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THE  MANUSCRIPTS  OF 


WESTMINSTER  ABBEY 


NOTES    AND    DOCUMENTS 

RELATING  TO 

WESTMINSTER    ABBEY 

No.  i 
THE   MANUSCRIPTS   OF   WESTMINSTER   ABBEY 


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THE    MANUSCRIPTS    OF 
WESTMINSTER    ABBEY 


BY 
J.   ARMITAGE   ROBINSON,    D.D. 

DEAN    OF    WESTMINSTER 

AND 

MONTAGUE   RHODES  JAMES,   Litt.D. 

PROVOST  OF   KING'S  COLLEGE,   CAMBRIDGE 


CAMBRIDGE : 

AT  THE   UNIVERSITY   PRESS 
1909 


CambriDgt: 

FEINTED   BY   JOHN   CLAY,    M.A. 
AT   THE   UNIVERSITY   PRESS. 


PEEFACE 

rilHE  Library  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Westminster  contains  now 
-*-  but  a  small  batch  of  manuscripts,  and  these  have  for  the  most  part 
no  connexion  with  Westminster  Abbey.  They  represent  however  the 
last  of  three  quite  distinct  collections,  of  which  the  first  was  dispersed 
or  destroyed  at  the  dissolution  of  the  monastery,  and  the  second  perished 
by  fire  in  1694.  It  so  happens  that  of  both  these  earlier  collections  a 
considerable  amount  of  evidence  is  preserved  in  various  quarters. 

The  Westminster  Muniments  contain  a  good  deal  of  scattered  infor- 
mation as  to  the  care  of  books  both  in  monastic  times  and  in  the  later 
period,  and  this  has  been  drawn  together  here  as  a  small  contribution 
to  the  history  of  the  Abbey. 

The  division  of  responsibility  for  this  little  book  is  indicated  by  the 
initials  in  the*  table  of  contents.  The  Dean  and  Chapter  are  under  a 
great  obligation  to  the  Provost  of  King's  for  having  placed  his  unrivalled 
experience  in  these  matters  at  their  disposal.  They  hope  that  this  may 
be  the  first  of  a  series  of  studies  bearing  on  the  history  of  the  Church  of 
which  it  is  their  high  privilege  to  be  the  guardians. 

J.  ARMITAGE  ROBINSON. 


CONTENTS 


PAGE 

PREFACE      v 

I.  ON  THE  MAKING  AND  KEEPING  OF  BOOKS  IN  WESTMINSTER  ABBEY, 

A.D.  1160—1660.     J.  A.  R 1 

II.  THE    REMAINS    OF    THE    MONASTIC    LIBRARY    OF    WESTMINSTER 

ABBEY.    M.  R.  J 22 

III.  THE  MANUSCRIPTS   IN  THE  CHAPTER  LIBRARY  OF  WESTMINSTER 

BETWEEN  1623  AND  1694.     M.  R.  J 26 

IV.  THE  MANUSCRIPTS  NOW  IN  THE  CHAPTER  LIBRARY.     M.  R.  J.        .  63 
V.      DESCRIPTIONS  OF  THE  WESTMINSTER  CHARTULARIES.    J.  A.  R.       .  93 

INDEXES  105 


DA 


I. 

ON   THE   MAKING   AND   KEEPING 

OF   BOOKS   IN   WESTMINSTER  ABBEY, 

A.D.    1160—1660. 

1. 

In  the  chapter  house  at  Westminster  there  is  exhibited  a  document 
in  which  Abbot  Gervase  and  the  Convent  assign  a  sum  of  eight  shillings 
a  year  from  the  tithes  of  Rothing  to  the  Precentor,  for  the  repair  of 
books  in  the  library  and  for  other  requirements  of  his  office. 

Gervasius  abbas  beati  Petri  Westmonasteriensis  totusque  conventus  ejusdem 
ecclesiae  omnibus  hominibus  suis  tarn  praesentibus  quam  futuris  salutem.  Mani- 
festum  vobis  fieri  volurnus  nos  amore  dei  pro  reparandis  libris  armarii,  et  pro 
ceteris  negotiis  quae  ad  cantoris  nostri  pertine[n]t  officium,  communi  assensu  et 
consilio  concessisse  et  dedisse  cantariae  .viii.  solidos  de  decima  de  Roinges  quam 
tenet  Aluricus  presbiter :  et  his  terminis,  ad  annuntiationem  sanctae  Mariae  .iiii. 
solidos,  et  ad  festivitatem  Sancti  Petri  ad  vincula  .iiii.  solidos.  Quapropter  volumus 
et  praecipiraus  ut  cantor  ecclesiae  beati  Petri  Westmonasteriensis,  quisquis  ille 
fuerit,  praedictos  ha  beat  solidos  bene  et  honorifice  et  in  pace,  ne  quis  eum  super 
hac  nostra  donatione  et  praedicta  elemosiua  ullo  modo  inquietet1. 

Gervase  was  Abbot  from  1140  to  about  1159.  Accordingly  we  see 
that  in  the  twelfth  century  the  books  of  the  monastery  at  Westminster 
were  under  the  charge  of  the  Precentor.  This  was  in  accordance  with 
the  Constitutions  drawn  up  for  all  Benedictine  monasteries  in  England 
by  Lanfranc  at  the  end  of  the  eleventh  century.  In  his  chapter  De 
Cantore  we  read : 

De  universis  monasterii  libris  curam  gerat,  et  eos  in  custodia  sua  habeat,  si  ejus 
studii  et  scientiae  sit  ut  eorum  custodia  ei  commendari  debeat2. 

1  Munim.  1172  A  :  a  copy  is  in  the  Westminster  'Domesday,'  f.  6796,  among  '  Scripta 
vacua  nunc.'   The  annual  payment  of  8s.  from  the  rector  of  Kothing  Alba  [White  Boothing, 
co.  Essex]  was  surrendered  in  1800  (Munim.  1172s,  '  Domesday,'  f.  360). 

2  Reyner,   Apostolatus  Benedictinorum  in  Anglia,    1626,   append,  p.   236:    Wilkins, 
Concilia,  1737,  i  348. 

B.  w.  1 


2  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

These  words  are  embodied  in  the  Customary  of  Westminster,  begun 
under  Abbot  Ware  in  12661.  Here  we  read,  on  p.  36  of  the  published 
edition : 

Qui  similiter  incaustum  fieri  faciet,  quociens  opus  fuerit ;  et  illud  non  solum- 
modo  fratribus,  sed  eciam  secularibus  petentibus  curialiter  impendet.  Atque 
fratrum  necessitatibus  de  membrana  providere  tenetur;  atque  scripta  in  capitulo 
legenda  legere,  componenda  componere,  corrigenda  corrigere,  atque  sigillanda 
sigillare.  Cujus  eciam  specialiter  incumbit  officio  unius  clavis  de  cista  in  qua 
commune  sigillum  et  privilegia  reconduntur  per  conventum  custodiam  habere. 

Thus  we  see  that  the  Precentor  has  a  general  responsibility  in 
regard  to  all  matters  of  writing;  and  he  has  to  provide  ink  and 
parchment.  In  the  next  sentence  the  words"  adopted  from  Lanfranc 
are  italicised: 

Et  insuper  de  universis  armariorum  libris  curamgeret,  et  eos  in  custodia  habebit,  sed 
[1.  si]  ejus  studii  et  scientiae  est  ut  eorum  custodia  ei  competenter  debeat  commendari. 
Omues  vero  libros  qui  in  sua  et  succentoris  custodia  sunt,  tarn  in  ecclesia  quam  in 
claustro,  necnon  libros  necessarios  ac  antiphonarios  qui  magistri  noviciorum  curae 
commendantur,  renovare,  ligare,  et  quotient)  opus  fuerit  sumptibus  suis  resarcire 
faciet ;  ita  tamen,  si  scriptores  teneat,  quod  de  eorum  victui  necessariis  per 
conventum  aliquantulum  subveniatur  eidem. 

In  earlier  days  these  duties  did  not  ordinarily  take  the  Precentor 
beyond  the  cloister,  where  writing  was  doubtless  done  in  the  carrels  of 
the  north  walk.  But  by  this  time  a  special  Scriptorium  had  been 
provided*  (p.  97) : 

Quoniam  olim  ipsi  proculdubio  precentori  non  licebat  absque  licencia  a  claustro 
egredi,  usque  ad  tempus  illud  quo  primum  facta  est  domus  scriptoriae,  nisi  solum- 
modo  ad  sartoriam,  ad  incaustum  faciendum  cum  opus  fuisset....  Sed,  a  tempore 
quo  constructa  est  domus  prelibata,  permissum  est  ei  infra  septa  monasterii  non 
petita  licencia  quaquaversum  incedere. 

This  special  function  of  the  Precentor  is  illustrated  by  the  fact  that 
at  a  later  date  the  Registers,  Avhich  contain  copies  of  documents  which 
have  passed  the  convent  seal,  bear  his  name.  Thus  the  first  part  of 
Register  A,  which  begins  with  the  first  year  of  K.  Henry  VII,  was 
written  '  tempore  administrationis  fratris  Johannis  Watyrden  in  officio 
Precentoris.' 

1  The  Customary  contains  passages  written  after  the  death  of  K.  Henry  III  (1272). 
It  has  been  edited  for  the  Henry  Bradshaw  Society  by  Sir  E.  Mauude  Thompson,  together 
with  the  derived  Customary  of  St  Augustine's,  Canterbury.  By  the  aid  of  the  latter  the 
Westminster  MS.  (now  Cotton.  Otho  C  xi),  which  suffered  severely  in  the  Ashburnham 
House  fire  of  1731,  has  been  largely  restored.  The  editor  had  made  a  transcript  of  it 
for  the  Dean  and  Chapter  in  1867,  and  this  contains  a  considerable  portion  which, 
owing  to  its  fragmentary  condition,  was  not  included  in  the  published  volume. 


The  Books  of  the  Monastery  3 

The  Precentor's  responsibility  for  church  books  was  shared  by  the 
Succentor  (p.  37) : 

Ad  succentoris  specialiter  pertinet  officium  bibliam  magni  voluminis  atque  libros 
officio  chori  necessaries  custodire  et  in  chorum  portare  quociens  opus  fuerit,  ac 
iterate  salvo  reponere. 

The  Sacrist  had  the  responsibility,  in  concert  with  the  Precentor, 
of  providing  and  repairing  missals  and  altar-books  in  general  (p.  49). 

The  Precentor  at  Westminster  bore  also  the  title  of  Armarius. 
Whereas  Lanfranc's  chapter  relating  to  his  office  begins  with  the 
words : 

Cantor,  quamdiu  Abbas  in  monasterio  est... 
the  Westminster  Customary  says : 

Cantor,  qui  et  alio  nomine  Armarius  appellatur,  eo  quod  de  libris  curam  habere 
solet  qui  in  armariis  continentur,  quamdiu  Abbas  in  monasterio  est...1. 

This  title  of  Armarius  carries  us  on  to  consider  the  place  where  the 
books  were  kept.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  here,  as  at  Durham, 
there  were  '  almeries  of  wainscot '  (armaria,  cupboards  for  books)  in  the 
north  walk  of  the  cloister  against  the  wall  of  the  church2;  the  carrels, 
or  wooden  enclosures  forming  diminutive  studies  for  the  monks,  being 
opposite  against  the  traceried  arches,  which  at  one  time  were  at  least 
partially  glazed3. 

The  following  references  to  the  carolae  and  armaria  may  be  quoted 
from  the  Customary : 

De  carolis  vero  in  claustro  habendis  hanc  consideracionem  habere  debent,  quibus 
committitur  claustri  tutela,  ut  videlicet  celerarius  forinsecus  aut  intrinsecus,  vel 
infirmarius,  aut  camerarius,  sen  alii  fratres  qui  raro  in  claustro  resident,  suas 
carolas  in  claustro  non  habeant ;  sed  neque  aliqui  fratres,  nisi  in  scribendo,  vel 

1  P.  28.     The  inserted  clause  was  carried  into  the  Canterbury  Customary  (p.  90), 
though  the  regulations  which  follow  are  very  different. 

2  Rites  of  Durham,  Surtees  Society,  1903,  p.  83.     See  J.  W.  Clark,  On  Libraries  at 
Lincoln,  Westminster  and   St  Paul's,  Camb.  Antiq.  Soc.  Proceedings,  vol.  ix   (18  Feb. 
1895),  and  Care  of  Books,  1901,  pp.  91  ff.,  where  traces  of  the  armaria,  as  detected  by 
Micklethwaite,  are  noted.     The  suggestion  that  the  absence  of  shafts  in  the  northernmost 
bay  of  the  wall  arcade  in  the  east  cloister  walk  was  designed  to  leave  room  for  the 
armarium  commune  is  rendered  improbable  by  the  fact  that  the  Customary  assigns  this 
place  for  the  Abbot's  seat  in  the  cloister  (p.  157),  'in  capite  partis  orientis  claustri' :  next 
was  the  prior's  place  'in  aquilonari  parte,  juxta  hostium  ecclesiae ' :  no  one  else  had  a  seat 
specially  appropriated  except  the  master  of  the  novices,  who  was  at  the  extreme  west,  and 
the  brother  '  cui  committitur  armariorum  claustri  custodia.' 

3  In  Munim.  24,855  is  an  estimate  for  repairing   the  glass  in  the  cloisters,   temp. 
Commonwealth.     H.  Keepe  (Monumenta  Westm.,  p.  177)  writes  in  1683:   'on  every  side 
opposite  to  the  Walls  (where  now  are  only  frames  of  wood)  was  fine  glazed  Windows  of 
tinctured  glass  of  divers  colours. ' 

1—2 


4  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

illuminando,  aut  tantum  notando,  communitati  aut  eciam  sibimet  ipsis  proficere 
sciant  (p.  165). 

Quos  [sc.  novicios]  cum  viderit  magister  eorum  perfecte  scire  quae  scire  debent, 
consuevit  eis  dicere  ut  in  alia  parte  sedeant,  loco  talibus  assignato,  ubi  tune  licite 
possunt  libros  de  armariis  seniorum  respicere  ;  sed  nondutn  scribere  aut  carolas 
habere  debent,  licet  fuerint  sacerdotes,  nisi  viderit  magister  quod  eorum  scriptura 
ecclesiae  possit  proficere  (p.  168). 

It  was  the  custom  on  a  certain  day  in  Lent  to  produce  and 
redistribute  books  in  the  chapter  house.  An  allusion  to  this  occurs  on 
p.  90:  'die  qua  in  capitulo  legitur  leccio  de  Quadragesimae  observacione 
et  codices  ostenduntur.'  This  is  borne  out  by  a  Canterbury  regulation 
(p.  39)  :  '  die  videlicet  qua  fratres  secundum  regulam  de  bibliotheca,  id 
est  librario,  sunt  in  capitulo  codices  accepturi ' :  on  that  day  a  mass  was 
to  be  said  for  benefactors  of  the  library.  The  custom  is  fully  described 
in  Lanfranc's  Constitutions  (Reyner,  append.  216 ;  Wilkins  I  332  f.). 

The  following  documents  will  serve  to  illustrate  the  cost  of  books 
and  the  manner  of  their  production  in  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth 
centuries. 

I.  In  1376  Simon  Langham  died  at  Avignon.  Seven  chests  of 
books  came  to  Westminster  as  part  of  his  legacy  to  the  Abbey.  They 
were  valued  before  they  were  committed  to  the  merchants  who  under- 
took to  transmit  them  as  far  as  Bruges.  The  valuation  is  preserved  in 
a  mutilated  form  in  Munim.  9,226,  of  which  Munim.  9,225  is  an  early 
and  complete  (though  often  inaccurate)  copy.  I  give  it  here  from  the 
original,  using  the  copy  to  fill  up  gaps1 : 

Estimacio  librorum  bone  memorie  dm  Cardinalis  Cant'. 

Prima  Cista.  c 

Inprimis  dictionarius  in  tribus  voluminibus  iifr. 

Item  .iiii.  Ewangelia  Glosata  in  uno  volumine  xvfr. 

5  Item  summa  Valent'  iifr. 

Item  constituciones  benedictini  cum  aliis  viiis. 

c 
Summa  ii  xviifr.  viiis. 

Secunda. 

Item  Gregorius  super  Ezechielem  iii  fr. 

10  Item  Eicardus  de  media  villa  viiifr. 

Item  quodlibet  Hervei  iiifr. 
Item  quedam  facta  circa  ordinem  Monachorum  per  beatum  Bernardum 

in  parvo  volumine  i  fr. 

Item  actus  et  exilium  sancte  Thome  in  quaternis  •  creditur  esse  cant'  ii  fr. 

1  This  document  is  copied  from  Munim.  9,225  into  Liber  Niger  Quaternus  (f.  1466  ft), 
but  somewhat  carelessly. 


The  Books  of  the  Monastery  5 

15  Item  repertorium  de  paupere  de  materia  indulgenciarum  di.  fr. 

Item  Ultima  pars  summe  sancte  Thome  sine  asseribus  iiifr. 

Item  Grisostimus  super  Matheum  cum  aliis  parvis  scriptis  vi  fr. 
Item  Lira  super  .iiii.  ewangelia  et  Epistolas  Pauli                       xxxvii  fr.  et  di. 

XX 

Item  Milleloquium  Augustini  iiiifr. 

20  Item  quedam  tabula  de  diversis  doctoribus  iifr. 

Item  temata  divisa  per  alphabetum  cum  uua  tabula  in  fine  iiifr. 

Item  diversa  Originalia  Agustini  •  quindecim  in  uno  volumine  xii  fr. 

Item  tabula  Berengarii  super  Speculum  xiiifr. 

Item  Augustinus  super  psalterium  abbreviatus  cum  septem  quaternis 

25         non  ligatis  ifr. 

Item  tercia  pars  lire  continens  ysaiam  •  Jeremiam  •  trenorum  •  daniel  • 

Makabeorum  •  xii  prophete  minores  •  baruk  •  Ezechiel  xxxvii  fr.  et  di. 

c 

Summa  ii  xiifr.  et  di. 
Tercia. 

30  Item  lewes  super  iiii01'  sentenciaruin  xiifr. 

Item  sermoues  borage  vifr. 

Item  originale  Agustini  de  trinitate  cum  aliis  xiifr. 
Item   prima  pars  et  secunda  pars  Thome   super  Ewangelia  in   iibus 

volumim'bus  xx  fr. 

35  Item  gregorius  in  pastoralibus  et  exameron  ambrozii  sine  asseribus  ii  fr. 

Item  passio  sancte  Thome  cum  epistolis  suis  et  privatus  sancti  gregorii  i  fr. 

Item   secundum  volumen  lire  continens  esdras  •  nemias  •  ester  •  Job  • 

tobias   •  judit  •  psalterium  •  proverbia   •    ecclesiastes   •   cantica  • 

40        sapiencia  •  ecclesiasticus  xxxvii  fr.  et  di. 

Item  amiakanus  de  questionibus  armenorum  cum  sermouibus  suis  xxxfr. 

Item  par  decretalium  xxiifr. 

Item  Bi[b]lia  in  parvo  volumine  xiifr. 

Item  de  claustro  anime  iiiifr. 

45  Item  libre  beati  bernardi  xiifr. 

Item  distinctiones  malicii  iifr. 

Summa  clx[x]iifr.  et  di. 

Quarta. 

Item  Innocencius  super  Decretales  xii  fr. 

50  Item  Egidius  de  regimine  principum  iiiifr. 

Item  parve  concordancie  ifr. 

Item  de  exemplis  scripturarum  sacrarum  iifr. 

Item  Speculum  Historiale  prima  pars  Ifr. 

Item  Augustinus  de  Civitate  dei  xiifr. 

55  Item  de  proprietatibus  rerum  vifr. 

Item  decreta  xxfr. 

Item  dealogus  Gregorii  iiiifr. 

Item  Johannes  Calderini  et  unus  tractatus  continens  de  paupere  contra 

prophesias  [Johannis]  de  Rapecisa  i  fr. 

60  Item  Thomas  de  Veritate  vifr. 

Item  epistole  Pauli  glosate  xvifr. 

Item  Josue  •  Judit  •  esdras  •  makabeorum  cum  aliis  xii  fr. 

Summa  cxlvifr. 


6  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Quinta. 
65  Item  Tabula  sermonum  sancti  Augustini  cum  armakanis  de  pauperie 

salvatoris  iiii  fr. 

Item  Thomas  de  equino  super  de  anima  ii  fr. 

Item  primum  volumen  de  lira  xxxvii  fr.  et  di. 

Item  Thomas  super  primum  sentenciarum  iii  fr. 

70  Item  lira  moralizans  totam  bibliam  xxxfr. 

Item  Marcus  et  Matheus  glosati  vifr. 

Item  Ezechiel  et  daniel  glosati  viiifr. 

Item  Jenesis  et  exodus  glosati  viiifr. 

Item  Regum  et  parolipommon  glosati  viii  fr. 

75  Item  Leviticus  •  numerum  •  deuteronomii  glosati  viii  fr. 

Item  concordancie  bib[l]ie  xvfr. 

Item  tercium  et  quartum  scriptum  durandi  vis. 

Item  vita  sancte  Thome  monachi  et  Martiris  doverre  vis. 

Item  quaterni  de  propheciis  vis. 
80                             Summa  clvfr.  vis.  [cxxxvfr.  et  di  in  copy]. 

Sexta. 

Item  prima  pars  summe  sancte  Thome  iiifr. 

Item  Hugo  super  Johannem  et  super  aliis  rnonasterii  Grandcourt  de 

Flandria  iiii  fr. 

Item  sentencie  Petri  Lumbardi  vi  fr. 

85  Item  Thomas  super  quartum  Sentenciarum  vi  fr. 

Item  Epistole  sancti  Augustini  viiifr. 

Item  Boicius  de  consolacione  philosophic  cum  aliis  xfr. 

Item  Thomas  super  libros  phisicorum  iiifr. 

Item  Thomas  super  librum  metaphisice  iiifr. 

90  Item  secunda  pars  summe  sancte  Thome  vi  fr. 

Item  summa  contra  gentiles  vi  fr. 

Item  tabula  originalium  xxfr. 

Item  libri  Ancelmi  viiifr. 

Item  ysaias  •  Jeremias  •  treriorum  glosati  vi  fr. 
95  Item  •  xl .  quaterni  •  Ba[r]tholornei  •  Jacobi .  berengarii  involuti  in  duobus 

manutergiis  que  sunt  Thorne  de  Southam  xvi  fr. 

Summa  cvfr. 
Septima. 

Item  Summa  hostiensis  xxfr. 

100  Item  liber  sextus  cum  clementinis  et  cum  glosis  xvifr. 

Item  liber  salamonis  glosatus  vifr. 

Item  Thomas  super  secundum  sentenciarum  vifr. 

Item  Thomas  super  tercium  sentenciarum  vi  fr. 

Item  unum  mariale  iiii  fr. 

105  Item  psalterium  glosatum  xii  fr. 

Item  xii  prophete  parvi  glosati  iiii  fr. 

Item  registrum  gregorii  ii  fr. 

Item  liber  de  concideracione  sancti  bernardi  cum  aliis  iiifr. 

Item  historia  ecclesiastica  .  creditur  Cristi  Cant'  viii  fr. 
110  Item  cronica  martiniana  .  Beda  de  gestis  Anglorum  et  vita  sancte 

Thome  in  uno  volumine  xfr. 


The  Books  of  the  Monastery  1 

Item  Thomas  de  malo  vifr. 

Item  de  potencia  dei  iiiifr. 

Item  excepciones  librorum  beati  gregorii  ii  fr. 

115  Item  ancelmus  de  Similitudinibus  iifr. 

Item  exposicio  super  ester  et  Judit  iifr. 

Summa  cxiiifr. 

Dr  James  gives  me  the  following  notes  on  some  of  the  books  and 
writers  mentioned  in  the  above  list : 

I.  5.     Valent'  (or  Valenc').     Is  this  for  Faventini  or  Placentini  1  or  Wallensis  ? 
6.     Benedictini]  lege  Benedictinae. 

10.  Ricardus  de  media  villa.     Author  of  quaestiones  on  the  Sentences,  &c. 

11.  Herveus  Natalis  Brito,  author  of  Quodlibeta. 

14.  Thought  to  belong  to  Christ  Church,  Canterbury  :  cf.  1.  109. 

The  form  '  sancte  Thome '  regularly  recurs  in  this  list. 

19.  An  anthology  of  St  Augustine  by  Bartholomew  of  Urbino. 

23.  Berengarii  super  Speculum.     Berengarius  Fredolis,  Bp  of  Beziers. 

31.  Sermones  Borage.     ?  Simon  Boraston  or  Jac.  de  Voragine. 

35.  sine  asseribus]  without  boards  :  probably  in  a  vellum  wrapper. 

41.  Richard  Fitzralph,  Abp  of  Armagh.     This  book  seems  to  have  been  seen 

by  Leland,  see  below,  p.  23. 

44.  de  Claustro  anime.     By  Hugo  de  Folieto. 

46.  Malicii]  probably  for  Mauricii. 

53.  Speculum  Historiale.     By  Vincent  '  of  Beauvais.' 

55.  de  proprietatibus  rerutn.     By  Barth.  Anglicus. 

57.  dealogus]  dialogus. 

58.  Johannes  Calderini  of  Bologna,  Doctor  of  Canon  Law,  wrote  a  Commentary 

on  the  Decretals. 

59.  [Johannis]  de  Rapecisa.     John  de  Rupescissa  (Rochetaillade),  Minorite : 

his  prophecy  is  in  Browne's  Fasciculus. 
78.     Thomas,  monk  and  martyr  of  Dover  :  Thomas  de  la  Hale,  killed  by  the 

French  at  Dover  in  1295. 
83.     Probably  Hugo  de  Sancto  Caro,  otherwise  called  Hugo  de  Vienna. 

Monasterii  Grandcourt  (ut  videtur)  1 
104.     There  was  a  Mariale  (a  work  on  the  glories  of  the  Virgin)  by  Albertus 

Magnus.     Also  one  by  Jac.  de  Voragine. 
110.     Cronica  Martiniana.     By  Martinus  Polonus. 

II.  The   cost   of  making   Abbot    Litlington's    Missal:    from   the 
Abbot's  Treasurer's  roll  for  1383-4  \ 

Expense  noui  Missalis  [in  margin]. 

In  xiij.  duodenis  percamenti  vitulini  emptis  pro  vno  nouo  missali  facieudo 
iiij.li.  vj.s.  viij.d. 

Et  in  illuminacione  grossarum  litterarum  xxij.11  iii.d 

1  This  has  been  printed  on  a  loose  slip  as  an  addendum  to  the  third  fasciculus  of  the 
Westminster  Missal  by  its  editor,  Dr  J.  Wickham  Legg.  Similar  accounts  are  printed, 
from  St  George's,  "Windsor,  by  J.  H.  Middleton,  Illuminated  MSS.,  p.  220;  and  by 
G.  G.  Gray,  Early  Cambridge  Stationers,  pp.  18  ff. 


8  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Et  pro  ligacione  dicti  missalis  .xxj.s. 

Et  .j.  homini  scribenti  notas  in  dicto  missali  iij.s.  iiij.d 

Et  pro  coopertura  dicti  missalis  .viij.s.  iiij.d 

Et  pro  broudura  eiusdem  vj.s.  x.d. 

Et  pro  registro  eiusdem  missalis  xx.d. 

Et  pro  pictura  dicti  missalis  x.s. 

In  vj.  nodulis  emptis  pro  eodem  xij.s. 

In  j.  baga  empta  pro  eodem  iiij.8  vj.d 

Et  in  feodo  Thome  Preston  per  duos  annos  scribentis  dictum  missale  iiij.li. 

In  panno  empto  pro  liberatura  dicti  Thome  per  dictum  tempus  xx.s. 

Summa  xxxiiij.li.  xiiij.s.  vij.d. 

Thomas  Preston  received  a  fee  and  cloth  of  livery  during  the  two 
years  in  which  he  was  occupied  upon  the  book ;  moreover  in  the  Abbot's 
Treasurer's  roll  for  1382-3  we  read  of  a  payment  to  Fr.  W.  Warfeld 
'  pro  mensa  Thome  Preston  commorantis  secum  ad  rnensam '  from 
St  John  Baptist's  Day  to  Advent  (sic),  viz.  26  weeks,  21/8.  It  is  clear 
therefore  that  he  was  not  a  monk.  But  it  is  interesting  to  note  that  in 
1384-5  there  was  a  novice  named  Thomas  Preston,  who  sang  his  first 
mass  in  1386-7,  and  appears  in  the  Chamberlain's  roll  as  late  as  1420. 
May  we  not  identify  this  monk  with  the  former  scrivener  ? 

III.  The  Infirmarer's  roll  for  1386-7  contains  the  following 
entries : 

nis  ne 

Et  in  tribus  .xii.  de  velym  emp  pro  nouo  Missali  .xxi.s.  precio  .xii.  vii.s.     Et 

pro  rasura  .xiiii.  quaternorum  dicti  Missalis  .ii.s.  iiii.d.  Et  pro  vermilon  et  incausto 
.xviii.d.  Et  in  azuro  pro  Kalendar'  .vi.d.  Et  solut'  Thome  Kolf  pro  illuminacione 
&  ligamine  Missalis  predicti  .Ixx.s.  xi.d. 

Et  solut'  pro  coopertura  Portoforii  quondam  Nichi  Abbatis  et  ex  dono  eiusdem 
Capelle  Infirmarie  .vii.s.  vi.d. 

The  Infirmarer  had  not  to  pay  for  the  writing  of  his  missal. 
Perhaps  it  was  written  by  the  new  monk  Thomas  Preston1. 

1  A  few  items  of  the  same  period  may  be  added  here  : 

(1)  1369.     Liber  Niger  Quat.  f.  79.     De  libris  accommodatis  per  Abbatem  Archidiacono 
Oxon.  etc.    Anno  domini  millesimo  ccclxix"0  et  regni  regis  Edwardi  tercii...primo  die 
Augusti  facte  sunt  indenture  inter  Abbatem  et  Conventum  Westm'  et  Magistrum  Thomam 
Southam  Arch'  Oxon'  de  libris  accomodatis  dicto  magistro  Thome  ad  terminum  xx.u 
annorum  proxime  sequent'  •  videlicet :   Decretal'  coopert'  cum  viridi.     Item  prima  pars 
Johannis  in  Novell'  super  Decretal'.     Item  secunda  pars  Novelle  cum  quodam  prologo 
bublie.     Item  liber  Decretorum.     Item  Archidiaconus  in  Eosario  super  Decreta. 

(2)  1371-2.     Abbot's  Household  (B.  Fortheye,  Clerk  of  Kitchen) :  50s  paid  'pro  emen- 
dacione  unius  magni  missalis  et  unius  parui  missalis  de  Capella  dni.' 

(3)  1384-5.    Abbot's  Treasurer:    3*  2d  for  covering  a  great  Portiforium;   5s  8d  for 
covering  a  book  and  making  three  silver  clasps. 

(4)  1388-9.     Sacrist :  '  pro  libro  registri  de  vestibule  x8.'     This  is  the  Inventory  of 
the  Vestry  (now  at  Canterbury)  which  has  been  edited  by  Dr  Wickham  Legg  (Archaeologia, 
LII,  1890). 


The  Books  of  the  Monastery  9 

IV.  In  the  Liber  Niger  Quaternus  (f.  92)  we  have  the  following 
entry  (A.D.  1398-9): 

Memorandum  de  Expensis  factis  pro  factura  magni  novi  libri  in  medio  chori, 
anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi  xxiido. 

In  primis  R.  Hermod'  solvit  pro  uno  quaterno  pleno  totaliter,  tarn  pro  velym 
quam  scriptura  et  illuminacione. 

Item  Dns  W.  Colchester  Abbas  solvit  vis  viiid.  Dns  J.  Godmerston  vi8  viiid. 
Radulphus  Tonworth  vi8  viiid.  Johannes  Crendon  xxd.  Robertas  Watele  xxd. 
Willelmiis  Amodesham  xiid.  Elminus  Merston  totum  librum  notavit  absque  precio. 
Edwardus  Whaddon  solvit  xxd. 

Isti  supradicti  solverunt,  et  nullus  alius  de  conventu.  Eodem  anno  Johannes 
Kingeston  fuit  Ultimus  in  congregacione. 

Item  eodem  anno  pro  eodem  libro,  praeter  quaternum  quern  fecit  frater 
R.  Hermod',  Radulphus  Tonworth  de  pecunia  predicta  solvit  pro  v  dosen  de  velym 
et  una  pelle,  precii  duodene  vi8 — xxviii8  vid.  Item  pro  scriptura  solutum  Johauni 
Heruynton  xxv8  iid.  Item  pro  biys  vermylon  et  opere  illuminatoris  xxxiii8  iiiid. 
Item  solutum  Johanni  Fouler  pro  illuininatione  vi8  viiid. 

Summa  

Abbot  Colchester  succeeded  Litlyngton  in  1486.  Of  the  other 
subscribers  we  may  note  that  Robert  Whately  was  Prior  in  1407,  and 
William  Agmondesham  was  Archdeacon  in  1414.  Robert  Hermonds- 
worth1  was  the  Keeper  of  the  Lady  Chapel  who  granted  the  lease  of  a 
house  to  Geoffrey  Chaucer  in  1399  (Munim.  Chapt.  House  no.  Ivii). 
John  Hervynton  (or  Hernynton)  was  doubtless  a  hired  scribe,  and  John 
Fowler  a  hired  illuminator  :  but  the  musical  notation  was  done  at  home. 
'  Bice '  is  a  brown  pigment,  and  in  Murray's  Dictionary  we  have  the 
similar  combinations,  '  bis  azur,'  '  bis  vert,'  &c. 

V.  The  next  example  is  a  century  later,  and  in  English :  Munim. 
9326,  a  paper  roll  with  contributions  on  one  side  and  payments  on  the 
other  :  the  date  is  c.  1492. 

Payments  for  the  newe  repairyng  of  the  Seyny  bookes. 

G.  Fassett  priour  payeth  for  the  byndyng  of  the  ii  bookes. 

Th.  Arundell 

J.  Ramsey xxd 

W.  Wycome        ........... 

W.  Lambart 

J.  Hampton iii8  iiiid 

R.  Charyng iii8  iiiid 

J.  Waterdene ,         iii8  iiiid 

1  A  monk  named  H.  de  Hermod'  died  in  1392 ;  and  another  named  Eobert  de 
Hermodesworth  gives  an  account  of  the  property  of  his  sister,  Alice  Sakvill,  in  1444 
(Widmore,  Cat.  pp.  126  A,  and  102).  Harmondsworth,  co.  Middlesex,  near  Staines, 
appears  as  Heremodesworde  in  Domesday. 


10 


Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 


J.  Drope iii8  iiiid 

W.  Brewode .;   v  iiii8 

E.  Langley iis 

W.  Grawnte iii8  iiiid 

J.  Holonde iii8  iiiid 

Th.  Flete  paieth  for  the  stuff  that  shall  belong  to  the  bookes,  and 

also  gevith  the  writer  of  them  his  borde. 

T.  Elie iii8  iiiid 

R.  Newbery iii8  iiiid 

J.  Norton .'        .  iis 

R.  Caston iis 

W.   Lokynton  paieth   for  the   peecyng  of    the   bokes.      And   also 

fyndith  the  writer  his  bedd. 

W.  Mane iii8  iiiid 

J.  Islip 

T.  Barkar x8 

J.  Brice       ............  iii8  iiiid 

J.  Assheley iii8  iiiid 

T.  Champeney 

W.  Redyng    "     

H.  Jonys iii8  iiiid 

J.  Warde iii8  iiiid 

W.  Grove 

T.  Salle ii8 

J.  Albon iii8  iiiid 

T.  Browne iii8  iiiid 

R.  Humfrey ,'u        *,      ..-      .        .        .  iii8  iiiid 

W.  Grene    .        .        .        .        .        .        .        .        ...        .  iis 

Ch.  Chamber ii8 

R°.  Davers          .        .'."."       •'..'•''      •   '     •        •        •        •  "" 

M.  James iii8  iiiid 

J.  Redemayne ii8 

Ra.  Worsley ii8 

Ra.  Romney ii8 

W.  Southwell ii" 

Sum  in  expences  is  a  c8  ii8  xd 
Sum  Received  is  iiiilb  xiiii8  iiiid 
Sum  to  Receive  is  viii8  iid 

On  the  verso: 

Thies  be  the  costes  that  be  leyde  owte  for  the  Seyny  books. 

In  primis  for  lymnyng  of  the  oon  boke  in  grete  letters,     c  et  dim.]  d 

price  of  the  hunderd  xd J 

Item  for  iiiic  Smale  letters  and  xxiiii.  price  per  c.  vd    .         .         .  xxiid 

Item  paide  for  ii  Bukkys  Skynnys iiii8 

Item  paid  for  'iiii  Clapsis.  and  xx  bullions       .....  viii8 

Item  paide  for  lether  and  grete  wyer  for  them       ....  xvd 

Item  for  iii  White  Skynnes xiid 

Item  for  iiii  Rede  Skynnes xxd 


The  Books  of  the  Monastery  11 

Item  paide  for  the  lockes  and  Cheynes iiii8 

Item  for  repairyng  of  the  pewe viii8  iiiid 

Item  paide  for  oon  of  the  Bookes  wrytyng xxvi8  viiid 

Item  paide  for  new  henges  and  Changyng  of  the  lokkes  and  also)  ..g  ....d 

for  nailles  to  them J 

Item  for  the  wrytyng  of  the  nexte  boke          .....  xxvi8  viiid 

Item  for  the  Florishyng  of  grete  letters,  and  for  the  lymnyng  ofl         ....   ...., 

,  x  \      xnn8  mid 

grete  letters  and  smale J 

Summa  c8 

George  Fascet  was  Prior  from  1491  till  1498,  when  he  was  elected 
Abbot.  A  comparison  of  the  lists  of  monks  contained  in  the  Chamber- 
lains' rolls  suggests  that  this  document  was  written  about  1492. 

But  what  are  the  Seyny  books  ?  At  Worcester  we  hear  of  '  seny 
money/  and  at  Lincoln  of  '  seny  days.'  The  word  is  derived  from 
sanguinati,  through  the  French  saignees.  In  the  Accounts  of  Worcester 
Priory,  edited  by  Canon  J.  M.  Wilson,  we  find  (p.  21) :  '  Et  solutum 
eidem  domino  priori  et  conventui  pro  eorum  minucionibus,  cum 
duplicibus  dicti  domini  prioris,  vocat.  senymoney  per  annum,  58s.  8d.' 
'  Seny  days  '  are  mentioned  in  the  Customs  of  Lincoln,  edited  by  Brad- 
shaw  and  Wordsworth  (Lincoln  Statutes  n  575) :  '  diebus  autem 
nuncupatis  Seny  days' ;  cf.  cxvii,  164  '  De  le  seyneis'  (as  a  heading), 
324  '  Poterit  seney '  (marginal  note).  They  were  days  of  permitted 
absence  during  the  '  great  residence '  of  Canons :  the  context  of  the 
reference  last  quoted  speaks  of  blood-letting  as  a  special  cause  of 
absence.  Again,  the  monks  of  Evesham  had  a  house  for  convalescents 
at  Badsey,  which  was  granted  to  Sir  Philip  Hoby  in  1545  under  the 
name  of  the  'seyne  house1.' 

The  term  'Seyny  books'  still  calls  for  explanation:  and  fortunately 
we  find  what  we  want  in  the  Westminster  Customary  of  the  thirteenth 
century.  At  Westminster,  it  appears,  the  monks  who  had  been  bled 
were  allowed  to  sit  during  certain  of  the  choir  services  in  front  of  the 
altar  of  St  Benedict,  using  a  book  called  the  '  liber  minutorum.'  See, 
for  example,  Customary  p.  43,  '  ad  librum  vero  minutorum  unam 
qualibet  nocte  ponet  candelam  (sacrista)';  p.  49,  the  Sacrist  must 
provide  and  repair  various  service  books,  including  'librum  minutorum'; 
p.  239,  '  sanguinati  ac  ceteri  extra  chorum  existentes,  qui  pro  recta 
consuetudine,  quando  vesperae  in  choro  canuntur,  ante  altare  beati 
Benedicti  ad  librum  sedent  minutorum,'  cf.  p.  240 ;  so  again  p.  242,  '  ad 
librum  minutorum  letaniam  omnes  pariter  cum  devocione  explebunt'; 
p.  243,  '  eosdem  psalmos  ad  librum  minutorum  ante  altare  beati 

1  See  Victoria  Co.  Hist.,  Worcestershire,  n  354,  where  a  picture  of  the  house  is  given. 


12  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Benedict!  per  se  dicturus.'  At  St  Augustine's  Canterbury  there 
probably  was  no  such  '  Seyny  book  ' ;  for  though  its  recension  of  the 
Customary  retains  the  words  in  the  two  former  references,  which  come 
incidentally  in  the  description  of  the  Sacrist's  duties,  yet  in  the  later 
passages  it  drops  out  the  phrase  substituting  in  one  case  '  the  cross 
before  St  Benedict's  altar.' 

'  The  Florishyng  of  grete  letters '  might  have  been  done  without 
outside  help  a  few  years  earlier,  as  may  be  seen  from  the  following 
letter  which  is  appended  to  the  formal  dimissio  of  brother  Edward 
Butler,  who  had  sought  leave  to  join  the  Cluniac  brethren  of  St 
Milburga's  Priory  (at  Wenlock)  in  the  diocese  of  Hereford.  The  letter 
is  sent  from  Abbot  Esteney  to  Prior  Richard  Synger  (Register  A  f.  306) 
in  April  1489. 

