Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 296: John Wyclif and his followers, Tracts in Middle English

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Summary: CCCC MS 296 contains a late fourteenth-century (after 1383) collection of Lollard tracts and sermons written in Middle English. The entire collection was once ascribed to John Wyclif (d. 1384) but is now believed to be the work of a number of authors. All the tracts in this volume have been published by either F. D. Matthew in 1880 and 1902 (repr.1998) or Thomas Arnold in 1871.
Contents: Of the leaven of pharisees -- How men ought to obey prelates -- The rule and testament of St Francis -- The rule and testament of St Francis -- Comment on the testament of St Francis -- Fifty heresies and errors of friars -- Of prelates -- Speculum de antichristo -- Of clerks possessioners -- How the office of curates is ordained of God -- The order of priesthood -- De stipendiis ministrorum or How men should find priests -- De precationibus sacris; Octo in quibus seducuntur simplices christiani -- A short rule of life -- Three things destroy this world -- Of feigned contemplative life -- The pater noster -- The Ave Maria -- How Satan and his children turn works of mercy upside down -- How religious men should keep certain articles or How men of private religion should love more the gospel -- Of servants and lords -- Why poor priests have no benefice -- How antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy holy writ -- How Satan and his priests, etc. -- On church temporalities -- Of weddid men and wifes and of here children also -- Of poor preaching priests -- Translation of a passage from St Augustine beginning Arguam te quando nescis -- The great sentence of cursing expounded -- A petition to the king and parliament

