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A CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS THE LIBRARY

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

A

CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS

PRESERVED IN

THE LIBRARY

OF

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

Edited for the Spndies of the Wnuibergity Press.

VOLUME 1.

CAMBRIDGE:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. London: HAMILTON, ADAMS AND CO. Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO.

M.DOCC.LVI.

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Tue learned and industrious authors, who have hitherto investi- gated the antiquities of Cambridge, are all silent touching the foundation of the University Library. One of the earliest proofs of its existence occurs in the Statuta Antiqua, where, on issuing fresh orders with respect to the terms of admission, it is intimated that the ‘ Libraria Communis!’ had, in times anterior to the middle of the fifteenth century, been accessible to all the students. Further traces of this institution are detected in royal grants of 1438 and 1439. At the former date, King Henry VI. acceded to the prayer of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University, who appealed to him in aid of the ‘Common Library ;’ granting for that and other objects the ‘manor of Ruyslep, in the county of Middlesex, with a certain place called Northwode, with lands, &c. to that manor pertaining, after the death of John Somerseth, to whom it is given for life*.’

If, however, we except these incidental notices, there seems to

be no documentary evidence elucidating the character of the

1 Documents relating to the University, &c., τ. 408. Lond. 1852.

2 [hid. τ. 41,42. In 1440 six volumes were bequeathed ‘librarie Uni- versitatis Cantibrigie,’ by master Robert Alne of York, the owner of a large collection of books: see Testamenta Eborac. ii. 78, ed. Surtees Society.

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Library and the nature of its contents until the second half of the fifteenth century. A catalogue, or inventory, made by the two proctors of the year 1473, has fortunately been preserved among the archives in the custody of the Registrary'; and from it we gather the important fact, that the number of volumes then be- longing to the ‘ Libraria Communis’ exceeded three hundred. The same record exhibits an imperfect distribution? of these volumes into the following classes, at the same time adding the names of the donors in each case, so far as they were ascer- tainable :

1. Biblical.

2. ‘Libri Theologie Disputate.’ 3. ‘ Libri Moralis Philosophie.’ 4. ‘Libri Philosophie Naturalis.’ 5. * Libri Medicinalis Philosophie.’ 6. ‘Libri Logice.’ 7. ‘Libri Poetrie.’ 8. ‘Libri Sophisticales.’ 9. ‘ Libri Grammaticales.’ 10.‘ Libri Cronicales.” 11. ‘Libri Juris Canonici.’ Only two years after the compilation of this catalogue a build- ing was erected for the reception of the Library on the east side

of ‘the quadrangle of the schools:’ the necessary funds accruing δ [ω]

chiefly from the munificence of Thomas Scott, a native of Rotheram

1 The volume is entitled Registrum Librorum et Scriptorum (1473), and the inventory itself, Registrum magistri Radulphi Songer et Ricardi Cokerum procuratorum Cantabrigie compilatum, anno Domini 1473.

2 The title is, Registrum Librorum per varios Benefactores Communi Librarie Universitatis Cantabrigie collati [sic]. The number of volumes, of which the titles and names of the donors are both preserved, is 119.

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in Yorkshire, who is known among the benefactors of the Univer- sity! as bishop Rotheram. That prelate, on his translation to the archbishopric of York in 1480, continued to evince an interest in the Cambridge Library, and at his death in 1500 his executors consigned to it a large number? of additional volumes, some of which were manuscript.

But notwithstanding Rotheram’s benefaction, and a second of considerable value which was afterwards made by bishop Tonstall*, the condition of the ‘ Libraria Communis’ was very far from flourishing. ‘ Many of the volumes,’ writes the first historian* of the University in 1574, ‘are still preserved, while many others have been fraudulently abstracted (suffurantium vitio). Fuller® also makes allusion to the same malpractices. ‘ This library,’ he

says, ‘formerly was furnished with plenty of choice books, partly

1 See, respecting him, the Statuta Antiqua, § 186, where his munificence is described at length (May 13, 1475): *...scholas novamque superius librariam pelito lapide, sumptuosa pompa, ac dignis edificiis perfecerit, eamque omnibus ut decuit rebus exornatam, non paucis vel vilibus libris opulentam reddidit, &e.

* In the Commemoration of Benefactors, the number of volumes is said to be two hundred. A list of such as were believed to be extant in the seven- teenth century will be found in a Catalogus Librorum quos habet Bibliotheca Publica Academie Cantabrigiensis (EB, rx. 12). A mayor of the town of Cambridge, John Harris, is commemorated next to Rotheram as a contem- porary benefactor of the library: ef. Caius, Hist. Canteb. Academ. p. 82. Lond. 1574.

* See Caius, [bid., and the list in E B, rx. 12.

+ Caius, Ibid. After stating that the same pilferers had existed at Oxford, he moralizes in the following strain (p. 84): ‘Tam paucis annis gratitudinem extinguit negligentia et benemeritorum oblivionem parit. Proinde admonendi sunt vtriusque vniuersitatis studentes, vt diligenter conseruandis his quibus affecti sunt beneficiis, colendaque frequenter Patronorum memoria a supina illa negligentia se prorsus vindicent atque sejungant.’

° History of the University of Cambridge, p. 119, ed. Nichols. When Leland visited the University at the opening of the sixteenth century, his attention appears to have been arrested by only six of the volumes he saw in Bibliotheca Publica majori (see the list in his Collectanea, m1. 15, ed. Hearne). Caius, in like manner, distinguishes between the two ‘ bibliothece,’ when he says (p. 89): ‘ Altera privata seu neva, altera publica seu vetus dicebatur.’

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at the costs of the aforesaid archbishop Rotheram, partly at the charges of Cuthbert Tonstall, bishop of Durham, bred in our University... But these books, by the covetousness of some great ones, and carelessness of the library-/osers (for library-heepers 1 cannot call them), are for the most part imbezzled, to the great loss of the University, and learning in general.’

Accordingly in the last year of Henry VIIT. the University Library appeared so fallen and so ‘useless,’ that a grace actually passed the Senate for converting the fabric into a divinity-school. The serious diminution in the number of the volumes at this period may be estimated on comparing the catalogue of 1473 with another that professes to have been compiled exactly one century later', At the last-mentioned date the number of books surviving was reduced as low as 177: while it is added, ‘ Most parte of all theis books be of velam and parchment, but veray sore cut and mangled for the lymned letters and pictures.’

A second eye-witness” who published the result of his obser- vations in the following year (1574) has thrown additional light

upon the character of this remnant. He distributes the extant volumes under the following heads :

1. ‘Grammatiea, Poetica.’

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‘ Dialectica, Philosophica.’

3. ‘ Rhetorica, Historica.’

4. - Arithmetica, Geometria, Astronomia,’ 5. ‘Cosmographia, Musica.’

6. ‘ Biblica, Doctores.’

7. “ Theologica.’

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8. ‘ Legalia.

* See this in the Liber Gratiarum (A), fol. 3306, fol. 331 a (in the custody of the Registrary). The title is Nomina Librorum evistentium in Bibliotheca Universitatis Cantabrigie, anno Domini, 1578.

? Caius, Thid.

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From the same quarter we obtain the interesting fact that of the seanty aggregate, 113 volumes were ‘ written on parch- ment.”

The Library, however, had now reached the lowest point of its depression. In the very year when Caius deplored the losses it formerly sustained, a movement had commenced which issued in its rapid restoration. Andrew Perne, master of St Peter’s College, writes! from Lambeth ‘ Feb. 8, 1573, to ‘Mr Stokes (Stokys) one of the bedles of the Universite,’ requesting him to send the dimensions of the stalls in the Library, and a catalogue of the books in each stall; and at the same time expresses a hope that ‘my lord of Canterbury’ (Parker) will grant ‘a store of notable bokes’ which may at least enable them to fill one stall.

In the same, or following, year, Archbishop Parker gave? 40 volumes (afterwards increased to 100); Sir Nicholas Bacon gave 73 volumes; Bishop Pilkington 20 volumes; Bishop Horne 50 volumes. Other benefactors, including Bishop Barnes, Theo-. dore Beza and Professor Lorkin, added to the number both of printed and manuscript works: so that when Fuller wrote he boasted how the Library of Cambridge ‘will now move the beam, though it cannot weigh it down, to even the scale with Oxford’.”

Limiting our future survey to the manuscript department of the Library, we gather from the Heloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis of Thomas James (Lond. 1600) that the number of such volumes was then 259.4 In the course of the seventeenth century further benefactions continued to arrive from opposite quarters, adding to

τ Original in the custody of the Registrary.

2 See the Liber Gratiarum (A), fol. 531 6 sq., and the list in EB, rx. 12, where minor contributions are also noted.

3 Ubi sup. This writer attributes much of the prosperity of the Library to ‘painful Parker,’ ‘pious Grindal,’ and ‘politic Bancroft’ (p.119): but neither Grindal nor Bancroft is commemorated in the list of Benefactors.

4 James has printed Archbishop Parker’s bequests separately: but the list there given is not quite accurate, as is pointed out in EB, rx. 12.

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the varied treasures of the University, and more particularly to the stock of Oriental literature. Among the leading donors may be mentioned George duke of Buckingham, John Selden, Nicholas Hobart, Dr Bretton, Thomas Baker, and Bishop Hacket. The last-mentioned prelate bequeathed to the University the whole of his extensive library); directing that the duplicates should be sold for the greater benefit of the institution. The sale, which took place in 1673, by realizing the sum of £180, enabled the authorities to purchase 220 volumes, of which 26 were manuscript

A large accession was also made to both departments of this Library during the Great Rebellion, when the printed books and manuscripts in Bancroft’s Library at Lambeth were transferred to Cambridge. They were, however, soon reclaimed in 1662, and after some negotiation were surrendered by the Syndics? (Oct. 19, 1663).

But all previous benefactions were exceeded by the munificence of King George I. who having, on the death of Moore, bishop of Norwich and afterwards of Ely, purchased the valuable library of that prelate, amounting to 30,000 printed books and MSS., for the sum of 6000 guineas, presented all the volumes to the Uni- versity of Cambridge. The extent of Moore’s manuscript collec- tion in particular is determinable from the Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum Anglie et Hibernice in unum collecti, published at Oxford in 1697. That part, indeed, which relates to the Uni- versity of Cambridge (the third part of the first volume) is simply a reprint of James’s Heloga, with a slight Auctarium e Bibliotheca viri clarissimt Thome Erpenii (pp. 173, 174): but there is a copy of the work in the University Library (A.B, x1. 52) which contains

not only a catalogue of Moore’s collection as it existed in 1697,

1 See the Catalogue in E B, rx. 12, pp. 68—81.

2 Original correspondence in the custody of the Registrary: cf. Cooper’s Annals, τα. 399, 405, 496, 503, and Cambridge Transactions, ed. Heywood and Wright, m. 457. Lond 1854.

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but also a list of the additions which he made to it between the publication of that work and his own death in 1714,

During the interval which has since elapsed, the manuscript department of the Library has been considerably enriched from time to time by private benefactions'; such, for instance, as be- quests of Archdeacon Lewes, of Dr William Burrel, of Dr Claudius Buchanan, and of the celebrated traveller, J. L. Burckhardt? ; so that the University possesses at the present time about three thousand MSS.

Yet, strange to say, until the very close of the last century no tolerable catalogue existed to indicate the real nature of their contents either to members of the University or to the literary world at large. The task of constructing such a catalogue was first confided in 1794 to Mr James Nasmith, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, who had already gained considerable familiarity with that field of antiquarian research. If his endeavours were not altogether successful in the present instance, the failure is more attributable to the magnitude of the task imposed upon him than to his deficiency either in knowledge, accuracy, or judgment. Indeed it may be questioned if any single hand could have ade- quately examined and described a collection of such area and variety in the short period of three years which he devoted to the work. When, therefore, the University became more anxious to put forth a printed? statement respecting MSS. in its possession,

‘ The Library itself contains but few records of the number and nature of these benefactions. The principal (after E B, rx. 12) is a meagre list of purchases and presents, beginning at June, 1758, and proceeding as far as May, 1789. From it we learn, for instance, that an unknown benefactor in 1786 presented the MSS. Dd. 1x. 70, 71, 72, together with a copy of St John’s Gospel, ‘in a lock-up class.’

* His name is given to one large section of the Oriental MSS., described under the title Catuloygus Bibliothece Burckhardtiane, by Mr (now Professor) Preston, in 1853.

* A slight account of the MSS., in addition to those already noted, was subsequently given to the public in Dyer’s Privileges of the University of

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and two courses were open, either to publish Nasmith’s volumes or to authorize the formation of a more elaborate catalogue, the second of these courses was suggested by the Pitt Press Syndicate, under whose auspices the present work is being executed.

The instructions of the Syndicate! were issued in the spring of 1851, and since that time a party of Cataloguers have been at intervals engaged in carrying out their project. The following list will exhibit the division of subjects? which has been adopted, together with the names of those Members of the Senate who have

contributed to the first volume of the Catalogue :

1. Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Karly English Litera- ture, Wr C. Hardwick, St Catharine’s Hall, Hditor.

Classical, Mr Churchill Babington, St John’s College. 3. Heraldic, &., Mr Chas. C. Babington, St John’s College.

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Cambridge, τ. 559 sq. Lond. 1824. Hanel’s Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum qui in Bibliothecis Gallia, Helvetia, Belgii, Britannia M., Hispania, Lusi- tanie asservantur, Lips. 1830, notwithstanding the promise of the title, de- votes only four columns to all the Cambridge libraries. ' The following are some of the chief : That the language employed in describing the MSS. shall be English. That the description of each MS. shall include the following par- ticulars : (1) Material. (2) Size. (3) Number of pages, and of columns and lines in a page. (4) Style of handwriting (and difference of hands, if any). (5) Probable age. (6) Traces, if any, of original owner, and subsequent history. (7) Present condition. (8) Whether it has been published or collated. That the new Catalogue shall be arranged according to the present order of the MSS. 2 The cataloguing of the Oriental MSS. interspersed through the general collection has been entrusted to Professor Williams, whose work will form a sequel to the Catalogue above mentioned, p. xi. n.”,

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Historical, Mr W. 1, Collett, Gonville and Caius College. Legal, Professor Abdy, Trinity Hall. Musical, Mr W. W. Hutt, Gonville and Caius College.

Scientific, Medical, &c. Dr Webster, Jesus College, and Mr J. Glover, Trinity College.

8. Theological', Mr H. Rk. Luard and Mr C. B. Scott, Trinity College.

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In committing the first-fruits of their labour to the press, the contributors have to apologize for numerous blemishes and defects which they are conscious will not pass unnoticed by persons skilled in all the various branches of the subject. On the other hand, such persons, and they only, are aware of the formidable difficulties arising out of undertakings like the present, as well as of the in- adequate representation which descriptions ordinarily furnish of the thought and labour they have cost.

The contributors particularly feel that the proposal to deter- mine as far as possible whether each important MS. has been already published or collated, has not only entailed upon them a large expenditure of time unknown to ordinary cataloguers, but has also been the means of exposing their production to unusual criticism. Any suggestions calculated to assist them in the further prosecution of their labours, or to remedy omissions and mistakes in the present volume, will be thankfully received by the Editor.

At the conclusion of the work a set of copious Indices will be appended, for the purpose cf facilitating reference to the Cata- logue; together with a Table denoting as far as possible the last owner from whom each MS. had passed into the hands of the University.

* Assistance in this department has also been rendered by Mr J. E. Cooper, of St John’s College, who left the University at an early stage of the

proceedings; and by Mr W. W. Howard, of Sidney Sussex College, and Mr F. J, A. Hort, of Trinity College.

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It only remains to add, by way of explanation, that where the title of any treatise stands between inverted commas, such title is derived from the MS. itself. In other cases the deficiency has

been supplied by the cataloguer.

CamBringr, January 1, 1856.

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CORRIGENDA.

25, for ‘braviam’ read ‘bravium’ 18, for ‘f. 140’ read ‘f. 144’ το, dele comma after ‘virginitate,’ and read B.M. in italics 22, for ‘cantaristaram’ read ‘cantaristarum’ 5 from bottom, for “ελυσεν᾽ read “ἔλυσεν᾽ 6 7 for else read else’ 13. This treatise is uniform in writing, &c. with the preceding. 15. This stanza appears among the works of Marbodius. 15, for ‘Audimus’ read ‘Audinnus’ 25, for ‘penurion’ read “penuriam’ 2. for ‘spiritualis’ read ‘spirituales’ 9; for ‘injuste’ read ‘injuste’ 6, for ‘firmaviorum’ read ‘firmariorum’ 2 from bottom, for Fontenay read Fontenay’ 9, for ‘Nasmyth’ read ‘Nasmith’ 5 from bottom, for ‘humanam’ read Shumanum’ 4, dele ‘of the margin’ for ‘the variations—collated’ read ‘The copyist has collated the variations in the margin of § IT.’

last line, ead ‘This is the preface’

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for ‘preceding MS.’ read ‘§ 9, VI.’

29, for ‘Nicolas of Saguntum’ read ‘Niccold Sagundino of Negropont.’ See Tiraboschi Storia dell. Lett. Ital. t. vi. Ῥ. 776 sqq. Moden. 1790: and for this epistle (printed at Naples) Zeno Dissert. Voss. t.i. p. 333 8qq-

το. Between the brackets insert ‘imbris’, and see Ee. vi. 6,

§ 4.

26, ‘bemergebyre’ is a mistake. In the MS. the words ‘in bening byre’ are repeated by a clerical error, with the dif- ference of ‘beninge’ for ‘benyng.’

31, for ‘ipsam’ read ‘ipsum’

3, for ‘and—leaves’ read ‘the last five leaves are much mutilated’

23, for ‘Adelungh’ read ‘ Adelung’

2 from bottom, the Scala Perfectionis was printed by Caxton in 1494. 13 from bottom, for ‘Aleem.’ read ‘ Allgem.’ 3 from bottom. This work has been printed, but without name of place or date. 7 from bottom, read ‘tom. v.’ 3, for ‘pio’ read ‘hic’ 5. from bottom, for ‘of’ read ‘that’ 8, for ‘sedus’ read ‘scdus’ ¥2, for " nS read ‘obrey3’

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Dd. 1. 1.

A tone, narrow folio, principally on parchment and in a tolerable state of preservation, though mutilated here and there to the extent of whole leaves: formerly consisted of 552 pages, each on the average containing 50 lines: handwriting of the same general character throughout, and assignable to the latter half of the x1vth century; which is also the approximate date of the language. At p. 544, there is a reference to the year 1345 as then past.

With two exceptions (§§ 6,7), the pieces are in verse, and all treat of sacred subjects in the vernacular language.

1. Three leaves are wanting at the commencement, but the colophon supplies the title :

‘Passio Domini nostri Jesu Curisri.’

Begins (p. 7): And a man he smot riht tho Hys riht ere he nam him fro,

Ends (p. 27):

Pat is to pe blisse of heuene Amen for his namys seuene.

This piece wants a leaf after p. 12, and nearly half of pp. 21, 22. There seems also some gap after p. 10, for although the paging is continuous, the language does not tally. The author of the poem is unknown, but as

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reasons will appear for attributing other pieces in this volume to Richard of Hampotn, we may conjecture that the present is also from his pen.

For perfect copies of this Passion, see Ff. v. 48.§5: Gg.1.1. § 11: Gg. v. 31. § 8: lity. 9. §1: and ef. Dibdin’s Typog. Antig. τι. 246 sq. Lond. 1812.

2. *Lamenracio sancti BERNARDI DE COMPASSIONE BEATE Marie VirGinis EX DULCISSIMI FILIt SUL PASSIONE ET EIUSDEM CRUDELI MORTE.

Begins (p. 27) :

Lewid men arn not !erid in lore

As clerkis ben in holi writte

And pouh men preche hem euer more It wile not wone in hir witte.

Ends (p. 42): Whan pei schul passen pe world al fro To seen pe peyne pat is in helle.

This poem, as it professes (pp. 27, 42), was based upon a Latin Sermon of St Bernard (col. 156 seqq. Opp. Anty. 1616). The following notice of the translator appears to have been subjoined some time after his death, possibly by the scribe of the present MS. :

This ryme mad an hermyte

And dide it writen in parchemyn ; Barfoot he wente in gray habyte He werid no cloth pat was of lyn. Pus on englisch he dide it wryte : He seyth he drow it of pe latyn : His mede lord iht him quyte, And seynt bernard clerk of deuyn.

The age, style, and character of the piece accord with a conjecture, that the ‘hermyte’ here mentioned as its author or translator was the famous solitary Richard Rolle, who lived at Hamporr, near Doncaster, and died in 1348 (Warton, τι. 43, note a, ed. 1840.) It is not, however, mentioned in

the ordinary catalogue of his writings, 6. σφ. that of ‘Tanner, Biblioth. s.v. pp. 374, 375.

3. A Poem, without title or colophon, containing the history of our Lord from the Resurrection to the Ascension. Begins (p. 43):

On Esterne day in pe dawing [ha ros fro deth to lyue.

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Ends (p. 48): pat he mote vs so wisse and rede pat to heuene blisse we mote come.

This piece may be conjecturally assigned to the same author.

4. A course of Metrical Sermons, consisting of paraphrases on the Gospels throughout the year, with scriptural and legendary ‘narrations.’ A rubric at the end (p.412) supplies the following ‘title:

‘DomrnicatiA EvaNncgELIA ET MIRACULA VALDE BONA ET NOTABILIA IN LINGUA ANGLICANA.

The Sermons proceed in the usual course from Advent onwards, excepting those for Corpus Christi and Palm Sunday. The former stands at the com- mencement (p 48), and the latter almost at the end of the series (p. 402). Appended is a metrical ‘ Narracio de Petro Toller, (pp. 407—412), also in English.

Begins, for Advent Sunday (p. 56): Or pe fulfilling of tyme was come Sathanas had al pe folk nome, And mankynde in prisoun he held Wip out help wipouten beld.

Ends, for the 25th Sunday after Trinity (p. 402) :

Now swete ἴῃ pi grace vs sende pat we may her our lyf amende, So pat we alle at our ded day Come to pat blesse pat lastip ay, Pi louesum face in heuene to se Amen, amen, so mote it be.

Gaps, more or less extensive, occur at the following places, though the paging is mostly continuous: pp. 50, 98, 106, 118, 145, 202, 300, 315, 314, 324, 356. Besides other indications of their date, an allusion at p. 55 con- fines the composition of the sermons to the middle of the x1vth century :

Pe laste pope pat was now, His name John hiht,

Al pis pardoun he grauntip 30w And doublip it wip his myht. Moylerus porw goddis grace Bischop of ley; lymme,

He hap amendid al pis cas Porw myht pat god 581 hym.

John XXII. was pope from 1816 to 1834, and Miler le Poer was bishop of Leighlin (Ireland) from 1821 to 1341 (Cotton’s Fasti, τι. 384.) B2

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This date, together with a variety of words peculiar to the North of England and of illustrations drawn from incidents of hermit-life, may not unnaturally point to Hampore as the author of the Sermons; much, how- ever, of their substance being borrowed from the Master of the Sentences (cf. pp. 193, 350) and apparently from the Catena Aurea of Aquinas.

At the end of the work, after the rubric, there follows, in black, the signature ‘ Quod! Staundone,’. implying that he was the transcriber of the MS. His name is again repeated, in red, after the following couplet, of which he was perhaps the author : »

Diues diuicias non congregat absque labore, Non tenet absque metu, nec deserit absque dolore.

This course of Sermons has very much in common with Gg. y. 31, and with the Ashmolean MS. No. 42, (see Mr Black’s Catalogue, p. 09).

5. A short Metrical Exposition of Psalm τι. (‘ Miserere’).

Each verse is quoted in Latin, and afterwards expounded in eight lines of English. Begins (p. 413): Merci lord god of my mys-dede.

Ends (p. 417): He schilde vs alle fro helle fer.

6. A copious Exposition of Psalm xci. (‘Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi’).

After reciting the first verse in Latin, (p. 417) the paraphrast proceeds : * Alle men pat wile lyuen in this world cristenliche, alle pei sufferen perse- cucioun.’

Ends (p. 450): ‘Unto pat lyf he bringe vs, our lord god crist ihts, pat on pe rode tre boughte vs’ (adding the Latin doxology).

7. A Treatise without any heading, but described in the

colophon as ‘MemoriaLte CREDENCIUM.

Begins (p. 453): ‘Man and woman pat is in wil for to fle synne and lede clene lyf take hede to pis tretys pat is wreten in englisch tonge for lewid men pat nought vnderstond latyn ne frensch, and is drawen out of holi writte and of holy doctors beforn pis tyme.’

It contains an account of the plagues of Egypt, and the giving of the Law, Expositions of the Ten Commandments, the Seven Deadly Sins, Penance, Transubstantiation, the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed, the Four Cardinal Virtues, the Seven Sacraments, the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost, the Seven Works of Mercy, the joys of Heaven, and the pains of Hell. Part of pp. 457, 458, and 485, 486 are wanting. There is also a gap at p. 524.

The author was probably Hampole: see Tanner, p. 375, col. 2.

2 Quod = Quo’.

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8. <A Metrical Passion of St Hrasmus. Begins (p. 537):

Alle cristen [Ὁ] 56 listen & lere

Of an holy buschop and a martere

Whos name is clepid seynt Erasmus

As pe boke sayth and trewe men tellen vs.

Ends (p. 540) : To which ioye and blis good god bring vs Porw help of pis holy man seynt Erasmus. The following couplet occurs both at the opening and the close :

Ne noceat spasmus michi, me iuuet almus Erasmus: O sacer Erasme, meritis precibusque regas me.

