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PUBLICATIONS OF THE JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL LATIN 13

PUBLICATIONS OF THE JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL LATIN A Publication of The Medieval Latin Association of North America General Editors: Michael W. Herren, Robert Getz, Gernot Wieland Associate Editors: Alexander Andrée Bernice M. Kaczynski John Magee Greti Dinkova-Bruun Jean Meyers Carin Ruff David Townsend

University of Toronto McMaster University University of Toronto Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies University of Montpellier Independent Scholar University of Toronto

Advisory Board: Walter Berschin James P. Carley Paolo Chiesa Michael Lapidge Andy Orchard A. G. Rigg Danuta Shanzer Brian Stock Jan M. Ziolkowski

University of Heidelberg York University University of Milan Clare College Cambridge Pembroke College Oxford University of Toronto University of Vienna University of Toronto Harvard University

By A. I. Doyle Edited and extended by Ralph Hanna

HOPE ALLEN’S WRITINGS ASCRIBED TO ­R ICHARD ROLLE A CORRECTED LIST OF COPIES

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Nunc [Rycardus] solempni fama habetur ab vniuersis in Anglia, vt singularis vite sancte apud Deum et homines. (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 4483, fol. 137)

Table of Contents Regularly Cited Short Titles and Abbreviations 

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Preface 

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Introduction 

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Hope Allen Revised 

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The Office [Allen 51]

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‘Super Canticum’ [1:1–3] [Allen 62] The Latin Excerpt ‘Oleum effusum…’ (part 4/111–298 [the end]) The Excerpt ‘Oleum effusum’ in English

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Early Works (Latin) ‘Canticum amoris’ [Allen 89] ‘Judica me Deus’ [Allen 93] ‘Melos amoris’ [Allen 113] ‘Super novem lectiones’ [Allen 130]

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Scriptural Commentaries: Miscellaneous ‘Super Threnos’ [Allen 150] ‘Super Apocalypsim’ [Allen 152] ‘Super orationem dominicam’ [Allen 155] ‘Super symbolum apostolorum’ [Allen 157] ‘Super Mulierem fortem’ [Allen 159]

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Scriptural Commentaries: The Psalter (Latin and English) ‘Viridarium’/’De Dei misericordia’ [Allen 161] The Latin Psalter and Canticles [Allen 165] The Latin Psalter: Excerpted Citations The English Psalter and Canticles [Allen 169] ‘Super Magnificat’ [Allen 192] ‘Super Psalmum XX m’ [Allen 194]

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Treatises (Latin) ‘Contra amatores mundi’ [Allen 203] ‘Incendium amoris’ [Allen 209] ‘Emendatio vitae’ [Allen 230]

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The English Epistles ‘Ego Dormio’ [Allen 246] ‘The Commandment’ [Allen 251] ‘The Form of Living’ [Allen 256]

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Miscellaneous English Works ‘The Bee’ [Allen 269] ‘Desire and Delight’ [Allen 271] ‘Gastly Gladnesse’ [Allen 272] ‘The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit’ [Allen 274] ‘The Ten Commandments’ [Allen 276] ‘Meditations on the Passion’ [Allen 278] Lyrics (those not integral to longer English texts) [Allen 287] Exempla [cf. Allen 403] Ascribed (Latin) prayer [cf. Allen 324/403] Excerpts from Gregory the Great’s Moralia [Allen 313, where it is rejected from the canon]

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Formal Compilations derived from Rolle’s works In Latin [A] ‘Orationes’ [Allen 400] [B] ‘De excellencia contemplationis’ (‘O dulce lumen’) [Allen 320] [C] ‘Cibus anime’ [cf. Allen 399] [D] Thomas Bassett’s Defense [E] ‘Speculum spiritualium’ [Allen 405] [F] ‘Ad destruendam superbiam’ [Allen 398, 400] [G] Alexander Carpenter, ‘Destructorium vitiorum’ [H] ‘Liber meditacionum de uita domini et saluatoris nostri Ihesu Cristi et venerabilis matris eius virginis Marie’ [Allen 402] [I] John Walsingham (prior of the London Charterhouse, d. 1488), ‘De diligendo Deo’ In English [K] ‘The Pore Caitif ’ [L] ‘Contemplations of the dread and love of God’/‘Fervor amoris’

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General References and Commendations

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Images of Rolle

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Further Attested Copies – General References not Mentioning Specific Texts, ­References to Which Are Entered Above

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Dubia: Works of Doubtful Authenticity Early Bibliographies [Allen 418–29]

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Table of Contents Other Manuscripts Mentioned

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Attested Copies Lost from Surviving Books Medieval Institutional Owners [Amalgamating Both ‘attested copies’ and Surviving Books] Named Scribes Dated Manuscripts Early Printed Books

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Regularly Cited Short Titles and Abbreviations Allen

Hope E. Allen, Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole, and Materials for his Biography (New York, 1927). Allen, ——, ed., English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole (Oxford, 1931 English Writings et seq.). Bale John Bale, Index Britanniae Scriptorum quos ex variis bibliothecis non parvo labore collegit Ioannes Baleus, cum aliis = John Bale’s Index of British and Other Writers…, ed. Reginald L. Poole and Mary Bateson, introd. Caroline Brett and James Carley (Woodbridge, 1990). BL The British Library, London BodL The Bodleian Library, Oxford Cavanaugh Susan H. Cavanaugh, ‘A Study of Books Privately Owned in England, 1300–1450’ (unpublished University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. thesis, 1980). CHL The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume I: To 1640, ed. Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber (Cambridge, 2006). Cologne 1536 D. Richardi Pampolitani Anglosaxonis Eremitæ…in Psalterium Davidicum… compendiosa iuxtaque pia enarratio, ed. Johann Faber of Heilbronn OP (Cologne: Melchior Neuss, 1536) [= Shaaber R 115; we have consulted BodL B 10.1 (2) Th].1 Corpus Richard Sharpe, gen. ed., The Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, currently 16 vols (London, 1990–). CUL The University Library, Cambridge Doyle 1953 A. I. Doyle, ‘A Survey of the Origins and Circulation of Theological Writings in English in the 14th, 15th, and Early 16th Centuries with Special Consideration of the Part of the Clergy Therein’, 2 vols (unpublished Cambridge University Ph.D. thesis, 1953). Doyle 1981 ——, ‘Carthusian Participation in the Movement of Works of Richard Rolle between England and Other Parts of Europe in the 14th and 15th Centuries’, in Kartäusermystik und -mystiker. Band 2, ed. James Hogg, Analecta Cartusiana 55.2 (Salzburg, 1981), 109–20.

There has been no real study of the book or its rather deviant texts. It certainly is derived from materials brought from England to the Continent, and its editor a Catholic apologist. It may represent the fruits of an early exile by Englishmen discontented in the wake of the Act of Supremacy. Certainly, books associable with both Leland and Bale later provided materials for Basel printings by Hieronymus Froben; see James P. Carley, CHL 280–81. 1 

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Doyle & Hanna ——, ‘The European Circulation of Three Latin Spiritual Texts’, in Latin and Vernacular: Studies in Late-Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, ed. Alastair Minnis (Cambridge, 1989), 129–46. ——, ‘English Carthusian books not yet linked with a Charterhouse’, in ‘A Miracle of Learning’: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O’Sullivan, ed. Toby Barnard et al. (Aldershot, 1998), 122–36. ——, ‘The Speculum Spiritualium from Manuscript to Print’, Journal of the Early Book Society 11 (2008), 145–53. Ralph Hanna, Editing Medieval Texts: An Introduction, Using Exemplary Materials Derived from Richard Rolle, ‘Super Canticum’ 4 (Liverpool, 2015). Early English Text Society Ralph Hanna, The English Manuscripts of Richard Rolle: A Descriptive Catalogue (Exeter, 2010). C. Horstman, ed., Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole, an English Father of the Church, and his Followers, 2 vols (London, 1895–96). Carleton Brown and Rossell H. Robbins, The Index of Middle English Verse (New York, 1943), with Supplement by Robbins and J. L. Cutler (Lexington ky, 1965). P. S. Jolliffe, A Check-List of Middle English Prose Writings of Spiritual Guidance (Toronto, 1974). Middle English Texts N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, RHS Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964), with Andrew G. Watson, Supplement to MLGB, Guides and Handbooks 15 (London, 1987). Neil R. Ker (completed by A. J. Piper), Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, 4 vols (Oxford, 1969–92). S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson, ed., Richard Rolle: Prose and Verse, EETS os 293 (Oxford, 1988). Patrologia Latina Michael G. Sargent, James Grenehalgh as Textual Critic, 2 vols, Analecta Cartusiana 85 (Salzburg, 1984). Doctoris Seraphici S. Bonaventurae…Opera omnia, 10 vols (Quaracchi, 1882–1902). R. W. Hunt et al., A Summary Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 7 vols in 8 (Oxford, 1895–1953). M. A. Shaaber, Check-List of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in Languages Other than English, to 1641 (New York, 1975).

Regularly Cited Short Titles and Abbreviations Sharpe STC

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Richard Sharpe, A Handlist of Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 1 (Turnhout, 1997). Alfred W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, rev. Katharine F. Pantzer, A ShortTitle Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640, 2nd edn, 3 vols (London, 1976–91). Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College, Dublin Ralph Hanna, ed., Richard Rolle: Uncollected Prose and Verse with Related Northern Texts, EETS os 329 (Oxford, 2007). Andrew G. Watson, The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke (London, 1969), reprinted with the same pagination, Watson, Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England (Aldershot, 2004), part IX.

Preface I regret very much the belated appearance of this volume. Colleague, friend, and collaborator to a large manuscript community, Ian Doyle passed quietly on 4 February 2018. As he said repeatedly over the last several years (and they were indeed his parting words to me when I saw him last in September 2017), he had been graced to retain his faculties to the end. Ian’s still unpublished catalogue of Durham’s Cosin MSS (a collaboration with his late colleague Alan Piper) displays all his gifts as a Latin palaeographer. But I am certain he will be remembered, along with Humphrey Wanley and Neil R. Ker (both of whom customarily worked on much earlier periods), as England’s greatest student of vernacular manuscripts. His commitment to this study began with his graduate research in the late 1940s and a trawl through every available account of English manuscript collections since Edward Bernard – and then visits, examination, and analysis of every reference unearthed. Ian retained this rich trove, now seventy years old (and only sketchily revealed in his spectacular 1953 dissertation), and his great generosity, only limited by his ability to respond to the myriad queries that arrived daily, has always made it available to inquiring researchers. Central to this endeavour, indeed the model on which Ian’s procedures were based, were the researches of Hope Allen. Inspired by her undergraduate teacher Carleton Brown, Allen stands as the founder of late medieval English palaeography, the intense study of manuscripts, rather than simply texts or their enumeration. It is far from accidental that Ian kept a file of additions and corrections to Allen current over many decades. I am deeply saddened that he will not see a version formalising his numerous slips with notes, yet honoured to be allowed to publicise his findings. Ian would, of course, have instructed me to add our gratitude to an ongoing community of Rolleans. They have, often through queries, provoked us both into new discoveries, and equally, offered us further references, all individually acknowledged below. In bringing our mutual endeavour to this printed form, we are both intensely indebted to Robert Getz. Rob brought a copy editor’s scrupulous inquisitiveness to unaccustomed heights. He forced us into useful qualifications and clarifications, saved us from our blunders, and provided us with several new references. And at Brepols, we have enjoyed Luc Jocqué’s accuracy and efficiency (as well as his arrangements for the cover-image).

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Introduction Hope Emily Allen was an extraordinary scholar, indeed the founder of (and inspiration for) scholarly study of later medieval English religious manuscripts.1 Her masterwork, Writings Ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole (hereafter, simply ‘Allen’), was the product of nearly fifteen years spent in (mostly) British libraries and offers a detailed and unusually inclusive conspectus, both of Rolle’s writings and of allusions to them, stretching over two centuries. Ninety years after its first publication, it remains a ‘first-recourse’ reference work. Central to this volume is Allen’s collection of manuscript copies of Rolle’s writings. These lists are extractible as the work of a very great, still irreplaceable manuscript bibliographer. Moreover, such materials demand extraction. The world has moved on, and much of the remainder of Allen’s account now seems distinctly dated, her keys for recognising writings of the Hermit limited and her biographical interests perhaps unduly literalistic.2 Allen began her account of Rolle’s works and life: ‘The present volume will supply lists of all the manuscripts of the works of Richard Rolle, hermit of Hampole’, and she continues in the next paragraph: ‘To collect the materials for an understanding of Rolle’s place in literary and religious history may be called the primary purpose of the present study’ (both Allen 1). We here continue both these endeavours, although we are considerably less sanguine of our ultimate success than was Allen: ‘Though it is not likely that many more manuscripts of Rolle’s works will be forthcoming than the present investigation has unearthed, probably many more references and quotations exist than are cited here, and will in time be brought to light’ (Allen 6). We here seek to extend Allen’s account by offering corrections and additions to the manuscript archive she assembled, the result (in the case of the first author) of more than sixty years of library research. Because we find this the only way to supplement her volume helpfully, we have retained Allen’s original lists and simply corrected and augmented these in as consistent a way as we can conceive. Thus, our presentation follows Allen’s, page by page, although we have removed the discussion of ‘Dubia’ (works not to be associated with the canon) to the end. At the core of our account is a scaled-down reproduction of Allen’s For Allen’s methods and contribution, see John C. Hirsh, Hope Emily Allen: Medieval Scholarship and Feminism (Norman, 1988). Although a fine general account, Hirsh’s study does not exhaust the insights to be gleaned from the huge Allen archive at Bryn Mawr College. We are very grateful to Helen L. Spencer for drawing a number of items there to our attention. 2  Cf. Allen’s comments on one of the images we catalogue below: ‘Six angels at the top hold a scroll inscribed “Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus deus omnipotens”, as do three in the other manuscripts. Thus, all these pictures seem to commemorate Rolle’s sainthood’ (310). But cf. Isa. 6:1–4, the biblical scene Rolle always imagines as the occasion of seraphic canor. See further n. 11. 1 

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account of the manuscript witnesses. Here we have converted her roman-numeral presentation to arabic. We offer a rather minimalist set of corrections to these materials Allen provided. These include tracing manuscripts which have moved since Allen examined them. We also note a very few changes of shelfmark and/or foliations since her work (most notably with the large anthology, Oxford, Balliol College, MS 224A, both reshelved – the College had assigned the same shelfmark to two different books – and refoliated by Roger Mynors for his 1960 catalogue). We have also partially updated Allen’s report of manuscript foliations. We have not corrected Allen’s foliation for recto/verso, or verso/recto of following leaf; these arguably represent places where she cited catalogues that did not list the concluding leaf of an item (and an indication that she did not always carefully update her notes, retaining catalogue data even after having examined the manuscripts themselves). There are similar examples, which we do note, where Allen cites texts that appear at the opening of a manuscript as ‘fol. 1’, not having noted that library foliations frequently include front binding-leaves. While we have generally offered no comment on manuscript datings proposed in the past, we have regularly provided this information for our additions. Allen’s bibliographical skills were utterly impeccable, but her logical ones rather stretched, a reflection of the diversity of Rolle’s transmission in manuscript. Using Writings Ascribed is often difficult, for Allen was unable to reduce the wealth of detail she uncovered to a clearly organised form. As a consequence, the volume is marked by frequent repetitions and additions, as well as a less than adequate set of cross-references. Particularly, Allen was of more than one mind when it came to noting extracts and fragments – whether they should be included in the primary list of manuscripts, form an addendum to it, or appear somewhere else altogether (occasionally including rather too innocuous footnotes, e.g. 265 n. 1, addressing our ‘Form of Living’ MSS 55–62). Similarly, on a few occasions, copies attested (but no longer surviving) made their way into the manuscript lists. Whatever these glitches, we remain constantly impressed by Allen’s ability, in the absence of editions – only her friend Margaret Deanesly’s ‘Incendium amoris’ had been published at the time she wrote –, at recalling in extraordinary detail texts she knew only from reading in manuscripts. Simultaneously, however dispersed, Allen’s persistent search for ‘references’ and ‘allusions’ forms one of the great strengths of her work. She was thoroughly and usefully commited to documenting Rolle’s influence through the smallest and most passing citation, excerpt, or reference. As a consequence, she shows not simply what Rolle wrote but the sweeping scope of his impact on fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century spirituality. Although some users will be irritated by our filling out already lengthy lists of books with minuscule citations (e.g. a single sentence in Durham University Library, MS Cosin V.III.16 as ‘Emendatio vitae’ MS 101), we have tried to be inclusive, as EngMSS is not, and to provide references to all that we could find (far from the

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whole, we are certain). Our lists thus provide an entree, extensive if incomplete, that will allow others to respond to Eddie Jones’s cogent appeal: ‘Very little work has yet been done on the reception, anthologisation and adaptation of [fourteenth-century mystical] texts in the fifteenth and subsequent centuries’.3 Each entry thus begins with Allen’s list, with her numeration of copies. This presentation, obviously, is predicated upon Allen’s original ordering, which we do not follow elsewhere: Allen first referred to copies in Oxford, next those in Cambridge, then in London, elsewhere in the British Isles, finally those on the continent (and now, increasingly, in North America). To this core account, we add such corrections as seem necessary, mainly of serious misfoliations and indications of new locations. We then offer our additions, giving full information concerning library, shelfmark, foliation, and date.4 These additions – as also our indexes – are given in alphabetical order; we present copies, first, by the city where they are currently preserved, then by the library where the book currently resides. Within larger collections, like BL and BodL, we present copies in the alphabetical order of their shelfmarks. Following the list of extent manuscript witnesses, we provide a list of ‘attested copies’ (the majority of these also known to Allen). These are books lost (and presumptively destroyed), now known to us only through documentary references. Under this heading, we first list surviving manuscripts that once contained but now lack the text in question; these are succeeded by references from medieval library catalogues, then from medieval wills, and finally to copies lost since the Dissolution (principally from the accounts of Leland and Bale, and in the library of Henry Savile of Banke, rich in Northern books and usefully described by Watson). We are particularly grateful to Richard Sharpe and James Willoughby for sharing materials from the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. The lists are augmented by a sequence of full and annotated indexes. Following a summary list of Rolle incipits, the first, and probably most immediately useful, of these presents all the manuscripts with Rolle materials in alphabetical order. In contrast to the text-centred presentation in the manuscript lists (‘how many copies of X?’), this allows a quick conspectus of the Rollean contents of any single book. This list is heavily annotated, first by indications of medieval institutional provenances (presented, following Ker’s practice in MMBL, in bold-face), then by footnote references that include further corrections of Allen’s report, additional information (much of which she ‘A Chapter from Richard Rolle in Two Fifteenth-Century Compilations’, Leeds Studies in English 27 (1996), 139–62, at 139. 4  We follow the normal conventions of dating. Most usually, this is by rough thirds of a century: for example, s. xiv/xv = c. 1380–1410; s. xv in. = c. 1400–30; s. xv med. = c. 1430–70; s. xv ex. = c. 1470–1500. In a number of instances, we have hesitated; e.g. s. xv in./med. = c. 1420–60; s. xv med./ex. = c. 1450–90; and occasionally, we have offered narrower, quarter-century dating, e.g. s. xv3/4 = c. 1450–75. 3 

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had provided), and indications of many basic modern discussions (including recently published manuscript descriptions).5 Materials from EngMSS are only sporadically indicated, mainly firm medieval institutional provenances; readers interested in details concerning English texts will need to consult that volume. The index of Rolle manuscripts is followed by a second that groups all our other manuscript references (mainly examples of similar texts here rejected as relevant to Rolle and of ‘Dubia’). In turn, it is succeeded by an index of ‘medieval institutional owners’, an alphabetical list of medieval libraries. This amalgamates information provided under ‘attested copies’ in our main listing with provenance information gleaned from surviving books and noted in the previous index. Three further brief indexes round out our volume; the first provides a list of named scribes and bookmen; the second, a list of dated manuscripts; and the third, one of all the early printed books that we mention. The fullest previous listing of copies appears at Marzac 177–87 (full reference under ‘Super Apocalypsim’, p. 12 below), in the main a recapitulation and regularisation of Allen’s rather fragmentary index of manuscripts (563–68). Marzac’s list is numbered to 287 books, but taking account of her assigning more than one MS to a single number (her ‘bis’ and ‘ter’ additions) and her open MS  numbers (see 187 n.  2), includes 290 items. From this, we have eliminated as irrelevant nineteen ‘réferénce[s] importante à l’œuvre [rather than the text] de Rolle’ (187), her numbers 11, 25, 45, 64, 78, 87, 88, 93, 108, 121, 145, 150, 156, 159, 179, 198, 208, 211, and 281; in contrast, Marzac’s number 186 is an error for the otherwise unlisted TCD 75.6 Thus, we build on an already publicised list of 271 books. Our study does not attempt a complete listing (although we draw attention to around 430 books, about half again as many as were known to Allen). While we offer references to full accounts of copies, we neither notice separately nor index a great many books with well-known English texts offering citational materials drawn from the hermit’s writings. Thus, our listing omits around thirty copies of ‘The three arrows These notes do not include references to two extensive sources of information, those appended to editions of the Latin texts fully represented in the largest number of manuscripts: Malcolm R. Moyes (‘Super novem lectiones’) and Rüdiger Spahl (‘Emendatio vitae’). Both include variously truncated but helpful descriptive material on the manuscripts of their texts (Moyes 2:1–112, Spahl 26–85). 6  Only two of these omissions – the remainder draw attention to a number of Allen’s ancillary points, e.g. Rolle’s sources – deserve comment. Number 45 (‘Rawlinson A.84’) is simply a wrong reference, probably in error for Rawlinson C.84 (William of Paull’s Oculus and Speculum), germane, as Marzac implies, as representing the source Rolle utilised throughout ‘Judica me Deus B’. Number 179 refers to the copy of IMEV 3238 in BL, MS Additional 37787. Allen was dubious about its authenticity (303); see further EngMSS xxiii. The rhyme at line 248 (he THEY rhyming in close e) arguably appeared in the exemplar of every copy and would limit original composition to Herefs., Worcs., or south Salops. As a consequence, whatever the poem’s prevalence in MSS with Rolle’s works, it is unlikely to represent the Yorkshire author. 5 

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on doomsday’ and its derivatives, thirty-five manuscripts of the Middle English poem ‘Speculum Vitae’ (and several more of its ‘daughter versions’), about sixty (and early prints) of ‘Speculum Christiani’, more than forty of ‘The Pore Caitif’, and sixteen (as well as excerpts and de Worde’s prints) of ‘Contemplations of the dread and love of God’, nearly 200 further books in all. For our passing discussion of each of these, see below pp. 23–24, 45, 54, and 59, as well as the first entry under ‘References’, p. 60. Although the procedure may be problematic, we do not explicitly reject here manuscript materials we believe erroneously associated with Rolle by past scholars. Nor do we perform one of the many services Allen offered her readers in 1927, a full account of published discussions of Rolle’s spirituality. While the first exclusion may prove confusing for future researchers, the second is easily remedied by several complete listings of critical materials, even if these are now in need of some updating.7 As indicated above, Doyle began this project nearly seventy years ago. As part of the research underlying his monumental dissertation (1953), he began collecting a file of Rolle texts and references that would supplement Allen’s. In summer 2015, he gave his collected materials to Hanna (who had been assembling, for a much shorter period, his own addenda), with the injunction, ‘Get it done’. (As we say above, not actually a feasible conclusion; this remains an interim report.) Hanna has gathered and organised Doyle’s dispersed notes, undertaken an extensive further search for copies (largely in recently published manuscript catalogues Doyle had not seen), and checked a variety of references against the manuscripts. Quite counter-intuitively, each of us is responsible for just about half the additions to Allen’s account chronicled here. (About one-third appeared in both our lists, about one-third only Doyle knew, about one-third Hanna’s contributions.) At this time, we have but a single regret: although we both, along with our much missed colleagues Andrew G. Watson and Malcolm B. Parkes, had handled it, neither of us thought to preserve Neil  R. Ker’s copy of Allen’s Writings Ascribed. We suspect that this volume, which passed into the used book trade, might, in Ker’s customary marginal annotations, provide further references unknown to either of us.8

On the confusions that may follow from this first exclusion, see Editing 27–28. For the fullest bibliographical accounts (emphasising the English writings, but with considerably broader scope), see Valerie  M. Lagorio et  al., ‘English Mystical Writings’, in A  Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050–1500, ed. J. Burke Severs and Albert E. Hartung, vol. 9 (New Haven, 1993), 3051–68, 3411–25; and Eric S. Graff, ‘A Checklist of Rolle Scholarship 1896–1993’, Mystics Quarterly 20 (1994), 68–75. Two helpful monographs provide further materials; see Nicholas Watson, Richard Rolle and the Invention of ­Authority (Cambridge, 1991); and Denis Renevey, Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs (Cardiff, 2001). 8  For example, we only knew of the binding fragments with ‘Incendium amoris’ MS 43 and ‘Emendatio vitae’ MS 93 on the basis of a note Ker sent Doyle many years ago. There he had identified the opening of ‘Incendium’; Hanna’s subsequent examination revealed the second text. 7 

Hope Allen Revised The Office [Allen 51] incipit: Ad uesperas… A. Exultet sancta mater ecclesia | resultet plaudens… editions: Reginald M. Woolley, The Officium and Miracula of Richard Rolle of Hampole (London, 1919); and (MS 4) Harald Lindkvist, Richard Rolle’s Meditatio de Passione Domini According to MS. Uppsala C.494, Skrifter utgifna af K. Humanistiska Vetensaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 19.3 (Uppsala, 1917), 73–78. At least portions of the text are quotational: lectio 5 from the prologue to ‘Incendium amoris’ (Woolley 31), lectio 7 from ‘Super Canticum’ (4/278–98; Woolley 36–37), and lectio 9 from ‘Incendium’ ch. 15 (Woolley 42–43). Allen further identifies (205) the death of the matron described in lectio 8 (Woolley 37–38) with a discussion in ‘Contra amatores mundi’ (Theiner 6/1–18). [1] BodL, MS e Musaeo 193 [2] BL, MS Cotton Tiberius A.xv [3] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 209: the text appears at fols 3–15. [4] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.621: the text appears at fols 103–4av. The Office here is substantially abridged, the biographical lections only, with no liturgical materials (cf. Allen 16, 53). Prayers for Rolle’s intercession added in this copy (Lindkvist 77–78, inc. ‘Fonte Ricarde bibis…’) also appear at Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.193, fol. 171rv. Allen adds one fragment: [5] BodL, MS Laud misc. 528, fol. 2: the excerpt, ‘Potens pater…ciuibus’ (Woolley 80). attested copy York, hospital of St  Leonard (Corpus SH128.2a ‘cum aliis diuersis tractatibus’, 14:469–70)

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‘Super Canticum’ [1:1–3] [Allen 62] incipit: Suspirantis anime delicijs eternorum vox in orbe terrarum… editions: Cologne 1536, fols 142–45v (in the form of MSS 6 and 8). A. Wilmart, ‘Le “Jubilus” sur le nom de Jésus dit de Saint Bernard’, Ephemerides Liturgicae Pars Prior 57 (1943), 272–80, provides a text ‘tout nu’ from ‘Oleum’ MS 8 below; Y. Madon, ‘Le Commentaire de Richard Rolle sur les premiers versets du Cantique des Cantiques’, Mélanges de Science Religieuse 7 (1950), 311–25, presents 1/1–179 in a lightly corrected version of MS  1, with facing-page French translation. Most helpfully, Elizabeth M. Murray, ‘Richard Rolle’s Comment on the Canticles’ (unpublished Fordham University Ph.D. dissertation, 1958), produces a lightly corrected full text from MS 11; Hanna’s critical edition of the whole is forthcoming (part/line references throughout are to his in-progress text), and his edition of part 4 from all relevant copies appears at Editing, 107–39. For ‘The Compilation’, which includes most of the text, see ‘Incendium amoris’, pp. 30–31 below. ‘Full’ Latin manuscripts (Allen accurately describes those portions included in each): [1] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [2] BodL, MS Laud misc. 528 (see further index n. 126). [3] Balliol: now Oxford, Balliol College, MS 224A, fols 5–11, 4, 12–20v, in that order. [4] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193 [5] Oxford, St  John’s College, MS  127: Only fols  57–68v represent the ‘pure’ text (parts  1–4/110 only); fols  69–77 present parts  6–7 from ‘The Compilation’ (and are succeeded, fols 77 v–78v, by the extra passages that typify that presentation; see pp. 30–31 below). [6] Cambridge, Jesus College, MS Q.D.4 (James 46): As in MS 8, only parts 4/110 ff. and 5, with ‘Incendium amoris’ ch. 15 inserted between them (see MSS 51 and 53 there, p. 29). [7] BL, MS Cotton Vespasian E.i [8] BL, MS Harley 5235 [9] London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 536 [10] [‘Castle Howard’]: now New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.872, fols 42– 63. Probably a conflation of a full text with that of ‘The Compilation’, whose additional materials appear at fols 56v–60. [11] TCD, MS 153: the text appears at pp. 83–226. [12] Hereford Cathedral, MS O.viii.1: the text appears at fols 106v–11 (parts 6–7 only). [13] Manchester, John Rylands University Library: now MS lat. 395, fols 1–32. [14] now New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Marston 243, fols 44–78.

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additions [15] CUL, MS  Additional 5943, fols  iv–v v, ii–iiiv (binding leaves), s.  xv  in. (4/1–248 only). [16] Cambridge ma, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Lat. 165, fols 93–113, s. xiv/xv (parts 4–7 only). [17] TCD, MS 277, p. 547, s. xv in. (excerpt, 4/231–42, certainly derived from a full text, and perhaps directly from MS 7). [18] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91, fol. 195, s. xv2/4 (excerpt, 2/32–38). [19] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 229, fols 148v–53v, s. xiv2/2 (part 4 only, but in full, rather than the excerpt ‘Oleum’ described below; appended to a copy of ‘Emendatio vitae’). [20] London, Westminster Diocesan Archives, MS H.38, fol. 155rv, s. xv med. (excerpts, short bits of parts 1 and 4/122–28, 153–71). [21] BodL, MS  Ashmole 751, fols  5–13, s.  xv 1/2 (excerpts only, but materials from all parts except the fifth) [cf. Allen 398 and 68]. [22] Oxford, Merton College, pb 58.c. 8 (binding leaves), s. xiv ex. (fragment, 4/1–51 only). Like MS 19, appended to a copy of ‘Emendatio vitae’, here following an excerpt from the opening of James of Milan/ps.-Bonaventura, ‘Stimulus amoris’, book 2. attested copies A copy of ‘Oleum effusum’, supposedly in a book from Bermondsey (OClun) [but not any of those listed in MLGB], appeared in the 1836 Heber sale. It may be MS 14 above, with misread inscription? Isleworth, Syon (OBrig), three copies, M.18 (Corpus SS1.751e, 9:224–25) also M.102 (SS1.835e, 9:253–54); O.52 (SS2.180b, d–f, 9:485) ? 1582 inventory of Robert Barker, vicar of Driffield (ERY), ‘Tractatus super primum versciolum canticorum’, perhaps originally from Byland (NRY, OCist) (see Claire Cross, ‘A Medieval Yorkshire Library’, Northern History 25 [1989], 281–90 at 286, and our index n. 71 [to MS 7 above]).

