Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.538–9.

[1]

f. 5

In the begynning and endyng of al good werkis worschip and þanking be to almiʒti god maker and bier of all mankynde beginner and ender of al godnes for wiþout his ʒifet and helpe no maner vertu is ne may be wheþer it be in þouʒt wil or in dede whateuer þan we synful þinke or do speke or write …

f. 58v

… good broþer prey for me whiche by þe teching of almiʒti god haue write to þe thes few wordys in helpe of þi soule.

‘Here bygynneþ an holy mater þe which is clepid xij chapiters’ (f. 5). Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God (also known as Fervor Amoris). IPMEP 362; Wells Rev. 9:3446 [41]; Jolliffe H.15.

Other texts: Connolly lists 16 MSS of the full text; for those already indexed see IMEP 1 indexing HM 127 [1]; IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 1286 [1]; IMEP 11 indexing Camb. Trinity Col B.15.42 [4]. For a fragment see Ee.2.12 [1]. See also Hh.1.12 [1]. For extracts from the text already indexed see IMEP 2 indexing Manchester Rylands Eng 85 [18]; IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 322 [14]; IMEP 11 indexing Camb. Trinity Col R.3.21 [17] and O.1.74 [10]; IMEP 16 indexing BodL Laud misc. 23 [15].

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f. 58v

I fynd as i rede by doctors and holy mens lyues þat twey maner of lyuinges ben here in þis world most plesing to god which ben likned to martha and maria he þat wil folow eny of hem first him bihouiþ clerly to be confessid and fully to be contrite his synns afterward euer to forsake …

f. 70v

… and takiþ none hede or wil not be schryuen he may nat sey soþely þat he folowiþ mary in contemplacion.

Extract from The Revelations of St Birgitta of Sweden (VI.lxv) Wells Rev. 9:3463–5 [76]; Jolliffe H.13, O.23.

Other texts: Jolliffe lists 4 other MSS: Camb. Magdalene Pepys 2125 ff. 51–56v; BL Arundel 197 ff. 38v–46v; BodL Bodley 423 ff. 150–56v; and Bodley James 21 pp. 52–3. M. C. Erler adds Princeton Garrett 145, see Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England (Cambridge, 2002) p. 132 and p. 194 fn. 52.

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f. 71