9. A Poem on Lent, without title. Begins (p. 540):

Lenten is an holy tyme

In which folk wile hem schryue. Ends (p. 544):

To come to Cristis table At estern tyme. Amen.

10. ‘A Goop Lesson oF Ix. VERTEWIS.

Begins (p. 544):

Alle pat loue to here pis lessoun

Crist graunt hem his benisoun. Ends (p. 548):

To which ioye and to which blis

God bring vs alle whan his wil is. Between this piece and the next are the following lines :

Vis scripturarum sanctarum siue bonarum

Dat sensum clarum, confundens crimen amarum ; Et per vim quarum fit magna salus animarum : Hine nobis carum fieret modulamen earum.

11. A Poem on Just Judgment, with the following motto as a title: O iudex vi feruida hance seruabis artem, Acu tinali merida’ i.e. audi alteram partem.

1 Ἄκουε τὴν ἄλλην μερίδα.

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Begins (p. 548):

And perfor 3e lordingis pat louedays wile holde

Loke 3e her bope partyes and who hap right or wrong, Ends (p. 551):

Loke pat 3e swer truli & trewe tale telle

pat 3e dampne not 3001} soulis & wend vn to helle.

A few lines in different metre are then added on the same subject.

Dd. 1. 2. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

Dd. 1. 3. A large folio, on paper, in good preservation.

Liser Vatorum omnium Brenericrorum EcciesiasticoruM ΙΝ Anexia er Watrta,—is the title assigned by Nasmith in his MS. Catalogue, none having been affixed by F. Neve to the volume..«

After 6 leaves which contain ‘Tabula Anglie’ and ‘Tabula Wallie’ are 71 leaves, on the last of which (f. 71), is the autograph note ‘ Scripta per Franciscum Neve olim Collegii divi Johannis Alumnum [‘hodie vero homi- num miserrimum,’ on f. 69] 4° die Martii, 1640.’

At the end, on the inside of the cover, is the following

‘Memorandum: This booke for the writing wherof the University paid fower pounds unto Francis Neve (as appeares by the Audit booke in Anno 1641) being found in the study of Μ' John Tabor (as is said) was by his relict given away unto a friend: but being discovered after 20 yeares lying hid, it is now recovered to the University to be kept for publick use, for which it was at first intended. Ita testor Will. Dillingham, August 8th, 1662.’

Dd. 1. 4.

A large folio, on parchment, in good preservation, though want- ing 4 leaves at the beginning. It formerly contained 234 leaves, written in the x1th century, every page being divided into 2 columns of 39 lines each.

Fravir Josepur AnriquitaTes JUDAIC.

On f. 5, ‘de aliis longum est dicere quidem | de seth autem conabor narrare tantummodo,’ are the two first lines. Though the version is that by Ruffinus and agrees closely with the text printed at Paris, 1535, the division into chapters is diverse, the words above being towards the end of

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chapter rv. in the edition, while chapter rv. in the MS. begins with ‘ Deus itaque noe quidem iusticiam dilexit.’ ‘Liber Primus’ is divided into xut. capitula. ‘ Liber secundus’ into vu. which are enumerated on f. 18 ὃ. before ‘Incipit Liber secundus qui continet tempus annorum ducentorum et vi- ginti.’ And similarly for the others, Lib. III. being divided into x1. Cap., PV-into: va, V. xin, VI. xv, VII. xv: ΠῚ χε ΙΧ. χε X. σιν. ΧΙ vi; XII. xix, XIII. xxx, XIV. xxvn1. With the XIVth book ends the MS. on f, 234 α, on the other side is ‘ Explicit Liber quartus decimus.’

The initial letters to the several books are bold and grotesque combina- tions of cherubim men and animals, those to the several chapters are simple in form, and red, blue, green, or purple. At the beginning of the volume are 2 leaves, and at the end 4 (marked 51, 52, 57,58), fragments of some law treatise, in a hand of the xvth century.

A Legend (Transtatio corporis S. Jacopr Masoris ΙΝ Gatzcram) has been added, the portion on f. 254 ὁ. being in a handwriting of the x1uth century, that on f. 235. in imitation of the former.

Begins :

Nemo putet quod iste sit iacobus qui cognominatus est Alphei et iustus. qui a phariseis de pinnaculo templi est precipitatus.

Ends:

Discipuli autem apostoli ut cognoverunt quod illusi essent a muliere luparia orationes fuderunt ad dominum. Boves quoque per orationes sanctorum et merita iacobi apostoli adquieverunt et veluti iugarios cum mansuetudine illos adduxerunt quocunque voluerunt.

This version of the Legend appears to be the same as that given ‘In MS. Floriacensis Bibliothece’ quoted by the Bollandists, Acta Sanctorum, de S. Jacobo Majore ὃ ιν. (Die xxv. Julii. t. νι. p. 12).

Dd. 1. 5.

A large folio, on parchment, containing 137 leaves, and 26 lines in a page; mutilated in the 122nd leaf and at the end. It belongs to the xvth century, and has the initial letters and many of the margins illuminated.

Psatrertum Davipicum cum Hymnis Eccrestasticis, JUXTA USUM SARISBURIENSEM.

It has rubrics and musical notes. Begins (fol. 7):

Hic sequens hymnus (viz. ‘ Verbum supernum prodiens’) dicitur in dominicis per totum adventum.

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Ends: Dixi tu es spes mea, portio mea in ter A Catenpan is prefixed, which has the obits of kings Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Edward VI, and of a few private persons, noted in different hands in the margin. In the margin of the calendar for October there is the note : ‘ Prima dominica Octobris, dedicacio ecclesie.’

Dd. τ. 6.

A large folio, on parchment, of 339 leaves, written in double columns, with from 50 to 56 lines in a column; apparently of the xivth century.

Bretra Sacra cum Protocis Hieronymt. The prologues ‘ Frater Ambrosius’ and ‘ Desiderii mei’ are written on the

first leaf in a hand much smaller than that of the rest of the book. The last leaf is filled with various prologues to the Gospels.

The books of the Old Testament occur in the following order :

Genesis ....... Esther, Machabeorum 1, 11, Job, Esaias........ Daniel, (PSALM τ τς τς - Ecclus, Osee...... . Malachias, Baruch, Lamentatio.

Of the New Testament, this MS. has the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Apocalypse, Epistle to the Hebrews from chap. iv. ver. 4, to the end, and the Catholic Epistles.

A few short annotations are added here and there in the margin. There are also the following notes of ownership :

1. On the last fly-leaf: ‘Icest Livre est ἃ mestre Nicholas de Cobeham.’

2. On the first fly-leaf: ‘O paraclite mentem tergas sorde scatentem. Rector de Adisham et Abyndon juxta Northampton, &c. Anno Domini, 1474.’

‘This owner’s name, which was John Parmenter (see the County-Histories of Northamptonshire and Kent, and Somner’s Antiquities of Canterbury) is intended to be conveyed in the first syllables of the words ‘Paraclite mentem tergas.’

3. On the last leaf of the MS: ‘John Smithe his boke.’ On a fly-leaf at the end of this MS. is a fragment of some French Poem (? Yinage du Monde, by Gautier de Metz). The

handwriting belongs to the x1vth century, but only a few lines of the Poem survive.

6 τ 7.8:

Two volumes, large folio, on vellum: the former consisting of 177 leaves, the latter of 233. The date of this MS. can hardly

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be later than the xuth century. It is neatly written in double columns, with about 41 lines in a column. ‘The title given in the first volume is :

‘Avreti Aucustinit Docrorrs ΙΝ Lisro Psatmorum Trac- TATUS PRIOR incipit.’ Vol. I. contains Ps. τ. to Ps. τι. Vol. II. contains Ps. 11. to Ps. c, but is imperfect at the end. Begins : Aurelii Augustini egregii doctoris de psalmo quinquagesimo primo sermo incipit. Psalmus brevis est de quo, &c. Ends : non est quid mali sentias de illo quia securi sumus et certi —-——.

At the end of Vol. I. are inserted two short Treatises without titles, in the same handwriting with the rest of the MS.

1. A Commentary on Cant. iv. 6—8, occupying 8 columns.

Begins:

Ibo michi ad montem myrre et cetera. Sponsus hic quidam loqui- tur qui habet sponsam et spondet se visitaturum eam. Nota ergo quod non semper domi est sponsus iste; cavet enim ne forte vilescat amor suus.

Ends:

quia quanto magis mundum fugiendo Deo appropinquare incipimus,

tanto magisin unum congregamur. Explicit.

2. A Treatise on hetirement and Contemplation, occupying 6 columns. Begins:

Scrutemur scripturas et inveniemus vix unquam deum in multitu- dine locutum: sed quotiescunque hominibus innotescere voluit non gentibus et populis sed vel singulis, vel admodum paucis &e.

Ends:

quod autem subjungitur conglutinavit eam sibi, hoc est cadaver

invenit et amplius ad archam redire noluit.

θὰ. 1. 9. A narrow folio, on paper, written about the year 1714.

A Couuection or Mepicat Recipes.

On p. 1 is the recipe (1) entitled ‘A temperate Plague Water. On p- 115 is, ‘ Here ends Doctor Baits his receipts.’ Then follow some recipes ‘for a scurf Head,’ and on p. 116 is ‘ Finis. 1714.’

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Dai tr, 10,13,

These two volumes, of good parchment in folio, comprise two distinct works, both of which are imperfect, but apparently in the same condition as when presented to the University by Arch- bishop Parker.

1. In this division every page contains two columns of 36 lines each: from p.1 to p. 398, the handwriting is large and clear and apparently of the x1vth century: from p. 395 to p. 1384 it is of a similar character.

Eristot.2 Pontiricum et Canones,—is the title prefixed by Parker's scribe.

This Collection commences with the rubric (p. 1) ‘ Incipiunt nomina. xt. regionum continencium infra se provincias cx...” This catalogue extends nearly to the end of p. 4: in other MSS. it is generally preceded by lists of bishops, see Jsidoriana, cap. xct. § 51. (Isidori Opera, Rome, 1797.)

The contents of pp. 4—1299, a. appear to be the same as those of the very ancient MS. Vat. 630, fully described in Appendix ad Leonis Magni Opera (Venetiis, 1757), from p. ccxxvi. Ixvut ‘ Prefatio Isidori’ to p. ccoxxxu. ‘subire appetit servitutem.’ Further it may be noted that in MS. Vat. the ‘catalogus Romanorum Pontificum’ ends with Nicholas I; and in a table of Contents in our MS. the last item (p. 364) is ‘Decreta pape (presulis) Nicholai.’

The contents of pp. 1299, b.—1384 relate to the Church of England and chiefly to the See of Canterbury: besides being for the most part scattered, like the contents of the pages preceding, through the volumes of Mansi Concilia (Florentie, 1759), some are to be found in Wilkins’ Concilia, and Eadmeri Historia Novorum (ed. J. Selden, 1623); others are noticed in Theineri Disquisitiones Critice (Rome, 1836), cited in Regesta Pontificum Romanorum (ed. P. Jaffé, 1851).

The collection ends abruptly (p. 1384) with ‘salutem et apostolicam [benedictionem]’ in the Epistle of Honorius, ‘De Confirmatione et Le- gatione Guillelmi Archiepiscopi Cantuarie.’ It may be noted that, in the ‘ Breviarium’ (pp. 15—20), the last item gives the title of the preceding epistle (pp. 1982- 4), ‘[DJecretum honorii pape ut monachi perpetua stabilitate consistant in ecclesia sancti saluatoris Cantuarie. Et alia quam plura cantuariensis ecclesie iura, ac privilegia concernencia que in hoc opere habentur tabula expresse docet. The Decretum is dated 11. Kal. Feb. mcxxyv. and begins, ‘ Equitatis et justicie ratio. There is also (pp. 359— 364) a more complete table of the contents of pp. 868—1323,

Every alternate page is marked by red chalk: but either through design or carelessness, the text on p. 518 closing Vol. I.—(the leaf marked 519 being blank)—is continued on the first page of Vol. 11. marked 601, and the pages numbered 619 and 701 are on two consecutive leaves, and so are those num-

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bered 719 and 801, 819 and 901, 919 and 1001. This erroneous enumeration was adopted in the table of contents written by Abp. Parker’s scribe on the inside of the first cover. It seems as if a leaf had been cut out after p. 8, the last words thereon being, ‘congregatis omnibus eiusdem provincia epi- scopis, judicium terminetur: et reliqua Sancti conci:’ but ‘Sancte etiam,’ which is the proper continuation (see Mansi Concilia, 1. 8) has been erased: also the syllables /ii have been supplied, after an erasure, on p. 9, before ‘principium iuxta apostolice sedis auctoritatem,’ words which occur in Aurelii ad Damasum Fpistola (see Blondelli Pseudo-Isidorus, 544). Be- tween p. 1304 and p. 1305 a leaf appears to be missing: for with p. 1304 concludes the Epistle of Honorius in Wilkins’ Concilia, τ. 35—6, and the first words on p. 1305 are ‘ fuerit appellatum, id est ut actor semper rei forum sequatur:’ the series of ordinances in which they occur ends on p. 1514.

The initial letters are wanting throughout: for those as well as for many rubrics blank spaces have been left. At p. 393 the handwriting is abruptly changed, and the subsequent rubrics are supplied. It seems worthy of note that, except in the table of contents by Parker’s scribe, wherever the word papa had been written, or any of its cases, an erasure (in obedience to the Circular Letter of Hen. VIII, June 26, 1535: see Burnet, III. Collect. 32) has been made, and in No. (10) pontifex or episcopus or presul substituted, with the addition of Romanus in some places, The MS. in all other respects is in a good state of preservation.

2. The handwriting which is small and contracted belongs to the end of the xvth century: every page contains two columns of about 60 lines each.

¢‘Expositio rratris Nyco.at Treveta ANGLICI ORDINIS PREDICATORUM SUPER BoETIO DE CONSOLATIONE, Begins (p. 1385) :

Explanationem librorum Boecii de consolatione philosophica aggres- simus vocante quorumdam fratrum satisfactione qui me ex professione ordinis predicatorum....

On p. 1500, after the colophon (Explicit commentum, &c.), commences the Tabula which comes to an end with the volume abruptly, at p. 1504.

There are some blank spaces which seem to indicate that the transcriber had a mutilated MS. before him. The present MS. is referred to as No. 236 by Wharton, in p. 13 of Appendix to Cave’s Historia Literaria, under the title ‘Nicolaus Trivethus, A.D. 1310. Inthe British Museum, Cod. Burn. No. 131 is another copy of this Commentary, which has never been printed ; see a Catalogue of MSS. on sale by John Cochran, London, 1829. No. 824.

Dd. 1. 12.

A folio, on parchment, containing 225 leaves. It belongs to the x1vth, or the beginning of the x vth century, and was given to

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the Library by Rotheram, Bishop of Lincoln. The illuminated capitals which adorned the commencement of the various books have been cut out throughout the volume. The principal text is written in double columns of various length, but generally num- bering from 50 to 70 lines, in the middle of the page, the margin being filled with a commentary in a smaller hand and darker ink, though apparently by the same scribe. A waste leaf at the beginning contains a fragment of Justinian’s Codex, circa Lib. v. cap. 37, 38.

1. Jusrmrani Instirurionum Lieriitvy, cum APPARATU ACCURSIL The rubric (fo. 1, a) is:

In nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi, Imperator Cesar, Flavius Justinianus, Almanicus, Goticus, Francus, Germanicus, Anticus, Alanicus, Wandalicus, Affricanus, pius, felix, inclitus victor ac triumphator, semper Augustus, cupide juventuti, Institutionum liber [primus incipit].

It ends (fo. 55, δ):

Sed de publicis judiciis hee exposuimus, ut vobis possibile sit summo digito et quasi per indicem ea tetigisse, alioquin diligencior eorum scientia vobis ex latioribus digestorum seu pandectorum libris, Deo propicio, ad- ventura est. Explicit Liber Institutionum.

2. Copicis Justinrant Liner x" xi" xu" cuM APPARATU

Accursit. The rubric (fo. 55, ὃ) is: Codicis Domini Justiniani Imperatoris repetite prelectionis Liber x. incipit, De jure fisci. Ends (fo. 103, a). The concluding lines have been cut out for the sake of an illuminated letter.

3. JustintAnt Novetytarum Lipri ix. cum APPARATU ACCURSII.

The Rubric has been cut out: the commentary begins (fo. 103, a): In nomine Domini. Justinianus opus suum laudabile Deo attribuit. The last sentence (fo. 200, b) has been cut out. The words which form the termination ofthe 9th Book in the edition of Contius, Paris, 1559, seem to have been followed in our MS. by two or three paragraphs, the greater part of which is lost.

4, ConstTITuTIONUM (vEL ConsuetupINUM) Fruporum Lipari. CUM APPARATU ACCcURSII.

The rubric (fo. 201, a) is: Incipiunt Constitutiones Feudorum et primo de his qui feudum dare possunt. The Edition of Contius, Paris, 1559, and of Gothofredus, Geneva, 1656, entitle this work Consuetudines Feudorum, and they divide it into two

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books. The 8rd book in our MS. commences with the 23rd Title of the 2nd book of the Paris edition. Ends (fo. 225, b):

Indignationem Dei omnipotentis et beatorum Petri et Pauli apo- stolorum se noverit incursurum. Hic finiunt Feuda.

Dd. 1. 13.

A folio, on parchment, containing 272 leaves. It belongs to the xrvth century, and is written in double columns of between 80 and 90 lines. On the last page is written in a hand and ink different from that of the MS.: ‘Explicit [speculum juris] cum repertorio magistri [Gulielmi Durandi] scriptum xxvii° die Sep- tembris anno Domini m°.ccc®.xtv°. The words in_ brackets have been carefully scratched out and are with difficulty traced. On the back of the last leaf is a note by some former owner, dated ‘In festo sanctorum Viti et Modesti anno Domini m°.ccco®.xxx°;’ but his name, which appears to have ended in neys, has been erased, as well as some other words, and the purport of the note is not manifest.

1. Gutietmt Doranoi Srecurt Juris Lise rv.

After a table of contents, the first chapter, De Actore, begins (fo. 1, a): Quoniam parum esset nosse jura fore prodita nisi persone quarum causa sunt prodita note essent. The initial letter of the third book has been cut out. Ends (fo. 230, b): Favorem profecto non querens humanum sed solum_ braviam sempiternum ad quod nos perducat qui sine fine vivit et regnat. Amen. The Explicit added by a later hand has been erased.

2. Guiecmr Duranpi Reperrorium (seu Brxviarrum) Aureum.

It is imperfect and commences abruptly (fo. 231, a) with the words:

Ad comparendum cum actis et munimentis an dabitur vel de- negabitur.—These words occur in the title De dilatationibus, in the 2nd Book of the Paris edition, 1519, at fo. 52.

Ends (fo. 272, a):

Ipse enim huic rei decens ponens unicuique laudabileque medium finem feliciter consumavit ut de con. di. i. nullus episcopus.

Gulielmus Durandus, or Durantus, surnamed Speculator, from the title of his great work, Speculum Juris, became bishop of Mimatum, or Mende in Languedoc in 1287. The two works contained in this MS., as well as the other writings of the author, have been frequently printed.

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Dd. 1. 14.

A large folio, on vellum; 401 leaves; double columns, with 58 lines in a column. The initial letters are curiously elongated so as to form borders to the pages, and many of them are illu- minated. There are 13 miniature pictures, with dresses of the xtvth century.

Breuia Sacra cum ProLogis ΗΙΒΕΟΝΥΜΙ.

The books occur in the usual order, except that the Acts of the Apostles is placed after the Pauline Epistles.

Part of an alphabetical glossary of proper names, &c. occupies the last two leaves of the MS.

On the last fly-leaf is a half-erased note, in which the names of ‘ Hugo de Venna, and ‘ Petrus Comestor,’ are legible.

Dd. 1. 15.

A. large folio, on parchment, of 196 leaves ; written in double columns, with about 42 lines ina column. A MS. of the xivth century. One half of the last leaf has been cut away, and several other leaves are wanting, both at the beginning and throughout the book. It has illuminations and musical notes.

MIssALE AD USUM ECCLESIZ Sarum.

Begins:

—— nives [?] domino. benedicite fulgura et imbres domino.

Ends:

qui tecum vivit et regnat, το.

This MS. has belonged to the church of St Margaret’s, Lothbury, as ap- pears by the following note on p. 173: ‘ Orate pro animabus domini Hugonis Wyche militis et Willi Holt merceri, &c. Sancte Margarete de Lothbury.’

On the fly-leaf at the end is an extract from the will (a.p. 1373) of Robert Gayton, citizen of London, bequeathing perpetual annuities to the rector and clerk of St Margaret’s, Lothbury, and certain tenements (contin- gently) to the convent of Clerkenwell.

Dd. 1. 16.

A folio, on parchment, of 285 leaves ; in double columns, with 45 lines ina column. Of the xrith or xiuth century.

1. Perret Comestroris Hisrorrs Scuorastica Sacrm Scrip- TURE.

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Begins (fol. 7, a): Reverentissimo patri et domino suo Willelmo dei gratia senonensi archiepiscopo.

Ends (fol. 249, δ): In loco magis honorabiliori scilicet in cathacumbis.

2. Perri Comestoris ALLEGORIARUM Lipri ΙΧ.

Begins (fol. 249, 6) :

In precedentibus premissa descriptione originis et distinctionis artium et quorundam aliorum, ortum cursum et occasum omnium regnorum ab initio usque ad nos disposuimus. In sequentibus autem disposuimus profundas allegoriarum et tropologiarum obscuritates.

Ends (fol. 285,°a): per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.

The first eleven pages of this MS. are occupied by an elabo- rate genealogical table, extending from Adam to Christ. Between the two treatises is inserted the author’s epitaph in four lines:

‘Petrus eram quem petra tegit, dictusque comestor Nunc comedor, &c.’

Of these two treatises the first has been several times printed (see Brunet’s Manuel du Libraire) ; and copies of the second exist in MS. in the Bodleian and other libraries.

Dd. 1. 17.

A large folio volume, containing 424 leaves of parchment, of which the pages are numbered from 1 to 848. Leaves are wanting “at the beginning and the end, and also in other places which are more particularly noticed below. The handwriting of articles 1—17, and 22, 23 is uniform, and appears to belong to the close of the xivth century: every page contains two columns of 72~ lines each; that of articles 18—21 is of the same period, but may be described as of a rwnning character: every page is in two columns of about 60 lines each.

1. As the manuscript is imperfect at the beginning it wants the title :

Gaurrip1r Monemutensis Hisrorta Brironum.

Begins (p. 1) with the last few lines of Book vu. (see Rerwm Britan- nicarum Scriptores, ed. Heidelberg. 1587) : —sole litigabit. Ascendet virgo [dorsum] sagittarii et flores virgineos obfuscabit. Currus lune turbabit zodiacum.........

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Ends (p. 21, a) like the editions : hoe modo in sermonem latinum transferre curavi. valete. ‘! Expli- cit hystoria de gestis britonum.

2. ‘H. minister servorum dei ΠῚ. illustri regi anglorum salutes et orationes,—is the rubric before the Epistle, usually entitled :

Henrict Huntinpunensis Erisrora ap Henricum REGEM DE SERIE REGUM POTENTISSIMORUM. Begins (p. 21, a): Cum mecum propter ea que responsione tua accepi tractarem : cum nuper de progenitoribus tuis tecum conferrem. Ends (p. 24, ὁ): Soror vero eorum alexandro regi Scotie maritata est. Nec plus ad presens dicavi de tua generatione sive progenie sanctissima. 4 Valete.

This Epistle does not appear to have been printed: see the note before Liber vi. in Savile’s Edition of Henrici Huntindunensis Historia (inter Seriptores post Bedam, ed. 1596), and the remarks in Caye's Historia Lite- γαγία, τι 225 (Basile, 1745).

38. ‘Der crstis Karoti regis GaLtorum—is the rubric to the following Tracts, the principal of which is named in its colo- phon: (a) ‘Liner Turpini ve cestis Karon.’

Begins (p. 24):

Gloriosissimus Christi apostolus iacobus aliis apostolis et dominicis discipulis diversa cosmi climata adeuntibus ut fertur primus in galecia predicavit,

that is, with chapter τι. of the Edition (Veterum Scriptorum Germanicorum

&e. Tomus unus: ed. Reuberus, 1584, reprinted, 1619, pp. 67—88). The =

divisions of the MS. are indicated only by rubrics.

At pp. 34, 35 of the MS., between chapters xxx1. and xxxir. of the Edi- tion, are inserted short sections describing how ‘septem liberales artes inter cetera miro modo in ea [basilica] depictee sunt: the rubrics to which are, ‘de grammatica, de musica, de dialectica, de rethorica, de geometria, de arte metrica, de astrologia ;’ and a statement is made of the reason why ‘nigro- mancia depicta non fuit:’ the same are found in the Harleian MS. 6358, 2. f. 79. written soon after a.p. 1200; after these follows chapter xxxir. the last of the Edition. But in the MS. another chapter (which is also in the Harleian MS. 108) is subjoined, beginning, ‘Sed valde dignum est ut inter cetera ad domini nostri iha xpi decus revocetur ad memoriam miraculum quod pro beato Rolando...’ ending, ‘ A domino factum est istud et est mirabile in oculis nostris.’

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Qui legis hoc carmen turpino posce juvamen Ut pietate dei subveniatur ei. Ἵ Explicit liber turpini de gestis Karoli.

