588 589 17. f. 112 b. Bulla [Clementis VI.] pro reconce ecclie lincolniensis.' Begins: Deuocois tue precibus... This is dated at Avignon 22 May, Pontif. 10. [1351], and is recited in a letter of the Bishop's dated Buckden, March 1st, 1354. See the Bulla Innocentii Sexti...' printed in Wilkins, Concilia, 1. p. 29. Dd. x. 29. A quarto, on vellum, containing ff. 439, in double columns, with 44 lines in each column. Date, the xivth century. BIBLIA VULGATA SANCTI HIERONYMI. On a fly-leaf at the beginning is a list of the books of the Bible; they occur in the usual order, excepting that the Acts is after the Epistle to the Hebrews. The usual prologues begin f. 1, and end f. 3, after which the leaf containing the first three chapters of Genesis is lost: a leaf is also lost after ff. 220, 301 and 355, this last containing the beginning of St Matthew. After the last verse of the Revelation is the distich: finito libro sit laus et gloria Christo et nunc pro scripto reddatur cena magistro. The last four leaves contain a canon of the lessons, and other scribbling; and at the end is written, 'Iste liber constat Simoni Ffelbrycio heredibus et assignatis suis.' Dd. x. 30. A small quarto, on paper, 13 leaves, about 20 lines in each page; handwriting of the xvith century. It is bound up with the following MS. 'A SURVEY OF THE SCIENCES in theire Vertues and Vanityes, theire Fullnes and Defects' 'or, the Soule seeming by contemplation vanish'd from the Body, the Body suppos'd in search of the Soule.' The dedication, addressed to the Reuerend and right worth Dr John Oldesworth,' bears the name of Rob. Dauenport.' The 'sciences' considered are Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, and Astronomy (the 'trivium' and ' quadrivium '). Begins (p. 7): Where sweete freind shall I find you, gon in quest of true felicity? Ends (p. 25): Obedience is no bondage where wee love. A parchment book, imperfect, formerly containing leaves with signatures in eights from A to Z and 2 symbols, with double columns of 30 lines each, written in the xivth century. 1. GALFREDUS MONUMETENSIS DE GESTIS BRITONUM: imperfect. The MS. begins (f. B 1.) in Lib. I. c. 15 of the editions (see No. 329): hostes celeriter invasit. Audaciores pro inde surgentes... And breaks off in Lib. x. c. 12 (f. K. vii.): ... isti tunc libertatem quam illi eisdem demere [affectabant]. After an imperfect paragraph which ends with the date 'anno dñi mo. xxvi.' there follows (f. O. 1.): Robertus frater ducis ricardi iuuenis... And the narrative continues to a break (on f. O. vi.) after the words The next column begins: In diebus scissimi regis Edwardi et confessoris anno eiusdem penultimo Haroldus... The signatures between O and S are wanting. The annals terminate 'Anno xlviii regis Henrici' with the words (f. T. 11.) : ..sibi et suis emolumentum et regis nomen reseruans. Explicit. The chapters are indicated only by the initial letters. There are marginal notes in a somewhat later hand than the text. 2. Catalogus sive CHRONICA Omnium pontificum et imperatorum romanorum... usque ad honorium tercium papam et ad fredericum qui nunc ad imperium sublimatur.' Begins (f. T. 111.): Dominus nr ihc xpc primus et summus pontifex.... Ends (f. V. IV.): Istius tempore christiani Damietam ceperunt, sed saraceni eam postea recupauerunt. The signature V is only in 4: and Y in 6. 3. DARETIS PHRYGII DE EXCIDIO TROJE HISTORIA. After the Epistola Cornelii' as in the editions, (12mo Amsterd. 1630, and 8° Lond. 1825) the MS. begins (f. X. 1.): Peleas rex peloponense (sic) essonem fratrem habuit... After the section, ending 'Hucusque historia Daredis frigii,' which correspond to the final words of the editions, follows another, beginning, 'Quis 591 troianorum quem grecorum denuo occidit...' and ending, ...Neoptholemus pentessileam. Explicit excidium Troie.' At the end (f. Y. vi.), in a somewhat later hand, are written Epitaphium Hectoris' and other lines. 