Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.479; Repertorium i.47; Wakelin pp. 109–10.

[1]

f. 1

… [crea]ture to haue an assured mynde and an hole remembraunce of these four last thinges and that they may cordyally be enprinted wiþin your hertes therfor it is consonant acordyng yf hyt so may plese that this present traycte may be entitled and bere the name of the cordyal.

‘Thys endeth the prologue of this bok named cordyal and wyche treteth of the four last and smal thinges that ben to come and here beginneth the first parte of þe seyde four last thinges’ (f. 1). Last lines of the prologue to Cordial; begins imperfectly.

[2]

f. 1

The first parte of the four last thinges wer of the remembraunce wythdraweth a man fro synne is deth present or temporal and therfore seith sent bernard in a bok called the myrour of monkes the most souerayn phylosophye is to thynke alwey on deth and he that herith it in his mynde in what place so euer he goo shal neuer synne …

f. 28v

… it is wreton in the prouerbis the nene and twenty chapitre and also not to yeue the body ouer litle …

Ends imperfectly. Cordial, translated by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers from Jean Mielot's Quatre Derrenieres Choses. Printed by Caxton 1479 (STC 5758), from which this MS is copied. IPMEP 47.

Other texts: Blake ‘Manuscript to Print’ pp. 420–1 notes 2 other MSS, also copied from Caxton's print: BL Sloane 779 ff. 76v–151; Edinburgh, National Archives of Scotland (formerly Scottish Record Office) MS GD 112/71/1 (1) ff. 14–79v.

[3]

f. 29

… wherfor he seys by the prophett nolo mortem peccatoris sed ut magis conuertatur et uiuat i wyll not he seys þat þat a synfull man be ded but i wyll rathyr þat he turne to god and lyff y rede þat þer was a knyght þat had no gud of hys hone but he had gettyn myche gud …

f. 31v

… to þe joye þat euer schall last þe wyche joye god graunt ʒow and me þat for us dyed on þe rode tre amen.

Part of the sermon for the first Sunday in Lent (Quadragesima 1) from Mirk's Festial. Different hand from [1]. Begins imperfectly (Erbe, p. 87 line 25).