Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402: Ancrene Wisse
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- Title:
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402: Ancrene Wisse
- Alternate Title:
- Ancrene Wisse
- Language:
- English, Middle (1100-1500) and Latin
- Extent:
- ff. 4 + 118
- Dimensions:
- 210 Height (mm) and 150 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 1200 - 1299]
- Provenance:
- From Wigmore (Herefordshire). At bottom of f. 1r (xiii): Liber ecclesie S. Jacobi de Wygemore. quem Johannes Purcel dedit eidem ecclesie ad instanciam fratris Walteri de Lodel(awe?) senioris tunc precentoris. Siquis dictum librum alienauerit a predicta ecclesia. uel titulum hunc maliciose deleuerit anathema. Amen. fiat (thrice). Amen.
- Table of contents:
- Ancrene Wisse
- Description:
- Ancrene Wisse or Ancrene Riwle is a treatise on the religious life intended for anchoresses or nuns, written in the first half of the thirteenth century. There is much controversy as to when, where and by whom it was written, but possibly it was by a Dominican writing in the West Midlands in the 1230s. Others have argued for authorship by an Augustinian canon, also writing in the West Midlands in the first third of the century. CCCC MS 402, once considered to be one of the earliest versions of the text, is now thought to be of the late thirteenth century. The MS has recently been published in an authoritative new edition by Bella Millett, collated with variants from all other MSS of the text.