Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.498–500.

[1]

f. 1

Broþer and syster bodely and gostly two manere of states þer is in holy chyrche be ye wheche cristen sowles plesen god and gete þem ye blisse of heuen þat one is bodely þat oþer is gostly bodely werkynge longeth principaly to werdly men or wymmen þe wheche haue leffully werdly goodes and …

f. 14v

… seynt gregory saith no man sodanly es made souereyne in grace but from litel he begynneth and be processe waxeth until he cometh to þe moste deo gracias et pax hominibus bone voluntatis amen.

Walter Hilton, On the Mixed Life (Longer Version). IPMEP 147; Wells Rev. 9:3433–5 [30].

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 20 MSS comprising six of the Longer Version, ten of the Shorter Version, and four Fragments or Extracts. For a copy of the longer version already indexed see IMEP 13 indexing Lambeth 472 [3]; for copies of the shorter version see IMEP 2 indexing Manchester Chetham's 6690 [6]; IMEP 12 indexing BodL Eng poet a.1 [10]; and IMEP 16 indexing BodL Laud misc. 685 [10]; and for a fragment see IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 751 [1].

[2]

f. 14v

Tarye þou nouth for to turne to god and delay noth fro day to day for þe unmerciful deþ rauesscheþ sodanly wrecches and þe biterenesses of peyne deuoureth hastly þo þat be slowe for to turne to god and it may nouth ben told how manye werdli men fals hope and presumptioun …

f. 32v

… heuenly songe and iubilacioune þat may nouth ben spoken and with merie melodie euere for to preisen him to qwhom be honour and ioye and thanke euere more amen.

Anonymous translation of Richard Rolle's De Emendatio Vitae. IPMEP 652; Wells Rev. 9:3424 [15], version B. Ed. (modernized version based on this MS) by Harford.

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 13 MSS of 6 different Middle English translations; version B is also extant in BL Harley 2406 ff. 36–57v. For Richard Mysin's translation see Wells Rev. 9:3425 [14]. For version A see Ff.5.30 [2], and copies already indexed in IMEP 3 indexing BodL Digby 18 [1]; IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 322 [12]. For a copy of version D already indexed see IMEP 17 indexing Camb. Gonville and Caius 669*/646 [3]; for version F see IMEP 15 indexing Worcester F.172 [5].