The Simeon (British Library, Additional 22283)
Written: circa 1390-1400 in northern Worcestershire around Bordesley Abbey. The sister text of the Vernon MS.
Contents
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Folio Title
1 Gospel stories in verse30b Translation of Speculum Ecclesiae32b St. Paul's Vision of the seven pains of hell33 The Mirror of Life61b The Meditacion of Ihesu Cristes fyue woundes62 The Prick of Conscience78b The Pricke of Love80b Disputation between the Body and Soul (imperfect, ends on line 198)81 Disputation between a good man and an evil spirit83 "The riht put of helo"84b The Castle of Love87b Ypotys88b "The mon that is of wommon ibore"89 Eight hymns to Christ and the Virgin89b "Ihesu Crist, that is so fre"90 "Of a trew loue, clene and derne"90 Two hyms to Christ and the Virgin90b "At a Sarmoun ther I set"90b Romance of King Robert of Sicily91b "Listneth lordes leoue in londe" (imperfect)92 Somme des Vices (imperfect)116 Conclusion of an exhortation to love God and one's neighbor (imperfect)116 "A ful good meditacion, the whuche seint Anselm maade"117 "Of thre arwes that schulle be schot on doomes day"117b The Mirour of Synneres118b Sentences from the Bible and from Seneca119 Distiches of Cato123 Stacions of Rome124b "A lamentacion that vre lady made to the Cros of hir soone"125b A Pistel of Susan126 Kyng of Tars128b Twenty-nine hymns and religious songs135 Stimulus Amoris (imperfect)146b "A tretis hou god apeered to an holi mon"147 "A tretis, that techeth to loue god with al thin herte"147b The Fourme of Parfyt Liuinge151b Treatise on active and contemplative life160b Another Treatise on active and contemplative life (imperfect)163 The Mirror of St. Edmund (imperfect)165 Abbey of the Holy Ghost (imperfect)168 Spiritu Gwydonis170b A Good Confession171 Confession of sins (imperfect)