MS 282

Summary

Described Thomas James 159; Stanley R. 6, Nasmith 282; James, Corpus 282; partial description T.G. Duncan, ‘The Middle English Mirror and its Manuscripts’ in Douglas Gray and E.G. Stanley, Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of his Seventieth Birthday (Oxford, 1983), p. 115; Hunt, Tracts, pp. 144–145; The Middle English ‘Mirror’: An Edition Based on Bodleian Library MS Holkham misc. 40, ed. Kathleen Marie Blumreich, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 182 (Tempe, Arizona, 2002), p. xxix; The Middle English ‘Mirror’: Sermons from Advent to Sexagesima. Edited from Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 250 with a Parallel Text of the Anglo-Norman ‘Miroir’ Edited from Nottingham, University Library, Mi LM 4, ed. Thomas G. Duncan and Margaret Connolly, Middle English Texts 34 (Heidelberg, 2003), pp. xiv–xv; Repertorium, vol. 1, p. 51; Index of Images 80.

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p. 3^a

… prolouge endeþ nou lokeþ in þe mirour for al þou schalt see þi figure þin clennesse & þi filþe ʒif þou wil loke þerinne …

p. 9^a

… he ʒeue ʒou grace and me so his goodes for to despenden þat alle goodes we may take wiþ him þat on in trinite amen.

Prologue to the English translation of the Anglo-Norman Miroir of Robert de Gretham, begins imperfectly at a point corresponding to p. 5, line 1 of Blumreich's edition and p. 7, line 14 of Duncan and Connolly's edition. Printed Blumreich, pp. 5–19; Duncan & Connolly, pp. 7–23 (odd pages only). In an empty space at the foot of p. 9^a the words: ‘Lux fulgebit allelua fuit homo missus a deo cui erat’ (pace Duncan) in a s. xvi hand in what appears to be drypoint.

Other texts: For a list of the five MSS containing the full cycle of the Mirror, see the end of the present entry. Prologue adapted in a tract in CUL Ii.6.26, pp. 102–116 (or ff. 51^v–58^v). Cf. Anne Hudson, Lollards and their Books (London, 1985), p. 107. CUL text edited Simon Hunt, pp. 330–337, 489–490. On pp. 430–462, 510–512 he also edits the unadapted Prologue with Glasgow UL, Hunterian 250 as a base text.