Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.4–5.

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f. 201

Swete lord iesu cryst i thanke þe and ʒelde þe graces of þat swete prayere and of þat holy orysoun þat þou madest beforn þe holy passyoun for us on þe mownt of olyuets y beseche þe swete lord þat þou here my prayere adoramus te criste et benedictus te pater noster aue maria swete lord iesu cryst y thanke þe and i ʒelde þe graces of þat mychel ferdenesse þat þou haddyst for us whan þou become so ful of angwysch …

f. 207v

… and kyssed hem ful swete and euere os þou kyssyd sore þou grete þenne was þer warde set of armede knyʒtes to kepe þe monument tyl þe thrydde day etcetera amen iesu.

‘Explicit quedam meditacio ricardi heremite de hampole de passione domine qui obijt anno domini m ccc xlo viij etcetera’ (f. 207v). Richard Rolle, Meditations on the Passion. IPMEP 618; Wells Rev. 9:3417 [3], shorter version. Ed. from this MS by J. Ullmann, ‘Studien zu Richard Rolle de Hampole’ Englische Studien 7 (1884), 415–72 (pp. 454–69), with corrections printed in Englische Studien (1889), 463–8.

Other texts: No other MS of the shorter version is known. Wells Rev. lists 4 MSS of the longer version, including one already indexed in IMEP 10, Uppsala C.494 [1]; some extracts in Latin, and two copies (one a fragment) of another version are also listed.

s. xiv2. LALME I:68 locates the language as ‘W Norfolk, but with slight admixture’, further noting that the large late medieval library number ‘K.14’ on the first leaf might possibly indicate that the manuscript belonged to the Benedictine priory of St Leonard, Norwich.