Stimulus Amoris

The Stimulus Amoris is a mystical treatise on love written by the Franciscan James of Milan in the late thirteenth century.

The early fourteenth century version, however, often called the Stimulus maior or Forma longa, exists in complete form in 221 manuscripts and partially in another 147.

[2] It is the long text that provides the basis for the Middle English translation of Stimulus Amoris, entitled The Prickynge of Love, which was made around 1380, perhaps by Walter Hilton.

[3][4] The Prickynge of Love survives in sixteen manuscripts, eleven from the fifteenth century.

[5] A version of the Stimulus Amoris also served as the source for the Middle French translation, L'Aguillon d'amour divine, by Simon de Courcy, a Franciscan friar and confessor of Marie de Berry, c.

Start of the first chapter in a manuscript of Hilton's translation from 1400–1450