## Information on cmcloud.m3

### PPCME2 information

> Text name | The Cloud of Unknowing
> File name | cmcloud.m3
> Manuscript | Harley 674, British Library, London
> Date | a1425 (?a1400)
> Dialect | East Midlands (?central north)
> Genre | Religious treatise
> Edition | Hodgson, Phyllis. 1944 (for 1943). The cloud of unknowing and The book of privy counselling. EETS O.S. 218. London: Oxford University Press.
> Sample | Pp. 13-133
> Remarks | The author of these works was certainly a priest, but little else is known about him with certainty, except that he also wrote The Book of Privy Counselling, The Epistle of Prayer, and The Epistle of Discretion in Stirrings. He may also have written Of Discerning of Spirits, Denis Hid Divinity, and Benjamin Minor. The language of the mss. suggests a Central North-East Midlands provenance. The mss. are difficult to date exactly, but Hodgson places the Cloud between Rolle (1349) and Hilton (1395).

### Helsinki Corpus information

> File name | CMCLOUD
> Text identifier | M3 IR RELT CLOUD
> Text name | CLOUD
> Author | X
> Period | M3
> Date of original | 1350-1420
> Date of manuscript | 1350-1420
> Contemporaneity | CONTEMP
> Dialect | EMO
> Verse or prose | PROSE
> Text type | REL TREAT
> Relationship to foreign original | X
> Foreign original | X
> Relationship to spoken language | WRITTEN
> Sex of author | X
> Age of author | X
> Social rank of author | X
> Audience description | X
> Participant relationship | X
> Interaction | X
> Setting | X
> Prototypical text category | INSTR REL
> Sample | SAMPLE X