Dd.5.64

Summary

Described Hardwick & Luard: i.278–80. MS made up of three booklets by different hands.

[1]

Part 3, f. 1

In ilk a synful man or woman þat es bunden in dedly syn er thre wrechednes þe wylk brynges þam to þe dede of hell þe first es defaute of gastly strenght þat þai er sa wayke within þair hert þat þai may nouther stand agaynes þe fandynges of þe fende …

f. 22v

… loo margarete i haue schortly sayde þe þe forme of lyuyng and how þu may com til perfeccion and to lufe hym þat þu hafe taken þe til if it do þe gude and perfit til þe thank god and pray for me þe grace of ihu criste be with þe and kepe þe amen

‘Incipit forma uiuendi scripta a beato Ricardo heremita ad Margaretam anachoritam suam dilectam discipulam’ (f. 1). Richard Rolle, Form of Living. IPMEP 351; Wells Rev. 9:3420–22 [11]. Ed. from this MS by YW i.1–49.

Other texts: Ogilvie-Thomson (pp. xxxvi–xliv) lists 44 MSS (28 full, 16 extracts); IMEP 12 indexing BodL Eng. poet a.1 [5] notes an additional fragment in BodL Bodley 554 ff. 88v–89, for which see M. P. Kuczynski, ‘A Fragment of Richard Rolle's Form of Living in MS Bodley 554’, Bodleian Library Record 15.1 (1994), 20–33; Cambridge Fitzwilliam, Bradfer-Lawrence Dep BL 10 is now Tokyo, Toshiyuki Takamiya 66. IMEP 16, indexing BodL Laud misc 210 [2] notes that the Beeleigh Abbey Foyle MS was to be sold at Christie's sale on 11 July 2000; it is now in a private collection, see Edwards, ‘Manuscripts’ p. 230. See Dd.4.54 [1]; Ff.5.40 [8]; Ff.5.45 [1]; Hh.1.12 [16, 27–29]; Ii.4.9 [25]; Ii.6.40 [9]; Ii.6.55 [1]. For other copies or extracts already indexed see IMEP 1 indexing HM 127 [3] and HM 502 [2]; IMEP 2 indexing Manchester Chetham's 6690 [2]; IMEP 4 indexing BodL Douce 302 [1]; IMEP 7 indexing Bibl. Sainte Genevieve 3390 [8]; IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Univ Col 97 [15]; IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 1524 [1]; IMEP 11 indexing Camb. Trinity Col B.14.38 [3], B.15.17 [1], and O.1.29 [9]; IMEP 13 indexing Lambeth 853 [1]; IMEP 15 indexing Hereford P.I.9 [1]; IMEP 16 indexing BodL Laud misc 524 [5]; IMEP 17 indexing Camb. Gonville and Caius 669/646 [4].

[2]

Part 3, f. 20v