A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge

A folio, on vellum, containing ff. 345, in double columns, with 12 and 24 lines in each column respectively. Date 1509.

A double LATIN VERSION of the GOSPELS OF ST MATTHEW AND ST MARK, executed by order of Dean Colet, the first being the Vulgate Version, and the other agreeing generally with that of Erasmus: the two versions being written side by side on the same page, the first as the more important in longer lines, the second after the manner of a gloss, in shorter lines down the page.

The MS. begins f. 2 with the usual preface of St Jerome to the Evangelists, followed by 'alius prologus eiusdem ad Eusebium.'

St Matthew begins f. 6 with an illumination of an Angel dictating to St Matthew, while Dean Colet kneels, with a rich border-an engraving from this is given in Knight's Life of Dean Colet.

The preface to St Mark begins f. 179, and the gospel in f. 180, preceded by an illumination of St Mark. After the end of the gospels, f. 295, we have:

Ad laudem et gloriam omnipotentis, incomprehensibilis, invisibilis Dei: ad honorem quoque dulcissime Marie Virginis genetricis ejusdem totiusque celestis exercitus, opus hoc duorum evangelistarum Matthei scilicet et Marci conscriptum est iussu et expensis reverendi domini et venerabilis viri, D. Joannis Colett, ecclesie Cath. Divi Pauli Londini decani, sacreque Theologie professoris. Egregii viri Henrici Colett militis, opulentissime civitatis Londini quondam senatoris et ejusdem bis consulis, filii. Arte ac industria Petri Meghen, monoculi, teutonis, natione Brabantini, oppidi Buschiducen. Leodien. dioc. anno incarnationis dominice millesimo quingentesimo nono, mensis vero Mai die Octavo. Eodem anno mensis Aprilis die Illustrissimus Rex Anglie (pie memorie) Henricus VII. (qui ut alter Salomon sapiens, dives, pacificus) diem clausit extremum; heredem regni relinquens, non ut Salomon Roboam filium stolidum; sed nobilissimum Henricum VIII. filium patre sapientiorem: cuius bona inicia omnipotens deus sua ineffabili pietate ad optima dignetur perducere extrema. Amen. This is followed by an extract in a different hand, headed by the same hand that has paged the MS. in chalk, 'Ex Polidoro pag. 600,' about Dean Colet's foundation of St Paul's School in London.

f. 297 begins a concordance of the two gospels, headed '[C]ollationes maiores evangeliorum sanctorum Matthei et Marci Evangelistarum,' with

which the volume ends f. 345 b. This MS. Colet left to his executors to be disposed of according to their discretion; it came into the hands of Archbp Parker, who gave it to the University. There is an allusion to it by T. Smith in his translation of Erasmus's Life of Colet. Camb. 1661.

A note in f. 1, inserted probably by order of Archbp Parker, gives an extract from Erasmus's preface to his notes on the New Testament, speaking of two Latin MSS. of the New Testament in Colet's possession, which the writer incorrectly supposed to coincide with the versions of the present MS.

412

413

414

Dd. VII. 4.

A folio, on parchment, of 225 leaves, in double columns, of 76 lines each. Probably of the xvth century.

There are catchwords at the foot of every 8th leaf.

SANCTUS AUGUSTINUS IN PSALMOS.

The initial letter was illuminated, and has been cut out; the margins were intended to be illuminated throughout, but only a few leaves have been finished.

The last leaf has been lost, but it appears to have contained only eight
words, as the MS. now ends (f. 225 b 2) with the words, 'Et quia sape.'
The treatise is contained in the Ivth Vol. of the Benedictine Edition,
Paris, 1836; and the MS. appears to agree with the ordinary text.

Dd. vII. 5.

A folio, on parchment, of 171 leaves, in double columns of 40 lines. Date, the xvth century.

LIBRI REGUM, PARALIPOMENON, ESDRE, TOBIE, JUDITH, ESTHER, JOBI Vulgatæ editionis cum GLOSSA ORDINARIA.

The MS. begins f. 1 with S. Jerome's Prologue to the Kings, and ends f. 171 with Job xxxix. 23: Supra ipsum sonabit faretra, vibrabit.' It contained an illuminated initial to each book, which has caused the loss of a leaf after each of ff. 1, 23, 41, 59, 86, 111, 121, 131, 137, and 151. It has been paged in ink since these leaves were lost.

