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- [?17 cent.] (Creation)
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i, 247 ff., original foliation 1-105 (with errors) on ff. 137-247 ; 200 x 160 mm.
Probably original binding, pasteboard covered by a leaf of an English noted breviary (Feast of Trinity) of 14/15 cent. Lower pastedown a printed leaf and strip of a 13 cent. manuscript. '957' in round label on spine.
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Book label of Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton, inside the cover
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Sold at Sotheby's, 24 June 1986 (lot 76) (purchased for NLW)
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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.
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English
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Leaves wanting after ff. 246 and 247.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22250B.
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- Lansperger, Johannes Justus, 1489-1539 (After 1603), NLW MS 22250B, ff. 244-7v -- Translations into English (Subject)
- Peter, of Lucca (After 1603), NLW MS 22250B, ff. 136-64v -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Scupoli, Lorenzo, 1530-1610 (After 1603), NLW MS 22250B, ff. 219-44 -- Translations into English (Subject)
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- English