Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.540–2.

[1]

f. 3

﹛Þ﹜e fyrst comaundement of almyʒty god is þys þe lord god spake all þese wordys i am þe lord þy god þat lad þee oute of þe lond of egipte oute of þe hous of þraldom þou shalt not haue tofore me no strange goddys þou shalt not make to þe an ymage grauen ne no …

f. 9v

… lust of flesshe pride of lyf and þese þre synnes enwalpen all oþer synnes þat ony man dooþ.

Rubric heading f. 3: ‘Here bygynneþ þe ten commaundementys of almyʒty god wyche he comaundid us to kepe upon peyne of euerlastynge dampnacioun.’

Commentary on the Ten Commandments, lacking the prologue. IPMEP 49; Wells Rev. 2:524 [12]. Items [1]–[10] form part of a basic devotional manual; see Wells Rev. 7:2495– 2501 [24].

Other texts: For other MSS of the Rhetorical Versions already indexed see IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. New Col 67 [2] and Trinity Col 86 [25] (a fragment); and IMEP 16 indexing BodL Laud misc. 699 [2] and 30 [1]. For the Discursive Version see Kk.1.3 [6] and Nn.4.12 [1]. For MSS of other commentaries already indexed see IMEP 2 indexing Manchester Rylands Eng 85 [6]; IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 246 [4]; IMEP 6 indexing York XVI.L.12 [1]; and IMEP 13 indexing Lambeth 408 [6]. See also [10] below.

[2]

f. 9v

Pryde enuy wraþ slouþ couetyse glotonye and leccherye pryde is alone of mannys owen heynes and þerof comen all þese seuene inobediens ayens god or aʒens his souereyne þat is to sey leue þynge þat he is comaunden and do þynge forfended the secunde braunche is auauntement as whan a man auaunteþ him …

f. 11v

… himself slouþe turneþ him couetise casteþ him awey glotonye disseiueþ him leccherye putteþ him into seruage.

‘Þe seuene dedly synnis’ (f. 9v). Pride, Envy, and Wrath. Wells Rev. 7:2528 [109]; Jolliffe F.19. Items [1]–[10] form part of a basic devotional manual. See Wells Rev. 7:2495–2501 [24]. Wells Rev. 9:3460–2 [72] notes that this is an extract from The Mirror of Holy Church or The Mirror of St Edmund (Speculum Ecclesie of Edmund of Abingdon), chapter 8, see Robbins, Merure pp. 16–24; see further [11] below.

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 3 MSS. See also [10].

[3]

f. 11v