remainder is headed 'De Sex Etatibus mundi et aliis.' It consists of a catalogue of events, with their dates, chiefly relating to the history of England down to the year 1447. 2. ff. 8, 9. 36 lines in a page. Of the same date and handwriting. A Chronicle of the Kings of England from Brutus down to Edward IV. Begins : Ends: Tu quicunque leges hæc si vis noscere reges... A. D. 1460 coronatus illustrissimi regis Edwardi quarti post conquestum apud Westmonasterium videlicet in die sancti Adriani martiris. 3. ff. 10-12. Of the same date and handwriting. · Linea Saxonum et Anglorum ab Adam usque ad Edwardum quartum.' This is followed by 'Linea Britonum ab Adam usque ad Edwardum quartum,' but this breaks off with 'Eneas post destruccionem magne Troie.' 4. ff. 13-50. 34 lines in a page. Date, the xvth century. 'ARISTOTELIS LIBER DE REGIMINE PRINCIPUM,' de lingua Arabica in Latinam translatus a JOHANNE HISPALENSI. SECRETIS SECRETORUM SIVE DE Begins (after the Letter of Philippus Clericus to Guido, Bishop of Valencia, an index of chapters and two prologues, Deus omnipotens custodiat Regem nostrum... and Johannes qui transtulit istum librum filius Patricii...): Ends: O fili gloriosissime imperator justissime.... ..Semper ad meliorem et ad partem superiorem. Concerning the translator Johannes Hispalensis or Hispanus, see Fabric. Bibl. Med. et Infim. Latin. T. iv. p. 84. The treatise is probably spurious. It was printed in Latin in 4to, sine loco et anno: and in English* by Robert Copland, 1528, who attributes the translation to the above-mentioned Philippus. See Gg. iv. 29, § 1. 5. ff. 506-53 a. Of the same date and handwriting. 'Parvus tractatus ad intelligendum quid est anima' [Alcheri Carthusiensis.] Unfinished. This will be found in the Library, in a volume of black-letter tracts, AB. v. 37. Begins: Quoniam dictum est mihi ut meipsum cognoscam...... Ends: .....nam qui in carne vivit in carne sentit carnis fugit, etc. Explicit. S. August. Opp. ed. Par. 1837. Append. ad T. vi. coll. 1141 sqq. 6. ff. 53 6-57. Of the same date and handwriting. Liber de Pomo Aristotelis et de ultima fine ejus.' Begins: Cum clausa esset via veritatis sapientibus... Ends: ...animam hominis discreti et perfecti sicut tu eras. Amen. Explicit. Probably spurious. It was printed in Hebrew, in 1562: see Fabricius, Bibl. Græc. ed. Harles, T. 1. p. 281. 7. ff. 58-61a. Of the same date and handwriting. 'LIBER METHODII MARTIRIS.' Begins (after the short preface, In nomine Dei...incipit liber Methodii episcopi Patharenis...): Sciendum est nobis, fratres carissimi, quomodo in principio creavit.... Ends: ... unde nos dominus deus eripere dignetur, qui, &c. See Dd. xv. 15. § 2; Ff. 1. 31. § 1. 8. ff. 616-67. Of the same date and handwriting. A Collection of Prophecies in prose and verse, of St Thomas of Canterbury, St Brigitta, Abbat Joachim, Merlin, &c. Begins: Quando ego Thomas Cantuarii Archiepiscopus exul... Ends: Tunc Antichristus nascetur demone plenus. The last two prophecies are in a later hand. 9. ff. 68-71. Of the same date and handwriting. 'De Mirabilibus Rome civitatis.' Begins: Murus civitatis Rome habet ccc turres et lx propugnacula... Ends: ...quam ista cartuncula possimus declarare. 10. ff. 72-83 a. Of the same date and handwriting. 'Gesta Domini Salvatoris que invenit Theodosius m[agnus] Imperator in Jerusalem in pretorio pontii pilati in codicibus p[ublicis.]' Begins : Factum est in nono decimo anno imperii Tiberii Cesaris... Ends: ...et presenciam Christi vidit et exterminationem hebreorum. This contains the Gesta Pilati, the Descensus Christi ad Inferos, with the letter of Pilate to Claudius, and the account of the death of Pilate. This last is very different from that given in Tischendorf's Evangelia Apocrypha. 11. ff. 83-85. Of the same date and handwriting. 'Qualiter crevit arbor ex qua facta est crux domini de tribus granis pomi illius de quo manducaverat Adam." Begins : Post peccatum Ade expulso eodem de paradiso... Ends: ...obediens usque ad mortem cui est laus, etc. This is the same treatise as Ff. II. 8. § 2. There are copies in MSS. in various libraries, but it does not seem to have been printed. There is a Dutch edition of it, printed at Culemberg in 1483, for an account of which see Dibdin's Biblioth. Spencer. 