?William of Tours, Friar, ‘The Contemplacioun of Synnaris’ —
1560 lines in eight-line stanzas
Author(s): William of Tours
Title(s): ‘The Contemplacioun of Synnaris’
Subjects: treatises, devotional
Versification: —
eight-line
3.Source: Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland 16500 [formerly Acc. 4233; Asloan MS], ff. 263-290
First Lines:THis brevit buke of sobir quantite
Off Synnaris callit þe
contemplacioun…
Last Lines:…Schawe will in werk & without questioun
Thow sall in
hevyne for evir be laureat…
Note: 1552 lines; ends imperfectly; equals pages 545-59.
Attributed Title: Heir ffollowis The comtemplacioun of synnaris appliand for euerilk day of
þe oulk And first for monunday of þe blynd and blunder and vicious
wanyte of þis warld (f. 263); Heir endis þe buke of þe
contemplacioun of synnaris writtin be þe hand of Ihon asloan (f.
290)
Editions: Craigie, William Alexander.
The Asloan Manuscript.
2 vols.
Scottish Text Society
n.s. 14, 16. Edinburgh, London: Blackwood, 1923, 192: 2.187-241.
1.Source: STC 5643.
[Contemplacyon of synners], [Emprentyd at Westmynster: By Wynkyn de worde, the .x. daye of July,
the yere of our lorde .M. CCCC. lxxxxix.] [1499]