, 98, 99

Jeremiah, 103, 104

John, St., Epistles of, 25, 119

Joseph, symbolism of, 6, 27-30

Judah, symbolism of, 6, 10-12

Juliana of Norwich, xi, xxi, 65 n, 123 n

Kempe, Margery, xix-xxi, 49-59

Langland, Piers the Plowman, 79 n, 89 n

Layamons Brut, 28 n

Leah, symbolism of, 3-11, 14, 15-20, 24, 26, 29

Levi, symbolism of, 6, 9, 10

Luke, St., 110

Margery, see Kempe

Matthew, St., 8

Mechthild of Magdeburg, xi

Naphtali, symbolism of, 6, 13-15, 18, 19

Paul, St., Epistles, 21, 40, 41, 88, 97, 106, 109, 119, 120

Pepwell, xiv, xix

Proverbs, 28 n

Psalms, The, xiv, xvi, xxvi, 9, 10, 11, 23, 31, 33, 78, 79, 119, 124

Pynson, xxii

Rachel, symbolism of, 3-6, 12-15, 18, 27, 32

Raymund of Capua, xviii, xix

Reuben, symbolism of, 6, 7-9

Richard of St. Victor, xii-xv, xxii, xxv, xxvi, 3, 4 n, 19 n

Richard Rolle of Hampole, xi, xii, xvi, xvii, xxiii n, xxv, 71 n

Robert of Brunne, Chronicle of, 124 n

Ruysbroeck, Jan, xi

Shelley, xv n

Simeon, symbolism of, 6, 8, 9

Song of Solomon, 88, 108

Suso, Heinrich, xi

Tantucci, Giovanni, xvii

Tyrrell, George, xxi n

Wyclif, 16 n, 79 n, 112 n

Wynkyn de Worde, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxvii

Zebulun, symbolism of, 6, 22-25

Zechariah, 119

Zilpah, symbolism of, 4-6, 15-17, 20

Footnotes:

[1] Dante, convivio, i. 12.

[2] Cf. the Letter to Can Grande (Epist. x. 28), where Dante, like
St. Thomas Aquinas before him, refers to the Benjamin Major as
"Richardus de Sancto Victore in libro De Contemplatione."

[3]Par. x. 131, 132.

[4] Ps. lxviii. 27.

[5] Benjamin Minor, cap. 73.

[6] Benjamin Minor, cap. 75. Cf. Shelley, The Triumph of Life: "Their
lore taught them not this: to know themselves." This passage of
Richard is curiously misquoted and its meaning perverted in Haureau,
Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique, i. pp. 513, 514, in the
Dictionary of National Biography, vol. xvi., and elsewhere.

[7] Benjamin Minor, cap. 81.

[8] Cf. below, pp. 32, 33.

[9] Richard Rolle of Hampole and his Followers, edited by C.
Horstman, vol. i. pp. 162-172.

[10] Sene, Senis, or Seenes, "Siena," from the Latin Senae
(Catharina de Senis).

[11] Cf. E. Gordon Duff, Hand-Lists of English Printers, 1501-1556,
i. p. 24.

[12] Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica p. 452.

[13] Quietaclacmium Margerie filie Johannis Kempe de domibus in
parochia de Northgate. Brit. Mus., Add MS. 25,109.

[14] She was, however, appare