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MS. Bodl. 410

Summary Catalogue no.: 2305

Contents

Language(s): Latin and Middle English

Fasciculus Morum (preacher's handbook)

Here without author's name or title, except that the colophon runs 'Finis sermonum: est hec collectio morum', and that the prologue describes the book as 'pauperculus virtutum & viciorum fasciculus'.

Incipit: Frater predilecte quia Scriptura testante
Incipit: Vt enim habetur in regula beati patris nostri Francisci'.

Includes verse tags in English.

(fol. 1v)
Incipit: He that it rueth he rueth full sore
DIMEV 1877
(fol. 2r)
Incipit: The fiend our foe ne may us dere
DIMEV 5265
(fol. 2v)
Incipit: Whoso speaketh of thing that is unrest
DIMEV 6629
(fol. 4r)
Incipit: See and hear and hold still
DIMEV 4798
(fol. 4v)
Incipit: Pride that is overgart
DIMEV 4409
(fol. 4v)
Incipit: Not mans steven but good will
DIMEV 3710
(fol. 6v)
Incipit: Mary Mother of grace we cryen to Thee
DIMEV 3428
(fol. 9v)
Incipit: Whoso woneth him not to good first all in his youth
DIMEV 6657
(fol. 9v)
Incipit: Chastize your children while they been young
DIMEV 973
(fol. 10r)
Incipit: Wretched man why art thou proud
DIMEV 6811
(fol. 10r)
Incipit: The fleshes lust may thou not alive better quench
DIMEV 5280
(fol. 10r)
Incipit: Man I-born of woman ne liveth but a stound
DIMEV 3354
(fol. 10v)
Incipit: We been executors of this deed
DIMEV 6164
(fol. 10v)
Incipit: Nas there never carion so loath
DIMEV 3675
(fol. 17v)
Incipit: Sithen this world was full of onde
DIMEV 4921
(fol. 20v)
Incipit: Love God that loved thee
DIMEV 3268
(fol. 21v)
Incipit: Take no God but One in heaven
DIMEV 5103
(fol. 22r)
Incipit: Now I have that I will
DIMEV 3758
(fol. 22v)
Incipit: Love God over all thing
DIMEV 3267
(fol. 22v)
Incipit: True love among men that most is of let
DIMEV 6068
(fol. 23v)
Incipit: Behold mine wounds how sore I am dight
DIMEV 810
(fol. 24v)
Incipit: By deeds of Dyane I swear to thee
DIMEV 928
(fol. 25r)
Incipit: I hung on the cross for love of thee
DIMEV 2199
(fol. 25r)
Incipit: O ye men that by me wend
DIMEV 4113
(fol. 25v)
Incipit: Behold man what pain I dree
DIMEV 805
(fols. 38v–39r)
Incipit: Through ferly death together aren folde
DIMEV 5911
(fol. 38v)
Incipit: Our wisdom this world has bereft
DIMEV 4331
(fol. 39r)
Incipit: Alas alas that I was born
DIMEV 264
(fol. 40v)
Incipit: The lady dame Fortune is both friend and foe
DIMEV 5367
(fol. 40v)
Incipit: That mantle the king to Wilfred lent
DIMEV 5157
(fol. 40v)
Incipit: King I sit and look about
DIMEV 2998
(fol. 40v)
Incipit: All mankind turneth in wheel and that on wonder guise
DIMEV 345
(fol. 41v)
Incipit: Sithen law for will beginneth to slacken
DIMEV 4917
(fol. 45v)
Incipit: This world foul is and cleanseth lite
DIMEV 5786
(fol. 46v)
Incipit: That I gave that is mine
DIMEV 5140
(fol. 49v)
Incipit: Round in shaping
DIMEV 4516
(fol. 51r)
Incipit: Long sleepers and overleapers
DIMEV 3167
(fol. 57v)
Incipit: Whole and healing sooth and sorrowing
DIMEV 6592
(fol. 58r)
Incipit: He may be thy boot
DIMEV 1839
(fol. 60v)
Incipit: Alas alas that I was born
DIMEV 265
(fols. 63v–64r)
Incipit: Good bidder good warner
DIMEV 1642
(fol. 64v)
Incipit: Fire water wind and land
DIMEV 1312
(fol. 67r)
Incipit: Whoso will not when he may
DIMEV 6647
(fol. 67r)
Incipit: Man that life upholdest / think when thou art oldest
DIMEV 3381
(fol. 68r)
Incipit: That I spent that I had
DIMEV 5142
(fol. 75v)
Incipit: Love God over all thing
DIMEV 3267
(fol. 83r)
Incipit: That law hath no right
DIMEV 5151
(fol. 86r)
Incipit: That is merry to be a wife
DIMEV 5148
(fol. 89r)
Incipit: Whoso liveth in fleshly will
DIMEV 6618
(fol. 91r)
Incipit: When the head quaketh
DIMEV 6443

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 94 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 11.625 × 8.5 in.

Decoration

Illuminated capitals.

Binding

White leather on boards, clasps lost, English 15th cent. work.

History

Origin: 15th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Windsor, Berkshire, Royal collegiate chapel of St George: Medieval binding. Usual chain mark. Title "[Fasci]culus morum" near top of back-board. (MLGB3: inferred evidence).

Presented by the dean and canons of Windsor in 1612.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922) with additional reference to DIMEV.

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.