577 578 Dd. x. 18. A quarto, on parchment, of 59 leaves, in good preservation. Written apparently in the xivth century. Slips of parchment are inserted at folios 4, 7, 43, 56, 58, at each place one, and two at folio 59. An account of the PROPERTY OF THE CHURCH OF HEREFOrd. 1. Rental of lands belonging to the church of Hereford.—f. 1. 'Bladum assignatum ad panem Canonicorum Herefordie per annum.'-f. 51 b. 2. 3. 'Bladum assignatum et avena ad cervisiam canonicorum per annum.'-f. 52. 4. Payments to be made at the church at certain feasts in each year. f. 526. 5. Nomina illorum qui debent redditum ad pistrinum canonicorum Herefordie per annum.’—f. 56. 6. Redditus qui debetur Capitulo Herefordie annuatim de manerio de Hamma.'-f. 57 b. 7. Isti sunt qui tenuerunt de domino Episcopo apud Hamma Lacy.'-f. 59. Dd. x. 19. A thin paper book, in folio, (now bound up with No. 576,) of 25 leaves, containing, in a handwriting of the period, THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE NOBILITIE, barrons, burgesses and Commouns within the Kingdome of Scotland vindicating them and their proceedings from the crimes wherwith they are charged by the late proclamation in England, dated the 27th of Februar. 1638.' Begins (f. 1): Though the depth of the Councell of God and the secrets of the wayes of the most High cannot be sounded... Ends (f. 25): ...that God would incline his maties heart to heare us before matters be desperat, and the rupture become vncurable. Edinbur' the 22 marche. 1638. Revised according to the ordinance of the generall assembly by Mr Evd Johnston Clerk yre of. The Proclamation referred to is printed in Rushworth's Hist. Coll. 11. 830, but not this Remonstrance. A parchment book, in folio, formerly bound in wood, now consisting of 108 leaves, containing generally 32 lines on the page; written perhaps as early as the middle of the x11th century. The final rubrics supply the title Begins (f. 1): 'LIBER ECCLESIASTICE HISTORIE.' Assiriorum igitur potentissimus fuit olim rex Ninus... ...Karolus uero pius Franciam, burgundiam et aquitaniam obtinuit solus. There are various notes in the margin, many by the scribe, some in a handwriting of the xivth century, and others of a later date. At the foot of the first page is Ecclesiast. Hist. de do. Seffr Epi......' Le Neve, Fasti, mentions two bishops of Chichester of the name Seffride, the one buried at Glastonbury, 1125-50, the other 1180-1204. On the back of the last leaf, in the scribe's hand, is 'Panis uite celestis doctrina pascamur ergo pane illo.' A quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 163, with 20 lines in each page. It has a few illuminated letters and borders. Catchwords occur at every 8th leaf. Date, the xvth century. PSALTERIUM CUM CANTICIS, &c. The first two leaves contain devotions to the B. V., especially relating to the Visitation. The next 6 contain the Kalendar, the name of St Thomas of Canterbury, and the word papa after SS. Gregory, Sylvester, Clement, &c. being effaced. The Psalter begins as usual, f. 9; on the margins are occasionally inserted in a later hand antiphons for the different festivals; the Psalter ends f. 132 a, and the Canticles follow, and then the Litany, ending f. 145 b. Then follow, in a different hand. the Vigiliæ Mortuorum and Commendacio animarum, ending f. 153 b. Then the hymns O lux beata Trinitas, Nocte surgentes, Ecce jam nobis tenuatur umbra, and some prayers in English to the 'most gloryous and precyous herte of ihu cryst,' ending f. 155. The remainder of the MS. is occupied by Hymns for the different Hours, beginning with Primo dierum omnium, and ending, f. 163 b, with Deus creator omnium. From the 'Translacio S. Joh. de Beu,' i. e. Beverley, being inserted in the Kalendar, Oct. 25, the MS. probably belonged to York cathedral, or one of the northern monasteries. EE A parchment book, in octavo, containing 159 leaves, written in the XIVth century. The initial letters of the several books abound with grotesque figures, and the other capitals are unusually bold. Short titles have been written in the margin throughout, and notes and pointers by a later hand. The leaves at either end have suffered from damp. 'SECUNDA PARS HISTORIE AUREE.' Begins, after the list of Capitula, and the rubric 'De situ Britannie,' f. 1: Britannia insula a quodam troiano noie Bruto dicta. Britones vero de tractu Armoricano... Compare Beda, Hist. Eccles. 1. 1, and Henr. Hunt. Hist. 1. After the rubric 'De inico regum Anglorum,' cap. 2 begins' Adam genuit Seth...' and carries the descent to Woden. After this is a table in 7 columns of descents similar to that in Howard's edition (fol. 1601) of Florentius Wigorniensis, p. 688. Compare Florentii Wigorniensis ad Chronicon Appendix,' printed in Mon. Hist. Brit. 1. 627-34: and 'Historia Nennii.' Ib. 1. 74. This is followed by cap. 3, 'De primo aduentu Saxonum in Anglia,' beginning: Peractis a natiuitate dni 449 annis de Germanie populis... Then follows 'Genealogia regum Cantuariorum. ca. 4.' which chapter and the 8 succeeding are with some omissions the same as the text printed in Mon. Hist. Brit. 1. 