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Begins :

Omnis scientia suis nititur regulis...

Ends (incomplete):

...a patre et filio auctoribus sive spirantibus substantivo sive pro adjectivo...

This is mentioned as Neckham's by Tanner, Biblioth. p. 540.

12. ff. 130-136. Double columns of 46 lines, in a minute

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Qui accipit si quem misero me recipit, &c. Ecce karissimi assero vobis...

End:

...fugetur omnis instagacio scandali.

The last leaf is torn-two parchment leaves, apparently a fragment of an Ordinale, are pasted on to the cover.

On one of them is written the name 'Robertus Chyrche.'

Gg. 1. 6.

A quarto, on paper, containing ff. 146, with 25 lines in each
page. Date, the xvth century.

SPECULUM DEVOTORUM,' or 'A MYROWR TO DEUOT
PEPLE.' Meditations on the life of our Lord in 33 chapters, in
English.

Begins (f. 6b, after the preface, Gostly syster in Jhu cryste I trowe hyt
be not 3ytt fro your mynde....., and an index of the contents of the chapters):
Relygyus syster in the beyynnynge of these symple medyta-

cyonys...

Ends (f. 144a):

to whom be all worshype joye and preysynge now and withoute endynge. Amen. Deo gracias.

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The treatise itself ends f. 132, the last chapter being a supplementary one about St John the Evangelist.

After some lines (finito libro sit laus et gloria xpo, &c.) follows in Latin the prayer O Intemerata, with an English translation, which ends the MS. f. 146 a.

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In his preface the author, a Carthusian, apologizes for his book, because 'Bonaventura a cardynal and a worthy clerke made a boke of the same matere the whyche ys callyd vita xpi,' and especially because a man of oure ordyr of charturhowse had turnyd the same boke in to englysche.' He adds, that he has chiefly followed 'tueyne doctorys of the whyche pt one ys comunely called the maystyr of storyis,' and 'that othyr maystyr Nycholas of lyre pe whyche was a worthy doctur of dyuynytee and glosyde all the byble as to the lettural undyrstandynge.'

On a fly-leaf at the beginning is written:

'Speculum Devotorum: et est liber domus Jhu de Bethleem ordinis cartusiensis de shene et nomen scriptoris Willelmus plenus amoris.'

'Quicunque in hoc libro profecerit oret pro scriptore pure et caritative.' and the names John Powell, Robert Tipper, and at the end John and Margarett Farmer.

Gg. 1. 7.

A quarto, chiefly on parchment, 221 leaves, 30 lines in each page, mutilated both at the beginning and the end: handwriting of the early part of the xv th century.

A LONG POEM ON THE LORD'S PRAYER and other moral subjects, or SPECULUM VITE.

Begins abruptly (fol. 1a):

pus sall you say and noght it heele
Vnto pe childer of Israele.

Respecting the authorship, see below, Ii. 1. 36.

Gg. 1. 8.

A small quarto, on paper, written in the xviith century. Nearly a quire of blank paper is bound in at the commencement of the Volume. The remainder contains three tracts:

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1. ff. 24. NATURALL PHILOSOPHY, OR A DESCRIPTION OF

THE WORLD AND OF THE SEVERALL CREATURES THEREIN CON-
TAINED.'

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'These little leaves the world's huge load sustain
And what besides the great world can contain.`

The Author was Daniel Widdowes, alias Woodhouse. The book has been printed. The second edition is dated 1631.

2. ff. 68. MYSTICAL DRAWINGS.

These consist of 68 allegorical illustrations of the different stages in the processes of Alchemy.

The first is an adaptation of an ophite emblem; the second, and perhaps all the rest, seem to be intended to illustrate the Poemander of Hermes Trismegistus, treated Alchemically. They are coarsely coloured, and from the ill-written blackletter explanations, may be supposed to be copies of a work of an earlier century.

3. ff. 6.

AUREA.'

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THESAURUS THESAURORUM. SIVE MEDICINA

A manuscript concerning the Philosophers' Elixir or their medicine both for Humane and Metalline Bodies. Incerti Authoris.'

