Page of a manuscript from 'The Desert of Religion'.

The Desert of Religion and other poems and religious pieces,. etc. mostly illustrated, in Northern English. Language: English Source/Shelfmark: Add. 37049 f.46 " Elongaui fugiens et mansi in solitudine ": the Desert of Religion, a poem in about 470 couplets (exclusive of the verses attached to the drawings), with drawings of symbolical trees, pictures of hermits, etc. Other copies are in Cotton MS. Faust. B. vi. Pt. ii. (where it is attributed by Richard James to Walter. Hilton, but Sir F. Madden doubts the attribution), and Stowe MS. 39, f. I Ob. There are variations in the list and order of hermits and other persons represented. St. Hilda appears only in the Cotton MS, St. Godric in the Cotton and Stowe MSS.; but Richard of Hampole appears in all three. Beg. "Danyd pat prophet was ay In pe sawter boke pus we here say." f. 46.