The Treatise on the Sacrament in Cambridge, St John’s College G.25: An Edition
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Dirk Schultze
Abstract
A text in Cambridge, St John’s College, G.25, has recently been identified as a Middle English translation from Henry Suso’s Horologium sapientiae. The text is edited here for the first time. The co-existence of the text with Wycliffite material challenges views of a one-sided English reception of Suso along the traditional orthodoxy/heterodoxy divide. I shall therefore offer a comparison of the St John’s Treatise with existing translations of the same material and I will argue that the differences can be accounted for by changing religious views, in particular with regard to Wycliffite notions about the sacrament of the Eucharist.
Appendix
The following concordance references the lines from this edition of the Treatise to the Horologium and to two editions of the Seven Points, of which Schultze (2005) is more accurate and more recent, while Horstmann’s (1888) is still more accessible. References to line numbers in the Seven Points are for orientation; several lines skipped within larger stints will not be referenced here.
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