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IN THE LIBRARY OF
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
BY
MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, Lnr.D.
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF KING'S COLLEGE :
DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM
VOLUME II
CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANUSCRIPTS STANDING IN
CLASS R
CAMBRIDGE:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1901
[All Rights reserved.}
PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRKSS.
PREFACE.
THIS second volume of the catalogue of the Western Manu-
scripts in the Library of Trinity College comprises those
standing in Class R. In subject they are highly miscellaneous,
comprising as they do all the books that could not be classed as
theological in virtue of their principal contents. History, Poetry,
Philosophy, Law, Natural Science, Medicine and Music represent
fairly the main departments ; and the mere enumeration of these
shows how wide a field for errors and omissions is open to the
cataloguer.
In truth, I have been confronted with many puzzles, and
defeated by not a few. If this volume is used by an expert in
alchemy (if such there be) or in medieval medicine, or in later
Italian history, he will most likely be able to criticize me sharply
not, I hope, for giving him false information, but very probably
for not telling him enough. I have instanced classes of books as
to which I am conscious of ignorance ; but it is equally likely that
I have erred where the path was plainer. I shall be grateful to
those who will set me right. A third volume, be it remembered,
is to come, if I am spared to write it, and I shall not scruple to
confess my mistakes when they are pointed out. I gladly borrow
the words of a monk of Dover who wrote a careful catalogue of
the books of his monastery : " Et uere non offendet compilantem,
set diliget euidenter quicumque hanc matriculam adhuc multi-
pliciter defectiuam in melius duxerit."
T. c. ii. b
VI PREFACE.
A few words as to the arrangement and provenance of the
books in Class R may be not unwelcome. In the first two shelves
are the accessions of recent date (none earlier than 1 800). A very
large proportion of these were the gifts of Mr Samuel Sandars,
a generous benefactor alike to his College and to his University.
The third and following shelves contain books the bulk of which
are to be found in Bernard's Catalogi of 1697. The principal
donor, so far as numbers are concerned, was Sir Henry Puckering
alias Newton, for particulars of whose life the Dictionary of National
BiograpJiy may be consulted. He gave his library to the College
in 1691. Many of the manuscripts were inherited by him from his
father, Sir Adam Newton (d. 1630), who was at various times tutor
to Prince Henry, Dean of Durham, Secretary to the Council, and
Secretary to the Marches of Wales.
Puckering was no collector of antiquities. Hardly any of his
books are earlier than the seventeenth century : but his collection
is made remarkable by the presence in it of the famous Milton
manuscript. The numerous books connected with Prince Henry -
have also an interest of their own : and the considerable mass of
Italian documents probably contains a good deal of interesting
matter of which hitherto not much use has been made. The
scribe of many of the Italian treatises was Jacopo di Castelvetro,
who for some time taught Italian at Cambridge. His diary is
among the Harleian Manuscripts (no. 3344).
Other donors who come before us in this Class for the first
time are Thomas Whalley, Vice-Master of the College (1637),
whose tastes appear to have run in the direction of alchemy, and
John Wilson, Fellow (B.A. 1717), a collector of old medical books.
The gifts of Whitgift and Nevile are less numerous than in
Class B: but Willmer's assume greater importance, including as
they do four precious volumes of English poetry.
Dame Anne Sadleir merits a special expression of gratitude
for her gift of an Apocalypse, which must be ranked as one of the
PREFACE. vii
two finest in existence, and is certainly the most beautiful book
in Cambridge.
In my account of the most copiously illustrated manuscript in
this library the Canterbury Psalter I have departed from my
usual custom of describing all the pictures I meet with in ancient
books. This omission is, I think, amply justified by the following
facts. The Psalter in question forms one of a group of four books
(perhaps more) which all contain the same cycle of illustrations.
The earliest of these is the famous Utrecht Psalter, the next in
order that in the Harleian collection (no. 603), and the latest, one
at Paris. They have been studied in conjunction by Dr Anton
Springer 1 , and will be fully treated in a work now appearing by
Dr J. J. Tikkanen of Helsingfors (Die P salterillustration im
Mittelalter). Under these circumstances, and considering that a
full description of the pictures would have filled a very large
number of pages, I decided to call special attention to such of
them only as showed a marked divergence from their archetype,
namely, the Utrecht Psalter.
Comparatively few of the manuscripts in Class R can be traced
to English monasteries. Very many of the books are quite modern,
and others (especially those which treat of poetry, medicine, or
alchemy) are of the kind which were most likely from the first in
private hands. Still, we have books from Canterbury (including
a Livy once the property of Thomas a Becket), Bury, Dover,
Malmesbury, Winchester, and other smaller houses. I am par-
ticularly pleased at having been able to place the 'gromatic'
manuscript (R. 15. 14) at St Augustine's, Canterbury. It would
have been impossible to do so, had not I been in possession of a
copy of the unpublished catalogue of that Library.
I am afraid that those who have used my first volume may
have found the absence of an Index rather trying. I am con-
vinced, however, that if the three volumes were each of them
1 Abh. d. k. Sachsischen Gesellschaft, Pkilos. I/istor. Kl. vol. VIII.
Vlli PREFACE.
provided with an Index, the inconvenience would be very much
greater ; and it would be a lasting one instead of being, as I hope,
only temporary.
I have appended to this Preface, besides the usual tables, and
lists of donors, a copy of those entries in Sir Edward Stanhope's
Memoriale (R. 17. 8) which throw light upon the provenance of
manuscripts now in the Library. I have found them of great use
to myself in the compilation of this catalogue, though they are by
no means as complete as could be wished.
M. R. J.
CONTENTS.
PREFACE .......
LISTS OF MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY OF
TRINITY COLLEGE BY VARIOUS DONORS
SHELF-LIST OF VOLUMES IN CLASS R, SHEWING THE
CORRESPONDING NUMBERS IN THE CATALOGI MANU-
SCRIPTORUM ANGLIAE (1697) ....
LIST OF DONORS OF MANUSCRIPTS IN CLASS R .
LIST OF ANCIENT LIBRARIES TO WHICH MANUSCRIPTS
IN CLASS R CAN BE TRACED ....
CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS ....
ADDENDA .......
NOTE ON R. 5. 20
NOTE ON R. 3. 19-21 .
NOTE ON R. 15. 14 .
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CORRIGENDA.
Vol. I. p. 3, 1. 25 for expendat read expendit.
p. 50, 1. 41 for Griffiths read Griffith.
p. 306, 1. 21 for antiphon read antiphons.
p. 307, 1. 29 dele Fellow.
P- 53 far Goganniant read Gogonniant.
Vol. II. p. 50, 1. 6 for ? read John Fortho.
p. 69, 1. 6 for 379 read 368.
p. 75, 1. i for 368 read 379.
p. 104, 11. u, 11 for Reed read Rud.
p. 114, 1.
for 650 read ? 650.
146, 1. i9J
p. 152, 1. 2 for Crispin read Crispus.
p. 215, 1. i 4 |
\for 430 read l^o.
224, 1. 2Oj
p. 227, 1. 34 for Griffiths read Griffith.
p. 228, 1. 29 for Taxater read Taxster.
p. 251, 1. 8 for Aushelni read Anshelmi.
p. 292, note for There read These.
p. 305, after 1. 15 add Printed in Schmeller's Carmina Burana, Stuttgart
1847, p. 63.
p. 324, 1. 17 before ven. Bede insert Cassiodori, corrected to.
p. 410, 1. 20 for 1867 read 1868.
LISTS OF MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY
COLLEGE BY VARIOUS DONORS: from the Memorials (R.
17. 8).
MSS. GIVEN BY ABP WHITGIFT.
i Psalterium magnum Latinum . . . . R. 17. i
i Epitome Chronicorum . . . . . R. 17. 7
3, 4 Apocalypsis lohannis vol. 2 ....
IB. 10. o
5 Rabanus de laude Crucis . . . . . B. 16. 3
6 Augustinus in Evangelium lohannis . . . B. 4. 2
7 ,, in Psalmos pars prima . . . . B. 5. 6
8 ,, pars secunda . . . B. 5. 28
9 ,, de genesi ad litteram . . . . B. 4. 25
10 Flores Bedae ex Augustino . . . . B. 4. 5
11 Tractatus in Pentateuchum . . . . . B. 4. 27
12, 13 Hieronymus in Esaiam, vol. 2 . . . . B. 5. 23, 24
14 in leremiam . . . . B. 5. 22
15 ,, in Ezechielem . . . . B. 4. 28
1 6 ,, in Psalmos . . . . B. 3. 4
17 ,, Epistolae variae . . . B. 4. 29
1 8 ,, super Prophetas . . . . B. 3. 5
19 Thomas de Booking in Matthaeum . . . B. 3. 6
20 Paraphrasis veteris et noui Testamenti . . . B. 5. 21
21 Sermones aliquot Hieronymi . . . . B. 3. 8
22 Tractatus in Paralipomenon . . . . B. 5. 17
23 Parabolae Salomonis . . . . . B. 4. 4
24 Tractatus in vetus testamentum . . . . B. 14. 33
25 Stephanus Cantuar. in Pentateuchum . . . B. 3. 7
26 Epistolae Pauli glossatae [cum tabula vocabulorum\ . ? B. 4. i
27 Glossa in 12 Prophetas . . . B. 4. 3
28 Biblia Archiepiscopi Langton . . . . B. 10. i
29 Commentarius in Epistolas Pauli . . . . B. 5. 20
30 Petrus Lumbardus in Epistolas . . . . B. 16. i
31 Thomae Aquinatis pars prima . . . B. 16. 8
32 liber tertius . . . B. 16. 9
33 liber quartus . . B. 16. 6
34 Aquinas in Sententias .
T. C. C
xiv MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY.
35 Historia Scholastica in Evangelia . . B. 15. 4
36 Hieronymus in Prophetas mi. . . B. 3. -28
37 Hieronymus in Esaiam . . . . B. 3. 29
38 in leremiam . . . B. 3. 30
39 Augustinus de Trinitate . . . B. 3. 31
40 Confessiones . . . B. 3. 25
41 Sermones . B. 3. 32
42 Ambrosius super Lucam . . B. 3. 9
43 Augustinus de adulterinis Conjugiis . . B. 3. 33
44 Ambrosii variae Epistolae . . . B. 3. 10
45 Bernardus ad Eugenium Papam . . . . B. 2. i
46 Chrysostomus in Matthaeum . . . . B. 2. 2
47 in lohannem . . . . B. 3. 21
48 Beda super Lucam . . . . . . B. 2. 3
49 ,, in Samuelem . . . . . . B. 3. 3
50 Bezae testamentum Graece . . . . . B. 10. 3
51 Prophetae xii glossati . . . . . B. 3. n
52 Libri Josuae Ruth glossati . . . . . B. 3. 16
53 Angelomus in libros Regum . . . . B. 3. 13
54 Libri Josuae Judicum glossati . . . . B. 3. 12
55 Rabanus in Genesim et Exodum . . . . B. 2. 4
56 Rabani secunda pars explanationum . . . B. 3. 14
57 Glossa super libros Regum . . . . B. 3. 15
58 Matthaeus et Marcus glossati . . . . B. 3. 17
59 Liber Exodus glossatus . . . . . B. 2. 6
60 Stephanus Cantuar. in Esaiam . . . . B. 3. 24
61 Libri mosaici anglice . . . . . B. 2. 8
62 Evangelium secundum Matthaeum . . . . B. i. 10
63 Fox in Apocalypsim anglice . . . . B. 2. 7
64 Hesychius in Leviticum . . . . . B. 2. 9
65 Homiliae lohannis de Abbatis Villa . . . B. 15. 21
66 Decreta varia Pontificum . . . . . B. 16. 44
67 Alexander de S. Albano . . . . . R. 16. 4
68 lanuensis legenda sanctorum . . . . B. 15. 15
6<, Officiate Ecclesiae Romanae . . . . B. n. 2
70 Bartholomaeus Anglicus . . . . . R. 16. 21
71 Chronicon Gervasii Tilberiensis . . . . R. 4. n
72 Titus Livius latine . . . . . . R. 4. 4
73, 74 Reinherii de Pisis vol. 2 . . . . B. 3. 34, 35
75 Dionysius de sacris nominibus . . . . B. 2. 28
76 Figura Bibliorum . . . . . . B. 2. 29
77 Gesta Regum Angliae gallice . . . . R. 5. 32
78 Heraclides de Vita SS. Patrum . . . . B. 2. 30
79 Dionysii Hierarchia . . . . . . B. 2. 31
80 Vllerston de reformatione Ecclesie. . . . B. 15. 23
8 1 Beda in Epistolas Canonicas . . . . B. 2. 32
82 Malmesb. de gestis Pontificum . . . . R. 5. 36
83 Hieronymus de hebraicis quaestionibus . . . B. 2. 34
MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY.
XV
84 Expositio Orationis Duminicae
85 Hildeberti Epistolae
86, 87 Chrysostomi vol. 2 ...
88 Gulielmus Lincolniensis
89 Gregorius Papa in Ezechielem
90 Gregorii Dialog! ....
91 Collationes x Anachoritarum
92 Chronica Gervasii Cantuar.
93 Vitae SS. metrice ....
94 Archidiaconi Historia . .
95 Ranulphus Cestrensis
96 Chronica Regum Angliae vsque ad Hen. 5
97 Giraldi Cambrensis gemma
98 Speculum vitae lesu Christi
99 Chronicon Martini Imperatorum
100 Liber qui dicitur Cosmographia
101 Homiliae quaedam saxonice
102 Commentarius in Matthaeum
103 in Lucam
104 Proverbia Salomonis
105 Commentarius in Deuteronomium .
106 in Epistolas Pauli .
107 Richardus Hampole in Psalmos
108 Beringaudus in Apocalypsim
109 Hieronymus super Matthaeum
no Pontificate Roman um
in Petri de Blesen Epistolae .
1 1 2 Opuscula quaedam Origenis
113 Gregorii Pastorale ....
114 Verbum abbreviatum Cantoris
115 Summa Alcuini ....
116 Commentarius in Esaiam
117 ,, in leremiam .
118 Liber Sapientiae ....
119 Commentarius in Matthaeum
1 20 Glossa in Evangelium lohannis
121 Numerorum liber glossatus .
122 Acta Apostolorum ....
123 Alexandri opusculum
124 Commentarius in Leviticum
125 Malmesb. de gestis Anglorum
126 Psalterium Theodori graece
127 Dubia de passione Christi .
128 Curiae Cantuar. statuta
129 Meditationes et precationes
130 Anselmus Cur deus homo .
131 Distinctiones Holcot
137 Epistolae Gyraldi Cambrensis
?B. 15. 28
B. *. 33
B. 2. 35, 36
B. 16. 18
B. 1.3
B. i. 4
B. 1.5
R. 5- 41
R- 3- 25
R. 5- 4*
R- 5- 35
R- 5- 43
B. 15-31
B. 15. 32
R. 4. 18
R. 15. 21
B. 15- 34
B. i. u
B. i. 12
B. i. 13
B. i. 14
B. i. 6
B. i.
B. i.
B. i. 17
B. u. 9
B. i. 18
B. i. 19
B. 14- 5
B. 15- 37
B. 2. 5
B. 2. 15
B.
B.
15
1 6
33
36
35
34
R- IS- 35
B. i. 31
R. 7. 10
B. 10. u
B. 14. 19
* 16. 34, 39
B. 14. 18
B. i. 37
B. 14. 17
R. 7. ii
c 2
xvi MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY.
133 Carmina de artificio loquendi . . . R. 14. 22
134 Hieronymus in Ecclesiasten . B. i. 39
135 Expositio in Matthaeum anglice . . B. i. 38
136 Homiliae quaedam anglice . . B. 14. 38
137 Miracula Thomae Martyris . . . . B. 14. 37
138 Materia utriusque Testamenti . . . B. 15. 38
139 Manuale sacerdotis . . . . B. n. 24
140 Sermones Reginaldi Peacock . . B. 14. 45
141 Tractatus quidam anglice et latine . . . B. 14. 50
142 Petrus de Urbe . . . . . B. 16. 32
143, 144 Biblia Hieronymi vol. 2
145 Rhythmus anglicus ...... B. 14. 52
146 Liber de Ecclesiae moribus . . . . B. 16. 17
147 Epitome Chronicorum . . . . . R. 7. 35
148 Augustini variae Epistolae . . . . B. 4. 26
149 Summa super Magistrum Sententiarum . . . B. 16. 31
ADDITIONS FROM STRYPE'S Life of Whitgift, in. 410 sqq.
Folio
32 P. Lombardi Sententianim Libri iv. . . . B. 16. 7
Quarto
24 Controversy between Whitgift, Baro, etc. . . B. 14. 9
25 Verbum abbreuiatum . . . . . B. 15. 37
Tractatus contra proprietates monachorum.
8vo et iinio
14 Matthaeus glossatus, seu pars eius Euangelii . B. i. 33
15 Epistolae Pauli in analysin redactae . . . B. 3. 2
TH. NEVILE.
1 Biblia Hieronymi latine . . . . . B. 5. i
2 Euangelitae per Hieronymum . . . . B. 5. 3
3-6 Herbert! Boseham vol. 4' . . . . B. 5. 4-7
7 Augustini Milleloquium . . . . . B. 5. 8
8 Alexander ab Hales . . . . . B. 16. i
9 Tractatus de Ente . . . . . . B. 16. 2
10 Vetus Testamentum latine . . . . . B. 5. 9, B. 5. 16?
n Commentarius in Machabaeos .... ?
12 super Decretalia B. 16. 46
13 Augustini tractatus quidam. .... ?B. 5. 18, 19
14 ,, pars quaedam . . . . . ?B. i. 40
15 I. Gower Poemata anglice . . . . . R. 3. 2
1 6 Origenes in Vetus Testamentum . . . . B. 4. 6
17 Acta adversus Nestorium graece . . . . B. 4. 10
1 8 Expositio Patrum in Psalmos . . . . B. 4. 7
MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY. xvii
19 Pachymerii opus Philosophicum . . . . R. 16. 5
20 Philo Judaeus graece . . . . . B. 9. 6
11 Moralia Gregorii pars 2 . . . . B. 4. 9
22 Historia Ricardi Eliott . . . . . R. 4. j
23 Polyaenus graece . . . . . . R. 9. 9
24 Petri Comestoris Historia . . . . . B. 15. 5
25 Aquinas in Matthaeum . . . . . B. 4. 18
26 ,, in Lucam et Joannem . . . . B. 4. 19
27 Aegidius in Sententias . . . . . B. 16. u
28 Richardus Abbas in librum Numerorum . . . B. 4. 21
29 Homiliae quaedam anglice . . . . B. 2. 17
30 Vaticinium Grebnerii . . . . . R. 16. aa
31 Commentarius in Euangelistas . . . . B. 4. 22
32 ,, in Epistolas . . . . B. 4. 23
33 Ovidii interpretatio gallice . . . . R. 3. 5
34 Chronica Gualteri Hemingford . . . R. 5. 10, ?R. 7. 9
35 Petri Lumbardi Sententiae . . . . . B. 16. 15
36 Theophylacti Epistolae graece . . . . B. 3. 18
37 Commentarius in Danielem . . . . B. 3. 19
38 Hugo de Sacramentis . . . . . B. 15. 9, 10
39 Augustini secunda pars Psalterii . . . . B. 5. 27
40 Ranulphi Policronicon . . . . . R. 5. 24
41 Gregorii variae Epistolae . . . . . B. 2. 24
42 Holcot in librum Sapientiae . . . . B. 2. 25
43 Psalterium parvum latine . . . . . ?B. n. 5
44-46 Haymonis in Epistolas vol. 3 . . . . B. 5. 13-15
47 Aelfrici Grammatica latina . . . . . R. 9. 8, f i"j
48 Antiquitas Academiae Oxoniensis . . . . R. 5. 21
49 Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica . . . . ?R. 5. 22, PR. 7. 5
50 Biblia Petri de Riga metrice (over erasure in another hand) B. 2. 23, B. 14. 2
51 Antiquitates Coenobii Glasconiensis . . . R. 5. 16, 33
52 Missale antiquum . . . . . . B. n. n
53 Sermones in Evangelia . . . . . ?B. i. 45
54 Pauli Epistolae glossate . . . . . ?B. 10. 5
55 Psalterium Hebr. Lat. . . . . . R. 8. 6
56 Bonaventura de vita Christi . . . . B. a. 18
57 Pierce Plowman . . . . . R. 3. 14
58 Lyra in Pauli Epistolas . . . . . ? B. a. 19
59 Niceti opuscula graece . . . B. 8. 9
60 Chaundelerus de humana natura . . . R. 14. 5
61 Dionysius cum expositione . . . . B. 2. 20
62 Liber qui dicitur Scala mundi . . . R. 4. 12
63 Historia Galfridi Monumetensis . . . . R- 5- 34
64 Catalogus Pontificum Romanorum . . . R. 4. 13
65 Chauceri opera quaedam . . . . R. 3- '5
66 Claxtonis translatio Aeneidos .... Printed
67 Dares Phrigius devastatio Troiae . . R. 14. 9
68 Opus Saxonici doctoris . . ' B. 15. 33
xviii MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY.
69 Ambrosius in Psalmos . . . . . B. i. 21
70 Parisiensis de Sacramentis . . . . . B. 15. 35
71 Benedictiones Episcopates . . . . . B. n. 10
72 Prophetae quidam glossati . . . . . ?B. i. 43
73 t)e gestis Regum Angliae . . . . . R. 7. i
74 Tractatus quidam Damasceni . . . . B. i. 23
75 Missale Ecclesiae Sarum . . . . . B. n. 3
76 Bernardi Exhortationes . . . . . ?B. 15. 36
77 Bedae Ecclesiastica Historia . . . . ? R. 7. 5
78 De gestis Pontificum Angliae . . . j?R. 7- 4. cf-R-5-34
(?R. 5. 40
79 Psalterium beati Hieronymi . . . . B. u. 14
80 Bemardus de conscientia . . . . . B. 14. 25
81 Isidorus de summo bono . . . . . B. i. 26
82 Methodus prognostica graece . . . . R. 15. 36
83 Tractatus quidam Hugonis . . . . . B. i. 25
84 Isidorus de vita SS. Patrum . . . . B. i. 30
85 Hieronymus super Cantica . . . . . B. i. 29
86 Sermones Petri Maude . . . . . B. 14. 8
87 Merlini Vaticinia . . . . . . ? R. 4. 26
88 Aelfrici Grammatica . . . . . ?R. 9. 17
89 Historia vetus gallice . . . . . R. 7. 14
90 Catalogus Episcoporum Bathon. et Wellen. . . R. 7. 12
91 Psalterium B. Virginis . . . . . B. n. 18
92 Epitome Chronicorum Angliae . . . . R. 7. 13
93 Legenda Sanctorum . .. . . . B. 14. 31
94 Diogenes Laertius . . . . . . R. 9. 18, 19
95 Augustini Confessiones ..... ?
96 Marcelli opuscula varia . . . . . ? R. 3. 46
97 Psellus philosophus graece . . . . . ?R. 9. 15
98 Tractatus de x praeceptis . . . . . B. 14. 36
99 Carnotensis Epistolae quaedam . . . . B. 14. 35
100 Aldelmus in Pentateuchum . . . . . B. i. 42
io Biblia Hieronymi latine . . . . . B. 5. 2
102 Galfridi Carmina quaedam . . . . . R. 3. 51
103 Stephanus Laughton in Prophetas .
(B. i. 43
ro4 Isidorus de Simonia (Sinonima) . . . . R. 9. 28
105 Annales Joannis Asserii . . . . . R. 7. 28
106 Manuale Sacerdotis . . . . . B. 11. 23
107 Sermones varii latine . . . . . B. 14. 48
108 Breviarium Bonaventurae . . . . . B. i. 44
109 Theoduli Carmina quaedam . . . . R. 3. 56
no Psalterium cum tribus translationibus . . . R. 17. i
in, 112 Hieronymi operum vol. i . . . B. 17. 4,
113 Liber de natura metallorum .... ?
114 Flaviacensis super Leviticum . . . . B. 4. 24
115 Liber vetus Alchymiae . . . . . R. 14. 37
MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY. xix
116 Evangelia quatuor latine . . . . . B. 10. 4
117 Psalterium B. Virginis . . . . . B. 11. 19
118 Philostrati libellus graece . . . . . R. 9. 10
119 Wicliui Testamentum anglice . . . . ?B. 10. 7
no Disputatio de dispensatione . . . . B. 14. 10
121 Henricus Octauus Cardinalibus . . . . B. 15. 19
122 Laus diuinae Sapientiae . . . . . R. 3. i
123 Aristoteles de Secretis . . . . . R. 14. 28
124 Libellus vetus hispanice . . . . . ? R. 16. 25
125 Gulielmus Malmesberiensis .
(? R. 5. 40
126 Episcopate Sacerdotis . . . . . B. n. 8
GEORGE WILLMER.
1 Flaviacensis super Leviticum . . . . B. 5. to
2 Ranulphus Cestrensis . . . . . R. 4. i
3 Petri Lumbardi Sententiae . . . . . B. 16. 5
4 Ambrosius in Lucam . . . . . B. 3. 27
5 Cursor Mundi . . . . . . R. 3. 8
6 Boethius de Musica . . . . . . R. 15. 22
7 Expositio Orationis Dominicae . . . . R. 3. 13
8 Beata vita Christi anglice . . . . . B. 15. 16
9 Gregorius in Ezechielem . . . . . B. 2. 22
(B. 2. 16
10 Opera quaedam Augustmi .....
(B. 14. 30
11 Opera quaedam Lidgati . . . . . R. 3. 19
12, 13 Poemata Lidgati vol. 2 . . . . R. 3. 20, 21
14 Tractatus de septem peccatis . . . . R. 14. 7
15 Scala Gualteri Hilton . . . . . B. 15. 18
1 6 Flores Bernardi cum Augustino . . . . B. i. 8
17 Ambrosii Expositio in Psalmos . . . . B. i. 7
1 8 Hermogenis Synopsis . . . . . R. 9. 12
19 Pierce Plowman . . . . . . B. 15. 17
20 Isidori opera quaedam . . . . . ?R. 9. 10
2 1 Prisciani Grammatica . . . . . R. 9. 1 1
22 Prosper de Vita Contemplativa . . . . B. i. 20
23 Lidgati opera quaedam . . . . R. 3. 22
24 Chronicon Diomedis . . . . R. 7. 2
25 Galfridi Historia . . . . . . R. 7. 6
26 Arator de Actis Apostolorum . . . . B. 14. 3
27 Bonaventura de passione . . B. 14. 7
28 Theodori Grammatica . . . R. 9. 22
29 Parisiensis de tropis loquendi . R. 14. 40
30 Prisciani Grammatica . . . R. 9. 24
31 Senecae Epistolae . . . R. 9. 21
32 Macrobius in Somnium Scipionis . . . R. 9. 23
XX MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY.
33 Inuolutio Sphaerae . R- 15- 3 2
34 Tractatus de B. Maria .
35 Expositio Aphorismorum .....
36 Virgilii Aeneis . R - 3- 5O
37 Elucidatio Artis Chirurgicae . R. 14. 3 1
38 Cicero de Amicitia . . . R. 9- 27
39 Boethii Elementa Geometrica . . . R. 15. 14
SILVIUS ELWIS.
1 'Ep/xoO TOV rpifj-eylffrov HoifuivSprit MS. . B. 9. 9
2 Athanasii opera graece MS. . B. 9. 7, 8
SAMUEL HICSON.
1 A Booke of the Celestiall Signes, English MS. .
2 Summulae aliquot Legum Ciuilium MS. ... ?
JOHN FORTHO.
1 His own receipts in two paper bookes, one in folio the
other in 8vo, with Barcellus his compendium in decimo
sexto.
2 Frier Bacon MS. .... R. 14. 52
3 Chaucer MS. fol. . . . . . R- 3- 3
ROBERT CRANE.
Libri MS. italice duo, 410 ... R. 4. 17, 29
EDWARD STANHOPE.
1 Theoriae per Rob. Allayne R. 16. i
2 Psalterium B. V. Mariae . . . . . ?B. n. 4
3 Aegidii expositio metrice ..... ?
4 Expositio Orationis Dominicae . . . . R. 3. 23
5 Statuta Ricardi Fitzjames . . . . . B. 16. 41
6 Beda super Matthaeum . . . . . B. i. 41
7 Psalterium latine . . . . . . ?B. 10. 9
8 Rhythmi latine de vita Christi . . . . B. 10. 15
9 Doctrina cordis anglice . . . . . B. 14. 15
10 Constitutiones Prouinciales Cantuar. B. 16. 38
H Petrus Gomesius de Sacramentis . . . . B. 14. 26
12 Articuli fidei anglice . . . . . B. 14. 54
13 Tractatus quidam luris Ciuilis . . . . ? B. 16. 43
14 Vetus Psalterium paruulum .... ?
15 Puerilis Institutio slauonice . . . . R. 8. 34
MANUSCRIPTS GIVEN TO THE LIBRARY. xxi
MS TI AD COLLEGIUM PERTINENTES.
1 Hieronymus in Isaiam . . . . . B. 5. 1 1
2 ,, in Psalmos . . . . . B. 5. 12
3 ,, in Prophetas aliquot . . . . B. 4. 17
4 Augustinus in Psalmos . . . . . B. 3. 23
5 in Evangelia . . . . . B. 4. 15
6 ,, de Trinitate . . . . . B. 3. 21
7 Cassiodori vol. i . . . . . B. 4. 13
8 vol. 2 . . . . . . B. 4. 14
9 Gregorius de miraculis Patrum . . . . B. 4. 12*
10 Origenis Homiliae . . . . . . B. 4. 11
1 1 Gregorii Moralia . . . . . . B. 4. 8
12 Beda in Genesim . . . . . . B. 4. 32
13 Hugo de Sacramentis . . . . . B. 15. 26
14 Ambrosius de S. Josepho . . . . . B. 4. 31
15 Commentarius in Psalmos . . . . . ?B. 2. 12
16 Lectiones in aliquot locos S. Scripturae . . . ?B. 4. i2 3
17 Patricii S. Vita . . . . . . B. 15. 25
18 Langton in xii Prophetas . . . . . B. 2. 26
19 Veritas Theologica . . . . . . B. 14. 6
20 Psalterium cum picturis . . . . . ?B. n. 4
21 Archiepiscopi Simonis Constitutiones . . . ?B. 16. 36
22 Chrysostomus ad Hebraeos . . . . B. 4. 16
23 Expositio Canticorum . . . . . ?B. 4. 12*
24 Prouerbia Hebraica . . . . . ? R. 8. 35
SHELF-LIST OF VOLUMES IN CLASS R, SHEWING THE
CORRESPONDING NUMBERS IN THE CATALOGI MANU-
SCRIPTORUM ANGLIAE (1697).
The sign Q means that in the Manuscript Class Catalogue there is no entry of
a volume under the number in question.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
MARK ANGL.
MARK ANGL.
MARK ANGL.
R. 3- 1 i = 517
R. 3. 28 = -
R. 3. 55 = 686
3- 2 335
3- 29
3- 56 479
3- 3 53*
3- 30
3- 57
3- 4
3- 3i 613
3- 58 -
3- 4*
3- 32 581
3- 59
3- 5 32
3- 33
3- 60
3- 6
3- 34
3- 61 -
3- 7 637
3- 35
3- 8 383
3- 36 ?
R. 4. i = 388
3-9
3- 37
4. 2 292
3- 10 653
3- 38 -
4 . 3 400
3- "
3- 39
4. 4 214
3- " 652
3- 40
4. 5 646
3- 13 385
3- 4i ? 650
4. 6 646
3- U 263
3- 42
4- 7 636
3- 15 27
3- 43 (= R -4- 39)
4. 8 ? 656
3- 16 569
3<44 j 66*
4- 9 635
3- 17
3- 44*5
4. 10
3. 18 -
3- 45
4. it 213
3- 19 3 68
3- 46 452
4. 12 267
3- 20 379
3- 47 O
4- 13
3- 21 377
3- 48 O
4 . 14 O
3- 22 378
3- 49 O
4- 15
3- 23 481
3- 50 349
4 . 16
3- 24 344
3- Si 446
4- 17 572
3- 25 157
3. 52 (=R- 7- 26)
4. i 8 164
3- 26
3- 53 688
4. 19 ?6so
3- 7
3- 54 690
4. 20 579
1 The books in R. i and R. 2 have all been acquired since 1697.
TABLE.
xxill
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
MARK ANGL.
MARK ANGL.
MARK ANGL.
R. 4. 11 = O
R. 4. 6l
R. 5- 38 O
4. 11 O
4. 62
5- 39 O
4- 23 269
4. 63 Printed
5- 4<> 283
4. 74 654
4. 64 Printed
5- 4' 156
4- 25 6 10
4-65 -
5- 4 158
4. 26 468
4 . 66
5- 43 '60
4- 27 ? 656
4- 67 -
5- 44
4- 28 659
5- 45
4. 29 ? 617
R. 5. i = 639, 550,
5-46
4 . 30 (= R. 4. 35)
640
5- 47
4- 31 O
5- 2 554
5- 48 -
4- 3* O
5-3
5- 49
4- 33 O
5. 4 a vac. b 643
5- 50
4- 34 (= R- 7-
5-5
35) 439
5- 6 -
4 . 35( = R-4-3)
5- 7
R. 7- i 43
4- 36
5. 8 a vac. l> 642
7- 2 397
4- 37
5-9
7-3
4- 38
5. 10 291 d
7- 4 272
4- 39
5. ii
7- 5 282
4- 4
5. 12
7. 6 366
4- 4'
5- i3 6 7
7. 7 609
4- 42
5- H
7. 8 669
4- 43
5- '5
7- 9 547
4- 44
5. 16 291 c
7. 10 430
4- 45
5- 17
7. ii 43
4- 46
5- 18
7. 12 466
4- 47
5- 19
7- *3 455
4- 48
5- 20 559
7- '4 456
4- 49
5- 21 256
7- 15 6 '4
4- 5 59 1
5. 22 257
7- 16 O
4-5' .
5- 23
7- '7 O
4. 52 291
5- 24 39
7. 18 615
4- 53
5- 25 638
7. 19
4- 53*
5- 26 -
7. 20
4- 53 b
5- 27 521
7 . 21
4- 54
5 28 O
7. 22 667, 666
4- 54* -
5- 29 O
7- 23
4- 55
5- 3 O
7- 23" 677
4- 56
5- 3i O
660
4- 57
5- 32 14
663
4 . 58
5- 33 291*:
678
4- 59
5- 34 268
679
4. 60
5- 35 159
680
4. 61
5- 36 H5
7. 14
4. 6i
5- 37 O
7- 25 O
XXIV
TABLE.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
MARK ANGL.
MARK ANGL.
MARK ANGL.
R. 7. 26 (with R. 7.
R. 8. 34 626, 629
R. 10. 10
23*) 680
8- 35 438
IO. II
7. -27
10. 12
7- 28 445
R. 9. i = -
10. 13
7. 29 687, 684
9- 2 545
10. 14
7. 30 681
9- 3 546
IO. 14*
7- 3i
9- 4
10. 15 ? 675
7. 32 682
9- 5
10. l6 )
7- 33 682
9. 6 -
st}-
7- 34
9-7
to. 32
7- 35 439
9- 8 303
9- 9 515
R. 14. i = 527
R. 8. i = -
9. 10 370
14. 2 490
8. 2 540
9- ii 34^
14- 3 O
8- 3 544
9. 12 390
14- 4 O
8. 4 541
9- 13 O
14- 5 265
8- 5 595
9- H
14. 6 651
8. 6 ?26i and
9- IS
i4- 7 376
562
9- 16 O
14- 8 O
8- 7 57
9- 17 312
14. 9 273
8. 8 623
9. 18 442
14. 10 673
8. 9 623
9. 19 442
14. ii
8. 10 542
9. 20 462
14. 12 676
8. ii 543
9. 21 394
14. 13 665
8. 12 608
9. 22 350
I 4 . I 4
8. 13
9- 2 3 352
14- 15
8. 14 597
9- 24 358
14. 16
8. 15 623
9. 25 291*
14. 17 658
8. 16 612
9. 26 618
14. 18 657
8. 17 498
9- 27 375
14. 19 662
8. 18 598
9- 28 447
14. 20 664
8. 19 599
9- 29)
14. 21
8. 20 600
S6j~
14. 22 422
8. 21 601
9- 37 O
14. 23 625
8. 22 602
8. 23 603
9- 38-)
42)
14. 24 689
1 4 . 25
8. 24 604
14. 26
8. 25 584
R. 10. i = -
I 4 . 27 590
8. 26 ?6os
IO. 2
I 4 . 28 485
8. 27 ?6os
10. 3
I 4 . 29
8. 28 ?6i6
to. 4
I 4 . 30
8. 29 Q
10. 5
14- 31 392
8. 30 O
10. 6
14- 3 2
8. 31
10. 7
14- 33 345
8. 32 626
10. 8
14- 34
8. 33 626
ro. 9
14- 35
1
TABLE.
XXV
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
SHELF- CAT. MSS.
MARK ANGL.
MARK ANGL.
MARK ANGL.
R. 14. 36 661
R. 15. 8
R. 16. 3
'4- 37 3 6 3
15- 9
16. 4 209
14. 38 ? 400 and
15- 10 674
16- 5 34
359
15. ii 668
1 6. 6)
14- 39 357
15. 12
'9) ~
14. 40 396
15- '3 459
16. 20
14. 41 7556
15. 14 491
l6. 21 212
14. 42
15- 15
l6. 22 299
14. 43 Missing
15. 16
16. 23 ? 610
in 1858
*5- 1 7 3 6 5
16. 24
14. 44 496
15. 18
16. 25 560
14- 45 3 6 4
15. 19 492
16. 26 564
14. 46 O
IS. 20 607
16. 27
14- 47 655
15. 21 165
16. 28 641
14. 48 401
15. 22 384
1 6. 29 645
14. 49 412
15- 23 O
16. 30
14. 50
15. 24 O
16. 31 561
14. 51
15- 25 O
16. 31-
14- 52 539
15. 26 O
16. 32
14- 53 O
14. 54 409
15. 27 Printed
15. 28 Printed
'6. 33H
39)
14. 55 406
15. 29 Printed
14. 56 407
15. 30 Printed
R- '7- i = 2 53
14. 57 ? 4 io or
15. 31 Printed
17. 2 254
494
15- 32 395
17- 3 55'
14. 58 360
15-331
17. 4 251
15- 34J
17. 5 251
R. 15. i = 632
15- 35 433
i?- 6 553
15. 2
15. 36 461
i?- 7 5 2 5
15- 3 558
5- 37
.7- 8
15- 4 567
17. 9
15. 5 648
R. 16. i = 488, 519
17. 10
15. 6 649
16. 2 ? 524
*5- 7
LIST OF DONORS OF MANUSCRIPTS IN CLASS R.
Ayloff, W., R. 7. 3
Barry, G., R. 15. 19
Battely, T., R. 8. 33
Bell, Beaupre, R. 3: 4*, 17, 27, 34, 35
R. 4: 10, 30
R. 5. 18
(R. 10: 8 n)
Bentley, R., R. 16: 3337
Bowen, A., R. 8: 12, 32
Browne, R. 4. 57
Butler, H. M., R. i: 41, 42
R. 2. 44
Cayley, Mrs, R. 2. 88
Clark, J. W., R. 2. 40
Corkar, W., R. 7. 15
Crane, R., R. 4: 17, 20, 29
Cumberland, Ric., no. 1020
Gumming, W., R. 9: 34 36
Davies, Mrs, R. i. 59
R. 2. 90
Docwra, T., R. 9. 25
Drury, W., R. 15. 2
Dryden, J., R. 8. 16
R. 14: i, 23
Duke, R., R. 8. 7
Duport, J., R. 3. 31
R. 9. 29
Edwards, R., R. 4. 59
Kiwis, S., R. 8. 17
Elze, K., R. 2. 41
Evans, R. W., R. 2. 50
Fitzgerald, E., R. i. 73
Forbes, D., R. i: 22, 35
Fortho, J., R. 3. 3
R. 14. 52
Fox, Col., R. 4. 54"
Gale, T., R. 7. 23
R. 9: 5-7 (?)
Greaves, W., R. 3. 30
Greswold, H., R. 5. 27
Grosart, A. B., no. 1021
Racket, J., R. 5. 20
Hare, Mrs, R. 2. 91
Hawkesworth, W., R. 10. 5
Hill, T., R. 8: 26, 27
Hooper, R., R. i. 48
Howkins, E. R., 16. 39, no. 1019
Hoyle, C., R. 17. 14 32
Hughes, Fr., R. 15. 4
Ingleby, C. M., R. 2: 51 57
King, E., R. i: 5358, 81, 82
King, C. W., R. 9. 42
Laughton, J., R. 3 : 9, 26, 33, 37
R. 4. 52
R. 15. 16
Luard, H. R., R. 2. 85
Lynnett, W., R. 3. 16
Martin, F., R. 5. 45
Nevile, T., R. 3: i, 2, 5, 14, PIJ, 46, 51, 56
R. 4: 2, 12, 23, 26
R. 5= 10, 16, 21, ?22, 24, ?33, 34,
4 o
R- 7= i. 4. ?5> 12, 13, M. * 8
R. 8. 6
LIST OF DONORS.
XXV11
R. 9: 8, 9, ? 15, ?!?, 18, 19, 20, 28
R. 14: 5, 9, 28, 37
R. 15. 36
R. 16: 5, 22, ?25
R. 17: i, 4, 5
North, J., R. 15. 17
Parker, J., R. 3. 15 (?)
Parry, Sir H. H., R. 2. 48
Pawlett, R. 7. 20
Perry, W., R. 7. 18
Peters, Hugh, R. 9. 26
Pettiward, D., R. 2. 49
Potts, R., R. i: 68, 72
R. 2. 83
R. 4 . 49
Puckering (alias Newton), Sir H.
R. 3: 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 28, 38, 41
44 5355
R. 4: 59, 19, 24, 27, 28, 3739
R. 5: i 3 , ( 4 ), 8, ?i2, 13, ?i 4 , ?i S ,
?i7, ?i 9 , 23, 25
R. 7 : 8, ?I9, ?2i, 22, 23*, 27, 29,
3. S^, 33
R. 9: 3032
R. 10 : ?6, 7, (8), (9), (14), (15),
(16)
R. 14: 6, 10, 12, 13, 17 20, 24,
25. 36, 47
R. 15: i, 5, 6, 79, 10, n, 37
R. 16: 23, 24, 28, 29
Rawlinson, W. J., R. 5. 46
Roe, W., R. 4 . 58
Rud, E., R. 5. 9
R- 7- 34
R. 14. ii
R. 1 6. 30
Rud, T., R. 3. 29
R. 5. 4
R. 14. 14
R. 15. 12
Sadleir, Mrs A., R. 3. 59 (?)
R. 5= 5, 6
R. 16. 2
Sandars, S., R. i: i, 3, 6, 7, 9 10, 38,
45, 49, 60, 6365, 67, 71, 74
R. i: 14, 627, 2932, 34, 35,
45. 46, 87, 94
Scattergood, A., R. 3. 31
Simeon, Lady, no. 1022
Skeat, W. W., R. 2. 36
Smith, T., R. 10. $a
Spragg, J., R. 4. 25
Stanhope, Sir E., R. 8. 34
R. 16. i
R. 17. 8
Stephen, Leslie, no. 1024
Steward, J. M., R. 4: 54, 55
Tennyson, Lord, no. 1022
Thompson, Mrs W. H., R. i. 75
Vansittart, Mrs A. A., R. i. 52
Whalley, T., R. 14: ? 38, ? 39, ? 4 4, 45,
56, ?57
Whewell, W., R. i: 76, ?8 4
White, W., R. 5. 50
Whitgift, Abp J., R. 3. 25
R. 4: 4, n, 18
R. 5= 3 2 > 35, 36, 41, 4 2 > 43
R. 7= '> ", 35
R. 14. 22
R. 15. 21
R. 16: 4, 21
R. 17: 2, 7
Williams, B., R. 4. 53*
Willmer, G., R. 3: 8, 13, 1922, 50
R. 4. i
R. 7: 2, 6
R. 9: II, 12, 21 24, 27
R- 14= 7. 3 r > 4
R. 15: 14, 22, 32
Wilson, H. F., R. 2. 28
Wilson, J., R. 14: 26, 29, ?30, ?32, 34.
?35
Wordsworth, Chr., R. 10. 14^
Wright, W. A., R. i. 43
R. 4- '3
R. 5: II, iia
LIST OF ANCIENT LIBRARIES TO WHICH MANUSCRIPTS IN
CLASS R CAN BE TRACED.
Abingdon R. 17. 7
Babwell R. 14. 49
Bury St Edmunds R. 3. 50
R. 14. 34
Cambridge University Library
R. 9. 9
Canterbury :
Christ Church: R. 3: ?3<j, ?57
R. 4: 4, ii
R. 5= ?27, 4 i
R. 9. 28
R. 15. 12
R. 16. 21
R. 17. i
St Augustine's: R. 14. 31
R. 15. 14
Coventry (Franciscans) R. 15. 16
Dover R. 3. 51
R. 9. 24
Glastonbury R. 5: 16, 27
R. 9. ?2i
Hereford (Franciscans) R. 7. u
Holm Cultram R. 3. 29
Horsham St Faith's R. 14. 9
Knaresborough R. 15. 21
Malmesbury R. 5. ? 36
R. 7. ?2
Norwich R. 14. 7
Oseney R. 16. 4
Oxford R. 14. 29
All Souls' College R. 4. ?
Reading R. 9. ?22
Saint Albans R. 10. 5
Saint Neots R. 7. ?28
Salisbury R. 5. 22 2
Sherborne R. 5. 22 3
R. 7. ?i 3
Wells R. 14. 5
Winchester R. 15. 32
York R. 51: ? 4 o, 42
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS.
418. R. i. i
A 4to volume containing 13 original documents.
Given by S. Sandars, M.A., in 1871.
1. Deed of 1478 concerning John Hastings and John Heydon of Yexham and
Repps, Norfolk.
2. Deed of 1639, concerning property in Fulmodeston cum Croxton, Norfolk.
3. Relacion de la muerte del Key Phelipe Segundo. Paper, ff. i.
4. Grant (imperfect) cir. 1580 by Th. Cobbe of lands to the Duke of Norfolk.
5. Bond of John Freshwater of Heybridge Hale, Essex, to the Dean of St Paul's
(Stillingfleet) : 1685.
6. MS. account of Charles XII. of Sweden with an engraved portrait (by R. Smithsen)
and a newspaper (the Daily Courant of Monday, May 10, 1703), one leaf, containing
a description of Charles XII.
See Browning's Charles XII.
7. Builders' accounts for the erection of Blenheim Castle, Feb. 170^. ff. 5.
8. Order for payment to General L d Southampton of .12,957. s. 8|</., signed by
George III.: 30 Mar. 1793.
9. Contract between L. Arcambal, Vice-Consul of the French Republic, and
F. L. Taney, merchant of New York, for the supply of 200,000 Ibs. weight of Sole
Leather. In English and French. 28 July, 1794.
10. Six Papers printed and MS. issued in 1775-1806 in Normandy (at Caen):
some with the stamp of the Republic.
11. An order of Court signed by Lord Ellenborough. 15 June, 1814.
12. Order of Court signed by Baron Park and Tindal L.C.J., in 1832 and
1835-
A note from Baron Channel to Serjeant Manning.
13. A leaf of a xivth cent. MS. in double columns, closely written: from a binding:
it is on Canon Law.
T. C. II. I
2 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. I.
419. R. i. 2
Paper, 11^ x 7|, pp. 183, written. Cent. xvii.
Formerly MS. 3092 in the Phillipps Collection.
Liber Privilegiorum et Libertatum alme Universitatis Cantebrigie.
Apparently a copy of "Hare's book" preserved in the Registry.
The last entry is a decree of the Heads dated 19 April 1667, to
restrict the performances of the Praevaricator and Tripos.
420. R. i. 3
Paper, folio, three volumes.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
I. A list of Italian historians, and of the contents of such
collections as Muratori's Scriptores Italici etc. In Italian.
II. pp. 60, cent, xvii, neatly written.
Livre de la grande Mareschalerie etc. being a collection of
veterinary receipts in French.
III. ff. cir. 50. Cent. xix.
A list of Pedigrees with alphabetical Index. In German.
421, 422. R. i. 4, 5
Two volumes containing Prize Declamations delivered by
Members of Trinity College between 1799 and 1809. An Index
is prefixed to each volume.
423. R. i. 6
Paper, 4to., pp. 326, numbered.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
2-10] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 3
Copies of letters between Military Officials, relating to Camp
Equipage and other affairs, apparently made in India between
1791 and 1796.
They have to do with the Grand Army in India under Earl
Cornwallis.
424. R. i. 7
Note-book, pp. 120.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1871, containing Transcripts of sixty-
one documents from originals preserved at Scalby Hall, Yorks,
mostly between 1600-1662.
425. R. i. 8
Paper, 4to. Cent, xvii, xviii, in a large hand.
i. Copy of a Latin letter from Paolo Sarpi (Frater Paulus Venetus) to Isaac
Casaubon on his Exercitationes in Baronii Annales.
i. An account of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Cambridge in 1564.
426. R. i. 9
Two folding sheets in a cover neatly written in French.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1872, being an account of the Norman
kings of England in tabular form.
427. R. i. 10
Paper, pp. 54.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
Transcripts of Unpublished Letters to or from Col. Sanders of
the Parliamentary Army 1645-1678, made from the originals at
Scalby Hall, Yorks, by Mr Sandars in 1865-9.
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428. R. i. ii
Paper, ff. 15.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1875.
Transcript by Mr Sandars of Bp Tanner's notes on Books in
the University Library and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
From Add. MS. 6261.
429. R- i- I2
Papers.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1877, relating to the Plates in Raine's
North DurJiam.
430. R. i. 13
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Two lists of views of places in the possession of John Nichols,
arranged under counties.
431. R. i. 14
Paper, pp. 38, written by Mr Sandars in 1879.
Extracts from a MS. written by William Gamble of Staaten
Island in 1782, being Extracts from Records temp. Edward II.
List of State Criminals from Richard II. to George II. (pp. 7-27),
and other slight matters.
432. R. i. 15
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Note-book.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870, containing, on 51 pages,
The Declaration of Robert, Abbot of Woburn, as to accusations
made against him, to the King's Most Honourable Council. From
a MS. in the possession of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey.
434. R. i. 17
Paper, sm. 8vo., pp. 32. Printed, 1808.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1877.
Adam Clarke's Narrative of the Last Illness and Deatli of
Richard Porson, with an autograph note from the author.
435. R. i. 18
Paper, ff. 12, 1747-8.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1876.
An analysis of some wonderfull notions relating to Publick
Credit on Sir John Barnard's Postscript to his Defence.
436. R. i. 19
Paper, small 4to., pp. 127. Cent. xvii.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1872.
A History of the Wars in Scotland under the Marquis of
Montrose, 1639-1646, written out for the Press: at the end an
address of the Printer to the Reader signed T. B.
Text begins
When the face of things in Scotland began to alter.
437. R. i. 20
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Given by Mr Sandars in 1873, said to have come from
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The last order is entered 26 Jan. i/of.
438. R. i. 21
Paper, 7^ x 5^. Cent, xviii.
A note-book containing Latin commonplaces digested under
headings, and in a later hand, miscellaneous memoranda, e.g. of
MSS. at Corpus Christi College which the writer intended to
consult.
It seems completely valueless.
439. R. i. 22
Paper, 8 x 6, pp. 499. Cent, xviii.
Given by David Forbes, M.D., in 1885, 'e libris quos com-
paraverat H. A. I. MUNRO, Litt.D.'
Dictata Celeberrimi necnon Eruditissimi Viri Arnoldi Draken-
borg J. U. D. et Professoris Illustrissimi in Academia Trajectina,
in Justini Historiam Philippicam.
Dated at the end 16 June 1732.
440-450. R. i. 23-33
Eleven folio books, containing
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Dr Deane, and others, in the case of the Bishop of Salisbury v. Dr
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451. R. i. 34
A folio book, pp. 90, written, being
A survey of the Parishes of Axminster, Membury and Kil-
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452. R. i. 35
Paper, 1 1| x 8, ff. 2 + 1 1 5, double column of 43 lines. Cent, xv,
written in Italy.
Given by David Forbes, M.D., in 1885 : from the library of
H. A. J. Munro, Litt.D., Senior Fellow.
Collation : i vellum fly-leaf a 8 b 6 c 10 (+ i) d 10 -m 10 , I vellum
fly-leaf.
Contents :
f. i b a letter of Colucius Pierius to Joh. Quadrarius Sulmo-
nensis.
Dudum pridie cum in summi pontificis atrio.
monteflascon. xvi Kal. Oct.
i. Epistolae Senecae ad Lucilium f. i
i Ita fac mi Lucille.
In the lower margin, roughly drawn, a shield, with a chief
cheeky of gu and arg.
Ep. xcvj ends on 89 a fictilia durabunt. Vale.
Finis adest libri tibi missi docte lucilli
deo demus gracias. Amen.
i. Epistolae Senecae et Pauli 89 b
The notice by Jerome (De Vir. Jllustr.) is prefixed.
3. Epitaph of Seneca 90 b
4. Note on Seneca.
Seneca magister fuit neronis.
5. Discussis nebulis et tetra nocte fugatis . . . . 91
Sordibus et viciis mundamus mente piata
Quisque deum deposcat eum qui cuncta creauil
luchinum
Vt huius libri scriptorem et correctorem
lecutel...ad eternam deducat leticiam
et longa uite gaudia. Amen.
6. Another copy of the letter of Colucius Pierius on f. i . 91 b
7. Ad Rev. in Christo patrem dom. A. vicecomitem decretorum
doctorem ac totius ordinis humiliatorum generalem super
nota particula prime epistole L.
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A. Senece Judicium candidi requisitum .... 92
Plerique sunt Reu. pater et hi non illiterati.
Ends 93 : sed obsequium debitum prestitisse.
Ex Mediolano xvii Kal. Aug. 1430.
flf. 94, 95 are blank.
In another hand:
Inc. tabula super Epistolis Senece per fr. Martinum de
rethis de cumis ordinis minorum sacre theologie pro-
fessoris 1417.
Ends 113^.
Expl. tab. super Epp. Senece composita per fr. Mart,
de rechis de Cumis ord. min. sacre theol. prof, excelen-
tiss. a.d. 1417.
Glosses on some hard words follow 114
On the fly-leaf at end is :
Iste epistole Senece sunt dementis de Peregrinis [et
emi illas 1489].
453,454. R. i. 36, 37
Two volumes of
Litterae Supplicatoriae et Gratiarum Actiones pro Muneribus Academicis,
by members of Trinity College, 1789-1829.
455. R. i. 38
Paper, 4to., ff. 18. Cent, xix, early.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
Spanish Proverbs, with English Interpretations: from the
Library of the Marquis of Hastings.
456. R. i. 39
Vellum, 9 x 5^, ff. 2 + 70, 23 lines to a page. Cent, xv, written
in Italy, in a Roman hand.
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On f. 2 at bottom is a shield (that of Ant. Cerdano, Cardinal
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of St Chrysogonus ?) as a stag proper. A cardinal's hat above
and a wreath surrounding the whole.
Collation: 2 fly-leaves | i 10 -; 10 .
Contents :
Prologue of Rinuccio da Castiglione to Antonio Cerdano, Cardinal
of St Chrysogonus f. ii
Reuerendissimo in Christo patri et domino suo precipuo
domino A.
familiarem carum habebit.
This, and the letters on f. 69 are not in the same hand as the rest.
The heading in red has been marked out.
Vita Esopi fabulatoris clarissimi e greco in latina per Rynucium facta
ad Reuer mum dom....Antonium titulo s. Chrysogoni presbyterum
Cardinalem. et primo prohemium.
Novas nimirum merces i
loco argument! pauca sugessi.
Argumentum 2
Vitam Esopi fabulatoris clarissimi his longioribus noctibus
aures nimirum delectabit.
Esopi fab. clar. Vita incipit i
Qui per omnem vitam vite studiosissimus fuit.
There are contemporary marginal notes on the true meaning of the
Greek in some places, and on f. 37 b a note to the effect that
'carta una' seems to be wanting.
The Life ends on f. 40 a.
Qui mortis Esopi auctores fuerunt.
Vite Esopi comentarium super fabulas instar argumenti incipit.
Esopus fabulator clarissimus natione quidam frygius.
qui in latino sermone seruari non potest hinc sumit initium.
Inc. Fabule et primo de Aquila et Vulpe 40 1>
Aquila et vulpes conflata inter se amicitia.
There are 100 Fables, the last, De Viro et Uxoribus,
ending: nisi penitus obrui se uelint (68).
Totius operis anacephalaeosis 68
Habes vitam pariter et fabulas Esopi.
Et iam tempus equum fumantia soluere colla.
T^pfj.a. Finis.
Vita Esopi latina per Rynucium facta ad Reu mum p. D. A. tit. s.
Chrysog. Cardinalem. Finit.
Magnifico dom. Laurentio Lauina Rynucius salutem ... 69
Ad duo potissimum nititur genus humanum.
The letter is to accompany a copy of the book.
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457. R. i-4o
Paper, 8| x 5, ff. 203, 26 lines to a page. Cent, xv, in a small
and rather ugly hand with numerous interlinear and marginal
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Given by ?
On the fly-leaf are the names of two xvith cent, owners, John
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Collation: i 16 - 5 16 6 12 -I4 12 is 16 (wants 16).
Contents :
Argumentum ouidii nasonis in lihros eneidum Virgilii . . f. i b
Primus habet libicam veniant ut troes in urbem.
Argumentum primi libri eneidum ...... i b
Eneas primo libie depellitur oris.
Publii virgilii maronis liber eneidum primus inc. feliciter . . i
Ends in xii. fulserunt cingula bullis.
The remaining ten lines are supplied by a xviith or xviiith cent,
hand.
458. R. i. 41
Paper, 7f x 5^, ff. 12+ 168, 24 lines to a page. Cent, xv, late
Italian with good ornament.
Given by H. Montagu Butler, D.D., Master, in 1888.
On the fly-leaf is :
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On f. i at bottom is a shield on gold ground within a wreath
held by genii on a field chevrony of gu and arg a fess as with 3
estoilles of 7 points or.
Collation: a 6 (i stuck to cover) i 10 -5 10 6 6 | 7 10 -9 10 10" Ii 10 -i6 10
b 6 (6 stuck to cover).
Contents :
Horatii Ars Poetica f. i
With excellent partial border (shield, as above), and initial with \
length figure of Horace, elderly and beardless, in red cap xvith
liripipe and purple gown, holding a blue book, and with his L.
hand raised.
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Ends f. 10 b.
Finis poeticae horatii poete clarissimi.
Satirarum libri ii u
Decorative initial.
Ends f. 53^.
Finis Sermonum Horatii Flacci poetac Nobilissimi.
ff. 54-56 blank.
Epistolarum liber ii ......... 57
Initial with bust of a handsome youth in cap and blue gown over
purple tunic, holding a pen and ink.
Ends f. 87.
Quinti horatii flacci poete clarissinii epistolarum liber secundus
et ultimus explicit.
87^, 88 are blank.
Carminum libri iv ......... 89
Initial not added.
Epodon liber . . . . . . . . . . 152
Without title: initial in blue and red pen-work.
Carmen Saeculare .......... 165
Ending f. 166 b, the rest blank.
459. R. i. 42
Paper, 8 x 5|, ff. 194, u lines of text to a page. Cent, xv,
well written, with ornaments in red (brown) ink.
Given by H. Montagu Butler, in 1876.
On f. i is:
Sum Beati Rhenani.
Selati Tribonorum (i.e. Schlettstadt), and a late number 447.
And on f. 3:
Sum Beati Rhenani. Nee muto dominum.
Basileae AN.M.D.XIII.
Notes are inserted :
1. A Latin statement by George Butler, 4 March, 1878, showing that the book
belonged to Brunck, was bought at Rotterdam by George Butler, then Fellow of Sidney
Sussex College, afterwards Head Master of Harrow and Dean of Peterborough : how it
was given by him to Porson and returned after Person's death by his executors. It then
descended to Dean Butler's sons.
2. A note on Beatus Rhenanus (d. 1547).
3. An extract from Brunck's Aristophanes l. 147, descriptive of this MS., which he
denominates D. It was one of four MSS. which he collated for the text of the Frogs.
