Trinity Hall 16

Described James Trinity Hall, 16.

[1]

f. 88v

Theis are gostely ryches and vertuse of þe soule holy faythe without erro\r/ stedfaste hope without presumpcioun or despayre clene loue and charyte to god and to al þyne euen crysten mekenes myldenes wepynge for þi synnes chastyte abstynens hongo\r/ of rytȝwysnes soburte stylnes pyte paciens and to goddys byddy promte obedyence iustaunce of prayers with hertly deuocioun louyng of pore men and pouerte hardynes of þoȝt to suffur mekely for goddys sake al tribulatioun þat befalls

Devotional text preceded (f. 88v) by four lines of English verse (NIMEV 3648) in a collection of devotional and homiletic writings in Latin labelled Cibus Anime on the the inside of the cover; Wells, Rev 7:2266 and 7:534 [140] and Jolliffe I.38; see also Vincent Gillespie, ‘The Evolution of the Speculum Christiani’, in Minnis, pp. 39–60, where he describes this manuscript as ‘an early and important two-book Cibus Anime’, p. 40, fn 6. Other MSS already indexed: IMEP II, Rylands Lat 341 [1]; IMEP XIX, CUL Dd.14.26 [1] (extract).

[2]

f. 92va

Now yf þou couet to know how it standes with þi sowle and whether it be lyke to the ymage of god or none þou mayste ransake þyn owen conscience and loke what þi wylle is for in þaym standes al yf þou be stedfastly gronded in þe faythe of holy chirche and sykerly turned fro al dedly [sic] and þat þou woldes for no thyng wytandely and wylfully with deliberacioun breke þe byddyng of god and for þat þou has done agayne his byddyng þou hast shryfen þe wysely and mekely taken þi pen\a/nce with ful purpose and wylle to forsake þi synne and with contricioun and sorow of hert þat þou has greued god and broken his byddyng and with ful purpose and wylle to do no more þen is þi sowle reformed in feythe to þe lyknes of þe ymage of god

Devotional passage on conscience; in full.