Obra atribuida al profesor de Oxford Thomas Gascoigne (1404–1458), y por tanto de mediados del siglo XV [1], fue llevada a la imprenta en Londres por Richarde Fawkes en 1530. En el capítulo XX: Of hasty sayng of these holy houres and of ouerskypynge, se recoge el exemplum mencionando el nombre de Tytyuyllus y el saco en el que guarda los pecados. Estaba destinado a las monjas brigitinas del convento de Syon en Isleworth (Londres) y la historia de Tytyuyllus se le atribuye a un abad cisterciense:

"And therfore the fende sendeth redely hys messengers to gather all suche neglygences togyther & to kepe them in accusynge of the soule as we rede of an holy Abbot of the order of Cystreus that whyle he stode in the quyer at mattyns, he sawe a fende that had a long and a greate poke hangynge about hys necke, and wente about the quyer from one to an other, and wayted bysely after all letters, and syllables, and wordes, and faylynges, that eny made; and them he gathered dylygently and putte them in hys poke. And when he came before the Abbot, waytynge yf oughte had escaped hym, that he myghte haue gotten and put in hys bagge; the Abbot was astoned and aferde of the foulenes and mysshape of hym, and sayde vnto hym. What art thow; And he answered and sayd. I am a poure dyuel, and my name ys Tytyuyllus, & I do myne offyce that is commytted vnto me. And what is thyne offyce sayd the Abbot, he answeryd I muste eche day he sayde brynge my master a thousande pokes full of faylynges, & of neglygences in syllables and wordes, that ar done in youre order in redynge and in syngynge. & else I must be sore beten".

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[1] También se le atribuye a John Lydgate.

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REFERENCIAS:

CAWSEY, Kathy, "Metaphors of Language and Power: The Tutivillus Tales", en: Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings, Boydell & Brewer, Cambridge, 2020, cap. 4, pp. 105-140.
CAWSEY, Kathy, Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings, Boydell & Brewer, Cambridge, 2020, p. 117 ss. Disponible: https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/images-of-language-in-middle-english-vernacular-writings.html.
HUTSON, Lorna, The Invention of Suspicion : Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama, Oxford University Press, Nueva York, 2007, p. 29.
JENNINGS, Margaret, "Tutivillus. The Literary Career of the Recording Demon", en: Studies in Philology, LXXIV, nº 5 (1977), pp. 1-95 (pp. 23 y 87). Disponible: https://homepages.uc.edu/~martinj/Mediaeval%20Logic%20&%20Philosophy/Misc%20Texts%20and%20Secondary%20Sources/Jennings%20-%20The%20Literary%20Career%20of%20the%20Recording%20Demon.pdf
POWER, Eileen E., “Tittivillus”, en: The Cambridge Magazine, vol. 7 (1917), pp. 158-160.
POWER, Eileen E., Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535, Cambridge University Press, 1922, p. 293.
POWER, Eileen E., Medieval People, Methnuen, Londres, 1929, p. 70.

Edición moderna:
BLUNT, John Henry, The Myroure of Oure Ladye: Containing a Devotional Treatise on Divine Service, with a Translation of the Offices Used by the Sisters of the Brigittine Monastery of Sion, at Isleworth, During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Londres, N. Trübner-Early English Text Society, 1873, p. 54. Disponible: https://archive.org/details/themyroureofoure00unkwuoft

Manuscritos:
Aberdeen, University Library 134.

Ed. princeps:
GASCOIGNE, Thomas, Here After Folowith the Boke Callyd the Myrroure of Oure Lady Very Necessary for All Relygyous Persones. By me Richarde Fawkes, dwellynge in Durresme rentes or else in Powles churcheyerde at the sygne of the. A.B.C., Londres, Richarde Fawkes, 1530.

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