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London, British Library Addit. 37049

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) LP 225; Grid 482 370 (Notts: ff. 2v-45v); 1.102 (NW Lincs: ff. 26v-27; LP 410; Grid 439 440 (WRY: ff. 46v-66v).

On the inevitability of death — one macaronic couplet, or quatrain rhyming abab

On the time of Doomsday — 48 lines in couplets

Dialogue between the soul of a dying person, Death, the Devil, an Angel, the Virgin Mary, Christ and God, a translation of ‘O spes in morte me salua maria precor te’, by ‘Wilfridus’

Allegory of a man pursued by a unicorn (Death), from Barlaam and Josaphat — in couplets

‘Querela diuina’ and ‘Responsio humana’ — six 6-line stanzas (aabccb)

Verses on a scroll accompanying a drawing of Christ’s wounded heart — six lines

The Ten Commandments — ten quatrains; usually occurring in the Speculum Christiani (Secunda Tabula), sometimes occurring separately

The Founding of the Carthusian Order — twenty-nine couplets

The ‘Short Charter of Christ’ — couplets

‘Iesus Nazarenus’ — four couplets

Appeal of Christ to man by the pains of his Passion — one 6-line stanza

The number of the Wounds of Christ and the number of the Drops of Blood from these Wounds — nine lines

On the Wounds of Christ — six lines (aaaabb)

‘Of þe relefyng of saules in purgatory’ — fifteen couplets

Last forty-five lines of a description of Christ — in quatrains

A lament of the Virgin Mary — twelve 8-line stanzas with the refrain: Quia amore langueo

Ave maris stella — nine couplets

Five couplets, quoting the Horologium Sapiencie

‘The Falcon’, the wounds of Christ against the sins — fifteen couplets

‘Of þe seuen ages’: a dialogue between man, the good angel, and the fiend — 56 lines in couplets and quatrains (abab)

A simple prayer attached to a scroll — two couplets

Salue regina — five 8-line stanzas (ababbcbc)

A couplet on a scroll attached to a picture of the Christ Child in the lap of the Virgin

Couplet attached to scroll for picture of man lying on ground

‘The Dawnce of Makabre’ — twelve stanzas rhyme royal

A warning of death — eight lines

‘A disputacion betwyx þe body and wormes’ — thirty-one stanzas rhyme royal

The Pricke of Conscience, sometimes attributed to Richard [Rolle of] Hampole

Dialogue between the Spearman Death and a king, a Knight and an Archbishop — three quatrains

A meditation on the Passion, with illustration — forty-five line

Verse introduction to 6513 — 15 lines, generally in couplets, derived from Rolle

A meditation on the Passion — A translation of Incendium Amoris, XV.189, 44 short lines

‘Of þe state of religion’ — forty-five couplets

The Wounds of Christ as Remedies against the Deadly Sins — eight quatrains

Comments of death, a monk, and Christ, attached to a drawing of a deathbed scene — three couplets on scrolls

On the mercy of Christ in saving the dying man from the devil — three couplets

Prayer by the Pains of the Passion — five 9-line stanzas with refrain element, ‘þu here my oryson’ and introductory and concluding stanzas each of four lines, with accompanying illustration

Dialogue between St. Peter Dominican and the Crucifix — six and eight lines in couplets

‘The Desert of Religion’, incorporating much material from the Speculum Vitae and some passages from the Pricke of Conscience — 940 lines in couplets

Love longing for Jesus, in one MS of the Desert of Religion (1021) beneath a picture of several saints — one 6-line stanza

Moralizing verses following 5234 — one eight-line stanza (abababab)

The City of Heaven — five couplets

The Complaint of Christ on the Cross

Appeal of Christ to Man by the Pains of the Passion — thirty-two lines in monoriming quatrains

Fifteen Joys of the Virgin Mary — in couplets

The Hours of the Cross — thirty-two line

The Pricke of Conscience, sometimes attributed to Richard [Rolle of] Hampole

Thomas Hoccleve, ‘Cantus peregrinorum’, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — five stanzas rhyme royal

‘The Aungelles Songe’ in the English translation of Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de l’âme — five stanzas rhyme royal

‘The Aungelles Songe within heuene’, in the English translation of Deguileville’s Pèlerinage de l’âme — seven stanzas rhyme royal

The Pricke of Conscience, sometimes attributed to Richard [Rolle of] Hampole

‘A vysion of saules þat war dampned’ — nine quatrains interspersed with prose

Thomas Hoccleve, The Angels’ Second Song within Heaven, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — five stanzas rhyme royal

Thomas Hoccleve, Angels’ Song on Epiphany, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — four stanzas rhyme royal

Thomas Hoccleve, Angels’ song on Easter Day, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — five stanzas rhyme royal

Thomas Hoccleve, ‘The Song of Graces of All Saints’, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — four stanzas rhyme royal

Thomas Hoccleve, Song of Angels and All Saints at Pentecost, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — three stanzas rhyme royal

The Joys of Heaven — twenty couplets

‘Versa est in luctum cithera mea’, etc. — twelve quatrains

Moral Distiches, prefixed by a quatrain ‘Fyrst þu sal luf god and drede’ — introductory quatrain and 104 couplets

Rhyming proverbs — four couplets

Precepts in -ly; the texts show much variation — 16 lines in most witnesses, monorhyming

The Abuses of the Age — sixteen short lines, translating Munus fit iudex, etc.

Against censoriousness — two couplets

A warning against lending money — four monorhyming lines

‘The ABC of Aristotle’ — varying number of couplets

Dialogue between the Emperor ‘Antiochenus’ and his dead father — four couplets

Forms of Confession, Ten Commandments, Works of Mercy, Fourteen Articles of the Faith, and Seven Principal Virtues — twenty-five couplets in a prose tract

The Knight who Refused to Abjure Our Lady — 36 lines in 6-line stanzas