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Title

Four English devotional works

Authors

• Hilton, Walter, -1396
• Jacobus, Mediolanensis, 13th cent

Other related names

• Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274, attributed name
• Rolle, Richard, 1290?-1349, attributed name
• Bouter, Samuell, former owner
• Butlar, John, former owner
• Stonor, Thomas, third Lord Camoys, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 218
(3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924864413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122621598
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486441

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle English, passages in Latin

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1425

Place

England

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Overall title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
   
• Imperfect, one quire missing at the front, probably at least one quire missing at the back.
   
• Incipit for the first work [incomplete] (f. 1r): ... [thon]kyn and louyn hym and geuen ... [Bk. 1, ch. 19]. Explicit (f. 77v): Vox domini preparantis seruos et reuelabit condensa et in templo eius omnis [sic] dicent gloriam. Ad quam nos perducat qui sine fine viuit et regnat. Amen.
   
• Incipit for the second work (f. 77v): Iste liber sequens primo fuit compositus in latino sermone per quemdam fratrem minorem Cardinalem nobilem doctorem Bonauenturam nomine postea translatus est in linguam anglicanam pro minoribus latinum non intelligentibus per quemdam canonicum Walterum Hilton nomine in amore dei valde deuotum ... Text begins on f. 78v: How a man schal have cristis passyoun in mynde ... Explicit (f. 127v): And so mote oure tretys endyn in preisyng of god. so þat alle blissed speritys mote preisyn oure lord in þe blisse of heuene. Amen. Here endiþ þe tretys þat is called prickyng of loue maad be a frere menoure a cardinal of þe court of Rome, Bonauenture be his name.
   
• Incipit for the third work (f. 127v): Þis schort pistil þat folweþ is deuyded in sundrie maneris eche matere be hymself in titlys as þis kalendere makeþ mencioun ... Text begins on f. 128r: Here begynneþ þe book. In the begy[n]nyng and endyng of alle goode werkis ... Explicit (f. 145v): in help of þi selfe.
   
• Incipit for a short meditation on the five wits (senses) given as part of the preceding text (f. 145v): First kepe wel in þin herte alle þi wittis and þat is esy to do ... Explicit (f. 146v): On þis man[er] mayst þ[o]u kepe þe and þi fyue wittys fro synne and ocupie þe s[er]uyse of god and þ[er]to god geue þe grace. Amen. Explicit tractatus qui vocatur Amor dei. [Entire section is transcribed by Krochalis in the Library Chronicle.].
   
• Incipit for the fourth work (f. 147r): [Þ]e migt of þe fader almigty ... Explicit (f. 159v): Allas qwat schul þ[an] þei do / þat bene ifou[n]de i[n] syn / þ[a]t wold nougt he[m] self do ...
   
• Front cover board detached, clasps missing.
   
• Letter from Charles Cormersach to Lord Camoys laid into the manuscript; it is dated 18 November 1870 and discusses the last work in the manuscript. A copy of this letter is on file in the Library, along with other materials pertaining to this codex; the original letter has been cataloged and filed in the Library's Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.
   

Extent

159 leaves : 387 x 254 (281 x 181) mm. bound to 398 x 256 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 159 + i; [1-159]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Collation

1-18⁸, 19⁶⁺¹, 20⁸.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Late 15th-century calf, by the Virgin and Child binder, possibly active in Winchester (note by N. R. Ker pasted inside upper cover), rebacked. Upper cover detached, clasps missing.

Layout

Written in 2 columns, predominantly 42 lines per column, with a few sections in 41 (f. 1r-22r, 145r-146v), 43 (f. 25r-32v, 4th gathering; 41r-48r, 6th gathering), and 45 (f. 152r-159v, last gathering) lines; frame-ruled in ink. First line of text above the top line in last work (f. 147r-159v).

Decoration

Red rubrics on folios 1-146, space left for capital initials which were not completed. Marginal drawing of a black swan (f. 114r).

Script

Written in early 15th-century Anglicana script by 2 hands (f. 1-146, 147-159).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Samuell Bouter, 17th century (inside back cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Butlar, 1674 (f. 82v).
   
• Formerly owned by Thomas Stonor, third Lord Camoys, 1870 (bookplate).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 29 June 1938, lot 523.
   
• Appears in Maggs Bros. catalog 687 (March 1940), no. 170.
   
• Sold by Maggs Bros., 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Devotional literature
• English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500
• English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500
• Religious poetry, English
• Mysticism
• Spiritual life

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Devotion
• English
• England
• Mysticism

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Scale of perfection or Scala perfectionis, f. 1r
• fol. 77v — Stimulus amoris, or Prickyng of Love, f. 77v
• fol. 127v — Amor dei or Love of God, f. 127v
• fol. 147r — The Prick of Conscience, f. 147r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 62r — Marginal note, f. 62r
• fol. 82v — Owner note, f. 82v
• fol. 114r — Drawing, Black swan, f. 114r
• fol. 117r — Manicule, f. 117r
• fol. 141v — Manicule, f. 141v
• fol. 142r — Manicule, f. 142r