Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.534–6; The Rewell of Seynt Sauioure and A Ladder of Foure Ronges by the which Men Mowe Clymbe to Heven, edited from the MSS CUL Ff.6.33 and London Guildhall 25524, ed. J. Hogg, AC 183 (Salzburg, 2003), pp. viii–x.

[1]

f. 1

A grete clerke þat men calle richard of seynt victour in a boke þat he makyth of studie of wisdom wittnesith and sayth þat two myʒtes or powers be in a mannys sowle yeven of þe fadyr of hevyn of whom all good commyth that oon ys reson the toþere is affeccion throgh reson we knowe …

f. 21

… so that it be fulfylled in the that ys wryten in the [f. 21v] psalme ibi beniamyn adolescentulus in mentis escessu that ys to sey ther ys beniamyn the yonglyng in rauesshyng of mynde.

‘The boke of the xij patriarkys’ (f. 1). A Tretyse of þe Stodye of Wysdom þat Men Clepen Beniamyn, a free and abridged translation of Richard of St Victor's De Preparatione Animi ad Contemplationem. IPMEP 4; Wells Rev. 9:3428 [23]. Ed. Hodgson, Deonise pp. 12–46, superseded by Hodgson, Related pp. 129–45.

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 13 MSS. See Ii.6.39 [4]; Kk.6.26 [6]. For a MS already indexed see IMEP 1 indexing HM 127 [4].

[2]

f. 21v

Holy prayer seyth seynt austen is the helpe of a holy sowle comfort to þe good angell turmente to þe fende and of all religion it is the hole praysyng perfitte ioye very hope and helth uncorrupte idem prayer ys a meke desyre of the mynde dyrecte to god and ofte tymes brekyng owte wiþ voyce …

f. 26

… therfor all þat intende to folowe cryste ouʒte muche to strength them wiþ prayer and namly religiouse peple to whom more tyme þere to ys gyven.

‘Here folowth notable saynges of holy doctours of the vertue of holy prayer’ (f. 21v). The Vertue of Holy Prayere. Wells Rev. 7:2582 [247] (where the MS shelfmark is incorrectly given as Ff.5.40); Jolliffe M.6.

Other texts: Apparently unique.

[3]

f. 26