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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 296

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  • MS 296
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  • 1383 - 1399
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  • Middle English
  • Latin
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 296: John Wyclif and his followers, Tracts in Middle English
    • Of the leaven of pharisees || Attendite a fermento phariseorum quod est hypocrisis. A discourse in xii chapters against the hypocrisy of the clergy
    • How men ought to obey prelates || Hou men owen obesche to prelatis drede curs and kepe law, ch. iii
    • The rule and testament of St Francis, chapters 1-12 || The reule of seynt Fraunseis
    • The rule and testament of St Francis, chapter 13 || The testament of seynt Fraunseis
    • Comment on the testament of St Francis || Objections against the Franciscans for not observing this testament under pretence of their having a papal dispensation
    • Fifty heresies and errors of friars || Articles against the friers
    • Of prelates || Articles against prelates
    • Speculum de antichristo || How Anticriste and his clerkis feren trewe prestis fro prechynge of Cristis gospel bi foure disceitis
    • Of clerks possessioners || Of clerkis possessioneris
    • How the office of curates is ordained of God || Hou the office of curatis is ordeyned of God
    • The order of priesthood || For the ordre of presthod
    • De stipendiis ministrorum or How men should find priests || Hou men schullen fynde prestis
    • De precationibus sacris; Octo in quibus seducuntur simplices christiani || Hou preiere of good men helpith moche and preiere of synful men displesith God and harmeth hemself and othere men
    • A short rule of life || A schort reule of lif for eche man in general and for prestis and lordis and laboreris in special hou eche schal be savyd in his degree
    • Three things destroy this world || Thre thingis distroien this world false confessoures false men of lawe and false merchauntis
    • Of feigned contemplative life || Of feyned contemplatif lif, of song, of the ordynal of Salisbury and of bodely almes and worldly bysynesse, of prestis hou bi thes foure the fend lettith hem fro prechynge of the gospel
    • The pater noster || The pater noster expounded
    • The Ave Maria || The Ave Maria expounded
    • How Satan and his children turn works of mercy upside down || Hou Sathanas and his children turnen werkis of mercy up so dom(!) and disceyuen men thereinne and in here five wittis
    • How religious men should keep certain articles or How men of private religion should love more the gospel || Hou religious men shoulde kepe certayne articles
    • Of servants and lords || Of servauntis and lordis hou eche schal kepe his degree
    • Why poor priests have no benefice || Whi pore prestis have none benefice
    • How antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy holy writ || Hou anticrist and his clerkis traveilen to destroie holy writt and to make cristene men unstable in the feith, and to sette here ground in develis of helle
    • How Satan and his priests, etc. || Hou sathanas and his prestis and his feigned religious casten bi thre cursed heresies to destroie alle good lyvynge and meyntenyng alle manner of synne
    • On church temporalities || For thre skillis lordis schulden constreyne crerlis to lyve in mekenesse wilful poverte and discrete penaunce and gostly traveile
    • Of weddid men and wifes and of here children also || Of wedded men and wifis and of here children also
    • Of poor preaching priests || Articles of reformation
    • John Wyclif, Translation of a passage from St Augustine beginning Arguam te quando nescis || Translation of a passage of S. Augustin
    • The great sentence of cursing expounded || The grete sentence of curs exponed
    • A petition to the king and parliament || Articles presented to the king and parliament
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  • Summary: CCCC MS 296 contains a late fourteenth-century (after 1383) collection of Lollard tracts and sermons written in Middle English. The entire collection was once ascribed to John Wyclif (d. 1384) but is now believed to be the work of a number of authors. All the tracts in this volume have been published by either F. D. Matthew in 1880 and 1902 (repr.1998) or Thomas Arnold in 1871.