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[5] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 218: the text appears at fols 117–19v (with Bernard, Sermones in Cantica 15.6–7, PL 183:846–47 at the end; this Bernard selection also appears, with other materials, in MSS 9, 10, and 13 below). See further ‘Ancrene Riwle’, under ‘Dubia’, pp. 66–67 below. [6] now Bloomington, Indiana University Library, MS Poole 20, fols 28–29v. [7] Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 4929–32 (1485) [following ‘Incendium amoris’ with the quotations found in MS 5] [8] Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 396 [9] Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS V.A.23 (814), fols 16v– 18v, with the added materials in MSS 5 and 7, extended with further selections not by Rolle. [10] Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS  4483, fols  134–35v, as the preceding. additions [11] BL, MS Royal 7 A.i, fol. 3, s. xv in. (two excerpts, 4/156–75, 205–24, probably, although not certainly, from this excerpted version, rather than a full text). [12] Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, MS 3540, fol. 131v, s. xv med./ex. (‘Ricardus Hampul de hoc nomine Ihesu sic dicit: Hoc nomen Ihesu fideliter in mente retentum…’, only 4/122–23, 165–71 [the incipit], 268–76). The remaining ‘epistole di carattere teologiche e orazioni’, running to fol. 136, include no further Rolle, information for which we are grateful to Susan Powell. [13] Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS D.125 (695), fols 52v–57 v, s. xv 1/2, as MSS 9 and 10 above. [14] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.193, fols 55–58v.

The Excerpt ‘Oleum effusum’ in English incipit: Oleum effusum… That es on Inglysce oyle owtȝettede es thi name… edition: Uncollected 2–11 [1] BL, MS Harley 1022: the text appears at fols 62–64. [2] BL, MS Stowe 38 [3] TCD, MS 155: the text appears at pp. 120–27; it is only paraphrased, not a different version, as Allen thought. [4] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91: the text appears at fols 192–93v. additions [5] BL, MS Additional 11748, fols 140–43, s. xv 1 or 2/4. [6] CUL, MS Ff.5.40, fols 115v–16 (very brief excerpts, shared with the next).

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Early Works (Latin) ‘Canticum amoris’ [Allen 89] incipit: Zelo tui langueo virgo speciose | Sistens in suspirio… editions: G. M. Liegey, ‘The “Canticum Amoris” of Richard Rolle’, Traditio 12 (1956), 369–91; A. Wilmart, ‘Le cantique d’amour de Richard Rolle’, Revue d’ascétique et de mystique 21 (1940), 131–48. [1] BodL, MS Rawlinson C.397 [2] TCD, MS 153: the text appears at pp. 75–82. attested copies Isleworth, Syon (OBrig) M.27 (Corpus SS1.760b, 9:228) Leicester OSA (Corpus A20.910e, 6:280)

‘Judica me Deus’ [Allen 93] incipit (A): Judica me Deus… A Deo qui scrutatur cor et renes uolo… incipit (B1): Cupienti mihi peticioni uestre satisfacere occurit… incipit (B2): Istis iam dictis ad utilitatem uestram uidendum est… incipit (B3): In die iudicij resurgent omnes incorrupti et sine diminucione… edition: John P. Daly, An Edition of the Judica me Deus of Richard Rolle, Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies 92.14 (Salzburg, 1984); Allen accurately describes those portions included in each copy, save for MS 11. [1] BodL, MS Ashmole 751: the text appears at fols 14–15 (‘Judica’ A, two sets of excerpts from Daly 3–9, 12–17), 31v–34 (‘Judica’ B3, slightly reduced). [2] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [3] BodL, MS Douce 107 [4] BodL, MS Laud misc. 111 [5] BodL, MS Laud misc. 528 [6] BodL, MS Rawlinson C.397 [7] Balliol: now Oxford, Balliol College, MS 224A, fols 89v–100. [8] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193: the text appears at fols 251v–58v. [9] CUL, MS Mm.6.17 [10] Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 35 [11] Cambridge, St John’s College, MS B.1 (23): lacks ‘Judica’ B3. [12] BL, MS Burney 356; with the added exempla in this MS’s rendition of ‘Judica’ B3 (Daly 79/7–20), cf. the ‘Exempla’ entry for Ashmole 751, p. 48. [13] BL, MS Burney 359 [14] BL, MS Royal 8 F.vii

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[15] BL, MS Additional 21202 [16] [‘Castle Howard’]: now New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.872, fols 112– 19 (‘Judica’ B1 on a bifolium inserted into the centre of ‘Judica’ A, here in the same abbreviated version as Allen MSS 2, 10, and 17). [17] TCD, MS 153: the text appears at pp. 226–44. [18] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 543 Allen adds one citation (403): [19] Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 395, fol. 90 (‘Judica’ A, Daly 17/1–5, 16/19–23, the first also ed. Deanesly, ‘Incendium’ 35). addition [20] Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 356, fols 215v–41, s. xv4/4 (the full text). attested copies Isleworth, Syon (OBrig), three copies, M.7 (Corpus SS1.740i, 9:215–16) also M.34 (SS1.767e, 9:230–31); O.32 (SS2.171bb, 9:482–83) Leicester OSA (Corpus A20.910c, 6:280) ? (West) Tanfield, St Nicholas parish church, a hermit (by 1409/11, the date of the copy in MS 2): the alleged source of the version in that MS, as well as MSS 10, 16, and 17. 1415 will of Henry, lord Scrope of Masham: ‘quaternum parvum in quo continetur expositio super Judica me Deus quod Richardus heremita composuit et scripsit’, to Henry, lord Fitzhugh of Ravensworth (NRY) [Allen 98; Fitzhugh would have been the patron of the hermit in our previous entry] 1461 Robert Welborne clericus: ‘unum quaternum continentem Judica me Deus secundum Hampull et vitam sancti Cuthberti’, to the vicar of St Leonard, Shoreditch, where he is to be buried (CCL Sharpe fols 313v–14) Aylot Holte of Bury St Edmunds, seen by Bale (351); for Holte, a former Bury monk (and this likely a Bury book), see James P. Carley, CHL 288 and n. 111 [Allen 98]. An excerpt also appears in ‘Compilation’ F below.

‘Melos amoris’ [Allen 113] incipit: Amor utique audacem efficit animum quem arripit… editions: E.  J.  F. Arnould, The Melos Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole (Oxford, 1957); François Vandenbroucke, Richard Rolle: Le Chant d’amour (Melos Amoris), 2 vols, Sources chrétiennes 168–69 (Paris, 1971) [Arnould’s text, with facing French translation and extensive annotation]. [1] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [2] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193

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[3] Oxford, Lincoln College, MS lat. 89 [4] Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 35 (fourteen selections) [5] Cambridge, St John’s College, MS B.1 (23) [6] BL, MS Sloane 2275 [7] Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS  396; the excerpts appear at fols  193–96 (cf. G. M. Liegey, ‘Richard Rolle’s Carmen Prosaicum, an Edition and Commentary’, Mediaeval Studies 19 [1957], 15–36). [8] TCD, MS 159: the text appears at fols 1–106. [9] Hereford Cathedral, MS O.viii.1: the text appears at fols 111–[45]. [10] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 209: the text appears at fols 105–214v. [11] Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 685 (excerpt, ch. 39, Arnould 121–22); Doyle 1981, 117 n. 13, identifies a second, at fols 139–40, ‘multa corpora translata sunt in terris quorum forsitan anime ad celum nondum pervenerunt…’. [12] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.1: copied s. xv2/2. Allen adds excerpts: [13] Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 194, fol. 4, s. xv (ch. 39, Arnould 122). [14] CUL, MS Dd.5.64 (II), fol. 84rv (the fragmentary head of a glossary of difficult terms in ‘Melos’, probably an indication of an ‘attested copy’). [15] BL, MS Harley 2439, fol. 31rv (as in MS 13) [16] [‘Heneage’]: now New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn fa54, fols 24, 25rv. [17] TCD, MS 277, pp. 542–43 (ch. 7, Arnould 19–22). additions [18] CUL, MS Additional 5943, fol. 174, s. xv med. (chs 1–3, Arnould 1–3). [19] New York, Columbia University Library, MS Plimpton 270, fols 65–[69], s. xv3/4? (as in MS 13) [cf. Allen 417]. [20] BodL, MS Bodley 647, fols ii–iiiv, 108–9v (binding leaves), s. xiv med. (Arnould 20–21, 31–33, 44–45) [21] Stratton on the Fosse (Somt.), Downside Abbey, MS 48253/Clifton 12, fols 118–24v, s. xv med. (incipit at Arnould 49) [cf. Allen 404]. [22]? Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.193, fols 1 and 171, s. xv. attested copies Brugges, Charterhouse, s. xv ex./xvi in. (see Doyle 1981, 116 and 120 n. 48) Bury St Edmunds (OSB), the source of Kirkstead’s references (Corpus K528.2 and 11, 11:447–48)

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Cambridge, University Library (Corpus UC2.56, 10:18), donated 1440 by Robert Alne, a York Minster official, previously property of Mr Thomas de Hebbeden, member of the episcopal court of Durham [Allen 116/415] Isleworth, Syon (OBrig) M.27, alleged to be autograph (Corpus SS1.760a, 9:228) Leicester OSA (Corpus A20.910b, 6:280) London, Carmelite convent (Corpus C5.59c ‘Carmen Rithmicum nomine Meli’, 1:187) [? cf. Allen 116, where she cites an excerpt in a book from the London Charterhouse; none such occurs in any of the lists at Corpus 9:614–29] Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilation’ A below.

‘Super novem lectiones’ [Allen 130] incipit: Parce michi domine… Exprimitur autem in his uerbis humane condicionis… edition: Malcolm  R. Moyes, Richard Rolle’s Expositio Super Novem Lectiones Mortuorum…, 2 vols, Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies 92/12 (Salzburg, 1988) (all references to specific passages are to the text presented in volume 2 and corrected foliations from his account of the manuscripts). [1] BodL, MS Ashmole 751: excerpts only. [2] BodL, MS Bodley 52 [3] BodL, MS Bodley 315 [4] BodL, MS Bodley 525 [5] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [6] BodL, MS Hatton 86: the text begins at fol. 2. [7] BodL, MS Laud lat. 94 [8] BodL, MS Laud misc. 528 [9] BodL, MS e Musaeo 130: the text ends at fol. 170v. [10] BodL, MS Rawlinson D.1229 [11] Balliol: now Oxford, Balliol College, MS 224A, fols 63v–89v. [12] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193 [13] Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 6 [14] Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 71 [15] Oxford, New College, MS 93: the text appears at fols 261–90v. [16] Oxford, St John’s College, MS 147 [17] Oxford, St John’s College, MS 195: the text appears at fols 124–70v, s. xv med. [18] Oxford, University College, MS 45: the text ends at fol. 91. [19] CUL, MS Dd.4.54: the text ends at fol. 213. [20] CUL, MS Ff.5.36 [21] CUL, MS Ii.1.26: the text appears at fols 133–82v.

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[22] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 223/238, pp. 306–39 (excerpts) (see Moyes 2:105–06). [23] Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 365 [24] Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 218 [25] TCC, MS B.1.15 (14) [26] TCC, MS R.8.16 (792): the text appears at fols 46–84v. [27] BL, MS Harley 1035 [28] BL, MS Royal 7 E.ii [29] BL, MS Royal 8 A.vii [30] BL, MS Sloane 2275 [31] BL, MS Additional 11304: the text begins at fol. 2. [32] London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 357 [33] [‘Castle Howard’]: now New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS  M.872, fols 64–111v. [34] Leicester, Wyggeston Hospital, MS 12: now MS 10D34/12, fols 1–63, s. xv in. [35] Leicester, Wyggeston Hospital, MS 15: now MS 10D34/15, fols 16v–62, s. xiv ex. [36] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 209: the text appears at fols 40v–94. [37] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 218: the text appears at fols 120v–54v. [38] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 543: the text begins at fol. 6. [39] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 15700 [40] now San Marino ca, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 504, fols 1–75. [41] now Urbana, University of Illinois Library, MS 144, fols 17 v–68. [42] BL, MS Harley 275 [43] TCC, MS B.14.50 (333), fol. 25v (excerpt) [Allen 135/401, Moyes 2:112]. additions [44] Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 356, fols 127 v–202, s. xv4/4. [45] Canterbury Cathedral, MS Lit. E.12 (35), fol. [27?], s. xv2 (a note on Job 19:24 ‘celte’ citing Moyes 262, 266–67). [46] TCD, MS 191, fols 95–127 v, s. xv. [47] TCD, MS 277, pp. 543–48, s. xv in. (excerpts) [cf. Allen 135/402, Moyes 2:109–10]. [48] BL, MS Royal 7 A.i, fol. 3, s. xv in. (a rather general single-sentence summary of something like Moyes 195/9–15, identified in a later hand as ‘Hec Ricardus heremit’ super lec’ vj Iob’, and followed by more general commonplaces). [49] London, Westminster Diocesan Archives, MS  H.38, fols  154v–55, s.  xv  med. (excerpts). [50] New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn a29, fols 4–[96], s. xv 1/2. [51] BodL, MS Lat. th. d. 15, fols 1–86, s. xvi med. [52] BodL, MS Lyell 38, fols 35–115v, s. xvi in.

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[53] Princeton, Princeton University Library, MS Garrett 87, fols 1–17 v, s. xv in. In addition, the verse colophon appears attached to ‘Emendatio vitae’ in MS 38 of that text. ‘Super novem lectiones’ was Rolle’s only appearance in an incunable, STC 21261 (Oxford: Theodoric Rood and Thomas Hunt, 1483). It was again printed separately by Berthold Rembolt at Paris in 1510. attested copies Bury St Edmunds (OSB), the source of Kirkstead’s reference (Corpus K528.6, 11:447) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, a gift of Peter Nobys (after 1525) and probably the Paris print of 1510 – and if so, likely the surviving pb SP 3354 (Corpus UC22.171, 10:257). ? Canterbury, St Augustine’s abbey (OSB) (Corpus BA1.1427b ‘lecciones de exequijs glosate’, 13:1372) Isleworth, Syon (OBrig), six copies, M.5 (Corpus SS1.738q, 9:213–15) also M.18 (SS1.751l, 9:224–25); M.34 (SS1.767g, 9:230–31); M.51 (SS1.784b, 9:237); M.52 (SS2.136b, 9:472); M.84 (SS2.143b, 9:474) Leicester OSA (Corpus A20.910g, 6:280) Oxford, Queen’s College (Corpus UO83.10, perhaps identical with the next but one) Richmond (Surrey), observant OFM (Corpus F.11.8, 1:237, probably the 1483 Oxford print) Southampton, hospital of St Julian (Corpus SH101.13, 14:395) 1426/7: see ‘Unverified references’, p. 50. 1427 John Maltster alias Welton, chaplain of York (the bequest including an anthology beginning with the Office), to a brother of St Leonard’s, York (Corpus 14:469) 1431 William Gate, chaplain in York Minster: ‘j. librum de papiro vocatum Lectiones Mortuorum secundum Ricardum heremitam’, to Dom. Richard Drax [Allen 415] 1440s? ‘Hampole super parce mihi’ in a booklist at Cambridge, Peterhouse, MS 203, fol.  256, arguably that of the book’s donor to Peterhouse, John Savage (fellow 1437 × 47, d. 1448; BRUC 508; see James’s catalogue 242) [Allen 135/413] 1452 Robert Semer, subtreasurer of York: ‘librum meum de Placebo et Dirige secundum Ricardum heremitam, cum aliis libris ejusdem contentis in eadem’, to Dom. Robert Helperby vicar [Allen 415] 1452 William Duffield, chaplain of All Saints, North Street, York, inventory: ‘lib[er] Ricardi Hampole de expositione novem lectionum mortuorum’ (Cavanaugh 243) 1479 Thomas Pynchebek, parson in York Minster: ‘Librum Ricardi de Hampole cum Novem Lectionibus et Dirige’ [Allen 415] Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilations’ AFGH below.

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Scriptural Commentaries: Miscellaneous ‘Super Threnos’ [Allen 150] incipit: Quomodo sedet sola… Et factum est postquam in captiuitatem… Aleph doctrina… editions: Cologne 1536, fols  123–29v; by Jean Foucher (Paris, 1542); an edition by ­M ichael Van Dussen is forthcoming. [1] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [2] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193 [3] TCD, MS 153: the text appears at pp. 7–75. [4] TCD, MS 277, p. 547 (excerpt from Lam. 5:6), s. xv in. addition [5] Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS  D.12 (577), fols  193–202, s.  xv  in. (1414 × 29?). attested copy Bury St Edmunds (OSB), the source of Kirkstead’s reference (Corpus K528.9, 11:447)

‘Super Apocalypsim’ [Allen 152] incipit: Apocalipsis Ihesu Cristi… Beatus Iohannes in exilium missus cogitauit… edition: Nicole Marzac, Richard Rolle de Hampole, 1300–1349: vie et œuvres, suivies du Tractatus super Apocalypsim (Paris, 1968). [1] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [2] BL, MS Cotton Tiberius A.xv [3] Hereford Cathedral, MS O.viii.1: the text appears at fols 147–54v. attested copy Isleworth, Syon (OBrig) M.96 (Corpus SS1.829b, 9:281)

‘Super orationem dominicam’ [Allen 155] incipit: Hec oracio priuilegiata est in duobus, scilicet in dignitate… edition: Cologne 1536, fols 145v–46v. [1] BodL, MS Bodley 48 [2] BodL, MS Bodley 549 [3] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [4] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193

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[5] CUL, MS Dd.4.50 [6] CUL, MS Dd.5.64 (frag.) [7] Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 35: the text appears at fols 61–62v. [8] BL, MS Harley 2361 [9] BL, MS Harley 2406 [10] Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 396 [11] Shrewsbury School, MS 25 additions [12] BL, MS Royal 6 E.i, fol. 60rv, s. xiv/xv (see the index n. 82). [13] London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 457, fols 122–23v, s. xv med. [14] BodL, MS Don. c. 13, fols 166v–67, s. xv 1/2. [15] Urbana, University of Illinois Library, MS 145, fols 1–3v, s. xv 1/2. The text is potentially confusable with a ps.-Bonaventuran tract on the same subject, ed. SBO 7:652–55, inc. ‘Oratio haec privilegiata est in tribus: in dignitate, quia a Christo composita’. A partial manuscript list – including MS 6 above! – appears at SBO 7:xiv– ­ trecht, xv, to which add Barcelona, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 574, fol. 90rv; and U v Bibliotheek der Universiteit, MS 164, fols 24 –29. (This text is not ­Bonaventura’s, but derived from Innocent III, ‘De sacro altaris mysterio’ 5.16–20, PL 217:897–900.)

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‘Super Mulierem fortem’ [Allen 159] incipit: Mulierem fortem… Quanto aurum argento est preciosius, tanto contemplatiua… edition: Hanna’s critical edition is forthcoming. The title given by the MSS, ‘De vita activa et contemplativa’, is more descriptive than that Allen provides; although the text alludes to Prov. 31:10, insofar as it offers commentary, it is formed as a discussion of Ps. 41:2–5 as a modelling for true contemplative life. [1] Oxford, St John’s College, MS 77 [2] Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 35 [3] BL, MS Cotton Tiberius A.xv [4] [‘Castle Howard’]: now New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.872, fols 119v–21. [5] TCD, MS 153: the text appears at pp. 244–52. addition [6] BodL, MS Lat. th. d. 15, fols 86–89, s. xvi med. attested copies ? Richard Grafton [the printer and chronicler, d. 1573], seen by Bale (although the incipit cited is not Rolle’s) (349) [Allen 159]

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Scriptural Commentaries: The Psalter (Latin and English) ‘Viridarium’/’De Dei misericordia’ [Allen 161] incipit: Misericordias Domini in eternum cantabo. Misericordiam Domini in eternam cantare et ipsam iugiter… edition: Hanna’s critical edition is forthcoming. (Like Allen, the editor queries the ascription of the work to Rolle, and offers further evidence that its author was John Waldeby, OESA of York, d. c. 1372.) An abbreviated psalter, using the intermittent metaphor of flowerbeds (indicating the conventional ‘nocturns’ that divide the psalter in liturgical use) in a garden to join those verses that mention ‘misericordia’. [1] Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 71 [2] TCD, MS 321: the text appears at fols 8v–26. addition [3] London, Westminster Diocesan Archives, MS H.38, fols 156–82, s. xv med. attested copies CUL, MS Hh.4.13 (in the contents table but no longer part of the book) London, hospital of St Mary Elsing (Corpus SH33.61, 14:104)

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[13] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 431 [14] Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS B.32.1 (331) [15] Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS B.32.2 (332) [16] Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS B.32.3 (333) [17] Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS IV.E.1 (681) (canticles only). [18] Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS V.D.4 (872) [19] Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS  X.D.3 (1882): the text appears at fols 1–142v. [20] Schlägl, Prämonstratenser-Stiftsbibliothek, Cpl. 80 (105); for clarification of Allen’s discussion (168) of ‘Simon hermit’, perhaps also referred to in Gdańsk, Biblioteka Polskiej Akademii Nauk, MS Mar. F.152, and Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 43, see Michael Van Dussen, ‘Richard Rolle’s Latin Psalter in Central European Manuscripts’, Medium Ævum 78 (2018), 41–71 at 51–54. We are particularly grateful to Van Dussen for sharing with us before publication a copy of his essay and allowing us to include his findings. additions [21] Brno, Moravský zemský archiv, MS G 12, Cerr. II, 151, pp. 3–157, s. xv in. (?) (see Van Dussen 42, 48–49, 58). [22] České Budějovice, Jihočeská vědecká knihovna, MS 1 Bi 9, s. xv med. (see Van Dussen 52–53, 58–59). [23] TCD, MS 667, p. 152, s. xv med. (excerpt from the prologue, ascribed ‘Magister ricardus hambol’). [24] Jena, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS El. f. 22, fols 1–135, s. xiv/ xv. [25] Olomouc, Archiv metropolitní kapituly, MS CO 70, s. xv med./ex. (see Van Dussen 49–51, 60). [26] Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 79, fols 17, 251, c. 1425 (three brief quotations in sermons; see Siegfried Wenzel, Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England… [Cambridge, 2005], 111). [27] Oxford, Merton College, pb E.3.1, fols  1–31v + Cambridge, Emmanuel College, pb 318.3.14 (a bifolium) (fragments from bindings), s. xiv ex. [28] Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS X.B.22, fols 1–195, s. xv in. (Rolle’s commentary as a discontinuous gloss surrounding the text) (Van Dussen 45, 47–48, 62–63). [29] Retz, Bibliothek des Dominikanerkonventes, MS 2, fols 1–145 (the whole), 1452. [30] San Marino ca, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 148, fol. 23v, s. xv 1 (excerpt from the prologue).

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[31] Urbana, University of Illinois Library, MS 106, pp. 1–201, s. xiv. [32] York Minster, MS XVI.I.5, fols 193–96 (canticles only), s. xv. The Latin Psalter appears to exist in at least two different states. J.  P.  H. Clark, ‘Richard Rolle as Biblical Commentator’, Downside Review 104 (1986), 165–213, at 166– 68, found the six copies he surveyed more or less similar before Ps. 35:12, but thereafter splitting into two groups, a putatively earlier version in MSS 1, 6, and 11 on the one hand, and copies with fuller development in MSS 8 and 13 on the other. Clark, who also noticed further additions and elaborations in the Cologne print, declined any speculation as to whether both his versions are authorial. Andrew Kraebel, to whom we are grateful for sharing materials to appear as The Appeal of the Academic, ch. 3, appendix, generally concurs with Clark’s views. He finds Clark’s second group (including the Cologne print and early portions of MS 2) to represent an authorially revised version. He further identifies MSS 1, 9, and 11 (and later portions of MS 2) as the best copies of the unrevised original version, with less convincing renditions in MSS 4, 5, 6, and 7 and all the Bohemian copies he has examined.

The Latin Psalter: Excerpted Citations Richard Ullerston, ‘Expositio canticorum’ Richard Ullerston refers to and cites the text in his ‘Expositio canticorum’: see A. B. Kraebel, ‘The Use of Richard Rolle’s Latin Psalter in Richard Ullerston’s Expositio Canticorum Scripturae’, Medium Ævum 81 (2012), 139–44 (the four copies listed at 143 n. 10). [33] Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS IV.743, fols 256–66, s. xv. [34] BodL, MS Lyell 20, fols 206–15, s. xv in. [35] Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 115, fols 158–65v, s. xv 1. [36] Oxford, Merton College, MS 193, fols 331v–32v, s. xv2/4. Kraebel kindly tells us in conversation that Ullerston’s version includes as well one gloss from the English Psalter, to 2 Reg. 2:3 (Bramley 500).

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attested copy of Ullerston’s quaestio Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 803/807, fragment 36 (the final leaf only), s. xv in.

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Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa, Lat.f.ch.I.445 (destroyed in World War II); the book had previously been at Święty Krzyż (OSB, Poland) (see Van Dussen, ‘Rolle’s Latin Psalter’ 42, 46, 64). Bury St Edmunds (OSB), the source of Kirkstead’s reference (Corpus K528.8, 11:447), both Latin and English copies ? Exeter Cathedral, 1506 booklist: ‘Liber Ricardi Hampull, 2o fo “Atque deliciarum”’ (see George Oliver, Lives of the Bishops of Exeter.: and a History of the Cathedral… [Exeter, 1861], 368).1 Hampole (WRY, OCist nuns); see 1467 below. Isleworth, Syon (OBrig) F.48 (Corpus SS1.429, 9:130; perhaps English MS 20 below; see the index n. 110) Isleworth, Syon (OBrig nuns); a comment in The Myroure of Oure Ladye implies that the English version was in use there by the sisters (see John H. Blunt, EETS es 19 [London, 1873], 3) [Allen 177]. London, Charterhouse of the Salutation, books sent to Hull OCart (in English) (Corpus C2.5a ‘cum aliis’, 9:617) Oxford, University Library (seen by Leland; Corpus UO 4.7) [Allen 421] Prague University, library of the natio Bohemorum B.39 (see Van Dussen, ‘Rolle’s Latin Psalter’ 42, 45, 64) Scarborough, St Mary’s church: ‘unum psalterium Ricardi de Hampole’, inventory of 1434 (Doyle 1953, 1:116 [Allen 169]) Warwick, collegiate church of St Mary (Corpus SC319.17, 15:564) Wells Cathedral (seen by Leland) [Allen 421] Winchester, College of St Mary (Corpus SC335.120, 15:711), the gift, s. xv in., of Mr John Morys, first warden; and of Nicholas North, former fellow ? 1397 Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, inventory: ‘j.  viel sauter glosez d’engleis’ (but because ‘old’, more likely to be the ‘Early English Prose Psalter’?, Cavanaugh 850) 1400 will of Isabella Persay of York: ‘j. psalterium anglice’, to Don Henry, chaplain of All Saints, North Street, York (Cavanaugh 648) 1407 William Thorpe, in his account of his heresy trial, alleges that his psalter, perhaps a Lollard revision of Rolle’s original, was taken from him on archbishop Arundel’s orders (see Anne Hudson, Two Wycliffite Texts, EETS os 301 [Oxford, 1993], 51/887–95).

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1413 will of Sir John Cheyne of Beckford (Gloucs.), Lollard knight, ‘a psalter glossed of Richard hermit’, to his son (and in his son Edward’s will of 1415) (Cavanaugh 184 [Allen 169]) ? 1415 will of Henry, lord Scrope of Masham: ‘unum psalterium novum glossatum, elimpnatum, cum armis meis et uxoris meae’ (Cavanaugh 775) 1417 will of Thomas IV, Lord Berkeley: ‘unum psalterium glossatum et legendam sanctorum in Anglicis’, to the hospital of St Mary Magdalen, Bristol (not English MS 2 below; EngMSS 146) 1417 will of Margery de Nerford, London vowess, to the London mercer John Whatley, her executor, a two-volume glossed psalter (see Mary Erler, Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England [Cambridge, 2002], 60) 1429 John Cockayn, probably a Cambridgeshire lawyer, ‘unum psalterium vocatum Hampoll sauter’, to his fourth son (PCC 12 Luffenham, fol. 98v) 1446 Thomas Beelby, parson in York Minster: ‘j. Psalterium de tractatu Ricardi Hampole’, to Mr William Duffield, chaplain of All Saints, North Street, York (and in Duffield’s post-mortem inventory 1452, Cavanaugh 243) [Allen 415] 1449 Thomas Loxley, chaplain of St  Martin Orgar, London: ‘vnum psalterium per hampol glossatum’, to a fellow chaplain (Doyle 1953, 1:116) 1450 Sir Thomas Cumberworth of Somerby (Lincs.): ‘my gret boke of Dauid sauter’, to the parson of his parish church ‘Someretby’ (Cavanaugh 224–25) 1464 × 1471 Nicholas Gay, fellow 1437–71, deposited as security in the Barnard Castle Chest, Peterhouse, Cambridge (see Roger Lovatt, ‘Two Collegiate Loan Chests in Late Medieval Cambridge’, in Medieval Cambridge: Essays on the Pre-Reformation University, ed. Patrick Zutshi [Woodbridge, 1993], 129–65, at 149, 157–58). 1467 Robert Est, chantry-priest in York Minster (?): ‘Psalterium glossatum de propria scriptura Beati Ricardi heremitae, ibidem jacentis’, to the Hampole nuns; given the date, this is presumably not the autograph Rolle is alleged in the Hampole verse prologue to the Psalter (IMEV 3586, at English MS 28, fol. 1) to have given to Margaret Kirkby [Allen 415] 1468 Sir Peter Ardern, baron of the Exchequer: ‘his [Thomas’s] sawter glosed’, to his brother, later master of Pleshey College, Essex (Doyle 1953, 1:116) 1468 and 1471 John Collyn, dean of Waterford, ‘a psalter commented on by Richard de Hampoll’, to St Saviour’s chantry in his cathedral (see Niall Byrne et al., eds, The Register of St Saviour’s Chantry of Waterford…BL Harleian MS 3765 [Dublin, 2013], 13, 54) 1481 Sir Thomas Lytttelton of Halesowen (Salop.), author of the Tenures: ‘glosed sawter’, to Worcester Cathedral priory (Doyle 1953, 1:116) DELETE Henry Savile of Banke, MS 117 [Allen 169/409]: simply a wrong reference, since Savile 117 is now TCD 321, and there is no second Psalter MS in Savile’s list. Sir Henry Spelman sale 1709, MS fol. 74 (arguably the next)

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The English Psalter and Canticles [Allen 169] incipit: Grete haboundance of gastly comfort and ioy in God… editions: H. R. Bramley, The Psalter or Psalms of David and Certain Canticles (Oxford, 1884), now being replaced by Jill Havens and Kevin Gustafson. For the Wycliffite redactions of Rolle’s text, see Anne Hudson, Two Revisions of Rolle’s English Psalter Commentary and the Related Canticles, 3  vols, EETS os  340–41, 343 (Oxford, 2012–14). Again, no foliations are given for MSS devoted solely to the Psalter; in most cases, the other contents consist of the canticles added as part of the Wycliffite appropriation of the text. [a] The original version = Allen MSS 1–19, 36–38 [1] BodL, MS Bodley 467: lacks canticles. [2] BodL, MS Bodley 953: the text appears at pp. 1–477. [3] BodL, MS Hatton 12: the text appears at fols 4–209v. [4] BodL, MS Laud misc. 448: the text appears at fols 1–150v. [5] BodL, MS Tanner 1 [6] Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 52: the text appears at fols 1–262v. [7] Oxford, University College, MS 56: the text appears at fols 1–260v. [8] Oxford, University College, MS 64 [9] Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 387: the text appears at fols 1–109. [10] Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 89 [11] BL, MS Arundel 158: the text appears at fols 10–231. [12] BL, MS Harley 1806: the text appears at fols 1–161. [13] Aberdeen University Library, MS 243, fols 1–144. [14] Eton College, MS 10 [15] Newcastle upon Tyne, Public Library, MS TH.1678, fols 1–102 (the remainder one additional canticle, added later). [16] now Washington dc, Museum of the Bible, MS 148, fols 1–192v. [17] now San Marino ca, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 148, fols 23–203v. [18] Worcester Cathedral, MS F.158 [19] The Vatican, Bibliotheca Apostolica, MS Reginensis lat. 320: lacks canticles. [36] BodL, MS Douce 258: the text appears at fols 1–39 (excerpts only). [37] Worcester Cathedral, MS F.166 [38] BL, MS Additional 40769

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[39] Cambridge, Jesus College, MS Q.G.26 (James 73), flyleaves (fragment), s. xv in. [40] Hatfield (Herts.), Hatfield House, MS  Cecil Papers 328, s.  xv2/4. [cf.  Allen 197, where she lists this copy as MS 39]. [41] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91, fol. 189, s. xv2/4 (a verse-tag extracted from Ps. 61:2; see Bramley 215; Allen, English Writings, 16/8–13, where comparable examples appear at 9/49–50, 15/86–88); cf. ’Incendium’ MS 59. [Allen 183/403] [42] New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 360, fol. 192rv, s. xv3/4 (excerpt). [43] Oxford, New College, MS 95, fol. 143rv, s. xv in. (a damaged fragment of ‘Magnificat’, among the additional canticles). [44] Sotheby’s, 8 July 1974, lot 59 (two leaves), s. xv. DELETE Allen MS 33: a copy of ‘The Early English Prose Psalter’, now Princeton University Library, MS Scheide 143. attested copies Allen 197 notes a lost copy (?) in Earl of Exeter’s Library in 1821. [b] the interpolated Lollard version RV1 = Allen MSS 20–28, 32, 34 [20] BodL, MS Bodley 288: the text appears at fols 1–262v. [21] BodL, MS Tanner 16 [22] Oxford, University College, MS 74 [23] TCC, MS B.5.25, fols 1–291v. [24] BL, MS Royal 18 D.i: the first of a two-volume set, the second MS 46 below. [25] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 92: the text appears at fols 1–307 v. [26] BodL, MS Laud misc. 321 [27] London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 34: the first of a two-volume set, the second Allen MS 32 (concluding with RV3). [28] BodL, MS Laud misc. 286 [32] BL, MS Royal 18 C.xxvi [34] now Cambridge ma, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 36. additions [45] Lincoln, Lincolnshire Archives, Diocesan Records, Maddison Deposit, MS 2/11 (four leaves), s. xiv ex. [46] BL, MS Additional 74953, s. xv in. (the second volume of Allen MS 24, concluding with RV3). [47] BL, MS  Harley 3913, fols  112–13v, s.  xv 1/2 (excerpts, as a prologue to the Middle English Apocalypse).