Begins:

Many and greate are the secrets of nature...

Ends:

...to thy owne good and God's glory, &c.

Gg. I. 9.

A small quarto, on paper, of 80 leaves of writing, in good preservation.

THE REGISTER BOOK OF THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER.

It contains: The private act of Parliament of 27 Eliz. for the regulation of the city. The Bye Laws and Rules of the city in 1585. The names of the Burgesses and Assistants in 1585, and from 1639 to 1660. It seems to have been written in A.D. 1660. On a fly-leaf at the beginning are the dates of the births of the children of Car. I.

Gg. I. 10.

A moderate-sized octavo, on vellum, of 137 leaves, consisting of two MSS.: the former contains 52 leaves, each page containing about 34 lines, neatly written in a small hand of the x11th

century. The latter is in double columns, each of which contains 41 lines, and may be assigned to the xivth century. Each MS. is slightly ornamented and rubricated, and marginal notes occur plentifully in both.

1. CICERONISSOMNIUM SCIPIONIS.'

Begins (fol. 1 a):

Cum in Africam...

Ends (fol. 3b):

...ego somno solutus sum.

Contains the entire section of the Republic so entitled.

2. MACROBII IN SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS LIBRI II. Begins (abruptly in lib. I. c. 2):

patefecit. Ideo et nullum, &c. p. 10. Ed. Bip.

Ends (fol. 52a):

...continetur integritas (lib. I. c. ult.)

The beginning of the treatise has been torn out.

On the reverse are some observations relating to Macrobius and St Ambrose.

3. ff. 53-96. SUMMA MAGISTRI PLATEARII SUPER ANTIDOTARIUM.'

Begins :

Liber iste quem in presentiarum...

Ends:

...Aliquod pravum sinthoma generet, per duos annos servetur. See Dd. 1. 51, § 1.

4. ff. 97-136 a. LIBER SIMPLICIS MEDICINE,' BY PLA

TEARIUS.

Begins:

Circa instans negotium...

Ends:

...nisi propter diuturnam decoctionem.

Another copy of this work is in Ee. vi. 41, § 2.

ff. 136 a-137 are filled with irregular medical notes.

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Gg. 1. 11.

A small quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 87, with 24 lines in each page. There are catchwords to every 8th leaf, and the leaves are numbered throughout. Date, the x111th century.

'SANCTI AMBROSII MEDIOLANENSIS EPISCOPI DE OFFICIIS.' Begins (f. 1a):

Non arrogans videri arbitror...

Ends (f. 87b):

...plurimum instructionis conferet.

Opp. ed. Migne, Paris, 1845, T. 11. P. 1. coll. 23-184.

To each book is prefixed a richly ornamented initial letter.

Gg. 1. 12.

A quarto, on parchment, consisting of 59 folios, defaced and injured in some few places, but on the whole pretty legible, written in Latin, in a hand of about the latter part of the xiv th century. REGISTRUM BREVIUM, TOGETHER WITH MAGNA CHARTA, AND SOME OTHER STATUTES.

See Ff. v. 5.

Gg. 1. 13.

An octavo, on parchment, containing ff. 186, with from 33 to 40 lines in a page. Date, the xvth century.

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GULIELMI DE PAGULA OCULUS SACERDOTUM.'

This is divided into three parts-the first is called Pars Prima Oculi Sacerdotum,' and begins (f. 1):

Cum ecclesie quibus preficiuntur persone...

the second, at the end of which is the rubrick, 'Explicit summa que vocatur dextera pars oculi sacerdotum,' begins (f. 61):

Multi sunt sacerdotes et pauci sunt sacerdotes...

and the third, which is called 'Sinistra pars oculi sacerdotum,' begins:
'Ignorancia sacerdotum populum decipit.....'

The MS. ends:

...in presenti vita per gratiam et in futura vita per gloriam ad quam, &c.

See Tanner, Biblioth. p. 570.

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