1. p. 348 sqq. 12. ff. 86-92. Of the same date. 'De Creatione Ade et Eve et expulsione eorum a Paradiso et de vita eorum super terram.' Begins: Dominus noster ihus cristus natus est in Bethlem... Ends: ...et habuit dominium omnium bestiarum. 13. ff. 94, 96 a, (95 is blank). In double columns of 34 lines. Date, the x11th century. A fragment of a Sermon, probably of Bede or St Augustine. 14. ff. 966-102. Of the same date and handwriting. BEDE EXPOSITIO DIVERSORUM ERRORUM JULIANI HERETICI.' Imperfect. Begins : Primo admonendum putavi lectorem, ut opuscula Juliani...... Ends: ...cui misericors fuero. Non volentis igitur.... This is the Preface to Bede's Expositio in Cantica Canticorum. Opp. ed. Giles, Lond. 1844, Vol. ix. pp. 186-200. 15. ff. 103-110. In double columns of 40 lines. Date, the XIIth century. 1525 DE ALIIS Ec Extracts DE CRIMINIBUS SIMONIACIS ET Quidam habens filium obtulit eum ditissimo cenobio... ...permanere Christi sacramenta una... This consists of extracts from SS. Augustine, Leo, Gelasius, Ambrose, the Council of Chalcedon, &c. 16. ff. 111-113 a, 33 lines in a page. Date about 1500. An index, or tabula, apparently to a portion of Cicero's letters. 17. ff. 1136-116. Of the same handwriting and date. 'M. T. CICEro de SompnO SIPIONIS.' On f. 57b occurs a record of the birth of William Carpenter, with the date 1573, and on ff. 92, 93 some accounts have been written, but are now nearly effaced. Gg. IV. 26. A quarto, on paper, containing ff. 167, with from 15 to 29 lines in a page. Written in several different hands towards the end of the xvth century. 1. ff. 1-60. COLETUS ECCLESIE S. PAULI DECANUS IN EPISTOLAM AD ROMANOS.' Begins : Primum salutat paulus Romanam ecclesiam... Ends: ...voluntatem tamen habuimus maximam faciendi. Oxonie is added at the end, shewing that these were Colet's Prelections there. See Knight's Life of Dean Colet, Oxf. 1823, p. 173 note. 2. ff. 61-62. JOANNES COLETUS ABBATI WINCHINCUMBENSI,' Begins: Erat mecum heri vesperi... Ends: ...mee erga te observantie. Iterum vale. Printed from this MS. in Knight's Life of Dean Colet, ed. Oxf. 1823, pp. 265-268. 3. ff. 63-69. IDEM 'DE COMPOSITIONE SANCTI CORPORIS CHRISTI MYSTICI que est ecclesia que sine anima ejus spiritu scilicet dispergitur et dissipatur.' Begins: Homines ex quibus ecclesia componitur... Ends: ...una omnia et concurrant. 4. ff. 70-148. IDEM IN EPISTOLAM PRIMAM AD CORINTHIOS.' Begins (after the Summaria quedam commemoratio eorum que aguntur in prima Pauli epistola ad Corinthios): Paulus quem Deus voluit apostolum esse... ... asserit Paulus et affirmat dominum venisse. 5. ff. 1486-151. IDEM DE ANGELORUM ORDINIBUS. 1526 Begins : Deus immensum bonum intrinsecus imbuens... Ends: ...et seraphim in spiritu Dei perficiamur. 6. ff. 152-165. IDEM DE ANGELIS CELESTIQUE HIERARCHIA SECUNDUM DYONISIUM.' Begins: Cognosco tuam sublimem et angelicam mentem... Ends: ...servata divinarum rerum dignitate. There are numerous corrections of this MS. in a different hand. It is mentioned by Knight, p. 173 note. The last two leaves are occupied by a note on the 9 orders of angels, and a list of things arranged in threes, e. g. Spes, fides, caritas: radix, calamus, arista, &c. Gg. IV. 27. A folio, on parchment, 488 leaves, about 38 lines in a page; handwriting of the early part of the xvth century, well written. The original illuminations have been abstracted, but the deficiencies thus created in the MS. are supplied in a good modern hand. In addition to the above, are inserted (after fol. 482 b) fourteen smaller leaves, also on parchment, in a hand of the xivth century. Excluding these the volume may be described as WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, in verse and prose. 1. His A, B, C,' or 'La Priere de nostre Dame' (fol. 5 a). Printed among Chaucer's Works (Lond. 1687), p. 615. |