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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.524–6; Hunt diss. pp. 80–5; T. G. Duncan and M. Connolly, eds., The Middle English Mirror: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima, MET 34 (Heidelberg, 2003) pp. xix–xx.
[1]
f. 1
﹛A﹜lla cristine pepel stant in þre maner of folke sum kunne rede and vnderstonde also good clerkis and wel letterd men and for hem ben ordeyned bookis of ebrewe of grwe and of latyn summe cunnyn neþer rede ne understonde as lewid peple þat kunnen no letter and for hem god haþ ordeinede his creaturis in heuene in erþe and in þe see to schewe his grace and kuyndnesse to men and wymmen þat han discrescion …
f. 21v
… þe seruaunt understondynge goddis lawe is acceptable and plesant to þe kyng of heuene and þe bettere þat ʒe understonden what ʒe reden þe more deuocion ʒe schullen [f. 22] haue and þe more knowe ʒour god and þe more ʒe knowen him þe more ʒe schullen loue him and þe more ʒe louen him þe more he schal loue ʒou amen.
Tract 1, on the topic of biblical translation. Items [1]–[12] comprise a series of ‘Twelve Tracts’; Wells Rev. 2:528 [51]. Extracts printed by FM I.xiv–xv. Ed. from this MS by Hunt diss. ii.256–81.
Other texts: Apparently unique.
[2]
f. 22
Þis preveþ þat þei ben blessed þat louen goddis lawe in þe owen langage [o]ur lord jhu crist very god and man sey in þe gospel blessed ben þei þat heren goddis worc and kepen it and eft crist fey ʒe ben my frendis ʒif ʒe do þo þingis þat i comande to ʒou and eft he þat haþ my comaundementis and kepet hem he it is þat loueþ me …
f. 24v
… ihu þat didest to conferme þi lawe and for raunson of cristyn soulis stoppe soone þe blasfemys of antecrist ʒif it be þi welle and make þi holy gospel knowen amonge þi sympel breþeren and ʒeue vus [f. 25] grace to make a good eende amen.
Tract 2 of ‘Twelve Tracts’, see [1] above; Wells Rev. 2:528 [51]. Ed. from this MS by Hunt diss. ii.282–8.
Other texts: Hudson, Lollards p. 107 fn 105, augmenting FM I.xiv, notes 3 other MSS: BL Arundel 254 ff. 11–12v; BL Harley 6333 ff. 20–21v; and Dublin Trinity Col 76 ff. 99–100.
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