f.1 No heading: Batman has written, The doctrine of the harte;
Intelligite insipientes in populo et stulti aliquando sapite.
As seynt austyn seith þes wordes ben vndirstonde in þis wyse.
On the margin of f.49a is a good drawing of a man in tunic and pointed shoes holding a pair of scales.
The text refers to the rider on the black horse 'hauyng in his bond a balaunce.' The hand seems to change at this leaf.
Ends; to the which blisse and ioye that neuer schal haue ende . bryng vs he that bought vs on the rode tre. Amen.
Here endith a tretice made to religious wommen which is clepid the doctrine of the hert.
Crist ihesu his mede he hym rewarde}
That this tretice bigan and the ende made}
On the last fly-leaf two paragraphs by Batman(?).
1. The opinion of Sartaine Saxons is that whosoever wareth in his hat or cappe Pocokes fethers or bearith them in there handes: yf thei charnce to stvmble they shall break som parte of there body, as Arme, Legg, Ribb or neack.
2 The note of A . Jwe which for the interest of a his money required a li of the mans fleshe to whome he lent the money, the bande forfait and yet the Jwe went wth oute his purpose / the parti notwithstandeng condemnid by Lawe / the question whether he coulde cut the fleshe wth oute spilling of bloode /.
The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
B.14.15
| Shelfmark | B.14.15 |
|---|---|
| Manuscript Title | Doctrine of the Heart |
| Alternative Title | The Doctrine of The Heart, In English. |
| James Number | 301 |
| Century | 15th |
| Physical Description | 30 lines to a page. Well written. |
| Provenance | Given by Sir Edward Stanhope? From Stephen Batman. On the fly-leaf is stuck a drawing on paper of his? crest, a black child two-third length with a fillet round its head, holding a plant with pink flowers. Below: S. Batman his Booke. Saxon ge/1455/Hore/1575. [Insular r in Hore] At the end has been another drawing, now gone, and below it:NicephorusA ’ the drawer gessed Who [Insular d and r in drawer]hiet . S. B./5575/mundi. On the last fly-leaf: Hit ys to witt þt dame Cristyne seint nicolas of of ye menoresse of london dowghtyr of nicolas Seint Nycolas squier ’eff þis boke aftyr hyr dysses to þe offyce of þe (erasure) [and to þe offys of ye abbessry (del.)] perpetually þe whyche passed to god out of þe worlde þe ’ere of owre lorde m.cccc.l.v þe ix day of marche of whoys soule god haue merci. The first fly-leaf is from an account roll (xv). Deaneries and tithes.Deca de Clyfton. Dec. de langacre et lymby.Distr. dec. de Clyfton Vppelande. Deca de Beere.Deca de Craneford. Deca Clyfthydon. |
| Religious House | London, without Aldgate, Abbey of Franciscan Nuns |
| Donor | Stanhope, Sir Edward (c. 1546–1608), Civil Lawyer |
| Size (cm) | 22.5 x 15.5 |
| Folio | 79 ff. |
| Material | Parchment |
| Language | Middle English |
| Collation | 1 fly-leaf a8-i8 k6. |
| IIIF Manifest URL |  https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.14.15/manifest.json |
| Online Since | 09/09/2015 |
Contents
Bibliography
Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)
Hellinga, L., and J. B. Trapp, ed., The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3, 1400-1557 (Cambridge, 1999)
Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), p. 10
Hendrix, G., 'De Vertalingen van De doctrina cordis en De praeparatione cordis' (Hugo van Saint-Cher, Pseudo-Gerardus Leodiensis), in Miscellanea Neerlandica: Opstellen voor Dr Jan Deschamps ter gelegenheid van zijn zeventigste verjaardag, ed. E. Cockx-Indestege and F. Hendrickx, 3 vols. (Leuven, 1987), II.19-29