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[48] BodL, MS Laud misc. 174, fols 76–79, s. xv in. (excerpt, as a prologue to a tract on virginity). [49] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 3, fols 189, 191, s. xiv/xv (five glosses extracted from this version in a Wycliffite Psalter); see Michael  P. Kuczynski, ‘Extracts from a revised version of Richard Rolle’s English ­Psalter…’, Medium Ævum 85 (2016), 217–35. [c] the interpolated Lollard version RV2 = Allen MSS 29–31, 35 [29] BodL, MS Bodley 877: the text appears at fols 1–155v. [30] Oxford, Merton College, MS 94: recently refoliated; the text appears at the current fols 1–8v, 411–14v [31] BL, MS Royal 18 B.xxi: the text appears at fols 1–32. [35] TCD, MS 71 addition [50] New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 1087, parts of two folios from Allen MS 35. [d] the interpolated Lollard version RV3, appears only as a conclusion in Allen MS 32 and in the MS here added, no. 46. [e] the prologue to the Psalter as a separable excerpt, always preceding Wycliffite Psalters [Allen 176] [51] TCD, MS 75, fols 252–53, s. xv med. [52] BL, MS Additional 10046, fols 2–4v, s. xv in. [53] BL, MS Additional 31044, fols 5–7, s. xv in. [54] San Marino ca, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 501, fols 22v–24, s. xv 1/2. [55] Worcester Cathedral, MS F.172, fols 166–67 v, s. xv3/4.

The English Psalter: Excerpted Citations ‘The Three Arrows on Doomsday’ [56, etc.] A citation, without ascription, but combining parts of both Rolle’s Latin and English readings of Ps. 6:2–3, appears in about thirty manuscripts. This discussion is embedded in ‘The three arrows on doomsday’, ed. Horstman 2:447, from Oxford, University College, MS 97, fol. 160rv. The text does not appear in Jolliffe, but twenty-two manuscripts are listed at R. E. Lewis et al., Index of Printed Middle English Prose (New York, 1985), no. 842 (283–84). Delete from the list BL, MS Harley 2385; the Throckmorton/Coughton Court MS is now London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS  3597. There is a further copy, presented as a sermon, at Shrewsbury School, MS 3, fols 67 v–73. ‘The three arrows’ reproduces a good deal of Rolle’s language from

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Bramley 21, and the discussion is substantially dependent upon Rolle’s economical reformulation of Peter Lombard’s discussion (PL 191:04–5) in the Latin Psalter.2 ‘The three arrows’, however, is not isolated. The text also is absorbed into a further compilation (dependent upon ‘The Pore Caitif’ and ‘The Prick of Conscience’ as well). In this work, ‘A treatise of ghostly battle’ (Jolliffe H.3), the discussion is truncated, perhaps by a large archetypal eyeskip rather than an editorial decision; see the edition, Horstman 2:429–30. Jolliffe lists seven manuscript copies.

‘A tretis of maydenhod’ [57, etc.] In addition, ‘A tretis of maydenhod’ (Jolliffe H.29/O.43) contains both a reference to and an extensive citation from the interpolated RV1 on Ps. 36:20 (cf. Hudson, Two Revisions 36/223–310, 2:405–08; Bramley 133) [cf. Allen 169, 177, 400; and see index n. 29]: [57] CUL, MS Ii.6.39, fols 73–75, s. xv in. [58] CUL, MS Ii.6.55, fols 26v–28, s. xv in. An excerpt from the English prologue also appears in ‘Compilation’ I below.

‘Super Magnificat’ [Allen 192] incipit: Magnificat anima mea… Istum psalmum benedicte virginis dicimus canticum… edition: Hanna’s critical edition is forthcoming. [1] BodL, MS Ashmole 751 [2] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [3] BodL, MS Rawlinson C.397 [4] Hereford Cathedral, MS O.viii.1: the text appears at fols 146v–47. addition [5] Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 356, fols 202–05, s. xv4/4.

‘Super Psalmum XX m’ [Allen 194] incipit: Cum Cristus qui est veritas dicit sine me nichil potestis… edition: James C. Dolan, The Tractatus super Psalmum vicesimum (Lewiston me and Lampeter, 1991). Cf. the printed version (Cologne 1536, fol. 3v): ‘ne…arguas me. In furore Dei arguere est pro peccatis aeternaliter damnari. Neque in…me, id est, neque in purgatorio me emenda. Sed in hac vita vbi deliqui volo et peto puniri… vt in futuro corripi non sit mihi necesse. Vox est poenitentis, dolentis pro peccatis et timentis poenam inferni et purgatorij’. 2 

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[1] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [2] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193 [3] Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 365 [4] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 209: the text appears at fols 94v–104v. [5] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.621 additions [6] TCD, MS 277, p. 547, s. xv in. (excerpt, Dolan 2/11–15). [7] BodL, MS Ashmole 751, fols 13v–14, 61, s. xv 1/2 (excerpts from Dolan 2–4; at fol. 61 followed by Dolan 10/4–6 and summary of Dolan 16–18) [Allen 194]. [8] BodL, MS Lat. th. d. 15, fols 89–105v, s. xvi med. attested copies Bury St Edmunds (OSB), the source of Kirkstead’s reference (Corpus K528.7, 11:447) ? Isleworth, Syon (OBrig) P.64 (Corpus SS1.1104c, 9:349) Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilations’ BCF below.

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Treatises (Latin) ‘Contra amatores mundi’ [Allen 203] incipit: Quoniam mundanorum insania gaudium eterni amoris… edition: Paul  F. Theiner, The Contra Amatores Mundi of Richard Rolle of Hampole (Berkeley ca, 1968). [1] BodL, MS Bodley 769 [2] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [3] BodL, MS Laud misc. 528: see further index n. 126. [4] Balliol: now Oxford, Balliol College, MS 224A, fols 20v–33. [5] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193 [6] Oxford, St John’s College, MS 127 [7] Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 365: the text appears at fols 152v–68v. [8] Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 35 [9] BL, MS Sloane 2275 [10] [‘Castle Howard’]: now New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.872, fols 23–41. [11] Durham Cathedral, MS B.IV.35 [12] Hereford Cathedral, MS O.viii.1: the text appears at fols 89–97 v. [13] Leicester, Wyggeston Hospital, MS 15: now MS 10D34/15, fols 93v–107 v. [14] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 209: the text appears at fols 15v–40. [15] Manchester, John Rylands University Library: now assigned the shelfmark MS lat. 395, fols 67 v–89. [16] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 15700: the text appears at fols 97–110. [17] now Bloomington, Indiana University, MS Poole 20, fols 1–16v. [18] now New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Marston 243, fols 78–102v. [19] Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 685 Allen adds fragments: [20] Cambridge, Jesus College MS Q.G.11 (James 59), fols 6v–7, s. xv [Allen 205/401]. [21] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91, fol. 195, s. xv2/4 (excerpt, Theiner 5/361–84) [Allen 403] [22] New York, Columbia University Library, MS Plimpton 270, fol. [69], s. xv3/4? (excerpt, Theiner 5/169–71+154–56 paraphrased) [cf. Allen 417]. attested copies Bury St Edmunds (OSB), the source of Kirkstead’s reference (Corpus K528.3/4, 11:447) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (Corpus UC19.46 ‘cum aliis tractatibus’, 10:200), donated by Thomas Markaunt, fellow 1439. Isleworth, Syon (OBrig) five copies, M.32 (Corpus SS1.765f, 9:229–30) also M.84 (SS2.143a, 9:474); M.94 (SS1.827d, 9:251); M.95 (SS2.145a, 9:474–75); O.52 (SS2.180c, 9:485)

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Leicester OSA (Corpus A20.910d, 6:280) ? 1524: see ‘Unverified references’, p. 50. Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilations’ BDFI below.

‘Incendium amoris’ [Allen 209] incipit: Admirabar magis quam enuncio quando siquidem sentiui… edition: Margaret Deanesly, The Incendium Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole (Manchester, 1915); however, see ‘Richard Rolle’s Incendium Amoris: A Prospectus for a Future Editor’, Journal of Medieval Latin 26 (2016), 227–61. We identify the manuscript versions by the types Deanesly first distinguished (‘long’ and ‘short’), and indicate those that include ‘The Compilation’ with the notation ‘+comp’ (see further below, pp. 30–31). [1] BodL, MS Bodley 16 (short) [2] BodL, MS Bodley 66 (long) [3] BodL, MS Bodley 861 (long+’half-comp’, the latter preceding at fol. 99v–100v, partly repeated at fol. 146v) [4] BodL, MS Laud misc. 202 (short+comp) [5] BodL, MS Laud misc. 528 (short) [6] BodL, MS Rawlinson A.389 (long) [7] Balliol: now Balliol College, MS 224A, fols 41–58v (short+’half-comp’) [8] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193 (long) [9] Oxford, St John’s College, MS 127 (short+parts of comp, but see ‘Super Canticum’ MS 5, p. 2) [10] CUL, MS Dd.5.64 (long) [11] CUL, MS Mm.5.37: the text begins at fol. 4 (short+comp). [12] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 140/80 (long) [13] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 332/723 (short) [14] Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 35 (long+short corrected into long, allegedly from autograph; comp separate at fols 1–19; additional excerpts fol. [235] at the end of ‘Melos’, part of those that appear isolated in MS 21) [15] Cambridge, St John’s College, MS B.1 (23) (short, as well as MS 21 excerpt fol. [237 v] at end of ‘Melos’) [16] BL, MS Harley 106 (extracts) [17] BL, MS Harley 275 (long) [18] BL, MS Royal 5 C.iii: the text appears at fols 305–17, 329–40v (long). [19] BL, MS Sloane 2275 (long) [20] BL, MS Additional 24661 (long disarranged, with portions of ‘De excellencia’/ Compilation B inserted at fols 49v–58v)

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additions [43] Cambridge, Emmanuel College, pb 32.6.49, fols iirv, iv–viv (binding leaves), s. xv in. (the head of the text followed by excerpted portions; see index n. 11). [44] TCD, MS 159, fols 106–07 (MS 21 excerpt at the end of ‘Melos’). [45] BL, MS Harley 5977, fragment 102, s. xv in. (long: a leaf, with one side pasted down in the guardbook, chs 7–9, Deanesly 164/22–[168]). [46] Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS  I.168, fols  261–83, 1453  ×  59 (no information as to which version). [47] Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS II.122, fols 306–19, 1461–63 (short, abbrev.). [48] Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS  D.125 (695), fols  2–60v, s.  xv 1/2 (short, with addenda like MS 25 extended). [49] Seville, Biblioteca Colombina, MS 94/5–2–44, fols 2–56, s. xv (the whole, no information as to which version). [50] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.631, fols 18v–50, s. xv2/4 (long). Allen’s listed fragments: [1/51] Cambridge, Jesus College, MS Q.D.4 (James 46) (ch. 15; see ‘Super Canticum’ MS 6, p. 2) [2/52] BL, MS Arundel 507 (ch. 15) [3/53] BL, MS Harley 5235 (ch. 15; see ‘Super Canticum’ MS 8) [4/54] BL, MS Royal 17 B.xvii, fol. 99rv (from ch. 33) [5/55] Hereford Cathedral, MS O.i.10, fol. 99v (added on flyleaf, chs 7–10, 26, short), s. xv ex. [6/56] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.17 (ch. 39) additions [57] TCD, MS 277, p. 184, s. xv in. (ch. 9, Deanesly 170/3–11,? short, where the citation breaks off). [58] BL, MS Additional 34807, fol. 40, s. xv 1 (excerpt at the page-foot, ch. 16, Deanesly 192/4–10). [59] BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 67, s. xv2 (ch. 42, Deanesly 276/2–4), cf. English Psalter, MS 41 [Allen 310]. [60] London, Westminster Diocesan Archives, MS  H.38, fol.  103, s.  xv  med. (ch.  9, Deanesley 170/8–13). [61] [‘Heneage’]: now New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn fa54, fols 14v–16, 24–25, 25v–28v [Allen 44–45]. [62] BodL, MS Rawlinson A.372, fol. 94 (chs 23+19, Deanesly 209, 201) [Allen 398]. [63] BodL, MS Rawlinson C.397, fol. 78 (ch. 42, Deanesly 275–78) [Allen 399, 420]. [64] Oxford, Exeter College, MS 7, fol. 164v (ch. 21, Deanesly 205/9–28) [Allen 399].

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Moyes identifies (2:110) the single sentence at TCD, MSS 277, p. 181, with ‘Incendium’; this we have at least tentatively placed under ‘Emendatio vitae’.

‘Incendium amoris’: Excerpted Citations The Prologue to Bonaventura, ‘De triplici via’ At least seven copies of Bonaventura’s ‘De triplici via, alias Incendium amoris’ substitute a portion of Rolle’s prologue for that of the original author, ed. SBO 8:18 (inc. ‘Evigilans vero animam’), an extensive manuscript list at 8:x–xxv [cf. Allen 226 and 397 n. 1, with erroneous references from Deanesly; see the discussion in her edition, 51 and 146 n. 8]: [65] Cologne, Stadtarchiv, MS Wallraf 205, fol. 184, 1492–97. [66] Florence, Biblioteca nazionale, MS xxxv.D.237, fol. 11, 1516. [67] Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 9068, fol. 421, s. xv. [68] Munich, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 8o 3, fol. 39, s. xv ex./1482. [69] Munich, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 8o 344, fol. 265rv, s. xv ex. (at the end of the text, as a prologue alternate to Bonaventura’s). [70] Olomouc, Vědecká Knihovna, MS M I 300 (olim II.g.27), fol. 33, s. xvi. [71] Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 996 (olim 902), fol. 68, s. xvi.

Geoffrey of Byland In his ‘defensorium’ of Bridget of Sweden, Geoffrey [Pickering?] of Byland (Sharpe 122, 127) inserts two excerpts from ‘Incendium amoris’: [72] BL, MS Harley 612, fols 187 v, 189, s. xv ex. (prol. and ch. 8, Deanesly 145, 165); see Vincent Gillespie, ‘The Nearly Man: “Saint” Richard Rolle and his Textual Cult’, in Saints and Cults in Medieval England, ed. Susan Powell (Donington, 2017), 156–71, at 165 n. 30. [73] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.518, within fols [219–31v], s. xv.

‘The Compilation’ [Allen 64, 210] This text is comprised of: ‘Super Canticum’ 4–7 (beginning 4/111 ‘Oleum’); Anselm of Bec, epistola 3.133 (‘Omnis actio’, ed. PL 159:67 C 3–13); and excerpts from chapters 12, 15, and 8 of the long ‘Incendium’ (Deanesly 177 ‘Si quis sancte’, 187 ‘Cum feliciter flororem’, and 165 ‘Ex magno amoris incendio’). ‘The Compilation’ appears sporadically, appended to the short version of ‘Incendium’: MS 4 Laud 202, MS 11 Mm.5.37, MS 14 Emma (where it is separate, at fols 2–19), MS  24 Linc 188 (fols  162v–65; only ‘Omnis actio’, ‘Super Canticum’ 4/192–end and 5  complete), MS  31 Ghent, MS  32 Escorial, MS  34 Milan, MS  37 Trier  296, MS  39

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Trier 775. A note at St John’s 127 [MS 9], fol. 68v, indicates that ‘The Compilation’ was to have appeared with the short ‘Incendium’ at fol. 56v (but was not copied there and subsequently supplied in part, from other sources); cf. analogously, MS 21 above. In some cases, the text appears fused with ‘Incendium’, and three continental MSS insert healthy chunks into the final chapter of that work: MS 29 Brussels 4987, MS 33 Metz, MS 38 Trier 685. Allen also identified a ‘half-compilation’ (of the eight constituent pieces, the last four only, found in MSS with full ‘Super Canticum’); given the discussion in the last paragraph but one, this occurs only in MS 3 Bodley 861 (separate, at fols 99v–100v), MS 7 Balliol 224A, and MS 26 John Rylands; a related excerpt, copied twice in MS 3, also appears in MS 22 Durham [cf. Allen 211–12]. attested copies of ‘Incendium amoris’ Bury St Edmunds (OSB), the source of Kirkstead’s reference (Corpus K528.1, 11:447) Isleworth, Syon (OBrig), six copies, M.18 (Corpus SS1.751a, 9:224–25) also M.96 (Corpus SS1.829a, 9:251); M.113 (Corpus SS1.846b ‘cum aliis’, 9:256); N.37 (Corpus SS1.891o, 9:281); N.55 (Corpus SS2.160i, 9:479–80); N.67 (Corpus SS1.921cc, 9:297–98) Leicester OSA (Corpus A20.910a, 6:280) Lichfield Cathedral, Patrick Young’s MS 22 (see N. R. Ker, ‘Patrick Young’s Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lichfield Cathedral’, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 2 [1950], 151–68, at 155–56, 160) London, Carmelite convent (Corpus C5.59a, 1:186) London, Charterhouse of the Salutation (Corpus C3.8 ‘cum ceteris’, 9:622) London, Westminster Abbey (OSB) (Corpus B107.14, 4:629) Oxford, Canterbury College, inventory 1501, (c) 303 ‘liber de incendio amoris in papiro non est inventus ad presens’ (see W. A. Pantin, Canterbury College, Oxford, 4 vols, Oxford Historical Society n.s. 6–8, 30 [Oxford, 1947–85], 1:27, 104) Ramsey (Hunts., OSB), seen by Bale (351) Thurgarton (Notts., OSA) (Corpus A36.21b, 6:421) Witham (Somt., OCart) (Corpus C8.57, 9:649–50), gift of John Blackman 1415 will of Henry, lord Scrope of Masham: ‘Incendium Amoris, quem Ricardus heremita composuit’, to Henry, lord Fitzhugh of Ravensworth (NRY) [Allen 224] ? s. xv ex. booklist at BodL, MS Fairfax 10, fol. iv, associable with the Broughtons of Toddington (Beds.) and clergy of the hospital and chapel there (see Ruth J. Dean, ‘An Essay in Anglo-Norman Palaeography’, in Studies in French Language and Mediaeval Literature Presented to Professor Mildred K. Pope [Manchester, 1939], 79–87, at 84–85).

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? s.  xv  ex. a list of three books on the wrapper of Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 227, the volume associated with Dr Roger Marchall and ‘Woodcock’ of that College (see James’s catalogue 206); but for these last two items, cf. Doyle’s discussion, ‘A New Chaucer Manuscript’, PMLA 83 (1968), 22–34, at 25 and 25 n. 26. ‘archdeacon Gybbes’ [? John Gibbs, canon of Chester 1545–54]: probably a copy of the ‘half-comp’ (cf. Deanesly p. 189), seen by Bale (349, cf. Allen 27–28). Richard Grafton [the printer and chronicler, d. 1573]: ‘commendatio vite heremite’: at least ‘Incendium’ ch. 13 (seen by Bale 349) [cf. Allen 113, 136, 325; and Rolle’s reference at ‘Novem lectiones’ 196/19 to his ‘libell[us] de uita heremitarum’; perhaps earlier a separate tract incorporated here?] Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilations’ AB(?)CDFIK below.

‘Incendium amoris’ in English, translated by Richard Misyn (prior of Lincoln OCarm) incipit: At þe reuerence of oure lorde Ihesu Criste to þe askynge… edition: Ralph Harvey, The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life…, EETS os 106 (London, 1896), 1–104. [1] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 236: the text appears at fols 1–44. [2] BL, MS Additional 37790 addition [3] New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 331, pp. 1–134, s. xv med.

‘Emendatio vitae’ [Allen 230] incipit: Ne tardes conuerti… Nam subito rapit miseros inclemencia mortis… editions: Rüdiger Spahl, De emendatione vitæ. Eine kritische Ausgabe… (Göttingen, 2009) (all references to specific passages are to his text by chapter/line, and many corrected foliations from his account of the manuscripts); Nicholas Watson, Emendatio vitae…, Toronto Medieval Latin Texts 21 (Toronto, 1995), 33–68.3

Allen 41 quotes a note from Vienna 4483, fol. 134: ‘Notandum doctor quidam de Anglia mihi dixit quod alius doctor nomine Gwilhelmus stoups istud de nomine Ihesu addidit. Hic fuit valde intimus socius huius Rychardi’. From this account, Allen inferred that Stoups may have been responsible for ‘The Compilation’, and on the basis of a colophon shared by only MSS 1 and 67 below, that he had been the original dedicatee of ‘Emendatio vitae’. (See further Allen 40–41, 212–13, 231, 304, 323.) While the first claim may be plausible, Spahl has demonstrated that the second certainly is not; see ‘Richard and William, or To whom was Richard Rolle’s Emendatio vitae dedicated’, Revue d’Histoire des Textes 32 (2002), 301–12. 3 

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[a] the Latin text [1] BodL, MS Bodley 16 [2] BodL, MS Bodley 43 [3] BodL, MS Bodley 48 [4] BodL, MS Bodley 54 [5] BodL, MS Bodley 61 [6] BodL, MS Bodley 122 [7] BodL, MS Bodley 456 [8] BodL, MS Bodley 861 [9] BodL, MS Douce 107 [10] BodL, MS Hatton 26 [11] BodL, MS Laud misc. 111 (fragment; the conclusion, preceding quires lost) [12] BodL, MS Laud misc. 202 [13] BodL, MS Laud misc. 497 [14] BodL, MS Laud misc. 524 [15] BodL, MS Laud misc. 528 [16] BodL, MS Rawlinson A.389 [17] BodL, MS Rawlinson C.269 [18] Balliol: now Oxford, Balliol College, MS 224A, fols 33–41. [19] Oxford, Brasenose College, MS 15 [20] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 155: the text appears at fols 214–38v. [21] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193 [22] Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 71 [23] Oxford, Merton College, MS 16: the text appears at fols 19–26v. [24] Oxford, Merton College, MS 67 [25] Oxford, Merton College, MS 68: the text ends at fol. 95. [26] CUL, MS Dd.4.54 [27] CUL, MS Dd.5.64 [28] CUL, MS Ff.5.36 [29] CUL, MS Gg.1.32 [30] CUL, MS Hh.4.13 [31] CUL, MS Mm.5.37 [32] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 140/80 A search of the public records finds one reference to a ‘William de Stoupes’. A man of this name witnessed a lease in Long Riston (ERY) on 1  May 1337; see Bradford, West Yorkshire Archives, SpSt/4/11/82/22. A variety of religious institutions (St Leonard’s, York; Fountains; the nuns of Swine – but not Hampole) had properties here, and the village is close to both Beverley and Meaux. Earlier (8 October 1295) a John de Stoupes is recorded as rector of Oswaldkirk (NRY); see Kew, The National Archives, Public Record Office, C 241/27/49.

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[69] now New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Marston 243, fols 14v–42. [70] now Urbana, University of Illinois Library, MS 144, fols 1–17. [71] Clitheroe (Lancs.), Stonyhurst College, MS 49, fols 60v–91. [72] London, Dr Williams’s Library, MS Jones B.39.1, fols 1–15v (the whole). [73] York Minster, MS XVI.K.16, fols 159–96v, s. xv in. [74] Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS A.iv.24 [75] Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS  A.vi.29: the text appears at fols 195–206. [76] Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 396 [77] Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 291 (with ‘Incendium’ MS 31, the whole of this portion of a book binding portions of seven MSS) [78] Madrid, El Escorial, MS b.iii.5: the text appears at fols 131–48v. [79] Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS vii.F.35: the text appears at fols 85–100. [80] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 543: in addition to the text at fols 50v–60, which breaks off with an ‘Amen’ following 12/38, a full conclusion (beginning 12/36 ‘Incipiat’) has been added at fols 4rv, 1v–3 (in that order). [81] Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS B.VI.3 (293) [82] Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, MS *A.68 [83] Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 683 [84] Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 690: the text appears at fols 87–106v. [85] Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 774 [86] Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 775: the text appears at fols 123v–37. [87] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.621: the text appears at fols 36–50. [88] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.631 [89] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 15700: the text appears at fols 33–40v. [90] now New York, Columbia University Library, MS Plimpton 270, fols 1–65, s. xv. additions [91] Bautzen/Budyšin, Stadtbibliothek, MS 4o 25, fols 93–104, s. xv in. (seven chapters only?). [92] Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, MS 390, fols 145v–48, 1446 (ch. 12 only). [93] Cambridge, Emmanuel College, pb 32.6.49, fols irv, iiirv (two binding leaves), s. xv in. (10/41–12/72). [94] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 223/238, pp. 421–50, s. xv2/2. [95] Cambridge, Jesus College, MS  Q.B.13 (James 30), fol.  2rv, s.  xv (fragment, 12/84–134). [96] CUL, MS Additional 2829, fols 203–4v, s. xv3/4 (excerpts, most of ch. 11). [97] CUL, MS Additional 5943, fols 147–52, s. xv med. (chs 1–6/2). [98] Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 31, fols 38v–66v, s. xiv.

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[99] TCD, MS 277, p. 181, s. xv in. (a single sentence, from 7/22?) [Moyes 2:110 identifies as from ‘Incendium amoris’]. [100] TCD, MS 432, fols 131–32, 143v–44, s. xv3/4 (excerpts) [cf. Allen 403, assigning the excerpts to ‘Super Canticum’; see index n. 45]. [101] Durham, University Library, MS  Cosin  V.III.16, fol.  180, s.  xv/xvi (excerpt, 11/35–36). [102] Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 786, fols 191–94v, s. xv4/4 (chs 1, 2, and 4 only). [103] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 229, fols 133–48, s. xiv2/2. [104] BL, MS Royal 6 E.iii, fols 75v–76, s. xv ex. (excerpt, 12/53–134, appended to the excerpt Bernard of Clairvaux, ‘De consideratione’ 5.14.32, PL 182:806–07). [105] Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS I.150, fols 1–22, s. xv in. [106] Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS I.170, fols 91–109, 1423 × 32. [107] Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS II.122, fols 300–06, 1463. [108] Munich, Bayerische Stadtsbibliothek, Clm 8094, fols 226–44v, s. xv. [109] Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS vii.G.15, fols 244v–52, 1482–83. [110] New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Osborn MSS File Folder 19558 (a leaf from a binding), s. xiv/xv (8/58–10/26). [111] BodL, MS Lyell 38, fols 1–34, s. xvi in. [112] Oxford, Merton College pb 58.c. 8 (three binding leaves), s. xiv2/2, (8/40–12/end). [113] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 1201, fols 154v–58v, s. xiv2/2. [114] Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 6048B, fols 10–20v, s. xv in. [115] Stratton on the Fosse (Somt.), Downside Abbey, MS 48250/Clifton 9, fols 194– 201, s. xv med. (? 11/29–12/end, perhaps paraphrase?). [116] Subiaco, Monastero Santa Scholastica, MS 1388, fols 70–83v, s. xiv/xv. [117] Upholland College (Lancs.), MS 165, fols 79–105, s. xv in. (now lost?). [118] Washington dc, Catholic University of America Library, MS  114, fols  5–30v, s. xv med. [119] Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 18, fols 169–86v, s. xv. [120] Windsor, St George’s Chapel, MS E.I.i, fols 1–20v, s. xv med. [121] London, Christie’s sale, 2 June 2010, lot 205 (two binding leaves), s. xv (6/14–8/23); the MS was not sold. See index n. 186. The text was early printed as an appendage to ‘Speculum spiritualium’ (STC 23030.7) by Wolfgang Hopyl (Paris, 1510), for London sale by William Bretton.