Description

Alternative title	Tracts by Wyclif
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 3 + 150
Date created	[ca. 1383 - 1399]
Language	English, Middle (1100-1500); Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	double columns of lines
Height (mm)	269
Width (mm)	200
Collation	(3 flyleaves) a(8)-r(8) s(10) t(4): old pagination incorrect but used here.
Writing	clearly written
Foliation	ff. i-iii + pp. 1-212 + 212a-213a + 213-298
Research	The volume is a leading authority for many of the Wycliffite tracts, and was extensively used by F. D. Matthew, English Works of Wyclif (E. E. T. S. 1880) and by T. Arnold, Select English Works of Wyclif, vol. III.
Additions	f. iv. Extract from letter of Melanchthon to Fred. Miconius: Inspexi Wiclefum sed deprehendi, etc. (cf. MS 103. 5)., f. iir. List of contents (xvi)., f. iiiv. Note given by Nasmith.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xiv late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mf281cz1275/MS_296.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tk895wc0796/296.pdf
Contains	Title Of the leaven of pharisees. 1-22 Nasmith Attendite a fermento phariseorum quod est hypocrisis. A discourse in xii chapters against the hypocrisy of the clergy. 1-22 Note (1) This page is largely illegible from a water-stain Matthew, p. 2 Title How men ought to obey prelates. 22-29 Nasmith Hou men owen obesche to prelatis drede curs and kepe law, ch. iii. 22-29 Note (22) Matthew, p. 28 Title The rule and testament of St Francis, chapters 1-12. 29-34 Nasmith The reule of seynt Fraunseis. 29-34 Author St Francis Note Matthew, p. 39 Title The rule and testament of St Francis, chapter 13. 34-36 Nasmith The testament of seynt Fraunseis. 34-36 Author St Francis Note Matthew, p. 39 Title Comment on the testament of St Francis. 36-39 Nasmith Objections against the Franciscans for not observing this testament under pretence of their having a papal dispensation. 36-39 Author St Francis Note Matthew, p. 39 Title Fifty heresies and errors of friars. 39-65 Nasmith Articles against the friers. 39-65 Note Arnold, p. 366 Title Of prelates. 65-103 Nasmith Articles against prelates. 65-103 Note Matthew, p. 52 Title Speculum de antichristo. 103-106 Nasmith How Anticriste and his clerkis feren trewe prestis fro prechynge of Cristis gospel bi foure disceitis. 103-106 Note Matthew, p. 109 Title Of clerks possessioners. 106-123 Nasmith Of clerkis possessioneris. 106-123 Note Matthew, p. 114 Title How the office of curates is ordained of God. 123-136 Nasmith Hou the office of curatis is ordeyned of God. 123-136 Note Matthew, p. 141 Title The order of priesthood. 136-144 Nasmith For the ordre of presthod. 136-144 Note Matthew, p. 164 Title De stipendiis ministrorum or How men should find priests. 144-145 Nasmith Hou men schullen fynde prestis. 144-145 Note Arnold, p. 202 Title De precationibus sacris; Octo in quibus seducuntur simplices christiani. 145-157 Nasmith Hou preiere of good men helpith moche and preiere of synful men displesith God and harmeth hemself and othere men. 145-157 Note Arnold, p. 219 and p. 447 Title A short rule of life. 157-160 Nasmith A schort reule of lif for eche man in general and for prestis and lordis and laboreris in special hou eche schal be savyd in his degree. 157-160 Note Arnold, p. 204 Title Three things destroy this world. 160-165 Nasmith Thre thingis distroien this world false confessoures false men of lawe and false merchauntis. 160-165 Note Matthew, p. 180 Title Of feigned contemplative life. 165-172 Nasmith Of feyned contemplatif lif, of song, of the ordynal of Salisbury and of bodely almes and worldly bysynesse, of prestis hou bi thes foure the fend lettith hem fro prechynge of the gospel. 165-172 Note Matthew, p. 187 (70) With part of item 30 on pp. 70-72 Title The pater noster. 172-175 Nasmith The pater noster expounded. 172-175 Note Matthew, p. 197 Title The Ave Maria. 175-179 Nasmith The Ave Maria expounded. 175-179 Note Matthew, p. 203 Title How Satan and his children turn works of mercy upside down. 179-185 Nasmith Hou Sathanas and his children turnen werkis of mercy up so dom(!) and disceyuen men thereinne and in here five wittis. 179-185 Note Matthew, p. 210 Title How religious men should keep certain articles or How men of private religion should love more the gospel. 185-190 Nasmith Hou religious men shoulde kepe certayne articles. 185-190 Note Matthew, p. 219 Title Of servants and lords. 190-203 Nasmith Of servauntis and lordis hou eche schal kepe his degree. 190-203 Note Matthew, p. 226 Title Why poor priests have no benefice. 203-209 Nasmith Whi pore prestis have none benefice. 203-209 Note Matthew, p. 244 Title How antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy holy writ. 209-213 Nasmith Hou anticrist and his clerkis traveilen to destroie holy writt and to make cristene men unstable in the feith, and to sette here ground in develis of helle. 209-213 Note Matthew, p. 253 Title How Satan and his priests, etc. 213-221 Nasmith Hou sathanas and his prestis and his feigned religious casten bi thre cursed heresies to destroie alle good lyvynge and meyntenyng alle manner of synne. 213-221 Note Matthew, p. 263 Title On church temporalities. 221-224 Nasmith For thre skillis lordis schulden constreyne crerlis to lyve in mekenesse wilful poverte and discrete penaunce and gostly traveile. 221-224 Note Arnold, p. 213 Title Of weddid men and wifes and of here children also. 224-234 Nasmith Of wedded men and wifis and of here children also. 224-234 Note Arnold, p. 188 Title Of poor preaching priests. 234-238 Nasmith Articles of reformation. 234-238 Note Matthew, p. 275 Title John Wyclif, Translation of a passage from St Augustine beginning Arguam te quando nescis. 238-239 Nasmith Translation of a passage of S. Augustin. 238-239 Author John Wyclif Note Matthew, p. 281 Title The great sentence of cursing expounded. 239-288 Nasmith The grete sentence of curs exponed. 239-288 Note Arnold, p. 267 Title A petition to the king and parliament. 288-298 Nasmith Articles presented to the king and parliament. 288-298 Incipit (288) Plese it to oure most noble Note with part of Item 16 on pp. 297-298 Explicit (298) and bewar of sathanas disceitis. Amen Note At the bottom of this column is an erasure: This is the worke of .... It is only of cent. xvi
TJames	362
Stanley	Under C. 6
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/bc854fy5899
Location	MS 296
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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