1409 1410 Gg. 1. 14. A quarto, on parchment, originally containing at least 239 leaves, imperfect both at the beginning and the end, damaged in several parts and some leaves displaced. Part of the SPECULUM VITE. Begins abruptly (fol. 1): For pat langages is maste shewed Als wele imonge lered als lewed Respecting the authorship, see below, Ii. 1. 36. Gg. I. 15. A quarto, on parchment, 80 leaves, 25 lines in each page, handwriting of the XIVth century; imperfect at the end, and in other ways damaged and disfigured, the chief capital letters wanting. 1. On the first inhabitants of England, in French verse, written like prose: no title. Begins (fol. 1a): [C]i poet home sauer coment kaunt e de quele gent granz geauntz vindrent qe Engleterre primes tindrent... This poem was perhaps intended as an introduction to the 'history' which follows. 2. A chronicle of England (The Brut) extending from Brutus to the latter part of the reign of Edward II: in French prose, imperfect at the end. Begins (fol. 7a): [E]n la noble cite de graunt Troye il y auoit vn fort chiualer e pussaunt e de graunt poer qe auoit a noun Eneas.. Ends with an account of the pillage of the bishop of Exeter's house, in 1326 (cf. Carte's Hist. of England, 11. 376). A quarto, on vellum, containing ff. 171, with 20 lines in each page. There are catchwords after every 8th leaf, and a later hand has paged the MS. throughout. Date, about 1400. 1412 AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the first three books of the treatise DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI. A leaf is lost between ff. 62 and 63; 68 and 69; and 16 between ff. 128 and 129, containing B. 111. ch. 26—35. The initial rubrick in f. 1 is Here bigynneth the tretes called Musica Ecclesiastica..... B. 1. begins (f. 1a): ...Oure lorde saith he that foloweth me goith not in darkenesse... B. 3. ends (f. 171b) : Defende and kepe the soule of pi litel servante amonge so many periles of pis corruptible lyue and thi grace goinge with dresse him by the wey of pees to the cuntrey of everlastynge clerenes. Amen. Amen. Amen. Here ende the boke of inwarde consolacion. The translation differs considerably from that printed by Wynkyn de Worde. Gg. 1. 17. A quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 131, with 23 lines in a page. Date, the x11th century. 1. ff. 1-22 b. DILIGENDO DEO.' Begins : 'LIBER SANCTI BERNARDI] ABBATIS DE Viro illustri Aimerino. &c. Orationes a me et non questiones... Ends: ...nullus profecto esse poterit miserationis affectus. Opp. Par. 1839, 1. coll. 1329-1362. 2. ff. 226-52 a. 'EJUSDEM DE PRECEPTO ET DISPENSATIONE.' Begins (after the letter Domino abbati columbensi...): Qua mente jam tacebo? Qua fronte tamen loquar?.. Ends: ...quod et studui satisfacere voluntati. Ibid. 1. coll. 1173–1214. 3. ff. 52a-77. EJUSDEM DE GRATIA ET BITRIO.' LIBERO AR Begins (after the letter Domino abbati sancti theoderici...): Loquente me coram aliquando... 1413 1414 Ends: .. Hos et magnificavit. Amen. Ibid. 1. coll. 1365-1400. 4. ff. 79-1266. EJUSDEM VITA SANCTI MALACHIE EPISCOPI.' Begins (after the prologue, Semper quidem opere precium fuit...): Ends: ...tecum et cum ipso pariter regnaturi in secula seculorum. Amen. Ibid. 1. coll. 1465—1524. 5. ff. 1266-131. EJUSDEM SERMO IN TRANSITU S. MALACHLE.' Begins : Liquet dilectissimi quod dum corpore retinemur... ...intus suaviter audes, prestante domino nostro, &c. Ibid. 1. P. II. coll. 2226—2231. A short Sermon on 'Unum est necessarium,' St Luc. x. 42, in a later hand follows, and on f. 131 is written, 'Liber Sancti marie de dunis.' Gg. I. 18. A quarto, on vellum, of 120 leaves, very well written, with a large margin. Date, the xivth century. EUCLIDIS ELEMENTA Xv.' The figures are drawn with great care, on the margins. The propositions are fully worked out. Some of them have an abstract of the proof noted in the margin or of a second demonstration. There are several propositions introduced by way of commentary or stricture, with figures marked as pertaining ad commentum; the figures following these are marked figurationes Euclidis. The XLVIIth Proposition of Lib. 1. is inscribed 'dulcarnon*,' and the vinth of Lib. II., 'cauda pavonis.' Gg. 1. 19. A quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 175, in double columns of 42 lines. Date, the xvth century. 'S. YSIDORI ETHIMOLOGIARUM LIBRI Xx.' • See Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, Book III. Stanzas 126, 127. A thick octavo, on paper, divided into two parts. 1. Of 269 leaves, numbered throughout, with about 40 lines in a page. Dated Jan. 21, 1574. 1. ff. 1-196. PRELECTIONES GULIELMI ALANI in Duacensi Academia regii professoris S. Theologiæ IN SENTENTIARUM Libb. I. II.' Begins : Theologia quid sit. Theologia... Ends: ...in secunda distinctione. The Prælectiones on the second book of the Sentences begin f. 184, and are dated 1575. Cardinal Gulielmus Alan, who had been principal of St Mary's Hall, Oxford, died in 1594. 2. ff. 196-269. 'PRÆLECTIONES Magistri nostri domini HADRIANI BESSEMERI in SEQUENTES DISTINCTIONES.' Begins: Tractaturus Lombardus de Angelis... Ends: ...presumitur ante fuisse creata. A number of blank leaves follow. 2. Of 341 leaves, numbered, with 30 lines in a page, written in a neat hand. Dated October, 1587. IN TERTIAM PARTEM D. THOME COMMENTARII a sapientissimo domino PETRO LUDOVICO." Begins: De Incarnatione disputatio prima. Antequam accedamus ad quæstiones... 1416 1417 1418 Ends (apparently unfinished): ...potuit mereri beatitudinem anima per opem. Petrus Ludovicus was a Spanish Jesuit of Valentia, who died in 1602. This work has never been printed. See Jöcher, T. II. col. 1589. Gg. 1. 21. A quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 87, with 16 lines in each page. Date, the xivth century. 'ACTUS APOSTOLORUM Vulgatæ Editionis cum GLOSSA ORDINARIA interlineari et marginali.' Begins (f. 1a): Lucas medicus antiochensis greci sermonis non ignarus... Ends (f. 84 b): .....xxxvii anno passionis domini, i. e. nerronis xiiii petrus et paulus martirio coronati sunt. The text of the Acts is for the most part written in large hand down the middle of the page, with the marginal gloss on either side. At the end of the MS. is written, 'Iste liber pertinet ecclesie eliensi.' Gg. 1. 22. A quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 192, with 40 lines in a page. Date, the xivth century. Begins : 'EXPOSITIO IN PSALMOS 1-134.' Christus vere erat lignum vite... Ends: ...set repetita augent verecundiam. f. 1 contains a table of subjects to be found in different psalms-and on f. 2 is written 'Liber Sancte marie de Crokesden.' Gg. 1. 23. A quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 158, in double columns of 39 lines. Date, the xvth century. The first leaf is lost. 'JANUENSIS TABULA SUPER S. SCRIPTURAS.' Begins (in the middle of the first title): ...solicitato vero solum demonstratur... Ends: ...et etiam ubi passio per totum etc. Deo gracias. An index of the titles follows by the same hand that has paged the MS. |