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.11 4. " In nomine Christi incipit liber Methodii episcopi ecclesie Paterensis martiris Christi. This tretys is drawen oute of Latyn into Ynglysche, pe whilk a holy bischop and martyr drewe oute of Hebrew and Greeke into Latyn, and it tretys of pc begynnyng of pc warld and of pe endyng and also of pinges pat has fallen and sal falle ": a translation from the Latin version (Royal MS. 8 F. viii. f. 170, and elsewhere) of the Revelations of the Piseudo-Methodius. Beg. " It is to be knawen to vs, dere breper," and ends ',god by infynyte warldes of warlds. amen." With drawings. f. 11.