A large folio, on vellum, containing ff. 464, in double columns, with 53 lines in each column. There are rich illuminated initial letters. Date, the xivth century.

BIBLIA VULGATA SANCTI HIERONYMI.

The first 5 leaves are occupied with a metrical summary of the events of the Bible, headed

'Summaria copulacio metrificata dicens...'

Then follows the epistle of Jeremiah (Baruch vi.), and then St Jerome's usual prologue. Genesis begins f. 10, the initial I containing a vertical row of vignettes of the Creation. The books occur in the usual order, excepting that the Book of Baruch and the Acts follow the Epistle to the Hebrews. Of the Psalter there are two versions, the ordinary Vulgate and that of St Jerome from the Hebrew, as given in Sabatier's edition. A canon of the lessons follows the books of Maccabees, the preface to St Matthew beginning f. 371. After the Apocalypse is an index of names, a metrical summary of the gospels, and lastly a genealogy down to our Lord's time of Jewish kings and others, in a different hand. Before each book is an index of the chapters with contents. On the cover is written a list of the books of the Bible, and a recipe 'to make water for yzen;' and before the Psalter one ad incaustum nigrum faciendum.'

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Dd. viii. 13.

A folio, on parchment, of 114 leaves, in double columns, of 40 lines each, probably of the XIIth century.

RABANUS MAURUS DE UNIVERSO.

Imperfect, commencing with Lib. xI. and ending abruptly in the last chap. of Lib. XXII.

A folio, on parchment, of 292 leaves and a fragment, in double columns, of from 36 to 42 lines each, of the x11th century. The initial letters are illuminated.

ROBERTI PRIORIS DE BERLINTON A COMPILATIONES IN EPISTOLAS PAULI APOSTOLI.'

Begins (after the Preface, 'Sicut et aliarum mearum compilationum...' and the Prologue 'Primum queritur'), f. 3b 1, with the words,

Paulus Servus Christi Jesu-Anselmus Paulus hebraice, quietus Grecc...

Ends, on a fragment after f. 292:

... minus perfectis ut crescant, incorrectis ut resipiscant.

Explicit liber compilationum domini Roberti, &c.

The compilation consists of extracts from various Fathers whose names are given; the author says in his own preface, ‘Quas diverso modo,' &c. The four leaves prefixed in the volume to the above treatise, in a hand apparently of the xvth century, contain

1. DE OPERIBUS SEX DIERUM.'

Begins:

In principio &c. fratres karissimi secuti Paulus per revelationem didicit...

Ends, on 3rd leaf b 1:

...qui id facturus erat propria voluntate per culpam, et ordinandus domini equitate per penam.

2. A Treatise DE PENITENTIA.'

Which seems to have consisted of nine chapters, but has been mutilated. Begins:

In penitentia autem que peccatorum considerare oporteat... Ends:

...omni igitur a malo sic mentem revocat ut commissa plangat et plangenda committere non velit ne...

The first of the above treatises is probably, and the second possibly, by the same author as the Commentary. v. Tanner, Bibl. Lond. 1748, p. 657. Robert (also called Scriba) 4th Prior of Bridlington (or Burlington) in Yorkshire, flourished at the close of the xnth century. v. Tanner as above.

The second side of the 4th leaf contains a Table of the Lessons, for Sundays and Festivals, taken out of St Paul's Epistles.

On the fly-leaf is:

14th Feb. 1635. This booke, intituled Compilationes Roberti Prioris de Berlintona in Epistolas Pauli Apostoli, being bequeathed to the publike Library of this University of Cambridg by the last Will and Testament of Mr Thomas Peirson, Rector of Brampton Brian in the County and Diocess of Hereford, sometimes Master of Arts in Emanuell Colledg, was brought and delivered by Mr Christofer Hardy one of the Executors of the saide Mr Peirson.'

This Mr Peirson was in his yonger days a frequent coadjutor to that great theologue Mr Perkins.'

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Dd. VIII. 15.

A folio, on parchment, of 175 leaves, in double colums, of 39 lines each, written in the x111th century.

1. ff. 1--162 a.

'EXPOSITIO HAIMONIS IN ISAIAM PROPHETAM.'

Begins (after the prologue' Isaias propheta nobili prosapia ortus...') with the words:

Visio Isaie &c. Mos et usitata consuetudo est scriptorum...
Ends:

...quia non gaudebant de reproborum damnatione, sed de sua liberatione. Explicit, &c.

There are many copies of this in MS. in various Libraries; it was published Colon. 1531, in 8vo.

The writer was Bishop of Halberstadt, and died in 853. He was a relative of Bede.

Ymnum dicite et super exaltate eum in secula. Amen. Opp. Paris, 1837, Vol. vi. pp. 578 sqq.

Dd. vi. 16, 17.

Two folios, on parchment, in double columns, the 1st of 346 leaves, the last mutilated, of about 46 lines in a column, the 2nd of 314 leaves, of 50 lines in a column, both paged throughout in red chalk, with illuminated initials. Of the xvth century. 'THOME WALDENSIS DOCTRINALE ANTIQUITATUM ECCLESIÆ.'

