At the foot of f. 10 is a list of presents made by John Baker to the monastery. Among them are A bone of Seint Christofer closed yn cloth of golde, a noble relyke. A boke of seynts lyves yn Englysshe. A spruse tabell, and a cobberd that be yn there parler. The mendynge and renewinge of a oolde masboke of theres. A fetherbedde, a bolster, a pylowe and ii feire couerlettes. The MS. is mentioned by Tanner, Not. Monast. who appears to have copied it for an account of the Monastery see Dugdale's Monasticon, new ed. IV. 397, 398. Between f. 19 and f. 20, which contains the coats of arms of the brothers Elys as in f. 1, is inserted 2. Eighteen folio leaves, on vellum, in double columns, with 35 lines in each column, with rich illuminated initials and borders, and musical notes. Date, the xvth century. Begins: 'COMMENDACIO ANIME.' HORE BEATE MARIE VIRGINIS. Subvenite sancti dei occurrite angeli domini... Ends: Benedicamus domino Deo gracias. The Commendacio anime' ends f. 7 a, and the Hours begin f. 7 b. Several of the initials contain illuminated vignettes. A long folio, on paper, in Greek and Latin, now containing 160 leaves, unpaged, the two last of which are blank (the left hand column of each page being Greek, the other Latin); each column when full containing about 65 lines, but frequently a much smaller number; written in a very late hand, probably of the XVIth century; comparatively void of contractions, in a bad condition, and mutilated in the early part. The initial letters of the sections are rubricated, without ornaments. The title is written on the surface of the closed leaves, perpendicular to their edges. 'ALPHABETUM GRECUM.' 438 439 440 The words on the second leaf are mostly mutilated: the third leaf com mences: ayopaîos. Forensis conventus: qui vilia emit et vendit. Ends: ἡ ὠψ, ωπός: Vultus. No authors are quoted in illustration of the glosses. A few remarks are written by later hands, and sometimes in red ink. See the words vσrépημa, and Tupηvós: the alphabetical order is not strictly observed. On the inside of the cover is written Vocabularium Gr. Lat. J. B. Hautin. Dd. viii. 4. A folio, on paper, of 218 leaves, regularly numbered, beginning with the 4th, so that the last is numbered 215: of the xvi1th century. CHRIST AND HIS APOSTLES: or the History of the four Evangelists, St Matthew, St Marke, St Luke, St John at large, written and distinguished in such manner as they may with great facility be read and understood; together with the History of the Actes of the Apostles at large, harmonised out of the Epistles of them as touching the Story, with an abridgement of the said Harmony as touching the Story only with the Revelation of St John at large, together with the abridgement of the prophecies and Visions, digested and written by William Spencer, gent.' The text is written in a single column, and notes are added in the margin. The author seems to have been a Puritan. Dd. vii. 5. A folio, on parchment, of 252 leaves, in double columns, of 40 lines each, of the x11th century. The capitals are illuminated. SANCTUS AUGUSTINUS IN PSALMOS. It contains the Comm. of S. Aug. on the 1st fifty Psalms. Begins : De domino nostro Jesu Christo... Ends: ...tu imple personam tuam, deus de illo exiget suam. Rub. Aurelii Augustini doctoris expositionis super psalmos prima pars explicit. The text differs somewhat from that of the Works, Paris, 1835. Dd. vIII. 6. A folio, on parchment, of 202 leaves, in double columns, of 30 lines each, written late in the x11th century, and not unlike Dd. Ꮓ 441 VII. 15 and 16, but the writing is smaller, and the letters are rounder. The Volume formerly belonged to the Monastery of St Alban's, as appears from a rubrick at the foot of the Preface: 'Hic est liber sci Albani, quem qui ei abstulerit aut titulum deleverit vel mutaverit anathema sit. Amen.' 1. ff. 1 a, 1-201 b, 1. 'Incipit Prefatio Sancti Ieronimi Presbiteri in Expositionem Psalmorum.' Begins: Proxime cum Origenis Psalterium... Ends: ... in cuncta secula seculorum. Amen. This is the same as the Breviarium in Psalmos. Opp. Hieron. Vall. Vol. VII. App. 2. ff. 2016, 1—202 a, 2. 'Lectio sancti Evangelii secundum Lucam.' Taken from Bede, Expos. in Lucam, Lib. 11. Opp. Col. Agr. 1612. Vol. v. col. 262-264. Begins: In illo kapitulo. Egressus est, &c. [Iv. 14.] Virtute spiritus, signa miraculorum, &c. Ends: ... illius per omnia indigere muneribus, illius se posse credentes sanari virtutibus; cui est cum eterno &c. Dd. VIII. 7. A folio, on parchment, imperfect, containing ff. 431, in double columns, of 54 lines each, written about the middle of the xivth century. 