4. A note on Michael Apostolius, son of Lyngas, the scribe of this MS.
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Collation: i 8 -i; 8 iS 10 \$-2*?.
The quires have been numbered on the upper R. corner of
their first leaves.
Contents :
Bios ' Apiffroipavovs .......... f. i
' ApiffTO<pdvT]s 6 Kw/uwSoTTotds yfros pet* rp dOijvdios
^ /v 'x!n v fi'pov dpi<?TO<pdvovs.
i. vTrbOfffis TOV irpdrrov 5pd.fj.aTos ...... i b
Eov\6/j.evos dpurTo<pdvt)S ovcw^at TOUS dOyvaiovs.
Ends (after the dramatis personae) :
dvff<popuv \tyei TOVTO.
Plutus ............ 3
irpo\oyi^i 6 Kaptwv.
\Yith interlinear glosses in red and scholia, not copious.
The first is on f. 3^.
OCrw <j>a.<rlv fffxyK^vai TOV diroXXu TOV Tpitroda.
Ends f. 60 a :
Set ydp KaTbwiv TOIJTUV a.8ovT. eVeo-^at.
rAos TOV irpuTov dpd/j.a.Tos [creX. v'].
i. irpodfupia. TOV dfVT^pov 8pdfj.a.Tos . . . . . . 60 b
"AVVTOS /cat /iAtTos
ve<pt\as Kal TO. ToiavTa.
TO. TOU 5/)d/iaros irp6<rwira . . . . . . . . 61
Nubes ............ 62
Ends f. 127 b.
f. 128 blank, marked ov Kp
Ranae ............ 129
Without hypothesis, begins with
rd. TOV SpdfMTos irp6<ruTra.
Ends f. 1 92 6.
waTpiois tv dpovpais.
On this page is a note xv, xvi.
?
desunt tria magna folia usque in finem
que scriptor omisit gracia solacij m.
?
Colophon: /u%arj\ 6 TOV \vyyevs irevla ffvfuv
creX. vd.)
Liber iste pertinet f. Jo. Cunani ord. predicatorum.
On 193^ a note xv, xvi.
And on 194 in Beatus Rhenanus' hand?
Quadripartitum. Centiloquium. Cosmographia.
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460. R. i. 43
Paper, 8x6, ff. 96, 27 lines to a page. Cent, xvi, in a good
clear hand.
Given by W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Vice-Master, in 1889.
Bought at the Earl of Westmoreland's sale:' the number 17 is
on f. i.
Contents :
Demosthenis oratoris Atheniensis orationes Olynthiace, tres:
Philippic^ quatuor: interprete Nicolao Carro Anglo.
Prefatio ab eodem habita cum publice profiteretur.
The Dedication is addressed to Sir Walter Mildmay, Founder of
Emmanuel College.
Clarissimo et ornatissimo viro Gualtero Mildmaio equiti aurato et
regii fisci Cancellario Nicolaus Carrus S. D. P.
Etsi iam aliquot anni f. i
Ends f. 6l>: f. 7 is blank.
Prefatio interpretis 8
Cum iucunda mihi semper uisa est.
Ends f. 21.
Libanij argumentum prime orationis Olynthiace Demosthenis . 21
Demosthenis Atheniensis oratoris Olynthiaca oratio prima . . 23
Si quibus de rebus in hoc tempore deliberatis.
The argument of Libanius is prefixed to each oration.
The ivth Philippic ends on f. 95 b.
vosmet ipsos de afflicto reip. statu accusetis. Dixi.
The translator was successively member of Christ's, Pembroke,
King's, and Trinity Colleges, and was among the earliest Fellows
of the last-named (in 1546). He was M.D. in 1558, and Regius
Professor of Greek (1547-1549). The translation of Demosthenes
was printed in 1571 by Th. Bing, London, in 4to. What is said
to be the translator's autograph is in the University Library
(Dd. 4. 56). See Tanner, Bibliotheca Britannica, p. 155.
461. R. i. 44
Paper, *j\ x 6, ff. cir. 200. Cent, xvii, closely written.
Given by ?
A note book on Logic written by Thomas Hart.
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On f. 2 is:
Thomas Hart his booke written this r day of August 1626 Camb: Trin : Coll.
pretium 7 d .
462. R. i. 45
Paper, / x 4, ff. 33. Cent, xviii, late, neatly written.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1876. Bought at J. Gough Nichols'
sale, 1874.
Cenia, a Comedy. Translated from the French.
463. R. i. 46
Paper, 5| x 4^, ff. 24. Cent, xviii, late.
A short Hebrew Grammar.
At the end in another hand, is:
Hebrew Grammar per John Harrison.
464. R. i. 47
Paper, 7| x 5^, pp. 130 + 246 numbered. Cent, xvii, closely
written.
Given by ?
1. Notes on Demosthenes irepl ffv/j.fj.opiuv, pp. 1-130.
2. Notes on Theophrastus' Characters, pp. 1-246.
Index.
On p. I is :
'Pq.dia TTOMTO. Of<$ Tf\t<rai Kal avfyvrov oudtv, March 24, 164;}.
These are both by James Duport, Regius Professor of Greek
(.639-1654). The lectures on Theophrastus were printed in
Needham's edition of 1712, from a MS. in the University Library
(Ff. 4. 33), and those on Demosthenes in the edition of W. S.
Dobson, who attributed them at first to Thomas Stanley. There
is a MS. of them in the University Library (Gg. 3. 16).
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Paper, ; x $f , ff. 142, 17 lines to a page. Cent, xvii, very well
written.
Given by Ric. Hooper, M.A., in 1891.
Institutiones Grammaticae Hebraeae f. i
Institutiones Grammaticae Chaldaicae et Syriacae.
466. R. i. 49
Paper, 8 x 6, ff. 58, written. Cent, xviii.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870. From the Library of the
Marquis of Hastings, 1768.
A commonplace book, with notes upon the Bellum Jngurthinum
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467,468. R. i. 50, 51
Paper, 11x9, two volumes, ff. 418, with 3 leaves of index and
a folding table. Cent, xviii, well written.
An Introduction to Chemistry, being the substance of a Course
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Cambridge, by John Hadley, M.A., Fellow of Queens' College,
and Professor of Chemistry [MDCCLIX].
The author's book-plate is in each volume.
Hadley was Professor of Chemistry from 1756 to 1764.
469. R. i. 52
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Catalogue of Coins, Medals, China, Glass, etc., in the cabinet
of Edward King, F.S.A.
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471. R. i. 54
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Notes upon the Mathematical and Philosophical books of
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472. R. i. 55
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Demonstrationes earum Propositionum de Trigonometria plana
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Edward King, Ap. 16, 1754.
473. R. i. 56
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Demonstrationes earum Propositionum de Parabola et de
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Pergaei et Archimedis.
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A calculation of the parts of Mr Caswell's Baroscope, described
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475. R. i. 58
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A book of Problems in Geometry and Astronomy.
Edward King, Nov. 22, 1752.
476. R. i. 59
A 4to volume of papers of different sizes, being miscellaneous
Mathematical MSS. from the Library of Dr Olinthus Gregory.
Given by Mrs Davies, 56 Regent St., Osmaston Rd, Derby:
she was the mother of Charles Butler Davies, M.A., Fellow, who
owned the volume, and died in 1872.
Near the end of the volume is a caricature of Ludolph van
Collen, not from Dr Gregory's Library, and the last item is the
printed Sale Catalogue of Dr Gregory's Library, sold by Southgate
& Son, on 17, 18 March, 1842.
477. R. i. 60
A 4to portfolio of papers, printed and MS.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1876: bought at Nichols' sale in
1874.
Collections for J. Nichols's Literary Illustrations, Vol. III.
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Letters.
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Shakespeares in the Capell Collection.
8 Nov. 1860.
2. J. M. Heath to Dr Wordsworth, describing the great Hailstorm.
10 Aug. 1846.
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1 6 Oct. 1860.
4. 5. Vernon Musgrave to Dr Whewell, asking permission to place the arms of
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15 Sept. 1860, and 27 Sept. 1860.
6. Copy of letter of thanks to Mr Musgrave for a copy of the Koran, unsigned.
26 May, 1860.
479. R. i. 62
A number of papers in different hands, French and English.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1876.
Collections concerning Vitrified Forts, by Dr Wm Bromet,
F.S.A.
480. R. i. 63
Paper, 4to, pp. 22.
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Given by Mr Sandars in 1877.
Advice to a Lady of Rank on the regulation of Health, by
William Richardson.
481. R. i. 64
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A French poem.
Consultation des Me"decins
Ma Mere dont, pour moi, tons les soins assidus
L'attachement L'amour me sont si bien connus.
482. R. i. 65
Paper, 4to, ff. 12, written. Cent, xviii.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1876. From the Nichols sale, 1874.
Id^e de la Personne de la maniere de vivre et de la Cour du
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483. R. i. 66
Vellum, 7^ x 5^, ff. 39, 34 lines to a page. Cent, xv, written in
France, very neat.
In marbled paper boards, ticketed ars qnaedam, MS. xi.
Collation: a 2 i lz - 3 12 (+ i).
Contents :
Raymundi Lulli Ars Demonstratiua.
On ff. i b, ii a, are a number of dials with writing in red, blue,
green and yellow. The inscriptions are of various kinds : one
has the name of virtues and vices, another such words as
miseria, dominium, bonitas, magnitudo, eternitas ; another,
actus, memoria, voluntas, etc.
In another is only the monogram of veritas in blue.
Text.
Nunc autem ad tractandum de proposito negocio acced;imu.
Capitula.
( i ) Primo dicatur qua necessitate et qua intencione hec ars inuenta
sit, siue de eius utilitate.
(3) Quomodo hec ars dicitur Demonstratiua.
(42) Quod omni studendi (/. -ti) conandum est ad uniuersalem
cognicionem venire.
c. i begins: Introductoria artis demonstratiue tradere uolentes.
c. 42 ends : Cristus verbum patris omnipotentis. Amen.
Finito libro sit laus et gloria cristo. Jhesus Maria Raymundiis.
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485. R. i. 68
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Given by Robert Potts, M.A., in 1880. Formerly belonged to
T. S. Davies, F.R.S. and to his son C. Butler Davies, Fellow.
A Lecture on the Velocipede, " invented some years ago by a
German gentleman, named the Baron Carl von Drais."
486. R. i. 69
Paper, 7f x 5, pp. 2460. Cent. xix.
A fragment of a sale catalogue is inserted.
Bibliographical Extracts. In a series of notes relating to Rare
and Curious Books and MSS. Including many that are valuable
for their Literary and Intrinsic merit.
Extracted from the Catalogues of Robert Harding Evans,
Thomas Evans, and Charles Evans. Embodying the experience
of Thirty-Five Years Devoted to the Study of Bibliography.
Collected and arranged by Charles Evans.
Rede me and be not wrothe
For I say nothing but trothe.
Roy.
Dedicated to Archdeacon Hale, Master of the Charterhouse,
etc.
A portrait of the author is inserted.
The whole volume was written with the left hand, and is
consequently very hard to read.
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[ R. I. 7 0]
Samaritan MS.
487. R. i. 71
Note-book of Mr Sandars, dated Sept. 1856, given in 1870,
containing a Classified List of the most important objects for the
microscope.
488. R. r. 72
Paper, 6^x4, pp. 179.
Given by R. Potts. From the Library of the Rev. J. Romilly,
Registrary.
Catalogue of a Library, classified, with prices.
489. R. i. 73
Paper, 5| x 3*, ff. cir. 150.
" This volume, which formerly belonged to Crabbe the poet,
was given to the Library by Edward Fitzgerald, M.A. April,
1871."
On the fly-leaf are some lines of poetry partly pencilled and
then inked over, partly in ink originally. On the fly-leaves at the
other end are further fragments in ink and in pencil, and one is
headed:
Plan of a Poem. The Seasons.
Spring. The Visitation, &c.
Other verses in pencil are on blank pages in the body of the
volume, which consists of botanical notes.
At the other end is the date Sept. 23rd, 1793.
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490. R i. 74
Paper, 8vo.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1876. Nichols sale, 1874.
List of Persons and Places visited in Great Britain and Ireland,
seemingly by J. Gough Nichols.
491. R. i. 75
A folio book, containing a number of fugitive Cambridge
pieces, for the most part printed, including the publications of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates.
Given by Mrs W. H. Thompson in 1886.
492. R. i. 76
A large collection of papers, mostly printed, bequeathed by
W. Whewell, D.D., Master, in 1866, relating in great part to
Cambridge Elections of 1829, 1830, etc.
Also a Letter from 'Captain Swing' to Dr Whewell, running
thus :
If you do not call in all the copies of your Mechanics which have promoted the
building of machines you shall hear further from
Swing.
and very many miscellaneous papers.
[ R. r. 77
Pali, printed book.
R. i. 78]
Pali, MS.
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493. R. i. 79
Paper, 4to.
Formerly in the Phillipps Collection, no. 19276. Sold at
Sotheby's, May 23, 1895.
Letters of Samuel Peck, written from Trinity College, between
1783 and 1787.
Single Letters of Dr Parr, Mr Pitt, G. Ormerod, A. J. Mackenzie,
Lord Petre, R. N. Gaby, Lord Lansdowne.
Three other papers by Dr Parr.
494. UNBOUND PAPERS. R. i. 80
Folio, paper, ff. 6, unbound.
Suggestions as to the cooperation of Dr MacLeod and Mr
McLauchan in the Preparation and Arrangement of a Scoto-
Gaelic Dictionary.
Folio, paper, ff. 3, unbound. In Pali. Extracts from various
Pali books, being an Account of the Buddhist Missions.
Folio, paper, ff. 3, in wrapper.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
Proceedings against Simon Flint, and his Confession of a
Murderous Assault on Sir George Downing, Bart, of Gamlingay
Park in the County of Cambridge, March u, 1742.
Being the signed depositions of John Paine, steward to Sir G.
Downing, and of Simon Flint.
Paper, 4to, ff. 8, unbound
Dante in Exile. An Exercise for the Chancellor's English
Medal.
Sadness and life are children of a birth.
Paper, ff. 2, printed and written.
Letter of institution for John Rustat to the Living of West
Wratting, 14 June, 1696, signed by Symon (Patrick), Bp of Ely.
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495. R. i. 81
An envelope containing:
Sixteen letters addressed to Edward King, being chiefly notes
from noblemen, relating to social engagements.
496. R. i. 82
A packet of letters, etc., addressed to Edward King.
A printed account of Edward King, from the European
Magazine, July, Aug. 1807.
Printed " Catalogue of my works " by Th. Pennant.
Letters on the death of James Norris, 13 July, 1796.
Paper on Copperas.
List of specimens, Geological and others, and of Mathematical
Instruments.
Four letters.
497. R. i. 83
Folio, paper, 22 ff., unbound.
The Schoolmaster at Home.
No. i, Lord Palmerston's Commas, or Diplomatic Punctuation,
with the scheme of a new Senatorial College.
9 May, 1848, signed Flagellator.
Pencil note added : " Davies, M.A., Trin. Coll., Father of the
Fellow."
498. R. i. 84
Two letters in German from T. H. German of Augustenburg
in Alsen in Schleswig, 1843, to Dr Whewell.
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499. R. i. 85
A small quire of 12 leaves, neatly written. Cent. xvii.
Dutyes, Priveledges etc. of Christian Ministers.
A number of sermon-notes, some in the same hand. Cent,
xvii.
Three letters from Fra. Tallents to the Rev. Philip Henry: one
is dated 4 Feb. 169^.
Two letters from John Shower to the Rev. Matthew Henry:
one dated 1706.
A mass of papers written by J. G. Powell to Dr W. H.
Thompson, advocating the view that Bp Hinchliffe was 'Junius,'
written in and about 1860.
500. R. i. 86
Vellum, 6 x 4|, ff. 6, 16 lines to a page. Cent, xv, early.
A quire of 8 leaves, 5, 6 cancelled.
Contents :
i. De Urinis f . i b
Urina ruffa significat
est signum mortis. Explicit ... 3 b
i. Two volvels, one relating to urines: this is mutilated. The
other on seasons for bleeding 4
3. On bleeding.
Minucia alia fit per metathesim, alia per antifrasim.
Ends imperfectly f. 6.
501. R. 2. i
Paper, folio.
1. Autograph Draft of two of Professor Cockerell's Lectures
on Architecture, delivered at the Royal Academy, in 1845.
In pencil.
2. Autograph letter from M. Rohde Hawkins, of the British
Museum (28 Jan. 1845), describing the Nereid Monument at
Xanthus.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
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502. R. 2. 2
An envelope containing a series of ground plans, Elevations
and Dimensions of Melton Mowbray Church, Leicestershire, taken
in the year 1835 by Mr F. W. Russell, with MS. notes thereupon.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
The plans are rather rough.
503. R. 2. 3
Paper, i6 x 5f, ff. 16. 1824.
Bedfordshire Freeholders' Book for 1824.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1871.
504. R. 2. 4
Indenture 5 Henry VI. (1426-7) made at Wycheenchefford
(Wickenford, Worcs.), being a demise by John Oykeman of
Stofford and Agnes his wife, to Philip Pachet de Mochilwycheford,
of property in that place.
Vellum, one leaf, 1 1 x 8, without seal.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
505. R. 2. 5
Paper, 13 x 8|, fF. 44, written. Cent, xvii, xviii, in a large clear
hand (the author's autograph ?). Vellum wrapper.
Formerly in the Phillipps Collection (no. 13251): sold at the
Phillipps sale at Sotheby's in 1895 (lot 1068).
Contents :
Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi, by John Battely, D.D., Arch-
deacon of Canterbury (fi7o8).
There is no title. The work goes down to 1267, ending with
an extract from Matthew Paris.
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It was printed in 1745 together with the Antitjititates Ruliipinac
of the same writer in a volume entitled Batteleii Opera Posthtima.
The MS. begins and ends as does the printed text (pp. 1-114),
but does not contain the appendix (pp. 115-164), nor the Plates.
506. R. 2. 6
Paper, folio, pp. 65. Cent, xix, neatly written.
The question of the Precedency of the Peers of England in
Ireland. Fairly stated in a Letter to an English Lord by a Noble-
man of the other Kingdom (Lord Charlemont).
Dublin. It was printed in the year MDCCXXXIX, with book-
plate of Lord Farnham, K. P., and name of James F. Ferguson.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
507. R. 2. 7
A note-book given by Mr Sandars in 1870, containing Facetiae
Cantabrigienses compiled from various sources (134 in number:
references to the authorities are given throughout).
508. R. 2. 8
Miscellaneous Papers of different sizes, bound together.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870.
1. Genealogy of the MacLeods of Lewis. Cent, xix, early.
2. Arms of English families neatly tricked, 200 in number. Pedigree of Lascelles.
3. Notes on the family of Lewze.
4. Description of the works of Sir Francis Chantrey.
5. List of Pictures presented to the Bodleian Library and Gallery, 1769-1820.
6. List of Furniture etc. belonging to the altar of the Grocers in St Anthony's
Church, London, in 1349, and of Plate presented to that Company 1465-1523.
Copied from an account privately printed by the Company.
7. Oxford and Cambridge Rivalries 1632.
From MS. Tanner. Fuller's observations on the Shires.
8. Notes on Papal and other Medals.
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9. Description and collation of some early MS. Gospels at the Escurial etc.
belonging to Henry III. of Germany. This is of cent, xviii in Italian from notes by
Abb. Giacomo Terribilini. One MS. only is described.
10. Pedigrees of Foix, Beam, Montmorency, Montfort, Maine, Limoges or Limosin,
and Burgundy, showing the 16 quarterings of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.
509. R. 2. 9
A 4to note-book of Mr Sandars given by him in 1873, of which
the principal contents are
1. Horace Walpole's Life of Thomas Baker, from MS. Cole, xlix.
2. Churchwardens' Accounts of St Mary the Great. List of contributors to the
rebuilding: other articles relating to that building.
3. Arms of Cambridgeshire Knights temp. Edward I.
4. Letter of Charles II. to Thomas Knyvet of Ashwellthorpe, 27 Ap. 1660.
510. R. 2. 10
Archaeological collections by Wm Bromet, F.S.A., M.D.
Pagan and Christian Antiquities, Ships, Altars, Tombs,
Symbols, Saints, Vases, etc. etc.... chiefly collected in Italy.
Vol. I.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1876.
A chaotic mass.
511. R. 2. II
A note-book given by Mr Sandars in 1876, containing a further
series of archaeological collections made chiefly in Italy by Dr
William Bromet, F.S.A.
There are a good many illustrative drawings, and facsimiles of
inscriptions.
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512. R. 2. 12
A similar book of Dr Bromet's Collections, given by Mr Sandars
in 1876, numbered III.
It contains some fairly good drawings, notably one of a pillar
at Salerno.
513. R. 2. 13
A note-book given by Mr Sandars in 1876, containing large
collections for a history of the Parish of Hurley (Berks) made by
Dr W. Bromet (ist Regt of Life Guards, 1838-9).
The collections include a good deal of printed matter, together
with engravings, drawings, and pedigrees.
514. R. 2. 14
A note-book of Mr Sandars, given by him in 1871, containing
Ecclesiological notes on English Churches arranged under counties.
The principal matter noted is the dimensions of the buildings.
References to published views of them are given.
515. R. 2. 15
A note-book given by Mr Sandars in 1871 containing:
1. List of xvth cent, books in the University Library (1869-70).
2. Early Divinity Books in the same Library (from Tanner's notes in Brit. Mus.
Add. MS. 6261).
3. Early Printed Books in the Library of Corpus Christi College. From the
same MS.
4. Furniture and Church Effects in Cambridgeshire from the Archdeacon's book
(c. 1306), copied from MS. Harley 7030.
5. Letter from the University to their Chancellor Crumwell from MS. Cotton
Faustina C. iii.
6. Gilds in Cambridge temp. Edward I. from the same.
7. Statement regarding St Mary's Steeple (c. 1590) from the same.
8. List of the Chancellors 1469-1523 from the same.
9. Letter from Margaret of Lancaster to her son Henry VII., from Vespasian E. xiii.
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516-519. R. 2. 16-19
Four note-books of Mr Sandars, given by him in 1870, con-
taining transcripts of Cole's notes on Cambridgeshire Churches, in
four parts, as follows :
I. Arrington, Barrington, Bottisham. R. 2. 16
II. Chesterton, Orwell, Over. R. 2. 17
III. Pap worth Everard, Shudy Camps. R. 2. 18
Trumpington.
St Michael's, Cambridge.
IV. Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge. R. 2. 19
520. R. 2. 20
A note-book of Mr Sandars given by him in 1870, containing
pp. 78.
i. William Dowsings Journal of the Reformation amongst the Cambridgeshire
Churches, in alphabetical order.
i. Pedigrees from Papers, now in the possession of Mr Green of Scalby Hall near
Scarbro', and compiled by Samuel Sanders of Caldwell (Derby) c. 1680.
3. Letters from Hollar, W. Ralegh, Trinity College to Ld Burghley, Joseph Mead,
Ld Burghley, copied from MSS. in the British Museum.
4. Pedigree of Caldwell.
521. R. 2. 21
A note-book of Mr Sandars given by him in 1870, pp. 35,
written, containing Transcripts from the note-books and collections
of Mr Major of Market Harboro' c. 1828, with some additions from
other sources.
1. Meditations of James II., written in France.
2. Remarks written by Lady Jane Grey, the night before she suffered, in the Greek
Testament sent to her sister Lady Katherine.
3. Verses of Francis Bacon from Royal MSS. Brit. Mus.
(The man of life upright whose guiltless heart is free.)
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4. Lines by Henry, Earl of Monmouth, written in a copy of Scnault on the
Passions.
(If to command and rule o'er others be.)
5. Letter from an attendant of Queen Caroline, 29 Nov. 1737, on the Queen's death.
6. Letter from Charles I. to the Marquis of Ormond.
Cardiff, 31 July, 1645.
7. Letter of Sir Walter Scott describing the Coronation of George IV.
8. Epitaph in Harston Churchyard.
(So far from Mr Major's collections.)
9. Account of James Reynolds Withers, the Cambridgeshire Hedgeside Poet.
10. Letter from Joseph Mead to Sir Martin Stuteville 22 Mar. i68|.
11. Letter from Hugh Latimer when Bp of Worcester (Cleop. E. iv).
522. R. 2. 22
A note-book, apparently in the writing of Mr John Gough
Nichols, purchased at his sale at Sotheby's I Dec. 1874 and pre-
sented by Mr Sandars in 1876.
It contains extracts from Sale Catalogues and other sources of
names of books and MSS. relating to the county of Suffolk. The
principal Sale Catalogues used are those of Thomas Martin, Peter
le Neve, John Ives, and Craven Ord.
523. R. 2. 23
A 4to note-book of William Bromet(?) given by Mr Sandars
in 1876, entitled: Extracts from my interleaved copy of Jos. Strutt's
Dictionary of Engravers.
524. R. 2. 24
A quarto note-book given by Mr Sandars in 1876, containing a
translation of A. Gorlaeus's Preface to his Dactyliotheca, made by
Jeffrey Jones at the age of 17. He died in 1766 aged 18. On the
fly-leaf is pasted an extract from a contemporary newspaper giving
a notice of him.
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525. R- 2. 25
A 4to note-book given by Mr Sandars in 1877, containing
" References to the Rev. W. Cole's MSS. in the British Museum
compiled by J. B. Nichols, Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine,
shewing where Cole's Correspondence with the principal antiquaries
and men of letters may be found in his MSS."
526. R. 2. 26
A paper book, ff. 24, given by Mr Sandars in 1876, containing a
list of a collection of Roman Coins entitled
"Numorum meorum antiquorum Thesaurus Septemb. 29 1654."
527. R. 2. 27
A quire of six leaves given by Mr Sandars in 1877, containing
Particulars of Expenses about the British Fleet in 1702 from
Mr Purvis his Father's MS. Com" of ye Navy.
528. R. 2. 28
A 4to volume bound in calf, given by H. F. Wilson, M.A.,
Fellow, in 1885, containing Fragments of Papers, MS. and printed,
of cent, xvi-xix, found under the floor of an attic in staircase M,
Old Court, Trinity College.
See the Trident, Vol. I. p. 237 (March 1891).
529. R. 2. 29
A note-book of Mr Sandars, given by him in 1871, containing
an account, with sketches, of the arms of the most ancient families
in Bedfordshire, Cambs, Hunts, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
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530, 531. R. 2. 30, 31
Two small note-books of William Bromet, given by Mr Sandars
in 1876.
1. List of Architectural terms employed by Professor Willis,
Dr Whewell, De Caumont etc.
2. List of such antique objects as are generally to be met with
in Museums.
532. R. 2. 32
A small portfolio, given by Mr Sandars in 1876, containing
in two envelopes a number of rubbings, tracings, plans, drawings
and notes made by William Bromet, F.S.A., M.D., in Italy.
The first envelope contains chiefly rubbings of inscriptions,
seals, etc., a few tracings from the Syriac Gospels of Rabula in the
Laurentian Library at Florence, and a collection of ancient repre-
sentations of ships.
The second contains plans, drawings and notes relating to the
Cathedral of Salerno.
533. R. 2. 33
Paper, 7| x 4^, fif. cir. 200. Cent, xviii.
A survey of the lands of Trumpington, made in 1718, belong-
ing to H. Davis, Trumpington, in 1751. There are additions
made by Samuel Peck, Vicar, in 1771.
534. R. 2. 34
A small 4to book (ff. 7 only written). Given by Mr Sandars
in 1876.
John Nichols' notes on Hinckley, and (at the other end) on
Laneham's Letter, together with some Pedigrees.
T. c. ii. 3
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535. R. 2. 35
Paper, 6 x 4, ff. 48. Cent. xvii.
Given by Mr Sandars. From Dr Wellesley's library, Oxford.
The names and arms of all the Baronets and Knights of the
Bath, 1603-16, by Dr Robert Knight (who bequeathed a large
collection of Heraldic MSS. to Gonville and Caius College), with
dedication by the author to a Captain whose name does not
appear.
It contains about 200 coats of arms very neatly blazoned.
Bound with it are 3 printed tracts, viz. :
i. Catalogue of Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, etc. made by the late King since 4 Jan.
1641. London, Th. Walkley, 1652.
i. Catalogue of the Baronets of England, to 4 July, 1681. Also Catalogue of the
Nobility of Scotland, and of Ireland.
3. Dugdale's Ancient Usage in Bearing Arms, ed. 2nd, Oxford, 1682.
536. R. 2 . 3 6
Paper, 13 x 8, ff. 237. Cent, xix (1873).
Given by Professor W. W. Skeat, D.D., Christ's College, in
1873-
A transcript of a MS. of Piers the Plowman, belonging to the
Earl of Ilchester.
The transcript is partly in the handwriting of Professor Skeat
(ff. 2- 1 6, etc.) and partly in that of Mr D. Hall (f. 17, etc ).
On the character of the Ilchester MS., see Piers the Plowman,
C. Text, ed. Skeat, pref. p. xxxiii.
537. R. 2 . 37
Milton's Paradise Lost, folio.
With an interlinear MS. translation into Latin hexameters in
Books vni.-xil., by Thomas Power, see below.
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538. R. 2. 38
Paper, 7| x 5f, flf. cir. 50, written. Cent. xvii.
Milton's Paradise Lost, Books II.-VII. 333, translated into Latin
hexameters. The author was Thomas Power, B.A., 1681, elected
Fellow of Trinity College, M.A., 1685, Westminster Scholar, see
Alumni Westm., p. 184. (W. A. W.)
Power's translation of Book I. was printed at Cambridge in
1691, 4to, according to a note by C. H. Cooper, in the volume.
The hand is identical with that of R. 2. 37.
At the other end of the book are a good many pages of
miscellaneous notes.
539. R. 2. 39
Paper, I2f x 8, ff. 14, written. Cent, xviii, well written.
English Poems :
i. Upon the Nuptials of their Royal Highnesses Frederick Prince
of Wales and Augusta Princess of Saxe Gotha, published
in y e Oxford Poems f. i
To the Prince:
Let others tell the joys which Conquest brings.
i. Epitaph to y e memory of Mrs Harris (added) ... i b
Underneath this Stone doth lye
All of Harris that c d dye, etc.
3. Upon the Same (i.e. the subject of no. i) translated from y 8
Latin *
Long had the world disturb'd with dire alarms.
4. To Miss * b
The charms of face let haughty Celia boast.
5. To my Lord Ossulston. Written at y* Request of a Friend
in Oxford 3
My Lord
Whilst gathring Crowds their blended Voices raise.
6. To Mr - 4
To you Dear Sir these rural Lines I send.
7. To Miss - 4*
So look'd, so smil'd the lovely Grecian Dame.
3*
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8. The Cock-fight, an Heroi-comical Poem .... 5
Bella, horrida Bella. Virgil.
Lamentabile Bellum
Stultorum refero. Addison.
When Heroes fought in antient days.
9. Upon a Rural Landscape representing a Shepherd and
Shepherdess tending their flocks 6
10. An Epistle to my Sister 6 b
n. To my dear Friend Mr Hadley upon his incomparable in-
comprehensible Poems 6 b
12. An Eclogue 7
Damon, once blithest shepherd of y e plain.
13. Epigram from the Gent. Mag. translated .... ib
Cloe by nature form'd with every grace.
14. Intent to know if Fate's Decree ...... 7 b
Design'd a virtuous Bride for me.
15. Toss'd by intestine Broils, the cursed work .... 8
Of Dire Ambition
16. The Battle of y e Cranes and Pygmies g/>
17. To Mr Coales on the Death of his Wife . . . . 12
1 8. Wittington Race 12 b
19. Christmas Hymn 13 b
Awake my soul, awake and sing.
540. R. 2. 40
A 4to volume.
Given by J. W. Clark, M.A., formerly Fellow, Registrary of
the University, in 1897.
Letters of Lord Byron to Dr William Clark, relating to a
second tour in Greece, which Lord Byron was planning in 1813.
1. Lord Byron to Dr Clark, n July, 1813.
2. 3 1 J ul y-
3. List of requisites for the journey, and notes on various places in Greece by
E. D. Clarke, six leaves, n July, 1813.
4. E. D. Clarke to Dr W. Clark, with additional hints, n July, 1813.
5. The same to the same. 26 July.
6. Lord Byron to Dr W. Clark, proposing a journey to Holland. 27 Nov. 1813.
7. The same to the same. 29 Nov.
8. The same to the same. 19 Ap. 1814.
9. Copy of a note from Lord Byron to Dr Clark. No date.
10. 11. Letters from Mr W. Bousfeild, South Cave, Brough, Yorks., about no. 9,
the original of which was given to Mrs Bousfeild of Upwood House, nr Guisely, Yorks.,
by Dr Clark.
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541. R. 2. 4 I
Paper, 8 x 7, about 300 sheets in a case. Cent. xix.
The MS. of K. Elze's (of Halle) Life of Lord Byron, in German
Presented by the author, 5 Sept. 1881.
542. R. 2. 42
Paper, 8| x 6, ff. 26. Cent, xvi, late. Upper corners damaged.
An old MS. copy of the Martin Mar Prelate tract, entitled:
Oh read over Dr John Bridges, for it is a worthy worke (1588).
543. R. 2. 43
Paper, 8 x 5^, ff. 27 in MS. and two printed tracts. Cent,
xviii.
Has the book-plate of Henry, Earl of Shannon, and an inscrip-
tion to him by the author.
On the fly-leaf is :
To the Right Revd. the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, from his Lordships most
obliged and sincere humble servant. T. Erskine.
The MS. portion of the volume is a Dissertation on the origin
of the English House of Commons, beginning :
Many of the wisest and warmest assertors of equal government (see R. i. 44).
It is signed at the end: T. Erskine, Trinity College, Cambridge,
June, 1777. Delivered in the Chappel of Trinity Coll.
The printed pamphlets are:
1. Observations on the prevailing abuses in the British Army, London, 17/5, with
inscription from Thos. Erskine to Lord Shannon, and an autograph note to the effect that
it was written in Minorca in 1774.
2. Reflections on Gaming, Annuities and Usurious Contracts. Second Edition,
London, 1777.
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544. R. 2. 44
Paper, 8^x51, ff. 14 + 21 + 27 + 10 + many blank. Cent, xviii,
well written : not in the author's autograph.
Given by H. M. Butler, D.D., Master, in 1890.
1. Dissertation on the origin of the English House of Commons, deliver'd before
the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June, 1777, by the
Honble. Thos. Erskine.
ff. 14, with notes.
2. Speech on Abuses at Greenwich Hospital,
ff. 21.
3. Speech in Defence of the East India Company's proceedings against Lord Pigot.
ff. 27. " Taken in Short Hand and never printed."
4. Speech in the House of Commons in favour of Liberty of the Press and against
the exclusive right of the Stationers' Company to print Almanacks.
ff. 10. "Taken in Short Hand, and never printed."
545. R. 2. 45
Paper, 8 x 6\, ff. 27. Cent, xviii.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1877.
Facetiae, Receipts, and Memoranda, " probably written by
William Bowyer the celebrated printer." Passed into the posses-
sion of the Nichols, printers. Sold at Sotheby's, in 1873.
546. R. 2. 46
A small note-book, ff. cir. 48.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1873: and written by him.
Supplement to J. O. Halliwell's Jokes of the Cambridge Coffee
Houses.
I. A selection from " Merrie Passages and Jests," collected by Sir Nicholas
L'Estrange of Hunstanton, Bart.
II. A few original anecdotes.
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III. Copied from a Cambridge jest-book called Ingenii Fructus, by W. B., 6th ed.
N. D. (cir. 1700). London, for D. Pratt.
IV. From Cambridge Jests or Witty Alarums, London, 1674, and Cambridge Jest-
book, c. 1800, in the British Museum.
547. R. 2. 47
Paper, 14! x lof, pp. 159.
Autograph Full Score of the Installation Ode, composed for
the Installation of the Prince Consort as Chancellor of the Uni-
versity in 1847 by Thomas Attwood Walmisley, Mus. Doc.,
Professor of Music.
548. R. 2. 48
Paper, i3|x loj, ff. 30.
Autograph full score of Milton's Ode at a Solemn Mustek, set
by Sir Hubert C. H. Parry.
Presented by the composer, 28 Feb. 1891.
549. R. 2. 49
Paper, 8 x ii. Cent. xix.
Presented by Daniel Pettiward, M.A., in 1833.
1. Le Prime tre Lamentazioni quali si cantano nel Mercoldi Giovedi e Venerdi
Santo nella Cappella Sistina. By Gregorio Allegri.
2. Miserere a due Cori di Gregorio Allegri.
An engraved portrait of the composer ' is inserted at the
beginning.
550. R. 2. 50
Paper, 7^ x g\. Cent, xviii, late.
A music book with badly written copies of a few dances and
songs.
Given by Robert Wilson Evans, M.A., Fellow, in 1835.
40 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 2.
R. 2. 5 I
i. De Musica Antiqua et Moderna.
Consists largely of extracts from authorities, Greek, Latin, and
Italian.
R. 2. 52
ii. De Modis.
R. 2. 53
iii. Miscellanea de Re Musica.
On Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, Russian, etc., National Music,
Instruments, etc.
Serving as Illustrations to the Treatise on Ancient Music, from
various Authors.
With a good many drawings of musical instruments.
R. 2. 54
iv. Lectures on Tones.
With sketches and diagrams.
R. 2. 55, 56
v, vi. Treatise on Ancient Music, in English.
R. 2. 57
vii. Lectures (delivered at the Royal Society of Literature ?).
On Ancient Music, Hebrew Music, and the connexion between
architecture and music.
Extracts from printed syllabi, printed pamphlets, and letters
are inserted.
551-557. R. 2. 51-57
MSS. of James Arthur Davies.
Presented in 1870, by Charles Mansfield Ingleby, LL.D.
They are bound in seven volumes, as follows.
51-60, 80] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 4!
558. R. 2. 58
Paper, 6 x 7f. Cent, xvii, 1664.
Graces. Of the Collects for the Day, made to be sung upon
Feast-Days in Trinitie Colledge hall in Cambridge by the Clerks
and Choristers.
Composed by George Loosemore, Master of Choristers and
organist in the same Colledge, 1664.
Labelled on the binding : Medius. Coll. Trin.
With a Preface addressed by the Composer to Dr Pearson,
Master, and to the Fellows.
The Feasts are :
Christmas, Circumcision, Epiphany, Purification, Easter, Ascen-
tion, White Sunday, Trinitie Sunday, Founders' Feast, The King's
birthday and return, O Sapientia.
559. R. 2. 59
Paper, 3| x 6^. Cent, xviii.
A little music-book, containing badly written copies of some
dance tunes and one or two single parts of Anthems and Psalms.
The name Hugh Pugh is scribbled in it.
560. R. 2. 60
Two double sheets of parchment bound into a volume con-
taining:
Original and copy of the Will of John Craister of Trinity
College, Cambridge. 1736 and 1737.
561. R. 2. So 1
Hodson and Challis Papers, Box I., nos. 1-30.
Containing :
1-7. Verses, etc., 1751-1797.
8-30. Papers set in Examinations at Trinity College, 1751-1793, 4-
A full table of the Contents is inserted.
1 The numbers 61 79 are left vacant for future additions.
42 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 2.
562. R. 2. 81
Banks, Hodson, or Challis Papers, Box II.
Containing :
31-44. Verse Compositions, 1750-1784.
44*~5O. Academical Papers:
including a printed Sermon by J. Hey, D.D., Sid., on the Nature
of Obsolete Ordinances, 1773.
And the Moderator's Book, 1778.
The rest being Examination Papers.
563. R. 2. 82
Hodson or Challis Papers, Box III.
Containing :
51-64. Academical Papers, chiefly Mathematical, 1774-1791.
564. R. 2. 83
A portfolio, containing Mathematical Papers by E. Stone.
Presented by R. Potts, M.A.
565. R. 2. 84
Paper, \2\ x 8, ff. 158. Cent, xviii (1741), well written.
Bequeathed by W. Whewell, D.D., Master, in 1866.
Mathematical Lectures, composed out of the most correct
writers, both ancient and modern, by William Topham, A.B.,
S.S.C.C., A.D. 1741.
566. R. 2. 85
Paper, ff. 6, of various sizes, bound in a folio volume. Cent,
xviii.
81-86] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 43
Given by H. R. Luard, D.D., Fellow, Registrary of the
University, in 1888.
A letter from Dr Luard to Dr Sinker is inserted, to the effect
that the MSS. were given to him by Mr Walton, to whom they
were given by D. F. Gregory, late Fellow. They were written by
his ancestors David Gregorie and James Gregorie : the latter, the
inventor of the telescope that goes by his name.
The papers are Mathematical: the 3rd is dated May 2, 1692,
Oxon.
At the end is a later " Index of Mathematical Papers, by
David Gregorie of Kinnaird," probably written by D. F. Gregory.
567. R. 2. 86
Paper, n x 7f, ff. 32, 41 lines to a page. Cent, xv, written in
an Italian hand.
Belonged to J. O. Halliwell. On f. I is his name and the
mark ' no. 15.'
Collation : a 20 b 8 c* (four left).
Contents :
1. loannis de sacro bosco Algorismus de integris et minutiis . f. r
Propter multipliers laboris aleuiatione.
Ends 14 0:
a se elicere hsec pro nunc dicta sufficiant.
Expl. algorissmus de integris et minutiis secundum venerabil-
lem virum mag. lohanem de sacro bosco de cathelonia.
Amen.
2. Miscellaneous Mathematical extracts 15
Beginning :
Progressio est numerorum secundum equales excessus.
Also on square and cube roots, and on multiplication.
Ending with detached verses and rules for finding the Sunday
letter etc. (to a).
On f. 20 b are scribbles in Italian (xvi, xvii).
3. A tract on Geometry "
Geometric sunt due partes scilicet theorica et pratica.
Ending :
quomodolibet aliter se habentia similia corpora . . 15 b
44 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 2.
4. Practica astrolabii 16
omnia instrumentovum nomina.
Ending:
statute tue ad totam planiciem 32 a
Expl. praticha siue operatic astrolabii.
5. Detached rules etc. ending with verses on the Zodiacal signs . 32
568. R. 2. 87
Paper, 10x7, pp. 104. Cent, xviii, well written.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1870. From the Marquis of Hastings'
Library, sold in 1868. The name Huntingdon is inside the
cover.
Mathematical Problems in Italian, with neat figures on the
alternate pages.
569. R. 2. 88
A quarto volume, containing 34 Letters written by Professor
W. Cayley to Professor G. Boole, between 1844 and 1863, on
Mathematical subjects.
Given by Mrs Cayley in 1896.
570. R. 2. 89
A thick 8vo common-place book, about half-filled with mathe-
matical and astronomical Tables, also extracts from scientific
magazines, one dated 1824. Near the end is a note of the com-
position of ancient Ruby glass.
571. R. 2. 90
Paper, 4to, ff. cir. 50.
Given by Mrs Davies, 56 Regent St., Derby.
An abstract in English. Lilavati, a treatise on Arithmetic,
86-94] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 45
Mensuration, Practical Geometry, etc., written in Sanskrit, about
1 200, by Bhascara Acharya, and translated into Persian by Fyzee,
in the year 1567.
It has been collated with another copy, which belonged to
Mr Reuben Davies.
572. R. 2. 91
Paper, 4to, ff. cir. 1 50.
Given by Mrs Esther Hare, in 1855. In it is the name of
J. C. Hare, 1808.
Mathematical Problems and Essays.
573. R. 2. 92
Paper, small 4to, ff. cir. 1 50. Cent, xviii.
Astronomical Tables.
Given by ' Glass ' to J. French : bought of Mrs French, by
L. Evans, 10 June, 1797.
574. R. 2. 93
A thick 4to volume of cent, xviii, containing anonymous
mathematical papers.
575. R. 2. 94
A 4to book of Commercial Arithmetic, written 1790-1800.
Belonged to the Nichols family.
Given by Mr Sandars in 1877.
46 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 2.
576. R- 2. 95
A 4to book of Astronomical Tables. Cent, xviii.
With the same names of owners as are in R. 2. 92.
577. R- 2. 96
Paper, 6 x 4^, pp. 238. Cent, xvii, neatly written.
Formerly MS. Halliwell, no. 153.
On the fly-leaf :
AR de fontenay Eurry Rhetor apud doum le Tairier in collegio arsiano.
On the 2nd leaf is a full-page drawing of a man in cloak,
plumed hat, and breeches, playing a pipe.
On the next leaf, a sphere on a stand, surrounded by pictures
of sun, moon, stars and earth. The date 1675 at top.
On the verso :
AR. des Mares Eurry, and AR. de fontenay eurry.
Title. Theatrum mundi seu uniuersi orbis notitia ex praeci-
puarum partium miraculis
Sapiens dominabitur astris
mens penetrat coelos
1675
with drawings of sphere, sun, moon and stars, and Zodiacal
symbols.
On f. 3, a diagram of the spheres.
Other very neat diagrams (astronomical) follow : there are
none after p. 103.
578. R. 2. 97
Paper, 5$ x 4, pp. 143. Cent, xvii, well written.
Formerly MS. Halliwell, no. 4 : bought by J. O. Halliwell,
22 June, 1836.
"This was the first MS. I ever purchased."
95-98] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 47
Contents :
Tractatus de mundo.
Disputatio Prima.
Pars nil.
De corporum Mundanorum Situ, Figura, Motu, etc.
Sectio Unica. De origine Mundi.
Aliqui ex Antiquis Philosophis.
579. R. 2. 98
Paper, 5 x 3f, pp. 160, written. Cent, xvii, in a neat small
hand.
Formerly MS. Halliwell, I.
Bought by Halliwell at Wheatley's rooms, at the sale of
James Burton's Library, 13 Aug. 1837, for 3 shillings. No. 313
in Catalogue.
Erased names on the fly-leaves : also
Anno domini 1658. Ap. 2.
and
Dono dedit Carolus Salimbenius Coll Cabinensi. Soc. Jesu.
Contents :
METEOPA.
Totam hanc disputationem in duas partes secabimus.
There is a neat drawing and initial with genii and other figures.
There are other drawings in pen and ink, heightened with gold,
at the head of various chapters, viz.
De Flammis accensis. Flames in air over a town . . . f. 85
De Trabibus 86
De Capris saltantibus 87
De sideribus cadentibus 89
Disputatio de cometis 93
Ends on p. 158:
Die s Augusti, 1680, ante festum D. Laurentij, quo anno miseri
mortales miserrimam accepere cladem a morbo ueruecino totam
Italiam vastante, praesertim uero Romam. mense Augusto.
Index follows.
48 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
580. ALEXANDRI NECKAM LAUS SAPIENTIAE ( R. 3. i
DIVINAE. \ 5 1 7
Vellum, i6 x 10, ff. 30 + 2, double columns of 53 lines. Cent,
xv, early, well written, with decorative initials. Bound in vellum
wrapper.
Given by Nevile. 2 fo. Viuere defunctis.
Collation: I 8 ~3 8 4 12 (wants 7-12): two paper leaves of cent, xvi ?.
Contents :
Title, in red.
Incipit liber magistri Alexandri abbatis cirecestrie qui inscri-
bitur laus sapiencie diuine.
Capitulum primum.
Gloria maiestas deitas sapiencia uirtus
Est in personis una colenda tribus.
Ends in the section ad libellum
Offer te tuto manibus pastoris honesti.
Est aliquid tanto posse placere uiro. (f. 30^.)
This is Distinctio ix. 286 of the printed edition by T. Wright
(Rolls Series : Alex. Neckam de naturis rerum).
There are at least six leaves cut out : but the remainder of the
poem would only fill about a column. Wright, who has printed
the poem, used only one MS. (Royal 8. E. ix), and did not
know of this copy.
On the two paper leaves at the end, in a good hand of cent, xvi,
is a poem f. 31
Saepe mihi dubiam traxit sententia mentem
Quae Virtus magnete latens, ut mobile ferrum
Efficiat : paleam moueat quo iure. Gagates
etc.
Ending f. 32 b :
Cur madidis marmor lachrimis distillet et imbres
Affore vicinos falso sudore figuret.
581. GOWER'S POEMS.
JR. 3.
I 335
Vellum, 14! x io|, ff. 154, double columns of 46 lines. Cent,
xv, in four hands, of which the first wrote quires I, 7, 10, II partly,
13, 14: the second, quires 2, 3, 4: the third, 5, 6, 8, n partly, 12 :
the fourth, 9, 15 19.
Given by Nevile.
I, 2] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 49
Collation : five quires lost : a"-d 8 (+ 8*) e 8 -t 8 (+ 8*).
Contents :
i. Confessio Amantis.
Begins imperfectly ..." f. i
To whom the lordes doon homage
And after that of mariage.
(ii. 2686.)
On f. 84, a column is left blank, and lines 7499-7544 are
omitted.
2. 148
The French Traittt pour essampler les amantz marietz, with the
short Latin pieces Quis sit vel qualis, Est amor in glosa, Lex
docet auctorum.
3. Gower's account of his three Poems 152
Quia vnusquisque prout a deo accepit aliis impertiri tenetur
Confessio Amantis specialiter sortitus est.
4. Nota consequentes carmen super multiplici viciorum pesti-
lencia vnde tempore Ricardi secundi partes nostre specialiter
inficiebantur 152 b
Non excusatur qui verum non fateatur.
(twelve lines) ending
Ecce malignatur que modo causa datur.
In prose
Putruerunt et corrupte sunt cicatrices etc.
declarare propono. Anno Regni Regis Ric. secundi
vicesimo.
Contra Demonis astuciam in causa lollardie.
Quod patet ad limen instanti tempore crimen
Describam primo quo pallent alta sub ymo.
Ends 1 54 a
Vir qui vult ideo pacem componere mundo
Pacificet primo iura tenenda deo.
154^ is blank.
Mr G. C. Macaulay, who has kindly furnished me with some
notes on this MS., tells me that it is "of the so-called second
recension, and closely akin to MS. Bodley 294. In correctness of
text and spelling it is fairly good."
T. c. n.
50 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3-
582. CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES.
v DO
Vellum, 13! x 9f, ff. 130, double columns of 42 lines. Cent, xv
(after 1450), in a good, rather current hand. A pretty border of
feathered work, with leaves in blue, pink and green (shaded), and
burnished gold, on f. I.
Given by ?
Collation : a 8 -h 8 (wants 7)-n 8 (wants 8)-^ (wants 5-8).
Begins (without heading) with
The Prologue f. i
Whan that aprille with his his (sic) shoures soote.
At the end of the Squire's Tale (f. 38) a hand of cent, xvi has
written
Explicit secunda pars / et sequitur Pars tertia
Appollo whirleth vp his chaire so highe,
Till y* y e god Mercurius howse he flye.
The reaste not to be fownde though sought in
diuers places.
The leaves lost are (i) between ff. 62, 63. Friar's Tale
The carter spak oon and thoujt an other (1568),
and Sompnour's Tale
Had prechid at a chirche in his manere (1714).
(2) between ff. 102, 103 in the Monke's Tale
On bothe his armes till he must dye (3700)
to
Who shal men giue teres to compleine (3853).
(3) all after f. 130 in the Persone's Tale
(Tractus Luxurie) Lo my lady hou my lord hath take to me vnder.
(Studetzfs Chaucer, p. 708.)
Professor Skeat in his edition of Chaucer's Works (IV. p. xiii)
shortly describes this MS. as of the D-type, wanting Gamelyn, and
having some Tales misplaced.
583. THE MILTON MS. R. 3. 4
Paper, I2| x 7^ and 8 x 6, ff. 24, varying numbers of lines to
a page. For the most part in the Autograph of John Milton.
Given by Sir Henry Puckering.
3,4*] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 51
Published in photographic facsimile in 1899, by the Cambridge
University Press : under the editorship of W. Aldis Wright, M.A.,
Vice-Master, who has added an Introduction and a line-for-line
reprint of the whole MS.
584. COLLECTIONS OF BEAUPRE BELL.
[ vac.
Paper, 15 x io, pp. 84 written, and two plates inserted.
Cent, xviii (1726), written very neatly, with drawings of Arms etc.
by Beaupre Bell.
Given by him to the College.
A note on the fly-leaf says
"The arms and epitaphs are ill copied and not to be de-
pended on."
Contents :
Five blank leaves,
i. A Perambulation of the Parish of Upwell in the Isle of Ely
etc Begun May the 5th A. D. 1714 f. i
A Copy of minutes taken on the occasion by the Rev.
Richard Walker, certified by him on p. 6 to be a true
copy.
i. Epitaphs in Upwell Church with drawings of Arms . . 7
3. Epitaphs in Outwell Church ...... 9
4. Coats of Arms in the glass in Outwell Church . . . 1 1
5. Number of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Parish of
Outwell from A.D. 1559 to 1725 13-16
Two blank leaves (pp. 17-20 are gone).
6. Epitaphs: in S. Edwards Churchyard Cambridge . . 21
(Brookbank)
in Jesus Coll. Chappel Camb.
7. (Points) to be considered towards an History of the Isle
of Ely 22
8. Note on Coins and Altar found near Elme ... 22
9. Number of Births, Burials and Marriages in the Parish of
Emneth from A.D. 1684 to 1725 22
10. Note on Plants (Mustard) 24
11. Part of the Pedigree of Harsicke (from Harvey's Visitation
of Norfolk in Caius College Library) .... 25
Pedigree of Brygge of Salle 27
Pedigree of Thursby ........ 29
42
52 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
Pedigree of Beaupre of Calwell (from Visit, of Suffolk in
Caius College Library) 29
12. Epitaphs in Milton Ch. Camb 30
in Landbeach Ch 31
One blank leaf (pp. 33, 34 gone).
13. Epitaphs, the name of the Church (which may be Land-
beach) is gone ......... 35
14. Note on Flax and Hemp ....... 36
15. Number of Births, Marriages and Burials in the Parish of
Elme from the year 1539 to 1725 36
1 6. Epitaphs in Haddenham Church 41
17. Coins dug up at Welney cir. 1718 . . . . . 41
1 8. Two Coats of Arms from windows in Haddenham Church . 43
19. Epitaphs in Trinity College Chapel Camb. (Chace) . . 44
Two blank leaves (pp. 45-48 gone).
20. Quaedam ex libro MS. Membr. in
Biblioth. Coll. Caio-Gonvil. Cantabr.
De Inquisitionibus Maneriorum Episc. Elyensis . . 49
with a facsimile of the MS.
A transcript of entries relating to Elm, Brokene, Welles.
21. Four outline drawings of Coats of Arms . . . . 71
22. Extracts from the Musters of England 1591 (MS. Trin.
Coll. Cant.) 72
23. Epitaphs and Arms in Bottisham Church . . . . 75
24. in Qui Church 79
25. in Sofham Bulbecke Ch. ... 82
four blank leaves.
At the end two engraved facsimiles of MSS.
1. From the lost Cotton MS. Otho A. xii.
giving the opening of Asser's Life of Alfred.
2. From Domesday Book.
EVRVICSCIRE.
Terra Regis. In Aluertune etc.
585. COMMENTARY IN FRENCH ON OVID. J R. 3. 5
DE ARTE AMANDI. \ 302
Paper, io| x 8, ff. 582, 24 lines to a page. Cent, xvi early,
clearly written.
Given by Nevile.
The first three pages are covered with pedigrees and records
of the families of Nevile and Pole in an English hand (early xvi).
Collation: in quires of 8, the last of 4.
4*-6] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 53
Contents :
Publii Ouidii Nasonis Sulmonensis poete clarissimi liber de arte
amandi cum interpretatione gallica eiusdem libri incipit feliciter.
Si quis in hoc artem populo non nonil amandi
me legal.
Comme dit auons dessus au prologue de cest nostre ceuurage:
voulons largement mes toutesfoys honestement enterpreter etc.
Ends 582 a
elle par raisson me doibuant escripure et appeller leur maistre.
Finis. TeXws.
586. ARTIGLIO SIMINTENDI DA PRATOS
, ,, R. 3. 6
ITALIAN VERSION OF OVID s META-
vac.
MORPHOSES.
Paper, I2|x8, ff. 107, double columns of 47 lines. Cent,
xv, xvi.
Given by Sir Henry Puckering, alias Newton.
Collation: a 10 -d 10 e 8 f 12 (i bound as 12 upside down) g 10 -! 10
(wants 8-10 blank : damaged at upper corner).
Contents :
Proemio di quello che ouidio intende di tractare in fino a quella
parte che dice . che era prima che idio fecesse il mondo.
Chome dio ordeno e fece il mondo e glalmenti e ciascuno asso-
glio nessuo stato a ca. i f. i
The fifteen books are divided into 283 sections.
Colophon to Table.
C. Q. Vi finisco le rubriche de la tauola de ouidio meta-
morfoseos.
E chi lo chiama metamorphoseos translatato per ser artiglio
simintendi da prato.
Text 4
L animo mio desidra di dire le forme mutate in noui corpi.
Ends f. 107
e per tuti secoli viuero per forma de detti de poeti ano
alchuna cosa di vita.
Explicit Liber.
107 b is blank.
54 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
587. MISCELLANEA IN SPANISH.
I 637
Paper, bound with R. 3. 6, ff. 52, 33 lines to a full page.
Cent, xvii, neatly written.
Given by Puckering.
On the first page is the title
Varie scritture in lingua Castigliana
con la lor contenenza.
On the next page is a table of contents.
Carta contro al Escurial curiosa f. i
Ho pudo a tribuir a la mala influencia.
Delictos de Antonio Perez y sentencia de ellos .... 3 b
A maria de Pefia sobre la fundacion de Venecia ... 6
In verse : El pobre peregrine quando viene
A Roma o Santiago en romeria.
Sueno de la Vivda 9 b
Una Viuda in aragon vivia.
In 70 stanzas of 8 lines,
lardin de Venus .......... 20
Al Lector.
Quien no saue de amor y sus e fetos.
Descripcion de la hermosura 21
Alma Venus dulce diosa.
Los gustos del Vicentino 25 b
Tengo al gusto hecho.
a qual quier muger.
Los disgustos del Vicentino 27
For quanto algunos di bonete nieo.
con falso sobreceo.
La Chacona 31
Si quereys sauer quien es.
la mo uela primerifa.
Glossado et Pater noster del Conde de Salinas.
Contra las Monias ......... 33
Rey alto a quien adoramos.
a lumbra mi entendimiento.
Soneto 35
Primero es besalla y el tocalla.
Otro
Question es entre damas disputada.
Soneto con glossa 35 b
A quel llegar de presto y abrasalla.
Glossa a este soneto.
No se fatique no la bella clama.
7-p] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 55
Definicion de la hermosura en una octaua 37
Entre delgada y guiessa es la figura.
Soneto.
A quel coger a escuras a la dama.
The rest of the volume is occupied by Sonnets, 52 in number,
including a
Cai^ion a una dama que pidio ducatos por cierta cosa . 47 b
and one or two Enigmas in sonnet-form.
Ending f. 52 a
Acaban los sonetos.
{R i 8
o
383
Vellum, \2\ x 8f, ff. 144, double and single columns of 40 lines.
Cent, xv, in a rather current hand : clearly written. Initials of red
and blue.
Given by George Willmer.
At the end occur the names of John Digbye (xvi), Francis
James ('Jeames') and Thomas Stacye.
There are many marginal notes of cent, xvi and xvii.
Collation: i 8 -i8 8 (7, 8 blank): ff. 93-105 b are written in single
lines. They contain the history of the Passion.
Contents :
Here bigynnej> J>e boke of storyes }>at men callen cursor mundi . f. i
Men jernen iestes for to here.
Ends 142^
Oure fadir maker of alle J>inge
pat neuer shal haue endynge.
A M E N
In the E. E. T. S. edition I. p. 67* etc. this MS. is described as a
good copy of the poem, dependent on G (a Gottingen MS.), from
which it differs mainly in dialectical forms.
589. LATIN PLAYS. f R - 3- 9
[ vac.
Paper, 12^x7!, fif. 138, 50 lines to a full page. Cent, xvii,
neatly written.
Given by John Laughton, Librarian.
56 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
Contents :
1. Leander. Acta est secundo A. D. 1602. comitiis Bacca-
laureorum.
Dramatis Personae, with the cast.
Two pages occupied by the changes introduced at the second
performance. On p. 4: Leander ut primo acta est A.D. 1598
with original cast.
Authore m ro Hauksworth Coll. Trin. olim socio.