Reverent  brother  in  Crist,  We  grete  you  wele.  And  it  is  so  that  one  Edward 
Botiller  a  brother  of  ours  hath  often  and  diverse  tymes  praied  and  desired  us  licence 
to  be  dimissed  out  of  our  obedience,  and  he  desireth  to  be  a  brother  of  your  place 
and  your  obedience,  and  hath  grete  desire  to  be  with  you  and  in  that  Contree  ;  at 
which  desire  we  have  licenced  the  same  Edward  and  geven  hym  a  dimissyon  under 
our  scale.  The  same  Edward  hath  competent  lernyng  and  understondyng,  and  can 
ayng  bothe  playn  song  and  prikked  song  ;  and  also  a  faire  writer,  a  fflorissher  and 
maker  of  capitall  letters.  Wherfor  I  pray  you  that  ye  will  admitte  the  same  Edward 
Botiller  to  be  a  brother  of  your  place  and  under  your  Rule  and  obedience.  And  god 
preserve  you.  Writen  at  our  Monastery  of  West1'  the  ix  day  of  Aprill. 

2. 

We  now  pass  to  the  modern  period.  At  the  dissolution  of  the 
monastery  an  Inventory  was  taken — probably  in  1541,  for  the  new 
Bishop  had  already  entered  into  possession  of  the  Abbot's  House1.  A 
few  church  books  are  included,  but  the  Library  is  not  mentioned. 
But  in  the  reign  of  K.  Edward  VI  an  Order  in  Council  was  made,  under 
Dudley,  Earl  of  Warwick,  for  '  purging  the  Library  of  Westminster  of 
all  missals,  legends,  and  other  superstitious  volumes,  and  delivering 
their  garniture  to  Sir  Anthony  Aucher2.' 

1  Public  Eecord  Office :  Land  Revenue,  Misc.  Bks,  no.  110 :  printed  in  large  part  by 
M.  E.  C.  Walcott  in  Trans,  of  Land,  and  Middl.  Archaeol.  Soc.,  Aug.  1873,  vol.  iv,  pt  iii. 

2  Quoted  by  Neale  and  Brayley  i  297  from  Collier's  Eccl.  Hist.  11  307.     The  actual 

Order,  passed  on  25  Feb.  1550/1,  was  this:  'The  Kinges  Majesties  lettre for  the 

purging  of  his  Highnes  Librarie  at  Westminster  of  all  superstitiouse  bookes,  as  masse 
bookes,  legendes  and  suche  like,  and  to  deliver  the  garnyture  of  the  same  bookes,  being 
either  of  golde  or  silver,  to  Sir  Anthony  Aucher  in  the  presence  of  Sir  Thomas  Darcie,  &c.' 
But  it  may  be  doubted  whether  this  refers  to  the  Abbey  Library,  which  perhaps  had  already 
been  destroyed,  and  which  would  not  be  likely  to  contain  church  books  with  precious 
bindings. 


The  Chapter  Library  13 

A  new  start  was  made  towards  the  close  of  Dean  Benson's  time. 
For  in  the  first  Chapter  Book  we  read  (f.  48) : 

(13  Jan.  1549.)  Also  yt  is  lykwyse  determened  that  the  tow  lecternes  of  latten 
and  caudelstyckes  of  latten  wythe  angelles  of  copper  and  gylte,  and  all  other  brasse 
latten  belle  mettell  and  brasse  shalbe  solde  by  Mr  heynes  Treasourer,  by  cause  they 
be  monymentes  of  Idolatrie  and  Supersticyon,  and  the  monye  thereof  cummyng  to 
be  receyvyd  by  the  sayd  Treasaurer  for  tnakyng  of  the  lybrary  and  bying  of  bookes 
for  the  same. 

And  it  is  also  agreed  that  Mr  pekyns  and  Mr  keble  shall  see  the  weyght  of  all 
the  sayd  metalle  ;  and  that  the  lybrary  shalbe  fynisshed  in  the  northe  parte  of  the 
cloyster,  as  sone  as  the  money  can  be  made  of  the  premisses. 

Up  to  this  point,  then,  the  locality  of  the  Library  remains  the  same. 
When  the  monks  returned  in  1556  the  armaria  were  doubtless  cleared 
of  their  Protestant  contents,  even  if  they  had  escaped  the  attention  of 
the  Marian  Dean,  Hugh  Weston. 

Dean  Bill  (1560)  in  his  draft  of  Statutes  (which  is  largely  based  on 
the  Statutes  given  in  1552  to  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  of  which  he 
was  Master)  contemplates  the  foundation  of  a  Library.  In  the  Statute 
De  custodia  bonorum  collegii1  we  read : 

Si  qui  libros  e  bibliotheca,  aut  quid  aliud  bonorum  collegii,  mutuantur,  iidem  in 
prodecani  commentariis  nomen  suum  subscribant,  et  de  praestatione  promittant : 
qui  non  praestiterit,  vel  duplum  solvat  vel  collegio  excludatur. 

Bibliotheca  munda  servetur,  et  alternis  diebus  scopis  mundetur.  Huic  decanus 
et  capitulum  aliquem  e  ministris  assignent,  qui  earn  bene  asservandam  curet  [cui 
pro  labore  viginti  solidos  collegium  solvat]2. 

Collegium  viginti  solidos  in  libris  emendis  et  in  bibliotheca  collocandis  quotannis 
pendat. 

Si  quis  quid  bibliothecae  dederit,  nomen  ejus  non  modo  in  principio  libri 
inscribatur,  sed  etiam  tabulae  in  bibliotheca  aflfigantur,  quae  omnia  donatorum 
nomina,  dona  et  tempus  donationis  complectantur. 

In  1574  Dean  Goodman  (1561-1601)  inaugurated  a  new  Library 
with  the  gift  of  the  Complutensian  Bible3  and  a  Hebrew  vocabulary. 
In  1st  Chap.  Bk  f.  157,  we  find  this  entry : 

Bokes  given  to  the  College. 

Md  that  Mr  Gabriell  Goodman,  dean  of  this  Collegiate  Churche,  the  iide  of 
decembr  1574  gave  unto  this  College  towardes  a  Librarie  to  be  made  in  the  same  : 
Thole  Bible  secundum  Complutensem  editionem,  conteyned  in  Five  tomes  or 
volumes,  and  one  hebrue  vocabulare. 

1  Cap.  35  in  the  Trinity  Statutes  of  1552. 

2  The  words  in  brackets  were  inserted  later. 

3  Dean  Vincent,  in  his  Note-book  preserved  in  the  Deanery,  says :  '  it  was  imperfect, 
but  was  completed  by  the  care  of  W.  V.  1812.' 


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The  work  of  fitting  up  a  Library  was  put  in  hand  without  delay. 
An  account  rendered  by  Thomas  Fowler,  surveyor,  for  six  weeks  ending 
2  April  1575,  contains  the  following  passages  (Munim.  39,037)  : 

Chardges  done  in  making  of  a  newe  Liberarye. 

Joyners  occupied  in  makinge  of  a  new  Liberary  in  the  Colledge  of  Westminster 
with  other  thinges  nedefull  there  to  be  done,  &c. 

[Wages,  boards,  nails,  glass.] 

Ironworke.  To  William  Conan  Smythe  for  these  Parcels  followinge,  viz.  for  a 
paier  of  Henges  and  a  paier  of  hookes  for  a  dore  in  the  Liberarye,  weyenge  viiu  at 
iiid  the  pound — xxid  :  for  making  an  upright  and  a  Locket  for  the  tower  in  the 
Cloyster  where  the  Liberarye  shalbe  of  their  owne  stoffe  weyenge  xi  pounde  at  iid 
the  pounde — xxiid  :  for  making  di.  [i.e.  half]  a  bitt  for  a  plate  Locke  in  the 
Liberarye — vid :  for  making  a  dowble  Casemente  for  the  Liberarie — v8. 


The  Chardges  of  the  Liberarye  cometh  to  the  some  of — xi11  viii8  xd. 

In  a  similar  account,  for  fourteen  weeks  ending  9  July  1575 
(Munim.  39,038),  we  find: 

For  making  a  table  in  the  Liberarie — xvi8 :  for  making  a  peace  of  selling  [i.e. 
panelling]  in  the  Liberary  cont.  vii  yardes  and  a  halfe  at  n8  the  yarde — xvs :  for  iiii 
joyne  stooles  in  the  Liber,  at  xvid  the  peece — v8  iiiid. 


For  a  dowble  stocke  locke  and  a  keye  for  the  same  Locke  for  a  dore  in  the 
Liberarie — iii" :  for  another  dowble  stocke  loce  for  a  dore  in  the  Liberarie — ii  iiiid  : 
for  a  crampyn  for  the  same  dore  and  for  yoking  it  into  the  walle — vid :  for  ii  boultes 
for  the  same  dore  at  vid  the  pece  — xiid. 

We  learn  from  the  former  of  these  accounts  that  the  books  were  not 
to  be  kept  (as  in  the  old  monastic  days  and  in  the  time  of  K.  Edward  VI) 
in  the  north  walk  of  the  cloister,  but  in  '  the  tower  in  the  Cloyster.' 
What  does  this  mean  ? 

Fortunately  we  are  able  to  answer  this  question  by  means  of  an 
incidental  clause  in  a  lease  of  1606,  which  points  to  the  house  over  the 
east  cloister,  reached  from  the  east  walk  of  the  cloister  by  the  turret- 
staircase.  This  house  is  now  entirely  gone  :  the  last  remains  of  it  were 
the  two  chambers  which  till  a  few  years  ago  blocked  up  the  south  part 
of  the  Muniment  Room.  Under  the  great  round  arch  outside  the 
Muniment  Room  can  still  be  seen  the  holes  for  the  beams  which 
carried  a  floor.  The  history  of  the  house,  so  far  as  it  can  at  present  be 
traced,  is  as  follows :  it  was  (1)  a  prebendary's  house,  (2)  a  Library  and  an 
Armoury,  (3)  let  to  Thomas  Griffin  and  Thomas  Goodman,  (4)  recovered 
for  the  use  of  a  prebendary,  (5)  let  to  Colonel  Humphreyes  under  the 
Commonwealth,  (6)  let  to  Bradshawe  and  largely  repaired  by  him, 
(7)  occupied  again  by  prebendaries  until  it  was  pulled  down  at  the 


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time  of  Wren's  restorations  in  1711.     It  is  with  the  earlier  of  these 
stages  that  we  are  here  concerned. 

On  4  Dec.  1606  the  Chapter  Book  records  (f.  289  6) : 

A  lease  to  Robert  Knowles  in  trust  for  the  evictinge  of  Thomas  Griffins  and 
Thomas  Goodmans  lease  of  the  prebendes  Lodginge  over  the  Easte  cloyster. 

The  lease,  which  was  sealed  next  day,  specifies  (Munim.  18,313) : 

all  those  Lodginges,  Romthes  and  Chambers  scituate,  lyinge  and  beinge  over  the 
East  Cloyster  on  the  Sowth  side  of  the  said  Collegiate  Churche,  sometimes  the 
Howse  and  Lodginge  belongiuge  to  one  of  the  Prebendes  of  the  said  Collegiate 
Churche,  whereof  some  parte  was  some  tyme  ymployed  for  a  library,  And  some 
other  parte  for  an  Armorie1  for  the  said  Collegiate  Churche,  and  nowe  in  the 
occupation  of  Thomas  Griffine  of  Westminster. 

The  lease  in  dispute  had  been  granted  to  Thomas  Griffin  and 
Thomas  Goodman  on  6  Dec.  1597.  By  that  date,  if  not  before,  the 
Library  must  have  found  a  new  home :  but  it  is  clear  that  for  some 
years  after  1575  it  was  lodged  in  a  portion  of  this  house. 

To  this  period  of  its  history  the  following  notices  belong : 

(Munim.  30,392.  A.D.  1576.)  For  a  Curten  of  buckrom  to  hang  afore  a  Mappe  in 
the  Liberarye — iii8  iiiid. 

For  making  a  Curten  Rode  and  two  hookes  for  a  Mappe  in  the  new  Liberary 
being  vi  foote  Longe — xvid. 

Cf.  Munim.  39,389  (earlier  in  the  same  year) :  For  a  frame  for  a  Mappe — vi8. 

(Munim.  40,192.  A.D.  1588.)  A  Brickleyer  and  Tylor  occupied  in  Tyling  over  the 
Lyberary  in  the  great  Cloystre. 

In  the  twelve  years  which  passed  after  its  establishment  over  the 
east  cloister,  the  Library  had  grown,  chiefly,  no  doubt,  by  bequests 
from  some  of  the  twelve  prebendaries  who  had  died  in  the  interval2. 
There  were  duplicates  and  even  triplicates,  a  natural  result  of  the 
indiscriminate  acceptance  of  bequests.  Something  more  was  required 

1  The  Treasurer's  Accounts  for  1596  contain  a  charge   of  30s.  for  '  scowringe  the 
Armour.'    A  carpenter's  bill  (Munim.  40,813)  has :  '  worke  done  in  the  librare  about  the 
armor,  begun  the  x  daye  of  November  and  ended  the  xiiii  day,  1601 ' :  it  would  seem  from 
this  that  the  armour  followed  the  books,  when  they  were  moved  out  of  the  house  over  the 
east  cloister  some  time  between  1591  and  1597.    Later  references  occur  in  the  Treasurer's 
Accounts  of  1603,  when  morrans,  swords,  muskets,  <fec.   were  bought  for  ci"  iiiid,   and 
also  100  Ibs  of  gunpowder :   and  in  those  of  1605,  '  paid  to  Rice  Williams  for  watching 
and  warding  with  munition  and  shott  during  the  sicknes  and  funerall  of  our  late  Queene 
Eliz.,  and  also  for  chardges  at  the  coronation  of  our  most  gracious  soveraigne  King 
James — viM  xs.' 

2  As,  for  example,  by  the  bequest  of  William  Latymer,  who  died  shortly  before  15  Oct. 
1583  :  for  in  a  copy  of  Melanchthon,  Annotationes  in  Evangelia  (Frankfurt,  1544),  we  find: 
'Gulielmus  Latymerus,  nuper  unus  prebendariorum  huius  ecclesiae,  hunc  librum  dono 
dedit  bibliothecae  huius  collegii  Westmonasteriensis.     1584.'    [H.  7.  5.] 


16  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

than  'sweeping  every  other  day.'  Rearrangement  and  cataloguing 
called  for  another  kind  of  caretaker  than  was  contemplated  in  the 
Statutes.  The  services  of  the  under-master,  no  less  a  genius  than 
William  Camden1,  were  to  be  secured,  and  rewarded  by  the  meagre 
stipend  of  a  pound  a  year2.  Under  date  of  16  May  1587  we  read 
(f.  208) : 

1.  It  is  decreed  by  the  Deane  and  Chapter,  whose  names  are  underwritten,  that 
the  librarie  of  the  Colledge  shalbe  furnished  with  shelves,  deskes  and  all  thinges 
necessarie  thereunto. 

2.  Item  that  an  Inventarie  shalbe  taken  of  all  the  bookes  perteynyng  therunto, 
and  thre  copies  therof  to  be  made,  and  thone  to  remaine  in  the  librarie,  the  2d  to 
be  kept  with  Mr  Deane,  and  the  third  to  remaine  with  the  Subdeane  for  the  tyme 
being. 

3.  Item  that  all  such  bookes  as  be  duble  or  triple  shalbe  sold  or  exchaunged, 
keping  the  best  for  the  librarie,  and  the  price  or  valew  of  the  said  bookes  to  be 
bestowed  upon  other  bookes  fytt  for  the  same. 

4.  Item  that  Mr  Deane,  Mr  d.  Bonde,  Mr  d.  Woode,  Mr  Grante,  Mr  Monford,  and 
Mr  Webstare,  or  any  two  of  them  with  Mr  Deane,  shall  sell,  alter,  change,  and  buy 
such  necessarie  bookes  as  be  superfluous,  or  necessarie  for  the  said  librarie. 

5.  Item  that  Mr  Deane,  and  everie  prebendarie  that  will,  shall  have  a  key 
therof. 

6.  Item  that  Mr  Camden,  usher  for  the  tyme  present,  or  the  usher  or  a 
peticannon  herafter,  by  the  apoyntment  of  Mr  Deane,  shall  be  keper  of  the  said 
librarie,  who  shall  have  a  care  to  kepe  cleane,  order,  and  dispose,  and  safelie 
preserve  the  same,  and,  for  his  paynes  there  imployd,  shall  have  yearlie  xxs. 

7.  Item   it  is  decreed,  that   a  table  shalbe  kept  of  the  names  of  all  such 
benefactors,  as  either  have  or  herafter  shall  bestow  any  bookes  upon  the  said 
librarie. 

We  now  come  to  the  formal  assignment  to  the  Library  of  the  room 
which  it  at  present  occupies.    This  was  ordered  on  3  Dec.  1591  (f.  223  6). 

It  is  decreed  by  Mr  Deane  and  Prebendaries  whose  names  be  underwritten,  that 
the  old  dorter,  and  great  rome  before  it,  shalbe  converted  th'one  to  a  librarie, 
thother  to  a  schole  for  the  Q.  schollers,  to  be  repaired  and  furnished  to  those  good 
uses,  upon  contribution  of  such  godlie  disposed  persons,  as  have  and  will  contribute 
thereunto,  and  the  same  schole  and  librarie  to  be  begun  in  the  next  spring,  and  the 
mony  collected  to  the  use  therof,  to  be  receaved  by  D.  Grant,  and  th'  accompte  of 
the  said  receiptes  to  be  made  by  him  to  Mr  Deane  and  prebendaries  present. 

Edward  Grant,  one  of  the  prebendaries  whose  names  are  signed 

1  Camden  was  undermaster  from  1575  to  1593,  and  then  headmaster  till  1598.     For 
two  years  at  least  he  sang  in  the  choir  (Treas.  Acct.  1584-5,  1585-6),  he  and  William 
Heather  being  lay-clerks  at  the  same  time.     For  his  gift  of  books  in  1623  see  below, 
p.  40. 

2  It  is  curious  that  in  spite  of  this  Order,  and  of  the  sentence  in  the  Statute  which  was 
probably  inserted  about  this  time  (supr.  p.  13),  the  Treasurer's  Accounts  shew  no  fee  for 
the  Library-keeper  until  1606  (infr.  p.  17). 


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to  this  Order,  was  the  schoolmaster.     The  money,  however,  for  the 
school  was  slow  in  coming  in :  for  we  read  on  7  May  1599 : 

It  is  decreed  by  Mr  Deane  and  the  Prebendaries  present,  that  in  respect  that  the 
now  Scholehowse  is  to  low  and  to  litle  to  conteyne  the  number  of  Schollers,  that 
the  old  Dorter,  of  late  yeares  begun  to  be  made  a  larger  Schole,  shalbe,  with  all 
convenient  spede,  turned  to  that  good  use,  for  the  benefytt  of  the  Schollers,  by  such 
charitable  contributions  as  may  be  gathered  for  the  fynishing  therof l. 

Although  the  Library  had  still  to  wait  more  than  twenty  years  for 
its  great  benefactor,  we  may  assume  that  the  books  were  moved  from 
the  'Prebends  Lodginge'  soon  after  the  Order  of  3  Dec.  1591  into  the 
northern  portion  of  the  old  Dorter.  They  had  evidently  been  gone 
some  time  when  the  lease  of  1606  was  granted :  doubtless  they  went 
before  Thomas  Griffith  and  Thomas  Goodman  entered  into  possession 
in  1597. 

On  19  May  1606,  in  Dean  Neile's  first  year  of  office,  the  following 
Order  was  made : 

That  from  hense  forth  ther  shalbe  paid  to  Gabriell  Birkhede  20s  per  annum  for 
the  keepinge  of  the  library,  according  to  a  former  Chapter  decree. 

The  reference  seems  to  be  to  the  original  Order  of  3  Dec.  1591. 
The  Treasurer's  Accounts  shew  that  Gabriel  Birkhead2  was  regularly  paid 
from  1606  to  his  death  in  1614.  His  successors  were  James  Montaigne 
(1615),  Robert  Prichard  (1618),  Edward  Hooper  (1619\  Richard 
Gouland  (1620). 

The  following  items  from  the  Treasurer's  Accounts  of  this  period 
may  find  a  place  here. 

1572.     To  Mr  Carkett  In  Reward  for  Writing  an  old  Cronycle  of  Westmr,  x8. 
1608.     To  Simon  Paterson  for  bindinge  the  old  written  bible  in  folio  which  the 

Schollers  reade  in  the  Hall,  iiii8. 
1613.     For  mendinge  the  library  locke,  xiid. 
1616.     For  mendinge  the  Close  windows  in  the  Library,  xxxi8. 

The  advent  of  Dean  Williams,  10  July  1620,  marks  a  new  era  in  the 

1  In  a  bill  of  1601-2  we  find :    '  the  new  scholehouse  beinge  ripped,  and  other  the 
Prebends  Lodgings  ther  to  adioyninge  beinge  ripped '  [Munim.  40,982],     This  was  in  the 
first  year  of  Dean  Andrewes. 

2  He  was  Dean  Goodman's  godson,  and  a  Westminster  scholar.     He  was  buried  in  the 
cloisters,  23  Dec.  1614.     He  was  probably  grandson  of  Anne  Birkhed  who  died  in  1568, 
aged  102  ;  and  sou  of  Christopher  Birkhed  who  died  in  1595,  aged  77  (Chester,  Registers). 
Christopher   Birkhed   was    a    lay-clerk    (Treas.   Accts),    and   Thomas   Birkhead    was    a 
prebendary  from  1551  to  1554.     Gabriel,  who  was  doubtless  named  after  the  Dean,  held 
various  offices  :    sacrist  (1584),   bell-ringer  (1600).    A  copy  of   Cranmer's  Bible  in  the 
Library  [Zz  6  9]  contains  in  the  calendar  at  the  beginning  entries  of  the  births  and 
deaths  of  members  of  the  Birkhed  family. 

K.  W.  2 


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history  of  the  Library.     He  at  once  introduced  a  true  scholar,  Richard 
Gouland,  as  Librarian,  and  soon  procured  him  an  increased  stipend. 

31  July  1622.  It  is  further  also  decreed  at  this  present  Chapiter,  that  the 
Librarye  Keeper  shall  have  besides  the  olde  allowance  he  hath  allreadye  of  20s  per 
annum,  a  new  allowance  of  8Ji  per  annum  more,  to  be  accrewinge  out  of  these  two 
houses  within  the  Colledge  close,  lately  demised  to  John  Packer  Esquire,  and 
Thomas  Alisbury  Esquire. 

The  Treasurer's  Account  for  1623  shews  a  payment 

For  writinge  out  the  Catalogg  of  the  bookes  belonging  to  the  Colledge  Library, 
ii8  vid. 

The  smallness  of  this  payment  may  afford  some  .indication  of  the 
size  of  the  Library  before  Williams  with  splendid  liberality  took  it  in 
hand.  What  he  did  may  be  told  first  in  the  florid  language  of  his 
chaplain  and  biographer,  Bishop  Hacket1 : 

With  the  same  generosity  and  strong  propension  of  mind  to  enlarge  the 
Boundaries  of  Learning,  he  converted  a  wast  Room,  situate  in  the  East  side  of 
the  Cloysters  into  Plato's  Portico,  into  a  goodly  Libarary,  model'd  it  into  decent 
Shape,  furnished  it  with  Desks  and  Chains,  accoutred  it  with  all  Vtensils,  and 
stored  it  with  a  vast  Number  of  Learned  Volumes  :  For  which  use  he  lighted  most 
fortunately  upon  the  Study  of  that  Learned  Gentleman  Mr  Baker  of  ffighgate, 
who  in  a  long  and  industrious  Life  had  Collected  into  his  own  possession  the  best 
Authors  in  all  Sciences,  in  their  best  Editions,  which  being  bought  at  5001.  (a  cheap 
Peny  worth  for  such  precious  War)  were  removed  into  this  Store-House.  When  he 
received  Thanks  from  all  the  professors  of  Learning  in  and  about  London  far  beyond 
his  expectation,  because  they  had  free  admittance  to  such  Hony  from  the  Flowers 
of  such  a  Garden,  as  they  wanted  before,  it  compell'd  him  to  unlock  his  Cabinet  of 
Jewels,  and  bring  forth  his  choicest  Manuscripts.  A  Right  Noble  Gift  in  all  the 
Books  he  gave  to  this  Serapceum,  but  especially  the  Parchments.  Some  good 
Authors  were  confer'd  by  other  Benefactors,  but  the  richest  Fruit  was  shaken  from 
the  Boughs  of  this  one  Tree,  which  will  keep  green  in  an  unfading  Memory  in 
despite  of  the  Tempest  of  iniquity.  As  Pliny  the  younger  wrote  in  an  Epistle  upon 
the  Death  of  his  Son,  quatenus  nobis  denegatur  diu  vivere,  relinquamus  aliquid  quo 
nos  vixisse  testemur  ;  so  this  Work  will  bear  Witness  to  Posterity,  that  he  liv'd,  and 
that  he  liv'd  beneficently.  I  borrow  that  assurance  from  honour'd  Mr  Selden  in  his 
Epistle  before  the  History  of  Eadmerus  Dedicated  to  the  Founder  of  this  Library, 
to  whom  he  writes  in  these  Words  ;  Egregius  peritissimusque  literarum  censor,  et 
fautor  indulgentissimus  et  audis,  et  vere  es.  Quippe  qui  Doctrinam  suo  merito  indies 
cupientissimus  honestas :  et  sumptuosam  in  struendis  publico  usui  Bibliothecis  operam 
impendis.  Praemiuin  ita  studiosis  et  armarium,  etiam  sine  exemplo  solicitus  parandi. 
Yet  what  an  ill  requital  did  these  unthankful  times  make  him,  when  they  removed 
that  worthy  Scholar,  the  Bibliothecary,  whom  he  had  placed,  Mr  Richard  Gouland  ? 
whom  he  pick'd  out  above  all  men  for  that  Office,  being  inferior  to  none  in  the 
knowledg  of  good  Authors,  Superiour  to  any  for  Fidelity  and  Diligence  of  so 

1  John  Hacket  and  George  Herbert  went  up  to  Trinity  as  Westminster  scholars  at  the 
Election  of  1608. 


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mortified  a  Life,  that  he  could  scandalize  none  but  with  Innocency  and  Piety  ;  nor 
offend  any  but  by  Meekness  and  Inoffensiveness.     Such  times,  such  Fruits1. 

Even  the  eulogy  of  his  admirer  cannot  exaggerate  the  work  which 
Williams  did.  The  room  itself,  which  was  largely  rebuilt  by  him,  and 
its  furniture  are  well  described  by  Mr  J.  W.  Clark  (loc.  cit).  The  books 
which  he  gave,  to  the  number  of  2000,  are  entered  in  a  handsome  parch- 
ment volume,  which  shews  how  many  of  the  public  men  of  his  day  were 
laid  under  contribution  by  him2. .  And  a  full  and  formal  recognition  of 
his  services  on  the  part  of  the  Chapter  is  preserved  in  the  following 
Order  of  27  Jan.  1626,  soon  after  he  had  lost  the  royal  favour  and  had 
been  forced  to  surrender  the  Great  Seal : 

Whereas  the  Right  Honble  and  Right  reverend  Father  in  God,  John  Bisshop  of 
Lyncolne,  one  of  his  maties  most  Honble  privye  Councel,  and  Deane  of  the  collegiate 
church  of  S'  Peter  in  AVestmr,  hath  beene  pleased  to  reedifye  our  college  Library 
and  the  same  to  replenish  with  bookes  to  the  vallue  of  Two  thousand  pounds  at  his 
owne  propper  costs  and  charges. 

And  whereas  Mr  Richard  Gouland  Mr  of  Artes  hath  taken  very  great  and 
assiduous  paines  for  thes  two  last  yeares  as  in  the  choice  so  in  the  well  ordering 
and  disposition  of  the  said  bookes  : 

We  therefore  the  Deane  and  chapiter  of  this  Collegiate  church  for  the  perpetuall 
preservation  of  the  said  bookes  to  the  good  use  thay  were  intended  by  the  said  Right 
reverend  Father  :  as  also  in  recompence  of  the  paines  of  the  said  Richard  Gouland, 
do  with  an  unanimous  Consent  constitute  and  appoint  him  the  said  Richard  Gouland 
Keeper  of  our  said  Colledg  Lybrary,  during  the  Tearme  of  his  naturall  life,  the  said 
Office  to  be  executed  by  him  self  or  his  sufficient  deputy,  and  do  hereby  give  unto 
him  during  the  said  Tearme  all  that  antient  Stipend,  or  Fee  of  Twenty  shillings, 
together  with  an  increase  of  Nineteene  pownds  per  annum,  which  said  Summe  is  to 
be  raised  in  forme  following  : 

Allso  we  further  agree  and  consent  that  the  said  Richard  Gouland  shall  have  and 
enioy,  a  diet  at  the  Deane  and  prebendaries  table  :  together  with  all  vailes,  profitts, 
and  Commodities  to  his  place  belonging. 

Lastly  at  this  present  chapiter  it  is  resolved  and  agreed  that  for  his  better 
Conveniency,  and  attendance  uppon  the  said  Office,  he  shall  have  and  enioy  in  the 
nature  of  a  dwelling  house,  that  roonie  betwixt  the  Lybrary  and  the  Schoole,  which 
we  do  by  this  present  assigne  to  him,  or  his  deputy,  or  deputies,  and  to  their 
Successors  in  that  office  for  ever  :  allowing  allso  in  his  absence  to  his  deputy,  his 
commons  with  the  officers  of  our  colledg. 

At  the  same  Chapter  was  granted : 

Richard  Gowland  a  Patten  of  the  office  of  the  Keeper  of  the  Colledg  Library,  fee 
per  annum  xx11. 

We  shall  have  to  speak  presently  of  the  room  between  the  Library 
and  the  schoolroom,  which  was  thus  assigned  to  the  Librarian.  We 
may  now  follow  the  fortunes  of  Mr  Richard  Gouland. 

1  Racket's  Life  of  Williams :  Scrinia  Reserata,  1693,  i.  46  f. 

2  See  below,  pp.  39,  42,  where  the  full  list  of  his  manuscripts  is  also  given. 

2—2 


20  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

When  Williams  was  deprived  of  the  Great  Seal,  in  October  1625, 
among  his  parting  requests  to  the  King  was  included  a  petition  '  that 
his  Majesty  would  please  to  bestow  the  next  Prebend  in  Westminster 
that  was  void  upon  his  Library-keeper,  as  his  Father  had  promis'd.'1 
Nothing  came  of  this,  but  in  1632  Williams  gave  him  a  prebendal 
stall  at  Lincoln. 

On  11  Feb.  1650  it  was  agreed  'at  a  Meetinge  of  the  Governors  of 
the  Schoole  and  Almeshouses  of  Westminster,' 

Upon  readinge  of  Mr  Gowland's  Petition  and  upon  Consideration  of  his  inability 
of  body  by  reason  of  his  weakness  and  sicklyness  which  Doth  Disinable  him  to 
Attend  the  Service  of  Library  Keeper  of  the  Library  belongeinge  to  the  Schoole  of 
Westm1', 

that  Mr  Gowland  should  receive  £160  provided  he  should  deliver  up  his 
Patent  (Munim.  43,165). 

And  on  24  Sept.  1651  it  was  agreed  '  to  pay  unto  Mr  Goland  the 
Summe  of  Six  pounds  which  he  laid  out  for  a  Leidger  Booke  of  Vellam' 
(Munim.  43,296).  This  doubtless  refers  to  the  great  book  in  which  the 
Benefactors  of  the  Library  are  recorded. 

He  was  buried  in  the  north  cloister,  15  Nov.  1659, '  after  a  painful 
and  wearisom  Pilgrimage  in  a  weak  and  sickly  body.'  He  left  £10  to 
purchase  for  the  Library  '  the  choicest  pieces  of  the  works  of  John 
Gerrardus,  Vossius,  and  Salmatius '  (Chester,  Registers)'2. 

In  November  1650,  after  Mr  Gouland  had  retired,  we  find 
carpenter's  and  plumber's  bills,  amounting  to  about  £6,  for  repairing 
the  roof  of  the  Library.  As  the  same  accounts  include  an  item  '  for 
mending  Coll.  Humphreyes  house  broken  downe  with  the  stones,'  it 
seems  likely  that  a  fall  from  the  church  had  damaged  both  the  Library 
and  the  adjoining  house  over  the  east  cloister  (Munim.  43,21:3  A — D). 

The  following  documents  carry  on  the  story  of  the  room  between  the 
Library  and  the  schoolroom  which  had  been  assigned  to  Mr  Gouland 
'  in  the  nature  of  a  dwellinghouse.' 

Munim.  43,292*. 

In  obedience  to  your   Honours  order  July  12th  1651   I  survey'd  the  roome 
ioyning  to  the  Library  which  conteineth  as  followeth. 
Imp.      In  Bredth  34  foote 

In  length  24  foote 

All  which  conteineth  7  square  of  flowring 

The  charge  will  amount  to  12+i     10    0. 

1  Racket's  Life  of  Williams,  n.  25. 

2  The  books  actually  purchased  with  his  money  are  recorded  in  the  great  book  of 
donors,  f.  80 b. 


The  Chapter  Library  21 

Three  windowes  to  bee  taken  out  of  the  Eoofe  of  the  said  roome 
which  containing  12  lights  apeece  the  charge  of  each  window  will 
bee  7+i  0  0. 

The  Partition  which  goes  crosse  this  roome  will  make  good  the  Wall 
next  the  Schoole 

The  charge  of  this  worke  will  amount  to  33*1     10    0. 

These  are  returnd  in  obedience  to  your  Honours  Order. 

Adam  Browne. 

Munim.  43,486  [Report  of  a  Committee,  21  Nov.  1653]. 

Upon  the  Retorne  of  the  Report  of  Mr  Adam  Browne,  Surveyor,  Concerning  the 
Roome  adioyning  to  the  Library  The  Committee  is  of  oppinion  that  the  said 
Roome  be  made  fitt  and  soe  many  Stalls  made  as  will  Receive  the  Manuscripts  of 
Dr  Williams,  the  Charge  whereof  will  Amount  to  about  40*1  which  the  Committee 
thinke  fitt  to  make  Report  to  the  Governors  on  Saturday  next. 

Munim.  43,487. 

In  obedience  to  your  Honours  order  of  the  10th  of  this  present  Decemb.  1653, 
Mr  Busby  and  I  have  viewed  that  part  of  the  Library,  which  is  sett  apart  for  the 
Manuscripts,  and  hee  thinkes  6  foote  from  the  partition  will  bee  sufficient  for 
that  use. 

The  charge  of  the  partition  in  timber  worke  will  be  12  square  at  25s  the  square, 
that  is  in  summe  15* :  in  playstering  there  will  bee  200  yards,  which  will  bee  the 
charge  of  9s  :  besides  there  must  bee  a  window  made  into  that  roome,  of  which  the 
charge  3tt. 

So  the  total  charge  will  bee — 27*. 

[An  estimate  for  a  new  Curtain  for  the  Schoolroom  follows,  and  the  whole  is 
signed  by  Adam  Browne.] 

The  care  thus  bestowed  was  fatal  to  the  collection  of  manuscripts  ; 
for  they  perished  in  a  fire  which  broke  out  here  at  the  end  of  1694. 
(Widmore,  Hist  pp.  164  f.) 


22  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 


II. 

THE  REMAINS   OF  THE  MONASTIC   LIBRARY 
OF   WESTMINSTER   ABBEY. 

The  following  is  an  attempt  at  a  list  of  books  lost  or  extant  which 
we  know  to  have  been  in  the  Library  of  the  Abbey  at  the  time  of  the 
dissolution.  It  is  only  an  attempt.  I  have  not  been  able  to  make  so 
careful  a  search  for  Westminster  books  as  for  those  belonging  to  some 
other  houses.  Nevertheless,  as  will  be  seen,  the  survey  has  included  a 
considerable  number  of  libraries.  One  drawback  about  the  Westminster 
books  is  that,  so  far  as  I  can  see,  they  are  only  identifiable  by  means  of 
definite  inscriptions  contained  in  them.  In  other  words,  there  was 
no  such  system  of  press-marks  in  use  at  the  Abbey  as  prevailed  at 
Canterbury,  Ely,  Bury,  Norwich,  and  other  places. 

First,  in  the  three  bibliographical  compilations  of  the  fourteenth 
and  fifteenth  centuries,  the  Liber  Septem  Custodiarum,  the  Registrum 
Angliae,  and  Boston  of  Bury  (all  as  yet  unpublished,  quoted  by  me  from 
transcripts  in  my  possession),  the  name  of  Westminster  occurs  as  no.  11 
in  the  list  of  libraries  of  which  account  is  taken1.  But  in  the  texts  of 
all  three,  so  far  as  I  have  seen,  there  is  but  a  single  instance  of  this 
library  being  cited:  it  is  adduced  as  containing  a  copy  of  Origen's 
Homilies  on  Joshua  in  the  Registrum  Angliae.  In  the  Liber  Septem 
Custodiarum  a  reference  to  another  library  takes  its  place,  and  in  Boston 
both  are  absent.  In  a  word,  we  gain  nothing  from  these  sources. 

Next,  I  give  a  transcript  of  the  notes  taken  by  Leland  in  the  library 
(Collectanea  iv.  48,  49). 

1  The  three  compilations  in  question  are  all  constructed  on  the  same  system.  Their 
object  was  to  show  what  books  were  to  be  found  in  the  principal  monastic  and  Cathedral 
libraries  of  England.  A  list  of  libraries  was  drawn  up,  each  of  which  was  denoted  by  a 
numeral.  Then  followed  a  list  of  writers  with  the  titles  of  the  works  of  each,  and  to 
each  work  was  attached  a  group  of  numerals  showing  in  what  libraries  it  existed.  The 
undertaking  was  initiated  by  the  Franciscans,  and  expanded  by  Boston  of  Bury,  but  never 
completed. 


The  Monastic  Library  23 


In  bibliotheca  Petrina   Westmonasterii. 

1.  Tabula  Gulielmi  Sudbiry,  monachi  Westmon  :  super  Lyram. 

2.  Meditationes  Robert!  Grostest. 

3.  Sermones  ejusdem. 

4.  Sermones  Radulphi  Eleemosynarii,  Prioris  de  Hurteley  ( =  Hurley),  coenobioli 
prope  Henleam  super  Tamesim,  quod  cella  est  monachorum  Westmon.     Leyland. 
Liber  justum  volumen  est,  inchoatum  quidem  motore  Laurentio,  abbate  Westmon : 
sed  absolutum  illo  mortuo,  et  Gualtero  dedicatum,  qui  Laurentio  successit.    Repperi 
etiam  in  indice  bibliothecae  Westmon  :  hunc  Radulphum  postea  abbatem  fuisse 
Westmon  :     Sunt  etiam  in  eadem  bibliotheca  Omeliae  nomine  Radulphi,  abbatis 
Westmon  :     Sermonum  vero  liber  sic  incipit :    Ecce  fratres  dilectissimi. 

5.  Tractatus  Johannis  Bromyard,  applicant  jura  canonica  et  civilia  ad  materiam 
moralem. 

6.  Additiones  Roberti  G(r)ostest  in  libros  Damasceni  de  ortodoxa  fide,  quos 
sciolus  quidam  male  e  Graeco  transtulerat,  id  quod  Robertus  beneficio  correcti 
exemplaris  Graeci  fecit. 

7.  Tabula  Gul :  Sudbury,  monachi  Westmon :  super  libros  sancti  Thomae  de 
Aquino. 

8.  Prophetiae  Joannis,  canonici  de  Bridlington. 

9.  Tractatus  Joannis  Colton,  archiepiscopi  Armacani,  pro  sedatione  scismatis. 

10.  Determinatio  Thomae  Palmer  de  ord :  Praedicatorum  in  materia  scismatis. 

11.  Determinatio  Nicolai  Fakenham  de  ordine  Minorum. 

12.  Determinatio  Akon  Praed:  de  materia  scismatis. 

13.  Determinatio  Nicolai  Rischton  de  scismate. 

Avinioni 

14.  Armacani  sermones  89,  partim  coram  pontifice  Ro(mano),  partim  etiam  in 

Anglia  dicti.     Cum  jejimas,  unge  caput. 

15.  Armacani  liber  contra  fratres  mendicantes,  continens  in  se  16  libellos. 

It  should  be  remembered  that  Leland's  habit  is  to  note  the  British 
authors  whose  works  he  found  in  libraries.  The  numbers  are  my  own 
addition.  We  may  be  fairly  confident  that  nos.  9 — 13  were  in  one 
volume. 

Next  comes  Bale's  Index  Scriptorum  (ed.  Poole  and  Bateson).  In 
this  there  are  twelve  references  to  books  at  Westminster.  But  of  these, 
eleven  (on  pp.  13,  43,  214,  298,  348,  407,  408,  409,  419,  461,  488)  all 
refer  to  one  volume,  probably  written  at  Hexham,  and  now  at  Corpus 
Christi  College,  Cambridge  (no.  139),  which  was  in  Bale's  time  at 
Westminster. 