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‘Emendatio vitae’: Excerpted Citations Richard Ullerston, ‘Defensorium dotacionis ecclesie’ In addition, Richard Ullerston, once again, cites Rolle, here ‘Emendatio’  3/3–5, in his ‘Defensorium dotacionis ecclesie’ (see Anne Hudson, Lollards and Their Books [London, 1985], 76 n. 1, 77 n. 1, and cf. Sharpe 516 for the three copies): [122] Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS  theol. lat. fol. 580, within fols [375–401v], s. xv med. [123] Exeter Cathedral, MS 3516, fol. 105rv, s. xv 1/2. [124] BL, MS Lansdowne 409, within fols [39–69v], s. xv2/2. attested copies of Ullerston’s ‘Defensorium’ Norwich Cathedral (OSB) (Corpus B90.9, 4:583) Salisbury Cathedral, Patrick Young’s MS  140 (see N.  R. Ker, ‘Salisbury Cathedral Manuscripts and Patrick Young’s Catalogue’, Books, Collectors, and Libraries…, ed. Andrew G. Watson [London, 1985], 175–208 at 194, 200–01) attested copies of ‘Emendatio vitae’ Eton College, MS 19 (leaves no longer present, but see Corpus SC229.*96x, 15:157–58) Bury St Edmunds (OSB), the source of Kirkstead’s reference (Corpus K528.5, 11:447) Isleworth, Syon (OBrig), fifteen copies, M.5 (Corpus SS1.738f, 9:213–15) also M.18 (SS1.751b, 9:224–25); M.34 (SS1.767d, 9:230–31); M.44 (SS1.777a, 9:234); M.49 (SS1.782a, 9:236); M.52 (SS2.136a, 9:472); M.63 (SS1.796c, 9:240); M.71 (SS1.804b, 9:243); M.73 (SS2.140b, 9:473); M.86 (SS1.819d ‘cum aliis’, 9:248–49); M.94 (SS1.827c, 9:251); M.95 (SS2.145b, 9:474–75); M.102 (SS1.835a, 9:253–54); M.113 (SS1.846a, 9:256); S.40 (SS2.222b, 9:494) Leicester OSA, two copies (Corpus A20.907m and 910f, 6:279–80) London, Carmelite convent (Corpus C5.59d, 1:186) Oxford, All Souls College (Corpus UO6.66) Pleshey (Essex), collegiate church of the Holy Trinity (Corpus SC283.51, 15:398; ‘regula viuendi’ and perhaps as? 1601 below) Rebdorf (Bavaria, OSA), two copies, M.34 and O.20 (see Paul J. Lehmann et al., eds, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschland und der Schweiz, 4  vols [Munich, 1918–2009], 3:301). Thurgarton (Notts.) OSA (Corpus A36.9g, 6:417) Witham (Somt., OCart) (Corpus C8.23k, 9:643), gift of John Blackman 1427 will of Dom.  John Newton, rector of Houghton (co.  Durham) and master of Sherburn hospital: ‘unum librum de duodecim capitulis Ricardi Ermet’: to

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Dom. Nicholas Hulme (and he bequeathed it again in 1458) [Allen 414, arguably the source of the fragment, MS 120 above] 1458 Nicholas Holme, canon of Ripon: ‘unum librum in quo continentur xij capitula Ricardi Hampole’, to Nicholas Blakwell [Allen 415] ? Henry Savile of Banke, MS 260 (Watson 66), perhaps the ps.-Bonaventuran Stimulus amoris followed by ‘Emendatio vitae’ [Allen 410–11] ? 1601 inventory of William Ball, Cambridge scholar (‘de emendatione vitae’) (see E. S. Leedham-Green, Books in Cambridge Inventories…, 2 vols [Cambridge, 1986], 1:545, probably, as the author suggests, the 1510 Speculum spiritualium). Allen MS 62: Thoresby Hall, the duke of Kingston, MS CC53: destroyed 1745; see Catalogus (full reference at ‘Latin Psalter’, ‘Attested copies’), s.v. ‘Richardus heremita’. Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilations’ ABCEFIK below. In addition, ‘Incendium’ MSS 29, 33, and 38 insert selections into that text.

‘Emendatio vitae’ in English Allen accurately reports the distribution of these among seven separate translations. incipit (‘version 2’, Richard Misyn): Tary þou not to oure lorde to be turnyd ne put it not… editions: Available in the originals are ‘version 2’, Misyn’s [MS 3], in Ralph Harvey, The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life…, EETS os 106 (London, 1896), 105–31; and ‘version 7’ [MS 14], in William H. Hulme, Western Reserve University Bulletin ns 21.4 (Cleveland oh, 1918). A modernised text of ‘version 3’ [MS 5] appears in Dundas Harford, The Mending of Life, Being an Anonymous Version (London, 1913). [1] BodL, MS Digby 18 [2] BodL, MS Douce 322 [3] Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 236 [4] CUL, MS Ff.5.30: the text appears at fols 141–64v. [5] CUL, MS Ff.5.40 [6] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS *669/646, pp. 75–147. [7] BL, MS Harley 1706 [8] BL, MS Harley 2406 [9] BL, MS Lansdowne 455 [10] BL, MS Additional 37790 [11] TCD, MS 432: the text appears at fols 90–120v, 121v. [12] now New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Takamiya 66, fols 1–25; the manuscript also includes an excerpt from an eighth translation at fol. 29rv. [13] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 32

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[14] Worcester Cathedral, MS F.172 [15] Edinburgh University Library, MS 93: the text appears at fols 38–79v. addition [16] New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS  331, pp.  137–67 (version  2, Misyn’s), s. xv med. A short excerpt (Spahl 8/8–11) appears, with an excerpt from ‘The Commandment’, at CUL, MS Dd.5.55, fol. 102v; and BodL, MS Rawlinson C.285, fol. 39v; see Horstman 1:130–31. In addition, ‘The Desert of Religion’ (IMEV 672) describes at lines 725–66 ‘þe tre of perfeccioune’. ‘Of perfite lyuynge tuelf degrese | Groves in þe tre’; the twelve steps are provided by the chapter rubrics of ‘Emendatio vitae’ [Allen 244/309–10]. For the manuscripts, see the discussion of images of Rolle below, p. 63.

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The English Epistles ‘Ego Dormio’ [Allen 246] incipit: Ego dormio… Þai þat lyste lufe herken and here of luf… edition: Ogilvie-T 26–33. [1] BodL, MS Rawlinson A.389 (two copies). [2] BodL, MS Eng. poet. a.1: the text appears at fols 338–39. [3] CUL, MS Dd.5.64 [4] Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS  Pepys 2125: the text appears at fols  99–102 (with variant lyric, ed. Ogilvie-T 219). [5] BL, MS Arundel 507 [6] BL, MS Additional 22283 [7] BL, MS Additional 37790 [8] TCD, MS 155: the text appears at pp. 1–18 (with variant lyrics, ed. Ogilvie-T 147 nn. 235–36, 220–22). [9] now New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Takamiya 66, fols 25–29. [10] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 29 [11] Paris, Bibliothèque Ste-Geneviève, MS 3390 [12] London, Westminster School, MS 3: the text appears at fols 225–31. addition [13] BL, MS Additional 37049, fols 31, 36v, 52v (brief excerpts only), s. xv2/2 [Allen 306–11]. attested copy BL, MS Cotton Vitellius D.xii (destroyed 1731) contained ‘3 letters of a devout man to a nun’ (see Thomas Smith, Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum Bibliotecae Cottoniae [Oxford, 1696], 93). In Latin: see Margaret G. Amassian and Dennis Lynch, ‘The Ego Dormio of Richard Rolle in Gonville and Caius MS 140/80’, Mediaeval Studies 43 (1981), 218–49. [14] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 140/80, fols 115v–18v Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilations’ IL below.

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[2] BodL, MS Eng. poet. a.1 [3] CUL, MS Dd.5.55: the text appears at fols 90–91v (fragment only, as well as an excerpt shared with MS 17, at fol. 102v). [4] CUL, MS Dd.5.64 [5] CUL, MS Ff.5.40 [6] CUL, MS Ii.6.40 [7] Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125: the text appears at fols 84 (excerpt only), 85v–88v. [8] TCC, MS B.15.42 (376) [9] TCC, MS O.1.29 (1053) [10] BL, MS Additional 22283 [11] now New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Takamiya 66, fols 26–33. [12] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 29 [13] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 32 [14] now San Marino ca, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 148, fols 204–06. additions [15] BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 35v (excerpt), s. xv2/2. [16] New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 324, fol. iv (front flyleaf, a fragment), s. xiv/xv. [17] BodL, MS Rawlinson C.285, fol. 39v (excerpt, lines 187–93, also in MS 3). attested copies BL, MS Cotton Vitellius D.xii (destroyed 1731) contained ‘3 letters of a devout man to a nun’ BodL, MS Rawlinson C.285, in a lost quire following fol. 39 (but present when the MS served as exemplar for MSS 3 and 5) An excerpt also appears in ‘Compilation’ E (the English ‘Disce mori’) below.

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[7] BodL, MS Rawlinson A.389: also includes a very brief excerpt, fol. 84v [cf. Allen 251]. [8] BodL, MS Rawlinson C.285: also includes an excerpt, fol. 59, reproduced in MS 12. [9] BodL, MS Eng. poet. a.1: the text appears at fols 334v–38. [10] Oxford, University College, MS 97: the text appears at fols 133v–53. [11] CUL, MS Dd.5.64 [12] CUL, MS Ff.5.40; a small additional excerpt shared with MS 8 at fols 115v–16. [13] CUL, MS Ff.5.45 [14] CUL, MS Hh.1.12: the text appears at fols 104v–14v. [15] CUL, MS Ii.4.9 [16] CUL, MS Ii.6.55: the text appears at fols 3–11. [17] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS *669/646, pp. 148–209. [18] Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125: the text appears at fols 84–85v, 102v–4, 108–16v (a fragment and a full but discontinuous text). [19] TCC, MS B.14.38 (322) [20] BL, MS Arundel 507 [21] BL, MS Harley 1022 [22] BL, MS Lansdowne 455 [23] BL, MS Additional 22283 [24] BL, MS  Additional 37790: the text appears at fols  130v–32v (and one sentence fol. 135v, excerpts only). [25] TCD, MS 154: the text appears at fols 1–3 (an excerpt introducing William Flete, cf. MSS 44 and 46 below, and de Worde’s prints of 1508, 1519, and 1525, respectively STC 20875.5, 20876, and 20876.5, ed. Horstman 2:106 [cf. Allen 263]), and 82v–105 (another excerpt). [26] TCD, MS 155: the text appears at pp. 21–68. [27] Edinburgh University Library, MS 107: the text appears at fols 179v–82v (excerpts). [28] Hereford Cathedral, MS P.i.9: the text appears at fols 141–50v. [29] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 29: the text appears at fols 30rv, 32–43v. [30] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 32: the text appears at fol. 28rv (excerpt only). [31] Manchester, Chetham’s Library, MS 6690: the text appears at fols 116v–30. [32] Paris, Bibliothèque Ste-Geneviève, MS 3390 [33] now New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.818. [34] was subsequently Maldon (Essex), Beeleigh Abbey, Christina Foyle  MS, sold Christie’s, 11 July 2000, lot 77, allegedly to Henri Schiller, Paris. [35] now San Marino ca, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 127, fols 34–50v. [36] London, Westminster School, MS 3: the text appears at fols 205–25. [37] TCC, MS O.1.29 (1053): the text appears at fols 99v–117 v.

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[38] San Marino ca, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 502: the text appears at fols 27–34 (fragment of an excerpt). additions (fullish copies only): [39] TCC, MS B.15.17 (353), fols 131–47, s. xiv/xv. [40] BodL, MS Ashmole 1393, fols 43–50v, 53rv, s. xv med. (excerpts). [41] BodL, Don. e.247 (Christie’s, 21 May 2014, lot 11), fols 6v–14, s. xv in. (Ogilvie-T lines 267–486, followed by a hortatory conclusion). Smallish excerpts [cf. Allen 399, and her discussion of Rawlinson C.285] [42] CUL, MS Ii.6.40, fol. 207rv, s. xv med. [43] BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 35v, s. xv2/2 [cf. Allen 263/308]. [44] BL, MS Harley 1706, fols 114v–15v, s. xv ex. (like MS 25, as a preface to William Flete). [45] London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 853, pp. 88–89, s. xv 1/2. [46] BodL, MS Bodley 423, fols 241v–42v, s. xv2/4 (as MSS 25 and 44, but William Flete not following). [47] BodL, MS Bodley 554, fols 88v–89, s. xv3/4. [48] BodL, MS Douce 302, fol. 32rv, s. xv 1/2.

‘The Form of Living’: Excerpted Citations ‘Speculum spiritualium’ The same sequence of excerpts in English, in manuscripts (and eventually the print) of the Latin ‘Speculum spiritualium’ 2.16 [cf. Allen 263]: [49] CUL, MS Dd.4.54, fols 98v–100, s. xv2/4 or xv med. [50] TCD, MS 271, fols 96–97, s. xv med. [51] BL, MS Royal 7 B.xiv, fol. 83rv, s. xv2/4. [52] BodL, MS Bodley 450, fols 105–06, s. xv2/4. [53] Salisbury Cathedral, MS 56, fols 37 v–38, s. xv2/4. [54] York Minster, MS XVI.I.9, fols 107 v–09, s. xv 1/2.

(?) John Wycliffe, ‘De amore’, Latin and English A further brief excerpt (Ogilvie-T lines 626–29) appears, in Latin translation, at the head of (?) John Wycliffe’s ‘De amore, siue ad quinque quaestiones’, Opera Minora, Wyclif Society, ed. Johann Loserth (London, 1913), 8–10 [cf. Allen 265 n. 1]. The text appears in: [55] Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS A.x.66, fols 304rv, 376v–77 (two copies), s. xv in./med.

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[56] Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS D.123 (693), fols 92–94v, s. xv 1. [57] Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS V.F.9 (931), fols 100– 01, 1408 (with ascription to Wycliffe). [58] Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 1337, fols 52v–53v, s. xv in. [59] Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 1387, fols 105v–06, s. xv in. [60] Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 1622, fols 179v–80, 1410. [61] Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 3927, fols 24v–25, s. xv in. [62] Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 4527, fols 179v–80, 1410, as well as in an English adaption, ‘Five Questions on Love’, Select English Works of John Wyclif, ed. Thomas Arnold, 3 vols (Oxford, 1869–71), 3:183–85, at: [63] Oxford, New College, MS 95, fols 123–24, s. xv in. attested copy ? BodL, MS Digby 98, fragments on a leaf excised after fol. 182 (see ‘Dr Peter Partridge and MS Digby 98’, in Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, ed. Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchison [Turnhout, 2005], 41–65, at 51 and n.). For discussion of this excerpt and (?) Wycliffe’s rewriting of the contemplative conclusion to ‘The Form’, see Fiona Somerset, ‘Wycliffite Spirituality’, Text and Controversy, 375–86.

‘The Lambeth devotion’ Further, Allen considers (343–44) ‘the Lambeth devotion’, [64] London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 546, fols 53v–55, s. x v ex. or xv/xvi, only insofar as she rejects it as an authorial text. However, the scribal attribution, ‘Thys ys hampul doctrine’, is accurate, because ‘the devotion’, like Compilation L/’Contemplations’ (also rejected Allen 357), provides a citation from ‘The Form’. Cf. the conclusion of Allen’s text with Ogilvie-T lines 525, 527–29, 538–41, and (distantly) 550–51 (all verbally closer than the restatement at ‘Emendatio’ 11/29–73).

‘The tree and xii frutes’ Several early chapters of A deuout treatyse called The tree & xii. frutes of the Holy Goost, ed. Johannes J. Vaissier (Groningen, 1960), 36–163, include extensive citations from ‘The Form of Living’. See F. N. M. Diekstra, ‘The Indebtedness of XII Frutes of the Holy Goost to Richard Rolle’s The Form of Living and to David of Augsburg’s De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione’, English Studies 83 (2002), 207–38, 311–37; all the Rolle materials are discussed in the first part of Diekstra’s study. This work (Jolliffe H.27/O.39) survives in:

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[65] Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 132, fols 117 v–98v, s. xv [66] Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.III.24, fols 92–150v, s. xv med. [67] BL, MS Additional 24192, fols 23–83v, s. xv, as well as in an early print, STC 13608 (R. Copland and M. Fawkes, 1535).

Excerpts in Verse [68, etc.] BL, MS Additional 33995, fols 35–36v, s. xiv3/4: Speculum Vitae (IMEV 245), lines  5595–5828 [=  Ogilvie-T lines  329–98], and a further thirty-five copies (see EngMSS 91–92). From this source, the excerpt also appears in A Myrour to Lewde Men and Wymmen, ed. Venetia Nelson, MET 14 (Heidelberg, 1981), 24 (Jolliffe A.3, in four manuscripts); and may also appear in the similarly derivative Jacob’s Well (Salisbury Cathedral, MS 103), partly edited Arthur Brandeis, EETS os 115 (London, 1900).4 [69] BL, MS Cotton Tiberius E.vii: IMEV 1442 [= Ogilvie-T lines 1–488]. [70] BL, MS Royal 17 B.xvii, fol. [10]: IMEV Sup. 2017.5 [= Ogilvie-T lines 512–15; see Horstman 2:6, lines 427–35]. [Allen 288] [71] BL, MS Royal 17 C.xvii, fol. 90: the two opening lines of IMEV 4056 [= Ogilvie-T lines 598–99]. [72] Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS  514, fol.  7: IMEV Sup. 2017.5 [=  Ogilvie-T lines 512–15]. attested copies BL, MS Cotton Vitellius D.xii (destroyed 1731) contained ‘3 letters of a devout man to a nun’ Isleworth, Syon (OBrig), M.118 (Corpus SS1.851, 9:257) London, Charterhouse of the Salutation, books sent to Hull OCart (Corpus C2.14, 9:617) ? Henry Savile of Banke, MS 206 (Watson 57) Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilations’ IKL below. In Latin: [73] Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 140/80, fols 108–15v. [74] BL, MS Harley 106, fol. 1rv.

‘Speculum Vitae’, which, as we are grateful to Pamela Grieg for pointing out to us, includes materials from John Gaytrygge’s Englishing of archbishop Thoresby’s York catechism, is a product of the late 1350s or 1360s. It thus provides the earliest example, other than the binding materials here listed as ‘Melos amoris’ MS 20, of a Rolle text in circulation. 4 

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Miscellaneous English Works ‘The Bee’ [Allen 269] incipit: The bee has thre kyndis ane es þat scho es neuer ydill… edition: Uncollected 13–14. [1] Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.I.12 [2] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91 In Latin: [3] BL, MS Harley 268, fol. [40v].

‘Desire and Delight’ [Allen 271] incipit: Desyre and delit in Ihesu Criste þat hath nothynge of worldis thoght… edition: Ogilvie-T 40. [1] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91: the text appears at fol. 196v. [2] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 29: the text appears at fols 50v–51.

‘Gastly Gladnesse’ [Allen 272] incipit: Gostly gladnesse in Ihesu and ioy in hert with swetnesse… edition: Ogilvie-T 41. [1] CUL, MS Dd.5.64: the text appears at fols 41v–42. [2] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 29: the text appears at fol. 51.

‘The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit’ [Allen 274] incipit: Þe seuen gyftes of þe Haly Gaste þat ere gyfen to men… edition: Uncollected 19. [1] CUL, MS  Dd.5.64: the text appears at fols  20v–21 (intercalated as ch.  11 of ‘The Form’). [2] BL, MS Arundel 507: the text appears at fol. 43rv. [3] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91: the text appears at fol. 196rv.

‘The Ten Commandments’ [Allen 276] incipit: The fyrst comandement es thy lorde God þou sall loute… edition: Uncollected 16–18, 136–40.

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[1] BodL, MS Hatton 12 [2] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91: the text appears at fols 195v–96.

‘Meditations on the Passion’ [Allen 278] incipit (B): Lord as þou made me of noght I beseche þe… incipit (A): In the honour of the gloriouse passioun… Umbithinke the of the grete loue… edition: Allen, English Writings, 19–27 (Allen MS 1), Ogilvie-T 64–83 (A and B).

‘Meditation B’ [1] CUL, MS Ll.1.8: the text appears at fols 201–07 v (Allen’s ‘earlier version’). [2] CUL, MS Additional 3042: the text appears at fols 36–78v. [3] BodL, MS e Musaeo 232: the text appears at fols 1–18. [4] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS  C.494: the text appears at fols  1–32 (the whole). additions [5] BL, MS Cotton Titus C.xix, fols 92v–117 v, s. xv ex. attested copies London, Charterhouse of the Salutation, books sent to Hull OCart (Corpus C2.8 ‘cum aliis’, 9:617) 1468 Elizabeth Sywardby, widow of Sewerby nr Bridlington (and da. of Sir Henry Vavasour of Haslewood), inventory: ‘ali[us] lib[er] de Meditatione Passionis Domini compilat[us] per Ricardum Rolle’ [Allen 280/415] Excerpts also appear in ‘Compilation’ H below.

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Anglo-Norman text underlying Meditation  B, ‘Versions of the Meditations on the Passion ascribed to Richard Rolle’, Medium Ævum 22 (1953), 93–103.

Lyrics (those not integral to longer English texts) [Allen 287] edition: Uncollected 23–34. [1] CUL, MS Dd.5.64: the poems appear at fols 36–41v. [2] Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 29: the poems appear at fols 51v–55. [3] London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 853: the poems appear at pp. 90–100. [4] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91: the single poem appears at fol. 222rv. additions [5] BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 52v (two lines from IMEV 1715) [cf. Allen 310]. [6] BodL, MS Don. c. 13, fol. 166 (part of IMEV 1053). See also ‘The English Psalter’, MS 41; and ‘The Form of Living’, MSS 68–72 above.

Exempla [cf. Allen 403] edition: Uncollected 12–15. [1] Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91: the text appears at fols 194–95. [2] BodL, MS Ashmole 751, fols 45v, 47. The Burney 356 version of ‘Judica’ (MS 12 there) includes two additional exempla with visions of hell, one Fursey, the other from Patrick’s purgatory; the first of these, derived from the original in Bede’s Historia, also appears in English in Ashmole 751, at fol. 47rv. addition [3] (arguably) BL, MS Harley 1022, fol. 1v, s. xiv ex.

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However, the following piece at Lincoln Cathedral, MS  91, fols  193v–94, as the scribe Robert Thornton indicates, reproduces a well-known hymn.

Excerpts from Gregory the Great’s Moralia [Allen 313, where it is rejected from the canon] incipit: Parce mihi… Sunt nonnulli iustorum qui sic celestia appetunt… edition (indeed, the only copy): as ‘In aliquot capita Iob prophetae enarratio’, Cologne 1536, fols 89–122v. English version, ‘The Lessouns of Dirige’; see Henry Hargreaves, ‘Lessouns of Dirige: A Rolle Text Discovered’, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 91 (1990), 311–19; and Uncollected lxiv–vi. incipit: Avdiui uocem de celo… I hard a voyce fro heuene sayand blyssed… edition: Uncollected 37–57. The unique copy is: Aberdeen University Library, MS 243, fols 154–60, s. xv2/4. References to the text as Rolle’s occur in Ullerston’s quaestio on biblical translation, both Latin and English versions (Latin Psalter MSS 37–44 above); and in the rubric to three copies of the Middle English poem ‘The nyne lessons of the Dirige’ or ‘Pety Iob’ (IMEV 1854) [Allen 369]. attested copies ? 1452 William Duffield, chaplain of All Saints, North Street, York, inventory: ‘j. quatern[us] pergamen[us] de Abbreviatione moralium Beati Gregorii’ (but there are many such) ? Nicholas Brigham [the antiquary, d.  1558]: ‘Moralia in Iob’, seen by Bale (351) [cf. Allen 313]

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Our Unverified References Surviving Manuscripts with Unidentified Contents Liège, Bibliothèque de l’Université, MS 3258B, fols 92–93, s. xv med. (‘Notes d’ascèce attribuées à RR’). Attested Copies with Inexact References 1426/7 Henry Thorlthorp, parson in York Minster: ‘i. liber Ricardi heremite cum aliis tractatibus sanctorum patrum’, ‘i. liber Ricardi heremite cum parce mihi domine’, and ‘i. quaternus Ricardi heremite cum ij. aliis parvis quaternis et uno libello sancti Godrici’ (we cannot, at this time, resurrect the source of Doyle’s reference to ‘inventory R/As.25/42’). 1524 an unlocalised monastic inventory: ‘Ricardus Hampoll de amore Christi’, i.e. ‘Contra amatores’ (?). Although all the library entries here are introduced by ‘Item’, the following entry, ‘Item de vita activa et contemplativa’ conceivably refers to a further Rolle work, Allen’s ‘Super mulierem fortem’ (reported by James  O. Halliwell, ‘Early English Monastic Libraries’, Archaeologia 28 [1840], 455–57, at 455, as from ‘Harley Charter Y.24’, not a viable shelfmark).

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Formal Compilations derived from Rolle’s works Rolle was frequently construed an ‘authority’ to be cited with the same reverence accorded the fathers, Bernard of Clairvaux, and other spiritual masters. Perhaps the earliest example, copied shortly after  1400, is edited at Horstman 1:129–31 (BodL, MS Rawlinson C.285, fol. 39v [reproduced Introducing English Medieval Book History… (Liverpool, 2013), 74]). This includes citations of English Rolle, with other excerpts ascribed to Bonaventura and Bernard assimilated to Rolle’s forms by being presented in English. Cf. the similar early fifteenth-century collocation, including inter alia, ‘Oleum effusum’ in company with excerpts from Bernard’s discussion of the same verse from the Song, ‘Sermones in Cantica’ (PL 183:846–47, 855), in the collection appended to ‘Incendium amoris’ MSS 36, 42, and 48. See the description, Michael van Dussen, From England to Bohemia… (Cambridge, 2012), 42–43. These are small and adventitious collections, but there is a range of more substantial examples. We present first the Latin compilations, headed by the two works that present themselves as Rolle’s own, the remainder in rough chronological order; these are followed by English examples.

In Latin [A] ‘Orationes’ [Allen 400] edition: Watson (full reference under ‘Emendatio vitae’) 69–87. This work appears uniquely at: CUL, MS  Kk.6.20, fols  11–26v, s.  xv: ‘Oraciones…excerpte…de diuersis tractatibus quos composuit beatus Ricardus heremita ad honorem nominis Ihesu’. Watson carefully identifies the selections here. The text presents, more or less in sequence, following the initial citation from ‘Emendatio vitae’ 11, blocks of ‘Super Canticum’ (the selection at lines 322–53 implies access to a full text), ‘Incendium amoris’, ‘Novem lectiones’, and ‘Melos amoris’. attested copies ? Isleworth, Syon (OBrig) M.15 (Corpus SS1.748o, 9:221, ‘Multe deuote orationes de nomine Ihesu et de beata Maria’) ? Thurgarton (Notts., OSA) (Corpus A36.47l, 6:426, ‘Matutine de nomine Ihesu’) [Moyes 2:107]

[B] ‘De excellencia contemplationis’ (‘O dulce lumen’) [Allen 320] The work presents itself as comprised of Rolle’s descriptions and commendations of contemplation. However, as Allen pointed out (322) it is ‘an elaborately formed compilation of a puzzling sort’, much of it, like Walsingham’s (‘I’ below), ‘Rollesque’,

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rather than strictly citational (and like Walsingham occasionally, never marking or identifying its citations). It occurs at: [1] BL, MS Egerton 671, fols 27–47 v, s. xv. [2] BL, MS  Additional 24661, fols  49v–58v (selections, within ‘Incendium amoris’), s. xv med. [3] Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 396, fols 177 v–93, s. xv. [4] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.17, fols 167 v–82v, s. xv. [5] Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.631, fols 1–13v, s. xv2/4 . addition [6] BodL, MS Lat. th. d. 27, fols 165v–77, s. xv ex. attested copy London, Carmelite convent (Corpus C5.59b, 1:186) Tanner claimed to have seen a copy in ‘Worsley MS 9’; however, the catalogue of the books of Henry Worseley of Lincoln’s Inn, at [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 2 vols (Oxford, 1697), 2:211–14, includes no title that resembles the text. Most of Worseley’s books were subsequently acquired by Robert Harley. Allen aptly identified a range of Rolle’s works recognisable in this confection: ‘Emendatio vitae’ (esp. chs 11–12), ‘Super Canticum’ (esp. parts 5 and 7), ‘Contra amatores’, and ‘Super Psalmum  XX m’. These materials have, however, been subjected to considerable editorial activity, often with suppressions of material and intruded connectives. Cf. the presentation of ‘Emendatio vitae’ 11/85–99 (Lat. th., fol. 170) or 12/80–90 (Lat. th., fols 173v–74) with Spahl’s text. Citations from parts 1 and 2 (Lat. th., fols 171 and 169, respectively) indicate that the compiler had access to a full text of ‘Super Canticum’. There also seem passing moments at least reminiscent of ‘Incendium amoris’, e.g. two apparent citations from ch. 22 (Deanesly 208), bracketing one of the two citations from ‘Super Psalmum XX m’ we have recognised (Dolan 10/9–17) at Lat. th., fols 167 v–68. The manuscripts show some some effort at dividing the material into chapters (although without any indication of an underlying logic). However, the divisions differ markedly. Lat. th. and Douai both have ten chapters, but Egerton only nine and not always agreeing with those of the other pair. The materials in Additional correspond to Lat. th. sections 2, 5–6, and 9.

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[C] ‘Cibus anime’ [cf. Allen 399] This is a comprehensive spiritual compilation, probably produced s. xiv ex. (perhaps in Yorkshire). For extensive discussion, see Vincent Gillespie, ‘The Literary Form of the Middle English Pastoral Manual…’ (Oxford D.Phil. dissertation, 1981 [BodL, MS  D.Phil. c.3674–75]), 2  vols, esp. 1:188–245 and 2:401 (his list of manuscripts). Gillespie published some of his findings as ‘The Cibus Anime Book 3: A Guide for Contemplatives?’, Spiritualität Heute und Gestern 3, ed. James Hogg, Analecta Cartusiana 35.3 (Salzburg, 1983), 90–119. The work appears in (we give no foliations for examples filling the whole MS): [1] Cambridge, King’s College, MS Salt 47, s. xv (incomplete) [2] Cambridge, Trinity Hall, MS 16, fols 1–33v, s. xv (two books only) [3] CUL, MS Additional 6315 (II), fols 115–80v, s. xv2/2. [4] BL, MS Harley 237, fols 3–73v, s. xv med. [5] BL, MS Harley 407, s. xv ex. (the repaired opening with table) and s. xv med. [6] BL, MS Harley 2379, fols 1–56v, s. xv med./ex. (two books only). [7] BL, MS Harley 3363, fols 67–91 (the whole of this portion of a composite MS, added texts on the originally blank fols 91–93v), s. xv ex. (incomplete). [8] BL, MS Harley 3820, fols 1–6, s. xv2/2 (excerpts, beginning with that from ‘Oleum effusum’ in 3.11). [9] BL, MS Royal 5 A.vi, fols 13v–[30], 1446 (book 3 only). [10] London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 460, fols 1–120, s. xv. [11] Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 341, fols 1–82v, s. xv in. (two books only). [12] BodL, MS Rawlinson C.19, s. xv in. [13] Oxford, Balliol College, MS 239, fols 27–77 v (two books only), s. xv. [14] Oxford, University College, MS 60, fols 145–92, s. xv med. attested copy ? London, Charterhouse of the Salutation (Corpus C3.7, ‘esca anime’ sent to Coventry OCart, 9:621) In his thesis (226 and 381 n. 77), as well as the article cited above, Gillespie identifies the various Rolle citations here. The following description is predicated on MS 14, which has a table and clear chapter divisions. The citations are generally inexact, paraphrase and abbreviated or expanded; all but the longest are ascribed. 2.34, unidentified (fol. 170); 2.51 ‘Incendium amoris’ ch. 28 (Deanesly 225, fol. 177); 3.11 ‘Super Canticum’ 4/165–71, 270–72 (fol. 188); 3.13–15 ‘Emendatio vitae’ 11/29–81 excerpted (fol. 190);

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3.16 ‘Incendium amoris’ ch. 11 (Deanesly 175, fol. 190v); 3.17 ‘Super Psalmum XX m’ + ‘Incendium amoris’ ch. 3 (Deanesly 153–54, fols 190v–91). In contrast, the English derivative, Speculum Christiani, ed. Gustaf Holmstedt, EETS os 182 (London, 1933), has but a single citation from Rolle, at 191/19–20, derived from ‘Cibus’ 2.51. For the most complete listing of the nearly sixty manuscripts and seven early printed editions, see Gillespie, ‘The Evolution of the Speculum Christiani’, in Latin and Vernacular: Studies in Late-Medieval Texts and Manuscripts, ed. Alastair Minnis (Cambridge, 1989), 39–62, at 55–58; and for some discussion of the text’s origins (in central Lincolnshire), ‘Chapter and Worse: An Episode in the Regional Transmission of the Speculum Christiani’, English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 14 (2008), 86–111. attested copies Leicester (OSA) (Corpus A.21.1952, 6:398) 1467 will of Arthur Ormesby esq. of North Ormsby (Lincs.): ‘a wark called Speculum Christianorum’ (bound with? Nicholas Love and ‘an holy trete in English of contemplacion’), to George Neville, archbishop of York (Cavanaugh 630)

[D] Thomas Bassett’s Defense edition: Allen 529–37; Michael  G. Sargent, ‘Contemporary Criticism of Richard Rolle’, Kartäusermystik und -mystiker. Band 2, ed. James Hogg, Analecta Cartusiana 55.1 (Salzburg, 1981), 160–205, at 188–205. The unique copy is Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS  C.621, fols  67 v–72v, 1408 × 21 [Allen 403–04]; cf. Sharpe 640. For vernacular analogues to the Carthusian critic whom Bassett here seeks to refute, see further the first entry under ‘References’, p. 60. Bassett’s text includes five citations: ‘Incendium amoris’, prologue (Deanesly 145/14–17, edn 532), ch. 9 (Deanesly 170/10–13, edn 536), and ch. 14 (Deanesly 185/24– 27 and 186/5–7, edn 531, 532); and ‘Contra amatores mundi’ (Theiner 4/86–90, edn 535).