4. Short POEMS in a ROMANCE dialect, without title, on parchment, double columns, 36 lines each; handwriting as before. (1) Begins: Le russinole uoleit amer E mist quer e cors e poer. Ends abruptly (fol. 3a): Lamur ke ia nert esteynte. (2) Begins (fol. 3a): Lung tens ay de quer ame cele lay destrange gyse. (3) Begins (fol. 3a): Tant suy a beau soiur Frai chanconele damur. Ends (fol. 5b): Si les comand amalfee Tuz iur eient il maldehee. Amen. (4) Begins (fol. 5b): Qvant le tens se renouele e reuerdoie cy bois. Ends (fol. 6a): Mes a deu uoil lalme vendre, e a ma dame mun cors. (5) Begins (fol. 6b): Ky vout sauer del mapemund La forme de trestut le mund De terres e de regiuns E de citez les propre nuns. Breaks off (fol. 24b): Certes nent est home pur uerite Dd. x. 32. A parchment book, octavo size, consisting of 80 leaves, with 34 lines on each page, written in two hands, perhaps of the xivth century. The volume has formerly been bound in wood and with clasps. 1. Hic incipit LIBER BRITONUM qui vocatur bryutus (sic) DE GESTIS ANGLORUM.' 592 The text begins and ends as in the editions (see No. 329): On the first thirty leaves are some marginal notes in a later hand. 2. A continuation in French immediately follows the conclusion of the preceding History of Geoffry of Monmouth. Begins (f. 63): Epar long temps apres il aveit en engleter vn rey par ky peche fu suffert graunt damage en engleterre e destructions. Ends (f. 80): ...Apres la mort cesti Roy Henr' li tiers regna son fils Edward... e pus morust et gist a West. de qi alme dieux eit mercy. Amen. Dd. x. 33. A paper book, in quarto, containing, on 51 leaves, besides the Taboada on 6 leaves, fairly written and decorated, 'Privilegios que S. M. concedeo a Joan. Legreyn framengo Ano 1585.' At the end are certificates of the correctness of the copy, of which one has the date 1586. A small folio, on parchment, of 14 leaves, measuring 10 inches by 7 inches; in good preservation. Taxation of the benefices in the ARCHDEACONRIES OF SUFFOLK AND SUDBURY for the payment of a tenth granted to the King soon after A.D. 1500, by the clergy of the province of Canterbury. A small quarto, on paper, of 9 leaves, written in the xvith century. 595 596 597 Dd. x. 36. A quarto, on paper, of the xvith century, bound up with the two preceding: imperfect. FORMS OF PROCEEDINGS IN ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Many of these are in the name of John (Whitgift), Archbishop of Canterbury. Dd. x. 37. A quarto, on paper, well written in a hand of the xvith century. It is bound up with the two following MSS. 1. Assizes, in forty chapters. 2. Law Reports, of the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth. Dd. x. 38. A quarto, on paper, of 44 leaves; of the xvIIth century. The first 40 pages are occupied with the statement of the rules of Arithmetic. ff. 25-30 contain questions in Mathematics, and rules for the extraction of the cube root; also of the square root by approximations. ff. 31-35 relate to specific gravity. The remainder is blank, except that on the last page is a receipt for Dd. x. 39. A quarto, on paper, of 106 leaves, of the xvIIth century. The writing varies considerably in character and size, but may probably be by the same hand as both Dd. v. 28, and Dd. Ix. 19. A Collection of TRACTS and LECTURES, by Cæsar Cremoninus. 2. f. 46. Contains a list of Tractatus Doctissimi Cesaris Cremonini qui passim habentur in Scholâ Patavinâ.' 3. ff. 5-42. Nineteen Lectures upon 'Digressio Averrois de Intellectu Possibili. Commentatione quinta in tertium librum [Aristotelis] de animâ, et commista est definitio Intellectus Materialis.' |