The  remaining  one  (p.  165)  is  Henry  of  Huntingdon's  History. 

From  John  Joscelin's  (Abp  Parker's  secretary)  list  of  English 
historical  writers  preserved  in  Nero  C.  in.  and  printed  by  Hearne 
(Robert  of  Avesbury,  p.  269),  we  learn  that  a  Mr  Pekyns1,  Prebendary 
of  Westminster,  owned  either  the  volume  just  mentioned  (C.  C.  C.  139) 

1  For  Mr  Pekyus,  see  above,  p.  13. 


24 


Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 


or  a  transcript  of  it,  or  a  sister-book, — anyhow,  a  book  which  contained 
several  of  the  same  items  as  C.  C.  C.  139. 

The  following  is  the  very  meagre  list  of  extant  Westminster  manu- 
scripts of  the  monastic  library  which  I  have  been  able  to  collect : 

London.     British  Museum. 

Cotton.    Claudius  A.  vm.    ff.  16—65.    Richard  Sporley's  extracts  from  Flete, 

and  a  life  of  Abbot  Esteney  by  John  Felix. 
Otho  C.  xi.     Abbot  Ware's  Consuetudinary. 
Titus  A.  vm.    A  Chartulary  (xiv.)  including  Sulcard  and  a  letter 

of  Osbert  of  Clare. 

Faustina  A.  in.     A  Chartulary  (xin.  late)  including  Sulcard. 
Royal.     2.  A.  xxn.    Westminster  Psalter  :  see  Missale  Westm.  (H.  Bradshaw 

Soc.)  in.  p.  xiv. 

?  3.  B.  x.     Gervase  of  Chichester.     A  transcript  is  in  the  Chapter 
Library.     In  both  this  volume  and  13.  A.  xin.  the  name  of 
John  Stephynson  occurs. 
5.  B.  vm.     Jerome  de  viris  illustribus  etc.   xn.     Liber  ecclesie 

S.  Petri  Westm. 
7.  D.  xxi.     Innocent  de  contemptu  mundi  etc.  xiv.     "Constat 

Thome  Champney  monacho  Westm." 
7.  F.  n.     Lincolniensis  de  veneno  etc.     xiv. 

9.  F.  iv.  Tabula  Gul.  Sudbury  in  libros  S.  Thomae  Aquinatis. 
This  is  doubtless  the  copy  seen  by  Leland  (p.  23,  no.  7).  No 
pressmark  survives ;  but,  as  Dr  G.  F.  Warner  (to  whose  kindness 
I  owe  rny  knowledge  of  this  book)  suggests,  so  portentous  a 
work  is  hardly  likely  to  have  been  copied.  It  occupied  the 
compiler  for  sixteen  years,  from  1382  :  this  volume  contains 
399  leaves. 
10.  E.  ii.  Gratian.  Has  a  note  at  the  end  of  an  occurrence  at 

Westminster  in  St  Margaret's  parish  in  the  year  1300. 
Lambeth. 

184.     Egidius  de  regimine  principum.    xv.  late.    Has  the  arms  of  the  Abbey  : 

belonged  to  John  Foxe  (?  the  prebendary,  1606-23). 
761.     Vita  S.  Edwardi.     xm. 

Lent  by  Abbot  Islip  to  Abbot  Seabroke  of  Gloucester. 
Sion  College. 

Arc.  L.  40.     Gospel  of  Nicodemus  etc.  in  English  verse,  xiv. — xv.    "  Pertinet 

fratri  Joh.  holonde  monacho  Westm." 
Oxford.     Bodleian  Library. 

MS.  Bodley  46.     Distinctiones  Mauricii. 

Liber  d.  Th.  Jay  monachi   Westm.  ex  dono  eiusdem   confratris 
egregii  uiri  d.  Rob.  humfrey  cuius  anime  etc.     (xv.) 
Ashmole  842.     A  Coronation  book  "  temp.  Ed.  I.  or  earlier." 
Rawlinson  C.  425.     Pontificale  Abbatiae  Westmon :     xiv. 
Rawlinson  Liturg.  g.  10.     Litany,  etc.  xiv.  late. 

(For  these  two  see  Missale  Westm.  in.,  vii.,  xii.) 
Colleges. 
Univ.     97.     Gesta  Romanorum.     Hampole  etc.     xv. 


The  Monastic  Library  25 

Balliol.     264.     Forma  Religiosorum.     xv. 

"  Starrys,  monachi  Westm  : "  (tleg.  Stanys). 
St  John's.     147.     Hampole  :  Lives  of  Saints,     xv. 

"  Will.  Grant  et  Will.  Grove  monachorum  Westm."  (?  leg.  Grene). 
178.     Neckam,  Pseudo- Aristotle,  Bestiary  etc.     xiu. 
190.     Bonaventura,  sermons,  etc.,  xm.  late,  "ex  procuratione  fr.  Will, 
de  Hasele.     Fuit  domini  Will,  de  Feltham,  vicarii  quondam  de 
...ayhe,  cuius  anime,  etc." 
Cambridge.     University  Library. 

Ff.   1.   28.    Ricardi  de  Cirencestria  Speculum  Historiale.     xiv.     The  only 

known  copy.     "As  the  initials  of  the  chapter  relating  to  Westminster 

Abbey  are  specially  elaborate,  we  may  infer  that  this  was  the  Abbey 

copy  of  the  book."     (J.  E.  B.  Mayor,  in  Rolls  Series  edition,  n.  clxv.) 

Kk.  5.  29.    Extenta  maneriorum.    Mostly  xiv.  early :  containing  the  name  of 

Thomas  Jay. 
Colleges. 
Corpus  Christi.     139.    Simeon  of  Durham,  etc.   See  above,  p.  23. 

197.     Westminster  continuator  of  Higden  (see  Proc.  of  Brit.  Acad.  vol.  in.). 
Trinity.     B.  10.  2.     Apocalypse  and  pictures  of  the  life  of  St  Edward. 

O.  7.  37.     Medica.    XL— xn.,  xiu.    "  Ecclcsie  Petri  Westm.,  per  Tedyngton 

monachum."    (xiu.) 
Manchester. 

Chetham  Library.     6712.     Flores  Historiarum  :    containing  the   names  of 
R.  Teddingtou  and  T.  Gardener. 

Dublin.     Trinity  College. 

B.  2.  7   (172).     Lives  of  Saints,     xm.  and  xiv.     "Ecclesie  b.  Petri 

Westm." 
E.  2.  32  (548).     Flete  de  fundatione  Westm.     xv.  (fragment). 

The  Dean  gives  me  the  following  note  on  the  monks  mentioned  in 
the  above  list : 

John  Flete,  writer  of  the  history  of  Westminster  Abbey  and  the  lives  of  the 
abbots  down  to  1386.  Entered  the  monastery  1420:  prior  from  1456-65. 

Richard  Sporley  extracted  the  main  part  of  Flete's  history  verbatim,  only 
inserting  a  short  and  untrustworthy  account  of  the  abbots  before  St  Dunstan's 
time.  Entered  1428. 

John  Felix  sung  his  first  mass  in  1529. 

Thomas  Champney  :  first  mass  1490. 

John  Holonde  :  first  mass  1472,  sub-prior  in  1500  at  Abbot  Islip's  election. 

Thomas  Jay  :  first  mass  1509,  prior  1528-35. 

Robert  Humfrey  :  first  mass  1492,  keeper  of  Lady  Chapel  in  1500. 

John  Stanys,  keeper  of  Lady  Chapel  1483,  died  1485. 

William  Grant :  first  mass  1469,  refectorar  in  1500. 

William  Grene  :  first  mass  1492,  still  living  in  1525. 

William  de  Hasele  :  mentioned  in  Bodl.  Ashm.  MS.  842,  f.  866,  as  attesting  the 
miracle  of  the  resuscitation  of  a  boy  drowned  at  Paddington  temp.  Hen.  III. :  com- 
piler of  the  Westminster  Customary,  1266. 

R.  Tedyngton  :  entered  1428. 

Thomas  Gardener  :  first  mass  1501,  still  living  in  1525. 


26  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 


III. 

THE   MANUSCRIPTS   IN   THE   CHAPTER  LIBRARY 
OF   WESTMINSTER   BETWEEN    1623    AND    1694. 

Among  the  lost  manuscript  libraries  of  England  that  of  Westminster 
Abbey  has  to  be  reckoned.  I  do  not  refer  to  the  library  possessed  by 
the  monks  before  the  dissolution ;  the  few  surviving  relics  of  that  (as 
we  have  seen)  are  to  be  found  in  widely  scattered  collections,  and 
probably  not  more  than  a  single  volume  remains  in  its  ancient  home. 
The  manuscripts  with  which  I  am  here  concerned  are  those  given  to 
the  refounded  library,  mostly  by  John  Williams  (Dean  of  Westminster 
1620—1641)  on  July  10th,  1623.  Their  life  as  a  collection  was  a 
lamentably  short  one.  In  November,  1694,  they  perished  in  a  fire. 

It  is  curious  to  note  how  scanty  is  the  information  which  is  pro- 
curable on  the  subject  of  this  fire.  Widmore  in  his  History  gives 
almost  the  only  clear  statement  of  the  facts.  His  words  are  (p.  164) : 

"In  the  latter  end  of  the  year  1694,  the  manuscripts  belonging  to 
the  library  of  this  church  were  all  burnt,  except  one.  The  occasion  of 
the  fire  variously  reported :  there  were  in  number  about  230 ;  all  or 
most  of  them  the  gift  of  bishop  Williams,  the  founder  of  the  library. 
Several  of  these  were  of  good  value,  and  some  of  them  no  where  else  to 
be  found ;  in  that  respect  therefore  it  was  a  loss  not  to  be  repaired." 

In  the  Chapter  account  books  of  the  period  there  is  an  entry  of 
expenditure  incurred  in  repairs :  but  it  is  such  as  to  throw  no  light  on 
the  exact  date  of  the  accident  nor  to  define  the  extent  of  the  mischief. 
It  is  probable  that  some  news-letter  or  other  journalistic  source  may  be 
in  existence  which  would  be  of  assistance  here,  but  so  far  I  have  been 
unable  to  lay  hands  upon  it. 

Details  of  the  accident,  however,  interesting  as  they  would  be,  are 
not  essential  to  my  present  purpose.  I  desire  in  these  pages  to  set  out 
with  as  much  clearness  as  possible  the  information  which  we  possess  as 
to  the  lost  books  themselves.  In  this  respect  we  are  better  off  than  we 
might  have  anticipated. 

Three  separate  catalogues  of  the  manuscripts  are  in  existence,  one 
of  them  in  print  and  another  in  more  than  one  manuscript  copy. 

A.  The  second  in  date,  but  probably  the  first  in  importance,  is  a 
catalogue  made  in  1672,  perhaps  for  the  purposes  of  the  compilers  of  the 


The  Chapter  Library  (1623—1694)  27 

Oxford  Catalogi  manuscriptorum  Angliae  et  Hibemiae,  but  ultimately 
not  included  in  that  work.  It  forms  part  of  a  rather  large  collection  of 
catalogues,  of  which  more  than  one  copy  exists  in  manuscript.  The 
one  which  I  have  used  as  the  basis  of  my  text  is  at  Trinity  College, 
Cambridge  (MS.  O.  5.  38),  another  is  Harley  694  (collated  by  me),  and 
a  third  which  I  have  also  seen  is  at  Oxford  (MS.  Tanner  272).  In  this 
the  number  of  volumes  described  is  a  little  over  180.  I  have  taken 
this  list  as  the  standard  of  comparison  with  the  other  two. 

B.  The  earliest  is  contained  in  the   Register  of  the  old  library 
in   possession   of  the   Dean   and   Chapter   of  Westminster.     This   is 
a  handsome  seventeenth  century  vellum  book   containing  entries  of 
benefactions  to  the  Library  from  the  time  of  Williams  (1623)  to  1750. 
On  ff.  122 — 129  of  this  volume  is  a  list  of  the  manuscripts,  of  which 
a  careful  transcript  was  most  kindly  made  for  me  by  the  Rev.  A.  S. 
Duncan  Jones.     I  have  myself  excerpted  from  the  register  such  entries 
of  manuscripts  as  occur  mixed  up  among  those  of  printed  books  in 
other  parts  of  the  volume.     In  the  list  of  manuscripts  proper  there 
are  something  over  170  entries. 

C.  The  third  and  last  is  the  list  compiled  by  Michael  Maittaire  for 
the  Catalogi  manuscriptoi'um  Angliae  et  Hibemiae,  and  printed  therein 
(Oxford,  1697,  n.  1.  27).     The  descriptions  in  this  are  very  brief.     The 
number  of  items  is  230. 

Each  of  these  three  lists  has  certain  entries  peculiar  to  itself  which 
will  be  duly  set  forth :  but  one  fact  has  to  be  noted  in  this  place. 

At  the  end  of  bishop  Williams's  gifts  in  the  Register  (B)  there  is  an 
account  of  certain  books,  four  in  number,  given  by  Sir  Robert  Cotton. 
The  contents  of  these  are  enumerated  at  considerable  length.  In  the 
Trinity  College  list  (A)  the  same  books  are  elaborately  catalogued,  but 
nothing  is  said  about  their  donor.  Other  volumes  of  similar  character 
occur  in  company  with  them.  None  of  these  are  certainly  recognizable 
in  Maittaire's  list  (C).  Now,  a  passage  in  Wharton's  Artglia  Sacra 
(u.  345),  coupled  with  Smith's  Catalogue  of  the  Cottonian  MSS.,  makes 
it  quite  clear  that  the  books  in  question,  whether  given  or  lent  by 
Sir  Robert  Cotton  to  Westminster,  were  eventually  returned  to  the 
Cottonian  Library  and  were  there  marked  Otho  C.  xii.,  xin.,  xiv.,  xv., 
xvi.,  Otho  D.  x.,  xi.  All  of  them  were  either  destroyed  or  damaged 
in  the  deplorable  fire  of  1731. 

I  print  the  three  lists  separately,  and  also  a  table  showing  which 
items  are  common  to  A,  B,  and  C,  and  which  are  peculiar  to  each. 
A  preserves  a  record  of  the  distribution  of  the  books  in  their  cases. 


28  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Nos.  1—20  (in  the  combined  list)  were  in  Pluteus  10 :  21—39  in  Pint. 
11:  40—65  in  Plut.  12:  66—92  in  Plut.  21:  93—113  in  Plut.  22: 
114—131  in  Plut.  23:  132—148  in  Plut.  24:  149—158  in  Classis  25: 
159—168  in  Cl.  26  :  169—182  in  01.  27. 

The  number  of  volumes  in  each  class  is  very  small — 20,  19,  26,  27, 
21,  18,  17,  10,  10,  14 — hardly  more  than  could  be  accommodated  on 
the  shelves  of  a  single  large  book-case.  The  manuscripts  were  kept  in 
"stalls"  (see  p.  21)  in  a  room  at  the  end  of  the  Library  nearest  to  the 
school,  i.e.  the  southern  end ;  and  the  fire  in  which  they  perished  was 
confined  to  that  portion  of  the  building. 

The  arrangement  in  A  shows  that  a  classification  of  the  books 
according  to  subject  was  aimed  at.  Nos.  1 — 15  are  Greek  books, 
16 — 20  are  Latin  grammarians,  21 — 65  Latin  authors,  Latin  versions 
of  Greek  authors,  and  Humanists,  66 — 92  Bibles,  Liturgical  books, 
glosses,  93 — 131  Patristic  and  later  Theological  writers,  132 — 150 
principally  Theology,  with  some  Civil  and  Canon  Law,  151 — 163 
principally  Medicine,  164  Alchemy,  165 — 168  Astrology  and  Astronomy, 
169 — 182  principally  English  History. 

It  is  unsafe  attempting  to  speculate  on  the  age  and  general  character 
and  value  of  the  books.  The  greater  part  of  the  classical  MSS.  were 
probably  Italian  copies  of  the  fifteenth  century :  but  a  Seneca  (no.  25) 
and  a  Virgil  (no.  29)  are  described  as  ancient.  Of  the  Theological 
collection  we  may  call  attention  to  no.  68  Psalterium  perantiquum, 
93  Prosper  etc.,  vetus  exemplar,  123  containing  Poems  of  St  Boniface, 
145  Oswaldi  Regis  Vita,  146  containing  a  cantus  comicus  of  Thomas 
Claxton,  155  a  Dioscorides  in  Latin  with  pictures,  103 — 105  Hebrew 
Bibles,  227  "Liber  S.  Edmundi  Regis,"  228  "a  great  folio  of  old  English 
Poems,"  229  "another,  lesser."  The  volume  described  in  list  C,  no.  129, 
as  Expositiones  SS.  Patrum  in  Biblia,  viz.  Dionysii  Ignatii  Polycarpi 
Justini  etc.,  may  have  been  valuable  and  interesting,  but  I  incline  to 
suspect  that  it  was  a  rather  recent  compilation. 


List  A  29 


List  of  Manuscripts  formerly  in  the  Chapter  Library. 

The  continuous  numbering  in  lists  A  and  B  is  my  own.     The  items  which  are 
peculiar  to  each  list  are  marked  with  an  asterisk. 


LIST  OF  MANUSCRIPTS  FROM  TRINITY  COLLEGE,  CAMBRIDGE  MS.  O.  5.  38,  f.  59. 
With  variants  from  MS.  Harley  694  f.  20  (38)  sqq.  (  =  H).     These  are  placed 

in  square  brackets. 

Catalogus  codicum  manuscriptorum  in  Bibliotheca  Westmouasteriensi  anno  1672. 

Pluteus  10. 

1.  1.     Comment,  in  Epistolas  Pauli.     Graece. 

2.  2.     Disputatio  Georgii  [Gregorii]  Coressii  contra  Cornelium  Praelectorem 

Pisanum.     Graece. 

3.  3.  Martyrologium.     Gr. 

4.  4.  Codini  parecbolae  [parabolae]  Historicae  de  Byzantio.     Gr. 

5.  5.  Galenus  trfp\  icpia-fav.     Gr. 

6.  6.  Menologium.     Gr. 

7.  7.  Ap(h)thonii  progymnasmata  cum  scholiis,  et  Hermogenes.     Gr. 

8.  8.  Ammonius,  Michael  Patricius,  Alexander  Aphrodis.  et  alii  in  Logicam 

Aristotelis.     Gr. 

9.  9.     Joannes  Grammaticus  de  anima.     Gr. 

10.  10.  Anastasius  de  Hexaemero.     Gr.         [  +  etc.  H.] 

11.  11.  Platonis  Definitiones  [Distinctiones]  etc.     Gr. 

12.  12.  Eman.  Moschopuli  Grammatica.     Gr. 

13.  13.  Aristotelis  Organon.     Gr. 

14.  14.  Eman.  Moschopuli  Grammatica.     Gr. 

15.  15.  Pindari  Olympia.     Gr. 

16.  16.  Prisciani  Grammatica. 

17.  17.  Prisciani  Grammatica. 

18.  18.  Nonius  Marcellus. 

19.  19.  Festus  Pompeius. 

20.  20.  Festus. 

Pluteus  11. 

21.  1.  Livius. 

22.  2.  Livii  pars  altera. 

23.  3.  Pars  tertia  Livii. 

24.  4.  Donatus  in  Terentium. 

25.  5.  Senecae  Tragoediae. 

26.  6.  Senecae  Tragoediae. 

27.  7.  Horatius  de  arte  sua  et  Epistolae.         [om.  sua  H.] 

28.  8.  Virgilii  Eclogae  et  Georgica. 

29.  9.  Virgilii  on  mi  a. 

30.  10.  Comment,  vetus  in  Horatium.     an  Acronis  ? 

31.  11.  Horatii  opera. 

32.  12.  Juvenalis.     Epistolae  Plinii. 

33.  13.  Orationes  excerptae  e  Livio,  etc. 


30  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

34.  *14.  Discursus  Italicus. 

35.  15.  Ovidii  Epistolae. 

Cicero  de  essentia  mundi  seu  Timaeus. 

36.  16.  Salustii  omnia  cum  notis. 

37.  17.  Lucanus. 

38.  *18.  Virgilius. 

39.  *19.  Radices  Hebraicae. 

Pluteus  12. 

40.  1.  Sidonius  Apollinaris. 

41.  2.  Phaedo  Platonis.     Lat. 

42.  3.  Plinii  Epistolae  charta. 

43.  4.  Justinus. 

44.  5.  Agellius  charta.         [5.    A :  gellius.] 

45.  (6.  None.)  [6.    A.  gellius  charta.] 

46.  7.  S.  Hyeronomus  de  uiris  illustribus. 

Aeniilius  Probus  et  Plinius  de  uiris  illustribus 

47.  8.  Xenophontis  Ciropaedia.     Lat. 

48.  9.  Plinius  Secundus  de  uiris  illustribus. 

49.  10.  Diodorus  Siculus  per  Poggiurn.     [+Lat.  H.] 

50.  11.  Valerius  Maximus. 

51.  12.  Asinus  Luciani  Latine  per  Poggium. 

52.  13.  Cicero  de  officiis. 

53.  *14.  Caesaris  Malvicini  poetnata. 

54.  15.  Eclogae  Virgilii. 

Salustius. 

55.  16.  Salustius. 

56.  17.  Esopi  Fabulae.     De  Lapidibus. 

57.  18.  Lucanus. 

58.  19.  ff'abula  Philodoxes.         [-os  H.] 

59.  20.  Tibullus. 

60.  21.  Petri  Apollonii  Poemata.         [Apollinii  H.] 

61.  22.  De  re  oeconomica. 

62.  23.  Tibullus. 

63.  *24.  Tibullus. 

64.  25.  Epistolae  Nogarolae  ad  Ovannum  etc.        [Quannum  H.] 

65.  26.  Ovidius  de  arte. 

Pluteus  21. 

66.  1.  An  English  New  Testament  wth  a  Calendr  of  ye  Epistles  &  Ghosples. 

67.  *2.  Biblia  Hyeronymi  minore  charactere. 

68.  3.  Psalterium  Latinum  perantiquum.     NB. 

69.  4.  Alterum  Psalterium  forma  minori. 

70.  5.  Testamentum  Latinum  et  Historia  Evangelica. 

71.  6.  An  English  New  Testament. 

72.  73.     7  (8).     A  French  New  Testament  in  2  Vol.     Liber  elegans. 

74.  9.  An  old  Missal  wth  ye  Roman  Calendar  before  itt. 

75.  10.  Another  Missal. 

76.  11.  Another  Missal. 

77.  12.  An  old  Latin  Prayer  Booke.  in  ye  end  some  Dutch. 

78.  13.  Another  English  prayer  booke. 


List  A  31 

79.  14.     A  Treatise  how  to  live  godlily  begineth  a  Treatise  yl  sufficeth  to  each 

man  and  woman  to  live  after  if  they  will  be  [wolen  bee  H.]  saved. 

80.  15.     A  book  of  prayers  to  certain  Saints  wth  their  [the  H.]  Pictures.     Lat. 

81.  16.     Meditationes  et  orationes  valde  utiles.     Liber  imperfectus. 

82.  17.     Officium  B.  V.  secundum  consuetudineru  Rornanam  :  ibidem  Psalmi  7 

poenitentiales. 

83.  *18.     Psalterium  Latinum  forma  minuta. 

84.  19.     Liber  exorcizandi1  ritum  continens  initium  sic2.     Ordo  ad  faciendum3 

aquam  etc.         1  [exercitandi  H.]        2  [incipit  H.]        3  [-am  H.] 

85.  20.     Glossae  in  omnes  fere  partes  Bibliorum  20  libris  contentae. 

86.  21.     Notationes  in  omnes  Pauli  Epistolas  una  cum  Prologo.     [Prologos  etc. 

H.]     Hyeronomi. 

87.  22.  Hyeronomi  Biblia  forma  maxima. 

88.  23.  Hyeronomi  Biblia  forma  minori. 

89.  24.  The  Summary  of  ye  whole  Bible.     Collected  by  Wyclifle. 

90.  25.  Wiclifs  (Bible)  in  English,  2  vol.        [Wyckliffe  in  Engl.  H.]  ^ 

91.  26. 

92.  27.  Epistolae  Pauli  cum  Commeiito. 

[Phtieus}  22. 

93.  1.     Prosper    de    vita    contemplativa.      Cipriani    Epistolae    de    opera    et 

[eleemosyna.    [  +  Aug.  de  utilitate  agendae  Poenitentiae  H.]     Hugo 
Abbas    Bruxellensis    (1.    Barzellensis)    de    Cohortatione     Fratrum. 
1  [Patrum  H.]     S.  Augustini  sermo  de  laude  et  utilitate  Spiritualium 
vCanticorum. 

94.  2.     Chrisostomi  homiliae.     Lat. 

95.  3.     Hieronymi  Epistola  de  locis  misticix.         [Epistolae  H.] 

Idem  contra  Jovinianum. 
Augustinus  contra  5  Haereses. 

96.  4.     Ambrosius  de  Officiis. 

97.  5.     Augustini  Sermones  varii. 

98.  6.     Augustinus  de  Civitate  dei. 

99.  7.     Richardus  de  S.  Victore  de  Benjamin  et  Fratribus. 

Augustinus  de  gratia  Novi  Testamenti. 

100.  8.     Varii  Tractatus  S.  Augustini  et  Abbatis  Cheremonis. 

101.  9.     Augustini  Confessiones. 

102.  10.     Augustinus  de  Charitate 

de  vita  et  moribus  Clericorum 
item  sermones  duo. 

103.  11.     Augustinus  de  doctrina  Christiana  et 

Senteutiae  Hugonis  Parisiensis. 

104.  *12.     Augustinus  in  Symbolum. 

105.  13.     Idem  de  animae  quantitate. 

Eiusdem  Retractationes. 

106.  14.     Gregorii  Moralia. 

107.  15.     Gregorii  Nazianzeni  orationes  quaedam  interprete  Ruffino. 

108.  16.     Bedae  Expositio  in  Epistolas  Jacobi.  Petri.  Johannis.  Judae. 

109.  17.     Gregorii  Homiliae  in  Ezechielem. 

110.  18.     Isidorus    Hispalensis    comm.    in    Pentateuchum   Josuam   Judices   et 

Regum. 


32  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Augustinus  de  animae  quantitate  et 

de  Retractationibus. 

Hyeronimus  in  Acta  Apostolorum. 

111.  19.     Isidorus  in  Pentateuchum  iterum  cum  aliis  nonnullis. 

112.  20.     Incerti  de  misterio  Trinitatis  et  formatione  creaturarum. 

113.  21.     Liber  Summarum. 

[Pluteus]  23. 

114.  1.  Josephi  Historia.     Lat.     2  vol.  magna  forma. 

115.  2.  Alexander  Necham  de  naturis  rerum. 

116.  3.  Ecclesiastes  et  Psalmorum  liber. 

117.  4.  Varii  tractatus  Hugonis  Parisiensis. 

118.  5.  Magister  Sententiarum.     Libri  4. 

119.  6.  Baldwinus  de  Sacramento  Altaris. 

120.  7.  Baldwin!  Tractatus  de  commendatione  fidei  et  alia. 

121.  8.  Liber  Scintillarum. 

122.  9.  Homiliae  quedam  forte  Ludovici  de  Grauado  Hisp. 

123.  10.     Alcuinus  Presbyter  de  virtutibus  [virtute  H.]  et  vitiis  cum  nonnullis 

aliis  Basilii,  Ambrosii,  et  Bonifacii. 
Vita  Eufrasiae  et 
Passio  Julianae  V. 

124.  11.     Gulielmus  de  Pagula  de  oculo  dextro  et  sinistro  sacerdotis. 

125.  12.     Versibus  Anglicanis  scriptus  Liber  forte  Necham. 

126.  13.     Lincoln iensis  dicta  comodifera  Theologis  et  Praedicatoribus. 

127.  14.     A  diologue,  a  Preacher  and  a  Roman  Priest  written  by  some  modern 

author. 

128.  15.     Trattato  di  Missere  Giovanni  Uominico  chiamato  si  doctrinale. 

Cui  additur  la  passione  di  dieci  milia  Crucifixi  di  Jesu  Christi  versa  in 
Italiano  per  Anastasio  Gardiaiio  de  libri  della  sedia  Apostolica. 

129.  16.     Lucerna  conscieatiae  anonymi. 

Innocentius  de  miseria  conditionis  humanae. 

130.  17.     An    Exposition    upon    ye  Commandmts  and  several   treatises   in   old 

English. 

131.  18.     Valerius  Maximus. 

Palladius  de  agricultura. 
Augustinus  de  uatura  boni. 
De  Architectura. 
De  opere  monachorum. 

[Pluteus]  24. 

132.  1.     Codex  Juris  cum  glossis  praenotatur  n  [N°  H.]  20  deest  19. 

133.  2.     Expositiones  in  SS.  Biblia  Collecta  ex  autiquis  Patribus  Graecis  et 

Latinis.     Liber  contineiis  Lyturgiam, 
Postillas  super  Cantica 
Sermones  abbreuiatos  Gorhami 
Sumrnain  Grostestae  et  alia  multa. 

134.  3.     Augustini,  Hieronymi,  Bedae,  Hugonis,  Ambrosii,  Athanasii,  Chryso- 

stomi  etc.  opuscula. 

135.  4.     Ivonis  Carnotensis  Epistolae. 

136.  5.     Ivonis  Carnotensis  Epistolae. 

Origenes  super  Leviticum. 


List  A  33 

Psalterium  B.  Mariae. 

137.  6.     Regula  S.  Benedict!. 

Martyrologium  Romanum. 
Evangelia  et  Epistolae. 

138.  7.     An  English  Poet  de  raiseria  Humanae  vitae  etc. 

A  short  Exposition  upon  ye  Lords  Prayer  etc.  prose. 

139.  8.     Othonis,  Octoboni,  aliorumque  Constitutiones  [aliorum  consultationes 

H.J 

140.  9.     Expositio  Vocabulorum  Biblicorum. 

Dictionarium  Lat.  et  Angl. 

141.  10.     Summa  Magistri  Thomae. 

Expositio  in  Psalmos. 

142.  11.     Capitula  Evangelii  versu.         [Evangeliorum  H.] 

Summa  de  Casibus. 

Catalogus  Episcoporum  Romanorum  notans  tempus  sessionis. 

143.  12.     An  Exposition  upon  ye  Decalogue.     English. 

144.  13.     Instructio  Praelatorurn  in  arte  medicinae  spiritualis. 

145.  14.     Oswaldi  Regis  Vita. 

146.  15.     Compendium  Vitae  spiritualis. 

Modus  Confitendi. 
Speculum  S.  Edmundi. 
Tractatus  Thomae  Claxton. 

147.  16.     Apparatus  D.  Portuodosimi  [Pretnodosini  H.]  de  processu  Judiciario. 

148.  17.     Piorum    et    Picorum    genaeologiae    [Genealogiae    H.]    per    Jenettum 

[Jerrettum  H.]. 

[Pluteus]  25. 

149.  1.     Almansor.     Lat. 

150.  2.     Johannis  Chrysostomi  opuscula. 

Fulberti  quaedam. 

Chrysostomi  quaedam  alia. 

Ambrosii  quaedam. 

Hugonis  Archidiaconi  Epistolae  [Epistola]  ad  Fulbertum. 

151.  3.     Liber  aureus  de  Medicina. 

Alfani  Archiepiscopi  liber  de  medicina. 
Herbarium  s.  synonymia  herbarum. 
Alia  quaedam  medica. 
Tractatus  de  urinis. 

152.  *4.     Liber  Passionarium  dictus. 

153.  5.     Joannicius  ad  tegnum  galeni. 

Viaticum. 

154.  6.     Galfridus  de  Monmouth  de  gestis  Britonum.     Editus  est  sub  nomine 

Turpini. 

155.  7.     Dioscorides  lat.  cum  ffiguris  Plantarum  pulchre  pictis. 

156.  7a.   Joannes  a  [de  H.]  S.  Amando  super  Antidotarium  Nicholai. 

Compendium  Johannis  Mesue. 

Prognosticatio  Hippocratis. 

Abbreviatio  Tabulae  [Tabula  H.]  in  Antidotarium. 

157.  8.     Isaac  de  dietis. 

Glossae  super  teguum  Galeni. 

R.  W.  3 


34  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

158.  *9.     Gellii  quaedam  ut  (vi)detur.     liber  principle  et  fine  mutilus. 

Comment,  in  Evangelia  et  Epistolas. 

Chassis)  26. 

159.  1.  Avicenna. 

160.  2.  De  re  inedica  scriptores  varii. 

161.  3.  Medicinae  liber. 

162.  4.  Bernardi  Medicinale. 

163.  5.  Bernardus  de  Gordonio  de  regimine  Morborum. 

164.  6.  Tractatus  varii  de  Chymica. 

165.  7.  Julii  Materni  Firmici  Matheseos  libri  charta  scripti. 

166.  8.  Job.  Sacrobosco  computus. 

Algorismus  et  alia. 

167.  9.     Galenus  de  febribus. 

168.  10.     Sphaera  Apuleii.         [H.  omits  the  number  10.] 

Liber  Astrologicus. 
Opus  Philosophorum. 
Astrologicum  opusculum. 
Liber  Revolutionum  Lunae 
Bernardi  de  Gordonio  opuscula. 
Guidonis  Astronomia.         [Anatomia  H.] 
Arnoldi  Phlebotomia  et  alia. 
Gerardi  quaedarn. 

[Pluteus]  27. 

169.  1.     Historia  Brittonum.     English. 

170.  2.     Chronicon  S.  Albani.  incipit.  Britannia  quae  nunc  dicitur  Anglia. 

Chronicon  imperatorum  Romanorum. 

171.  3.     Benedictus  Abbas  de  gestis  Henrici  secundi. 

172.  4.     Gyraldus  Cambrensis  descriptio  Walliae. 

173.  5.     Roberti  Lincoln,     monitoria  Epistola  ad  priorem  de  Newham  etc. 

(  =  0tho  C.  xv.) 

Regula  S.  Augustini  de  vita  clericorum  et  alia. 
Consuetudinarium  sive  rituale. 
Fragmentum  homiliae  Saxonicae. 
Ordo  Conuertorum  (sic). 

Gulielmus  de  Mandagoto  de  electionibus  faciendis. 
(27)    Lincoln,  de  7  Sacrimentis  (!). 
Idem  de  forma  Confitendi. 
Inventio  musicae  per  sonum  Malleorum. 
De  periculis  quae  accidunt  circa  omcium  sacerdotis. 

174.  *6.     Historia  Britaniae.  (  =  0tho  C.  xm.) 

175.  7.     Calendarium  rerum  Anglicarum.  (  =  0tho  C.  xvi.) 

Chronicon  Rogeri  Cestrensis. 

Vita  R.  Grosthead  per  Richardum  [Nich :  H.]  monachum. 

Martirium  S.  Hugonis  Lincoln. 

Roger  Dimocke  contra  Lollardos. 

Passio  S.  Kenelmi  Regis. 

De  S.  Edwardo  Rege. 

De  S.  Guthlaco  martyre. 

Vita  S.  Elphegi  Archiepiscopi. 


List  A  35 

Vita  S.  Johannis  Beverlacensis. 

Historia  Job.  Beverlac.  per  Folchardum  monachum. 
A  Sermon  in  defence  of  ye  Scripture  in  English. 
Constitutiones  Ecclesiae  Eboracensis. 

176.  8.     Passionarium. 

177.  9.     Decreta  Ecclesiastica  H.  Spelman. 

178.  10.     Historia  quaedam  de  Regno  Angliae  in  quo  varii  tractatus  Historici. 

(  =  0tho  D.  xi.) 

179.  *11.     Varii  tractatus  inter  quos  quaedam  Roberti  Grosthead. 

180.  *12.     Varii  tractatus  Grosthead.  (  =  0tho  C.  xiv.) 

Regum,  Paparum,  et  Cardinalium  Epistolae. 

De  Formoso  papa,  in  hoc  vol.  alia  multa  continentur  v.  in.  p.  adversa 
A.  12.  B.  4. 

181.  13.     Grosthead  opera.  (  =  Otho  D.  x.) 

[Here  follows  in  H.  Codex  lmus.  Elenchus  Contentorum  in  hoc  Codice. 
It  is  no.  173  in  this  list.] 

182.  *1.     Articles  del  Waldmote  [Wardmote  H.]  in  London. 

2.  Ordinatio  pro  auxilio  et  contributione  pro  bonis  mari  ejectis. 

3.  Stat.  27.  E.  1.        Ordiuatio  de  finibus. 

De  onere  vicecomitis. 

De  rote.     [retr  H.] 

De  nominibus  repleg.         [hominibus  H.] 

De  gaolis  deliberandis. 

Ordinatio  Justic.  de  nisi  prius. 

4.  Ordinatio  de  moneta  apud  Stebenhithe. 

5.  Ordinatio  Civitatis  London  de  placitis  [et  placitis  H.]  ibidem. 

6.  Coinpositio  inter  cives  London,  et  Winton. 

7.  Les  rules  de  Husbandry  de  Grosthead. 

8.  De  ponderibus. 

9.  Les  usages  de  Gavelkinda 

10.  Ordinances  pur  le  guarde  de  Londres. 

11.  De  tenentibus  in  civitate  de  London. 

12.  De  damnis  prisonae.     Penae  coriptione  temporis.     [,  Prisona,  Poenae 

scriptione,  tempore  H.] 
Penae  diversae  ad  festum  Regis. 

Notae  diuerse  Irreplegiabiles  per  commune  Brevae.        [breve  H.] 
Repleg.  [-iabiles  H.]  per  Commune  Breve. 

13.  Ordo  tenendus  a  Civ.  London,  cum  placita  Coronae  tenetur  [tenentur 

H.]  ad  turrem  London. 

14.  Assiza  [-ae  H.]  Panis  in  London. 

15.  Assize  in  London,  pro  muris  et  stillicidiis. 

16.  Partitio  Brevium  in  Orig.  et  Judic.  et  subdivisiones. 

17.  Ma.gna  Charta. 

18.  Charta  de  foresta. 

19.  De  Merton. 

20.  Marleburge. 

21.  Westminster.  1     T9l   TT1 

22.  Expositio  vocabulorum.j 

23.  Statutum  de  Mercatoribus. 

3—2 


36  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

24.  Statututn  de  Glocoster  et  quo  warranto. 

25.  Westminster  2.         [Will.  2.  H.] 

26.  Nomina  Regum  Angliae  Christianorum. 

27.  Breve  super  statutum  de  Winton. 

28.  De  Westminster. 

29.  Statutum  [-a  H.]  Scaccarii. 

30.  Distiuctiones  Scaccarii.     [H.  adds  30.     Articuli  de  Moneta. 

31.     De  homag.,  fidelitate,  et  Ho- 

magio. 

34.     Mortmaine.] 
(31.     Nothing.) 

32.  Articuli  de  Moneta. 

33.  De  homag.  foedalitate  et  homagio. 

34.  Mortmaine. 

35.  Sententia  Excommunicationis  lata  super  Magna  Charta  et  Charta  de 

fforesta.     [magnam  Chartam  et  Chartam  H.] 

36.  Dies  Communes  in  [de  H.]  banco. 

37.  Extenta  manerii  [-orum  H.] 

38.  Dictum  de  Kenelworth. 

39.  Exceptiones  ad  Brevia  et  ordo  eorundem. 

40.  De  Warranto.         [om.  H.] 

41.  [40  H.  which  has  no  41.]     Summa  que  dicitur  Fleta  secundum  Rad. 

de  Hengham. 

42.  Modus  ordinandi  brevia  in  suis  [s'  H.]  casibus. 

43.  Proprietas  narrationum. 

44.  Summa  Southampton. 

45.  Modus  Calumniandi  issonium.        [essonium  H.] 

46.  Judicium  Issoniorum.        [essen-  H.] 

47.  Rageman. 

48.  Statutum  de  Millitibus. 

49.  Articuli  Conon.         [om.  H.] 

50.  Assiza  Panis  et  Cervisiae. 

51.  Rageman    ad    inquirendi  (!)    contra    [inquirend.    coram    H.]    Justic. 

itinerantibus. 

52.  Statutum  de  quinto  decimo.        [-a  H.] 

53.  Regulae  [Registrum  H.]  Cancellariae.  (  =  0tho  D.  xi.) 


[The  following  are  detailed  descriptions  of  volumes  already  entered.] 

178.  1.  Historia  quaedam  de  Regno  Angliae  et  Regobus  [-ibus  H.]  de  Paschae 
observatione  in  Anglia  et  de  primis  Regalibus  ornamentis  regni 
Angliae. 

2.  Genealogia  D.  Petri  de  Luxemburg  comitis  S.  Pauli. 

3.  Item  Genealogia  Duce  [Dnae  H.]  Margaretae  uxoris  eius. 

4.  L  Office  de  Seneschall,  de  Bayliffe,  de  Provost,  de  Hayward,  de  Carvers 

[Carucis  H.],  de  Chantres  [Charetre  H.],  de  Vacher,  de  Porcher,  de 
Boucher  [Bercher  H.],  de  la  daye  de  Seigneur  des  Accomptons 
[-lice  H.]  Galliere  [Gallice  H.] 

5.  Tractatus  de  (re)  Rustica  s.  [sive]  oeconomica  Gallier  [Gallice  H.] 


List  A  37 

6.  Item  de  eadem  ruateria  s.  [sive]  de  cura  rei  familiaris  ail  Comitissam 

Lincolniae  [Nicholae  H.]  per  Rob.  Grostheade  Ep.  Lincoln,  in  eadem 
veteri  Gallicana. 