Dd. vII. 6.

A large folio, on parchment, written in the time of Henry VI.; occasionally mutilated, and imperfect at the end; 260 leaves,

double columns, each averaging 70 lines. The titles are derived from the MS. itself.

1. Tractatus Corone Domini Regis. fol. 1.
2. Statuta de Scaccario Domini Regis.

3. Districtiones de Scaccario. fol. 1 b.
4. Statuta Exonie. fol. 1 b.

fol. 1.

5. Capitula eorundem Statutorum. fol. 2.

51 Hy. III. sc. 4.

6. Tractatus de Antiquo Dominico Corone. fol. 2 b.

7. Statutum de Londoneis (Gavelot). fol. 2 b.

8. Magna Carta de libertatibus Anglie. 35 ch. fol. 3.

9. Carta de Foresta. 16 ch. fol. 4.

10. Sententia lata in transgressores contra libertates cartarum. fol. 4b.

11.

Consuetudines de foresta. fol. 4 b.
12. Inquisitiones de foresta. fol. 5.
13. Forma literarum de foresta. fol. 5.
14. Capitula Regardatorum. fol. 5 b.
15. Assisa foreste. fol. 5 b.

16. Articuli de Eschaeteria. fol. 6.

17. Adhuc de his que spectant ad officium Escaetorum

Domini Regis unde tot inquirenda sunt. fol. 6b.

18. Provisiones sive Statuta de Merton. fol. 7.

19. Statuta de Marleborge. fol. 76.

20. Statuta Westmonasterii prima. fol. 9 b.

21.

Statuta Gloucestrie. fol. 12 b.

22. Statuta Westmonasterii secunda. fol. 13 b.

23. Statuta Wintonie pro pace terre conservanda. fol. 21. 24. Brevia eorundem. fol. 21 b.

25. Breve commissionis justiciariorum statuti de Wyncestria sive Exonie. fol. 22.

26. Statuta de religiosis, sive contra religiosos. fol. 22. 27. Statuta de emptoribus terrarum. fol. 22. 18 Ed. I.

28. Statutum quod vocatur Actone Burnell de mercatoribus. fol. 22 b.

29. Statuta alia de mercatoribus edita apud Westmonasterium. fol. 22 b.

30.

Statutum de anno et die sive de bissextili. fol. 23 b.

31. Statutum de conspiratoribus. fol. 23 b.

32. Statutum de Berewike. fol. 23 b.

33. Statutum de his qui ponendi sunt in assisis et juratis. fol. 23 b.

34. Statutum de bigamis. fol. 23 b.

35. Statutum de vasto facto in tempore alieno. fol. 24.
36. Statutum armorum. fol. 24.

37. Statutum de militibus. fol. 24 b.

38. Exceptiones contra regiam prohibitionem. fol. 24 b. 39. Statutum regis de regia prohibitione allocanda. fol. 24 b 40. Statutum de quo warranto. fol. 25.

41. Statutum de presentibus vocatis ad warrantum. fol. 25. 42. Statutum aliud de quo warranto. fol. 25.

43. Statutum de quo warranto novum. fol. 25 b.

44. Statutum de finibus. fol. 25 b.

45. Articuli et provisiones concessi a rege apud Lyncoln.

fol. 26.

46. Statutum editum apud Westmonasterium anno 34 statutum Wincestrie fundatum. fol. 27 b.

47. Diffinitiones Brevium. fol. 28.

super

48. Quedam summa de modo compositionis Brevium. fol.

28 b.

49.

Narrationes in Brevibus. fol. 29.

50. De natura essoniorum. fol. 30.

At fol. 34, a fragment of some statute relating to debtors. 51. Registrum Regis de Cancellaria. fol. 346. ff. 41 to 44 wanting.

52. Summa que dicitur Fait a Savoir. fol. 45.

53. La ditee et le enseignment de chescune maniere de office qe append a ly emprouvement de manyers. fol. 50b.

54. Une summaire qe est appele housebondrie 'Ceste ditee si, feysoyt Sire Waltier de Hengleye.'

Books

A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the ..., Volume 1