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• Résumé : CCCC MS 296 contains a late fourteenth-century (after 1383) collection of Lollard tracts and sermons written in Middle English. The entire collection was once ascribed to John Wyclif (d. 1384) but is now believed to be the work of a number of authors. All the tracts in this volume have been published by either F. D. Matthew in 1880 and 1902 (repr.1998) or Thomas Arnold in 1871.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : anglais, latin

  
  

  1-22 - Of the leaven of pharisees || Attendite a fermento phariseorum quod est hypocrisis. A discourse in xii chapters against the hypocrisy of the clergy

  Note : (1) This page is largely illegible from a water-stain

  Note : Matthew, p. 2

  
  

  22-29 - How men ought to obey prelates || Hou men owen obesche to prelatis drede curs and kepe law, ch. iii

  Note : (22) Matthew, p. 28

  
  

  Intervenants :

  St Francis - author

  29-34 - The rule and testament of St Francis, chapters 1-12 || The reule of seynt Fraunseis

  Note : Matthew, p. 39

  
  

  34-36 - The rule and testament of St Francis, chapter 13 || The testament of seynt Fraunseis

  Note : Matthew, p. 39

  
  

  36-39 - Comment on the testament of St Francis || Objections against the Franciscans for not observing this testament under pretence of their having a papal dispensation

  Note : Matthew, p. 39

  
  

  39-65 - Fifty heresies and errors of friars || Articles against the friers

  Note : Arnold, p. 366

  
  

  65-103 - Of prelates || Articles against prelates

  Note : Matthew, p. 52

  
  

  103-106 - Speculum de antichristo || How Anticriste and his clerkis feren trewe prestis fro prechynge of Cristis gospel bi foure disceitis

  Note : Matthew, p. 109

  
  

  106-123 - Of clerks possessioners || Of clerkis possessioneris

  Note : Matthew, p. 114

  
  

  123-136 - How the office of curates is ordained of God || Hou the office of curatis is ordeyned of God

  Note : Matthew, p. 141

  
  

  136-144 - The order of priesthood || For the ordre of presthod

  Note : Matthew, p. 164

  
  

  144-145 - De stipendiis ministrorum or How men should find priests || Hou men schullen fynde prestis

  Note : Arnold, p. 202

  
  

  145-157 - De precationibus sacris; Octo in quibus seducuntur simplices christiani || Hou preiere of good men helpith moche and preiere of synful men displesith God and harmeth hemself and othere men

  Note : Arnold, p. 219 and p. 447

  
  

  157-160 - A short rule of life || A schort reule of lif for eche man in general and for prestis and lordis and laboreris in special hou eche schal be savyd in his degree

  Note : Arnold, p. 204

  
  

  160-165 - Three things destroy this world || Thre thingis distroien this world false confessoures false men of lawe and false merchauntis

  Note : Matthew, p. 180

  
  

  165-172 - Of feigned contemplative life || Of feyned contemplatif lif, of song, of the ordynal of Salisbury and of bodely almes and worldly bysynesse, of prestis hou bi thes foure the fend lettith hem fro prechynge of the gospel

  Note : Matthew, p. 187

  Note : (70) With part of item 30 on pp. 70-72

  
  

  172-175 - The pater noster || The pater noster expounded

  Note : Matthew, p. 197

  
  

  175-179 - The Ave Maria || The Ave Maria expounded

  Note : Matthew, p. 203

  
  

  179-185 - How Satan and his children turn works of mercy upside down || Hou Sathanas and his children turnen werkis of mercy up so dom(!) and disceyuen men thereinne and in here five wittis

  Note : Matthew, p. 210

  
  

  185-190 - How religious men should keep certain articles or How men of private religion should love more the gospel || Hou religious men shoulde kepe certayne articles

  Note : Matthew, p. 219

  
  

  190-203 - Of servants and lords || Of servauntis and lordis hou eche schal kepe his degree

  Note : Matthew, p. 226

  
  

  203-209 - Why poor priests have no benefice || Whi pore prestis have none benefice

  Note : Matthew, p. 244

  
  

  209-213 - How antichrist and his clerks travail to destroy holy writ || Hou anticrist and his clerkis traveilen to destroie holy writt and to make cristene men unstable in the feith, and to sette here ground in develis of helle

  Note : Matthew, p. 253

  
  

  213-221 - How Satan and his priests, etc. || Hou sathanas and his prestis and his feigned religious casten bi thre cursed heresies to destroie alle good lyvynge and meyntenyng alle manner of synne

  Note : Matthew, p. 263

  
  

  221-224 - On church temporalities || For thre skillis lordis schulden constreyne crerlis to lyve in mekenesse wilful poverte and discrete penaunce and gostly traveile

  Note : Arnold, p. 213

  
  

  224-234 - Of weddid men and wifes and of here children also || Of wedded men and wifis and of here children also

  Note : Arnold, p. 188

  
  

  234-238 - Of poor preaching priests || Articles of reformation

  Note : Matthew, p. 275

  
  

  Intervenants :

  John Wyclif - author

  238-239 - John Wyclif, Translation of a passage from St Augustine beginning Arguam te quando nescis || Translation of a passage of S. Augustin

  Note : Matthew, p. 281

  
  

  239-288 - The great sentence of cursing expounded || The grete sentence of curs exponed

  Note : Arnold, p. 267

  
  

  288-298 - A petition to the king and parliament || Articles presented to the king and parliament

  incipit : (288) Plese it to oure most noble

  Note : with part of Item 16 on pp. 297-298

  explicit : (298) and bewar of sathanas disceitis. Amen

  Note : At the bottom of this column is an erasure: This is the worke of .... It is only of cent. xvi