554 555 556 Begins : Abominatio desolationis quadrupliciter exposita... Ends: .non potest habere consilium. 'Explicit tabula Johannis Crisostomi bona et utilis.' On the last leaf are the lines: Qui bona proponit et negligit hec operari Dd. IX. 67. A quarto, on paper, of 90 leaves, of which 9 are blank. SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S LUCASIAN LECTURES ON OPTICS. 1670-1672. This MS. is described by Mr Edleston, Correspondence of Newton and Cotes, p. xci. Dd. ix. 68. A quarto, on paper, of 138 leaves, of which 4 are blank. See Mr Edleston's Correspondence, &c. p. xcii. Dd. Ix. 69. A small quarto, on parchment, of 221 leaves. §§ 1 and 2 are regularly paged, independently of each other; the first a Byzantine MS., the second written in western Europe. 1. ff. 1-290. THE FOUR GOSPELS IN GREEK. On f. 1 is a note of no importance. ff. 2-9 contain the Eusebian Canons, and on ff. 10, 85, 136, 227 are illuminated frontispieces to the Gospels. A summary of contents is also prefixed to each. This MS. is mentioned by Scholz and numbered 60 amongst the MSS. of the Gospels in his catalogue. f. 290 contains two notes in rubrick, the second being a prayer to the Virgin. See Montfaucon, Palæogr. Græca, p. 286. 2. ff. 292-213. THE APOCALYPSE, in a handwriting of the xvth century. The text is perfect, without introduction or note of any kind. This is numbered 10 in Scholz's list of MSS. of the Apocalypse. 3. ff. 214-231. PRAYERS IN GREEK. Apparently about the same date as § 2, but less carefully written. A small quarto, on parchment, of 139 leaves, in double columns, of about 32 lines each, written in the xvth century. 6 1. ff. 1-85. TRACTATUS ET EXPOSICIO EVANGELIORUM que leguntur in dominicis diebus totius anni.” Begins (after the text): Dominus et redemptor noster... Ends: ...in regno celorum mereamur habere. Qui vivit, &c. The Sunday after Whitsunday is called the Octave of Pentecost, and the Sundays subsequent to this are reckoned post Octavam Pentecostes. This gives no clue to the date of the MS. In 'Constitutions' of a.d. 1240, Wilkins, Conc. 1. 677, the festival in honour of the Trinity is mentioned in the list for Sarum diocese, but not in that for Worcester. The first council which sanctioned the observance of Trinity Sunday as such, was that of Arles in 1260. Can. vi. Labbe, Vol. xxIII. col. 1006. Besides the sermons for Sundays there are also some for the principal Festivals of the Ecclesiastical year. All are very brief. 2. ff. 85 b-139. TRACTATUS ET EXPOSICIO EVANGELIORUM que leguntur in festivitatibus Sanctorum Apostolorum Martirum Confessorum atque Virginum.' Some of the sermons hardly fall under this title, e. g. 'In dedicacione Ecclesie,' In capite Jejunii,' &c. Begins (after the text): Johannes Evangelista manifestat... Ends: ...quod ipse nobis patrare dignetur. Qui cum Deo patre, &c. A quarto, on parchment, of 245 leaves, with 34 lines in a page. Written in the xvth century. A leaf has been lost after f. 24. 559 ff. 1-135. SERMONS FOR THE SUNDAYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. These are 119 in number, all upon the Epistle for the day. ... non vult abstinere quin ornet se crinibus alienis. The last ten leaves contain an index of subjects alphabetically arranged. At foot of which are the words: Explicit liber Parisiensis super Epistolas per annum cum tabula. Opus doctoris Parisiensis, &c.' Below is written : 'Liber Johan. Warde Coll. Syd. Sussex Cant. Clerici in Artibus Magistri de Sabridgeworth in Comitat. Hertford Vicarii, Setho permissione divina Sarum Episcopo Sacellani domestici. Jani 28° 1679.' Dd. IX. 72. A quarto, on parchment, ff. 140; handwriting of the xivth century. MISCELLANEOUS LAW DOCUMENTS, of which the titles are taken from the MS. itself. 