DIMEV 5312
IMEV 3372
NIMEV 3372
The great sentence I write thee here
The Method of pronouncing sentence of Excommunication — in prose with a
preface of twelve rhyming lines and ten rhyming lines at the conclusion
Subjects: introductions, to prose texts; epilogues, to prose texts; liturgical texts; excommunication
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: London, British Library Cotton Claudius A.II, f. 125
v
First Lines:Þe grete sentens I wryte þe here
Þat foure tymes in
þe ȝere
Last Lines:…ssepelle hit reddely for noȝt þu wonde
Þat alle
men þe vndurstande
Note: Written as prose.
Editions:
Peacock, E.,
ed.
John Myrc: Instructions for Parish Priests.
EETS
o.s. 31 (1868); repr. 1973: 21, 24.
Wordsworth, Charles, and Henry Littlehales.
The Old Service Books of the English Church.
London: 1904: 271 (preface only).
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 17957.
Mirk, John,
tHis day is callyd the first sonday of aduent, that is the sonday in
cristys comyng Therfore holy chirche this day maketh mencion of ij comynges…, [[Westminster]:
Enprynted by wylliam Caxton at westmestre, [1483 (30 June)]]
2.Source: STC 17959.
Mirk, John,
Incipit liber qui vocatur festialis, [Westminster: Printed by William
Caxton, 1491]
3.Source: STC 17960.
Mirk, John,
The helpe and grace of almighty god…, [London: Emprynted by me Richarde
Pinsone, 1493]
4.Source: STC 17963.
Mirk, John,
Incipit liber qui vocatur festialis, [Finitum et co[m]pletum Rothomagi:
[Printed by J. Ravynell], Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimoquinto [1495]]
5.Source: STC 17965.
Mirk, John,
Incipit liber (qui Festialis appellatur( [sic], [Finitum
westmonasterio: [Wynkyn de Worde], Anno [et]c.lxxxxvi [i.e. 1496]]
6.Source: STC 17966.5.
Mirk, John,
Incipit liber qui vocatur festiualis, [London: Finitum et completum per
Richardu[m] Pynson com[m]orantem extra barram noui templi London[iensis?], anno incarnationis dominici.
M. cccc. nonagesimonono. sexto die mensis Iulii. [1499]]
7.Source: STC 17967.
Mirk, John,
Incipit liber qui Festialis appellatur, [Finitu[m] et completu[m] in
Westmonasterio]: [By Wynkyn de Worde], [Anno dni .M. cccc. nonagesimonono.] [1499]
8.Source: STC 17968.
Mirk, John,
[Liber festiualis], [Westmonasterio: Finitum [et] co[m]pletu[m] p[er]
Julianu[m] notarii, Anno in carnationis dni. M.cccc.nonagesimonono. Secu[n]do die mensis Ianuarii.]
[1499]
Note: Further printed editions, after 1500, see STC 17969 and
following.