635–642. After which follow 'De adventu Normannorum in Angliam, cap. 13,' and 'Genealogia regum Scottorum...cap. 14;' the latter ends: ...Margareta nomine que debuit fuisse desponsata Edwardo de Carnaruan qui fuit filius et heres Edwardi primi post conquestum. 'Genealogia Regum Saxonum, Liber 1"s' is the running title. 'A Natiuitate xpi. Liber 2us' is the running title to this book, and the rubric before the list of 53 capitula, of which the first is 'De Rachboldo duce Trisonum,' and the last 'De obitu sci Vltani.' Of ' De conquesta terre sce. Liber 3us' the first chapter is 'De causa mocionis usque terram scam.' and the 74th 'De morte regis Henrici.' Of 'De Ricardo rege. Liber 4us' the first chapter is 'De reditu ducis Ricardi in Angliam et de electione eiusdem...' and the 78th, 'De morte regis Henrici.' Of 'De Edwardo primo post conquestum. Liber 5us' the first is 'De coronacione... and the 97th De treugis inter reges francie et anglie initis.' To the truce in the latter is the date Jan. 19, 1342. At the end, in another and somewhat later hand, is [M]iseracoe dia Johannes Eps Penestrinus, Guills...sce Romane ecclie cardinales. Dilcis filiis Abbi C'ist'i ceterisque abbatibus.. et aliis personis ordinis cisterciensis... A parchment book, consisting of nearly 100 pages, written in the early part of the xvith century, containing Instructions given by Andrea Griti Doge of Venice to Vincentio Zatani Commander of the Galleys, in 1524. 1. The first set of instructions is partly in Latin and partly in Italian. They begin (p. 1): Nos Andreas Griti Dei Gratia Dux Venetiarum etc committimus tibi nobili viro Vincentio Zatani.—qui...sis capitaneus presentium galearum iturarum ad viagium Alexandre (sic) quas galeas...... The last two sections, numbered 59 and 60, are in Italian. 2. On page 34 commences another set of Instructions in Italian, with merely the heading 'M DXXIIII. Die п. Junii In Rogatis.' They are divided into 102 sections, of which a table is given on pp. 75-9. Before section 10 is the date 'Die 7. Julij 1524. In Rogatis,' and before section 11 the date is 'Die xi. Julii.' At the end, p. 74, is Data in nostro Ducali Palatio die viiij Septembr. Indictione xiima. M. D. xxiiij. Pet Grasolarius. Duc. nots.' The title page (p. 1) has an illuminated border, at the top of which is the winged lion of S. Mark with cliffs and sea in the back ground; on either side are portraits of a bishop and a dominican monk, and at the bottom is a shield, (Party per fess argent and azure, two bendlets conterchanged), and on the ground of a landscape over which the shield is suspended are the letters V. Z. A small folio of parchment, now of about 40 leaves, having double columns of 43 lines each on every page, written in the xvth century. It is bound up with the next two MSS. This appears to have been formerly part of a larger volume. The first leaf is marked cxxij on the first side, and 122 on the reverse; two leaves that contained nearly the whole of chapters 2-8 of § 1 are missing, the next leaf being numbered cxxv and 125; leaves are missing between the pages marked 133 and cxxxvi, and between 143 and cxlvi, and 146 and cxlviii, and 151 and clx. 584 1. GESTA ALEXANDRI REGIS MAGNI MACEDONUM.' The text is that of Julius Valerius: see the edition 'Angelo Maio, Mediolani, MDCCCXVII.' and especially Editoris Prefatio, pp. xii—xvi. (In Brit. Mus. Grenville Liby. 9006.) After the capitula, the MS. begins: Egypti sapientes sati genere divino primi feruntur... From the list on the preceding page (cxxij) there appear to have been xlix capitula in Liber 1. but the three after xlvi are wanting, as well as the whole of Liber II. and part of Lib. III. The latter ends: Extincto in ipso etatis ac victoriarum flore alexandro magno triste apud omnes tota babilone silencium fuit. On p. cli: Explicit liber is incipit vus. The second paragraph of the latter (the third in some MSS. as in No. 154 of Caius Coll. MSS. which is of the XIIth century) begins: Eodem tempore demosthenes atheniensis orator pulsus patria... 2. On the next leaf (p. clx.) 'Alexander ad Dindimum.' The 'epistola' commences: Si hec ita sunt ut asseris o dindime soli quantum iudeo... For another MS. see Dd. vi. 22. § 3. 3. EPISTOLA ALEXANDRI REGIS MAGNI MACEDONUM AD MAGISTRUM SUUM ARISTOTELEM.' Begins (p. 161): Semper memor tui etenim inter dubia bellorum nostrorum pericula... And ends (p. 169): ...quamdiu seculi volvitur orbita nominis mei fama habeatur in gloria. See under Dd. viii. 22. § 3. 4. PRIMA RECAPITULATIO de eodem Alexandro et de suis.' The last words, completing p. 170, are: ...qui cum carentinis bellum habuisse et egregie vicisse narratur. Amen. Dd. x. 25. A quarto, on parchment, of 163 leaves. In three different handwritings: (a) ff. 1-4, (b) ff. 5—148, (c) f. 149 to end: they are however all of the XIIth or xivth |