2. Labyrinthus
with original cast.
Authore m Hauksworth.
3. Zelotypus
with original cast.
No author's name.
4. Scyros
Fabula pastoralis acta coram Principe Charolo et comite
Palatino mensis Martii 30 A. D. 1612.
Original cast follows.
Authore D re Brooke Coll. Trin.
5. Adelphe
Comoedia in Collegii Trin. aula bis publice acta.
Original cast follows.
Authore D no D re Brooke Coll. Trin.
On these plays see the Retrospective Revieiv, vol. xu. pp. 1-42.
590. THE INDIAN EMPEROUR. JR. 3. 10
BY JOHN DRYDEN. \ 653
Paper, I if x /|, flf. 43, about 30 lines to a full page. Cent, xvii,
well written.
Given by Puckering : on the first page is the name
Eliz. Puckering Newton 1665.
The text begins at once.
The Indian Emperour.
Act. i. Sc. i 8t .
Enter Cortez Vasquez Pizarro with Spaniards and Indians.
Cortez : In what new happy Climate are wee throwne.
Ends
thus doubly blest with Conquest and with Loue. Exeunt.
Knit.
The play was first performed in 1665, and first printed in 1667, so
that this is an early copy.
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591. CECCO D' ASCOLI. ' R> *' "
Paper, n|x7|, ff. 39, double columns; the fullest contain
6 stanzas of 6 lines. Cent, xv, well written. Lettered on the back
Joh. Gower Poema.
Given by ?
Collation : a 12 b 12 (+ f. 3 of quire c} c 16 (wants 3 and 14 ?).
Contents : The Acerba of Cecco D' Ascoli.
Incipit liber Certe etatis. Cap m primum tractat de ordinatione
celorum et de eorum proprietatibus in uniuersali. Inquit
Cicchus de asculis.
Vltra non segne piu la nostra luce.
Fuor dela superficia de quel primo.
The poem was printed 19 times up to and including the edition of
1546 which is the last (Tiraboschi v. p. 194).
In six-line stanzas, each chapter ending with one of eight lines ;
only the first three chapters have rubrics.
Apparently the leaf wrongly inserted in b is really the third leaf of
quire c.
The poem ends on f. 36 with an unfinished stanza of 3 lines
E cio ch fato era uita in lui
E si come forma nela mente eterna
Se questa uita e luce de miseri nui.
Then in another hand, scribbled
Incipit liber capitulum cecus de asculis e qui si fese listoria de
cecus de asculis.
(S)alue regina celorum Aue mater angelorum.
On 38 a and b are some rough sketches of figures in pencil, and on
39 b are a good many notes and rhymes in Italian and Latin.
One is
Qui sto Libero sie de Alonie?
figolo de ser chiamewto de Jaconio
di chiamentz'j da uerona.
592. POEMS BY DONNE.
f R. 3. i
I 652
Paper, 1 1^ x 7, pp. 237 + 1 1, written in several hands (pp. 1-237
in the first), 28 lines to a full page. Cent, xvii, clearly written.
Given by Puckering. The name E. Puckering is on p. I.
58 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [l<. 3.
In the volume is this note by Mr Henry Bradshaw.
" A collation of the contents of this volume (as far as the order
of the pieces) and a verbal collation in a few instances, was made
21 and 23 January 1861 by the Rev nd T. R. O'Flaherty of Capel
near Dorking: as far as p. 50 was collated accurately with the edit"
of 1669 by Mr O'Flaherty in April 1663.
Done (pp.) 1-124, 183-200, 224-237. om. 50-69."
There is no title. I have in most cases given the names of the
pieces from Grosart's edition. The MS. rarely gives any.
Contents :
1. Elegie p. t
Marry and lone thy fflauia, for shee
Works ed. Grosart I. 167 (The Anagram).
2. To Mr Rowland Woodward 5
Grosart n. 75.
3. Jo. D. to Mr H. W 4
Here is no more newes then vertue: I may as well
Grosart I. 23.
4. Elegie 6
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still
1. c. 183.
5. Elegie 8
Once and but once found in thy company
1. c. 173.
6. Although thy hand and faith and good workes too . . 10
1. c. 170.
7. Natures lay Ideot I taught thee to lone . . . . 12
1. c. 181.
8. No spring nor summer beautie hath such grace . . 13
1. c. 187.
9. Image of her whom I loue more then shee . . . 15
I. c. 190.
10. Breake of Daye 16
Tis true tis day. n. 179.
n. Sunn Risinge i-j
n. 163.
12. Lecture vpon the shaddowe 18
II. 240.
13. Valediction forbidding mourninge 19
II. 210.
14. Oh let me serue soe as those men serue . . . . 21
I. 178.
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15. The Legacy 11
II. 175.
1 6. The Triple Foole 23
n. 170.
17. Elegie vppon the Death of the Ladie Marckham . . 24
ii. 128.
1 8. Elegie vpon the death of Mistress Bulstrod ... 27
'33-
19. The good Morrowe 29
n. 158.
20. The Broken Heart 30
n. 209.
21. Twittnam Garden 32
n. 186.
22. Till I have peace with thee, warr other men ... 33
I. 234.
23. Elegie vpon the death of Mistress Boulstred ... 35
II. 137.
24. The Cursse , 37
n. 200.
25. Mummy .......... 38
(Loveis Alchymy).
n. 199.
26. The Canonization 39
n. 168.
27. Loues diett . 41
n. 216.
28. Loues Legacies 43
II. 217.
39. Noe Louer saith I loue, nor any other .... 45
ii. 233.
30. A Paradox 45
Whosoe termes Loue a fire may like a poet.
31. Songe 46
Goe and catch a falling starre.
II. 1 60.
32. Community 48
II. 190.
33. Womans Constancie 49
n. 161.
34. The Flea 5
n. 156.
35. Extasie 5 1
II. 212.
36. Loues Deitie 54
n. 215.
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37. The Funerall 55
II. 220.
38. Who euer loues if hee doe not propose .... 56
I. 218.
39. The Blossome 61
II. 221.
40. Come Madam Come All rest my powers defie ... 63
i. 223.
41. An Apparition 65
II. 208.
42. To Sir Henry Wotton 66
n. 19.
43. The Prime rose 69
n. 223.
44 . To Mr J. W 70
II. 80.
45. To Mr T. W 71
n. 82.
46. (To the same) 72
II. 83, 84.
47. To Mr C. B 73
n. 13.
48. To M. S. B 74
n. 14.
49. To M. B. B 75
n. 15.
50. To Mr R. W 76
n. 78.
51. To Mr J. L 77
n. 85.
52. To Mr J. L . 78
II. 86.
53. To Sir Henrie Wotton at his going Ambassadour to Venice 79
n. 17.
54. To Sir H. G(oodyere) mouing him to trauell ... 81
n. 25.
55. To Sir E. H(erbert) 83
n. 90.
56. To M. M. H 85
n. 72.
57. Sapho to Philaenis 87
n. 103.
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58. Elegie 90
Fond woman w ch wouldst haue etc.
I. 164.
59. By our first straunge 91
I. 161.
60. Here take my Picture 93
I. 177-
6 1. A Nocturnall vpon St Lucies Day 94
II. 203.
62. The Computation 96
ii. 233-
63. The Dissolution 96
ii. 228.
64. Witchcrafte by a Picture 98
ii. 205.
65. A jeat Ringe sente 98
ii. 229.
66. Loues Exchange 99
ii. 193.
67. Feuer . 101
II. 176.
68. The Indifferent 102
ii. 165.
69. Valediction of my Name in the windowe .... 104
II. 182.
70. Ayre and Angells 106
ii. 178.
71. Loues Growth (The Springe) 108
11. 191.
72. The Dreame 109
ii. 196.
73. The Prohibition no
li. 231.
74. The Anniuersarie . . no
ii. 181.
75. The Dampe 112
ii. 227.
76. The Relique 113
n. 225.
77. Negatiue Loue 114
n. 230.
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78.
Valediction of weeping
"5
n. 197.
79-
80.
A Valediction of the Booke
II. 187.
116
I IO
n. 232.
i iy
81.
Platonique Loue (The Undertaking)
II. 162.
119
82.
Confined Love .........
121
n. 195.
83-
Songs w ch were made to certaine aires w ch were made before
(The Message).
122
II. 202.
8 4 .
Sweetest Loue I do not goe
123
n. 173.
85-
The Bait
n. 206.
I2 4
86.
Epigrammes (12) ........
n. 268, nos. i-vi, vin, ix, xv, xi, xn, xiv.
" 5
87.
Epithalamion made at Lincoln's Inn ....
127
i. 274.
88.
Eclogue
i. 261.
131
Prose writings.
89.
Paradoxes ..........
I 4 I
yo.
Problemes ..........
.63
91.
A Letanie
II. 298.
-83
92.
Good friday .........
193
n. 310.
93-
Of the Crosse
'95
n. 292.
94-
Resurrection
198
II. 295.
95-
A Hymne to Christ
199
ii. 320.
96.
To Christ
200
II. 341.
97-
Metempsychosis .........
1.67.
2OI
98.
Diuine Poems
224
La Corona.
II. 276.
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99. As due by many titles etc. 227
(Holy Sonnets, n. 281).
100. Epistle 235
Hymn to the Saincts etc.
n. 144.
In other hands
Why louelye boy why flyest thou me (26 lines) . 239
signed EHU.
Heare doe repose but in lamented wast (six lines) . . 240
241 blank.
I prithee turne y* face away (12 11.) 142
signed J (?).
Or scorne or pittie on mee take (13 11.) .... 242
Turne turne thy beutius face away (10 11.) . . . 243
signed J.
On a very deformed gentlewoman but of a voyce incom-
parably sweet 244
I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voyce to heare.
Signed Tho. Randolph.
An Elegie (Bp Henry King's Exequy on the Death of his
wife) . 247
Accept thou shrine of my deare (corr. to dead) Saint.
Ends p. 250. Till we shall meet, and neuer parte.
593. WILLIAM OF NASSINGTON'S SPECULUM f R. 3. 13
VlTAE.
JR. 3.
U85
Vellum, 1 \\ x 8f, ff. 2 + 85, double columns of 44 lines.
Cent, xv, in a good small hand.
Given by Willmer. At the top of f. I of text an inscription
has been cut away.
Collation: i* || a li! -e 12 f u g u (wants 12-14 blank).
Contents :
f. i is a waste copy of the first leaf of the text, perhaps in the same
hand as the real first leaf: it has 48 lines in a column, f. 2 is
blank.
Text
Almighty god in trinite
In wham anly ar persones thre,
ffadir and son and holigast
yat er a god als we trow mast.
This page has blue and red initials and a border in blue and red.
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Ends 85*
Of special grace y' hym sal wisse
ye redy way to heuen blisse,
To whilk blisse he all vs bryng
yat on croys for vs wold hyng.
Amen (thrice).
The work is translated from a Latin treatise by John Waldeby :
MSS. of it are not uncommon.
594. PIERS PLOWMAN.
Vellum, 1 1 1 x 6|, ff. 3 + 73, 42 lines to a page. Cent, xiv, in a
good somewhat running hand.
Given by Nevile. 2 fo. And nou3t for loue.
Collation : I 2 || a 12 (+ i*)-P g 2 (wants 2 blank).
In this volume is the following note by Professor Skeat :
"This MS of Piers Plowman contains a text made up of two different versions of the
poem, viz. of theyfrr/ or earliest version, and of the third or latest.
The portion containing the earliest version (all but the Last Passus) is ; from the
beginning to the end of Passus secundus de dowel at which point the early versions end
in most MSS.
See the words
Passus tercius de dowel '. Breuis oratio penetrat celum on f. 52 a.
The remainder consists of the latter part of the third version : the junction being made
(as well as it could be) by half of the quotation Breuis oratio etc.
An evident indication of this junction is afforded by noting that Passus tercius de
dowel is only 1 7 lines long, and is followed by Passus secundus de dobet (where dobet is
an error for dowel) this Passus secundus being reckoned according to the system of
numbering usual in the third or latest version."
In his edition of the poem (n. p. Ixvi) he describes it thus: "mixed text, group c.
The oldest MS. of the largest group."
ff. i, ii, iii a are blank.
On iii b at the top left corner is the number xxiij , evidently a
Library mark. And the middle of the page is occupied by a
coloured drawing (xiv) of a man ploughing with a yoke of oxen ;
while a second man plies the goad. Above this in red is written
God spede }>e plouj and sende us korne I now.
This drawing is reproduced in Wright's edition, and also in
Jusserand's Piers Plowman.
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The text begins on the next page
In a senior sesoun whanne softe was the sonne.
Ending f. 73 b
And si)>)>e he gradde aftir grace til I gan awake.
Explicit.
595. CHAUCER ETC. \ J ' ^
( 270
Paper, io x 8, ff. 316, 30 lines to a page normally. Cent, xv,
xvi, in several hands, all fairly good.
It seems to have belonged to Abp Parker. The foliation is in
red chalk.
Collation: I 4 (supply of cent, xvi) 2 2? (i gone) 3' 2 4 2 5" (wants 4)
6 4 7 12 (i cane.) 8 12 (misbound ?) 9" IO 8 ii"-i6" (wants 8) 17" i8 12 -
2i 12 (wants 8-12) 22 12 23' (3 left) 24' (5 left) 25 12 -32 12 (wants 12) ||
33 12 (xvith cent.).
Contents :
I. In a hand of cent, xvi 'possibly after 1600.'
1. Eighte goodlie questions with theire aunswers . . f. i
Sometyme in grece that noble region.
2. To the kinges moste noble grace and to the Lordes and
knightes of the garter ...... 2
To you wele of honor and of worthynes.
3. When faithe faileth in prestes sawes .... 3
On these pieces see Skeat's Chaucer I. 45, 46.
4. The Prologues (to the Canterbury Tales) . . . $6
down to line 55
No Christian man so ofte in his degree.
II. The original hand begins 5
In granade at the siege had he be.
The Tales end on quire 32, nl>.
Explicit Tractatus Galfridi Chaucer de penitencia ut dicitur
pro fabula Rectoris.
Followed by the Retractation.
See Skeat's Chaucer iv. p. xii. "Some leaves are missing,
so that the Canons Yeoman, Prioress and Sir Thopas are
lost. Of the D-type, without Gamelyn."
III. In the hand of I., the title cut away,
Piers Plowman's Crede.
Cros and Curteis Crist }>is bygynnynge spede.
T. C. II. 5
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Ends on the twelfth leaf
}>' J>ei maie wynnen J>e lif, J> fc euer schal lesten. Amen.
This is the best MS. of the Crede; Professor Skeat edited the
text from it in 1867. In his opinion it is a careful copy
of a possibly xivth cent. MS.
596. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S METRICAL VER- ( R. 3. 16
SIGN OF THE PSALMS. \ 569
Paper, lof x 7^, ff. 302, about 24 lines on a page. Cent, xvi,
well written. The page is surrounded with red lines.
Given by W. Lynnett, S.T.B., Fellow, in 1664. His name is
on the binding (W. Lynnet, T.C.).
Title-page.
The / Psalmes of David / metaphrased with sundry / kindes of verse /
By the noble and famous gent / Sir Philip Sidney / knight.
The first page of the text has an ornament at top in pen
and ink.
Psalme .i. Beatus vir
He blessed is who neither loosely treades
the straieng stepps, as wicked councell leades.
Ps. 150 ends on p. 301.
Conclud by all, that aire or life enfould :
Let high Jehoua, highly be extould.
Finis. / Sir Ph. Sydney k (added}.
On p. 302 is this note in a contemporary hand.
I have perused this metaphrase of the Psalmes by that Worthy, whose happy
Meditations may yield others content, and a precedent worthy imitation.
Which I desire may be published in Print.
John Langley.
Below, an erasure of two words.
597. THE ROMANCE OF EARL RAYMOND OF j
POITIERS IN ENGLISH. J ' ^' l ^
Paper, io| x 7$, ff. 123, 4 stanzas of 7 lines on a page.
Cent, xv (late).
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Given by Beaupre Bell ; his name and motto at the beginning.
Also on the fly-leaf
Liber Ricardi St George Norroy Regis armorum . fero et spero
and at the end : Thomas Stapilton (xv, xvi) and
ho so on me doth loke I am (erasure) boke
She prays yow for hyr sake not me to w l drow nor take
When ye haue rede your fyll delyu^r me agane w' good wyll.
and, at the top
Jon bosswell kort.
On the vellum fly-leaf are scribbled five verses of a song (xvi)
masteres anne
I am your man
as you may well espie
if you will be
content w' me
I am in (the last line is nowhere written in full).
Collation : a 12 (wants i) b u (i2 and 13 ff. 24, 25 stuck together)
c 12 -i 12 k 14 .
Text begins imperfectly
For full fayne I wold do that myght you please
Yff connyng I had in it to precede
To me wold it be grete plesaunce and ease.
Yff aught here might fourge to youre wyl in dede
But barayne is my foule fanting connyng bede.
Natheles in it wil I make progresse
Euermore trustyng to youre gentilnesse.
Ends f. 1 24 b
Though that diffautes appere huge to ey
Yitt excusith me besech you hubly.
Explicit.
Stuck to the cover at the end is a bit of a deed
Dat. apud Button super Derwent predict
a.d. M. cccc Ixxxvj 10 .
The parish of Elvyngton is mentioned. The document seems
to relate to dilapidations of a mansio belonging to a defunct
Magister Joh. Loncaster. Names of witnesses are given, and the
"Officialis siue custos Jurisdiccionis de houeden" occurs.
52
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598. BOETHIUS. OVID, ETC. { -j
Vellum, lofl x 7|, ff. 64, 32 lines of text to a normal page.
Cent, xiii, in a hand very common in school-books, rough and
black. Marginal scholia and interlinear glosses.
Belonged to Tobias Wright : see on B. 2. 27. 2 fo. moralitas.
Given by ? . Late names, John Hall, Roberd Skeppes,
Hugh Robinson, Hilda Wright, occur.
Collation: a 12 b 12 c 10? (wants 5, 6) d 12 c 12 P (wants 5-8) rest
gone.
Contents :
1. 'Boethius' de disciplina scolarium (P. L. Ixiv. 1223) . . f. i
Uestra nouit intencio de scolarium disciplina compendiosum
postulare tractatum.
Ends f. n^
alterius saporis inquinamenta permanebunt.
Expl. boycius de disciplina scolarium.
2. Ovidii Heroides.
i. Penelope Ulixi \\b
i. Phyllis Demophonti 13
3. Briseis Achilli 14 b
4. Phaedra Hippolyto i63
5. Oenone Paridi i8
6. Hypsipyle Jasoni . . . . . . . 206
7. Dido Aeneae ........ 22
8. Hermione Oresti 24
9. Deianira Herculi ....... 26
10. Ariadne Theseo 28
Two leaves containing the end of this and the be-
ginning of the next poem are wanting.
11. Medea Jasoni 29
12. Laodamia Protesilao ....... 29 b
13. Hypermnestra Lynceo 31 b
14. Paris Helenae 33
15. Helena Paridi 36
16. Leander Heroi 39
17. Hero Leandro 41
1 8. Acontius Cydippae (in double columns) ... 43
wanting the last 13 lines. It ends
Jurate uel non talis habendus erat.
I Ice tibi me (44 b).
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3. Persii Satirae
Words are glossed in French.
4. Horatii Epistolae
Four leaves are lost containing Epp. i. viii. 1 1 i. xvi. 60.
Ends imperfectly with Epp. n. i. 16.
599. ENGLISH POEMS BY LYDGATE ETC.
I 379
Paper, lof x 8, fif. 255, mostly 42 lines to a page. Cent, xv late
or xvi early, neatly written. Professor Skeat (Chaucer I. p. 56)
calls it "the source of most of Stowe's additions to Chaucer" and
adds "most of the quires are in a handwriting... not far from 1500."
Given by Willmer.
Belonged to John Stowe.
Collation: a 8 (foliated 1-8) | b 8 (32-39) | c 8 (+8*: 1-9) | d 8 e 8 f 8
(wants 8: 1-23) | g 6 (1-6) | h 12 (1-12) | i 8 (6 canc.)-m 8 (1-31) | n 8 o 8
(1-16) | p 8 -t 8 (1-40) | u 8 v 8 (9-23 wrongly numbered: follows
quire a) \ w 10 x 10 (i cane.) y 8 z 8 (1-35) | A 8 B 6 (wants 4 blank)
(1-14) | C 8 -E 8 (i cane.: 1-23) | F 8 (7 cane.: 1-7) | G 8 (2-9) ||.
Contents :
Festum Natalis Domini f. i
Tronos celorum continens
Ends. Whos byrthe thys day reiterate. (4 stanzas of 7 lines.)
Seven Philosophers i
Primus Philosofhus. Attempt nothyng surmountyng your myght.
Last stanza (8th) by Nnndus.
(O) beauteuous braunche floun? of formosyte .... *
(I)n womanhede as Auctours all wryte "ib
(O) ye alle that ben or haue byn in dyssease .... 3 b
(A)ll lust and lykyng I begyn to lede (above, leue) ... 3*
(O) lady myne to whom thys boke I sende .... 4
(G)o lytyl boke for dredefull ys thy message .... 7
This breaks off with f. 8 and is continued on f. 154.
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In double columns.
The tale of )>e byrde and the chorle of thre notable and gret
wysdoms groundyd vppon these ij verses followyng that ys to wete
Neminis omissa doleas, nee omne quod audis
Credas, nee optes id quod habere nequis. .... 9
Problems of olde lykenes and figures.
The tale of the cok that founde a precyous stone groundyd by
Isopus the phylosopher of Rome, that yche man shuld take in
gree suche as god sent 12
(W)isdom is more in prise j>en gold in cofers.
The tale of the Wolfe and the Lambe groundyd etc.
Agenst Raueyn and tiranny . . . . . . . 130
(R)yght as atwene turment and delyces.
The tale of the ffrogge and \>e mowse foundyd by Isopus \>e
philosopher groundyd agenst decey te i\b
(B)y a decree of natures law.
The tale of f>e Hownde and the Shepe groundyd ayen periure and
false wytnes founde by Jsopus 15 b
(T)he world made diuerse by froward folkes tweyne.
Only 3 stanzas: most of f. 16 is blank.
Another hand
Here foloweth the parlement of Byrdes reducyd to loue . . 17
(S)o short }>e lyfe, )>e craft so long to lerne.
Ends f. 25: 25 is blank.
Guystard and Seiesemonde 26
(T)ancret that was prynce of salern.
To be edited by M. Forster of Bonn.
Ends f. 40 b. Graunt these loners wy, and thus endeth my tale.
Explicit (Guystard and Seiesmonde).
Complaint of a Prisoner 41
Written by George Ashby, Prisoner in the Fleet, in 1463.
Prohemium unius Prisonarii.
At the ende of somer when wynter began
And trees herbes and floures dyd fade.
Ends 45 b. lackyng volunte for theyr dew penaunce.
To be edited by Forster.
ff. 46-48 are blank.
In a late bad hand
A tretis of the iiij seasons of the yere that is to say ver, estas,
authumnus, and yemps [copieyd by lohn Lydgate as aperyeth in
his book of y e secretes to alysaunder from aristotyll].
What tyme the season of the yere 49
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Ends 52. Dethe all consumythe which may not be denyed.
Explicit.
In a rather better hand.
Of the iiij complexions $16
Sanguineus. Natura pingues isti sunt atque jocantes.
Ends. Thou shall hym know bi visage pale and wan.
Expl. iiij complexions,
ff- 53^' 54 are blank.
In the first hand?
Here begynneth the Boke called Assemble de Damys.
[By Chaucer (xvii)] 55
See Skeat Chaucerian and other pieces, p. 38.
In Septembre at the fallyng of the leef.
Ends 65 b. Rede well my dreme for now my tale ys doon.
Here endeth the book of Assemble de Damys.
f. 66 is blank.
Two 7-line stanzas, marked vacat as being a fragment. . . 67
The vnware woo that comweth on gladnesse.
Ending
Better ys to dy then lyue in suche penaunce.
Here foloweth the Interpretacion of the names of goddys and
goddesses as ys rehersyd in y 8 tretyse folowyng as poetzV write . 67 b
Phebus ys as moche to sey as y e Sonne.
Atropos Dethe.
[Banquet of Gods and Goddesses by Lydgate] .... 68
When Phebus in the Crabbe had nere hys cours ronne.
Ends 97 b
Graunt eternall ioy after thy last sentence. Amen.
La bell dame saunce mercy [by Chaucer] 98
(Skeat I.e. p. 299. By Sir Richard Ros.)
Halfe in a dreme not fully well awakyd.
Ends io8
I pray god sende hem bettyr auenture. Expl. labelli? dame
saunce mercy.
The x Commaundments of loue [by Chaucer] .... 109
Certes fer extendeth my Reason.
Ends. And call hym in to your Remembraunce.
Expl. the x comwandmentes of loue.
The ix ladyes worthy [by Chaucer] 1 10 b
Prefulgent in pretyoussnes O synope the quene.
Ends. Ouercame and venquysshed theym in batayle.
Expl. the baladys of the ix worthyes of ladyes.
72 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [K. 3.
111^-113 are blank.
Here begynneth the Boke called the legend of ladyes [by
Chaucer] 114
A thousand tymes haue I herd men tell.
Ends 150 b. Thys tale ys sayde for thys conclusyown.
[How Pyte is dede &c. Geof. Chaucer] 151
Pyte that I haue sought so yore ago.
Ends. W hert sore and full of besy payn.
Here endeth the exclamaciouw of the Deth of Pyte.
153 is blank.
The end of the poem Go lytyl boke which begins on f. 7 . . 154
The craft of Louers. Chaucer '54^
Moralyse a similitude who lyst theyr balades sew.
Ends. And graunt hem thy regioun and blysse celestiall. Expl.
the Craft of louers.
[Chaucer] 4 stanzas.
Of theyre nature they gretly theym Delyte . . . . 156^
Ends. Wretyn in the lusty season of May.
Explicit.
Now fresshe floure to me that ys so bryght . . . . 157
My soule to God standeth in dyspeyre.
loth to offende.
Bicorn and Chichevache, by Lydgate '57^
O prudent folkes taketh hede.
Ends, lynked in a double chayne.
Explicuit Balades of Bycorn and Chicheuache [compylyd by John
ludgate monke of berye at the request of a worthye syttesyne of
london to be paynted in a perler.]
In the margin are added in a later hand indications of the pictures
illustrating the poem.
Vmage of a poet.
ij beastes one fatt the other leane.
a fat beast callyd bicorne.
a company of men going toword (?) this bycorne.
a woman devouryd in y moudthe of Chichevache.
a longe horned beaste slender (and) leane w' sharpe tethe.
an old man w' a baston on his bake manasyng y e beaste for
devouringe of his wyffe.
Short poems
Honour and Joy helthe and prosperyte (5 stanzas) . . '59^
Alone walkyng, In thought pleynynge etc 160
Skeat, Chaucerian and other pieces p. 448.
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In the season of ffeuere when hit was full colde.
Lady of pile for \>y sorowes y' )> u haddest . . . . 160/1
O merciful and o mercyable 161
Pallas loquitur ad paris\\am de Troia . . . . . 161 b
Son of Priamus Gentyll paris of troy,
followed by Pallas to Priam, Venus to Paris, Minerva to Paris.
The yeres past of my tendyr youthe 162
A fresh rubric on f. 167
Confessio de tramgressionibus in Juuenttite.
Duryng the tyme of thys seson vere.
Ends. Thys lytyll dyte thys compilaciouw (169).
169^, 1700: are blank.
Prohemium.
Worshipfull and dyscrete that here present be . . 170^
Bochas [by John Lydgate] 171
When John Bochas consyderyd had and sought.
Ends f. 202. When humble request yo r yre may nat aswage.
203 6-104 are blank.
Short poems
The Discryuyng of a fayre lady 205
I haue a lady where so she be.
O mosy quince hangyng by your* stalke .... 205
Of God and kynde procedeth all Beawte .... 206
Looke well about ye that louers be 207
Printed by Skeat. Chaucerian and other Pieces p. 295.
Men may leue all gamys ....... 208
Pilgrim's song: E.E.T.S. Stacions of Rome, p. 37 and AW. Ant,
J- 2, 3.
A single quatrain
He that wyll in Eschepe etc a goose so fat "\
W' harpe pype and song, I Secundum
He must slepe in Newgate on a mat, j Aristotilem.
Be the nyght neu^r so long. )
A knyght that ys as hardy as a lyouw 209
The wyseman sayd vnto hys sonne . . . . . 209 b
The good wyfe taught hyr dowghtere 211
Ends 213
Her blessyng mot f> u haue and well mot |> u thryue
My leef Chylde. Amen.
Explicit.
2 1 3 -2 1 7 are blank.
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In a later hand
The courte of love [by G. Chaucer] 218
With tymm)s hert and tremlyng hand of drede.
See Skeat, Chaucerian and other pieces p. 409.
Ends 235. And Venus yet I thank I am alive.
235 b blank.
In a very current hand
Thys flfable is of y e hound that bare the chese gronddyd on
Isopus agaynst covetousnes translatyd by John Lydgat
[made in oxforde] 236
An olde proverbe hathe bene sayd and shall.
How the wollffe diseyvyd the crane. Isopus translatyd by
lohn Lydgat 236
In Isopus forther to proced.
Ends 237. This tall applyinge agayn folke that be wnkynde.
Jinis John Lydgat) luryten by John Stow.
237^-240 blank.
In the first hand
Loo? Worshipfull Sirs here after followeth a gentylmanly
Tretyse full convenyent for contemplatiff lovers to rede and
vnderstond made by a noble clerke, Peirs of ffulham sum
tyme vssher of Venus scole whiche hath brieflye compyled
many praty conceytis in love vnder covert termes off fysshyng
and ffowlyng . . . . . . . . . 241
Pardimus anguillam manibus dum stringimus illam
Cunctorum fo. 11 et pro huius simpliczV collacionis
exordio.
(A) man that lovith ffisshyng and fowlyng bothe.
Ends 245 b
In oure tonge called^ Culrage.
Expl. Peirs oft" ffulham.
Printed in Hartshorne's Ancient Metrical Tales from this MS.
246, 247 blank.
In the hand of the Court of Love
The petigrew of England 248
In prose
This short tretise ys compiled for to bryng the people oute of
doubte that haue not hard of the Cronycle etc.
Ends with
The iij Son of Philippe labele
that ben ordeyned for thaym that occupie suche maner of
open wronges.
are blank.
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Paper, iif x8, pp. 374, 33 lines to a page. Cent, xv, in a
current hand. Written by John Shirley (? 1456) the well-known
translator and scribe. See Diet. Nat. Biog. Other MSS. written
by Shirley are (i) Sion College MS. (2) Bodleian : Ashmole 59.
(3-5) Harley, 78, 2251, 7333. (6) Additional MS. 16165. See
Skeat's Cliaticer, I. p. 25 etc.
Given by Willmer.
Collation: i 8 -23 8 24* (wants 4: parchment). The paper quires
are numbered from xiiij to xxxvi on the last leaf of each : some of
the numbers are cut off.
Contents :
I. Balade of oure ladye by Lidegate (added) . . . p. i
On hooly hilles whecche beoth of gret renoun.
Many of the poems in this MS. have long titles which I dis-
regard for the most part. I give this one as a specimen.
Loo my frendes here beginne}>e )>e translacyoune out of
latyne in to englisshe of Gloriosa dicta sunt de te etc.
translated by Lidegate daun lohn )>e Munk of Burye at
Jnnstaunce of }>e Busshop of excestre in wyse of Balade
beholde)>e and redeye I prey yowe.
Ends. When gloryous thinges be sayde and song of j>ee.
i. A seyinge of daun Johan ....... 8
Per bel> foure thinges }>at makej> man a fool.
Seven lines.
Yit of j?e same (seven lines) 9
Prouerbe.
Subtilis duplicitas Italorum etc 9
Ceste le dit de saynt Beede 9
II est assauoir que troys jours sount en Ian
(days bad for bleeding etc.).
dictum de senioribus.
Italici Olilant (?)
Theotonici clamant etc.
3. The deuise of a peynted clothe. Lydgate . . . 10
(Bycorn and Chichevache: see R. 3. 19.)
O prudent folkes takej>e heed.
Ends. Lynkeld in a double cheyne.
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
4. Balade of gode counseyle translated out of latyne. Lydegate 1 5
Consider weel with euery circumstaunce.
Voydejje youre hering frome alle jj* deeme amysse.
5. Benedic anima mea domino in English.
O )>ou my soule gyf laude on to J>e lord . . . 19
Whane J>ou shal deme vs stonding to fore )>y face.
6. A Roundell which my lord [William Pole] of Suffolk made
after his comyng oute of prysoune . . . . . 25
Doye je chauntier plouvrer ou ryre
Tant que mon male plus empire.
7. Balade of goode counseyle, Lydegate . . . . 25
Lyflfte vp j>e eyghen of youre aduertence.
Howe J>is vvorlde is a thorughfare ful of woo.
8. Roundell made by my lord of Suffolk whylest he was
prysonnier in Fraunce 32
Lealement a tous jours mais
si serrount noz playsirs parfais.
9. Another 33
Fface vo coer tout ce que ly plera
Tiel demouray sans pensir ca ne la.
to. Another.
Puis, qualer vers vous ne puisse
Je vous requere tant que je puis.
ii. Balade of Love. Lydegate 34
Fresshe lusty beaute joyned with gentylnesse
Which ha]>e alle vertues sette in hir ymage.
J2. Balade by the Earl of Suffolk when prisoner ... 35
Je vous salue ma maysttresse.
13. Roundel by the same 36
Quel desplaysier quel courous quel destresse.
14. Ballad by the same 37
Dieux nous dona petit cle vie.
15. Ballad made at Eltham in Cristmasse. Lydegate . . 37
Bachus whiclu' is god of J>e glade vyne.
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16. A desgysinge before )>e kyugc at cristeniasse iu J>e Cast el
of Herforde 40
Most noble prynce with support of your grace.
17. Balade de bone counseyle (7 lines) 48
Yif hit befalle j>at god J>ee list visyte.
1 8. Balade in French 49
Rande toy a quoy tu le ? sauras.
19. Ycy comonce vn balade ffrauncoys fait par le plus grand
poetycal Clerk du parys 49
Le monde va en amendaunt.
20. Balade of J>e same sentence by Lydegate .... 50
pis worlde is ful of stabulnesse.
21. Balade. ..du regyment du corps 53
Qui veult son corps en sante maintenir.
22. Gaude virgo mater Christi by Lydegate . . . . 53
Be gladde mayde moder of Cryst Jhesu.
23. Desguysing...at London... of dame fortune, dame Prudence,
dame Righteoysnesse & dame Fortitudo ... 55
Loo here jns lady )>at yee may see.
24. A counseyle how to be wedded 65
Sit deo gloria laus et benedictio
Johanni pariter Petro Laurencio.
(Poems of Walter Mopes ed. T. Wright, Camden Soc. p. 77.)
Pene difficiles et multipharie (1. 204).
25. Howe J>ampull and )>e floure de lys came first to |>e kynges
of ffraunce...'to fore J>e kyng Henry J>e sixte' at Windsor . 71
Most noble prynce of Cristein prynces alle.
26. Devyse of a steyned halle of )>e lyf of Saint George, by
Lydegate for ' f>armorieres of London' .... 74
O yee folk j?at heer present be.
27. Balade fait a parys quant les burgoygnouns bouterount
hors les armynaux 81
Celuy quy dit en deaux mos gracyeux.
28. Desputacion entre Salamon ly saage et Marcoulf le foole 82
Salamon dit. Marcoulf respount.
Mortalite et guerre ) De putayne sourd maulx
Sount exil de terre ', Et guerres mortaulx
Et destreuizemens. j Et perils des gens.
29. Prouerbes de les xvij sages 86
Platan. Joesnes hommes qui vist en oremour.
/8 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
30. Balacle de bone counselle 89
Tant de perilz sont a suir la court.
31. Balade selonc le mounde qui courte mountenant . . 90
Qui ses besoignes veult bien faire.
32. Balade ryal de saine counsylle . . . . . 91
Les biens mondains et toulx les accessoires.
33. Balade de bone sentence 92
Puis que je suy fumeux plain du fumee.
34. Balade counseyllant les amans 93
Amours est bien par son noun appellez.
35. Balade moult bone et ryal 94
Ma doulce amour et dame souueraine.
36. La respounce sage et moult courtoyse .... 95
Vous me priez sy amoureusement.
37. Balade amoreux ......... 96
Je me merueil du desir que mesprent.
38. Balade gaye et gracieux ....... 97
Puisque desir me fait estre amoreux.
39. Balade que fist faire le due de Bavier .... 98
A vous dame humblement me complaine.
40. Balade merveylleuse ........ 99
Vous qui fuistes en jeunesse moult cointe.
41. Balade morale ......... 99
Jai frequentemaint compagnon galant.
42. Balade moult veritables . . . . . . . 100
Jai veu et hante longement.
43. Balade moult bon a sauoir 101
On parle de maladie.
44. Balade bone a regarder 102
Je fortune de ce mounde emperier.
45. Balade moral et de bone counseylle 103
Que vault tresor qui na joye ne leesse.
46. Balade credible tout a rebours de les mos . . . 103
Je voy les estas amender.
47. Balade voulgaire ......... 105
Que fais tu Clerk que veux tu que je die.
48. Compleynte of Anelida...englisshed by Geffrey Chaucer In
}>e best wyse and moost Rethoricyous J>e moost vnkou)>e
metre, coloures and Kymes J> 1 euer was sayde etc. . . 106
So thirlle)>e with \>e poynt of Remembraunce.
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See Skeat Student's Chaucer p. 1 1 6.
49. An holy medytacion ........ 1 1 1
Affler J>e stormy tyme cessing J>e rayn.
50. A lytel traytis made by Thomas Ocoleue of |>e office of )>e
priue seel ......... 116
Cupido vnto whas commaundement.
Skeat, Chaucerian and other pieces, p. 217.
Furnivall, Hoccleve's Minor Poems, E. E. T. S. 1892 p. 7.
51. pallyaunce betwene Mars and Venus. ..made by Geffrey
Chancier at )>e comandement of... due John of Lancastre . 130
Gladej>e ye fooles of )>is morowen gray.
pus eondej>e here )>is complaint whiche some men sayne was
made by my lady of york doughter to the kyng of Spaygne
and my lord of huntyngdon some tyme due of excestre.
52. A balade translated out of frenshe...by Chaucier Geffrey, J>e
frenshe made Sir Oter de Grauntsomwe knight Savosyen 139
per nys so hye coumfort to my plesaunce.
hit is sayde }>at graunsom/e made ]>is last balade for venus
resembled to my lady of york aunswering )>e complaynt
of mars.
' Compleynt of Venus,' Student 's Chaucer p. 125.
53. A balade made by Chaucier of \>e louer and of dame fortune 142
pis wrechched worldes transmutacyoun.
'Fortune,' 1. c. p. 119.
54. Balade j> 4 Chaucier made on his deeth bedde . . . 144
Flee fro \>e press and dwelle with sooth fastnesse.
Margin: nota per Shirley.
' Truth,' 1. c. p. 122.
55. Balade made at ]>e reuerence of our lady by daun Johan
Lidegate...in wyse of chesing louer at saint Valentynes day 145
Saynt Valentyne of custume yeere by yeere.
56. Balade gyuen vnto J>e kyng henry (ye vi) and to his moder
t>e queene kateryne sittyng at }>e mete vpon }>e yeris day
in J>e castell of hertford, made by Ledegate . . . 149
pis hardy foole J>is bridde victoryous.
57. A womans complaint, Lydgate ...... 151
Alias I wooful creature.
58. Balade by Lydgate to K. Henry vi. pis same yeere of his
coronacioun ......... 154
Moost noble Prynce of cristin prynces alle.
59. Balade by Lydgate... at J>e reuerence of my lady of Holand
and of my lord of gloucestre to fore )>e day of kyre
maryage .......... '38
Thorugh gladde aspectis of }>e god Cupyde.
80 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [k. 3.
60. A deuoute salme of J>e sautier which Lydegate... translated
in J>e chapell at Wyndesore at be request of J>e dean
whyles Je kyng was at evensonge . . . . . 165
Benedic anima mea etc.
O bowe my soule gif laude vn to j>e lorde.
61. A lettre made in wyse of balade by daun Johan, brought by
a poursuyaunt in wyse of mommers desguysed to fore }>e
Mayre of London Gestfeld vpon \>e twelflfebe night of
Cristmasse ordeyned Ryallych by be worthy merciers
Citeseyns of London . . . . . . . 171
Moost mighty lord Jnbyter J>e greet.
62. A lettre made in wyse of balade by ledegate...of a mom-
mynge whiche be Goldesmythes of be Cite of London
mommed...to J>eyre Mayre Gestfeld vpon Candelmasse
day etc . 175
pat worby Dauid which )>at sloughe Golye.
63. pe lyflfe of be holy virgyne Seynte Margarete translated oute
of J>e legent...by lidegate...at be Request of my lady of
huntyngdon some tyme be Countasse of ]>e March [anno 8
henr. 6 added~\.
At be Reuerence of Saynte Margarete . . . 178
64. pe translation of )>e ympne Criste qui lux ts et dies by
Lydgate in wyse of balade . . . . . . 195
Cryst bat art boobe day and light.
65. pe seven salmes translated oute of latyne in to englisshe by
an hooly and gret Clerk j>at was reclused in be West of
England \added: whosse name was ffrater Thomas
bramptone sacre Theologie doctor frater minorum pauper-
culus confessor de latino in anglicum Anno dni M. cccc.
XIII ad dei honorem et incrementum deuocioni] . . 197
Pro/. As I me lay alloone in bedde.
Dot/line in furore etc. Lord wilt bou not me shaame and
sheende.
66. pe complaynt of Cryst 'made by a maystre of diuynite' . 233
pis is Crystes owen compleynt. Frome man to man he
dere haj>e bought.
Printed E. E. T. S. Political, Religious &> Love Poems p. 181
from the Lambeth MS. 853.
67. A dyetarie for mans heele 235
God J>at al |>is worlde haj>e wrought.
68. Inc. liber Aristo<te>lis de secretis secretorum siue de
regimine principum vel Regum seu dominorum . . 261
Pro!. Domino suo excellentissimo.. Guidoni de Valencia...
Philippus.
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Primo de capitulis. (List of chapters) .... 263
De prologo cuiusdaw doctoris in comendacione Aristotilis . 264
Deus omnipotens custodial Regem nostrum.
De prologo lohannis qiii transtitlit librum istutn . . 265
lohannes qui transtulit librum istutn librum (sic) filius
Patricii.
De epistola missa ad regem Alexandrum videte . . . 266
Ffelici gloriosissime Imperator.
Ending p. 337: monarcha in septemtrione. Soo bus endej>e
here jjappistel of ]>e regiment of prynces )>e whiche daun
Aristotiles weel avised etc.
69. A seying of f>e nightingale ymagyned and compyled by
Lydegate 337
In luygne whan Tytan was in J>e Crabbes hed.
70. An ordenaunce of a processyoun of J>e feste of corpus cristi
made in london by daun John Lydegate . . . 348
pis hye feste for to magnefye nowe.
Ends p. 356
Where aungels sing everlasting Osanna.
Margin. Shirley kou|>e fynde no more of Hs copye.
71. Balade Ryal made by oure laureat poete of Albyon in hees
laste yeeres ......... 356
Surne tyme Hs worlde was so stedfast and stable.
(Student's Chaucer p. 123.)
72. Balade by Chaucier [on his dethe bede] .... 357
Flee frome }>e prees and dwelle w' so}>e fastnesse.
(1. c. p. 122.)
73. Balade by Chaucier 358
pe first fader fynder of gentylesse.
(1. c. p. 122.)
74. A comune prayer 359
Dominus consecret papam et gregem, 4 lines Latin, 2 English.
75. Seven balades made by Lydegate of }>e sodeine fal of certain
princes of flfrance and England nowe late in oure dayes . 359
Beholde J>is gret prynce Edwarde }>e secounde.
The other princes are Richard II., 'Kyng Chorlles' of France,
|>e due of Orlyaunce, Thomas due of Gloucestre, John due
of Bourgoyne, }>e due of Yrlande.
76. Balade, seven lines 3^i
Yee j>at desyre in herte and haue plesaunce
Olde storyes in bokis for to rede
Code matiers putte hem in remembraunce
And of oj>er ne take ye none hede.
Besechyng yowe of youre godely hede
Whane yee }>is boke haue over redde and seyne
To Johan Shirley restore yee it ageyne.
T. C. II. 6
82 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3-
[Note, added by Stow (?). This John Shirley w* his wyfe was
buryed in y e hospitall of seynt bartelmew by smethefeld
& ther remaynethe a fayr monument of hym] 1 .
77. Pandare to Trojlus, seven lines 361
A whestone is no kerving instrument.
From Chaucer's Troilus i. 91
A Latin couplet.
Qui servit nequam mercedem non capit equam
Omnia qui querit perdere dignus erit.
78. Balade made by \>e Munk of Bury whiles it is seyde Verbum
caro factum est ........ 362
J?e deuoute people whiche kepe an observaunce.
79. Complaynte for my lady of holand 363
A note in Stow's hand about her is in the margin.
A solytarye score compleyning.
80. Chaucier's wordes a geffrey vnto Adame (his owen scryveyne) 367
Adame scryveyne if euer it \>ee byfalle.
(Student's Chaucer p. 118.)
81. A prouerbe, seven lines ....... 368
Disceyte deceyuej?e and shal bee deceyued.
Latin couplet
Dampno quid peius vuulnus quid vuulnere morbus.
Quid morbo mors [et] quid morte nephandus amor.
82. Balade of Bochas by Lydgate ' ymagyned by him within \>e
tyme of his translacion of Bocas by the commandement of
my lord of Gloucestre ' 368
pis Tragedye gyvej>e a gret warnynge.
83. Ista sunt nomina ordinis S. Georgii de Garterio Anno quo
Sigismundus Rex Romanorum fuit in Anglia tempore
Regis Henrici Quinti 371
( ) Rex Romanorum.
(26) Dns Willelmus haryngton.
Panem. pannum rodit fur fur fur sus tinea mus.
84. A devoute prayer made by a devoute recluse to be saycle
anone affter t>e levacion of J>e sacrament whane J>e preste
is at masse ......... 372
Lord God Almighty fader & sone & holy goste.
(in prose)
85. Roundell 373
Fresshest of colour and moste amyable.
86. fis is medecyne parfite... proved by J>e nobul due of lancastre
Johan for be maladye of J>e stone 373
Take Saxifrage nettelsede comyn etc.
1 In Stow's Survey of London, ed. Thorns (1842, p. 139), Shirley's epitaph is given.
Stow adds, concerning Shirley's copies of Chaucer and Lydgate, "I have seen them, and
partly do possess them."
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601. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS IN ENGLISH.
I 377
Paper, io| x j\, fif. 320, varying numbers of lines to a page.
Cent, xv (temp. Edward IV.), very neatly written, with some pen
and ink drawings of good style.
Given by Willmer. Belonged to John Stow, whose name is at
the top of f. i and on 320 < etc. At the bottom off. ib is
'Tho. Griffith 1650.'
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Contents: I. In double columns of 35-36 lines.
In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti.
The Lord's Prayer in Latin and English with English rubric
(as throughout) f. i
Ave Maria
Apostles' Creed divided among the Apostles.
At the bottom a note in Latin on the manner of crossing
oneself.
The v wyttes i b
The x commaundmentys : in English (only the first is
given here) i b
The v wyttys bodyly 2
The v wyttys gostly ........ i
The vii blessyd virtues 2 b
A Prologe on the x commaundments . . . . 2 b
All maner men shuldyn holde goddys commaundments
and they be nat greuous ne heuy.
Expl. prol 3
Fill mi custodi sermones meos etc.
God hymsylf spake these wordes.
Here suen the seuyn dedely synnes 6
howe many maner wyse syn ys foryeue .... 76
The vij werkes of mercy bodyly .....
The vii werkys of mercy gostly . . ' 8
vii geftys of the holy gost 8*
xii artycles of the ffeythe 9
short declaracion of beleue in generall ... 9 b
vii sacraments ........ io
xii lettynges of prayer 10
Howe a man shall yelde a streyte reconyng of thie goodys . 12
62
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Here sueth somwhat of charyte . . . . . 12 b
iiij errors ......... 17
Howe men shulde be meke and pacient . . . . 17
Gregory in the xviii omely 18
Seynt Denyse in hys boke of goddys names . . . 18
Here foloweth the craft to dy well and to lyue euer . . i8
Forasmoche as the Passage out of the Wrechydnes of
the exyle of thys world etc.
Ends 32 b Jhesu cryste that ys mediatour betwyxt God and
man. Amen.
Here endeth the craft of dying.
II. Single lines, 31-32 to a page.
33 a blank.
1. 33 b Erthe vppon erthe so wondyrly wrought etc.
2. Here bigynneth a treatise of Parce michi domine . . 34
By a forest side walkyng as I went.
Above is a sketch of a man lying on flowery grass among
trees on which are birds : one bird has a blank scroll in
his mouth.
A longer scroll above, on which a later hand has written
Lidgati Poemata.
3. Here bigynneth the nyne lessons of the Dirige whiche Job
made in his tribulacioun lyeng on the dunghill and bicn
declarid more openly to lewde mennes vndirstondyng bi a
solempne worthy and a discrete clerke Richard Hampole
and is clepid pety Job and is ml profitable to stiere
synners to compunctioun ....... 38
Parce michi etc.
Lef lord my soule thou spare
The soth I sey now sikerle.
Ends f. 51 b
so that I may euer w* the dwell
Thorough Parce michi Domine.
Here enden the ix lessons of Dirige whyche Job made in
hys tribulacion.
4. Here begynneth a breue compilyd tretyse callyd by the
Auctor therof Curia sapiencie [John lydgate] . . . 51
Stow (?) has written above :
here lackethe the prologe, 10 staves.
All besy swymmyng in the stormy flood.
Ends f. 63
ffor verray ground to Boece I hym remyt.
Explicit processus de Musica.
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Expl. hie tract, qui vocatur Curia Sapiencie [John Lydgate].
Note in the margin by Stow?
here lackethe 33 staves and more.
ff. 83^-84^ blank.
5. In smaller hand. At top. John Lydgate (xvi) . . 85
[De Concilio Trinitatis].
O thoughtfull hert plongyd in hygh dystresse.
And to my mater I will ayene retorne (95 b).
Liber II. Title added (xvi)
How merci and pees and Rightwisnes and truthe dysputyd
for the Redempcion of mane kynde . . . . 95 b
Who that ys bound and feteryd in prison.
Liber II. ends f. 115^.
Liber III. 137 b.
Liber IV. 142 b.
Liber V. 151.
Liber VI. 156 b.
Expl. purificacio et finis libri compilati per Joh. lydgate
monachum de Bury.
6. A later title
here is y e begynnynge of y e xv Joyes and the xv sorows that
our blissyd lady had whill she was here on earthe . . 157
Prologue. Betwene mydnyght and J> e morow fresshe gray
Nat yore ago in hert full pensyfe.
Text. Blessyd braunche that sprang out of Jesse . 15?^
Each stanza (7 lines) is accompanied by a Pater
and Ave.
Ends:
As here afore ys shewed the manere.
Expl. qttindecim gaudia b. Marie virginis.
Inc. prologus quindecim lamentaciomim b. Marie . . 159
As ye haue herde accomplysshed the gladnes.
Inc. quindecim lamentaciones b. Marie . . . '59^
O gloryous mayde for that heuynesse.
Ends with lenuoy of 3 stanzas :
where thow faylyst that men shall the correcte.
Expl. quindecim lament, b. Marie V.
7. A poem in six stanzas of seven lines on the Aue regina
celorum . . . . . . . 162
Hayle luminary benigne lanterne
Where more ioy ys then tung may telle.
Lydgate's name is added at the end of this and the following
poems up to f. 174^.
8. A poem (5 stan/as) on Regina cell letare .... 162 b
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O thow ioyfull lyght eternall ye shyne
Banysshyd ys oure sorow and aduersite.
9. A poem in stanzas of 8 lines, each ending aue Jesse
virgula 163
Hayle blessyd lady the modyr of crist Ihesu
That syng of hoole hert O ane Jesse virgula.
10. To the Virgin: stanzas of seven lines .... 165
O welle of swetnesse replete in euery veyne.
On the monk from whose mouth sprang a lily with Maria
on the leaves
As was Dan Joos so quyte hem for theyre mede. Amen.
11. Quene of heuyn of hell eke emperesse .... 167
Stanzas of eight lines: with leniioy
To make yow strong beware foryete hem nought.
12. Thow heuynly quene of grace oure loode sterre . . 1686
Stanzas of eight lines
Safe all thy seruauntes from stroke of pestylence.
13. To St Ursula: three 8-line stanzas and a couplet . . 169
Ye brytouw martyrs famous in parfytenesse
Vs to socoure lorde when we to the call.
14. To St Anne: two 7-line stanzas 169^
He that intendeth in hys hert to seke
Delyueryng hys sowle from all aduersite.
15. In a smaller hand 170
[The xv ioyes of our lady secundum lydgate.]
Prol. O blessyd lady O princes of mercy.
Text. O quene of heueru? of hell eke emperesse.
and ioy euerlastyng when I shall hens wende. Amen.
Inc. quinque gaitdia b. Marie virginis . . . . 1 73
Be glad o mayde moder of cryst Jhesu
Only of mercy & stynt oure heuynesse.
Expl. quimjue gamlia b. m. v.
1 6. Et incipiunt alia quinqite gaiuiia 1 73 ^
O sterre of Jacob, glory of Israeli
Agayn gostly enemyes to stond in assuraunce.
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17. Inc. psalmi passionis domini . . . . . . '74^
Seven-line stanzas, intercalated with the beginning of each
Psalm, the Versicle and the oratio.
O lord omnipotent fadyr of oure creacyoun.
W lastyng feyth vnto my dedly houre. Amen.
ff. 178-181 are blank.
1 8. Poem in eight-line stanzas ....... 182
At the head is written by Stow, "William lichefeld, doctor
of diuinitie. "
It is printed in E. E. T. S. (Political, Religious and Love
Poems, ed. Furnivall) from another MS.
Oure gracious god prince of pyte
Of whom all grace and goodnes began.
There are Latin marginals giving the substance of the English.
Ends : And aftyr thys lyfe bryng yow & me
Vnto euerlasting ioy. Amen.
Added (xv, xvi) : q d lychefeld doctor theologie.
Here endith y e complaynte betwyxt god and man that was
made by m str Willyam lychefeld which was parson of all
halows [ye more in thames strete] in London on whos soule
God have mercy. Amen.
[he dyed in anno 1447 on y xxiiij of October & made in
his tyme 3083 sermons as apered by his owne hand
writinge & were found when he was deade.]
The additions are in Stow's hand.
19. [Lydgate vpon Christes passyon] ..... 189
Man to reform thyne exyle & thy losse
Then oft thynke on crystes passyon.
ff. 191^-1930; blank.
20. [Lydgate. On Psalmody] ....... 193 b
All gostly songys and hympnes y* be song
Eternally thy mercyes they do syng. Amen.
21. [Lydgate: The Bird's Hymns to the Deity] . . . 196 b
As I me lenyd vnto a ioyfull place
And thus they sang both more and lase
The melodyouse ympne w' gret solase.
O lux beat a trinitas.
22. Letabundus: Lydgate
Ground take in vertu by patryarke olde
Thys new yere doth thereon remembraunce.
Expl. letabundus.
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ff. 201 ^-204 blank.
23. An exortacion to Prestys when they shall say theyr masse . 205
[Lydgate.]
Ye holy prestes remembreth in yo r herte
Toward masse when ye do yow dresse
Repast of aungelles in the heuynly mansyon.
24. [Exposition of the mass for lay people] .... 205 b
Prol. : ye folkys all whyche haue deuocioun
Abyde at masse tyll In principio.
Latin quatrain : Qui vult audire missam non debet abire
Donee dicatur et plene perficiatur
Principio si sis et non in fine manebis
Pars tua parua datur que (/. quia) laus in
fine probatur.
Text. The holy man pope Celestyne .... 206 b
Lyke as I fynde wrytyn in hys lyfe.
Ends f. 212 b: W poore folk in heuyn shalbe theyre mede.
25. The vertu of heryng of the masse aftyr the opynyon of
Seynt Bernard 212^
Heryng of masse yeueth a gret reward e
Agayne all hys foon of hygh estate or lasse.
26. Wordys of Seynt Augustyne in fasciculo morum of t'.ie
medys of the masse 213 b
That day a man deuoutly hereth masse
The to reforme where as they se nede.
27. Seynt Austyne noteth howe the angell of heuen declaryd to
hym the merytes of the masse that men receue in heryng
deuoutly a masse . . . . . . . . 214^
Now herken euery man bothe more & lesse
Now graunt vs grace to here masse aryght.
28. A lytyll compilacioun declaryng when men kysse in Churche
stoone or erthe tymber or iron what they shuld remembre
therby 215
O deuout pepyll whyche kepe an obseruaunce
Whyche for your sake weryd a crowne of thorne.
29. Prose : in two narrow columns.
(Benefits of the Communion) ......
Furst when ye receue cure lord in forme of brede, ye
receue v parties.
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ne nothyng may fyll the hert, but that that hyt louyth.
Deo gracias.
30. Thys ys the pardon grauntyd to the fest of Corpus Christi.
Furst to all tho that byn repentaunt etc.
The total amount is 12000 days.
31. Indulgence of John xii (? xxii) for adding the name of Jesus
to the Ave, and for saying our Lady's Psalter . . 216 b
ff. 217-220 blank.
32. Inc. Vita beate Anne matris b. marie virginis [Lydgate] . 221
Prol. : O blessyd Jhesu that art full of myght
Besechyng yow of youre good supportyng.
Text: O blessyd Anne aboue predestinate . . . 222 b
And when we dy to haue eternall blys.
Expl. vita S. Anne matris b. Marie V.
ff. 230 -232 b blank.
Then follow for the second time texts of a number of poems
to the Virgin.
33. Hayle luminary (see f. 162) 233
34. O thow ioyfull (162^) 233
35. Hayle blyssyd lady (163) 234
36. O welle of swetnes (165^). ...... 236
37. Betwene mydnyght (157) 238
38. As ye haue herde (159) ....... 240
39. O glorious mayde (159^) ....... 240^
40. Verses on the Kings of England (seven lines on each) . 242
Willelmus Conines/or.
Thys myghty Wyllyam Duke of Normandy.
Ends on Henry vi: and buryed at Chartsey yf ye lyst to here.
The name Edwardus quartus follows, but there is no verse.
41. Prophesie Hermerici ab origine mundi v m v c Ixxxvj annis.
In prose . . . . . . . . . . 243 b
Lilium regnans in nobile parte mundi
tune completa permanebunt.
Expositio eiusdem prophesie. Lilium v rex ffrancie.
42. These ben the names of seyntes and prophetys that prophesy
of a Kyng that shuld be callyd Edward . . . 244
Seynt Thomas of Canterbury calleth hym the vrgent king of
bewte.
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The last authority is Makamyte.
43. Ballad. Gaudete iusti in domino 244
Refrain : Conuertimini ye comons and drede your kyng.
For now regneth ryghtwysly oure souerayn.
Distich :
Homo proponit. Oftymes in veyn }
But deus disponit. The boke telleth pleyn.j
Prayers -245
44. Ab inimicis nostris defende nos cryste.
Most souerayn lord O blysfull cryste Jhesu.
The two last stanzas are on behalf of king Edward IV,
ending
And dryue thy folke agayn to stedfastnes.
Expl. q d Rogerus Thorney (the name added in cent, xvi early).
45. As I me lenyd (f. 196 ) 245 b
46. Gallaunt 247
Lyke as grete wateres encresyn in to floodes fele
T. for toylous pryde these myscheuen our land here.
47. On the seven sins 248
Gula. O thow gay galaunt, Gloton by thy name
Elles shall England wayle that euer they came here.
48. The Lyfe of Adam ........ 249
In prose : double columns.
Adam was made of oure lorde god in the same place that
Jhesu was born in.
Ends :
they entred and spake prowdly.
It is a version of the Latin Vita Adae edited by W. Meyer.
Followed by a short note of the Six Ages of the World in
Latin on f. 256 b.
49. Here begynneth the lyfe of seynt Antony .... 257
Antony forsoth of noble and relygyous fadyr.