7.  Institutio   parandi   cibos   s.  de   [  +  arte   H.]   culinaria  veteri   in   qua 

elucidantur  vocabula  ferculorum  quae  habentur  in  prandiis  coro- 
nationum  et  installationum  Gallice. 

8.  Liber  de  herbis  salutaribus  et  gemmis  pretiosis  Gallice. 

9.  Decimae  triennales.     Antiqua  Laxatio  (Taxatio)  beneficiorum  appro- 

priatio  [-torum  H.]  et  nova  [-ae  H.]  cum  [  +  feodis  H.]  militum 
et  reditibus  [redd-  H.]  et  donationibus  spectantibus  ad  quaedam 
monasteria  in  comitatu  Eboracensi. 

10.  [11.]     Prophetia  [-icae  H.]  quaedam  de  iis  que  contingerent  ad  annum 

domini  1290  inter  Germanos  Italos  Anglos  Wallos  et  Scotos. 

11.  [10.]     Littera  Edwardi  3  Reg.  Angl.  universis  declarantibus(I)  [-tes  H.] 

injurias  sibi  illatas  a  Philippo  Valesio  Reg.  Franc. 

12.  Litera  Benedict!  Papae  ad  Edw.  R.  Angl.  de  causa  inter  papatum  et 

Ludovicum  Imperatorem. 

13.  Eiusdem  litera  ad  eundern  de  componenda  pace  in(ter)  Reges.  Edw.  et 

Philippum. 

14.  Edwardi  quaedam  litera  ad  Collegium  Cardinalium  et  universarum 

caeli  [ecclesiarum  H.]  praelatos  de  eadem  materia. 

15.  De  eadeni  controversia  literas  (?)  [-ae  H.]  patentes  ad  uniuersos  Reges 

[R8  H.]  Johannis  Bohemiorum  aliorumque  ducum  et  comitum. 

16.  Multae  [Mutus  H.]  literae  Ludovici  [-ae  H.]  Imp.  Rom.  et  [Ed.  H.] 

Regis  Angl.  de  eadem  re. 

17.  Litera  Ambaldi  et  Ramundi  [Ray-  H.]  Cardinalium  ad  R.  Edw.  quod 

gaudent  [-eat  H.]  et  gaudere  debeat  de  electione  dementis  6U  in 
papam,  qui  natus  fuerit  [-at  H.]  in  ejus  ducatu  eique  aliquando 
fidelitatis  juramentum  fecerit  [-at  H.]  et  de  componenda  inter 
priores  (so)  Reges  pacem. 

18.  Litera  R.  Edw.  ad  Clerum  Eboracensem  ut  faciant  orationes  et  pro- 

cessiones  pro  se  et  exercitu  proficiscente  contra  Gallos  et  Scotas. 

19.  Litera  Nicholai  Laurentii  severi  et  Clementis  Libertatis  pacis  justici- 

aeque  tribuni  et  sacrae  Romanae  Reip.  Liberatoris. 

20.  Litera   R.    Edw.   ad   Bartholomeum   de   Burgher(sh)   Constabularium 

cartis  [castri]  Dovoriae  et  custodern  5  portuum  de  inhibendis  pro- 
visionibus  papalibus. 

21.  Eiusdem  [+literae  H.]  ad  omnes  Episcopos  Abbates  Priores  decanos 

officiarios  [  +  etc.  H.]  et  ad  Vicecomitem  Eboracensem  super  eadem 
materia. 

22.  Litera  Regis  [-iae  H.]  ad  H.  Ep.  Lincoln,  compatientes  paupertati 

domus  B.  Mariae  Ebor.  et  prohibentes  collectores  suos  exigere 
medietatem  tanain  [Lanarum  H.]  aliasque  decimas  ab  eadem  quae 
ipsi  ex  decreto  Parliamenti  erant  solvendae. 

23.  Tractatus  de  Articulis  [  +  Justiciariorum  H.]  Itinerantium. 

(  =  0tho  C.  xiv.) 
173.         1.     Roberti   Ep.  Lincolne   moriitoria  Ep.  ad   priorem    et  conventum   de 

Newham. 

2.     Visitatio    eiusdem    domus    per    Archidiaconum    Lincoln,    authoritate 
H.]  Papae  anno  1232. 


38  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

3.  Consultatio  de   cohibendis   Tartarorum   incursionibus   per  processus, 

jejunia,  orationes  dominicas  cum  salutationibus  etc. 

4.  Regula  S.  Augustini  de  vita  Clerieorurn. 

5.  Const!  tutio  vel  potius  ordinatio  Canonicorum  Regularium  secundum 

Canonicam  Regulam  S.  Augustini  a  Patribus  instituta. 

6.  Consuetudinarium  sive  Rituale. 

7.  Fragmentum  Homiliae  Saxonicae. 

8.  Ordo  conversorum. 

9.  Libellus  a  Mag.  Will,  de  Mandagoto  Archidiacono  Nemausensi  com- 

positus  super  electionibus  faciendis  [  +  et  earum  processibus  ordi- 
nandis  H.]. 

10.  Tractatus  de   7  Sacramentis  et  comm.  Casibus  authore  ut  videtur 

Roberto  Lincoln. 

11.  Modus  sive  forma   confitendi   secundum  bonae  memoriae  Robertum 

Lincoln.  Ep. 

12.  De  Inventione  Musicae  per  sonum  malleorum  super  incudem. 

13.  Tractatus  de  periculis  quae  accidunt  circa  officium  sacerdotis. 

180.  Contenta  in  20  [2do  H.]  Codice.  (  =  0tho  C.  xiv.) 

*1.     Epistolae  Roberti  Grosthead  Ep.  Lincoln. 

2.  Sermo    Roberti  quidem  (!)    [ejusdem  H.]   propositus   coram   papa  et 

cardinalibus  in  Concilio  Lugdunensi  cum  quadam  Epistola. 

3.  Expositio  brevis  orationis  dominicae. 

4.  Nomina  Philosophorum. 

5.  Capitula  Turstini  Archiep.  Ebor.  ad  Will.  Cantuar.  de  reformatione  et 

discordiis  monachorum  ecclesiae  S.  Mariae  Ebor.     A.D.  1132. 

6.  Epistolae    quaedam    Rhetoricae   et    Satyricae    contra    Malgerium    et 

Rixvaldum  [Rixvaldium  H.]. 

7.  Invectiva  in  quendam  pro  defensione  [detentione  H.]  clarissimi  viri 

R.  Hereford.  Episcopi. 

8.  Epistola   quedam   [quaerula   H.]   Abbatis    Clarevallensis  ad   Lucium 

Papam  super  electione  cujusdam  ad  Archiep.  Ebor. 

9.  Idem  ad  Eugenium  Papam  super  eadem  re. 

10.  Ejusdem  Epistola  ad  Cardinales  Romanae  [  +  Curiae  H.]  super  predicti 

Willelmi  electione. 

11.  Epistola   Bernardi  Abbatis   ad  Eugenium  Papam  pro  Archiepiscopo 

Cantuar.  contra  Eboracensem  et  Winton  super  veteri  quendam  (!) 
[querea  H.]  de  Rogatione. 

12.  Epistola  Imarii  [Ymari  H.]  Tusculani  Ep.  Carmone  ei  [  +  Canonicis  H.] 

Ecclesiae  London,  super  electione  Richardi  Ep. 

13.  Epistola  Eugenii  Papae  Decano  et  Canonicis  S.  Petri  in  Episcopatu 

[et  Epist.   H.]  Dunelmensi  et  Carleolensi  super  electione  predicti 
Willelmi  in  Archiep.  Ebor. 

14.  Epistola  Abbatis  Clarevallensis  ad  Innocentum  Papam  de   erroribus 

Mag.  Petri  Abaelardi  contra  Calumnias  objectorum  capitulorum. 

15.  Eiusdem  Epistola  de  eodern  [eadem]  ad  Cardinales. 

16.  Responsio  M.  Petri  Abaelardi  contra  Calumnias  objectorum  capitu- 

lorum. 

17.  Figuratae  quaedam  controversiae. 

18.  Epistola   Henrici   Imp.  ad   Philippum    Reg.   Galliae   contra   Papa(m) 

.  lectu  dignissima. 


List  A.     List  B  39 

19.  Epistola  Rhetorica  ad  monachum  fugativum  [fugit-  H.]. 

20.  Epistola  Hugonis  ad  Epp.  Dunelmens.  et  Carleolens.  et  canonicos  Ebor. 

de  electione  predict!  Willelmi. 

21.  Epistola  Eugenii  Stephano  Regi  Angliae  de  honora.  de  Richard.  Ep. 

Lond.  [de  honorando  Richardo  Ep°.  H.]. 

22.  Epistola  eiusdem  ad  Mathildam  Reginam  Angliae  super  eadem  re. 

23.  Epistola  Cardinalis  Ep1  Hostiensis  ad  Canonicos  London,  super  eadem 

re. 

24.  Epistola   Alexandri    Papae    ad   Theobaldum   Archiep.   Cant,   in   qua 

enarrat  Historiam  schismatis  inter  se  et  Octavianum. 

25.  Epistola  Patriarcharum  schismaticorum  super  electione  et  consecratione 

Octaviani. 

26.  Epistola  cujusdam  missa  occultato  nomine  ad  Papam  Alexandrum. 

27.  Epistola    Frederici    Imp.    Rom.    de    electione    et    consecratione    sui 

Apostolici   missa   cunctis   Melibus   ad   confirmationem    Electionis 
ejusdem. 

28.  Altercatio  super  Formoso  papa. 

[Here  follows  in  H. :    Bibl.  Westrnonast.  N.  12.  B.  4. 

1  Articles  de  Wardmote  etc.  =  no.  182  (Otho  C.  xn.)] 


B. 

THE  LIBRARY  REGISTER  AT  WESTMINSTER. 
A  folio  volume  of  vellum  recently  rebound. 

TITLE. 

A  Register  or  Catalogue  of  the  Names  of  y*  Benefactours  to  the  Publicque 
Librarie  att   Westminster. 

Anno  Domini  1623. 

f.  2.  Dr  John  Williams  Late  ArchBp  of  Yorke  formerly  Lord  Keeper  of  the 
Greate  Seale  of  England  and  Deane  of  Westminster  after  that  he  had 
at  his  greate  cost  and  charges  repaired  and  fitted  this  Library  as  now 
it  is  gave  the  10th  of  July  An0  Dm  1623  towards  the  furnishing  of  it 
these  Bookes  following. 

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spent  on  the  books  following. 
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70.  Edw.  Fulliam  (preb.  of  Windsor),  Biblia  Polyglotta  (9  vols.)  and  Institution 

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secundi.      Fol.    MS.      [The  Litlington   Missal.] 
MS.   Graece  pergam.  4or  Evangeliorum.  ff.  72-3  blank. 

74.     Ric.  Busby  D.D.  (preb.  and  schoolmaster).    1664.    15  books.        f.  75  blank. 


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f.  76.  James  Lamb  D.D.  (preb.).  1669.     11  books.                f.  77  blank. 

78.  Wm  Hargwood  D.D.  (preb.).  £25.                         f.  79  blank. 

80.  Hie.  Gowland  (librarian).  £10. 

81.  Sam.  Bolton  D.D.  (preb.).  5  books.  f.  82  blank. 
83.  Th.  Triplet  D.D.  (preb.).  26  books. 

85.  Herb.  Thorndike  (preb.).  1672.     Atlas  (£55). 

86.  Walt.  Jones  D.D.  (Subdean).  19  books. 

87.  Rich.  Perrinchiefe  D.D.  (preb.).  8  vols. 

[At  bottom  £  Nov.  10.  1675  :  then  the  hand  changes.] 

88.  Geo.  Stradling  Dean  of  Chichester  (preb.).     10  vols. 

89.  Laurence  Earl  of  Rochester.  23  Jan.  1705.     Clarendon's     Hist,     of 

Rebellion. 

90.  Ch.  Battely  (receiver).  23  Ap.  1705.     1  vol. 

91.  Sam.  White  (Fellow  of  Trinity).         „     „         „         2  vols. 

92.  Nic.  Onely  D.D.  (preb.).  23  Jan.  1702.     Life  of  Abp  Williams. 

93.  Jas.  Wright.  „      „      1692.     1  vol. 

[Another  hand :   ornament  ceases.] 

94.  Hen.  Turner  Clerk  of  the  Parish  of  S.  Margaret's.     1710.     12  books,  and 

Sr  Edw.  Walker's  Journals  MS.     1650. 
Star  Chamber  MS. 
Musick  Book  folio  MS. 
Combats  and  Challenges. 

95.  Bought  with  money  from  Stephen  Fox  and  Christopher  Wren  Knights.    1709. 

„  „        „        „     Th.  Knipe  (£10)  S.  Bradford  (£10).     1710. 

96.  Rich.  Canning.  1712. 

Dr  Broderick.  1713.     £10. 

Dr  South.  1715.     His  own  works. 

97.  Dr  Barton.     Given  by  his  widow.     24  Oct.  1718. 

98.  Other  Prebendaries. 

99.  Given  by  Dr  Only  (preb.).  1725.     600  books. 

Compendium  Metaphysicum  MS.     [No.  32  in  Catalogue.] 

Liber  MS.  de  Ecclesia  Romana. 

Dr  Onley's  Sermons  3  MS.  Vols.  in  Quarto.     [Not  described :  in  a  press 

in  the  Library.] 
107b.     Dr  Linford.  f.  108  blank. 

109.  Bought.  May  28.     1727. 

110.  Michael  Evans  (preb.).  1732.     200  books. 

Gibbon's  Divinity  MS. 

113.  Bought.  1734. 

114.  Th.  Moore  (librarian).  £50. 
114b.     Edw.  Gee. 

Sr  Th.  Philips. 

W.  Morrice. 

Ch.  King. 

Owen  Davis  Receiver. 

The  Crucified  Jesus  by  Anth.  Horneck  D.D.  a  manuscript.      [Extant : 

not  described.] 
Simon  Manuingham. 


42  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Rob*  Freind  D.D.     Headmaster. 

Martial's  Epigramms  a  MS.     [Either  no.  15  or  no.  16  in  my  catalogue.] 
Hon.  Rob.  Drummond  D.D.  a  Prebendary. 

A  drawing  on  vellum  representing  various  things   relating  to  Abbot 
Islip.     [This  is  the  Islip  Roll,  admirably  published  by  W.  H.  St  J. 
Hope,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Hon.  Secretary  to  the  Society  of  Antiquaries, 
and  recently  returned  by  the  Society  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter.] 
[This  page  is  headed  with  the  dates  1732  and  1747.] 

115.  Bought.  1737.     1744. 

116.  Bought.  1744.     1750. 

ff.  117—120  blank. 

Then  in  the  first  hand  (a  new  title-page)  : 

f.  121.  A  Catalogue  of  all  such  Manuscripts  as  have  beene  given  to  the  Publicqute 
Library  at  Westminster  Togeither  with  the  names  of  those  which  gave 
them. 

122.  The  Right  Honorable  John  Williams  Doctor  in  Divinitie  late  ArchBpp  of 
Yorke  and  Deane  of  Westminster  sometimes  Lord  Keeper  of  ye  Greate 
Seale  of  England  and  one  of  ye  Privie  Councillors  to  ye  late  King  James 
and  King  Charles  gave  as  followeth.  viz  : 

[The  grouping  of  the  books  under  the  numbers  is  necessarily  conjectural  in  some 
cases.] 

1,  2.     Biblia  MS.  Anglice  2°bus  Vol.     Fol. 

3,  4.  *Pentateuchus  Mosis  Hebraice  cum  notis  Massoreth  :   2bs  Fol. 

5.  *Biblia  Hebraica  MS.  correctissima.     Fol. 

6.  Biblia  Latine  D.  Hieronymi.     Fol. 

7.  Altera  bellissimo  charactere.     Fol. 

8.*  Altera  una  cum  Indice  plenissimo.     Fol. 

9.  A  Summary  of  the  whole  Bible  collected  by  John  Wicklefle.     4to. 
(f.  122b.     Col.  1.) 

10.  Liber  Geneseos  glossatus.     Fol. 

11.  Exodus  glossat.     Fol. 

12.  Liber  Levitici  glossatus.     Fol. 

13.  Libri  Numerorum  et  Deuteronomii  glossati.     Fol. 

14.  Commentar.  in  Librum  Job.     Fol. 

15.  Libri  Joshuae  et  Judicum  glossati.     Fol. 

16.  Libri  4or  Regum  glossati.     Fol. 

17.  Glossa  communis  super  Psalterium. 

18.  Esajas  Propheta  glossatus. 

19.  Hieremias  et  Baruch  glossati. 

20.  Paralippomenon  libri  duo.     Proverbia  et  Ecclesiastes  glossati.     Fol. 
21  a.     Super  Cantica  et  Apocalipsin.     8°. 

b.     De  Lapidibus  pretiosis  eorumque  virtutibus  metrice. 

[Space.] 
(Col.  2.) 

22.  Glossa  super  E/echielem. 

23.  super  Danielem  prophetam. 


List  B  43 

24.  Matthaeus  Evang:  glossatus. 

25.  idem  et  Marcus  glossati.     4to. 

26.  Lucas  glossatus.     4to. 

27.  Acta  Apostolorum  cum  glossa.     Fol. 

28.  D.  Pauli  Epistolae  glossatae.     Fol. 

29.  Catena  Expositionum  Patrurn  in  D.  Pauli  Epistolas.     Fol. 

30.  Liber  Apocalypseos.     Epistolae  Canonicae  et  Actus  Apostolorum  glossat. 

Fol. 

„.       JCommentarius  in  Apocalypsin.     Fol. 
\Aesopi  Fabulae. 

[Space.  1 
(Col.  1.) 

32.  Orthodoxographi.     Fol. 

33.  Petrus  Apollonius  presbyter  Novariensis  in  libellum  de  duello  Davidis  et 

Goliae,  pulchro  charactere,  'metrice. 

34.  Epistolae  Ivouis  Carnoteusis.     4*°.     Origenes  super  Leviticum. 

(Col.  2.) 

35.  Hugonis  Parisiensis  Didascalicon. 

Institutiones  Novitiorum. 

De  mundi  contemptu. 

De  arrha  animae. 

De  virginitate  beatae  Mariae. 

De  potestate  ligandi. 

De  conjugio.     Fol. 

(f.  123.     Col.  1.) 

36.  Evangelium  D.  Johannis  carmine  hexametro. 
De  casibus  conscientiae. 

Regulae  rnonachorum. 

37.  D.  Gregorii  Moralia.     Fol. 

38.  Augustinus  de  doctrina  Christiana. 
Sententiae  Hugonis  Parisiensis. 

39.  D.  Gregorius  in  Ezechielem.     4to. 

40.  D.  Chrysostomi  Tractatus  varii. 
Ambrosius  de  consecratione  ecclesiae. 
Hug:  archidiaconi  ad  Fulbertum  Epistolae. 
Fulberti  tractatus  duo. 

(41).*Psalmi  Davidis. 

Hieronymus  de  viris  illustribus. 

D.  Augustini  Tractatus  varii  una  cum  Prosper!  ad  eum  Epistola. 

D.  Hillarii  Epistola  ad  Augustinum. 

Aug :  de  perseverantia  Sanctorum. 

42.  D.  Ambrosii  Officia.     4to. 

43.  Isidorus  Hispalensis  super  vetus  Testamentum. 
Revelatio  facta  cuidam  de  3bus  patriarchis. 

44.  Meditationes  et  Orationes  valde  utiles. 

45.  Isidori  Hispalensis  Commentar.  in  Pentateuchum  Libri  Josuae   ludicum 

et  Regum. 

Augustinus  de  animae  quantitate. 
Hieronym:  in  Actus  Apostolorum. 


44  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

46.  Aug.  de  Charitate. 

Item  de  vita  et  moribus  Clericorum. 

47.  D.  Augustini  Libri  Confessionum  13nim  bellissimo  charactere. 

(Col.  2.) 

48.  Idem  de  animae  quantitate. 
Retractationes  eiusdem. 

49.  D.  Hieronyrnus  contra  Jovinianum. 
Eiusdem  Epistola  de  Locis  Mysticis. 
Augustinus  adversus  quinque  Haereses. 

50.  Augustinus  de  Libero  Arbitrio. 

Liber  Ecclesiasticorum  Dogmatum  Gennadii. 

Fulgentii  Epistola  ad  Donatum. 

Aug:  de  Penitentia. 

Abbas  Cheremonensis  (!)  de  perfectione. 

Aug:  Tractatus  aliqui. 

51.  Prosper  de  vita  contemplativa.     vetus  Exemplar. 
De  vitiis  et  virtutibus  Libri  3es. 

Cyprianus  de  opere  et 

Augustinus  de  utilitate  agendi  Paenitentiam. 

Hugo  Abbas  de  cohabitatione  Fratrum. 

Aug:  de  laude  et  utilitate  Canticorum  Spiritualium. 

52.  Ivonis  Carnotensis  Epistolae,  bello  charactere.     Fol. 

53.  Gregorii  Nazianzeni  Orationes  interprete  Ruffino. 

54.  Baeda  in  Epistolas  Canonicas,  pulchro  charactere.     Fol. 

55.  Chrysostomi  Homiliae.     8°. 

56.  Alcuinus  presbyter  de  virtutibus  et  vitiis. 
Vita  S.  Euphrasiae. 

Passio  S.  Julianae  Virginis  et  Martyris. 

Monita  D.  Basilii. 

Anonymus  de  virtutibus  et  vitiis. 

Epigramata  quaedam  a  Sto  Bonifacio  missa  ad  sororem  suam. 

(f.  123b.     Col.  1.) 

B.  Ambrosius  de  Mysteriis. 

Fragmenta  Librorum  eiusdem  de  Sacramentis. 

57.  Postilla  super  Cantica  Cantic:  Salom: 
Item  super  Lam :  Jeremiae. 
Sermones  Dominicales. 

Summa  Robert!  Grosthead  Lincoln.  Ep. 

Tabula,  et  Excerpta  Rabani  de  Etymologiis. 

Didascalicon  Hugonis  de  Sto  Victore. 

Aug:  de  spiritu  et  anima. 

Itinerarium  mentis  in  Deum  per  Bonaventuram. 

Summa  de  Anima. 

Meditationes  Bernardi. 

Id:  de  12m  gradibus  scalae  lacob. 

Apologeticum  cuiusdam  ad  Fratres  Cluniacenses. 

Hugo  de  Instructione  Novitiorum. 

Notabilia  Magistralia  super  Esajam.     Fol. 

58.  Balduinus  Ep.  Wigorniensis  de  Sacramentis. 


List  B  45 

59.     Eiusdem  serinones  de  Commendatione  Fidei. 

Item  varii  tractatus  Theologici. 
60a.     Robert!  Grosthead  Ep.  Line.  Epistolae  et  Sermones. 

b.  Eiusdem  allegationes  pro  Statu  Ecclesiae  coram  papa  et   cardinalibus 

A°  Dni  1250  etc.     Fol. 

c.  Idem  in  !">»«"»  2dae.     4*°. 

d.  Eiusdem  summa  Philosophiae.     4to. 

61.  Regula  S«  Benedicti. 
Martyrologium  Romanum. 
Evangelia  et  Epistolae. 

(Col.  2.) 

62.  Alexandri  Neckam  opus  Magnum  de  Naturis  Rerum.     Fol. 
Eiusdem  in  Ecclesiasten  Commentarius. 

Item  Psalmi  Davidis. 

63.  Petri  Lombardi  Senteutiae  cum  notis  passim.     Fol. 

64.  D.  August:  Sermones.     Fol. 

65.  Expositio  Vocabulorum  S.  Bibliae. 
Item  Dictiouarium  Latino-Anglic:  vet. 

66.  Liber  Scintillarum,  pulchro  charactere. 

67.  Sermones  Quinquagesimales. 

68.  fLucerna  Conscientiae  anonymi  cuiusdam. 
\Innoceutius  de  miseria  conditionis  humanae. 

69.  (Rich,  de  Sto  Victore  de  Benjamin  et  fratribus  eius. 
(Augustinus  de  Gratia  Novi  Testamenti. 

70.  Aug:  de  singularitate  clericorum. 
Item  de  sermonibus  Domini  in  Monte. 
Epistola  Excusatoria  Origenis. 
Hieronym :  de  honorandis  parentibus. 
Aug:  de  Agone  Christiano. 
Hieronymi  ad  Principiam  virg:  Epistola. 
Aug :  super  Epist :  Canon  :  Johannis. 
Epistolae  Baedae  ad  Egbertum  Epm. 
Hugo  de  3bus  silentiis. 

Sermo  Bernardi  de  Custodia  cordis. 

Aug :  de  serm :  Christi  in  monte. 

Athanasius  de  miraculis  per  itnaginem  Crucifixi. 

Id:  de  confessione  et  obedientia. 

Dialogus  Pastoralium  D.  Chrysostomi. 

Id :  de  Laude  crucis. 

Id:  de  Johanne  Baptista. 

(f.  124.     Col.  1.) 

De  ascensione  Christi  ad  caelum. 

De  muliere  Chananaea. 

Ambrosius  de  3bus  Difficilibus. 

Bern :  de  memoria  novissimorum. 

Idem  de  triplici  amore. 

De  cautela  humanae  laudis  recipiendae. 

Aug:  de  vita  Christiana. 

Id :  de  Corde  (Corpore)  et  Sanguine  domini. 


46  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Aug:  alia. 

Leo  de  Kedemptione  Hominis. 

Capitula  quaedam  ex  libro  Prosperi  de  vita  contemplativa. 
Epistola  Aug :  ad  Quod  Vult  Deus. 
Aug :  de  Haeresibus. 
Sermones  Lincolniensis. 
Wallensis  de  Paenitentia  eiusque  partibus. 
D.  Basilius  super  lmum  versic:  psalmi  lmi. 
Sermo  Bernardi  in  Dominicam  lmam  in  Adventu. 
Alter  eiusd :  in  obitu  Humberti. 
/"  Tractatus    de    Instructioue    Praelatorum   in   arte    Medicinae   Spiritualis 

pertinentis  ad  regimen  animarum.     4to. 
71.     4  Libellus  de  doctrina  cordis. 
Columba  Noae. 
VDe  antichristo. 

rDe  miseria  hurnanae  conditionis. 
De  iustabilitate  mundi. 


72. 


De  morte  corporis. 


De  die  Judicii. 

De  Poenis  Inferni  et  Gaudiis  Caeli.  Anglice. 
The  Passion  of  Christ  according  to  ye  4  Evangelists. 
(Col.  2.) 

73.  Vita  Mariae  Aegyptiacae  Authore  Sophronio  Hieros: 
Vita  Stee  Mariae  (Marinae)  Virginia. 

B.  Ephraim  de  Compunctione,  de  Die  Judicii,  de  Resurrectione  et  Regno 
Caelorum.     Fol. 

74.  *Petri  Lombardi  sententiae.     4to. 

jc      jAlmansoris  Opera  Physica,  de  Arabico  in  Latin:  translata.     Fol. 
(Verba  Abbuteti  sive  Antidotarium. 

76.  Hippocratis  Aphorismi. 
Theophilus  de  Urinis. 

Viaticum,  sive  tractatus  de  morbis  eorumque  curatione.     Fol. 
Bern:  Alfani  Archiep:  Liber  aureus  de  Medicina:  de  vino,  urinis,  inspec- 
tione  sanguinis  et  phlebotomia  per  Ric.  Anglicum. 

77.  De  re  Medica  scriptores  varii :     Fol. 

78.  Isaac  de  Diaetis. 

Glossa  super  Regimen  Galieni  Liber. 
It:  de  Febribus  cum  aliis.     4to. 

'Bern :  de  Gordonio  Regimen  Sanitatis. 

Eiusd:  Libri  prognostic!. 

Id:  de  regimine  morborum  acutorum. 

Antidotarium  Nicholai. 

Bernardi  de  graduatione. 


79. 


Id :  in  tractatu  de  phlebotomia. 

Anatomia  Guidonis. 

De  medicinis  componendis. 

De  Dosibus. 

Brevis  tr:  Arnoldi  de  phlebotomia. 

Id:  in  tr:  de  multiplici  uno. 

Tr.  de  modo  medendi  secundum  Gerardum. 


List  B  47 


(f.  1246.     Col.  1.) 

arii  tractatus  Chymici. 
De  calcinatione  Saturni  et  Jovis. 
Elixar  Lunae  super  Venerem. 
©  quomodo  fit  ex   9  • 
Morienus  Mulaphary  de  speculo  alchimiae. 
o~      j  Liber  vet :  philosophorum  de  proprietatibus  Rerum. 
Morienus  ad  Flodiu^  :    1  Flodium. 
Idem  de  Expos :  Lap :  benedicti. 
Hermes  de  transmutatione  rnetallorum. 
Arnold  :  Villanovauus,  Joseph :  Baco  :  Ortolong. 
Merlinus  metrice. 

ISenior  sive  clavis  sapientiae  minoris. 
81.     Passionarium  Galieni.     4to. 

JJoh:  a  Sto  Amando  super  antidotarium  Nicholai.     410. 
\Abbreviarium  Hippocratis  super  Regimen  Febrium  acutarum  etc. 

83.  Avicennae  opera.     Fol. 

84.  I  oh :  Platearii  Glossa  in  antidotarium  Nicholai. 

85.  D.  lustiniani  Codex  de  Trinitate  et  Fide  Catholica  cum  comment.     Fol. 

(Col.  2.) 

86.  Eiusdem  ex  omni  vet:  jure.     Digestum  seu  Pandectae.     Fol. 
Gul.  de  Mandagoto  Archid :  Nemausensis  de  Electionibus. 

87.  Gul.  de  Pagula  de  Oculo  Sacerdotis  dextro  et  sinistro. 

88.  Compendium  vitae  spiritualis.     8°. 
Thomae  Claxton  cantus  comicus. 

89.  Decreta   Ecclesiastica   Ecclesiarum   orbis  Britannici   pam-Britannica  pau- 

Anglica,  provincialia,  Dioecesaua,  ab  initio  Relig :  Christianae  ad  ann : 
Christi  1222.     Fol. 

90.  Chronica  Martini  paenitentiarii  Papae.     Fol. 

91.  Statuta  Roberti  de  Winchelsey  Archiep.  Cant,  in  Consistorio  de  Arcubus. 
Statuta  Synodalia  praesideute  Nicholao  Ep.  Wintoniensi. 

Acta  Concilii  Londini  celebrati  praesidente  Othone  Cardinale  Sedis  Apostol : 

Legato. 

Acta  Concilii  sub  Octoboni  praesidentia  una  cum  adjectionibus. 
Concilium  Lambethanum  praesidente  Job.  de  Peckham  Cant.  Archiep. 
Statuta  Synodalia  Richardi  Cicestrensis  Ep. 

(f.  125.     Col.  1.) 

Statuta  Gilbert!  Cicestrensis  Ep.  a°  Dm  1292. 
Coiistitutiones  Epp.  totius  Angliae  apud  Mertou. 
Constitutiones  Simonis  de  Mepham  Londini  Anno,  1328. 
Mandagotus. 

92.  Perspectiva  Alhazen  Libris  7m.     Fol. 

93.  Julius  Firmicus  de  Mathesi,  bello  charactere,  fol. 

94.  Job.  de  Sacrobosco  Computus,  de  sphaera,  etc.     8°. 

95.  6,  7.     Titi  Livii  Opera  3bus  [voll.]  pulcherrimo  charactere  conscripta. 

98.  Xenophontis  Historia  de  vita  Cyri.     4*°. 

99.  Diodori  Siculi  Libri  aliquot  Latinitate  donati  a  Poggio  Florentine  pulchro 

charactere.     Fol. 
100.     Trogus  Pompeius  bellissimo  charactere. 


48  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

101.  Aemil :  Probus  de  ducibus  nationum  exterarum  praeclaris. 
Chronologia  Imperatorum  Rom :  ab  Octaviano  ad  Fred :  2tlum. 

102.  Plinius  de  viris  illustribus. 

De  vitis  Imperatorum.     Luc.  Florus. 
Evidentia  Tragaediarum  Senecae. 

Corvinus  Messala  ad  Octavianum  Caesarem  de  progenie  sua  et  de  urbis 
Romae  originibus. 

103.  Orationes  variae  excerptae  ex  Livio  Curtio  Salustio  aliisque.     4to. 
(Col.  2.) 

lft.       JLupis  in  Xenophontis  praefectum  equitum  etc. 
jloh.  Argyropilus  de  Laudibus  Scientiae.     4to. 

105.  Analytica  Aristotelis  priora  et  posteriora  Graece.     4to. 

106.  Platonis  Phaedon  et  alia.     Fol. 

107.  Translatio  Oeconomicorum  Aristotelis  cum  Explicatione  in  usum  Cosmae 

de  Medicis. 

108.  Anastasii  \6yoi  SwSeKa  Graece.     Fol. 

-_Q  (H\aTO)v    irepl  npcov    irepl  dpfrfjs   KOI  Bavdrov. 
[Api(TTOTf\ris  TTfpl  'Aperwv.      4*°. 

110.  Crispi  Salustii  Bellum  Catalinarium. 

111.  Alter. 

112.  Valerii  Maximi  Dicta  et  Facta  Memorabilia,  bello  charactere.     4to. 

113.  Auli  Gellii  Noctes  Atticae.     Fol. 

114.  Terentii  Comoediae  etc. 

115.  Donati  Grammatici  Comentarii  super  Terentii  Comoedias. 

116.  Terentius  alter.     12mo. 

[Valerii  Maximi  Dicta  et  Facta  Memorabilia. 

117.  \  Palladius  Rutilus  de  re  Rustica. 
[D.  Augustinus  de  Natura  Boni. 

118.  Boetius  de  consolatione  vet. 

119.  Doctrinale  per  Giovanni  Dominici  Ital.     4to. 
(f.  1256.     Col.  2.) 

120.  Lepidi  Comici  Philodoxios  Fabulae. 

121.  *Guarini  Veronensis  Epistolae  ad  Chrisoloram  aliosque.     4to. 

122.  Job :  Bapt :  Evangelistae  Orationes  et  poemata  Latine  et(c)  Italice.     4*°. 

123.  Isotae  Nogarolae  Epistolae  ad  varios  Italos  magni  nominis. 

Petri  Parleonis  apologia  pro  ruilite  qui  hostem  iniussu  Ducis  eius  aggressus 

est. 
/  Pindari  Olympia  Pythia  etc.  Graece. 

124.  -|  Adagiarium. 

[Zenobii  Epitome  Tarraei  et  Dydimi.     4*°. 
1<?r.    #jri/a>/xat  (jiovoa-Toxai  (povoa-Ti^oi)  ex  variis  Poetis. 
[Callimacbi  Hymni. 

126.  Virgilii  Bucolica  Georgica  Aeneis  etc.  bello  charactere.     4to. 

127.  Virgilii  Aeneis  vetustiss:  Exemplar!. 
Eius  Eclogae. 

128.  Ovidii  Epistolae. 
Ovidius  de  arte  amandi. 

129.  Q.  Horatius  cum  commentario  amplo. 

130.  Alter.    4*. 


List  B  49 

131.  Eius  Epistolae  cum  notis.     4*°. 

132.  Tibulli  poemata  bello  charactere.     4*°. 

133.  Epistolae.     4to. 

134.  Junii  Juvenalis  Satyrae. 

C.  Plinii  2dl  Epistolae  bello  charactere. 

(Col.  2.) 

135.  Senecae  Tragaediae  cum  annotat:  exemplar  vetus.     4*°. 

136.  Lucani  Pharsalia  pulchro  charactere.     4*°. 

137.  Claudianus  cum  variis  antiq:  manuscriptis  collatus. 

138.  Apollinaris  Sidonii  Panegyres  et  Epistolae. 

139.  Lucani  Fragmenta. 

140.  Eman :  Moscopulus  irtpl  TTJS  T£>V  OKTW  rov  \6yov  p,(p5>v  Siop^oxrfwy. 

141.  Hermogenes  cum  scholiis  Graece  vet.     Fol. 

142.  Pompeius  Festus  de  significantiis. 

143.  Dictionarium.     4*°. 

Eiusdem  Doctrina  Compendiosa  per  literas. 

144.  Nonius  Marcellus  de  proprietatibus  et  differentiis  sermonis  Latini. 

145.  'E^ijyqo-iy  TTfpl  ^vx^s-     Fol. 

145  a.    Ammonii  'Et-riyrja-ts  irepl  KaTrjyopi&v  Gr.  (?)  in  folio. 

Alexander  Aphrodisieiisis  Gr.  (?)  irepi  r£>v  'Ai'aXvTinStv. 

146.  Poggius  Florentinus  in  Luciani  Asinum  ab  eod:  Latinitate  donatum. 

147.  Galfridi  Monemuthensis  Historia  Britannica. 
Turpinus  Archiep:  Rhemensis  de  Carlo  Magno. 

148.  Giraldi  Cambrensis  descriptio  Walliae.     4*°. 

(126.     Col.  1.) 

149.  Historia  Angliae  incipiens  Britannia  et  desinens  circa  initium  Hcl  6U. 

150.  Benedictus  Abbas  de  gestis  Henrici  2ndi  Regis  Angliae. 

151.  *Burchiello  sonetti  sopra  diversi  occasione. 

(Col.  2.) 

152.  Historia  Angliae  vetus  incipiens  a  Bruto. 

153.  S.  Oswaldi  Regis  et  Martyris  Vita  et  Commemoratio. 

154.  Dante  delle  diversi  cerchie  del  infierno  et  paradise,  vet. 

(Col.  1.) 

155.  *Gospells  for  everie  Sunday.     Italice.     Fol. 

156.  A  new  Testament.     12mo  vetus. 

157.  Psalmi  Davidis  cum  variis  canticis  sacris.     4to. 

158.  A  Hieroms  Bible  in  a  very  old  character.     8vo 

159.  Precationes  et  Hymni.     12mo. 

160.  *A  Divine  History  of  some  Famous  English  Divines  metrice. 

161.  An  old  Missall,  folio. 

162.  Certaine  Psalmes  translated  into  English  Rithme  by  William  Forest,  in 

imitation    of   xxtie    formerlie    presented    to   H?  ye    8tb   by   Sr   Thomas 
Sternhold  for  Q.  Katherine. 

163.  *Certaine  Commonplaces  of  Divinitie  scholastically  translated.     Also  diverse 

Sermons.     Latine.     4to. 

164.  An  Exposicion  of  the  tenn  Commandements.     4to. 

165.  A  Treatise  that  may  suffice  each  man  &  woman  to  live  by  wherein  is  an 

Exposicion  of  the  Creede  Tenn  Commandements  etc.     12mo. 

R.  w.  4 


50  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

166.  *A  right  Learning  to  know  a  man's  selfe,  by  the  consideracion  of  the  present 

and  the  time  to  come.     4*°. 

167.  *The  Life  of  Christ  with  some  Collections  out  of  Bernard. 

SM  Francisci  Vita  etc.  3bus  comprehensa  libris.     8V0. 

168.  *A  little  Manuall.     24to. 

(Col.  2.) 

169.  Of  the  tenn  Commandements  and  the  Exposition  of  them. 
Of  the  Seven  deadly  sins.     Of  Faith :  Hope :  and  Charity. 

Certaine  Directions  of  Godlie  Liveing  to  Kings  Priests  Lords  and  Labourers : 

in  speciall,  how  each  man  should  be  saved  in  his  degree.     8U0. 
Of  men's  worshipping  Images,  other  wayes  than  Gods  Law  saies  they  should. 
How  to  know  Antichrist  and  his  many  from  Christ  and  his  Followers. 
The  Sisters  and  Bretheren. 
Augustine  to  an  Earle. 

,  70      [Summa  Magistri  Thomae  Archidiaconi  Sarum.     4*°  vet. 
\Certaine  psalmes. 

171.  Arch.  Bpp  Cranmer  his  answere  to  the  Sophistick  cavillacions  of  Steph : 

Gardiner  Bpp.  of  Winchester  against  the  true  doctrine  of  the   Holy 
Sacram1  together  with  his  answere  to  such  places  of  Doctr :  Rich :  Smith 
as  deserve  it. 
A  coppie  also  of  Gardiner's  Booke  that  he  presented  in  open  Court.     Italice. 

(126b.     Col.  1.) 

172.  *Letters  Quadripartite  Betweene  King  Henry  the  7th,  John  Islip  Abbott  of 

Westm :  the  Deane  and  Chapter  of  S*  Paul.  London,  the  Major  of 
London  and  the  Commonaltie  That  the  said  Abbott  paying  the  said 
Deane  &  Chapter  such  a  sum  as  is  there  mencioned,  they  the  said 
Deane  etc.  shall  yearly  on  a  sett  day  celebrate  an  Anniversary  in  theire 
Church  for  the  said  King  his  Praedecessors,  himselfe.  his  Queene  etc.  in 
Blew  velvet  &  gilt  clasps. 

(Col.  2.) 

173.  *Another  Coppie  of  the  like  quadripartite  Indenture  Betweene  the  King  ye 

Abbott  of  Westm :  Major  of  London  &  ye  Deane  &  Chapt1'  of  S*  Stephens 
For  the  like  Anniversary  for  the  same  End  to  be  solemnized  by  them.  Fol. 

