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Alternative title

The Mirror

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 139

Date created

[ca. 1375 - 1399]

Language

English, Middle (1100-1500), Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

double columns of 44 lines

Height (mm)

260

Width (mm)

190

Collation

1 flyleaf, a(8) (wants 1, 8) b(8)-s(8) (wants 6-8).

Writing

clearly written

Foliation

ff. i-ii + pp.1-146 + 146a-b + 147-278 + ff. iii-iv

Summary

The Mirror, contained in CCCC MS 282, is a collection of sermons, of which this manuscript is a copy of the late fourteenth century, produced in Middlesex. It contains sixty sermons on the Sunday gospel readings in a Middle English prose version of Robert de Gretham's Anglo-Norman verse Miroir (Evangiles des domnees), written in the middle of the thirteenth century. Robert was possibly an Augustinian canon.

Contents

The Mirror

M.R. James Date

xiv late

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qh719tb6371/MS_282.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pd570mj1309/282.pdf

Contains

• Robert de Gretham, The Mirror. 3-278

  James

  The Mirror. 3-278

  Author

  Robert de Gretham

  Note

  The Mirror. A collection of Sermons
  (3) Begins imperfectly in the prologue
  (3) prolonge endeþ. nou lokeþ in þe mirour
  The next paragraph

  Incipit

  (3) Holi writ haþ a liknesse to tre þat bereþ noote oþer appel

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (9) for to amenden hem. as ȝe schulle se in þes mirour. He ȝeue ȝou grace, etc. wiþ him þat is on in trinite. Amen

  Rubric

  (9) Þe firste Sunday of þe aduent of our lord

  Incipit

  (9) Cum appropinquasset, etc. Ihesus come ner a citee þat is cleped Jerosol

  Note

  After Dominica 25, we have

  Rubric

  (221) Of our lady in þe aduent
  (243) In makyng mynde of apostoles
  (252) In þe comune of on martir
  (260) In comune of mani martirs
  (270) In þe comune of on confessour

  Note

  (In the Pepys MS. (2498) this comes in its proper place)

  Rubric

  (274) Þe pistel of þe Sundai of quinquagesima

  Note

  Ending

  Explicit

  (278) We mote come to him and wone wiþ him wiþ oute onde. Amen

  Note

  At the bottom of p. 278 in small letters (xv-xvi) D. n.

TJames

159

Stanley

R. 6

Location

https://purl.stanford.edu/ss747gz8832

MS 282

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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