Richard Rolle: Uncollected Prose and Verse, with Related Northern Texts

by Hanna, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9780199236145
• ISBN10: 0199236143
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-09
• Publisher: Early English Text Society

Summary

This volume presents a variety of texts relating to the fourteenth-century Yorkshire hermit and mystical writer, Richard Rolle. Most of the material has not previously been published, although some of it can confidently be attributed to Rolle's authorship. Three other unpublished texts are included because they were attributed to Rolle in the Middle Ages. The volume includes a new edition of Rolle's English lyrics, based upon a critical examination of all known manuscript witnesses. It concludes with three anonymous Northern texts concerned with the eremetical life. This edition complements Richard Rolle: Prose and Verse, edited for the Society by S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (EETS, O. S. 293 (1988) ). Richard Rolle is a major author of the fourteenth century, influential in his own time, and attracting much later scholarly attention.

Table of Contents

Attribution of the Texts to Rolle
Manuscript descriptions
Robert Thornton's Rolle texts
Rolle's lyrics
Unedited texts
The Northern Vitae Patrum translations
Editorial procedure
The Texts
Robert Thornton's Rolle texts from Lincoln Cathedral Library, MS 91
'Oleum effusum'	p. 2
The exempla	p. 12
'The Ten Commandments'	p. 16
'The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit'	p. 19
Rolle's lyrics from Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.v.64	p. 21
Unedited texts from various manuscripts
'The Lessouns of Dirige'	p. 37
'Diliges dominum deum tuum'	p. 58
'Of thre wyrkyngs in mans saule'	p. 84
'De contricione'	p. 89
The Vitae Patrum translations of Huntington Library, MS HM 148
'A pistille of Saynt Machari'	p. 93
'The epistle of St. John the hermit'	p. 98
'Verba seniorum'	p. 103
Textual Variants: to Part 1	p. 131
Textual Variants: to Part 2	p. 141
Textual Variants: to Part 3	p. 147
Textual Variants: to Part 4	p. 156
Commentaries on the texts: to Part 1	p. 165
Commentaries on the texts: to Part 2	p. 173
Commentaries on the texts: to Part 3	p. 180
Commentaries on the texts: to Part 4	p. 196
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