174.  *King  H.  ye  8th  his  Erection  of  the  Church  of  Westm :  into  a  Bpprick  etc. 

wth  ye  concessions  he  made  unto  the  Bpp.  thereof  etc.  Alsoe  Queene 
Elizabeth  her  lettres  Pattents  whereby  she  made  the  said  Church 
collegiate  appointing  there  a  Deane  twelve  Prebendaryes  etc.  Fol. 

f.  127  is  blank. 

f.  128.  Sr  Robert  Cotton  Knight  &  Baronet  gave  these  Manuscripts  hereafter 
following : 

Col.  1. 

175.  1.    Robertus  Grostheed  Lincolniensis  Epus  de  Oculo  Morali.       (Otho  D.  x.) 

Id:  de  Dispositione  Motoris  et  Moti  in  motu  circulari. 

Dictamina  sive  Lecturae  eiusd :  147. 

Descriptio  Figurae  Machinae  mundi. 

Id:  de  Cessatione  Legalium. 

De  conceptione  btee  Mariae  secundum  Anselmum. 

Expositio  Prologi  D.  Hieronymi  super  Bibliam. 


List  B  51 

Col.  2. 

176.  2.    Historia  quaedam  de  Regno  Angliae  et  Regibus  eius.      (Otho  D.  xi.) 

item  de  Paschae  observatione  in  Anglia  et  de  primis  Regalibus  orna- 

mentis  Regni  Angliae. 

Genealogia  Dni  Petri  de  Luxemburg  Comitis  S°  Pauli. 
Item  Genealogia  Dna«  Margaritae  uxoris  eius. 
LOffice  de  seneschal,  de  Bailif  et  plusieurs  autres  officiers.     Gallice. 

1286.     Col.  1. 

Tractatus  de  re  rustica.     Gallice. 

De  cure(-a)  Rei  Familiaris  ad  Comitissam  Nicholae  per  Rob.  Grosseteste. 

De  arte  culinaria  veteri   ubi   elucidantur  vocabula   Ferculorum  quae 

habentur  in  prandiis  Coronationum  et  Installationum.     Gall. 
Liber  de  Gem  mis  pretiosis  et  Herbis  Salutaribus.     Gallice. 
Decimae  triennales. 
Antiqua  Taxatio  Beneficiorum  appropriatorum  et  nova,  cum  Foedis 

Militum   et  Donationibus   spectantibus  ad  quaedam   Monasteria  in 

Comitatu  Eboracensi. 
Prophetia  de  iis  quae  contingerent  ad  Annum  Dni  1290  inter  Germanos 

Italos  Gallos  Anglos  Wallos  et  Scotos. 
Literae  Edwardi  3tu  Reg :  Angli  universis  declarantes  injurias  sibi  illatas 

a  Philippo  Valesio  Rege  Franciae. 
Literae  Benedicti  Papae  ad  Edu :  Reg :  Angl :  de  causa  inter  papatum  et 

Ludov :  de  Bavaria  Imperatorem. 
Eiusd :  Literae  ad  Eund :    de  componenda  pace  inter  Reges  Edv :  et 

Philippum. 
Edvardi  Reg :  Literae  ad  Collegium  Cardinalium,  et  univers :  Ecclesiarum 

praelatos  de  eadem  materia. 

Col.  2. 

De  ead :  Controversia  Literae  patentes  ad  universos  Reges  etc. 
Mutuae  Literae  Ludovici  Imp.  Romanorum  et  Edv:  Regis  Angliae  de 

eadem  etc. 

Roberti  Grosseteste  Ep :  Lincoln :  sermones. 
Variae  eius  Orationes  Romae  habitae  etc. 
Id:  de  Libero  Arbitrio.     Fol. 

A  French  Romance  of  his,  in  the  Titel  whereof  hee  is  called  Bpp.  of 
Nicholle.     4to. 

177.  3.    Roberti  Ep.  Lincoln :  Epistola  Monitoria  ad  Priorem  et  conventum  de 

Newham.  (Otho  C.  xv.) 

Visitatio  eiusd :  domus  per  Archidiac :  Lincoln  ex  authoritate  D1"  Papae 

A°  1232. 
Consultatio   de   cohibendis   Tartarorum    incursionibus   per  processus, 

ieiunia  etc. 

Regulae  Su  Augustini  de  vita  Clericorum. 
Ordinatio  Canonicorum  Regularium. 
Rituale,  sive  Consuetudinarium. 
Fragmentum  Homiliae  Saxonicae. 
Ordo  Conversorum. 

Mandagotus  de  Electionibus  faciendis. 
Grosseteste  de  7m  Sacramentis. 

4—2 


52  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

De  Inventione  Musicae  per  sonum  malleorum  super  incudem. 
Tractatus  de  periculis  quae  accidunt  circa  officium  sacerdotis. 

129  a.     Col.  1. 
178.     4.    Calendarium  Eerum  in  Anglia  gestarum.  (Otho  C.  xvi.) 

Extractum  Chronicarum  Rogeri  Cestrensis. 

Vita  Roberti  Grosseteste  Line.  Ep1  per  Ricardum  Monachum  Bardinensis 
Caenobii. 

Martyrium  Stj  Hugonis  Ep*(!)  Lincoln: 

Rogerus  Dimmocke  contra  errores  Lollardorum. 

Passio  Sd  Kenelmi  Regis. 
Col.  2. 

De  Sto  Edwardo  Rege  et  Martyre. 

De  Sto  Guthlaco  Heremita. 

Vita  St!  Elphegi  Archiep1. 

Vita  Sancti  Johannis  Beverlacensis. 

Historia  Johis  Beverlaci  per  Folchard :  Monachum  Dorobernens : 

Constitutiones  Eboracensis  Ecclesiae  A°  1291. 

A  sermon  in  Defence  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  in  English. 

ff.  129—140  are  blank. 


C. 


FROM  CATALOGI  MANUSCRIPTORUM  ANGLIAE  ET  HIBERNIAE. 

Librorum   Manuscriptorum   Ecclesiae  Westmonasteriensis  Catalogus.  (n.  27.) 
Colligit  autem  ille  bonae  notae  Codices  ccxxx. 

Accurante  vero  (viro)  erudito  Michaele  Ma(i)ttaerio. 
1091.       1.     Menologium  Graecum. 

2.  Martyrologium  Graecum  cum  orationibus  aliquot.  SS.  Patrum. 

3.  Commentarius  in  Epistolas  S.  Pauli.     Gr. 

4.  Georgii  Codini  Origines  Constantinopolitanae.     Gr. 

5.  Aristotelis  organon.     Gr. 

6.  Joannes  Grammaticus  de  anima.     Gr. 

7.  Anastasii  orationes  12.     Gr. 

8.  Commentarius  in  Aristotelis  Logicam,  viz.  Ammonii,  Michaelis  Patricii, 

Alexandri  Aphrodisiensis  etc.     Gr. 

9.  Disputatio    Coresii    contra    Cornelium     Pisanum    Praelectorem    de 

Monarchia  Ecclesiastica.     Gr. 
1100.     10.     Galenus  ntpl  Kpia-ftav. 

11.  Aphthonii  Progymnasmata  cum  Scholiis:  et  Hermogenis  Rhetorica. 

Gr.  p.  61  (sic). 

12.  Platonis  Spot. 

13.  Moschopuli  Grammatica.     Gr. 

14.  Idem  irepl  <rx(&<*>v. 

15.  Pindari  Olympia,  Pythia,  Nemea.     Gr. 


List  C  53 

16.  Nonius  Marcellus. 

17.  Priscianus. 

18.  Alius. 

19.  Pompeius  Festus. 
1110.    20.  Alius. 

21.  Perspectiua  Alhacen  lib.  7. 

22.  An.  Senecae  Tragoediae. 

23.  Eaedem. 

24.  Terentius.  25.     Idem. 

26.  Horatii  Opera. 

27.  Eiusdem  Epistolae  quaedam  et  Ars  Poetica. 

28.  Eiusdem  Odae  cum  veteris  commentatoris  notis. 

29.  Vi(r)gilii  Opera. 

30.  Eiusdem  Aeneis. 
1121.     31.  Justinus  Historicus. 

32.  Sallustius. 

33.  Lucani  quaedam. 

34.  Juvenalis  Satyrae  et  Plinii  Epistolae. 

35.  35  (sic)  Plinii  Epistolae :  et  Vita  B.  Pauli  primi  Eremitae  per  Hiero- 

nymum. 

36.  Hieronymus  de  Viris  illustribus. 

37.  Orationes  excerptae  ex  Historicis  Latinis. 

38.  Ovidii  Epistolae  et  Ciceronis  Timaeus  de  essentia  mundi. 
*39.     Eclogae  Petrarchae. 

Statii  et  Claudiani  quaedam. 
1130.  *40.     Poemata  Tavolae. 

41.  B.  Prosper  de  vita  contemplativa  et  activa. 
Cyprianus  de  Opere  et  Eleemosyna. 
Augustinus  de  utilitate  agendae  Poenitentiae. 
Sermo  Hugouis  de  cohabitatione  Fratrum. 
Augustinus  de  utilitate  spiritualium  Canticorum. 

42.  Donatus  in  5  priores  Fabulas  Terentii. 

43.  Xenophontis  Cyropaedia  et  Platonis  Gorgias,  Lat. 

44.  Sidonii  Apollinaris  Poemata  et  Epistolae. 

45.  T.  Livii  Decas  prima.  46.     Eiusdem  decas  tertia. 

47.     Eiusdem  decas  quarta. 

48.  Valerius  Maximus. 

49.  Asinus  Luciani.  /  Xenophontis  iTrirap^os  /  Isocratis  Demonicus  /  Luciani 

quaedam.     Lat. 
1140.     50.     Ciceronis  Officia. 

51.  Poemata  Latina  Baptistae  Mantuani. 

52.  Comoedia  Philodoxii  et  Epistolae  quaedam. 

53.  Plinius    de  Viris    illustribus  /  L.   Florus  /.     Evidentia  tragoediarum 

Senecae  /. 

Corvinus  Messala  ad  Octavianum  Caesarem  Augustum  de  progenie 
sua  et  Romae  regiminibus. 

54.  De  re  oeconomica. 

55.  Vi(r)gilii    Eclogae  /  Sallustius  /  Epistola    Sapphus  /  Hieronymus    ad 

Nepotianum. 


54  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

56.  Tibullus.  57.     Alius. 

58.  Ovidius  de  arte  amandi. 

59.  Lucanus. 
1150.     60.  Sallustius. 

61.  Epistola  Nogarolae  et  ad  Nogarolam.  /  Oratio  ad  Legates  Venetos. 
Oratio  Petri  Parleonis  pro  milite  qui  iniussu  Imperatoris  egressus 

fudit  hostes  /  Vita  Homeri. 

62.  Poemata  Petri  Apollonii  Presbyteri  Novariensis. 

*63.  J.  Fleete  de  Fundatione  et  Dedicatione  Ecclesiae  Westmonasteriensis. 

64.  A.  Gellius.  65.     Alius. 

66.  Diodori  Siculi  libri  quidam.     Lat. 

67.  Tractatus  super  Apocalypsin  /  Aesopi  Fabulae,  Lat. 

68.  Platonis  Phaedon  et  Callicles.     Lat. 
*69.  Terentius. 

1160.  *70.     MSS.  Arab,  viz.,  Solutio  Aenigmatum  /  Praeceptio  de  vita  pia/oratio 
de  consolatione. 

71.  Liber  Missalis. 

72.  Comedie  di  Dante  D'Algieri,  viz.  Inferno,  Purgatorio,  Cielo. 

73.  Liber  Missalis.  74.     Alius.  75.     Alius. 

76.  Officia  quaedam  Romana  viz.  B.  Virginis. 

77.  Liber  Precum.  78.     Alius.  79.     Orationes  Divinae. 
1170.     80.     Ordo  ad  faciendam  Aquam  Benedictam  /  ordo  Commendationis  animae  / 

ordo  ad  faciendum  Baptismum. 

81.  A  godly  Book,  containing  rules  for  each  man  and  woman  to  live  after. 

82.  Novum  Testamentum,  seu  Historia  Evangelica. 

83.  Psalterium  Latinum.  84.     Aliud. 
85.     An  English  New  Testament.  86.     Another. 

87.  Les  Evangiles. 

88.  Les  Actes  et  Epistres  des  Apostres. 
*89.     Evangelia  Graece. 

1180.     90.     Homiliae  Joannis  Chrysostomi,  Lat. 

91.  Hieronymus  contra  Jovinianum  /  Eiusdem  Epistola  de  locis  mysticis  / 

Augustinus  contra  5  Haereses. 

92.  Ambrosius  de  Officiis. 

93.  Moralia  Gregorii. 

94.  Gregorii  Nazianzeni  Orationes  quaedam.     Lat. 

95.  Beda  in  Epistolas  SS.  Jacobi,  Petri,  Johannis  et  Judae. 

96.  Gregorius  Papa  in  Ezechielem. 

97.  Liber  Sententiarum. 

98.  Liber  Summarum. 

99.  Isidorus  Hispalensis  in  Vetus  Testamentum. 

1190.     100.     Isidorus  in  Pentateuchum,  Josuam,  Judices,  et  Reges. 

Augustinus  de  Animae  quantitate :  et  eiusdem  Retractationes. 
Hieronymus  in  Acta  Apostolorum. 

101.  Augustini  Sermones. 

102.  Eiusdem  de  Animae  quantitate  et  Retractationes. 

103.  „         de  Civitate  dei. 

104.  „         de  gratia  Novi  Testamenti. 

105.  de  libero  arbitrio. 


List  C  55 

106.  Eiusdem  confessiones. 

107.  „         de  Charitate. 

*108.          „         contra  Felicianum  Haereticum. 

109.          „         de  doctrina  Christiana  /  Sententiae  Hugonis  Parisiensis. 

1200.  *110.  Expositiones  in  Evangelia  Festorum. 

111.  Tabula  Dictorum  Domini  Lincolniensis. 

112.  Homiliae  quaedam  Hispan&e. 

113.  Alcuinus  de  Virtutibus  /  Vita  Euphrasiae  /  Passio  Julianae  /  Monitor 

Basilii  /  Epigrammata  Bonifacii  /  Ambrosius  de  Mysteriis. 

114  Lucerna  Conscientiae  /  Innocentius  de  miseria  humana. 

115.  Apparatus  in  processu  in  ordine  Justiciario. 

116.  Of  the  Ten  Commandments  and  the  Seven  Deadly  Sins. 

117.  Gulielmi  de  Pagula  Oculus  dexter  et  sinister  Sacerdotis. 

118.  A  Dialogue  between  a  Preacher  and  a  Romish  Priest. 

119.  A  Book  of  Divine  Poems. 
1210.     120.  Liber  Scintillarum. 

121.     Baldwinus  de  Commentatione  Fidei.  122.     Idem  de  Sacramento 

Altaris. 

123.  Tractatus  Divini  qui  incipiunt :  Ubi  erat  deus  antequam  esset  creatura. 

124.  Hugonis  Parisiensis  Didascalicon,  Isagoge,  Institutiones  Novitiorum, 

etc. 

125.  Alexander  Necham  de  rerum  naturis  /  Psalmorum  liber. 

126.  Josephus,  Latine.  127.    Alius. 

128.  Codex  Juris  cum  glossis. 

129.  Expositiones  SS.  Patrum  in  Biblia,  viz.  Dionysii,  Ignatii,  Poly  carpi, 

lustini,  etc. 

1220.     130.  Tractatus  Diversorum  Patrum,  Augustiui,  Origenis,  Hieronymi,  etc. 

131.  Expositio  Alphabetica  Vocabulorum  Biblicorum. 

132.  Epistolae  Ivonis. 

133.  Epistolae  Ivonis  /  Origenes  in  Leviticum  /  Psalterium  B.  Mariae. 

134.  Oswaldi  Regis  et  Martyris  Vita. 

135.  Institutio  Praelatorum  in  arte  Medicinae  Spiritualis. 

136.  Capita  Evangeliorum  metrice  /  Summa  Casuum. 

137.  An  Exposition  on  the  Decalogue. 

138.  Piorum  Picorumque  monumenta  Genealogica. 

139.  Meditationes  et  orationes  utiles. 

1230.     140.     Compendium    Vitae    Spiritualis  /  Modus    Coufitendi  /  Speculum    S 
Edmundi. 

141.  Summa  Magistri  Thomae. 

142.  Regula  S.  Benedict!  /  Martyrologium  Romanum. 

143.  De  miseria  humanae  conditionis  /  De  niorte  corporis. 

144.  Tractatus  Theologici,  Postillae,  et  Sermones. 

145.  Stephani,  Bonifacii,  Othoboni,  Archiepisc.  Cant.  Constitutiones. 

146.  Valerius  Maximus  /  Palladius  de  agricultura. 
Augustinus  de  natura  Boni/De  opere  monachorum. 

147.  Tractatus  varii  Joannis  Episcopi,  Ambrosii,  Hugonis,  Fulberti,  etc. 
*148.     Liber  S.  Edmundi  Regis. 

149.     Liber  Somniorum  per  Galfridum  de  Monmouth  editus  sub  nomine 
Turpini. 


56  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

1240.     150.  Almanzor,  Lat. 

151.  Sermones  quidam  Latini. 

152.  Joannes  de  S.  Amando. 

153.  Liber  Medicinae.  154.     Alius.  155.     Alius. 

156.  Avicenna,  Lat. 

157.  De  re  medica  scriptores  varii. 

158.  Liber  medicinae. 

159.  Bernardus  de  Medicamentis. 
1250.     160.  Bernardus  de  regimine  Morborum. 

161.  Tractatus  varii  de  Chemica. 

162.  Bernardi  regimen  Sanitatis. 

163.  Julii  Materui  Firmici  libri  Matheseos. 

164.  Liber  Astronomicarum  Observationum.  165.     Alter  hujusmodi. 

166.  Chronologia  Imperatorum  Romanorum. 

167.  Liber  de  re  Medica. 

168.  Herbaticum  /  Dioscorides  de  Her  bis  Faeminis. 

169.  Descriptio  Cambriae. 
1260.     170.  Historia  Britonum. 

171.  Chronicon  S.  Albani :  incipit:  Britannia  quae  mine  dicitur  Anglia  etc. 

172.  Passionarium. 

173.  Decreta  Ecclesiastica  Ecclesiarum  orbis  Britannici,  per  H.  Spelraan. 

174.  Notationes    in    omnes    Paulinas    Epistolas,    una    cum    Prologo    B. 

Hieronymi. 

175.  S.  Biblia  Latina.  176.     Eadem. 
177,  178.     An  English  Bible.     2.  vol. 

179.  The  Summary  of  the  whole  Bible. 

1271.     180.  Glossae  in  Epistolas  Pauli. 

181.  Danielem.  182.     losuam. 

183.  Genesin.  184.     Exodum. 

185.  Numeros.  186.     Jobum. 

187.  Leviticum.  188.     Reges. 

189.  Psalterium.  1280.     190.     Paralipomena,   Proverbia, 

Ecclesiasten. 

1281.      191.  Isaiam.  192.     Psalterium. 

193.  Jeremiam.  194.     Ezechielem. 

195.  Matthaeum.  196.     Matthaeum  et  Marcum. 

197.  Lucam.  198.     Actus  Apostolorum. 

199.  Apocalypsin,  Epistolas,  Actus.         1290.     200.     Apocalypsin. 

1291.   *201.  A  great  Folio  of  old  English  Poems. 

*202.  Another,  lesser. 

203.  Summa  Philosophiae,  per  Grostead. 

*204.  NOMOTEXNIA,  or  the  Art  of  Law. 

*205.  Tractatus  Theologici. 

206.  Vita  Mariae  JSgyptiacae  et  S.  Marinae  Virginis. 

B.  Ephrem  de  compunctione. 

*207.  Tractatus  Philosophici. 

*208.  Summa  Legum  per  Andream  Home. 

*209.  De  Heroibus  Israelis.     Metrice. 

1300.     210.  Una  Risposial  del  Reverend  Padre  Thomaso  Cranmero. 


List  C  57 

211.  Boethius. 

*212.  Historiae  Britannicae  defensio  per  Jo.  Priscum  (Priseum)  Britannum. 

213.  An  English  Manuscript  of  Divinity. 

*214.  A  Catalogue  of  persons  outlaw'd  in  King  James's  Reign. 

*215.  A  Collection  of  several  Pleas  and  Demurs  of  certain  Parliament-men. 

*216.  The    Copies    of    such    Records    as    upon    search    were    brought    in 

Parliament,  7  Jac.  I. 

217.  Concerning  several  Offices:  as  of  Seneschal,  Bailiff,  etc. 

*218.  A  Folio  Book  of  Miscellanies  which  begins,  Jus  legationis  etc. 

*219.  Several  Letters,  French  and  Latin,  of  Casimir,  Mercier,  Clervant,  de  la 

Tour,  etc. 

1310.    *220.  Eight  several  Grants  to  Abbots  of  Westminster. 

*221.  Juramenta,  sive  onera  officiariorum. 

*222.  Orders  conceived  and  set  down  by  Sir  Humphry  May. 

*223.  Modus  tenendi  Parliamentum. 

*224.  A  Law  Book  of  the  Term  S.  Trin.  15  Jac. 

225.  Some  Psalms  in  English  Verse  by  W.  Forest. 

*226.  Martyrologio  de  Santi  del  Signiore,  etc. 

*227.  Statuta    edita   a  confratribus   B.    Mariae   observanda  in   honorem 

conceptionis. 

*228.  A  Survey  of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 

*229.  De  Dei  Scientia. 

1320.    *230.  A  Book  of  Acts  and  other  Passages  in  Parliament. 


COMPARATIVE   TABLE   OF   THE   THREE   LISTS. 

A.       1.  B.     vac.  C.  3. 

A.       2.  B.     vac.  C.  9. 

Probably  the  dialogue  nep\  TIJS  apxfjs  TOV  TLdna  mentioned  in  Fabricius  Bibl. 
Gr.  xii.  118. 

A.       3.  B.     vac.  C.  2. 

A.      4.  B.     vac.  C.  4. 

Edited  by  Lambecius  1655  etc.,  and  in  the  various  editions  of  the  Byzantine 
historians. 

vac.  C.  10. 

vac.  C.  1. 

141.  C.  11. 

145".  C.  8. 

145.  C.  6. 

108.  C.  7. 

109.  C.  12. 
aptrrjs,  a  spurious  dialogue:   irepi  0ai-aToi/=Axiochus. 

A.     12.  B.     140.  C.  13. 


A.       5. 

B. 

A.       6. 

B. 

A.       7. 

B. 

A.      8. 

B. 

A.      9. 

B. 

Joh.  Philoponus  :  often  edited. 

A.     10. 

B. 

Fabr.  Bibl.  Gr.  x.  589. 

A.     11. 

B. 

58                   Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Fabr.  Bibl.  Or.  VI.  322. 

A.     13.  B.  105.  C.  5. 

A.     14.  B.  vac.  C.  14. 
Fabr.  Bibl.  Or.  vi.  324. 

A.     15.  B.  124.  C.  15. 

For  Zenobii  Epitome  etc.  see  Fabr.  Bibl.  Or.  v.  109. 

A.     16.  B.  vac.  C.  17. 

A.     17.  B.  vac.  C.  18. 

A.     18.  B.  144.  C.  16. 

A.     19.  B.  142.  C.  19. 

A.     20.  B.  143.  C.  20. 

A.     21-23.  B.  95-97.  C.  45-47. 

A.     24.  B.  115.  C.  42. 

A.     25.  B.  135.  C.  22. 

A.     26.  B.  vac.  C.  23. 

A.     27.  B.  131.  C.  27. 

A.     28.  B.  126  (or  127a).  C.  29. 

A.     29.  B.  127  (127a)  or  126.          C.  30? 

There  is  some  difficulty  in  distinguishing  the  various  copies  of  Virgil  in  these 
lists. 

A.     30.  B.  129.  C.  28. 

A.     31.  B.  130.  C.  26. 

A.     32.  B.  134.  C.  34. 

A.     33.  B.  101.  C.  37. 

A.     35.  B.  128.  C.  38. 

A.     36.  B.  110.  C.  32. 

A.     37.  B.  139?  C.  33? 

A.     38.  B.  vac.  C.  vac. 

A.     39.  B.  vac.  C.  vac. 
Probably  a  quite  late  MS. 

A.     40.  B.  138.  C.  44. 

A.     41.  B.  106.  C.  68. 

A.     42.  B.  vac.  C.  35. 

A.     43.  B.  100.  C.  31. 

A.     44.  B.  113.  C.  64. 

A.     45  (in  Harl.  694).       B.  vac.  C.  65. 

A.     46.  B.  cf.  101.  C.  36. 

Aemilius  Probus  is  the  book  now  known  as  Cornelius  Nepos. 

A.     47.  B.  98.  C.  43. 

A.     48.  B.  102.  C.  53. 

Corvinus  Messala :  this  tract  is  a  forgery  of  the  Italian  Revival.  It  is  sometimes 
printed  with  Eutropius. 

A.     49.  B.  99.  C.  66. 

A.     50.  B.  112.  C.  48. 

A.     51.  B.  146.  C.  49. 

A.     52.  B.  vac.  C.  50. 

A.     53.  B.  vac.  C.  vac. 

A.     54.  B.  vac.  C.  55. 


The  Three  Lists  59 

A.     55.  B.     111.  C.     60. 

A.     56.  B.     31,  32  (cf.  21").  C.     67. 

The  De  Lapidibus  of  A  may  probably  have  been  a  tract  on  the  Twelve  Stones 
of  the  Apocalypse. 

A.     57.  B.     136.  C.     59. 

A.     58.  B.     120.  C.     52. 

A.     59.  B.     132.  C.     56. 

A.     60.  B.     vac.  C.     62. 

P.  Apollonius  is  usually  called  Collatio  or  Collatino.    Poems  of  his  (Hierosolyma, 
Fasti,  etc.)  were  printed  in  cent.  xv. 


A. 

61. 

B. 

107. 

C. 

54. 

A. 

62. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

57. 

A. 

63. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

vac. 

A. 

64. 

B. 

123. 

C. 

61. 

Isolae  should  be  Isotae,    =lsotta 

Nogarola  (1420-1466): 

her 

letters  are  not 

printed.     Perleone  was  of  Eimini. 

A. 

65. 

B. 

128a. 

C. 

58. 

A. 

66. 

B. 

156. 

C. 

85. 

A. 

67. 

B. 

158. 

C. 

vac.  ? 

A. 

68. 

B. 

157. 

C. 

83. 

A. 

69. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

84. 

A. 

70. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

82. 

A. 

71. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

86. 

A. 

72,  73. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

87,  88. 

A. 

74. 

B. 

161. 

C. 

71  (or  73). 

A. 

75,  76. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

73  or  74,  75. 

A. 

77. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

76? 

A. 

78. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

77. 

A. 

79. 

B. 

165. 

C. 

81. 

A. 

80. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

79? 

A. 

81. 

B. 

44. 

C. 

139. 

A. 

82. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

78? 

A. 

83. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

vac. 

A. 

84. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

80. 

A. 

85. 

B. 

10-27,  30,  ?31. 

C. 

181-200. 

A. 

86. 

B. 

29? 

C. 

174. 

A. 

87,  88. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

175,  176. 

A. 

89. 

B. 

9. 

C. 

179. 

A. 

90,  91. 

B. 

1,2. 

C. 

177,  178. 

A. 

92. 

B. 

28. 

C. 

180. 

A. 

93. 

B. 

51. 

C. 

41. 

A. 

94. 

B. 

55. 

C. 

90. 

A. 

95. 

B. 

49. 

C. 

91. 

A. 

96. 

B. 

42. 

C. 

92. 

A. 

97. 

B. 

64. 

C. 

101. 

A. 

98. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

103. 

A. 

99. 

B. 

69. 

C. 

104. 

A. 

100. 

B. 

50. 

C. 

105. 

A. 

101. 

B. 

47. 

C. 

106. 

60  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

A.  102.  B.  46.  C.  107. 

A.  103.  B.  38.  C.  109. 

A.  104.  B.  vac.  C.  108? 

A.  105.  B.  48.  C.  102. 

A.  106.  B.  37.  C.  93. 

A.  107.  B.  53.  C.  94. 

A.  108.  B.  54.  C.  95. 

A.  109.  B.  39.  C.  96. 

A.  110.  B.  45.  C.  100. 

A.  111.  B.  43.  C.  99. 

A.  112.  B.  vac.  C.  123. 

A.  113.  B.  vac.  C.  98. 

A.  114.  B.  vac.  C.  126,  127. 

A.  115,  116.  B.  62.  C.  125. 
The  treatise  of  Neckam  de  Naturis  Rerum  ends  with  a  comment  on  Ecclesiastes. 

A.  117.  B.  35.  C.  124. 

A.  118.  B.  63.  C.  97. 

A.  119.  B.  58.  C.  122. 

A.  120.  B.  59.  C.  121. 

A.  121.  B.  66.  C.  120. 

A.  122.  B.  vac.  C.  112. 

A.  123.  B.  56.  C.  113. 

A.  124.  B.  87.  C.  117. 

A.  124.  B.  vac.  C.  119? 

A.  126.  B.  vac.  C.  111. 

A.  127.  B.  vac.  C.  118. 

A.  128.  B.  119.  C.  vac. 
Is  the  author  Cardinal  Giovanni  di  Domenico  (d.  1419)? 

A.  129.  B.  68.  C.  114. 

A.  130.  B.  169.  C.  116. 

A.  131.  B.  117.  C.  146. 

A.  132.  B.  85.  C.  128. 

A.  133.  B.  57  ?  C.  144  (cf.  129). 

A.  134.  B.  70.  C.  130. 

A.  135.  B.  52.  C.  132. 

A.  136.  B.  34.  C.  133. 

A.  137.  B.  61.  C.  142. 

A.  138.  B.  72.  C.  143. 
Probably  the  poem  is  Hampole's  Prick  of  Conscience. 

A.  139.  B.  91.  C.  145. 

A.  140.  B.  65.  C.  131. 

A.  141.  B.  170.  C.  141. 

A.  142.  B.  36.  C.  136. 

A.  143.  B.  164.  C.  137. 

A.  144.  B.  71.  C.  135. 

A.  145.  B.  153.  C.  134. 

A.  146.  B.  88.  C.  140. 

A.  147.  B.  vac.  C.  115. 

A.  148.  B.  vac.  C.  138. 


The  Three  Lists  61 


A.     149. 
A.     150. 
A.     151. 
A.     152. 
A.     153. 
A.     154. 
A.     155. 
A.     156. 
A.     157. 
A.     158. 
A.     159. 
A.     160. 
A.     161. 
A.     162. 
A.     163. 
A.     164. 
A.     165. 
A.     166. 
A.     167. 
A.     168. 
A.     169. 
A.     170. 
A.     171. 

B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 
B. 

75. 
40. 
76». 
vac.  ? 
76? 
147. 
vac. 
82. 
78. 
vac. 
83. 
77. 
vac.  ? 
vac. 
79. 
80. 
93. 
94. 
78M 
(cf.  79  last  part). 
152. 
149. 
150. 

C.     150. 
C.     147. 
C.     153? 
C.     vac.  ? 
C.     154  ? 
C.     149. 
C.     168. 
C.     152. 
C.     155  ? 
C.     vac. 
C.     156. 
C.     157. 
C.     158  ? 
C.     159. 
C.     160. 
C.     161. 
C.     163. 
C.     164  ? 
C.     167  ? 
C.     165  ? 
C.     170. 
C.     171. 
C.     vac. 

A.     172. 

B. 

148. 

C.     169. 

A. 

173. 

B. 

177. 

C. 

vac. 

Otho  C.    xv. 

A. 

174. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

vac. 

Otho  C.     xin. 

A. 

175. 

B. 

178. 

C. 

vac. 

Otho  C.    xvi. 

A. 

176. 

B. 

81. 

C. 

172. 

A. 

177. 

B. 

89. 

C. 

173. 

A. 

178. 

B. 

176. 

C. 

vac.  (cf.  217). 

Otho  D.     xi. 

A. 

179. 

B. 

cf.  176b. 

C. 

vac. 

A. 

180. 

B. 

60%  60b. 

C. 

vac. 

Otho  C.     xiv. 

A. 

181. 

B. 

175  (cf.  60* 

-d:    C. 

vac. 

Otho  D.     x. 

176C). 

A. 

182. 

B. 

vac. 

C. 

vac. 

Otho  C.     xii. 

Here 

A  ends  : 

we  continue  with  B 

and  C. 

B. 

3,  4. 

C. 

vac. 

B. 

5. 

C. 

vac. 

B. 

8. 

C. 

vac. 

B. 

21. 

C. 

vac. 

B. 

41. 

C. 

vac. 

B. 

60*. 

C. 

203. 

B. 

67. 

C. 

151? 

B. 

73. 

C. 

206. 

B. 

74. 

C. 

vac. 

B. 

84. 

C. 

vac. 

B. 

86. 

C. 

vac. 

B. 

90. 

C. 

166? 

B. 

92. 

C. 

21. 

62  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

B.     114.  C.  24. 

B.     116.  C.  25. 

B.     118.  C.  211. 

B.     121.  C.  vac. 

A.     vac.  B.     122.  C.  vac. 

(cf.  A.  15).  B.     125.  C.  vac. 

B.     133.  C.  vac. 

B.     137.  C.  vac. 

B.     151.  C.  vac. 

B.     154.  C.  72. 

B.     155.  C.  vac. 

B.     160.  C.  vac. 

B.     162.  C.  225. 

B.     163.  C.  (cf.  151). 

B.     166.  C.  (cf.  213). 

B.     167.  C.  (cf.  213). 

B.     168.  C.  vac. 

B.     171.  C.  210. 

B.     172.  C.  vac. 

B.     173.  C.  vac. 

B.     174.  C.  vac. 

Here  B  ends. 

A.     vac.  B.     vac.  C.  39. 

C.  40. 

A.     cf.  51.  B.     104.  C.  49. 

C.  63  still  extant. 

C.  69. 

A.     vac.  B.     vac.  C.  70. 

C.  89. 

cf.  A.  104.  C.  108. 

C.  110. 

C.  148. 
This  entry  gives  the  monastic  provenance  (Bury  St  Edmunds),  not  the  title. 

C.  201. 

C.  202. 

C.  204. 

C.  205. 

C.  207. 

C.  208. 

C.  209. 

C.  212-230. 

These  with  two  doubtful  exceptions  are  wanting  in  A,  B  and  are  clearly  for  the 
most  part  late  books. 


Manuscripts  in  the  Chapter  Library  63 


IV. 

THE  MANUSCEIPTS  NOW   PRESERVED   IN   THE 
CHAPTER   LIBRARY   OF   WESTMINSTER  ABBEY. 

In  this  section  of  our  work  a  description  is  given  of  the  manuscripts 
now  in  possession  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Westminster,  beginning 
with  those  kept  in  the  Library.  Besides  those  described  in  detail  there 
are  some  volumes  and  fragments  of  comparatively  recent  date,  of  which 
no  account  is  given  here :  for  example,  three  volumes  of  sermons  by 
Dr  Only  (1725),  a  mass  of  papers  by  Herbert  Thorndike  (not,  apparently, 
including  any  of  his  work  upon  Origen),  a  theological  treatise  or  treatises 
by  Dr  Anthony  Horneck,  and  a  modern  transcript  of  some  of  Atterbury's 
letters.  Among  manuscripts  not  kept  in  the  Library,  the  Islip  roll, 
recently  returned  to  the  Abbey  by  the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  seems  to 
need  no  description.  We  could  add  nothing  to  what  is  given  in  the 
splendid  publication  by  Mr  W.  St  John  Hope  in  Vetusta  Monumenta, 
issued  in  1906. 

Our  acknowledgments  are  due  to  the  Rev.  R.  H.  Maiden,  M.A., 
King's  College,  Cambridge,  now  Classical  Lecturer  at  Selwyn  College, 
who  made  notes  and  transcripts  from  the  manuscripts,  upon  which  the 
descriptions  are  to  some  extent  based. 

1.  PENTATEUCHUS  HEBRAICE. 

Vellum,  6£  x  4,  ff.  398,  18  lines  to  a  page.  Cent,  xiii,  very  well 
written. 

Stamped  leather  binding  of  cent,  xvi :  clasps  gone. 

Collation :  1  paper  slip.  !8-228  236  248-278  286  298-408  414  428-508 
512  522.  1  paper  slip. 

At  the  beginning  (xvi) : 

Liber  R.  Bruarni. 

Liber  Ecclesiae  Christi  Oxon.  ex  dono  Ric.  Bruarni  A°  1565  Jan.  14. 
Of  cent,  xiv  :  In  isto  volumine  contirientur  quinque  libri  Moysi  s.  Gen.  Ex.  Leu. 
Num.  Deut. 

Johannes  de  Grandissono. 

(This  is  the  Bishop  of  Exeter  1328-1370.) 

Primum  uolumen  Pentatheucum  id  est  v  libri  Moysi  precii  iii  florenorum. 


64  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [1 

Contents : 

The  Pentateuch  in  Hebrew,  well  written,  with  vowel-points. 

Headlines  in  Latin  in  a  hand  of  cent.  xiii. 

The  book  much  resembles  Dr  Caius's  Hebrew  Bible  at  Gonville  and  Caius 

College,  MS.  no.  404. 

At  the  end  is  an  extract  of  11  lines  from  Jerome  ad  Rusticum,  of  cent.  xiii. 
dura  essem  iuuenis  et  in  solitudinis 
— dulces  fructus  capio. 

Bruarne  was  Hebrew  Professor  at  Oxford,  Canon  of  Christ  Church 
and  Windsor,  and  elected  Provost  of  Eton  in  1561  but  soon  after  ejected. 
He  died  in  April  1565  and  is  buried  at  Windsor. 

I  do  not  know  of  any  evidence  besides  that  afforded  by  this  book 
that  Bp  Grandison  was  a  Hebrew  scholar. 

2.  PSALTERIUM   HEBRAICO-LATINUM. 

Vellum,  14f  x  llf,  ff.  38  +  1,  four  columns  to  a  page,  of  54  lines. 
Cent,  xiii,  finely  written.  2  fo.  inimicum. 

Collation :  I6  28-58.     1  paper  flyleaf. 

The  Psalter  in  Latin  (Gallican  version)  and  Hebrew. 

The  arrangement  of  the  columns  is 

1.     Lat.  2,  3.     Heb.  4.     Lat. 

The  catchwords  of  the  quires  are  in  Hebrew,  which  indicates  that 
the  Hebrew  was  written  before  the  Latin. 

There  are  hardly  any  marginal  notes,  and  I  detect  no  marks  of 
ownership. 

Similar  MSS.  are  at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge  (R.  8.  6),  Corpus 
Christi  College,  Oxford,  and  elsewhere :  there  is  on  the  whole  a 
presumption  that  they  are  of  Franciscan  origin. 

3.  BIBLIA.     N.  5.  179.     (Also  G.  212.) 

Vellum,  6|  x  4£,  ff.  492,  double  columns  of  49  lines.  Cent,  xiii,  very 
good  hand. 

Old  binding. 

Collation:  I4  26  |  316-1516  1612  1718  1816  1916  (wants  14)  2016-2816  2914 
80i2  31i2  3222  3312  (wants  10-12). 

On  the  flyleaf : 

Possidet... 

Non  licet  violare  quenquam  (?)  sui  commodi  gratia. 

N.  inquit. 

The  name  Thomas  Seale  occurs  twice,  once  with  the  date  1609. 


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Contents : 

Jerome  to  Paulinus.     Frater  Ambrosius. 

Prol.  to  Pentateuch.     Desiderii  mei. 

Genesis — 2    Chron.     Prol.    to    2    Chr.     Eusebius    leronimus.     Prayer  of 

Manasses  follows  without  break. 

Ezra,  Neb..,  1  Esdr.  (Et  fecit),  Tobit,  Judith,  Esther,  Job. 
Psalter  (Gallican)  with  a  small  lacuna  :    a  list  of  the  Cantica   in   red  at 

the  end. 
Prov. — Ecclus. 
Isa. — Malachi. 
1,  2  Mace. 

Evv.  Paul.  Act.  Cath.  Apoc. 

Prol.  to  2  Mace.     Secundus  liber  hystorie  maccabeorum. 
Prol.  to  Matt.     Matheus  cum  primo. 
Table  of  books  and  chapters. 
Verses  on  the  Canon  of  the  Gospels 

quattuor  est  primus  primis  tribus  alter  opimus 

agnos  committit  in  se  librum  loha  finit. 

Table  of  Lections :  called  Annotaciones.     The  Sanctoral  seems  undistinctive. 
List  of  the  Judges  :   a  short  list  of  church  writers,  Origen  to  Alcuiu. 
Prophecies  of  the  life  of  Christ. 
Interpretation  es  Nominum,  Aaz — Zuzim,  in  triple  columns. 

Initials : 

Prol.  a  man  writing.     2nd  Prol.  similar.     Gen.  decorative. 

1  Reg.  man  offers  lamb.     2  Reg.  Saul  pierces  himself. 

Neh.  man  by  city  on  L.     1  Esdr.  man  sprinkles  altar. 

Beatus  vir.  David  plays  harp.     Prov.  Solomon  chastises  Rehoboam. 

Zech.  single  figure.     Matt,  at  desk.     Rom.  Paul  with  sword. 

