Vado mori (1v–2r), incorporating ‘Wilfridus’ (2r: Boffey 2463); The Desert of Religion (3r–23v: Boffey 672), incorporating Twelve Abuses (8r: Boffey 86.8) and verses on Richard Rolle (d. 1349) (8v: Boffey 91.8)
Collection of texts relating to the Franciscan Order, including Stationes ecclesiarum urbis Rome (2v–9r); The rewle and the lif of the brethern minoris (Regula et uita fratrum minorum) (10r–24v); The testament of owre holy fadre seynt Ffrancis (Francis of Assisi, Testamentum) (24v–32r); Pope Clement V (1305–1314), articles for the Franciscan Order (42r–43r); statutes of the chapter of Bercynode (44v–50v); The nine perfections (51r–56r); The absey of seynt Bonaventure or the lyffe of a religio...
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Language(s): Latin (1v–9r, 32v–33v, 71v–73v, 80v–83v); Middle English (10r–71r, 74v–80r)
These 35 fragments formerly belonged to Cotton MS Tiberius E VII, part of the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731. Now bound in two volumes, the manuscript contains a number of religious texts written in Middle English, inc...
These 29 fragments formally belonged to a number of unidentified manuscripts from the collection of Sir Robert Cotton (b. 1570/1, d. 1631), which was damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: Fragment 1: Language: Unidentified. Script: Gothic. Fragment 2: Language: Latin. Scr...