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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.

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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. 11., 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.

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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 veapaì, 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. 2a:

'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 Angliâ. Vol. 1. 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.

(3) f. 27.

· περὶ τῶν ποταμῶν.

(4) f. 29.

“Ἀρχὴ σὺν θεῷ τῶν τροπῶν, κ.τ.λ.

'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.'

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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 ῥητορικῆς.

'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.

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(9) f. 46. Sequuntur in eodem codice : προλεγόμενα τῶν προγυμνασμάτων Aphthonii sc. ἐξήγησις τοῦ μύθου etc.

Begins :

ἀνασκευὴ ὠνόμασται.

The names and fragments of the authors cited are similarly copied out. These scholia are a portion of the same as those edited by Walz. Rhet. Gr. Vol. 1. p. 1. sqq. See p. 25.

(10) f. 47, 48 a. Sequuntur in eodem Cod. προλεγόμενα τῶν στάσεων. f. Sopatri.' The scholia are fully copied out.

Begins :

Ends :

ὁ τὸ τῆς ῥητορικῆς βιβλίον συντεταχὼς Ερμογένης.

τρίτον τὸ τῶν ἰδεῶν.

The author is Maximus Planudes. See Walz. Rhet. Gr. Vol. v. pp. 222— 230. The present MS. ends at p. 228.

(11) ff. 48 b-52 b.

“Σχολ. εἰς Ερμογένους στάσεις.

Begins :

πολλῶν ὄντων.

The compiler has merely copied out the places where the Scholiast refers to other authors.

The scholia are evidently those of Maximus Planudes, edited by Walz. Rhet. Gr. Vol. v. pp. 232 sqq.

(12) ff. 53 a-67 b.

Eod. Cod. περὶ λογογραφίας, περὶ ἐπιστολῶν, περὶ στίχων εἰσαγωγίμων. In marg.

• Christianum fuisse constat, nec quid amplius: nonnullos citat auctores quos alibi vix comperies." Inepte.'

Begins:

πᾶσα λόγου ἰδέα ἐκ μερῶν ὀκτὼ σύγκειται, ἐννοίας, λέξεως, σχήματος, μεθόδου, κώλων, συνθήκης, ἀναπαύσεως, καὶ ῥυθμοῦ, περὶ ὧν μάθῃς μὲν ἐν τῷ τῶν ἰδεῶν βιβλίῳ τοῦ Ἑρμογένους πλατύτερον καὶ σοφώτερον· ἐνταῦθα δὲ διδάξομαί σε ὡς ἐγχωρεῖ καὶ μάλιστα κατὰ τὴν σήμερον τιμωμένην λογογραφίαν.

Ends:

καὶ πρὸς τούτοις τὸ σύντομον.

Another but an imperfect copy of this work will be found in Dd. xi. 54. A treatise περὶ ἐπιστολικῶν τύπων, by Theophilus Corydalleus, first printed at London in 1625, and afterwards at Halle, is a different, but very similar production.

The author cannot have lived earlier than the xnth or xth century, as appears by the allusions to βασιλεὺς ἀγγελώνυμος and to Ptochoprodromus.

He quotes or refers to a great number of classical and medieval writers, but, so far as the former at least are concerned, seems to have preserved nothing otherwise unknown. The work appears to be unedited.

(13) f. 68. 'In Eod. Cod. marg. Sopater in Hermog.'

‘Princip. στρόγγυλον σχῆμά ἐστι τόδε * * * fin. φιλόσοφος μοιχὸν εὑρὼν ἐπὶ τῇ γυναικὶ συνῴκισεν αὐτῷ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ κρίνεται παρανομίας. Ex hujusmodi thesibus consistit pars posterior notarum. Sequuntur Theophrasti characteres.'

...

The compiler has noticed a few citations of authors that occur in the treatise. The early part of it is edited (without the author's name) in Walz. Rhet. Gr. Vol. 1. p. 704 sqq.; the theses are not given there.

(14) ff. 68-84 a.

Ita tit.

Epitome Dionysii Halicarn. teρì ovvdéσews óvoμátwv. Melioris notæ liber.'

Begins:

δωρόν τοι καὶ ἐγὼ τέκνον φίλε Ροῦφε Μελίτιε τοῦτο δίδωμι, κ.τ.λ. Goes down to:

τοιαῦτα δὲ ἐστὶ τὰ ὅμοια τοῖς καλοῖς λόγοις μέτρα καὶ μέλη, διὰ ταύτας γινόμενα τὰς αἰτίας.

(i. e. within a few lines of the end of the treatise.) After this sentence proceeds another paragraph of 28 lines, which does not occur in the Leipsic edition (1829), on the names of Greek feet, beginning:

σπονδείος ποὺς σύγκειται ἐκ δύο μακρών.

And ending:

δισπονδεῖος ἐκ τεσσάρων μακρῶν οἷον Ηρακλείδης.

(15) ff. 84 a to the end.

The compiler next remarks that in the Trinity College MS. follow Aristidis monodia in Smyrnam and Diogenis Laertii vitæ philosophorum: he then gives the various readings of part of this MS. of Diogenes, as compared with the Amsterdam edition of Meibomius (1692); but after collating as far as the end of Plato,' observes: Hucusque progressus sum, cum inopinato nocte intempesta Apr. 6. MS. è manu nostra abreptus est: restitit tantillum temporis ut ordinem reliquorum librorum concinnarem. Platonem sequitur Speusippus, Xenocrates,' &c. (naming them)......oi kuvikoì piλóσopol. With these words (p. 172) the MS. ends.

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A quarto, on paper, 80 leaves, about 35 lines on each page, handwriting the same, of the early part of the xvIIth century.

I. "CATHOLICUM ad reverendi in Christo patris ac Domini mei Episcopi Bel[lo]vacensis [i. e. Beauvais] jussum."

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