[E] ‘Speculum spiritualium’ [Allen 405] Another large spiritual compilation, the ‘Speculum’ dates from 1400 × 1430, and is almost certainly of Carthusian origin. There is a medieval ascription to Henry de Balnea (OCart), but now see Sharpe 7–8, where the text is assigned to ‘Adam the Carthusian’, perhaps to be identified with Adam Horsley. (This attribution is followed in later Corpus volumes.) On the text generally, see E. A. Jones, ‘A Chapter from Richard Rolle’ (full reference in n. 4). In addition to the English excerpt from ‘The Form’

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entered above (see p.  43 and EngMSS xxv–vi), the text contains, as dispersed citations, roughly half of ‘Emendatio vitae’ and, in 5.18, a citation from ‘Oleum effusum’ (for references, see Jones 159 nn.  14–15). The material in 5.18 has been derived from the excerpted ‘Oleum effusum’, and there is no sign the compiler knew the full ‘Super Canticum’. Jones’s list of copies that include part or all of the Rolle materials (again, we give no foliation for examples filling the whole MS) includes: [1] Cambridge, St John’s College, MS G.13 (181), fols 91v–221, s. xv in. (one EV citation). [2] CUL, MS Dd.4.54, fols 65–155, s. xv2/4 or s. xv med. (EV and F). [3] TCD, MS 271, s. xv med. (all three sets). [4] BL, MS Harley 237, fols 151–99v, s. xv med. (one EV citation) [Allen 409 incorrectly says that the MS includes the English extract from ‘The Form’]. [5] BL, MS Royal 7 B.xiv, s. xv 1/2 (EV and F). [6] BodL, MS Bodley 450, s. xv2/4 (EV and F). [7] BodL, MS Bodley 549, fols 1–23v, s. xv in. (OE only). [8] BodL, MS Lat. th. e.8, s. xv (OE only). [9] Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 141, fols 56–66v,? 1433 (one EV citation). [10] Oxford, Merton College, MS 204, fols 2–181v, 1446 × 50 (EV and OE). [11] Salisbury Cathedral, MS 56, fols 1–220v, s. xv2/4/med. (all three sets). [12] York Minster, MS XVI.I.9, fols 4–226v, s. xv in. (EV and F). In addition, the text was printed in Paris for London sale in 1510 (STC 23030.7); see ‘Emendatio vitae’ above. For a great many surviving copies of this printed version, most from continental houses, see Doyle 2008, 149 and 152–53 nn. 38–47. These include Oxford, University College, pb d. 6, from Leominster (Herefs., OSB, cell of Reading); and Peterborough Cathedral, pb D.8.17 (now a CUL deposit), from Pipewell (Nhants., OCist) (MLGB 114 and 152, respectively). And note Corpus H2.516, 7:104, the Royal Library copy, now BL, pb 473.b. 6. additions Doyle 2008 cites excerpts in several other MSS; these may include citations from portions of the text that quote Rolle. For the partly derivative ‘Donatus devotionis’, compiled by an unidentified monk in 1430, see Doyle 1989. Like the individuals responsible for Compilations B and I, this author appears on occasion to have absorbed a Rollean rhetoric and may offer further citations. See for example, 1.4.2–3, at Donatus deuotionis de octo partibus orationis (London: John Rastell, 1515, STC 7018.7), sigs [f. vi–g iiv], a discussion of ‘incendium’, filled with at least reminiscences of Rollean materials.

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Isleworth, Syon (OBrig), five copies, M.36 (Corpus SS1.¶769, 9:232, very likely the 1510 print) also M.60+M.61 (SS1.793–94, 9:239, a  two-volume set); M.62 (SS1.795, 9:239); M.63 (SS1.796a, 9:240); M.108 (SS1.841, 9:255) Worcester Cathedral (OSB) (Corpus B117.50/78, 4:669, 672) 1475/6 will of Hugh Damlet, rector of St Peter Cornhill, London, ‘lib[er] qui vocatur Speculum spiritualium’: to his brother Dom. Laurence (Consistory Court of London, register Wylde, fol. 189) Henry Savile of Banke MS 179 (Watson 52, probably not Harley 237) As Jones shows, the Middle English ‘Disce mori’ (Jolliffe A.6) is largely a derivative of the ‘Speculum’ and receives most of its various Rolle citations from that source [cf. Allen 399]. The work appears in: [1] BodL, MS Laud misc. 99, fols 1–257dv [2] Oxford, Jesus College, MS 39, pp. 1–645 See Jones, The ‘Exhortacion’ from Disce Mori, MET 36 (Heidelberg, 2006), 9/6– 10/21 (the citation already transmitted in English in ‘Speculum’ 2.16) and 55/5–44 (the Englished version of ‘Oleum’ at ‘Speculum’ 5.18). Citations from Rolle original to ‘Disce mori’ appear at 15/32–16/11 (‘The Commandment’, Ogilvie-T lines 137–87, 214– 21) and 32/29–34/19 (‘Emendatio vitae’, Spahl 11/26–138). Some of these selections may appear in the derivative ‘Ignorancia sacerdotum’ (Jolliffe A.2), BodL, MS Eng. th. c. 57, fols 131v–40; see Edward Jones, ‘Jesus College Oxford MS 39: Signs of a Medieval Compiler at Work’, English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 7 (1998), 236–48.

[F] ‘Ad destruendam superbiam’ [Allen 398, 400] This very careful compilation appears in two books: [1] CUL, MS Ff.1.14, fols 109–25, s. xv [2] BodL, MS Hatton 97, fols 82–89v, s. xv2/4. In the former, the full title (fol. 109) is ‘Ad destruendam superbiam et elacionem mentis et ad nostram miseriam cognoscendam et de contemptu mundi et de diuitibus cum eo gaudentibus de peccato et eius periculo et multa alia notabilia’. However, the colophon in the same MS misleadingly identifies the text as ‘Bonaventura de superbia et elacione mentis…’. To the contrary, the whole is almost entirely a collection of briefish excerpts from Rolle. There are about 75 of these in all (as the compiler says, fol. 114, ‘sparsim collecta’). In Ff.1.14, these are meticulously and accurately identified, down to the verse under discussion in a larger unit (e.g. ‘Item in vija leccione immediate

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ante hec verba Non peccaui et in amaritudinibus etc.’, fol.  111v, introducing Moyes 241/18–242/2); this MS also twice refers to Rolle as ‘beatus’ (fols 114, 122). More than half the citations, as the title might suggest, are derived from ‘Novem lectiones’, and especially leccio 5; also represented are ‘Super Canticum’ (15×, showing knowledge of the full text), ‘Contra amatores mundi’ (9×), ‘Incendium amoris’ (from the long version, 6×), ‘Emendatio vitae’ (3×), ‘Super Psalmum XX m’ (2×), and ‘Judica’ A (once).

[G] Alexander Carpenter, ‘Destructorium vitiorum’ For Carpenter (fl. 1429), see Sharpe 49; his work is vastly more commonplace in early printed editions than in manuscript (only four survivors and one attested copy). Moyes 2:113 points out a single citation from ‘Novem lectiones’, used twice.

[H] ‘Liber meditacionum de uita domini et saluatoris nostri Ihesu Cristi et venerabilis matris eius virginis Marie’ [Allen 402] The work appears in two copies, in both the whole MS: [1] BL, MS Royal 8 C.xv, s. xv med. [2] BodL, MS Bodley 417, s. xv med. or xv3/4. The text, apparently constructed to facilitate some variety of rosary devotion, has five parts, each of five ‘quindene’ of 15 meditations each. Each meditation begins with a gospel account, accompanied by traditional exegetical explanation, and then passes to an intercessary prayer predicated upon the holy action of that episode. In this text, Rolle rubs shoulders with a number of outstanding exegetes, including Jerome, Leo, Bede, Bernard, Aquinas, and Bonaventura; there are also extensive selections from Bridget (suggestive of a Syon product?), and in later portions describing the life of the Virgin, Matilda/Mechthild. Although there are passing references to Lyra, the compiler’s favoured gospel commentator is Robertus scriba [of Bridlington] (Sharpe 526– 28; a sequence of references to him have been assimilated to Rolle as ‘Ric’ scriba’!). With the exception of the example cited by Moyes, the excerpts used are marked only in the elaborate contents table, never in the text proper. Citations are drawn from at least the following texts (references are to Bodley 417): ‘Super symbolum’, an extensive chunk from ‘natus de Marie virgine’ (Cologne 1536, fol. 147 near the top) (fol. 12, 1.4.2). ‘Super Canticum’ 4 (not simply the excerpt ‘Oleum’, but the full text) and 7 (fol. 23rv, 2.1.4–5, identified as ‘libro de incendio amoris’). ‘Novem lectiones’ (Moyes 127/10–19) (fol. 31v, 2.2.13, not noted in the contents table; see Moyes 2:111).

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‘Meditation B’, about one-third of the English text, here in Latin, including the two large blocks Ogilvie-T lines 189–250 and 299–370 (fols 82, 85v, 89, 91–92v, 95v–97, 98, 99; 4.1.13, 4.2.5, 4.2.13, 4.3.3–5, 4.3.7, 4.3.13–15, 4.4.2, 4.4.4).

[I] John Walsingham (prior of the London Charterhouse, d. 1488), ‘De diligendo Deo’ For the ascription, which depends on that attached to the similar text following in the manuscript, see Sharpe 341. The unique copy, scribal rather than autograph, is: TCD, MS 159, fols 108–45v, s. xv/xvi or xvi in. The text is plainly composed for an audience of enclosed religious (e.g. references to ‘claustrales’ and their cells, fol. 116; and to ‘contubernal[es]’, fol. 141v). It is not particularly sophisticated, either in ideas or manner, and may have been conceived as introductory reading material for novices. The most frequently cited author is Bernard, but there are also extensive references to Mechthild (always ‘ancilla Dei’) and Angela of Foligno (as well as a mysterious ‘Aluredus’ [for ‘Alredus’, i.e. Aelred of Rievaulx?]). Walsingham refers to ‘Hilton’ on one occasion (fol. 142). Allen 402 offers considerable detail and apt identification of fourteen references to ‘Hampol’. More than half her citations come from ‘Incendium amoris’; in addition, Walsingham cites ‘Super Canticum’ three times (apparently from ‘the Compilation’ customarily attached to ‘Incendium’), ‘Contra amatores mundi’ once, and ‘Ego dormio’, in Latin translation, twice. However helpful this detail, Allen’s analysis of the text appears to have been a little perfunctory; one should add further (unidentified) references at fols 112v, 114rv, and 124v. Similarly, at fol. 119rv, after associating one citation with ‘Incendium amoris’ 1 (Deanesly 149/24–26, 34, 150/4–7, 15–19), Allen overlooked the ‘ait’ in the following sentence, Walsingham’s customary signal of continuing quotation, and missed his citation of ‘Emendatio vitae’ 4/63–67. However, tracing and identifying Walsingham’s often brief citations do not exhaust Rolle’s influence here. Like the compiler of ‘De excellencia’, Walsingham appears to have absorbed a Rollean rhetoric, and large tracts of his writing might be perceived as paraphrase or memorial transcription. Moreover, he is not writing a scholarly treatise, with the precision of reference expected there, and his ‘signed’ borrowings are far from all the Rolle on display. For example, we recognise unascribed bits from ‘The Form of Living’ (Ogilvie-T lines 610–15, in Latin, fol. 113v) and the English Psalter prologue (fol. 130v, again in Latin).

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In English [K] ‘The Pore Caitif’ As Allen 406 indicates, substantial portions of this still unpublished work (Jolliffe  B) are drawn from Rolle. Allen there identifies citations from ‘The Form’ and ‘Emendatio vitae’, as well as a second translation into English of substantial portions of ‘Oleum effusum’. It was left to the great student of ‘Pore Caitif’, M. Teresa Brady, to specify and analyse these borrowings, first in her general overview of the work, ‘The Pore Caitif: An Introductory Study’, Traditio 10 (1954), 529–48, at 538–42. More detailed studies followed: ‘Rolle’s Form of Living and The Pore Caitif ’, Traditio 36 (1980), 426–35; ‘The seynt and his boke: Rolle’s Emendatio Vitae and The Pore Caitif ’, 14th-Century English Mystics Newsletter 7.1 (1981), 20–31; and ‘Rolle and the Pattern of Tracts in The Pore Caitif ’, Traditio 39 (1983), 456–65. In Brady’s accounts, two of the fourteen tracts that comprise ‘The Pore Caitif’ (the fourth and fifth) are entirely derived from ‘Emendatio vitae’; two more (the eleventh and thirteenth) from ‘The Form’; and one from both of them (the tenth). The ninth tract, ‘The name of Ihesu’, reproduces much of ‘Oleum effusum’, but its readings imply that it probably represents an excerpted translation from a full Latin copy of ‘Super Canticum’ (an exemplar shared with MS 14). In addition, the sixth tract, ‘Of Temptacioun’, draws on the selections from ‘Ancrene Riwle’ that sporadically circulate with Rolle’s ‘Incendium’ (discussed under ‘Dubia’ below, pp. 66–67). To Brady’s account, Michael G. Sargent adds a further example, ‘A Source of the Poor Caitiff Tract “Of Man’s Will”’, Mediaeval Studies 41 (1979), 535–39. Sargent demonstrates that the twelfth tract has been derived from ‘The Compilation’. It includes, not simply the Anselmian ‘Omnis actio’, but part of the following selection ‘Si quis sancte’ (‘Incendium amoris’ ch. 12, Deanesly 177/5–17).

[L] ‘Contemplations of the dread and love of God’/‘Fervor amoris’ See Margaret Connolly, ed., EETS os 303 (Oxford, 1993) for the manuscripts and printed editions (Wynkyn de Worde, 1506 and 1519 [?], STC 21259–60). There are an additional twenty-four manuscripts with excerpts, not all of them Rollean; see Connolly, ‘The Edited Text and the Selected Text, and the Problem of Critical Editions’, Editing and Interpretation of Middle English Texts: Essays in Honour of William Marx, ed. Connolly and Raluca L. Radulescu (Turnhout, 2018). The text includes a number of only slightly paraphrased excerpts, all those identified from the English ‘Form of Living’ and ‘Ego Dormio’; cf. for example, Connolly’s notes to the early chapters at 104–05.

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General References and Commendations Besides specific textual citations, Rolle’s continuing influence manifests itself in a variety of more general references. A quite substantial number of these is comprised of misattributions; many book-producers were prepared to ‘authorise’ a range of texts through association with the hermit. Allen disposed of many such instances (345–97 passim), and we reserve several outstanding examples (along with some comment on their logic) for discussion under the heading ‘Dubia’, pp. 65–68. However, a limited number of examples, representing more general testimonies about Rolle and his spiritual behaviours, are worthy of more than passing notice. We here list examples in rough chronological order. As Michael G. Sargent points out at ‘Contemporary Criticism’ 178–82 (full reference under ‘Compilation D’ above), allusions to Rolle’s practice appear in several late fourteenth-century vernacular texts. These references, directly invoking versions of the triad ‘calor, dulcor, canor’, are by and large critical and appear as arguments differentiating the later authors’ spiritual practices from Rolle’s precedent. Such works include, most prominently, Walter Hilton’s ‘Of angels’ song’, ed. Horstman 1:175–82; and his still unedited ‘Scale of Perfection’ 1.10–11, tr. John P. H. Clark and Rosemary Dorward (New York, 1991), 83–85.5 A hand supplying marginal notes in Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 4483 (inferentially Czech, s. xv in./med., but some materials copied from a source dated 1405) had apparently made inquiries as to the identity of ‘Rychard’ and reports his findings [Allen 39–43,with citations]. John Dygon, fifth recluse of Sheen, in his sermons, Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 79, fol. 205 (s. xv2/4), has a general commendation of Rolle, ‘Trahit eciam aliquos dulcedine contemplacionis et oracionis feruore, sicut Ricardum Hampul siue heremitam temporibus nostris, qui mirabiliter excellebat in hiis duobus’ (cited Wenzel, Latin Sermon Collections, 111 n. 51). John Lydgate, in a passage emulating and extending Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde 5.1789–92, 1856–57 (composed 1430s), adds Rolle to his predecessor’s ‘moral Gower’ and ‘philosophical Strode’ as representative of a higher form of knowledge: In parfyt lyvyng which passith poysye Richard hermyte, contemplatyff of sentence, Drowh in Ynglyssh The Prykke of Conscience.

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See Lydgate’s Fall of Princes, ed. Henry Bergen, EETS es 121–24 (London, 1924–27), 9.3412–14 (3:1016, IMEV 1168) [Allen 383].6 In addition to Geoffrey Byland’s ‘defensorium’ of St Bridget (‘Incendium’ MS 72 above), BL, MS Harley 612 includes a further defense, by ‘bishop Reginald’. Here Rolle is invoked as an authoritative precedent for Bridget’s holy revelations. For ‘Reginald’, see Sharpe  455, but note Roger Ellis’s argument that the author is in fact the wellknown Reginald Pecock (Sharpe 457), ‘Text and Controversy in Defence of St Birgitta of Sweden’, Text and Controversy (full reference post ‘Form of Living’ MS 63), 303–21, at 305 n. 8, 306 n. 11. Richard Firth, alias Methley, monk of Mt Grace (Sharpe  493), includes in his ‘­Refectorium salutis’, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.2.56 (1160), fol. 56 (s. xv4/4), a reference to Rolle, quoted Allen 416. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 317, fol. 55 (s. xv/xvi), amid a variety of theological notes, discusses the seven salutary effects of meditating on the Passion as a remedy against temptation. The discussion includes in its third point (the memory of the Passion as granting the fullest remission of sins): ‘Respice in libro de feruore amoris quod verus amator Christi prefertur (?) omnibus penitenciam agentibus sine feruenti amore, qualis fuit beata virgo, Maria Magdalena, Iohannis euangelista et alij. Item Ricardus Rolle heremita dudum de Hampolle cum ceteris’ (presumably in allusion to the anecdote that concludes ‘Super Canticum’ 4: is ‘feruor’ a by-title for ‘Incendium’?). At least one flagrant misattribution might be construed testimony to Rolle’s spiritual reputation. At BL, MS Royal 8 D.xix, fol. 1v, a sixteenth-century reader remarks of the text, ‘Est author ignotus, nisi forte sit Hampoll eremita’. For the text, the Paupertas attributed to Ralph of Maidstone, see Sharpe 449. Fr Augustine Baker, in his Anchor of the Spirit (1629; Ampleforth Abbey, MS 118, p.  60), refers to ‘our holy Countreyman St  Richard of Hampole’, although in a bad cause, because Baker believes him, not William Flete, to have written ‘De remediis’ The opening may include a reference to ‘The Form’ under its by-title. John Bale derived his ascription of the Latin ‘Stimulus conscientiae’ to Rolle from Oxford, Merton College, MS 68, a book probably produced for its donor to Merton, Hammond Haydock. This manuscript can be connected with ‘Lydgate-country’, including English of the Norfolk-Suffolk border; moreover, Haydock was the incumbent at Bildeston (Suffolk) between 1435 and 1440. See further ‘Merton College, MS 68: Production and Texts’, Bodleian Library Record 27 (2014), 129–52. In addition, two of the four copies of the English Prick of Conscience that ascribe it to Rolle – Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 386; and BL, MS Egerton 3245 – are written in Suffolk language, and BodL, Ashmole 60, also with the ascription, in the language of Ely. See Robert E. Lewis and Angus McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the Prick of Conscience, Medium Ævum Monographs ns 12 (Oxford, 1982), 38–39, 62–63, 79–80, 94–95, 168. However, one attested book with the ascription was in the ‘Rood Chantry’ of St Oswald’s, Ashbourne (Derbys.) in 1516; see BL, Wolley Charters VI.38. 6 

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Images of Rolle (again in chronological order) Cambridge, St John’s College, MS B.1 (23) introduces its two extensive Rolle texts with inhabited champs: (a) Rolle seated in a barrel outside his cell writing (fol. 1, the opening of ‘Incendium amoris’); and (b) Rolle holding an open book, apparently a gradual with text ‘In Dei nomine’ (i.e. song inspired by the Holy Name; fol. 41, the opening of ‘Melos amoris’) [Allen 114/216]. Colour reproductions of both appear on the College website, at https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/manuscripts/medieval_manuscripts/medman/B_1.htm. BodL, MS Laud misc. 528: the frontispiece shows a Dominican (?), kneeling before a barefoot, grey-and-white clad figure, apparently Rolle (fol. 2v, the second front flyleaf) [Allen 54]. Indexed (as work of c. 1400), but not illustrated, in Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford…Volume 3 (Oxford, 1973), no. 782. Manuscripts of ‘The Desert of Religion’ (IMEV 672; cf. n. 3 above) include images of Rolle, in the last two examples associated with ‘hermit-verses’ (IMEV Sup. 91.8): BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 52v BL, MS Cotton Faustina B.vi (II), fol. 8v BL, MS Stowe 39, fol. 16v [Allen 310]. Additional 37049 includes further representations of Rolle, at fols 30v and 37, described with full references to reproductions at EngMSS 78–80. Faustina has been several times reproduced: see Walter Hübner, ‘The Desert of Religion, mit dem Bilde des Richard Rolle of Hampole…’, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 126 (1911), 58–74, facing 58; Frances M. M. Comper, ed. tr., The Fire of Love… (London, 1914, 1920), frontispiece (in colour); and G. C. Heseltine, Selected Works of Richard Rolle Hermit (London, 1930), frontispiece. Hübner also reproduces the Stowe image, facing 62. Anne-Marie Mouron is preparing an edition with full reproductions. In his printed editions of works he ascribed to Rolle, de Worde similarly provided likenesses: ‘Contemplacions’ (STC 21259) contains two images: (a) on the title page (sig. [a i]), a generic image of a nimbed religious with staff, standing in a field with his hermitage in the background; and (b) a hermit outside his cell, leaning on a wall (rapt in contemplation?), while around him devils collect the damned and usher them to hell-mouth (sig. [a iv]). The second edition (STC 21260) repeats the same images in the same positions, although that on the title-page now has a border of rosettes. See Edward Hodnett, English Woodcuts 1480–1535, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1973), nos 445 and 459 (176 and 179, respectively), and his reproduction of the second image as figure 51. The title-page image of ‘Contemplacions’ appears again, on sig. [A iv] in all three of de Worde’s editions of William Flete’s ‘Remedies’ (STC 20875.5 et seq.).

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Further Attested Copies – General References not Mentioning ­Specific Texts, ­References to Which Are Entered Above Cf.  a variety of references above to single texts with appended ‘cum aliis’, from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (s.v. CAM), the London Carthusians (s.v. English Psalter, IA, English Meds), and Syon (s.v. IA and EV) Oxford, Durham College: ‘Liber Ricardi heremite’ (see W. A. Pantin, ‘Catalogue of the Books of Durham College, Oxford, c. 1390–1400’, in Formularies Which Bear on the History of Oxford, c. 1204–1420. Vol. I, ed. H. E. Salter et al., Oxford Historical Society ns 4 (Oxford, 1942), 241–45, at 244 [no. 102]) Youghal (co. Cork, OFM): ‘liber devotus in quo continentur multa suffragia sanctorum, necnon Ricardus Heremita’ (see Colmán N. Ó Clabaigh, The Franciscans in Ireland 1400–1534: From Reform to Reformation (Dublin, 2002), 166 [no. 41]) 1391 will of William de Thorp kt.: ‘that book which Richard Heremit composed’, to Henry Hammond [Allen 413] 1414 will of Mr John Newton, treasurer of York Minster: ‘libros Iohannis Howeden, Ricardi heremitae, domini Walteri Hilton canonici, Willielmi Rymyngton et Hugonis de Institucione Noviciorum in uno volumine’, to York Minster library [Allen 414] 1417 will of Richard Southworth, rector of East Hendred (Berks.): ‘a book of mine of Richard the Hermit’, to Mr Henry Kays, ‘his dear master’ [Allen 413] 1424 Nicholas of Hereford, prior: ‘De origine religionis secundum Ricardum heremitam de Hampole’, to his abbey Evesham (OSB). Associated in Corpus (B30.33, 4:132) with a work of Hilton, but if a general description, rather than a title, might refer to a number of Rolle works. 1457 will of Mr John Sedgefield, fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford: ‘unum librum vocatum Hampole’, to Mr John Chylde [Allen 413] 1477 William Crowton, canon of Salisbury: ‘unum parvum librum continentem diversa opera devota Ricardi Hampole’, to Dom. William Crouche, choral vicar of Salisbury (PCC Wattys fol. 232v)

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Dubia: Works of Doubtful Authenticity ‘Super symbolum S. Athanasii’ [Allen 312] incipit: Quicunque vult…Hic beatus Athanasius liberum arbitrium posuit… editions: Cologne 1536, fols 151–53; and, as Bruno of Würzburg, PL 142:561–68. Allen mentions the text’s appearance in BodL, MS Bodley 861 and Hereford Cathedral, MS O.viii.1; further copies include: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Landau Finaly 193, fols 141–45, s. xv. But the text, as Allen saw, is much older; cf. for example excerpted glosses from it in York Minster, MS XVI.I.4, fols 201v–4, s. xii med. (MMBL 4:711).

The Prayer to the Holy Name [Allen 314] incipit: O bone Ihesu, o dulcissime Ihesu, O piisime Ihesu… edition: Wilmart (full reference at ‘Super Canticum’ above) 267–68. Allen properly rejected the text, since it mainly reproduces Anselm, Meditatio 2, PL 158:724–25. The ascription depends on canny readers having recognised that, in a well-known and widely transmitted passage, Rolle echoes Anselm’s supplication; see Allen’s citations 74 and n. 1 and cf. the Middle English version at BL, MS Additional 10596, fols 54v–55v: ‘What ellis is Ihesus to seie þan sauiour? Þerfore good Ihesu saue me for þi name’.7 Allen cites examples of the prayer in BL, MS  Cotton Vespasian E.i, fols  96v–97 (where it is intruded within this MS’s rendition of ‘Super Canticum’, following part 4); Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 396, fol. 7rv (reproduced by Wilmart); and BL, MS Harley 2445, fols 20v–22v; as well as an English version in BodL, MS Rawlinson C.209, fols 21–22v (these last two ascribed). As Allen notes, there are many further copies, e.g., in addition to her abundant citations: Bristol Public Library, MS 11, fols 94–95v, 1479. Edinburgh University Library, MS 308, fols 127 v–29, s. xv 1. BodL, MS Lyell 30, fols 32–33v, 1441. Oxford, St John’s College, MS 94, fols 103v–04, 1420 × 34. Princeton University Library, MS 221, fols 66–68v, s. xv 1/2. San Marino ca, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS 64538, fols 102v–03v, s. xv2/4. Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek, MSS S456, fols 11v–12v, s. xv med.; and S465, fols 167–68 (in German), 1482–83. A similar logic underlies Ashmole 751’s ascription of William of Rimington’s Meditationes to Rolle (see Allen 347–48). Rimington’s first meditation, about half the text, reformulates Anselm’s and includes a version of its Holy Name passage. See Robert O’Brien, ‘The Stimulus Peccatoris of William of Rymyngton’, Cîteaux 16 (1965), 278–304, at 287–88. 7 

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Several books indexed V. Leroquais, Les livres d’heures manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale…, 2 vols (Paris, 1927), 2:432. In addition to the English examples cited above, others appear at CUL, MS Ii.6.43, fols  94v–96; BL, MS  Harley 2339, fols  8–9v; and London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 559, fols 37 v–39. The prayer also appears at the climax of the Middle English translation of Anselm’s meditation, ed. Horstman 2:445. This text survives in four copies: BL, MSS Additional 22283 and Arundel 197; BodL, MS Laud misc. 174; and Oxford, University College, MS 97.

The Office of the Holy Name [Allen 9–10, 349–51] incipit: Salutem mentis et corporis… As Allen points out, the text is actually by Heinrich Suso. The attribution to Rolle, which one could construe an allusion to the prominence of his discussions in an insular context, appears in: CUL, MS Kk.6.20, fols 1–7 v, s. xv (preceding ‘Compilation A’). The text was printed, with the Rolle ascription, in Horae beate virginis secundum vsum Insignis ecclesie Sarum (de Worde, 31 July 1503, STC 15899). It is copied from de Worde’s print into Ipswich, Public Library, MS 7, fols 252–[77] (MMBL 2:991–92), as well as appearing, with de Worde’s attribution, in a number of subsequent printed Horae.

Speculum peccatoris [Allen 353] incipit: Quoniam carissime in via huius seculi fugientis sumus… edition: (as ps.-Augustine) PL 40:983–92. The text appears to have been composed probably late s. xii or s. xiii, and there is in published Augustine bibliography only one copy that appears to predate 1300. For copies in English repositories, see Franz Römer, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus, Band II/1, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte 281 (Vienna, 1972), 173–75. An English version (Jolliffe F.8) survives in around twenty copies, ed. Horstman 2:436– 40. Both the Latin and the English appear with some frequency with legitimate works of Rolle in manuscript, often with ascriptions to the Hermit; the ascription probably depends upon readers’ recognition of Rolle’s reliance on similar (if not derived) themes in the popular ‘Novem lectiones’.