4.  BIBLIA. 

Uterine  vellum,  6x4,  ff.  631,  double  columns  of  42  lines.     Cent, 
xiii-xiv  in  a  very  pretty  hand. 

Collation:  I24-!!24  1222  1324  (one  slip)  1422  1524-2224  2326  2424-2624 

278. 

Contents : 

Proll. 

Gen. — 2  Chron.     Prayer  of  Manasses  with  title  in  margin. 
Esdr.  Neh.  2  Esdr.  (Et  fecit)  Esdr.  iii  (  =  4  Esdr.)  in  29  chapters. 
Tobit— Job. 
Psalter  (Gallican). 
Prov. — Ecclus. 
Isa. — MaL 

1,  2  Mace.     Proll.  of  Rabanus. 
Evv.  Paul.  Act.  Cath.  Apoc. 
R.  w.  5 


66  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [4 

Ep.  to  Laodiceans  in  later  hand. 
Interpretationes  Nominum.     Aaz — Zuzim. 

Initials : 

Gen.     Six  days  of  Creation,  Sabbath,  and  Crucifixion. 
In  the  margin  of  Exod.  xxvi.  are  drawings  of  the  Ark,  Candlestick,  and  Altar 
of  Incense,  in  rather  delicate  outline. 

5.  BIBLIA.     G.  210. 

Vellum,  6f  x  4£,  ff.  517,  double  columns  of  49  lines.     Cent,  xiv  ? 
Collation:  I4  (blank)  224-1024  II10  (one  slip)  1224  1324  1422  15™-21™ 
2228  2324'(one  slip)  246  (blank  :  wants  one). 

Contents : 

Proll. 

Gen. — 2  Chron.  (Prol.  to  2  Chr.  Eusebius  leronimus):  Prayer  of  Manasses. 

Esdr.  Neh.  1  Esdr.  (et  fecit)  Tobit— Job. 

Psalter  (Gallican). 

Prov. — Ecclus. 

Isa. — Mai. 

1,  2  Mace.     Proll.  of  Rabanus. 

Evv.  Paul.  Act.  Cath.  Apoc. 

Interpretationes  nominum.     Aaz — Zuzim. 

Hebrew  alphabet. 

An  erased  inscription  on  last  leaf  of  text. 

Printed  Kalendar  and  Almanac  (1578-1603). 

On  the  flyleaf  are  some  notes  and  verses.  On  the  verso  a  page  of 
writing  erased. 

The  initials  are  decorative,  in  bright  colours,  and  rather  effective. 

6.  XII  PROPHETAE  GLOSATL 

Vellum,  11£  x  5f,  ff.  155,  text  14  lines  to  a  page.  Cent,  xiii,  very 
well  written,  good  binding  of  cent,  xvi,  with  two  clasps. 

Collation:  112-1312  (wants  12). 

On  the  flyleaf  at  the  end  are  sketches  of  heads  and  a  lion  rampant. 
Also  some  pencil  notes,  and  on  the  last  page  at  lower  right-hand  corner 
is  a  large  gothic  G. 

Contents : 

1.     Duodecim  prophetae  glosati        .        .        .        .        ^^"    .    f.     1 
Prol.  of  Jerome.     Non  idem  est  ordo. 
Gloss  begins :   Verbum  quod  a  principio. 
Ends :   eos  qui  faciunt  opera  terrena. 


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2.  Sermon  on  St  Thomas  (22  11.  another  hand,  xiii)     .         .     1516 
Affer  manum  tuam. 

3.  Rules  for  the  behaviour  of  schoolboys  (a  third  hand,  xiii) : 

printed  below 1526 

4.  Note  on  the  man  with  the  withered  hand  (xiii). 

[2,  3  and  4  are  in  different  hands,  but  all  apparently  of  the 
xiiith  cent.] 

Rules  for  the  behaviour  of  schoolboys. 

Quoniam  per  omnia  decet  pueros  scolari  discipline  deditos  esse  facetos  ac 
omni  morum  honestate  pollentes,  dignum  est  ut  ad  eorum  informationem  eis  aliqua 
proponantur. 

Mane  ergo  surgentes  pueri  signent  se  signo  crucis  sancte,  et  dicat  unusquisque 
simbolum,  scilicet  Credo  in  deum  etc.,  et  ter  dominicam  orationem,  et  quinquies 
salutationem  beate  virginis,  absque  clamore  et  tumultu  :  quod  qui  neglexerit  bonam 
subeat  disciplinam. 

Deinde,  lectuli<s>  suis  tapetis  sive  suis  coopertoriis  decenter  per  omnia 
coopertis,  cameram  suam  simpliciter  sine  strepitu  simul  exeant,  et  modeste  ac  lotis 
manibus  ecclesiam  adeant,  non  currendo,  neque  saltando,  nee  ecciam  garriendo,  sed 
nee  alicui  inmundo  homini  vel  animali  aliquam  molestiam  inferendo  ;  non  arcum, 
non  baculum,  non  lapillum  in  manu  gestando,  nee  aliquid  aliud  tangendo  per  quod 
possit  cuiquam  noceri  ;  sed  simpliciter  et  honeste  et  gradu  conposito  iucedentes. 

Intrantes  itaque  ecclesiam  signent  se  signo  crucis,  et  dicta  oratione  dominica 
et  salutatione  beate  virginis  cum  genuflexione  coram  crucifixo,  surgant  et  chorum 
intrent  bini  et  bini  humiliter  et  devote ;  et  in  medio  chori  inclinantes  se  modeste 
versus  altare,  ad  stallum  suum  sive  sedem  suam  redeat  unusquisque:  quod  qui 
contempserit  disciplinam  asperam  non  euadat. 

In  choro  quidem  stantes  vel  sedentes  non  habeant  occulos  deflexos  ad  laycos, 
sed  pocius  versus  altare;  non  ridentes,  non  garrientes,  uon  cachinnantes,  nou 
deridentes  alicui  si  minus  bene  legit  vel  psallit ;  non  se  mutuo  clam  vel  palam 
percutientes,  neque  aspere  respondentes  cum  a  casu  per  majores  super  aliquo 
fuerint  requisiti :  predictorum  vero  transgressores  ictum  ferule  sentiant  sine  mora. 

Cum  vero  pueri  majores  in  choro  stantes  viderint  vel  sedentes,  et  ipsi  stent 
vel  sedeant,  in  omnibus  et  per  omnia  bonos  mores  eorum  et  gestus  pro  viribus 
imitantes.  Lecturi  siquidem,  priusquam  ascendant  ad  legendum,  in  medio  chori 
versus  altare  humiliter  se  inclinent,  et  similiter  faciant  postquam  legerint  ad  loca 
sua  reuertentes.  Dictam  vero  inclinationem  obseruent  sive  in  stallo  suo,  sive  ante 
gradum  presbyterii,  cum  aliquid  ibidem  fuerint  cantaturi  :  quod  qui  non  fecerit 
ictum  ferule  festinum  incurrat. 

Chorum  quidem  nullus  hinc  inde  transeat  sine  deuota  capitis  inclinatione  versus 
altare,  nee  ecciam  fiat  transitus  absque  causa  evidenti ;  circuentes  vero  altare  simili 
modo  gerant  eundo  et  redeundo  :  alioquin  ictum  ferule  sustinebunt. 

Exeuntes  quidem  eorum  (eundem)  modum  et  gestum  observare  studeant  quern 
intrantes :  et  similiter  domi  ab  ecclesia  vel  scola  redeuntes  sic  se  habeant,  ut 
superius  dictum  est:  et  eandem  penam  in  hac  parte  sustineant  transgressores. 

Item,  quicunque  cum  socio,  vel  cum  clerico  aliquo,  anglice  vel  gallice  latinum 
intelligens  loqui  presumpserit,  pro  quolibet  verbo  ictum  ferule  sustineat. 

Item,  pro  qualibet  rusticitate  dicti  vel  facti,  et  pro  quolibet  iuramento,  ferule  non 

5—2 


68  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [6 

parcatur  ;  set  liceat  sic  jurare :  certe,  vero,  forte,  dico  vobis,  proculdubio,  sciat  deus. 
Pro  quolibet  autem  mendacio  quilibet  subeat  disciplinam. 

Item,  in  cujuscunque  manu  invent!  fuerint  decii  (=dice),  pro  quolibet  puncto 
ictum  virge  sentiat  super  nudum. 

Item,  quicunque  diebus  festivis  per  villam  vel  per  domos  rusticorum  discurrerit, 
vel  absque  certa  causa  et  honesta  et  majorum  licencia  extra  curiam,  vel  certum 
locum  ad  ludendum  moderate  prius  pueris  assignatum,  inventus  fuerit,  bonam  in 
crastino  sub[b]eat  disciplinam. 

Simili  modo  puniatur  qui  exierit  ab  aula  diebus  predictis  antequam  rnagne 
gratie  post  prandium  domini  (?  domino)  compleantur.  In  mensa  siquidem  puerorum 
qualibet  septimana  eorum  per  ordinem  presit  unus,  qui  modo  comrmini,  quasi 
ebdomadarius,  eis  apposita  et  apponenda  benedicat,  et  refectione  completa  deo  gratias 
de  universis  beneficiis  debitas  referat  ac  deuotas,  et  pro  viuis  ac  defunctis  suis 
benefactoribus  intercedat. 

Item,  quicunque  hora  cubandi  lectum  sociorum  fregerit,  vel  pannas  absconderit, 
aut  calciamenta  seu  puluinaria  de  angulo  in  angulum  jactauerit,  vel  rabiem  fecerit, 
seu  familiam  turbauerit,  duram  in  crastino  subeat  disciplinam. 

Euntes  autem  cubitum  sic  se  habeant  ut  surgentes,  signantes  se  et  suos  lectulos 
signo  crucis. 

7.  EPISTOLAE   PAULI  CUM  COMMENTO. 

Vellum,  llf  x  7|,  ff.  147,  double  column  of  50  lines.     Cent,  xii-xiii, 
in  a  fine  round  hand. 

Binding  of  cent,  xvi :  metal  loop  above  lower  clasp  on  first  cover. 
At  the  end  (xvi) : 

Liber  monasterii  de  Chertesey. 

2  fo.  euangelii. 

Collation:    I4  (blank:   wants  one:   one  paper   slip)  28-178  1812  194 
(blank :   wants  one :   one  paper  slip). 

Contents : 

The  Pauline  Epistles  with  comment.     The  text  is  written  in  red. 

Inc.     A    ciuitate    metropoli    achaie   regionis    grecorum    scripsit    apostolus 

paulus  romanis   hanc  epistolam   quos    non    ipse    non    petrus   non 

quilibet  discipulorum  xiicim  primum  instruxit. 

1  Cor.     Precepto  domini  saluatoris  admonitus  ap.  paulus  uenit  Corinthum. 

2  Cor.     Apostolo  recedente  a  chorinthiis. 

1  Thess.     Macedonia  prouincia  est  grecorum. 

2  Thess.     Thessalonicenses  accipientes  priorem  epistolam. 

1  Tim.     Timotheus  films  fuit  mulieris  iudee. 

2  Tim.     Secundam  epistolam  timotheo  scripsit  ab  urbe. 

Gal.  Primo  querendum  est  in  exordio  huius  ep.  unde  appellati  sint  galathe. 

Eph.  Ephesus  ciuitas  est  asye  et  grecie. 

Col.  Colosenses  sunt  asiani.     This  has  a  very  gay  initial. 

Phil.  Philipenses  sunt  macedones  .i.  greci. 

Heb.  In  primordiis  huius  ep.  dicendum  est. 


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Philem.     Beato  apostolo  predicatione  euangelica  intonante  in  asia. 
Tit.     Transiens  apostolus  a  creta  insula  ad  alias  nationes. 

— quorum  fides  perfectissima  erat.    gratia  et  pax  a  deo  patre  nostro 
et  I.  C.  saluatore  nostro.     In  margin,  contemporary :  R  deficit. 

8.  NEW   TESTAMENT   IN  ENGLISH.     N.  5.  178. 

Vellum,  4£  x  3|,  ff.  389,  double  columns  of  27  lines.  Cent,  xv,  in 
a  clear  rather  rough  hand. 

Collation :  I4  28  36  (wants  one  blank)  48-498  504. 
On  flyleaf: 

Donum  ducissae  Eichmondiae  Henrico  com :  Amndell.  Modo  Ric.  Wiclife  ex 
dono  ipsius  prenobilis  comitis  mens.  Sept.  1576. 

Contents : 

The  New  Testament  in  English. 

Preceded  by  a  Table  of  Epistles  and  Gospels  for  the  Year. 

Here  biginnijj  J>e  newe  testament,  prologus  of  M* 

Matheu  J>1  was  of  iude. 
At  the  bottom  of  the  page  (xvi) :   Arundel. 

Evv.  Paul.  Act.  Cath.  Apoc.  with  prologues. 

Forshall  and  Madden  (i.  xlv.)  identify  this  with  no.  85  or  86  of  the 
list  of  MSS.  in  Bernard's  Catalogi.  They  assign  the  date  as  about 
1450.  The  version  is  the  later  Wycliffite. 

9.  PSALTER. 

Vellum,  8  x  of,  ff.  142,  22  lines  to  a  page.  Cent,  xv,  probably 
written  in  Flanders  for  English  use.  There  are  fairly  good  borders 
and  initials  but  no  figures. 

Collation:  112-1112  128  132. 

On  flyleaf: 
J.  Essen  [in  faded  ink,  and  below  it]  D.  D.  Jni.  Bayres  1802. 

Contents : 

Kalendar. 

Psalter  with  Canticles,  Quicunque  vult  and  Litany. 

Office  of  the  Dead. 

In  a  later  hand  on  the  last  page  is  a  prayer  of  Erasmus,  printed  below. 

The  Kalendar  is  Saruni. 

Feb.     At  Feb.  11  in  margin  partly  cut  (N)atiuitas  Edwardi  /  filii  Mauricii/ 

Berkeley   militis/a°  d1"    millesimo  /  ccccxxxi0  et    a°/henrici   sexti 

x°/apud  Bisterne/. 
Mar.     David.     Cedde. 
July.     Anne  in  red. 


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Aug.     Ruthburge  (sic). 
Sept.     Edithe,  red. 
Oct.       Wlfranni,  red. 

Frediswide,  red. 
Nov.     Wynefride,  red. 

Dep.  S.  Edmundi  C,  red. 

Hugonis,  red. 
Dec.      Osmundi,  red. 

In  the  Litany: 

Apostles.  Marcialis.  Martyrs.  Eustachi  cum  soc.,  Nichasi  c.  s.,  Luciane 
c.  s.,  Cornell,  Cipriane,  Leonides  over  erasure.  These  end  the  list.  There 
are  few  Confessors.  Virgim  end  with  :  Fides,  Spes,  Caritas,  luliana. 

At  the  end: 

Pie  precationes  per  Eras.  Eot.  conscripte. 

Accedentis  ad  sacram  Synaxim. 

Ago  tibi  gratias,  Jesu  Christe,  pro  ineffabili  charitate,  quod  genus  humanum  tua 
morte  redimere  dignatus  es,  et  oro  ne  patiaris  tuum  sacrosanctum  sanguinem  pro 
me  frustra  fusum  esse,  sed  tuo  corpore  semper  pascas  animum  meum,  ut  paulatim 
adolescens  virtutum  auctibus,  efficiar  idoneum  membrum  corporis  tui  mystici,  quod 
est  Ecclesia,  nee  unquain  deficiam  ab  illo  sanctissimo  foedere,  quod  in  extrema 
coena  distribute  pane  et  porrecto  poculo  pepigisti  cum  discipulis  tuis  electis,  et  per 
hos  cum  omnibus  qui  per  baptismum  in  societatem  tuam  insiti  sunt.  Amen. 


10.  MANUALE. 

Vellum,  8^  x  7,  ff.  12,  24  lines  to  a  page.  Cent,  xv,  in  fine  upright 
English  hand.  Music  on  four-line  stave. 

Fragment  of  a  manual,  formerly  used  as  covers  to  Bering's  music- 
books. 

Containing  : 

Ordo  ad  facienda  sponsalia         .......     f.     1 

The  formulae  are  in  English  :    of  the  Use  of  York.     There  is 

a  gap  after  f.  4  which  has  carried  away  the  Sequence. 
Causa  autem  quare  sunt  viitem  sacramenta       ....  7 

Ordo  uisitandi  infirmi         ........         76 

defectione  : 

The  fragment  ends  with  part  of  the  office  of  the  dead. 
The  first  quire  is  now  of  8  leaves  :   a  gap  after  f.  4. 
The  second  quire  has  4  leaves  remaining. 


11.  GENEALOGIAE  BIBLIAE 


ETC. 


Vellum,  5  x  3£,  ff.  4  +  44  +  4,  text  in  double  columns  of  34  lines. 
Cent,  xiii,  late,  well  written. 


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Collation :  a4  18(?)  2  (eight)  3  (five)  4M  (wants  24)  54. 

Part  of  f.  1  with  beginning  of  text  is  cut  out. 

Diagram  of  the  twelve  tribes  :   in  a  circle      .        ...       .        .        .    f.  2 

On  26,  3,  diagrams  in  frames  formed  like  church-windows  of  a  Judges,  6  Stations 
in  the  wilderness. 

On  36  diagram  of  the  tribes  in  the  Promised  Land,  circular. 

The  Biblical  genealogies  are  continued  (irregularly)  on  the  L.  page.  The  text, 
with  accounts  of  the  persons  mentioned,  is  on  the  R.  or  on  both. 

The  continuous  text  ends  with  Tiberius  :  the  genealogies  with  the  Apostles  and 
Barnabas. 

On  a  subsequent  page  is  a  table  of  the  Holy  Family.  After  six  blank  pages  are 
accounts  of  Philip,  James,  the  destruction  of  Jerusalem,  and  John  Evangelist. 

On  446  are  late  scribbles. 

12.  LEGENDA  AUREA. 

Vellum,  11£  x  8,  ff.  308,  double  columns  of  39  lines.  Cent,  xiv,  in 
good  English  hand. 

Old  binding,  red  skin  over  boards:  clasps  gone:  a  metal  loop  for 
chaining  just  above  the  lower  clasp  on  the  first  cover.  On  the  back  is 

the  mark  D  ft- 

The  same  is  on  the  leaf  after  the  Kalendar,  erased :  [)  ib  continet 
legendum  sanctorum.  Erasure  below. 

Collation:  I8  212-2612. 

Contents : 

1.  Kalendar f-      2 

2.  Jac.  de  Voragine  Legeuda  Aurea 

Prol.  Universum  tempore. 

Tabula:  divided  into  Tempus  renouationis,  reconciliationis, 

deuiationis,  reconciliationis,  peregrinationis. 
Text.     Aduentus  domini  per  iiij  septimanas. 

3.  Hugo  Cardinalis  de  confessione         .....      3046 
Confessio  debet  esse  preuisa  amara  uerecunda  discreta 

— sal  terre  orbis  lumen  sacerdotem  altissimi  vicarium 

Christi. 
Finite  libro  reddamus  gloriam  Christo.     Deo  gratias. 

4.  Extracts,   a.   Jerome  to  Asella.   Antequam  domum  sancte 

paule  uorsem. 
6.   Jerome  to  Augustine. 
c.   Verses. 

In  the  Kalendar : 

Notes  of  diet  and  beverage  for  the  several  months  are  added  at  the  bottom  of 
the  pages. 

Feb.  has  original  note  :    Hec  sunt  festa  ix  lectionum  in  quibus  non  habetur 
expositio  euangelii  ad  matutinas. 


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Mar.  22  added  :  a.d.  m.cccmo  vicesimo  primo.     Decapitatus  fuit  thomas  comes 
lancastr.  apud  pontefractum.     Erasure  follows. 

Cedde  is  entered,  not  David. 
Ap.  29.       Peter  Martyr  added. 
Sept.    5.     Bertin  added. 

Edith  and  Firmin  added. 
Note :   Mem.  quod  a.d.  m.cccmo  vicesimo  sexto  in  festo  S.  Michaelis  archang. 

domina  regina  anglie  rediit  in  angliam.     Et  sic  erat  pax  reformata 

inter  d.  regem  Edwardum  anglie  et  dnam  reginam  uxorem  suam. 
In  pencil :  Fest.  S.  Sabine  et  sauin(i)ane  et  sauine  iiiito  die. 
Oct.  2  added.     Transl.  S.  Thome  herefordensis.     ix  lect.  omnino  feriand. 

6.     Transl.  S.  Hugonis. 

Wlfrani,  fridesuuide,  neoti. 
Dec.  8.       Concept,  b.  M.  v.  added. 

The  following  legends  are  inserted  in  the  text : 

After  Matthias  xlv  Cedda. 

Benedict  xlviii  Cuthbert. 

Pancras  Ixxi  Dunstan. 

Petronilla  Ixxiii  Augustine. 

vn  fratres  Ixxxvi  Mildride,  Kenelm. 

Nazarius  and  Celsus  xcvii  Sampson. 

Savinian  and  Savina  cxxiii  Sabina. 

Brice  clxii  Edmund  C.,  Hugo,  Edmund  R. 

Text  ends  with  Pelagius  and  dedicatio  Ecclesie. 


13.  GRAYSTON  SUPER  SENTENTIAS. 

Vellum,  14A  x  9i,  ff.  306.  double  columns  of  64  lines.     Cent.  xv. 

o  o' 

Old  binding,  skin  over  boards,  clasps  gone :  metal  loop  above  lower 
clasp  on  first  cover :  another  formerly  at  bottom  of  first  cover. 

2  fo.  firme. 

Collation:  112-512  (wants  7-12)  612-1712  184  1912-2312  2410  2512-2712 
284  (wants  2-4). 

Contents : 

1.  Doctor  Grayston  monachus  Dunelmensis  super  Sentencias    f.     1 

Dirupit  petram  et  fluxerunt  aque 

qui  possunt  habere  actum  intendendi  diuersum. 

2.  Eiusdem  (?)  quaestiones. 

Utrum  ex  principiis  (?)   creditis   possit   haberi   sciencia 

proprie  dicta 55 

— secundum  eos  oritur  et  inter[er]it  quicquid  oritur. 

I  have  not  hitherto  been  able  to  detect  another  copy  of  this  work. 


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14.  GERVASE  OF  CHICHESTER. 

Paper,  11^  x  7£,  ff.  127,  30  lines  to  a  page.     Cent,  xvi,  well  written. 


Collation:  one  slip,  18-168  (wants  8). 

At  beginning  and  end  are  fragments  of  service-books  of  cent,  xiv 
and  xv. 

At  the  beginning  is  : 

Liber  Nicho.  Hickett  subde(cani)  29°  Julij  1562. 
1  .     Gervasius  presbiter  Cicestrensis  super  Malachiam  prophetam 

de  ordinis  sacerdotalis  instructione    .....     f.     1 

In  13  books  :   beginning  in  lib.  iv. 
positus  ubi  caput  membrorum  potius  nutu  deflectitur 

—  Saluatore  nostro  J.  C.  qui  cum  Patre  et  Sp.  S.  viuit 
et  regnat  et  gloriatus  deus  per  immortalia  sec.  sec. 
Amen. 

2.     Sermo  eiusdem  in  festo  S.  Thome  Cant.   .         .  .     1196 

Preached  at  Chichester  in  the  first  year  of  the  author's 

ordination. 
Quis  est  hie  et  laudabimus  eum  ?     Fecit  enim  mirabilia  in 

vita  sua 

—  et  placabilem  fraterni  sceleris  vindictam  exercuit. 

This  MS.  is  mentioned  by  Tanner  as  being  a  transcript  of  the 
Royal  MS.  3.  B.  x. 

15.  MARTI  ALIS. 

Vellum,  10^  x  7,  ff.  57,  double  columns  of  50  'lines.     Cent,  xiii  and 
xiv  ?     Written  in  England. 

Collation  :  !8-48  (wants  1)  510  68  78. 

Either  this  or  no.  16  was  given  by  Dr  Robert  Freind.    See  Register. 

1.  Martialis  Epigrammata. 

Wanting  vin.  xxxviii.  1.  5  to  Ixii.  1.  4. 
x.  xiv.  1.  5  to  xii.  xci.  1.  3. 

2.  Epigrammata  Godfredi  Wintoniensis  Abbatis  monasterii  Sancti  Swithuni 

qui  floruit  sub  Henrico  primo.     Ob.  1107. 
This  title  in  Dean  Goodwin's  (?)  hand. 
Edited  by  T.  Wright,  Satirical  Poets  of  the  Twelfth  Century,  Rolls  Series,  II. 

p.  103. 

Inc  :  Undique  susceptum  qui  miscuit  utile  dulci.     Wright,  p.  103. 
Ends  :  ditior  ecce  fuit  (I.e.  p.  146). 

3.  Martialis  liber  de  spectaculis. 
The  last  four  epigrams  absent. 

4.  Versus  Sidonii  (Ausonii)  de  xii  imperatoribus 

Cesareos  proceres 

—  sed  iusta  piacula  fratrem. 

5.  Tractatus  de  simbolo. 

Christiane  religionis  summa 

—  operam  impendere  sed  memorie. 
On  p.  1  the  name  Wylton. 


74  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [16 

16.  MARTI ALIS  EPIGRAMMATA. 

Paper,  8|  x  5f ,  ff.  209,  27-28  lines  to  a  page.  Cent,  xv,  written  in 
Italy. 

Collation:  I6  28-48  510-1410  158  1612  178  1812  198  2012  218  2212  (wants 
12). 

Initials  scarlet  and  blue  alternately.  Titles  of  epigrams  in  red. 
Initial  B  at  the  beginning  in  red  leaving  a  branch-pattern  in  white. 

Contents : 

Martialis  Epigram matum  libri. 

In  lib.   1,  Epigrams   17-41    (ad  Avitum  to  ad  Lividum)   follow   104   (ad 
Scaevolam). 
27  ad  Sextilianum  is  here  92. 

33  ad  Sabidium  .98. 

34  de  Gellia  99. 
63  de  Laevina                        40. 

On  f.  1  is  a  mutilated  inscription, 

Matthaeus  Cotton  jure  me  vindicat. 

The  writer  of  this  adds  a  metrical  translation  of  four  epigrams  in  Lib.  I, 
signing  them  '  Cotton,'  or  '  per  Cotton,'  and  also  supplies,  on  the  margin 
of  the  last  remaining  leaf,  the  last  seven  of  the  Apophoreta  which  have 
perished  with  the  last  leaf. 

The  last  four  epigrams  of  the  de  Spectaculis  are  absent. 


17.  ARATOR,  ETC.  Press-mark  N.  5.  183. 

Vellum,  8|  x  6,  ff.  57,  28  and  24  lines  to  a  page.     Cent,  xi-xii,  in 
a  hand  resembling  that  of  Christ  Church,  Canterbury. 

2  fo.  reprimit. 

Collation :  I4  28-68  710  |  84  (wants  3). 
From  the  Franciscan  convent  at  Lincoln :  on  the  flyleaf  is : 

•2fj-    In  isto  uolumine  continentur  actus  apostolorum  uersificati  et  est  de  com- 
munitate  fratrum  minorum  Lincoln.     20.  31.  25. 

There  is  also  the  beginning  of  a  letter  of  xvith  cent,  in  English :  no 
names  are  mentioned. 

Contents : 

1.  A  short  tract  without  title,  mainly  on  the  Virtues. 

Philosophia  est  inquisitio  rerum  humanarum        .         .     f.     1 
Ending  f.  3  :   laus  apud  deum. 

2.  Aratoris  Subdiaconi  Historia  Apostolica    .         .         .         .         36 

Domino  Sancto...Floriano  Abbati  Arator... 
Qui  meriti  florem 

— quod  pia  causa  iuuat. 


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Domino  Sancto...Papae  Vigilio  Arator... 
Moenibus  undosis 

— laus  monitoris  erit. 
Capitula. 

Text:   Ut  sceleris  iudea... 
Lib.  ir.  f.  266 :  ends  at  line  1155  lucem  factura  perennem.    Wanting  11. 1156-1250. 

There  are  glosses,  decreasing  in  number  towards  the  end  of  the 
poem.  The  MS.  is  mentioned  by  Uffenbach,  Merkwurdige  Reisen,  u. 
515. 


18.  JOSEPHUS   ISCANUS.     N.  5.  187. 

Vellum,  7f  x  5,  ff.  49,  39  lines  to  a  page.  Cent,  xiii,  very  well 
written.  2  fo.  Thetios. 

Collation  :  I2  (1  lines  cover)  28-78. 
A  note  from  Bale  on  the  flyleaf. 
Also  Liber  Guilhelmi  Camdeni  Londin. 
louis  omnia  plena. 

Contents : 

Josephi  Iscani  (  =  of  Exeter)  de  bello  Troiano  libri  sex. 

Iliadum  lacrimas  concessaque  pergama  fatis. 
Lib.'  n.  f.  8,  in.  156,  iv.  216,  v.  286,  vi.  356. 
Ending 

Quam  pascit  presens  extremaque  terminat  etas 
Frigii  daretis  yl(i)ados  liber  sextus  expl. 

On  the  margin  of  f.  48  is  written  (in  Camden's  hand  ?)  "Antio- 
cheidos  libri,"  the  name  of  another  poem  by  the  same  author. 

Another  MS.  of  the  present  poem  is  Bodl.  Digby  157.  The 
Westminster  MS.  is  mentioned  by  Tanner.  The  poem  was  printed  at 
Basel  in  1541  and  1585,  and  elsewhere. 

The  initial  at  the  beginning  is  the  length  of  the  page,  and  has  a 
good  deal  of  silver  branch-work  on  gold  ground :  it  is  of  very  good 
execution. 


19.  IOH.   DE  ALTA  VILLA  AECHITRENIUS.     N.  5.  182. 

Vellum,  7f  x  5,  ff.  72,  31  lines  to  a  page.     Cent,  xiv,  well  written. 

2  fo.  Incola. 
Collation:  !8-58  66  710  88  98. 


76  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [19 

Contents : 

lohannis  de  Alta  Villa  Architrenius. 
Inc.  liber  Architrenii 

Velificatus  athos  dubio  mare  ponte  ligato. 
Ends  :  Equet  in  eternum  populi  dilectus  et  ostrum. 

Finem  composui  da  mihi  quod  merui. 

Text  edited  by  T.  Wright,  Satirical  Poets  of  the  Twelfth  Century, 
Rolls  Series,  Vol.  I. 

There  is  a  good  initial  V  with  gold  and  silver  work  at  the  beginning. 

20.  TRACT.   DE   SPHAERA  ETC.     N.  5.  188. 

Vellum  and  paper,  6|  x  5£,  ff.  38,  28  lines  to  a  page.  Cent,  xiv  and 
xv,  vellum  wrapper. 

Collation:  I8  214  (wants  9,  10,  13,  14)  322  (wants  19-22 :  1,  4,  7,  11, 
16  and  corresponding  leaves  vellum,  the  rest  paper). 

Contents : 

1.  Job.  de  Sacro  Bosco  tractatus  de  spera     .         .         .         .     f.     1 

Tractatus  de  spera  in  quattuor  capitula 
...aut  mundana  machina  dissoluetur. 

Expl.  tract,  de  spera. 
ff.  17,  18a  blank. 

2.  Tract  on  Arithmetic  (xv  late) 186 

Quoniam    arithmetica  circa   numerum   versetur  potis- 

simum 
...2 a  species  que  addicio  vocatur. 

3.  A  Christmas  Carol  in  English  (xv) 20 

A  babe  ys  borne  I  wys 

This  worlde  to  ioy  &  blis 

His  ioy  shall  never  fade  and  misse 

And  Ihesus  is  hys  name. 

On  cristmasse  day  at  morne 

Thys  childe  was  i  borne  \  &  Ihesus. 

To  save  us  alle  that  were  for  lorne. 

On  gudde  friday  so  sone 

To  dethe  he  was  i  done  1-  &  Ihesus. 

Be  twyx  all  morne  and  none. 

On  Estyr  day  so  swythe 

He  rose  fro  dethe  to  lyve  }-  &  Ihesus. 

To  make  us  all  bothe  gladde  and  blythe.j 

On  the  holy  Thursday 

To  heven  he  toke  hys  way  }•  &  Ihesus. 

Ther  to  a  byde  for  euer  and  day. 


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4.  Astronomical  diagram  in  the  hand  of  no.  1,  with  text     .         206 

5.  Grammatical  tract 21 

Duo   enim   sunt   oratoris   omcia   si    casus    exiget  aut 

dilatandi  aut  breuiandi. 

There  is  an  illustration  in  English  on  f.  36. 
Ends  37  a  : 

lacessiti  mesticia  suspiriarum  cordiatus  sarcina  fatiga- 
mur. 

6.  Grammatical  verses  (59) 376 

...]  precedens  mediasque  sequencia  prirno. 
Ends  :   Cum  tenus  absque  sine  citra  circa  sunt  [.... 
There  is  a  drawing  of  a  female  saint  (?) :    upper  part  of 
figure  only. 

On  386  are  scribbles:  the  name  John  Foster  occurs:  also  the  date 
1489,  and  a  motto  on  a  scroll :  audaces  fortuna  iuuat. 

21.  FRENCH   POEMS. 

Paper,  11|  x  8£,  ff.  79,  31  lines  to  a  fall  page.     Cent.  xv. 

Vellum  wrapper:  the  name  Robert  Acland  is  upon  it. 

Collation :  I8  (wants  1 :  three  mutilated)  216  (one  mut.)  314  (wants 
three)  414  (wants  one)  516  612  (wants  two)  710  (fragments). 

There  are  some  scribbles  in  English,  Greek  and  Latin  on  various 
pages.  A  full  account  of  the  contents  is  given  in  the  Bulletin  de  la 
Soc.  des  Anciens  Textes  Fran$ais,  1875,  p.  25. 

22.  BESTIARY. 

Vellum,  2  x  6£,  ff.  64,  33  lines  to  a  page.    Cent,  xiii,  in  a  good  hand. 
Formerly  bound  with  Giraldus  Cambrensis  (no.  23). 
From  the  Franciscan  convent  of  York  (see  at  end). 
Collation :  112-512  64. 

Contents : 

1.     Iste  liber  uocatur  liber  Bestiarius. 
Cum  uoluntas  conditoris 

— erma  quippe  grece  masculus  afirodi  femina  dicitur. 
Dicuntur  in  singulis  gentibus  quedarn  monstra. 
Ends  with  the  Panothii 

— Reliquas  species  potest  diligens  lector  prout  uoluerit  uel  tetris 

litteris  uel  aureis  luculentius  describere  (corr.  from  -itur). 
On  f.  16  a  full  page  picture  in  3  tiers  :  the  grounds  are  blue,  red, 

and  blue. 

a.     Three   figures.     L.   with  hand  on  breast,   C.   points  to  his 
mouth,  R.  has  four  feet. 


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b.  L.  has  three  arms,  C.  has  an  enormous  R.  hand,  R.  nude, 
stooping. 

c.  L.  Cyclops,  C.  no  neck,  holds  a  halbert,  R.  nude,  with  one 
breast :   holds  sword  and  shears. 

On  f.  3  a  full  page  picture  :  grounds  red-brown. 

On  L.  a  huge  man  in  blue  with  a  triple  face  points  R.  to  a  pygrny 

in  close  cap  with  halbert  standing  in  a  (conventional)  tree. 
In  front  on  C.  a  nude  sciapous  in  red  cap  reclines  and  holds  up 

his  enormous  foot.    - 
In  front  on  R.  two  men  and  two  women  in  a  cave.     These  are 

Bragmanni. 

f.  4  has  a  half-page  picture  with  blue  ground.  Adam,  robed,  sits 
on  L.  naming  the  beasts  assembled  on  R. :  a  hare  or  rabbit  in 
front  of  the  rest :  the  monkey  bestrides  the  deer. 

Text.     De  nominibus  animalium f .  4 

Omnibus  animantibus  Adam. 

After  this  some  extracts  from  Bernardus  francus  (i.e.  Bern.  Silvester) 
followed  by  section  beginning 
Bouem  greci  boeti  dicunt. 

The  pictures  represent : 

1.  Bos,  light  red. 

2.  Bugle,  dark. 

3.  La  vache  et  le  juenke  et  le  chor. 

4.  Le  motuns  et  les  berbis  et  le  aignel  et  le  pastur.     Shepherd  on  R.  with 
crook  and  horn. 

5.  Hircus,  eating  tree. 

6.  Le  porche. 

7.  Asinus  et  burdo. 

8.  Onager. 

9.  Equus,  white. 

10.  Mulus. 

11.  Camelus. 

12.  Dromedarius  without  hump. 

13.  Cerf. 

14.  Dama. 

15.  Caprea. 

16.  Aper,  attacks  dog. 

17.  Leo  retreats  on  jR.,  hunter  blows  horn  on  L. 

18.  Leo  cum  fetu  et  leena :  roars  over  dead  cub,  tree  in  C. 

19.  Leonis  miraculum  (recognises  a  condemned  man).     Nude  man  bound  to 
stake  in  (?.,  lion  and  spectators  on  L.,  others  on  R. 

20.  Pardus. 

21.  Lina. 

22.  Pantera,  followed  by  beasts  on  R.,  the  dragon  puts  its  tail  into  its  ear. 

23.  Ursus  licking  its  formless  whelp  into  shape. 

24.  Rinoceros.     Unicorn  lays  its  head  in  a  maiden's  lap  :  the  hunter  pierces  it. 

25.  Monoceros. 

26.  Tigris  looking  at  a  round  mirror  while  a  man  on  foot  steals  her  cub. 

27.  Grifes,  devours  a  man. 


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28.  Antalops,  horns  caught  in  a  bush. 

29.  Almost  full  page.     Elephas,  two-storied  castle  on  his  back,  full  of  mailed 
men. 

30.  Manticora  with  a  human  head. 

31.  Prandaxum. 

32.  Bale. 

33.  Symie  ;  apes  carry  off  their  young  in  their  arms  and  on  their  backs  when 
pursued. 

34.  Castor,  pursued,  bites  off  its  glands. 

35.  Lupus,  by  sheepfold,  dog  and  shepherd  asleep. 

36.  Vulpis,  pretends  to  be  dead,  a  bird  explores  its  mouth. 

37.  Hyena  eating  a  dead  body. 

38.  Bonacon,  pierced  by  a  hunter. 

39.  Ybex. 

40.  Canis  catches  hare. 

41.  Dog  detects  a  murderer,  his  master's  corpse  lies,  wounded ;  on  R.  a  dog 
takes  food  to  a  prisoner  in  a  tower. 

42.  Dog  detects  a  man  stealing  an  ox. 

43.  Lepus.  44.     Istrix.  45.     Cuniculi.  46.     Melo. 
47.     Musio  siue  murilegus.                      48.     Mustela.  49.     Talpa. 
50.     Glires,  like  worms,  without  legs.                       51.     Cyrogrillus,  squirrel. 

52.  Ericius :  hedgehogs  by  apple-trees  collect  apples  on  their  spines. 

53.  Amphibia,  has  devoured  a  man,  his  head  seen  in  its  mouth  (really  meant 
for  a  crocodile). 

54.  Luter.     The  title  of  the  picture  is  '  vulgo,'  the  text  says  Est  quedam  bestia 
que  vulgo  luter  dicitur. 

55.  Formica  by  corn-field. 

56.  Apes,  flying  about  a  hive  on  R.,  man  with  a  white  cloth  :  behind  him,  man 
with  sickle. 

57.  Mors,  a  strange  figure  like  a  chrysalis  in  dark  swathings,  winged,  holding  a 
red  triple  hook  :  a  man  in  bed  on  R. 

The  text  of  this  is  called  Mine  Mortis  and  is  a  dialogue. 
Mine.     Egrotas. 

Respondetur.     Venit  tempus  quo  experimentum  mei  caperem.     Non  in  mari 
tantum  aut  in  prelio  uir  fortis  apparet.     Exhibetur  et  lectulo  uirtus. 
Ending :   non  sepelliemur  sed  proiiciemur. 

Expl.  de  bestiis.     Inc.  de  generibus  auium .          .         .         .     f.  34 
Aves  dicte  sunt  eo  quod  uias. 

The  pictures  represent : 

1.     Aquila.  2.     Vultur.  3.     Grus.  4.     Cyconia. 

5.     Olor.  6.     Ardea.  7.     Buccon.  8.     Ybis. 

9.     Unnamed  :   like  ardea. 

10.  Fenix,  striped  vertically  with  blue,  orange,  green,  mauve,  R.,  stands  on  an 
orange  nest,  the  side  of  which  is  hatched  with  green  lines. 

11.  Caradrius,  one  at  the  head  of  a  man  in  bed,  another  flying  away. 

12.  Assida  or  Strabi-(struthio-)camelon,  eating  stones  or  eggs. 

13.  Ericinea.  14.     Sulica  (Fulica).  15.     Alcion.  16.     Mergus. 
17.     Coturnix.           18.     Dionedia.             19.     Anas.            20.     Pitacus  (Psitt-). 
21.     Pelicanus,  in  its  piety.                 22.     Upupa.                 23.     Accipiter. 


80  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [22 

24.  Miluus.  25.     Perdix.  26.     Pica.  27.     Cucus  or  Cuculus. 

28.  Coruus.  29.     Monedula.  30.     Vespertilio.  31.     Noctua. 

32.  Bubo.  33.     Lucinia.  34.     Turtur.  35.     Columba. 
36.  Hyrundo.                      37.     Alauda  and  Merula.  38.     Pascer. 
39.  Turdus.                40.     Furfurio.                41.     Ficedula  and  Carduellus. 
42.  Pauo,  almost  full  page.                 43.     Gallus. 

