Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 296: John Wyclif and his followers, Tracts in Middle English

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 296: John Wyclif and his followers, Tracts in Middle English
Alternate Title:
Tracts by Wyclif
Language:
English, Middle (1100-1500) and Latin
Extent:
ff. 3 + 150
Dimensions:
269 Height (mm) and 200 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1383 - 1399]
Table of contents:
  • Of the leaven of pharisees
  • How men ought to obey prelates
  • The rule and testament of St Francis
  • The rule and testament of St Francis
  • Comment on the testament of St Francis
  • Fifty heresies and errors of friars
  • Of prelates
  • Speculum de antichristo
  • Of clerks possessioners
  • How the office of curates is ordained of God
  • The order of priesthood
  • De stipendiis ministrorum or How men should find priests
  • De precationibus sacris; Octo in quibus seducuntur simplices christiani
  • A short rule of life
  • Three things destroy this world
  • Of feigned contemplative life
  • The pater noster
  • The Ave Maria
  • How Satan and his children turn works of mercy upside down
  • How religious men should keep certain articles or How men of private religion should love more the gospel
  • Of servants and lords
  • Why poor priests have no benefice
  • How antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy holy writ
  • How Satan and his priests, etc.
  • On church temporalities
  • Of weddid men and wifes and of here children also
  • Of poor preaching priests
  • Translation of a passage from St Augustine beginning Arguam te quando nescis
  • The great sentence of cursing expounded
  • A petition to the king and parliament
Description:
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.
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