DIMEV 3124
IMEV 1907
NIMEV 1907
Listeneth now I will you tell / Of mickle pity I may you spell
The ‘Northern Passion’ — in couplets
Note: For the ‘expanded’ version see
315.
Title(s): Northern Passion
Subjects: Passion; Christ, Passion of
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 61 (SC 6922*), ff. 87
v-105
v
First Lines:Lystyns lordynges I wyll ȝow tell
Off mekyll pete I may
ȝou spell
Off Ihesu þat vs All hath wrouȝt
And seth oure
saules dere hath bouȝt…
Last Lines:…And þat it myȝht so be
Amen Amen for
charyte
Attributed Title: Passio domini nostri (f. 87)
Editions: Shuffleton, George.
Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse.
Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 2008: 232-74; 512-21; 611-15.
2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.86 (SC 11951), ff. 1-30
v
First Lines:Off gostly Maters I wyll meve
To yow that are in cristis
Beleve…
Last Lines:…An C dayes also off Indulgence and pardon
And godde off
hevynis dere Benysvn
Note: Six unique lines prefixed.
Attributed Title: ffinitur iste liber Sit scriptor liber (f. 30v);
Explicit passio domini nostri Ihesu cristi composita a quodam
sapientissimo in materna lingua videlicet anglicorum hominibus non
intelligentibus scripturarum sensus (f. 30v)
3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.655 (SC 15481), ff. 1-50
First Lines:Ale þat leueþ on ihesu crist
Vor his loue þanne
hauþ list…
Last Lines:…þat ys to ȝo blysse of heuon
Amen fore hys manis
seuen
Note: Includes extracts totalling 260 lines from
4970. At the end: ‘Explycit hic totum pro
christo da mihi potum’.
4.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Dd.1.1, ff. 6-21
First Lines:…and a man he smot riht tho
his riht ere he nam him
fro…
Last Lines:…þat is to þe blisse of heuene
Amen for his namys
seuene amen
Note: Lines 1-560 wanting; ms. missing ff. 1-5, 8-11, 13
Attributed Title: Explicit passio domini nostri ihesu cristi (f. 21)
Editions: Foster, Frances Allen,
ed.
The Northern Passion.
EETS
o.s. 145, 147 (1913, 1916); repr. 1971: (with collation of other MSS).
5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ff.5.48, ff. 11-43
First Lines:Herkyns now if ye wille here
Off mycull pyte ye mow
lere…
Last Lines:…Þat is to þe blisse of heue
Amen for his names
seuen
Attributed Title: Passio domini (f. 11); Explicit Passio Domini nostri ihesu cristi
Quod Dominus Gilbertus Pylkyngton Amen (f. 43)
Editions: Downing, Janay Young A.,
ed.
“A Critical Edition of Cambridge University MS Ff.5.48.”
2 vols. Diss. University of Washington, 1969: 186-95.
6.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Gg.1.1, ff. 122
ra-134
vb
First Lines:HErknith alle the wolle þou telle
Of muche pitie in mi
spelle…
Last Lines:…Þat is to þe blisse of heuene
Amen for his names
seuene
Editions: Heuser, Wilhelm, and Frances Allen Foster, eds.
The Northern Passion (Supplement).
EETS
o.s. 183 (1930); repr. 1971: 1-50.
7.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Gg.1.12, f. 43
ra-b
First Lines:Lesnet no I wille you telle
Of michil pyte I may you
spele…
Last Lines:…has mayset marc and luc and Jon
have he corden to
hom…
Note: Ten lines addded to original blank space at end of the major text;
incomplete.
8.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Gg.5.31, ff. 167-189
v
First Lines:Lystenys now I wyll ȝowe tell
Of mykell pyte I may ȝow
spell…
Last Lines:…ffor þat is to þe blys of heuyn
Amen for ȝhoure
hames seuyn
Attributed Title: Hic incipit pasio domini nostri ihesu cristi (f. 167); Explicit
passio deomini nostri ihesu cristi (f. 189v)
Editions: Foster, Frances Allen,
ed.
The Northern Passion.
EETS
o.s. 145, 147 (1913, 1916); repr. 1971: (with collation of other MSS)..
9.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Ii.4.9, ff. 1-42
First Lines:Lysten alle I wylle ȝou telle
Of mekyl peyns I may ȝou
spelle…
Last Lines:…Wyth outen ende yere Inne to be
Amen seyth alle for
charyte
Attributed Title: Here endyth the Passyoun of ou lorde cryste Ihesu lorde Ihseu þi
blyssyd lyfe. helpe & conforte our wreched lyfe. Amen (f. 42)
10.Source: London, British Library Cotton Vespasian D.IX, ff. 191-192
v
First Lines:…Ye clepyth me yowre lorde all
ye wete neuer what schall befall
Thow y be lorde & maister also
Before yow y have knelyd to…
Last Lines:…He seyde this ys nott thi dede
That y Comaundyt or y yede…
Note: Begins imperfectly with incomplete lines due to damage to upper outer corner of leaf; ends incomplete.
11.Source: London, British Library Harley 215, ff. 161-161
v
First Lines:…And most heghest of dignite Ihesu godnesse was noȝth to
seke
He tok a child þat was ful meke And sete hit doun hem
among…
Last Lines:…Ech he louede bet þanne oþer And ladde hem wiþ
wordis swete
To þe mount of oliue And saide to hem alle
þre
Note: A fragment, a single leaf at end of volume: lines 300-439.
Editions: Foster, Frances Allen,
ed.
The Northern Passion.
EETS
o.s. 145, 147 (1913, 1916); repr. 1971: 2.172-6.