Christ's College 7

Described James Christ's College, 7; Hudson EWS I, 85–86; O’Mara and Paul, I:48.

[1]–[55]

f. 1ra

We taken as bileue þat epistlis of apostlis ben gospelis of crist for he spak hem alle in hem and crist may not erre and alle þe gospelis speken goode tiþingis of ioie of þe blisse of heuene and al if þe holy gost spekiþ eche word of holy writt neþeles crist spak in poul more plenteuously and sutilly and þis moueþ sum men to telle in englische poulis pistlis …

f. 137rb

… for fale [sic] men of þese newe sectis and specialy of þe laste sect robben þe pepel of þer goodis and bigylen hem fro trewe lore

‘Here bigynneþ þe pistle on þe firste Sunday of aduent bifore cristmasse romaynes þe þrittenþe chapitre þe firste sermoun’; ‘Here eenden þe domynycal pistlis þorouȝ þe ȝeer’; Fifty-five Sunday Epistle sermons attributed to John Wycliffe, set 5 in Hudson EWS I, beginning with the Epistle sermon for the first Sunday in Advent (Rom. 13:11–14), Hudson EWS I, pp. 475–80, and ending with the Epistle Sermon for the 25th Sunday after Trinity (Jer. 23:5–8) Hudson EWS I, pp. 699–70. The incipits and explicits of all fifty-five sermons in the cycle, numbered [1] to [55] are given in the Index at the end of this volume. They are described briefly here under one heading because of Hudson and Gradon's authoritative edition of the whole cycle. See Wells Rev. 2:522–23 [7] corrected by Hudson in ‘Contributions’, pp. 443–53, esp. p. 451; IPMEP 304. For a full list of manuscripts containing Wycliffite Sermon Cycles see Hudson EWS I, pp. 51–95; Gradon EWS II, pp. xvi–xx; Hudson EWS III, pp. xvii–xxvii. For manuscripts of Set 5 or part thereof, see Hudson EWS I, p. 1 and pp. 52–97; for another manuscript containing set I and set 5 only see IMEP XIX, indexing CUL Ii.i.40 (Hudson EWS I, MS B). On the coherence and importance of the complete cycle see Hudson, ‘Implications’, 142–56.