Described Hardwick & Luard: i.275–6.

[1]

f. 3v

Þat þe inner hafeyng of man suld be lyk to þe uttyr gastli sister in ihu criste i pray þe þat in þe callyng qwilke oure lorde has called þe to hys seruys þat þow halde þere payed and [f. 4] stande stedfastly þerin traualande beseli wiþ alle þe myʒttes of þi saule be þe grace of ihu criste for to fulfille in sothe fastnes of gode lyfynge …

f. 80v

and if þou do þus ofte besyly þou sal be þe grace of ihu wythin a schorte tyme stoppe mykyl of þe sprynge of pride and mekyl abate þe vayne delyte þar of þat þow sal …

Walter Hilton, Scale of Perfection, Book 1 only. No title or heading in this MS. Preceded by a table of contents on ff. 1–3v which begins ‘capitulum i þat þe inner hauyng of man sulde be lyke to þe utter’ and ends f. 3v: ‘capitulum lxxxxiiij here it is telled þe cause qwy þis boke was made and how scho sal hafe hir in þe redeyng þat it is made to.’ Chapters have rubric headings and are numbered i to lxxxviii, the latter corresponding to that given for 90 in the table of contents (79 and 87 of the index being omitted). IPMEP 255; Wells Rev. 9:3430–3 [29].

Other texts: IPMEP lists 48 texts, but does not differentiate between MSS containing one book or both. Wells Rev. lists 23 MSS of the complete text, 21 MSS which contain Book 1 only, and 3 MSS which contain Book 2 only. See Ff.5.40 [3] for Book 1 only and Ee.4.30 [1] for the complete text. For copies already indexed see IMEP 1 indexing HM 112 [1] and HM 266 [1]; IMEP 5 indexing BL Add 11748; IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. All Souls Col 25 [1]–[2] and Univ Col 28 [1]; IMEP 11 indexing Camb Trinity Col B.15.18 [1] and O.7.47 [1]; IMEP 12 indexing BodL Eng. poet a.1 [9]; IMEP 13 indexing Lambeth 472 [1]; IMEP 15 indexing Worcester F.172 [11]; IMEP 16 indexing BodL Laud misc 602 [1]–[2].

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f. 90