1. A fragment of MARCI PAULI VENETI HISTORIA TAR TARORUM. Begins (f. 1) with what corresponds to a portion of Lib. 11. c. xlii. of the text in Novus Orbis: Myen uenit ut exercitum illius inuaderet. Tartari uero audacter occurrerunt illi. Cum igitur equi Tartarorum uiderunt elephantes.... Ends (f. 7): Est autem regio illa frigida super modum et usque ad oceanum mare protenditur. Explicit Historia tartarorum. This MS. wants therefore the concluding sentence given in the edition and in the MS. No. 17, § 12, though with the text of the latter it very closely agrees. 2. Comparing this with No. 1750, we may entitle it, HISTORIA POLICHRONICA RANULPHI CESTRENSIS. An alphabetical index occupies ff. 8-14, without a rubrick, and with merely a few lines of explanation beginning, 'Ad subsequentis tabule noticiam,...' the initial letter containing a portrait of a king. What at its end is termed 'prologus historice polichronice,' begins (f. 15), 'In historico namque contextu cronographorum diligencia nobis delegato relucet clarius norma morum, forma vivendi,...' and is continued on the next leaf marked 1 by the scribe. After this follows: Incipit historia policronica. Iulius Cesar diuinis humanisque rebus singulariter instructus cum consulatus sui fasces ageret, ex senatus consulto censuit omnem orbem per prudentes uiros admetiri. In the text following the chapters are not marked. The leaves are numbered by the scribe for the purpose of the index, and his enumeration is adopted in what follows. On f. 24, Incipit liber secundus,...' and the initial letters of this and the other books are worthy of note: that of Lib. VII. is on f. 321. The leaves between those marked 249 and 305, containing the history for A.D. 604-944, are missing, as also are those between 345 and 382 corresponding to the period A.D. 1153-1245. The scribe's enumeration does not extend beyond f. 419, and his references in the index do not go beyond f. 401; the handwriting at this place also differs slightly from what precedes. On f. 411 and ff. 413-415 are additions at the foot of the page, that on f. 415 under the date 1337-8, recording that 'hoc anno yems asperrima extitit in Anglia et durauit gelu maximum a 5 Kal. Decembris ad 4 Idus Februarii et niues nulle.' On f. 424, at the beginning of the year 1342, a different handwriting commences and continues to the conclusion (f. 431b), without a rubrick, under the date A.D. 1347, 21 Edw. III.: ... Eodem anno post annalem fere obsidionem famis coacti molestia qui intus erant salvis vita et incubis egressi sunt. Et regi Anglie urbs Calesii reddita est. See Mon. Hist. Brit. Gen. Introd. §§ 4 and 45. A folio, on parchment, of 163 leaves, in double columns, of 42 lines each, probably of the x11th century. RABANI MAURI COMMENTARII IN SANCTUM MATTHEUM. f. 1b contains an index of contents to the chapters in the Volume, for purposes of reference, written in a later hand. 443 After the prologue, 'Memor itaque illius precepti,...' and index of chapters, follows the treatise itself, perfect, in vIII. Books. Begins: Expositionem itaque scripturus... Ends: In unitate Spiritus Sancti per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Dd. vII. 9. A folio, on parchment, of 29 leaves, in excellent preservation. The royal arms are stamped on the cover. 1. 'SUPERVISUS MANERII DE BLEWBERIE in com. Bark. parcellæ terrarum et possessionum Charoli Principis Walliæ, Ducis Cornubiæ et Eborum et Comitis Cestriæ, inter alia concessæ dicto principi per Jacobum nunc regem Angliæ in augmentacionem reventium ipsius principis.' A.D. 1617. par 2. 'SUPERVISUS MANERII DE SHIPPON in Com. Bark. cellæ terrarum et possessionum Charoli principis Walliæ... Ducat. suo Cornub. nunc spectan. per excamb. pro Byflet et Waybridge in Surr.' A.D. 1617. 444 445 Dd. VIII. 10. A folio, on parchment, containing ff. 217. Handwriting of the XIVth century. TERTIA PARS INFORCIATI CUM GLOSSA,' divided into 14 books, beginning at Tit. 3. Lib. 24. Digestorum;' and ending with Lib. 38. Initial letter cut out. This volume appears, from the words 'jacet in cista de -' on the fly-leaf, to have been formerly deposited as security for a sum of money. Dd. viii. 11. A folio, on parchment, containing ff. 276, with a page of index at the end. Handwriting of the XIVth century. SANCTI GREGORII DECRETALIUM. LIB. V. cum glossa. The illuminated initial letter is cut out, and In Book 3, Tit. 44-50, and ̧ ́ in Book 4, Tit. 1-15, are wanting. |