257

258

259

260

Dd. v. 18.

A small thick octavo, on paper, irregular writing, of xvith century.

Apparently the index to the owner's COLLECTION of RECIPES, alphabetically arranged, with some of those recipes at the end.

The date and owner's name may be conjectured from an irregular entry : 'Jan. 21st, 1652. John Gardener sen' was borne at Amersham betweene 10 and eleven Clock in ye morning.'

There is also a receipt for the sum of £3 paid by the same John Gardiner to Hugh Hobbs.

Dd. v. 19.

A small quarto, on paper, of 96 leaves: the first three of which contain a table of contents. The title (on f. 4 a) is as follows:

'Here folowith certeyne NOTES, gathered out of the prophet David, out of the wourks of Salomon, Job, and Ecclesiasticus.' The writing is of the xvith century. On f. 1 the name Elizabeth Harris is twice written.

Dd. v. 20.

A small quarto, on paper, in good condition: date about 1620. It contains 45 leaves, most of them ruled for MUSIC. On the fly-leaf are the words 'For the Bass Vyall.' The leaves 1-11, 19-25, 33, 40-42, contain the bass part of a number of dance tunes: this portion of the MS. is written in the modern notation of semibreves, minims, &c., but without bars. Leaves 12-18, 26, 27 contain music like that in MS. 43; the remaining leaves are blank.

Dd. v. 21.

This MS. consists of 13 leaves of paper, bound up with the preceding. It contains the Recorder part' of most of the MUSIC whose bass is in MS. 259.

The Recorder was a kind of flute or flageolet.

A paper book, in quarto, 302 ff. Law common-place book, from Abator' to 'Estoppele.'

Handwriting same date as in Dd. v. 23.

262

263

264

265

Dd. v. 23.

A paper book, in quarto. Law COMMON-PLACE BOOK. Containing 240 ff. paged throughout. Fairly written in a hand of the end of the xvith century, and alphabetically arranged from 'Abatement del Bre,' to 'Gard, and Gardein en Chilry.'

Dd. v. 24.

A small quarto, on paper, 269 leaves, xviith century.

PHARMACOPEIA and RECEIPT Book of Dr Theodore Turquet De Mayerne.

Principally in Latin, the rest in English and French. The original receipts marked in the margin with his abbreviated initials, and those communicated, with the name of the author, also in the margin. It appears to comprise the interval from 1627 to 1651, though there is a reference (p. 99) to the date 1610.

To a prescription for small pox, at p. 177, there is the marginal note: 'feliciter dedi Regi Carolo laboranti variolis an. 1632.'

Dd. v. 25.

A small quarto, on paper, 190 leaves; good preservation, in the author's handwriting, of the xvi1th century.

'ADVERSARIA PHYSICA: AUDITIONES QUOTIDIANE, Sep.

1630.'

A collection of Recipes by Dr T. de Mayerne, and his modifications of them denoted by his monogram appended. In German, some in French and English, but most in Latin; it includes prescriptions for cosmetics and washes and for preservation of flowers, &c.

There is an ancient book-plate on the first fly-leaf, representing a peacock displayed, standing on the stump of a tree, before which Mercury is driving a pair of winged horses in a plough. Motto: 'Spes alit Agricolas.'

Dd. v. 26.

A small quarto, on paper, 126 leaves, double columns, good preservation; same handwriting as preceding.

'MEDICAMENTA ad instruendam Officinam nostram Chymicam nunc præparanda, Mens Oct. 1607: the author being 'Th. De Mayerne.'

It relates to the preparation of medicines, with a few descriptions of the apparatus employed, and the modes of adjusting and using such apparatus ; chiefly in Latin. Not published.

On the 105th leaf there is Censura Trogniana in aliquot operationes hoc libro contentas,' and on the 109th, ‘Cathartica quædam Mineralia.'

Many of the formulæ, apparently original, have Mayerne's monogram: others are taken from Paracelsus, with observations of the compiler, and the doses to be administered. There is an index at the end.

266

267

Dd. v. 27.

An octavo, on paper, of 54 leaves, written probably in the XVIth century.

SERMONS for the Sundays and Holydays of the year.

At the top of f. 1 a are the words:

Jesus. Prologus in librum tropologie.

Exscripsi hunc librum ab alio in pergameno scripto in bibliotheca majori Universitatis Cantabrigie, latere aquilonari.

Between this title and the commencement of the Preface are the words, 'per Robertum Ridleium,' and at the foot of the page, ‘Liber Roberti Ridlei,' in a different ink and handwriting from the rest. In the right-hand lower corner of the first page is the note, 'Author horum eruditissimorum Sermonum etsi nomen prorsus suppressit, nec nominari voluit, liquet tamen ex opere non uno in loco monachum fuisse, ut ex sermone dominice 6 et 9 Trinitatis.'

Begins:

Quam jucunde videbit eternum Dei tabernaculum...
Ends:

Cui sit gratiarum actio et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.

Dd. v. 28.