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Allen 218 and 230 draws attention to the short version of ‘Incendium amoris’ in Lincoln Cathedral, MS 218 (MS 25 in that list). On fol. 217 of that manuscript, between ‘Incendium’ and the excerpt ‘Oleum effusum’, there appear two briefish selections: [a] ‘Anima exuta a carne que proiecta non habet vnde exeat…’, followed by the colophon for ‘Incendium’; [b] ‘Quandoque tribularis memento…’. The second of these passages shows a rather persistent, if varied, attachment to Rolle’s writings, although it represents an excerpt, in the fullest forms drawn from The Latin Text of the Ancrene Riwle, ed. Charlotte D’Evelyn, EETS os 216 (London, 1944), 59/24–31, 84/11–29. Cf. Ancrene Wisse…, ed. Bella Millett, EETS os 325 (Oxford, 2005), 88/743–56, 68/1–8. Besides Lincoln 218, the selection appears appended to copies of the short version of ‘Incendium amoris’ in MSS 28, 36, 42, and 48 above. It also appears, attached to a copy of ‘Judica me Deus’, at BodL, MS Laud misc. 111, fol. 187 (MS 4 of that text); and at CUL, MS Mm.6.17, fols 92v–93 (‘Judica’ MS 9, textually related to the previous, but the excerpt here separate). And it appears, in part, explicitly as an insertion, at the head of ‘Emendatio vitae’, ch. 5, in the printed ‘Speculum spiritualium’ of 1510, sig. A5va/11–21. The excerpt also appears, here certainly derived from the ‘Riwle’ directly, since the selections include 85/1–7, 17–26, at Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.III.11, fols 74v, 83rv. We see no basis for Thomson’s apparent claim (catalogue 188, full reference index n. 56) that the text has been added to the copy of ‘Emendatio vitae’ in Lincoln Cathedral, MS 229. While ‘Ancrene Riwle’ is a suitably authoritative text to be responsible for such diffusion, the vernacular persistence of the excerpt may rely upon the perception that it is Rolle’s, or at least had his sanction. The excerpt appears prominently in ‘The Chastising of God’s Children’, where it provides the title, and again in ‘The Pore Caitif’ (the sixth tract, ‘Of Temptacioun’). For full citations of the relevant materials (the version associated with Rolle cited from MS Laud misc. 111), see The Chastising of God’s Children…, ed. Joyce Bazire and Edmund Colledge (Oxford, 1957), 259–63.

Early Bibliographies [Allen 418–29] Allen quite adequately disposed of the ebullience of Rolle’s early bibliographers. We here offer only a few details and clarifications concerning the materials she wisely rejected.

‘Boston of Bury’, i.e. Henry Kirkstead ‘Super 4m librum sentenciarum, inc. “Secundum quosdam”’: Given that he took no university degree, Rolle cannot have engaged in this activity of a graduate theologian.

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No commentary with this incipit appears in Friedrich Stegmüller, Repertorium Commentariorum in Sententias Petri Lombardi, 2 vols (Würzburg, 1947). ‘De glorificacione sanctorum’: as Corpus K528.11 suggests, probably represents a reference to ‘Melos amoris’.

John Bale ‘De poenitentia, inc. “Poenitimini vt deleantur peccata”’: There is a potentially relevant tract, the incipit continuing after this citation of Acts 3:19, ‘Nota quedam sunt penitencie constitutiva quedam penitencie allectiva’. The text likely predates Rolle and, on the basis of the copies we know, would appear a continental production. See Kremsmünster, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 284, fols 385v–89, s. xiii/xiv–xiv 1/2; The Vatican, Bibliotheca Apostolica, MS Reginensis lat. 174, fols 83–87, s. xiv; and Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS Rh. 116 (486), fols 1–4v, s. xiv. ‘Sermones quadragesimales, inc. “Pulvis es et in pulverem revertes”’: The biblical text cited (Gen. 3:19) is insufficient to identify the reference with any surviving cycle. There are sermon collections that begin with productions on this verse, but not thoroughly Lenten in content, e.g. Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS V.H.125; and Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 646 (A.502).

John Pits ‘De mysteriis rerum que sunt in ecclesia’: To be assigned, as Allen suggested, to Richard the Premonstratensian (Sharpe 499–501). ‘Formulam componendi sermonem’: Now generally ascribed to John of Wales, but cf. Sharpe 340. For copies, see Harry Caplan, Mediaeval Artes Praedicandi: A HandList, 2 vols, Cornell Studies in Classical Philology 24–25 (Ithaca NY, 1934–36), no. 121 (24:22), an extract from Caplan’s no. 62 (24:13–14). In addition to those books Allen cites, there is a copy at Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 15700, fols 110–11, following ‘Contra amatores’; this MS is the source of most texts in Sloane 2275, also with the text.

C. Oudin ‘Commendatio castitatis, inc. “Cum enim secundum beatum Hieronymum”’: There are copies of this anonymous work (not as Allen thought, to be associated with Bonaventura or Conrad of Saxony) in books also conveying Rolle texts: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 15700, fol. 94v; Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.17, fol. 46v.

Indexes For all English texts, we adopt the notations used in the index to EngMSS. For the Latin, we index the relevant contents of each book by text and the number assigned in our list. For this purpose, we have adopted the following abbreviated forms: Apoc ‘Super Apocalypsim’ CA ‘Canticum amoris’ CAM ‘Contra amatores mundi’ Cant ‘Super Canticum’ (CantO = the excerpt ‘Oleum effusum’) Comp one of the various compilations (identified by following letter) Dub Dubia EV ‘Emendatio vitae’ IA ‘Incendium amoris’ (starred copies ‘*’ include ‘The Compilation’) Jud ‘Judica me Deus’ Mag ‘Super Magnificat’ Mel ‘Melos amoris’ Mul ‘Super Mulierem fortem’ Nov ‘Super novem lectiones’ Off the Office Orat ‘Super orationem’ Psa the Latin Psalter Pxx ‘Super Psalmum xx m’ Sym ‘Super symbolum’ Ref miscellaneous references (and images) Thr ‘Super Threnos’ Vir ‘Viridarium’

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Off IA Mel Apoc IA (Eng) Dirge Pxx Sym DD ED GG P Orat F MPA Jud A MPB Psa Mag Vir Mul EV Dub CantO OE Nov Dirge Dub Dub Thr Dub CAM Dub Cant EV (Eng)

Indexes The bee has thre kyndis ane es þat scho es neuer ydill… Þe comawndement of God es þat we lufe oure lorde… The fyrst comandement es thy lorde God þou sall loute… Þe seuen gyftes of þe Haly Gaste þat ere gyfen to men… Zelo tui langueo virgo speciosa | Sistens in suspirio…

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Surviving Copies Aberdeen University Library, MS 243 – EngMSS 1 = Pu, Dirge Ampleforth Abbey (NRY), MS 118: Ref Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS A.iv.24: EV/74. St Leonard, Basel (OSA).1 Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS A.vi.29: EV/75. Basel Charterhouse.2 Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS A.x.66: F/553 Bautzen/Budyšin, Stadtbibliothek, MS 4o 25: EV/914 Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS theol. lat. fol. 580: EV/122 Bloomington, Indiana University Library, MS Poole 20; CantO/6, CAM/17, EV/685 Brno, Moravský zemský archiv, MS G 12, Cerr. II, 151: Psa/21 Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS  4929–32 (1485): CantO/7, IA/28, Dub/AR. Hérinnes/ Herne nr Enghien, Brabant (OCart).6 Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 4987 (2103): IA/29(*). Hérinnes/Herne nr Enghien, Brabant (OCart).7 Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS IV.743: Psa/33 Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, MS 390: EV/92

cambridge Corpus Christi College, MS 100: Psa/40 Corpus Christi College, MS 194: Mel/13. Hospital of St Mary, London without Bishopsgate (MMBL 125).8 Corpus Christi College, MS 298: Psa/41 Corpus Christi College, MS 365: Nov/23, Psa/5, Pxx/3, CAM/7. Dover (OSB) (MMBL 58).9 Corpus Christi College, MS 387 – EngMSS 2 = Pu. Lessnes (Kent, OSA) (MMBL 114).

But perhaps earlier in the Basel Charterhouse library; see Doyle 1981, 114 and 119 n. 32. The book is composite, and Allen’s donor did not necessarily give this part of the manuscript. Other portions were donated by Anthony Ruschman, once deacon in Ryngfeld, to the Carthusians ‘in Basilea minori’. 3  We are grateful to Anne Hudson for this additional reference. 4  See Thomas Krzenck, ‘Die Bautzener Hussitica der ehemaligen Gersdorfschen Bibliothek’, Studie o Rukopisech 31 (1995–96), 153–78, at 165–66 (the remaining contents are all works of John Hus). We are grateful to Anne Hudson for this reference. 5  Signed by the scribe ‘W. Newman’. 6  Doyle dates s. xv in. and notes that Allen’s ‘last three words’ are indeed the shelfmark ‘d.iii.7’ and that the last word in Allen’s account is probably ‘exemplum’. 7  Doyle dates s. xv med. and corrects Allen’s notation of the shelfmarks to ‘d.iii.5’ (?, changed to 6) and ‘d.iii.1’. 8  ‘Corf ’ notes on the flyleaf. 9  Gift to Dover of William Warren, former mayor. 1 

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Emmanuel College, MS 35: Jud/10, Mel/4, Orat/7, Mul/2, CAM/8, IA/14*. Sheen (OCart) (MMBL 178).10 Emmanuel College, pb 32.6.49: IA/43, EV/93. Syon (OBrig) (MMBL Sup. 64).11 Emmanuel College pb 318.3.14: Psa/27 Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 356: Jud/20, Nov/44, Mag/512 Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 132: F/65 Gonville and Caius College, MS 140/180: IA/12, EV/32, ED/14, F/73 Gonville and Caius College, MS 216/231: EV/33 Gonville and Caius College, MS 223/238: CantO/2, Nov/22, EV/9413 Gonville and Caius College, MS 332/723: IA/13. Gonville Hall, Cambridge.14 Gonville and Caius College, MS 353/380: EV/34 Gonville and Caius College, MS *669/646 – EngMSS 3 = F, EV4. ? St Bartholomew’s, Smithfield (OSA).15 Jesus College, MS Q.B.13 (James 30): EV/9516 Jesus College, MS Q.D.4 (James 46): Cant/6, IA/51, EV/3517 Jesus College, MS Q.G.11 (James 59): CAM/20. Durham Cathedral (OSB) (MLGB Sup. 17). Jesus College, MS  Q.G.26 (James 73) – EngMSS 120  = Pu (frag.). ?  Durham Cathedral (OSB).18 Described Sargent 2:478–87; see further Doyle 1998, 127. Includes materials ascribed to ‘John Newton’, and signatures of James Grenehalgh, Carthusian of Sheen, and Joanna Sewell, nun of Syon; see further nn. 61 and 84. The book should be, as Sargent was the first to point out in print, dated s. xv3/4 (it rather resembles the TCD and Westminster copies of the ‘Viridarium’, both OCart and of comparable date). Most of Allen’s comments passim, all dependent on Deanesly’s earlier misassessments in her edition of ‘Incendium’, should be discounted. For a John Newton, see further EV/120 and n. 186 below. 11  Discovered by Ker, who identified the contents of fol. iv (from the opening of ‘Incendium’, Deanesly 147/3–151/20). The copy of ‘Emendatio’ here appears to be the end of a complete text, and it may have been followed by a similar effort with ‘Incendium’ (fols  iv and  v, the latter of which opens in ch.  4, Deanesly 155/16–36). However, this form of reproduction appears to have been abandoned in favour of excerptive treatment, e.g. on fol. vi materials from chs 14, 11, and 32 (Deanesly 185/1–33, 174/15–176/33 [in the form of the short version], 235/26 ff. [breaking off at the foot of the mounted recto, the original verso]) in succession. We are grateful to Barry Windeatt, the Fellow Librarian, for allowing us extensive time with the book. 12  Described Francis Wormald and Phyllis M. Giles, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum…, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1982), 1:351–53. 13  The scribe signs as T. Wade. 14  Donated by Henry Osborne, fellow, c. 1400. 15  On John Cok and his relations with the owner, the Chaucerian book-producer John Shirley, see Doyle, ‘More Light on John Shirley’, Medium Ævum 30 (1961), 93–101; and Margaret Connolly, John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England (Aldershot, 1998). 16  John Middleton signs as an early owner. 17  For a detailed description of the booklet containing Rolle materials, see Editing, 176–77 n. 130. 18  Owned s. xvi/xvii by William Collynwood (a family associable with book dispersals from Durham Cathedral); the MS came to Jesus in the large 1685 bequest of Thomas Man, whose father was vicar of the Durham parish of Northallerton (NRY). 10 

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King’s College, MS Salt 47: CompC/1 Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 – EngMSS 4 = ED (2x), C, F19 Peterhouse, MS 218: Nov/24, EV/36 St John’s College, MS B.1 (23): Jud/11, Mel/5, IA/15, Ref. Ely Cathedral (OSB) (MLGB 78).20 St John’s College, MS G.13 (181): CompE/1. ? Bury St Edmunds (OSB).21 Sidney Sussex College, MS 89 – EngMSS 5 = Pi Trinity College, MS B.1.15 (14): Nov/25, Psa/6, EV/37 Trinity College, MS B.1.18 (17): EV/3822 Trinity College, MS B.5.25 (171) – EngMSS 6 = Pi Trinity College, MS B.14.38 (322) – EngMSS 7 = F Trinity College, MS B.14.50 (333): Nov/43, Psa/38 Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (353) – EngMSS 8 = F Trinity College, MS B.15.42 (376) – EngMSS 9 = C Trinity College, MS R.8.16 (792): Nov/26. Syon (OBrig) (MLGB 185).23 Trinity College, MS O.1.29 (1053) – EngMSS 10 = C, F Trinity College, MS O.2.56 (1160): Ref. Mount Grace (NRY, OCart) (MLGB 132).24 Trinity Hall, MS 16: CompC/225

cambridge university library MS Dd.4.50: Orat/5, Sym/5 MS Dd.4.54 – EngMSS 11 = F (SS exc.); Nov/19, EV/26, CompE/2 MS Dd.5.55 – EngMSS 12 = C + EV exc. MS Dd.5.64 – EngMSS 13 = ED, C, F (incl. SG), L, GG; Mel/14, Orat/6, IA/10, EV/2726 MS Ff.1.14: CompF/127 MS Ff.5.30 – EngMSS 14 = EV1 Image at EngMSS, plate 8 (facing lv). Doyle corrects Allen’s previous owner to William Crashaw 1635. ‘Liber dompni Petri de Norwico’; arms of Robert Steward, last prior/first dean of Ely Cathedral. 21  For the provenance, see Doyle 2008, 147 and 151 n. 18. The donor, Jeremiah Holt, fellow in 1603, was a representative of the Bury family that included the former monk of the house, Aylot Holt, in whose hands Bale found a copy of ‘Judica me deus’. 22  Early owned by William Forrest of Christ Church, chaplain to Queen Mary. 23  Given by John Steyke, a known Syon donor, and was perhaps Isleworth, Syon (OBrig) P.70 (Corpus SS1.1110b, 9:350). Cf. n. 135. 24  See Katherine Zieman, ‘Monasticism and the Public Contemplative in Late Medieval England: Richard Methley and his Spiritual Formation’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42 (2012), 699–724. 25  Garton was an early owner, and, like many Trinity Hall MSS, later belonged to Robert Hare; for him, see Andrew G. Watson, ‘Robert Hare’s Books’, in Medieval Manuscripts in Post-Medieval England (Aldershot, 2004), essay VI (209–32). 26  Image at EngMSS, plate 1 (facing xlvi). 27  The scribe (or compiler?) was ‘Robertus Wasselyn capellanus’, who appears in the register of York Corpus Christi Guild in 1457. There are also Yorkshire deeds in the binding. 19 

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MS Ff.5.36: Nov/20, EV/2828 MS Ff.5.40 – EngMSS 15 = C, F (full + ch. 9 + OE exc.), EV3 MS Ff.5.45 – EngMSS 16 = F MS Gg.1.32: EV/29 MS Hh.1.12 – EngMSS 17 = F MS Hh.4.13: EV/30 MS Ii.1.26: Nov/21 MS Ii.4.9 – EngMSS 18 = F MS Ii.6.39: P/5729 MS Ii.6.40 – EngMSS 19 = C, F (exc.). Shaftesbury (Dorset, OSB nuns) (MLGB Sup. 62). MS Ii.6.55 – EngMSS 20 = F, P/58 MS Kk.6.20: CompA, Dub/Off MS Ll.1.8 – EngMSS 21 = MPB MS Mm.5.37: IA/11*, EV/31. St Mary’s, York (OSB)/Beauvale (Notts., OCart) (the second MMBL 9).30 MS Mm.6.17: Jud/9, Dub/AR. Evesham (OSB) (MMBL Sup. 36). MS Additional 2829: EV/9631 MS Additional 3042 – EngMSS 22 = MPB. ? Campsey Ash (Norfolk, OSA nuns). MS Additional 5943: Cant/15, Mel/18, EV/9732

Belonged to Mr Oliver, vicar of Croydon in 1518. Allen identified this text’s overt reference to Rolle, but thought the text defective and any quotation omitted. However, she misunderstood the reference: ‘Þis seith seint Austein in þe forseyd book [ending a citation of the fifth of the ps.-Augustinian “duodecim abusiones” with praise for the sanctifying power of chastity] ¶ Richard þe heremite þat expounede þe sawter in englisch seiþ þus [i.e. ‘likewise’, rather than introducing a quotation] in þe psalm Noli emulari…’. But what follows is an extensive citation from the Wycliffite psalter commentary, concluding ‘Þus seiþ þis holi man, and meche more in þe forseid place’ after materials from the unrevised version (citations from this copy). See Hudson’s discussion, Two Revisions 3:1267–68 (on 36/223–310). 30  Includes an indulgence to Christopher Braystanes for pious reading, which also appears in Lincoln Cathedral, MS 228 (the ps.-Bonaventuran ‘Meditationes vitae Christi’). Datable 1452 × 1456, this document refers to a period when Braystanes was a monk of St Mary’s, York. But he subsequently was a Carthusian of Beauvale, and both MSS include notations of his gift to this house. See Michael G. Sargent, ‘The Transmission by the English Carthusians of Some Late Medieval Spiritual Writings’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 27 (1976), 225–40, at 232–33; and Doyle 1981, 112 and 118 n. 18. 31  For descriptions of all these Additions (except MS  3042, in more detail in EngMSS), see J.  S. Ringrose, Summary Catalogue of the Additional Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library acquired before 1940 (Woodbridge, 2009), 29, 212–14, and 231–33, respectively. This volume likely has an East Anglian provenance; it presents 11/1–25, 76–109, 122–25, 132–45. 32  The core given in 1418 by the book’s apparent compiler, Thomas Turk, once vicar perpetual of Bere Regis (Dorset), on his withdrawal to become a Carthusian of Hinton (Somt.), to John Morton, vicar of Hinton (and later of Horton, Dorset). There are substantial later intrusions, both on blank pages and through various insertions. 28 

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Cambridge ma, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Lat. 165: Cant/16.34 Cambridge ma, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 36 – EngMSS 23 = Pi Canterbury Cathedral, MS Lit. E.12 (35), fol. [27?]: Nov/4535 ‘Castle Howard’, see New York, Pierpont Morgan Library České Budějovice, Jihočeská vědecká knihovna, MS  1 Bi 9: Psa/22. České Budějovice cathedral. Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 31: EV/98 Clitheroe (Lancs.), Stonyhurst College, MS 49: EV/7136 Cologne, Stadtarchiv, MS Wallraf 205: IA/65. Maria Laach (OSB).37 Cracow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, MS 1628 (DD.XIV.2): Psa/12 Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 396: CantO/8, Mel/7, Orat/10, IA/30, EV/76, CompB/3, Dub/Prayer. Sheen (OCart) (MLGB 178).38

dublin Trinity College, MS 71 – EngMSS 24 = Pi; part is now Yale 1087 Trinity College, MS 75 – EngMSS 25 = Ppro Trinity College, MS 153: Cant/11, CA/2, Jud/17, Thr/3, Mul/5.39 Trinity College, MS 154 – EngMSS 26 = F (excs.) Trinity College, MS 155 – EngMSS 27 = ED, F, OE Trinity College, MS 159: Mel/8, IA/44, F/14, CompI. ? London Charterhouse.40 Trinity College, MS 191: Nov/4641 Owned, s. xv by John Colet of ‘Wytheresfeld’ (Suffolk?). Described Laura Light, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, MRTS 145 (Binghamton NY, 1995), 248–54. 35  Described MMBL 2:286–87. 36  Described MMBL 4:435; on an early owner, a Winchester diocese priest and cathedral canon, see Andrew G. Watson, ‘A Sixteenth-Century Collector: Thomas Dackomb, 1496–c. 1572’, The Library 5th ser. 18 (1963), 204–17. 37  The scribe signs as Tilmann de Bonna, confessor at Rolandswerth (OSB nuns) and subsequently monk of Maria Laach (OSB), the latter of which owned the book. Described Joachim Vennebusch, Die theologischen Handschriften des Stadtarchivs Köln, Teil 4 (Cologne and Vienna, 1986), 93. 38  The house’s inscription signed by J. London, the scribe of BL, MS Royal 7 D.xvii; the book was removed to the English Benedictine College, Douai after the Dissolution. 39  All the Latin books are described in Marvin L. Colker, Trinity College Library Dublin: Descriptive Catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Manuscripts, 2 vols (Aldershot, 1991), here 1:270–71. 40  Was Henry Savile of Banke 263 (Watson 66). The possible medieval provenance is implied by Doyle’s ascription of ‘Compilation I’ to John Walsingham; see 1998, 129. But given Savile’s later ownership, the book might equally have come from Hull or Mount Grace? A sixteenth-century owner, ‘John Venall of Bradforth [Bradford WRY?] yoman’ would support such a provenance. 41  Described Colker 1:369–74. In his report, the binding materials include accounts that mention the church of South Cawton and the archdeaneries of Cotton’ and Exon’; these should surely refer to the 33 

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Trinity College, MS 271 – EngMSS 28 = F (SS exc.), CompE/3. St Werbergh’s, Chester (OSB) (MLGB 49). Trinity College, MS 277: Cant/17, Mel/17, Nov/47, Thr/4, Pxx/6, IA/57, EV/9942 Trinity College, MS 281: EV/58. Sheen (OCart) (MLGB 178).43 Trinity College, MS 321: Vir/244 Trinity College, MS 432 – EngMSS 29 = EV1; EV/10045 Trinity College, MS 667: Psa/23. a Franciscan house in county Clare.46 Durham Cathedral, MS B.IV.35: CAM/11, IA/22(*)47 Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.I.12 – EngMSS 30 = B Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.III.16: EV/101. ? Syon (OBrig).48 Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.III.24: F/66 Edinburgh University Library, MS 93 – EngMSS 31 = EV4 Edinburgh University Library, MS 107 – EngMSS 32 = F Eton College, MS 10 – EngMSS 33 = Pu Exeter Cathedral, MS 3516: EV/123. Exeter Cathedral (MLGB 82). Florence, Biblioteca nazionale, MS xxxv.D.237: IA/66 Ghent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 291: IA/31*, EV/77. St Matthias, Trier (OSB). Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 786: EV/102. St Markus zu Butzbach (secular canons).49 Hatfield, Hatfield House, the Marquess of Salisbury, MS Cecil Papers 328 – EngMSS 34 = Pu ‘Heneage’, see New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn fa54 Hereford Cathedral, MS O.i.10: IA/55, EV/60. Cirencester (OSA) (MLGB 51).50

‘church of South Tawton’ and ‘archdiaconate of Totten’, i.e. Totnes. At the least, they imply early Devon (and perhaps specifically Exeter Cathedral) ownership. 42  Described Colker 1:509–32; the contents include a prayer for the mayor of York. 43  Described Colker 1:546–56. The scribe signs ‘quod W Mede’; he also copied BL, MS Cotton Vespasian D.ix; and BodL, MS Bodley 117. 44  Described Colker 1:651–59. Was Henry Savile of Banke 117 (Watson 41). In its production, this MS resembles other certainly Carthusian books; on the basis both of later provenance and spellings from northeastern England, Doyle 1998, 128, suggests the book could be from Beauvale, Axholme, Hull, or Mount Grace. 45  The materials from ‘Emendatio vitae’ are the separate contributions of two scribes. The first presents 4/45–62, 6/51–55, 7/5–13, 8/21–24, 10/26–28, 11/122–25, 12/46–49, 78–79, 95–96, 111–18. The second copies a prayer in which 11/9–24 is combined with other materials, presumably the ‘Bonaventura in sexta parte libri spiritualium’ promised in the heading there. 46  Described Colker 2:1150. 47  Although not demonstrably a medieval Durham Cathedral book, has notes referring to Durham dated 1539 (Allen 204). 48  Some items ‘copied close to Syon’ and may include the hand of the librarian Thomas Betson. 49  Copied by Peter Heilant de Erbech in Butzbach. See Joachim Ott, Die Handschriften des ehemaligen Fraterherrenstifts St Markus zu Butzbach…Teil 2 (Giessen, 2004), 161–65. 50  Part of Sir John Prise’s donation; see N. R. Ker, ‘Sir John Prise’, in Ker, Books, Collectors and Lib­ raries: Studies in the Medieval Heritage, ed. Andrew G. Watson (London, 1985), 471–95 passim.

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Hereford Cathedral, MS  O.viii.1: Cant/12, Mel/9, Apoc/3, Psa/9, Mag/4, CAM/12, IA/23, EV/61, Dub/Sym. Hereford Cathedral (MLGB 98).51 Hereford Cathedral, MS P.i.9 – EngMSS 35 = F. Oxford OFM (MLGB 142). Jena, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS El. f. 22: Psa/2452 Leicester, Wyggeston Hospital 10D34/12: Nov/3453 Leicester, Wyggeston Hospital 10D34/15: Nov/35, CAM/13, EV/6354 Liège, Bibliothèque de l’Université, MS  3258B: unidentified excerpt(s). Friars of the Holy Cross (‘Crutched friars’), Huy.55 Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91 – EngMSS 36 = B, DD, SG, TC, OE, L, Ex; Cant/18, Pu/41, CAM/21 Lincoln Cathedral, MS 92 – EngMSS 37 = Pi Lincoln Cathedral, MS 188: IA/24*, EV/6456 Lincoln Cathedral, MS 209: Off/3, Mel/10, Nov/36, Pxx/4, CAM/14. Kingston-upon-Hull (OCart) (MLGB Sup. 40).57 Lincoln Cathedral, MS 218: CantO/5, Nov/37, IA/25, EV/65, Dub/AR. Carmelite friars in miniatures.58 Lincoln Cathedral, MS 229: Cant/19, EV/10359 Lincoln, Lincolnshire Archives, Diocesan Records, Maddison Deposit, MS 2/11 – EngMSS 38 = Pi

london, the british library MS Additional 10046 – EngMSS 39 = Ppro MS Additional 11304: Nov/31 Donated by Owen Lloyd, canon of Hereford (d. 1478). For an important description, including information on the use of MS Bodley 861 as an exemplar, see R. A. B. Mynors and R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Hereford Cathedral Library (Cambridge, 1993), 53. The scribe here apparently received Bodley 861 as loose quires and, confused, dropped out a quire, thereby omitting the end of ‘Incendium amoris’ and most of ‘Super Canticum’. 52  Described Bernhard Tönnies, Die Handschriften der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena, 2 vols (Wiesbaden, 2002–9), 1:72–74. The collection ‘Electoralis’ was formed c. 1538, as the Wittenberger Kurfürstliche Bibliothek, largely from books removed from local monasteries; it was moved to Jena later in the century. 53  Described MMBL 3:106. 54  Includes theological notes, probably compiled by Fr Johannes Hanneton, not otherwise known. Described MMBL 3:108–09. 55  See J. Hoyoux, Inventaire des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de l’Université de Liège Tome troisième, Bibliotheca universitatis Leodiensis 29 (Liège, 1977), 46–47 (no. 2185). Later portions in the hand of Henri de Bentheim of Huy. 56  For descriptions of all the Lincoln MSS, see R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Library (Cambridge, 1989), here 151. 57  Part is signed by the scribe John Wodeburgh. Described Thomson 169–70. 58  Described Thomson 178–79. 59  Described Thomson 188–89 (although ignore the misleading description of the additions to ‘Emendatio vitae’ here; the text is followed by ‘Super Canticum’ MS 19 and some theological notes). 51 

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MS Additional 11748: not in EngMSS = OE. ? Shaftesbury (Dorset, OSB nuns) (MLGB 177). MS Additional 16170: EV/52. Chipping Camden parish church (Gloucs.) (MLGB 220). MS Additional 21202: Jud/1560 MS Additional 22283 – EngMSS 40 = C, F, ED, Dub/Prayer MS Additional 24192: F/67 MS Additional 24661: IA/20, EV/53, CompB/2. Syon (OBrig) (MLGB 185).61 MS Additional 31044 – EngMSS 121 = Ppro MS Additional 33995: F/68, etc. (in verse) MS Additional 34763: EV/5462 MS Additional 34807: IA/58, EV/55 MS Additional 37049 – EngMSS 41 = ED, F, C, L (all exc.), IA/59, EV (Eng), Ref. ? Axholme (Lincs., OCart).63 MS Additional 37790 – EngMSS 42 = EV2, IA, F, ED. ? Sheen (OCart).64 MS Additional 40769 – EngMSS 43 = Pu MS Additional 74953 – EngMSS 55 = Pi; the second volume of Royal 18 D.i MS Arundel 158 – EngMSS 44 = Pu65 MS  Arundel 507 – EngMSS 45  = F, ED, SG; IA/52. Durham Cathedral (OSB) (MLGB Sup. 30).66 MS Burney 356: Jud/12, EV/3967 MS Burney 359: Jud/13

Doyle corrects the owner’s name to ‘William Woddest’. Described Sargent 2:493–99 (Grenehalgh and Sewell again, cf. n. 10), where Sargent suggests that the same scribe copied BL, MS Egerton 671. See further Doyle 1998, 127. 62  Dated 1384; see Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, c. 700–1600, in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London, 1979), no. 368 (77) and 2:plate 273. Besides being the earliest dated manuscript of Rolle’s works, the book is more generally important as the earliest dated example of English secretary script outside a legal document or text in French. Cf. M. B. Parkes, English Cursive Book Hands 1250–1500 (London, 1969), xx. Given by ‘dominus Iohannes Knyght, rector de Plumstyd’ (Little Plumstead, near Norwich, where he served 1517–36) in 1527 to Richard Woolston, later incumbent of Hollesley (Suffolk). 63  All the illustrations, including some of Rolle, were reproduced in An Illustrated Yorkshire Carthusian Religious Miscellany: British Library London Additional Ms.  37049, Analecta Cartusiana 95.3 (the only portion published) (Salzburg, 1981). On the provenance (perhaps Beauvale [Notts., OCart], rather than Axholme), see Doyle 1998, 128. 64  Given the language and later provenance, Doyle 1998, 126 suggests the Grenehalgh annotations might have been made at the Hull Charterhouse. The ‘margaret[a] heslyngton reclus[a]’ named here as as having requested Misyn’s translation was indeed a recluse of York, who d. 1439. 65  See Allen 172 for notice of a facsimile. On the book, with annotations by Stephen Batman, see A. B. Kraebel, ‘A Further Book Annotated by Stephan Batman, with New Material for his Biography’, The Library 7 th ser. 16 (2015), 458–66. 66  Image at EngMSS, plate 3 (following xlvi). 67  In the last line of Allen’s account, read ‘see MSS 13 and 65’. 60  61 