(5) Then follows De Miracutis ΒΒΑΤῚ ΓΑΟΘΟΒΙ.

The legend (as in Harleian MS. 108, f. 25) begins (p. 36, a):

Quid patrie galecie post mortem Karoli accidit memorie est tra- dendum. And ends with the section :

Ἵ De solempnitatibus beati jacobi, and the words,

...et vu. Kal. Augusti ab iiria ad compostellam ducitur et sepul- ture traditur.

(c) After this follows, De Srarura Karott.

This section is found at p.5 (before the Incipit, &c.) of the later Harleian MS. 108, and forms a portion of chapter xx. of the Edition. Begins (p. 36, b): Erat autem Karolus capillosus, capillis brunus, facie rubens... Ends (p. 37, a): ..multas ecclesias ditavit scribere nequeo: magis enim deficeret manusque et calamus quam historia. 1 Explicit hystoria de gestis Karoli.

4, ‘Cronica Frratris Martini Potont.’

This is the title supplied in part by the rubric.

Begins (p. 37):

Quoniam scire tempora summorum pontificum romanorum ac im- peratorum necnon et aliorum patrum ipsorum contemporaneorum quam plurimum inter alios theologos ac jurisperitos expedit, Ego frater Mar- tinus...ex diversis cronicis..-presens opusculum...ab ipso primo pontifice Jesu Christo...usque ad Johannem xx. papam deduxi...

These are the first words of the ‘Prefatio’ in the Edition published ‘Opera Suffridi Petri, Antverpie, 1574,’ to which the text of the MS. is very

similar.

In the rubric the word pape has been erased. On p. 71 is the paragraph (printed at pp. 316—319 of the above edition, sub anno $55) giving an account of the Papissa (Joan, 4.0. 860); concerning which see Cave, Historia Literaria, τι. p. 823.

From p. 45 to p. 87 the history of ‘ Pontifices’ is written on the right- hand pages, that of ‘ Imperatores’ on the left-hand ; but on p. 86 the history of the latter is interrupted, after the words (p. 401 of the Edition), ‘Simile quiddam invenies in Constantino sexto,’ by the notice, ‘Quoniam post mortem huius frederici propter discordiam et dissensionem electorum post multos annos ab imperatore vacabat imperium idcirco in pagina ubi imperatores scribi debent scribuntur pontifices quosque imperatores denuo ceperunt imperare:’ the rest of the page is blank, the gap perhaps

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corresponding to pp. 401—38 of the edition; for at p. 89, a, of the MS. and with the words ‘Romanum imperium sive post mortem...’ the account of ‘Imperatores’ is resumed, and terminates on p. 90, b, agreeing with that on pp. 403—419 of the Edition. The account of ‘ Pontifices’ (to p. 88, b of MS.) agrees with that in the edition to p. 419.

On p. 88, b—89, a, are lives of Nicholaus III. Martinus [I]V. Hono- rius [1]V., different from those in the Edition and subsequent portion of the MS. ; in that of the last-named pope is quoted the couplet :

Ponitur in petri monstrum mirabile sede Mancus utraque manu claudus utraque pede.

From p.- 93 ὁ, to the end of the MS. the account of ‘ Pontifices’ agrees with that in pp. 420—482 of the Edition.

Ends (p. 93, a), (giving a.p. 1284 as the date of the election of Hono- rius IV.):

...e€os animose confouendo prestitit stipendia et animavit suscepta negocia sollicite prosequenda.

Ἵ Explicit cronica fratris Martini de ordine fratrum predicatorum et domini pap penitentiarii.

‘| Hic pennam fixi: penitet me si male scripsi.

The rubrics are the only marks of division: on some pages the letters seem to have been retouched with darker ink. In the margins, besides the dates, &c., are two or three notes in a later hand, with marks indicative of collation.

5. CHRONICON BREVE RERUM ANGLICARUM.

Without any rubric it abruptly begins at the top of p. 93, b: Primus habuit Kanciam : Alius Westsexe : Tercius merceneriche : Quartus northumbriam : Quintus Estengliam....

Then follows a more distinct enumeration of the kingdoms of the pen- tarchy into which ‘ Anglia divisa est post adventum Anglorum.’ Bricbrigh the king of the West Saxons is the first of the series of kings, which concludes

“with a notice of Richard II. As the length of the reign of this king is not stated, while that of each of his predecessors is; and further, as, after narrating the rebellion (of Wat Tyler, 1381), the author merely mentions the king’s

“marriage (13881) to Anne of Austria, the niece of that king of Bohemia whose father was slain by the Black Prince, according to the statement of the concluding words (p. 96,a), ‘quia ille rex de boemia tenuit cum rege francie contra regem Anglie tanquam stipendarius regis francie,— there seems reason to conjecture that this Chronicle was compiled soon after A.D. 1981.

6. A space appears to have been left by the scribe for the title :

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Gesta TRoyJANORUM sECUNDUM GuIponEM bE CoLtumNna Messa- NENSEM.

Begins (p. 96, a) with the first words of the ‘ Prologus:’

Licet cotidie vetera recentibus observant nonnulla tamen jam- dudum vetera precesserunt que sic sui...

The first words of Liber 1. are

In regno Thessalie de predicte silicet prouinciis romane cuius incole mirmidones dicti sunt quos nos hodie vulgari denominatione solomarum appellamus regnabat tunc temporis rex quidam justus et nobilis Peleus nomine cum...

After the ‘ Epitaphia Achillis’ at the conclusion of Lib. xxxrt., is

Ἵ Expliciunt gesta Troianorum. et nota bene auctorem. Et ego

Guido de Columpna predictum dicten grecum [i. 6. Dictyn Cretensem ]

in omnibus opus suum ad lectorem solatium...

This note, after an account of the author’s difficulties, and a mention ‘magnorum auctorum Virgilii Ovidii et Homeri,’ concludes (p. 182):

...ffactum est autem presens opus anno dominice Incarnacionis m°.cc°. octuagesimo septimo eiusdem primo Indictionis ffebr. Amen.

The contents of this MS. appear to be the same as of the two early Edi- tions (in 4to) in the British Museum (801.k. 2, and 677. f. 2), but it wants what they contain, the tabula at the end, with the preceding, ‘Item troia magna edificata est tempore Aioth qui tunc judicavit populum Israel...’

7. *Propuecia Jonannis ve Licunsio solempnissimi doc- toris decretorum Universitatis Bononiz.’ Begins (p. 182, δ):

Regnum spiritus sancti distinguuntur in iacob filii Isaac qui duas uxores ex uno patre natas viz. lyam et aliam rachielem, qui iacob ex lya prima sua uxore quatuor filios genuit......

Ends (p. 183, b):

-..de quibus omnibus si clarius cupitis videre videatis opus futu- rorum secundum sacram scripturam qm composui et incipit sit nomen domini benedictum et ibi clarius videbitis.

Ἵ Explicit hec prophecia notabilis.

Neither of the present tract, nor of the work referred to, is any mention made by Cave in the notice of Jo. de Lignano, in Historia Literaria, u. Appendix, p. 71.

8. After the list of uxxxxx. ‘ Capitula in opus subditum,’ is the title: .

* Hisroria HinrosoLuMITANA SECUNDUM MAGISTRUM J ACOBUM DE Virri.’ This MS. wants the Prologus, printed at p. 1047-8, of Gesta Dei per Francos...Orientalis Historia, ed. folio, Hanovie, 1611.

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Begins (p. 184, 6) with chapter 1. of the Edition (p. 1049): Terra sancta promissionis deo amabilis et sanctis angelis venera- bilis... Ends (p. 286) with the first book of the Edition (p. 1124), but without a colophon : ...et a sancta romana ecclesia de die in diem expectantes.

9. Jacont pe Tueramo Compenpium ‘Consoratio Pre- cATORUM’ nuncupatum: et apud nonnullos Belial ad papam Ur- banum sextum conscriptum,

There is no rubric before the author’s address (p. 287) ‘Universis Christi fidelibus...’

The text is the same as that ‘Per Joh. Schushler civem Aug. impressus Anno domini Mececlxxij Julij vero Nonas vi.’ but the MS. ends abruptly, “quod cum legeritis dicatis deo multiplicasti mag—’ forming the last line of p. 298: the next leaf has been cut out, the few words necessary to complete the treatise having been added at the top of p. 299 ina handwriting of the

sixteenth century, the same in which, at the top of p. 237, is written ‘liber vocatur belial et viz. pro praxe juris.’

10. ‘Incipit Tesramentum ParriarcHarum’ is the rubric at the top of p. 299. See Vincentii Speculum Historiale, Lib. 1. ο. 125. Begins: Transcriptum testamenti ruben... Ends (p. 809): ...et habitaunt in terra egypti usque ad diem exitus eorum de terra

egypti. ‘i Explicit testamentum prophetarum.

Then follows a prayer beginning, ‘ Audi pater omnipotens audi miserum communem omnipotentie tue destructionem trepidantem...... * and con- cluding, ‘...... mihi rea ridens applaudit eua: tibi pia plorans compatitur virgo maria.’

11. The title may be supplied from the colophon :

‘Explicit Cronica Marciani Scott pe ΘΕΒΤΙΒ REGNI AN- GLORUM usque ad obitum Stephani et initium regni henrici secundi qui fuit filius Imparatricis et Galfridi Plantagenetee Comitis Ante- ganie.’

The MS. would perhaps be more accurately described as a Chronicle compiled from Henxict Hunrenpunensis Historia ANGLoRUM, Simeonis Dunetmensis Hisrorta DE GESTIS RE- cum AnGLorum, and Frorenti1 WicorneEnsis CHRONICON.

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The first rubric is (p. 309): Incipit prologus historie anglorum contexte ab henrico archidia- cono huntidon ad alexandrum lyncoln episcopum. anno dni. m.c.xlv.

From the beginning (p. 309) to p. 323 the MS. agrees with Savile’s edition of the text of the above-named history contained in ff. 169—183 of Scriptores post Bedam, ed. 1596: the last sentence, which is near,the end of Lib. τι., being ‘Omnes igitur reges britannie jam fideles effecti et universe regionum partes Christi lumine et gratia fruebantur.’ After this is a brief reference to Bede’s history for a fuller account, followed by the sentence nearly at the end of Lib. 11. (f. 192, a) of the edition, ‘Hoe ergo ordine... commendavit.’ After this the MS. corresponds to the edition, Lib. rv. f. 192, b—f. 195, ὃ. 1. 33.

On pp. 325, a—830, a, is inserted ‘ Historia Saxonum vel Anglorum post obitum Bede. The first words after this rubric being, ‘In exordio huius operis genealogiam regum northumbrorum...’

What follows is an abbreviation (by the omission, rather than the con- densation, of sentences) of Simeonis Dunelmensis Historia De Gestis regum Anglorum (p. 657—673, of Mon. Hist. Brit. ab anno 731—802): ‘ Qui omnes sibi in vicem regnum successerunt’ being the last words.

From p. 330, a, the MS. corresponds to Savile’s edition, (f. 195, ὃ. 1. 34— f. 200, a. 1. 23) till (p. 333, 6). After a notice of King Alfred’s succession is a list of forty kings of Wessex, from Cerdic to Henricus (I.) ‘leo justicie ;’ the names accord with the genealogical table in the Appendix to Florentii Wigornensis Chronicon (Mon. Hist. Brit. 1. 633).

On p. 334 commences an abbreviation (mostly by the omission of sen- tences) of Florentii Wigornensis Chronicon (a.p. 849—1121). See Mon. Hist. Brit. 1. p. 549.

On p. 367, ὃ, occurs the sentence, ‘ Ka tempestate rex ἢ. facto longa terre intercissione fossato. et thorkeseye usque lincolniam per dermaconum trente fluminis fecit iter navium, Ranulphus quoque dunolmensis episcopus castel- lum apud northam incepit super ripam twede.’ After this, without any break, follows the sentence from Henrici Huntendunensis Historia (Lib. vu. f. 218,0). ‘At in vigilia natalis domini ventus insolitus non solum domos sed et turres deiecit lapideas.’ The verses that in Savile’s edition follow, ‘ De pulchritudine regine Adeline,’ are omitted from the MS. But, such-like omissions excepted, the MS. corresponds with the Edition to the end of Liber vu. and concludes with the set of hexameters (p. 376, a) :

Rex obiit nune rege carens caret anglia pace * * * * *

Spiritus es caro sum: te nunc intrante reuixi. Concerning Marianus Scotus see Mon. Hist. Brit., (Preface, p. 83—4). In the British Museum is a MS. of the 15th century (Arundel, No. 46. 1)

which from its title and colophon, and the identity of its contents, appears to be a transcript of this, or of some common original.

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12. The title is contained in the colophon, (p. 421), ‘ Ex- plicit Liser Domint Marcr Pauw pr Venetis ὉΠ conpITIO- NIBUS ET CONSUETUDINIBUS ORIENTALIUM REGIONUM. And the statement in the preface (p. 376), which precedes the table of contents of Liber τ. ‘per Franciscum Pipinum de Bononia ordinis fratrum predicatorum de vulgari ad latinum reductus’ points out which of the two Latin Versions is contained in this MS.

Of the two versions And. Muller gives a full account in his preface (pp. 9—11) to the edition published, ‘Colonie Brandenburgice. Ex officina Georgii Schulzii, Typogr. Elect. Anno m.p.cixxt.’ (Brit. Mus. 583. ἃ. 5). Though the text of this edition is for the most part that of the version (Basileensis) printed in Novus Orbis, Folio, Basilee, 1537 (pp. 380—417), yet in the preface (p.11) extracts are given, ‘E Libro primo Latine MSte Brandenburgice,’ with which the text of our MS. closely agrees. It concludes however (p. 421) with the words ‘Qui inde ad diversas provincias et regiones deferuntur,’ wanting therefore the sentence, ‘ Historia hec....in hoc MS. Prologus,’ which is in a MS. at Padua, ‘Testis Jac. Phil. Tomasinus in libro de MSS. Bibliothec. Patav. qui Utini anno 1639 editus est. (p. 17). (Brit. Mus. 620. f. 23).

13. ‘Iste Liber intitulatur Fros Ysror1arum Terr Ort- ENTIS, QUEM COMPILAVIT FRATER Haytonus, dominus Chursi, consanguineus regis Armenize ex mandato summi pontificis.’

The rubric (p. 421) is followed by an account of the contents, begin- ning ‘Dividitur autem liber iste in quatuor partes.’ In the text and divisions thereof it agrees with pp. 419—481 of ‘ Novus Orbis. 1537,’ want- ing however the preface printed on p. 418, but containing at the end the prayer of the writer.

In the colophon (pp. 450—1) is, ‘1 Explicit liber y’storiarum partium orientis quem ego Nicholaus falcom scripsi primo in gallico ydiomate secundumque vir religiosus frater haytonus ore suo absque nota siue aliquo exemplari de verbo ad verbum dictauit et de gallico transtuli in latinum. Anno domini millesimo ccc™.vu. mense augusti in civitate pittaneum tempore scissimi Pris dni Clementis (pape, erased) quinti.’

See Brunet under Marco, and Hayton. Under the latter (Vol. 1. 597, δ) he speaks, ‘de /’ Histoire d’ Orient écrite en francais par Nicolas de Salcon, Salcoin ou Salconi (mais point Falcon),...? Certainly in this MS. the name is Falcom.

14. ‘Explicit Fipzs Saracrnorum’ is the colophon.

Begins (p.451): Credunt Saraceni unum deum creatorem esse omnium: credunt et omnia mala esse a deo sicut et bona culpam et meritum.

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Ends : Ἵ Credunt 10™° interrogationem fieri per angelum ultimo [die] de paradiso et inferno. The whole occupies about one column. On the lower margin of p. 451 are drawn two lines deter- mining ‘longitudinem sepulchri domini, et latitudinem.’ See the Catalogue of Caius Coll. MSS. (1849), No. 162. (6).

15. The title is contained in the colophon (p. 458), ‘Explicit TRACTATUS DE ORTU PROCESSU ET AcTIBUS MacHoMeETt!.

No rubric precedes the first words of the text (p. 451):

Avostendendum quod Machometus non fuerit dei propheta vel nuncius sicut asserunt Saraceni qui-.-

Ends (p. 458):

.. nec fuit spiritus sanctus qui non potest videri sed pocius corporalis et visibilis et tam fedus et vilis sicut patet in omnibus supradictis.

16. ‘Gusta Macuomert,’ is the running title. It may be more particularly described as ‘ Willelimus Tripolitanus Aconensis conventus de egressu Machometi et Saracenorum atque progressu eorumdum, de statu Saracenorum, de Machometo pseudopropheta eorumdum ipsa gente et eorum fide:’ according to the rubrics (pp. 462, 467), and the preface (p. 458) addressed ‘ Theobaldo © ecclesiarchio digno sancte terre peregrino sancto.’

After this preface and the rubric ‘Quis fuit machometus et unde sur- rexit, are the words (p. 458): ‘Anno igitur saluatoris domini nostri Jesu Christi per™° quo eius fides in partibus floreret dum impleretur vaticinium Isaie x1Ix°....’

It ends abruptly (p. 468):

Cibus ciborum vescentur gr’ubus.

Between the pages 468, 469, it appears that three leaves have been cut out: on these, according to the Table of Contents on the inside of the cover of this volume, besides the conclusion of 16 and commencement of 17, were contained — Somnium seati THome martiris post decessum ab Anglia. Processus ΒΒΑΤΕΙΒ ΝΙΟΉΟΙΑΙ Wysesecue de unxione Regis

Anglie, &e.

17. ‘Liser sancti απ) αὶ ΑΒΒΑΤΙΒ DE GEsTIs ANGLORUM’ appears to have been the title, which now with the greater part of the first chapter is wanting.

_ Of the two MSS. employed by Josceline in his edition of the text of Gildas (published 1568), this is one, and, as he informs his readers, was

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once the property of the abbey of Glastonbury, but when he wrote ‘was the sole property of a Kentish gentleman in the profession of the law.’ See Mon. Hist. Brit. Preface, ὃ 181. In this latter edition its various readings are given and denoted by B. See also Mr Stevenson’s edition (1838), Preface, xvi.

The first line on p. 469 is, ‘aque torrentem viue ex undantibus irrigua,’ which is towards the end ofc. τ. at p.6 of the text printed in Mon. Hist. Brit. The colophon to the ‘ Epistola Gilde’ (p. 490, 4) is, ‘ Explicit liber sancti Gilde Abbatis et historiographi Anglorum: et cetera.’

18. A large folio, as before, 60 pages, in double columns, each containing about 60 lines, bisected by the metrical dot or point. The handwriting is good, and may be assigned to the close of the 14th century.

‘Dratocus [or Vision] of Pirrs Prowman,’

The reputed author of this alliterative Satire was Robert Langlande, and its date 1362. It has been printed at least three times, but no editor appears to have collated the present MS. The text differs very considerably from that of the MS. employed by Whitaker (now in the British Museum, Addi- tional MSS. No. 10,574), and is closely related to an earlier one in Trin.

_Coll. Camb. B. xv. 17, from which Mr. Wright has derived his edition (Lond. 1842). The opening lines of the Poem (p. 490) will serve as a specimen of its orthographical and other peculiarities. In a somer seson. when softe was the sonne I schope me in schroudes. as I a schepe were In habit as an heremyt. vnholy of werkes Went wide in this world. wondres to here An (sic) on a May mornyng. on Maluerne hulles Me befel a ferli. of faire me thoughte.

19. ‘How MEN THAT BEN IN HELE SHOLDE VISITE SIKE FOLK’: in four chapters, handwriting as in § 18. Begins (p. 550, col. 2): My dere sone or doughter in God it semees pt thow hiest the fast in the way fra this lif to godward... Ends (p. 552, col. 2): ...and help it, for in thy merciful hands I put it. Amen.

20. Sir Jonn Manvevitter’s Journey To tHE Hoty Lanp. Begins (p. 554): For as muche as thei land ouer the see that is to say the haly land that men calles ye lond... the last words of the prologue are, ‘ w‘ στοῦ companye of lordes.’ Nearly at the end (p. 594) occurs the clause, ‘And I John Maundevyle what wente out of my countre and passed the see the yere of oure Lord a

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thousand thre hundred and thrytty and twa.’ Compare this date with that in the edition of 1725, reprinted in 1839 by J. O. Halliwell, wherein men- tion also is made of some of the many MSS. that exist of this once popular Book of Travels.

21. A large folio, as before, 19 pages, in triple columns, of 60 lines each. It is carelessly transcribed in a hand of the second half of the 14th century. ‘Stuene SaGEEs,’ or (as it is more frequently entitled) ΤῊΝ Seven Wisz Masters, a metrical Romance. Begins (p. 594) : In Rome was an emperour A man of swyth mikil honur, As pe book tellys vs Is name was de Occlicius. Al the londe hadde to gye And hadd a wyfe that hight helie Bi twene thaym twa come a nayer A good child and a faire.

The ‘ book’ alluded to seems to have been the Historia Septem Sapientum Rome, which was in its turn derived from a Hindoo source. (See Ellis’s Early Metrical Romances, Introd. to The Seven Wise Masters).

Ends (p. 612):

And went in to heuen riche Thare joye and blysse hys euere i-lyche. To that ilke blysse bryng vs gode That neuer in erth 3ed schodde. Amen Amen for charite.

The present MS. was printed in 1845 for the Percy Society (see Mr Wright’s Prefuce). A different version of the same stories is contained in Weber’s Metrical Romances, Vol. u1., being drawn from the Auchinleck MS., and Cotton. Galba, Εἰ. rx. ὃ 2. Akin to this latter version, though differing in some of the details, is a fragment also among the Camb. Univ. MSS. Ff. πι., 38. § 39.

22. Double columns, about 72 lines in each, apparently of xnith or x1vth century. The handwriting seems to be the same in this and the next §. (No. 23.)

‘Crementis Lanroniensis EccLesiz PRESBITERI CONCORDIA QuATUOR KVANGELISTARUM.

A Latin Harmony of the Gospels, in x11. parts, with a pro- logue, and table of the headings of the chapters prefixed.

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At the end is subjoined a sort of index or digest of the whole, which however is imperfect, not extending beyond part rx. Begins (p. 614, a), ‘ Prologus τ᾿ Clemens Lantoniensis Eeclesie presbiter n[lato] pacem otiumque. Hujus operis fili karissime causam requiris et fructum queris ... Ends (f. 662, b): ...Tunc ita locutus est ad turbas. Ordinis ratio patet.

This MS. is mentioned, and some account of the author given, in Wright's Bibliogr. Britann. ‘Anglo-Norman Period,’ p. 265. The text differs in almost every line from Weber’s edition.

23. Porycuronicon Ranutput Hiepent Cestrensis.

The work is given imperfectly in this MS. which abruptly begins (p. 663) in ο. 4 of Lib. τ΄: que vulgares cronice que dionisium predictum.... It is divided as MS. No. 1742, except that Lib. v. does not contain c. 39. It ends with the volume in c. 2 of Lib. vu: ...ad angliam recesserunt. verum male,

Dd. τ. 18, 19.

Two large folios, on paper, written about 1640, the first con- taining 474 pages, the second 378. On p. 1 of Vol. τ. is the title,

‘Tue Historyes anD CHRONICLES OF THE worRLD. By John Zonaras....Contayneing all the most memorable actions happened in the world in the revolution of sixe thousand sixe hundred yeares, and more. Digested into three Bookes.... Done out of Greeke into French with annotations in the margeant, vpon the diuersitie of the Greeke copyes ; with aduertisements, and Index of the most memorable things....Paris....for John Paxent in Saint James Streete, m.p.pxxxu1. And done into English, by the noble and learned Lady, the Lady Agnes Wen- man, sometime wife of the Right honourable Richard Lord Vis- Count Wenman deceased!.’

The first volume has been made to end in the middle of a sentence of which the continuation is to be found at p. 191 of the second: the

preceding 190 pages ought to follow p. 378: the second volume is also defective, the narrative breaking off abruptly with an account of how

1 Sir R. Wenman was sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1627, and afterwards made Viscount Kilmainham. See Burke’s Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, 1841.

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‘Tryphon brings Jonathan to his death, by trecherie,’ the last words (p. 190) being ...which done, he, accompanied with his men went forth to meete Tryphon bringing Jonathan prisoner into Judea. And he demanding a hundred talents of silver and the two....

These volumes have been transcribed from Lady Wenman’s autograph, of which a portion is contained in MS. 2331 (Mm. 8, 32).

Dd. 1. 20.

-A large folio, on vellum, of 111 leaves, with double columns of 30 lines each: one leaf missing after f. 6, one after f. 50, and two after f.110: handwriting probably of the x1vth century. The initial letters are illuminated throughout, and there are a few vignettes and borders: catchwords at every eighth leaf.

Latin Psaurer, Canticurs anp Hymns, with Katenpar prefixed. The Kalendar extends to fol. 6, where after the names of St Clement and St Sylvester the word ‘ papze’ has been effaced. The Psalter appears to have contained all the Psalms in their usual order, except Ps. xcix, which is omitted.

Begins (fol. 7, a):

Verba mea auribus.

Ends (fol. 74, Ὁ):

Omnis spiritus Dominum.

The Cantica follow, including the Te Deum, Quicunque vult, &c.: then the Litany, beginning f. 81, ὃ, 2: then other canticles, partly from Isaiah: then Vigilie Mortuorum (f. 90, a, 2—f. 94, 6,1). Then follow Hymns for the various festivals of the year ; the volume concluding (f. 111, ὃ, 1) with Gloria tibi Domine.

