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Manuscripts
ff. 1-108v. [Nicholas Love] [Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ]. Incipit: After þe tyme þat man was exiled out of þe hyȝe cyte of heuene. Explicit: þus hauen holy doctoures tauȝt and holy chirche determined and þerfore þus y trowe and fully byleue þat it ys in soþenesse þogh my kyndely reson aȝeynseye it et cetera. Gode helpe at nede, quod Thomas Ad. Rubric: Here bygynneth þe proheme of þe boke þat men cleped þe mirrour of þe blessede lyfe of oure lord Ihesu criste et cetera, Quecumque scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt ut per pacienciam et consolacionem scripturarum spem habeamus. Ad Romanos xvo capitulo. þese bene þe wordes of þe grete doctour & holy Apostle Poule. English. L. F. Powell, ed., The Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ, A Translation. . .by Nicholas Love. Roxburghe Club 151 (Oxford 1908) 7-308, here without the 2 Latin prefatory passages and finishing incomplete with respect to Powell's edition, but apparently intended so, as the scribe's colophon occurs at the end. See E. Salter, Nicholas Love's"Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ." Analecta Cartusiana 10 (Salzburg 1974) 8 and, for a revised list of the manuscripts, E. Salter,"The Manuscripts of Nicholas Love's Myrrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesu Christ and Related Texts," in A. S. G. Edwards and D. Pearsall, eds., Middle English Prose: Essays on Bibliographical Problems (New York 1981) 115-27.
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