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Longleat, Marquess of Bath MS 29

Linguistic note: McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin (1986) and Benskin, Laing, Karaiskos, and Williamson (2013) 1.137 (Ireland) 1.137 (Somerset: Hand C, ff. 145v-146v).

Signs of Death — 8 or 12 macaronic lines in couplets

Form of Living

Quia amore langueo

Three rhyming lines in Rolle’s Ego Dormio

First lyric inserted in Rolle’s Ego Dormio — 8 or 10 irregular alliterative lines

‘Meditacio de passione’ in the treatise, Ego dormio — 41 rhyming lines in various stanzaic patterns

‘Cantus Amoris,’ rhyming lines in the treatise, Ego dormio — 93 lines in varying meters and stanzaic patterns including long-line couplets with or without medial rhyme, monorhyming 3-6-line stanzas, and a six-line stanza aabccb

A song of the Love of Christ, a direct translation of Rolle’s Incendium Amoris, ch. xl, xli — in monorhyming quatrains with medial rhyme

A Song of Love-longing to Jesus — twelve monorhyming quatrains with occasional medial rime

Richard Rolle, an exhortation to love Jesus — twelve monorhyming quatrains with medial rhyme.

A Warning against Worldly Vanities — fifteen monorhyming quatrains with medial rhyme

An Exhortation against Sin — six monorhyming quatrains with medial rhymes, or six 8-line stanzas, abababab

A song of love to Jesus — in monorhyming quatrains

Oracio deuota de Trinitate — five cross-rhymed quatrains

An Orison to the Virgin Mary — eight quatrains

An orison to the Virgin Mary in the Speculum Christiani (Octaua Tabula) — twenty-seven couplets

‘Prouerbis of Wysdom’ — 106 lines in couplets

The Monk who wished the least Joy of Paradise

An Orison to the Virgin — nine 8-line stanzas

A song of Old Age with the burden, ‘Timor mortis conturbat me’ — nine twelve-line stanzas

A meditation on the Passion — 154 lines in couplets