In the title-page is written the name of Gilbert Norts.

θα. 1: 9].

A folio, on parchment, of 213 leaves, in double columns ; apparently of the x1vth century. §§ 1—3 contain 80 limes in a column; §§ 4—10, 100 lines; §§ 11—30, about 82. 88 4—23 have illuminated initials; the writing is nearly the same through- out, except that ὃ 29 is in a small running hand, and both ὃ 29 and § 30 appear to be somewhat later than the rest.

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All the treatises contained in this MS. have been frequently printed, except §§ 9 and 14.

1. ff. 1—127 6. ‘Liser Sancti Avueustini pE CrvitTaTE Det.’ Begins, after an index of chapters to the first book, Gloriosissimam civitatem Dei... Ends mecum gratias agant.

2. £1276. A list of S. Augustines works, numbered suc- cessively from 1 to 100 (by an error of the MS. 110). Prefixed to the list is the following heading: Libros quos vero beatus Augustinus edidit hic breviter enumerari vel annotari non omisi. Et hoe indicium librorum omnium Sancti Au- gustini.

8. ff. 128 a—129 ὁ. ‘ Liser pr Eccriesiasticis DoaMATIBUS.’ A work of Gennadius falsely attributed to Augustine. Begins Credimus unum... Ends in moribus inveniri. An index of chapters is appended. 4, ff. 180a—135 δ. ‘Sancrr Anszetmi Lisri puo Cur Devs Homo.’ Begins Sepe et studiosissime.... Ends Benedictus in secula. Amen.

A portion of Book I. (chapters 14 and 15, ‘transferat quod aufert...qui si vult fugere’) is partially obliterated. Also a portion of Book II. (chapter 17, ‘Voluntas Dei nulla necessitate .... puerilibus questionibus sicut’) is obliterated.

5. ff. 1385 6—136a. ‘Pastoraris Sanctt AMBROSII EPIS- cori. This is the treatise commonly called ‘ De Dignitate Sacer- dotali.’

Begins Si quis oraculum fratres reminiscitur ... Ends que sanctis in seculorum secula dare promisisti. Amen.

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6. ff. 136a—141 6. ‘Encuiripion Avucustini ap LauReEn- TIUM PRIMICERIUM NOTARIUM ECCLESIE URBIS Rom— Begins Dici non potest....

Ends de fide et spe et caritate conscripsi. Amen.

7. ff. 141 a—142 ὁ. ‘Liser Ansett ve Lisero Arsirrio.’ Begins, after an index of the 14 chapters into which the book is divided, Quoniam liberum arbitrium videtur.... Ends quod necesse habeam de illis interrogare. Amen. Explicit.

8. ff.1426—144a. ‘Linzer Prostocion ANSELMI.’ The prologue begins Postquam opusculum quoddam....

Then follows an index of the 26 chapters, and then the work itself.

Ends deus benedictus in secula. Amen.

9. f. 140. A Treatise without title, which coincides more or less with the 5th and 6th chapters of Anselmus, De fide Trinitatis. Begins Cur deus magis assumpserit hominem.... Ends

nec aliud individuum rationale aut alia persona corpus petri quam anima. Amen.

10. ff. 144 6-—148 6. ‘Prologus Lisri Innocenris Pape TERTIL DE MISERIA CONDICIONIS HUMANE. Begins Domino patri karissimo.... Ends ab istis liberet nos pater et filius et spiritus sanctus. Amen. Amen. Amen.

It agrees for the most part with the edition of 1575; but the order of chapters 27 and 28 of Book I. is inverted. In Book II. chapters 14, 15, 16 (of the Edition) are inserted between chapters 9 and 10. Also chapters 42, 43 of Book II., and chapter 4 of Book III., are not found in this MS.

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11. ff. 149 a—152 6. ‘ANsELMUS DE CASU DIABOLI.’

Begins, after the chapters, Illud apostoli quid habes.... Ends uti potestate loquendi.

12. ff. 1525—160 a. ‘Monotocion AnsELMI ARCHIEPISCOPI.’ Begins Si quis unam naturam.... Ends ineffabiliter unus et trinus. Besides the prologue ‘Quidam fratres,’ and the chapters, there is pre-

fixed the epistle to Lanfranc, numbered cii. of Book IV. in the Benedictine edition.

13. ff. 160 a—1636. ‘ Liner ANSELMI DE CONCEPTU VIR- GINALI ET ORIGINALI PECCATO.’

After a list of the chapters the book begins Cum in omnibus religiose....

Ends Si vera probari poterit.

14. £163 0. ‘Liser AnsELMI pe ANTICHRISTO. Begins De antichristo scire volentibus predicemus quare sic vocatur. Ends

In dispositione vero domini manet qui ea hora qua antea seculum judicandum esse predixit. vel prefixit.

The treatise occupies only a column and a half. It appears never to have been printed,

15. ff. 163 6—164 a. ‘Liner ANSELMI DE CORPORE ET SAN- GUINE CurRIsTI.’ Begins Nota quod tota humana natura in anima et in corpore erat corrupta. Ends

ita est ipse qui per spiritum sanctum hunc panem in suam carnem et virum faciat transfundi in sanguinem. This is the same as Epistle cvn., p. 453, of Ed. Benedict.

16. £164. ‘Liser AnsELMI DE BONA OCCUPACIONE,’ Begins Ad insinuandam interioris hominis custodiam.... Ends Qui cum patre et filio et spiritu sancto vivit et regnat deus. amen.

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17. Ε΄. 1640—165 a. ‘Liner Ansetmi Intravit Jesus. Begins Intravit Jesus in quiddam castellum. Quid ad gloriosissimam vir- ginem.... Ends qui vivit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. amen. This is Homily IX. of the Benedictine edition, preceded by the prologue which appears in the ‘ Castigationes,’ p. 640. 18. f.165. ‘Mepirationes ANSELMI.’ Begins Terret me vita mea.... Imperfect, ending : deus igitur est pater rerum creatarum, et maria mater recreatarum, deus est [pater constitutionis].

It contains the whole of ‘ Meditatio II.’ p. 207, and part of ‘Oratio LI.’ p. 280.

19. ff.166 a—168 ὁ. ‘Tracratus ANSELMI DE CONCEPTIONE BEATE VIRGINIS.” Begins Principium quo salus mundo processit ... Ends

ob salutem generis humani de sue carnis substantia verum hominem genuisse. Amen.

20. ff. 168 $—172 ὁ. ‘Liser esuspem ANSELMI DE EXCEL- LENTIA BEATE VIRGINIS. Begins Supereminentem omni quod post hominem deum creatum est. Ends per infinita secula. Amen. Amen. Amen.

21. £f.172. ‘Liper ANSELMI DE AZIMO.’ Begins Anselmus servus ecclesie Cantuariensis... Ends absque dubio repudiandum judicatur.

22. ff.172b—173 a. ‘ Liszer AnsELMI DE SAcRIFICIO GRE- CORUM.’ Begins Domino et amico Waleranno.... Ends misi vobis quandam epistolam.

This is the ‘Responsio ad Waleranni querelas,’ given at p. 199 of the Benedictine edition.

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23. ff. 163 a—177 ὁ. ‘Liner ANsELMI DE CONCORDIA PRE- DESTIN ACIONIS ET GRATIE CUM LIBERO ARBJTRIO. Begins De tribus illis questionibus.... Ends gratis volui petentibus impendere.

At the bottom of the last page is drawn a thick black line between 4 and 5 inches in length, and underneath it are the words ‘ Hec linea sexdecies in seipsam ducta quantitatem dominici corporis ostendit.’

24. ff.178 a—180 a. ‘Dispuracio AnsELMI INTER CuRis- TIANUM ET GENTILEM. Begins Majestas divina cur ad dolores mortalis nature.... Ends

in signum veri sacrificii hoc interim facientes. Explicit. Amen. Amen.

25. ff. 180 a—182 0. ‘ANsELMI DIALOGUS DE VERITATE.

After the preface ‘ Tres tractatus pertinentes....’ and an index of chapters the work begins Quoniam Deum esse veritatem... Ends tune ejus dicitur veritas vel rectitudo.

26. ff. 182 6—187 6. ‘Liner [Anszimi] DE PROCESSIONE Spiritus Sancti.’ Begins

Negatur a Grecis quod spiritus sanctus a filio procedat. Ends

Mihi imputetur, non sensui latinitatis.

27. ff.187 6—190 ὁ. ‘Tracrarus repitus ΑΒ ANSELMO CanTUARIENSI ARCHIEPISCOPO DE INCARNATIONE VERBI.’ Begins

Domino et patri universe ecclesie in terra peregrinantis, summo pon- tifici Urbano...

Ends in eodem libello aperte inveniet.

This is the treatise commonly called ‘De fide Trinitatis et Incarna- tione Verbi.’

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28. ff.1906—201 6. De 5. Ansextm1 Srmiuitupinisus. Begins Voluntas tripliciter intelligitur.... Imperfect, ending solem quippe aut mare cum depicta videmus non sicut [est in ipsa ]. Printed among the works of Eadmer. It breaks off in the middle of chap. 167.

29. ff. 202 a—2114. A copious alphabetical index to Au- gustine ‘pe Civirate Dex.’

30. ff.2114—213 a. ‘Liver seati Auaustini [ANsELMI] DE MepitTaTIONIBUs. Begins Domine Deus meus.... Ends per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. It contains the whole of Orationes X. XI. and XIV. as given in the Ed. Benedict. of Anselm’s Works. On the fly-leaf of the MS. is the following note : ‘Changed with Mr Proudlow for Albertus Magnus’ Mark and John, and Treleatius’ Common places.’ Wilmus Berier. On the first leaf of the MS. ‘ Robert Woodward.’

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A folio of 19 leaves; the first five, the 11th, 12th, and 19th, being of parchment, the rest of paper. Some pages ragged and torn, and the writing of the first and last pages very illegible.

Tue Year-Boox or tue 38th or Epwarop III.

This copy is not so complete as the printed edition, and concludes with the case which there stands last but one.

At the end is written, ‘Explicit annus XXXVIII. Edwardi tercii quod Johannes Haywarde.’

On the last page, and in a different hand, is a scarcely legible memo- randum of the receipt of a sum of £8 ‘in a plase callid Schypmé hall,’ by

some former owner of the book, and apparently made in the reign of Edward IV.

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A folio, on paper, containing 92 leaves: written about the end of the xvirth century.

‘Tue Apocatyps or Revetation or St Jonn, in Greek and English, clausularily drawne, so as it may be easily read out of Greeke into English, or out of English into Greeke, by such as take delight in the text. Also a short commentary or explanation of the most difficult places and visions therein contained. Togea- ther with Greeke Marginal Notes, shewing the greatest part of the phrases and expressions which the Holy Ghost useth therein, are taken out of the Greeke translation called the Septuagint, which serves as good direction to know what is to be meant thereby. As also the Iconologie or Figures of all the said visions, drawne and designed according to the visions therein expressed, and are very usefull for the easy remembring of them,-and better imprinting the idea of them in the mind and memory of the studious. Claused by William Spenser, gent.’

Begins (‘by waye of preface touching revelations in Scripture’)

Revelations of mysteries are not for infidels but for believers, &c.

Ends

‘And no more were now to be expected.’

The Greek and English text, which occupies the page opposite to each page of commentary, has been formed by cutting out the several clauses from printed editions, and pasting them side by side in parallel columns. The drawings, which consist of rough unfinished sketches, are 54 in number.

For another work by the same author and in the same handwriting see Dd. v1. 4. There was a William Spencer, Fellow of Trin. Coll. Camb., editor of Origen, contra Celsum, 4to, 1658, who may perhaps have been the compiler of this MS.

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Tue Arms or Hnerisn Nosies emblazoned, commencing from the Norman Conquest, and ending with the reign of James I. On the fly-leaf at the end is an account of the Stewarts, Earls of Lennox, and the Lady Arabella Stewart. Appears to have been the private register of some herald of the time of King James I.

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A large folio, on paper, in fair preservation, written about 1610.

The volume has not a title affixed, but may be called An Inventory oF THE WarpDROBE OF THE QuEEN-ConsoRT OF James 1.

After a blank space for a heading, the first entry is (p. 1),

‘One paire of bodies of green satten, cut with whit taffeta, with a paire of wearing sleeves of whit satten trymmed with spangled lace.’

In a column on the left margin of each entry is the letter 5, and on the right ‘ex.,’ except when such notes occur as, (on p. 2) ‘at court,’ and ‘ April 17. 1608. to Dorithie,’ ‘ May 11, Mrs Bolstrode.’ The pages 6—10, 24, 28, 30 are blank. On p.11 the entries (but without the S and ex.) recommence with occasional marginal notes as (on p. 12), ‘ Delivered into the queens chamber y* 16" of Aprill 1611: at grenw™.’ After p. 24 the marginal notes become more frequent, and indicate the time and place at which the various garments were received, and the persons by or to whom they were given.

The entries terminate with the following (p. 54):

One petty-cott of wt satten cutt willowe and cutt downerighte in spaces, and a border belowe the sparrowe bylls the lower parte cutt in scollops bounde with a gold and silver parchment (1) and edged with a shorte golde and silver spangeld frenge and lynde with a narrow taffatye. 16 May: 1611. grenw“.

The remainder of the volume is of blank leaves, except that at the end is ‘A survey taken the 23 of March 1607, of ‘ Whalebone bodies,’ ‘ Mantles,’ ‘ Vardingales,’ ‘ Points of silck and silver,’ and ‘ Ribbons,’ occupying portions of 6 pages.

On the covers are the arms of England quarterly with those of Scot- land and Ireland, with the regal crown and motto, and a wreath composed of the rose, portcullis, fleur-de-lis, Prince of Wales’ feathers, crowned eagle, and thistle.

The volume came into the possession of the University ‘ Munificentia Regia. 1715.’

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A very thick folio, on vellum, well-preserved, 536 leaves, double columns, each containing about 62 lines: several illumina- tions, but none of them remarkable. It was written before the middle of the xyth century (1430—1440). The handwriting is uniform as far as Zechariah viii.

Hory Bisiz, wirnh Aprocrypua, ΙΝ ENGLISH. ῃ 2

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This version was mainly due to John Puryey, the second leader of the Wycliffite or Lollard party, although it had been based upon the old trans- lation made in Wycliffe’s lifetime (see Preface to the Wyeliffite Versions, pp. xxiv. sq. Oxf. 1850). The following analysis of the MS. is derived from the same source (p. liii.): ‘The Books to Esther inclusive have no prologue: Job has two, both of the earlier version: so likewise the Psalter: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes have each a prologue in the same version. Those to Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus are of a later version, found only in this MS. Isaiah and Baruch have the usual prologues of the later version ; and to Ezekiel and Daniel are prefixed the prologues which are found elsewhere only in the Queen’s College Oxford MS. [No. ccctxxxvui: see Mr Coxe’s Catalogus, 1. 89, Oxon. 1852]. The prologues in the New Testament agree with the more recent text.’

The books themselves follow the order of the Vulgate, excepting the ‘Dedis of Apostles, which, as in other MSS., is placed between the Epistle to the Hebrews and that of St James. Some peculiar readings are found after Zechariah viii, where the second hand commences (fol. 400).

Between the Old and New Testaments (fol. 423—428) is ‘A Reule pat tellip in whiche chapitres of pe bible 3e may fynde pe lessons, pistles and gospels pat ben red in pe churche aftir pe usse of Salisberi,’ &c. A similar Table is preserved in the Oxford MS. adverted to above.

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A folio, on parchment, like MS. 4. This is described by Nasmith as of the x1ith century, but might, perhaps, be assigned to the x1mth; the initial letters to the books are not so large and bold, nor those to the chapters so simple as in MS. 4. The rubrics and capitula are written in a much smaller hand- writing than that of the text, which is large and regular. It has suffered from damp, and in consequence the first two leaves are much mutilated, and the last leaf of the text now in the volume is much decayed. It contains 302 pages of 2 columns, and 39 lines in each column.

The title may be derived from the rubric (f. 2 ὁ.)

Fruavit Joseput Historiarum ANTIQUITATIS JUDAICE LIBER PRIMUS INCIPIT.

This is preceded by ‘ Eusebii ieronimi prebyteri laus qua iosephum com- putat inter ecclesiasticos scriptores ;’ after which, ‘ Historiarum Antiquitatis

Judaice prologus incipit.. These agree with the printed editions of the version by Ruffinus.

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The division of the books into chapters corresponds to that in MS. 4, except that Lib. X. contains xv. cap., cap. xu. of (4) making x1. and xu. in this.

The MS. as was said above, is imperfect ; the last words being, ‘ Mor- dentur enim qui quosdam apud principes plusquam se.’ (Lib. X. c. x1. of MS. Lib. X. c. xiv. of Editions).

There are various corrections of the text, interlinear and marginal.

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The division into books (but not into chapters) is the same as in the folio — edition of 1612.

On fol. 2 and fol. 3 is a list of 55 of the capitula, not following the order of the book itself, though written in the same hand.

On fol. 1 is written, ‘ Liber Sancte Marie de Parcho Lyde,’ viz. the Abbey of Louth Park in Lincolnshire: see Tanner and Dugdale.

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A large folio, on parchment, 245 leaves, double columns, writ- ten about the commencement of the x111th century, The tops of many of the leaves are cut off or torn, and several whole leaves are missing in many places.

Hrasant Mauri ve Untyzrso, Libri xxij.

There is about a folio missing at the beginning, and the first legible sentence is, ‘Sed cum Deus dicitur irasci aut zelare aut dolere nostro usu dicitur,’ which is found on p. 57, col. 1, of Vol. I. of Rabani Mauri Opera, Colonie Agrippine 1627.

The last words are, ‘ Vela dicta quod objectu suo interiora domorum velent.’ (Lib. xxt. cap. xrx. of edition).

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Tue Caruoticon or Janus JANUENSIS. The MS., which is in other respects also considerably mutilated, has lost 3 or 4 leaves at the commencement, and begins [ Est enim liquescentia que dicitur quedam ha |bilitas elementi (a iii. fol. vers. Ed. Lugd. 1520), and ends in the middle of the article Stephanus, at the word viduas (H. fol. vers. edit. cit.) A strip of parchment is pasted inside the cover at the beginning : Catholicon ex dono Thome Rotheram Lincoln Epi. et Cancellarii Anglie.

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A large folio, on parchment, containing 183 leaves; double columns of about 45 lines each; handwriting of the x1th or xuith century.

Grecorit Moratium Prima Pars in xvi. Libris.

Begins

Beatus papa Gregorius librum Job....

Ends opitulante Deo latius disserantur. Explicit liber sextus decimus.,

The 3rd leaf, which contained ‘mentem melius par flagella’ (chap. 4 of the Epistle to Leander)...... ‘ut par utrum[que]’ (chap. 2 of the preface), is wanting. The first leaf also has been mutilated by cutting out an illumi- nated initial.

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A Dices? ΒΟΟΚ, or Inpex to Tue Law Reports, arranged alphabetically from ‘ Abatement’ to ‘ Waste.’

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The vols. are paged throughout, but irregularly, many leaves being inter- spersed unpaged, some blank, some bearing entries.

Vol. I. is paged from 1 to 466, but with numerous unpaged leaves inserted throughout the volume, some blank, others containing entries.

Vol. II. paged from 467 to 924.

Vol. III. paged from 1 to 470.

Vol. IV. paged from 471 to 927.

Vol. V. paged from 1 to 458.

Vol. VI. paged from 459 to 949, for 299.

Vol. VII. paged from 1 to 383.

At the end a Table or alphabetical index has been begun, but only one page is completed.

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The original portion of this fine folio consists of 252 leaves of parchment, written in a large bold hand of the xrvth century, each page containing 24 lines 43 inches wide, with a margin of the same width. The continuation on ff. 253, 254 has been supplied in a later hand; then follow 2 leaves making up the 256 mentioned by Abp Parker, in the Catalogue of whose donation is the title

‘Curonicon ABINDON. PER R GisBuRNUM.

‘Author huius operis monachus Abindonie ut in fol. 47 a. 42 a. 100 α. 21 b. 88 ὃ. 40 a.’ is one of the notes by Abp Parker on the inside of the first cover. See Mon. Hist. Brit. Introd. p. 50.

The Chronicle, which is nearly identical with Liber 11. of Chronicon Gualt. Hemingford, extends over a period of 91 years (1216—1307, Hen. III. and Edw. I.); see Hamilton’s edition of the latter published by the Eng. Hist. Society, Vol. I. p. 257—Vol. II. p. 268.

Begins (f. 1):

Anno a plenitudine temporis quo misit deus filium suum in mundum m?°.ce’.xvi°: sublato de medio rege Johanne Willelmus comes marescallus vir magne auctoritatis ...

Ends (f. 254, a):

Appositusque est ad patres suos Rex fortissimus prudentissimus et sapientissimus Anno etatis sue sexagesimo octavo et regni sui tricesimo quinto. ffinis.

Appended is a note (2? by the scribe employed by Abp Parker), ‘ Prose- quitur historiam Edwardi secundi ab anno 1307 ad annum 1318 inclusive hic author Gualterus hemyngeforde Canonicus Gisburnensis: quem hic Scriptor Abendonensis in hac historia henr. tertii et Edwardi primi sequitur maxime, pluribus tamen ab eo adiectis, et ad annos aliquanto accuratius dispositis. Scribit etiam predictus. G. historiam Edwardi III’ ad annum

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eiusdem regis 21. hoc est a°.d. 1946, quo anno obiit Gualterus.’ See Pitsius, A.D. 1347. ὶ

There are traces of many marginal notes which have for the most part been erased: those} that remain are chiefly references to ‘Chronica de Gis- burn τ᾿ from which this MS. appears to have been chiefly taken.

At the beginning of the volume are five fly-leaves ; the first four contain quotations from other sources, with references to the MS. On the last is the list of the MSS. given to the University by Abp Parker.

It may be noted that the ff. 253—6 are plainly palimpsest, as also are four of the fly-leaves at the beginning. On ff. 179, 183, are impressions of writing or printing, but so faint as to be illegible. There are illuminated capitals on ff. 1, 6, 15 and 83. The initials M. P. are on the covers.

Dad: πὶ. 6.

A folio, on parchment, containing 200 leaves, with 44 lines to the page. Written apparently in the x1vth century.

Postitt# Nicnoiai pe Lyra super Vetus TestTaMENTUM, comprising the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, Wis- dom, Ecclesiasticus, 1 and 2 of Maccabees.

Begins

Ecce descripsi eam tripliciter... Ends abruptly (the last leaf having been cut out) ..-hee historia habetur 4. Regum. 19.

Several of the leaves have been misplaced by an error of the binder: thus fol. 43 and fol. 46 have changed places, so also have 100 and 101, 102 and 103, 108 and 109, 110 and 111.

Fol. 93 is a leaf inserted from some other work. It is a fragment of a commentary on Rey. ix. 11—17.

Begins

... corporis sensus subsistunt. Ht habent super se regem id est diabolum dominatem qui est rex super omnes filios superbie.

Ends

...4° describit equos eorum et capita equorum dicit ergo et numerus equestris exercitus.

The Postille of De Lyra were first published at Rome, 1471.

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A square folio, consisting of 176 leaves of parchment (besides 6 leaves which have been bound up with it at the beginning and end); in double columns of 42 lines each. It is beautifully written, apparently in the xvth century. ‘Eprstote Jeronii.

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The first page contains the titles of all the letters and treatises comprised in the volume, numbered in order according to their position in the MS.

Begins f, 1, ὃ.

Epistola Damasi pape ad beatum Jeronimum. Dormientem te et multo.

Ends

primum sequeris patriarcham Loth.

This MS. contains the whole of the 150 Epistles given in Vol. 1. of the Veronese Edition (a.p. 1736), with the exception of Nos. 3, 33, 57, 63, 65, 78, 80—82, 85—96, 98—100, 106, 113—116, 128, 133, 135, 187—139, 144, 148—150. 46, ὃ 1—§ 9, and § 12, 66, from the words ‘ quod interpretatur declinans’ in § 11 to the end of the epistle, 102, § 3, 110, from the com- mencement to the words ‘negare non possum’ in § 3, 140, from the com- mencement to the words ‘ quod in singulari numero,’ in § 16.

Epistles 18, 55 and 117 are separated into two epistles each; and the second part of Ep. 18 is placed before the first.

§ 10 and § 11 of Ep. 46 are inserted as a part of Ep. 43. This MS. also contains

Liber contra Helvidium de perpetua virginitate, B. M. τι. col. 205. Liber contra Vigilantium, τι. col. 387.

The translation of Origen on the Canticles, 111. col. 499.

[ Pelagii | Epistola ad Demetriadem, x1. col. 1.

De tribus virtutibus, xt. col. 87.

Symboli Explanatio ad Damasum, x1. col. 261.

Epistola ad Tyrasium, xt. col. 146.

Ad Oceanum de vita clericorum, xt. col. 270.

Of the 6 additional leaves which have been bound up with this MS., 4 contain a fragment of some legal treatise entitled Contectrativm Juris, the second book commencing with a chapter ‘ De Judiciis,’

The remaining 2 leaves contain 16 columns in a hand of the xvith century. This is a fragment of the Summa Theologie of Aquinas.

Begins

circa verecundiam autem queruntur quatuor.—u. 2. Quest. 144.

Ends

videtur tamen in talibus.—11. 2. Quest. 147. Art. 4.