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MS Cotton Faustina A.v: EV/40. Fountains (NRY, OCist) (MLGB 88).68 MS Cotton Faustina B.vi: EV (Eng), Ref. MS Cotton Tiberius A.xv: Off/2, Apoc/2, Mul/3. York St Mary’s (OSB) (MLGB 217), perhaps earlier Pontefract (OClun).69 MS Cotton Tiberius E.vii – EngMSS 46 = F (in verse twice)70 MS Cotton Titus C.xix – EngMSS 47 = MPA, MPB MS Cotton Vespasian E.i: Cant/7, Dub/Prayer71 MS Cotton Vitellius D.vii: Psa/42 MS Egerton 671: EV/41, CompB/1 MS Harley 106: IA/16, EV/42, F/74 MS Harley 237: CompC/4, CompE/4. Mount Grace (NRY, OCart) (MLGB 132).72 MS Harley 268: B/3 MS Harley 275: Nov/42, IA/17, EV/4373 MS Harley 330: CantO/3. Reading (OSB) (MLGB 156).74 MS Harley 407: CompC/5 MS Harley 425: Psa/43 MS Harley 612: IA/72, Ref. Syon (OBrig) (MLGB 185). MS Harley 1022 – EngMSS 48 = F, OE, Ex MS Harley 1035: Nov/27 MS Harley 1706 – EngMSS 49 = EV1, F (exc.) MS Harley 1806 – EngMSS 50 = Pu

Given by William de Coutton, formerly a monk of the house. The book was originally bound with TCD 114, and the joined pair was Henry Savile of Banke 76 (Watson 33). Saville gave the book to Thomas Allen of Oxford in 1589, and it appears in his catalogue as MS 4o 65; see W. D. Macray, ed. R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues, 9: Digby Manuscripts (Oxford, 1999), pt. 2, 173–74. 69  Removed from the rear of what is now Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 193 in the 1620s. For a description, see my forthcoming edition of ‘Mulierem fortem’ – and ignore the account of this portion offered in the Corpus Christi catalogue (full reference at n. 136 below), 96–97. At the end, the ‘Miracula’ attached to the ‘Office’ were lost in the Cottonian fire of 1731. 70  Image at Hanna, Introducing Medieval English Book History (Liverpool, 2013), 116. 71  Was Henry Savile of Banke, MS 130 (Watson 43). For a full description, see Editing, 151–53. Here, as elsewhere (e.g., Cant MSS 1, 3, and 11), the text is headed ‘Hic incipit tractatus secundum Ricardum heremitam super primum versiculum canticorum’, which may point to a further ‘attested copy’, perhaps of institutional provenance, that cited under Cant/’attested copies’? 1582. Robert Barker’s inventory, printed by Cross, included ‘Tractatus super primum versciolum canticorum’ (286). Much of this Barker’s collection appears to have come to him from another Robert Barker (a relation?), last prior of Byland (NRY, OCist). See further Michael A. Hicks, ‘John Nettleton, Henry Savile of Banke, and the Post-Medieval Vicissitudes of Byland Abbey Library’, Northern History 26 (1990), 212–17. 72  Subsequently may have been Savile MS 179 (Watson 52). 73  Includes marriage bans for the diocese of London 1451. 74  Donated by the monk William Wargrave in 1485; see Alan Coates, English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal (Oxford, 1999), 117, 129–30, 168. 68 

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MS Harley 2361: Orat/8, Sym/675 MS Harley 2379: CompC/6 MS Harley 2406 – EngMSS 51 = EV3; Orat/9, Sym/7 MS Harley 2439: Mel/15, EV/4476 MS Harley 3363: CompC/7 MS Harley 3820: CompC/8. Sheen reclusory (MLGB 179). MS Harley 3913 – EngMSS 122 = Pi (exc.). Was Worcester Cathedral, MS Q.73 (post-medieval). MS Harley 5235: Cant/8, IA/53, EV/4577 MS Harley 5398: EV/4678 MS Harley 5977: IA/45 MS Lansdowne 409: EV/124 MS Lansdowne 455 – EngMSS 52 = F, EV5 MS Royal 2 D.xxviii: Psa/779 MS Royal 5 A.vi: CompC/980 MS Royal 5 C.iii: IA/1881 MS Royal 6 E.i: Orat/1282 MS Royal 6 E.iii: EV/104 MS Royal 7 A.i: CantO/11, Nov/48. Southwark (OSA) (MLGB 180). MS Royal 7 B.xiv – EngMSS 53 = F (SS exc.), CompE/5. Collegiate church of Holy Trinity, Arundel (Sussex) (MLGB Sup. 2). MS Royal 7 E.ii: Nov/28. Brasenose College, Oxford (MLGB 145).83 ‘Dominus Johnson est possessor huius libri…Ex dono Magistri Iohannis Odlyne 1503’ (Allen 156). Delete Allen’s identification of the scribe. 77  For a description of the Rolle portions of the manuscript, see Editing, 153–54. 78  Signed by the scribe Stoyle. 79  Given by Henry Parker, Lord Morley (whose dedicatory letter says he does not know the author) to princess Mary c. 1540; the scribe is ‘J. L.’. See further James P. Carley, ‘The Writings of Henry Parker, Lord Morley: A Bibliographical Survey’, in ‘Triumphs of English’: Henry Parker, Lord Morley…, ed. Marie Axton and Carley (London, [2000]), 27–68, at 28–29, 35, 44, 45, 50. 80  John Celstan identifies himself as the scribe. 81  Belonged to the well-known London figure, master of Whittington College, Thomas Eborall; his note of ownership states that he had purchased the book from someone equally well-known, the London bookseller John Pye. For Eborall, see A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500, 3 vols (Oxford, 1957–59), 622–23; and Wendy Scase, ‘Reginald Pecock, John Carpenter and John Colop’s “Common-Profit” Books: Aspects of Book Ownership and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century London’, Medium Ævum 61 (1992), 261–74, passim. For John Pye, see C. Paul Christianson, ‘Evidence for the study of London’s late medieval manuscript-book trade’, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375–1475, ed. Jeremy Griffiths and Derek Pearsall (Cambridge, 1989), 87–108, at 101 and 107 n. 42. See also n. 109. 82  Embedded within part 3 (the ‘sinistra pars’) of William of Paull’s ‘Oculus sacerdotis’; comparison with the parallel BodL, MS Rawlinson C.84, fol. 60rv shows no comparable material, but exact resemblance to Rolle breaks off rather quickly. 83  The gift of the founder William Smith; cf. Corpus H2.1104d, 7:194. 75 

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MS Royal 8 A.vii: Nov/29, EV/4784 MS Royal 8 C.xv: CompH/1 MS Royal 8 D.xix: Ref. MS Royal 8 F.vii: Jud/14 MS Royal 12 E.xvi: EV/48 MS Royal 13 E.ix: EV/49. ? St Albans (OSB) (see n. 156). MS Royal 17 B.xvii: IA/54, EV/50, F/70 (verse) MS Royal 17 C.xvii: F/71 (verse) MS Royal 18 B.xxi – EngMSS 54 = Pi. The library of Henry VIII (Corpus H2.1170, 7:201). MS Royal 18 C.xxvi – EngMSS 57 = Pi, the second half of Lambeth Palace 34 MS Royal 18 D.i – EngMSS 55 = Pi, the first half of Additional 74953. The library of Henry VIII (Corpus H2.1285, 7:213). MS Sloane 2275: Mel/6, Nov/30, CAM/9, IA/19, EV/51. ? Winchester Cathedral (OSB).85 MS Stowe 38 – EngMSS 56 = OE MS Stowe 39: EV (Eng), Ref.

london Lambeth Palace Library, MS 34 – EngMSS 57 = Pi, the first half of Royal 18 C.xxvi. The library of Henry VIII (Corpus H2.1274, 7:212). Lambeth Palace Library, MS 352: Psa/8. ? Malling (Kent, OSB nuns) (not in MLGB).86 Lambeth Palace Library, MS 357: Nov/32. ? Lanthony (Gloucs., OSA – probably Duleek (co. Meath), its Irish cell) (MLGB 110). Lambeth Palace Library, MS 457: Orat/13, Sym/8 Lambeth Palace Library, MS 460: CompC/1087 Lambeth Palace Library, MS 500: EV/56 Lambeth Palace Library, MS 536: Cant/9 London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 546: F/64. Syon (OBrig) (MLGB 186).88 Lambeth Palace Library, MS 594: Psa/44 Lambeth Palace Library, MS 853 – EngMSS 58 = L, F (exc.) Annotated by James Grenehalgh (see n. 10); described Sargent 2:526–29, and see further Doyle 1998, 127. 85  Assignment to Winchester is predicated on a note identifying the early owner John Demmer as of Fyfield (Wilts.), where the abbey held the advowson, and the scribal signatures ‘M.’ and Merssh (= the known Winchester monk Nicholas Mersch?). Most of the Rolle contents reflect use of BNF 15700 as an exemplar, but other texts appear associated with Royal 5 C.iii; see n. 81. Like many of Allen’s MS datings, the book is placed far too early; it is a product of s. xv med., probably c. 1450. 86  ‘Pertinet liber iste magistro Iohanni May rectori ecclesie omnium sanctorum maioris London’, ex dono domini Roberti Nortone capellani in abbathia de Mallynge in comitatu Kancie’ (Allen 166–67). 87  The scribe signs as John Holme. 88  See Doyle, ‘William Darker: The Work of an English Carthusian Scribe’, Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse (Turnhout, 2011), 199–211, at 201–02, with further references. 84 

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Westminster Diocesan Archives, MS  H.38: Cant/20, Nov/49, Vir/3, IA/60. Hinton or ­W itham (both Somt., OCart).89 Westminster School, MS 3 – EngMSS 59 = F, ED (MMBL 1:424). Dr Williams’s Library, MS Jones B.39.1: EV/7290 Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, MS 3540: CantO/12. ? Witham (Somt., OCart).91 Madrid, El Escorial, MS b.iii.5: IA/32*, EV/78.92 Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS I.150: EV/105. Mainz Charterhouse.93 Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS I.168: IA/46. Mainz Charterhouse. Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS I.170: EV/106. Mainz Charterhouse. Mainz, Stadtbibliothek, MS II.122: IA/47, EV/10794 olim Maldon, Beeleigh Abbey, Foyle MS – EngMSS 60 = F. ? Bromhall (Berks, OSB nuns).95 Manchester, Chetham’s Library, MS 6690 – EngMSS 61 = F Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 341: CompC/11 Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 395: Cant/13, Jud/19, CAM/15, IA/26(*). ? Westminster abbey (OSB).96 Metz, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 361: IA/33(*). St Sixtus in Réthel prope Sierck (OCart).

Described MMBL 1:421 and Sarah M. Horrall, ‘Middle English Texts in a Carthusian Commonplace Book: Westminster Cathedral, Diocesan Archives, MS H.38’, Medium Ævum 59 (1990), 214–27. Partly written by ‘Mr Iohannes Shillyngford, doctor in iure’. Assignment to Hinton or Witham is predicated on the scribe’s reference to the dedication of his house, fol. 98; see further Doyle 1998, 127–28. The citations from ‘Novem lectiones’ here include: Moyes 159/9–13, 217/5–219/6, a general reference to 206/5–18, 210/2–6, 190/12–17, 190/18–191/8, 228/10–18, 240/4–5, 15–16, and 20 ff., in that order. 90  Described MMBL 1:430. 91  Was Sotheby’s, ‘Biblioteca Phillippica: Medieval Manuscripts: New Series: Part VI’, 30 November 1971, lot 509 (catalogue pp. 66–68, Phillipps 8831). The scribe signs as Iohannes Combe. Belonged, later s. xvii med., to William Rogers of Paynswick (Glocs.), who also owned BL, MS Royal 8 F.iii. 92  Doyle associates with the abbot of St René de Laudeveille (Vendée, OSB); the book belonged to Antonio Agustín, archbishop of Tarragona 1576–86. 93  The scribe signs as Johannes Frideberg. Allen found all four Mainz manuscripts after the appearance of Writings Ascribed; see ‘New Manuscripts of Richard Rolle’, Times Literary Supplement 1572 (17 March 1932), 202, although the PMLA description she promised on that occasion seems never to have appeared. 94  Copied by Fr Michael von Lewenberg OP, confessor of the nuns of Maria Himmelkron at Hocheim (nr Worms), and subsequently Worms OP (Doyle 1981, 113; 1989, 131). 95  David N. Bell identifies the Alice Burton who signed the book with a woman of the name who was prioress of this house 1437 × 45 (probably a good deal too early for the signing hand); see What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries (Kalamazoo, 1995), 106. 96  Copied by William Ebesham; see Doyle, ‘The Work of a Late Fifteenth-Century Scribe, William Ebesham’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 39 (1957), 298–325, the hand illustrated in plate 3. Note Doyle’s comments at 308, 311 on the excerpts surrounding the brief citations from ‘Judica’ (and their connections with ‘Compilation H’). For a description of the Rolle portions, see Editing, 154–55; and see further n. 151 below. 89 

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Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS G 43 inf. E: IA/34*.97 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 8094: EV/108. Kelheim OFM. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 9068: IA/67 Munich, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 8o 3: IA/68 Munich, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 8o 344: IA/69 Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS vii.F.35: EV/79. S Bernardino de L’Aquila (OFM).98 Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS vii.G.15: EV/109. ‘de loco S Bernardini’, Campli (OFM). Newcastle upon Tyne, Public Library, MS TH.1678 – EngMSS 62 = Pu New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 317: Ref. Perhaps Sheen or Syon. New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 324 – EngMSS 63 = C (frag.) New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 331 – EngMSS 64 = IA, EV2 New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 360 – EngMSS 65 = P (exc.) New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 468: Sym/999 New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 1087 – EngMSS 24 = Pi; leaves originally part of TCD, MS 71 New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Marston 243: Cant/14, CAM/18, EV/69. Southwark (OSA) (MLGB Sup.63).100 New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn a29: Nov/50101 [‘Heneage’] New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS  Osborn fa54: CantO/4, Mel/16, IA/61, EV/59102 New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, Osborn MSS File Folder 19558: EV/110.103 New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Takamiya 66 – EngMSS 111 = EV6 (and EV8 frag.?), ED, C (with F exc.)104 New York, Columbia University Library, MS Plimpton 270: Mel/19, CAM/22, EV/90105 New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.648: Psa/39 New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.818 – EngMSS 66 = F Copied in Venice, 1452. For this MS and the next, see Cesare Cencí, Manoscritti francescani della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, 2 vols, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum 7–8 (Quaracchi, 1971), 2:563 and 578. 99  Described Barbara A. Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Vol.  II: MSS  251–500, MRTS  48 (Binghamton  ny, 1987), 426. Owned by Thomas, a Franciscan B.Th. in 1512. 100  Described Shailor, Catalogue…Vol. III: Marston Manuscripts, MRTS 100 (Binghamton ny, 1992), 461–64. 101  Like Caius *669, belonged to John Shirley. 102  Described in laudatory detail in the sale catalogue, Christie’s, 12 June 2013, lot 31 (the hand is of later s. xv med.). The book had been the Heneages’ since George Heneage acquired it in the 1530s during his tenure as dean of Lincoln Cathedral. 103  From Yorkshire; see Jordan Zweck, ‘Two Recently Discovered Fragments of Nassington and Rolle’, Journal of the Early Book Society 13 (2010), 203–19. 104  Described rather frequently in secondary literature under the name of the owner preceding Takamiya, as Bradfer-Lawrence MS 10 (and long deposited in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum). 105  Belonged to William Gardiner, MA and vicar of Linton (Cambs.?) in 1582. See n. 129. 97  98 

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[‘Castle Howard’] New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.872: Cant/10, Jud/16, Nov/33, Mul/4, CAM/10, IA/21(*), EV/57.106 Olomouc, Archiv metropolitní kapituly, MS CO 70: Psa/25 Olomouc, Vědecká Knihovna, MS M I 300 (olim II.g.27): IA/70. Nanebevzetí Panny Marie (OCart), Olomouc.

oxford, the bodleian library MS Ashmole 751 – EngMSS 68 = Ex; Cant/21, Jud/1, Nov/1, Mag/1, Pxx/7 MS Ashmole 1393 – EngMSS 69 = F (frag.) MS Ashmole 1524 – EngMSS 70 = F MS Bodley 16 (SC 1859): CantO/1, IA/1, EV/1 MS Bodley 43 (SC 27662): EV/2 MS Bodley 48 (SC 1885): Orat/1, Sym/1, EV/3107 MS Bodley 52 (SC 1969): Nov/2. Merton College, Oxford (MLGB 147).108 MS Bodley 54 (SC 1975): EV/4 MS Bodley 61 (SC 2023): EV/5 MS Bodley 66 (SC 2075): IA/2 MS Bodley 110 (SC 1963) – EngMSS 71 = F. Headcorn (Kent) chantry (MLGB Sup. 72).109 MS Bodley 122 (SC 1985): EV/6 MS Bodley 288 (SC 2438) – EngMSS 72 = Pi110 MS Bodley 315 (SC 2712): Nov/3. Exeter Cathedral (MLGB 84).111 MS Bodley 417 (SC 2316): CompH/2. Sheen (OCart) (MLGB 178). MS Bodley 423 (SC 2322) – EngMSS 73 = F MS Bodley 450 (SC 2398) – EngMSS 74 = F (SS exc.), CompE/6. ? Reading (OSB). MS Bodley 456 (SC 2412): EV/7112 MS Bodley 467 (SC 2487) – EngMSS 75 = Pu. St Albans (OSB) (MLGB 168). MS Bodley 525 (SC 2207): Nov/4

Described ‘The Transmission of Richard Rolle’s Latin Works’, The Library 7 th ser. 14 (2013), 313–33, at 333, with references to the library’s online description. 107  Described Speculum Vitae: A Reading Edition, 2 vols, EETS os 331–32 (Oxford, 2008), 1:xliv–vi. 108  Copied by J. Maynsforth, who is recorded as a fellow of Merton in 1425, and who donated it to the College in 1458 (with an early s. xvi electio). There is an image in Parkes, English Cursive (full reference at n. 62), plate 17 (ii). This is not, as Allen thought, a datable MS. 109  Purchased by William Cleve, rector of Clive, from the London stationer John Pye (cf. n. 81), and eventually donated by him to the chantry. 110  As Hudson points out, Two Revisions, EETS os 340, xl, the second folio corresponds with that recorded in the Syon catalogue for MS F.48. 111  Donated, once Mr Roger Keys (a fellow of All Souls’?) has died, by the former canon John Steuenys. 112  In Allen’s last line, read ‘MS 73’, not ‘MS 66’. Owned by Richard Woodville, first earl Rivers and lord of Wymington (? Beds.). 106 

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MS Bodley 549 (SC 2298): Orat/2, Sym/2, CompE/7113 MS Bodley 554 (SC 2326) – EngMSS 76 = F (exc.) MS Bodley 647 (SC 3072): Mel/20114 MS Bodley 769 (SC 2551): CAM/1 MS  Bodley 861 (SC 2728): Cant/1, Jud/2, Mel/1, Nov/5, Thr/1, Apoc/1, Orat/3, Sym/3, Psa/1, Mag/2, Pxx/1, CAM/2, IA/3(*), EV/8, Dub/Sym.  Worcester Cathedral (OSB) (MLGB 208).115 MS Bodley 877 (SC 3085) – EngMSS 77 = Pi MS Bodley 938 (SC 3054) – EngMSS 78 = F MS Bodley 953 (SC 3089) – EngMSS 79 = Pu.116 MS Digby 18 – EngMSS 80 = EV1, F MS Don. c. 13 – EngMSS 81 = L; Orat/14117 MS Don. e.247.: not in EngMSS = F/41118 MS Douce 107 (SC 21581): Jud/3, EV/9 MS Douce 258 – EngMSS 82 = P (exc.) MS  Douce 302 – EngMSS 83  = F (exc.). Haghmond (Salop., OSA), later Launde (Leics., OSA) (MLGB 112). MS Douce 322 – EngMSS 84 = EV1. Dartford OP nuns (MLGB 57). MS Eng. poet. a.1 (SC 3938) – EngMSS 85 = F, ED, C MS Eng. th. c. 57: CompE2 MS Hatton 12 (SC 3693) – EngMSS 86 = Pu, TC119 MS Hatton 26 (SC 4061): EV/10. Stafford (OSA) (MLGB 182). MS Hatton 86 (SC 4078): Nov/6. ? Stafford (OSA) (MLGB 182).120 The second portion of the manuscript is in the hand of Stephen Dodesham; see Doyle 2008, 147, and ‘Stephen Dodesham of Witham and Sheen’, in Of the Making of Books…Essays Presented to M. B. Parkes, ed. P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim (Aldershot, 1997), 94–115. 114  See ‘Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 647 and Its Use, c. 1410–2010’, in Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts, ed. Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne, Essays and Studies n.s. 63 (Cambridge, 2010), 141–62, at 146 and n. 8; and ‘The Oldest Manuscript of Richard Rolle’s Writings’, Scriptorium 70 (2016), 105–15. 115  For a description supplementing Allen’s detailed and largely accurate account (22–34), see Editing, 141–48; the book appears in Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435– 1600 in Oxford Libraries, 2 vols (Oxford, 1984), 1:22 (119) and 2:plate 265. 116  Produced for Thomas IV, Lord Berkeley of Berkeley (Gloucs.). 117  Allen discovered the manuscript after the appearance of Writings Ascribed; see ‘New Manuscripts of Richard Rolle’, Times Literary Supplement 1572 (17 March 1932), 202. 118  Owned s. xvi/xvii by Anthony and Sampson Trollope, both from Durham. The book was sold from the estate of the Marquess of Londonderry and inferentially may have descended from his Tempest relations. See Doyle, ‘The Library of Sir Thomas Tempest, Its Origins and Dispersal’, in Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History, and Bibliography: Festschrift for Prof. T. A. Birrell…, ed. G. A. M. Janssens and F. G. A. M. Aarts (Amsterdam, 1984), 83–93. 119  Image at EngMSS, plate 5 (following xlvi). 120  Copied by the same scribe as the preceding and thus likely from the same house (see the comments at MLGB 182). 113 

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MS Hatton 97 (SC 4070): CompF/2 MS Lat. th. d. 15 (Clapinson SC 48024, 2:853–54): Nov/51, Mul/6, Pxx/8121 MS Lat. th. d. 27: CompB/6. Coventry (OCart)?122 MS Lat. th. e.8 (SC 32566): CompE/8. Southwark (OSA) (MLGB 181). MS Laud lat. 94: Nov/7 MS Laud misc. 99: CompE2/1 MS Laud misc. 111: Jud/4, EV/11, Dub/AR MS Laud misc. 174: not in EngMSS = Pi (exc.), Dub/Prayer123 MS Laud misc. 202: IA/4*, EV/12. Mainz Charterhouse. MS Laud misc. 210 – EngMSS 87 = F MS Laud misc. 286 – EngMSS 88 = Pi/u124 MS Laud misc. 321 – EngMSS 89 = Pi MS Laud misc. 448 – EngMSS 90 = Pu MS Laud misc. 497: EV/13. ? Glastonbury (OSB) (MLGB 91).125 MS Laud misc. 524 – EngMSS 91 = F; EV/14 MS Laud misc. 528 – Off/5, Cant/2, Jud/5, Nov/8, CAM/3, IA/5, EV/15, Ref126

Described Mary Clapinson and T. D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: Acquisitions 1916–1975, 3 vols (Oxford, 1991), 2:853–54 (SC 48024). Copied by Robert Parkyn, A. G. Dickens’s ‘last medieval Englishman’; he was vicar of Adwick-le-Street, WRY (a Hampole advowson), 1541–69. For Dickens’s most extensive account of the book, see ‘Robert Parkyn’s narrative of the Reformation’, English Historical Review 62 (1947), 58–83, at 58–60; see also Arnold Hunt, CHL 406 for discussion of Parkyn’s printed books. Later portions of the volume are dated, variously 1551 × 58. Allen found the manuscript after the appearance of Writings Ascribed; see ‘New Manuscripts of Richard Rolle’, Times Literary Supplement 1572 (17 March 1932), 202. 122  On the provenance, see Doyle 1981, 120 n. 39; and again Doyle 1989, 131 and 135; Doyle 1998, 128. After the Dissolution, belonged to Thomas Arden of Park Hall (Warws.). 123  Described ‘The Booklet in Medieval Manuscript Cataloguing’, Nottingham Medieval Studies 55 (2011), 231–48, at 244–45. 124  Image at EngMSS, plate 7 (following xlvi). 125  In Allen’s last line, read ‘MS 65’, not ‘MS 60’. 126  For a description, see Editing, 148–51. Allen’s statement that ‘Super Canticum’ appears ‘attached without comment to the Contra Amatores Mundi’ (64 [‘merge(d) into’ 71], similarly Moyes 2:17, Theiner 51) here and in ‘Contra amatores’ MS 18 should be qualified. This MS begins with four quasi-independent single quire units, with one text in each, and ‘Contra amatores’ was overlooked in the contents table, as if a continuation of the preceding, a fact that may account for Allen’s statement. But item 3/‘Super Canticum’ has its normal conclusion (fol. 33v), followed by ‘Amen’, underlined in red, and fol. 34 begins with a slightly enlarged red-slashed majuscule. The scribe may have intended the decorative redand-green catchword at the end of ‘Super Canticum’ (fol. 33v), and obviously including the incipit to ‘Contra amatores’ (‘Anima’) at the head of next (independent) quire, to have the status of a rubric. This, however, the scribe of Marston 243, which must be a direct or descendant copy of Laud 528, missed; that book has only a normal ‘inner division capital’ at opening of ‘Contra amatores’, no rubric, and at the end of the text ‘Explicit Oleum effusum’. 121 

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MS Lyell 20: Psa/34127 MS Lyell 38: Nov/52, EV/111. St Mark’s hospital, Bristol (MLGB 13).128 MS e Musaeo 130 (SC 3514): Nov/9129 MS e Musaeo 193 (SC 3610) = Off/1130 MS e Musaeo 232 (SC 3657) – EngMSS 92 = MPB MS Rawlinson A.372: IA/62 MS Rawlinson A.389 – EngMSS 93 = ED (twice), F, C (with F exc.); IA/6, EV/16. Lichfield Cathedral (MLGB 115).131 MS Rawlinson C.19: CompC/12 MS Rawlinson C.269: EV/17. Christ Church Canterbury (OSB) (MLGB 39).132 MS Rawlinson C.285 – EngMSS 94 = F (full + exc. + OE exc.), C + EV (exc.)133 MS Rawlinson C.397: CA/1, Jud/6, Mag/3, IA/63 MS Rawlinson D.1229: Nov/10 MS Tanner 1 – EngMSS 95 = Pu MS Tanner 16 – EngMSS 96 = Pi

oxford Balliol College, MS 224A: Cant/3, Jud/7, Nov/11, CAM/4, IA/7, EV/18. Balliol College.134 Balliol College, MS 239: CompC/13 Brasenose College, MS 15: EV/19. Syon (OBrig) (MLGB 186).135

Described Albinia C. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (Oxford, 1971), 44–45 and plate III (a). Owned early by Mr Robert Colsby, apparently an Oxford notary. 128  Copied by John Colman, master of the house, 1517–39. Described de la Mare 105–07 and plate VII. Doyle notes that the MS has the usual text, but two sets of corrections (pencil in text, and in margin) to assimilate the text to the forms of Speculum Spiritualium. See further Doyle’s discussions, ‘Book Production by the Monastic Orders in England’, in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. Linda Brownrigg (Los Altos Hills ca, 1990), 1–19, at 13; and ‘Books with Marginalia from St Mark’s Hospital, Bristol’, in New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices, ed. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton et al. (Notre Dame in, 2014), 177–91. 129  Belonged to Mr William Gardiner, vicar of Linton 1582; he also owned the Plimpton MS (n. 105 above). 130  Doyle says ‘after 1383’ and notes that the text identifies the places where the miracles occurred. 131  Image at EngMSS, plate 2 (following xlvi). 132  Owned in 1454 by ‘Chelmynton’. 133  Images at EngMSS, plate 4 (following xlvi); and Hanna, Introducing Medieval English Book History, plates 7–13 (64–77). 134  Described R. A. B. Mynors, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Balliol College, Oxford (Oxford, 1963), 222–23. Donated by William Gray, bishop of Ely and master, s. xv med. Seen by Leland at Balliol (Corpus UO22.*67). 135  Donated to Syon, where it was M.44, by John Steyke (see Corpus SS1.777, 9:234). Cf. n. 23. 127 

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Corpus Christi College, MS 155: EV/20, prayer. Rievaulx (OCist) (MLGB 159).136 Corpus Christi College, MS 193: Cant/4, Jud/8, Mel/2, Nov/12, Thr/2, Orat/4, Sym/4, Psa/2, Pxx/2, CAM/5, IA/8, EV/21. York St Mary’s (OSB) (MLGB 217), perhaps earlier Pontefract (OClun).137 Corpus Christi College, MS 236 – EngMSS 97 = EV2, IA Exeter College, MS 7: IA/64138 Jesus College, MS 39: CompE2/2. ? Syon (OBrig) (MLGB 186). Lincoln College, MS lat. 89: Mel/3 Magdalen College, MS lat. 6: Nov/13139 Magdalen College, MS lat. 52 – EngMSS 98 = Pu Magdalen College, MS lat. 71: Nov/14, Vir/1, EV/22140 Magdalen College, MS lat. 79: Psa/26, Ref. Sheen reclusory, then Magdalen College.141 Magdalen College, MS lat. 115: Psa/3 and 35. Probably Magdalen College.142 Magdalen College, MS lat. 141: CompE/9. Sheen reclusory, then Magdalen College.143 Merton College, MS 16: EV/23. Merton College, Oxford.144 The gift of abbot William Spencer (1436–49), later John Nettleton of Hutton Cranswick (ERY), then Henry Savile of Banke, MS 18 (Watson 20). For descriptions of all the College manuscripts, see R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Western Manuscripts (Cambridge, 2011), here at 81. 137  John Hanton, monk of St Mary’s, York (OSB); seen by Leland at York (Corpus B121.7–15, 4:787), and subsequently Henry Savile of Banke, MS 56 (Watson 29). Allen, as a consequence, frequently refers to the MS trebly (although see 408–09). Doyle identifies Hanton with a man of the name who appears in bishop Langley’s register. Described Thomson 96–97. See also Cotton Tiberius A.xv, removed from this book in the 1620s (but ignore Thomson’s description, which is erroneous). 138  Described Andrew G. Watson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford (Oxford, 2000), 12. 139  All the Magdalen manuscripts are described in Hanna’s forthcoming catalogue. Part of this book belonged to Mr John Martyll, fellow of Oriel 1410 × 1426. 140  Copied by a scribe named Norton, and perhaps associable with a prominent Yorkshire lineage. Also includes notes on the Gower family, another sign of presumptive Yorkshire provenance. 141  Within a series of sermons Siegfried Wenzel ascribes to the owner-scribe, John Dygon, fifth recluse of Sheen. For Dygon, see further ‘John Dygon, Fifth Recluse of Sheen: His Career, Books, and Acquaintance’, in Imagining the Book, ed. John Thompson and Stephen Kelly (Turnhout, 2006), 127–41; and ‘Two British Library Biblical Manuscripts: Some Observations’, Journal of the Early Book Society 8 (2005), 189–96. 142  Inclusion of both Ullerston on the Canticles, as well as a note on correction of service-books at Salisbury Cathedral in 1411, may imply that the book was originally produced there. Signed in rebus by John Hornton, who also donated Magdalen College, MS lat. 147 (and is otherwise unknown). 143  The book may have been produced for Andrew Holes (with his notes); it was later indexed and annotated by John Dygon. 144  For descriptions of all Merton books, see R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford (Cambridge, 2009), here at 25. Gift of Hammond Hadock, fellow and priest in East Anglia (d. 1465), as are the next two manuscripts. One or more of these appear as Corpus UO57.*5, UO68.*164 (the latter certainly Merton 68). 136 

