Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 296: John Wyclif and his followers, Tracts in Middle English
Description
Abstract/Contents
- 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
- 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
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv late
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mf281cz1275/MS_296.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tk895wc0796/296.pdf
- Contains
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- Of the leaven of pharisees. 1-22
- Nasmith
- Attendite a fermento phariseorum quod est hypocrisis. A discourse in xii chapters against the hypocrisy of the clergy. 1-22
- Note
-
(1) This page is largely illegible from a water-stain
Matthew, p. 2
- How men ought to obey prelates. 22-29
- Nasmith
- Hou men owen obesche to prelatis drede curs and kepe law, ch. iii. 22-29
- Note
- (22) Matthew, p. 28
- The rule and testament of St Francis, chapters 1-12. 29-34
- Nasmith
- The reule of seynt Fraunseis. 29-34
- Author
- St Francis
- Note
- Matthew, p. 39
- The rule and testament of St Francis, chapter 13. 34-36
- Nasmith
- The testament of seynt Fraunseis. 34-36
- Author
- St Francis
- Note
- Matthew, p. 39
- Comment on the testament of St Francis. 36-39
- Nasmith
- Objections against the Franciscans for not observing this testament under pretence of their having a papal dispensation. 36-39
- Author
- St Francis
- Note
- Matthew, p. 39
- Fifty heresies and errors of friars. 39-65
- Nasmith
- Articles against the friers. 39-65
- Note
- Arnold, p. 366
- Of prelates. 65-103
- Nasmith
- Articles against prelates. 65-103
- Note
- Matthew, p. 52
- Speculum de antichristo. 103-106
- Nasmith
- How Anticriste and his clerkis feren trewe prestis fro prechynge of Cristis gospel bi foure disceitis. 103-106
- Note
- Matthew, p. 109
- Of clerks possessioners. 106-123
- Nasmith
- Of clerkis possessioneris. 106-123
- Note
- Matthew, p. 114
- How the office of curates is ordained of God. 123-136
- Nasmith
- Hou the office of curatis is ordeyned of God. 123-136
- Note
- Matthew, p. 141
- The order of priesthood. 136-144
- Nasmith
- For the ordre of presthod. 136-144
- Note
- Matthew, p. 164
- De stipendiis ministrorum or How men should find priests. 144-145
- Nasmith
- Hou men schullen fynde prestis. 144-145
- Note
- Arnold, p. 202
- De precationibus sacris; Octo in quibus seducuntur simplices christiani. 145-157
- Nasmith
- Hou preiere of good men helpith moche and preiere of synful men displesith God and harmeth hemself and othere men. 145-157
- Note
- Arnold, p. 219 and p. 447
- A short rule of life. 157-160
- Nasmith
- 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. 157-160
- Note
- Arnold, p. 204
- Three things destroy this world. 160-165
- Nasmith
- Thre thingis distroien this world false confessoures false men of lawe and false merchauntis. 160-165
- Note
- Matthew, p. 180
- Of feigned contemplative life. 165-172
- Nasmith
- 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. 165-172
- Note
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Matthew, p. 187
(70) With part of item 30 on pp. 70-72
- The pater noster. 172-175
- Nasmith
- The pater noster expounded. 172-175
- Note
- Matthew, p. 197
- The Ave Maria. 175-179
- Nasmith
- The Ave Maria expounded. 175-179
- Note
- Matthew, p. 203
- How Satan and his children turn works of mercy upside down. 179-185
- Nasmith
- Hou Sathanas and his children turnen werkis of mercy up so dom(!) and disceyuen men thereinne and in here five wittis. 179-185
- Note
- Matthew, p. 210
- How religious men should keep certain articles or How men of private religion should love more the gospel. 185-190
- Nasmith
- Hou religious men shoulde kepe certayne articles. 185-190
- Note
- Matthew, p. 219
- Of servants and lords. 190-203
- Nasmith
- Of servauntis and lordis hou eche schal kepe his degree. 190-203
- Note
- Matthew, p. 226
- Why poor priests have no benefice. 203-209
- Nasmith
- Whi pore prestis have none benefice. 203-209
- Note
- Matthew, p. 244
- How antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy holy writ. 209-213
- Nasmith
- 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. 209-213
- Note
- Matthew, p. 253
- How Satan and his priests, etc. 213-221
- Nasmith
- 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. 213-221
- Note
- Matthew, p. 263
- On church temporalities. 221-224
- Nasmith
- For thre skillis lordis schulden constreyne crerlis to lyve in mekenesse wilful poverte and discrete penaunce and gostly traveile. 221-224
- Note
- Arnold, p. 213
- Of weddid men and wifes and of here children also. 224-234
- Nasmith
- Of wedded men and wifis and of here children also. 224-234
- Note
- Arnold, p. 188
- Of poor preaching priests. 234-238
- Nasmith
- Articles of reformation. 234-238
- Note
- Matthew, p. 275
- John Wyclif, Translation of a passage from St Augustine beginning Arguam te quando nescis. 238-239
- Nasmith
- Translation of a passage of S. Augustin. 238-239
- Author
- John Wyclif
- Note
- Matthew, p. 281
- The great sentence of cursing expounded. 239-288
- Nasmith
- The grete sentence of curs exponed. 239-288
- Note
- Arnold, p. 267
- A petition to the king and parliament. 288-298
- Nasmith
- Articles presented to the king and parliament. 288-298
- 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
- Of the leaven of pharisees. 1-22
- TJames
- 362
- Stanley
- Under C. 6
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/bc854fy5899
- MS 296
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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