A small quarto, on paper, of 250 leaves, containing about 25 lines in a page. Apparently of the xvi1th century.

Lectures of CESAR CREMONINUS on Aristotle, de Anima, Lib. iii.

Begins:

Prestantia hujus partis sequentis satis perspecta est ex sola animadversione ...

Ends:

ideo lingua esse parce utendum et ut dicebant Pythagorei non omnibus sunt pandenda omnia.

At foot of f. 250 b is subjoined the following stanza :

Cesarem ad magnum properate cuncti

Vos Cremoninum super astra ferte
Vera qui vobis Sophie corusce

Dogmata pandit.

The Lectures commence at the top of a page, with no title prefixed, and are evidently a portion of a larger work. They are on the 3rd Book of the Treatise 'De Anima,' according to the Greek division, although the references in them are to the texts' of the Arabs and Latins. Another MS. in the Library (Dd ix. 19) contains a commentary ascribed to the same author, on Aristotle 'De Anima,' Lib. II, according to the Latin division. A part of the text is therefore common to both MSS., but the commentary is not the same. Various unpublished works of Cremoninus are referred to by Brücker, Buhle, and other writers, (see especially Naudæana, Amst. 1703, p. 54,) but there is no special mention of these Lec

tures.

Inside the cover the name 'Thos. Denne, Jun.' is written.

A small quarto, on paper, of 89 leaves, excluding blanks, written in the 18th century.

The MS. is paged regularly from f. 4 to the end.

f. 1 b is headed Lemmata Cod. Arundel. Gr. N. 1."

· ἐκλογὴ καὶ σύνοψις τῶν βασιλικῶν σὺν παραπομπαῖς κατὰ στοιχεῖον... κ.τ.λ.

Afterwards follow the titles of various veapai, or Novels of the Emperor Constantine and others: which table is continued on f. 3 a, forming an Index to part of the contents of the MS. from ff. 25-44. A short but complete table of contents with references to the pages of the MS. is found on f. 2 a, in which the sources whence the various treatises have been taken are frequently mentioned, as given below.

1. ff. 4—24. Title on f. 2 a:

‘Hymni Græci Ecclesiastici præsertim C. P. ex Cod. MS. Gr. (de musica Eccles.) chartac. D. Humfredi Wanley. Coll. Univers. Oxon. Soc.'

f. 4 a contains the initial words or titles of a number of hymns. Afterwards follow hymns and titles of Psalms, with directions as to the seasons at which they should be sung.

Begins (f. 4a):

ἦχ. α. Επέστη ἡ εἴσοδος εἰς τὸ ὄρος...

Ends (f. 24 b):

ὡς πάλαι τὴν τοῦ Σωτῆρος πλευ... cætera desunt magno reip. Ecclesiasticæ damno. tum sequitur lacera charta ultima.

Ἀπὸ τὸ (sic) ἐταράττετο Ηρώδης. ἦχ. γ.

Μητέρες ἠτεκνοῦντο...

...ἠκριβολογεῖτο διάστημα τοῦ ἔτους.

'cætera desunt et hic explicit liber rarissimus, cui vix par inveniendus est, etsi sequioris ævi.'

2. ff. 25-44.

A transcript from a Gr. MS. in the Gresham Collection, v. Cat. Libb. MSS. in Anglia. Vol. II. p. 84. No. 3423.

(1) Fragmentum testamenti Greg. Nazian.' Merely the first words of paragraphs are given ; then follow :

(2) Μοιχίωνος [qu. Μοσχίωνος?] ὑποθῆκαι.

· περὶ Βισέξτου.

· περὶ γεννήσεως ἀνθρώπου καὶ ὅθεν τρίτον καὶ ἔννατον καὶ τεσσαρακοστόν.

'Eustath. Antecessoris v. Juris Græco-Romani, Tomi duo. Francofurti, 1596.'

Imperfect, ending f. 30 a.

(5) f. 30 b.

· Λέξεις Ρωμαϊκαὶ κείμεναι ἐν τῷ νόμῳ κατὰ στοιχεῖον.

Amongst these is inserted, f. 32 a, a short paragraph περὶ μέτρων. 1mperfect, ending f. 34 a.

(6) f. 34 b.

'Synodica Sisinnii adv. nuptias illicitas.'

Nothing is given but the title, and first and concluding paragraphs with the refer. 'Juri. Gr. Rom. Tom. I. p. 197 sqq.'

A collection of various Novels which have been edited by Labbe, Meursius, and in the Jur. Gr. Rom. Tom. II.

(8) f. 45.

* προλεγόμενα τῆς ῥητορικής.

'E Cod. chart. MS. Colleg. SS. Trinit. Cantabr.' [R. 9. 18.] 'Troilus Sophista. Excerpta.'

Begins :

τὴν ῥητορικὴν διαφόρως τινες ωρίσαντο.

The citations made by Troilus are copied out. The treatise itself (being that form into which Maximus Planudes has cast it) is edited in Walz. Rhet. Gr. Vol. v. p. 212 sqq.