Divided into 9 lessons.
Ends :
honour and worshyp euerlastyng. Amen.
The fyndyng of the gloryous Confessour Antony . 261
In the tyme that Constantyne the Emperour.
Ends :
that byn sory for theyr synnes.
In sixteen paragraphs, not numbered.
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The translation of the gloryous confessour and heremyte
seynt Antony of Vienensis . . . . . . 17 \b
For god fauoryng of seynt Antony.
In four paragraphs.
Ends:
in the world of worldes. Amen.
Another hand, double columns.
50. Hie sequitur oracio dominica per dominum Johannem lydgate
translata 274
Oure gloryous fadyr J>' art in heuen
Sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
51. Hie sequitur salutacio angelica per dictum dompnum
Johannem Lydegate translata 274
Hayle glorious lady & heuenly quene
And aftyr our endyng god send vs heuyn. Amen.
52. Hie sequitur quando Psalterium beate Marie primo erat
inuentum per quendam monachum monasterii S. Egidii in
regno Francie miraculose ...... 274
Whoso desyreth to gete and conquere
Her sawter to sey lat vs fonde.
53. An exortacion to auoyde and to put awey the seuyn dedely
synnes 275 3
Syth in Jjys world )>er can noj>yng be secvre
So J>at J>e worlde neuer make oure soulys thrall.
Ascribed in Stow's hand to Lydgate.
54. A deuout prayer toward thy bedde at nyght . . . 276
Now Jhesu lorde welle of all goodnes.
In nomine patris et filii.
Et spiritus sancti. Amen.
By Lydgate (Stow).
55. A deuout prayer at thy vprysyng 276
In nomine patris et filii.
And in my desease be my socour. Amen.
56. Sequitur Meditacio de Passione domini nostri Jhesu Cristi . 276
There stood besyde the crosse of Jhesu
Amen Amen for charyte.
By Lydgate (Stow).
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57. An exortacion deuoutly founde and groundyd of Auctoryte to
excyte euery crystyn creature to worshyp euery drope of
blood that our hlessyd and mercyfull lord Jhesus shed
for us & all mankynde in hys bytter passiouw. And the
merytys w' all for thys worshyppyng as hit appereth
folowyng . . . . . . . . . . 277^
Yf thow wolt worshyp synglerly
Here is }>e nombre of hem all.
58. Here foloweth the Prologe of the Daunce of Machabre
translatyd by Dom John lydgate Monke of Bury out of
ffrensshe in to englyssh. Whyche now ys called the
Daunce of Poulys . . . . . . . . 278^
?
Ye folkes harde hertyd as at stone
Holde me excusyd my name ys John Lydgate.
Of Bury (in red).
The text begins with a speech of Afors to Adam, and ends
with one of Doctor Machabre and lenvoy.
59. Latin verses.
a. Eight lines 284
Mortales dominus cunctos in luce creauit.
b. Twelve lines.
In cinerem rediit cinis et nequit hie remanere.
c. Four lines.
Sunt tria que vere faciunt me sepe dolere.
f. 1846 is blank.
60. Lydgate de magnificencia ecclesie 285
Emperour of all emperours omnipotent
And I wyll pray whyle ye rede eftsones in lyke wyse.
61. Septem sunt gradus magnatum ...... 287
Thys world ys born vp by Astates seuyn
The ryche her almes to part w 1 \>e porayll.
Officia dictorum magnatum.
Pryncys to vs longe)> prestys to gouerne
Rychemen we delyn our Almes w' our hond.
6?.. Septem Pagine sequuntur Sapiencie 287 b
Thynges passyd remembre and well dyuyde
To be content w* suche as )>ey here fynde.
63. The fynders of the vij sciences artificiall . . . 288
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Jubal was faydr and fynder of song
ir
To helthe of man )>er temperat diete .... 188
By Lydgate (Stow).
64. The vij sciences callyd Lyberall 188 b
Of seuyn sciences callyd lyberall
The world gouerneth by heuynly influence.
Auctors of seuyn sciences.
Auctor of Cramer was whilom Prician
Founders of sciences and vertuos encrese.
65. Single columns to a page.
The dysposicion of the vij Pianettes 288 b
Saturne dispose^ a man to melancoly.
Makyn men vnstable here in her lyuyng.
The dysposicion of the xij sygnes 288
,, ,, of J>e iiij elementes.
,, ,, of )>e iiij complexyons.
,, ,, of J7e iiij tymes of \>e yere.
,, ,, of the world 289 b
(All attributed by Stow to Lydgate. All have the same
refrain.)
66. One column on a page.
Mercy and Trowthe met on an hygh mounteyne . 290
For vs to come to euerlastyng Pese.
By Lydgate (Stow).
67. Towards the end of frosty January ..... 293
Looke well your myrrours and deme noon other wyght.
By Lydgate (Stow).
68. I counseyle the what so euer thow be .... 296 b
To hys plesaunce to other hys langage.
Printed by Furnivall in Political, Religious and Love Poems,
E. E. T. S. p. 25 from a MS. in the University Library.
69. Of hony men gadyr out swetnesse 298
W hym to dwelle aboue the sterres clere.
70. Lat no man bost of Connyng nor vertu .... 300
Of whos v. woundes prynte in your hert a Rose.
By Lydgate (Stow).
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ff. 302-304 blank.
71. A tale of Guy & Colbrond 305
Fro Crystes byrthe nyne hundryd yere.
Nat to dysdeyne these clauses who ye rede.
72. The Lyfe of St George the Martyr 314
Ye folke all whyche here in presence be
As he repayryd hem to hys mansioun.
Expl. vita S. Georgii Martins.
Note by Stowe :
The lyfe of seynt gorge compyled by John Ludgate monke
of bery at y e request of y e armerers of London to peynt
about their haulle.
73. Prayers.
Ab inimifis nostris defende nos Criste . . . 318
See f. 245.
74. Verses on the Kings of England (see f. 242) . . . 319
Ending: Edwardtis quartus f. 320 .
At the end is written
John Stowes bok'e.
John Stow, honor of this boke and of many mo.
benedicamus domino.
The drawings in the MS, are as follows :
i. f. i. Pater noster. Initial in pen and ink. The Agony in the Garden. Three
Apostles asleep. Christ kneels in C. face A'. Cup on rock. The Father in air, in a
circle, half-length.
- . Ave Maria. The Annunciation. Angel kneels on L. with blank scroll.
3. Creed. Group of the Twelve Apostles seated. Peter in centre with key.
Andrew with cross. James the Less with club. On L. James the Great with hat and
staff on A'.
4. f. 34. Pane michi. Man asleep in wood, birds on trees, one with a scroll in its
mouth.
5. f. 28. The nine lessons. Rudely done. Job nude, lying down : Christ half-
length in air with orb.
6. f. 51. Curia sapientie. The Trinity as three human figures seated, with cross,
orb, and church, respectively. Blank scrolls above.
7. f. 182. Poem by Will. Lichficld. Creation of Eve: Christ stands over her.
Delicately drawn.
8. f. 238. xv Joys. Piela and kneeling man on Z 1 .
1 There are two scrolls, one inscribed in red, O mater del memento mei, the other in
later capitals : Sit semper sine ve qtti dicit michi (1. michi dicit] ave.
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9. f. 249. Lyfof Adam. Border. Larger drawing. The Conviction. Christ on
L. Tree with human-headed serpent. Eve, and Adam on R.
10. f. 259. Lyfe of S. Antony. Antony with book and staff with T cross at top.
Outside the initial on L. kneels a man with a scroll : O sancte pater Antoni ora pro nobis
ad dominum.
(
602. LYDGATE AND OCCLEVE.
I
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37 8
Vellum, 9^ x 6, ff. 210, 28 lines to a page. Cent, xv early.
Given by Willmer. On the last leaves are the names 'Rogerus'
and ' Margareta thorn.' And on 208 b are the words ' Regimine
principum' in John Stow's hand.
Collation : I 8 -I3 8 14' || i5 8 -26 8 27" (3, 4, 6, 8 blank cane.).
Contents :
1. Lydgate's Life of the Virgin. (See R. 3. 21, f. 85.)
This booke was compilid bi John Lydgate Monke of Bury at
the excitacion and sterynge of oure worschipful prince kyng
henry }>e fifthe in the honour glorie and worschipe of the
birthe of )>e moste glorious maide wife and modir of oure
lorde Ihesu criste chapitrid and makid after this table . . f. i
Ffirste a proloog ca 1.
How Candilmasse day firste toke this name c* Ixxxvij.
The proloog 3
O thoujtful herte plunged in distresse.
A small initial-picture of the Nativity, with Joseph seated.
Ends f. 109 . To kepe and saue from al aduersitie. Amen.
Pees maketh plente x
Plente makith pride ...
and therefore Grace growith aftir
Pride makith plee \
gouernance.
rlee makith pouert
Pouert makith pees /
f. no blank.
2. Occleve de Regimine Principum in
Mvusinge vpon the resiles besynesse.
At the top is the title, in John Stow's hand, partly cut off.
Ends 207 b
To which yow bringe )>e autor of pees. Amen.
Verba compilatoris ad librum 208
O litle booke who yaf f>e hardinesse
That knoweth he whom no thing is hid fro.
First printed by the Roxburghe Club in 1860.
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603. WILLIAM OF NASSINGTON'S SPECULUM J R. 3. 23
VITAE. \ 481
Vellum, 1 1 x 7, ff. 179, 38 lines to a page. Cent, xiv, xv.
Given by ?
Collation: i 8 -5 8 6" (wants 3, 5, 6) f 8 s 9* (wants 7, 8) io 8 -i8 8
19" (wants 2) 2O 8 -24 8 (wants 7, 8).
Contents :
The Exposition of the Pater Noster in English Verse.
(See R. 3. 13.)
Begins imperfectly
And oure moder is holy kyrke
After wham vs behouej> wyrke
(f. 4 of R. 3. 13, about 620 lines gone).
Ends imperfectly in the section De sobrietate et temperancia.
pre )>inges namly and no les
Teche]> vs to kepe sobernes.
(f. 8oa col. 2 1. 4 in R. 3. 13: 55 more leaves in R. 3. 13 are
required to complete the text.)
604. GUALTERI ALEXANDREIS.
I 344
Vellum, io| x 6, ff. 76, 28 lines to a page. Cent, xiii, written
in Italy ; with some interesting ornament.
Given by ? 2 fo. Primus or adde quod.
Collation : 2 fly-leaves: a 10 -c 10 d 10? (wants 4-7) e 10 (quire gone) f 10
(quire gone) g 10 (quire gone) h 8 .
The fly-leaves have many notes and scribbles in Italian hands.
The longest begins
quoniam ut ait philosuphus Vnum quodque scire arbitramur.
Prologue in prose . . . . . . . . . . f . i b
Moris est usitati cum in auribus multitudinis aliquid non (/. noui)
recitatur.
totum opus per capitula distinguamus.
Initial. A man in a pointed cap, with book, addresses a crowned
king. Rough work, possibly South French.
Text. Binii Poema de gestis Alexandri.
Primus ariste tuis (Aristoteles) imbutum nectare sac<ro
Scudit (Scribit) alexandrum sceptrisque insignit et armis.
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Initial. Alexander seated full-face crowned by two small men.
At intervals a prose comment intervenes.
Ends f. 760. Suscipe Gualteri studiosum magne laborem
Presul et hanc uatis tua circum tempora sacre
non dedigneris ederam coniungere mitre
Gloria Guillelmi nullum moriiura per euum
Laus tibi sit xpe quoniam liber explicit iste.
On 76 b are three more lines much rubbed.
Virgo deum
and the lines
Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena etc.
in a xvth cent. English hand.
See H. L. D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances, \. 94 sqq.
605. LEGENDS IN ENGLISH VERSE. \ * 5
I 157
Vellum, 10 x 6f, ff. 275, 46-48 lines to a page. Cent, xv (early)
in a rather current hand : pale ink.
Given by Whitgift Wyllyam Bekynfav...on f. 254.
Collation: i" (wants i blank)-io ia ii u -i5 14 i6 12 -2i 12 22" 23'
(i mutilated), fly-leaves at end cut out.
The South-English Collection of Legends of Saints.
This MS. is described fully by Dr C. Horstmann in Altenglisclie
Legenden. Neue Folge, 1881, pp. xlix sqq.
There has been an inscription on the first fly-leaf of which a
small bit is left. Also scribbles on the remaining fragments of
fly-leaves at the end. On f. 275 are two Indices of cent, xv, the
first in the original scribe's hand. They are both mutilated.
The volume contains
1. Poem on the Old Testament and Salutacio Marie, with a
miracle of a youth at Oxford.
Whanne hit corned on my jjoujt : \>e muchel sorwe of synne . f. r
2. Banna Sanctorum 25
Now blowe)> be nywe frut: )?' late bygan to springe.
3. Zeres day J>e holy fest : heyday is an goud . . . 25
4. Twelve day J>e holy feste: noble is to holde ... 16
5. Seynt hyllary )>e goud man of aquitayne was ... 26
6. Seynt Wolston byschop of wyrcestre was in englonde . 27
T. C. II. 7
98 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
7. Seint Fabian by old dawe goud man was ynovv . . 29
8. Seint Sebastyan 29 b
9. Seynt Agnes J>' maide . . . . . . . 30
ro. Seynt vincent ......... 32
11. Seint Julian )>e confessour 34
12. Seint Julian )>e goud herbyger 34
13. Seint Bryde 35
14. Candelmasse 38 b
15. Seint Bles (Blasius) 39
1 6. Seint Agathe 41
17. Seint Scolace 42
18. Seint Valentyn 43
19. Seint Juliana ......... 43 b
20. Seint Mathye 45 b
11. Seint Oswold )>e byschop 46
22. Seint Chadde 48
23. Seint Gregory 49
24. Seint Longius (same text as no. 63) 50
25. Seint Cutbert 50 b
26. Seint Benet 5 1
27. Seint Marie day in J?e lente (Lady Day) .... 52*
28. Festes moble 52* b
29. How fesstejj ]>' many man 53
30. Lente also ys yfounde 53
31. pe holi feste of Ester 54
32. Seint Marie egypcian ........ 54 b
33. Seint Alphe (Alphege) 58
34. Seint George 60
35. Seint Mark 61 b
36. Letanie (Litania Major) 62
37. Seint Peter )>e frere prechur (Peter Martyr) . . . 62 b
38. Seint Phelip and Seint lacob 62 b
39. Seint lacob 63
40. Seint Dunston 63 b
41. Seint Aldelme 65 b
42. Seint Teofle (Miracle of Theophilus) 66 b
43. Seint Botolf (and Adulf) 68*
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44-
Seint Kenelme
. . . 69
45-
Seint Cristofre
72
46.
75
47-
Seint Gile
76*
4 8.
Seint Martha
77*
49-
79
80
50.
Seint Fe)>
86*
5'-
Seint Denys
87*
52.
Seint Luc
. . . 89
53-
pe holy rode
90
54-
Seint Quirac ......
95*
55-
Seint Marie godys modir (Assumption)
... 96
56.
Seint Bartholome
. . . 98
57-
Seint Jon |>e ewangeliste ....
101
58.
Seint Jon (Baptist)
106
59-
Seint Petir
107 b
60.
Seint Poule
112
61.
Seint Nycolas
115
62.
Seint Andru
120
63-
Seint Longius (same text as no. 24) .
122*
64.
Seint Austyn
123
65-
Seint Barnabe
I2 3 *
66.
Seint Albon
I7 4 *
67.
Seint Margaret
125*
68.
Heyze men & redy (St Mary Magdalene)
127*
69.
Seint Jeme
133
70.
Seint Aj>elwold (same text as no. 101)
136*
71-
Seint Dominike ......
'37 *
72.
Seint Laurance
140*
73-
Seint Ypolyt
74-
Seint Matheu
143*
75-
Seint Jerome
. . . 144*
76.
Seint Leger
MS*
77-
Seint Fraunces
146*
78.
Seint Eustas ......
151
79-
54
72
IOO CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
80. Seint Bryce 160
81. Seint Edmund J>e king 160 b
82. Seint Cristine 161 b
83. Seint Cecelie 165
84. Seint Kateryne 167
85. Seint Lucie 171
86. Seint Thomas (Apostle) 171 b
87. Seint Steuene 178
88. pes )>re kinges (Innocents) 179
89. loseph (Pater Domini) 180
90. Sterren honourej> ek oure lord (Epiphania) . . . 181 b
Ouore
91. Oure lady dide hire churche gonge (Purification) . . 182 b
92. Off al J>at oure lord in er)?e was (Passio Christi) . . 183
93. In Je dawyng J?an sonday (Resurreccio Christi) . . 1866
94. pe furst tokne ajen domesday (xv toknes) . . . 188
95. Gilberd was seint Thomas fadere (Thomas of Canterbury) 1886
96. Seint Brandan 215
97. Seint Patryk ......... 223
98. Seint Edward J>e martir 230
99. A kny3t )>er was wyle : a luj>er man ynowe . . . 233
(Miraculum de S. Maria).
100. Seint SwyJ>yn 233^
101. Seint Aj>elwold (same text as no. 70) .... 235
102. Seint Leonard 236
103. Seint Martyn 238
104. Seint Clement ......... 240^
105. A kny3t was wyle aryche man. (Miraculum de S. Maria) . 246
A knyjt }vr was wyle: grete man myd alle & wyse
(Miraculum II) 247
1 06. Seint Frejjeswyde ........ 247
107. Elleuene }>ousand virgins 248 b
108. Seint Symon and Seint Jude ...... 250^
109. Seint Quintyn 252 b
no. Seint Albryst (Ethelbert) 254
in. Alle halwene day 255
112. Alle saulen day ......... 256
113. Seint Beryn (Birinus) 260
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114. A man jw was in Israel (Conceptio beate Marie) . . 261
(f. 268 is mutilated).
115. Seint Siluester i6gi>
1 16. Oure fader )>' art in heuene (Pater noster) . . . 270
117. Judas was a luj>er bryd 270 b
118. Pilatus was a lu)>er man 272
Ends 275 (276) a
God schulde eche cristen man : from suche delful cas.
Amen.
606. OVIDII METAMORPHOSES.
[ vac.
Vellum, 9 x 5, ff. 108, 45 lines on a page. Cent, xiii (early).
Given by John Laughton, M.A., Librarian.
Collation : one or more quires gone | a 8 -n 8 o 4 .
Many of the leaves are much torn. There are a good many
notes marginal and interlinear in a xiiith cent. hand.
Quire # begins
Obstitit infelix aditumque obsedit erinnis
(iv. 489),
and goes down to V. 404,
Excutit obscura tinctas rubigine henas.
Quire b begins III. 506
Naiades et sectos fratri imposuere capillos
ending IV. 488
Territus est athamas tectoque exire parabant.
A note of xiiith cent, on lower margin says
Obstitit infelix retro per duos codices (i.e. two quires back)
showing that the misplacement of the quires is of long standing.
Quire c begins with V. 405
Perque lacus altos et olentia sulphure fertur.
and after this there seems to be no displacement. The true order
of the quires is therefore b, a, c.
IO2 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
Almost the whole of the last leaf (108) is gone. Enough
remains to shew that there was an Explicit and several scribbles
on the verso. There is a bit of a fly-leaf, also with scribbles,
including some ' word-squares.'
607. POEMS BY BEAUPRE BELL. -!
vac.
Paper, g\ x J\, ff. 25, written on one side only. Cent, xviii, in a
very neat hand.
Written and given by Beaupre Bell.
Contents :
Title-page.
The Osiers, a Pastoral translated from the Latin of Sannazarius
with some account of Sannazarius and his Piscatory Eclogues.
Nee te poeniteat Calamo trivisse labellum (Virgil).
Dedication.
Bihliothecae Coll. SS. et Indiv. Trinitatis in Academia Canta-
brigiensi studiorum hasce primitias gratitudinis ergo dedit
Beaupreus Bell 1724 . . . . . . . . . f. i
Some account of Sannazarius etc i
Signed Beaupre Bell, dated Trinity Coll. June 1724.
The Osiers, a Pastoral.
If yet dear Friend the Goddess fans the Fire . . . 10
Signed BB. Apiffrevetv.
Praescientia Divina non Causa fuit Humani Lapsus.
In Comitiis Prioribus Feb. 24 1725 ..... 20
Dum nimis alta petens magni penetrare Recessus.
Signed BB.
Color est Connata Lucis Proprietas. In Comitiis Posterioribus
Mart. 24 1725.
Diversas rerum facies variosque Colores ... 23
Signed BB. Several blank leaves follow.
608. ITALIAN POEMS.
[ vac r
Paper, 9^ x 6f, ff. no, 24 lines to a full page. Cent, xvi, xvii,
neatly written.
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? Given by Puckering.
Contents :
i. II Manganello.
The inner corner of f. i, with the title and first lines of the
first poem is torn out: the text begins:
Ch al mondo il sesso Femenino
Ne dicon d' una trista feminuzza.
Ma dicon di gran donne, e di gran stato
Si come ciascheduna si scapuzza.
Poueri e ricche, e d' ordine sacrato
Qual ella sia di maggior riuerenza
Pero che 1' un e 1' altro ho ben cercato.
On f. 6 begins. Cap. in.
Erraui una matrona Padouana
Che (come credo) fu delli scrouigni
Che faccea uersi, et era poetana
It is in xiii chapters ending f. 31 b :
E chi riman da dietro serri 1' uscio
II Fine del Manganello.
i. Varie Rime f. 31
Dunque io vivo Ionian da la mia vita.
Poems, all short, in many metres, follow.
There are no further titles till f. 59/1
A una puttiua del 111* Sig Lucretia Orsina.
Anzoletta del Ciel senza pecia.
On f. 60 b
Questi che seguitano sono alcuni Sonetti Cavati dalle Rime de
Nicolo Franco contra Pietro Aretino.
La Sporchetta. Canzone 67
Sti non hauetti Amor per lo Contar.
Ending "job
Short Poems on Churches (?) etc. at Venice .... 75
S* Marta
El primo che sia in carta
Si sara santa marta.
The last two are
S. Seruolo &
Malamoco.
Non ho niente alle man.
de quelle da MVRAN.
Seguita la risposta all' inuentiua contra le Muneghe de Venetia 8r
Perche no posso hauer mazor despetto.
104 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3-
On the Pater Noster 84
Pieta Pieta di ogni speranza e persa
Porgi soccorso ai miseri ittaliani
Perche straciati sono da Murani.
Seguitano li Venti quattro Sonetti fatti alle venti quattro figure
de Pietro Aretino 86
Poems mostly erotic follow, in many metres, ending imperfectly
on f. 1 10 b.
R. 3. 29
609. ALANUS DE MONTE FESSULANO ETC.
vac.
Vellum, 9x6, ff. 1 68, varying numbers of columns and lines.
Cent, xiii early. Donum Tho. Reed A.M. (1706).
Belonged to the Abbey of Holm Cultram.
On f. i b in large letters is the title
Liber Sancte Marie de holmcoltram.
In hoc volumine continentur isti libri.
In primis Liber magistri Alani de monte pessulano contra hereticos.
It.?questiones? W?
(Erasure of a word) Salerni. Item Noua poetica scilicet humano capiti. Item
sermones Oratii. Item Epistole Oratii. Item liber Persii. Item Poetica maior scilicet
Papa stupor mundi. Item Distinctiones vocabulo(rum). Item Ouidii de Remedio
amoris. Item Doctrinale.
A long note by Reed follows on the identity of Alanus.
Collation: I fly-leaf. I s (wants i, 2)-f 4 4 || 5" || & ; 8 -io 8 || ii 12
I2 6 || 13" || I4 10 (+ 10*) II IS 8 1| i6 10? (2 a fragment, wants 10) if (six
left) 1 8" || I9 8 -22 8 ||.
Contents :
I. Alanus de Monte Pessulano contra hereticos.
(The two first books were printed by Papyrius Masson
at Paris in 1613.)
Begins in c. 8 imperfectly.
cum boni et mali sunt eiusdem nature.
C. 9 begins
Quidam autem predictorum hereticorum sue ignorancie
querentes auxilium negant singulis diebus animas creari
et corporibus infundi.
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It is in double columns of 44 lines.
Lib. i ends f. 150
Nunc ad illos qui valdenses uocantur stilum uertamus.
Expl. liber primus. Inc. secundus contra valdenses etc.
Sunt quidam heretici qui se iustos esse fingunt cum sint
lupi veste ouina induti.
Ends f. 19^ recipiebant supra necessitatem.
Inc. lib. iil u " contra iudeos etc.
Nunc ad peruersam iudeorum i/wedietatem que aclhuc in
facie moysi intueri non ualet.
Ends 240, Hec contra iudeorum errores dicta sufficiant.
Inc. lib. quartus contra paganos etc.
Nunc contra maometi discipulos stilum uertamus.
Ends f. 26 a
ad ueram eterne beatitudinis vnitatem ascendant.
Quod vobis prestare dignatur I.C. d.n. qui cum patre
et spiritu sancto viuit et regnat unus deus per omnia
sec. sec. Amen.
Expl. quadripartita magistri alani. Scripta aput parisius
a.d. M. CC. XVIIII.
In a later hand a few lines from Isidore.
i6b, 27 are blank.
II. A quire of later writing. In double columns of 43 lines
containing parts of Distinctions 43-48 of a scholastic
theological work . . . . . . . f. 28
III. 2 ff. follow with a few short notes, some grammatical of
early xiiith cent.
Horatii Ars poetica ....... 38
In single columns of 44 lines with copious glosses inter-
linear and marginal, which cease after the first few
satires.
Horatii Satirae ........ 44
In the same hand.
Ends f. 69 a. Expl. liber sermonum.
69 is blank.
IV. Horatii Epistolae 70
In a similar hand to the last : 42 lines to a page : rather
earlier in aspect.
Rideat et pulset laciua decencius etas
Ends f. 87 a Expl. liber epistolarum horatii.
87 b is blank.
Persii Satirae 88
Seemingly in the same hand. Fewer glosses: many in
pencil.
Ends 95 b. Expl. liber persii.
V. f. 96 a blank.
A paragraph. Cum omnium creaturarum dignissima sit
homo 96 ^
106 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3-
Incipit liber De artificio loquendi 97
(Noua poetica Galfridi de Vinesauf. )
Papa stupor mundi. Si dixero papa nocenti.
In double columns of 66 lines (fewer at the end).
Ends f. 105 a
Crescere non poteris quantum de iure mereris.
Expl. lib. de artif. loquendi.
Verses follow (8)
Cum tribus ancillis sapiencia regnat inane.
185 b is blank.
On io6a is a preface to the Doctrinale.
In principio huius autoris videndum est quid sit materia
etc. ; but between it and the text intervene two tracts.
106 b is blank.
VI. Ovidii Remedia amoris ....... 187
42 lines to a page: the earliest hand in the book.
There are rather copious marginal and interlinear glosses.
Ends 114^
Carmine sanati femina uirque meo.
Lax (!) tibi sit christe quoniam labor explicit iste.
VII. In double columns of 5 1 lines. The verses in a larger hand.
The Distinctiones vocabulorum of John de Garlandia ? . 115
The first bit of verse is
littera vox simpla vocalem concomitatur
Nunccupat obseruat legem notat hoc elementum.
The next section is
Ecclesia quandoque templum materialiter dicitur etc.
ending with the verses,
Templum conuentum iustorum sine malorum
Reddituum bona prelatos ecclesia signat.
The three quires of this are misplaced : the first, contain-
ing the beginning of the tract, is placed third and begins
Scire distinguere sophistarum ampullas . . . 130
while the end of the whole is on 1 29 b.
uel idolorum seruitus.
VIII. Doctrinale Alexandri de Villa Dei 137
In a good xiiith cent, hand, 40 lines to a page.
Interlinear and marginal glosses.
Scribere clericulis paro doctrinale nouellis.
Ends 1 68 a
Quos tres personas in idem credo deitatis
Expl. Doctrinale mag ri Alex, de Villa Dei
Finito libro reddatur cena magistro.
Verses follow, 13 in all
Filosofia docet inquirere quid sit honestum
Quid mare quid celum quid homo quid terra quid aer
In septem partes sapientia diuidit artes
Quarum uirtutes scire necesse putes.
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(7 verses on the Arts).
Virgo salutis aue per quam patet exitus a ve
Venit ah eua ve ve quia tollis ave.
1686 is blank.
610. LUCANI PHARSALIA.
( vac.
Vellum, 8 x 5|, ff. 109, 41 lines to a page. Cent, xii, beautifully
written with fine initials.
On the cover is :
Hoc amoris pignus SS. Trin. Coll. Cant. D. D., Gulielmus Greaves A.M. A
Salut. MDCCV.
I am fairly confident that the hand of the MS. is that of Christ
Church, Canterbury : but there is no mark : the top edges have
been cut. 2 fo. sollicitare.
Collation : -x 4 (+ i ) | a 8 -n 8 .
On the first leaves is nothing save (i). On I b the late mark
W. 8. and on 5 b a xvith cent, couplet, of which most of the first
line is cut off:
honore
Illius a manibus sit procul iste liber.
Text begins on f. 6 (wrongly marked 9).
There is a splendid initial B, mostly in blue and green on red
ground, of interlaced and foliage-work. It contains also on L.
figures of two warriors in shirts of mail and peaked helmets on
horseback with spears, and a man fighting a lion : a nude corpse
below. The first six lines of the poem are written in blue, red and
green.
Contents :
Lib. II. Dragon and lions in initial . . . . . 17 b
Lib. III. Archer and dragon: large human figure and horned
beast ibb
Lib. IV. Small initial: beasts 35
Lib. V. Initial S composed of two beasts biting at a ball in
the centre 44
Lib. VI. Contains human figure and beasts .... 54
108 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
Lib. VII. Dragon : smaller ....... 64
Lib. VIII. Dragon: rather rougher work 75
Lib. IX. Dragon and Plion fighting, smaller beast below: done
in red on yellow ground with blue centre . . 846
Lib. X. Dragon: less good 98
Text ends on 105 a
Obsedit muris calcantem menia magnum
Finit Lucani decimus liber iste prophani
(both lines in capitals).
The last few leaves are blank except for the following:
On f. 1 06 a some notes in the original hand
a. on participial constructions : 3 lines.
b. on Pyr. and its derivatives ending with
pyramella le i billet.
c. on Lixa and other words, ending
Saga sage uel sagana ne i strie.
Silev eris i sout.
d. written smaller
Robaldellus i fustan'.
Placenta te fladun.
No other vernacular words occur in these notes.
On f. 109 b some faint late scribbles of xvth and xvith cent.
611. SOPHOCLIS TRAGOEDIAE.
I 613
Paper, 8| x 5^, ff. 98, 21-23 lines to a page. In at least three
hands of cent, xiv, xv (early ?) and xvi early.
Ex dono Reverendi Doctissimique D ris Duport Decani Petroburg. huius Coll" nuper
Vice-Magistri. A 1667.
Collation: a 4? b 8 c 8 (+8*) || d 8 (wants i, 2) e 8? (wants 7, 8 : 6
supplied) | f 8 g 8 h 4 (+ 4*) | i 8 -n 8 o 4 .
Quires a-c are the latest : quire d in a good and earlier hand
(xv), quire e less good, quires f-Ji in a large ugly hand, quires i-u
in the hand of d, quire o in a larger hand.
The MS. has been collated by Professor Jebb for his edition of
Sophocles.
Various names occur scribbled in the book : in the earlier
leaves names of Biblical and classical personages, and on 13 a
Johannes Gibbonius : on the last page, Tho : Throckmorton.
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Contents :
I. ToO 2o<f>oK\tovs Alas fjia.ffTiyo<J>6pos . . . . . . f. ?
With viroOfffts (i b) and Scholia marginal and interlinear,
beginning:
0//ce('ws t\ov<nv ol vo.pa.Kflp.evot. avrl eWorwros.
Ends f. 34 b : rAos rov atavros /j.affTiyo<f>6pov.
i. Zo0o/cX&i;s "HX^KTpo ........ 34 b
With vTr66f<ris and scholia mostly interlinear.
Ends f. 67 b:
rAoj T^J TjX^/CTpos TOU dtvrtpov Spd/uaroj.
3. Ot'5/Troi'S Ti^pawoj ......... 67
With tivbOfffis fyiyttT/Tpos (!) as well as one in prose.
AITTLOV KOpivOov ololiTovs 7raT/}6s vbOos
On 68 a is a rude picture of the Sphinx with four legs (clawed),
wings springing low down by the forelegs, long thick neck
and chubby human head, the tail a serpent.
Over it is the name KwaTavrlvos 6 ical iraSidr^.
Text, with ornament in red above, begins on 68 b.
Marginal scholia at first fairly copious, beginning
'Avarpo<pr] TJV dvarptyr) ris TLVO.
Ends f. 98 b :
o(5t7r65oj rvpavvov.
612. LlVRE DES DOUZE PAIRS, ETC.
I 5^1
Paper, 8| x 5f, ff. 1 18, 25 lines to a page. Cent, xv, late.
Given by Ant. Scattergood, Chaplain, 1672.
On the flyleaf is the name (xv)
Rychard Ryngwyke off Wycombe.
Collation: 2 parchment fly-leaves || a 12 -h 12 (wants 5 and 12) i I!
k 12 1| 2 parchment fly-leaves.
Contents :
I. Le livre des douze pairs f. i
Begins imperfectly (?) :
Ly gentilz Roullant apella charlon
Donnez moy sur le gant et le baton.
1 10 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
Ends f. 1070:
Adieu barons / alez voir que vos amis font
Deo gracias
Le liure des xij pairs est cy fine
Doun loenge soil a la sainte comite.
2. Letter of Prester John 107 b
Vez cy les lettres que prestre Johan enuoit a federic em-
pereur de romme.
Prestre Johan par la grace de dieu roy entre les autres roys
crestiens.
Ends f. u8:
Car nous ne vous en mentons en aucune maniere. Cy
fenissent les lettres que prestre Johan enuoit a federic
empereur de romme deo gracias.
On the next fly-leaf are the words : heb ddew heb ddim (twice :
cent. xvii).
R
613. POEM ON STEPHEN GARDINER.
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MS. containing fragments of Jerome to Paula 'de uirginitate
seruanda.'
Title :
The disclosinge of the practyse of Stephen Gardyner byschope of Wynchester in the
tyme of the nioste redoughtyde and excellente prynce Kynge Henry the Eight. Wherein
thou shalte not only perseve his tyrany truly set out but also the papysticall doctryne by
gods worde confutyde. Compiled and set forth by (the next two lines carefully scraped
and blotted out. The last word is) magestye.
Come awey from hur my people that you be not pertaker of hur synnes lest you
reseave of hur plages. Apoca. xviii.
Preface :
to the chrystian reder.
It shalbe thought of some (I knowe good chrystian redare) that I haue taken an
vncomly worke on me to promulgate and fayne that the bysshope of Wynchester dyd
make suche a lamentatyon, etc.
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The Poem begins :
In an euenynge laet forthe as I walkyde
by the bysshops Palace of Wynchester
methought I harde wone that lowdly talkide
as wone that in some great agony were.
It occupies 34 quires of 4 leaves and ends seemingly unfinished.
Immediatly after this was somonnd a parlement
where at I purposide suche wayes to fynde
that at that tyme the more part should consent
some acts to make according to my mynde.
The catchword is :
but ex :
Eight blank leaves follow.
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By Beaupre Bell, whose name and the date 1728 are on the
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The first is indexed, the second not.
They contain Declamations, Odes and Epigrams and Versions.
II. R. 3. 39, ff. 47, 15 lines to a page.
Italian Poem :
1. Del Marini Contra il Murtola.
In principio il fattor disse, e fu fatto.
1 5 ff. ending :
Fior, frondi, Herbe, ombre e cauoli fronsuti.
2. Risposte del murtola al marini
lo mi rido marin di quante mai.
In several sections and metres ending :
che sono in mano capilati a noi.
III. R. 3. 40, ff. 7 written, 20 lines to a page.
Hymnorum fasciculi.
Dedication in Elegiacs to Newton, Dean of Durham, by John
Shaw ' pastor de Oking.'
A number of quatrains follow, each with a Bible reference and
date at the top.
The first 14 run from 1585 to 1602 and are all dated Nov. 17.
The next 4, 1603-1606, Mar. 24.
The rest (6) 1606-1611, Nov. 5.
Another on the proclamation of James I.
A somewhat longer poem on his accession.
Six lines of Hebrew.
IV. R. 3. 45, ff. 1 8 written. Cent. xvi.
Le Triomphe de Charite auec vng chant pastoral. Aux fidelles
Diacres en 1'Eglise francoise recueille a Londres.
(Prol. ). le laboureur parle de labourage.
Morphee entra chez moy lors que sur la vespree.
Ends f. \6b
Prepare uos labeurs pour la moisson heureuse.
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Short poems follow
A Celluy quy Preside.
Aux Assistans.
A 1'Escriuain.
A celluy quy fait Escripre.
A celluy quy tient la Bource.
A celluy quy re9oit.
Aux Plateliers.
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PASTOR FIDUS.
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I. Scyros Fabula Pastoralis f. i
II. Pastor Fidus 35
Tragicomoedia Pastoritia.
Under this title, in red, is written Guliel. Quarles.
There is no cast of performers given for either play nor any
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Incomicia el libro primo Dita mundi componuto per Fazio degli Uberti da Firenza.
Et prima de la buona dispositione che egli hebbe ad retrarsi degli vitij e seguita le
virtute.
Capitulo Primo.
Non per tractar gli afanni chio soffersi
Nel mio luongo chamin ne le paure.
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book :
Noi ariuamo en un altro paese
done si troua la pietra iacinto.
For Book vi., see R. 4. 38.
The Dittamondo was written between 1355 and 1367, and first
printed at Vicenza in 1474.
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Pezzi d' Historia, Ne quali viene narrato come Clemente VIII, non per le ragioni,
che il vulgo si crede tolse a Don Cesare da Este Duca di Modena il ducato di Ferrara.
Proemio f. i
II vedere quanto non pure 1' humil vulgo ma anchora i piu
sublimi ingegni.
Text. (Title repeated) 3 b
Dicono gl' ignoranti de segreti de Prencipi essere accaduto, etc.
Ends unfinished on f. 81 a.
619. POLITICAL PAPERS (ITALIAN).
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Contents :
1. Nota de Capitoli del uile accordo fatto da Do. Cesare da
Este con Papa Clemente VIII. a xiij di Genaro 1598 . f. i
2. La grida publicata in Londra il Nono di Febrajo 1601 ma
seguendo lo stil de'gl Inglesi 1600, intorno al mouimento
et intrapreso del Conte di Essex, di Rutland el di
Suthanton et loro seguaci i b
3. Lettera del Caualiero Marino scritta ad vn nobile Gentilhuomo
Venetiano 6 b
(Di Turino a di 11 de Marzo 1609.)
4. Primi Ricordi di Carlo Quinto dati a suo figliuolo Filippo
d' Austria in Augusta 1' anno MDLVIII .... 8
Dated at the end. xviii de Genaro 1546.
Finished at Peschiera, u July 1603.
5. Secondi Ricordi dell' antedetto Imperatore al detto Re . 47 b
6. II Trattato della Pace fatta a Lione fra la Maesta del Re
Christianiss mo et Laltezza del Duca di Sauoia 1' Anno a
x di Gennaro 73
Dated at the end 31 Oct. 1600.
7. Discorso politico fra vn Italiano et vno Spagnuolo . . 94
8. Arte ouero dotrissima et vtilissima maniera perchi che sia
che voglia darsi a seruire in Corte.
Per ragione di stato alzar se stesso all' Vtile et alle Dignita . 102
9. Discorso delle ragioni che ha II Re Cattolico sopra il
nuouo Emisfero et altri Regni d' Infideli secondo la
scrittura contra li Teologi che hanno scritto dicio di Fra
Tomaso Campanella ....... 124 b
10. Relatione della morte di Fra Fulgentio Manfredi Vinitiano
sequita in Roma 1' anno 1610 a v. Luglio . . . '39 ^
11. Della Magia in commune e sua diuisione di Fra Tomaso
Campanella Dominicano ....... 165 b
Ends f. 253 b with a note in another hand, of the reviser,
dated 23 April 1611.
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620. RACCONTO DELLE RADICI ETC. \ ,,
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cotti in Italia si mangiano.
Con mold giovevoli segreti, non senza proposito per dentro esso scritti, tanto intorno
alia salute de corpi humani quanto ad vtile de buoni agricoltori necessari.
Cascan le rose e restan poi le spine,
Non guidicate nulla inanzi il Fine.
In Londra MDCXiv.
Text:
Degli Herbaggi che nella Primavera come anchora nelle altre stagioni crudi et cotti
in Italia si mangiano.
Pixt volte meco medesimo pensando.
Text ends f. 86 and Index of Herbs follows f. 87.
Both Text and Index are dated at the end
Nel parco d' Eltam a xxviii di Giugno MDCXIV.
621. RACCONTO DELLE RADICI ETC.
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The title-page is dated MDCXV.
The colophon f. 102 a is
Finisce II Racconto delle Radici degli Herbaggi et de Frutti che in Italia si mangiano.
Riscritto a xxviii di di Settembre nel villaggio di Ciarlinton in Inghilterra M. DC. xiv.
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Contents :
I. Headed in a xviith cent, hand: Marcellus . . . f. i
Life of St John the Almoner in French verse.
Li siecle ueit mult en declin
De vre en autre tent a sa fin
Del amender ne ad nul semblant
De jur en jur ueil en peirant.
The next section ( t b) begins by praising alms
Mult est almodre grant uertu
Dunt a pechur poet uenir pru
and speaks of St John the Almoner.
f. 102 is a contemporary insertion, with the recto blank, of
a portion of text omitted.
Ends f. 121 b
Seint Johan si pleisir uus est
Mustrez si mun trauail uus plest
En ceo me rendez mun seruise
Que eschaper peusse del Juise
V la uengance serrat prise,
de quanque feit iert cuntre assise.
Si dune me feites guarantise
Bien me aurez rendu mun seruise.
II. A French metrical version of the Clementine Recognitions 122
In a somewhat larger hand.
Li clert de scole ki apris unt
Tant que aukes entendant sunt
Mult se peinent de liures faire
E de sentences en lung traire.
The next section (iiib) is
Ki veut oir de seint clement
Dunt il fud nez et de qel gent
De sun pere e de sa mere
E de ses freres en quel maniere
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Li uns des autres depart! furent
E cument puis se recunuerunt
A seint pierre cument tornerent
Par ki tuz se entretruuerunt
Ki tut cest sauer uuldra
Par cest rumanz bien le aprendra.
Uns liures est meis poi usez:
Ki liure clement est apelez
E si ad un autre nun '
Petri itinerarium.
The translator says that he has not inserted all the disputa-
tions, and that he has transposed the order of the story a
little. Accordingly he begins not, as the first book of the
Recognitions, with Clement's own reflections, but with the
story of his parents.
Quant nostre sire iesu crist
Charn en la seinte uirgine prist
E uint en terre pur la salu
De tut le mund ki perdu fu
En eel tens esteit a rume
Vn bien riche e puissant hume
Apele fud faustinien
E en sa lei esteit paien.
The story of the Recognitions ends (with the episcopate of
Peter at Antioch) on f. 328. Then follows the ordination
of Clement, and Peter's charge to him, and to the people,
which is of great length.
Next follows (f. 348 b) the Passion of Peter and Paul, which
does not get beyond the dispute of Peter, Paul and Simon
Magus before Nero. After the incident of the dogs and
the bread (f. 335 b) the poem ends unfinished with these
lines
Pierres dist Symun me ad mult veu
E de mun cunseil ad mult seii
A le me est suuent a cuntraire
Que en palestine que en cesaire,
E que en Judee sun pais
Kar cuntre mei se est pose ad pris.
The rest of f. 356 a is blank, and also 356 <J, 357.
III. In a contemporary hand.
The Passion of Peter and Paul by Marcellus . . . 358
(see Lipsius Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha).
Cum uenisset Paulus Romam conuenerunt ad eum omnes
iudei.
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apostoli que uidi scrips!.
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Credat ludaeus Apella.
Four blank leaves follow.
The two first tracts in the volume have never been printed.
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John Boston, or at any rate that of the Librarian of the Abbey.
On each is written
Liber monachorum (this word omitted on the 2nd leaf) Sancti Edmundi de procura-
cione D. Curteys Abbatis in quo continentur liber EneydzV Virgilii cont. xii libros.
Primus liber inc. Arma virumque cano etc.
Duodecimus liber inc. Turnus ut infractos etc.
Also on a fly-leaf is (xvi)
Alexander Bartram est pocessor huius libri.
2 fo. Ilium in italiam.
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xvi 8 xvii 8 (wants 8 blank).
Text begins f. i.
There are a few marginal notes of different dates.
The one missing leaf contained viii 11. 3-76.
Text ends f. 140*1: colophon in rough capitals.
Publii Virgilii Maronis Primus Eneidos liber explicit feliciter.
On 140 b are notes and verses (xiii) much rubbed.
624. GALFRIDUS VINESAUF ETC.
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Press mark
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Epistole oracii principium lucidum quasi.... 82 5
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(3) number of leaves, (4) number of tracts in the volume. This is
according to the system of the Dover Catalogue, which is preserved
in Bodl. MS. 920. It was made at the end of the xivth century by
the then Librarian John Whytefeld.
Collation : a 4 | I 8 2 10 (wants 8) 3 8 4 10 1| 5 8 -; 8 (wants 8 blank) || 8 10
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Walter de Horningsey's name occurs again on the fly-leaves at
the end, and also
hanc literam scripsit villelmus de valeines sine penna.
On f. i a are some verses (10)
ibides
Tacta luto subsuta sibi trahit instita uestis
Et nigra fit subito que prius alba fuit.
N ...ne uerucas iuste reprehendit habentes
Qui si(bi) portanti tubera portat homo. etc.
Contents :
I.
Galfridi de Vino Salvo Nova Poetria ....
without old heading.
Papa stupor mundi si dixero papa nocenti.
Ends f. 35 a (38)
Crescere non poteris quantum de iure mereris.
Expl. liber mag. Galfridi anglici de artificio loquendi.
The verso is blank.
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II. Horatii Epistolae 36 (39)
Prima dicte mihi summa dicende camena.
Without scholia.
Ends f. 58 (61).
Rideat et pulset lasciua decentius etas.
Quinti Oracii flacci Epystolarum liber explicit feliciter.
Laus tihi sit christe quoniam liber explicit iste.
The verso is blank.
III. i. 'Liber de Accentibus' 59(62)
Quattuor sunt quidem que docent docendos. Gramatica
uitare solocizmum.
The table on the fly-leaf calls it
Quedam summa de grammatica que sic incipit Quatuor.
Ends 62 a (65) construccionis transitiue et intransitiue
antiquis.
Some notes fill up the page.
2. In another hand 62^(65*)
' Priscianus minor.'
Hie incipiet ordo determinacionis accentus
Litera est nota element!.
Ends 66 (69) ut pape euax. Expl. priscianus de
accentibus.
On the verso at the bottom is a receipt (xiii) of which
the beginnings of the lines are cut off.
sige sauage lazone sparge White skode grow de-
e Enplastre Croise hearwert Bareres shemere etc.
IV. Doctrinale paruum (Alani de Insulis Proverbia) . . 67 (70)
A phebo phebe lumen capit a sapiente.
Insipiens sensum quo quasi luce micat.
Ends f. 8 1 (79).
Ne superet qui te sic superare putat.
Hie liber est scriptus, qui scripsit sit benedictus.
A large XII. in red, below.
The verso blank.
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I. i. Dedication in prose by the author (Marcantonio Cinuzzi)
to Cosmo de' Medici, dated Feb. ist 1560 . . . f. i
i. Ode to the same 3
Tazze d' argento, o d' oro
con sottil' arte' sculte' e fabricate'.
3. Title 4,b
Ode cinquante Toscane di Marcantonio Cinuzzi Altri-
menti lo scacciato Accademico Intronato.
All Ill mo et Ecc mo S. Duca di Fiorenza e di Siena.
4. Oda Prima 5
O IOVA santo e pio.
The fifteenth ode ends on f. 72 a.
Index 73
Poem. Sopra le parole del Signore: lo sono il pane
viuo, cf. S. Gio. 6 74
ff. 75-77 blank.
II. La Papeida, a poem in two books .... 79 (77)
Preceded by a spoilt page containing the beginning of
the text.
Inc. :
La gran potenza e 1" alte marauiglie.
Ends
Dura da cuocer, ni stara in eterno.
Marcantonio Cinuzzi is mentioned by Tiraboschi VII. 1279 as a
Siennese, and translator of Claudian de Raptu Proserpinae.
626. PSALTERIUM CAROLINUM.
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Title :
Psalterium Carolinum. The Meditations of his sacred Maiesty done into verse.
E(ACO;C >yap ($a<ri\evs eartv e/*^uxos 6eov.
To the Reader.
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Text
Meditat. I. Vpon his ma tie " calling this last Parliament.
Lord whose iust vengeance on past crimes intent.
There are 28 Meditations, ending on f. 103.
A Table of Contents follows.
R " S 1 ?
627. POESIE ITALIANE SATIRICHE.
686
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Contents :
Libretto di Varie Poesie satiriche in lingua Venetiana.
La Contenenza delle quali e nella seguente Facciata
MDCXV.
1. Canzone fatta sopra 1' andata dell' armata Spagnuola in
Inghilterra 1'anno cio io xxc viii.
Tre cose fece Cesare in iSpagna . . . . f. i
2. Recordi verissimi et utilissimi per certi principi della Chris-
tianita e del gran profeta Merlin revela a Biondo Lunato
poeta degni d' esser scritti in lettere de oro e tegnui in 1' un
bel bossolo de arzento ....... i b
El proemio de la presente Canzon.
Del mille cinquecento ottanta otte.
In 107 stanzas of eight lines: followed by five supplementary
stanzas.
3. Segue un altra bella Canzon del medemo Poeta ... 33
Clemente ha nome el Papa, e tutta via.
Ten stanzas of n lines and one of 3.
4. Canzon sopra el retorno infruttuoso dell' invincibile armata
Spagnuola Del cio io ci.
Ai gran preparamenti. Six stanzas of 8 lines, one of 3 . 36 b
628. THEODULI ECLOGA ETC.
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I. f . i a has proverbs in verse, in a rather current hand
of cent. xv.
Sed pocius gaude si contingat habere.
Est iactura grauis que sunt amittere (?) dampnis
Sunt quedam que ferre decet pacienter amicum etc.
1. Theoduli Ecloga . . . . . . . . f. \\\b
Ethiopum terras ia(m) feruida torruit estas.
Ends f. 9^
Desine quod restat ne desperacio ledat.
Expl. liber theodoli deo gracias.
2. Ovidius de Remedio amoris 9 b
Legerat huius amor titulum nomenque libelli.
Ends f. 29^
Carmine sanati femina virque meo.
Expl. lib. remedii amoris.
II. First leaf blank.
In a fine close hand of cent, xiii early.
i. Liber Pictaleon ........ 31
Non scandent celum liuoris habentia telum.
Ends f. 34
Non est priuatus qui non est retro uocatus.
Expl. Pictaleon.
i. (Fabula de Urbano papa) 35
Quo tempore urbanus romane ecclesie auidissimus
pontifex beatissimorum corpora martyrum Albini uide-
licet et Rufnni romam transferret, galliarum collecta
ecclesiis.
It is a very humorous and irreverent satire in prose on
the Roman Court under Urban III. 1 185-87 (?) showing
how Grimoald Abp of Toledo obtained the legateship
of Aquitaine. SS. Albinus and Ruffinus represent
silver and gold respectively.
Ends f. 42
Johannes. Humanum est potare. Teucer. Homines
sumus. Tu autem domine etc.
3. Story of the Dancers of Magdeburg .... 42
In nocte natalis domini lucifera.
It is told by Theoderic, one of the Dancers.
Ends f. 44
Et patriis litteris sunt mandata.
4. A ghost story ........ 44 b
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Miraculum quoddam in regno imperatoris alemannorum
satis mirabiliter gestum. Of two knights, one of
whom died and the other kept a promise made to him,
and attended his marriage feast.
Ends 47 b
9
ad agnitionem ueritatis uenire amen.
5. More closely written.
Grammatical notes on the words and tenses, with expla-
nations in French 47 b
Modus indicatiuus uno modo construitiir
Amaui io amai et io ai ame.
Ends 48 a
Sederam io aueie asis et io esteie asis.
6. Distinctions of words ....... 48
Inmunis est qui nichil dat, unde oracius. Quern scis
inmunem cinare placuisse rapaci.
Ends 54 a on Sorbeo.
Exemplum de utroque Lucanus in iiii" : unfinished.
546, 55 blank.
III. In the hand of I.
Matthaei Vindocinensis Tobias 56
Ex agro ueteri uirtutum semina morum.
Plantula iusticie pululat ampla seges.
Ends 1 15 b. Thobiam merita religione sequi.
A kind of monogram follows.
IV. ii 6 a. Three lines (xiii).
Ecclesie sacre modulans lex metrica seruit.
Cuius in amplexsus humilir pro solida currit.
Pulpita musa petit lectores exitat artem.
In a pointed hand (xiii).
Contention of Soul and Body . . . . i\66
Noctis sub silentio tempore brumali.
Ends 1 2 1 a
Prauum, et diligere quicquid erat rectum.
See Wright, Poems of Walter Mapes, Camden Soc.
p. r<X!, 1. 198.
629. HORATII OPERA. |. R> 3 * 57
[ vac.
Vellum, 5^ x 3^, ff. 84, 38 lines to a page. Cent, xii in a
beautiful small hand which looks like that of Christ Church,
Canterbury. The upper margins are damaged : the first lines of
f. I a are inked over in a modern hand. 2 fo. Filius maie.
126 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3.
Given to the Library, May 14, 1712. An old note says :
" This belongs to Dr John Battely, Archdeacon of Canterbury."
I expect the MS. belonged to Christ Church, Canterbury : but on
the damaged first leaf no mark survives. The hand, and the late
Canterbury ownership, seem to be fairly strong indications.
Collation : i 10 ii 10 iii 8 iv 6 v 8 vi 10 vii 6 viii 8 ix 8 x 10 .
Contents :
i. Horatii Carmina (Heading gone) f. i
i. Epodes 42
3. Carmen saeculare 50 b
4. Ars Poetica 51
5. Satires 57 b
Ends imperfectly with Sat. II. viii. 37.
Feruida quid sub < tile > exurdant uina palatum.
On ff. 1-2 1 there are copious marginal and interlinear notes
mostly in the original hand. There are also a few notes (xii and
xiii) on the Satires.
630. SERMONS BY DEAN COMBER.
[ vac.
Paper, 6x4, pp. 144 + 20, closely written. Cent, xvii (1670-3).
Purchased at Leslie's, London, May 1850.
Hunc Librum Illustrissimi istius Viri Thomae Comber S. T. P. literis humanioribus
eximie praediti Manuscriptum viro illo Literis charo mihique observantissimo Francisco
Wrangham A.M. Clevelandiae archtdiacono Hunmanbiae Rectori mihi et omnibus bonis
charo dono dedit Thomas Comber Oswaldi-Ecclesiae Rector in Com. Ebor. Cujus erat
Proavus doctissimus scriptor. lulii xv die 1821.
Contains at one end 144 skeleton sermons, each occupying one
page, dated from 1670 to 1672.
At the other end are some similar Sermons and a Prayer before
Sermon, occupying in all twenty pages, and dated in 1672 and 3.
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631. ' 3 ' 59
vac.
Paper, 7f x 5f, fif. 33 written, 25 lines to a page. Cent, xvii,
neatly written. Bound in a vellum wrapper.
Probably given by Mrs Sadleir.
Contains
A Crum of Comfort for a true Christian in a day of Trouble.
The Second Part.
Having spoken so much in the conclusion of my last booke for Heavenly and
spiritual mindedness.
There are anecdotes of 'some Antinomians in this citty' on
ff. I, 2.
632. ' ' 6o
vac.
Paper, 7| x 5|, ff. 23, 20 lines to a page. Cent. xvi. In
vellum wrapper.
Contents :
i. Viro ornatissimo doctori Abbot S. T. Professori regio et
Collegii de Baliolo magistro dignissimo.
It is a prose dedication signed
Gulielmus Armston.
i. Abbas. Pontifex.
Seu Panegyrica ad vir. Colendiss. dom. doct. Abbot. &c., de
palma reportita a dom. doct. Bisshop aliisque nonnullis in
militia Christi.
O dulce redolens thus insuperabile robur
ingenii et dextrae, die Roberte, tuae.
One leaf.
3. Thaletis felix siue Faelicitatis Tripus.
In prose. On f. 16 is an Arbor Boni, full page.
128 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 3. 60
4. Solonis foelix siue solon peregrinans f. 19
Ends f. 23. In prose.
Robert Abbot was Master of Balliol 1609-1615 : he was elder
brother of George Abbot, Abp of Canterbury, and became Bishop
of Salisbury in 1615.
633. -I
vac.
Paper, 7f x 4! , ff. 27. Cent, xviii.
A note-book of historical events from 1649 to the death of
William III.
Apparently quite useless.
f R A
634. RANULPHI CESTRENSIS POLYCHRONICON. x
I 388
Vellum, 14^ x io, ft". 12+199, 5 1 l mes on a P a g e - Cent, xv,
rather current hand.
Given by Willmer. Belonged to Christopher Watson (1567)
and Thomas Gaudy, whose name is on the fly-leaf at end.
2 fo. abbreuiauit.
Collation: i 12 a 12 -m 12 n 10 o 10 p 12 -r 12 (wants 10-12 blank): two
fly-leaves.
This MS. was not one of those used for the Rolls Edition.
Contents :
ff. i, ii blank.
Table of names from Abel to Zorobabel . . . . f. iii
The ages of the world ........ xi b
English rhyme (xvi) on the names of the book . . . xii b
ffour nayms I hau, of w ch y e ffirst
is higden playnly toulde
frater (?) raulphus cestrensis to
I hau been often soulde (?).
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policronicon I cald my selfe,
whil y' a monk me made
the cronickle off S. Albons.
of tym (?) such is the trade. X. W. (Christopher
Watson : see below).
Text.
Post preclaros Arcium scriptores f. i
Fine pen-work initial, and border, both in red and blue.
Ends with Liber Septimus f. 1970
et palam in eorum sermonibus predicantes.
A xvith cent, note adds:
hear want*? the (6is) monck^r supplement wheron this
cronickle is cald by divers the historye of S. Albons ffor
Ranulphe himselff wrot thus far. Xpofer Watson, 1567.
On the fly-leaves at the end, in the hand of the main volume, are
1. A note. Ciclus stater et denarius unum et idem sunt etc.
2. A quatrain
Est quater in palmo digitus, quater in pede palma
Quinque pedes passum faciunt, passus quoque centum
Viginti quinque stadium, post hoc miliare
Octo dabunt stadia, duplatum dat tibi leucam.
3. Seven lines of a prophecy of St Hildegard
Francorum terra distruitur anglica guerra etc.
4. Ambitus terre 31500 miliaria.
longitudo terre 4078
latitude terre 2038
/ TD . _
635. FLORES HISTORIARUM.
I 292
Vellum, I3f*9i, ff. 260 + 6, double columns of 46 lines.
Cent, xiv late or xv early, in two fine upright hands, with excellent
initials and borders.
Given by Nevile.
On the first fly-leaf is
Item fflores histor' et incipit in 2 fo. mornm ab occidente.
Caucio M" Wil mi Aysche imposita in cista de Robbery a d' 1493 18 die februarij et
est fflores historiarum 2 fo. mor ab occidente et habet vnum supplementum s. Albertum
de animalibus et mineralibus 2 fo. pecunia multa cum homine et iacet pro xvi" viii d .
Dr Luard notes that this cista is probably the Oxford cista
founded by Gilbert Routhbury : Anstey, Mnnimenta Acad. Oxon.
I. IO2.
T. C. II. 9
130
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4
On the last fly-leaf before the text
Incipit liber vocatus flos historianim constat Ricardo Elyot,
(then over erasure)
et pertinet ad Elvrgrn ffreuyle ex dono domine
Margaret Eliot vidue.
On the last leaf
Liber Ricardi Elyot.
In red :
Johannes anno Illustrissimi Regis Henrici v" iij scripsit hos versus.
L. v. M.v. i. c. i.e. 1. j. c. i. i. (=1415)
Harflu fert Mauric Agincourt prelia Crispin
Hec Rex henricus quintus terno dedit anno.