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‘A View of the Accompr or Franeis Lentnatr, Esq., receiver general of the revenues of the King, Queen and Prince, in the counties of Surrey and Sussex, for the year ended at Michaelmas, 23 Car. I. a.p. 1647,

Between two blank leaves at the end are inserted two smaller leaves, on the first page of which only is a rough draught of the dues from Egham, Chertsey and Weston.

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A long folio, on paper, containing 150 pages, written about 1650: but generally every alternate leaf is blank. CHRoNOLogia.

‘Duplex est modus chronologie contexende vnus per Epitomen...’ are the first words on p. 1, under the title ‘ Note in Chronologiam sequentem.’

On p.3 commence the Tables, very similar to those in Blair’s ‘ Chro- nology, and dating from ‘ Patriarcharum etates.’

There are no entries after 1610 except under England and Scotland, where we find ‘ Carolus incipit Martii 27 (1625) Quem deus conservet,’ and the final note ‘A Sectariis trucidatur Infandum.’ These are followed by 18 pages of genealogical trees combined with chronology.

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A small folio, on paper, and in a fair state of preservation. The upper portion of the MS. has been damaged by exposure to rain. Its date is probably about 1600. This MS. consists of 196 pages, most of which contain eleven staves of Music.

The music is written on a single stave of six lines: the notes are repre- sented by letters on the lines or spaces, and their length by symbols above the stave. The music consists of Pauans, Galliards, Marches and Songs, composed principally by Dowland and Holburne. The following are speci- mens of the titles of the pieces: ‘My Hart is surely soft; ‘Go ἔτ my windoe go;’ ‘ Bonny sweete Boy.’

On the fly-leaf are the following lines :

Musica mentis medicina meeste. Qu an di tris dul pa os guis rus ti cedine vit H san mi Chris mul la

Qui ca uxo pe ca «δία dolo

pit ré na pit a ret re na ret Te.

—— eee δ“

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This paper-book, in folio, bound up with 43 and #5, was written about 1630, and contains

Docaurts or Grants which passed the Signet Office from 17 Dec. 1628 to 30 June 1630.

These occupy 163 pages, and are preceded by 3 leaves containing ‘ An Index (alphabetical) according to the Surnames, and most pertinent Titles of all the Docquettes &c. herein conteyned from the 17th of December, 1628, untill the last of Decembre 1629 (inclusive).’ At the end of every month is a note stating by whom the Docquets of that month were sub- scribed.

A few leaves at the beginning have suffered from use.

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‘A prizr CoLLECTION OF THE YERLY ASSIGNMENTS OF THE Kine’s Ma™ 5 Revenues, Customs, Imposts AND OTHER Prorits, hereafter particularly mentioned, made and collected by the order and direction of the Lord High Treasurer of England, according to a book conteyning an Establishment in that behalf made and signed by his Highnes.’

‘The Court of the Exchequier. Customs, Subsidies of Tonnage and Pondage, and Impost,’ is the heading (p. 2, 3) to the first set of entries. They are frequently made across the book on two pages, and hence, with the next leaf, the sums corresponding to the entry (p. 54) ‘Some totall of

the Kinges Ma‘ Revenues in the severall courts of the Excheg’ Duchie of Lancaster and Court of Wardes and Liveries,’ are wanting.

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A folio, on paper, of which the latter half is blank : the former in indifferent handwriting, contains

‘Catatocus Lisrorum BisiiorHEec#® INFERIORIS NOBILIS- simi virt Domini Georait Savite Marcuionis pe Haxirax. Londini, 1692,’

This title (f. 1) precedes the Libri Latini: on the cover outside and on a fly-leaf is the title, ‘ A Catalogue of the Books in the Lower Library, London,

1692.’ The books are arranged in the Catalogue according to language, size and subject: the place and date of publication are also given.

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44 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS.

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A folio, on paper, written towards the end of the xvmth cen- tury.

I. A Cararocue or Books, chiefly Theological, arranged according to Authors’ names, from Mei to Zui, with the place, the date of publication, and the size of each work.

There are many blank leaves between this and the following article.

Il. At the other end of the book reversed are 24 leaves containing Law Precepents, written in various hands.

1. ‘An Indenture tripartite of Covenauntes to lease uses of a fine and recoverie with divers provisoes and limitations therein conteyned.’

Begins (fol. 1, a):

This Indenture tripartite made the tenth day of September in the one and fortethe yere of the reign of our sovereigne Ladie Elizabeth, &c. Ends (fol. 7,9):

The 5 Sir Thomas Mildmay and Thomas Mildmay the sonne have putt their seales the daie and yeare first above written.

2. Bargain and Sale of Lands, preliminary to suffering a recovery.

Begins (fol. 7, Ὁ):

This Indenture quadripartite made the daye and yeare, &c. Between Thomas Herrys of Maulden in the countye of Essex esquire... Ends (fol. 8, 6) :

And to none other use, effect, intent or purpose. In Witness, &ce.

3. Mortgage in Fee.

Begins (fol. 9, a) :

This Indenture made the —— daye of —— in the yeare of y° raigne of our soveraigne Lord James by the grace, &c. Ends (fol. 10, Ὁ):

by any other reasonable way meane or devise with like warrantye as is aforesayd or without warrantye. In Witnesse, &c.

4. ‘A Lease to try a Title upon an eiectione firme. Begins (f. 11, a): Memorandum, that I William Grant of Hadham in the Com. of Hertford, Barber... Left unfinished.

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5. Covenant to levy a Fine. Begins (fol. 11, b): This Indenture made the —— day of —— in the yeare of y° raigne of our soveraigne Lord James... Ends (fol. 12, a): to the only use of y° said Sir Arthur Herrys his heyres and assignes, and to no other use intent or purpose.

6. ‘Formes for presentations to Advowsons.’

Begins (fol. 13, a) :

To all Christian people to whome thes presents shall come... Ends

In the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fifty an twoe.

7. Lease of a house for 21 years. Begins (fol. 14, a):

Edward Horwood and Martha his wife for divers good causes and considerations them moveinge ... Ends (fol. 16, a):

...the said John Pedley his executors and assignes. In Wittnes whereof, &c.

8. ‘The plea of John Woodward gent one of the defendants to the bill of complaint of Edward Rookwood. Begins (fol. 16, δ): The defendant sayeth that he ought not to make any answere... Ends: ... prayeth to be dismissed with his costs and charges in this behalf wrongfully sustayned.

9. Writ of Outlawry. Begins (fol. 16, δ): Jacobus dei gratia Anglie Francie et Hibernie rex... Imperfect.

10. ‘The replication of Robert Fryth gent complainant to the severall answers of Edmund Cooke Esqr. and Lambard Cooke gent. defendants.’

Begins (fol. 17, a):

The said replyant doth and will justifye mayntayne and averr... Ends:

--. and he humbly prayeth as in his bill he hath prayed.

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11. ‘Zhe Plea and demurrer of Elizabeth Pert widdowe defendant to parte and her answeare to other parte of the bill of Complaint of John Buxton and Margarett his wife complainants.

Begins (fol. 17, a): The said defendant by protestation...

Ends: In this behalf wrongfully and without cause susteyned.

12. ‘ Covenants proper to houses in London.’ Begins (fol. 18, a):

That le the same William assignes... Ends:

Give up to the said Humfrey Fairfax his executors or assignes.

his executors, administrators, and

13. Grant of Arms by Clarencieux King at Arms, dated

1019: Begins (fol. 19, a): To all and singular as well nobles and gentles as others... Ends: And of Scotland the six and fourtieth.

14. Agreement between merchants as to their shares in ὦ mer- cantile adventure. Begins (fol. 21, a): This Indenture made the fourtenth daye of December anno domini 1608. Ends: ... the daye and yeares first above written.

15. Lease of an impropriate parsonage for 3 years. Begins (fol. 22, a): This Indenture made the day of in the yeares of the raigne...

Ends: anything herein conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. In Witnes, &e.

16. Letter of Attorney to deliver seisin.

Begins (fol. 22, a):

Knowe all men by these presents, &c. Ends:

In the yeare of the raigne, &c.

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17. Grant of Land in reversion.

Begins (fol. 23, a):

Hec indentura facta quarto die Aprilis... Ends (fol. 23, δ):

Cum eorum pertinentiis universis.

18. Articles of agreement for building a ship.

3—50 Dd. 1. 16, 17, 18.

Three Volumes, small folio, on paper, of 230 leaves each.

Miscetuangous Nores, Ruymes, Capeauistic Formuta, &ec., in English, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. The entire is a mass of nonsense, and the author can scarcely have been of sane mind.

51, 52 Dd. τι. 19, 20.

Two small folios, on paper, of 242 and 233 leaves respectively, containing various poems in doggerel Latin and other Miscrt- LANEA, in the same handwriting and by the same author as the three preceding.

53 Dd. π΄. 21.

A large folio, on paper, 312 leaves, about 45 lines in each page, well written in a hand of the xviith century.

A Recister oF THE Acts oF THE Court oF THE Lorp- Commissioners IN Causes EcciesrasticaL, from Michaelmas Term 1631 to Hilary Term 1635.

Several names, apparently of owners, had been inscribed at the begin-

ning of the volumes, but all were afterwards erased except those of ‘ Anthony Parkinson’ and ‘ John Harrigates.’

54 Dd. τι. 22.

A small folio, on parchment, of 189 leaves, a full page con- taining about 70 lines. The handwriting is small, and of the xivth century. The MS. is continuously paged throughout.

The first page contains an index to the contents of the volume, in which the titles of the treatises occur in a different order from

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that of the MS. itself. References to the present paging have been inserted.

Sancti Maximr Conressoris Opera.

1. pp. 2—79. “Πρὸς Θαλάσσιον περὶ διαφόρων ἀπόρων, κι τ λυ Begins Φυσικὸν μὲν τοῖς NoytKois... Ed, Combéfis, Paris 1675, 1. pp. 1---800. Scholia are written in the margin.

2. pp. 79—85. “ Πρὸς Θωμᾶν περὶ διαφόρων ἀπόρων, κτλ Begins Ἀπλανοῦς θεωρίας ἐξ ἐμμελοῦς...

Printed pp. 46—70 of Appendix to Joannis Scoti Erigene de Divisione Nature, Oxon. 1681.

’ ’

3. pp. 85—152. “πρὸς ᾿Ιωάννην ἀρχιεπίσκοπον Κυζίκου περὶ διαφόρων ἀπόρων τοῦ θεολόγου" [1]. 6. Gregory of Nazi- anzum |.

Begins ᾿Ἐπαινοῦνται μὲν καὶ τυχὸν δικαίως... Ends ...kal μόνην ἀπαιτοῦντι παρ᾽ ἡμῶν θυσίαν τὴν εἰς ἀλλήλους φιλαν- θρωπίαν. τέλος τῶν σχολίων, κ. τ. Δ. Part of this treatise, viz. from the commencement to p. 95, ον ἀβρόχοις διώδευσαν ἴχνεσιν,

has been printed pp. 1—45 of the Appendix to Jo. Scotus as above. The remainder, viz. pp. 95—152, from

θεωρία τῆς διὰ τῆς θαλάττης διαβαθείσης δυνάμεως διὰ Μωσέως, Οὕτω τάχα καὶ Μωυσῆς ἔκεινος ὃ μέγας τῇ πληγῇ... to the end, does ποῦ seem ever to have been printed.

4, p. 152. “Περὶ τῶν δύο φύσεων τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ." Begins

« > ‘ a - ς , O Apewos tas τρεῖς ὑποστάσεις...

Ed. Combéfis, τι. 76—78.

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5. pp. 152—154. “ Πρὸς ᾿Ιωάννην ὅτι ἀσώματος ἐστιν ἡ ’ ψυχη. Begins Τὸ τίμιον τῆς ὑμετέρας...

Ed. Combéfis, τι. 298---249,

> ~ , 6. pp. 154, 155. “Πρὸς ᾿Ιορδάνην περὶ τοῦ μετὰ θάνατον ἔχειν τὴν ψυχὴν τὴν οἰκείαν ἐνέργειαν. Begins Τῇ δευτέρᾳ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος...

Ed. Combéfis, τι. 243—247.

7. pp. 155, 156. “Πρὸς ἡγουμένην περί τινος ἀσκητρίας ἐξελθούσης τῆς οἰκείας μονῆς. Begins Οἱ τῆς ἀληθείας κήρυκες... Ed. Combéfis, π. 255—259.

8. pp. 156—163. “ Εἰς τὴν προσευχὴν τοῦ πάτερ ἡμῶν. Begins Αὐτὸν ἐδεξάμην τὸν θεοφύλακτον. . .

Ed. Combéfis, 1. 344—366.

9. pp. 163—164, “ Περὶ τῆς κατὰ Θεὸν λύπης. Begins χαίρω καὶ εὐφραίνομαι....

Ed. Combéfis, 11. pp. 231—235.

10. pp. 164—166. “᾿Επιστολὴ ἄλλη. Begins Ὃ κατὰ σάρκα πόθος...

Ed. Combéfis, u. pp. 248—251.

11. pp. 166, 167. “ Πρὸς Θαλάσσιον πρεσβύτερον. Begins Τρία κάθως φασὶν...

Ed. Combéfis, 11. pp. 251—253.

12. pp. 167—172. “ Πρὸς Γεώργιον ἔπαρχον Ke πολιν Legins οὐδεὶς οὕτω τοῦ φωτὸς...

Ed. Combéfis, 11. pp. 201—218.

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13. pp. 172, 178. “ Πρὸς Πύρρον κ. τ. Δ. Begins τὴν ἁγίαν σου...

Ed. Combéfis, u. pp. 849-.-947,

14, pp. 174-184. «Πρὸς ᾿Ιωάννην κουβικουλάριον KT Ae Begins καλῶς ἔχειν λογισάμενος... Ed. Combéfis, τι. pp. 259—264.

15. pp. 184—188. “ Πρὸς Πέτρον ἰλλούστριον..." Begins "Ἐδειξεν ὡς ἀληθῶς... Ends

A A , «.. κατὰ τὴν σύνθεσιν.

Ed. Combéfis, τι. pp. 291—304.

16. pp. 188—195. “ [epi κοινοῦ καὶ ἰδίου.᾽ Begins ἐπειδήπερ πολὺς...

Ed. Combéfis, τι. pp. 813—382.

17. pp. 195—206. “Παρασημείωσις τῆς “γενομένης ζητή- σεως K.T.A. Begins Ti σοι κακὸν ἐποιήσαμεν ...

Ed. Combéfis, π. pp. 159—195.

18. pp. 206—210. “ Πρὸς Mapivov.’ Begins

Σκοπὸν θέμενος...

Ed. Combéfis, π. pp. 1-17.

19. pp. 210, 211. “Πρὸς Maptvov.’ Begins Ἀλλὰ τούτοις...

Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 17—21.

20. pp. 211, 218. “᾿Εκ τῆς αὐτῆς πρωγματείας κ-τ.λ.᾽ Begins ᾿Ἀλλλὰ μηδεὶς... Ed. Combéfis, m. pp. 22----27.

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21. pp. 213, 214. “ Πρὸς Γεώργιον. Begins Νοῦν μέντοι...

Ed. Combéfis, π. pp. 27—31.

22. pp. 214, 215. “ Πρὸς τοὺς λέγοντας ὅτι κι τ.λ᾿.’ Begins πρῶτον μὲν oa Ends +» + Κατηγορεῖται,

Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 31, 32.

23. pp. 215—218. “Τόμος δογματικὸς κ. τ. d. Begins Οὐ μᾶλλόν gov...

Ed. Combéfis, π. pp. 94---40.

24. pp. 218, 219. “ Περὶ τοῦ Πατέρ, x. τ. λ.᾽ Begins Ei τὸ Ilarep...

Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 82—34.

25. p. 219. “Ὅροι διάφοροι." Begins Οὐσία καὶ φύσις... Ends «ον ὁρμή τε καὶ κίνησις.

Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 78—81.

26. pp. 220—224. “Ἶσον ἐπιστολῆς K.T-r. Begins Αὐτὸς θεοτίμητε. ..

Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 46—58.

27. pp. 224—227. ‘Tots κατὰ τήνδε τὴν Σικέλων κι τ.λ.᾽ Begins Εἰρήνη πολλὴ . .. Ed. Combéfis, u. pp. 58—69.

28. pp. 227—239. “Περὶ τοῦ τίνων σύμβολα....᾽ Begins Πῶς σοφώτερος...

Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 489 .--οὔ27.

CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. 29. pp. 239—241. ‘‘Epunveia εἰς τὸν νθ΄ \radpov.’

Els τὸ τέλος...

Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 885—343.

30. pp. 242—249. ‘’ Avopoiou.’ Begins

? Χριστιανὸς εἶ...

Ed. Combéfis, m. pp. 881—407.

81. pp. 249—253. ‘ ”AXAN διάλεξις. Begins Πᾶσι τοῖς νοῦν ἔχουσι. «- Ends .. ἐβαπτίσθης.

Ed. Combéfis, τι. pp. 407—420.

32. pp. 253—261. ‘Atpetixov φρονοῦντος. Begins Ποῦ γέγραπται...

Ed. Combéfis, τι. pp. 494---402.

33. pp. 261—264. “ Διάλεξις Μακεδονιαστοῦ; κ- τ. A. Begins Σῶμα avOpwrivov...

Ed. Combéfis, τι. pp. 462—472.

34. pp. 264—267. “᾿Απολλιναριαστοῦ. Begins

~ > , ; Θεοῦ ἐνεργήσαντος - . -

Ed. Combéfis, π. pp. 472---484.

35. pp. 267, 268. ‘Ti τὸ καταληπτικὸν κ. τ. λ.᾿ Begins

Ἅπαντα Ta ὄντα...

Ed. Combéfis, τι. pp. 196---200.

36. pp. 268—283. “Τῷ πανευφήμῳ Πατρικίῳ.᾽ Begins Ἐπειδή σε... Ends .. τὸ ppe.

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This has been printed by Petavius in his Uranologion, Paris, 1630, pp. 313—357. Another section of the same work follows, pp. 283—296 of the MS. with various tables and calendars. The text begins

Κρατοῦμεν τὰς ἀπὸ Θὼθ ἡμέρας... and ends . +. περὶ ἡμᾶς yap ἐστιν ἡ σελήνη.

37. pp. 297---80ὅ. “ Λόγος ἀσκητικὸς κ. τ. λ.᾽ Begins Ἀδελφὸς ἠρώτησε... Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 8367—393.

38. pp. 305—324. ‘ Πρὸς ᾿Ελπίδιον.

Begins

Ἰδοῦ πρὸς TO...

Ed. Combéfis, 1. pp. 994---458,

39. pp. 324—378. “ Περὶ θεολογίας."

Begins

Eis Θεὸς dvapyos...

Ed. Comb. 1. pp. 461—634.

The MS. has been bound up with a few leaves containing portions of Jerome’s Commentary on Zephaniah and Haggai, in double columns, appa- rently of x1vth century.

There are some notes on a paper fly-leaf as to the date of the MS., from a catalogue of emperors which it contains, which however only proves it not to have been written earlier than 921 a.p.

55 Dd. u. 23.

A folio, on paper, 16 leaves, in good preservation.

‘A BREEFE OF THE STATE or THE Honores Mannores AnD LANDES WITHIN THE QuEENES JorntURE which are demizeable, with the annual rente of each Honore and Manore, together with the name of the Stewarde, Bayliffe and feodaries.’

It is a report to Queen Henrietta Maria’s Lord High Steward, made apparently shortly after the year 1631.

56 Dd. u. 24.

A paper book, in folio, bound up with MS. 55, contains 336 pages, written in the xvirth century.

Ποῖ or ParniaMENT,

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1. ‘Rotulus Parliamenti de anno quinto Edwardi secundi.’ pp. 1—28.

The gaps in this copy are more numerous than in that printed in Rolls of Parliament, Vol. 1. pp. 281—6.

2. ‘Rotulus Parliamenti tenti apud Westm in Octav. Sci Hillar. Anno regni Regis Edvi Sedi Octavo,’ is the title on p. 29.

Printed Ibid. pp. 287—333.

3. ‘Parl. 8 and 9 E. 2, is the running title after p. 209 to p. 270.

Printed Jbid. pp. 884—349.

4. ‘Parl. 9 EK. 2, is the running title on pp. 274—332, after the title on p. 278, beginning ‘Memoranda de Parliamento... tento apud Lincoln...’ On the last three pages are many gaps.

Printed Jbid. pp. 350—364.

5. ‘Parl, 19 E. 2, is the running title to the last three pages, after the title on p. 333, beginning ‘ Ex rotulo claus...’

Printed Jbid. p. 480.

At the end, on p. 336, is written in red ink, ‘exaiatur,’ and so on p. 209; on pp. 28, and 270, 332, ‘exaiatur quoad:’ whence it would appear that this MS. was collated for the printed edition of the Rolls of Parliament. (See Vol. 1. p. 481).

Dd. τι. 25.

A folio, on paper, containing about 130 pages, bound up with the three following numbers.

1. ‘A Remonstrance delivered his Ma“ in writinge after the Inhibition ....not to proceede in the examininge his right to Impose without the assent of Parliament.’

This is that presented by the Lower House in 1610, and printed with the two following articles under the title ‘The Rights of the People con- cerning Impositions......By a late eminent Judge of this Nation.’ 12mo. London, 1658. The treatise was also ordered by the House of Commons, 20 Maii 1641, to be published.

2. ‘The Question is, whether the Kinge without assent of Parliament, may set Impositions upon the wares and goods of Merchants exported and ymported, out of, and into the Reaime.’

CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. 55

The discussion begins (p. 6) :

Three things have been debated in this Parliament that have much concerned the right of the whole nation... Ends (p. 131):

I will end with the sayinge of that true honest Councellor Phillip Commines in his 5 booke the 18 chapter. That it is more honourable... ..-and I have priuelidges soe to doe.

3. ‘After the Kinges right to Impose had been throughly examined in Parliament...this hereafter was given concerning Impositions.’

It begins (p. 128):

The pollicye and constitution of this your ma‘ kingdome...... Ends (p. 131):

...who will be thereby no less discouraged than disabled to supplie yo" matie when occasion shall serue. See under the first article.

58 Dd. τι. 26.

A folio, on parchment, formerly bound in wood, but now be- tween the same covers as MSS. 57 and 59 and 60.

On a fly-leaf is the title, Lizer StraruroruM comMuNAS CANTARIORUM ET CHORISTA-~ RUM HUIUS CoLtLEGu [se. de Wyndesore| conceRNENCIUM.

1. ‘Fundatio comunarum Cantariorum et choristarum inter Collegium et M. Jacobum Denton indentata.’ ἢ 1. Dated 17 April, 1520. 11 H. VIII.

2. ‘Indentura inter Collegium ex vna parte et Cantarios ac Choristas huius Collegii ex altera parte. f. 2. This Indenture made the 18 April, 11 H. VIII. is in English.

3. ‘The implementys geven vnto the new Comonys by M. James Denton.... f. 4 ὁ.

This is an inventory of the furniture of The Hall, The Pantrye, The Kechyn, The Cooks Chamber, The Storehouse, with the cost of the several articles, together with ‘The cost and charge of the newe byldyng,’ and

“The beying of howses and lands.’ The accompt is dated 8rd September, 1520.

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4. ‘What suffrages the said M. James Denton desireth to be observed and kept of the Chauntrey prests and Choresters.’ Τ.8.

At the bottom of the page is, ‘God saue Maister James Denton Channon of Wyndesore.’

5. ‘Here folowyth the chargs and costs made by the saide M. James Denton from the iiij day September (1520). f. 8 ὁ.

At the bottom of the page (8 0), ‘Et sit laus deo, diue virgini Marie, divo Georgio, et sto Edwardo.’

6. ‘Statuta et ordinaciones per Cantarios infra castrum de Wyndesore degentes auctoritate Decani et Capituli huius Collegit edita et facta.’ f. 9 ὁ.

These statutes, with the exception of the last ordinance, are in English ; they are dated 20 October, 1522, and signed by Ja. Denton and four canons, chauntry priests.

The above six Articles have each the signature of Ja. Denton, besides various marginal notes in his handwriting.

7. The Will of the said James Denton made 1 Aug. 18, Hen. VIII. with the signatures of himself and six witnesses. ἔ, 14. Then follow in another hand,

8. ‘Decreta queedam et statuta, que edita sunt unanimi consensu et consilio omnium sacellanorum seu cantaristaram,... et per decanum et capitulum rata et approbata....” f. 16.

At the end of the 20th Statute on f. 196 is, ‘ Post Lectionem statutorum dicat De profundis.’

On the inside of the original cover at the beginning is, ‘Superscriptio in valuis Sacellanorum et Choristarum. /Kdes pro sacellanorum et choristarum conviviis, extructa anno dni 1519.’

At the top of the same page in another handwriting is, ‘ At Mr Glovers howse in dishestaffe lane at the signe of the blue boare for Mr Willson canon of Windesor.’

Dd. mu. 27.

A folio, on paper, bound up with the preceding, and con- taining Lists of printed Books, all of which were published before 1607.

The first list is of Theological Works, and is imperfect, commencing with the letter B. (p. 1). On p. 37 begins an alphabetical list of ‘ Libri Juris utriusque.’

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On p. 63, ‘Libri Medici.’ On p. 77, ‘ Libri Chemici.’ On p. 79, ‘ Libri Philosophici ac Historici,’ of which the list terminates (p. 101) with the letter P.

