DIMEV 2838
IMEV 1701
NIMEV 1701
Jesu for Thy blood Thy bleddest
A prayer by the Seven Times Christ shed His Blood — eight 6-line
stanzas
Note: Stanzas 1-7 are incorporated into
491 (stanzas 4-10); for a similar prayer see
2836.
Subjects: Christ, wounds of; prayers, by Christ and His Passion
Versification: —
six-line —
aabccb
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Balliol College 316A, f. 110
First Lines:Ihesu for thi blode þou bleddest
And in the firste tyme þu
sheddest
In thy membre pryve
Clense me oute of
lecherye…
Last Lines:…Of al my synnes pardon
And bryng vs to hevene
aboue
Note: Added by original scribe to last folio of volume, to fill out
quire.
Editions: Brown, Carleton Fairchild,
ed.
Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1939: 95-7.
2.Source: Oxford, Christ Church 151, second item in the manuscript (MS has no foliation)
First Lines:Ihesu for thi blode þou bleddest
And in the furst tym þou
scheddist…
Last Lines:…Of all my synnes pardoun
And bryng vs to heuene
aboue
3.Source: London, British Library Cotton Caligula A.II, f. 70
v
First Lines:Ihesu for þy bod þat þu bleddest
In þe fyrst
tyme þat þu sheddest
In þy membyr pryue…
Last Lines:…Out of Enuye clanse þu me
And graunt me to lyue in
charyte
Lord for þy wondes smerte
Note: Only seven 6-line stanzas in this MS; set out with two lines on left and
the third to right of them, lines 4-5 on left and 6 to right of them, etc.;
‘Amen’ by scribe in lower margin, f. 70v.
Attributed Title: A prayer or bywar (f. 1, inserted interlineally in sixteenth-century list
of contents)