Another hand
Requiescant in pace episcopo deuoto dicente q Innumera multitude) anime lit 108
ap* a.
These two entries may be taken to point to a connexion with
All Souls' College.
On a fly-leaf at the beginning in a xvith cent, hand
Fflores Historiarum Ricardi Elliott.
Incipit ab exordio Mundi. Explicit Anno Domini 1326. De Coronacione Edvardj
tertii etc.
Collation: a 4 | i 8 -i6 8 i; 4 1| i8 8 -3O 8 si 4 1| 32" 33" 3 4 4 || b s .
Contents :
The first fly-leaf is a waste leaf of another copy by one of the
scribes of the main MS. with the heading and 14 lines of the
beginning of liber ii.
f. i of text has a fine border, and initial of Christ in blue robe
standing full-face on water (?) and blessing. Patterned gold
ground,
f. 133 has a similar border, and initial of William I. crowned, with
orb and sword, standing. Gold ground as before,
f. 241 has a similar border, and decorative initial.
Incipit prologus in librum qui flores historiarum intitulatur . . f. i
Temporum summam lint-am.
Liber I. ends f. 132: in secundam partem resecamus.
Expl. liber primus. Inc. lib. secundus.
132 b is blank.
Liber II. begins in a different hand.
Inc. liber secundus de coronacione regis Willelmi primi . . 133
Anno domini M. Ixvij dux normannie.
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Ends f. 240 :
et maximum gaudium facientes.
(Liber III.).
Anglia letatur edwardus dum coronatur . . . . 241
Coronacio regis Ed ward! .
Anno grade supradicto in ecclesia Westmon.
Ends f. 260 (258) b
Scocia concordiam ecclesia libertatem.
Explicit.
The MS. is described by Dr Luard in his edition of the Flores
(Rolls Series) I. xx, xxi. The symbol in that edition is T.
C R
636. CHRONOLOGICAL ROLL.
I 400
Vellum, a roll folded and bound as a volume, measuring I3f x 7,
in varying numbers of columns. Bound in white skin over boards:
clasps gone. Cent, xv late (Edward IV.).
Given by Th. Whalley, D.D., Vice-Master, 1637.
The names of the persons in the genealogical tables are written
in red circles. There are no pictures.
The text begins in three columns.
1. Considerans hystorie sacre prolixitatem necnon et difficultatem.
2. Adam in agro damascene formatus.
3. Prima etas mundi fuit ab adam usque ad noe.
The chronology goes down to Edward IV. The text ends
with a notice of him.
Edwardus quartus filius et heres Ricardi nuper ducis Eboraci et Cecilie uxoris eius,
post decessum patris sui fuit dux Eboraci. Et coronatus est in regem anglie apud
Westmonasterium xxviij die Junii. anno domini M. cccclxj .
Henry VI., it is noted, was buried at ' Cherchessey,' so that the
date of the MS. is after 1471.
92
132 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4.
637. TlTI LlVII HlSTORIARUM LlBRI XXI- f R. 4. 4
xxx. \ 214
Vellum, 13 x 9, ff. 117, double columns of 42 lines. Cent, xii,
in two fine hands, the first small and of non-English aspect, the
second larger and blacker.
Given by Whitgift. 2 fo. litis erat sator.
From Christ Church, Canterbury : on f. 89 at the top is
written (xv)
Titus liuius. Ecclesie christi cantuar.
and a similar inscription has been cut off the top of f. i.
This is no doubt the copy mentioned among the Libri
S. Thome (Edwards, p. 183).
Secunda pars Titi Livi.
See also Ingram, no. 154.
Secunda pars Titi Liuii. i fo. litis erat sator.
I have no doubt that it belonged to St Thomas a Becket, and I
should conjecture that he obtained it through John of Salisbury.
Pasted into the volume is a letter from Mr H. J. Roby to
Mr Aldis Wright, dated Dulwich College, Oct. 6, 1864, from which
the following extracts may be given.
" Mr Bond of the British Museum, to whom I shewed the MS.,
told me that Sir F. Madden and himself both thought that it was
written by an English hand towards the close of the I2th century,
say A.D. 1 1 80. Bond expressed great admiration of the writing."
Mr Roby goes on to say that there is great similarity between
this MS. and the portion of the Codex Erfurtensis now at Berlin,
which contains Cicero pro Milone.
" Madvig (Emend, ad Liv. p. 199) says that all the MSS. of this
decade of Livy are derived from the Codex Puteamis (a Paris MS.
once the property of Claude du Puy), or from one precisely like it.
Madvig's reasons apply to your MS. and seem decisive. The
Codex Pnteanus is an uncial MS. of the 8th century, and has no
space between the words. Your MS. frequently has the right
letters, but divided wrongly into words
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" I have collated carefully the xxi st book and that part of the
xxxth which is lost from the Cod. Put., besides chapters here and
there. It does not appear to me that much would be gained by
a collation of the whole. But at present I have chiefly attended
to the mere mechanical collation without weighing the value of the
readings."
Collation : a 8 -h 8 | i 8 -p 8 (wants 3, 4, and 8 blank).
The hand changes at quire /.
Contents :
Titi liuii ab urbe condita liber .xxi. incipit.
In parte operis mei licet michi prefari quod . . . f. i
The books are numbered in the margin in a hand of cent, xv from
lib. ii to lib. 20, showing that in cent, xv nothing was known to
intervene between book x and book xx.
The two leaves cut out between ff. 114, 115, contained the text
between xxx. 21. auxilia in his pauiam traicissent cc. et V* auri
octing. and xxx. 30. ad cannas id tu hodie.
Ends f. 117^ col. 2.
cum suis diabwj item legionibus in etruria.
(xxx. 41 sub initio.)
The rest of the column is blank : the rest of chapter 41, and
chapters 42-45, wanting.
f R A c
638. ITALIAN TRACTS I.
I 4 6
Paper, I2f x8|, consisting of a number of tracts bound up
together. Cent, xvi, xvii.
Given by Puckering.
Contents :
I. Relatione di Francia del Chiarissimo Signer Gio. Correro
ritornato di Ambasciatore per la Ser m * Signoria di Venetia.
53 iff-
Discorsi della Monarchia di Spagna fatti da Fra Tomaso
Campanella nell' anno MDXCV et della eta sua trentesimo.
Not paged. In 32 chapters.
II. (A new volume, with Table of Contents.)
Petitio Comitis de Fuentes ..ut relaxent Feuda omnia perti-
nentia ad Ducatum Mediolanensem f. i
134 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4.
Lettera de Marches! di Malaspina a Prencipi d' Italia : on a
citation of them by the Magistrate extraordinary of Milan
i June 1607 4
Discorso del Duca di Sessa (on the same) . 7
Discorso intorno 1' attioni e dissegni del Cattol. Re di Spagna,
by Sig. Gio. Bait. Leoni 10
Reply to the above by the Spanish Ambassador . . . 14^
Compendio della Monarchia del Messia etc. by Fra Tom.
Campanella, Domenicano 12!}
Safe Conduct from Bartholomeo Coglione to the Emperor
Frederic, translated from Latin . . . . . . 78 b
Italian translation of a Brief of Paul II. to Earth. Coglione . 79 <5
Letter from the King of Spain 'a nostro Signore' 30 Aug. 1598 80 &
Relazione of Tomaso Contarini, Venetian Ambassador in Spain
(foliated 54-112).
Historia di tutti li Re del Regno di Portogallo, raccolta in
breue compendio.
Not paged.
Letter in Latin from Sigismund to Maximilian of Austria
12 Aug. 1598 81
Ordinationi e Institutioni della militia del Regno di Sicilia.
Dated at end i Feb. 1576 82
Signed Giouan. di Verger.
Oratione...del Dottor Cremonino da Ceuta, in defence of the
University of Padua, against the Jesuits (23 Dec. 1599) . 100
Auisi intorno la fortificatione della forteggia di Palma dati al
Prencipe di Venetia dal Sig. Giulio di Sauorgnano . . 108
Descrittione della Transituauia di Pietro Busto Bresciano . 121 b
Scrittura nella quale il Seren mo . Duca d' Urbino dimanda
d' esser condotto al seruitio della Seren ma Signoria di Venetia 127 b -130
III. A new volume, with Table.
In questo Libro si contengono diversi Conclavi o creationi di
diversi Papi di Roma etc.
Conclave di Papa Gregorio xiii i
Sisto v ..... 16
Gregorio xiv 21
Clemente viii 32
Leone xi 53^
Paolo v 83-^7
/ 11 A f\
639. ITALIAN TRACTS 11.
I 646
Uniform with R. 4. 5.
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Contents :
1. Relatione di tutti i Prencipi et signorie d' Italia d'un grand'
huomo de stato f. i
Not paged.
2. Due diuerse Relationi di Ferrara et un Discorso intorno alia
Investitura di Ferrara.
Dated 20 March 1620. ff. 21.
3. Scrittura per Ambasciatori de Prencipi.
8 ff.
4. Relatione dell. Ill mo S r Gio. Uolfino tomato Arab ordinario
da Roma a PP. Clemente viii.
Foliated 19-38.
5. Discorso della entrata della chiesa 38 .
19 Ap. 1651.
6. Parere di Cosimo de Medici... alia corte di Roma . . 45, 46
7. Relatione del Clariss. M. Bernardo Navagieri di Roma.
Finsce la Rel. di Roma del Nauagiero, in Londra MUCXV
agli otto d'Aprile. 18 ff.
8. Relatione of Tomaso Contarini, Ambassador to the Nether-
lands, ff. 1-7.
9. II sommario della Rel. del S r Bono stato Bailo a Con-
stantinopoli ......... 7 b
Written 6 Jan. 1611.
10. Relatione of Franc. Contarini, Ambassador to Great Britain.
6 Sept. 1610.
5 ff-
n. Relatione dello stato, forze, el gouerno della Republica
Vinitiana fatta al Cattol. Re Filippodi Spagna. cir. looff.
12. Relatione del stato etc. del gran Duca di Toscano.
23 ff.
13. Scrittura discolpante il ser mo Don Vincenzo Duca di Mantova
contro il monitorio mandato fuori da Don Rinuzo? Farnese,
Duca di Parma, intorno la scoperta congiura ordita gli dal
Marchesino di Sala et d' Altis. 17 March, 1612.
8 ff.
14. Descrittione delle cose notabili che sono nel tesoro della
Ser ms Signoria de Venetia 131
15. Letter from Henry of France to the Duke of Savoy . J33^
1 6. Supplica dei Evangelici al Re Christian" 10 . . . 135 b
17. Speech of Sixtus V. on the death of the Cardinal of Guise
in Latin 136
1 8. Risposta alia Giustificatione de Signori Venetiani per la pace
fatta col gran Turco *39*
19. Relatione di Sauoia dell Ill mo Arab Veneto . . . 152
20. Relatione di Lucca X 77
21. Relatione di Persia del Sig. Vicenzo d' Alessandri, Venetian
Ambassador iSi 6
136 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4-
12. Relatione di Fiandra ........ 196 1>
23. Descrittione di tutta Candia 204^
24. Descr. di Cipro dell' Ill mo Sig. Ascanio Sauorgnano al
Signer Domitio Leonard! 223
25. Relatione di Polonia 245
26. Relatione di Milano del S r Caual. Guarini . . . 278
27. Relatione dell' Isola di Malta di Gio. Bat. Leoni . . 296 b
28. Relatione di Sicilia del Mag to S r Placido Regazzoni . . 312
29. Relatione del...S r Michiel Soriani sopra la Corte et stati di
Ferdinando Re de Romani fatta al senato Vinitiano
L'anno MDLVIJ.
Circa 80 ff.
30. Ragionamento di Carlo V. Imp. al Re Filippo suo figliuolo
nella consignatione del gouerno degli stati.
ff. 70.
31. Relatione di Constantinopoli del Cla rmo Veniero ritornato dal
gran Turco.
ff. 52.
32. Relatione dell' Isola di Malta del S r Gio. Bat. Leoni.
ff. 27. (See no. 27, of which this is another copy.)
{R A *7
.4.
636
Paper, \2\ x 8^, ff. 171, 25 and 33 lines to a page. Cent, xvii
(1602-3), in two hands : the second begins on f. .124$.
Given by Puckering.
Collation : A 8 -X 8 Y 4 (wants 4 blank).
L'HISTORIA DI TROIA, IN PVR VVLGARE RECATA
DA GVIDO GIVDICE DI COLONNA DI MESSINA.
Contents :
Pnol
A duegna diu che continuamente etc.
Text
Nel regno de tesaglia.
Colophon f. 171.
Questa presente opera c stata impressa per Antonio d'Alexandria
dillapaglia, Bartolomeo da Fossobruno della Marca, e Marchesino
di Sanioni Milanese nella inclita citta di Venc/ia neyli mini della
Incarnatione MCCCCI.XXXI.
Fu questa opera incominciata a riscriuere 1' anno 1602 da Mar-
cantonio Vedoua cittadino Vinetiano a requisitione di Giac".
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Casteluetri, che si ha hoggi per ispecial fauore di Dio, che siamo a
xviii d' Ottobre 1603. fmiia di riscriuere fedelmwrte come fu gia
stampata. El questa fatica intraprese per clue ragioni, 1' una per
non ritrouarsi piu da uendere di questa nobile opera, ch' 1' una de
buoni libri della nostra pura lingua uulgare. L' altra, per esser
questo tepo da cui se riscritta stato del Cardinale Bembo e ci son
da sua propia mano notate le uoci piu rare sia ad honore di Dio.
171 b blank.
641. MEMOIRES HISTORIQUES DE DE J R. 4. 8
NEUFVILLE. \ 656 ?
Paper, I2| x 8|, fif. 156, about 27 lines to a page. Cent, xvii,
neatly written.
Given by Puckering.
Without heading ; begins :
Le plus grand contentement que puisse auoir vn homme de bien.
The Memoirs begin in 1567 and end in 1593-4, with the
relation of matters connected with the Due de Maine.
Ending :
vous suppliant le prendre en bonne part croire qu'il est veritable, et que ie demeureray
eternellement.
Vostre seruiteur
De Neufuille.
f R. 4. 9
642. CESARIANO ETC.
I 6 35
Paper, 12^x9, ff. 87, double columns of 39 lines. Cent, xv
(1464), neatly written, with small pictures in the text
Given by ?
For the former owner and scribe see below.
Collation: a 10 (1-3 gone)-i 10 (the rest gone).
Contents :
i. Cesariano.
Begins imperfectly in c. iv.
Roma per chasone de vno genero del dito tarquino.
138 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [k. 4.
The next section is
Chomo naque Julio Cesaro ca. v.
The first division ends on f. 42 :
se chredeua essere el plu potente homo de Romani.
In capitals :
Quivi fenise lo libro de Salustio clamato chatelinario e
molte altre chonse che fece c- in Francia et atrove.
De questo primo libro diremo sechondo luachano e de molte
bele batalie in fino a la morte de cesare e de ponpeio . f. 42 b
The 'first book of Lucan' ends on f. 45^.
lib. ii ........... 45 b
lib. iii 49
lib. iv 52
lib. v 55
lib. vi 58 b
lib. vii 61 b
lib. viii 65
lib. ix 67
lib. x 68
Ends f. 71
Qui finise el libro dito Cesariano chonpilato e trato da salustio
e da luchano e da molti altri sapientissimi autori e chon-
pilatori de li fati de romani de cesaro et de ponpeio e de
chatalina e molti altri. schrito per mi franescho de meser
guido dalachorna strapazadamente a di xi de nouenbro de
1464. Deo gracias amen.
2. Poem : de la morte de C(esare) primo inperadore
Nostro segnor dio che fece el mondo
Chosi chomen^a la luchana istoria
diro de quelo che fu tanto iochondo
Che senpre aquesta vita fia memoria.
In 97 stanzas, ending f. 74
Al nostro honore la chanson e fenita
Christo del cielo ne presti bona vita.
Deo gracias amen.
Below is a pedimented frame (with a medallion of IHS in the
pediment), containing a shield : within a bordure gules, azure
a mountain of six peaks vert, above it three estoilles of six
points gules arranged chevron-wise : on a chief or an eagle
displayed sable. Below in red capitals :
Questo libro sie de Francescho Dalachorna. da. Soncin.
3. Story of Thebes 74 b
Capitula. Qui comen9a el numero di chapitoli del libro
seguente e primo chome fu nato edepus e nutrito. Chapitolo I.
Text. Questo libro chonta dela granda destrucione che fue
fata a la potentisima e nobilisima citade de tebes o de molti
maraueliosi auenture. c. i. 75
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Vno Re era in quelo tempo in tebcs richo e posenti-.
Ends imperfectly in c. 31. (There were 37 chapters.):
vno anno a diportare e aquistare pregio in stra
The pictures are fairly good, but later in style than I should
have expected at this date. Many have been cut out, and there
are blank spaces for a good many. Those that remain are :
i. f. \b. (verso of first remaining leaf)
A group of five Roman soldiers.
i. f. 6 a. Red flourished ground. Three men on L., one about to take a bowl
offered by one on R. Catiline making his accomplices drink blood and wine.
3. f. 7 b. Group of six men, very bad. The Senate.
4. f. 1 1 b. Cato addressing a crowd on A'.
5. f. 18 & Warriors set fire to an arched portico. (Pompey burning the Temple
of Jerusalem.)
6. f. 11 b. A battle scene. (Caesar's first victory over the 'Ulchosi' or Turigones.)
7. f. 23 b, A similar battle.
8. f. 24 b. Two ambassadors in long robes and trains before Caesar.
9. f. 28 b. A bridge over a river, with a gate on it guarded by two horsemen.
Two men fight on the bank. The enemy are Belgae.
10. f. 30 b. Two Romans repulsing three others (Gauls).
11. f. 41. A battle before a towered city of brick.
12. f. 42 b. By a worse ajrtist. Caesar riding with 3 companions by a river sees a
female figure in the air the genius of Rome (Lucan lib. I.).
13. f. 45 b. Lucan lib. II. Rome lamenting, represented as a large woman stand-
ing in a towered city. Badly done.
This is the last picture. Another has been cut out on f. 70, and
the arms described above remain on f. 74. In the story of Thebes
no pictures were intended.
f R. 4. IO
643. AUSTRIAN PATENT OF NOBILITY.
I vac.
Vellum, 12 x 9^, 14 ff. of vellum, made up with a good many
blank leaves of paper. Cent, xvii (1688), well written, with good
heraldic illuminations.
Given by Beaupre Bell.
It is a Patent of Nobility granted on 20 September 1688 by
Leopold of Austria to Carl Friedrich von Hardungh, creating him
' Eques, liber Baro, et Comes ab Hardungh.'
140 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4.
On f. 2 b is the full-page blazon of his arms, on a red ground,
well done. The first page is written in gold.
At the end are the signatures of Leopold, of Petrus Korompay
electus Ep. Nitriensis, and of Joannes Makolomij.
644. GERVASII CHRONICA.
I 213
Vellum, 1 \\ x 7f, ff. 184, double columns of 38 lines. Cent, xiv:
the hand is " either late xiiith or an attempt made in the xivth to
reproduce the writing of the xiiith " (Stubbs), well written.
Given by Whitgift. From Christ Church, Canterbury.
2 fo. opus tutum.
Collation: -* 4 (wants i, 2 stuck to cover) | i 8 -23 8 (8 stuck to
cover).
At the top of f. i in red capitals is :
^ CRONICA GERUASII PARS PRIMA.
Contents :
1. Inc. tractatus de combustione et reparacione czntuariensis
ecclesie f. i
Anno gratie uerbi dei.
Printed in the Rolls Series by Dr Stubbs (i. i).
See his preface vol. i. p. li.
2. Imaginatio Geruasii quasi contra monachos Cant, ecclesie.
Nuntii sumus uenerande pater . . . . . . 16
and similar documents, of which the last is
Imaginatio cause quasi pro abbate.
Licet ad uestram pater serenissime
in modico paruitas enitescat.
Rolls ed. i. 29.
3. Ingressus ad prologum operis sequentis (p. 84) . . . 51
Tria sunt karissime frater
potius deflenda est quam scribenda.
Inc. prologus in cronicam geruasii . . . . . 52
Sanctorum uero orthodoxorum
aduersa plurima sunt dicenda.
Cronica Geruasii (f. 91) 55
Anno igitur gratie secundum dionisium m. c.
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Ending f. 365
et ut predictum est sicut primus liber in obitu regis Ricardi
fincin sortitus est sic secundus a initio regni regis lohannis
cum euentibus sumet initium.
Finito libro reddatur gratia christo. Amen.
645. CHRONICA.
\ =267
Vellum, 1 1 x 7^, two volumes. Cent. xv.
Given by Nevile. At the beginning in red chalk is John
Parker's name : he owned both volumes.
On f. I is an old title
Cronica Scala mundi. )
Cronica (Martini ?) pontificum et imperatorum. )
I. Scala mundi.
In tabular form: many columns on a page: some folding
leaves.
Collation : a 12 b 14 c 12 d 12 e 12 (two cane.) f 4 g 12 : ff. 76.
Contents :
Hie inc. liber qui vocatur Scala mundi . . . . . f . i b
De creacione mundi et opere prime diei.
In principio creauit etc.
The original hand has prepared the chronology down to 1619, but
I think has only made historical entries as far as Henry VI. A
nearly contemporary hand has continued with Edward IV., and a
xvith cent, hand has carried it on to the accession of Elizabeth.
There are rude drawings in this volume, viz.
f. i b. i. God standing by a globe in which are seen angels above,
and devils falling below.
2. God by the globe divided into land and water.
3. God standing by trees and water.
4. God measuring with compasses : globe with sun, moon and stars.
5. Creation of birds and fishes.
6. In four compartments. Creation of beasts : of Adam :
of Eve. Expulsion.
7. God seated amidst angels. (The Seventh Day.)
8. f. 2. Adam with spade on L. Eve with distaff on R.
Each takes a coat from the hand of an angel seen in a
cloud in the centre.
142 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [K. 4.
There are conventional pictures of cities, Noah's Ark, Babel,
the Temple. Burning of the temple f. 35 b.
9. Birth of the Virgin f. 41 b.
10. The Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John . . f. 426
11. Heads of S. Felicitas and her seven sons ... 46
12. A lectern : to mark introduction of antiphonal singing . 49
13. Two-bodied monster born at Emaus .... 50
14. Heads of S. Ursula and Virgins 50
15. Stonehenge 52
16. Bells in a tower $$b
Monstrosities ,^4
17. Head of Pope Joan. Popissa underneath . . . 58^
Monstrosity 61
Lincoln Cathedral 64
1 8. S. Dominic and another preaching ..... 66
19. S. Francis preaching to 3 birds on a tree: a friar
watches him ......... 66
20. A vision of the Crucified Christ which was seen in the air
at Dunstable in 1189? 66
Salisbury Cathedral ........ 67
II. Heading in Parker's hand. Chronica Martini multo
amplior quam communiter habetur.
It is in the same hand as vol. I. 41-42 lines to a page.
Collation: A 8 -F 8 G 4 (2-4 blank): 52 leaves.
Contents :
Inc.
Anno xlij Octauiani Agusti natus est Ihesus Christus . . f. 74
The Pontifices and Imperatores are treated on opposite pages, so
each page has a catchword which refers to the next page but one.
Imperatores end (vacante imperio] on f. 1 1 1 a
et qui scripsit hec vidit ea.
Pontifices end 1 2 1 b
Benedictus xii u " in papam eligitur a.d. m. ccc. xxxiiij .
646. ITALIAN DOCUMENTS. R. 4. 13
Paper, iif x 7f , ff. cir. 7 + 217 written, 20 lines to a page.
Cent, xvii, well written.
Given by W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Vice-Master, in 1889. Sold
with the Earl of Westmoreland's MSS. at Sotheby's, July 1887
(Lot 699). It has the card of Lord Burghersh in it.
I2-I6] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 143
Contents :
1. Seven leaves (xvii) with lists of books, being part of a
Catalogue of a private Library.
2. Relatione di M. Bernardo Nauagero che fu poi Cardinale alia
Republica sua di Venetia tornando di Roma Ambasciatore a
Papa Paolo 4. L' anno 1558 . . . . . . f. i
3. Relatione delli stati de Fiorenza et di Siena fatta dal Mag ro M.
Vincenzo fedele Secretario della Sereniss'. Rep. di Venetia
ritornato del Duca Cosmo de Medici 1' anno 1561 . . 6r
4. Relatione dello stato nel quale si ritruoua il gouerno dell
Imperio Turchescho nell anno 1594 143
5. Relatione de Mons r Pietro Cedolini Vescouo di Lesina del
presente stato dell' Imperio Turchesco . . fatta al . . Papa
Clemente VIII 28 Jan. 1594 169
6. Relattione in forma di Discorso delle del (sic) Regno di Napoli
nell' Anno 1579 al Sig. Aluisi Landi, Secretario Venetiano . 183
Ending 217.
R. 4. 14 no entry in the MS. Catalogue of Cent, xviii.
647,648. ITALIAN DOCUMENTS. I ' 4 ' 15 ' *
[ vac.
Paper, u x 8*-, pp. 1149 (50 numbered), 17 lines to a page,
bound in two volumes. Cent, xviii (1727).
Given by ?
On the fly-leaf is a note :
"These papers were transcribed in 1727 for Count Dehn, the
Duke of Wolfembuttle's Ambassador at the Court of England."
A Table follows.
i . Le Cause del Santo Officio 6 sono d' Heresia 6 di sospettione
d'essa I delinquent! 6 siano Eretici 6 siano sospetti si
considerono in due modi: II primo come preuenuti in
giudicio d'Jnditii sofficienti : II secondo come sponti com-
parenti f. i
i. Instruttione a .. Mons r di Massimi Vesc. di Bertinoro per
andare Nuntio di N ro Signore in Toscana. Mart. 25 1621 122
3. Instr. a M. Panfilio Auditor di Rota.
Nuncio at Naples. 26 Mar. 1626 136
4. Instr. a M. Corsini Arciuesc. di Tarsi.
Nuncio in France. 4 ap. 1621 ... 15*
144 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4.
5. Instr. a M. <li Sangro Patriarca d'Alessandria, Arcivesc.
di Benevento. Nuncio to Spain. 6 Ap. 1621 . . . 228
6. Instr. a . . vesc. d'Aversa. Nuntio to Ferdinand II. 12 Ap.
1621 280
7. Instr. a Arcivesc. di Seluccia. Vice-legate a 1' Avignon.
13 Ap. 1621 353
8. Instr. a Arcivesc. di Patras. Nuntio in Flanders, i May
1621 369
9. Instr. a... vesc. di Campagna. Nuntio to Switzerland.
12 May 1621 407
10. Instr. a Arcivesc. di Tebe. Nuntio Extraordinary to Spain.
16 Oct. 1621 447
11. Instr. seconda (to the same) per trattare degli affari di Ger-
mania. 16 Oct. 1621 459
12. Instr. terza (to the same) della Lega contra il Turco. 16 Oct.
1621 482
13. Instr. quarta (to the same) del negotio della Valtellina . 522
14. Instr. a M. di Torres vesc. d'Andrinopoli. Nuntio to Poland.
30 May 1621 554
Vol. II. (R. 4. 1 6.)
Uniform with the last and paged continuously.
Contents :
15. Avertimenti dati di Gregorio xv in uoce al. Sig. C.rd.
Ludouisi suo Nipote. i Ap. 1622 .... 633
1 6. Instr. a. M. Lancelloti vesc. di Nola. Nuntio to Poland.
10 Oct. 1622 673
17. Instr. a M. Matteo Baglioni...Collaterale...to go to the
Valtellina by Milan, i Ap. 1623 765
1 8. Instr. a Sig. Duca di Fiano a pigliare il deposito dei forti
della Valtellina. 5 Ap. 1623 778
19. Instr. seconda. 5 Ap. 1623 853
20. Instr. a M. Massimi Vesc. di Bertinoro to treat with the
King of Spain sopra la dispensa del Matrimonio di sua
sorella col Principe d' Inghilterra. 12 Ap. 1623 . . 869
21. Considerations of the utility of this marriage to the Catholic
Religion 895
22. Instr. dal Card. Borghese a M. Vesc. d' Albegna, Nuntio
of the late Paul V. to Portugal ..... 909
23. Ordine a M. Verospi to treat with the Emperor as to the
person and affairs of Cardinal Dessellio. 13 Jan. 1622 . 945
24. To the same: per rallegrarsi a nome di N. S. con le Maesta
dell' Imperatore et Imperatrice clelle Nozze loro. 13 Jan.
1622 953
25. Instr. a M. Albergati Vesc. di Bisegli, Collaterale in
Portugal. 4 Mar. 1622 959
1 5-1 8] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 145
26. Instr. a M. Verospi auditore di Rota, Nuntio Extraordinary
to Ferdinand II. 13 Jan. 1621 1003
27. Instr. a Dottore Leone Allatio Scrittore greco della Bibl.
Vaticana per anclare in Germania per servitio di N. S.
23 Oct. 1622 1052
28. Instr. a M. Vesc. d' Anglone, Nuntio to Tuscany. 20 Aug.
1622 1070
29. Instr. a M. Montorio, Nuntio Resident in Cologne.
31 Aug. 1621 1090
r R A T *7
649. POLITICAL PAPERS, ITALIAN. 7
1 572
Paper, lof x 8, flf. 244, 25 lines to a page. Cent, xvii, well
written. Limp vellum cover.
Given in 1664 by Dr Crane, Fellow.
Contents :
1. Istruttione data al S r Card 1 Ginetti, Legato de Latere in
Colonia, per la pace uniuersale f. i
2. Relatione di Spagna con tutto il resto che possiede il Re
Catt co fatto dal Clar mo Leonardo Moro Amb r Veneto . 91
3. Relatione di tutti li stati e forze de' Prencipi d' Italia . 139
4. Auuertimenti dati da Papa Gregorio xv al Card 1 Ludouisio
suo Nipote, dal quale poi sono stati referti nell infrascritta
forma (i April 1622) 153
5. Ragioni per le quali il Ser mo gia Principe Card 1 di Sauoia
douea esser ammesso alia tutela del Duchino di Sauoia suo
Nipote 177
6. Giustitia e Ragioni ch 5 ha il Re Catt 00 nel Regno di Portugallo 209
7. Precetti Politici e Rari del Sig r Conte Baltassar Castiglione
per la Corte 229
8. Auuertimenti Politici del Sig r Conte di Verua stato Amb r del
g er mo di Sauoia in Roma, vtilissimi per vn Corteggiano . 233
18
650. MARTINUS POLONUS.
f R. 4.
I 164
Vellum, 10 x 6|, ff. 120, double columns of 27 lines. Cent, xiii-
xiv, in a beautiful hand.
T. c. n. I0
146 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4-
Given by Whitgift At the bottom of f. I in a xvth cent,
hand is :
Cronica martini et app
2 fo. icium habuerunt.
f. I has a partial border and initial of a Dominican friar with a
book, on gold ground.
Collation: I 12 -io 12 .
Contents :
Inc. cronica fratris martini ordinis predicatorum domini pape peni-
tentiarii et capellani f. i
Quoniam scire tempora summorum pontificum.
De quatuor regnis maioribus i b
Sicut ergo dicit orosius.
The parallel chronicle of Emperors and Popes begins on f. 20.
The first page has one column for each. Subsequently the Impera-
tores and Pontifices are on opposite pages.
Ends f. iiob in syciliam ueniens est defunctus.
Expl. Cronica martini de Imperatoribus [explicit].
651. PEZZI D' HISTORIA (STE).
I 6 5
Paper, io x 8, ff. 108, 18 lines to a page. Cent, xvii, well
written.
From Puckering.
Contents :
Pezzi d' Historia cioe diuersi lieti et tristi auenimenti accaduti a
Prencipi da ESTE, come anchora a persone basse, salite per
mezzi strani a gradi altissimi, taciuti da moderni Historic!.
Contenenza delle principal! materie di questa Historietta.
Prima ci si contengono le ragioni che mossero Clemente VIII. a
torre il Ducato di Ferrara a Don Cesare da Este . . . f. 2 a
Poi gli errori commessi da don Cesare in non hauer saputo con-
seruare 1' appropriate Ducata 74
Terzo come Gio. giacomo Medichino Marchese di Marignano et
Pio IV. suo fratello non fossero de Medici di Firenze.. come egli
essendo diuenuto Papa voile si credesse ..... 80
Vltimamente come Gio. Angelo Medichino Cardinale per moneta
comperasse la dignita Pontificale la quale per non isborsare come
1 8-20] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 147
s' era ubligato fece a chi gliele uendette strangolare sotto altro
processo....
(This does not appear to be in the MS.)-
Table ... 1006
652. MANDEVILLE. J R. 4. 20
LYDGATE'S THEBES. I 579
Vellum, io x 7^, flf. 172, 28 lines to a page. Cent, xv early,
well written.
Given in 1663 by Dr Crane, Fellow. 2 fo. children.
On 87 a this is William Kelyng bocke. This boke is John
hydes boke
Sire Thomas pott' preste ys the honere of me
and many scribbles on the following pages, e.g.
Francis Morys (?) Nuncke liberum (xvi)
and
Parnell Wilford / Rowland Kenston / dan Edward Stevynson etc.
On f. i is a good border of English work, a shield in the lower
margin erased : apparently party per fess arg. and sa. with a lion
rampant counterchanged (upper half sa. lower arg.}. Also an
initial : a man in plate armour and red cap (?), red mantle lined
with ermine, stands holding a sword : red flourished ground.
Collation: i 8 -ii 8 || I2 8 13" (wants 4, 5) 14" (wants 4, 5)-22 8
(8 mut).
Contents :
I. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville . . . . f. r
For as mych as the londe over the see.
Ends f. 87 a. Colophon in large red letters.
Heere eendith the book of John Maundevyle Knyght of
weies to Jerusalem : and of merueilis of Inde and of
othere Cuntreis.
On 87 b, 88, in a large hand (possibly a set copy) is a love
letter, parts of which are repeated in worse hands more
than once.
Alas swet hart I am yowre pore servant wherfore I
beseche yow yf that yt pleasith yow to gyve awdyens
vnto my wordes of a thynge whych I shall tell yov.
alas swete hart knowe the bewty of yo r person and
IO 2
148
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS.
[R. 4 .
the pleasant fygure formyde and composyd above natures
operacyon hath ravyshyde my sprytes and enbrasyd my
hert in such wise that nyght & daye I thinke on none
other thyng save onlye on yo r love and that wors is I
lose rest meat and drinke maners and corousenanc' what
I think vpon yo r grey eyen and resplendishing visage so
I requyre of god that he will gyve me you volent and
corage for to receve me for yo r trew lover for if so be ye
refuse me for yo r trew lover ther is nothing so nere me
as to envoke the deth alas alas swete hart yow that are
amyable and cortays be not cavse to dymynyshe my lyfe
but gyve me holy yo r love by such a covenant that I
shall in love ye more then ever it was.
Other scribbles follow.
II. i. Lydgate's Destruction of Thebes .....
Border as on f. x and initial of a walled and towered town
surrounded by water. Blue flourished ground.
Phebus in Ariete.
Whanne Phebus passid was the ram.
Four leaves containing 11. 615-726 and 1065-1172 are
missing.
Ends f. 1690
Heere eendith the distruccion of Thebes.
Here is now eendid the fynal distruccioun
Of myghty Thebes that strong and royal toun.
2. On ff. 169 -172 a are bits of several hymns in a later
hand. Some are printed in E. E. T. S. Hymns to the
Virgin and Christ, p. 128.
1. Honour be ewer w l outen ende ....
To hym that fro the hevyn discende.
2. O gentyll fortune I thonke yowe I wys (7 11.) .
3. In a bad hand.
God is onely good and full of the same
And in the goodnes was . . vnderstoniwg etc.
4. I haue nowe sett myn herte so hye . . .
5. Dere sonnes let not ydelnes yowe enslombre.
(4 lines, advice from a father.)
Dere doghterne and yhe wyll be vertuus.
(4 lines, advice from a mother.)
6. Hay hay hay hay thynke on Whitsonmonday.
The bysshop scrope that was so wyse ^
Nowe is he dede and lowe he lyse,
To hevyns blys yhit may he ryse i
Thrughe helpe of marie that mylde may.J
7. O... tonge so often here byfore . . .
89
169 b
170
170^
hay
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has y u made many oon hryghte of hewe
say walaway the day that I was bore.
3 stanzas of 7 lines. At end (perhaps in the same
hand) ' by one ffraunce. '
8. Hayll mary the mod(er)...
7 lines half torn off.
R. 4. 21, 22. No entry in MS. Catalogue.
653. BERNARDUS GUIDO. 1 4- 2 3
I 269
Vellum, io x 7^, ff. 166, single and double columns, number of
lines varying. Cent, xiv, well written.
Given by ? Nevile. 2 fo. Ixxxii . In alia.
On the life and writings of the author Bernardus Guido see a
memoir by Delisle in Notices et Extraits xxvil. 1879, Les MSS.
de Bernard Gui. The Trinity MS. is frequently mentioned.
Bernardus Guido was a Dominican of Limoges, and afterwards
Inquisitor of Toulouse, procurator general of his order at Rome,
and Bishop of Lodeve. He died in 1331.
Collation : i fly-leaf | i 8 -4 8 (+ i) || 5 4 6 8 -7 8 8 8 (wants four leaves) |
9 8 io 8 ii 10 I2 8 I3 2 1| a 8 -i 8 j i fly-leaf.
Contents :
On the verso of the fly-leaf, in a later hand, are copied out
two prologues of Bernardus Guido.
1. To Pope John dated 1315.
2. To Berengarius Magister of the Dominican order.
I. Text. 28 lines to a full page, and comment surrounding
it. Catalogus Pontificum, Delisle 74 . . . f. i
Text. Ihesus christus films dei et dominus noster primus
et summus pontifex.
Comm. Ihc xpc. qui est uerus sacerdos secundum
ordinem melchisedech.
The original hand ends with Clement V. (f. 30 6).
in uillula minus insigni satis sterili et exili.
The hand which added the prologues here adds a notice
of John XXII.
150 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4.
Gloss ends : sede romana vacante hodie quo hec scrips!,
ff. 31-34 are blank.
II. At first single lines, then double columns: 42 lines.
Abridged Chronicle of the Emperors: Delisle 78.
Imperatores Romani ....... 35
lulius cesar qui gayus iulius dicitur primus imperator
romanorum.
It goes down to Henry of Luxemburg, ending (47 b),
Anno domini m. ccc. xiii". regni et imperil sui anno quinto.
Delatumque fuit inde corpus eiiis apud pisas [et ibidem
sepultum], the last words added by the scribe of the
prologues,
f. 48 is blank.
III. De origine prima Francorum. Delisle 100 . . 49
Franci ex sua prima origine fuere troiani.
Ends
Sub anno dominice incarnationis millesimo ccc. xiiii . anno
indurante primo. In mense decembri quo hec scripsi.
Arbor genealogie Regum Francorum . . . . 49
At the top is a miniature of admirable French work, but
much rubbed, representing two men in robes seated on
one seat and conversing : the ground is chequered gold,
the top canopied. The figures represent Turchotus or
Thorgotus and Francio, the progenitors of the Sicambri.
The tree begins on the same page with two small medallions
(gold ground) representing Marconius and Genebaldus,
chiefs of the Sicambri.
It is continued with medallions of larger size (plain ground
usually) containing full-length figures of kings in blue
robes semee with gold fleurs-de-lys, and holding fleurs-
de-lys sceptres.
These figures begin on 50 a with Pharamond.
On f. 50 b at the side are 8 medallions on gold grounds
with heads of Gundegus of Burgundy and his descendants.
510. Head of St Radegund (very fine), and 8 more heads
of Burgundians.
51 b. Head of Fredegund.
52 b. S. Bertrudis, Lupus of Sens, Eloy of Noyon, Flauius
presbiter, and 3 others.
52 b. Twelve heads, of Ansegisil etc.
53. Hie inc. secunda genealogia Regum francorum.
Headed by Pepin le Bref, standing on a lion.
Heads of S. Eutherianus of Orleans and others.
54^. Bust of S. Giles.
There is a gap between ff. 55, 56 from Charles the Simple
to Philip IV.
The original hand ends with Louis X. ^57 a).
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fuitque coronatus et unctus in regem francorum.
The continuator finishes this notice and adds one of
Philip VI.
57 , 58 are blank.
IV. Hec sunt nomina regum Francorum qui a principio sub
anno domini ccccxv . quo primum regnare ceperunt
usque ad annum do', m. ccc. xiii. mense decembri
quo hec scripsi etc 59
Delisle 88 : it is the second of at least five editions of this
Chronicle.
Ends with Louis X. unctus in regem francorum in sequenti.
On f. 67*, the later hand adds short notices of Philip VI.
and Charles III. (?). 67* b is blank.
V. Another list of the French Kings. Delisle 96.
In sequentibus breuius colliguntur.... nomina regum
francorum ......... 68
Ending as before with Louis X., to which the later hand
adds a notice of Charles III. omitting Philip VI.
VI. De tempore celebrationis conciliorum. Delisle 152.
Inc. tract, breuis de temporibus et annis generalium et
particularium conciliorum 74
De sacrosanctis synodis seu conciliis.
From the Council of Nice to that of Venice 131 1, to which
the later hand adds a note on John xxii. 1317.
83 b blank.
VII. On the seventy disciples. Delisle 148 ... 84
Designauit dominus et alios septuaginta duos discipulos
etc.
Hec ergo sunt nomina discipulorum domini I. C. que potui
reperire et colligere sub compendio ex pluribus libris et
scripturis usque in presentem annum m. ccc. xiii.
Marcialis sanctissimus alumpnus d. n. Ihesu Christi.
(A longish notice follows)
Saturninus
Lazarus
Nicodemus
Mansuetus
Mathias
Symeon
Joseph
Mimius
Joseph bar-
Ananias
(Arimath.)
Savinian
sabas
Judas
Stephen and
Potentian
Barnabas
Sylas
the other
Altinus
Fronto
Cleophas
deacons
Priscus
Eutropius
Cephas
Apollinaris
Nason
Gracianus
Thadeus
Sirus
Aristion
lulianus
(with the Ab-
Clement
Aristarchus
Urcissinus
gar legend)
Eucharius
Epafras
( = Nathanael) Zacheus
Valerius
Archippus
Trophimus
Austriclinian
Maternus
Andronicus
Maximinus
Alpinian
Sixtus
Julia or Julius
152 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4.
Erastus Epaphro- panion Aquila
Crispin ditus of Cleophas Quartus
Gayus Alexander at Emmaus) Agabus
Ruphus Ruphus lesus Justus Lucius
Zozimus Amaon (com- Restitutus
A Mass of the Disciples follows, consisting of :
Oratio. Adiuuent nos domine deus noster omnium dis-
cipuloram etc.
Secretim. Oblata tibi domine sacrificia.
Postcommnnion. Perficiant in nobis domine.
VIII. Chronicle of the Priors of Grandmont. Delisle 112.
Primus prior institutor et fundator ordinis grandimontensis
fuit S. Stephanus de Mureto etc. . . . . 92 b
Of a sanctuary founded by St Martial at St Augustine near
Limoges. Delisle no 93
Chronicle of the Priors of Artige. Delisle 115, 116.
It is the second of the two texts there mentioned . . 93
Primus prior fundator ordinis artigie dioc. lem. non longe
a S. Leonardo fuit ven. pater Marchus cum Sebastiano
nepote suo etc 93 b
VIII. Magnus Cathalogus Pontificum Romanorum ... 94
Romanorum pontificum nomina et tempora quibus christi
ecclesie prefuerunt.
It is according to M. Delisle 39 a copy of the third
edition of the work.
Ihesus christus filius dei etc 94
The hand varies a good deal in the last leaves. Ends with
John xxii (as is stated in the Prologue f. 94).
in quibus uiuificauit dominus sanctum suum et colendum
exhibuit uniuersis (164^).
ff. 165, 1 66 are blank.
R. 4. 24,
654. PEZZI D' HISTOKIA.
654
610
Paper, 9f x 6|, ff. 409, two volumes. Cent, xvii, neatly written.
I. From Puckering.
Pezzi d'Historia d'Antonio Perez gia primo Secretario del Re Cat co Don Filippo
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Contents :
1. Prima Relatione...delle Prigioni et degli Auenimenti d'Ant .
Perez... che in comincia dalla sua prima prigione in fino
all' uscita sua de reami di Spagna f. 4
With Preliminary address of Rafaelle Pellegrino to the
Printer etc.
Dated 30 Sept. 1592.
2. Seconda Relatione di quanto avenue in Saragozza d'Aragone
sotto il xxiv di Settembre 1'anno M. D. xci. per cagione
della liberta d'Ant . Perez etc 239
Dated 17 Sept.
3. La scrittura che fu chiamata Libello 199 (299)
Rafaello Pellegrino ad Ognuno.
4. Instruttione data per lo P. Priore di Gotor date a x di
Giugno del M. D. xc 228 (328)
5. Lo stampatore ad ognuno che legge 296 (396)
The translation 'compiuto da Giacopo Casteluetri modonese
13 Feb. MDCVII. In Vinezia. ' The transcription
Monday (Jan.) 3. 1611 298(398)
Two blank leaves follow.
II. Given by John Spragg, Fellow, in 1672.
1. Discorso fatto al Re di Spagna che non uogli permettere
s'accendi la guerra in Italia per causa della Val Tellina
(A.D. 1625) f. 212 p. i
2. Discorso politico fatto nella sede vacante di Papa Gregorio xv.
A.D. 1623 37
3. Creation del Papa Lodeuisio chiamato Gregorio xv. 9 Feb.
1621 61
4. Conclaue dell, elettione di Gregorio xv. Bolognese create
1'anno 1621 a di 9 Febraro 73
5. Discorso sopra la liberta del Mare Adriatico
(in favour of the Republic of Venice) 1627 ... 85
6. Discorso sopra la pace 6 guerra tra la Casa d' Austria et il
Turco (1616) MS
7. Interdetto contra la Serenissima Rep. di Venetia della
Santita di N. S. Paolo V. 17 Ap. 1606 . . . 239
8. Discorso del Cardinal Tosco da Reggio di Lombardia intorno
alle contention! fra la Chiesa e la Rep. di Venetia 1606 . 263
9. Discorso di Precedenza tra Francia et Spagna . . . 319
10. Discorso sopra le ragioni di Precedenza .... 386
Ending p. 389.
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400
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written.
Given by Nevile. 2 fo. qui fuit filius.
The tops of two fly-leaves which might have had owners' names
are gone.
On f. I is Merlinus 1553.
Collation: a 4 | i lc -3 10 ^ 5" 6 12 ; l 8 10 9" io 8 Ii 12 -i4 12 is 8 i6 8 | b 8 .
Four fly-leaves arranged for a table of contents :
1 . Prophecy.
Prophecia merlini siluestris anglorum edvvardo regi sancti
nominis huius tercio reuelata fuit per spiritum sanctum sub
testimonio duorum sanctorum.
Ex inde primo in quartum, de quarto in tercium de tercio in
secundum.
Rotabitur pollex in oleo Et catulis olim quod opinio nostra
tenebat.
lam nichil esse uidens tucius ista feram.
Prophetia quedam inuenta in Curia Romana . . . f . i b
Gallorum leuitas germanos iustificabit (n lines).
cessabit gloria cleri.
Prophetia cuiusdam merlini de ybernia i b
Pro dolor non modicum quod tarn tarde uenit filius regis
ultra mare etc.
angustias pacientur.
Annus ab incarnatione M us . cc us . xxx" 8 . ix u '. effluebat quando
edwardus filius regis henrici primogenitus natus fuit.
His genealogy to Noah
The Descendants of Noah's three sons down to Nengo the
progenitor of the Wandali, Saxones, Bogauri, Targi . . 2
2. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle i b
Engelond is swij>e good ich wene hit is lond best.
Ends f. 1630
I wan |>e seignorize i nere hi no so prout.
Edited by \V. Aldis Wright, M.A. (Vice-Master), in the Rolls
Series.
In the Introduction (I. xliii) this MS. is described as belonging
to the later recension of the poem, and as ' a careful copy of
an earlier MS.'
3. A short Chronicle from Brutus, in French prose . . .
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Deuant la natiuite nostre seignur mil et deus cens ans brutus
le fiz Silin vint en engleterre.
Ends 1 67 a
Apres li fuit edward sun fiz rey e corone a WestmosUrr et
conqwzst tote la seignorize de Wales.
656.
6 5 6
Paper, 8 x 6, ff. 64 written. Cent, xvii, in a neat hand.
From Puckering.
Contents :
I. Remarques sur la France f. .1
Cest une pure vraye et absolue Monarchic.
ff. 31. f. 32 blank.
II. Traicte des Prouinces de France 33
Le Royaume de France depuis que les grandes Prouinces out
este annexees a la Couronne.
Ends with a list of Reformed Churches, and Roman and
Reformed Court Officials (f. 640;).
657.
I 659
Paper, 7| x 5^, ff. 56. Cent, xvii, very neatly written.
From Puckering.
Relatione della Corte di Roma, et de Riti da osseruarsi in essa et
suoi magistrati et officii con la loro distinta giurisditione.
II sommo Pontefice ha per suoi Collaterali 70 Cardinali etc.
Ends f. 86 b with a list of the Diaconates of the 14 Cardinal Deacons.
658- { ? 6I 4 7
Paper, 8 x 5^, ff. 50 and 14, two vols. Cent. xvii.
Given by Dr Crane, Fellow, in 1664.
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number, roughly coloured, pasted on the pages with a
short account of each written below, in Italian.
A printed page at the end says
Omnes sunt Ivi (corrected in ink to 49). Ex quibus creati
fuerunt
a Clemente VIII. Presb. I.
a Paulo V. Episc. 4, Presb. 4, Diac. 2.
a Gregorio XV. Presb. i (3).
ab Vrbano VIII. Presb. 26, Diac. 12.
Romae ex typographia Reu. Camerae Apostolicae 1642.
f. 51 blank.
II. Instruttioni a V.S. Monsig re de Massimi Vescouo di Bertinoro,
Nuncio di N.S. ne Regni di Spagna per trattare con la m ta
del Re Catt co sopra la Dispensa del Matrimonio di sua
sorella col Prinzipe d'Inghilterra.
Egli e cosi graue et importante affare.
Ends f. 64.
( R. 4- 30
659. DUCALE. (35)
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Vellum (and 6 ff. of paper) 8 x 5|, ff. 116, 21 lines to a page.
Cent, xvi (1565), well written.
Given by Beaupre Bell 1737.
The first page is a painting : a gold border with six female
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Temperance and ? Prudence. In the centre a landscape with
Justice and Peace conversing in front.
Below the arms of Bembo (az. a chevron or between 3 cinq-
foils of the same).
It is the commission of Lorenzo Bembo to be Governor of
Cyprus, issued by the Doge Hieronymus Priolus, dated f. nob
20 May, Indiction viii. MDLXV., signed Aloysius Zambrius (?)
Scacharius.
An Index on paper is added.
R. 4. 30, 31, 32, 33. No entry in MS. Catalogue.
R. 4. 34 = R. 7. 35. Chronicle to A.D. 1427.
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660. ITALIAN TRACTS.
[ vac.
Paper, of various sizes, the largest 8g x 7.
Doubtless from Puckering.
Contents :
1. Auertimente raccolti dalla Relatione da Constantinopoli fatta
dal Sig re Matteo Veniero al Ser mo Principe et Senato
Veneto 1'anno 1583.
ff. 7.
2. Memoriale di molti cognomi di famiglie italiche che sotto
alcuni nomi di cose o d'animali caddono et prima sotto
questo di numero.
Nicolo de' Primi etc.
ff. 9-
3. A narrative about Malaspina and il Greco Mamugna without
heading: many corrections. 1576.
ff. 20.
4. Relatione delle essere della Religione et con quai dissegni
et con quale orte sia stata formata et esercitata in diuerse
Signorie di questi ocidentali parti del mondo.
ff. 6.
5. Eccellente Trattato della mercalantia de Preti fatto di sig. (?)
Giouanni Ciassanioni et vulgarizzato a pro degli amatori
della verita per Aliseo Linguawtonschi.
A Charleton agli viii d'agosto 1614.
ff 33-
6. Insegnamento di quelle particelle della Vulgar lingua che
turbano piu gli stranieri che ad' appararla si danno.
ff. 7.
7. Giulietta giouanetta di contado scomitte con Stefano d'
andar sola di notte tempo sul cimitero etc.
It is a story,
ff. 7 .
8. Primo sermone intorno al credere giustificarsi per Giesii
Christo.
ff. 4 .
9. Risposta alia giustificatione de ss" Venetiani per la pace
fatta col gran Turco et in ultimo le conditioni d'essa lega.
ff. 23.
10. Replica al signor Coeffeteau intorno alia sua risposta all'
auertimento del Re a' Principi et a signori della Christianita.
Vulgarizzato di francese da persona desiderosa di giouare a
suoi patriotti. In Parigi 1'anno MDCXII. xii di Settembre.
pp. 95-
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Contents :
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2. Registro.
3. Address to Philip of Spain by Zefirielle Thomaso Boccio,
Verona 2 Jan. 1597 f. i
4. The same to the Emperor, same date .... 3
5. The same to the Pope ,, .... =
6. An epitaph on Cyrus, Boniface, and Albert Canosti, three
brothers killed at Verona, i June 1600, with a discourse
thereon signed Alessandro Alati 7
7. La grida publica...in Londra...9 Feb. 1601 (1600) . . n
On the rebellion of the Earl of Essex etc. (see above, p. 115).
Ten pages cut out after this.
8. Accord faict entre M. d'Espemon et M. le Mareschal
d'Ornazo, with d'Espernon's reply 23
9. Descrittione del marauiglioso scoglio chiamato Bas nella
Scotia (The Bass Rock) 23
10. Claimants to the Crown of England 286
IT. Lettere du Roy a la Royne Marguerite sur la dissolution de
leur manage. The Queen's reply (2 if.) ... 33
Leaves cut out.
12. Discorso politico tra uno Italiano et uno Spagnuolo . . 82
1 3. Brieve Ragionamento intorno alia Stella apparsa a x d'Ottobre
1'anno MDCIV. fatto dall' Excellente Medico il S r Leonardo
Tedeschi Veronese 88-ni
Leaves cut out.
14. Supplica de' Catolici d'Inghilterra al Re . . . . 125
15. Diceria delL-.S 1 * Horatio Mattei, Nuntio del Papa alia Sig ria
Di Vinezia 1601 143-144
1 6. Relatione di Firenze: beginning gone . . . . 155
17. Ricordi di Carlo Quinto dati a suo figliuolo Filippo d'Austria
in Augusta 1'anno MDLVIII !95-333
At end: In Peschiera gli xi di Luglio 1601.
Leaves cut out.
18. Memoriale clelle Famiglie nobili di Venetia . . . 244
Beginning gone.
19. Memoriale delle Dogi di Venetia: end gone . . . 255-263
Leaves cut out.
20. I capitoli della pace fra Giacopo primo Re d'Inghilterra et
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et Chiara Eugenia conchiusa a xviii d'Agosto MUCIV. stil
vecchio 281-299
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21. Oratio in obitu Ser mi Principis Marini Grimani . . 313
22. Diceria dell' Ambasciare del Ser Duca d'Vrbino . . 351
329, 30 blank.
23. Parere del Conti Giorgio Basta intorno a mantener la guerra
in Vngheria 331
336-8 blank.
24. Discorso dell' entrata della Rep. di Venetia tratto d'una
Relatione di Monsignore Ill mo Offredo Nuntio del Papa
morto del 1605 in questa citta: fatta da lui per presentare
a sua Santita 347
25. Petitio Comitis de Fuentes feudatariis facta, ut relaxent feuda
omnia pertinentia ad Ducatum Mediolanensem . . 351
ff - 339' 3 2 ( = 34) 342 blank.
26. Discorso d'un Politico contro a' biasimanti la Pace fatta da'
Vinitiani col gran Turco 1'anno MDLXXII. . . . 343-421
27. Scrittura...di S r Gio. battista Contarini nel tempo ch' egli
se trovara Cap no in golfo intorno agli Uscocchi 1'anno
MDXC. a xxii di Dicembre in Zarra et mandata a S. Ser 13
in Vinetia t . 402 (422)
-4'3 (433)
662. ITALIAN POEMS. R> 4> 38
( vac.
Paper, various sizes, the largest 8 x 6|, many hands. Cent. xvii.
From Puckering.
Contents :
1 . Two leaves headed Diverse containing four Pasquinades :
quando Chimente viii torno dal poco faticoso acquisti di
Ferrara a Roma, il Teuero crebbe piii che prima fosse
cresciuto, etc.
2. Risposta a chi essorta darsi alia Corbe.
Voi mi suegliate pur, perch' io mi colco.
4 ff.
3. The sixth book of the Dittamondo of Fazio degli Uberti, in
the same hand as R. 3. 38, of which volume this no doubt
formed a part.
24 ff. (two blank).
4. Pasquinate di diversi scrittori sopra gli Aldobrandini.
l6o CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 4.
Eighty-nine in number,
ff. 14.
5. Diverse Pasquinate.
i on the death of Prince Doria.
The last dated 1605.
ff. 6.
6. Ragionamento d'un Venetiano e un Zuechin sovra i Giesuiti
(sopra 1'andata de Giesuiti fuori di Vinetia).
ff. 10.
7. Canzone fatta nel tempo degli ultimi dispareri stati tra Papa
Paolo V. et la ser 11 ^ Sig ria di Venetia. Dall' accademico
Desioso appellate 1'asciutto in persuader la signoria a cedere
al Papa.
Con la Risposta (dell' Accademico Valentiroso (?)) non men
valente detto 1'Humido confortandola a stare salda.
ff. 12.
8. Canzone del Cl mo Antonio Priuli (in lode di Vinetia contra
Roma)
Mirate heroi del mondo.
This is the first of a collection of poems, all anonymous save
(he first. They are in various metres and are addresses of
Venice to Rome, Rome to Venice, addresses to Paul V. etc.
ff. 14.
663. WORKS BY CAMPANELLA.
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From Puckering.
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i. Discorso a Principi d'ltalia che per ben loro et del Chris-
tianesimo non debbano contradire alia Monarchia di Spagna
ma fauorir la... fatto da fra Tommaso Campanella . . 47
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The humble Remonstrance of many of his Ma ties most faythfull
and Loyall subiects and (as all the places of our abode can
testifie for us) misserablely persecuted by many most rigorous
courses of the Prelates and their adherents for our conscience sake:
to the impoverishinge of our families ruinateinge of our estates ;
and to the consumeing of our Bodies by continuall Deathes, in
prisons and exiles, etc.
sheweth
that whereas wee accordeinge to that which our Lord and
Master foretold John 16. 33 etc.
Ends apparently unfinished on p. 28.
or that son of perdicon in the Temple of God, 2 Thess. 2. 4, 5,
Rev. 19. 19.
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Literary correspondence of Henry Sike, D.D., Professor of
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1700-1712.
Purchased in June 1859 at the sale of Davvson Turner's Library.
There is an Alphabetical Index.
666. R. 4- 42
Letters of Mathematicians and Natural Philosophers. 1690-
1733-
Purchased in June 1859 at the sale of Dawson Turner's Library.
T. c. ii. ii
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Thirteen Autograph Letters of Newton to Dr Covell.
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Twenty-nine Letters addressed Mr Edward Leedes, Head
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Original Letters on subjects connected with Natural History,
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670. R. 4. 46
Printed Copies of Thirteen Letters written in the year 1689, the
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University of Cambridge to John Covel, D.D., Vice-Chancellor of
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Introductory Notice by Dawson Turner, Esq., and followed by the
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Letters (four) from Mr Newton to Dr Bentley, with Mr Newton's
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A Sale Catalogue of 21 May 1890 (Sotheby's), in which Lots 84,
85 are Newton Letters.
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Letters (31) of Dr Simson, and Dr Robert Smith, and Dr
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gave them to the Library.
"They afford some evidence of the means by which Dr Simson's
English Translation has become the authorized text of the English
version of Euclid's Elements of Geometry."
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bell and pig.
Below, is written
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675. 4 ' 5 '
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A roll of paper \2\ in. broad and 10 or 12 ft long.
A briefe Table wherein is contained y e state of the church \v th
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Bishops, learned and godly Fathers, Principal Councills, Persecu-
tions and Heresies from the beginning of the world to the yeare
1571, very necessary and profitable as well for all Students in
Divinity as other Christians.