11. Summa que dicitur 'Modus componendi brevia.' f. 86 b. 12. 13. Exceptiones contra brevia. f. 93. Quot modis dicitur exceptio. f. 99. 14. Summa que dicitur Judicium Essoniorum.' f. 99 b. 15. Quot modis calumpnianda sunt essonia. f. 107. 16. Parvum Hengham. f. 107 b. 17. Magnum Hengham. f. 118. At f. 137 b is written: Thomas Carus de medio templo in comitatu Myddelsex armig.' 560573 574 575 Dd. x. 1-14. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS. Dd. x. 15. A quarto, on parchment, of 229 leaves, with about 37 lines in a page. Written late in xvth century. 1. ff. 1-12. A TREATISE ON THE VII MORTAL SINS. Begins : Veneni ratio potissime convenit peccato...... Ends: ... et habet illa pro magno honore aliis derelictis, hæc ille 4to. 2. ff. 13-174. 'FASCICULUS MORUM, CONTINENS VII PARTICULAS.' Begins (after the prologue, Frater noster dilecte ac sodalis...'): Ut enim habetur in regula sanctorum Patrum... Ends: ... rex dulcorum et decus illius sanctissime civitatis. This treatise is in a MS. of Corp. Chr. Coll. Oxon. No. ccxxvIII. attributed to Robert Silk, a Minorite, but in MSS. of the Laudian Collection to John Spicer, of the same body, the tabula or index only being said to be the work of Silk. This tabula is contained in f. 175 of the present MS. 3. ff. 175-229. LIBER AUREUS DE VITA CHRISTI JESU PER DOMINUM BONAVENTURAM CARDINALEM.' COMPOSITUS [Capp. 98.] Inter alia virtutum et laudum preconia... Ends: ... nos ad se dignetur assumere ipse de quo locuti sumus Dominus noster Jesus Christus cui sit &c. Opp. Mogunt. 1609. Tom. vi. pp. 334-400. Dd. x. 16. A small folio, on parchment, of 112 leaves, with about 27 lines in a page. Written about the x1th century. 1. ff. 1-47 a. Begins: GLOSSE IN IV EVANGELIA. Primitus quærendum est omnium librorum tempus... Ends: ... meruit videre dominum resurgentem et mundum reparari per Christum. 2. ff. 486-58 a. GLOSSA IN CANONEM MISSE. Begins: Ad ultimum ponuntur Seraphim ... Ends: ...et omnes respondent Deo gratias. Explicit. 3. ff. 58 a-104. GLOSSA IN APOCALYPSIN. [JJohannis apostolus hunc librum conscripsit... post crucem fuit a nativitate usque ad mortem xcvII. anni. 6 4. ff. 108-112 a. HOMELIA in illud D. Pauli Fundamentum enim aliud.' Begins: [1]n lectione apostolica que nobis paulo ante recitata est. Ends: ... elemosinarum largitate redimentur, prestante domino nostro, &c. On f. 112 b are two notes or glosses, one on St Peter as the foundation of the Church. A small folio, in parchment, consisting of 47 leaves (besides a blank leaf at the beginning), each page containing 28 hexameter lines, neatly written in a black letter hand, the smaller capitals in red, the larger ones in blue and red variously flourished; the first letter of the volume is illuminated: apparently belongs to the xvth century. The first four pages have been erased and are utterly illegible: but the title is supplied by the colophon Begins : DOCTRINALE. Renis, Sirenis, splenis, &c. (fol. 3). Ends: Doctrinale, Dei virtute juvante, peregi: Grates reddo tibi genitor Deus et tibi, Christe, For an account of this once popular grammar, see Cowie's Cat. of MSS. and rare Books in the Library of St John's College, Cambridge, p. 57. Alexander Neckham is supposed to be the author. |