6. ff. 706-71. DE SEPTEM VICIIS CAPITALIBUS PER CHRISOSTOMUM.' ...divine revelacioni humana racio applaudit. This is the treatise usually called Benjamin Minor. Opp. ed. Migne, Par. 1855, coll. 1–64. Two paragraphs on the family of Jacob follow: and the next two leaves are blank. 8. ff. 118-158. LITUDINIBUS. EADMERI LIBER DE S. ANSELMI SIMI The title, Liber beati Anselmi cantuariensis archiepiscopi de conversacione noviciorum,' is incorrectly given in the MS. Begins: [V]oluntas tripliciter intelligitur... Ends: ...memorie occurrit retencius. Opp. ed. Migne, Par. 1854, T. II. coll. 605-707. The last chapter is not in the MS. 10. ff. 170-179. LIBELLUS DE EMENDACIONE VITE SIVE DE REGULA VIVENDI. RIC.' [DE HAMPOLE]. Begins (after the list of chapters): De Conversione. [N]e tardes converti ad dominum... Ends: ...melodia ipsum eternaliter laudare cui sit, &c. Printed, London, 1510. See Dd. iv. 54. § 3. 11. ff. 180-185. AUGUSTINUS IN AGNICIONE VERE VITE." Begins: [S] apientia dei que os muti aperuit... Ends (unfinished): ...spiritus sanctus columbe corpus condidit. Explicit. Opp. ed. Par. 1837. vi. App. coll. 1465-1480. 12. ff. 185-189. HUGO [DE S. VICTORE] DE STUDIO ORANDI.' Begins: [Q] uo studio et quo affectu... Ends: ...sacrificium in ara crucis adoletur. Opp. ed. Migne, Par. 1854, T. 11. coll. 977-988. 13. ff. 189-190 b. SERMO S. AUGUSTINI QUALITER FACTUS EST HOMO AD IMAGINEM ET SIMILITUDINEM DEI.' Begins: [T]anta dignitas humane condicionis... Ends: ...mirabilius in secundo reformavit. This is the treatise usually called 'Libellus de dignitate conditionis humanæ.' It is printed with St Ambrose's Works. See Migne's ed. Par. 1845, T. 11. P. I. coll. 1015-1018. The authorship is doubtful. See the remarks prefixed to it in coll. 1013, 1014. 6 14. ff. 1906-193 a. AUGUSTINUS DE IGNE PURGATORIO." Begins: In lectione apostolica... Ends: ...elemosinarum largitate redimamus prestante, &c. This is sermo. 104, Append. ad Opp. ed. Par. 1836, T. v. col. 2601. 15. ff. 193 a-203 a. MEDITATIONES BEATI AUGUSTINI.' Begins : [V]igili cura mente sollicita... Ends: ...et si differentibus meritis ab invicem distabunt. This is not the Meditationum Liber unus,' printed among the spurious works of St Augustine. 16. ff. 203 b-205. SERMO BEATI BERNARDI.' Begins: [R]ex dives et potens Deus omnipotens... Ends: ...eruditus et perfectus in regno caritatis. 1428 17. ff. 206-220. EXCERPTA EX CASSIANI COLLATIONIBUS. These are extracts from the following Collations of Cassian: 14, 15, 24, 4, 5, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23. See Migne's Opp. Cassiani, T. 1. Par. 1846. 18. ff. 220 b-221. DE PREFACIONE HERACLIDIS DE VITA SANCTORUM IN LIBRO QUI DICITUR PARADISUS.' 935. Begins: Plures enim novimus qui vere glorie.. Ends: ...agens domino gratias sempiternas. This will be found in Rosweyd's Vita Patrum. Antv. 1615, pp. 934, 19. f. 2216. Extracts from the INSTITUTIONES OF JOANNES CASSIANUS. These begin in an extract from Lib. v. cap. XI., and end with one from Lib. x. 23. ed. Migne, Vol. 1. coll. 225, 394. A leaf follows in double columns, containing apparently a portion of a legal document. Gg. I. 33. A small quarto, on parchment, containing ff. 247, with 35 lines. in a page. Date, the xvth century. There are catchwords after every 12th leaf. 