676.
;
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Given by John Laughton, Fellow and Librarian.
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Britannia maior primo fuit nomine Albion.
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inuentum est genus terre quam marlam vocant.
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The Fall. Winged and human-headed serpent.
Heads of Calmana, Cayn, Seth, Abel, Delbora.
The Ark with Dove and Raven.
Heads of Noah's sons.
Heads of Alanus Francus Isionus Negno, Targus.
Building : the tower of Babel. The church on the Janiculum, Capitol, ' Arcis
Rome,' Ilion.
Head of Priam.
City, Lanuvium ?
Brutus.
Gwendolena.
Embranchus.
English cities. Kayrlion, Winton, Canterbury, Septonia, Bath etc.
Tiberius drowned in a river.
Morgan slain.
Gimedagius. Weights and measures.
A rain of blood.
Gurguntius. Romulus and Remus,
ludon tearing her son to pieces.
Gorgodobo, Ferrex and Porrex.
Rome.
Five kings of Britain.
Belinus and Brennus.
Two knights fighting: a lady between them. These are Belinus and Brennus
and their mother.
Torments invented by Tarquinius Superbus : torches, axes, and two massive iron
fetters connected by an arched bar.
A long interval follows, with only busts of British kings.
Then the Nativity, and more busts of kings, the last being Constantine and
Constans.
Ends with 466 A.D.
Circa idem tempus duo duces Saxonum Cerdicus et Kynrichus.
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Three Purim Rolls of the Book of Esther. See Catalogue of
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680. R. 4- 54
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Comonwealth by the Netherlanders and our owne
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A satire in verse.
If Saints in heaven can eyther see or heare.
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1 7. Letter of Sir Richd Bingham to Ld Burley. Nov. 6, 1 596.
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i May 1626.
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ff. 2.
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Ma tie " (Edw. VI.) Gunners,
ff. 2.
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Latin, ff. 2, original.
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ff. i. Autograph.
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19. Letter to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of Oxford, from
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Fellows of New College as to Mr Mows being Proctor.
9 Feb. 1629. i f.
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24 Mar. 1629. Latin, i f.
32. Appeal of New College to their Visitor on the same point.
Latin, i f. 6 Mar. 1629.
33. Articles of Inquiry sent to Trinity College, Oxford, by their
Visitor the Bp of Winchester in 1664. Signed Geor.
Winton. ff. i.
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and Ely. (1674.) i f.
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699. LETTERS TO MRS ANNE SADLEIR OF
STANDON ETC.
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4. From her Nephew Herbert Aston.
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58. The Quakers' Petition to Richard Cromwell.
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60. Thos Hanchett to Ralph Sadleir (Attested Copy).
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63. (signature gone) to A. S. about Lady Eliz. Hatton.
64, 65. J. Crew to A. S. 1643.
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67. Lionel Gatford to A. S. 1658.
68. Sir H. Wotton's Letter to the Queene of Bohemia. 1636.
69. Anne Sadleir to Dr Pearson, Master of Trinity College, presenting three
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her promise of her Library to the Inner Temple.
71. Jo. Rous to A. S. 1649.
72. From the Master and Seniors of Trinity College thanking her for two MSS.
(Home and Apocalypse) and some Coins. 10 Aug. 1660.
73. Heneage Finch to A. S. 1662.
74. Head of Earl Bristol's articles against the Lord Chancellor.
75. The cause of the faste intended for i and 2 March i-,8o.
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8t. Verses. I would if I could willingly obtaine.
82. Alderman Wiseacre's speech upon y c discreete Peticion ag 3t B p P" etc.
In Verse.
83. Verses upon the putting down of the Book of Common Prayer.
Since it hath pleas'd our wise and newborne state.
84. A dialogue betweene two zelots concerninge ETC. in the new oath of
Canons. 1640.
85. Vpon the pullinge clowne of Charinge Crosse.
Yiulone vndone the Lawyers cry, etc.
86. The Lady Vane the Younger.
(Subjects of thankfulness to God.)
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woman Mrs A: S: (Anne Sadleir).
A good man out of y e good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that w ch is good :
Matt. 12. 35.
(alia manu)
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Matt. 13. 52.
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letters are in the same hand with the MS.
The Reflections begin
Many a one loses the land of promise by lingring. if we neglect god's time it is iust in
him to crose us in ours.
These miscellaneous reflections continue for about 20 leaves.
Then follow some under special headings, v. 13.
1648
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1648
A treu picture of this Parliament since they drove away the best of kings : which
inclede has the name, but is none.
Another paragraph dated 1648. Then
1648
Was the King murdered.
1658
This year that arch Trayter and Tyrant Oliuer Cromwell, sum say in that great
vnheard of winde, and it is worth the notinge that his funarall was of St Clements day,
on which day all the Brewers kepes holliday, you have his Epethite before.
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1655
On the ejection of the clergy.
1633
This year died my dear Father etc.
1647
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1656
Death of Dr Hall, Bp of Norwich.
1643 or 53
Death of 'my dear Brother S r Robert Coke.'
1641
Prayers.
1656
I am this year threscore and 8 year old, etc.
l6 59
When the armie broke up the mock Parliament and set up theirs.
The life of a Christian.
A prayer for health.
A prayer for this family.
A prayer for this Church and King Charles the Second.
The life and death of the Honourable la : Capell with a Treue relation of her vertues
and afflictions, who died the 26th of January 1660.
The rest of the book (more than half) is blank.
701. TRANSCRIPT OF THE CHARTULARY OF f R. 5. 7
j j /
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Elenchus Cartarum in Libro S" Wlfadi cle Stanes.
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Registrum Cartarum Prioralus de Stone in Com. Staffordiae [Ves-
pasian E. iv] Quod Christophorus Baro Ilatton donavit Biblio-
thecae Cottonianae : et habet annos circa 400.
Ending on p. 163.
Transcripsi ex Codice Cottoniano [Vespas. E. xxiv] A.D. 1734.
David Casley, Bibliothecarius.
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In another hand:
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Index Locorum, Index Nominum, and Nomina Locorum et
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Chronicon Gualtheri Hemmingforde Canonici de Gyse-
burne, de gestis regum angliae f. i
pp. 315, in three hands.
Hardy in. 257.
Galterus Gisburnensis de gestis Regis Edwardi 3 et ceteris
euentibus 317
Ending p. 361 : pp. 362-4 blank.
"Radulphus Niger" 365
De gestis tempore regis Jhoannis ffratris Ricardi regis scl.
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H. filii eiusdem ii.
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The arms of the Comte de Brienne are stamped on the sides.
Given by W. Aldis Wright, Vice-Master, in 1891. It was
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(lot 1264).
Contents :
Diuers Traictez de 1'Esleccion des Papes.
1. Traitte Sommaire de 1' Election des Papes.
ff. 20.
2. S. D. N. Gregorii Papae xv constitutio de eslectione Romani
Pontificis.
Romae ex Typographia Camerae Apostolicae 1621.
ff. loj.
3. Ceremonial contenant la forme qu'il faut tenir en 1'Election
du Pape, par le commandement de Gregoire 15 Mars 1621.
ff. i8.
4. Lettre du Cardinal Ludouisio au Card. Boromeo touchant la
butte de 1'Election du Pape 1621. (Italian.)
ff. 6.
5. Discours des Pompes et honneurs rendus au Pape Gregoire
xiiii tant a son couronnement qu'a son acheminement
depuis le Palais S. Pierre jusqu'a S* Jean de Latran.
ff. ii.
6. Couronnement et ceremonies pour les Papes.
f. i.
Conclaues des trois derniers Papes, viz.
7. Leo xi. Et de son deceds 1605.
8. Paul v. 1605.
9. Relatione del conclaue nel quale fu assonto al Pontificato
Vrbano viii Bentiuoglio 1623.
10. Altra Relatione del conclaue nel qual fu assonto el Pontificato
Vrbano viii.
ff. 30 + 2.
11. Le Maistre de Chambre. Traite de Fran$ois Sestini de
Bibiena. Traduit d'ltalien en fran9ois.
ff. 70.
12. Relatione della Corte di Roma e de Riti obseruati in Essa, e
di suoi magistrati et officii con la loro distincta luris-
ditione. Composta dal Can re Girolamo Lunadoro 1'anno
1611 de Gennaro.
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13. Instruttione per chi uol entrar in Corte.
ff. 1 6.
14. Instructions donnees au Marquis de Cceuuros Ambassadeur
du Roy tres Chrestien a Rome, par vn seigneur entendu
aux Complimens de ceste cour. In Italian,
ff. 8.
15. Ceremonie qui s' obserue lorsque le Roy donne le Bonnet a
un Cardinal,
ff. 2.
16. Estat par estimation des Train, Suitte, Equipage, ameuble-
ment, etc., d'un Ambassadeur a Rome,
ff. 1 1 + 4 blank.
706. DIARY OF PARIS DE GRASSIS. R. 5. ii a
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The second volume of R. 5. 1 1 stamped with the arms of the
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title page is a pencil note by E. Douce, conjecturing that the
author is Paris de Grassis. This is indeed the case. There are
other MSS. in the Vatican, and in the Bibliotheque Nationale(5764
and 5765). Extracts from the latter are in Notices et Extraits.
Contents :
Proces verbal faict par le maistre des ceremonies du Pape Leon X e
des Ceremonies faictes en Cour de Rome pendant le Pontifical du
Pape Leon X me .
Missa de Spiritu Sancto pro Initio Conclauis super Electione
Pontificis noui qui successu sacrae memoriae lulio ij die Veneris
4 Martij 1513 f. i
Diary of the Conclave follows.
Coronatio Papae Leonis X 20
Expense facte pro Conclaui 22
De officio et Missa clominicae in Pal mis 23
Accounts of Church ceremonies, consistories, deaths of Cardinals,
homages, etc. follow. I note only the principal.
Sessio septima in Concilio Lateranensi 48
Sessio Octaua 81
Recessus Papae ex Urbe versus Viterbium et inde versus Florentiam
et quare 114
De digressu Papae Florentia versus Bononiam et ingressus Bononiam 1 25 b
Ingressus Regis Christianissimi Bononiam et illius praestitio
obedientiae in consistorio 130 b
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Recessus Regis Bononia ........
Reditus Pontificis Florentiam urbem ...... 138^
De nonnullis Tractatibus pro cessione conciliam (!) tenend. etc. . 144
Sessio decima in Concilio Lateranensi ...... '54^
Littera aetiopum ......... 1 56 6
Sessio in concilio ultima . . . . . . . . 163^
Correctio mea contra Electum Corrien. (Corcyrensem) publi-
catorum(!) libri Cerimonialis . . . . . . . 1686
Printed by Mabillon Museum Italicutn n. 587. The man com-
plained of was Agostino Patrizzi.
Incarceratio duorum Cardinalium . . . . . . . 173
Other arrests follow.
De Processu habito contra Cardinales tres captos et eorum priuacione 180
Creatio Cardinalium nouorum numero xxxi . . . . . 182
De modo Visitandi quam antiqui et noui seruarunt . . . 187
Restitucio et Excarceratio Card 1 ' 8 S. Georgii . . . . i88
Qualiter Cardinalis de Saulis fuerit liberatus et restitutus . . 194
Fit nouus Magister ceremoniarum . . . . . . 216^
Forma Bannimenti (in Italian) ....... 239
In Canonisatione B. Francisci de Paula ..... 283 b
Ego petii michi coadjutorem in Episcopatu Pisaurensi . . 309
Reditus Card, de Campegio ex sua Legacione Anglicana, et Con-
sist orium publicum ......... 319
Consistorium publicum pro obedientia Regis Scotiae . . . 325 b
Captura Mediolani et Letitia per Papam facta .... 342 b
Mors Inopina Papae Leonis X 1 . 1521 ...... 343
The rest of the volume is occupied with his Exequies.
Ending f. 348
In pace requiescat anima sua. Amen.
349-354 are blank.
707. R. 5- 12
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Contents :
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PP- 13-
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6. For reformation of Houshold Abuses, ff. 15.
7. Letters from Scotland. Feb. 1594-June 1595, ff- 18.
8-10. Letters of the Earl of Essex and the Lord Keeper 1598.
Advertisements of a Loyall Subject to his Sovereign.
Vox Populi Vox Dei against the Spaniards.
[By Thomas Scot : see Cat. of State Papers James I. , Domestic
1619-23, p. 208.]
The Earls of Essex and Southampton : their Tryal and Con-
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behaviour.
Accounts of Brooke, Markham etc., and S r Walter Rawleighs
arrainement 1603, with several letters etc. to and from
Sir W. [Raleigh] and his defence etc. 1618.
The Pope to the Inquisitor-General of Spain. 1620, ff. 63.
11. Thomas Alured to the Marquesse of Bucchingham on the
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Devonshire, L d Lieut, of Ireland 1604.
The same on the Union of England and Ireland. Signed
Edward Sadleir 1623.
A charge of L d Chief Justice Finch,
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Notes of Church Service among the Jews, p. i.
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Robert Cotton, before the French Commissioner at Calais.
Anno 42 Eliz. pp. 20.
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an Invader present battayle or to temporize and deferr the
same. pp. 58.
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or to reduce yt as neare as maye be to English gouern-
ment. 23 Dec. 1575. ~ t \ pp. unfinished.
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711. JOHANNIS GLASTONIENSIS HISTORIA DE f R. 5. 16
j j
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At the bottom is a note (by Dr Mason?),
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An old paging runs from 27 to 264.
Text begins imperfectly
dominum ihesum assistere causam aduentus sui blande
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(Hardy n. 157, ed. Hearne 1727.) Johannes Glastoniensis,
p. 86.
The hand seems to change with p. 187.
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Dunstan). And on p. 207 is another sketch of a church
with the letters S. D. (S. Dunstanus), and below 'Adam
incepit.' The text speaks of the shrine of St Dunstan being
enriched by Adam de Sobbury.
The text of Joh. Glast. as printed by Hearne ends on p. 212 of
this MS. (p. 272 Hearne) and then follows a list of the
monks who entered under Walter de Monyton.
At p. 215 begins another good xivth cent, hand in single lines
Hie sunt ostensa Walteri de Monytona.
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7 ff. ending with his epitaph in another hand.
The rest of the book is in more of a charter hand, beginning
at p. 233
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Item in mortaria marmorea red.
The matter after p. 212 is not printed in Hearne's_/0/j. Glast.
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Halteclyff from his post as Secretary to the King, pp. 108.
A leaf at the end covered with scribbled openings of deeds
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Also "Frauncis Becke me tenet."
713. POLITICAL TRACTS.
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Earl of Essex.
As a frontispiece is stuck in an oval portrait of Robert Dudley,
Earl of Leicester, engraved by G. Vertue.
The title-page is
Leycester's Commonwealth etc.
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E Collectione Beauprei Bell A.B. De Beaupre Hall in Com. Norf. 1726.
Note on Robert Parsons.
Table of Contents :
1. Leicester's Commonwealth f. i
2. Nota ex quodam vetusto codice scripto in approbationem
tituli Edward IV 49
with pedigree.
3. Epitome Singularis cujusdam Politici discursus temp.
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Ma tie and other partes of Christendome disquieted . 60
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England shoulde make war w th Spayne . . . . 63 b
Ending 64 b.
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On the relations of Scotland with Spain .... 65
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Lyfe and gouernment may be deposed . . . . 79
14 Aug. 1567.
13. A boke of certayne offices and orders in warrefare . . 86
i. The offices of most charges appertaining unto the
Campe etc.
First the offices of the highe marshall.
Ends with a chapter on 'the Second Campe.'
14. Papers relating to the State of Spain . . . . 97
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The K. of Spaine's stile etc.
Coinage, population etc.
15. To Mr Anthonye Bacon.
An apologie of the Earle of Essex against those w ch falslie
and maliciouslye taxe him to be the onely hinderer of the
peace and quiett of his countrye 107
Printed 1603, London. Rich. Bradocke etc.
1 6. A coppy of the League betweene the K. of Fraunce and the
Q. of England made in May 1596. .... 117
17. Copy of a letter to S r Edward Con way, Lt- Governor of the
Brille 120
From Rotterdam 21 Sept. 1599.
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11 Sept. 1599.
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I. Estat general de la recepte et despence des finances de
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ff. 31.
II. Traicte du Reuenu et despence de France Reiglement des
finances.
Les finances s'appellent communeinent le nerf de la guerre
et lornement de la paix.
ff. 26.
III. La discipline Ecclesiastique des Eglises reformees de france,
cest a dire lordre par lequel elles sont conduictes et
gouuernees.
ff. 48 (45 written).
IV. Au nom de dieu
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715. AUTOGRAPH ANNALS OF WILLIAM J R. 5. 20
CAMDEN. 1 559
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The principal contents are the Annales of Camden from 1603-
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Smith in Camdeni et illustrium Virorum Epistolae 1691 (after
p. 401). In the Preface he says that the autograph MS. was given
to the College by Bp Hacket. He himself used a transcript by
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him by John Laughton.
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Given by Nevile. Lettered on the back ' Asserii Annales.'
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(?no. 249), qui est liber omnium MSS. ultimus, item quae habentur inter libros MSS.
M ri Moore eidem Collegio legates.
Vide quae in Cottoniana Bibliotheca extant.
Asserii Annales habentur in hac Bibliotheca.
Text begins :
Scripsi ante biennium, Candide Lector, rogatu amici cuiusdam mei
libellum seu commentariolum quendam cui titulum praefixi
Assertio antiquitatis Oxoniensis academiae.
(The Assertio was printed in 1568 by Bynneman and in 1574 by
John Day.)
Ends f. 113 fundationem colligit.
There follow Notes in another hand about Gildas, as an authority
for the antiquity of Cambridge . . . . . . . f. 113^
A note from Pet. de Yckham in anno 924 of Athelstan . . 114^
Ex Alexandra Essebiensi 115
Alfredus usque ad 12 aetatis suae annum.
Ending with the year 900 :
Et wintonie in nouo monasterio quod fundauerat sepultus est (124).
Apparently this treatise has never been printed. It is not in
Hearne's Vindiciae (1730). See on the whole of this literature
Parker's Early History of Oxford (Oxford Historical Society.)
717. BEDAE HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA.
w c IK. S. 22
VITAE SANCTORUM.
GREGORII PASTORALIS SAXONIE.
Vellum, i if x 8. Two volumes.
Given by ? Nevile or Parker (?). Vol. II. at least seems to be
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Fly-leaves composed of a late deed nearly erased.
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This is described as C 2 in Mayor and Lumby's edition of books
iii., iv. (p. 414). It was used by Whelock for his edition of the
History in 1643, and is quoted by him as MS. T.
Contents :
1. Incipit prefacio uenerabilis bede presbiteri in ecclesiastica
hysteria gentis anglorum ad regem celwulfum . . . f. i
Gloriosissimo regi celwulfo.
Ending : Mandare studuimus, the last paragraph of the Preface
being as usual placed at the end of Lib. v.
Capitula libri primi i
Text. Britannia oceani insula i b
Ends f. 44 a apud omnes fructum pie intercessionis inueniam.
Amen.
It contains the fragment of the Hymn of Caedmon in Anglo-
Saxon.
2. De obitu uenerabilis bede presbiteri vii kal. Junii explicit
liber quintus ecclesiastice historic gentis anglorum quam uen.
Beda presbiter natus ex eadem gente edidit ... 44
Dilectissimo in Christo lectori Cuthwino Cuthbertus con-
discipulus.
The Saxon passage is given, but the Latin version of it omitted.
Ends 44 : sed breuitatem sermonis inerudicio lingue facit.
3. On the lower margin of ff. 6 -38 b is written in a hand of
cent, xiv, xv, a tract on ecclesiastical discipline.
De ciomus sue (?) disposicione dicitur autem bene prepositus
familie sue quando regit earn honeste.
The next sections are
De neophitis non ordinandis.
De solempniter penitentibus.
The last is De infamibus. Ending
debet postulari ab uxore Di. xxviij de hiis.
II. ff. 29, double columns of 33-41 lines, in several hands, of
Cent. xii. 2 fo. omnipotentem.
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vide censuram eius in replicatione pag. 82, 83 &c. Et vide plura in indice eius libri.
There are neat marginal notes in Jewel's hand (?), and passages
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Contents :
i. Incipit Vita sancti Basilii Cesariensium archiepiscopi . . f. i (44)
(in red capitals).
Basilius itaque solus ut sic dicam in terra equalem.
Ends f. 53 b : conscripta cum eo in celesti libro in gloriam et
laudem d.n. I.C. cui cum patre est gloria simul et sancto ac
uiuifico spiritu nunc et semper et in sec. sec. Amen.
Expl. uita S. Basilii cesariensium archiepiscopi.
i. Inc. vita Sancte Evfrosine uirginis 53^
Fuit uir in Alexandria nomine paphnutius.
Ends f. 57 b: usque in presentem diem glorificantibus deum
patrem et filium et spiritum sanctum cui est honor et gloria
in sec. sec. Amen.
Expl. uita S. Evfrosine uirginis.
3. Inc. Passio S. Agnetis uirginis 57 b
Seruus Christi Ambrosius uirginibus sacris.
Ends f. 60 b\ in conspectu dei ualeam inuenire prestante d.n.
I.C. cui est honor et gloria in sec. sec. Amen.
Expl. Passio S. Agnetis uirginis.
4. Inc. Passio gloriosi Vincentii martiris . . . . . 60 b
Probabile satis est ad gloriam vincencii martiris.
Ends f. 64 a : multipliciter prestantur beneficia ad laudem et
gloriam nominis Christi qui cum patre et spiritu sancto vivit
et regnat deus in sec. sec. Amen.
Expl. Passio S. Vincentii martiris.
5. Inc. passio S. Thome Archiepiscopi et martiris ... 64
In blacker ink and a closer hand, but still of cent. xii.
Sacrosanctam ecclesiam iugiter impugnat hostis antiquus.
ad uirtutem poterunt animare.
Predictus igitur beatissimus Thomas londoniensis urbis indigena.
By John of Salisbury (Hardy II. p. 321).
The hand changes again to a smaller one on f. 67.
Ends f. 69 b : illo hec et plura que referre longum est operante
qui solus est super omnia deus benedictus in sec. sec. Amen.
Expl. passio S. Thome archiep. Cantuariensis.
6. Inc. Passio S. Laurentii archidiaconi et martiris . . . 6g/>
Postquam peracta sunt omnia de sancto syxto.
Ends imperfectly f. 71 b: Beatus autem iustinus presbiter
optulit sacrificium laudis et participati sunt omnes.
III. ff. 83, 32 lines to a page. Cent, xi, well written, in
several hands.
At the top of f. I in red chalk is written Matthaeus (Parker), and
over this in ink, of cent, xvi, probably by one of Abp Parker's scribes:
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Collation: i 8 -io 8 n 4? (wants 4 blank).
The earlier and later leaves have suffered from damp : but none
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Contents :
1. Prologue.
pis aerent gepryt augustinus ofer sealtne sae su}>an brohte
eoriS bugendu spa hit aer fore adihtnocle dryhtnes cempa
rome papa riht spel monig gregorius gleap mod geond pod
Jnirh sefan snytro searo |>anca hord for paem j>e he ma(n)n-
cynnes maest gestriende rodera pearde rom warena betst
manna mod peligost merpum gefragost Se'S'San me on
englesc aelfraed cynnicg apende porda gehpilc and me his
priterum sende sup and norp het him spylcra . . na bringan
be }>aere bysene J>aet he his bisceopum sendan myahte for
paem hi his sume beporftan pa pe leden spraece laeste
cuj>on.
Capitula in Saxon follow.
Text. First line in red capitals much faded, with green initial f. 74
Sv LEOFESTA BROBVR spA BE GREOND-
lice and spipe fremsumlice, etc.
The hand gets gradually larger and of later type: the most
decided change seems to be at f. 1 16 after which is not much
alteration.
Ends f. 157
sco byrlSen minra agenra scylda: Deo gratias. AMHN.
Quis nunc diligitur nisi conscius et cui ueruens Aestuat
occultis animus semperque tacendis.
2. Incipit expositio sancti agustini de secreto gloriose incarnati- /
(f. 1570) onis d.n. I.C. intra cetera et ad locum lege cum
timore caute et secrete (corner of leaf gone) et dicam tibi
quemadmodum uirgo concepit et melius est ut in sermone
sit uerecundia quam in fide periculum. Da ueniam christe et
parce ori meo etc. Ends after seven lines more : hoc concep-
tionis hereses cum timore et secrete est exponendum.
718. -! F
vac.
Paper, 12^x7!, ff. 90. Cent, xvii, fairly well written by the
scribe of most of these Italian documents.
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Contents :
Prologo (without heading).
Avegna che di nostra inchinatione noi non siamo curiosi etc.
Dichiaratione del Serenissimo Re della gran Bretagna, Francia et
Irlandia difenditore della fede, per la ragione dei Re et per la
Independenza delle loro Corte contro alia diceria dell' Ill mo
Cardinale di Perrona, recitata nella sala del terzo stato il xv mo
di Genaio.
MDCXV
Non e senza ragione, che il S r Cardinale di Perrona confessa...
ending f. 90.
719. POLYCHRONICON. \
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Vellum, 12 x 8|, ff. 286, 36 lines to a page. Cent, xv, in a
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Contents :
i. Alphabetical Index of names f. i
Abraham Zacharias.
Enumeration of the seven ages x b
xi b blank.
In a hand of cent, xvi xiia
Insere hoc pro pagina execta circiter fol. 46.
(The last page of lib. i has been cut out, containing part of
c. 59 and c. 60. This is supplied here.)
xii -xv blank.
i. Text, with fine border of English work. At the bottom a
figure has been cut out, but the scroll he held remains only
slightly cut ...bowle Rogeri deprecor deus o misereri.
Post preclaros arcium scriptores i
Each book has a fine border and initial at the beginning.
Lib. vii ends f. 278^ (Cap. 52).
Et quod dolendum est in manu contumacionem postea
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T. C. II. 13
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[De antiquitate Cantabrigiae by Nic. Cantelupe] . . . 279
Anno a creacione mundi 4321 secundum aliquos 1829 ut infra
Inclitus rex Gungunt).
Note in margin xvi, xvii: confer librum MSS. quern M r Moore
Collegio Caiensi dedit. This is MS. Gonv. et Cai. 194
or 249.
Ends f. 280 a
Johannes scotucus nacione Wallicus hec ffretulphus in cronicis
so is.
Expliciunt cronice vniuersitatis Cantabrigie collecte ex diuersis
libris inuentis in monasteriis anglie et specialiter Wallie et
cornubie Ad dei laudem Amen.
(De Parliamento Ricardi II 1 ") 280^
Memorandum quod dux Gloucestrie tenuit hospicium suum in
palacio episcopi london. tempore magni parliamenti.
Ends with a list of the persons condemned in the parliament.
Thomas Wodystoke Dux Gloucestrie, Ricardus Comes
Arundell, Thomas Comes Warrewychie, Thomas Arundell
Archiep. Cant, bannitus.
On the fly-leaves, written 3 times over, is a distich on Henry VII.
Rex henricus obiit decus olim nunc dolor orbis
Newnia
Numina flent newmen deperiisse suum.
720 - ' '
[638
Vellum, 12 x 8f, ff. 46 written, the rest (about 50 more) blank.
Cent, xvii, elaborately and carefully done. Bound in blue velvet.
From Puckering.
A collection of the names of all the Princes of this kingdome
of England such as have bin y e Kings eldest Sonnes or next
inheritours to the Croune. Begynnyng in the tyme of the raigne
of King Henry the Third vnto this present, being in luly 1609 and
in the Seaventh Yeare of the raigne of o r Soueraigne Lord King
James. Wherein shalbe shewed
Firstly. What euery of their Titles of Honor and Dignitie
haue byn.
Secondly. What Possessions and Revenewes they had.
Thirdly. What age they were when those Dignities and
Possessions were conferred uppon them.
Fowerthly. Certen Reasons alleadged w ch moued the Kings in
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former tymes (as maie be conceaued) to create their Sonnes
Princes of Wales.
And lastly. To remove all inconveniences here shalbe aunswered
certen obiections w ch maye be conceaued against the creating of the
Princes of this kingdome. With an aunswere likewise to that w ch
hath byn published by Doctor Powell in his Welsch Chronicle
page 369 against y e creating of Prynce Edward sonne to King
Henry y e 8 and all other succeeding Princes.
Which Collection maye serue as an Inducement for the more
speedy creating of Prince Henry his Ma ties first begotten Sonne
that nowe is, and other the eldest Sonnes of y e Kings of this
Realme therby the better to iudge what yearly Revenewes
aucthoritie and Jurisdiction were most fitt for his and their Princely
Supportation and Honor.
Then follows the text dedicated to Prince Henry.
Ending f. 46 b with the signature of the author
Richard Connock.
L. A JOURNAL OF PARLIAMENT, 1679-81.
721. A JOURNAL OF PARLIAMENT, 1679-81. \
vac.
Paper, 1 \\ x 8, ff. 260. Cent, xvii late, rather badly written.
Given by ?
Parlamentum inceptum et tentum apud Civitatem Westmonasterii Die Jovis viz' sexto
Martii Anno Regni Regis U ni Nostri Caroli secundi dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Frantiae
& Hiberniae, Fidei Defensoris &c. 31 Anno D ni 167!.
Ends with proceedings on 26 March 1681.
722. BEDAE HISTORIA ECCLESIASTIC A,
Vellum, 12x7^, ff. 143, 30 lines to a page. Cent, xii, in a
beautiful hand, not unlike the Canterbury hand of the period.
Given by Henry Greswold, Fellow, Feb. 15, 1661.
132
196 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 5.
Collation : (i gone) ii 8 -v 8 vi 12 -x 12 xi 8 xii 12 -xiv 12 xv 6 | r fly-leaf.
I incline to think the book is from Canterbury. On f. 13 a
cross pattee of early date carefully drawn in the margin opposite
Gregory's letter to Augustine (I. xxix). The loss of the first quire
has carried away all marks of provenance. Purple is sometimes
used in the initials.
The MS. is described as C 1 in Mayor and Lumby's edition of
books iii. and iv. (p. 413), for which the text was collated.
Contents :
1. Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica gentis anglorum.
Beginning imperfectly in lib. I. xvi.
At ubi hostilis exercitus.
Ends f. r4i a with the Retractatio.
Martyrologium de nataliciis.
Expl. liber quintus historic e,cclesiastice, Gentis Anglorum.
2. Inc. epistola de transitu uenerabilis Bedg presbiteri & Giruensis
monachi.
Dilectissimo in Christo lectori Cuthwino Cuthbertus.
The Saxon passage is omitted.
Ending 142 sed lingue^ ineruditio breuitatem sermonis facit.
Vale. Expl. ep. de transitu uen. Bede. presb. et Giruensis
monachi.
Only unimportant scribbles on the fly-leaf.
R. 28-31 : no entry in the MS. Catalogue.
723. BRUTE. f R. 5. 32
ROBERT OF AVESBURY. \ 140
Vellum, 1 1 x /i, ff. 105, 41 lines to a page. Cent, xv, well
written, with red and blue initials.
Given by Whitgift. 2 fo. alies sustenoient.
Collation: I 8 -13 8 (leaves gone here) 14* (i left).
i. The French Brute Chronicle f. i
Cy poet homme sauoir quant et de quele gent graunt geauntz
vindrent qi Engleterre primes tiendrent.
About f. 40 there are several notes on the margins in French
in a late hand cut by the binder.
Ends f. 59:
Ceste desconfiture feust le meskerdy proschein deuant la feste
de seint laurence.
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^2. Robert of Avesbury's Chronicle of Edward III . . . 59
ed. for the Rolls Series by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson from
the three extant MSS.,. Harley 200, Douce 128, and this.
Mirabilia gesta magnifici Regis Anglic domini Edwardi tercij
post conquestum procerumque suorum tactis primitus quibus-
dam gestis de tempore patris sui dom. Edwardi secundi que
in Regnis anglie Scocie et ffrancie ac in aquitannia et
Britannia non humana sed dei potencia contigerunt per
Robertum de Auesbury Curie Cantuar. Registri custodem
- compilata Anglorum memorie merito commendanda legi
poterunt in hec verba.
Propter euidenciam de excellentissimo principe.
The last rubric is :
De transitu nobilis duels lancastrie per medium normannorum
ad remouendum obsidiones castrorum de Pountodemer
( Pontaudemer) et Bricoil (Breteuil) Regis NauarnV.
Text in Frencli.
Two paragraphs in Latin follow f. 103 relating to 1356.
Ending, et fabe incipiebant crescere et fuerunt satis alta et
spissa et tamen edgrowe.
Then follow the names of those slain or captured at the battle
of Poitiers and the other engagements about that time.
A paragraph in French
Sachons qen tribulacioun ne trouerons poynt damierte etc.
Proverbial sayings
Latens odium.. Consilium Juvenum. Proprium lucrum. de-
struit Regnum.
Versus de regimine regis
O Rex si Rex es rege te vel eris sine re Rex
Et sine re regis te nisi rite regis,
Si Rex es regeris vel Rex non esse vereris
non satis est Regi quod regat absque regi.
In quatuor modis mulier prefertur homini, etc.
De prima pestilencia versus.
Mors prima communis m. c. ter. 1. minus vno.
de ll da
S. mors m. ter. c. 1. x. simul. i. nota per se
hoc anno maure tis luce fit impetus aure.
De in".
Ter mors m. ter. c. decies sex ter tris habeto
Inter paruorum que bourn fit pestis equorum
Et messis cara guerre pluuie uis amara
Sic bis in x nata contr<znt hec tria fata.
De nil" morte.
De quarta quisque caueat quod sit bonus iste
Quis puer aut pater aut attauus aut quoque mater
Talia fers unquam vel tot respondeo nunquam.
De Ciuitate Romana versus.
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Seruierant tibi Roma prius domini dominorum.
Serui seruoram nunc tibi sunt domini.
De Episcopis.
Pontifices primi do das dedi statuere.
4 lines.
Versus de papa Benedicto xi mo qui fuit frater et sedit in
apostolatu non plene per vnum annum sed absit quod
diucius sedisset.
A re nomen habe benedic benefac benedicte
Aut rem peruerte maledic malefac maledicte.
Versus de fortuna.
O fortuna leuis cui vis das munera que uis.
4 lines.
Si canis applaudat, meretrix hilarem tibi vultum.
4 lines.
Gloria nulla tibi si te vagus histrio laudet
Nee dolor incutitur si lingua carpit iniqua.
Added later
De ciuitate london.
Turris campana pons numen ffemina lana.
Some leaves (probably two) are gone here, their contents
probably corresponded to those of the last leaves of Harley
200, as enumerated by Sir E. M. Thompson.
On f. io-,a in a series of medallions is the descent of
Edward III. from St Louis, and the other descendants of the
same.
On f. 105 b Etates patnim antiijitoniiii, a statement of the
length of lives from Adam to Moses, and of the years from
Adam to Christ.
All the above verses etc. and others lost here occur in the
Harley MS. 200 which according to Sir E. Maunde Thompson
is the archetype though not the direct parent of these and
the other extant MS. of R. de Avesbury (MS. Douce 128).
724. GUL. MALMESBURIENSIS DE ANTIQUI- J R. 5. 33
TATE GLASTONIENSIS ECCLESIAE ETC. \ 291
Vellum, io x 7, ff. 142, at first in double columns of 45 lines,
then varying number of columns and lines. Cent, xiii early and
xiii-xiv.
Given by Nevile ?
On f. i and f. 142 is Sum Gulielmi Bwwyer 1565 (primo Sep-
tembr). Bowyer was Keeper of the Records in the Tower.
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From Glastonbury.
On the fly-leaf is a xvth cent, title in large black letters.
Liber hie continet antiquitatem Glastonie in plenissima copia de Regalitate Britonum
et Anglorum permixta cum libertatibus Regni et casu cuiusdam Regis filie intersertis.
So also in a small hand on f. 142.
Collation: \ fly-leaf | i 10 -5 10 6 12 7 8 8 6 9 12 (+two slips after 2 and
10) io 10 II 10 (6 cane. I added) I2 10 I3 10 (wants 10 blank?) 14* I5 10
(+ 2 ins. between 7 and 8).
Contents :
On the fly-leaf, (i) a statement of measures of length (xiv).
() Issta scriptura inuenitur in libro melkini qui fuit ante
merlinum. Insula auallonis auida funere paganorum pre
ceteris.
erunt aperta hec et viuentibus declarata (xiv).
(Hearne, Joh. Glast. p. 55.)
i. Prologus W. Ma\mesburtensis de Antiquitate Glastoniensis
ecclesie .......... f. i
Domino in christi uisceribus multum amplectendo.
ed. Hearne in Adam de Domerham, 1727, p. i.
There are additions to the text in Latin, in at least 3 hands
(xiii-xv).
At the bottom of the page is a letter in French (xiii ?)
gisynt a la Grysse abbe de la seynte croys. Sire W. de
Durk' apres ceo ke il aueyt seysine de les teres ke sire
P. li done etc.
Ends f. i8l>
habet enim hec proprium ut quamquam laudanda facial
laudari tamen erubescat. Finito libro etc.
i. Consuetude luminarii seu cereorum in ecclesia glaston. per
sacristam loci ad diuinum officium exhibendorum . . 19
De consuetudine luminarii in eccl. Glaston. sciendum.
ed. Hearne in Johannes Glastoniensis , p. 358.
3. Another hand 20
Iste sunt villate que debent claudere in parco.
4. Hand of cent, xvi, neat, imitating older writing.
Constructiones quorundam Monasteriorum . . . . 20 b
Constructio monasterii Glastoniensis A do 1 . 166.
The list then gives the dates of foundation of Westminster,
St Augustine's Canterbury, St Benet of Holme, Chichester,
St Botulph's at Ykene, Abingdon, St Alban's, Cluny,
Ramsey, Ely, Bury, Bee, Battle, St Mary's York, Canons
of St Botulph's, Norwich, St Osith's, Walden, Coggeshall,
Sibton, Waltham, Leiston, Friars in England, and lastly
200 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 5.
Remocio veteris et constructio noue Abb ie de leystone
a do' 1363.
It must then be copied from a Leiston document.
5. In the first hand.
Adam de Domerham's Chronicle i\
Libellus de rebus gestis Glasto*> et primo de H(enrico)
Episcopo.
Quoniam uniuersos ecclesie sue historiam scire monet
honestas.
Ed. Hearne, 1727, p. 303-596.
There are many marginal notes, mostly early xiv?
The hand changes very distinctly to one of a charter-type at
f. 52 and becomes still more of a charter-hand.
Ends (under Abbot John) f. 73 b honorifice sepultum. Expl.
de Abbate Johanne de Tantonia (Hearne, p. 596).
5 Bounds of Blackmore Forest etc. . . . . 73
Ends: nee honeste domino suo nudi seruire propter.
Note of xvth cent, hie deficit.
6. Hec sunt nomina eorum quibus tenebatur J. Abbas pro
predecessoribus suis 75 b
Ed. Hearne in Johannes Glastoniensis, p. 366.
On f. 77 the first hand is resumed.
7. In the first hand, list of charters.
Carte contente in libro terrarum Glaston 77
Ed. Hearne 1. c. 370-418.
8. Cent. xiv.
Confirmation by Henry II of lands to Glastonbury . . 88
Hearne, p. 419.
9. Cent, xiii but not the first hand : this is clearly resumed on . 93 b
Priuilegia paparum etc.
Charta de foresta . . . . . . . . . 98 a
10. Cent. xiv.
a. Headed (xv). De phisica. A receipt ... 99
Quoniam per opihbnes(i) antiquas infirmitates periculose
corpori humano superuenerunt ut puta artetice ydropicis
etc.
b. Consuetude luminarii ....... 99
In primis ergo sciendum quod cereum paschalem.
11. The first hand.
Compendium de britannia siue Anglia .... 100
Quoniam simplicioribus foret difncilis prolixiores historias.
Finished in a different hand.
et uocatur fossa tenditque per lincolniam.
12. In the first hand: lists of Kings of England, a well drawn
head of Egbirtus in the middle. Continued by different
""hands down to Edward VI 101
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13. Cent. xiv.
Redditus maneriorum, in the pth year of Abbot John de
Cancia and the 4th year of G. Fromund, respectively . 101 b
14. Numerus librorum Glastoniensis ecclesie . . . . 102
In the first hand, with many erasures and additions.
Ed. Hearne (Joh. Glast. p. 423-447), and Williams'
Somersetshire Libraries.
Ends 104 with books received from Galfrid of Bath.
15. List of Relics (no heading), cent, xiv .... 104
De Sanctis Beda et Gilda.
Ed. Hearne, p. 445-454.
1 6. Cent. xiv.
Charters relating to estates: the first is headed (xv) . 105 b
De Insula S. Michaelis de lammana cum omnibus pertinenciis
suis. (Hearne, Adam de Domerham, vol. n.)
On 1 06 3
De ecclesia Basseleth cum aliis (Hearne, l.c.).
On 107 b: De terris in hibernia.
17. In the first hand:
Confirmatio cartarum libertatum AngUV et de foresta . 108
followed by, cent, xiv,
Porciones Vicarie de sturminstr'.
1 8. Cent, xiii, xiv. Charter-hand.
Appropriatio parochialis ecclesie de nvHinch . . . 109
Two other appropriations, of Doulting and East Brent, and
of Newton (Nyweton). (Hearne, l.c.)
19. Cent. xiv.
Inquisicio mag. Reginaldi de ffontibus clerici d. Huberti
Cantuar. Archiep. per maneria Abbatie Glaston. de Valencia
eorum. Anno ab incarn. domini M. cc. I. . . noi
Diuisio prati in Kynwardesmore (1189) . . . . n6b
Scriptum de cursibus aquarum in Wrentemar' . . . 117
Continued on f. 119.
20. The first hand.
Carte de rebus assignatis specialiter conuentui. Carta H.
Abbatis de molendino de strete asignato conuentui . 118
Continued on f. 120, and on f. 124 and 1260.
De Prioratu. (Hearne, l.c.) 121 a
21. Cent. xiv.
Ffeouda glaston ill
11. Cent. xiv.
Hide que pertinent ad abbathiam Glaston. . . . 124^
Continued on f.
1266 is blank.
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23. Cent. xiii.
Feoda of the Abbey 127
Sumersete. Apud sceptune Dundene etc.
With additions of cent. xiv.
Followed by Memoranda in the same hand (xiii), of homages
(1255, 1263, 1264).
24. Cent. xiv.
Inquisicio facta de expedicione canum Abbatis Glaston. . 130^
25. Cent, xiii, xiv. 2 columns 131
Sumersete. Terra S. Marie Glaston. sicut continentur in
libro scaccarii londonie qui dicitur Domus dei quern componi
fecit rex Willelmus primus subacto sibi et pacificato Regno
Anglic. (Hearne, I.e.)
26. Cent. xiv.
Estimacio valoris omnium maneriorum Abbatie Glaston. . 137
27. Cent, xiii, xiv.
Taxacio Nonvicensis . . . . . . . . 138
28. Cent, xiii, xiv.
Ceo le entendement coment le tenement Roberd moryz de
myntern en la manere de Doclande deveynt frank.
29. Cent, xiii, xiv. 2 cols. . . . . . . . 140
Tempore quo regnum Anglic pluribus regibus subiacebat
diuisum erat in regno Westsaxonum in comitatu deuonie
miles quidam strenuus nomine laedemaduc'.
This is the 'case of a king's daughter' alluded to in the title
of the MS.
Ends 140^
ex quibus comites deuonie processerunt, terras et posses-
siones opulentas relinquens.
30. Cent. xiv.
A homage of 1255 141
Nomina militum qui tenent de domo Glaston.
Other names of tenants follow.
31. Cent, xv in 3 columns.
A list of Kings, Arviragus to Edmundus . . . . 142
Bishops and Saints. Hedde Alwynus.
Archbishops ? Aelsius Wylfyn.
142 b blank.
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725. GALFRIDUS MONUMETENSIS. J R. 5. 34
WILLELMUS MALMESBURIENSIS, ETC. [ 268
Vellum and paper, io| x 8^, ff. 267, 48 and less lines to a page.
Cent, xv late, xvi, in several hands.
Given by Nevile. Belonged to Abp Parker, whose name is on
the fly-leaf.
Contents :
I. Capitula to Will. Malmesbury's Gesta Pontificum (xvi) f. i
4 ff., ff. 5-11 blank.
II. Historia Galfridi monumetensis. Liber I-1II. . . n
Late xv.
Cum mecum multa.
f. 32, half written in the old hand, is stuck to another
paper leaf on which the text is continued by a hand
of cent. xvi.
Ends f. 34 : existimantes munere esse in illo.
Hie expl. tercius (marg. sextus) liber Galfridi Monu-
metensis et desunt libri de historia sex.
ff- 35-58 blank.
III. Cent, xvi, headed
Robertus Wingfeld Eques ad Lectorem . . 59
Agenti mihi nuper serenissimi etc. regis Anglic etc.
oratorem apud magnanimum Cesarem Maximillianum.
_Treats of the precedence of England at the Council of
Constance.
Ends f. 67 : 68-70 blank.
IV. Late xvth cent.
Further documents on the same matter, beginning
Placeat ex isto auisari contra illos qui laborant ad sump-
cionem quinte nacionis in hoc sacro concilio etc.
Ends f. Sii>.
On 82 b (reversed) is an endorsement :
Eximie reueren. ac viro prouido et discrete mag ro
Thome Rodebern. custodi Collegii Merton. Oxon.
et serenissimi D. Regis Angl. et ffranc. capellano
mag suo specia mo ,
and some Parkerian notes on the date and career of
Th. Rudburne.
V. Cent. xv.
Willelmus Malmesburiensis de gestis regum Anglorum . 84
204 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 5.
The dedication to Count Robert is copied in a Parkerian
hand on 83 b.
The xvth cent, hand begins with the prologue
Res anglorum gestas.
Ends 182 b:
Expl. gesta Will' digne memorie monachi Malmes-
beriensis cenobii de Regibus Anglorum.
183 is blank.
VI. Eiusdem Historia nouella 184
Cent. xvi.
Ending 2260;: 227, 228 blank.
VII. Liber V. Wil 1 Malmesb. de pontificibus . . . 229
__It appears to be the copy from which Gale printed:
see Hamilton in the Rolls edition, p. xxv.
Cent. xvi.
Ending 256^: estiuis etiam mensibus pluuius et luteus.
According to Bishop Stubbs' Gesta Reg-urn, Rolls Series,
p. Ixxii, this is a transcript from an early copy of
Arundel 35 or R. 7. 10 (see post). The Dedicatory
letter is omitted.
VIII. Vellum, double columns. Cent, xv . . . 257
A collection of Stories^ in Latin.
1. Theodosius in vita alexandri. Rex cecilie alexandrum
ad conuiuium inuitauit.
2. Commentator iuuenalis super illud iuuenalis descendit
de celo neocoliton (i.e. yvCiOi vavrov) dicit.
In subsequent stories the authorities quoted include
historia grecorum and historia and gesta romanorum,
Pliny, Seneca, Fulgentius, Ovid, Remigius in anna-
libus iudeorum (also Romulus), Solinus, Avianus,
Boethius.
On f. 260 in another hand is a sermon on
Repleti fructu iusticie. Phil. i.
In the binding at the end is a slip of music (xv, xvi)
the Creed, on a five-line stave.
726. POLYCHRONICON. J 5' 35
I 159
Vellum, lof x 7^, fif. 419, 34 lines to a page. Cent, xv, in a
rather ugly hand.
Given by Whitgift. 2 fo. maro virgilius.
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On the fly-leaf a distich on Amor vincit omnia, with the initial
W in red, also another Latin distich on riches.
Collation : a 8 -y 8 aa 8 -aaz s bba 8 -ffg 8 ffh 6 (wants 4-6 blank).
Contents :
1. Table. Abraam to Zorobabel f. i
i b blank.
2. Text with rather rough border 12
Post preclaros arcium scriptores.
Liber VII. ends 414 a
non plus viguit in discrecione quam vnus puer octo annorum.
Expl. lib. septimus. Inc. lib. octauus.
Sequitur de Ricardo Rege qui deus Cestrewceorum vocabatur.
Liber VIII. Ricardus de Bordeus films Domini Edwardi . 414^
Ends 419 a.
Dominus Thomas Hatfeld episcopus dunelmensis moritur
senex multarum dierum. Manum scribentis benedicat lingua
legentis.
419 blank.
727. WILLELMUS MALMESBURIENSIS DE GESTIS f R. 5. 36
PONTIFICUM. \ 145
Vellum, io| x ?f , ff. 83 + 3, double columns of 34 lines.
Cent, xii, in a fine close upright hand.
Given by Whitgift. 2 fo. omittere magis.
From Malmesbury ?. On the fly-leaf is
Istum librum recepit mutuo dominus ]. Exon. episcopus ab Abbate Malmisbm
Anno Domini M. ccc.xxxij prima die Julij. Et restituit eumdem priori de Pyltone anno
sequenti, prima die Maij.
The borrower is John Grandison, Bp of Exeter.
On f. i b at the bottom :
Istum librum recepit mutuo dominus abbas Glaston. xiiij die mensis ffebruar' anno
domini mill mo cccc mo xj restituenduw ad festum S. Michaelis proximo futuruw.
The MS. is noticed by Hamilton, Gesta Pontificum, Rolls
Series, p. xxiii: and is described as of cent. xiii.
Collation : a 8 1| I 8 -X 8 XI 4 (wants 4 blank) | i fly-leaf.
2O6 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 5.
Contents :
Inc. prologus in libro Willelmi de gestis Pontificum anglorum . f. i
Prima sedes episcoporum
suo sequentur ordine.
Expl. prologus.
Incipit liber primus de gestis pontificum ..... i b
Cantuarie sedit primus augustinus.
Ends f. 8$t>
et obscurioribus sanctis lucifluum iubar inuexit.
Colophon (xiv).
Expl. liber gestorum pontificalium anglorum.
There are marginal notes (xiii, xiv) chiefly indicative of the subject-
matter.
The beginnings of a late table on the fly-leaf at the end.
R- 5- 37> 38> 39 : no entry in the MS. Catalogue.
728. WILLELMUS MALMESBURIENSIS ETC.
I 283
Vellum, lof x 7|, ff. 85, mostly in double columns of 43 lines,
but after that in several hands. Cent, xiii, xiv, etc.
Given by Nevile. From York (?).
On f. i at bottom is (xvi) :
Liber Johannis Armytagi.
On this same leaf are xvth cent, copies of Bury and Ely docu-
ments, and on the next is an old table of contents cut at the top.
On the third, which is reversed, is a title (xv) in a large hand :
liber ecclesie metropolitane beati petri ebor. (erased).
Augustini de uerbis domini et apostoli.
Ex dono mag" Johannis Neuton Thesaurarii eiusdem 1 .
Collation: a 4 | i"- 4 " 5 8 || 6 4 (wants 4 blank) || f 8 8 (wants 7,
8 blank) || 9".
Contents :
On the fly-leaf are copies of two documents (xv).
i. Notandum est quod cum dominus Beodricus dominus villule
que nunc dicitur villa S. Edmundi S. Edmundum heredem
suum constituerat supradictus Rex Edwardus donum suum
carta confirmauit. A short charter of Edward follows and
then one of Canute, and one of Edward the Confessor con-
1 He was Master of Peterhouse (1381-95) and gave the MSS. numbered 45, 162, 167
in my Catalogue to the College.
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firming the 9$ hundreds. A heading is cut off at the top,
s
beginning Vocat De vos....
i. Carta R. H. de libertatibus de Ely.
To Hugh (Northwold) Bishop of Ely and the Priory, con-
firming their jurisdiction in the six hundreds.
The old Table (xiv, xv) cut off at top is on f. 3 b.
Willelmus de gestis pontificum anglorum.
Vita S. Edmundi.
Transcriptum Testamentorum xii filiorum Jacob.
Interpretaciones hebraicorum nominum.
Johannes de deo de penitencia.
De purgatorio patricii.
Narraciones de v(i)tis patrum.
Tractatus de omciis diuinis.
Notabilia tex*.
? Ciluodarium.
Tractatus de confessione.
Processus inter regem Anglic et Simonem de monteforti.
This is written over an earlier copy in pencil.
A later title below
Will" 8 Malmesburiensis de gestis pontificum anglorum.
I. Inc. prologus libri primi Willelmi de gestis pontificum
anglorum f. i
Prima sedes episcoporum
sequitur ordine. Expl. prol.
de archiepiscopis Cantuarie.
Cantuarie sedit primus Augustinus.
The first hand ends in lib. iv. (De Thoreneia)
heremiticam excercere ibi uitam.
A late xvth cent, hand continues, and ends over the page
lucifluum iubar invexit.
Expl. lib. de gest. angl. pontif.
A blank leaf follows.
In the Rolls edition, p. xxiii, Mr Hamilton describes this MS.
as "neatly but incorrectly written."
II. In a minute hand of cent, xiii, with copious additions on both
margins in the same hand.
Vita S. Edmundi Cantuariensis f. 58
honestis et christianis parentibus
Beatus Eadmundus Cant. Archiep. ex piis parentibus Abben-
donie genitus extitit.
Ends f. 60 b
aperte patet qualiter spiritus in eius sanctissimi gleba corporis
habitauerit.
Never printed in full. See Dom Wilfrid Ward's Life of St
Edmund of Canterbury, p. 397 and Errata.
III. Testamenta duodecim patriarcharum. Cent, xiii, xiv early . 61
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42 lines to a page.
Transcriptum testamenti ruben, etc.
In the lower margin (xv) is
Anna tribus Joachim Cleophe salomeque marias etc.
On the following leaves are many other proverbial scribbles.
On 63 a
V. idus octobris sanctorum Nigasii quirini funiculi mr.
Eodem die obiit Will" de shire. Rector ecclesie beate
marie de stannygelane lond. litera dominicali tune F.
A. d. millesimo tricentesimo tricesimo vj 10 .
Ends f. 73 b
usque ad diem exitus eorum de terra egipti.
Below is (xiv) fol. 13. prec. 4. d.
On 740 in a hand of early xiv
Hec abscondita et celata fuerunt per longa tempora
ad honorem dei in lucem proruperunt.
74 (only a slip) blank.
IV. Processus inter regem et Simonem de Monteforti . . 75
Cent, xiv, 41 lines to a page.
Excellentissimo domino suo Regi Angl. Domino Hibernie et
Dux Aquit. Barones et alii fideles.
H. dei gracia Rex angl. etc. Simoni de Monteforti etc.
Superuentu prospero qui nuper ut deo placuit.
Forma pacis inter H. Regem Ang. et Barones (1263) . . 76
V.
A tons iceuxs que ceste lettre verrount ou orront. N. Salutz
en dieu. Sets forth that he had rebelled against King
Edward, had been captured, and now swears fealty to
him ........... 77
Done a Eilwyk (n July, 6 Edw. II ?).
Treaty between Charles fuitz au Roy de France, Comte de
Valoys etc. and Esmoun frere du Roy d'Engleterre . . 77 b
Ending with a list of witnesses.
Mons. Robert de Wateuill, Mons. Olyuer de Ingham et
Mons. Robert de Ettringham.
A touz crestiens quels qil soient qui ceste lettre verront ou
orront. Mestre Miles de Grece et les aultres mestres de
Astronomic demorant en Grece et en Hermonie.
Predicts misfortunes in 1317 ....... 77 b
Ends with a story of a Hermit at Narbonne.
VI. Inquisicio facta coram Roberto Malet et Gilberto Rouby apud
London die Martis prox. ante fest. S. Ruffini ?
Anno regni Regis Edwardi tricesimo primo per breue domini
Regis super statu et aduocacione hospitatis S. Egidij lepro-
sorum extra london per Radulfum de (blank) Thorn, de
Stanes etc 78
Ends 79*.
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729. CHRONICA GERVASII. f R - 5- 41
I 156
Vellum, io x 7|, ff. 152 + 24, 3 1 lines to a page. Cent, xiv, xv,
in a rather large and pretty hand.
Given by Whitgift. 2 fo. efficitur apud or et a nomine.
At the top of f. i (xv) is
Chronica ecclesie metrorWtY/V? Cant.
A note by Henry Petrie (Dec. 1820, and Ap. 1829) descriptive
of the MS. is stuck opposite to f. I.
Collation: a 6 b 2 \ I 8 ~3 8 4* (wants 4 blank) 5-22 8 (21 and 22
blank).
Six blank leaves at the beginning
Chronica Geruasii Monachi Cantuar. (xvi) . . . . . f. i
Anno gracie ccc mo iii beatus albanus martirizatus in villa qua
humatur.
Ending with 1364 (1374) death of King John of France (iitf).
On f. \\b are four lines on the plague (1349) and earthquake (1382).
Mors communis in M. fuit. 1. ter c. minus uno
Ecce flat hoc anno Maurus in orbe tonat.
A. post Dunstanum post tempus meridianum
C. cuculum vixi terre motum tibi dixi.
These two leaves are preliminary. The main text follows.
Incipiunt excepciones breuissime de numero et gestis Regum
Britannie ........... i
Cum multa mecum animo reuoluerem.
Ends in 1385.
et sui exercitus in numero lx ta mil. virorum se absconderunt nee
eodem publice apparuerunt.
Eighteen blank leaves follow.
Of this MS. Bishop Stubbs (Gervase of Canterbury, Rolls ed"
II. p. x) speaks at length. It is only in a very limited sense the_
work of Gervase. Extracts from his Gesta are incorporated in it,
and only the basis of the earlier portion of the history is Gervase.
The Trinity MS. " was seen and used by Leland, who attributed it
all to Gervase, on the strength of the occurrence of his name in the
prologue. In his Collectanea (i. 257 sqq.) he gives under the name
of Gervase, copious extracts which are really the work of John of
Loudon or of some intermediate writer.... The Trinity MS.
coincides most exactly with the Corpus MS. (no. 438) down to
T. c. ii. 14
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the death of Harold ; from that point the two MSS. are altogether
different. There can be no doubt that the Corpus MS. represents
the genuine work, the Trinity MS. an early fragment only."
730. HENRY OF HUNTINGDON.
I 158
Vellum, pf x 7, ff. 179+ I, 31 lines to a page. Cent, xiv early,
well written.
Given by Whitgift. 2 fo. dicitur reuocauit or nobilissimis.
The name of Robert de Populton which occurs on f. I (see
below) gives a faint clue to the origin of the MS.: for the
Poppletons (Upper and Nether) are just outside York. The book
may have come from St Mary's Abbey, York. Prater Rob. de
Populton appears as the giver of a Bible to Hulne Abbey near
Alnwick, in the priorate of Th. de Populton. Robert need not
have been a monk of Hulne, but a friend or relative of Thomas.
See Catt. Vett. Dunelm. p. 132. The same name occurs, as that of
the scribe, in the Paris MS. 4126 (Colbert. 3120) formerly Lord
Burghley's. So Dr Liebermann (and Hardy II. 170). This MS.
contains several tracts relating to Scotland. In one colophon are
the words: Ora pro Popiltoun qui me compilauit Eboraci. See
the Rolls edition of Henry of Huntingdon by T. Arnold, p. xli.
Collation : I fly-leaf || i 8 -vi 8 vii 10 (10 blank) viii 12 ix 12 x u (14 cane.)
xi 12 -xvii 12 .
Contents :
Inc. prologus historic anglorum contexte ab henrico archi-
diacono ad alexandrum lincolniencem episcopum anno ab
incarnacione d. n. J. C. millesimo centesimo quatragesimo
quinto. Liber fratris Roberti de popultoim precij IQS. . f. i
Cum in omni fere litterarum studio
sit honor lux gloria mundi. Expl. prologus ad
Alex, lincoln. Ep. directus.
Inc. libri primi capitula i b
Expl. capit. libri primi.
Historic anglorum liber primus inc. Descripcio britannie
et de situ. cap. i.
Britannie igitur beatissima ...... ia
A miscalculation of space has left a blank leaf at the
end of quire vii, but there is no break in the text.
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Liber decimus de summitatibus rerum
includes three epistles of the author . . . xiii i b
Inc. epistola prima regi Henrico de serie regum potentissi-
morum qui per orbem terrarum hue usque fuerunt.
Cum maxime noticia. xiii 3 b
Inc. epistola secunda ab origine regum britannorum etc.
Queris a me warine . ...... xiii 14 b
Inc. epistola tercia ad Walterum consortem suum de
mundi appetitu.
