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Alternative title

Walter Hilton, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 169

Date created

[ca. 1400-1499]

Language

English, Middle (1100-1500), Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

34 lines to a page

Height (mm)

265

Width (mm)

180

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8) (+1*) 2(8)-21(8) .

Writing

well written

Foliation

ff. i-iv + 1-169 + v-vi

Additions

f. 1r is blank. On f. 1v the English note of indulgence given by Nasmith.Unto every man or woman that seyth this prayere folwyng: Benedictum sit dulce nomen Domini nostri Iesu Christi et gloriosissimae virginis Mariae matris ejus in eternum et ultra: Amen. Nos cum prole benedicat virgo Mariae: Amen. ar grauntyd iii yer of pardon tociens quociens of pope Clement the fourth atte the requeste of seynt Lowys kyng of Fraunce.

At top of f. 2r (xvi early) Liber contemplationum Walteri Hilton. C. 32.

2 fo.

gostly

Summary

CCCC MS 268, dating to c. 1450, contains a collection of Middle English devotional and mystical texts. An inscription records its ownership in the fifteenth century by the Augustinian nun, Elizabeth Wylby, of Campsey Priory (Suffolk). Of the texts in the book, two are anonymous, although one claims to contain extracts in Middle English from Henry Suso OP (1295-1366), Horologium sapientiae. The other texts are attributed to Walter Hilton (c. 1343-96), the Book of Contemplation, in two parts. Late in his life in 1386, Walter became an Augustinian canon at Thurgarton (Nottinghamshire).

Contents

-- Book of Contemplation, book 1 -- Book of Contemplation, book 2

M.R. James Date

xv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rc376hd1492/MS_268.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tq589vt7408/268.pdf

Contains

• Walter Hilton OSA, Book of Contemplation, book 1. 10r-54r

  Nasmith

  Contemplations of maister Walter Hylton in two books. 10r-54r

  Author

  Walter Hilton OSA

  Note

  A translation of his Scala perfectionis sive de vita contemplativa

  Rubric

  (10r) That the inder beyng of a man shuld be lyke to vutward apperaunce

  Incipit

  (10r) Gostly systre in Ihesu cryst I prey the that in callyng

  Explicit

  (52v) be with the now and evir Amen

  Rubric

  (52v) Here endith the fryst book of maister Walter hyltoun
  (52v) Sit nomen domini benedictum in secula seculorum. Amen

  Note

  (52v) Capitula of book I (93)

• Walter Hilton OSA, Book of Contemplation, book 2. 98r-169v

  Nasmith

  Contemplations of maister Walter Hylton in two books. 98r-169v

  Author

  Walter Hilton OSA

  Note

  (98r) Capitula of Liber II of W. Hilton (48)
  Text

  Incipit

  (99v) For as mykel as you coveityst gretly

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (169v) of swiche gostly materys thanne mytte ben in a gret boke

  Rubric

  (169v) Deo gracias. J. S. Explicit liber secundus M. Walteri hyltoun

  Note

  (169v) After scribbles is: Md that I Elizabeth Wylby / (erasure) N... of ...ossee Gyffe thys boke(bottom of leaf cut off)

TJames

158

Stanley

R. 5

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 268

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