    Contents :


    1-22 - Of the leaven of pharisees || Attendite a fermento phariseorum quod est hypocrisis. A discourse in xii chapters against the hypocrisy of the clergy

    Note: (1) This page is largely illegible from a water-stain

    Note: Matthew, p. 2


    22-29 - How men ought to obey prelates || Hou men owen obesche to prelatis drede curs and kepe law, ch. iii

    Note: (22) Matthew, p. 28


    29-34 - The rule and testament of St Francis, chapters 1-12 || The reule of seynt Fraunseis

    Note: Matthew, p. 39


    34-36 - The rule and testament of St Francis, chapter 13 || The testament of seynt Fraunseis

    Note: Matthew, p. 39


    36-39 - Comment on the testament of St Francis || Objections against the Franciscans for not observing this testament under pretence of their having a papal dispensation

    Note: Matthew, p. 39


    39-65 - Fifty heresies and errors of friars || Articles against the friers

    Note: Arnold, p. 366


    65-103 - Of prelates || Articles against prelates

    Note: Matthew, p. 52


    103-106 - Speculum de antichristo || How Anticriste and his clerkis feren trewe prestis fro prechynge of Cristis gospel bi foure disceitis

    Note: Matthew, p. 109


    106-123 - Of clerks possessioners || Of clerkis possessioneris

    Note: Matthew, p. 114


    123-136 - How the office of curates is ordained of God || Hou the office of curatis is ordeyned of God

    Note: Matthew, p. 141


    136-144 - The order of priesthood || For the ordre of presthod

    Note: Matthew, p. 164


    144-145 - De stipendiis ministrorum or How men should find priests || Hou men schullen fynde prestis

    Note: Arnold, p. 202


    145-157 - De precationibus sacris; Octo in quibus seducuntur simplices christiani || Hou preiere of good men helpith moche and preiere of synful men displesith God and harmeth hemself and othere men

    Note: Arnold, p. 219 and p. 447


    157-160 - A short rule of life || A schort reule of lif for eche man in general and for prestis and lordis and laboreris in special hou eche schal be savyd in his degree

    Note: Arnold, p. 204


    160-165 - Three things destroy this world || Thre thingis distroien this world false confessoures false men of lawe and false merchauntis

    Note: Matthew, p. 180


    165-172 - Of feigned contemplative life || Of feyned contemplatif lif, of song, of the ordynal of Salisbury and of bodely almes and worldly bysynesse, of prestis hou bi thes foure the fend lettith hem fro prechynge of the gospel

    Note: Matthew, p. 187

    Note: (70) With part of item 30 on pp. 70-72


    172-175 - The pater noster || The pater noster expounded

    Note: Matthew, p. 197


    175-179 - The Ave Maria || The Ave Maria expounded

    Note: Matthew, p. 203


    179-185 - How Satan and his children turn works of mercy upside down || Hou Sathanas and his children turnen werkis of mercy up so dom(!) and disceyuen men thereinne and in here five wittis

    Note: Matthew, p. 210


    185-190 - How religious men should keep certain articles or How men of private religion should love more the gospel || Hou religious men shoulde kepe certayne articles

    Note: Matthew, p. 219


    190-203 - Of servants and lords || Of servauntis and lordis hou eche schal kepe his degree

    Note: Matthew, p. 226


    203-209 - Why poor priests have no benefice || Whi pore prestis have none benefice

    Note: Matthew, p. 244


    209-213 - How antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy holy writ || Hou anticrist and his clerkis traveilen to destroie holy writt and to make cristene men unstable in the feith, and to sette here ground in develis of helle

    Note: Matthew, p. 253


    213-221 - How Satan and his priests, etc. || Hou sathanas and his prestis and his feigned religious casten bi thre cursed heresies to destroie alle good lyvynge and meyntenyng alle manner of synne

    Note: Matthew, p. 263


    221-224 - On church temporalities || For thre skillis lordis schulden constreyne crerlis to lyve in mekenesse wilful poverte and discrete penaunce and gostly traveile

    Note: Arnold, p. 213


    224-234 - Of weddid men and wifes and of here children also || Of wedded men and wifis and of here children also

    Note: Arnold, p. 188


    234-238 - Of poor preaching priests || Articles of reformation

    Note: Matthew, p. 275


    238-239 - John Wyclif, Translation of a passage from St Augustine beginning Arguam te quando nescis || Translation of a passage of S. Augustin

    Note: Matthew, p. 281


    239-288 - The great sentence of cursing expounded || The grete sentence of curs exponed

    Note: Arnold, p. 267


    288-298 - A petition to the king and parliament || Articles presented to the king and parliament

    incipit: (288) Plese it to oure most noble

    Note: with part of Item 16 on pp. 297-298

    explicit: (298) and bewar of sathanas disceitis. Amen

    Note: At the bottom of this column is an erasure: This is the worke of .... It is only of cent. xvi

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