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Sloane MS 2275

Record Id:

040-002114640

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002112337

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000603.0x0003ba

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Sloane MS 2275

Title:

Compilation of devotional texts

Scope & Content:

The manuscript contains:

ff. 1r-52r: Richard Rolle, Melos amoris. Begins: 'Amor utique audacem'. Ends: 'carissimam cun[c]tis commendo. Amen'.

ff. 52v-61v: Richard Rolle, Liber de amore Dei contra amatores mundi. Begins: 'Quoniam mundanorum insania'. Ends: 'commendo siue fine. Amen'.

ff. 62r-64r: Anselm of Canterbury, Meditatio 3 De redemptione humana. Begins: 'Anima Christiana'. Ends: 'solus benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen'.

ff. 64r-72v: Augustine, Meditationes de spiritu sanctu. Begins: 'Domino deus spiritus sancte timeo'. Ends: 'patre et filio permanes in secula seculorum. Amen'.

ff. 73r-108v: Richard Rolle, Incendium amoris. Begins: 'Admirabar amplius'. Ends: 'imparatori in secula seculorum. Amen'.

ff. 108v-109v: John of Wales, Forma praedicandi (extracts). Begins: 'Predicacio est thematis'. Ends: 'concordancias iam adduccas'.

ff. 109v-140r: Richard Rolle, Paruum Iob siue Libellus in nouem lectiones mortuorum. Begins: 'Parce mihi domine...Exprimitur autem'. Ends: 'cum patre et spiritu sancte sancto regnat in eternum. Amen'.

ff. 140r-150r: Richard Rolle, Emedatio vitae. Begins: 'Hic est libellus de emendacione vite'. Ends: 'accio in secula seculorum. Amen'.

ff. 150r-183r: Prick of Conscience (formerly attributed to Richard Rolle). Begins: 'Þe miȝt of þe fadre almiȝti'. Ends: 'it miȝt riȝt so be. Amen amen pur charite'. (IMEV 3428/DIMEV 5398). Manuscript 'MV 38' ('Main Version') in Lewis and McIntosh, Descriptive Guide (1982), pp. 70-71.

f. 183v: blank.

ff. 184r-191r: Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae. Begins: 'Uidete vocationem vestram'. Ends: 'ab originem mundi. Amen'.

ff. 191r-198v: Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum peccatoris. Begins: 'Fratres carissimi quam tremenda'. Ends: 'nouissima tua prudenter prouideas'.

ff. 198v-205r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes. Begins: 'Multi multa sciunt'. Ends: 'vivit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum. Amen'.

ff. 205r-207r: Basil of Caesarea, Admonitio ad filium spiritualem. Begins: 'Si cupis militare'. Ends: 'secuti sunt'.

ff. 207r-214v: Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditationes de passione Christi. Begins: 'Adueniente iam et imminente tempore'. Ends: 'vivit et regnat. Amen'.

ff. 215r-218r: ?Robert Allington, Sermo de decem mandatis et plagis. Begins: 'Sciatis quod precepta dederit'. Ends: 'decem plagis angli'.

f. 218r: 'Detractor assimilatur'. Begins: 'Cani qui rodit'. Ends: 'ut hominem comedat'.

ff. 218v-229v: Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis. Begins: 'Quare de vulua matris'. Ends: 'et ignis ardens in secula seculorum'.

ff. 230r-244v: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius. Begins: 'Sepius rogatus'. Ends: 'comparacionem dare nes-' (imperfect).

f. 245r: With sharp thorns that beth keen (The wounds of Christ as remedies against the deadly sins, eight quatrains). Stanzas 4 and 8 only (IMEV 1709.5, 2602.4 = 4200/DIMEV 6744).

f. 245r: Quotations. The first is only partially legible. The second is from Ovid, Remedia amoris, XCI: 'Principiis obsta: sero mediciam paratur / Cum mala per longas convaluere moras'.

Decoration:

Small puzzle initials in red and blue, with red penwork decoration and pen flourishing (ff. 52v, 64r, 73r, 108v, 109v, 150r, 152v, 184r, 198v, 207r), with a simple line border in red and blue (f. 1r).

Smaller blue initials with red penwork decoration and pen flourishing.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Sloane Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002112337
040-002114640

Is part of:

Sloane MS 1-4100 : Sloane Manuscripts

Sloane MS 2275 : Compilation of devotional texts

Hierarchy:

032-002112337[2263]/040-002114640

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Sloane MS 1-4100

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Middle
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1360

End Date:

1440

Date Range:

Late 14th century-Early 15th century

Era:

Access:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 240/50 x 175/85 mm (text space: 190 x 140 mm).

Foliation: ff. 245 + iii (plus two modern unfoliated paper endleaves at the front and three at the back). Folio i-ii are a pair of parchment endleaves at the front of the volume. There is a pair of parchment endleaves at the back of the volume: the first leaf is foliated as f. 245, the second is f. iii.

Collation: i-vi¹² (ff. 1-72), vii-viii⁸ (ff. 73-88), ix¹⁰ (ff. 89-98), x-xii¹² (ff. 99-134), xiii¹⁰ (ff. 135-144), xiv-xvii⁸ (ff. 145-176), xviii^8-1 (ff. 177-183; 8th leaf excised after f. 183), xix-xx¹² (ff. 184-207), xxi¹⁰ (ff. 208-217), xxii¹² (ff. 218-229), xxiii⁸ (ff. 230-237), xxiv^8-1 (ff. 238-244; 8th leaf excised after f. 244).

Script: Gothic cursive (Anglicana formata, Anglicana).

Binding: British Museum in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin: Cheshire (based on linguistic analysis of ff. 150r-160r: LALME, I, p. 116).

