Described Hardwick & Luard: i.59.

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f. 5

As the wise mann seyth in the boke of sapience by the envy and malice of the devyl deth entryd into this world and that in thys maner as doctors seyth the devyl seeyng that mann was ordeynd to enioy and possesse the endles blysse and ioy of heuyn from the which he fell for hys presumpcioun and pryde …

f. 193

… that he hath promysyd to geue vs in heuyn the which he graunt us that lyvyth and reignyth eternally in glory world without end amen.

‘The instruccioun of novices’ (heading f. 5); translation of Formula noviciorum (David of Augsburg), referred to in the prologue (f. 5). The colophon states ‘… the hoole boke prayses be to god wrytten by the hond of Thomas Prestins brother of Syon’ (f. 193). Expanded recension of the Formula Noviciorum or De Exterioris et Interioris Hominis Compositione. Wells Rev. 9:3458–59 [67]; Jolliffe H.2.a, O.4.a.

Other texts: This is the only known MS of the expanded (Syon) recension. Cf. Jolliffe D.5, O.10. Wells Rev. lists 4 MSS of the original recension: Camb. Queens’ Col 18 ff. 1–205v; BL Arundel 197 ff. 48–64 (an abridged and altered version of Book 1); BodL Ashmole 41 ff. 135–135v, two extracts, indexed but not identified in IMEP 9, BodL Ashmole 41 [1] and [2]; and CUL Mm.5.37 [1] (the same extract as in BodL Ashmole 41 [2]).

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