Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.55–6.

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f. 2v

Quecumque scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt ut per pacientiam et consolacionem scripturamur spem heamus ad romanos xvo capitulo these ben the woordes of þe grete doctoure and holy apostle poule consideryng þat þe goostly lyvynge of alle trew cristen creatures in þis worlde stonte specialy in hoope of the blysse and þe lyff þat is to come in anoþere worlde and for alsomoche as tweyne thynges specially norysshen and strenghthen …

f. 116v

… in holye chirche as þe materes bene partynent blessyd be þe name of oure lord iesu and hys modere marye nowe and euere withouten ende amen.

‘Here begynnyth þe proheme of the booke that ys clepid the myrroure of the blyssyd lyffe of iesu crist’ (f. 2v). Preceded on ff. 1–2 by a table of contents with the rubric heading: ‘At the begynnyng the prohem of the booke that is clepid the myrroure of the blissyd lyffe of iesu crist’, and with the concluding rubric ‘Attende lector …’. ‘Explicit speculum vite criste’ (f. 116v), followed by the concluding rubric ‘Memorandum quod circa annum domini 1410 …’. Nicholas Love, Mirroure of the Blissid Lyf of Jesu Criste, translation of Pseudo-Bonaventure's Meditationes Vitae Christi. IPMEP 553; Wells Rev. 9:3454–6 [61]. Ed. (not from this MS) by Sargent who notes (intro p. 122) that in this MS what he calls the ‘transition paragraph’ is displaced from its usual position at the end of the text proper to follow the ‘Treatise on the Sacrament’.

Other texts: Sargent intro pp. 96–142 lists 49 complete MSS, 9 fragments, 1 recorded fragment now lost, 2 composite texts, 3 MSS which contain extracts, and 9 early prints; a further extract is noted in IMEP 5 indexing BL Add 11748 [3]. For other copies of the complete or originally complete text see Mm.5.15 [1] and Oo.7.45 [1]; for MSS which contain extracts see Hh.1.11 [1]–[2] and Ii.4.9 [20]–[21].