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Merton College, MS 67: EV/24. Merton College. Merton College, MS 68: EV/25. Merton College.145 Merton College, MS 94 – EngMSS 99 = Pi. Merton College. Merton College, MS 193: Psa/36. Merton College. Merton College, MS 204: CompE/10146 Merton College, pb E.3.1: Psa/27. Probably Merton College. Merton College, pb 58.c. 8: Cant/22, EV/112. Probably Merton College.147 New College, MS 93: Nov/15. a medieval College book? New College, MS 95: not in EngMSS = Pu (exc.), F/63148 St John’s College, MS 77: Mul/1. Sheen reclusory, then Magdalen College, Oxford.149 St John’s College, MS 127: Cant/5, CAM/6, IA/9(*).150 St John’s College, MS 147: Nov/16. Westminster (OSB) (MLGB 197).151 St John’s College, MS 195: Nov/17, Psa/4 University College, MS 45: Nov/18 University College, MS 56 – EngMSS 100 = Pu University College, MS 60: CompC/14152 University College, MS 64 – EngMSS 101 = Pu University College, MS 74 – EngMSS 102 = Pi University College, MS 97 – EngMSS 103 = F, P/56, etc., Dub/Prayer Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 514: F/72 (verse)153 This manuscript was handled by Bale, who derived his erroneous ascription of the Middle English poem The Prick of Conscience to Rolle from the ascribed Latin version ‘Stimulus conscientiae’, at fols 74v– 88v here. Ignore Thomson’s association (71) of a commentary on the ‘Novem lectiones’ (fols 97–112v) with Rolle; this is an anonymous text connected with Rolle only insofar as both writers comment on the same text, the lections from the Office of the Dead. See further ‘Merton College, MS 68: Production and Texts’, Bodleian Library Record 27 (2014), 129–52. 146  Copied by John Gisburgh, canon of Merton (Surrey, OSA), 1446 × 50. The book does not appear in MLGB, but Doyle 2008, 147 and 151 n. 17 associates Gisburgh with a canon of York 1447 × 83. See further Watson, Dated Manuscripts (full reference at n. 115), no. 841 (140) and 2:plate 443; and Thomson’s catalogue, plate 69. 147  Identified by Ker and first described MMBL 3:665–66; cf. Thomson 256. 148  Described ‘Booklet’ (full reference at n. 123), 246–48. 149  All the College manuscripts are described in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John’s College, Oxford (Oxford, 2002), here at 103; the book should be dated s. xv2/4. It was indexed, rubrics provided, and one leaf copied by John Dygon, fifth recluse of Sheen (see n. 141). The book includes instructions for its donation to Exeter College (and thus appears in Watson, n. 138 above, 134). However, it probably passed to Magdalen with the remainder of Dygon’s books (more than twenty in all), and was only removed for donation to St John’s, c. 1620. 150  Contains evidence of early lay ownership in Oxfordshire. 151  Copied by William Ebesham; see further n. 96. 152  The scribe signs as Hugh Halle. 153  See further Alexandra Barratt, ‘Two Middle English Lyrics in the Bibliothèque Mazarine’, Notes and Queries 229 (1984), 24–27. 145 

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Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 996 (olim 902): IA/71 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 431: Psa/13154 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 543; Jud/18, Nov/38, EV/80155 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 1201: EV/113 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 6048B: EV/114. St Albans (OSB) (cf. MLGB 167).156 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 15700: Nov/39, CAM/16, IA/35, EV/89157 Paris, Bibliothèque Ste-Geneviève, MS 3390 – EngMSS 104 = F, ED. ? King’s College, Aberdeen. Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS B.6/3 (293): EV/81 Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS B.32/1 (331): Psa/14 Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS B.32/2 (332): Psa/15 Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS B.32/3 (333): Psa/16 Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS D.12 (577): Thr/5158 Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS D.123 (693): F/56 Prague, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, MS D.125 (695): CantO/13, IA/48, Dub/AR 159 Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS IV.E.1 (681): Psa/17. ? Prague University, library of the natio Bohemorum. Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS V.A.23 (814): CantO/9, IA/36, Dub/AR 160

Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS  V.D.4 (872): Psa/18. Prague University, library of the natio Bohemorum. Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS V.F.9 (931): F/57 Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS X.B.22: Psa/28. ? Prague University, library of the natio Bohemorum.161 Brought to France by Jean d’Angoulême on return from his English exile in 1445. For this book and the next (and the difficulty of separating the two brothers’ libraries), see Gilbert Ouy, La Librairie des frères captifs… (Turnhout, 2007); there the books appear in Jean’s 1467 post-mortem inventory as C 114 and 94, respectively (63, 65, 81–82). 155  Including instructions to the scribe in the hand of Charles d’Orléans, who brought the book to France on return from his English exile. The supplied ending of ‘Emendatio vitae’ at the head of the MS is in the hand of his brother, Jean d’ Angoulême. See Ouy’s summary of the brothers’ work, scribal and annotational, at 137, 141. The book also appears in François Avril and Patricia D. Stirnemann, Manuscrits enluminés d’origine insulaire viie–xxe siècle (Paris, 1987), 173–74 (no. 213) and plate 94. At the foot of fol. 60, the incomplete ‘Emendatio vitae’ is followed immediately by William’s Flete’s ‘Remedia’ (here ascribed in the heading to ‘Hylton’). 156  Doyle says that the first 23 folios appear copied from BL, MS  Royal 13  E.ix, and that both are St Albans books. 157  Probably Oxonian, s. xiv ex. 158  See Michael van Dussen, ‘Three Verse Eulogies of Anne of Bohemia’, Medium Ævum 78 (2009), 231–60, at 233, but already included in Marzac’s listing (MS 266 bis). Possibly produced for Mr Jacoubek of Stříbo, reformist and friend of Hus. 159  With the ‘cardinal note’ and shared extra materials following ‘Incendium’, for which, see n. 181 (this copy was not known to Doyle in 1981). 160  With the ‘cardinal note’ and the same extra materials as D.125. 161  Van Dussen, ‘Rolle’s Latin Psalter’ 47–48, identifies one of the hands, not that of the Rollean gloss, with that of Prague X.D.3 and possibly that of Prague IV.E.1. 154 

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Prague, Universitní Knihovna (now Národní Knihovna), MS X.D.3 (1882): Psa/19 Princeton University Library, MS Garrett 87: Nov/53162 Retz (Austria), Bibliothek des Dominikanerkonventes, MS 2: Psa/29. Retz OP.163 Salisbury Cathedral, MS 56 – EngMSS 105 = F (SS exc.); EV/66, CompE/11. Salisbury Cathedral (MLGB 173). San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 127 – EngMSS 106 = F San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 148 – EngMSS 107 = Pu, C; Psa/30164 San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 501 – EngMSS 110 = Ppro165 San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 502 – EngMSS 108 = F (frag.) San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library, MS HM 504: Nov/40166 Schlägl (Austria), Prämonstratenser-Stiftsbibliothek, Cpl. 80 (105): Psa/20167 Seville, Biblioteca Colombina, MS 94/5–2–44: IA/49. Biblioteca Colombina.168 Shrewsbury School, MS 25: Orat/11, Psa/11, EV/67. probably from a Cheshire religious house.169 Stockholm, Kungliga Bibliotheket, MS *A.68: EV/82 Stratton on the Fosse (Somt.), Downside Abbey, MS 48250/Clifton 9: EV/115170 Stratton on the Fosse (Somt.), Downside Abbey, MS 48253/Clifton 12: Mel/21. London Charterhouse (MLGB Sup. 47). Subiaco, Monastero Santa Scholastica, MS 1388: EV/116171 Tokyo, Prof. Toshiyuki Takamiya, see New Haven, Yale University Library Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 296: IA/37*. S Maria ad martyres nr Trier (OSB). Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 683: EV/83172

Probably produced in Oxford, as part of a larger fascicular book now (re)dismembered as MSS Garrett 66, 75, 85–87. See the description, Don C. Skemer, Medieval and Renaissance Manuuscripts in the Princeton University Library, 2 vols (Princeton, 2013), 1:176–78. 163  Copied by Mathias de Snargakch for use at Retz. For a description, see Franz Lackner, Katalog der Streubestände in Wien und Niederösterreich, Teil 1 (Vienna, 2000), 164–65; and for the quadrilingual colophon, Van Dussen, ‘Rolle’s Latin Psalter’ 63. 164  Images at EngMSS, plate 6 (following xlvi); and Hanna, Introducing Medieval English Book History 176–89 passim. 165  The book is the second part of Tokyo, Keio University Library, MS 170X@9/6. 166  Described  C.  W. Dutschke, Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington ­Library, 2 vols (San Marino ca, 1989), 1:240–41. The hand is probably French. 167  The scribe identifies himself as Wolfgang, chaplain in Budweis/České Budějovice. 168  Described José F. Sáez Guillén, Catálogo de manuscritos de la Biblioteca Colombina de Sevilla, 2 vols (Seville, 2002), 1:134. Purchased in Padua in 1531 and the text ascribed to St Antony of Padua OFM. 169  Described MMBL 4:313; for the provenance, see MMBL 4:288. 170  These two books are described MMBL 2:472–73, 476; the second was taken by Wilhelmus Baxster (sic) to Witham OCart, s. xvi in. 171  Bound later with a book written by Antony, monk of Specus S. Benedicti at the order of his prior 1388. Doyle dates the hand s. xv in./med., and describes it as possibly German. 172  Written by Lambert Trurnicht de Unna as a Carthusian novice (1447  ×  53), perhaps at Trier, where he died in 1477. In the third line of Allen’s description, for ‘franciscani’, read ‘sancti’. 162 

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Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 685: Mel/11, CAM/19, IA/38(*). St Albans nr Trier (OCart).173 Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 690: EV/84. St Albans nr Trier (OCart).174 Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 774: EV/85 Trier, Stadtbibliothek, MS 775: IA/39*, EV/86. St Mathew the apostle (OCart). Upholland College (Lancs.), MS 165: EV/117175 Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.1: Mel/12, IA/40. Vadstena (OBrig).176 Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.17: IA/56, CompB/4. Vadstena (OBrig).177 Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.193: Off/4, CantO/14, Mel/22. Vadstena (OBrig). Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.494 – EngMSS 112 = MPB Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.518: IA/73. Vadstena (OBrig). Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS C.621: Off/4, Pxx/5, IA/41, EV/87, CompD. Vadstena (OBrig).178 Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS  C.631: IA/50, EV/88, CompB/5. Probably Vadstena (OBrig).179 Urbana, University of Illinois Library, MS 106: Psa/31180 Urbana, University of Illinois Library, MS 144: Nov/41, IA/27, EV/70 Urbana, University of Illinois Library, MS 145: Orat/15, Sym/10181 The Vatican, Bibliotheca Apostolica, MS Reginensis lat. 320 – EngMSS 113 = Pu Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 1337: F/58 Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 1387: F/59 Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 1622: F/60 Written at Ruremonde (OCart), by William [Huls of] Brede, Ruremond (Limburg prov., OCart). Copied ‘in Reynhussn’ (Bursfeld OSB, diocese of Mainz); lent to the Franciscans of Coblenz in 1469. 175  Described MMBL 4:503–04. 176  Described Margarete Andersson-Schmitt et al., Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Uppsala: Katalog über die C-Sammlung, 6 vols (Stockholm, 1988–93), with seventh index volume (Uppsala, 1995), here 1:19–27. Although we do not accept her ascription, Irma Taavitsainen offers important further detail about the copies in Uppsala, ‘Ave Maria: A Meditation Connected with Richard Rolle in Uppsala MS C.193 and BL Royal MS 17.C.XVII’, Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 91 (1990), 57–66, esp. 58–59. And see further the catalogue 7:xvi for a reference to M. Hedlund’s study. 177  Described Andersson-Schmitt et  al., 1:187–96. Certainly from Vadstena (with old shelfmark); Doyle dates s. xv inc./med. 178  Described Andersson-Schmitt et al., 6:137–41. Prepared by or for Ketil Thorbern during his time in England, 1408–21. Taavitsainen and Hedlund argue that Thorbern copied the book, as well as C.193 and much of C.17. 179  Described Andersson-Schmitt et al., 6:164–76. 180  Was Phillipps 4451, sold Sotheby’s, 5 November 1951, lot 191. 181  The scribe signs as W. H., perhaps identifiable with the owner William Huntrod; John Hyett was also an early owner. Described Zbigniew Izydorczyk, The Medieval Gospel of Nicodemus…, MRTS 158 (Tempe az, 1997), 181–82. This copy is listed (but untraced) as MS no. 45 in A. S. G. Edwards and Jeremy Griffiths, ‘The Tollemache Collection of Medieval Manuscripts’, Book Collector 49 (2000), 349–64, at 360. Another item noticed there, from the 1762 Tollemache catalogue, ‘a vellum MS Pater Noster’, presumably represents an unnoticed lost copy of ‘Form’ MS 68. 173 

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Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 3927: F/61 Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 4133: Psa/37 Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 4483: CantO/10, IA/42, Ref, Dub/AR 182 Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 4527: F/62 Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 3 – Pi/49 Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 29 – EngMSS 114 = F, ED, C, DD, GG, L, MPA Warminster (Wilts.), Longleat House, the Marquess of Bath, MS 32 – EngMSS 115 = C (with F exc.), F, EV6 Washington dc, Catholic University of America Library, MS 114: EV/118183 Washington dc, Museum of the Bible, MS 148 – EngMSS 109 = Pu Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 18: EV/119 Windsor, St George’s Chapel, MS E.I.i: EV/120184 Worcester Cathedral, MS F.158 – EngMSS 116 = Pu Worcester Cathedral, MS F.166 – EngMSS 117 = Pu Worcester Cathedral, MS F.172 – EngMSS 118 = EV7, Ppro York Minster, MS XVI.I.5: Psa/32185 York Minster, MS XVI.I.9 – EngMSS 119 = F (SS exc.), CompE/12. Mount Grace (NRY, OCart) (MLGB 132). York Minster, MS XVI.K.16: EV/73186 Untraced (cf. olim Maldon above: Christie’s, 11 July 2000, lot 77) Christie’s, 2 June 2010, lot 205: EV/121187 Sotheby’s, 8 July 1974, lot 59 – EngMSS 123 = Pu

With the ‘cardinal note’ [see Allen 221] and additional materials following ‘Incendium’. Cf. Doyle 1981, 110–11: ‘[the] antecedent source had been procured by John (Jenzenstein) displaced Archbishop of Prague at the Roman Curia (where he died in 1400) from his fellow-Cardinal Cosimo (Migliorati) Bishop of Bologna, who had been the papal collector in England up to 1386’. See also Michael Van Dussen, From England to Bohemia… (Cambridge, 2012), 40–42, 45–48 on the cardinal note. 183  On fol. 2 the booklist of M. Edmund Norton, incl. one book (Hugh Reuchlin) ‘quem… contulit mihi D. W. Hawme’. 184  Discovered by Allen after the appearance of Writings Ascribed; see ‘Richard Rolle’, Times Literary Supplement 1399 (22 November 1928), 910. Described MMBL 4:637–38. The book may be connected with St George’s, MS E.I.ii and with BodL, MS Laud misc. 174 (in lay ownership in Hitchin, s. xv/xvi). 185  Described MMBL 4:712. Belonged to Richard Rypley, rector of St Peter le Bailey, Oxford 1394–. The texts have been added to an early thirteenth-century copy of Peter Lombard’s ‘great gloss’ on the Psalms. 186  Described MMBL 4:734, with corrections to Allen’s transcription of owners’ notes. The book belonged to clergy in Middleton-on-the-Wolds and Beverley (ERY), 1450 × 1504. 187  This has the signature ‘Iohannes Neuton’ and is thus arguably associable with the copy of ‘Emendatio vitae’ bequeathed by John Newton, rector of Houghton-le-spring, co. Durham, and master of Sherburn Hospital in 1427 [Allen 243] and perhaps with the man who provided corrections, allegedly derived from Rolle’s autograph, to the copy of ‘Incendium amoris’ in Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS 35. 182 

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Attested Copies Lost from Surviving Books Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 803/807: Psa (excerpt) Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.1.26 (24):? Psa (excerpt) CUL, MS Hh.4.13: Vir Eton College, MS 19: EV (destroyed) BL, MS Cotton Vitellius D.xii: English ED, C, F ? BodL, MS Digby 98: English F BodL, MS Rawlinson C.285: English C (destroyed) Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa, Lat.f.ch.I.445: Psa

Medieval Institutional Owners [Amalgamating Both ‘attested copies’ and Surviving Books] ? Aberdeen King’s College: BSG 3390 (EngMSS 104 = F, ED) Arundel (Sussex), collegiate church of Holy Trinity: Royal 7 B.xiv (EngMSS 53 = F (SS exc.), CompE/5) ? Axholme (Lincs., OCart): BL Add 37049 (EngMSS 41 = ED, F, C, L (all exc.)) Basel Charterhouse: Basel A.vi.29 (EV/75) Basel, St Leonard (OSA): Basel A.iv.24 (EV/74) Beauvale (Notts., OCart): CUL Mm.5.37 (IA/11*, EV/31) ? Bermondsey (Surrey, OClun): Cant Bristol, hospital of St Mary Magdalen: Psa Bristol, St Mark’s hospital: Lyell 38 (Nov/52, EV/111) ? Bromhall (Berks., OSB nuns): olim Maldon, Foyle MS (F/34) Brugges Charterhouse: Mel188 Bury St Edmunds (OSB):? Jud, Mel, Nov, Thr, Psa, Pxx, CAM, IA, EV ? Byland (OCist): cf. Vespasian E.i (Cant/7, n. 71 above) Butzbach, St Markus (secular canons): Giessen 786 (EV/102) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College: CAM, Nov Cambridge, Gonville Hall: Caius 332/723 (IA/13) ? Cambridge, Pembroke College: IA Cambridge, Peterhouse: Nov, Psa Cambridge, University Library: Mel Campli, St Bernardino (OFM): Naples vii.G.15 (EV/109) ? Campsey Ash (Norfolk, OSA nuns): CUL Add 3042 (EngMSS 22 = MPB) Canterbury, St Augustine’s abbey (OSB):? Nov Canterbury, Christ Church (OSB): Rawlinson C.269 (EV/17) České Budějovice cathedral: České Budějovice MS (Psa/22) ? Cheshire religious house: Shrewsbury 25 (Orat/11, Psa/11, EV/67) 188 

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Chester, St Werbergh’s (OSB): TCD 271 (EngMSS 28 = F (SS exc.), CompE/3) Chipping Camden parish church (Gloucs.): BL Add 16170 (EV/52) Cirencester (OSA): Hereford O.i.10 (IA/55, EV/60) ? Coventry (OCart): Lat. th. d. 27 (CompB/6) Dartford OP nuns: Douce 322 (EngMSS 84 = EV1) Dover (OSB): Cam Corpus 365 (Nov/23, Psa/5, Pxx/3, CAM/7) Durham Cathedral (OSB): Jesus Q.G.11 (59) (CAM/20); Arundel 507 (EngMSS 45 = F, ED, SG; IA/52) Ely Cathedral (OSB): St John’s B.1 (23) (Jud/11, Mel/5, IA/15) Evesham (OSB): Mm.6.17 (Jud/9), Dub/AR Exeter Cathedral: Psa (?), Exeter 3516 (EV/123); Bodley 315 (Nov/3) Fountains (NRY, OCist): Faustina A.v (EV/40) ? Glastonbury (OSB): Laud misc. 497 (EV/13) Haghmond (Salop., OSA): Douce 302 (EngMSS 83 = F (exc.)) Hampole (WRY, OCist nuns): Psa Headcorn (Kent) chantry: Bodley 110 (EngMSS 71 = F) Hereford Cathedral: Hereford O.viii.1 (Cant/12, Mel/9, Apoc/3, Psa/9, Mag/4, CAM/12, IA/23, EV/61, Dub/Sym) Hérinnes/Herne nr Enghien, Brabant (OCart): Brussels 4929–32 (CantO/7, IA/28, Dub/AR); Brussels 4987 (IA/29) Hinton (Somt., OCart):? Westminster DO (Cant/20, Nov/49, Vir/3, IA/60) Huy (friars of the Holy Cross): Liège Isleworth, Syon (OBrig): Cant (3x), CA, Jud (3x), Mel, Nov (6x), Apo, Psa,? Pxx, CAM (5x), IA (6x), EV (15x), English F,? CompA, CompE (one printed); as well as the surviving Emmanuel pb 32.6.49 (IA/43, EV/93); Trinity R.8.16 (792) (Nov/26); BL Add 24661 (IA/20, EV/53, CompB/2); Harley 612 (IA/72, Ref), Lambeth 546 (F/64);? Yale 317 (Ref); Brasenose 15 (EV/19);? Jesus 39 (CompE2/2) Isleworth, Syon (OBrig nuns): Psa Kelheim (Bavaria, OFM): Munich 8094 (EV/108) Kingston-upon-Hull, Charterhouse: Psa, English F, MedB; as well as the surviving Lincoln 209 (Off/3, Mel/10, Nov/36, Pxx/4, CAM/14) ? Lanthony (Gloucs., OSA – probably Duleek, its Irish cell): Lambeth 357 (Nov/32) L’Aquila, S Bernardino (OFM): Naples vii.F.35 (EV/79) Launde (Leics., OSA): Douce 302 (EngMSS 83 = F (exc.)) Leicester (OSA): CA, Jud, Mel, Nov, CAM, IA, EV (2x), CompC Leominster (Herefs., OSB, cell of Reading): CompE Lessnes (Kent, OSA): Cam Corpus 387 (EngMSS 2 = Pu) Lichfield Cathedral: IA,189 as well as the surviving Rawlinson A.389 (EngMSS 93 = ED (twice), F, C (with F exc.); IA/6, EV/16) London, Carmelite convent: Mel, IA, EV, CompB

This volume sounds like the kind of book that should have emanated from same Oxonian surroundings as Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 15700, with which it shared an otherwise unique text, although, if a single production, it was probably copied half a century or more later. 189 

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London, Charterhouse of the Salutation: Psa, IA, English F, MedB,? CompC; as well as the surviving Downside 48253 (Mel/21) and perhaps TCD 159? London, hospital of St Mary Elsing: Vir London, hospital of St Mary, without Bishopsgate: Cam Corpus 194 (Mel/13) London, Westminster Abbey (OSB): IA Mainz Charterhouse: Mainz  I.150 (EV/105); Mainz  I.168 (IA/46); Mainz  I.170 (EV/106); Laud misc. 202 (IA/4, EV/12) ? Malling (Kent, OSB nuns): Lambeth 352 (Psa/8) Maria Laach (Rhineland, OSB): Cologne 205 (IA/65) Mount Grace (NRY, OCart): TCC O.2.56 (Ref), Harley 237 (CompC/4, CompE/4); York XVI.I.9 (EngMSS 119 = F (SS exc.), CompE/12) Norwich Cathedral (OSB): post EV/124 Olomouc, Nanebevzetí Panny Marie (OCart): M I 300 (IA/70) Oxford, All Souls’ College: EV Oxford, Balliol College: Balliol 224A (Cant/3, Jud/7, Nov/11, CAM/4, IA/7, EV/18) Oxford, Brasenose College: Royal 7 E.ii (Nov/28) Oxford, Canterbury College: IA Oxford, Durham College: Ref Oxford OFM: Hereford P.i.9 (EngMSS 35 = F) Oxford, Magdalen College: Magdalen lat. 79 (Psa/26, Ref), lat. 115 (Psa/3 and 35), and lat.  141 (Comp­E/9); St John’s 77 (Mul/1) Oxford, Merton College: Bodley 52 (Nov/2); Merton 16 (EV/23); Merton  67 (EV/24); Merton  68 (EV/25); Merton 94 (EngMSS 99 = Pi); Merton 193 (Psa/36); probably Merton pb E.3.1 (Psa/27) and Merton pb 58.c. 8 (Cant/22, EV/112) Oxford, University Library: Psa Pipewell (Nhants., OCist): CompE Pleshey (Essex), collegiate church of the Holy Trinity: EV ? Pontefract (OClun): Tiberius A.xv (Off/2, Apoc/2, Mul/3), Corpus 193 (Cant/4, Jud/8, Mel/2, Nov/12, Thr/2, Orat/4, Sym/4, Psa/2, Pxx/2, CAM/5, IA/8, EV/21) Prague University, library of the natio Bohemorum: Prague IV.E.1, V.D.4, and X.B.22 (Psa/17, 18, 28, respec.); Psa Ramsey (Hunts., OSB): IA Reading (OSB): Harley 330 (CantO/3);? Bodley 450 (EngMSS 74 = F (SS exc.), CompE/6 Rebdorf (Bavaria, OSA): EV (2x) Rethel prope Sierck, St Sixtus (Rettel in the Moselle, OCart): Metz 361 (IA/33) Retz (lower Austria, OP): Retz 2 (Psa/29) Richmond (Surrey), observant OFM: Nov (print?) Rievaulx (NRY, OCist): Corpus 155 (EV/20) St Albans (OSB): Bodley 467 (EngMSS 75 = Pu);? Royal 13 E.ix (EV/49); Paris 6048B (EV/114) Salisbury Cathedral: post EV/124, Salisbury 56 (EngMSS 105 = F (SS exc.); EV/66, CompE/11) Scarborough, St Mary’s church: Psa Shaftesbury (Dorset, OSB nuns): CUL Ii.6.40 (EngMSS 19 = C, F (exc.)),? Additional 11748 (OE)

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Sheen (OCart): Emmanuel 35 (Jud/10, Orat/7, Mul/2, CAM/8, IA/14); Douai 396 (CantO/8, Mel/7, Orat/10, IA/30, EV/76, CompB/3, Dub/Prayer); TCD 281 (EV/58);? BL Add 37790 (EngMSS 42 = EV2, IA, F, ED);? Yale 317 (Ref), Bodley 417 (CompH/2) Sheen reclusory: Harley 3820 (CompC/8); Magdalen lat. 79 (Psa/26, Ref) and 141 (CompE/9); St John’s 77 (Mul/1) ? Smithfield, St Bartholomew’s (OSA): Caius *669/646 (EngMSS 3 = F, EV4) Southampton, hospital of St Julian: Nov Southwark (OSA): Royal 7 A.i (CantO/11, Nov/48); Marston 243 (Cant/14, CAM/18, EV/69); Lat. th. e.8 (CompE/8) Stafford (OSA): Hatton 26 (EV/10);? Hatton 86 (Nov/6). Święty Krzyż (Poland, OSB): Psa ? Toddington hospital (Beds.); IA Thurgarton (Notts., OSA): IA, EV,? CompA nr Trier, St Albans (OCart): Trier 685 (Mel/11, CAM/19, IA/38); Trier 690 (EV/84) nr Trier, S Maria ad martyres (OSB): Trier 296 (IA/37) Trier, St Mathew the apostle (OCart): Trier 775 (IA/39*, EV/86) Trier, St Matthias (OSB): Ghent 291 (IA/31, EV/77) Vadstena (OBrig): Uppsala C.1 (Mel/12, IA/40); Uppsala C.17 (IA/56, CompB/4); Uppsala C.518 (IA/73), Uppsala C.621 (Off/4, Pxx/5, IA/41, EV/87, CompD);? Uppsala C.631 (IA/50, EV/88, CompB/5) Warwick, collegiate church of St Mary: Psa Waterford, St Saviours’ Chantry: Psa Wells Cathedral: Psa West Tanfield (NRY), hermitage: Jud Westminster abbey (OSB): JRL lat. 395 (Cant/13, Jud/19, CAM/15, IA/26); St John’s 147 (Nov/16) Westminster, the Royal Library of Henry VIII: CompE ? Winchester Cathedral (OSB): Sloane 2275 (Mel/6, Nov/30, CAM/9, IA/19, EV/51) Winchester, College of St Mary: Psa Witham (Somt., OCart): IA, EV;? Lucca (CantO/12),? Westminster DO (Cant/20, Nov/49, Vir/3, IA/60) Worcester Cathedral (OSB): Psa (exc.), CompE; as well as the surviving Harley 3913 (EngMSS 122 = Pi (exc.)); Bodley 861 (Cant/1, Jud/2, Mel/1, Nov/5, Thr/1, Apoc/1, Orat/3, Sym/3, Psa/1, Mag/2, Pxx/1, CAM/2, IA/3, EV/8, Dub/Sym) York, hospital of St Leonard: Off, Nov York Minster: Ref York, St Mary’s (OSB):? CUL Mm.5.37 (IA/11, EV/31); Tiberius A.xv (Off/2, Apoc/2, Mul/3); Corpus 193 (Cant/4, Jud/8, Mel/2, Nov/12, Thr/2, Orat/4, Sym/4, Psa/2, Pxx/2, CAM/5, IA/8, EV/21) Youghal (OFM): Ref

Named Scribes Antony, monk of Specus S. Benedicti: Subiaco Henri de Bentheim: Liège

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Dated Manuscripts 1384: Additional 34763 (not simply the oldest dated MS of Rolle, but the oldest dated evidence for secretary script in an English literary MS) 1408: Prague UL V.F.9 1408 × 21: Uppsala C.621 1409–11: Bodley 861 1410: Vienna 1522 and 4527 1412: Prague Cath B.32.3 1413: Cracow, Prague Cath B.32.1 1414 × 29: Prague Cath D.12 1423 × 32: Mainz I.170 1433?: Magdalen lat. 141 1438: Schlägl 1446: Budapest, Royal 5 A.vi 1446 × 50: Merton 204 1447 × 53: Trier 683 1452: Retz, Milan 1453 × 59: Mainz I.168 1461–63: Mainz II.122 1460s: Bodley 456 1479: Bristol (only mentioned, no Rolle texts) 1482–83: Naples vii.G.15 1492–97: Cologne 1516: Florence 1565: BodL Lat. th. d. 15

Early Printed Books Explanationes notabiles…super lectiones illas beati Iob (Oxford: Theodoric Rood for sale by John Hunt, 1483) = STC 21261 the de Worde Horae  = Horae beate virginis secundum vsum Insignis ecclesie Sarum (London, 31  July 1503) = STC 15899 the de Worde ‘Contemplacions’ (London, two editions, 1506 and 1519 [?]) = STC 21259–60; see also Ref/Images the de Worde William Flete (London, three editions, 1508, 21 January 1519, and c. 1525) = STC 20875.5, 20876, 20876.5; see also Ref/Images Explanationes notabiles…super lectiones illas beati Iob (Paris: Berthold Rembolt, 16 November 1510) = STC 21261/Shaaber R 114 Speculum spiritualium (Paris: Wolfgang Hopyl, for London sale by William Breton, 1510) = STC 23030.7/ Shaaber R 117–18 Donatus deuotionis de octo partibus orationis (London: John Rastell, 1515) = STC 7018.7

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‘First sayeth Bois’ = A proper dyaloge, betwene a gentilman and a husbandman… and A compendious olde treatyse, shewynge how that we oughte to haue ye scripture in Englysshe (Antwerp: Johannes Hoochstraten, 1530) = STC 1462.5 and 3021, respectively De emendatione peccatoris (Antwerp: Martin César, October 1533), with truncated version of ‘Super Canticum’ and ‘Incendium’ ch. 15 = Shaaber R 112 ‘Tree and Twelve Fruits’ (R. Copland and M. Fawkes, 29 October 1535) = STC 13608 Cologne, 1536 (in abbreviations) = Shaaber R 115 [the 1535 edition, less inclusive, D. Richardi Pampolitani eremitæ…de Emendatione peccatoris opusculum = Shaaber R 112] In Threnos siue lamentationes Ieremiæ…enarratio (Paris: Jean Foucher, 1542) = Shaaber R 116