[A devout prayer, made ... after he was condemned to die] [manuscript], [1535 July].

[A devout prayer, made ... after he was condemned to die] [manuscript], [1535 July].

Imitatio Christi.

1 item (2 membranes) : ill. (pen and ink).

Sewed together in the form of a prayer roll.
Manuscript on vellum.

Contemporary copy. This "devout prayer" is followed by: 1) "A spirituall glasse dayly to loke on", a "precept in -ly" which is published at the end of some editions of Imitatio Christi (STC 23961, [1531?] and later), and which is a shortened form of a precept possibly written by Richard Whitford (see Robins and Cutler's Supplement to the Index of Middle English Verse, 2794.8, and references there cited); 2) A prayer and pen and ink sketch of Christ rising from the tomb.

In English and Latin.

Title at head: Oratio devotissima Thomae More quondam Cancellarii Anglie.

First line: The thing good Lord that I pray for.

Dorse: J.W.Cantabrig., possibly added in the 19th century.

Rhymed couplet at the end of the "devout prayer" listed in Folger card index of first lines.

Printed with some differences in the Yale edition of The complete works of Sir Thomas More, 13, p. 228-231. See also p. cxlix.

Acquired 1932-07-16 from Weinreb for £800. Purchased as a Folger 50th Anniversary Gift of C. Boyden Gray.

X.d.532 Map case

MS Add 801