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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89790
Title:: Richard Rolle’s ‘The Form of Living’ and related works
Scope & Content:: A collection of devotional texts in Hiberno-English, made for a noblewoman living in the region of Dublin. This manuscript is important for containing the works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349), in a version dedicated uniquely to his disciple Margaret of Kirkby (d. 1391x1394). It also contai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89791
Title:: Middle English sermons
Scope & Content:: A collection of Sunday gospel sermons in Middle English (ff. 1r–120r). Preceded by a prologue beginning ‘As we findin in the laste end of the gospel of Matheu and of Mark’ (f. 1r–v). The author is unnamed but has been identified as the writer of Dives and Pauper, an influential commentary on the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89792
Title:: Arma Christi
Scope & Content:: A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460s
Extent:: 1 volume

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