Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.535–8. Now bound in two volumes with continuous foliation.

[1]

f. 71v

Sister we greten ʒow of inward herte desiringe ʒoure encres specialli in souʒle willinge ʒow wiþ seynt pouʒle to loue and folwe in dede most goode ʒiftes of þe spiriʒt and þat ʒe understonden þese ʒiftes of god crist seiþ in þe gospel of matheuʒ 13 capitulo how a sowere wente forþ and sew foure parties of corn of wiche parties on fel upon good londe or erþe …

f. 74v

… wiþ schamefastnes þe couʒples effectuel pacience wiþ stilnes þe reftres pitee wiþ sobirnes and heling charite wiþ long abidingnes.

‘Here beginneþ a tretis of maydenhod’ (f. 71v). A Tretis of Maydenhod. Wells Rev. 7:2536 [154]; Jolliffe H.29, O.43.

Other texts: Ii.6.55 [5].

[2]

f. 75

God unto wom alle hertes ben open and unto whom alle wille spekith and unto wom no priuey þing is hid i beseche þe so for to clense þe entent of myn herte wiþ þe unspkeable ʒift of þi grace þat i may parfitly loue þe and worthili preise þe amen in þe name of þe fader …

f. 120v

… hole counseel and gosteli counfort in god wiþ habundaunce of grace euere be wiþ þe and alle goddes loueres in erþe amen.

Heading f. 75: ‘Here begynnyth a bok of contemplacioun the wich is clepid þe clowde of unknowyng in þe wich a souʒle is oned wiþ god’. The Cloud of Unknowing. IPMEP 320; Wells Rev. 9:3426–8 [21].

Other texts: IPMEP lists 18 MSS. See Ff.6.41 [2] (a s. xvii copy), and Kk.6.26 [7]. For MSS already indexed see IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 262 [1]; IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Univ Col 14 [1].

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f. 120v

How greet is þe dignite of mannes makyng it is knowen þat not be worde alone of god biddinge man is maad of nouʒt as oþer werkes of sixe daies but be conceil of þe holy trinite and þe werk of goddes mageste þat he schulde knowe þe onour of þe firste makynge hou meche he ouʒte to his makere …

f. 122v

… wich maade man wonderfulli to his liknes in þe first adam and more wonderfully reformed or aʒen maad in þe secounde adam þat is crist.