Western Medieval Manuscripts Collection

Religious Miscellany in Middle English (‘Hopton Hall’ MS)

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詳細情報

Place: 
Norfolk
Date: 
1st half of the 15th c.
Size: 
193×131 mm.
Type/Pages: 
Parchment. Ff. 43.
Bibliographical Notes: 

Single column; 35‒40 lines; written in small English anglicana formata script (brown ink); rubrics in red. 4‒line initial in red and blue; 2‒line blue initial on red background used throughout. Collation: 112, 2‒38 4(lacking), 51, 66. Contents: ‘A form of confession on each of the seven deadly sins’ (prose; fols 1‒3v), John Gaytryge’s Lay Folks’ Catechism (verse; fols 3v‒9v.), ‘On the keeping of the law of God and a form of confession’ (unpubl. prose; fols 9v‒13r.), ‘A Dialogue between Christ and Man’ (verse, fols 13‒13v.), ‘Points best pleasing to God’ (prose; fols. 13v‒14), ‘On divine mercy and against despair’ (unpubl. prose, fols 14‒19), The Charter of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost (prose, fols 19‒28), Walter Hilton, An Epistle on Mixed Life (prose fragment; fols 28‒28v.), ‘An exposition on the Ten Commandments’ (unpubl. prose, fols 29‒37), ‘A manual on prayer and fasting’(unpubl. prose, fols 37‒43v.). Bound in old limp vellum wrappers which contains inside an English legal document dated 9 December 1659.

Reference: 
Cf. Matsuda (2001), pp.56‒65; Edwards (2005); Edwards (2008). [B9;C9;E;H80]
日本語書誌情報: 
「ホプトン・ホール写本(中英語宗教文学アンソロジー)」(ノーフォーク、15 世紀前半)羊皮紙 Ff.43
Shelfmark: 
120X@1156@2@1