60 Dd. uu. 28.

A folio, on paper, consisting of 35 leaves; it is bound up with MSS. 57, 58, 59, and is in the same handwriting throughout. A Cotztection or Mepicat Recipes for various affections, with remarks and advice as to regimen and diet, each recipe bearing a reference to Nicholaus Florentinus. The first recipe is entitled ‘To purge the evil matter that swimeth in the stomach by gentle vomitt,’ and is subscribed, ‘ Nichus Florentinus Tractat. 4 pag. 35. 4. The last, (p. 70 of MS.) ascribed to Gordonius, relates to the

treatment of ‘Singultus,’ and contains several ingredients. It is subscribed, i? > pol. c. d

61 Dad. π. 99.

A small folio, of 151 leaves of parchment, written in double columns of 38 lines each. Apparently of the ximth century. TREATISES OF Str AUGUSTINE.

1. ‘Sancti Augustini Retractationum Libri duo.’ Begins

Jam diu est quod facere... Opp. Paris. 1890, 1. col. 21.

2. ‘Aurelii beati Augustini de Achademicis Libri tres.’ Begins O utinam Romaniane... Opp. 1. col. 421.

3. ‘Liber beati Augustini de beata vita ad Manlium Theo- dorum. Begins

Si ad philosophie portum ... Opp. 1. col. 497.

4. “ Ejusdem de Ordine Rerum Libri duo, Begins Ordinem rerum Zenobi ... Opp. 1. col. 529.

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5. * Libri duo Soliloquiorum Sancti Augustini. Begins

Volventi mihi... Opp. 1. col. 597. 6. ‘Liber Sancti Augustini Episcopi de immortalitate anime. Begins Si alicubi est disciplina ... Opp. 1. col. 649.

7. ‘Liber Sancti Augustini Episcopi de quantitate anime. Begins Quoniam video te Adeodatus habundare ... Opp. 1. col. 677.

8. ‘Liber beati Augustini Episcopi de Magistro.’ Begins Augustinus. Quid tibi videmur efficere ... Opp. 1. col. 887. The proper portion of the Liber Retractationum is repeated by way of preface in front of each of the other seven treatises.

62 Dd. u. 30. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

63 Dd: 1m: 81.

A small folio, on paper, 298 pages, of about 48 lines each ; handwriting of the xvrth century.

1. ‘Praxis Francisc1 Crarxe, tam jus dicentibus quam aliis omnibus qui in Foro Eeclesiastico versantur apprime utilis,’ is the title given by Thomas Bladen, who edited the work (Dublin, 1666). The arrangement of the Edition varies from that of the present MS.; e.g. ‘ Tit. 347° of the latter corresponds with ‘ Tit. cccxxvu.’ of the printed copy.

2, On p. 247 commences a shorter and distinct treatise entitled :

De Mopvo INcHOANDI SIVE INSTITUENDI ACTIONES IN sUPREMA CuriA ADMIRALITATIS ANGLI£.

This is also printed, Lond. 1743.

Mark of ownership: ‘Gulielmus Thomas, Jan. 27, 1634,’

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64 Dd. u. 32.

A small folio, on paper, 85 leaves. ‘Tur Art or Preacuine. A treatise on the composition of a Sermon, being a translation from Mr Claude, Minister of Charanton in Paris. Translated by L. D. M, It only contains the first six chapters of the treatise, with a brief sum- mary of the seventh chapter. Begins There are five general parts in a sermon... Ends ... enter upon self-examination. At the foot is added, © Ther is to follow in another volumne a Translation of the contenuation, viz. the Eyght Ninth and Tenth Chapters.’ See Dd. rx. 40. The treatise has been several times printed both in French and English.

65 Dd. τι. 33.

A small folio, on paper, 189 leaves, written early in xvith century.

Tue Instruction or Novices. A translation from the Latin - ‘Formula Novitiorum ;’ and divided into three books, the first of which is entitled, ‘the instruction of novices,’ the second, ‘the reformation of the soul,’ the third, ‘the perfecting in religion.’ ‘Wrytten by the hand of Thomas Prestins brother of Syon.’

Translated, with some omissions, from the Treatise of David de Augusta (De ordine minorum), vid. Bibl. Max. Patt. xxv. p. 869. Lug. Bat. 1677.

66 Dd. u. 34.

A folio, on paper, containing 161 leaves. ‘Sunpry Remepies collected out the Dr. Dan. Sinnertus his workes, and put into English by D. B. for his owne pticular

5

use.

The first 4 leaves contain the index, which is entitled, ‘An Alphabeticall Index or Table to the medicines or Receipts following, collected out of Dr. Daniell Sinertus his workes, conteyned in 3 Tomes translated by Dru Burton, for the use of himself, and his Friends.’ Upon the top of the first page of the Recipes is found the Title as above given. The first Recipe is for ‘A cooling Aperient,’ and is subscribed, ‘Sinertus, Tom. j. pag. 774.

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The last few pages contain a treatise on the pathology and treatment of various convulsive affections. The last words of the MS. are ‘Concerning the cure of the convulsion vitio uteri, see Galen Lib. vr. “ de locis affectis,” cap. 3.’

Dd. 1. 35, 36, 37.

Three middle-sized folios, on paper, from 25 to 30 lines in a page. The first volume contains 338 leaves, the second 341, and the third 472, including blanks.

Tue Lecrures or Carotrus Ruynus ar Botogna upon Civit Law, delivered in the years 1517, 1518, 1519, 1520, 1521, and taken down by a pupil Hieronymus Fons, in whose hand- writing the volumes appear to be.

Vol. I. (fol. 1 a), begins :

Rubrica ff. soluto matrimonio, lecta ac repetitio per excellentissimum dominum Carolum Ruynum Regiensem. In civitate Bononie anno 1518. Ends (fol. 323, δ):

secus in repe. rei legate 82 Bar Ind. 1. in repetendis.

Dicere solemus quod omnes homines natura scire desiderant, hoc autem de facili adimplere poterimus deo parente atque pro In the foot of p. 1, ‘ Es al 5. Doctor Bernardo Constantin mro. escuela

y provisor de Cadiz.’

On the 1st fly-leaf, ‘Compre este libro y otros tres de la misma lect*. de Carolo Ruyno. 38. de Abril de 1562 por diez & seis reales. ‘De cosme Con- stantin que fua heredero del doctor Ber*’. Constantin in escuela y provisor q fue de Cadiz. P. Nunez.

Vol. 11. (fol. 1 a), ‘ Lectura ex™. & αἰ, monarchi dni Caroli Ruini Regini

Bononie anno 1519. Quoniam, ut ait ille philosophus omnes homines natura scire deside-

rant ideo omni studio curandum est, &c.

At foot of page, ‘ este libro es al doctor Ber*. Constantin mro escuela y provisa de Cadiz.’

Fol. 336, a, ‘ Finita est hee repetitio dni Caroli Ruyni regiensis Jur. utri. monarchi in Gymnasio Patavino. Finis.’

Vol. IIT. fol. 1.

Sequitur Rub’. lex p*. 25 et 3%. de lega. ρ΄. recollecta per me Hieroni- mum Font. sub. dno Carolo Ruyno Regien. preceptori meo Bononie ano dni 1520 tertia die mensis novembris melius fidelius quam potui. Begins :

‘Et primo yenio ad glo. rub“ que dividitur in duas partes.’

At the foot, ‘Es ab s. doctor Ber®’. Constantin mro scuela y provisor de Cadiz.’

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Fol. 467, b. ‘Itaque huc et non amplius legit dominus Carolus Ruynus de isto § propter calores immensos Ideo ne mireris si lectura est imperfecta 1521. xvi. Julii mpxxt.’

Respecting the author see the Supplement to the Biographie Universelle.

70 Dd. τι. 38. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

71 Dd. u. 39.

A folio, on paper, containing the two following tracts.

1. ‘An abstract of certain observations, notes and other things in the parliament holden at Westminster, beginninge the 27 of October beinge Symon and Judes daie 1601. 43 Elizabeth, and ended the 19 of December 1601 aforesaid with the manner of proceedings ὅσο. collected by Heyward Townsend of Lincolnse Inne.’ This is the title at the top of a leaf marked 2.

Printed in ‘ Historical Collections, by H. Townsend, London, 1680’ (pp. 173—336). There is added, in the MS., a memorandum relating to the behaviour of the Commons on the Queen’s leaving: after which follows a Catalogue of the several Acts passed in this Parliament.

2. ‘A true relatione of every dayes proceeding in Parliament since the beginning thereof being tuesday the xx" of January 1628.”

Written on different paper and in a different hand from the preceding.

There is a tract ‘ Diurnal occurrences &c. Jan. 20—March 10, 1628,’ 4to. London, 1641. (Brit. Mus. 12. F. g. 12).

See also Parl. Hist. τι. 435—492.

Begins (p. 1):

Upon the said Twentieth day of January being the first day of the Parliament [i. e. of the session] nothing was done but only the settling of the committees.

Ends (p. 130) with the form of dissolution by the Lord Keeper after

the King’s speech on March 10th.

72 Dd. τι. 40.

A folio, on paper, 88 leaves, in good preservation. Containing various Exrracrts rrom THE Parunt anv Ctose Routs of Escheats, Inquisitiones post mortem, and similar documents.

Amongst them are several lists of the feoffs and lands of Edmund Earl of Cornwall, (temp. Edw. I.), and Edward Duke of Cornwall, (temp. Edw. IT.)

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Dd. mu. 41.

A folio, on paper, containing 118 leaves ; it is bound up with MS. 72, and is in the same handwriting throughout.

‘SUNDRIE RARE IMPROVED REMEDIES, for the safe curing of moste kinde of diseases, collected out of the learned workes of the best Phisitions, in these later times, who were famous either in the chief Universities, or in the courts of the Emperor and other Princes, or in great Citties, faithfully digested by the most learned and most diligent Jonannus Grorcius Scuenckius of Grafen- burge into 7 centuries; the greatest number whereof are trans- lated by Drue Burton, for his owne and his friends’ use.’

There are 12 pages previous to the ‘ Remedies,’ of which the first 4 con- tain a treatise on Dysuria extracted from the works of Lazarus Riverius, the next 7 contain ‘A perfect Alphabeticall Index or Table for the readie finding of the several remedies (for moste kinde of diseases) conteyned in this Booke,’ and the 12th page contains a treatise on certain Urinary Affections, with an account of the treatment and cure of a case of Diabetes by Lazarus Riverius. Upon the top of the first page of the Remedies is the ‘ Title’ as above, and also a marginal note to the effect that ‘ Many things more are added out of the very same learned Authors which are not in Schenckius and out of the learned phisition Lazarus Riverius.’ The first Remedy is for ‘Weakness of sight,’ and is as follows, ‘The Root Valerian is a principall helpe for weakness of the Sight, and for that cause Cattes are so much delighted in it:’ it is subscribed Hier. Tragus: schen: p. 35. At the end of the MS. are found several pages containing regulations with regard to diet. They are subscribed, Ant. Fumanellus de Senum regimine pag. 16.

Dd. τι. 42. A middle-size folio, on paper, containing in all 108 leaves.

1. Reports of Hilary Term, 15 Jas. 1. in King’s Bench and Pasch. et Trin. 16 Jas. I. Folios numbered | to 41.

2. Reports in B. hk. in Mich. and Hill. 20 Jas. I. Folios numbered 1 to 58.

This volume contains a good many cases not reported in Croke.

The first case is that of Mawett and Samuel. A case of arbitration: Deux submitt eux memes al Arbitre M*. Dancer de touts suits quar-

rells et demands.

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The last case 16 Trin. Jac. ends:

il agree que le rejoinder fut vitious per default d’un trayers et il done 3 rules concernant Traverses.

The first case Mich. 20 Jac. begins:

Nota que in le case de Serjeant Hitcham et Sir Robert Nauton, &c. The last ends:

uncore pur ceo que le pl. ne mre qu'il ad eigne tytle Judgement.

Dd. u. 43.

A folio, on paper, containing

Collections from ‘ Mountaine his Essayes.’ pp. 1—29. Collections from ‘ The Historye of Scanderbegge.’ pp. 830—2. Collections from ‘Charron, de Sapientia.’ pp. 33—46. Collections from ‘ Sleiden’s Comentaries.’ pp. 47—72. ‘Collections out of Perkins.’ pp. 73—106.

‘Collections out of the Vocall Forist.’ pp. 107—111.

‘ Collections out of Donne’s Lettres.’ pp. 112—118.

‘ Excerpta ex Marcelli Paling : Signis Yodiacis.’ pp. 119—1 22,

About 10 blank leaves follow, stained by damp like the rest of the book. ἡ Beneath the book-plate on the fly-leaf may be distinguished ‘ E. Revell.’

Dd. τι. 44.

A small folio, on paper, 106 leaves, many of which are blank. Writing at both ends of the volume.

Note Boox or a Law Srupent, containing

1. A Summary of Civil Law arranged tabularly, occupying 56 leaves.

2. Miscellaneous notes from the Christian fathers and upon matters religious and ecclesiastical, occupying 11 leaves.

At the other end of the book, two leaves in a hand scarcely legible. On the third begins a treatise De diversis regulis juris antiqui, which is left unfinished.

Then follow 24 leaves of scribbled notes on various theological and eeclesi- astical matters.

On the first leaf is the name of ‘ William Howson.’

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3. The remainder of the MS. contains a collection of Theo- logical notes, irregularly written from both ends, on 33 leaves : besides which there are 14 leaves blank. Two pages of similar matter occur in the middle of § 1. The first page is headed MisceLLANEA,.

Dd. π΄. 45.

A folio, on paper, forming the first two-thirds of a Volume, entitled ‘Tractatus MS. Dd. τι. 46—45,’ containing 163 pages, as marked in the MS., but some are blank.

Various Remepies ror Diseases, and several dissertations as to the pathology and treatment of different diseases, taken by Drue Burton from various authors.

There are 4 pages preceding the first of the Remedies, of which three are occupied by an Alphabetical Index of the contents of the MS. and the fourth contains eighteen ‘Wholesome Rules for health,’ from Dr. Hidron. Donzellinus, Consil. 229, 676, &c., and also one from Sinnertus, Tom. 10. p. 294. L. 10.

The first recipe is ‘To make the belly lose or soluble that is costif or bounde,’ subscribed Crato, Lib. 4. pag. 60.

At p. 145 there is a break off in the MS., the last few lines having reference to the treatment of Quartan Fever, by Dr Balthazar Scheiderus. Consil. 260, p. 778 and 779. At p. 159 of MS. there commence some remedies entirely directed to the cure of the Plague, and are taken from Mindererus, with the exception of one from the ‘ Pharmacopcea Augustana,’ p. 560, extolling the virtues of Ginger, and one for making purgative pills, which was ‘imparted to me by Mr. W. Eugler.’ On the last leaf of the MS. are some observations on the properties of different spices, &c. which have no signature.

Dd. 1. 46.

A folio, on paper, of 70 leaves, roughly but legibly written.

1. A collection of Readings, cases and arguments upon the Statute of Pluralities and Advowsons (13 Eliz.) ; mostly in Eng- lish, in parts in law French, end of the x vith century (circa 1700).

Begins:

The Statute is large and consists of many particulars which doe concearne the clergy.

Ends:

And that D. by this commendam had good power to hold his first benefice within this statute.

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2. At the other end of the book, A Collection of Law Prece- dents, occupying 17 leaves, in the same hand (circa 1700).

Begins: Indenture Tripartite Between the R‘. Honb*. Charles Earle of Car- narvon, &e.

Dd. 1. 47—50. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

Dd; π. 581.

A quarto, on paper, 232 leaves, about 31 lines in page, hand- writing of the xrv th century.

1. Π1---47 6. Πρόχειρον νόμων Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ Ἁρμενοπούλου.᾽ Begins Κατὰ τοὺς παλαιοὺς χρόνους... Ends

«ον φθάσαντες εἴπομεν.

Ed. Heimbach. Leipsic, 1851. pp. 20—826.

2. ff. 148 a—152 a. “Νόμοι γεωργικοὶ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν βιβλίον τοῦ τῆς θείας λέξεως ᾿Ιουστινιανοῦ βασίλεως περὶ “γεωργῶν.

Begins

χρὴ τὸν γεωργὸν... Ends

“ » ae Ὁ «τοῦτο ἄδειαν ἐχέτωσαν.

Ed. pp. 830—850. (8 9). None but the first two sections of the MS. appear to have been printed. The remainder exist in various MSS. at Paris and elsewhere. Compare the Preface to Heimbach’s Edition. 3. ff. 153 a—179 δ. ‘’Emroun τῶν ἱερῶν καὶ θείων κανόνων" “γέγονε δὲ καὶ αὕτη παρὰ ποῦ αὐτοῦ πανσεβαστοῦ σεβάστον νομοφύλακος καὶ κριτοῦ θεσσαλονίκης κυρίου κων-

΄ ε ’ σταντίνου τοῦ ἁρμενοπούλου.᾽

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Begins τῶν κανόνων οἱ μέν εἶσι... Ends νον τῶν αἰχμαλωσίας εἶεν κατεγνωσμέναι. a ’ « \ ͵ ᾿ ’ ᾽ 4, f.180a,b. “Τοῦ avrov περι πίστεως ὀρθοδόξου. Begins , -~ πιστεύειν Set... Ends

, «ον κόλασιν ἀτελεύτητον.

. ~ ’ ~ - ε 4 5. ff 180 a—183 6. ‘Tov αὐτὸν περὶ ὧν οἱ κατα και- ροὺς αἱρετικοὶ ἐδόξασαν. Begins « m7, οἱ περὶ Ἄρειον... Ends

«ον τούτων διαφοράν.

6. 1848---189 a. a. “τὰ op hixia τοῦ παλατίου. f. 184 α, ὃ. β. “τὰ τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας ὀφφίκια.᾽ f. 184 ὁ. ‘ e ΄ ὃ , A ΄ , “ Ὑ- “ἢ γεγονυῖα διατύπωσις παρὰ τοῦ βασιλεύοντος τοῦ ~ ε a e a ? ΄ - σοφοῦ ὅπως ἔχουσι τάξεως οἱ θρόνοι τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν τῶν

e , ~ ὑποκειμένων τῷ πατριάρχῳ κωνσταντίνου πόλεως. ff. 184 ὃ----

185 a. , a δι “τάξις προκαθεδρίας τῶν ὁσίων πατριάρχων. 185 a. (eoy , ww ~ « ΄ i , ε. “ἡ γενομένη ἔκθεσις τῶν ὑποκειμένων TH βασιλίδι , ’ ΄- - κωνσταντίνου πόλει μητροπολεων» ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ

> ~ ΄ ἀοιδίμου βασίλεως κυρίου ᾿Ανδρονίκου του δευτέρου Tov παλαι-

᾽ὔ ολόγου. ff, 185 a—186 ὁ. , = ζ. “τάξις προκαθεδρίας τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν ἀποστολικὸν θρόνον , " ΄ ~ κωνσταντίνου πόλεως τελούντων μητροπολιτῶν καὶ τῶν UT

αὐτοὺς ἐπισκόπων. ff. 186 B—189 a.

7. ff. 189b—190b. “᾿ξρωτήματα ἅπερ ελυσεν ὁ τιμιώ- τατος χαρτοφύλαξ κύριος Πέρτος καὶ διάκονος τῆς μεγάλης

ω, ὦ »᾽

᾽ , 3 v εκκλησίας; εν ἐτει S°y”.

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Begins εἰς πόσον καιρὸν...

Ends

τῷ ε XO o0-T@ GLapTo ῳ-

Siew tl. 906-4 ©. Περὶ πατριάρχου. Begins Πατριάρχης ἐστὶν... Ends

A A Ψ , » se kal μὴ αἰσχύνεσθαι.

9. f.191 a. ‘Tov Δικαιοφύλακος Θεσσαλονίκης κυρίου Tewpryou τοῦ φοβηνοῦ. Begins ἡ τοῦ κάσσου... Ends

«ἀπαιτεῖται.

10. ibid. ‘ Τοῦ αὐτοῦ περὶ ὑποβόλου."

Begins TO ὑπόβολον...

Ends

‘ A , x7 «+e peta τὸν (β ἐνίαυτον.

11, Εἰ 192 α---19ὅ ὁ. “Περὶ κεκωλυμένων γάμων, καὶ περὶ συγγένειας βαθμῶν. Begins ἡ συγγένεια ὄνομά ἐστι γενική... Ends

.. «ὁ παῦλος καὶ ἡ βαρβάρα.

12. ff. 196 α---200 ὅ. “ Λεξικὸν κατὰ στοιχεῖον ἐφερμη- νεῦον τὰς ῥωμαϊκὰς λέξεις τὰς ἐν τῷ νόμῳ κειμένας. Begins “"ABer—éyer..- Ends

«οὐ ποτὲ μὲν potadios: ποτὲ δὲ ἑξστάδιος.

13. ff 201 a—232 6. ‘“EXeryyos woe τῆς πλάνης τῶν Λατίνων, θύτου παρ᾽ οἰκτροῦ Ματθαίου μονοτρόπου." ¥2

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Begins ἄρτι μὲν ἡ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐκκλησία... Ends

a ° > > , εν ὅμως οἶκτον οὐκ ἀποτίθεται.

This last is mentioned as existing at Moscow, in Fabricius, Bibl. αὐτο. (Vol. x1. p. 681, Hamb. 1808), where it is called ‘ Matthei monachi libellus contra Latinos.’

Mattheus Monachus lived about a.p. 1210, vid. Saxii Onomast. 1. p. 287. Ed. 1777. Also Hanck. de Byz. Rer. Scriptt. p. 680, where a line is quoted from another of his works, Ἰατροῦ μοναχοῦ ταυτὶ Ματθαίου θύτου, of which the title above may be a corruption.

At the end of the book, in a much later hand, are the words

θεοδόσιος δικαιοφύλαξ τοῦ πατριαρχαίου κωνσταντίνου πόλεως ὁ ζυγο- βάλας μνήμης ἕνεκα τῷ κυρίῳ σπουδαιοτάτῳ ἰωάννῃ βωρρε. ἐγραψα ἐν τῇ μεγάλη πόλει κωνσταντίνου ταῦτα a®y” μηνὶ ὀκτωβρ ιανῷ ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς

συστάσεως τοῦ παντὸς κατὰ τὴν ἀληθῆ ἡμῶν 7109” ἔτος.

4--86 Dd. τι. 52—54. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

87 Dace 55.

A quarto, on parchment, of 50 leaves, about 33 lines ina page, date about 1400.

1. Perri Lomparpi Senrentr. Liser Quartus. Begins: Samaritanus enim vulnerato appropians...

Ends (Distinct. xxxvu..) : Item ex Carthaginensi concilio placuit episcopos presbyteros diaconos...

2. Bound up with this Fragment is a paper-book of 32 leaves.

‘ Lectiones Astronomice de Eclipsibus habite, with date Feb. 7, 1708.

The MS., in the handwriting of Wm. Whiston, corresponds with the Edition, (Prelectiones Physico-Mathemat. Lond. 1726, 2nd ed.) but ends with the words :

Atque hactenus eclipses ipsas, ex historicis exhibuimus [termino proxime futuro equum est ut easdem astronomice et organice exhibitas expectetis. |

The words in brackets are not printed. This is merely a history of eclipses, as the above words also signify.

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A small folio, on paper, 29 pages, in good preservation. ΤῊΝ Court Rotts or tHe Royat Manor or CHERHILL, IN Wiltshire, from 17 Jac. I. to 2 Car. I.

so 5: πὶ Ὁ:

A small folio, on paper, of 289 leaves, written in the first half of the xvirth century.

‘Cottections PER Mr. GotsporoucH un DES PRoTHONO- TARIES DEL Comun Bankr.’

The first 39 leaves contain an index of contents, in running hand. Then follow 245 leaves, containing cases and legal dicta in law French, written in a law-clerk’s hand. The last 15 leaves and many others very illegible.

Then follow four more leaves of index in running hand. The illegible parts are probably by Mr Golsborough ; the rest by his clerk. Owner’s name, ‘ Phil. Shapeote Hospitii Lincolniensis.’

90----95 Dd. m1. 3—8. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

Dd. ut. 9.

A folio, on paper, 154 leaves. Legibly written in a running hand of the first half of the x viith century.

96

‘UN BRIEFE COLLECTION DE TOUTS TIELS DECREES FAIT IN LE Court pE GaRDS QUEUX DECIDENT AscUN DouBT IN Loy ou auterment a expresse ou explayne ascun matter necessary pur estre conus d’aver experience de mesme le court les queux decrees remayne en roll et enter en le livers de decrees del dit Courte hors de queux livers jes aye fait cesty collextion pur mon experience de mesme. Incipiunt Termino Trin. Ann°. Regni Regis Edwardi Sexti 7°. et ensuit.’

From fol. 109 the MS. seems to be by a different hand. The entries are brought down to ‘ Mich. 7 Jac.’

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Dd. uz. 10.

A paper-book in folio containing 125 pages of writing in English.

‘Sunprizg RARE Remepies, AnD Receipts, with Histories also, translated out of Zacutus Lusitanus his 3 Books de Praxi medica admiranda, lent me by M* Sam. Peck my worthy friend, & Phisition at Chelmsford.’

There are 18 pages marked with the letters of the alphahet, coming immediately before the Recipes. Of these the first contains an account of the treatment and successful issue of a case of Pruritus taken from the works of Amatus Lusitanus, the two next are occupied with a description of the pre- paration of the ‘China Roote’ and its great use in various diseases, from the same author. The four next pages contain ‘ A perfect Alphabeticall Index of all the rare Receipts, Cures, and Histories, conteyned in this written Booke, translated by D. B., oute of the Learned ΠῚ Zacutus Lusitanus his Workes, viz. oute of his 8 Books de Praxi medica admiranda and 4 other books of his de Medicorum Principum Historia. The first number directs to the page; and the second to the figures in the Margent.’ The remaining eleven contain accounts of various cures from the works of Amatus Lusi- tanus.

