Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2509

DIMEV 2509

IMEV 1490

NIMEV 1490

In heart clean and buxom

Three lines in the Fasciculus morum translating the divisio of a Latin sermon for the Feast of St. John the Evangelist

Subjects: sermons, verse in; translations

Versification: — three-line — aaa

Bibliographic Ghosts: Oxford, Lincoln College Lat. 52; (listed with question mark in Brown and Robbins (1943)

XCarleton Fairchild Brown, and Rossell Hope Robbins. The Index of Middle English Verse. New York: Printed for the Index Society by Columbia University Press, 1943

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Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 213 (SC 1045), f. 195v

Transcription:

In hert clene & buxum
In speche myld & louesom
In dede fre & gladsom

Note: Written as prose.

2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 568 (SC 1117), f. 111va

Transcription:

in hert clene & buxum
in speche myld & louesome
& in dede fre & gladdsomme

Note: Written as prose.

3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 187 (SC 2090), f. 211va

Transcription:

In hert clene and buxum
In speche mylde and louesom
In dede fre and gladsum

Note: Written as prose.

4.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 332 (SC 2243), f. 184vb

Transcription:

In hert clene & buxom
in speche mylde & lussom
In dede fre & gladsom

Note: Written as prose.

5.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 218, f. 231v

Transcription:

In herte clene and buxom
In speche mylde and louesem
In dede fre and gladsem

Editions:

Wenzel, Siegfried. Verses in Sermons: ‘Fasciculus morum’ and Its Middle English Poems. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1978: 200.

6.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 71/38, f. 94v

Transcription:

In hert clene & bucsom
In spech mylde & louesom
In dede fre & gladsom

7.Source: Cardiff, Cardiff Public Library MS. 3.174, f. 240v

8.Source: Durham, Durham University Library Cosin V.iv.2, f. 97v

Transcription:

In herte clene &c.

Note: Incomplete; portion of first line only.

9.Source: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library 82, f. 277v

Transcription:

In herte clene and buxum
In speche mylde and lufsome
In dede free and gladsome

10.Source: Spalding, Lincolnshire, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society M.J.B.14 [olim Maurice Johnson No. LIV], f. 171

Transcription:

In hert clene & buxum
In speche myld & leuesoum
In deyd fre & gladsum

Note: Written as prose.

11.Source: Worcester, Worcester Cathedral Library F.19, f. 230va

Transcription:

In herte clene & boxsom
In spech milde & lossum
In dede fre and gladsum

Note: Written as prose.

12.Source: Rome, Vatican Ottoboni 626, f. 107

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED