The Treatise on the Sacrament in Cambridge, St John's College G.25: An Edition

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.