Edition by E. P. Wilson, 'A Critical Text, with commentary, of MS. English theology f. 39 in the Bodleian Library' (Oxford B. Litt. thesis, 2 vols., 1968; MSS. B. Litt. c. 177-8)
(fol.1)
Treatise (Wycliffite) on idolatry Rubric: Of maumetrie
Incipit: ⟨F⟩or as myche as bi sleith of pe devel
Explicit: in pe chirche of god not to be hengid
Language(s): English
(fol.8v)
Treatise (Wycliffite) on miracles Rubric: Whiche ben trewe myraclis and whiche be false
Incipit: Merveilis or miraclis ben to be considered
Explicit: in to ever lastyng leuyng
Language(s): English
(fol.12v)
Treatise (Wycliffite) on miracles Rubric: How men shulden gon on pilgrymage
Incipit: Siþen ich man in þis world is a pilgrym
Explicit: but þei þat folwen þer feiþ
Language(s): English
(fol.14v)
Religious treatise (Wycliffite) Rubric: A short rule of lif for ech man in general and for priests and lordis and laborers in special
pr. Arnold, English works of J. Wyclif, III. 204–8
Language(s): English
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Thomas Wimbledon,
Sermon Redde rationem villicationis tue Rubric: þis sermoun folwynge vas seid at Poulis in Londone þe yeer of oure lord 1389
Incipit: Redde racionem … Mi dere frendis yee shuln undirstonde
Explicit: graunte us þerwiþ to parte
(Wells, Manuel, 6th Suppl., p.1449), pr. from MS. Hatton 57 by K. F. Sunden, A famous Middle English sermon, Göteborg, (diss.) 1925 Language(s): English
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Treatise (Wycliffite) on idolatry Rubric: þese ben þe eighte condicions of mamētrie pat men usen aboute ymages',
Incipit: [þ]e first condicioun stondiþ in nempnynge
Explicit: and setten ther glorie in ther symulacris
Language(s): English
(fol.38)
Treatise on papal luxury and simony Incipit: [þ]yus it is written in þe ferþe book of flouris ob [sic] Bernard
Explicit: bi falsheed and lesyng of þe sori gost
Language(s): English
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Religious treatise (Wycliffite) Rubric: A sho[r]t rule hou it is not leveful to no man to make a prest a tutour other an executour of his temporal goodis
Incipit: ⟨S⟩eynt Ciprian seiþ þat now late þo⟨ur⟩ counseil of bishopis
Explicit: prestis in here worldlich offis
Language(s): English
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Religious treatise (Wycliffite) Rubric: Hou men shulden flee curious arai in tyme of praiere
Incipit: [W]hat seist þu. þu comest to pe chirche doynge obsecratioun
Explicit: and devourid of þe devel
Language(s): English
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Treatise on simony Incipit: Owre lord spekip bi þe holi apostle synt Petir
ends imperf. on fol.48v.
Language(s): English
Provenance and Acquisition
'Harward', 17th cent. (fol. 1)
3rd Earl of Dysart (1648-1726) (but see also Edward Wilson, 'The Book-Stamps of the Tollemache Family of Hemlingham and Ham', The Book Collector, 16, 1967, 178-85), on whom see E. D. H. Tollemache, The Tollemaches of Helmingham and Ham, Ipswich, 1949, 94-9, with a confused account of the library at p. 176
Tollemach library, Helmingham Hall, Sotheby's 6 June 1961, lot 9
Quaritch, 1961