Provenance:

'Master demmer of feyfelde': inscription, 15th-century, f. 241v.

'and I Grey': inscription, 15th-century, f. 242v.

Publications:

The 'Incendium Amoris', ed. by Margaret Deanesly (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1915) [on the text, ff. 73r-108v].

Hope Emily Allen, Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle of Hampole and Materials for his Biography (London: Oxford University Press, 1927), pp. 130-44 [ff. 109v-40r], 203-09 [ff. 52v-61v], 209-29 [ff. 73r-108v], 230-45 [ff. 140r-150r], 372-97 [ff. 150r-183r].

André Wilmart, Auteurs Spirituels et Textes Dévots du Moyen Âge Latin: Études d'Histoire Littéraire, Études et Documents pour Servir à l'Histoire du Sentiment Religieux (Paris: Bloud et Gay, 1932), pp. 415-56 [on the text, ff. 64r-72v].

T.M. Charland, Artes praedicandi: Contribution à l'Histoire de la Rhétorique au Moyen Âge, Publications de l'Institut d'Études Médiévales d'Ottawa, 7 (Montréal: Vrin, Institut d'Études Médiévales, 1936), pp. 55-60 [on the text, ff. 108v-109v].

S. Anselmi Cantuariensis Aarchiepiscopi Opera Omnia, ed. by Franciscus Salesius Schmitt, 6 vols (Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1938-61), III (1946), pp. 84-91 [on the text, ff. 62r-64r].

Yves Le Fèvre, 'L'Elucidarium et les Lucidaires': Contribution, par l'Histoire d'un Texte, à l'Histoire des Croyances Religieuses en France au Moyen Âge, Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 180 (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1954), pp. 359-477 [on the text, ff. 230r-244v].

'De miseria humane conditionis', ed. by Michele Maccarrone (Lugano: In aedibus Thesauri Mundi, 1955) [on the text, ff. 218v-219v].

'Melos amoris' of Richard Rolle of Hampole, ed. by E.J.F. Arnould (Oxford: Blackwell, 1957) [on the text, ff. 1r-52r].

'Amores', 'Medicamina faciei femineae', 'Ars amatoria', 'Remedia amoris', Ovid, ed. by E.J. Kenney (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961) [on the text, f. 245r].

Paul Lehmann, Erforschung des Mittelalters: Ausgewählte Abhandlungen und Aufsätze, 5 vols (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1959-62), V, pp. 200-45 [on the text, ff. 205r-207r].

The 'Contra amatores mundi' of Richard Rolle of Hampole, ed. with an introduction and translation by Paul F. Theiner, University of California Publications: English Studies, 33 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968 [on the text, ff. 52v-61v].

'Speculum religiosorum' and 'Speculum ecclesie', [by] Edmund of Abingdon, ed. by Helen P. Forshaw, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 3 (London: Oxford University Press for the Academy, 1973), pp. 29-111 (odd pages) [on the text, ff. 184r-191r].

'De miseria condicionis humane', Lotario dei Segni (Pope Innnocent III), ed. by Robert E. Lewis (Athens (GA): University of Georgia Press, 1978) [on the text, ff. 218v-229v].

Robert E. Lewis and Angus McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the 'Prick of Conscience', Medium Ævum Monographs, New Series 12 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediæval Languages and Literature, 1982), pp. 70-71.

Malcolm Robert Moyes, Richard Rolle's 'Expositio super novem lectiones mortuorum': An Introduction and Contribution Towards a Critical Edition, Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Elizabethan & Renaissance Studies, 92 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistic, Universität Salzburg, 1988) [on the text, ff. 109v-140r].

Emendatio vitae: Orationes ad honorem nominis Ihesu, ed. from Cambridge University Library MSS Dd.v.64 and Kk.vi.20 by Nicolas Watson, Toronto Medieval Latin Ttexts, 21 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1995), pp. 33-68 [on the text, ff. 140r-150r].

Alexandra Barratt, 'Spiritual Writings and Religious Instruction', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2011), II: 1100-1400, ed. by Nigel J. Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson, pp. 340-66 (p. 362).

Richard Morris's 'Prick of Conscience': A Corrected and Amplified Reading Text, prepared by Ralph Hanna and Sarah Wood, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 342 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 379 [on the text, ff. 150r-183r].

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Previous catalogue record:

'includes:

ff. 1-52 Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: Melos amoris Ricardi Heremite: 14th cent.
ff. 52 b-61 b Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: De contemptu mundi: 14th cent.
ff. 62-63 b Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury: De redemptione humana: 14th cent.
ff. 64-72 Saint Augustine, Bihsop of Hippo: Meditationes de Spiritu Sancto: 14th cent.
ff. 79-108 b Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: De incendio amoris: 14th cent.
ff. 109 b-140 Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: Super novem lectionibus mortuorum: 14th cent.
ff. 140-150 Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: De emedatione vitae: 14th cent.
ff. 150-183 Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: Stimulus conscientiae, in English verse: 14th cent.
ff. 184-191 Saint Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury: Speculum ecclesiae: 14th cent.
ff. 191-198 Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux: Speculum peccatoris: 14th cent.
ff. 191-198 Speculum medico-chymicum: Speculum peccatoris: 14th cent.
ff. 198 b-205 Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux: Meditationes: 14th cent.
ff. 205-207 Saint Basil: Monita: 14th cent.
ff. 207-214 Saint Bonaventura, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano: Meditationes vitae Christi: 14th cent.
ff. 215-218 Robert de alinton: Sermo de decem mandatis et plagis: 14th cent.
ff. 218 b-229 b Innocent III, Pope: De miseria hominis: 14th cent.
ff. 230-244 Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury: Elucidarium: 14th, 15th centt.'