Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.536–7.

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f. 1

This tretijs compiled of a pore caytif and nedy of goostly help of god schal teche symple men and wymmen of good wille þe riʒt weye to heuen if þey wolen bisie hem to haue it in mynde and worche þeraftir wiþouten multiplicacioun of many bokis and as a child willinge to be a clerk …

f. 111

… bi trewe contynwel kepinge of þi ten comaundementis in parfite loue and lastinge chastite þat we moun regne wiþ þee in endeles blisse amen.

Pore Caitif. IPMEP 166; Wells Rev. 9:3470–71 [87]; Jolliffe B.

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 56 MSS, of which 32 contain complete or substantially complete texts; 16 contain extracts or fragments; two contain the variant version of the ‘Charter of Heaven’ with other Pore Caitif material; and a further six contain the variant ‘Charter of Heaven’ alone. IMEP 7, p. 5 records another copy of the work in Durham UL Add 754. For extracts see Ff.5.45 [9–11, 15–18], Ff.6.55 [1], Hh.1.12 [2, 4–9, 11–17, 31], and Ii.6.40 [7]. For MSS already indexed (many of which contain only excerpts) see IMEP 2 indexing Manchester Rylands Eng 85 [21], Eng 87 [1] Eng 412 [1,2]; IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 13 [1,2], Douce 288 [1], Douce 322 [17]; IMEP 7 indexing BN Fonds Anglais 41 [1]; IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Exeter Col 49 [1], Magdalen Col lat 93 [1]–[3]; IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 1286 [2]; IMEP 11 indexing Camb. Trinity Col B.14.53 [1]; IMEP 12 indexing BodL Eng. th. c.50 [1], Eng. th. e.1 [3], Lyell 29 [1]; IMEP 13 indexing Lambeth 484 [1], Lambeth 541 [1].

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