Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.448–50.

[1]

f. 47

Whanne i mary iesu modyr sate in ierusalem in þe holy feste of estern alone in my hous for þe muche multitude of pepyl þat com to þe cetye i closyd myn doris and wiþinne satte a lone ad i was woned and thought preuyle on my swete sone iesu wher þat he wer and qwhat he dydde for on hym was all my desyr …

f. 51v

… wyth sorowe i blyssed be my swete sone iesu and thus dudyth the lamentacion of owre swete lady seynt marye quod ambroos.

‘Explicit lamentacio sancte marie’ (f. 51v). Lamentation of Our Lady, attributed to St Ambrose. IPMEP 828.

Other texts: Horrall p. 222 notes 4 other MSS and an early printed edition: BL Cotton Cleopatra D.vii ff. 183–186v; BodL Bodley 596 (SC 2376) ff. 17–21; Longleat 29 ff. 74–78; Westminster Cathedral Diocesan Archives H.38 ff. 127v–132; the 1509–10 print by Wynkyn de Worde (STC 17537) was copied in BodL Add. C.218 in the early nineteenth century. Horrall p. 219 further notes much revised extracts from the text in Huntington HM 144, for which see IMEP 1 indexing HM 144 [1], and an extensively revised version in a set of meditations on Christ's Passion in BodL Bodley 578 ff. 1 and Camb Trinity Col B.15.42, for which see IMEP 11 indexing Trinity B.15.42 [3].

[2]

f. 52

The tyme nyghyng and comyng of the reuthes and mercyes of the lorde in wyche tyme he ordeigned to make his people saufe and also to ayene bye not wyth coruptible golde ne syluer but wyth hys precyous bloode he wolde also make a worthy and a noble souper wyth his deciples …

f. 55

… fulfylled he went wiþ hem into a gardeyn ouyr þe watyr of cedroun and þere abode his traytour judas and other men armede.

‘The mawndy of our lorde’ (f. 55). First chapter only of the Middle English Meditationes de Passione Christi, on the Last Supper.