University College MS. 14

The cloud of Unknowing, or of Contemplation

Attributed in Coxe to Walter Hilton and William Exmew

Language(s): Middle English (South central Norfolk dialect)

Peter of Blois, pseudo, Regula aurea

Language(s): Latin

Catherine, of Sienna, Doctrine

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: vellum

Binding

Contemporary white tawed leather (lacking clasps and catches)

History

Origin: 15th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Once belonged to John Juel (1522-71), bishop of Salisbury. Given to University College by Thomas Walker, Master (d. 1665).

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 4

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (ed.), The Index of Middle English Prose VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Cambridge, 1991), p. 102

Availability

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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