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I think it's actually William of St. Thierry's, On the Nature and Dignity of Love and it is a Syon MS, but I don't have the reference. Lee Patterson deals with it in his book on medieval literature and modern critical theory (the title has escaped me--*Negotiating the Past*???--and I don't have the book at hand in my office), but his interpretation cannot be trusted, since he pulls a bait and switch with his texts--switching from William to David of Augsburg's book on the formation of novices without informing the reader (you have to check his footnotes to see this), which vitiates his interpretation. The David of Augsburg text is, of course, German geographically, though written in Latin (but with numerous German translations, on which one might consult Kurt Ruh, _Bonaventura Deutsch_). Perhaps someone who has Patterson at hand can fill in the details ins such a way that it will help Sarah Randles, who wrote the message to which Jill Keen responded. Dennis Martin Loyola University On Fri, 14 May 1999, Jill Averil Keen wrote: > This isn't Arthurian or German, but there is a 15th c. ms. from an English > convent (Syon, I think, but I've lost the refernece)containing Aelred's > Speculum Caratatis with a note that if the nuns want to read more about > friendship they should go to the story of Troilus, Creseyde and Diomede. > > Jill %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%