographs, ns 13 (Leeds, 1994) pp. 141–62.
[1]
f. 1
Whanne plente of tyme of grace was come in þe wihche þe hiʒe trinite ordeyned to saue mankynde þat was dampned þoruʒ þe synne of adam for þe gret charite þat he had to mankynde stirynge to him his grete mercy and also þe praier and þe instaunce of alle þe blissed spirites of heuene …
f. 8v
… silence is a grete vertu and for of grete goodnesse ordeyned in religion of wiche vertu diuers clerkys spekyn in þat we passe ouere at þis tyme and þus endeþ þis chapitre.
Two extracts from Nicholas Love, Mirroure of the Blissid Lyf of Jesu Criste (chapters 3, 6 and 7), a translation of Pseudo-Bonaventure's Meditationes Vitae Christi. IPMEP 553; Wells Rev. 9:3454–6 [61]. The chapters, on the Incarnation and Annunciation (3), the Nativity (6), and the Circumcision (7) correspond to Sargent p. 22 line 26-p. 31 line 20 and p. 37 line 30-p. 43 line 18.
Other texts: See item [2] below and Ll.4.3 [1].
[2]
f. 13
Whenne þe tyme cam in þe whiche owre lord iesu had disposed of his endles mercy for to suffre deth for man and schedde his preciows blood for owre redempcioun it liked him first to make a soper with his disciples as for a mynde euerelastynge of his grete loue to hem and al mankynde and for to fulfille …
f. 44v
… in þe gloriouse cite of heueneli ierusalem wher he is souereyne kynge wiþ þe fadir and þe holi gost o god in trinite lyueþ and regneþ wiþouten ende amen.
‘Of þat worþi sopere þat owre lord iesu made þe nyʒt bifore his passion and of þe noble circumstaunces þat bifel þere with’ (f. 13). Two extracts from Nicholas Love, Mirroure of the Blissid Lyf of Jesu Criste (chapters 39–51 and 62–63), a translation of Pseudo- Bonaventure's Meditationes Vitae Christi. Same hand as [1]. IPMEP 553; Wells Rev. 9:3454–6 [61].
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