Anthology of devotional prose and verse
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Published: 1425
Language: enm; lat
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Christian life; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Long charter of Christ.; Seven works of mercy, bodily and ghostly.; Shorter charter of Christ.; Songe of loue to owre lorde Ihu christ.
Notes: Written primarily in a bastard anglicana in 1 or 2 columns of 24 lines; numerous decorated foliate initials, burnished gold initials with foliate sprays, and colored initials in blue and red with pen flourishes.

Written and illuminated in England, possibly at the request of a convent (f. 51v).

Title supplied by cataloger.

Bound in late 16th-cent. English brown calf, blind-stamped with crowned Tudor rose.

In a tray case, 28 cm.

De Ricci, 961

Wieck, Late medieval and renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 115

Linda Ehrsam Voights, in Harvard Library Bulletin, 33, 1985, 56-60

MS Richardson 22. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Also available in an electronic version.

Primarily in Middle English, with some Latin.
Table of contents: title: 1. Pseudo-Augustinus, Soliloquiorum animae ad Deum; begins: Lord god fader of hevin & of erþe (chapters 4-34 of the Middle English translation, apparently from a French version, ff. 1r-52r); title: 2. Richard of Saint Victor, Benjamin minor; begins: Here bygynnyþ a tretise þat man calliþ Richarde of seynt victor (Middle English translation of his De preparatione animi ad contemplationem, 52v-68v); title: 3. Poem, The seven works of mercy, bodily and ghostly; begins: The seuene dedis of mercy (Middle English prose, 68v-69r); title: 4. Shorter charter of Christ, begins: Sciant presentes & futuri nomen cognomen (in Middle English verse, 71v-72r); title: 5. Poem, A songe of loue to owre lorde Ihu christe; begins: Ihu most swettest of any þynge (Middle English verse, 72r-78r); title: 6. Prayers to the Virgin and Jesus; begins: Ave quene of heuen ladi of erþe well of all bownte (Middle English verse, 78r-82v); title: 7. Long charter of Christ; begins: Who so wole over rede þis boke (ends imperfectly; Middle English verse, 82v-89v); title: 8. Acaudal meditation on human unworthiness; begins: Reliquie cogitionis diem festum agent tibi. Mi good Lord and merciful fader (Middle English, 89v-90v).