Waltere quondam decus iuuenum .... xiv 4 b
Ends xiv lob. Summa dei sit ei gratia grata quies.
Expl. liber decimus de summitatibus rerum.
Inc. liber undecimus xiv lob
Epigramata uarietate gaudent.
Ends: Me rapuit me detinuit blawdita libido.
Expl. hysteria anglorum ab henrico huntendonensi
archi(diacono) contexta et decreta(!) ad alexandrum
lincolniensem episcopum. Anno ab incarn. domini
m c xl v.
2. Decreta Willelmi regis qui angliam quesiuit (/. conquisiuit)
legum mutaciones et emendaciones quas in anglia
composuit xv 4 b
Hie intimatur quod Willelmus rex anglorum cum
principibus suis constituit.
Ends unfinished :
per quod melius uoluerit : aut iudicio ferri aut duello.
Si autem. (xv 5 a : the verso blank.)
II. [Captio Sanctae Civitatis Hierusalem (xvii)J . . . xv 6 a
Sancta ierusalem ab omnibus fidelibus ueneranda claret in
qua I. C. d. n. dispensacionem nostre redempcionis
expleuit.
Ends with the letter of the Generals to Pope Urban on
the taking of Antioch.
omnia enim mala et impedimenta quecunque facere nobis
potuit. Vale [fecit]. (/. fecit. Vale.)
A catchword, Extinto herode, follows : and an early scribble in
pencil.
731. HISTORY OF THE THREE KINGS. f R. 5. 43
BRUTE CHRONICLE IN ENGLISH. \ 160
Vellum, 10 x 7f, ff. 199: two volumes. Cent, xv, in two ugly
hands.
Given by Whitgift.
142
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On the last page of Vol. I are an erasure and scribbles
Hec indentura testatur quod ego ffraunciscus Cawse de Shroppom in C. of Nor.
Ego Thomas schawe londonearum.
On the first page of II : Joh^n hilkr boke.
Collation : I. i 8 -iv 8 v 6 .
II. i 8 (wants 1,8) 2 8 3 8 4 8 (wants 7, 8) 5 8 -i; 8 (wants
3-5) i8 8 IQ ? (four left : gap at the beginning and in
the middle) 2O 8 2i 8 22 4 231
I. History of the Three Kings of Cologne . . . . f. i
In double columns of 28 lines.
Plesyth it to alle Cristen pepil to here this lytelle tretyce of
)>e }>re worshypfulle kynges of whom alle |>e world from
vprysynge of the Sonne vn to hys downe goyng ys full o
pr^ysynge and merytis.
Printed as an appendix to Chester Plays, ed. T. Wright
1843, i. 266.
Ends f. 38 a. Above alle kynges and seyntes syttith Jhesu
Criste kynge euere lastynge. Amen. Deo Gracias.
Thus endythe the lyfe of the thre kynges of Culleyn God
brynge vs to )>at loye there Jei be. Amen.
II. In a current hand, 30 lines to a page, red and blue initials.
The Brute or 'Caxton's' Chronicle.
Begins imperfectly
bygan leyr ayen weepe i
.Portions of text are erased, and leaves mutilated in several
places, besides a good many lost leaves.
Ends in Henry V (at the siege of Harfleur).
or els to yeld vp the toun vn to hem w* all her godes and
)>an the kyng sent forth.
732. STATUTES AFFECTING THE REGIUS PRO- (
~ \ R. 5. 44
FESSOR OF DIVINITY. [
Paper, 9^ x 7f , pp. 6 + 98. Cent, xviii.
Given by Dr R. Watson, Bp of LlandafF.
There is a note by him on the title page dated 7 Jan. 1802,
beginning :
This book was made by Doc r Rutherforth.
The title is :
De munere et stipendio Regii Professoris in sacra Theologia.
A table of the statutes contained in it precedes the text.
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733. LIVES OF THE ROMAN EMPERORS BY J
SEBASTIAN FRANCK. \
Paper, 9^ x 7, pp. 298, closely written. Cent. xvii.
Given by Frederick Martin, B.A., in 1827.
The donor notes :
" Some account of this MS. occurs in the Retrospective Review,
Old Series, vol. xiv."
Another note stuck into the book says :
"I- 335 f Haslewood's edition of Drunken Barnabee 1820
mentions Brathwait's Lives of the Roman Emperors, London 1636,
duodecimo. Haslewood transcribes most of the title page.
quaere where (sic} Franck's MS. in Trin. Coll. Lib. R. is the
original MS. in Brathwait's writing. Haslewood's portrait of him
gives his signature."
On p. i is the name Bernard Lens.
The Lives of the Roman Emperours written by Sebastian Franck.
Julius Caesar the Emperour f. I
Cajus Julius Caesar the sonn of Lucius began his reign about
80 yeares etc.
Ends with the wonderful events of 1535-6.
734. COLLECTIONS OF W. J. RAWLINSON. R. 5. 46
Paper, 8| x 7^, ff. 32. Cent, xviii, neatly written.
Contents :
i. Letters of Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn.
(These letters) I copied from the originals preserved in
the Vatican Library : observing throughout all the
several Improprieties both of spelling and stopping,
i. the resonable request of your last lettre.
i. darlyng thowght I have scant laysor.
3. the cause off my wrytynge at thys tyme (good swetthart),
4. syns yors last letters myne awne derlyng.
5. darlyng I hartely recommande me to you.
ii. An account of the Holy House of Loretto (in the Scottish
dialect) f. 10
"copied on the spot, from a wooden Tablet hung up in
the Church."
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N.B. I am not ignorant that this account is to be met
with in Mr Ray's Travels : but it is there given very
incorrectly as will appear upon comparison.
The wondrous flittinge of the kirk of our blest Lady of
Laureto.
The kirk of Laureto was a Caumber of the house of the
blest Virgin neir Jerusalem etc.
iii. The several Proportions of that famous statue the Venus
de Medicis in the Grand Duke's Gallery at Florence . 17
" taken by another Person, and myself, with all possible
exactness."
iv. Certain ancient monumental and other inscriptions (which,
I believe, have never yet been made public) copied from
the originals.
They are from Bologna, Padua, the Herculanean Museum
at Portici, Sessa, Vicenza.
735. R. 5- 47
Paper, 7| x 5f, pp. 348. Cent, xvii (1640), neatly written.
Occasional resultances of the Soul.
Dedication. " To my honorable brother Sir Thomas Rowe
knight Chancelor of the most noble Order of the Garter": signed
Ric (?) Berkeley, and dated Rendcomb the I5th day of June 1640.
The volume consists of a series of meditations.
736. R. 5- 48
Paper, 8 x 6^, two volumes. Cent, xviii.
Contents :
I. Dictata in Acta Apostolorum.
Being, according to the title on the back, by Ruhnken.
pp. igi, 188 written.
II. Excerpta quaedam viri celeberrimi Tib: Hemsterhusii ex
Lucae Euangelio.
ff. 1 20, written on one side only.
R. 7. l] TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 215
737. R. 5. 49
Paper, ;f x 6, flf. 256.
Contents :
i. Lectures on Physic and the Materia Medica by Dr Dedier.
i. Abstracts from Dr Hope's Lectures on the Materia Medica
1764, 97 pp.
3. A course of Anatomical Lectures by Dr Hunter.
At the end some Receipts, mostly dated in 1802.
738. R. 5- 50
Paper, 8 x 6, ff. 112.
Given in 1866 by Mr William White, Sub-Librarian.
A series of notes upon Chemistry, in a hand of the latter half
of cent, xviii.
739. WILL. MALMESBURIENSIS DE GESTIS RE- JR./. i
GUM. \ 430
Vellum, 9| x 6|, ff. 147, double columns of 37, 38 lines. Cent,
xiii, small hand ; well written.
Given by Nevile. 2 fo. functos.
Resembles the Glastonbury MS. R. 5. 16.
Collation: i 8 -5 8 (6 canc.)-is 8 16' I7 10 i8 10 (wants 9, 10 blank).
Contents :
i. Dedicatory letter, without heading f. i
Domino uenerabili et famoso comiti filio regis Roberti
uocauerim gesta anglorum regum.
Expl. epistola.
i. Inc. prologus in libro primo de gestis regum anglorum . I
Res Anglorum gestas Beda uir maxime doctus
saltern Industrie testimonium.
3- C. i i b
Anno ab incarnatione domini quadringentesimo quadragesimo
nono.
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There are no rubrics or headlines.
Ends with liber vii (the Historic, Novella}, f. 147^:
ab hiis qui interfuere ueritatem accepero.
On this MS. Bishop Stubbs in the Rolls edition of the Gesta
Regum, p. Ixxix, says that it belongs to the second series of MSS.
classed by him as B: the symbol employed to denote it in his
edition is Bq.
740. EULOGIUM HlSTORIARUM ETC. \
I 397
Vellum, 9| x 6|, ff. 335 (15 + 129+191), pages numbered to
666, wrongly, 30 lines to a page. Cent, xiv, in a curious, ugly, but
plain hand.
Given by Willmer. 2 fo. xl. Herodes or compilacionem.
Probably from Malmesbury: events connected with that house
receive special prominence throughout. Mr F. S. Haydon in his
edition of the text in the Rolls Series advocates the view that
this is the author's autograph, on what seem to be good grounds.
Collation: i 10 (wants i) ii 6 1| I 4 2 12 3 12 4 10 (9 cane.) 5 6 6 4 (+4*) 7 12 -
I2 i2 I3 2 I4 _8 (j cane.) || is 12 i6 12 i; 10 i8 6 I9 6 (6 cane.?) 2O 8 -22 8 23 12 248
(+8*) 25 8 26 8 27 10 28 12 29 12 (+2) 30 12 3i 12 32 12 33 6 34 8 (wants 8: one
sheet bound in wrong).
Contents :
On f. i (xvi) is written Cronica Diomedis.
Below it (xv) Liber cronicarum.
Diuturnitas legendi inducit lassitudinem . . . . f. i
Cronica grece latine temporum series, etc.
A Chronicle from Annus Domini i to 1364, in tabular form,
sometimes in two columns ....... i
Ending p. 29; p. 30 is blank,
-a. Prohemium of the Eulogium Historiarum . . . . 31
Forma uiuendi probitatis incentiuum.
p. 34 is blank.
Liber I 35-87
p. 88 is blank.
Cronica domini nostri Ihesu Christi 89-126
Said by Mr Haydon to be in a different hand from the rest of
the volume. But the writing is, I believe, really the same, r
though it may have been done either earlier or later than
the rest, and subsequently inserted in this place. It consists
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of the Gesta Pilati (or Gospel of Nicodemus), to which are
added the Vindicta Salvatoris and an appendix of fact and
legend about the destruction of Jerusalem.
Liber II., an erasure of several lines at the top of the first
page 127-198
Liber III 199-286
A blank leaf (2350;) at the end.
Liber IV 287-392
At p. 393 intervenes the tract called
Vade mecum in tribulatione, by Johannes de Rupe Scissa.
Ending p. 413.
Then follows
De remediis tocius tribulacionis 413
On the descent of William I from the English Kings . . 416
An extract from Augustine de Civitate dei lib. xxi, etc. . 422
Liber V. 423-649
Descent of Edward III from Rollo 650
Table. Alfraganus Vaticinium 653
The first sheet of this is misbound: the table begins on p. 655.
Foundations of certain Monasteries ..... 663
viz. Glastonbury, A. D. 63 and 660.
Peterborough, A.D. 655.
A. d. dc xxxv prima edificacio monasterii cy'cy'.
[In the preliminary chronicle (p. 17) under 637 is: Eodem
anno fundacio monasterii (erased).
I take it that in both places Malmesbury is meant.]
The others are: Abingdon, St Albans, Westminster, Hulme,
Canterbury (Chr. Ch. and St Aug.'s), Winchcomb, Tewkes-
bury, Evesham, Rochester, Thorney, Battle, St Edmund's
1020, Colchester, Norwich, Ecclesia de Snap 1 1059, Favers-
ham, Lewes, Pershore, Gloucester (1181).
3 blank pages follow.
{R 7
vac.
Vellum, 9^ x 6|, ff. 170, double columns of 29 lines. Cent, xiv
early, in a fine hand with most beautiful ornaments.
Dono dedit Guil. Ayloff, LL.D. hujus Collegii socius et Academiae Cantabrigiensis
orator Publicus.
Dr Ayloff was Public Orator 1698-1726.
2 fo. quod inuitata or Porro in prouincia.
1 Snape was a Benedictine priory in Suffolk, a cell to St John's Colchester, and
really founded, it seems, in 1155.
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Collation : i 12 (misbound)-xiii 12 xiv 14 .
Contents :
1. Inc. prefacio venerabilis bede presbiteri in libro ecclesiastice
historic gentis anglorum f. i
Gloriosissimo regi Ceolf(?)olfo.
The page is bordered in the most exquisite style with oak-
leaves and interlacing designs, largely on a punctured gold
ground. At the top, in a medallion is a female head. On
the R. are birds and a half-human monster playing the
fiddle. At bottom, on R. a draped man wrestling with a
lion (Samson). On L. Solomon on horseback, a frightened
hound couching before him, beckoning to Marcolph who is
on L. mocking him in a grotesque attitude. On the L. side
of the border are more birds. The initial is rubbed. It
represents Bede writing at a desk : punctured gold ground.
ff. i and 3, containing the capitula and beginning of Book I.,
are transposed.
Book I. has a fine decorative initial and partial border with
grotesques.
Book II. Initial with bust of an old man, white hair and
beard, hooded, very curious: gold ground . . . 34 a
Book III. Decorative initial 61 b
Book IV. 95 b
Book V. ,, very fine I33<*
Ends f. i66b with the List of Bede's works
fructum pie intercessionis inueniam. Amen.
2. De uita et fine uenerabilis bede presbiteri et de diligentia
scribendi et dictandi usque ad finem . . . . 167
Dilectissimo in christo doctori Cuthwino.
Good decorative initial and partial border.
inerudicio lingue facit.
The passage in English occurs in the text.
3. De corporibus sanctorum que in anglia requiescunt : qui
fuerunt : et in quibus locis eorum corpora sepeliuntur in
sequentibus dicetur ........ 168
In nomine d. n. I. C. beatus augustinus a b. gregorio romane
urbis episcopo ad predicandum genti anglorum in britanniam
ad laudem dei et sue genitricis construxit.
Sanctus albanus prothomartyr anglorum . . . .
Ends: sancta merepenna abbatissa in loco qui dicitur rume-
sige prope amnem taerstan requiescit.
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(R- 7-
I 272
742. W. MALMSBURIENSIS DE GESTIS PONTI- f R. 7. 4
FICUM.
Vellum and paper, 9^ x 6|, ff. 104 + 4, mostly double columns
of 32 lines. Cent, xv late, xvi, in three hands.
Given by Nevile. 2 fo. Quid enim.
Collation: I* 2 8 -io 8 n ? (5 left): the rest paper.
Contents :
1. Lists of Archbishops and Bishops of the sees of England . f. i
The Abps of Canterbury are given as far as Robert Winchelsea:
a slightly later hand adds Simon Islip.
2. Inc. prologus libri primi Willelmi de gestis pontificum anglo-
(rurn) 5
Prima sedes episcoporum
sequentur ordine.
De Cantuar. archiepiscopis 5 b
Cantuarie sedit primus Augustinus.
Towards the end of quire 10 the hand gets smaller, and quire
1 1 has 53 lines to a column.
The vellum portion of the MS. ends f. 76 (80 i>)
electis episcopis Gisone Well.
The rest is on paper of cent, xvi, 34 lines to a page, perhaps
in a Parkerian hand.
et waltero herefordensi
solus deo vacans.
Ends f. 104 (ro8).
There follow three paragraphs.
Anno ab incarn. domini M.cc.lix regni autem H. regis filius
regis Johannis.
Mr Hamilton in his preface to the Rolls edition of the Gesta
Pontificum, p. xxiv, says that the conclusion, on paper, is copied
from Ff. i. 25 in the University Library.
743. BEDAE HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA.
282
Vellum, 9^ x 7|, ff. 252, 23 lines to a page. Cent, x, xi, in a
fine bold minuscule.
It belonged to Abp Parker, whose name is on the fly-leaf in
red chalk. 2 fo. (text) mo ut diximus.
220 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. /.
It was collated by Professors Mayor and Lumby for their
edition of Books III. and IV. of the History, and is described by
them as C 3 on p. 414.
Collation: a 4 (i and 4 of cent, xvi, 2 and 3 original) || I 8 (wants
I blank ?)-6 8 (+ I between I and 2)-io 8 (+ I between 4 and 5)- 19"
(+2 after i)~3O 8 (7 cane.) 31" (wants 7, 8 blank), leaves very badly
numbered in Cent xvi.
Contents :
i. Inc. capitula hec continentur in libro primo ecclesiastice
historic gentis anglorum (in red capitals) . . . . f. ii (4)
These capitula, like others later on in the book, are in a hand
of cent, xii (early).
On f. iii b, iv a (5 b, 6) a Parkerian hand has added a list of
facts not mentioned in the capitula of the five books.
i. In nomine domini. Incipit prologus beati Bedan pr(esbyteri) 7
In red rustic capitals.
Gloriosissimo regi Ceoluulfo
mandare studuimus.
The paragraph (Praeterea inueniam), which should end the
preface, is in this MS., as in very many others, placed at the
end of Lib. V. See Mayor and Lumby, 1. c.
Explicit prologus.
Incipit liber primus Historiae anglorum aecclesiasticae . 8 b
Britannia oceani insula.
At the end of Lib. I. a new leaf is inserted (of cent, xii) on
which the capitula of Lib. II. and the last five lines of
Lib. I. are written. This is f. 46.
The last five lines of Lib. I. as written by the original scribe
are erased at the top of f. 47 and a new heading to Lib. II.
written in:
Inc. liber secundus e,cclesiastice hystorie. gentis anglorum 47
The hand gets larger in the course of this book, and then gives
way to a smaller hand with a very decided slope.
The rubric at the end of Lib. II. and the leaf (82) with the
capitula of Lib. III. and the heading and initial of Lib. III.
are of cent. xii.
The sloping minuscule continues to f. 107 a. In the fourth
line it gives way to a round upright hand, which gets very
large on some leaves, e.g. 112.
The capitula to Lib. IV. have not had to be inserted (130^).
They are in this same round hand. The rubrics in red
rustic capitals.
The same hand continues through Lib. IV., getting very large
on ff. 1 58 etc.
Capitula to Lib. V 187
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f. 237 is a slip inserted by the original scribe (?) to repair an
omission. The fluctuations of hands in the quire (29) are
very odd.
ff. 248 and following are undoubtedly by the scribe of the
capitula to Libb. I., II.
Lib. V. ends with the list of Bede's works and the last para-
graph of the Preface (see above).
pie intercessionis inueniam.
Expl. lib. quintus Ecclesiastice hyst. gent. angl. Ven. Bede
presbiteri 249
Lindisfarne dicitur insula que, a uulgo halig ealond appel-
latur. In mari sita est, etc.
It is a paragraph to explain Bede's non-mention of Durham.
Ends 249 b (anno 735) sedes episcopalis in dunhelmum trans-
lata est.
Then follow, in a hand of cent, xvi, notes of the nine lessons
for St Oswald taken out of Bede, with reference to their
place in the text.
2 50 a is blank.
On 250^, 2510 in a hand of cent. xii.
Prognostica Archiepiscoporum et episcoporum angli?.
Lanfranci Archiep. Date elemosinam et ecce omnia munda sunt uobis. (Lc. xi. 41.)
Anselmi. Et uocauit multos in ora cene. (Lc. xiv. 16, 17.)
Radulfi. Equates sunt angelis resurrectionis. (Lc. xx. 36.)
Willelmi. Exultauit in gaudio utero eius. (Lc. i. 41.)
Thome archiep. Eboraci primi. Hie est discipulus de his. (Jo. xxi. 24.)
Thome ii. arch. Et ianitori precepit ut uigilet. (Me. xiii. 34.)
Turstini arch. Et animam meam pono pro ouibus meis. (Jo. x. 15.)
Mauricii lundonie. Et erat secus mare et multi ueniebant ad eum. (Mt. xiii. i.)
Ricardi. Surgent seudoprophete multi et seducent multos. (Mt. xxiv. n.)
Super Will. Wintoniensem. Si licet homini uxorem suam dimittere etc. (Mt. xix. 3.)
Super Rogerum Salb. Ligatis manibus eius exteriores. (Mt. xxii. 13.)
Super Rotbertum lincoliensem. Et quod in aure tecta. (Mt. x. 27.)
Alexandri eiusdem loci ep. Ego autem hie fame pereo. (Lc. xv. 17.)
Willelmi norvicensis ep. Non hunc sed barraban. (Jo. xviii. 40.)
Hereberti eiusdem loci. Amice quomodo nuptialem. (Mt. xxii. 12.)
Evrardi item eiusdem loci. Deus meus dereliquisti. (Mt. xxvii. 46.)
Gundulfi Rofensis eccl. ep. Et erat quasi unus ex prophetis. (Me. vi. 15.)
Ernulfi eiusdem loci. Malos male perdet colonis. (Mt. xxi. 41.)
Heruei eliensis ep. Venit tremens pedes Ihesu. (Me. v. 33.)
Will' exoniensis. Cum facis prandium pauperes. (Lc. xiv. 12.)
Rotberti cestrensis i. Mensuram bonam coagitatam. (Lc. vi. 38.)
Rotberti ii. Qui uult uenire post me etc. (Mt. xvi. 24.)
Wlstani Wigornensis ep. Ecce uere israhelita non est. (Jo. i. 47.)
25 1 a Samsonis eiusdem sedis ep. Quia non erat ei locus. (Lc. ii. 7.)
Theodwaldi eiusdem loci. In eadem domo bibentes. (Lc. x. 7.)
Walterii hereforclensis ep. Factum est gaudium magnum in ilia ciuitate. (Act. viii. 8.)
Rotberti successoris eius. Surge tolle lectum domum tuam. (Mt. ix. 6.)
222 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. /.
Girardi eiusdem loci ep. Relicto zebedeo patre suo. (Me. i. 20.)
Reinalmi sedis eiusdem ep. Si crederetis moysi etc. (Jo. v. 46.)
Gauffridi succ. eius. Non dico uobis in qua potestate hec facio. (Me. xi. 33.)
Ricardi eiusd. loci. Ihesus autem a iordane. (Lc. iv. i.)
Johannis bathoniensis ep. Assumpsit eum diabolus ciuitatem. (Mt. iv. 5.)
Godefridi succ. illius. Hi qui uiderant eum resurrexisse non crediderunt. (Me. xvi. 14.)
Ranulfi dunelmensis ep. Mirabantur omnes de doctrina eius. (Mt. vii. 28.)
Turoldi de S. Andrea de scotia. Sequar te quocunque ieris. (Lc. ix. 57.)
Bernardi de S. Dewi. Attendite a fermento phariseorum et ab herode. (Me. viii. 15.)
Urbani ep. de clamorgan. Et erat expectans regnum dei. (Me. xv. 43.)
Dauid de Pangor. In uerbo tuo laxabo rete. (Lc. v. 5.)
Space of 2 lines.
Another hand
Henrici Wintoniensis. Si quis dixerit uobis hie est christus etc. (Mt. xxiv. 23.)
Similiter Gilleberti episcopi Lundoniensis.
Space of two lines. Then in the first hand
Odonis ep. baiocensis. Qui intingit nianum me tradet. (Mt. xxvi. 23.)
Ricardi succ. eius. Omnia possibilia sunt credenti. (Me. ix. 23.)
These prognostics are evidently the Sortes Biblicae taken from
the opening of the Gospel-book at the consecration of each of
these prelates.
The verso (covered with scribbles) is stuck to a fly-leaf.
I have little doubt, from the paragraph about Lindisfarne, and
the notes for St Oswald's lessons, that the book was in a northern
monastery : but I cannot definitely trace it either to Durham or to
any other house.
744. GALFRIDUS MONEMUTENSIS. '
I 366
Vellum, 9 x 6, ff. 56, 36 lines to a page. Cent, xiii, in a small
hand.
Given by Willmer. 2 fo. Arguebat.
Slips of a xivth cent. MS. in double columns in the binding.
Collation: i 8 2 14 3 12 4 12 5'.
Contents :
Inc. prologus hystorie brithonum et anglorum . . . . f. i
Cum mecum multa et de multis
interno gratulatur affectu.
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Descriptio britannie.
Britannia insularum optima.
Ends with "liber xi."
In honore predictorum principum hoc m' in latinum sermonem
transferre.
Expl. brutus de vita Regum Anglic.
745.
I
Vellum, 9 x 6, ff. 8, written, the rest blank. Cent. xvi.
Original binding, with two rings at the bottom of the covers.
The orders of the University of Oxford concerning their
Brewers Company, A.D. 1585.
Signed by
Jo. Vnderhill, Vice-chanc. Oxon.
Laur. Humfrey.
Arth. ydoard ?
Hen. Bust.
Fr. Beuans.
Th. Philipson.
John Bentley.
Olyuer Wyllingley.
Tho. Glasier.
Rich. Eedes.
Myles Leighe.
{.V 8
Paper, 9 x 6f , ff. 20. Cent, xvii early, neatly written.
Given by Puckering.
The present state of the Courte of your Maiesties Counsell
established in the Principalitie and Marches of Wales.
i. The office of President.
Ends with an address to the Sovereign signed in autograph by
" Your Maiesties most faithfull subiect & humble servant
H. Pembroke." (f. 19.)
224 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 7.
747. CHRONICON WALTERI DE GISBURNE J R. 7. 9
(HEMINGFORD). \ 547
Vellum, 8| x 5|, ff. 187, 36 lines to a page. Cent, xiv, neat.
Given by ? 2. fo. normann. comitem.
The first fly-leaf has on the recto (much obliterated) part of a
Court record (xiv). Some lines partially legible are :
...qua fuit ur bernardi fil. Walter! Petit uersus...
...(qua) fuit ur Regina/dus fil. Bonde petit uersus Mar...
...apud Chelmesford quod consensit predict, uendicioni....
...de Donwyc. (This name, or bits of it, occurs several times.)
A list of English Kings (William I John) is on the verso :
also an erased inscription and one obscured by the book-plate.
Then a note of King Malcolm's homage to William I, and of
the four sons of Henry I.
Collation: I 12 ~9 12 (wants 12 blank).
Contents :
The word hemyngforde (xv, xvi) is at the top of f. i.
Cronica walteri de gyseburn^ de gestis regum anglie prohemium f. i
Non fjastidiosus occurram qui succincte laborare dispono.
At the bottom of the page are the names of the nine worthies (xv).
Ends f. 107 a in Ordinado pape inter reges (1297)
contrahant sponsalicia predicta eorundem regis et filii instru-
mentis firmanda et rex francie [Plura desunt].
Hardy in. no. 462.
On the last page some scribbles in Spanish (xv).
748. W. MALMESBURIENSIS DE GESTIS RE- f R. 7. 10
GUM. \ 430
Vellum, 8 x 6, fif. 163, 34-47 lines to a page. Cent, xii (cir.
1170, Stubbs), in a good and delicate hand. Handsome initials in
red, blue and green.
Given by Whitgift. 2 fo. ad superiores.
Collation: i 8 -9 8 10 (i, 2 cane.) || U 8 -2O 8 .
The dedicatory letter is supplied in a Parkerian hand and a
woodcut initial pasted in.
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The MS. is described under the symbol of At. by Bp. Stubbs
in the Rolls edition, I. p. Ixviii.
Contents :
1. Inc. liber primus Willelmi de gestis regum anglorum . . f. i
Res Anglorum gestas.
On 42 l>, 43 b are grotesque heads well drawn in pencil.
At the end of Lib. II. is a blank page (f. 83^).
There are xvth cent, marginal notes scattered throughout this
book.
Lib. V. ends on f. 1 50 a. In the course of this book the hand
becomes closer and finer and so continues to the end.
2. Inc. prologus Willelmi (mo)nachi in nouella hystoria anglorum
ad Robertum comitem gloecestr 150
Domino amantissimo Roberto filio regis henrici.
Liber II. ends f. 1620:
ab his qui interfuere ueritatem accepero.
On the verso (xiii)
Non tonsura facit monachum nee horrida uestis
Sed uirtus animi perpetuusque uigor.
Mens humilis mundi contemptus uita pudica
Sanctaque sobrietas hec faciunt monachum.
IT Quod uitare nequis constanti suscipe mente
Sic que dura fuit mors tibi mitis erit.
The fly-leaf is a bit of a xv, xvith cent, account roll.
procuratori hospitalis S. Thome ? ad orandum pro
anima dicti defuncti.
Ric. Goddard de snape in elemosina...pro anima dicti
defuncti.
ffratribus de Marlborough ad celebrand. pro anima dicti
defuncti.
Executores Thome Goddard
infra manerium de Okborne et Bytton.
ad perficiend. quandam ca(ntariam) in ecclesia ad Okborne
pro stipendio unius capellani ibid, ex consid
Thome haydok et Christiane uxori eius.
The places named, Ogbourne, Bytton, Marlborough, are all
together in Wiltshire.
749. GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS SYMBOLUM ELEC-
TORUM.
f R. 7. ii
I 423
Vellum, 8 x 5|, fif. 96, double columns of 35 lines. Cent, xiii,
early (Brewer says xiii late), well written.
T. c. ii. 15
226
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS.
[R. 7.
Given by Whitgift. 2 fo. curante mihi.
On the fly-leaf is the class mark
ff 37 distincio simbolorum
and in a later hand a list of the first 35 Bishops of Hereford.
The mark is that of the Library of the Franciscans of Hereford,
of which many remains exist in the Cathedral library there.
Collation: one fly-leaf, I 8 2 8 3, an anomalous quire (see the
section below) consisting of 24 leaves, 4 8 5 8 6 8 (+ I between 4 and 5)
7 8 (wants 8 blank) 8 8 g s io 8 (+ I*: wants 8 blank) || one fly-leaf.
The text is printed by J. S. Brewer in the first volume of the
Rolls edition of Giraldus Cambrensis. This MS. is the only
complete copy of the text known to exist.
Contents :
Prima distinctio.
Prefacio in simbolum electorum ....
Requisitus a sociis
statui maturior.
Tituli in epistolas (xxvii).
i. Abbati Cisterciensi.
Rene, patri et dom. Abb. Cisterciensi Giraldus.
xxvii. Capitulis et clericis suis.
Scitis quia dedimus
fuerit et deuota.
Expl. distinctio prima (36 a).
366, 37 a are blank.
Inc. distinctio secunda
Tituli in Cosmographiam et metra sequencia (xv).
i. De mundi creacione et contentis eiusdem.
Instaurare solent solatia sera dolorem.
xx. Duelli descriptio (2 lines) (43 b).
Expl. libri pars secunda.
Inc. tertia.
Tituli in titulos sicut in fine Topographic.
f. 1
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Orationes et descriptiones. Sicut in vaticinali hystoria reperi-
untur (xxviii) ......... 43 b
i. De Victoriis Anglorum Regis Henrici secundi . . 44
Gens igitur Hybernica.
The inserted leaf in quire 6 relates to signs concerning
S. Thomas's death.
There are xxx. chapters in this part, xxix. being Descriptio
euentuum nostri temporis, xxx. Descriptio beltte multiformis.
Ends 70 : et abiectio plebis. Expl. libri pars tertia.
4. Inc. quarta.
Tituli in prefationes per opera uaria dispersas (xxvi) . . 70 b
i. Topographic prefatio prima 72
Consideranti michi.
xxvi. Pref. in sacramentalem instruccionem.
Ends 95 b : distribuimus.
Expl. Simbolum electorum.
The last fly-leaf has in a late xvth cent, hand
De Giraldo archidiac. Meneuensi.
Vir quidam magnus in Anglia dixit et asseruit laborem mag 11
Geraldi multis de causis commendabilem esse
nullo prorsus articulo ecclesie sue pro posse defecit.
Printed by Brewer in the Rolls edition of Giraldus, I. 397. He
takes it to be the work of Giraldus himself.
The only other copy is one of cent, xvi, in Harl. 359.
750. FR. GODWIN CATALOGUS EPISCOPORUM I R. 7. 12
BATHONIENSIUM ET WELLENSIUM. \ 466
Vellum, 7|x6, pp. 4+100 + 6, 26 lines to a page. Cent, xvi
(1594).
Given by Nevile.
Contents :
On the first and last leaves an inscription:
Hunc Catalogum conscripsit Franciscus Godwynus Ecclesiae Wel^
lensis Canonicus A.D. 1595 Anno Reg. Eliz. 38.
On the first page is added (by Griffiths) A Duw, a digon.
A list of the Deans of Wells from Ivo to John Herbert, 1589.
Catalogus Episcoporum Bathoniensium et Wellensium . . . f. i
Urbis nostrae Wellensis nullam reperio mentionem ante annum a
Christo nato 704.
The Bishops begin with Aldhelm (p. 3) and end with John Still.
228 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 7.
From Will. Bitton (no. 23) onwards their arms are neatly painted
on the margin.
At the bottom of p. 100 is the signature (autograph)
Decemb: 15 1594 Ffranc. Godwyn.
On the next page but one are the arms of the Church and See of
Wells and of the Abbey and See of Bath and Wells.
Then follows a list of the Bishops with references to the pages of
the MS.
751. CHRONICON. (
W. MALMESBURIENSIS DE GESTIS PON- <
TIFICUM. i 4 ^
Vellum, 7f x 5|, ff. 186, 31 lines to a page. Cent, xv, in a
current hand, with borders of good English work. Completed in
cent. xvi.
Given by Nevile. It belonged to Matthew Parker (Abp.)
whose name is on the fly-leaf in red pencil. 2 fo. vino et oleo.
Possibly from Sherborne : see below.
The fly-leaf is a bit of a much obliterated list of names (xv)
with a payment noted for each.
Sir Guy Wolston Knyght xx/z. etc. (one page).
On another fly-leaf is the beginning of a chronicle (xv):
Anglia modo dicta olim Albion dicebatur
dolorem animi eius deliniens et animans ad gaudium
cor illius. Que consolacione.
Collation : 4 fly-leaves | a 8 -f 8 g 6 || I 8 ~3 S (7 canc.)-io 8 | etc. xvi.
Contents :
On the last fly-leaf, a title, beginning
Epitome Chronicorum anglie (per Joan. Taxtor).
A note to say that this attribution to Taxater is incorrect.
I. Chronicle f. i
Adam pater generis humani genuit seth.
Ends: A.d.m.cccc.lvi fuit annus indulgencie ad S. Jacobum.
Eodem anno apparuit Cometa in mense Junij.
4-Later notes on 1460-71.
Three blank leaves.
II. Prologus libri primi Willelmi de gestis pontificum Anglorum . 58
Prima sedes.
Good border; initial in lozenge-chequer.
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The section de Shirburnia (f. 123 a) has a fine border.
In the initial is the Virgin crowned and seated with the Child.
On the L. (outside) is a black monk kneeling, with scroll,
mater dei memento met. In the border at the bottom is a
shield gu. a cross arg. over a crosier or in pale in the dexter
half.
The xvth cent, hand ends on f. 133 in 96
ubi antiquitus et s. petri
The last 2 lines and the rest of the book (lib. Ill, iv) are added
in a good Parkerian hand, on vellum, ending on f. i860.
It is no. 20 in Hamilton's edition (Rolls series), p. xxv.
752. THE FRENCH BRUTE CHRONICLE. '
I 45 6
Vellum, 8| x 5^, ff. 149, 21 lines to a page. Cent, xiv, xv neatly
written.
Given by Nevile. Belonged to John Parker.
On the last fly-leaf
Robert Isham le seneschall del comt de Wedon Beck (xv)
Waterhouse (?) in red pencil.
Iste liber constat Johanni Gardenere (xv). (Twice.)
Waldenus ffuls (?). Totingran velbotu . .
On the verso
les gistes pour les chaces du roy. A number of days is assigned to each item in
the list,
de houle tank a farnham j jour
a Selborne viij
a Estmene (East Meon) j
a sothewyk iij
a hamtone
e
a holnben (?)
a brokenhurst
a hathelbur(gh)
a bremore
a baneford
a corf
a labey de milton
a schaftesburi
230 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 7-
a tisseburi
a labey de Wiltoun
a aumesburi
a Marleburgh
a neweburi
a Redyngge
and other scribbles.
Collation: one fly-leaf | i 8 -i5 8 i6 10 i; 8 i8 8 19*.
A slip of late music in the binding.
On the fly-leaf a note of the foundation of Cambridge University
in 4321 A.M.
- -hec in libro quondam M ri Record iam in manibus W. Carye.
The text of the volume begins :
Ci poet homme sauer coment quant et de quele gent grant
geauntz vindrent ......... f. i
Ends in the Scotch wars of Edward III. :
Ardoit les terres de Gilleslande qui furent a mons. Randulf Dacre
xv lieus en longure et vj lieus en leoz<re.
{
R - 7- '5
614
Paper, 8 x 5f, ff. 6+ 160 + 8, 39-40 lines to a page. Cent, xvi
written by John Bale Bp of Ossory.
Given by William Corkar, A.M., Fellow, in 1667.
The first 5 leaves contain Apocalyptic and other antipapal
notes and extracts, by Bale : f. vi is blank.
Opus Joannis Lelandi de illustribus viris Anglice nationis a Joanne
Balyo [Anglo] apud hibemos episcopo epitomatum ac plerisque
in locis emendatum et auctum ....... f. i
A note signed T. G.
Liber hie scriptus est ipsius Balaei manu. Hunc uti videtur primo
edere statuit retentis ipsius Lelandi verbis; mox tamen, mutatis
et mutilatis fere omnibus jussit sub nomine suo prodire semel
atque iterum; plagium multiplex deprehendet qui luculentissimum
scriptorem Lelandum inspexerit.
Prefatio D. Jo. Balei ossoriensis Ep. in opus subiectum . . i
Post diutinas atque assicluas rerum Britannicarum.
cui sit sempiterna laus et gloria mine et in euum. Amen.
Five epigrams of Leland's follow ....... 3
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Text begins.
Druydes, genus hominum turn antiquissimi nominis.
Ends with Jo. Claymundus 159
Claruit a. cl. 1510 varia composuit.
Then follows the Conclusio totius operis, partly written twice over.
Ending 1606: si non, his utere mecum.
An Alphabetical Index of Authors follows.
On the last leaf are extracts from
Jo. Chekus de pronunciatione Greca.
Wesselius Groningensis de potest. ecclesiastica.
Melchior Soiterus lib. i de Bello Pannonico.
Epistola doctoris Edwini Sandes ad Jac. Pilkyntonum.
R. 7. 1 6, 17. Nothing in MS. Catalogue.
R. 7. 18
754. EDM. CAMPION'S HISTORY OF IRELAND. ,
6l 5
Paper, 7| x 6, ff. 148, 26 lines to a page. Cent. xvi.
Given in 1678 by William Perry, A.M., Fellow.
Dedicated to Robert Lord Dudley, dated Dryuelyn 27 May
1571 and signed Edm. Campion.
To the Loueinge Reader, dated Droghdagh 9 June 1571.
Text begins f. 6.
755. ' 7 ; ' 9
vac. r
{
Paper, 7^ x 5f , pp. 303. Cent, xvii in a very neat hand.
A Discoverie of the supposed waye, meanes, and Endeavors
wherby King James of famous memorie is said to have made waye
for the Establishing of the Gouuernment of Bishops in Scotland,
Veakning therwith the Prisbiteriall Power and Strength of their
Gennerall Assemblies.
Deuided in Twoe Bookes.
f The Ferst shewing the waye meanes and Preparations vnto the
same in xi chapters.
232 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 7.
The Second, the acting of the same, with the ouerthrow of
Aberdeene Assemblie, Arraignment and Bannishment of Six
Ministers, in xiiii chapters.
To the Kings Most Excellent Ma t!e .
Written many yeares since by one of those six bannished
ministers.
The Six (see p. 301) were
John Forbes, Airford.
John Welsh, Air.
Rob. Durie, Anstruder.
Andrew Duncan, Caraill.
Alex. Strauchen, Creich.
John Sharpe, Kilinary.
756.
[ vac. r
Paper, 7^ x 6%, pp. 90. Cent, xvii, neatly written.
Given by Mr Pawlett, A.M.
The Prerogative of the Kings of England, or The manifold and
singular powers priviledges and advantages that the Law giveth
to the King more than to any of his Subiects.
Carefully taken and faithfully set forth as they are reported to
vs in the printed Bookes, out of the Statutes and out of the
Judgments, Rules and Resolutions of the Judges in the Courts at
Westminster.
An analysis of the whole work follows f. 2
The Text in 57 sections 5
An Alphabetical Table 87
757. R. 7. 21
Paper, 8| x 6. Three tracts bound together.
I. ff. 11, torn. Cent, xvii early.
Directions about the payment of two subsidies.
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II. ff. 1 1. In the same hand.
A speech made by one of the Commissioners upon levying a
Subsidy. 16 Anno Regis.
III. ff. 21.
Chancery law matters an. 1 1 Ed. 4.
In law French. Headed an. 11 H. 4.
758.
Paper, 7| x 6. Two tracts bound together. Cent, xvi, xvii.
From Puckering.
I. ff. 13 written. Belonged to Lord Lumley, whose name is
on f. i.
Magnificae et plane Regiae Domus (quae vulgo vocatur Nonesuch) breuis et vera
Descriptio.
De Veneris statua Apellis artificio.
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( vac.
Paper, n x ;|.
Vocabula ad Hesychium spectantia.
A series of notes on Hesychius by Dr John Pearson, a
chronology of whose life is written inside the cover and signed T.S.
810, 811. PEARSON'S NOTES ON HESYCHIUS. R. 9. 6, 7
Paper (folio) of varying sizes, bound up in two thick volumes.
Each letter of the alphabet makes a tract by itself.
At the beginning of Vol. I. is this note :
These papers of Bishop Pearson's were retrieved and placed in Trinity College,
Cambridge, by Thomas Gale, D.D., A.D. 1701.
812. AELFRICI GRAMMATICA.
I 303
Vellum, 12^ x 8|, ff. 63, 28 lines to a page. Cent, xvi, beauti-
fully written, perhaps for Abp Parker.
Given by Nevile.
252 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 9.
One blank leaf : the set-off of an old owner's name at the top.
Inc. Praefatio huius libri ........ f. i
Ego Aelfricus
valete puerili (!) in domino.
Ic Aelfric polde
his poh gerihtan.
Inc. excerptiones de arte grammatica anglice.
Secundum Donatum omnis vox aut articulata est i
Ends f. 6 1 b.
xxx penega aenne manes. Finis,
f. 62 is blank.
813. POLYAENI STRATEGEMATA GRAECE.
Paper, 1 1 x 8, ff. 94, 28 lines to a page. Cent, xv, xvi, neatly
written.
Give"n by Nevile. It was originally presented to the University
Library by Cuthbert Tunstall when Bishop of London.
On the fly-leaf is :
Cuthebertus Londoniensis episcopus studiosis dono dedit.
Collation : The book is too tightly bound to allow of satisfactory
collation. The first quire is of 10 leaves.
Contents :
Ho\vali>ov ffTpa.TrjyiKwi' f3ift\lov trpGrrov . . . . . . f. I
Tijv /JLev Kara Trepcrwv Kal irapOvtw V\.KI\V.
Each book except the first has a list of the personages treated of,
prefixed to it.
The sixth book ends imperfectly on f. 94^ in c. 10.
Xe/ir [o factum male].
This MS. was used by Pancratius Maasvicius for his edition in
1691 ; see the Teubner ed. by W6lfflin,/n?gg:
01 >i rr f R- Q- 10
814. ISIDORI ETYMOLOGIAE.
I 370
Vellum, iof x 7|, ff. 213, double columns of 34 lines. Cent,
xiii, xiv, well written.
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Given by ? 2 fo. modo meas or elementa.
After the colophon f. 212, is (xiii, xiv)
In Christo Ihesu memoriale Henrici Boydin de Rya.
The book is most likely from a Kentish house.
Collation: i ls -9 12 io' i i"-i8 12 (wants 12).
The first leaves are torn and stained with ink.
Contents :
1. Epistola Ysidori yspalensis episcopi ad Braulionem . . f. i
Domino meo et dei seruo braulioni.
The letters of Braulio and Isidore occupy 3 whole leaves
and end on 4 a
sicuti existit conscriptum stilo maiore.
2. Capitula 4
3. Text, the beginning almost illegible from ink stains . . 4 b
Liber xx ends on f. 2 1 2 a
ut uis morbi ignis ardore siccetur.
Expl. liber ethimologiarum vicesimus beati ysidori yspalensis
episcopi.
4. Table. On 21 2 -213 is an alphabetical table of contents
in most exquisitely minute writing : there are sixteen
columns on a page (8 of names, 8 of references) and 140
lines in each. A good deal of f. 213 is torn away. The
table ends in the letter P.
815. PRISCIANI INSTITUTIONES. \
I 342
Vellum, io x 6f, ff. 153, 36 lines to a page. Cent, xii early,
in a beautiful small hand. There are a few decorative initials in
which an impure gold is used. Most of the initials are in red.
Given by George Willmer (pencil note). 2 fo. gone.
On f. i is (xvi)
No. 56 Thomas Hewett. T-
At the end are many scribbles, five or six being in Hebrew.
Among the others are (xiii)
Jacobus Viterbiens. X s. precium (?) in die See Lucie.
Giraldus de geneuesia s. ...Inter febroj .
W mui de geneua s. die solis vii in marto.
254 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 9.
Also part of a Christmas hymn with the melody written above.
Noue geniture cedit ius nature contra carnis iura parit uirgo pura.
Probably the MS. was written in Italy.
Collation : i ? (the first and last leaves only left) 2 8 -2O 8 (wants 8).
There are also at the end (151$) xiiith cent, accounts in an
English hand, giving names of Mag. Willelmus, Dominus Robertas
etc., Dan. Ricardus de Lysarth (? Luzarches), Ricardus scriptor,
Robertas de pikering, Will 3 de hin . . win.
And a receipt in the same hand :
Tantum recepi de rebus Dm R.
Pro Scanno et ceteris quinque sol.
pro quaternis iij".
pro lintheam(ine) ij.
pro tapeto et rel. v.
pro anulo iij.
pro prisciano xii.
Item .v. sol et vij d quos inueni in archa sua et vj d quos gregorius debuit eidem R.
Contents :
i. Priscianus Cesariensis Gramaticus Juliano consuli ac Patricio
salut. (in red capitals) f. i
Cum omnis eloquentie
(Many interlinear notes, xiii)
locis inueniri.
Inc. capitula librorum i b
Finiunt capitula.
Inc. primus liber Prisciani.
After this six leaves are wanting. The text begins
ut arma armipotens (p. 553 Putsch).
Lib. xv ends f. 150 a
nee lucidus ether sidero POLVS.
Expl. Quindecimus liber Prisciani de octo partibus (in ornate
black capitals).
i. In a minute hand of cent, xii in two columns : a short tract
on Prosody 150 b
(Omn)is qui studio dictandi delectabilem copiam uersificandi
consequi desiderat.
3. In double columns, roughly written (xiii) . . . . 151
Opus hugucionis.
Sapientis est desidie non succumbere.
Ending on 151 b.
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816. HERMOGENES RHETOR.
r R. 9 . i
1 390
Vellum (and paper), 9| x 4^, ff. 6 + 21 + 10, 38 lines to a page.
Cent, xvi, written in France or England : neat. The first page of
text has realistic flowers painted round it.
Given by Willmer. On f. I of text
1579.
Six blank leaves precede the text.
Hermogenis Rhetoricae Synopsis.
He pi ffrdffeuv
irepl ffroxo-fffJ-ov vvvoifsis
CToxaoT-"^ 0Ti dSyXov irpdy/Mros e
Ends 13^
oirov effrl tSios avrijy T(>KOS.
Two blank leaves follow.
ravr6rr)Tt ovofiaruv x/"?o"6/te^o, KO.I r6re iroiKi\ta fftivoifsis . 16
Tain-6r?7Tt /j.ti> 6vop.6.rwv xp^o6fJLeOa 8rav rov ir pay/tares v &VO/M.
Ends f. 21
rbv yap irdvv l<j"xypQ v 5et|at 0\fi.
rAoj rov irepl (j.f66dov dtii>6Tr]Tos.
Five blank leaves.
Then 3 leaves of paper with a list of rhetorical terms, Greek and
Latin, from Hermogenes and Quintilian.
R. 9. 13 not in MS. Catalogue.
817. ( R. 9. H
[ vac. r
Paper, 8f x 6J, ff. 87. Cent. xvii.
A Hebrew Grammar, in English, by a foreign Jew. Unfinished.
Cat. p. 226.
256 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 9.
818. GRAMMATICA GRAECA. MANUELIS Mo- J R. 9. 15
SCHOPULI. \ vac.
Paper, 8| x 5f, ff. 181, 27 lines to a page. Cent, xv, fairly well
written.
Given by ?
Collation : a gone /3 8 (wants i, 3) 7 8 -r 8 (wants 6) ^-/cS 8 /ce ? (i left).
Contents :
Begins imperfectly in the 'Kavbves ap<rtt>iKol.'
as dpfffVLKa f3ap\jTova dre 6v6/j.ara etre /xeroxa! . f. I
The next section, headed with a rude coloured ornament, is
MoOcra iroiov //.^pos \6yov fffrlv wiyanros.
On f. 64 b after the paradigms, a new section begins
apxTj ffbv Oeu rov irpurov <rx^5ow roO Kvplov Mavovr/X . . . 64 b
Kf fv XJE 6 6s THAW 6 dcr7r6pws evdoKriffas Te-x.0fjvai.
Ends f. 181 b in a grammatical exposition of the story of Niobe.
s r6 rfjs d^ivris &\ov y roioi/roi; rt^ds /cot ?re/)a 5ta 5^ TOV.
See on Moschopulus Grammatici Graeciiv. (Hilgard) p. xxxvii.
R. 9. 1 6 not in MS. Catalogue.
f R. o. 17
819. AELFRICI GRAMMATICA ETC.
I 312
xii?
Vellum, 8 x 5|, ff. 129 + 2, three volumes. Cent, xi, xv, xii-
xiii.
Given by ? Nevile.
I. Collation : i 2 || a"-c 8 D 8 E 8 F 8 : 28 lines to a page.
i. ff. i, 2 are of cent, xvi, and very neatly written by a Parkerian
scribe.
They contain the Prefaces in Latin and Anglo-Saxon.
Ego /Elfricus subiiciendus est.
Ic jElfric gerihtan.
The original hand begins on f. 3 in black capitals, rubricated.
Partes orationis sunt octo rehta drelas synd leden sprsece.
Ends f. 44 b
oftre syndon englisce interiectiones.
[Partes orationis finiunt.]
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Followed by another grammatical extract :
Secundum Donatum omnis uox aut articulata est aut confusa.
spaspa }>a quinque uocales 7 |>a six.
i. Catonis Disticha Saxonice : without heading ... 45
Ne beo pu to slaepor ne to idel.
Ends 48 a
scufan 'Sean simle Sone hlaford beforan.
Ac scs agustinus raede spifte sputul bispell.
Ends 48
"Seah he monigne fot haebbe.
Aelfric is printed by Zupitza, Berlin, 1886.
The Cato by Kemble, Miiller, & Nehab.
This volume belonged doubtless to Parker: the quires are
numbered in red pencil.
II. Collation: a 12 b 12 : 40 lines to a page.
Cent, xv, in a rather current, small hand.
An inscription gone at the top of f. I (48*).
1. Philobiblon Ricardi de Bury 48*
Uniuersis Christi fidelibus ad quos tenor presentis scripture
peruenerit Ricardus de Bury miseracione diuina dunelmensis
Ep.
Philobiblon ends f. 65 (35) a
perpetuum fruibilis faciei conspectio. Amen.
Expl. philobiblon d. Ricardi [dunelmensis episcopi] cogno-
minati de Bury quondam episcopi dunelmensis. compilatus
est autem tractatus iste in manerio nostro de aukeland 24*
die Januarij a.d. 1344. etatis nostre 58. precise completo
pontificatus vero nostri vero (sic) anno ii ndo finite ad laudem
dei feliciter.
2. Alanus de planctu Naturae 65 a
Begins
In lacrimas risus in luctus gaudia verto.
Wright, Satirical poets of the xiith Century, II. 429.
Ends imperfectly (71^)
ut in ea velut in speculo ipsius mundi
scripta natura compareat. (Wright, p. 451.)
III. Collation: I 8 2 8 3 10 | 4 10 5 8 -; 8 (wants 7, 8): mostly 27 lines
to a page. Cent, xii, xiii, in a good hand.
At top of f. I (72) in red
fste liber continet litteras romanas.
2 fo. multis uidentibus.
T. C. II. I?
258 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 9.
Epistles of Alexander III.
Alexander (III.) to P. Bp of Paris 72
The last two are
Andrensi Ep. and
S. Ep.
canonicam exerceas ultionem (96 a).
On 96^, 97 (a slip) are notes of cent. xiii.
Further letters of Alexander III.
Alexander papa III 113 Cassinensi Abbati .... 98
Ex litteris tuis ad nos.
The original hand stops with f. 123 Magantitienst Archiep .
One not much later continues
Alexander ep. comitisse Trecensi 124
Ending 129^
Uuigorniensi ep
apostolico se conspectui representent.
On this page is a note (xiii) on the life of the elder Pliny,
quoting
Tranquillus in cathalogo virorum illustrium.
Two fly-leaves follow, one is a printed statute (5 Eliz. 4, 15).
The other household accounts (for towels etc.) of cent. xvi.
820. PALAEPHATUS CUM ALIIS.
Paper, 7| x 6, ff. 244, 32 and 24 lines to a page. Cent, xv, xvi,
neatly written in two hands, one (A) of earlier type than the other
(B), but contemporary in date.
Given by Nevile.
On f. 19. Thomas Bingus. /**} eaimw.
Collation : I 8 2 s (5 cane.) 3 4 (4 cane.) || 4 8 5" 6 4 7" 8 6 (+ 6*) g 7 lo 8 -
I2 8 13* 14" 15" i6 2 1| i; 8 -i9 8 20 4 1| 2i 8 -26 8 27" 28 8 -33 8 34" 35 4 (wants
4 blank).
Contents :
i. In hand A.
K rCjv TOU Ha\ai(f><iTov irepl rwv laropiuv . . . . f. i
TTfpl rov aKTaiuvos.
<&afflt> a.Kraiwva VTTO rijov ISLuv KvvCiv KaTa^puffTJvai.
The hand becomes more sloping and later in type towards
the end.
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Ends f. 86 irepl Ti
i. In hand B.
Moschopulus de dictionibus Atticis (?).
Begins .......... 9
(A)tpu rb vif>> Kal ayu Kal irpofffapu Ka.1 cupavifa.
Ends f. 1 5 b in ffKtvafw.
3. In hand B or later, one leaf beginning ... . . i b
eav Trpoff^xn Tts Ka\\ia, <j>t\OTr6ri)v avT&v tpydfffTai ' iav
Iff/JLT/via, av\r)T-rii> , d\a6i>a eav d\Kifiidori.
i6a ends, rd icap6vTa Trap ovSev ri6tfi.tvovs.
\6b begins. \rjpos T\V drtx^ws Kal fj.vdos ypawv.
Ends
dxr apxys P-^XP 1 TeXeuTijj rovde rov fitov fl iv lir' atirfj ijK(t.
17, 1 8 are blank.
4. Hand A.
[Maximi Planudis.] irpo\ey6/j.eva TTJJ ^roptK^j . . . 19
Trji* pi)TopiKT)v 5ia06pojs rives upiffavro.
Walz ^<?//. Cr. v. 212.
TUJV Trpoyvfj.vafffMTiai' . . . . 21 b
Ilpoyvfji.va.ffiJ.aTd IffTiv a<ncr)ffis.
rov pvffov . . . . . . . 22
Aiar/ TO fji> 6 /uC^os.
26 a ^ ^ ^TTtTayfJs trtpov K. iv TroX^ots.
266 blank.
5. Hand A ........... 27
'AvaffKevrj wv&fjMffTai dirb r&v dvaffxevafo/jifyuv.
Finished by hand B. 38 a. Mo?xos dvaipovpevos TOVTO
dirb TOV ^K^r/ffOfJi^vov <pafflt>.
38 blank.
6. Hand A.
Hpo\eyofj.eva ffTaaeuv . . . . . . . 37
'0 TO TT/S pTjTopiKrjs |3i|3X/ov avvTfTax&s-
Walz V. 223.
Ends 42 a
irepl TOV Trpdy/j.aTos KtXetiovTi iroift TcXelav (?) TT\V irapa-
ypa<prii>.
[Added d Atev d olyov e/3 6v tp 6i/i...
By Griffith.]
On 42 b is a diagram of rhetoric.
7. (<7x6Xta elf 'Eppoye'vovs oraVets) ...... 43
IloXXaJv 6vTb>v \e\t]8ore fJLev diroSiSuyi.
Walz v. 232.
f. 53 supplied by hand B.
Ends f. 8 1 b
Kal tffTi Iv TW KaTa dpiffTOKpaTOVs.
82-85 blank.
8. Hand B.
17 2
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Tlepl \oyoy pafaas' irepi tiriffToXuv irepl ff-rlx^v
IlSera \6yov Idta ex fj.epwv 6KTU fftiyKarai.
This tract occurs in Cat. MSS. Angl. among the Gale MSS.
No. 6020.
Note (xvii). Christianum fuisse constat nee quid amplius.
Nonnullos citat autores quos alibi vix comperies.
Libanius is cited on 97 b.
Ends (iff pi irpooi/j,iov) 97 t>
KOI avvearpafj.ij.evov ' Kal irpbs rovTOts TO ativTO[j.ov.
98-103 blank.
9. Headed (xvii). Sopater in Hermogenem .... 104
Hand A.
2Tpoyyti\ov ax-f}fj.a iarl r65e.
Walz in. 785.
Ends 105 b, 'En-i5t6/>0wcriy ws Zffri rCtv alffxp&v AiaXXov Se
10. Without heading . . . . . . . . . 105 b
(N)6juos K^\fve TTJV 6p<j)OLvr}v fjL^Te rbv ivirpoirciv avrrjs.
Laws are cited and illustrative instances given. The last is
4>iX6(7o<oj fjioixov f{>pii)v eirl rij yvvaiid avvuKifffv afnru rr)v
yvvaiKa Kal Kpiverai Trapavofuas.
ir. Theophrasti characteres ....... io8
*Hdii) fj.lv Kal irpbrepov.
Examined by Professor Jebb, and also by myself for the
Leipzig edition of 1897.
Ends 115^
dia TO tXdrru elvai irepl ras ^e^oSox^as.
12. Epitome Dionysii Halicarnassensis wepl ffvi>0tffe<i>s 6vop.a.Tuv . 116
Awpov rot Kal tyu T^KVOV <f>i\f.
Ends 127^
5i<r7r6i'5eios K rffftrapuv (j.aKpwv olov i)paK\fiST]s.
13. Hand B.
Xe|t/c6^ r&v HpoSbrov X^ewv K yu^poi/s Kara crroix^ov . 128
Among Gale MSS. in Cat. MSS. Angl. No. 5979 is a
Lexicon Herodoti : not now in Class O.
Stein Ed. mai. n. 449.
'Ac AT; ' XPV " 1 !' ava^vpidaf ra f$a6ta K. fiacnXiKa TUV VTTO-
Ends 129^. tyuffav Oai\irovaav.
14. Hand B.
'Eirl Cfj.6pvr) /j-ovuSta apurreidov . . . . . . 130
(3 Zeu rl xp^fw^ioi.
avrois upa TOIS dtvdpevi Qp^veiv.
131 b blank.
15. Diogenes Laertius de vitis Philosophorum .... 132
Without heading. Hand A.
Td rijs <(>i\offo<t>las tpyov hioi <j>affli> dirb papfiapuv &p%ai.
{. 183 is written partly by hand A, partly by B.
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Ends 2400
' fj.6vifj.of K.T.\. fi.(v4ditfi.of oi Kwinol <f>i\6tro<t>oi.
Examined by me for Dr Edgar Martini.
16. On 241 are 3^ lines by hand B or later.
242-244 blank.
821. PHILOSTRATI HEROICA. -(
462
Paper, 8 x 6, ff. 39, 24 lines to a page. Cent, xv, xvi, very
neatly written by a hand very like that which I have called A in
R. 9. 1 8, 19.
Bound in old purple velvet.
