29. R. HAMPOLE, ETC. B.7
Paper, 11.375 x 8, ff. 121 + 2, 38 lines to a page. 15th cent., clearly written,
Donor, T. C. S.
At the end (xv) :
I pray yow pray
for me yor owne sarvaunt
Margery Carew
god amend yt ys ames.
quod M. C.
Margery Carew.
On f. 57 some names of Chaloners.
Collation: 2 flyleaves (vellum), 1? (five left) 214 (wants 2?) 312 -1012 11? (eight left).
Contents:
1.
Four leaves of the poem Ipotis . . . . f. 1
And sithe one
of his rybbys gan he take
Ending:
he schoulde be
saued be hys speche
The portion corresponds (but not
exactly) to lines 139-456 of
the text printed from the
Vernon MS. by Horstmann in
Altenglische Legenden, Neue Folge 1881, pp.341 sqq.
2.
Stimulus Conscientiae by R. Hampole1 . . . 5
The myght of
the fadir of heuen
And the wit of
the son wt his giftes seuen.
A gap after f. 5. f.6 begins (after "resoun and
mynde"):
Et crediderunt in verbis eius.
Ends f. 119b:
That for oure loue made
al thynge. Amen quod A.
Expl. Stimulus Consciencie.
1
On the
question of authorship see a monograph by Miss H. E. Allen, of Radcliffe
College, U. S. A. , in Radcliffe College Monographs (no. 15, 1910).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Note to f. 57 giving names of Chaloners as William, Roger, and Thomas.
1. For an edition of the text of Ipotis in this MS. see J. Sutton, 'Hitherto unprinted manuscripts of the middle English Ipotis', Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 31 (1916), 114-60, especially 146-53.
2. The Prick of
Conscience, a copy of the East Midland recension, no. 3429 in C. Brown and R.
H. Robbins (eds), Index of Middle English verse (New York, 1940).
Charlotte d' Evelyn, 'An East Midland recension of the Prick of Conscience' Modern Language Association of America,
45, no. 1, March 1930.