Sidney Sussex College 2

Described James Sidney Sussex College, 2; Willoughby, I, pp. 427–56.

[A27]

MS s. xv. Donor: Dr Joseph Craven, Master of the College (1723–28).

Sidney Sussex College 37

Described James Sidney Sussex College, 37.

[1]

f. 133v

O ihesu endeles swetnesse of louynge sowles o ihesu gostly ioye passyng and excedyng alle gladnesse and desyres o ihesu helthe and tender louer of repentaunt synners that lykedest to dwelle as thou seiest thiselfe with the chyldren of men for that was the cause that thou were incarnat and made man in the end of the worlde haue mynde blessed ihesu of alle the sorowes that thou suffereddyst in thi manhode …

f. 142

… and þat the ende of my lyfe may be so commendable that i may perpetualy deserue to prayse the with alle seyntis in thi blisse amen Pater noster Ave maria credo in deum

The Fifteen Oes, 15 prayers beginning ‘O Jesus’ (also in Latin on ff. 101–109) in a Sarum Hours preceded by a calendar on ff. 1–6, beginning on f. 8, ‘Domine labia mea aperies et os meum anunciabit laudem tuam …’; Wells Rev. 9:3464–5 [76], IPMEP 489, 490, also Mon. Rit. III, pp. 275–82. In addition to the Fifteen Oes there are verse prayers to five men saints, and to five women saints and on the Five Joys of the Blessed Virgin. For a text already indexed see IMEP II, Chethams 6690 [4]; for MSS already indexed containing an English rubric to the Fifteen Oes see in this volume Sidney Sussex Col [1]; also IMEP XVIII, Camb Fitzwilliam 40–1950 [A28], 41–1950 [A29].

MS s. xv (1440–50), Donor: William Pratt (c. 1647–1701/02). The manuscript belonged to a family called Churche in the sixteenth century: on the otherwise blank f. 154v is written: ‘edmovnd choorche ys a good son for he ys wyllyng to lern Alas edmovnd churche his not a good baye for he has ashade frauncis churche at the barne dore shynting alas’. On the otherwise blank f. 156 is written ‘God saue the k[i]nge’ and ‘this my boke edmovnd churche’.