Ffeil NLW MS 22250B. - Recusant tracts for women

A collection of recusant texts in English copied partly from printed sources. Contains the lives of Saints Catherine of Alexandria (ff. 1-15v), Barbara (ff. 15v-64v), Dorothy (ff. 64v-8), Modwen, with verse prologue, the life translated from Noua legenda anglie. Enprynted ... by Wynkyn de Worde ... 1521 (ff. 68-80), Ursula, in verse (ff. 80-91v), The Complaynt of St Marie Magdaleyne in verse (ff. 92-104v), John of Beverley (ff. 104v-13v) and Erasmus (ff. 113v-17). Folios 117v-35v are blank. There follow the tracts A dialogue of dying wel from the Italian of Peter of Lucca copied from the Antwerp edition of 1603 (ff. 136-64v); John Fisher, A spirituall consolation, and the tracts printed with it in the edition of c. 1578 (ff. 164v-202v); The distributing of spirituall exercises for all the daye (ff. 202v-19); The spirituall conflict [from the Italian of Lorenzo Scupoli] probably from the 1598 edition (ff. 219-44); An epistle in the person of Christ to the faithfull soule by Lanspergius, from the 1595 edition, fragmentary text (ff. 244-7v). Apart from f. 69, an inserted leaf, all is written by a single clear but stilted hand, probably female. Crude coloured initials and decoration. Phillipps MS 13839.