Ends  :   unde  et  eoum  sidus  luciferum  dicimus. 

Expl.  de  auibus.     Et  inc.  de  piscibus f.  42 

Pisces  dicti  unde  et  pecus  a  pascendo. 
The  pictures  represent : 

1.  Balena  (walrus-like). 

2.  Belua,  ship  about  to  moor  to  its  back  :  fishes  crowd  into  its  mouth. 

3.  Delphis.  4.     Lupus.  5.     Mullus.  6.     Mugilis. 
7.     Gladius.                 8.     Cesta.                9.     Mellanurus.                10.     Squatus. 

11.     Burbulus.  12.     Echinus.  13.     Allec.  14.     Anguilla. 

15.  Murena.  16.     Polipus.  17.     Cancrus  (a  very  odd  picture). 

18.  Conche  and  Coclee.  19.     Ostrea.  20.     Musculi. 
21.     Peloris.               22.     Fungia.                   23.     Spongia  (a  sort  of  worm). 
24.     Torpedo  (a  star-fish).                 25.     Ulligo. 

Ends  (with  Ypotanms) :    et  hunc  nilus  gignit. 

Expl.  de  piscibus.     Inc.  de  serpentibus         .         .         .         .     f.  46 
Anguis  generale  omnium  serpentium  nomen  est  quod  complicari 

et  torqueri  potest. 
The  pictures  represent : 

1.  Anguis,  a  two-legged  dragon. 

2.  Draco  with  two  legs  and  two  wings. 

3.  Basiliscus  with  cock's  head. 

4.  Vipera,  the  heads  of  its  young  project  from  its  sides. 

5.  Aspic,  a  man  with  staff  on  R.  (charming  it) :  it  puts  its  tail  into  its  ear. 

6.  Dipsas.  7.     Prester.  8.     Ypnalis.  9.     Emorois. 

10.     Serastis,  horned.  11.     Si  talis  (Scytalis).  12.     Amphisbena. 

13.     Boas  (sucking  a  cow).  14.     laculus.  15.     Ydrus. 

16.  Celidrus.  17.     Binatrix  (Natrix).  18.     Sapingua. 

19.  Centripeda.  20.     Lacertus.  21.     Botrax.          22.      Sal(a)mandra. 
23.  Stellio.               24.     Snake  changing  its  skin  :  curious.  25.     Vermis. 
26.  Aranea.              27.     Sanguissuga.             28.     Scorpio.              29.     Oantanda. 
30.  Limax.                 31.     Rana.                 32.     Three-headed  dog,  Cerberus. 

33.  Chimera :   large  :   with   human   face,  two   legs,  serpent's  tail,  ending  in 

a  head. 

34.  Ypocentaurus. 

35.  Lapides  igniferi,  green  discs,  each  containing  a  human  head — male  and 

female.     Orange  flames  rise  from  their  edges. 
Text  ends  :   copiosus  ex  ambobus  ignis  consurgit. 

2.     De  rota  fortune f.  54 

Naturam  diffmire  difficile  esse  asserit  tullius.... 
Fortunam  a  fortunis  nomen  habere... 

...Item  stabilis  que  manens  dat  cuncta  moueri. 
A  picture  :    the  wheel   of  Fortune  on  blue  ground  turned  by 
Fortune  who  stands  behind  it.    The  usual  four  figures  surround 


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it,  and  the  legend  Kegnabo .  Regno .  Regnaui .  Sum  sine  regno . 
has  been  scribbled  on  the  tire. 

3.  De  remediis  fortuitorum  conferunt  inter  se  Callio  et  Seneca      .        55 

G.  Dolor  imminet.     S.   Si  exiguus  est  feramus,   leuis  est 

patientia. 

The  latter  part  deals  with  women  :  ends : 
pocius  quam  tuo  labore  quesita  in  inrectos  nsus  relinquere. 

4.  De  septem  mirabilibus  mundi 57 

Primum  de  septem  mirabilibus  mundi  est  capitolium  rome. 
— xx .  viii  columpnae  faciunt  finem  tarn  mirabilis  edificii. 

5.  Rubric  :  Omnia  uana  esse  et  res  ex  fide  sua  cuique  respondere. 

Ex  poli  cancro  lohannis  ( =  Policraticon  of  John  of  Salisbury)        58 
In  creatoris  prorumpis  iniuriam  quicunque  ex  constellati- 

onibus. 
— Sic  gratiam  dei  et  hums  malitie  exercitum  nemo  sequitur. 

In  red: 

Expl.  liber  de  generibus  hominum  et  bestiarum  domesticarum,  bestiarum 
ferarum,  auium,  piscium,  draconum  et  serpentium,  omniumque  reptilium 
sine  uermium,  apium  uel  muscarium  (!)  siue  monstrinum  (!),  de  morte.  Et 
rota  fortune,  de  diuinationibus  sortilegis  et  nigromanciis  et  duabus  petris. 
Et  de  vij  miraculis  mundi. 
On  686.  A  head  (xvi?)  with  flying  hair. 

An  erased  name,  and  date  1555,  12  Augusti,  below. 

69.  Three  distichs  of  cent.  xvi. 
696.     Robert  howstayne  (xvi). 

70.  Notes  by  him,  signed  R.  h. 
706.     Biga. 

Biga  communitatis  fratrum  minorum  Ebor.  (twice). 
Iste  liber  est  de  communitate  fratrum  minorum  Ebor. 


23.  GIRALDUS   CAMBRENSIS.     N.  5.  184. 

Vellum,  9x6,  ff.  69,  double  columns  of  28  lines.  Cent,  xii-xiii,  in 
a  rather  large  hand. 

Formerly  bound  with  the  Bestiary  (no.  22),  of  which  it  has  the 
flyleaf. 

Collation  :  I12  (wants  one)  212-512  610.  2  fo.  sicut  arma. 

At  top  of  p.  1  an  old  inscription  in  four  words  has  been  cut  off:  the 
last  word  but  one  was  de. 

Flyleaves : 

Bestiarium.     5V 
(In  i)sto  libro  continentur 
Liber  qui  vocatur  bestiarius. 
Item  rota  fortune. 
Item  seneca  de  remediis  fortuitorum. 

R.  w.  6 


82  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [23 

Item  prouerbia  et  historic  contra  mulieres  et  uxores. 
Item  de  7  rnirabilibus  mundi. 

Item    excepcio   de   policraticon   iohannis   de  diuinacionibus    sortelegiis   nigro- 
mancia  et  2bus  petris. 

Contents : 

Giraldi  Cambrensis  Topographia  Hiberniae. 
Prol :   Consideranti  mihi  quam  breuis... 

...negocia  multa. 
Expl.  pref.  libri  Girardi  Camb(r)ensis  de  mirabilibus  hibernie  In 

tres  particulas  libellus  iste  distinguitur. 
Capitula  (lib.  I.). 

Expl.  cap.  Inc.  tropologia  de  hibernia  .        .        .        .      f .  6 

In  green  :   Illustri  anglorum  regi  H.  secundo  suus  Giraldus. 

Placuit  excellence  uestre.     Red  initial. 
Dist.  n.  f.  22,  in.  426,  ending 

a  tanta  maiestate  fuerit  iniunctum. 

This  copy  is  noticed  in  the  Rolls  edition  of  Giraldus  (v.  p.  xvi.).  It 
is  there  said  to  contain  the  second  edition  of  the  work,  and  to  be  very 
incorrectly  written. 

24.  FLORES   HISTORIARUM.     151.  7. 

Vellum,  12f  x  7f,  ff.  374,  double  columns  of  40  lines.  Cent,  xiv, 
finely  written  and  ornamented. 

Binding  of  cent.  xvi.     Clasps  gone. 

Collation:  I8  212  312  410  512  612  710  84  910  1012  II12  128  1312  1412  1510 
1612-2112  2210  2312-2612  2710  2812-3312. 

On  a  label  pasted  on  to  p.  1  :  Flores  Historiarum  Matthei  Westmonasteriensis 
Monachi :  in  a  fine  xvith  cent,  hand,  perhaps  that  of  John  Stow. 
Inc.  prol.  in  librum  qui  (erasure)  intitulatur. 

Temporum  summam  lineam  quam  descendentem  ab  exordio. 
Ends :    scilicet  dimidiam  partem  postulati. 
Initials,  red  and  blue  alternately. 
The  following  pictures  occur  : 
f.     1.     Man  writing  at  desk. 

83.     Coronation  of  Arthur  by  two  bishops,  blue  ground :  larger  than  the  rest, 
a  goldfinch  at  top  of  the  initial. 

167.  Athelstan  on  his  death-bed,  minute  work. 

168.  Coronation  of  Eadred,  minute  work. 

173.  Eadgar  on  his  death-bed,  a  bishop  stands  over  him,  minute  work. 

174.  Coronation  of  Alfred,  minute  work. 
188.  „  „   Harold  I.,  minute  work. 

191.  „  „  Edward  the  Confessor,  larger. 

204.  „  „  William  I.,  larger. 

208.  „  „  William  II.,  larger. 

216.  „  „  Stephen,  brown  ground,  larger. 


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220.  Coronation  of  Henry  II.,  brown  ground,  larger. 
227.  „  „    Richard  I.,  blue  ground,  medium  size. 

232.  „  „   John,  blue  ground,  larger. 

296.  In  margin  forma  denarii  in  red  outline. 

These  pictures  are  of  very  fine  quality.  The  best  is  the  coronation 
of  Arthur. 

On  the  last  page  is  an  erasure. 

The  MS.  was  used  for  the  Rolls  edition,  see  vol.  I.  p.  xix. 

The  Chetham  MS.  of  the  Flores  (ibid.  I.  xii.)  was  formerly  the  property 
of  the  Abbey :  see  above,  p.  25. 

25.  BRUTE  CHRONICLE. 

Vellum,  9|  x  6|,  ff.  98,  29  lines  to  a  page.     Cent,  xiv,  late. 
Old  binding. 

Collation:  I2  28-48  (wants  5)  58  68  72  88-108  II10  12°  1310  142  154 
(wants  one). 

Contents : 

Chronicle  of  England  in  French  from  Brutus  to  the  execution 

of  Roger  Mortimer  (1330). 

Ci  poet  homme  sauer  coment  quant  e  de  quele  gent. 
— Et  apres  la  Pake  le  roy  fist  crier  solempne  tournement  a 

Derteford f.  926 

Pen-trials  of  cent,  xvi  in  which  the  name  of  Richard  Malenger 

of  London  occurs. 
Table    of  dates    in    British    history,    ranging   from    1100B.C. 

(foundation  of  London)  to  1382  A.D.  (earthquake). 

26.  CHRONICLE  ETC. 

Vellum  and  paper,  7f  x  5£,  ff.  128,  22  lines  to  a  page.  Cent,  xiv,  in 
a  rather  current  hand. 

Vellum  wrapper  (fragmentary). 

Collation  :  I12  (wants  1  and  3)  222  322  (wants  1,  22)  418  (wants  two 
?  10,  11)  518  618  716  818  (1-9  left). 

Contents : 

1.     Chronicle,  beginning  imperfectly f-    1 

The  first  complete  entry  is 

A.  d.  m°.  c.  apud  Westmon.  coronacio  Henrici   fratris 

Willelmi  Rufi  qui  regnauit  xxxvi  annis. 
It  goes  to  1323  :  Anno  sequent!  truncacio  domini  Andree 
de  Harcla  Comitis  Carliol. 

6—2 


84  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [26 

This  portion  is  connected  with  the  Cistercian  Abbey  of 

Xewminster  in  Northumberland. 

Dates  of  foundation  of  religious  orders     ....          f.  8 
Quomodo  devis  flagellauit  ducem  lancastrie  (I.  austrie)  pro 

capcione  Regis  Ricardi. 

Prima  flagellacio.    Omnes  ciuitates  terre  illius  sunt  igne 

cremate 86 

Quomodo  rex  Johannes  subpeditaxiit  sanctam   ecclesiam 

tempore  suo  Johannes  rex  conuocauit  omnes  abbates 

ordinis  Cisterc.  apud  Ebor 9 

A.  d.  m°.  cc°.  xiii°  Johannes  Rex  Angl.  soluens  domino  pape 

mle  marc.  arg.  singulis  annis  fecit  homagium  in  forma 

subscripta         .........  10 

2.  Chronicle 12 

Anglos  et  leges  hie  iterando  leges. 

Reges  maiores  referam  siue  nobiliores. 

Quanto  regnarunt  et  ubi  gens  hos  tumularunt 

Mille  quater  decabis  fit  adam  bruto  prior  annis. 
Brutus  consilio  cuiusdam  diane  classe  parata...(4  lines). 

Anno  gracie  cxxiiij*0  coronacio  lucii. 
Coronation  dates  of  the  kings  from  Lucius  to  Edward  III., 

followed  by  brief   annals    (f.    14  b — f.    17)  which    are 

repeated  for  the  most  part  at  f.  32. 
This  first  copy  ends: 

A.  gr.  m°.  cccc°.  xxvi10  in  monasterio  de  Bermundesey 

obiit   circa  horas  viiiuam   et  ixnam  de   mane   illustris 

principissa  Regina  Katerina  filia  francie  dicti  regis 

H.  sexti  genitrix  et  R.  H.  vu  conthoralis. 

Each  copy  has  a  rough  sketch  of  the  Royal  arms  as  altered 

by  Edw.  III.  (1338)  in  the  margin  (ff.  146,  32). 

3.  A  very  miscellaneous  series  of  historical  notes  from  various 

authors  principally  concerned  with  the  noble  families. 

The  Chron.  S.  Albani  and  Roger  Hoveden  are  quoted.  17 

On  176  is  this  entry:  Fecit  homagium  henr.  patri  regis  ut 

patet  per  huntyngdon  apud  Clar'  hall. 
On  18 :  filia  Willmi  Marescalli  prioris  de  cuius  Will'  gestis 

insignibus  tarn  pl'ibus  quam  militaribus  licet  in  galica 

lingua  insignis  tamen  composita  est  historia. 
After  f.  31  is  a  gap.     The  text  breaks  off  in  a  note  on  the 

quinque  Fulcones  (R.  de  Diceto  Tmagines  ffistoriarum, 

Rolls  Ser.  n.  15). 

4.  Cronica  regis  Edwardi  mcii  a  coronacione  eiusdem  .        .  32 

A.  d.  m°.  ccc°.  xxvi*0  coronacio  Regis  Edwardi  tercii 
A  second  copy  of  the  annals  given  above  (f.  14  6). 
Ends  (f.  35)  with  Hen.  VI.  :    secundo  Parisiis  coronaba- 

tur  post  prius  susceptam  coronam  Anglic  apud  Westm. 

etatis  sue  anno  septimo.     Cuius  imperium   Regni   diu 

preseruet  altissimus  per  tempora  longiora.     Amen. 


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5.  Of  the  occupation  of  Winchester  by  monks,  then  canons, 

then  monks  again  under  Edgar  and  Dunstan  .         .         .         f.  35  b 
Mem.  quod  per  ccc.  annos  et  amplius  erant  monachi  in 

Wynton.  ecclesia  tempore  britoiium. 
Of.  Wharton,  Any.  Sac.  I.  217  sub  fin. 

Notes  on  lawgivers  :    Moyses,  Mercurius  etc.     .         .         .  38  b 

De  uiris  illustribus  quo  tempore  scripserunt    ...  39 

Trogus  Pompeius 

to  Rad.  de  Diceto. 

From  R.  de  Diceto,  Abbreviationes  Chronicorum  (Rolls  I.  20). 
Kings  of  Rome,  Seven  Wise  Men,  Twelve  gods       .         .  42 

Nine  worthies  : 

Nouem  valentes  sunt  qui  pingi  solent  in  aulis  estiualibus 
uel  in  niuris  quorum  tres  sunt  pagani  etc. 
Hector,    Alexander,    Julius    Caesar :    Josue,    Dauid, 

Machabeus :   Arthurus,  Karolus,  Godofredus. 

De  xv  signis  xv  dierum  precedencium  diem  iudicii          .  436 

leronimus  In  annalibus  hebreorum. 

6.  Statutes,  viz. 

Magna  Carta  (confirmation  by  Edw.  I.) :  ends  imperfectly  446 

Carta  de  foresta  (mut.  init.) 52 

Prouisiones  de  Merton 56 

Stat.  de  Marleberga 606 

Westm.  ii 696 

Quia  emptores 106 

De  Mercatoribus      .        . 107 

De  Religiosis 108 

De  finibus 109 

De  presentibus  vocatis  ad  warantum     .        .        .        .  1116 

De  vasto  facto  tempore  alieno 1126 

De  Bigamis 1136 

De  articulis  in  quibus  non  habet  locum  prohibicio      .  115 

Regia  prohibicio       ........  1156 

De  admissis  ad  defencionem  sui  iuris  .        .        .        .  1166 

De  coniunctim  feoffatis 1176 

De  conspiratoribus  et  quia  gallicum  est  ideo  omitto      .  1196 

De  quo  warranto  in 120 

Capitula 121 

On  the  last  leaf  are  scribbles 128 

Tanti  post  primam  tu  suscipe  iungis  aristam 
Nomen  scriptoris  qui  Christo  plenus  amoris. 
and  (later)  Elley  scriptoris  qui  plenus  amoris 

Elizabeth  Eloghe  wiffe  unto  Robert  Eloghe  of  Mynsterley, 

&c 1286 

27.  CHRONICA  ETC. 

Paper  (and  vellum),  8|  x  5|,  ff.  110,  34-36  lines  to  a  page.     Cent, 
xv,  irregularly  written ;  in  a  poor  state. 


86  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [27 

Collation:  1  (two:  vellum)  212-412  5U  (wants  13,  14)  612  (wants  11, 
12)  712  (12  torn)  one  slip  812  (wants  12)  9U  1012  a8  (blank). 

1.  [John  Erghom's]  commentary  on  certain  metrical  prophe- 

cies :  addressed  to  Humphrey  Bohun  Earl  of  Hereford 
and  Essex  and  Constable  of  England    .         .         .         .         f.    16 
Uenerabili   domino    et  mira  magnitudine  extollendo... 
humfredo  de  Bowne  Comiti  Herford  Essex  Constabu- 
lario  (above  line :  north)  Angl.  et  domino  de  Breknok. 
dei  gratia  humilitatis    suus    si    supra    consequencie 
notam    capud   rnisericordie   velitis   adiungere   nomen 
obscurum  et  obsequium  salutar1. 
Lower  part  of  page  illegible. 

The  author  indicates  his  name,  but  very  obscurely  ;  it  is 
Erghom.  Ergo  is  "nota  consequencie"  and  m  is  "caput 
misericordie."  John  Erghom  was  an  Austin  friar  of 
York.  His  library  is  catalogued  in  a  Dublin  MS.  (tran- 
scribed for  me  for  publication)  which  contains  the 
catalogue  of  the  whole  library  of  his  house.  He  was 
evidently  interested  in  occult  and  prophetic  literature. 
This  tract  is  printed  by  T.  Wright,  Political  Poems  (Rolls 
Series)  i.  123. 

ff.  3,  4  are  mutilated. 
Ends  31  b  :  decet  uenerari  subleuantem.     Expl.  expositio  huius  prophecie. 

2.  These  arn  >e  bages  longing  to  >e  Deuke  of  York :  a  list 

of  his  quarterings  and  their  origin         .         ...        •  316 

3.  In  double  columns.     Prophecies. 

Col.  1  headed  De  duracione  6U.  Hybernie  per  Alanum. 
Col.  2  headed  Ricardus  Scrope  Episcopus  Ebor. 
Tertia  lustra  tenent  serui  cum  tempora  sexti 

...sub  quo  dabit  hie  heremita  (16  11.). 
De  etate  6U  hybernie. 

Tolle  caput  martis  bis  cancri  lumina  fundat  (32  11.). 
Proverbs  and  scribbles. 

Wise  men  ben  but  scorned. 

This  is  the  last  song  of  Thomas  of  Arrledon  (Ercildoune). 
114  lines  in  double  columns. 

When  Rome  is  removed  into  Inglond 
Each  priest  hath  the  popus  power  in  hond. 

It  shall  be  do  within  iij  yeeres  y  wis.    , 
A  text  of  this  is  printed  in  Lumby's  Bernardus  (E.  E.  T.  S. 

1870,  p.  32). 

Distich.     0  rex  si  rex  es  rege  te  vel  eris  sine  re  rex 
nomen  habes  sine  re  te  nisi  recte  regis. 

4.  De  reventu  regis  Henrici  VIU  postquam  coronatus  erat 


27]  Manuscripts  in  the  Chapter  Library  87 

apud  Parisium  ad  London 33 

Inter  cetera  uobilissiruus  ille  prefcctus  cum  discrete 

consilio 
— longitudine  dierum   adirnplebo  eum  pro  prinio  et 

ostendam  illi  salutare  meum  pro  secuudo. 

5.  De  coronacione  et  unctioue  regis  anglie     .  .  346 
Die  quo  consecrandus  est  dominus  rex  de  nouo 

— officium  pincernarie  seruiet  domiuus  conies  de  Arundell. 

6.  Mirabilia  anglie  secundum  cronica  Westm.        ...  37 

Ventus  egreditur  de  cauernis  terre  in  monte  vocat'  peke 
...flumine  que  vocatur  leum. 

7.  Another  hand      .........  39 

De  iusticia  regis  Anglie  ad  Aquitaniam  etc. 

Sciendum  est  quod  anno  domini  1136°  Willelmus  dux 

Aquitanie 

— et  sic  rex  Anglie  iuste  et  pacifice  Walliam  occupauit. 
Declaracio  iusticie  d.  regis  Auglie  ad  Regnum  Scocie      .  43 

A.  d.  1301  papa  Bonefacius 

— illibata  persistere  benignius  permittatis. 
Notes  on  the  age  of  the  world,  parentage  of  William  I.,  and 

other  historical  notes,  the  last  referring  to  1307       .         .  48 

On  women — for  and  against,  e.g. 

Quid  est  mulier.    hominis  confusio  indesiueus  pugna  etc. 

8.  De  terra  Iero(so)li(mi)tana 49 

Terra  lerosolimitana  in  ceutro  mundi  posita  est  ex  maiori 

parte  montuosa 

— sed  ualde  corrupte  de  diuersitate  saraceuorum  et 
hostium  christianitatis  inferius  dicetur. 

9.  Letters  (2)  of  Pope  Boniface  and  (3)  of  Edward  I.  concerning 

Ireland 52 

The  last  dated  Lincoln  10  Feb.  1300. 

10.  Christian  Kings  of  England  :   Alfred  to  Henry  I.    .  61 

Ex  rotulo  Walsham  fratris  et  doctoris  Norwyci  et  primo 

de  regibus  etc. 

Other  dates,  e.g.  of  Charlemagne. 
Note  on  Bohemia.     Bohemii  intrauerunt  Bas(i learn?)  in 

quattuor  turmis. 

11.  Maior  proposicionis  facte  per  M.  Jo.  Perin  trauslata  de 

gallico  in  latinum 62 

Addressed  to  the  Duke  of  Burgundy,  dated  1407. 
Sequitur  prima  pars  siue  maior  proposicionis  etc. 

Penes  nobilissimam  et  altissimam  maiestatem  regiarn. 
There  are  passages  in  French,  and  many  exempla. 
Ends  74a  (R.  half  torn)  :  Sextum  correlativurn  est  quod 

omnis  subiectus  et  vas(sallus). 

12.  Note  on  the  Tower  of  Babel  etc. :  Iste  nemroth  erat  gigas 

— ascanius  suscepit  regnum  ita... 


88  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [27 

13.  Chronicle  from  Brutus  to  1366 736 

Brutus  post  patris  et  matris  interfeccionem 
—sic  viagium  cornpleuit  in  partibus  Normaniis  francie. . . 

14.  Verses  on  the  kings  :  Alfred  to  Henry  IV.  (100  11.)     .        .  80 

Alfredus  rex  Anglorum  primusque  monarcha 

Versibus  bis  centum  lector  tibi  do  documentuin. 

15.  Quot  regna  erant  in  Anglia. 

Regnum  Cancionum  fuit  in  Cancia 
— et    ex    Eboraco    fit    archiepiscopatus    similiter    et 

Lichfield. 
De  episcopatibus  olim  in  Anglia. 

Anglia  habet  in  longitudine  octoginta  miliaria. 
Scribbled  notes :   the  Fall. 

16.  Prophecy.     De  sancta  fide 82 

An.  d.  mil.  ter.  c.  sex  non  sunt  ista  reperta. 
Classes  diverse  tendent  ad  prelia  certa. 

Ista  feras,  te  corde  tegas,  celestia  pergas  (44  11.). 

17.  When  the  cock  in  the  north  hath  bigged  his  nest 
Ends:  In  Josaphat  beried  right  shall  he  be. 

Cf.  a  text  in  Lumby's  Bernardus,  E.  E.  T.  S. 

18.  Agreement    in    Star-chamber   between    Robert    Prior    of 

Norwich  and  ?    The  date  1523  occurs.     The  hand  is  of 
course  later. 

19.  History  of  Richard  I. 

Vicesima  secunda  die  mensis   Septembris   Ricardus  rex 

uenit  messanam  in  sicilia. 
Includes  the  text  of  the  Bull  de  libertatibus  ecclesiarum 

Regni  Scocie.     Ends  imperfectly,  after  an  account  of 

the  diseases  in  the  crusaders'  camp. 

et  responsum  est  ei  ab  uniuerso  clero  quod  uullatenus. 

28.  PETRUS  BLESENSIS   ETC.     Pressmark  N.  5.  181. 

Vellum,  8£  x  5f ,  ff.  95,  33-39  lines  to  a  page :  three  volumes  in  one. 
Cent,  xiii,  xiv,  and  xv. 

Old  skin  binding  with  pads  of  parchment,  cut  from  the  cover  of  an 
Infortiatum.  This  title  in  large  letters  is  on  the  pad  at  the  beginning. 
On  the  2nd  cover  an  old  title:  Epistole  petri. 

On  the  flyleaf  some  receipts. 

Collation:  I8  26,  one  slip,  38,  one  slip,  410  512-812  92 104  (wants  4),  one 
slip,  II8  (wants  one).  i^^^t*  eft  L\^^t> 

I.      Tractatus  de  fletu  ecclesie  (xiv — xv)       ....  1 

Addressed  to  Urban  VI. 
Begins  imperfectly :  ff.  de  minoribus  b  si  filius  et  1. 


-30]  Manuscripts  in  the  Chapter  Library  89 

Ends   136:    emendacioni   prefati   sanctissimi   patris  et 
prefatorum  dominorum  cardinalium.    et  sic  explicatur 
tractatus  de  fletu  ecclesie. 
Colophon  in  red :  Eructans  uere  deus  aln  10  mei  miserere. 

II.      Petri  Blesensis  Epistolae  CI 14 

The  first  quire  with  Tabula  and  Epp.  1-4  (part)  is  of 

cent,  xiv-xv. 
At  top  of  the  first  of  the  older  leaves  (xiii)  is :  folium  400 

Epistola  3. 
The  first  Epistle  is : 

Conquestio  regine  anglorum  super  captionem  regis  et 

filii  sui  Reuerendo  domino  et  patri  celestino. 
The  last   Ep.    102   (101)    (qui  dabit   capiti    meo)   ends 

imperfectly,  decebat  ab  iniuriis       ....  876 

III.     Indulgences  of  Churches  in  Rome,  cent,  xv  .  88 

Sanctus  silvester  papa  scribit  in  cronica  sua  quod  rome 

fuerunt  mille  quingenti  quinque  ecclesie. 
Ends :    diebus  dominicis  et  veneris  totius  anni.     Expl. 
indulgence  vii  ecclesiarum  rome  cum  reliqui(i)s  suis. 

On  the  verso  of  the  last  page  is  a  scribbled  entry  to  the  effect  that 
Simon  Aylward  "  sub  abbate  de  Bello  loco  in  archidiaconatu  Wynton." 
(=  Beaulieu  in  Hampshire)  collector  of  tithe  has  received  certain  tithe 
from  the  Rector  of  Bedhampton  (10  Aug.  1487). 

29.  IOH.  FLETE. 

Vellum,  10i  x  Yf,  ff.  58,  32  lines  to  a  page.     Cent.  xv. 
Collation:  I2  (blank)  28-88. 
In  large  letters  on  the  flyleaf: 

lohannis  Fleete  Monachus  West. 
Contents : 

J.  Flete  de  fundatione  ecclesie  Westmonasteriensis. 
On  ff.  54,  55  is  written  a  Bull  of  Julius  II.,  30  May  1504, 

granting  an  Indulgence  in  respect  of  K.  Henry  Vllth's 

new  Lady  Chapel. 
On  f.  556  is  a  short  extract  from  Walsingham's  Hypo- 

deigma  Neustriae. 

The  text,  which  has  never  been  printed  in  extenso,  is  being  prepared 
for  publication  by  the  Dean  of  Westminster. 

30.  AELFRIC'S   GRAMMAR. 

Paper,  small  4to,  ff.  51  written,  28  lines  to  a  page.     Cent.  xvi. 
Vellum  wrapper. 


90  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [30 

On  flyleaf: 

Guilhelrni  Latnbardi  ex  dono  Laurentij  Noelli,  1565. 
jiille  ham  lampyrhte. 
Ic  Aelfric  j'old  pas  lytlan  boc  apendan  to  engliscum  gereorde 

errorem  corrigere 
— gif  he  nele  his  j>oh  gerihtan. 

The  Anglo-Saxon  alphabet  is  written  below. 
Vox  est  aer  ictus  sensibilis 
Sterna  is  geslagen  lyft. 

Ends :  on  eallum  dagurn  7  us  dyrne  psevon.     Si  pis  boc  puss  her  geendod.    Finit. 
on  leden  sprsece  synd  menig  fealde  getele 
— 7  prittig  penegas  senne  mancus. 

Nomina  multarum  rerum  anglice. 
Dominus  pset  is  god  selinihtig 

pila  pilestocc  op)>e  poper  loquela. 
Edited  by  Zupitza. 

31.  POEMS  TO  QUEEN  ELIZABETH. 

Paper,  7f  x  5f ,  ff.  84,  16  lines  to  a  page.     Cent.  xvi. 

Very  well  written.  Initials  in  red.  At  the  top  of  p.  1  the  name 
Ward,  which  is  repeated  on  the  last  page.  Also  on  the  last  page 
George  Merrill  (or  perhaps  Mervill)  partially  erased. 

Purchased  15  July,  1846  for  £7  (Chapter  order). 

Collation:  I4  28  3U  4U  58  68  712  (last  one  missing)  812  (last  one 
missing)  96.  Inside  the  cover  is  a  letter  from  H.  H.  Edwards,  dated 
July  13th  1836,  giving  information  about  the  recent  history  of  the  book. 

Contents : 

One  of  the  poems  is  dated  1587.     A  few  are  in  Greek. 
The  following  authors'  signatures  appear. 

Richard  Ireland     f.    46. 

Peter  Smart  116. 

Henry  Child  196. 

Roger  Derhara          246. 

William  Driwood      296. 

John  Matthew  336. 

Charles  Pratt  40  a. 

Richard  Marche        496. 

John  Packer  556. 

John  Whitgift  596. 

Jasper  Swift  606. 

Hugo  Roberts  676. 

Walter  Newton         706. 

William  Boil  746. 

Thomas  Owen  786. 

Richard  Johnson       826. 


-34]  Manuscripts  in  the  Chapter  Library  91 

On  verso  of  last  page  — 

"Nuuc  opus  exegi  quod  uec  Jovis  ira  uec  ignis 
Nee  poterit  ferrum  nee  edax  abolere  vetustas." 

32.  COMPENDIUM   METAPHYSICAE. 

Paper,  12mo,  ff.  cir.  80  :  minute  writing.     Cent,  xvii,  early. 

Compendium  Metaphysicae  in  quo  succineta  Methodus  et  ordo  Suai'ez  probe 
obseruatur. 

Given  in  1725  by  Dr  Only.     See  Register. 

33.  CONTROVERSIAE. 

Paper,  12mo,  ff.  circa  300.     Cent,  xvi-xvii,  well  written. 

Controversiae  nostri  temporis  in  Epitomen  redactae. 
Ex  dono  Job.  Jones  alumni  Reg.  1705. 

34.  FRAGMENTS. 

1.  Vellum,  8  x  5f,  ff.  2,  double  columns  of  35  lines.     Cent.  xiii. 

Fragment  of  Trotula  de  curis  egritudinum  mulierum. 

2.  Paper,  llf  x  8f,  ff.  6.     Cent.  xv. 

Fragment  of  treatise  on  Canon  Law. 


3.  Vellum,  10£  x  7f,  ff.  46,  25  lines  to  a  page.     Cent.  xiii. 

Marked  19.  20. 
Collation  :  112-312  410  (one  mutilated). 

Quoniam  in  ante  expositis  libris  de  partibus  orationis. 
f.  376:    Expl.  liber  primus  parcinus(?)  et  post  inc.  secundus... 
Scriptor  in  studio  sudat  peccunie  lucro 
Lepos  scribendi  si  (sed  ?)  raro  veniunt  nummi. 

Ends  :    quorum  actus  ad   res  carentes  loquela  pertinent    primas  qui    et 
secundas. 

4.  Vellum,  9|  x  7f,  ff.  12,  double  columns  of  42  lines.     Cent.  xiii. 

Comment  on  Gen.  i.  x. 


5.     Paper,  11£  x  8|,  ff.  25,  62  lines  to  a  page.     Cent,  xv,  on  vellum 
wrapper. 

Collation  :  I12  (wants  1)  2U. 

Omne  quod  incipit  esse 

—  que  est  ipsius  materia. 


92  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts  [34 

6.  Paper,  11J  x  8£,  ff.  12,  double  columns  of  62-68  lines.    Cent.  xv. 

Fragments  of  the  Topica  of  Aristotle. 

7.  Paper,  llf  x  8£,  ff.  23,  47-57  lines  to  a  page.     Cent.  xv. 

Fragment  of  a  medical  treatise  (five  chapters). 
The  last  section  is :   Cap.  nonum  de  apoplexia. 

8.  Vellum,  11  x  7|,  f.  1. 

Leaf  of  a  gloss  on  Psalms  (xcvu.  xcvin.) :   there  is  one  large  initial. 

9.  Paper,  11|  x  8{,  ff.  16,  30-32  lines  to  a  page.     Cent.  xv. 

Fragment  of  Chronicles  of  Normandy  (?)  in  French,  dealing  with  Kobert  of 
Normandy. 

10.  Vellum,  13  x  9|,  ff.  4,  21  lines  to  a  page.     Cent,  xv,  in  fine 

Italian  hand. 

Fragment  of  a  Law-book. 

11.  Vellum,  6  x  4^,  ff.  6.     Cent.  xiv(?). 

Part  of  Latin-English  vocabulary  :   followed  by  some  French. 

12.  Vellum,  9£  x  6|,  ff.  1  and  fragment.     Cent.  xv(?). 

Index  of  a  Law-book. 

13.  Paper,  8|  x  5f,  ff.  16,  23  lines  to  a  page.     Cent.  xv. 

Fragment  of  the  Organon  of  Aristotle  (?). 

14.  Paper,  8f  x  5f ,  ff.  6. 

French  ballads. 

15.  Vellum,  6£  x  4£,  ff.  9.     Cent,  xiii,  very  fragmentary. 

16.  Vellum,  5|  x  3f ,  f.  1.     Cent.  xiii. 

17.  Vellum,  8  x  7,  f.  1  (fragmentary).     Cent,  xiii — xiv. 

Fragment  of  Sermon-book. 

18.  Paper,  7£  x  5£,  f.  1.     Cent.  xvi. 

Fragment  of  a  petition  to  Queen  Elizabeth. 


V. 


DESCRIPTIONS   OF   THE   WESTMINSTER 
CHARTULAKIES. 

I.     Munim.  Bk  11,    Domesday.' 

A  large  folio,  parchment,  ff.  1 — 685,  written  at  the  beginning  of  the 
14th  century.  The  latest  document  of  the  original  compilation  appears 
to  be  the  Disclaimer  of  the  Bp  of  Winchester  to  the  effect  that  he  does 
not  intend  to  infringe  the  privileges  of  the  Abbey  by  his  coming  to 
crown  K.  Edward  II,  dated  6  Mar.  1308  (f.  675).  Many  later  documents 
have  been  subsequently  inserted  (one  dated  1445). 

A  leaf  is  lost  before  f.  1 ;  another  between  ff.  409  and  410.  A 
gathering  of  8  leaves  has  been  displaced,  so  that  ff.  492 — 499  now  stand 
after  f.  508. 

This  great  Chartulary  came  to  be  known  as  'Domesday.'  It  is 
referred  to  under  this  title  in  Dean  Goodman's  time  (Munim.  1,808  and 
1,874).  The  name  is  possibly  due  to  the  later  extracts  from  the 
Domesday  Book  on  ff.  29  b  seqq.,  where  the  word  occurs  as  a  headline : 
on  the  other  hand  it  may  be  remembered  that  St  Paul's  also  has 
its  'Domesday1.' 

The  chief  contents  are : 

f.  1.     Papal  bulls,  from  Innocent  II  to  Boniface  VIII  (the  latest,  1299). 
f.  296.     [Extracts  from  Domesday — in  a  later  hand.] 

f.  35.  Charters  of  St  Dunstan,  Edgar,  St  Edward,  etc.  to  Edward  III  [and,  in  a 
later  hand,  to  Henry  VI]. 

f.  79.     Evidences  of  Estates,  arranged  by  counties. 
f.  349.     Scripta  Prioratus. 
f.  360.  „      Cantoris, 

f.  363.  „      Sacristae. 

1  Also  there  is  a  '  Domesday  Book  of  Felley  Priory '  [co.  Nottingham  ;  Augustinian], 
Brit.  Mus.  Add.  MS.  36,872. 


94  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

f.  410.     Sacristae  Indulgentiae. 
f.  433.     Anniversary  of  Q.  Eleanor, 
f.  465.     Scripta  Celerarii. 
f.  471.  „       Hostillarii  Forinseci. 

f.  4796.        „  „         Intrinseci. 

f.  4806.        „       Refectorarii. 
f.  482.  „       Elemosinariae. 

f.  495.  „       Camerarii. 

f.  5326.        „       Capellae  Beatae  Mariae. 
f.  5966.         „       Infirmarii. 
f.  6106.        „       Coquinarii. 
f.  621.  „       Pitanciarii. 

f.  6476.        „      Gardinarii. 

f.  656.  Literae  Pensionariae  Communes  (Churches  with  their  pensions  in  London 
diocese). 

f.  659.     Compositiones  (chiefly  between  the  Abbot  and  the  Monks), 
f.  671.     Confederationes  (alliances  with  other  monasteries). 
f.  674.     Literae  Testimonials  Privilegiorum  (Protests  and  Disclaimers), 
f.  678.     Scripta  vacua  nunc. 

There  are  about  20  notes  written  in  the  margins  by  a  bold  hand  of 
the  middle  of  the  15th  century,  to  indicate  that  certain  supplementary 
documents  are  to  be  sought  in  the  'Black  Paper  Register.'  The 
following  are  specimens: 

f.  37.  Forma  Juramenti  confugiencium  ad  Sanctuarium  Westm'  queras  in  nouo 
Registro  Nigri  paperi. 

f.  756.  Carta  Regis  Ricardi  secundi  de  quodam  uestimento  aurotexto  per 
eundem  dato  ecclesie  Westm'  quere  in  registro  nigro  paperi  Westm'.  Item  ibidem 
de  quodam  anulo  aureo  cum  i  ruby  pretiosissimo  dato  per  eundem  ecclesie  Westm', 
quern  postea  dns  rex  Henricus  iiii  habuit  in  custodia. 

f.  594.  Indentura...queratur  in  registro  Nigri  paperi  Westm',  et  similiter  in 
registro  officii  capelle  beate  Marie,  In  quo  registro  omnia  seriatim  scribuntur  tarn 
carte  quam  Firme  terre  et  tenementorum  eidem  remanentium  usque  ad  annum 
quartum  r.  r.  Henrici  quarti. 

The  documents  thus  referred  to  are  now  to  be  found  in  the  third 
section  of  the  Liber  Niger  Quaternus,  which  thus  seems  to  be  a  copy  on 
parchment  of  the  paper  Black  Book. 

II.     Munim.  Bk  12. 

A  large  folio,  parchment,  ff.  1—214;   the  original  hand  is  of  the 
early  part  of  the  15th  century ;  illuminated  borders  and  initials. 
The  chief  contents  are  : 

ff.  1 — 25.  An  Index  to  Papal  bulls  and  a  few  other  instruments  contained  in 
the  prima  cista.  They  extend  as  far  as  Urban  VI,  but  do  not  include  (save  as 
a  later  insertion)  Boniface  IX  who  succeeded  him  in  1389.  They  are  indexed 
alphabetically,  both  under  Popes  and  under  subjects. 


