Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.100–1.

[1]

f. 1

… ys well pleased wiþ hem that dredyn hym and hopyn in hys mercy that hope and that mercy graunte us he whoos mercy ys to al menn free amen explicit.

Closing lines of a devotional text which is otherwise lost due to the loss of leaves from the beginning of the MS. The final couplet of the explicit matches that of the ‘tretys agayns temptacion’ in CUL Ff.6.33 [10] allowing this to be identified, following a suggestion made by Doyle diss. ii.73, as a fragment of The Direccion of a Mannys Lyfe. Wells Rev. 7:2366 [223]; Jolliffe K.4.

Other texts: For the full text see Ff.6.33 [10]. See also IMEP 11, indexing Camb. Trinity Col O.7.47 [3], where the text has the added heading ‘Tractatus Quomodo Temptationes sunt Evadendae’, but ends imperfectly.

[2]

f. 1

My dere broder and suster i see that many wolde be in religeoun but they mowe nate for pouerte or for awe or for drede of kyn or for bownde of mariage therfore i make here a booke of religioun of herte that ys the abbay of þe holy goste that all thoo that mowe nat bene in bodylyche religioun they mowe be in gostlyge …

f. 9v

… and the grace of almighty god he hit þou graunte thorow the besechinge of his dere moder seint marie amen.

‘This ys the abbey of seint sperite that ys founded in a place that ys clepyd conscience’ (f. 2). ‘Thus endith the abbay of the holy goste of the conscience in whiche ben founded all goode vertues and all weked vices of synne drevyn oute etcetera’ (f. 9v). The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, IPMEP 39; Wells Rev. 7:2545–7 [184]; Jolliffe H.16.c.

Other texts: See Dd.11.89 [2].

[3]

f. 9v

Here ys the booke that spekethe of a place that ys clepyd the abbay of the holy goste the whiche shuld be fownded in clene conscience in whiche abbay all the booke tellethe shuld dwellyn xxix gostly ladyes emonges whom charite ys abbesse wisdome priores mekenesse supprioresse ther ys also pouert clennesse and temperaunce …

f. 24v

… to þat joye and blisse brynge us he þat for loue of manes soule synfull dyed on the roode tree amen amen pur charite.