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Arundel MS 57, ff 13r-96v
- Record Id:
- 041-002356408
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002008.0x0000df
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 57, ff 13r-96v
- Title:
- Ayenbite of Inwyt, prayers and treatises in Middle English
- Scope & Content:
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1. Ayenbite of Inwyt ('Prick of Conscience'), a translation into the Kentish dialect of the French treatise on morality, Somme le roi. This is thought to be an autograph copy by the translator, Michael of Northgate, and is the only surviving example of the text in Middle English. A verse on f. 94r states: 'Nou ich wille that ye ywite. hou hit is ywent, þet þis boc is ywrite. mid Engliss of Kent. þis boc is ymad vor lewede men, vor uader, and vor moder, and uor other ken, ..... þet þis boc made, God him yeve þet bread Of angles of hevene, and þereto his red, And ondervong his zaule, huanne thet he is dyad. Amen' (Boffey 2331). The following verses in Middle English have been identified within the text: Boffey 3579: f. 13, l.6, 'þis boc is ywrite...'; 2070: f. 51v, l.16, 'Mon man longe lyves wene...' (opening stanza only); 3578.5: f. 94, l.16, 'þis boc is come to the ende...'. (ff. 13r-94r);
2. The Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria and the Creed in English (f. 94r);
3. Pseudo-Anselm, De custodia interioris hominis in English (ff. 94v-96v);
4. Treatise on the difference between men and beasts, 'Namore ne is betuene ane manne and ane beste...'(f. 96v);
5. Two prayers to the Virgin Mary in English, the second in verse form (Boffey 2034) (f. 96v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039337
041-002356408 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 57 : Michael of Northgate, Ayenbite of Inwyt
Arundel MS 57, ff 13r-96v : Ayenbite of Inwyt, prayers and treatises in Middle English - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0057]/040-002039337[0002]/041-002356408
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of a parchment codex: 84 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_57 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1340
- End Date:
- 1340
- Date Range:
- 1340
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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ff. 13-96, (Ayenbite of Inwyt):
Dimensions: 310 x 200 mm (text space: 240 x 145 mm).
Layout: Written in 1 column of 40 lines.
Script: Gothic cursive
- Publications:
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ff. 13-96:
Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt or Remorse of Conscience: Volume 1, Text : Richard Morris's transcription now newly collated with the unique manuscript British Museum MS. Arundel 57, ed. by Pamela Gradon, Early English Text Society, original series 23 (Oxford: University Press, 1965; online at Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative,1999) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=Ayenbite [accessed 28 January 2013].
Pamela Gradon, Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt: Volume II, Introduction, Notes and Glossary, Early English Text Society, 278, (Oxford: University Press, 1979).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)