Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 402
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- Library
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Shelfmark
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- MS 402
- Biblissima authority file
- Date
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- 1200 - 1299
- Language
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- Middle English
- Latin
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402: Ancrene Wisse
- Ancrene Wisse || Ancrene Wisse
- Description
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Summary: Ancrene Wisse or Ancrene Riwle is a treatise on the religious life intended for anchoresses or nuns, written in the first half of the thirteenth century. There is much controversy as to when, where and by whom it was written, but possibly it was by a Dominican writing in the West Midlands in the 1230s. Others have argued for authorship by an Augustinian canon, also writing in the West Midlands in the first third of the century. CCCC MS 402, once considered to be one of the earliest versions of the text, is now thought to be of the late thirteenth century. The MS has recently been published in an authoritative new edition by Bella Millett, collated with variants from all other MSS of the text.
Contents :
1r-118v - Ancrene Wisse || Ancrene Wisse
rubric: (1r) I þe faderes and i þe sunes and i þe hali gastes nome her beginneð ancrene ƿisse
incipit: (1r) Recti diligunt te. In canticis sponsa ad sponsum. Est rectum grammaticum, etc.
incipit: (1r) Lauerd seið godes spuse to hire deorewerðe spus
Note: The we re-written with modern w by hand of cent. xv (?). This has been done in several places
Note: Ends
explicit: (117v) Ase ofte as ȝe habbeð ired eaƿiht her on greteð þe leafdi ƿið an aue for him þet sƿonc her abuten Inoh meaðful ich am þe bidde se lutel
rubric: (117v) Explicit. þench o þi ƿritere i þine beoden sum chearre ne beo hit ne se lutel. hit turneð þe to gode þet tu bidest for oþre
Note: f. 118v blank
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