Vol. I. contains Books 1-1v, and begins (after the prefatory letter to Pope Martin V, in the inscription of which the word 'pape' has been erased,) f. 3a, 1:

Mea doctrina non mea, &c. Johannis vii. Alma magestas et invicte deitatis imago...

Ends, f. 346 a:

... et omnibus carnalis vite illecebris celestem vitam et eternam preponant. Amen.

Vol. II. contains the second part of the treatise

'DE SACRAMENTIS.'

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Begins (after the prologue 'Doctrinis variis...,' and table of chapters), f. 13 b:

Sacramenta veneranda...

Ends, f. 314 b:

... cujus in terris spondes Vicarium Jesum Christum. Amen. At the end follows the rubrick, Explicit, &c.

The contents of this MS. form Vols. 1 and 2 of the Edit. Venet. 1571. There is a third part 'De Sacramentalibus.' The author's name was Netter of Walden: he died in 1430, v. Tanner, Bibl. p. 746.

These are among the MSS. given by Archbishop Parker to the University.

Dd. VIII. 18.

A large folio, on vellum, containing ff. 240, with 21 lines in each page. It has rich illuminated initials, borders, and occasional vignettes. Catchwords occur on every 8th leaf. Date, the xvth century.

PSALTERIUM CUM CANTICIS, &c.

After a blank leaf, the Kalendar follows ff. 2-7, then an exhortation to read the Psalter, beginning 'Canticum psalmorum corpus sanctificat, animam decorat,...' a prayer for the person about to repeat the Psalms, another Laudatio Psalmorum and an explanation of the word Psalterium.

The Psalter begins f. 10, with a rich border and an illuminated initial letter, containing a stem of Jesse, and ends f. 188, when the usual Canticles follow, beginning with the Confitebor : then the Litany, the Office In vigiliis defunctorum, the Confiteor, and lastly an index of the Psalms and Canticles, giving a slight sketch of the contents of each, with which the MS. ends f. 239 b, the last words being ' Deo gracias.'

In the Kalendar, the word 'pape' and St Thomas of Canterbury's name are effaced-to May 21 is attached the note "Terre motus anno d. mccclxxxii.' The order of the Lessons to be read through the year is given in doggerel verse at the end of each month, e.g.

'Post Augustinum doctum Jobum lege justum.'

On f. 96 is the name Joseph Teneon.

Dd. vIII. 19.

A folio, on parchment, 127 leaves, double columns, of about 46 lines each, well written in a hand of the xvth century. It is in a tolerable state of preservation, but incomplete. Nearly all the chief capitals are wanting.

GOWER'S CONFESSIO AMANTIS.

Begins (fol. 1 a):

[O]f hem that writen vs to fore
The bokes dwelle, and we therfore
Ben taught of that was write tho

Breaks off (fol. 127 b):

Which of longe tyme hym hadde greued
Bot at the laste it was acheued

That he this kyng discomfit hadde.

Fol. 88 b is blank, after which a large gap occurs, extending over a fourth part of Book v. A considerable part of Book vii. is also wanting, and the whole of Book vIII. Fol. 15, 16, 17 have been transposed: they should have stood at the close of the volume, fol. 15 being last of all. The real end would therefore be at fol. 15 b ( With hym thre hundred and no mo'). The 'Confessio Amantis' was finished in 1393 and printed by Caxton in 1483 (see Warton, 11. 227 sq. ed. 1840).

The following persons are mentioned as successive owners of this copy: Mr Asshe, Thomas Carsson, Ambrose Belson, J. Barton.

At the beginning of the volume are four pages of an older Latin treatise, apparently on the Canon Law: the subject of the last (imperfect) chapter is " De Scismaticis et ab eis Ordinatis.'

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A folio, on paper, of 70 pages, written in the first half of the XVIth century, injured by use and the binder's knife.

1. LIBER EBORACENSIS.

After the heading Archiepatus Eboracen.' follows (on pp. 1-46 and 55-70) a list of the different benefices with the Tenths due from each, the amounts of which generally agree with the sums printed in Vol. v. of Valor Ecclesiasticus, (fol. 1825,) though the first item, 'De Archiepatu Eboracen. cc. x. . ob.,' is different. The amount for each page has been written at the bottom by another hand of the period.

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'Nomina Dignitatum Prebendarum Rectoriarum Vicariarum cantariarum et capellanorum infra Eccles. metropoliticam ciuitatem et Archidiaconatum Eboracen.'

The names (on pp. 47-58) are in four columns, of the incumbents, of the benefices, of the 'clarus valor,' and of the 'decima pars:' from a comparison of the names with the lists given in Drake's Eboracum (fol. 1736) B. 11. ch. iii. the lists in the MS. must have been taken between 1534 and 1537, in obedience to the Act, 26 H. VIII. c. 3. See also Ib. ch. ii. p. 519.