Recusant tracts for women

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Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 22250B.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- [?17 cent.]
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 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.
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

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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