Westminster  Chartularies  95 

ff.  26—30  are  blank. 

ff.  31 — 87.  The  documents  of  the  contest  with  the  Dean  and  College  of 
S*  Stephen's  Chapel  in  the  Palace  ;  with  a  table  of  contents  prefixed.  They  extend 
from  the  Citation  of  the  Dean,  31  Jan.  1377,  to  the  final  Composition,  10  Aug.  1394, 
and  its  confirmation  by  K.  Richard  II.  The  oaths  of  Canons  and  Vicars  ai-e  recorded 
as  far  as  Jan.  1409. 

ff.  88 — 108  were  originally  left  blank.     They  contain  in  later  hands 

(1)  Documents  relating  to   the  visitation   of  the   Hospital   of  St  James 

(89—94); 

(2)  to  the  appropriations  of  Langedon  (956 — lOOa),  Mordon  (1006 — 1016), 

Aldenham  (1016—1066). 

ff.  109 — 114.  A  Commission  in  Edward  II's  reign,  before  which  the  Abbot  was 
summoned  to  declare  Qtio  Warranto  he  held  his  manors  of  Westerham,  &c. 

ff.  115,  116,  originally  left  blank,  now  contain  'Mensuracio  terrae  in  com: 
Hertford'  (a  16th  cent,  heading):  inc.  'Tria  grana  ordei  faciunt  unum  pollicem.' 

ff.  117 — 200.  Evidences  of  various  estates,  partly  in  a  contemporary  hand  and 
partly  in  later  hands. 

ff.  201—207  are  blank. 

ff.  208— 21 2  a.  A  Terrier  of  the  Manor  of  Westbury,  Co.  Wilts,  with  names  of 
fields  and  persons :  in  a  later  hand. 

ff.  212  6-214  are  blank. 

N.B.  The  splendid  collection  of  Papal  bulls  and  other  Papal 
instruments  to  the  number  of  208,  ranging  from  Paschal  II 
(1099—1118)  to  Urban  VI  (1378— 1389)1,  had  disappeared  already 
in  1537.  For  there  are  still  preserved  (Munim.  Iviii)  some  loose  paper 
pages  entitled  '  A  book  of  the  benefyces  impropered  to  the  monastorye 
of  West',  remayning  in  the  custodye  of  Jhon  Gemme,  and  in  the 
Thresurye,  a°  xxix°  Henrici  viii.'  The  writer  gives  such  information  as 
he  can  as  to  documents  concerning  Appropriations  still  to  be  found 
(5  Sept.  1537),  apparently  with  a  view  of  discovering  which  were  made 
by  Papal  bulls.  The  bulls  themselves  were  no  longer  there  to  be 
consulted,  and  he  speaks  more  than  once  of  '  ilia  cista  ubi  bulle  papales 
erant.' 

III.     Munim.  Bk  1,  '  Liber  Niger  Quaternus.' 
A  large  quarto,  parchment,  ff.  1 — 151,  besides  8  leaves  unnumbered 
at  the  beginning:  written  towards  the  end  of  the  15th  century. 
The  chief  contents  are  : 

ff.  (1)— (8).     *  Tabula  tocius  illius  libri.' 

ff.  1 — 76.  [Liber  Primus.]  Documents  relating  to  properties  in  Westminster, 
Eye,  Stanes,  Iveney,  Lalham,  Denham,  Pyrford,  Pershore,  Deerhurst,  Sutton, 
Islip.  These  documents  fall  into  two  classes  according  to  their  dates:  (1)  copies 

1  Besides  one  of  Boniface  IX  added  to  the  Index  by  a  later  hand. 


96  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

of  documents  (and  often  merely  of  a  series  of  headings)  from  Bk  12,  the  Westminster 
'Domesday,'  (2)  similar  documents  of  the  14th  and  15th  centuries,  the  last  on  f.  76 
being  dated  1408. 

ff.  766 — 93.  Secundus  Liber.  A  collection  of  memoranda  of  the  most  diverse 
kinds.  At  the  end  (f.  93)  is  an  index  ('Tabula  istius  secuncli  libri'),  running  from 
f.  i  to  f.  ix  :  its  items  correspond  nearly  but  not  quite  to  those  which  are  in  the 
present  book,  ff.  76 — 81.  On  ff.  81—92  are  many  brief  notes  of  historical  interest, 
as  well  as  several  documents  relating  to  General  Chapters  of  the  Benedictines. 

ff.  936 — 151.  Tertius  Liber.  Documents  of  various  kinds,  many  of  which  are 
briefly  summarised  in  the  preceding  book  of  memoranda  :  e.g.  Westminster  fairs 
(936),  property  of  Nicholas  Brembre  (97),  Benedictine  College  at  Oxford  (976), 
agreements  for  anniversaries  (996,  &c.),  tenements  in  Westminster  (1006 — 117), 
Chapel  of  St  Stephen  (118 — 124),  nuns  of  Kilburn  (125),  properties  in  Westminster 
(1276—133),  St  James's  Hospital  (137),  Oaths  of  sanctuarymen  (1396),  Monastic 
offices  and  their  incomes  (140),  Sheriffs  of  Worcester  (144),  Memoranda  from 
accounts  of  officials  (145),  Cardinal  Simon  Langham's  legacy  (1466 — 150). 

The  documents,  about  35  in  number,  which  are  referred  to  in  the 
marginal  notes  of  Munim.  Bk  11,  are  all  to  be  found  in  the  Tertius 
Liber,  with  four  exceptions :  ( 1 )  the  gift  of  a  Vestment  by  K.  Rich.  II, 
(2)  the  indenture  as  to  books  lent  to  Thomas  Southam,  Archdeacon  of 
Oxford,  (3) '  Redditus  et  servitia  diversorum  maneriorum  annuatim  ad 
auditum  compoti  deferendi,'  (4)  '  Modus  respondendi  de  exitu  diversorum 
animalium.'  The  first  two  of  these  are  summarised,  but  not  transcribed, 
in  the  memoranda  contained  in  the  Secundus  Liber  (ff.  86,  79). 

We  may  accordingly  conclude  that  the  'New  Black  Paper  Register,' 
quoted  in  the  margins  of  Bk  11,  is  now  represented  (though  not  quite 
in  its  original  completeness)  by  the  third  section  of  Liber  Niger 
Quaternus. 

The  following  memoranda  in  the  Secundus  Liber  throw  some  light 
on  this  Paper  Register : 

1.  In  the  Tabula  on  f.  93  we  find  the  heading:  ' Notule  diuerse  in  Nigro  papiro 
Rogeri  Kyrton.'     When  we  turn  back  to  the  place  referred  to  we  find  a  series  of 
headings  of  matters  which  it  is  said  will  be  given  below — 'postea  folio...' ;  but  the 
reference  is  not  filled  in.     As  a  matter  of  fact  the  items  occur  in  full  in  the  Tertius 
Liber. 

2.  In  the  same  Tabula  is  the  heading  :  '  De  euidenciis  Mulsam  Bekeswell  etc. 
in  Nigro  papiro.'     This  is  not  to  be  found  in  its  place  on  f.  79  :  but  it  comes  later 
(f.  81),  and  runs  as  follows  :  '  De  euidenciis  de  Mulsham  in  papiro  Cretan.     Memd 
quod   in   papiro   Rogeri   Cretton    sunt    euidencie    clare   de   Mulseham   Bekeswell 
Westerham  Wendelsworth  et  aliis,  que  deberent  Registrar!  in  Nouo  Registro,  et 
parcelle  optime  habentur  in  dicto  papiro  que  non  sunt  alibi  in  promptu  iam  reperte. 
Et  ideo  fiat  prouidentia  de  Scriptori  etc.' 

We  may  therefore  assign  the  Black  Paper  Register  to  Roger  Cretton 
(or  Kyrton),  who  was  Treasurer  c.  1408 — 1411.  We  learn  from  the 


Westminster  Chartnlaries  97 

Infirmarer's  roll  that  he  sang  his  first  mass  in  1387-8,  and  from  the 
Chamberlain's  roll  that  he  was  still  living  in  1430. 

The  following  notes  from  the  beginning  of  Liber  Niger  Quaternus 
itself  tell  the  subsequent  history : 

1.  At  the  end  of  the  Tabula  totius  libri: 

Quern  nigrum  veteres  quondam  dixere  quaternum 
Me  Thomas  Clyfford  composuit  monachus. 

2.  The  rubricated  title  on  f.  1 : 

Liber  quaternus  niger  ex  antique  denominatus,  quern  Thomas  dns  Clifforde  vir 
honorabilis  ac  huius  inonasterii  beati  Petri  Westm.  quondam  monachus  ad  suos 
sumptus  expensasque  fieri  fecit  de  nouo  in  tempore  Reverendissimi  in  Christo 
patris  et  dm  Dm  Johannis  Estney  permissione  diuina  prefati  monasterii  abbatis 
prestantissimi,  in  dei  gloriam  et  perpetuam  ecclesiastic!  iuris  memoriam,  feliciter 
incipit. 

John  Esteney  was  Abbot  from  1474 — 1498.  Thomas  Clifford  is  first 
mentioned  in  the  Chamberlain's  roll  of  1463-4 :  he  is  not  in  the  roll  of 
the  previous  year.  We  learn  from  the  roll  of  the  Novum  Opus  that  he 
sang  his  first  mass  in  1466-7.  In  1483  he  exchanged  the  Wardenship 
of  the  Lady  Chapel  for  the  office  of  Treasurer  which  he  held  till 
Mich.  1484:  the  Treasurers'  roll  for  the  next  year  is  missing1.  His 
name  does  not  appear  in  the  Chamberlain's  roll  for  1484-5.  He  seems 
to  have  died  in  September  1485 2. 

The  style  '  Thomas  dns  Clifforde  vir  honorabilis  ac  huius  monasterii 
quondam  monachus '  is  remarkable.  He  is  not  '  Dan  Thomas  Clifford,' 
but '  Thomas  Lord  Clifford '  apparently :  though  the  word  '  dns '  is,  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  written  over  the  last  letters  of  '  Thomas,'  as  though  it 
had  at  first  been  omitted.  Moreover  he  is  described  as  '  honorabilis.' 

Now  the  Clifford  family  had  a  somewhat  romantic  history  at  this 
period.  Thomas  de  Clifford,  Lord  Clifford,  was  slain  at  St  Albans  in 
1455.  His  son  John  Clifford,  called  '  the  Butcher,'  fought  against  the 
Yorkists  at  Wakefield  in  1460,  and  fell  at  Ferrybridge  in  1461 :  he  was 
attainted  and  his  estates  were  forfeited.  Henry,  his  eldest  son,  was 
brought  up  as  a  shepherd  to  elude  observation :  he  was  restored  to  his 
titles  and  estates  in  1485. 

1  There  are  no  Treasurers'  rolls  for  1484-5,  1485-6.     But  there  is  a  '  visus  computi '  of 
John  Hampton,  Treasurer,  Bailiff,  and  Warden  of  the  Churches,  for  all  moneys  received 
by  him   'immediate  post  decessum  fratris  Thomae  Clifford,  qui  non  computavit  nuper 
Thes.   Ball.   Custod.  eccl.  super  auditum   computorum  praedictorum  determinatum   ad 
festum  S.  Mich.  a°  Hen.  VII.  1°.' 

2  The  item  'pro  anima  T.  Clifford '  in  the  Infirmarer's  roll  indicates  that  he  was  dead 
before  Mich.  1485 ;  but  the  roll  of  the  Warden  of  K.  Henry  Vth's  manors  shews  him  still 
making  some  of  the  payments  for  that  king's  anniversary  (31  Aug.). 

R.  w.  7 


98  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

The  genealogy  in  Whi taker's  History  of  Craven  gives  '  Thomas 
d.s.p!  as  fifth  child  of  Thomas  Lord  Clifford,  whose  first  child  John 
was  born  in  1435.  It  seems  then  that  '  Thomas  dns  Clifford '  was  a 
younger  brother  of  the  attainted  baron,  and  uncle  of  the  '  Shepherd  Lord ' ; 
that  he  found  shelter  as  a  monk  at  Westminster  in  the  troubles 
which  followed  the  accession  of  K.  Edward  IV,  and  that  he  died 
almost  immediately  after  K.  Henry  Vllth's  accession  (22  Aug.),  which 
restored  the  fortunes  of  his  family. 

IV.  Munim.  Bk  3. 

A  large  folio,  parchment,  pp.  1 — 94 :  somewhat  mutilated,  and  with 
several  leaves  bound  in  wrong  order.  Entitled  in  large  black  letters  on 
p.  3 :  'In  isto  Libello  facto  Tempore  Reverendissimi  in  cristo  patris 
Bone  memorie  Johis  Yslip  tune  Abbatis.  Ex  sumptibus  Fratris  Thome 
Jay  quondam  Thesaurarii  Monasterii  Sancti  Petri  Westmonasterii 
Continentur  appropriaciones  diuersarum  Ecclesiarum  cum  earum 
pertinenciis  dicto  Monasterio  appropriatarum  quarum  nomina  modo 
Alphabetico  sequuntur  inferius.' 

It  contains  a  selection  of  documents  relating  to  Appropriations, 
many  of  which  are  found  elsewhere.  At  the  end  two  leaves  of  a  Psalter 
in  a  late  hand  are  bound  in. 

Two  books  (or  parts  of  books)  are  here  bound  up  together,  each  containing 
Appropriations  in  alphabetical  order.  The  first  (pp.  5 — 77)  is  rubricated,  and  of 
slightly  smaller  size  than  the  second,  which  is  not  rubricated.  Many  documents 
appear  twice  over. 

Thomas  Jay  was  treasurer  from  1514  to  1528,  when  he  became  prior. 

V.  British  Museum,  Cotton  MS.,  Faustina  A  iii. 
Parchment,  a  small  thick  volume,  356  ff. 

ff.  2  b,  3.     Pro  here'  henrici  .iii.  ccc.  Marc'.  &c. 

Similar  notes  for  Q.  Eleanor,  Q.  Philippa,  Edw.  Ill,  Q.  Anne,  Bp  of 
Sarum,  Bernard  Brokas  Miles,  'Rich,  per  dominum  Regem  Henr.  V,' 
Hen.  V,  'Domini  le  Bowser.' 
f.  4.     Incipiunt  capitula  libri  cartarum  a  Regibus  Anglic  Westmonaster'  ecclesie 

concessarum  una  cum  explanacione  de  eiusdem  loci  construccione. 
f.  11.     Hie  incipit  prologus  de... 
Venerabili. . .[ = Sulcard]. 
f.  17.     Regnanti...[  =  Edgar's  Great  Charter], 
ff.  149—210.     Papal  bulls,  ending  with  Statute  of  Ottobon. 
f.  218.     Inc.  capitula  libri  compositionum,  confederationum,  &c. 
f.  354.     Letter  of  John   abbot  of  Westm.  to  prior  of  the  House  or  Cell  of 

Gt  Malvern  (Visitation). 
At  the  end  are  scribbled  the  names  of  John  Denys  and  Rich.  Stone. 


Westminster  Chartularies  99 

[John  Denys  was  '  custos  bosci  de  Estgrove,'  1461-88 :  and  in  Jan.  1497  John 
Denys  '  surgeon  harbour '  had  a  lease  of  a  garden  in  the  almonry.  Richard  Stone, 
'  gentilman,'  was  'parcarius  de  Denham'  in  1487  :  he  first  appears  in  the  service  of 
the  Abbey  in  1472  :  he  held  many  leases,  and  died  about  1511.] 

So  many  hands  have  worked  on  this  book  that  I  invoked  the  aid  of 
Dr  G.  F.  Warner,  who  most  kindly  tabulated  them  for  me  as  follows : 

1.  ff.  26,  3.     Mid.  15th  cent. 

2.  ff.  4—96  (Capitula).     Early  14th  cent. 

3.  ff.  96,  1.  16—106  (Capit.).     15th  cent. 

4.  ff.  11—166.     Late  13th  cent. 

5.  ff.  17—113.     Late  13th  cent,  (different  from  4). 

6.  ff.  1136,  last  two  lines — 1426.     15th  cent,  (partly  same  hand  as  3). 

7.  ff.  143 — 148.     Later  15th  cent,  additions. 

8.  ff.  149—1536  (Capit.).     Same  hand  as  2. 

9.  ff.  154,  155  (Capit.).     Same  hand  as  3. 

10.  ff.  1566.     Early  14th  cent. 

11.  ff.  157—193.     Early  14th  cent. 

12.  ff.  1936—204.     Same  hand  as  6. 

13.  ff.  216,  217.     Late  15th  cent. 

14.  ff.  218-222  (Capit.).     Same  hand  as  2. 

15.  ff.  223,  224.     Same  hand  as  3. 

16.  ff.  225—258.     Same  hand  as  11. 

17.  ff.  2586—2596.     15th  cent,  (partly  same  hand  as  12). 

18.  ff.  260—291.     Same  hand  as  16. 

19.  ff.  291, 1.  9—347.     Same  hand  as  12. 

20.  ff.  3476— end.     Various  later  additions  (last  date  1511). 

Practically  four  stages  in  the  composition  of  the  MS. 
1st.     Nos.  4,  5. 

2nd.     Nos.  2,  8,  10,  11,  14,  16,  18. 
3rd.     Nos.  3,  6,  9,  12,  15,  17,  19. 
4th.     Remainder. 

The  history  of  the  book  then  may  be  briefly  described  thus.  Its 
earliest  element  is : 

1.  Sulcard  'de  constructione,'  &c.  followed  by  Royal  Charters 
[two  hands  of  late  xiiith  cent.]. 

Then  towards  the  end  of  Edw.  I's  reign  were  added  : 

2.  Papal  Bulls. 

3.  Compositions,  Confederations,  &c. 

Also  capitula  for  the  three  sections  in  a  different  hand. 

In  the  xvth  cent,  considerable  additions  were  made  to  each  of  the 
three  sections,  and  capitula  to  correspond  were  added  in  yet  another 
hand. 


100  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

Thus  the  book  corresponds  generally  to  parts  of '  Domesday ' : 

1.  Royal  Charters  (=  D.  ff.  35—78). 

2.  Papal  Bulls  (=  D.  ff.  1—34). 

3.  Compositions,  &c.  (=  D.  ff.  659—674). 

But  '  Domesday '  is  an  immense  volume  and  contains  besides : 
Evidences  of  Estates,  arranged  by  counties  (ff.  79 — 348). 
Evidences  belonging  to  various  Obedientiaries  (ff.  349 — 656). 

With  a  view  to  the  investigation  of  the  relation  between  the  two 
books  the  following  notes  from  Faust.  A  iii  may  be  recorded  here. 

f.  149.     Incipiunt  Capitula  privilegiorum  ecclexie  set  Petri.  Westm'. 

Nicholaus  et  Leo  suscipiunt  ecclesiam  beati  Petri  Westmon'  sub  pro- 
tectione  sedis  apostolice  :  set  hec  duo  Privilegia  remanent  in  custodia 
dm  Regis :  quorum  note  reperiri  poterunt  in  primis  cartis  sancti  Regis 
Edwardi.  [These  are  imaginary  bulls,  cited  in  the  forged  charters  of 
the  Confessor.] 

Capitulum  i.  Paschal,  ii.  Paschalis  papa  ii° Innocentius  ii.  Capm  ii. 

(/"*  iii.  Idem  precipit  Abbati  Gervasio Capm  Quartum.  Idem 

perhibet  testimonium  quod  ecclesia  Westm'  a  tempore Capitulum  v°. 

Idem  confirmat 

After  the  Index  two  pages  blank;   then 

f.  1566.     Protectio  dm  Regis  contra  infestatores. 

Innocencius  episcopus,  servus  servorum   Dm,  karissimo  in   Christo 

filio  Henrico. 

With  a  rubric  in  the  margin  :  '  Ista  bulla  debet  registrar!  in  ii°  folio 
sequent!.' 

It  will  be  seen  by  reference  to  Dr  Warner's  table  that  this  bull  is  copied  by  a 
different  hand  from  that  which  writes  the  Index  and  also  from  that  which  writes 
the  bulls  which  follow.  It  had  been  accidentally  omitted.  An  attempt  was  made 
to  straighten  matters  by  adding  numbers  in  the  margin,  thus  : 

f.  157.     Paschal  II [maig.]  i 

f.  158.     Innoc.  II  to  Gervase „  iiii 

f.  159.  „        to  Gervase  and  monks  „  iii 

It  is  to  be  noted  that  there  is  a  somewhat  similar  confusion,  and  a  somewhat 
similar  note,  at  the  same  point  in  '  Domesday.' 

VI.     British  Museum,  Cotton  MS.,  Titus  A  viii. 

Parchment,  about  8  in.  by  6  in.,  ff.  1 — 145.  The  first  part  of  the 
volume,  ff.  1 — 64,  is,  with  small  exceptions,  in  a  neat  hand  of  xivth  cent. 
The  second  part,  ff.  65 — 145,  is  a  distinct  book  in  a  xiiith  cent,  hand : 
it  has  an  ancient  press-mark  (S.  153)  and  on  f.  1456,  'Per  Willin 
Heyhom.  Amen.'  This  portion  belonged  to  Bury  St  Edmund's. 


Westminister  Chartularies  101 

Two  blank  ff. 

f.  1.     'Catalogus  Tractatuum  in  isto  volumine'  (xviith  cent.). 

f.  2.     '  Hie  incipit  prologus  de  prima  const)"1.  &c.  (Sulcard,  apparently  copied 

from  Faustina  A  iii). 
f.  56.  Edgar's  Great  Charter, 
f.  7.  Dunstan's. 

ff.  9—116.     First,  Second  and  Third  of  Edward. 

ff.  146 — 306.     William  I  (four  long  and  several  short  charters)  and  other  kings, 
f.  306.     A  long  French  charter  of  Edw.  I,  on  Q.  Eleanor's  manors, 
ff.  32,  33.     On  St  James's  Hospital  (xvth  cent.), 
ff.  34 — 44.     Compositions  (including  Stephen  Langton's). 
ff.  45—53.     Papal  Grants, 
ff.  54  ff.     Confederations,  &c. 

f.  596.     'Inprimis  custodes  fer5  intrabunt  civitatem  Winton.3    Rules  for  Win- 
chester fair,  to  which  the  Westminster  fair  was  assimilated, 
ff.  616 — 646.     General  charter  of  Hen.  Ill  (' Anglicana  ecclesia  libera  sit,'  &c.). 

[This  ends  the  xivth  cent,  book.] 

f.  65.     '  Incipit  epistola  passionis  Sci  Aedmundi  preniissa,'  &c.  (Abbo  to  Dunstan). 
f.  110.     'Incipit   [then,   in    a    xvith   cent,   hand,   over  an  erasure:    'epistola 

Osberti  de  Clara  prioris  Westm.'].     In  exodo  legitur,'  &c.  (Miracles 

of  St  Edmund). 

VII.  [Not  now  to  be  traced :  known  from  the  following 
description.] 

London :  Printed  by  Samuel  Bentley,  Dorset  St.,  Fleet  Street. 

Title :  '  Abstract  of  Charters  and  other  documents  contained  in  a 
Cartulary  of  the  Abbey  of  St  Peter,  Westminster,  in  the  possession 
of  Samuel  Bentley.  Printed  for  Private  Circulation,  1836.'  76  pp., 
octavo. 

This  Chartulary  seems  to  have  been  a  copy,  with  modifications,  of 
Liber  Niger  Quaternus :  like  that  it  is  distributed  into  [Liber  Primus], 
Liber  Secundus  and  Liber  Tertius :  and  the  contents  generally  are  the 
same. 

It  is  probably  the  book  referred  to  by  Widmore  in  his  manuscript 
Catalogue  of  the  Muniments  (p.  3)  as  '  in  the  custody  of  the  Widow 
of  Mr  Spiller  Reynolds  of  Sheperton.  N.B.  This  is  a  Duplicate  or 
Transcript  of  the  Niger  Quaternus.' 

It  is  probable  also  that  the  same  book  is  referred  to  in  Stanley, 
Memorials  of  Westminster,  ed.  3,  app.  iv,  p.  640  [this  appendix  is 
omitted  from  later  editions] : 

(From  a  Cartulary  of  Westminster  in  the  possession  of  Sir  Charles  G.  Young, 
Garter  King  at  Arms.) 

Sequitur  de  renovatoribus,  &c. 

7—3 


102  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

This  is  found  in  Liber  Niger  Quaternus,  f.  926;  but  as  here  given 
it  is  considerably  enlarged  and  brought  up  to  date.  In  Bentley's 
Chartulary  the  same  document  occurs: 

432.     De  renovatoribus  et  benefactoribus  capellarum  in  circuitu  infra  ecclesiam 
Mon.  Westm f.  xcvii 

VIII.  Cambridge,  University  Library,  Kk.  5.  29.  '  Extenta  Maneri- 
orum.'  One  of  Bp  Moore's  books. 

Parchment,  10£  in.  by  7  in.,  ff.  1 — 131.  The  original  book  begins 
at  f.  21,  with  Todyngton  (the  first  portion  of  which  is  missing). 

ff.  1 — 11  ;  xv,  middle.     '  Campus  Australia  de  Holme. 

Territorium  de  Holme,  Langford,  Clifton,  Henlowe,  Bikeleswade,  Southynelle  et 
le  Brome,  factum  tempore  fratris  Johannis  Flete,  custodis  maneriorum  Regum  et 
Reginarum,'  etc. 

f.  12  is  lost. 

f.  13,  originally  blank,  now  filled  with  scribblings  ;  e.g. : 

In  te  domine  speravi  )    _ 

m     T  i    .LI         •   j  r  Thomas  Jay. 

lo  Joy  in  god  apply  thy  mmdj 

Memorandum  to  speke  for  to  rnend  the  bordes  in  the  burgon  bytwix 

master  Stanley  and  me  &c. 
Jhus  esto  michi  Jhesus  Amen. 
Jhs  est  amor  meus. 
f.  14,  col.  1.     Custum'  de  Todyugton. 
Custum'  de  Echelesford. 

etc.  etc. 

[A  table  of  contents  including  also  Hampsted»  Knyghtebrygge,  Mordon, 
Batriches',  Hendon,  Aldeuham,  Whethamsted,  Kenesbourne,  Stevenach,  Asshewell, 
Feryng,  Kelveden,  Southbernflet,  Fanton.] 

col.  2.     Mensuracio  terre  de  Greneford. 

[Also  Halughford,  Combe,  Downe,  (and  in  another  hand)  Stratford  att  bowe.] 
Several  documents  follow :  one  of  1454 :  another  (f.  16)  from  Records,  49  Edw.  III. 
f.  21.     Todyngton  [Extenta  maneriorum].     xiv  early. 
f.  120a.     '  Extenta '  ends  with  Fanton. 

A  few  later  documents  follow  to  the  end  of  the  book  (f.  131). 
The  Hampstead  portion  of  this  book  ('coram  fratre  Johanne  de  Buterleye,' 
7  Nov.  1312)  has  been  printed  by  Mr  James  Kennedy,  Manor  and  Parish  Church  of 
Hampstead  (1906). 


ADDENDUM 

In  Messrs  Floyer  and  Hamilton's  Catalogue  of  the  Manuscripts  in 
the  Library  of  Worcester  Cathedral  (p.  172)  is  printed  an  extract  from 
the  Chapter-books  which  throws  an  interesting  light  upon  the  pains 
taken  by  Dean  Williams  to  enrich  his  newly-founded  Library  at  West- 
minster. It  appears  from  this  document  that  he  obtained  letters  under 
the  Great  Seal  authorizing  him  to  apply  to  the  Chapter  of  Worcester 
Cathedral  (and  perhaps  to  other  Chapters)  for  the  grant  of  such  manu- 
scripts as  they  considered  to  be  duplicates.  It  may  be  remembered 
that  Sir  Thomas  Bodley  not  many  years  before  had  obtained  (through 
his  brother  George,  who  was  a  member  of  the  body)  a  large  gift  of 
manuscripts  from  the  Chapter  of  Exeter.  Very  probably  this  fact  was 
in  Williams's  mind  when  he  made  his  application  to  Worcester. 

The  application,  as  we  see,  was  favourably  received,  and  twenty 
manuscripts  were  selected  and  sent  up  to  London  to  the  Dean.  But 
I  must  regard  it  as  extremely  doubtful  whether  they  ever  arrived  at 
the  Library.  It  is  true  that  some  of  the  titles  of  the  commoner  books 
do  occur  in  one  or  other  of  the  Westminster  lists,  but  the  majority  are 
not  to  be  found  there.  Of  the  first  four  in  the  Worcester  list,  No.  1 
occurs  in  List  A  (91)  but  not  in  Williams's  own  list  (B):  Nos.  2,  3,  4 
are  not  to  be  found.  Nos.  6,  7,  11,  13,  possibly  19,  and  20  correspond 
to  entries  in  the  Westminster  lists,  but  these  are  all  of  the  commonest 
sort:  and  for  the  others  no  certain  equivalent  is  discoverable.  What 
became  of  the  books  remains  a  mystery.  It  is  possible  that  some  may 
have  been  returned  to  Worcester. 

A  full  copy  of  the  entry  in  the  Worcester  chapter-book,  which  we 
owe  to  the  kindness  of  the  Ven.  J.  M.  Wilson,  Canon  of  Worcester,  is 
subjoined. 

At  a  Chapter  held  3rd  February,  1624. 

Whereas  letters  from  his  Majesty  directed  unto  us  under  the  great 
Seal  of  England  for  all  such  dubble  maniscripts  as  we  have  dubble 
in  our  library  towards  the  furnishing  of  a  Library  in  the  Church  of 
Westminster  newly  erected  or  augmented  by  the  new  Lord  keeper. 
Wherupon  we  consented  as  by  our  Chapter  Act  bearing  the  25th  day 
of  November  1623  doth  appear.  Now  we  whose  names  are  subscribed 
by  virtue  of  the  said  letters  and  consent  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  and 
as  by  a  letter  from  Mr  Dean  unto  us  of  the  chapter  bearing  date  the 
22d  of  January  1624  have  sent  up  the  said  maniscripts  unto  Mr  Dean 


104  Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 

to  London  for  the  better  conveying  thereof  and  to  the  said  purpose 
appointed,  viz. : 

1.  Augustinus  de  Civttote  Dei. 

2.  Idem  de  verbis  Domini  [F.  32] !. 

3.  Anselmi  varia. 

4.  Gregorii  Pastorale. 

5.  Prophetae  12  cum  glossa  [Q.  8]. 

6.  Psalterium  cum  glossa  [F.  47]. 

7.  Pauli  Epistolse  cum  glossa  [F.  49]. 

8.  Historia  Scholastica  [F.  1  etc.]. 

9.  Vocabularium   Bibliorum  Huberti  (or  Imberti)  monachi  cui  titulus  Pro- 

metheus [also  in  F.  1]. 

10.  Sermones  Jacobi  de  Losanna  de  sanctis  [Q.  19.  2]. 

11.  Magister  sententiarum  [F.  2,  F.  98  etc.]. 

12.  Determinationes  quolibetorum  Henrici  de  Gandano(-uo)  [F.  79]. 

13.  Digessum  (-turn)  novum  [F.  136]. 

14.  Innocentius  in  Decretalia  (or  es)  [F.  170]. 

15.  Decretales  cum  glossa  [F.  59  etc.]. 

16.  Concordantia  discordantium  canonum  [F.  120]. 

17.  Breviarium  Extra  vagantium  Bernardi  Papiensis  [F.  122]. 

18.  Legenda  Storum  Jacobi  Januensis  [F.  45]. 

19.  Brito  vocabularius  [F.  13]. 

20.  Prisciani  Grammatica. 

Ricus  POTTER,  Subdecamis. 
W.  BARKESDALE,  Receiver. 
HENRY  BRIGHT. 

1  The  letters  and  numbers  in  brackets  are  the  press-marks  of  manuscripts  still  at 
Worcester  which  correspond  to  entries  in  the  list. 

(M.  R.  J.) 

ADDENDA  ET   CORRIGENDA. 

p.  1.  In  view  of  Mr  Edmund  Bishop's  note  on  p.  63  of  the  'Bosworth  Psalter,'  I  mast 
modify  the  statement  that  Lanfranc's  Constitutions  were  drawn  up  for  all  Benedictine 
monasteries  in  England.  They  were  intended,  as  his  preface  shews,  for  Christ  Church, 
Canterbury  :  they  were  introduced  at  St  Albans  by  his  nephew  Paul ;  and  probably  they 
were  drafted  with  a  view  to  the  wider  circulation  which  they  afterwards  had. 

p.  9,  1.  19.  For  1486  read  1386.  Some  interesting  changes  seem  indicated  by  the 
following  notes  from  the  rolls  of  the  Wardens  of  Q.  Eleanor's  manors :  1454-5  (J.  Flete 
and  J.  Esteney)  '  et  sic  debet  adhuc  Ixiii8  viiid.  Que  quidem  summa  condonatur  eidem 
pro  reparacione  librorum  et  renovacione  in  Nova  libraria ' :  1457-8,  '  et  eidem  vi"  viiid  pro 
T.  Myllyng  pro  labore  suo  in  compilacione  unius  tabule  in  libraria.' 

p.  11.  An  earlier  mention  of  Seyny  books  occurs  in  the  Q.  Eleanor  roll  for  1465-6  : 
1  postea  allocatur  eidem  [sc.  W.  Chertesey]  xxv"  vd  q"  pro  Reparacione  librorum  vocatorum 
le  seyny  bokys.' 

p.  22,  1.  22.  In  Boston's  list  the  no.  11  stands  against  Ailred's  Life  of  St  Edward, 
Gilbert's  Disputation  of  a  Jew,  and  Laurence's  Sermons. 

(J.  A.  R.) 


INDEX    I 


OF    EXISTING    MANUSCRIPTS. 


Acland,  Rob.,  77 
^Elfric,  Grammar,  89 
Altavilla,  Jo.  de,  75 
Arator,  74 

Aristotle,  fragments,  92 
Arithmetic,  tract  on,  76 
Arundel,  Henry  Earl  of,  69 
Atterbury,  Bp,  63 
Ausonius,  73 
Aylward,  Simon,  89 

Bayres,  J.,  69 

Beaulieu,  89 

Bedhampton,  89 

Berkeley,  Edw.,  birth  of,  69 

Bestiary,  77 

Bible : 

Hebrew.    Pentateuch,  63 

Psalter,  Heb.-Lat.,  64 
Latin.    Bible,  64,  65,  66 

Pauline  Epistles,  68 
Prophetae  xii,  66 
Psalter,  69 

English.    New  Testament,  69 
Bisterne,  69 
Boniface  VIII.,  87 
Bruarne,  E.,  63,  64 
Brute  Chronicle,  83 

Camden,  W.,  75 
Carol,  English,  76 
Chertsey  Abbey  owner  68 
Chronicles,  83,  85,  92 
Comment  on  Epistles,  68 
Compendium  Metaphysicae,  91 
Controversiae,  91 


Coronation,  on,  87 
Cotton,  Matt.,  74 

Diagrams,  71,  77 
Diceto,  B.  de,  84,  85 

Elizabeth,  Poems  to  Qu.,  90 
English  verse,  76,  86,  88 
Erasmus,  prayer  by,  70 
Ercildoune,  Thomas  of,  86 
Erghom,  Jo.,  on  prophecies,  86 
Essen,  J.,  69 

Flete,  Jo.,  89 
Fletu  Ecclesiae,  de,  88 
Flores  Historiarum,  82 
Fortune,  Wheel  of,  80 
Foster,  Jo.,  77 
Fragments,  91 
Freind,  Bob.,  73 
French:  Chronicle,  83,  92 
Poems,  77,  92 

Genealogiae  Bibliae,  70 

Gervasius  Cicestrensis  :  in  Malachiam  and 

sermon,  73 

Giraldus  Cambrensis,  Topogr.  Hibern.,  81 
Godfredus  Win  ton.,  Epigrams,  73 
Grammatical  tracts,  77 
Grandison,  Bp  Jo.  de,  63 
Grayston    super    Sententias,    and    Quaes- 

tiones,  72 

Hebrew,  63,  64 
Henry  VI.,  86 
Hickett,  N.,  73 


106 


Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 


Horneck,  Dr  A.,  63 
Howstayne,  Bob.,  81 
Hugo  de  Confessione,  71 

Initials,  historiated,  65,  66 
Islip  Eoll,  63 

Jerome,  71 

Johannes  Sarisburiensis,  Extract,  81 

Josephus  Iscanus,  75 

Julias  IT.,  Bull,  89 

Kalendars,  66,  69,  71 

Lambarde,  W.,  90 
Legenda  Aurea,  71 
Leonides,  St,  70 

Lincoln,  Franciscans  of,  owners  74 
Liturgies:  Psalter,  69 
Manuale,  70 

Maiden,  B.  H.,  63 

Manuale  (York),  70 

Martialis,  73,  74 

Matthaeus,  Flores  Hist.,  82 

Minae  Mortis,  79 

Mirabilia  Mundi,  81 ;  Angliae,  87 

Newminster  Abbey,  84 
Nowell,  Laur.,  90 

Only,  Dr,  63,  91 


Pictures,  77,  82 
Pressmark,  monastic,  71 
Prophecies,  88 

Bichard  I.,  88 
Bichmond,  Duchess  of,  69 
Bome,  Indulgence  of,  89 

Sacro  Bosco,  J.  de,  76 

Schoolboys,  rules  for  behaviour,  67 

Scrope,  Abp,  86 

Scale,  T.,  64 

Seneca  de  remed.  fortuit.,  81 

Sermon,  67 

Sketches,  66 

Statutes,  85 

Symbolo,  tract,  de,  73 

Thorndike,  H.,  63 
Trotula,  91 

Verses,  Latin,  65 
Virtutibus,  tract,  de,  74 
Voragine,  Jac.  de,  71 

Walsham,  rotulus  de,  87 
Walsingham,  Th.,  89 
Wiclife,  Bic.,  69 
Winchester,  85 
Worcester,  MSS.  from,  103 
Worthies,  the  Nine,  85 
Wylton,  73 


Perin,  J.  87 

Petrus  Blesensis,  Epp.,  88 


York,  Duke  of,  Badges,  86 

York,  Franciscans  of,  owners  77,  81 


INDEX    II 


NAMES    OF    ABBOTS,    MONKS    AND    OTHER    PERSONS    CONNECTED 
WITH    THE    MONASTERY. 


Albon,  J.,  10 
AiBodesham,  W.,  9 
Arundell,  Th.,  9 
Assheley,  J.,  10 

Barkar,  T.,  10 
Botiller,  Edw.,  12 
Brewode,  W.,  10 
Brice,  J.,  10 
Browne,  T.,  10 
Buterleye,  John  de,  102 

Caston,  R.,  10 
Chamber,  Ch.,  10 
Champney,  Th.,  10,  24  f. 
Charyng,  B.,  9 
Chertesey,  W.,  104 
Cirencester,  Rich,  de,  25 
Clare,  Osbert  de,  24,  101 
Clifford,  Th.,  97  f. 

COLCHESTEB,    W.,    9 

Crendon,  John,  9 
Cretton,  Roger,  96 

Davers,  Ro.,  10 
Denys,  John,  98  f. 
Drope,  J.,  10 


(The  last  class  are  in  italics.) 

Flete,  Th.,  10 
Fortbeye,  B.,  8 
Fowler,  John,  9 

Gardener,  Th.,  25 
Gemme,  John,  95 
GEBVASE,  1,  100 
GILBERT  CRISPIN,  104 
Godmerston,  J.,  9 
Grante,  W.,  10,  25 
Grene,  W.,  10,  25(?) 
Grove,  W.,  10,  25 

Hampton,  J.,  9,  97 
Hasele,  W.  de,  25 
Hermodesworth,  H.,  9 
Hermodesworth,  B.,  9 
Heruynton,  John,  9 
Holonde,  J.,  10,  24  f. 
Humfrey,  R.,  10,  24  f. 

TSLIP,  JOHN,  10,  24,  42,  63,  98 

James,  M.,  10 

Jay,  Th.,  24  f.,  98,  102 

Jonys,  H.,  10 


Elie,  T.,  10 

ESTENEY,  JOHN,  12,  24,  97,  104 

FASCET,  GEORGE,  9,  11 

Felix,  John,  24  f. 

Flete,  John,  24  f.,  54,  89,  102,  104 


Kingeston,  John,  9 
Kyrton,  v.  Cretton 

Lambart,  W.,  9 
LANGHAM,  SIMON,  4,  96 
Langley,  R.,  10 
LAURENCE,  23,  104 


108 


Westminster  Abbey  Manuscripts 


LlTLYNGTON,    NICHOLAS,    7  ff. 

Lokynton,  W.,  10 

Mane,  W.,  10 
Merston,  Elminus,  9 
MYLLYNG,  T.,  104 

Newbery,  E.,  10 
Norton,  J.,  10 

Osbert,  v.  Clare 
Preston,  Th.,  8 

Radulphus,  23 
Eamsey,  J.,  9 
Redemayne,  J.,  10 
Bedyng,  W.,  10 
Rolf,  Th.,  8 
Bomney,  Ba.,  10 

Salle,  T.,  10 


Southam,  Th.  de,  6,  8,  96 
Southwell,  W.,  10 
Sporley,  Bich.,  24  f. 
Stanley,  Master,  102 
Stanys,  John,  25 
Stone,  Rich.,  98  f. 
Sudbury,  W.,  23  f. 
Sulcard,  24,  98  f. 

Tedyngton,  E.,  25 
Tonworth,  Ba.,  9 

WALTEK,  23 
Warde,  J.,  10 
WARE,  BICHAKD  DE,  2,  24 
Warfield,  W.,  8 
Waterdene,  John,  2,  9 
Whaddon,  Edw.,  9 
Whately,  Bob.,  9 
Worsley,  Ba.,  10 
Wycome,  W.,  9 


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