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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 268: Walter Hilton OSA, Book of Contemplation, Devotional and Spiritual Tracts

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 268: Walter Hilton OSA, Book of Contemplation, Devotional and Spiritual Tracts

Description

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

Abstract/Contents

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

Bibliographic information

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/rq493yp3856
MS 268
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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