Given by Nevile. A slip of a xivth cent. MS. in Italian hand
in the binding.
Collation : i 8 -5 8 (wants 8 blank).
Contents :
4>t\o<rrpdrou ripwiica. ......... f. i
Tet TOV 8ta\6yov irpfouira. &fj.irf\ovpy6s '
<f>olvii; l-fjnropos ' TrpoXoytfa 6 dnire\ovpy6s '
"lur 6 tvos TJ ir60fv.
Ends yja
jrplv rj Ko.1 rovde dKp<xiffaffdai TOV \6yov.
38, 39 are blank.
822. SENECAE QUAEDAM. J
I 394
Vellum, 7| v 5^-, ff. 223, 26 lines to a page. Cent, xii, in a good
hand. The early leaves stained.
Given by Willmer. 2 fo. hoc opus.
Collation : i 8 -28 8 (wants 8 blank).
On the last page is a list of names (cent, xiii)
Succentor.
Ric. offic.
Godefridus de Vfedmore.
Will, lauefcaft.
Rog. de luci.
262 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 9.
Rob. de timbrescumbe.
Gilibertus de ceddre.
Rog. de J'berio.
Rob. de cusintun.
Mag r . Rob. de berke/.
Walt, de la Linde.
Georgius capstrin (?)"'.
Adam de Wedmore.
Ric. de brente persona.
Philipp fretel.
Rog. de Glasting. capellanus.
Stephanus de Bradeford.
Vxor Will 1 de....
puer ipsius et an cilia eiusdem.
Ric. de Athebere.
Mr d ni Ep 1 .
Will, de Emnoberge.
Ric. de templo capellanus de cheddre.
Philipp . . alam.
These names show a close connexion with Glastonbury or
Wells : probably the MS. is from the former.
Contents :
i. Extract from Jerome on Seneca f. i
L. anneus seneca cordubensis.
a nerone interfectus est.
Epitaph of Seneca. Cura labor meritum, etc.
Epistolae Pauli et Senecae i
Seneca p salutem. Credo tibi paule.
End 4 b. Vale seneca karissime.
i. Senece litterarum moralium ad Lucilium libro numero xx . 4 b
End 1840
hoc quidem nobis relinquerunt : nichil scire valete.
On 184^ are some extracts in a different hand (xii, xiii).
Seneca de causis hec ait. Exigis rem magis iocundam etc.
3. Sententiae alphabetically arranged . . . . . . 185
Auida est periculi uirtus.
Vltionis contumeliosum genus est non esse uisum dignum ex
quo petatur ultio.
4. Inc. prouerbia seneche (alphabetical) 188
Alienum est omne quicquid optato euenit.
Ends: Zelari autem hominibus uiciosum est
and a short appendix of longer sentences.
Nulle sunt occultores (!) insidie quam he quae latent in
similitudine officii.
Acceptum beneficium eterne memorie infigendum.
5. Annei. Simplicii Seneche. Liber primus inc. de beneficiis . 1986
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Inter multos ac uarios errores.
Lib. vii ends 1150: perdere et dare.
6. Inc. Senecha de dementia . . . . . . . 215
Scribere de dementia
diutius propositum est.
7. Inc. Senecha de paupertate.
Non ista inquid epicurus res est . . . . 1 19 b
Ends 111 b. Diuicie insollentiam.
111 a blank.
8. A lament of Oedipus in rhyming quatrains, written as prose . 222 b
Diri patris infausta pignora
ante ortus dampnati tempora
quia nostra sic iacent corpora
mea dolent introrsus pectora.
Fessus luctu confectus senio
gressu tremens labente uenio
quam sinistro nectus (natus) sim genio
nullo capi potest ingenio.
Cur flexerunt (fluxerunt) a uiro semina
ex quibus me concepit femina?
infernalis me regni numina
produxerunt in uite lumina.
Si me numquam uidisset oculus
hie in pace uixisset populus
si clausisset hec membra tumulus
hie malorum non esset tumulus (cumulus).
O in quanto dolore senui
hanc animam plus iusto tenui
uiri fortes et nimis strenui
quam infanda uos nocte genui.
Ab antiqua rerum congerie
cum pugnarent rudes materie
fuit moles huius miserie
ordinata fatorum serie.
Cum infelix me pater genuit
tesiphone n (non) illud tenuit
alimenta dum mater prebuit
ferrum mihi parare debuit.
Incestaui matris cubilia
uibrans ferrum per patris ilia ;
quis hominum inter tot milia
perpetrauit umquam similia ?
Turpis fama tebani (erasure germinis)
mundi sonat diffusa terminis
quadrifidi terrarum luminis (/. liminis)
tangit metas uox nostri criminis.
Me infami reum luxuria
infernalis sedauit furia
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si deorum me odit curia
confiteor non est iniuria.
Me oderunt reuera superi
patentibus hoc signis comperi
umbram sontem istius miseri
aborrebunt earn (etiam) inferi.
1. 223 Scelus meum / dat famg pabula
de me sonat per orbem fabula
in patenti locatum specula
referetur crimen per secula.
Solatio leuentur ceteri
consolator me solum preteri
necesse me luctu (deteri ?)
o utinam nil possem fieri.
Nomen meum transcendit gargara
me rodope me norunt ismara
de me sirtis miratur barbara
scelus meum aborrent tartara.
O quam male seruastis filii
constituta[s] uices exilii
caro nitans (sic) ad instar lilii
quid de uobis sumam consilii?
Si pudore carerent aspera
minus esset sors nostra misera
sed pudenda tebarum scelera
mare clamat tellus et sidera.
Quod dolore nondum deficio
ex innato procedit uicio
graui demum pressus exicio
mortis horam iam sicio.
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Parentele oblitus Celebris
in cisterne me clausi latebris
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in merore uexi ac tenebris.
Ibi me digne indulgens domui
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ut gladium li<n>guam exacui
imprecansque uobis non tacui.
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ira complet deorum stabilis
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Collation: a* (ij and t/3 are transposed)-^ K I (wants 10 blank).
The quires are numbered at top of first leaf in Roman letters as well
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Colophon follows.
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are there now.
266 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 9.
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Contents :
i. The page before the text is occupied by a very neat diagram
(musical) on the verso.
Macrobius de sompno Scipionis f . i b
Cum in affricam uenissem
ego somno solutus sum (6).
Comment: Inter platonis et ciceronis libros .... 6
There are very good diagrams in text and margin and on f. 49
a long marginal note.
Text ends f. 74 a
quo uniuersa philosophic continetur integritas.
On 74 b in a smaller hand is a prologue to the treatise of
Macrobius.
Macrobius orinicretes hoc est somniorum iudex
ut ad hec loca beatitudinis que ipse describit demum
possit attingere.
ii. Without heading.
Chalcidius super Timaeum Platonis 75
With interlinear glosses and marginal notes and diagrams.
Inc. Isocrates in exhortacionibus suis uirtutem laudans.
Ends f. 92 b imperfectly
et ex leui ammonitione perspicuo :
3 lines in smaller hand follow
In naturalibus rationabiliter. In diuinis intellectualiter.
In mathematicis disciplinaliter uersari oportet.
In ditono maior numerus continet minorem etc.
The two last leaves are blank.
825. PRISCIANUS.
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Precianus magnus monachorum.
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Contents :
Heading in red and green capitals.
Ivliano comiti ac patricio Priscianus salutem.
Cum omnis eloquentie doctrinam et omne studiorum genus . f. t
Lib. xvi. ends f. 203 b Syderea polus.
Prisciani Cesariensis Gramatici uiri disertissimi Doctoris urbis
Rome constantinopolitane de octo partibus orationis liber sextus
decimus explicit,
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826. CORNELIUS NEPOS.
I 291'
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white branch-work on ground of pink, green, and blue, dotted with
white. A blank medallion in the lower margin.
Binding original with stamped cable-pattern and 4 clasps.
On the fly-leaf :
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Contents :
Title in red capitals.
Emilii Probi de excellentibus exterarum nationum viris liber incipit f. i
Non dubito fore plerosque, Attice, qui hoc genus scripture, leue
in hoc exponemus libro de uita excellentium imperatorum.
Vita Alcibiadis (corrected in margin to Milciadis) Atheniensis incipit
feliciter ^
Milciades Cymonis films.
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The other lives are
Themistocles 8i>
Aristides 16
Pausanias 19
Cymon . . . . . . . . 21 b
Lysander 24
Thrasybulus 35
Conon 37 b
Dion 41
Iphicrates 47
Chabrias .......... 49
Timotheus 51
' Datheumes ' (Datames) 54
Epaminondas 62
Pelopidas 69
Agesilaus 72
Eumenes . . . . . . . 78 b
Phocion 88*
Timoleon .......... 91
Hamilcar 96 b
Hannibal .......... 99
Ends 107 b
quo facilius collatis utrorumque factis qui uiri preferendi sint possit
iudicari.
R. a. 26
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OlO
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On the fly-leaf
Me sibi vendicat Bibliotheca Collegii Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrig. ex dono
d nl Hugonis Petri A.D. 1657.
On f. i
Declamationes tres, prinia Libanii sophistae, relique incerti authoris ab Erasm. Roter.
Latio donatae.
Scriptus est liber manu ipsius interpretis, D. Erasmi Roterodami nempe. Constat
hoc mihi ab Ortelio.
Also the name
Jacobi Colij Orteliani 1598.
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On f. 2 b
Scazon trimeter ad libellum
Auibus secundis vade charteum munus
Exile quamquam te breuis dicat vates
Liceat modo placere presuli docto
Precio lapillos viceris et erythreos.
ff. 3, 4 are of vellum.
f. 3 b has a dedication in red capitals surrounding a coat of
arms; az., three vine-leaves or, behind the shield a crozier or;
motto, aequo animo. Three rats are running upon the dexter edge
of the shield.
Contents :
Reverendo in Christo patri Nicolao Ruterio episcopo Atre-
batensi insignis ac florentissimae Lovanensium Academiae
dignissimo atque ornatissimo cancellario Illussimi (!) archi-
ducis Austriae et cet. Philippi consiliario salutem pi. dicit.
Erasmus Desiderius Canonicus ordinis divi Augustini.
Cum nuper essem declamationes aliquot graecas nactus
praesul amplissime . . . . . . f. 4
ac me meaque studia in tuam clientelam asscribere dignare
Louanii Anno a Christo nato M. D. III. Decimo quinto
calendas Decembres.
i. Declamatio Libanii sophistae sub persona Menelai pro condone
Troianorum Helenam et res repetentis, ni reddant, armis
iniuriam ulturum se denunciantis. Latina facta Erasmo
Desiderio interprete u
Si quidem pius uiri Troiani.
Ends f. 26 a bellum sumus inituri. Dixi.
Finis declamationis Libanii sophistae e Graeco sermone in
Latinum conv(e)rsae Erasmo Desidereo Canonico ord. d.
aur. Aug. qui dicitur interprete a.s. milles. quingentes. tercio
mense novembre.
1. fivas S,v efTrot \6yovs ~M.r]dfia juAXovcra dirofffarreiv roi)s favrijs
TrcuSas ........... 27
Declamatio.
Fuit et mihi mea ars auxilio.
Ends f. 31 b inde cruciatum spectabo finis deo gratias.
3. Quae dixerit Andromache interfecto Hectore. Declamatio . 32
Evenit quod timebam.
Ends f. 34 b qui interemit Hectorem. Finis.
4. MeX^ri; Atfiaviov ffofaffrov ....... 35
Ef fjifv ^/SotfXero dX^a^Spos
iroXefji'fiffOfj.ev trtpuv <iva.yKa.6i>TUi>.
ToD Aifiavlov aoQurrov TT;S
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49 is blank.
5. Quae dixerit Medaea suos mactatura filios. Declamatio . 50
Efyov &pa. Kal avTT) ^orfOia.v.
iKfWev TI\V Xijirrji/ diro0r)ffotJ.ai.
TAos ffvv T(f 6e$.
6. Tit/as av etiroi. \6yovs ' AvSpojj.dx'n avatpfOtyros "E(cropoy . . 54 b
"H/cet STJ 7rp6s ipyov 6 06/3oy.
Ends 56
T$ rbv %KTo
7 blank leaves follow.
Vellum, 7^ x 4|, ff. 92, 22 lines to a page. Cent, xv, written in
Italy in a Roman hand. Partial border on f. I of text with white
branch-work and a blank medallion in the lower margin.
Given by Willmer. On the fly-leaf is the name Wyll mus
Brak(e)nburge several times repeated.
Also a good many verses
i. On Terence. Natus in excelsis tectis cartaginis alte etc.
i. Non potes esse bonus pictor, poles eole, pistor,
Non eris orator magnus, arator eris.
Non fore te medicum speras et non sine causa
Mendicum speres te racione fore.
Quid multis? quid habes? quid non vis, eole, dicam
Nulla in te phronesis multa sed est phrenesis.
3. In Gallam vetulam.
Galla quid extenuas vocem scio vis tibi dicam
Es vetula et credi Galla puella cupis, etc.
On Virgil, etc.
4. Antonius panonnita ad crispum.
Arbor inest medio viridis gratissima campo etc.
Collation: 4 fly-leaves | i 10 -8 10 9" | 2 fly-leaves.
Contents :
i. Marci Tullii Ciceronis de amicitia liber feliciter incipit . f. 5
i. Marci Tullii Ciceronis de senectute liber feliciter incipit . 41 b
3. Marci Tullii Ciceronis de paradoxis liber feliciter incipit . 75
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Ends f. 92 i pauperes existimandi sunt.
In the hand which wrote the verses at the beginning.
Versus, duodecim sapientum scilicet basilii etc.
positi in epitaphium Ciceronis.
(See Riese's Anthol. Lat. vol. ii.)
829 - ,
447
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At top of f. i written by Holyngborne.
Quicquid invenisti et non restituisti Rapuisti.
1. Inc. prologus in libro synonime b. Isidori episcopi . . f. i
In subsequent! hoc libro.
Isidorus lectoris salutem.
Uenit nuper ad manus meas cedula.
Ends f. 27 a tu michi supra vitam meam places.
27 b is blank.
2. In another hand.
In primo capl continetur quod si quis ueram et perpetuam
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Then, definition of 4 kinds of monks,
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Abbas nichil extra preceptum domini doceat etc.
Ends imperfectly f. 20 b
Celerarius eligatur sapiens maturus moribus sobriis non multum
edax non iurgiosus non...
3. Tractatus de contemplacione compilatus de dictis diuersorum
doctorum 31
Primum est videre deum viuere cum deo, esse in deo.
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3. Title gone.
The dramatis personae are: lupiter, luno Pluvida, Auster,
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Dramatis personae : Arterio, Spiritus, Psyche, Chaemius,
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The Psalter ends on f. 153 a.
Cantica, ending with Quicunqtie vult and Litany . . . f. 153
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fidelibus defunctis etc. f. 176^.
The remainder of the book is an addition of the xvth century,
neatly written, containing
1. Litany with many Collects at end: the last . . . 177
Pro pluuia postulanda.
2. In agenda mortuorum (office of the Dead) . . . 186^
Ending 193^ with the rubric orac zones ut sttpra.
The provenance of the book can best be settled by the Litany,
and the style of ornamentation. In the xiiith cent. Litany we
have Martyrs: Gereon. Quintin, George, Blasius ; Confessors:
Eligius, Germanus, Vedastus, Amandus, Bavo, Macharius, Wandre-
gisil, Gudwalus, Ansbertus ; Virgins : Genouefa, Amelberga.
As to the ornament ; each page has a frame of three sides
enclosing the initials of the verses. The right side is open, and
the top and bottom bars of the frame end uniformly in grotesque
heads, alternately vermilion and green. The initials themselves
are in burnished gold. All the historiated initials have been
removed. They included the seven Nocturnes and the 5ist and
loist Psalms.
Both the Litany and the external aspect of the book point to
Flanders as the region where it was produced. And there is a
curious confirmation of this. Ps. Ixxix. (Qui regis Israel) ended
almost at the bottom of a page (f. 71 b). The scribe wanted a
fresh page to begin Ps. Ixxx. upon, because it began a division of
the Psalter and had to have a large pictured initial : so in order to
fill up space at the bottom of f. 71 b he writes the last verse of
Psalm Ixxix. thus
ostende faciem tuam et salui et salui et salui erimus erimus erimus si di en zot zi di
een ries.
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The xvth cent. Litany at the end has some interest. In it we
have Martyrs: Albane ii, Amphibale cum sociis, Oswyne ii, and
the ordinary English martyrs. Among Confessors I need only
note that 'macuthe' is added in the margin and Benedict has a
double invocation.
The provenance is indicated by the Martyrs' names. It must
be either St Albans, which is most probable, or else Tynemouth
(where St Oswin lay) which was a cell to St Albans.
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Terence, printed by Rob. Stephanus, Paris 1551, interleaved,
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In Cantabrigia a. xxix d' Agosto 1613.
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850. R. 10. 7
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A fair copy of the last, in seven Ragionamenti. The English
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A miscellaneous mass of papers and fragments from the collec-
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Notes on Thucydides, Xenophon, and Polybius (subject-matter) in English. Cent,
xvi, xvii.
Then follows a mass of imperfect Latin and Italian papers, no
doubt from Puckering, containing Latin speeches, declamations,
and fragments of Relationi in Italian.
English papers, fragmentary, then follow, including a quire of
Addenda Animadversionibus ultimo excusis Oxoniae impensis
Richardi Davis. These are notes on the New Testament.
Also a list of Books given to Trinity College Library by
Dr Bosanquet.
The last item is from Beaupre Bell 1740, viz.:
A copy of a Latin process of 1634 relating to four villages
Alze, Neustadt, Germersheim and Oppenheim, given to Elizabeth
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852. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS.
I ? 673
In a pocket in the cover are three parchment documents
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two to accredit Marc Antonio Correr as Ambassador in Ordinary,
and one on behalf of Francesco Contarini, Ambassador Extra-
ordinary.
Fragmentary Italian papers, including the beginning of a
version of Xenophon's (Economicus, a list of corrections of a
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Two leaves containing a dialogue between a Divine and a Rustic.
A paper on Consonants.
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Title pages to MS. volumes.
Fragmentary Political Discourses.
Rough copy of Beaupre" Bell's version of The Osiers of
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The rest of the volume is a mass of notes in a curious hand
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853. R. 10. 10
A volume of papers of various sizes, containing
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sculpture.
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856. R. 10. 13
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Mostly from Puckering.
i. A la Royne despaigne, Madame Elizabeth de France, faict
ce neufuiesme Jour de Januier 1609.
A Venise.
Madame.
Sy la maladye qui me surprint a mon retour du Camp etc.
It is a French tract on the pronunciation of Castilian.
i. A fragment of four leaves in French paged 76-82, apparently
legal.
pp. 1-75 occur after the next item. The beginning is torn.
3. Two sermons in English on the Commandments by Dr
Barrow (?). The 2nd is marked "Already printed."
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4. Fragment in Italian of
Account of the recall of Girolamo Legipotnani (?) from
Constantinople.
Life of Assan Bassa, Capitan del Mare.
5. Fragment. Italian, mutilated at each end.
6. Address to Marta Ofselta and Maria Amadini. Italian.
7. Italian version of Lucian's Dialogue Charon,
8. Part of a commonplace book in Law French.
9. Part of an Index in English.
10. Devices (Imprese) for Prince Henry (i leaf),
n. Description of a Poculum Magicum given by Dudley North"
to the College 27 Nov. 1680; and of a gold coin of Helena
given by the same 5 Feb. 1681 (i leaf).
12. Note of some 'secrets' in Italian (2 leaves).
Endorsed : Per lo virtuoso et ufficioso giove il S r Stefano
Collosini.
A story and a letter. Italian (2 ff.).
Another story (Ital. i ff.).
Account of the discovery of Gunpowder Plot (Ital. 4 ff.).
Depositions of Guy Fawkes (Ital. i f.).
858. R. 10.
A notice for payment of arrears of Rent on Pailton in Monks
Kirby (Warw.), signed by Isaac Barrow, Master, and eight Senior
Fellows of the College, 20 Nov. 1673. Together with an engraved
portrait of Barrow by Bornigeroth after Loggan.
Given by Chr. Wordsworth, Master, in 1841.
859. , 675
I. Fragmentary Italian Papers.
i. Libretto raro della mercatantia Pretesca.
Italian version from French by D'Aliseo Lingalteschi 1614.
i. Pezzi d'Historia : beginning gone.
3. Libro della Fede.
4. Sonnets and other Verses.
5. Prose Fragments.
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II. Barrow on Pss. i, xv, xxiv.
Sentences and phrases collected out of Greek Authors.
Exposition of the Lord's Prayer.
Part of a French Grammar.
Notes on some of the Fathers.
A tract on Political matters unsigned and unaddressed (xvi).
Anagram etc. in verse. John Machell.
A Catechetical discourse on the Sacraments = no. 675 Cat. MSS. Angl.
III. Italian Papers.
A great deal of verse and some prose Receipts and fragmentary Political
Papers.
On the Usurpations of the Pope over the King. Caffeteau. Paris 1612.
A Latin theme.
860. R. 10. 1 6
Paper, 8f x 6\.
i. Tillotson's Autograph Preface to the first volume of Barrow's collected
Works, 1683.
i. Barrow's Greek Sentences from Plutarch's Lives.
3. Italian poetry, fragmentary.
4. Barrow on the Pope's Infallibility.
5. Barrow's Lectures on the Creed.
6. Sentences out of Cicero's Epistles (Barrow).
7. Early draft of Barrow on the Pope's Supremacy.
Note on this by Fr. Martin 1850, 7 Dec.
861-76. '
32
Sermons by Barrow. Autograph. Sixteen volumes.
R. 10. 24. Also contains Papers on Optics and
On the Pope's supremacy.
R. 10. 26. Notes on Demosthenes.
R. 10. 27. Sentences out of Demosthenes.
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R. 10. 28. Is written in an extraordinarily tall narrow hand,
each letter formed separately.
It contains 4 sermons, preached in 1676.
On Mt. xxiv. 46.
xxii. 37. (Works, i. 615.)
I Cor. x. 12.
Mark x. 32.
R. 10. 29. Contains notes by Barrow of sermons heard by him
when an Undergraduate.
R. 10. 30, 31. Contain Sermons of slightly later date.
These three volumes were purchased by the College
in i844(?).
Letters respecting them are bound into the volume.
R. 10. 32.
R. 10. 32. A Catalogue of the volumes in the shelf.
R. 13-
The only two non-oriental MSS. in the shelf are
877. R. 13- 74
Paper, 4| x 2|, pp. 97 written, about as many more blank.
A MS. of Religious reflections and personal notes by Lady
Anne Sadleir, found at Utkinton Hall, Cheshire, in Mr John
Arden's Library.
878. R. 13- 75
Paper, 5^ x 2|, ff. cir. 100 written.
Considerations and Reflections uppon the Principall Obliga-
tions of a Christian drawn from the Holy Scripture, Councills and
Fathers. By Mr Mathew Feydeau, Doctor of Sorbone. Englished
by T. V. Anno D ni 1668. Coppied by W. B. begun ye 1 1 of
Sep. 73.
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Vellum and paper, nf x 8f, ff. 208, double columns of 51 lines.
Cent, xv, in a small fine hand.
Given by J. Dryden in 1663. At the end is the name
Jonathan Dryden 1652.
Collation : I 10 (wants i) outer and middle sheets vellum, the rest
paper)- 1 o 10 (wants i) ii 10 -2i 10 .
Contents :
1. The Distinctiones of Januensis (?) . . . . . . f. i
Alphabetically arranged : the table shews that they ran from
Abissus to Zelus.
The text begins imperfectly in the end of Accidia (art. 5).
Ends f. 204 b
quern zelum nobis concedat Ihesus Christus dei filius
etenim. Amen.
Table .......... . 205
2. Sequitur remedium contra temptaciones spirituales et contra
cogitaciones fantasticas et immundas ..... 206 b
Quia ut dicit apostolus sine fide impossibile est.
Ends 208 (207) b : et de omnibus hiis liberabit eos dominus
quod ipse prestare dignetur qui est in secula benedictus. Amen.
Various late scribbles follow.
880. LEONIS TACTICA LATINE.
I 490
Paper, 11x7, ff. 124, 31 lines to a page. Cent, xvi, well
written. In Sir John Cheke's autograph ?
A slip of a handsome xiiith cent. MS. of the Digest is in the
binding.
Contents :
i. Illustrissimo ac potentissimo Regi Henrico Octauo,
Angliae franciae Hyberniaeque Regi, Fidei Defensori,
ac secundum Christum Ecclesiae Anglicanae
et Hybernicae supremo capiti.
Cum omnia mine bello ardeant.
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Cantabrigiae quinto Aprilis.
Maiestatis tuae Scholasticus et assiduus Precator Joannes
Checus.
7. Preface headed: I.eo Pacificus in Christo Imperator Fidelis
Pius Semper Augustus Caesar f. 2
3. Tabula capitum ......... 6
4. Text. De re militari et imperatore. Cap. i 7
Res militaris est scientia bellicorum motuum.
5. Ends with Argitmentnm libri in Epilogo : ending et in omnibus
Authori salutes pro hiis quae maxime salutaria sunt
supplicare.
Not in MS. Catalogue. R. 14. 3, 4.
881. WORKS BY T. CHAUNDLER.
I 265
Vellum, io x 8, ff. 2 + 67+1, 36 lines to a page. Cent, xv
(1457-61), in a fine Italianizing hand.
Given by Nevile.
From Wells Cathedral, where Leland saw it: see his Collectanea
ed. 1770, iv. 156 where he enumerates the first three items in this
book. In the Commentarii de Scriptt. Britt. s.v. Chaundlerus (whom
he calls John) he says : " Extant archetypi ipsi in Fontanensi
bibliotheca, serico villoso vestiti, auro et minio pulcherrime picti."
Another of Chaundler's pictured MSS. is at New College Oxford
(no. 288). There are also works of his in MS. Titus A. xxiv. He
was warden of Winchester College in 1450, of New College in
1453, Chancellor of Wells 1454, of Oxford 1457-61, of York 1467.
On f. i b is
Ex dono Reuerendi in christo patris d. Thome de Bekyntona Bathon. et Wellen.
Episcopi et labore Mag ri Thome Chaundeler huius ecclesie Cancellarii. Oretis pro
animabus utriusque.
Collation : a 8 (2-7 cut out) || I 8 ~9 8 (4-8 gone) | 6 (one).
Table of contents in red :
Continentur in hoc libro Primo
Ymagines historialiter figurate pandentes ordinem processumque
Apologetici libri de omni statu humane nature docentis.
Item prefatus apologeticus liber in quatuor actus diuisus a Magistro
Thoma Cancellario Wellensis Ecclesie compilatus.
286 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 14.
Item libellus de laudibus duarum ciuitatum et sedium per supra-
dictum Cancellarium Wellensem collectus.
Item eiusdem Epistole quatuor laudes optimi ac beneficentissimi
domini sui loquentes.
Item libellus metricus poetice compilatus de ludicio soils in
conuiuiis saturni cuius libelli autor ignotus existit.
A series of full-page pictures of most delicate stippled work.
Green, white, and blue, and occasionally a pale red, are the
colours employed. Each is in a dull red frame. The execution is
of the highest order. Each has an inscription below it. The
pictures belong to the first of the tracts contained in the volume.
1. Actus Primus. The Fall of the Angels. In C. on a throne under an arrased
canopy, with curtains knotted up into round balls, sits the Father, an aged figure, in cope
and imperial crown. On L. stand the obedient Angels (13 in number), some six-winged,
some two-winged, adoring.
On R. the rebel angels fall, changing as they go into demons : the foremost plunges
into the earth.
On L. in front lies Man, nude, looking up.
2. In C. Man throned in ermined robe and diadem. God on L. puts sceptre and
orb into his hands. On R. in front is Sensualitas, a lady holding an apple. On L.
Ratio, a crowned lady holding a mirror, and attended by two angels.
3. Man throned, he takes the apple from Sensuality and breaks his sceptre
(Original Righteousness) over the face of Reason, who holds the mirror up to him. The
angels still attend her. The orb is dropped on to the step of the throne.
4. Man, whose robe has fallen off, sits nude on a settle. Sensuality on R. seated by
him. He holds the mirror. Reason, wounded and alone, turns her back on him.
5. Man nude fleeing through a wilderness : again on R. he is seen hiding behind a
bare thorn bush.
6. Aclus secundus. God stands in a landscape. On Z. Reason kneels and points to
her wounds. On R. Man summoned by God, creeps from behind the tree.
7. God gives to Man, clad in a skin robe, a wooden spade shod with iron and a
scourge.
8. Actus tercius. In a room God throned : four steps lead up to the canopied
throne : before them is a wooden bar, at which stand Reason and her advocates, Truth
and Justice, then Man with spade and scourge, and his advocates, Mercy and Peace.
9. God descends from his throne and embraces Man. Mercy and Peace, Truth and
Justice, also embrace.
10. In a landscape God in imperial crown, but clad in a skin tunic like that of
man, stands by Man and introduces him to four men on L. the Four Virtues. A
Warrior in plate armour (Fortitude), a man with balance (Justice), one in a hat
(Prudence) and one holding a small scroll (Temperance).
1 1. Actus qttartus. In a vestibule Man's house Man (aged) is sitting holding his
scourge and spade. About him stand the Four Virtues, the mailed man being at the
door on R. A toothless old man (Fear of Death) kneels and holds out a letter to Man.
12. The same scene. Charity, a kneeling angel, is introduced to man by Prudence:
and Fortitude pushes Fear of Death out of the door.
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13. A similar scene. Man seated in the Centre. The Four Virtues behind him. In
front on L. Death, a nude bony corpse, pierces his side with a lance. On R. Charity
stands holding a crown.
14. A similar scene. Man, young once more, is throned. Fortitude crowns him,
Prudence gives him the orb, Justice the sceptre, and Temperance puts the robe about his
shoulders.
A blank page follows.
On the verso:
15. In a room with arrased or painted walls and tiled pavement sits Bp Bekynton in
a chair with arrased canopy. By him is a crozier-bearer who holds a portifory in his
hand by the circuit edge of the binding. Before the Bp kneels Chaundler in a gown and
hood, giving him a book with clasps and a 'bag-binding.' The Bp wears a tippet or
cappa, and his mitre is above his head, seemingly not touching it.
This picture has often been reproduced : last in Williams's
Somersetshire Libraries.
Below is the dedication.
Humilis Thomas C. alme Uniuersitatis Oxonie et Ecclesie
Cathedralis Wellen. Cancellarius ad insignem dom. et litera-
tissimum presulem D. Thomam de Bekintona Wellen. et Ba-
thon. Pontificem seipsum cum presenti opuscule et sua omnia.
i. Liber apologeticus de omni statu humane nature docens.
Argumentum .......... f. 9
Audebo ne tue magnanimitati exiguum opus hoc et pene
abortiuum.
Actus primus . io/'
Magna equidem cordi res est.
The book is in dramatic form, but in prose throughout.
It ends on f. 34.
Ad insignem dominum etc. etc. (as before) liber expl. de omni
statu humane nature docens.
i. Ad literatissimum etc. Thomam de Bekintona Well, et Bath.
Ep. in futuras laudes duarum ciuitatum et sedium suarum
Argumentum incipit 34
Scio nonnullos reuerendissime pater clare satis intelligere.
Inc. libellus de laudibus duarum ciuitatum etc. et primo
Andreas de fontibus domino Episcopo suo (licit . . 34 b
It is a contention between St Andrew for Wells and St Peter
for Bath, with Daniel as judge.
Ends f. 44
osculo signate in eternumque inuicem diligite et uiuite.
Amen.
Ffinit sentencia.
Ad insignem etc libellus feliciter explicit Et uiuet in euum ut
sapiens ludex decreuit Wellensis Ep us . Amen.
3. Four letters of Thomas Chaundeler to Bekyngton . . 44 b
i. Solent qui amicitias
from Winchester College.
288 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 14.
i. Multa iacent animo.
Ibid. 5 January.
3. Si dici potest optarem dicere.
From Oxford.
4. Amicicie beneficiorum.
Ibid. 4 Kal. Jan.
Ends f. 47 b. See Bekyntoifs Correspondence, Rolls Series, I. 264 76.
4. Libellus metricus poetice compilatus de ludicio solis in conuiuiis
saturni super mortalitate hominum que per orbem terrarum
diffusa est et de remediis contra illam. Sequitur prologus . 48
Postquam materias plures in mente reuolui.
Prologue ends.
Et ne deficiam super hiis que pandere tendo,
Auxilium mihi det qui regnat trinus et unus. Amen.
Text 50
Atria saturni firmis fundata columpnis
Auster habet longo qui nobis limite dictat.
The occasion of the poem is the Black Death of 1348, as is seen
in a rubric on f. 52 b.
Hie describitur primum minutum primi gradus arietis et
introitus solis in eundem gradum A.D. M. CCC. XLVin . etc.
Ends f. 65^
Scribere nee potui labor explicit annue christe
Amodo ne talem patiantur secula cladem. Amen.
Expl. libellus etc. de remediis contra illam cuius autoris
nomen ignore.
Two blank leaves, and one fly-leaf follow.
See also the introduction to Bekyntoris Correspondence, Rolls
Series, I. p. xlix, by the Revd G. Williams.
882. BOETHIUS ITALICE. '
JR.
1.651
Paper, io| x /|, ff. 125, 21 lines of text to a page: broad
margins with comment. Cent, xv, well written.
From Puckering.
Collation : i* 4 (wants 24) 2 24 3 18 4' 5" 6 22 f (wants 6-8).
Contents :
i. Prologo del uolgaricatione sopral libro di Boecio della
phylosophica consolacione . . . . . . . f. i
Hie adinuenit omnem uiam discipline
cosi come in questaltra faccia appare (4 b).
Qui comincia illibro primo domnicio mattio torquato seuerino
Boecio exconsolo: ordinario patricio della phylosophyca
consolacione reducto in uolgare nelqual sinduce Boecio
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diconsolaciott*? bisognoso lamentante et la phylosophya in-
quirente la cagione et consolante 8
I die composi gia uersi et cantai.
Chiose sopra illibro di boe^io di consolacione.
Annicio anticamente i nobili di roma aueano molti nomi.
Ends f. 1 24 a A glochi del iudice che tutto dicerne. Amen.
On the lower margin of 123^ and on 124^ is a poem in seven
line stanzas, written later in cent, xv, beginning
Jo amoi senpre et amo forte ancora.
Vellum, loj x 6f, ff. 4 + 216, several volumes in various hands.
Cent, xiii-xiv early.
Given by Willmer.
From the Cathedral Priory of Norwich. On the second fly-leaf
is the class-mark I ix and on the first leaf of the text is
I. ix. Galfridi de Wroxham monachi:
agreeing in form exactly with the numerous Norwich marks in
MSS. in the University Library. The ascription of any part of
the volume to Galfrid de Wroxham (or Broxholme) as author is a
mistake.
Collation : four fly-leaves : another leaf sewed on to the 4th 1.
I i2_ l8 i 2>
In the beginning is a letter from C. H. Cooper to the Revd
John Glover, Cambridge 5 Oct. 1860.
"It may interest you to know that I have succeeded in tracing
some few particulars respecting George Willmer. He was in the
high commission a justice of the peace for Middlesex, and dying
1626 was buried at Westham in Essex."
Contents :
Attached to the fourth fly-leaf is a rather smaller leaf in a
hand of cent, xiii: evidently belonging to the Chronicle at
the end of the volume.
Puis de la desconfiture a dunbarre. Puis coment li roys ont
pris tuz les cheuentains de eskoce et puis par sa curteysie les
deliura.
T. C. II. 19
290 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [R. 14.
Ending. Puis cement le cunte clatheles fust pris et semi de
memes de iugement sauue kil nestoyt mie traynee pur ceo
kil clama estre du parente le roy.
In a hand of cent. xvi.
In y e end off y 8 pamphilett ys a certen Cronicle looke wher y cr
ys a threed fastened vppon a leaffe /ther y" begynweth ante
cronicam sunt 32 mirabilia anglie.
I. In double columns of 48 lines with a border of beautiful pen-
ornament.
Ci comence le prologe de la compilacion de set morteus
pecches. Si ad treis parografs f. i
Vidi bestiain de mari ascendenteni habentem septem capita.
A ses trechers freres et sueres en Ihesu Crist e a tous i ecus e
celis ki lirrunt cest escrit v deuotement e de bon quer de
autre lire lorunt saluz.
guerreie mouz degenz e clers e lais ensemblement.
E ceo vous dirrai ci au comencement.
Isci comence le primer chapitre de la compilesoun des set
morteus pecchez etc i b
Fili mi peccasti ne adicias iterum, etc.
Pour ceo ke suel pecche en gecta angele hors du eel.
The treatment of the seven sins is followed by
de generaus medecines . . . . . . . 28 b
Ending 35 a
De ceo nous en gard ki en la pure virgine sil ensbra.
Amen.
Isci comence li prologos de la compileison de seinte penance ki
parent de penance e de confession si ad deus perografs . 35 a
Canfitemini domino quoniatn bonus etc.
A se's chers freres e soers en ihesu crist serfs e anceles etc.
e en la autre uie sa glorie ou sa beneicon. Amen.
Isci comence li primer chapitre de la primere partie de la
compileison de seinte penance etc 35
Ccpit Ihesus predicare et dicere penitenciam aggite.
Si com dit seint augustin.
Part ix (of purgatory) ends 1 1 1 b.
E nous doint la ioie du ciel quant nous serrons finez.
Amen.
Isci comence le prologo de la compileison des dis com-
mandemenz si ad treis parografs.
Hie est liber inandatoritm dei etc.
Ends 1 20 b ke nus regnum oue lui en la uie pardurable. Amen.
Isci comence li prologe de la uie de gent de religion . . \iob
Recti diligunt te. A ses duz chers freres e suers etc.
Ends f. ij6/' with a Contemplacioun deuaiit complie.
e sua en tel maneres ke les guttes de sang deguterent de
sa beneite face deske en terre.
Evidently unfinished.
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Isci comencent les merueilies de engletere
Primum est chedirhole. Secundum Rolondrich.
Tertium Albus equus cum pullo suo.
Ending 157^
Tricesimum secundum est lapis octo miliarium a mari in quo
est foramen in sublimi tolle quod mare crescente impletur
aqua decrescente aqua non comparet.
Here begynnith a cronicle boke (xvi).
Isci comence le liuere de reis de Brut 158
Deuant la natiuite de nostre seignwr mil deus cenz ans Brutus
le fiz siluii ou ynogen sa femme.
Ends 1 98 a E a treis semeines apres la pasche si prist le roy la
vile deberewyk par mer e par tere mes de ver la mier i auoit
granz genz morz e iloec fu troue grant auer e granz biens e
li roy en chasa par force les escoz ver les wastins.
All after 1980! is blank.
Hardy, Materials, III. p. 251, says of this Chronicle:
This contains a brief abridgment of Geoffrey of Monmouth to Cassibelaunus. The
account of the Heptarchy with the succession of Kings to the year 1121 is taken from
William of Malmesbury. The portion relating to the Dukes of Normandy is compiled
from Henry of Huntingdon, Ailred of Rievaulx, and Ralph Niger. From 1121 to 1135
it is from Henry of Huntingdon: from 1135 to 1198 is from Ralph de Diceto and Ralph
Niger and his continuator: from 1198 to 1200 is from Roger Hoveden; from 1200 to
1297 is taken from the same source as that followed by Trivet. The substance of the
remainder, or rather, the titles of chapters to the capture of the Earl of Athol, is nearly
as in Langtoft.
R. 14. 8. Not in MS. Catalogue.
884.
273
Vellum, io x 7, ff. 106. Six volumes. Cent, xii-xv.
Given by Nevile. Most likely from Horsham St Faith's.
Collation : I. a 4 b 8 II. C 8 III. D 12 E 10 F 10 G 12 IV. H" (wants 1,12)
I 12 (wants 10-12) V. K 6 VI. L 12 M 8 (5-8 cane.) N 4 ?
Contents :
I. i. A chronology of Cent. xii. Hardy, ill. p. 34.
The first leaf is text, the rest in tabular form.
Prima etas. In exordio sui continet creationem mundi . f. I
Ends with the date of the Passion :
in primo mensium die uigesima tercia mensis * sexta
sabbati hora sexta Luna xiii. Anni ab incarna-
tione Domini.
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r. Annis quingentis decies itemque (?) ducentis
Vnus defuerat cum deus ortus erat ... 2
In double columns. Entries rather sparse throughout.
It goes down to 1241, but the original hand ends 1196,
as I think.
The entries shew special interest in Norwich, Ramsey
and Horsham St Faith's.
990. Dedicatio ecclesie S. Trinitatis.
1040. Ob. Apelwinus (sic] Dux Fundator ramesiensis
ecclesie.
1051. Inuentio S. Yuonis Archiep. sociorumque eius.
1058. Facta est donatio S. Gabrielis.
1093. Hie suscepit Herbertus Ep. pontif. ecclesie
Norwic.
1096. Fundamenta S. Trinitatis Norwic. ecclesie posita
sunt.
1 105. Walterus (i.e. Robert Fitzwalter) cum uxore sua
Sibilla iuit Romam. et fundauit ecclesiam
beate Fidis (i.e. Horsham Priory).
1119. Ob. Herbertus ep. Norwic.
1133. Ob. Auelina.
1138. Ob. Rodbertus fundator ecclesie S. Fidis de
horsaham.
1145. Eb(r)ardus ep. a Norwico Fontenentem recessit-
et ibidem uitam finiuit.
1147. Willelmus ep. Norwic. factus est. Ob. Johannes
Vicecomes.
Ob. Sauericus prior 1 successit Isarnus (?).
1 1 72. Hoc anno combusta est eccl. Norwic. v to id. Junii.
Ob. Henricus 1 prior cui successit Tancredus.
1174. W. Ep. Norwic. Will 8 de caneto. Ecclesia b.
Fidis combusta est v. kal. Mai.
1188. Ob. Hugo de creissi Villa Norwic. combusta est
ix Kal. Ap.
1191. (later) Transitus b. Gileberti de Sempringham.
1 200. (same hand) Ob. Hugo Lincoln. Ep. cui successit
Willelmus.
The last entry is
1209. iii kal. Non factus est tcrremotus per angliam.
f. 10 b blank.
2. A sermon cent, xii n
Fasciculus mirre dilectus meus mihi etc.
Verba sunt ecclesie de commendatione sponsi.
Ends 1 2 b in secula seculorum laudabit te.
II. Cent, xiv, xv, double columns of 56 lines, pale ink.
i. Daretis frigii entellii hysteria de uastacione troie
1 There seem to have been Priors of Horsham.
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incipit a cornelio nepote salustii : de greco in latinum
sermonem translata inc. prologus. Cornelius nepos
salustio crispo suo salutem 13
Dum volumina multa legerem
ad pollicitum reuertamur.
Peleas rex fuit in peloponneso opido.
Ends f. 18^ dares frigius mandauit litteris etc.
Expl. bellum troie.
1. In a later current hand i8
Sanctissimo in christo patri domino B(onifacio) diuina
prouidencia Sancte Romane et uniuersalis ecclesie
summo pontifici Edwardus d. g. Rex Anglic.
vcstris si placet paternis affectibus commendanda (iob).
Hardy in. p. 274: printed in the Concilia under the
year 1294. It concerns the Scotch question. (Har-
duin's Concilia vii. 1176.)
The name Alexander Stapyll (xv) is at the bottom.
III. Single lines, 54 to a page. Cent, xiv, neat.
j. Inc. mithologie Alexandri Nequam et alio nomine
Sintillarium appellatus 21
Fuit vir in egipto ditissimus nomine Sirophanes.
Liber II 25
Ends 37 b. pro inde pingitur semi-homo semi-equ(u)s.
Expl. Methologie Alexandri nequam. Amen.
This is otherwise called the Mythologia of Albericus or
Albricius.
2. Allexander Nequam super Marcianum de nupciis
Mercurii et philologie 38
Marciani minei felicis capelle de nupciis philologie et
mercurii fabula incipit. Titulus iste demonstrat quis
sit auctor huius operis.
Ends f. 63 a habens dectonim q.d. scis quid scriptum et
quid scribendum sit.
Expl. Allex. Nequam super Marcianum de nupciis
Mercurii et Philologie.
63 b is blank.
IV. Cent, xiv, on bad vellum, 64 lines to a page.
i. Begins imperfectly.
...adorabant ad tan tarn indignacionem prouocabant
dominum quod usque in hodiernum diem exilio
perpetuo condempnate etc.
It is a tract on the Crusades.
us?
C. 3. qualiter arabum homar discipulo Machometi
occupata est terra sancta.
C. 4. De Machometo.
Ends in C. 47 de obsidione Cayri Alexandrie Damiatte.
tam galearum quam aliarum nauium classe Damiatam
ciuitatem egipti (7
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A gap follows here up to C. Ixxxvi, which begins
imperfectly (on the dragon) 74
impellendo. Est autem cristatus ore paruo et tristis (!)
arteriarum fistulis quibus spiritum attrahit.
C. Ixxxvii de auibus.
Sunt preterea in partibus orientis aues mirabiles qui
nunquam alibi reperiuntur.
Ends with C. Ixxxxviij. De hiis qui acciderunt post
captionem acho et post recessum Regis francie et
Regis anglie usque aduentum Regis Jerosoh'wtf.
auxilium inuocabant a deo et sancta domina ecclesia
de die in diem expectantes.
Expl. liber de mirabilibus mundi.
V. Cent, xii, 42 lines to a page, in a good pointed hand.
A fragment of a collection of papal rescripts . . 82
Begins imperfectly
indulgentiam sedis apostolice decimas exigere et extor-
quere presumunt.
The next is headed :
Infra septa monasterii nullus uiolentiam inferat quodsi
fecerit excommunicetur.
All are addressed to English Bishops.
The last is
Wigorn. episcopo.
Ueniens ad apostolice sedis clementiam M. W. de
flamenuilla sua nobis insinuatione monstrauit.
(Refusal of the monks of Worcester to pay tithe on
property in the parish of S. Mary de Marton.)
Ends imperfectly
sepedictos monachos tertiam partem ecclesie iam dicte.
See the Appendix to the Lateran Council xlvi. 3-
xlviii. i.
VI. A Bestiary 89
Cent, xiii, double columns of 45 lines. In a fine hand,
illustrated with many small square and oblong minia-
tures in gold frames of the most admirable finish. The
grounds of the miniatures are either dark blue, or pale
red, or brown red, with dotted and diapered patterns.
The work is English.
The text begins
Et enim iacob benedicens filium suum iudam ait catulus
leonis est iudas filius meus.
It ends imperfectly in the section on the Frog.
Rane a garulitate eo quod circa genitales [strepunt
paludes etc.]. This is added in a neat xvith cent,
hand ending
lacertorum ut lubigo et hoc similia.
Expl. liber Bestiarum.
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The Pictures are as follows
i. Initial E with two dragons.
i. In 3 tiers, a. hunter following lion with spear towards a mountain.
6. lion sleeping with open eyes.
c. lion roaring over cubs.
3. In i tiers a. hunter spearing antelope whose head is hid in reeds.
b. antelope stands drinking from a river (Euphrates).
4. Ship with two sailors, a strange winged beast in the sea flapping its wings.
5. Two white birds (charadrii) on a sick man's bed, one looks at him, one not.
6. In 2 tiers, a. Pelican killing its young in the nest.
b. Reviving them with its blood.
7. Nycticorax, a black bird.
8. Below, an eagle diving into the sea. Above an eagle flying.
9. Phoenix on a flaming pyre.
10. Hoopoes picking the old feathers out of their parents' wings.
1 1 . Ants (red) and corn (green).
11. Two sailors in a ship falling asleep. A siren with harp in the water on A'.
13. Ibex falling headlong from a cliff upon the points of its horns.
14. Hedgehogs: one in an apple tree, the other on its back below (collecting
apples on its prickles).
15. Vulture with human leg in its beak.
1 6. Fox lying on its back with open mouth, birds settling on it: one with its head
in the fox's mouth.
17. Unicorn with its head in a maiden's lap, speared by a hunter.
1 8. Hunter with horn and two dogs pursues two white beavers.
19. Hyena (greenish brown) devouring a shrouded corpse in a sarcophagus.
20. Hydrus (long blue beast) eating its way through the body of a hairy crocodile.
21. Wild goat on a cliff; a traveller with hat and bundle looks at it. (It can
discern a traveller from a hunter at once.)
22. An ass.
23. Caprea. White with long horns.
24. Onager mutilating its young.
25. Ape carrying off two young, one in its arm, one on its back. Man with horn
and sword follows.
26. Fzilica, a white bird sitting on foliage.
27. The panther, a fat white beast with stripes. A group of animals on each side
gaze at it (attracted by its smell).
28. Dragon, fine with long curly neck : winged and two-legged.
29. Aspidochelon, a blue whale in water.
30. Partridge : a young one on its back : others follow it to L.
31. Weasel, a young one coming out of its ear.
32. Deaf adder (dragon) : one ear against a hill, tail in the other : a man with staff
pointing down at it.
33. Grey blue unicorn.
34. Ostrich looking up at the sun and leaving her eggs.
35. Three trees with turtle-cloves upon them.
36. Stag eating a blue snake.
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37. Salamander (lizard) in a tree: a man below eating an apple falls dead.
38. Four pairs of doves, blue and white.
39. Doves in a tree on fi. Two others on L. fly down into a dragon's mouth.
40. A wingless two-legged dragon: blue and red.
41. Two elephants: both have pinkish heads: the body of one is light scarlet, of
the other buff.
42. Two mandrakes, green shaggy men with leafy hands and feet, growing head
downwards.
43. Shepherd watching 4 sheep.
44. On L. white tiger looking at a round silver mirror. Hunter on horse on A",
with a cub in his bosom.
45. Leopard (heraldic).
46. Lynx: urine turned to stone.
47. Griffin with red wings.
48. Bonnacon with bull's head and horns curling in. Hunter with spear on R.
49. Satyr with toed feet, and large ears.
50. Black bear licking its young.
51. Leucrota, with large teeth and hoofs.
prick-eared
52. Crocodile, a brown horned lizard, four-legged.
53. Manticora: the head not human.
54. Parandius, a scarlet stag.
55. Eale, pink with long horns.
56. Wolf on L. biting his paw (in anger because he has trod on a stick), on R. a
fold with cattle in it and a dog in the door.
57. Four dogs of different kinds.
58. A king on L. with sword. Three dogs attack three men on R. (A
Garamantian king rescued by his hounds.)
59. A murdered man with throat cut, a dog fawns upon him. On R. the dog flies
at the throat of a man with a club (the murderer).
60. A man in peaked hat sitting on a throne. A group of beasts before him,
wl.om he names.
61. Brown sheep with long horns.
62. A blue ram.
63. A white lamb.
64. A blue he-goat.
65. A boar.
66. A bull (hornless).
67. A red ox.
68. A camel with two humps.
69. A dromedary (blue) with none.
70. A blue horse.
71. A cat.
72. A mouse.
73. A mole.
74. A vulture with flesh in its beak.
75. Two cranes.
76. A parrot (blue).
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77. A stork.
78. A swan.
79. A halcyon with large beak.
80. A goatsucker (Cinomolgus) in a tree : a man below with a sling, aiming at it.
8 1. A magpie.
8a. A hawk.
83. Ercinee aues: a hawk of some kind.
84. A nightingale (blue).
85. Four bats.
86. A crow.
87. A raven.
88. A swallow.
89. A quail.
90. A peacock.
91. A cock.
92. A duck.
93. Tree on L., red hive on A', and bees.
94. Basilisk. Cock with serpent's tail.
95. Viper, four-legged with green horned head, eating the head of her husband, and
two young ones breaking out of her side.
96. Winged and horned serpent.
97. Amphisbena: dragon with a small head on its tail.
98. Boas, fat : blue and white with red head.
99. Lacertus, winged serpent.
100. White (bluish) arabian serpent.
101. 'Seps.'
1 02. ' Dipsos.'
103. Lizard, 4-legged: long ears.
104. Another (stellio).
105. Horned serpent coming out of its skin.
106. Spiders (5), blue and red, not unlike mice.
107. Two fish.
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BOOK. \ 673
Paper, io x 6|, ff. 175, a good many blank. Cent, xvii, neatly
written.
Given by Puckering.
In two main divisions : the first alphabetically arranged under
heads of names and topics, the second classified extracts from
Plautus, Sallust etc.
The last thing in the book is some memorial verses on legal
matters.
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Paper, 8| x 7, ff. 276, written from both ends. Cent, xvi, xvii,
in two good hands. On the binding is a lozenge-shaped stamp of
the Sacrifice of Isaac, in gold.
Given by Edward Rud, Fellow, in 1705.
1. Didactica magna universale omnes omnia docendi artificium
exhibens : siue Certus et exquisitus modus per omnes alicuius
Christian! Regni communitates oppida et vicos tales erigencli
Scholas ut omnis utriusque sexus juventus nomine vsquam
neglecto literis informari moribus expoliri, Pietate imbui
eaque ratione intra pubertatis annos ad omnia quae praesentis
et futurae vitae sunt instrui possit.
Compendiose jucunde solide vbi omnium quae suadentur
Fundamenta ex ipsissima Rerum naturae (sic) eruuntur :
Veritas artium mechanicarum parallelis exemplisostendit(ur):
series per annos menses dies horas disponitur : Via denique
in effectum haec fedicites (! /. feliciter) deducencli facilis et
certa ostenditur.
The words on pp. 4, 5 "de patriae ruina, totiusque Germaniae
afflictissimo statu" show that the author was a German. On
the same page (4) he mentions the date 1629 : the date of the
book is not much later (cir. 1640).
There are 198 leaves and some gaps.
2. From the other end of the volume.
Whither any man living in the publike profession of the
Gospell being Ignorant of any fundamentall pointe of
Religion and continewing so, can die in the state of salvation.
It is in the form of question and answer and occupies 36 leaves.
3. The copie of a letter written by a Ma r of Arts in Camb. to his
frend in London concerning some talke past of late betweene
two wo r : and graue men about the present state, and some
proceedings of the Earle of Leicester and his frends in
England. Conceaued spoken and published \v th most
earneste protestation of all dutifull goodwill and affection
towards her most excellent Ma tic and the Realme for whose
good onlie it was made common to many.
Job 20, 27.
The heauen shall reveale the wicked man's iniquitie and the
earth shall stand up to beare witnes againste him.
The Epistle directory.
To M r Ga: M. in gracious street in London.
Occupies six leaves. The rest blank.
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887. A TREATISE ON LOGIC BY CORNELIUS J R. 14. 12
VALERIUS. \ 676
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Tables of Logick drawen by Cornelius Valerius.
' What Logick is and howe many partes yt conteyneth.
At the bottom off. 129 is
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There are a good many additions on blank leaves by the
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665
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IL FINE.
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De bono matrimonii et de diuortio quaestiones variae, responsiones verae, rationes
validae, necnon iucundae.
Authore Joanne de Suckely Wigorn.
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In three books ending p. 189 a.
On p. 191 is
Ornatissimo Doctissimoque viro Johanni Housono S.T.D. salutem in authore
salutis mittit I. R.
Dated Suck(ley) Wigorn. prid. cal. Maij A.D. 1605 and signed Johannes Raester.
On pp. 194, 195 is a list of
Theses theologicae sine quaestiones propositae et disputatae Oxonii in vesperis
A.D. 1682 Mense Julii die 10.
The disputants' names are King, Goodwin, Bradshaw, Swaddon,
Langforde, Tompson, Thorne, Houson, Riues, Spenser, Newman,
Williams.
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1593-
An exposition of manie places of Scripture seeming to con-
demne those bargaines w ch are commonly called Vsurie.
A confutacion of certaine positions concerning the same.
A discription of th' estates of poore and rich men with necessarie
observations, viz.
1. What Vsurie is.
2. Howe farre it extendeth.
3. Which is the greatest.
4. Whether our Vsurie be all one w th that of y e Jewes.
5. Whether it maie be taken respectively.
Verie plainlie handled for the more easie vnderstanding of the
simple.
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Paper, 8| x 6|. Three volumes, two printed, one MS.
Given by Tho. Rud, 1706.
I. John Downame's Brief Concordance, London 1652.
(Will. Du Gard for Nicolas Bourn.)
II. The Fore-Runner of Revenge etc. George Eglisham,
London 1642.
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III. ff. 60-141.
The Contents of this Book.
Firste an Epistle dedicatorye of the Booke of Armory of Claudius
Paradine.
A Discourse vpon the Creste of the Lorde Burghley.
Another Discourse vpon the Philosophers Arte.
By Fraunces Thynne.
A notice of the author from Woods Athenae Oxonienses (i. 319) is
written below, and at the bottom of the page is the name R. Neile.
On the verso is a full-page coloured drawing of the arms of Lord
Burghley.
The Epistle Dedicatory follows, signed in the Author's autograph
and occupying 4 ff., dated Bermondsey 2 August 1575.
On the next page is a full-page coloured drawing of Francis
Thynne's arms.
Then follows headed by a coloured drawing of Lord Burghley's
crest surrounded by the garter
A discourse upon the Lorde Burghleyghe his Creste.
In verse: six-line stanzas.
When burning Sunne with gleames of golden light,
fifteen pages, signed by the author.
A coloured drawing. A king standing on the Sun joins hands with
a queen standing on the moon. Both hold a spray of flowers
which is in the beak of a dove f. 72 b
Scrolls, i. Oh mone consent that maryed we may bee.
2. Oh sonne yt is reasonne that I obey to thee.
3. The sprite giues lyfe which doth these two agree.
Verses below.
A Discourse vppon the Philosopher's Armes .... 73
A coloured drawing of them on 73 b.
Text, in verse
The sacred booke doth truely tell in speeche of heauenly
penne.
There are sixteen coloured drawings in the poem, mostly of planets
in their cars : others are diagrams. They are neatly done.
On f. 141 is a list of the authors cited.
MS. Ashmole 766 I in the Bodleian Library is another copy of
these same tracts, signed by the author.
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On the fly-leaf
Liber iste fuit scriptum(!) de manu patris mei quondam Ludouici palan notarii
ciuitatis Dertuse cuius anima et omnium fidelium defunctorum in pace requiescant. Amen.
Contents :
1. VMGRECE.
Ad babtistam capud de ferro pretorem bononie de greco in
latinum ab Auruspa (i.e. Giovanni Aurispa) de presidencia
sedendi controuersia Inter Anibalem, Alexandrum et
Scipionem apud inferos.
Cum in rebus bellicis super ceteris animi virtutibus.
Ends f. 4 3 neque is quidem spernendus est.
Cf. MS. Balliol 315 etc.
2. Oratio ad Alfonsum Regem habita per Jo. S. . . f. 5
Animaduerti sepeuenumero
opera me facturum dixi.
3. Epistola leonardi Aretini de morte Otonis.
Plenam lacrimarum atque meroris
tranquilissime expirauit.
4. Epistole patricii (three) 9/>
Ending iol>.
Seven blank leaves.
5. Parlamento o collacio que apres de sopar sdeuench en cassa de
Berenguer mercader entre alguns homens de stat . . 17
De la transcendent celsitut de la Senyora de totes les sciencies
Sacra Theologia etc.
It contains a great deal of verse-translation of the Heroidae of
Ovid (apparently), and imaginary letters (in prose) between such
persons as Jason and Medea.
It seems to be completed by a rather later hand which has
written ft". 89, 90.
On ff. 120^-126 are Spanish notes and verses in later hands.
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A bipartite Alphabeticall harmony of French, Spanish, and Italian proverbs.
Written for the vse of them which either now do, or shall hereafter have occasion to
travayle into those foraine cuntreys.
By Simon Harward.
There is a Latin Dedication to Prince Henry.
It is in two parts. In each the English proverbs and phrases
are arranged alphabetically. In the first part they are "answered"
by French, Spanish and Italian parallels, in the second by parallels
in Latin verse.
Some additions are given on the last leaves.
892.
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Signed : Robert Asheley.
Of the praise of Honor.
Intending nowe to speake of hono r .
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Disputationes quaedam metaphysicae a D. Roberto Baronio
collectae et a me M ro Gabriele Maxuellio denuo rescriptae Idibus
Augusti 1637.
There are twelve Disputations.
i. De natura mali.
xii. De simplicitate Ends increati.
2 2
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