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28 Anne Mouron © The British Library Board, Add. MS 37049, ff. 46v Paul the First Hermit, Add. MS 37049, fol.46 v
Praying with Images 29 divided vertically into two halves, with the text on the left and the image of the hermit or saint on the right; the recto folio is taken up entirely with a tree-diagram. 18 Although the text of the poem and the tree-diagrams change very little from one manuscript to the next, the same does not hold true for the illustrations of saints and hermits. A consideration of the first section of the poem, the first tree with Paul the First Hermit, may serve as an example. In MS Add. 37049, unlike the other two manuscripts, above the depiction of Paul the First Hermit there is an angel holding a shield with the five wounds of Christ. The illustration contains two distinct areas: the hermit in his cave and heaven above. There is an obvious interaction between the two as the angel presents the hermit (and the reader) with an image for devotion and meditation. This intervention of the heavenly realm may be the result of the hermit’s solitude—throughout the poem the hermit is never represented with a fellow hermit—but at the same time, as represented in MS Add. 37049, he is never really alone. The numerous angels featuring in the upper half of the verso folio in many other sections of the poem in this manuscript show that the hermit is part of a spiritual community. If in The Manere of Good Lyvyng the addressee is told to ‘forget [her] own people and [her] father’s house’ 19 and is provided with a new and spiritual family (as I noted in my earlier article), 20 in The Desert of Religion, readers are repeatedly advised to leave the world for the solitude of the desert, but at the same time they are also provided with a spiritual community to make up for the loss of the secular one. Focusing on God When one compares The Manere of Good Lyvyng and its lack of everyday images with The Desert of Religion and its numerous illustrations, one may be reminded of two texts by two of the better known Middle English mystics: the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing and Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfection. Alastair Minnis underlines the contrast between these two works, with one text strongly advising the absence of images (Cloud 18 MS Cotton Faustina B vi follows the same layout. MS Stowe 39 divides the verso folio horizontally. 19 Psalm 44: 14. Although not translated in the The Manere of Good Lyvyng, this verse is actually quoted in the Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem. See Patrologia Latina, edited by Jean-Paul Migne, volume 184 (Paris, 1862), col. 1214D. 20 Mouron, ‘Praying without Images’, 99–100.
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