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LAMBETH LIBRARY
Item de prologo. Our first parents could not doubt, even after the
Expulsion, of the existence of angels or the joys of paradise. We
who have never seen them are differently placed. Yet it would
be foolish for a boy born in a dark prison to disbelieve the
existence of light, flowers, birds, trees, of which his mother told
him.
Rubrica. Quibus racionibus et exemplis . probari possit animam
esse et uiuere post mortem, similiter et deum etc.
Even unbelievers live by faith. They have no direct knowledge of
their own birth or parentage: they cannot see the processes or
affections of the mind....Objections put and answered. The story
of Gennadius the physician, friend of Augustine at Carthage, and
his dream.
Item de prologo. Preterea non solum animam hominis esse, sed et
quoddam diuinum et scientiam futurorum in se naturaliter
habere etc. .........
Story of a veridical dream about some pigs told by John of Horpin-
tona (Orpington) to the writer (a very interesting tale, simply
told, and quite probably true). S. Benedict’s vision of the soul
of Germanus of Capua.
As a preliminary to the visions themselves I will cite the views of
St Augustine.
Rttbrica. Cum sancti martires siue confessores siue alii defuncti
apparent uiuis...queritur qui sint illi qui apparent etc.
Item de prologo. Aug. de cura pro mortuis agenda. Quid igitur de
predictis uisionibus.. .sentiat Augustinus ipse in libro qui inscribitur
de cura pro mortuis gerenda post multa alia ita scribens manifestat.
Narrantur uisa quedam que huic disputation!....
The extracts from this tract are continued to f. 9 b, ending affectus
pro illo supplicationis augeatur.
Item de prologo. Sic igitur per uerba b. Aug. edocti...de cetero ad
ipsas uisiones et reuelationes plenius dicendas commodius accedere
ualemus. Here the prologue ends.
Rubrica. Inc. breues commemorationes Rubricarum et capitulorum
primi libri reuelationum a Petro priore collectarum .
Purgatorium patricii. i to
Maria domina nostra clxviij et multis infra capitulis.
Inc. primus liber reuelationum ......
De purgatorio patricii. Patri suo in Christo preoptato. D. H.
abbati de Sartis frater H. monachorum de Saltereia minimus.
The work of Henry of Sawtry, on which see Ward, Catalogue
of Romances, Brit. Mus. II. 435 sqq.
The present text has the interpolated Story of the Irishman in
Ch. 1 and the two Homilies; agreeing exactly with 13. B. vm
(Brit. Mus.) fully described by Ward l.c. It ends 20 b gloriosum
permanet et benedictum in sec. sec. Amen.
Item aliter de eodem purgatorio (v) .....
Narrauit mihi Petro...anno milles. ducentes. ab incarn. Domini
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LAMBETH LIBRARY
Item de prologo. Our first parents could not doubt, even after the
Expulsion, of the existence of angels or the joys of paradise. We
who have never seen them are differently placed. Yet it would
be foolish for a boy born in a dark prison to disbelieve the
existence of light, flowers, birds, trees, of which his mother told
him.
Rubrica. Quibus racionibus et exemplis . probari possit animam
esse et uiuere post mortem, similiter et deum etc.
Even unbelievers live by faith. They have no direct knowledge of
their own birth or parentage: they cannot see the processes or
affections of the mind....Objections put and answered. The story
of Gennadius the physician, friend of Augustine at Carthage, and
his dream.
Item de prologo. Preterea non solum animam hominis esse, sed et
quoddam diuinum et scientiam futurorum in se naturaliter
habere etc. .........
Story of a veridical dream about some pigs told by John of Horpin-
tona (Orpington) to the writer (a very interesting tale, simply
told, and quite probably true). S. Benedict’s vision of the soul
of Germanus of Capua.
As a preliminary to the visions themselves I will cite the views of
St Augustine.
Rttbrica. Cum sancti martires siue confessores siue alii defuncti
apparent uiuis...queritur qui sint illi qui apparent etc.
Item de prologo. Aug. de cura pro mortuis agenda. Quid igitur de
predictis uisionibus.. .sentiat Augustinus ipse in libro qui inscribitur
de cura pro mortuis gerenda post multa alia ita scribens manifestat.
Narrantur uisa quedam que huic disputation!....
The extracts from this tract are continued to f. 9 b, ending affectus
pro illo supplicationis augeatur.
Item de prologo. Sic igitur per uerba b. Aug. edocti...de cetero ad
ipsas uisiones et reuelationes plenius dicendas commodius accedere
ualemus. Here the prologue ends.
Rubrica. Inc. breues commemorationes Rubricarum et capitulorum
primi libri reuelationum a Petro priore collectarum .
Purgatorium patricii. i to
Maria domina nostra clxviij et multis infra capitulis.
Inc. primus liber reuelationum ......
De purgatorio patricii. Patri suo in Christo preoptato. D. H.
abbati de Sartis frater H. monachorum de Saltereia minimus.
The work of Henry of Sawtry, on which see Ward, Catalogue
of Romances, Brit. Mus. II. 435 sqq.
The present text has the interpolated Story of the Irishman in
Ch. 1 and the two Homilies; agreeing exactly with 13. B. vm
(Brit. Mus.) fully described by Ward l.c. It ends 20 b gloriosum
permanet et benedictum in sec. sec. Amen.
Item aliter de eodem purgatorio (v) .....
Narrauit mihi Petro...anno milles. ducentes. ab incarn. Domini
73