The first Recipe recommends the decoction of vipers as a remedy for Porrigo Capitis, and contains an account of the cure of a young courtier by this medicine, when numerous other remedies had proved of no avail. It is subscribed ‘ Zacutus Lusitanus de Praxi medica admiranda obser. 2. pag. 3.’ The last page of the MS., which is marked 141, is really only the 125th page, and contains the account of ‘The cure of clamy phleagme congested in the cayitie or hollownes of the stomach’ The last words are ‘for in regard she was a rich woman, she had p*tions & costly medicaments, and with these things she did excellently well, without using Bath waters or

ought else. This is subscribed Amat. Lusit. Cent. 4 p. leon

Dd. m1. 11. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS.

Dd. τη. 12.

A folio, on paper, bound up with the two preceding MSS., and containing, according to a note on the old cover,

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‘Lerters from St Henr. Spelman, Mt Tho. Adams, S' Symon Dewis, &c. to Μ' Wuestocke, relating to severall of their donations.”

They are all original letters, retaining frequently the seal and the address.

I. Four original letters.

1. In Alippo the 29th of August, 1624. Thomas Davies to Abp Usher. Printed No. uxrx. in Richard Parr’s Collection of Abp Usher’s Letters. Fol. 1686.

2. Gedan. 21 Maii, 1632. Petrus Kirstenius Gulielmo Bedwello.

He had had thoughts of transferring to England his family and Arabic types with some MSS., but the hope of peace induced him to remain in Germany.

8. Tottenham this xu of viiiber. Wilhelm Bedwell to Μ' Abraham Wheelock, one of the fellowes of Clare-hall.

Renews his promise to bestow his Alcoran upon the University Library.

4, Tottenham. crorocxxx. Janu. 4. The same to the same, Keeper of the University Library.

Il. Thirty-six original letters, from Sir Henry Spelman to Mr Abraham Wheelock.

1. Barbacan, 30 Jun. 1637. Henry Spelman to the Arabic Lecturer.

Thanks for the loan of a MS. of Gildas and Simeon Dunelm. de Lindis- farn. Eccles. (Probably No. 1149).

2. Barbacan, 4 Aug. 1637. The same to the same at his house neare Queens Colledge.

Thanks for transcript of some part of Ailfric’s Saxon Canons...asks him to compare the places in ‘the Nicene Councell’ touching the mar- riage of Priests, &e.

Printed by Sir H. Ellis, Letters of Eminent Literary Men, No. tiv. from the copy by Baker, who may be pardoned for having read Sigencus.

3. London, 22 Sept. 1637. Thanks for transcripts. ‘The matter of the Canons is what I now chiefly aim at.’

4. Barbacan, 12 Oct. 1637. Touching the laws of K. Edmund already published by Lambard. ‘The MS. in Benet Colledge Library.

5. 4Noy. Asks him to translate the Canons.

6. Barbacan, 8 Dec. Thanks for ‘your Saxon labours. Asks him to obtain thro’ Dr Cumber the loan from Trinity College Library of a fair MS. book touching the Abbey of Glastenbury.

On the back are some rough notes (by Wheelock), touching the Fourth Commandment.

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7. Dee. 22. About the provision for the Saxon Lecture... desires a Catalogue of all the Saxon MSS. in the kingdom.

8. Jan. 24. Asks for anything that may follow certain words in the 70th Section of the Canons and Poems.

9, 2 Feb. 1637. Hopes to see him and for a transcript of the rest of the MS.

10. 6 April 1688. ‘This letter,’ as Wheelock has written at the top, ‘shewes that Sir Hr. Sp. first comended me to my Lord of Ely.’

11. 4 Maij. Wishes to borrow from the University Library a MS. nu. 256 to compare with ‘a very faire and ancient interlinear Latine- Saxonicum Psaltar and some leaves of another’ in his possession.

12. 8 Jun. Wishes to see the Saxon Psalter soon: the printing going on.

13. 381 Aug. Sickness prevalent. Bp of Norwich well disposed to him. ‘My Councells were finished a fortnighte since.’ The Saxon Psalter delayed.

14. 5 Sept. ‘As of the Saxon Psalter there is much variety in the MSS. so it semeth there is also in the Translation of the Gospells.’

15. 28Sept. Mentions the Bp of Ely’s favour: the design of a Lecture ‘for reviving the Saxon tongue: is prepared to put forth a Saxon Gram- mar as the Bp had suggested: mentions his correspondence with Μ' de Laet of Leiden about the publication of a Dictionary...Sends Ailfric’s MS. grammar.

Some lines have been carefully obliterated, which do not appear to be noticed in the copy (Harl. MS. 7041) printed by Sir H. Ellis, Letters, &c. No. Ly.

16. 5 Oct. He sends him 50s. ‘Every quarter,’ writes Wheelock in the margin, ‘I receive of Sir Henrie Sp. 50s. as a beginninge of this (Saxon) Lecture.” He also notes ‘My L. of Elie his offer,’ and his own hoped for preferment.

17. 2Nov. Sends him a presentation to the vicarage of Middleton, of which he designs an augmentation for cur intended Lecture...a passage boate goeth from Cambridge to Lynn on Munday morninges.....recommends Μ' Thorowgood the parson of Grimston to be his bosome frend.

Printed by Sir H. Ellis, Letters, No. ivr.

18. 8 Nov. Mentions one for a curate of Middleton—encloses a letter about the Psalter borrowed of Trinity College.

19. 8Nov. Letters with the presentation to Middleton miscarried— will enlarge the vicarage (worth £60) out of the Impropriation.

20. 15 Junij 1638. Has received the Saxon Psalter from Trinity College, and binds himself to return it.

21. 14 Jan. 1638. ‘Pray bring Elfrics Saxon gramar with you.’ Incumbe Saxonicis.

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22. Maij. vit. 1639. Hopes the Mr and Fellowes of Trinitie will not call for their Psalter before it be finished printing.

23. 28 Junij.. Sends his translation of certain Saxon lawes: ‘since you ar (by the grace of God) to be the Professor of that Lecture in your University,’ ‘ give me your opinion thereof.’

24. 13Sep. Is busy—About East Winch.—‘ will be no suter to any man’—Returns the MS. Psalter (on which he had put a clasp) to Trinity College, and sends ‘my British Councils and the Saxon Psalter published by my Sonne.’ Sends back also ‘ your Pub. Library Psalter.’

25. 17 Sept. Will make the same present to the Publ. Library and to Benet as to Trinity College—introduces Samuel son of Mt John de Laet. See above, 15.

26. 20 Sept. Refers to the two preceding letters, and presents the books.

27. 28 Sept. ‘Iam mutch troubled w™ the scandall layde vppon me and my sonne for misvsinge Trin. Colledge MS.’ ‘I pray entreate it may not be vnbounde till, &e.’

28. 29 Nov. His intent about ‘our Lecture of Church and Saxon Antiqq.—wishes to consult with the ViceChancellor.

29. 10 Jan. ...is thankful for ‘very curtuouse lres from the M* and Seniors of Trinity Colledge, and accepts the library keeper’s acknowledg- ment. Touchinge our businesse of the lecture.

30. 12 Mar. is growing better ‘after 7 weekes languishinge.’...‘my nephew Harbt. Whitfelde.’

31. 20 Mar. 1639. The carrier has demanded much more than the usual groat for the papers....need not be told of their value.

32. 24 Apr. 1640. About the rent now to be paid by Mr Collyns. ‘remember your curat.’ could have wished him to have visited Leiden about the Saxon Grammar and Dictionary. ‘St Symond Dewes thrusteth his sickle in amongst us...and will presently put forth Jocelins...leave him to himself.’...‘use no such attribute to me in the direction of your 1165 as most learned, &c.’

99. 5 Junii. approves of the oration...will shew it to the ABp of Armagh.

94. 30 Oct. Enquires for his health after eight weeks silence, and ‘aboute the businesse of the Lecture what the heads of the howses advise.’

35. 9 Nov. Expresses his great comfort at having been brought for- ward by so many in the University as a Candidate in the late election of Burgesses.

36. 27 Nou. 1640. Thanks for ‘farther paynes in my behalfe.’

The above letters generally commence ‘ Mr Wheelock,’ but nos. 8, 11, 21, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32 have instead ‘8S. PY’

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Ill.

1. Barbacan, 6 April, 1638. John Spelman to Mr Abraham Wheelock. has no purpose to enquire into the antiquity of the University, yet wishes the clause in Camden’s edition of Asser relating to Grimbold at Oxford to be compared with the MSS,

2. Tottenham, the 29 of June, 1632.

There are two letters of this-date from John Clerke, the first written to a (married) friend (probably Wheelock), the second addressed to M. Olrye, Fellow and President of Clare Hall. In both he makes en- quiry whether the University will print the Arabic Dictionary given by his father with all the types to print it withall: and if not he offers to present a printed copy: states that ‘Sir Killume Digbye would have given five hundred pounds for the booke and types.’

8. Barbacan, 8° Oct. 1641. Jo: Walden to M* Abraham Wheelock. Gives an account of the death of his master, Sir Henry Spelman. Printed in Ellis’s Letters, &e. No. uxv.

4. ‘Reverendissimi Eliensis et D. Procancellarii D™ Cozini consilia in propositiones D. Henrici Spelmani, de prelectione Saxo-Britanica in Aca- demia Cantabrigiensi stabilienda, &ec.’ is the endorsement (? by Wheelock). The ‘ Order concerning the Saxon Lecture’ is signed ‘ Jo: Cosin Procan:’.

IV. Thirty-two original letters addressed to Mr Abraham Wheelock : of these 27 are from Thomas Adams, the founder of the Arabic Professorship; they are dated from London, and extend from the 3rd February, 1631 to the 26th August, 1633. The first three are printed in Ellis’s Letters of Eminent Literary Men, t— tir; the 28th, London, March 20th, 1639, is from Thomas Adams, the son; 29th, from Thomas Adams, the father, is without date; 30th, London, 27th March, 1640; 31st, 21st Ja- nuary, 1640; and 32nd, 28th of March, 1634, are from the same.

V. The rest of the volume is made up of the following:

1. A short latin epistle from Thos Brockmann to M™ Wheelock excusing his absence for a day on the score of illness. Without date. 2. A letter in German without date or address. 3. Three letters from Jo: Foorthe to Μ' Wheelock, Bachelor in Divinitie. a. April 28. 1628. Enquires whether he might trust the bearer with the books named in letter ὃ. b. April 22. 1628. Being sick desires to send the Hebrew con- cordance, ‘ Schindlerus his Pentaglotton,’ and another book.

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e. Nodate. Prays him to continue his favour to Whitchurch, and to the son of Randal Hardinge....would leave an old Avenarius dic- tionarie with divers things written in it and many loose papers.

4. London, this 27th August, 1633. Thomas Hill to M' Abraham Whillock. introduces Professor Jacques Lescott and other friends from Paris.

5. a. Boxworth, Aug. 27, 1629. Gilb: Wigmore to M™ Whillocke.

Will use his influence with D™ Mansell. Μ' Boise is fallen in love with Arabicke.

b. The same date. Jo: Boise to Mt Wheelock.

Excuses himself from being a suitor on M" Wheelock’s behalf for the reversion of M* Brookes’ place. ‘It is an odious thing to bury a man before he be dead.’

6. April 14, 1624. Jo: Foorthe to the same.

After compliments urges him to translate Maimone into Latine.

7. A ‘testimony’ of the University, signed by ‘Jo: Gostlin Procan. and 13 others, addressed to the Mayor and Aldermen of Lynn, that M* Whee- lock is well qualified to be Master of the free School. [1022].

8. A complimentary letter in Latin, signed ‘Tho: Ryleus,’ to the same.

9. Hodnet, Aug. 2, 1680. Richard Sackey to the same.

Enquires how many had died of the sickness in the Colleges and the Town.

10. Two letters signed Simonds D’Ewes to the same.

a. Bury, Aug. 26. 1639. About printing Bede...wants another fElfric’s grammar...wishes much to see him.

ὃ. Stowh. May 18. 1640. Sends a proof of his proficiency in Saxon. ‘Slack not your studies for evil times.’

11. Lin Regis, April 26. 1625. R. R. to the same.

“Μ' Robinson Scholemasters of Kings Lin’ is a note on the back. Asks how to read Arabic without vowells.

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Piers Prowman’s Vision. The first lines (starting from v. 267 of Wright’s edition) are :

Hoc vt agas melius iustus et esto pius Nudum ius a te vestiri vult pietate

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A passage then follows, which with sundry variations is trajected in Wright to v.417 seqq.: though in this and other particulars, the present MS. accords almost literally with the text of Whitaker’s edition. It breaks off at v. 14000 of Wright’s version, presenting as before a great variety of readings :

Philosofres fursoken welpe. for pey wolde be nedy. And wonede wel elingly. and wolde nat be riche

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On the back of the last leaf somebody has written ‘ y® 11 Jan. 1639.”

This treatise corresponds with the work entitled ‘The Lawyer’s Light, or A due direction for the study of the Law,’ written by the reverend and learned professor thereof J. D. Lond. Benjamin Fisher, 1629. pp. 119, small 4to.

The printed edition is considerably longer than our MS., the concluding words of which are found in p. 93.

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A Caratocur or Commenranigs (existing in some Library, with Class-marks) on books of Holy Scripture, viz. Pentateuch, Historical Books of Old Testament, Job, Psalms, Minor Prophets, Apocrypha, Pauline Epp., Catholic Epp., and Apocalypse.

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A small folio on parchment, of 12 leaves, in double columns of 44 lines each.

1. ff. 1—7. ‘ Mepirationes Bernarpi.’

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Begins :

Multi multa sciunt et semet ipsos nesciunt.

Corresponds as far as f. 7. a. col. 1, (‘qui vivit et regnat per infinita secula. Amen,’) with Ed. Ben. Paris, 1839, Vol. um. p.661. After this follows the paragraph :

Tedet me vita mea, quia diligenter discussa...... gloriaris per infinita secula, Amen. Explicit.

(Anselmi. Opp. p. 207. Paris, 1675).

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AN ALPHABETICAL TREATISE ON THE NAMES AND VIRTUES OF STONES. 51 pages. (2 cols. of 43 lines in pag.) Next follows a continuation of this treatise by the same hand. It is left incomplete, breaking off in the account of the ‘ Emerald.’ In a later hand is added the following stanza : Smaragdus virens nimium Dat lumen oleaginum Est fides integerima Ad omne bonum patula Que nuncquam scit deficere A pietatis opere.

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A long quarto, on paper, and in a good state of preservation : date about 1600. It consists of 66 numbered leaves, most of which contain on each page seven staves of Music.

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The notation and the character of the music in this volume is the same as in MS. 43. The music is generally harmonized, in which case the staves contain six lines; when only the melody is given, the staves contain five lines only. On leaf 64 there is a melody written in a later hand and in the more modern notation of breves, minims, &ec. On leaf 66 there is an index headed ‘ Lessons in this Book.’ The Airs or Melodies are termed ‘ Trebles.’

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A Coutuecrion or Preapines, temp. Hen. VI. in the usual Law- Latin.

Commences abruptly :—

Walterus tenuerit de ipso Ricardo manerium predictum cum perti- nentiis per homagium et fidelitatem.

Then comes the record of a ‘ Placitum detentionis syngraphi obligatorii.’

The last folio but one is headed ‘xxrx"". ΗΣ VI’

The whole work is apparently a transcript from the Rotuli Placitorum,

preserved among the Records; most of which have been published by the Commission of 1800.

107 Dd. 11. 20. A paper-book in folio bound up with 106.

The contents to the end of § 4 are written in a legible and clear hand, the remainder by the same person though generally in a small running hand of the xvisth century.

1. ‘Placita Concilii in Farnamensi castello, 17 Augusti a.p. 1569. preesentibus Duce Norfolchize, Comite Bedfordize, Comite Lecestrize, Regii Cubiculi Preefecto, Domino Secretario.’

Begins (f. 1) :

Conventum est vt de reliquo omnibus mercatoribus Anglie et Gal- lie libera commercii ratio sit negotiandi.

2. “ Responsio magno aceruo Articulorum quos Burgosius quidam Hispani Oratoris familiaris eius Legati nomine, secretioris consillis Dominis obtulit. 1569.

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Begins (f. 2. δ): Vera quidem omnia illa quos missimus legato retulerunt.

3. (a) ‘Articuli a D. Francisco Geraldi equite secritoris Con- silii Dominis Regis Lusitani nomini propositi Anno Dni 1571. Mensis Januarij.’

Begins (f. δ): Ut liberum utrinque commertium aperiatur...

. (δ) ‘Responsio quorundam dominorum privati consilit articulo a D. Francisco Geraldi regis Lusitani nomine proposito 1571 mensis Januarij.’

Begins (f. 6) : Nunquam volens Ser™* Regina ansam ullum prebuit eius com- mercii interrumpendi... Ends (f. 7) : Ultimo Articulo Ser™* Princeps reciproce assentitur.

4. Letters of Queen Elizabeth (1568—1585).

These letters are only copies of Epistles addressed to various sovereigns by Queen Elizabeth: there are 306 letters on 264 leaves according to the numbers in the margin: ff. 194, 195 a, are blank, apparently for the inser- tion of Epistles 235 and 236: they are preceded by an Index on 4 leaves.

They have been copied by Baker (xxxn. 19—128) under the title ‘Copies of Letters, taken from a large volume of Letters, &c. in the late

ues a Bp of Ely’s Library, endorsed 10 : 00:00: which probably was the price of the book, and yet only copies.’ This endorsement has disappeared, pro- bably in the process of binding.

5. The followmg Srzecues or Lorp Kunrer Bacon may also be found in the Collection, in MS. No. 1828, § 4.

a. The effecte of the speeche used by the Lord Keeper unto the Queen's Majestie at such tyme as her highness called him first to serve.

It begins (f. 1):

I wish for suerties sake (seeinge it hath pleased your Ma** to call me to serve) that those parts which your highnes by reporte... It ends (f. 1):

--.80 for dewties sake I shall with good intentacons enter into such calling as your Matie shall command me.

b. A Speeche used by the Lord Keeper unto the Lords assembled in the parliament. This (on ff. 15) differs somewhat from No. 1828, 4. k.

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ce. An oration made to the Queens Majestie by the Lord Keeper con- cerninge her marriadge and the succession of the crowne. This (f. 5) is the same as 1828, 4. d.

d. A speeche used by the Lord Keeper about ten dayes befor Christmas 1559 at the Counsaile board, concerning an aide required by the Scotts for the removinge of the Frenche out of Scotland.

See under No. 1828, 4.h. It occupies ff. 7—14 b.

e. A speeche used by the Lord Keeper in the Counsell 1562, when it was brought in question, whether the interviewe between the Queene of Scotts and the Queens Majestie were convenient to be allowed or no.

Compare this with No. 1828, 4. i, with which it agrees in the beginning and in substance, though it ends (f. 15 δ) ‘...but thereby the protestants must be weakned.’

f. Aspeeche used by the Lord Keeper amongst the Lords of the Starre Chamber 1569. This (ff. 15 )—18) accords with No. 1828, 4,2 with the exception of the date.

g. Anoration made by the Lord Keeper in the Parliament then endinge to the Nobles and Commons in the presence of the Queens majestie. This (ff. 18—21 δ) is the same as No. 1828, 4/75; which see.

h. The effect of my Lord Keepers speeche used to Mr Bell when he was called to be Lord Cheef Baron.

Except that it omits the three Latin lines, this agrees with No. 1828, 4m.

108 Dd. m.: 21.

A folio, on paper, 600 leaves, in Latin, with additions in English of a different hand; the writing of the early part of the xvuth century.

A Cotzection or Mepican Treatises, principally taken from Capivaccius, with the Nomen, Definitio, Causa, Signa, Judi- catio, Prognosis, Cautio, Curatio, of each malady duly considered.

On the fly-leaves are memoranda of other remedies for particular diseases. On the 2nd folio are various recipes of a Dr Clarke; on the 3rd to the 6th are others with the heading, ‘10th May, 1630. Out of M* Rob Dey his private Shop Note Book;’ on the last three folios are ‘ Receipts of Sir Will Paddy his practice from Μ' Drue.’ An Index to the Diseases, with the number of the folio on a left-hand column, will be found on the 6th folio from the end. It commences with ‘Lampas vitae et mortis mittatur sanguis ad Zviij.’ and ends with an almost illegible receipt of Dr Clerk for the jaundice of children.

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A small folio, on paper, irregularly written in different hands of the xviith century; unfinished.

A Cotiection or Hepraps, OR TREATISES IN PuinosopHy. Written in Latin, apparently by the owner, Henry Howe, or Rowe.

It contains, after a few disconnected Moral Maxims, Five Heptads or treatises on Physics, Geography, Aristotle’s Ethics, Arithmetic, Optics. In each of these treatises the subject is found to be sevenfold ; each department being similarly subdivisible in sevens. And where the natural heads are less than seven, the difference is supplied from imaginative sources, and * delirantium somnia.”

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Watpensian Manuscripts, presented, together with other and more ancient, but now missing, documents, ‘to the publick Library of the famous University of Cambridge in August 1658,” by Samuel Morland, according to the heading of the Catalogue appended to the Contents of the ‘History of the Evangelical Churches of the valleys of Piedmont,’ fol. London, 1658, by the Donor.

These volumes are not noticed at all in the Folio Catalogue, printed Oxon. 1696, which, however, was compiled from a MS. previous to 1658. Another Catalogue, in 1753, speaks of the Manuscripts only which yet remain, and of which only an account is given by Nasmith in his MS. Catalogue completed in 1794. The preface to the latter account has been printed in the Introduction (p. 155) to Waldensian Researches, by W. 8. Gilly, 8vo. London, 1831.

Of the Waldensian Manuscripts, preserved in the Library of the Uni- versity of Dublin, Dr Todd has given a full account in the volumes for 1841 of the British Magazine, x1x. 893, 502, 632, and xx. 21,185. At page 637 of Volume xrx. Dr Gilly also says, ‘I find the Ussher Collection of MSS. in Dublin contains the substance, if not the counterparts, of almost all the ancient treatises which Morland deposited in the Library at Cambridge, in volumes, marked A, B, C, D, E, and F, and which have been since removed, nobody knows how or when. But I have no reason to think that

G

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any of these missing books or parchments have found their way to Dublin. The portions which Dr Todd believed he had discovered in the Dublin Library are transcripts, in a more modern handwriting, of part of volumes G and H, which are still remaining in the Morland Collection at Cambridge. The Ussher Collection of Waldensian MSS. was made many years before Morland’s.’

Of the following Catalogue of the volumes yet remaining, that of Morland supplies the outline, additional particulars being filled in generally in a smaller type.

112. Watpenstan Documents: Morland, G.

1. A small paper book (11 inches by 4) containing 16 pages, on 10 of which is written in a small hand a narrative of what is described as

‘A verbal process against the Waldenses by the Archbishop of L’Ambrun, in the year 1497 and 1502, written in the French tongue.’

Begins:

Est a presupposer que l’an mil iiij® 111] dix et sept apres ma trans- lation de frejus a ambrun me deliberay visiter ma diocese d’ambrun.

There are some few marginal notes in French in a small hand: in a good and large hand that occurs on many of the other MSS. is the title, ©Proces verbal de l’archeu d’Ambrun de l’an 1497 et 1501, sur le saict des Vaudois.’ Another copy of this narrative is in No. 113.

What Dr Todd takes to be the original of this Tract is to be found among the Waldensian Documents at Dublin, No. IX. §xx. See Brit. Mag. xx. p.192. An abstract is given by Perrin, Histoire des Vaudois, Liv. τι. ch. 3. pp. 1837—1438. ed. 1619.

2. On paper (11 inches by 83) injured by damp and dou- bling is

A Bull of Pope Innocent against the Waldenses in the year 1487 in Latin.

Printed by Morland (p. 196) and by (his copier) Leger (Liv. 1. ch. ii.) : the seals rudely represented in the former still remain. On the paper cover, below the French title, ‘ Bulle & commision tres ample &c.,’ is the note in a hand of the xvirth century, ‘No. 2. Processe against them by Albertus de Capineis, mentioned in the process framed Anno 1501. Article 36.’ See Dr Todd, wb. sup. § ut. Though there are 9 leaves, of which some are blank, no watermark is discernible on the paper.

4)

3. pp. 1—15. <A Latin Treatise called Origa Valdensiwm et processus contra cos facti.

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This has been printed by Dr Peter Allix in the Appendix to Ancient Churches of Piedmont, London, 1690. An English translation with the initial words of the Latin is printed in Morland, p. 215.

4, As a sequel to the foregoing (3), and on similar paper’, follow

‘Divers Informations and Examinations taken by the Arch- bishop of Evereux and others of the Popes Commissaries against the Waldenses of Fraissinere and other places, in the years 1478. 1479. 1483. 1486. and 1501. wherein are many passages very remarkable, and worthy to be diligently perused by all the curious.’

a. pp. 16—48. Sequuntur examinationes facte In materia heresis secte Valdentium per Reue®™ et Reue*® pres laurentium bureau Epm Sistavicen. et thomam pascal ac Rostagnu archipm ebredunen. com- missarios...

