| An English manuscript from c 1400 has a series of devotions to Mary, Joachim, and Anne, the work of Richard Rolle, a florelegium of moral sententiae with the authors quoted being Augustine, Gregory, Bernard, Jerome, 'Prosper' (Julianus Pomerius), Cicero, 'Clemens papa', 'Philosophus', Macrobius, Isodore, Bede, Cyprian, Ambrose, Anselm, Origen, Seneca, Caesarius, John Chrysostom, and Leo, and pseudo-Bernard Meditationes. Folio 47 has Augustine (hatted, robed, enthroned, bearing a scroll with the opening words of the text, then Gregory (as enthroned pope) and a most unusual half-length Bernard, capped and robed and holding a book. The appearance of Carmelite friars elsewhere in the manuscript suggests that the book may have been made for an English Carmelite community. The text next to Bernard reads: 'Fratres nulla securitas per superbiam angelus cecidit de paradiso trinitatis' (Brethren, there is no security by pride. The angel fell from the paradise of the Trinity). This is a pseudo-Bernard text. See also MA419.
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