In the margin, in a more modern hand, there is written, ‘ Informacions prises par les commis du pape, l’evesque de Sisteron et autres nommeés par le Roy. ‘The first examination is headed ‘ Examinatio fazii gay de frayci- neria pro teste,’ and is dated 1501, 26 July. It is followed by the examina- tions of Francis Ruffus, Anthony Pau, D. Fazius Ripert, all of Frassiniére ; also of ‘ Dominus Johannes Lagerus Vicarius de Orseria in Campo-sauro,’ of Peter Raymund, John Arnoux, Angelinus Palon, John Barthelem, Hugh Jacques, John Faber, Pierre Jourdan, Hippolyte Blen, Jacques Pari, Tho- mette wife of Fazius Ripert, Marie wife of William Bret, Jacques Bonnefoy, Hunet Julian de Valle, Thomas Granet de Valle, Johannes de Burgo, Claudius Hunbert, Honoratus de Burgo, Giraud Ruffi or de Roux, and Jacques Chambon.

There are inarginal notes in a small hand, and in French, besides a few in Latin in the larger hand: see ὃ 1. Compare the above with the account given by Dr Todd of No. IX. § 1. 2 of the Waldensian Documents at Dublin in Brit. Mag. xx. pp. 188-9.

ὃ. *Regiarum | copia lrarum, Morum de fraxine™ Valle loysia ac An- gentaria. No. 2.’ is the endorsement by a more modern hand.

The first of these ‘ Lettres du Roy Loys vnzieme’ is printed by Perrin, Histoire des Vaudois, pp. 118—124; it is dated 18 May, 1478. The date of the second appears to be 31 Mars. 1478: that of the third is ‘8 April 1478.’ Many corrections have been made by the copier of these letters. They are followed by two, copied by the same hand, of Jehan de Daillon seigneur du Lude ; the former, in French, is dated 20 April, 1479, the latter, in Latin, dated 29 May, 1479. At the end (p.9) is ‘ Facta est collatio pntis copie cum pp 0 originali per me not’ publicum N Paris’

ὍΣ This. Sequitur extracta processus In materia heresis valden per Reueren. in xpo prem et dnm Do. Johannem Archiepum Ebredunen.

Distinguished by the watermark, a grotesque old man’s head. G2

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incepti Anno a nat® Dni millio quadringentesimo octuage™ t’cio et die secunda Aprilis.

On six leaves', of which the first three are marked B,C, D, and the sixth bears the endorsement ‘Continuatio informationum.’ ‘Then in the larger hand, ‘1483 Informaons par on n’apperi d’aucune diffamatio de paillardise, mais seulement des aultres points.” After which, in another hand, is ‘N° 4 Arch. Jehan.’

d. Processus factus et formatus in facto sancte fidei per Rev™"” in xpo patrem et dominum nrm dnm Johannem Dei et ap* sedis gra Archiepm et Principem Ebredunen. contra Anthon Blasii de Angrogina dioc* Taurinen. hm Dalphini Sistarien. Dioc*.

The description given by Dr Todd (ub. sup.) of the Dublin MS. (No. IX. § y.) applies to this with the exception of the handwriting, that of this differing somewhat from the hand of § 3 and § 4a.

The endorsement is ‘ Proces ἃ Abiuratio d’Antoyne Blasij,’ and in an- other smaller and later hand, ‘1483. no 12.’ See Dr Todd, No. IX. ὃ χχι.

6. The description by Dr Todd, (ἐδ. § 1v.) applies to this, with the addi- tional endorsement ‘ Vniversitatis vallis Loysie’ in the same handwriting as the text of the MS.

J. Processus factus per R™™ in xpo...(as in d)....Ebredunen. contra Anthonii fabri als Baudon de Castro-rodulpho de crimine heresis Valdensium seu pauperum de Lugduno diffamatum.

At the top of the page is the word ‘ thus ;’ and in the margin ‘Originalis,’ with the signature of the notary N. Paris, as ind. The date of this docu- ment also is 1486.

The leaves were numbered by the scribe ; but have subsequently been disarranged, f. viii. being now followed by f. xvii. After f. xx. follows a leaf headed ‘Ihus, and containing ‘Tabula p’ntis processus,’ with the number of the leaf opposite each item. Another document of the date 1488. 23 Nov. and signed ‘Saichen (7) N. P.’ is here inserted: after which follow ff. ix—xvi: the last two being blank and f. xiv. cancelled. A second document, of the date 1488, and by the same hand as the former, is here inserted ; after which follow ff. xxi—xxv, of which the last two are blank*. On the old wrapper is the more modern endorsement, ‘16.7 1486.’

g. Processus factus &c. (as in d)....Ebredunen. contra Anthoniti Albi de Fraxinerin. Ebred. dioc. etatis quadraginta annorum vel circa.

The account given of d and f applies to this, with the addition that at the top of the first page in the right hand corner is ‘Ordinarius’ as in d, and in the left hand ‘cum pma.’ as inf,

1 The watermark is S. Catharine’s wheel. ° In f and g the watermark on the paper is generally a bunch of grapes sur- imvunted by a cypher and a star, sometimes the two latter are not visible.

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The endorsement by the larger hand is, ‘Antonius Albi. 1486. recite seulemét ce que le barbe luy dit en confession. R. d’une corde qu’on mettoit au col des mourans.’

113. Watpenstan Documents: Morland, ΗΠ.

On paper, of various sizes, and written by two or three different hands, in the volume H are contained the following MSS.

Before those mentioned by Morland and Nasmith is a book similar to No. 112. 1, written by the same hand, but previously,

as a collation of the texts and marginal notes seems to indicate. This is followed by

1. ‘Divers ample and very remarkable processes and cruel Inquisitions against those of Fraissinere and other places in the years 1487, 1488, 1489, 1492 and 1494.’

a. On paper, of the same size as No. 112. § 2 and subsequent portions, and in a hand of the same date.

Processus Inquisitionalis agitatus coram R™ in xpo patre et dno domino Johe dei et aplice sedis gra Archiepiscopo et principe Ebredunen.

Inter

Dominum Promotorem heretice prauitatis Sancte fidei ex vna agentem.

Et

Audinum Crispini als Valoy de fraxineria hitatorem Sancti Andree Diffamatum de secta Valden. partibus ex altera.

Begins (p. 1):

In nomine domini nri Ihu xpi. Amen. Anno a nat. dni millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo sexto Et die lune que fuit Intitulata et numerata vndecima mensis decembris.......

The top of the leaf has been cut off in the binding, and only slight traces remain of the word ‘Jesus;’ in the margin of the first page is ‘4°,’ and below it ‘fregit carceres,’ and by the same hand on the next page is the note respecting Audinus Crispini, ‘ etatis xxiiij” annorum vel circa.’

On f. v. the account of the first Interrogation is concluded with the names of the witnesses (Petro Sabine...officiali Ebredunen...Desiderio Mar- tini, Desiderio Forget, et Spn’ Rouerij Cap™* testibus), and the signature of Nicolaus Paris.

‘Examinatio secunda Audini Crispini de Sancto Andrea’ is dated in the preamble (f. v. b) £1487. 80 Januarij.’

The account (f. νι. b—f. vu.) of the next interrogation begins, ‘ Deinde anno quo supra et die Sabbati quinta mensis Maij...’

The date of the next (f. vim.) is the 10th of May.

On the 15th of May, after the first examination (f. rx. Ὁ) he is sent to the torture, after which is ‘alia examinatio seu Repeticio predicti Odini Crispini ;’

' It may be noted that the watermark is the same as of No. 112. § 4. f, g-

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and again (ἢ x.b), ‘ post vesperas,’ when he is again sentenced to the torture, the examination under torture is renewed, the account ending on f. x11. b.

The summary (ff. xn. b—xy.) of his tenets deduced from the preceding interrogations is without the signature of N. Paris.

‘Alia Repeticio dicto (sic) Odini Crispini,’ is dated (f. xv. b) ‘die Martis vicesima sexta mensis Jugnij',’ and ends on f. [x] vi. After the usual signa- ture, in the same handwriting as the foregoing, is ‘concordat hmoi copia cum proprio originali. N. Paris.’

In the margin, by one hand, are notes both in Latin and French, with pointers, and lines under some words.

Eight leaves follow, which are blank, except that the last is endorsed “1480. 1487.,’ and by the same hand as the marginal notes but larger, ‘Proces contre les Vaudoys:’ beneath, in a smaller and apparently another

hand ; * Audimus Crispini alias Valoy.

Jehan Archeyeq3 poursuivant. Ν" 6.

Compare with the above account that given by Dr Todd (Brit. Mag. xx. 190) of an imperfect transcript at Dublin. (No. IX. § x.)

ὃ. Three leaves2, (12 inches by 82) which have suffered from having been folded and exposed to damp before they were curtailed by the binder.

Cest l’extraicte faicte du contenu au proces fait et demene deuant Mess" Mons" linquisteur aplicque et official de ceste cite in pns et assistans contre Steue Raoux de fraxinieres.

The endorsement, in the same large hand as that on a, is:

‘Vidi | Stephanu Ruffi de fraisinieres.’ After ‘No. 16,’ which has been altered to No. 17, is, in a small hand, ‘On na autre response de cestui cy examine | par Albertus de Capi- taneis, sinon que sen rafferte a dieu;’ and, ‘ Cest Albertus...auoir persequiute les Vaudoys en l’anne 1488. A leaf has been torn out before

ς. 1488. Minutte de diverses responses de ceux de fraiciniere vbi ne verbum quidem de paillardise.

This endorsement is in the same large hand, and, beneath, ‘ N° 7° are, in the smaller, ‘Sous ce messieur Jehan Archevesque ἃ Ambrun.’ ‘ Veyleti inquisiteur” A pen has been drawn across these; the pen through the second also subscribed, ‘ Laugeri inquisiteur.’

The whole is much less carefully written than a, the latter portion very hastily: but the marginal marks are similar. The watermark on the paper is the same as that of a.

α. 1489. Proces contre Pierre Valet (sic) de Freicinieres. Confisq. ses biens le liurant au bras seculier.

1 Maii is in a marginalnote by a iater hand, but from the dates the month must be June. 2 The watermark is a spearhead through a ducal crown.

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The two lines of the above endorsement are in different hands: in another is ‘N° 8;' (the 8 has been written over 7, by the same pen which has been drawn through 6 by the side). On the back is also ‘Cum Pma:’ this was also on f. 1, but has been partly torn off with the corner of the leaf: in the margin of f. 1 remain ‘f. aplica.’ and ‘ 2°. 1489.’ in one hand, and, apparently in the two hands of the endorsement, are ‘ Petrus Valoy’ ‘ Liuré au bras seculier.’

The account of the examination is in Latin, concluding (f. v1.), ‘...testibus Et me notario Gebaud.’ The MS. continues, ‘Demum vero sequitur tenor processus in vulgari sermone translatus...,’ and concludes (ἢ viz. b), ‘ Die ultima Marcii ante Palanu. N. Gebaud.’

The paper? is nearly the same size as in ὃ 1a, the handwriting is different.

Compare Dr Todd’s notice of No IX. ὃ xv. and xvi. wbi supra.

e. ‘Proces contre deux barbes asavoir francois de gerundino, dict barbe Martin, et Pierre de Jacob, dict barbe Jean: aux responses des quels ont esté adioustées des calomnies sur le faict de Paillardise et d’Idolatrie comme appert par le somptum des dites Responses en breuet y joint, le quel le Gressier a estendu a son plaisir.’

This first portion of the endorsement (on f. x11.) is in the large hand, the portion after ‘N°9’ in the smaller: there are, besides, endorsements in Latin by two or three other hands. On the top of f.1 is ‘hus,’ and in the margin ‘1°.’ “1402 τ᾿ the other notes generally in Latin’.

The first portion (ff.1—v11.) is printed by Allix (wbi supra, pp. 807—317.) The latter part concludes (f. xm.), ‘Extracta fuit hmoi copia a proprio originali et concordat N Paris. Compare Dr Todd’s account of No. IX. § xvu.

Ff. Contra peyronetam Relictam Adam Petri Beraudi als fornerii loci belli Respecty.

This is on the first cover ; ‘ vis. 3°.’ and, ‘ Ihus marie filius’ being above; and below, in the large hand, ‘A Valence l’an 1494,’ and, in a somewhat smaller hand, ‘ Existimo fidelit" scriptas responsiones.’

The whole is printed in Allix (ubi supra, pp.3818—331). That which he prints (p. 318) under the title, ‘Sumptum ex ore Peyronette,’ is on a slip of paper? inserted before f. 1, and endorsed, by the large hand, ‘ Nota hance chartulam,’ with the heading, ‘Icy se voit come on receuoit en bref les responses et puis on les estendoit a plaiser.. Marginal notes as in e are chiefly in Latin. See Dr Todd’s account of No. IX. δὲ xvmt. and xrx. The same endorsement is on fas on § XIx.

2. A Bull of Pope Alexander, bearing date the first of April in the year 1501, for absolution of the Waldenses, ὅσο. to en- courage them to revolt and abjure their Religion.

? The watermark resembles a bunch of currants. 2 The watermark is a stag’s head. 3. With the same watermark as the rest, viz. a gauntlet.

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‘Cum nos hodie te...’ The endorsement is the same as the title given by Dr Todd in his account of No. IX. § νι. 3. 4 Bull of the same Pope Alexander, bearing date the fifth of April, 1501, for absolution of Usurers, We. ‘ Ab eo qui...’ The scribe has made some corrections. See Dr Todd, No. IX. § vn.

4. A Bull of the aforesaid Pope Alexander bearing date the seventh of October, 1501, for absolution of all sorts of crimes and sins, and particularly of that of Heresie.

“Cum nos alias te..... See Dr Todd, No. IX. ὃ vu.

5. An Edict of Louis King of France, bearing date the 12 of October, 1501, for the restitution of the goods of those of Fraissinere.

The endorsement consists of that and the title given by Dr Todd, No. IX. § xxiv: the date of the text is ‘xm. jour,’

6. Letters Patent obtained of Louis King of France by those of Fraissinere, bearing date the twelfth October, 1501.

The endorsement is the same as that given by Dr Todd, No IX. § xxm. There are many marginal notes to this document and the following.

7. An Arrest du Grand Conseil of the 27 of May, 1502, in favour of those of Frassinere, Val Loyse, Argentiere, and other Inhabitants of Dauphine who turned Catholicks.

This has the same certificate and endorsement as No. ΙΧ, ὃ xxv. After this follows (see No. IX. ὃ xxv1.), A letter from the King on the same sub- ject, dated 27 May, 1502. The endorsement is now scarcely legible.

114. Watpenstan Documents: Morland, J.

Volumes 114—120 (I—P inclusive) are bound together. In the Volume I are contained the following MSS. on paper, 103 inches by 71. The documents 1—5, which alone are cata- logued by Morland and Nasmith, are all copies written by the same hand, and are of the date (1656) of the certificates sub- scribed by Balcet and A. Javel: these certificates are written in the smaller hand and with the darker ink with which the descrip- tions of the seals have been added to the copies. The document 6 is by a different hand, of about the same period as the others: at the top of every page (ff. 23—44) is the mark +.

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1. The Agreement made between Henry the Fourth of France and the Evangelical Professors of the Valleys of Piemont, in the year 1592.

This (ff. 1—10) includes the Letters Patent which with the foregoing Agreement are printed in Morland, Bk. m1. ch. π΄ pp. 429—448. See also δ 6.

2. A Petition of those of Val Perosa, presented to his Majesty of France, with the King’s Answer thereunto, upon the sixth of June, 1630.

This (ff. 11—12) under the title ‘ A Confirmation of the Privileges, Sc.’ is printed by Morland, pp. 449—455.

3 Several Articles of Capitulation accorded by the King of France to those of Val Perosa, bearing date the eleventh of April, 1680, to which are annexed his Majesties Letters Patents.

The latter (ff. 155—17) are dated Jan. 1633. The two following form part of the same collection.

4. The Kings Letters Patents in favour of the Evangelical Professors of Val Perosa, issued forth the tenth of March, 1648.

This is preceded (on ff. 17 b—19) by an ‘ Arrest du Conseil’ of the same date. On ἢ. 17 is the heading, ‘ Extraict des Registres du Conseil d’ Estat.’

δι ine tee secant ΒΕΠ6 6. orth, the 19. of A ngust; 1059.

The documents are similar to § 4. On f. 22 is a Certificate similar to those at the end of ὃ 1 and § 2.

6. Lettres patentes du Roy, sur Phomage fait a sa Majeste par ceux qui se sont remis soubs l’obeissance @iceluy en Piedmont.

This is the title on f. 23, which also Morland has prefixed to the contents of pp. 457—465. With the exception of the notary’s signature, the docu-

ments are in fact the same as those previously printed, in an inverted order, on pp. 429—448. See above, § 1.

115. Watpensrtan Documents: Morland, K.

1. The Concessions of the Duke of Savoy to the Evangelical Professors of the Valleys of Piemont in the year 1561.

‘This document does not now form part of the volume.

Probably Nasmith, in entering it in his MS. Catalogue, blindly followed Morland’s List.

2. The Concessions of the Duke of Savoy to the Evangelical Professors of the Valley of Piemont in the years 1602 and 1603.

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Printed in Morland, pp. 466—496. On the last of the ten leaves (12 inches by 8)), which are written in a large hand, is the endorsement hur- riedly written, ‘Copia autentica delle concess. del 1603 et 1620 et del Inter®.’

4)

3. The Confirmation of the above said Concessions, bearing date the 2 and 4 of June and 29 of December, 1653.

This on five leaves, of somewhat larger paper, is written in a smaller and clearer hand than the preceding document. It is referred to by Morland, p- 497, and translated by Leger, Liv. II. ch. vu.

116. Waupensian Documents: Morland, L.

In this volume are contained the following MSS., of which the list will be found to differ somewhat from Morland’s Cata- logue. They occupy about 60 leaves of the same size (12 inches by 8), excepting in § 12.

1. A Memorial concerning the Evangelical Churches in the Valleys of Piemont, in the year 1644.

This is in French, with the heading, ‘ Memoire sur les affaires des Eglises en Piedmont en ]’année 1644, and at the end the note ‘ I] est imprimeé en la 2. partie de la Relation des aff. Piem. in 8°.’

2. A Letter from the Evangelical Cantons of Switzerland to the Duke of Savoy the = of March, 1655.

A translation into French of this letter, and a portion of the reply (§ 3), are given by Leger, Liv. 11. ch. x11.

This and the following articles are copies, and with the exception of δὲ 4, 5, 7, 12, and 22, have at the end certificates like the one to this article,

Dass dissere Copia dem Original Inn allweg glychluthend syge Beziigt Andreas Schmid, der Statt Ziirich Understatt-schryber.

The articles are in German with the exception of $$ 8, 8, 11, 12, 13, and 23, in French, § 5 in Latin, and § 22 in Italian.

In the margin at the beginning of many of the articles are written the titles, those in English perhaps by Morland, those in French by the same hand as the notes to ὃ 1.

3. A Letter of the Duke of Savoy to the Evangelical Cantons the 6th of April, 1655.

4. <A Letter from the Ministers of Zuric to those of N. N. touching the negotiation of Mr Dureus for the unity of the Churches, together with a relation of the beginning and progress

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of the late persecution in Piemont; as also two other letters touching the same subject. They are dated from Zurich respec- tively the 5th March, the 22nd March, and 28rd April.

5. A Letier from the Pastors of Zurich to those of Basle, Schaffhouzen, ὅσο. concering the massacre in the year 1655, bearing date the 1 of May, 1655.

6. The Evangelical Cantons to the Duke of Savoy, the 6 of May, 1655.

7. Col. Weiss his account of the Commission given him by the Evangelical Cantons to negotiate or intercede in the behalf of the Valley People in Piemont with the Duke of Savoy.

See Leger, Liv. τι. ch. x11. where the name is Wits, in the MS. it is Waiss.

8. The Duke of Savoy to the Evangelical Cantons, 13 June, 1655.

9. The Evangelical Cantons to the Duke of Savoy, 17 June, 1655.

10. Coll. Weiss his account to those of Bern touching his second cold Reception in the Court of Savoy upon his intimation of the Evangelical Cantons Embassie intended thitherward in the behalf of the poor Exiles of Piemont.

11, The Duke of Savoy to the Evangelical Cantons received by their Ambassadors at Aigle, the 3 of July, 1655.

This reply to the letter in 8 14. is translated in Morland, B. rv. ch. vu. Ρ. 616.

12. The First Proposition of the Four Ambassadors of the Evangelical Cantons to the Duke of Savoy in behalf of the poor Evangelical Churches of the Valleys, together with the said Duke’s answer thereunto.

This article is in a different handwriting from the rest, and seems to have been inserted in the volume subsequently. See Morland, p. 619.

13. The Duke of Savoy to the Ambassadors of the Evange-

lical Cantons, the 29 of July, 1655.

14. The Ambassadors to the Duke of Savoy, 17 Junij, 1655. Printed in Morland, p. 614.

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15. The first Relation of the Negotiation of the Four Am- bassadors of the Evangelical Cantons in the Court of Savoy, bearing date the ᾿ς of August, 1655.

Printed with a translation by Morland, B. rv. ch. vu. pp. 628—635.

16. The second Relation of the said Ambassadors, bearing date the = of August, 1655. Printed ibid. pp. 636—643.

17. Their third Relation, bearing date the τ of August, 1655.

Printed ibid. pp. 644—5.

18. A Memorial given by the Ambassadors of the Kvan- gelical Cantons of Switzerland to the Baron of Greisey, 3; of August, 1655. ‘

: 4 28 of August 19. Their Letter to the Evangelical Cantons, the 25 cl ἌὙΡΗΣΙ ;

7 of Sept. 1655.

20. Their fourth and last Relation, bearing date the 5 Au- gust, 1655.

Printed by Morland, pp. 646—650.

21. The second Proposition of the Four Ambassadors of the Evangelical Cantons to His Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy, the 24 of August, 1655.

22. The Duke of Savoy's Answer to the request of the Four Ambassadors of the Evangelical Cantons, written in Italian, bearing date the 6 of September, 1655.

23. The Baron of Greisey to the Four Ambassadors of the Evangelical Cantons, the 30 of August, 1655.

117. Watpensitan Documents: Morland, M.

The MSS. in this volume appear to be all original, and on most the seals still remain.

1. Marchio a Sancto Thoma his Letter to Mr Morland during his abode at Turin, bearing date the 10 of July, 1655.

This letter and the next are printed in Morland, B. rv. ch. tv.

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2. The said Marquess his letter to the said Mr Morland, the 17 July, 1655.

3. A Letter from Major Weiss to the said Mr Morland, from Pignerol to Geneva, the 4 of August, 1655.

4. A second Letter from the said Major Weiss to the said Mr Morland, from Pignerol, the ὅς of August, 1655. 5. <A Letter from the Four Ambassadors of the Evangelical 9

Cantons to Mr Morland, dated from Pignerol the * of August, 1655.

6. A second Letter from the said Ambassadors to the said Mr Morland, the = of August, 1655.

7. A third Letter from the abovesaid Ambassadors to the abovesaid Mr Morland, dated from Turin the > of August, 1655.

8. The Attestation of Thomas Guiot and Fra. Pra. con- cerning the eating of the Protestant’s Brains, during the heat of the Massacre, dated 7. 8", 1655.

Printed by Morland, B. u. ch. vi. p. 336.

9. The Attestation of Mr Thomas Trouchin of Geneva, con- cerning the MSS. mentioned in the History of Mr Paul Perrin, dated 19 Novembre, 1656.

10. The Declaration of Mr de Petit Bourg, first Captain of the regiment of Grancey, touching the cruelties that were exercised upon persons of all ages and sexes, among the poor Protestants of the Valleys of Piemont, subscribed with his own hand at Pignerol, the 27 of November, 1655, in the presence of two other commanders.

Printed ibid. pp. 333—35.

11. The Attestation of Mr Andrew Schmidt, Under Secre- tary of State at Zuric, touching the Ambassador Stockar, and his dissenting from the other three Ambassadors in the hastening of the Treaty at Pignerol made at Geneva, the 2 of September, 1655.

Printed by Morland, B τν ch. vin. p. 672, with a translation differing from that appended to the attestation in MS.

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118. Waupenstan Documents: Morland, N.

Authentick Copies of several excellent Letters of consolation, from divers Protestant Churches in other parts to their poor afflicted Brethren in the Valleys of Piemont. The certificate of S. Borsetto, notarius, is subseribed to each.

The letters are at present arranged as below.

Flesing, 12 Januarij, 1656. (6.) Hanavie, 23 Jour Juin, 1656. (4.) De Francfort, ce 15™° Juillet, 1660. (3.)

1. De Bergerac, ce 22 Octobre, 1655. (Formerly also 1.)

2. De Paris, ce 19 d’Octobre, 1655. (Formerly 7.)

3. <A Clairac, ce 20™° Nov. 1655. (2.)

4. Ecclesie Reformate Middelburgensis Pastores...... 22 Decembris, 1655. (δ).

5.

6.

(he

119. Watupenstan Documents: Morland, O. In this volume are contained sundry edicts and state-papers, all printed, viz.

1. dicts of the Dukes of Savoy, some against, others by way of answer to the petitions, and in favour of their poor Pro- testant subjects.

The dates of twelve of these edicts are given in Morland’s Catalogue : those numbered therein 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 are comprised in ‘ Confirmatione de’ Privilegi fatta alli Signori Conti, e Communita della Valle di Luserna. Ato. Torino, 1643 ; in which are also two edicts dated Torino, 19 September, 1635, and Torino, 8 May, 1643. The date of No. 5,in Morland should be