'DISTINCTIONES fratris NICHOLAI DE GORRAM ordinis fratrum predicatorum." Begins: Abeuntium per hunc mundum alii... Ends: ...ad nuptias cum domino ihu xpo. Amen. An index follows. Nicholas of Gorram or Gorham, was Prior of the Convent of S. James at Paris, and died in 1295. This work has not been printed. See Fabricius, Bibl. Med. et Infim. Latin. 1. p. 76. On a fly-leaf at the beginning is written 'Liber ecclesie cathedralis sancte Trinitatis Norwici in custodia fratris...'...the name being effaced.. A small quarto, on parchment, 385 leaves, in various hands. 1. After an Epygramma Joseph patriarche Constantinopolitani a Maffeo v. c. editum,' are four LATIN LETTERS Occupying 115 leaves; 24 lines in a page; handwriting of the xvth century. a. Poggius Scipioni Ferrariensi (fol. 1 a—fol. 126). Printed in the Works of Poggio, pp. 357 sq. ed. Basil. 1538. b. Guarinus Veronensis Poggio, with a preface to Leonellus Estrensis (fol. 13 a—fol 48b). c. Poggius Francisco Barbaro, with a preface to the same (fol. 48 6-fol. 89 a). Printed in the Works of Poggio, pp. 365 sq. d. Petrus de Monte, apostolicæ sedis protonotarius, Poggio (fol. 896-fol. 115 a). Dated 'ex Londoniis pridie Kalendas Februarias.' 2. 102 leaves, about 30 lines in each page, handwriting of the xvth century; wants one leaf at the beginning. MORAL SAYINGS OF PHILOSOPHERS, translated into English. Hermes the olde Philosophur... The following account of the work is given at the conclusion: 'And this sufficethe of the translacion of the moral saiengis of philosophres and wisist clerkis yn theire daies lyving in vertue: albeit the more parte of tho clerkis were paynems and lyved before the incarnacion of Criste. And which booke was translated into englisshe at the instaunce of Sir John Fastolffe Knyght, baron of Cyllyegwyllem the yere of of (sic) Crist Miiij. And this booke was of the new correctid and examyned by William Wyrcestre the monyth of Marche the yere of Crist M. iiii. Lxxii endyng, after the origynall and perrafed also for more opyn and redye vndrestanding.' 6 3. LIBER de MAWDEVILLE' [Travels of Sir John Maundeville]: handwriting of the xv th century. The Preface begins: For as mekyl as the land ovir the see, that is for to seye the holy land that men call the land of beheste... After theExplicit' follow some loose geographical notes. Printed often, e. g. in Early Travels in Palestine. Bohn's ed. 1848. 1430 4. FLOS YSTORIARUM TERRE ORIENTIS quem compilauit frater HAYTONUS dominus Curchi consanguineus regis Armenie ex mandato summi pontificis... M°CCC.VII: 43 leaves, 40 lines in each page, handwriting of the xiv th century. See an account of this writer and his work in Fabricius, Biblioth. Lat. ed. Mansi, under Aithonus and Hayto. 5. HYSTORIA DE SCIENTIA EGYPCIORUM ET DE NEPTANABO REGE EORUM, qui postea fuit uerus pater ALEXANDRI: 35 leaves, handwriting as before. This fabulous Hystoria' is in metre, although written as ordinary prose. Qui Uilikinus nomine dictus erat; Gesta ducis Macedonuersibus ipse docens. Non omnes caruere fide, pars magna remansit, The author is otherwise entitled Aretinus Quilichinus: see Warton, 1. 135, who points out the origin of the story. A copy of the 'Gesta Alexandri' will be found in Dd. x. 24, § 1. Trace of ownership: 'Ex dono Will. Thornton.' Bound up with this volume is a leaf of the Latin Gospel according to St John (c. 9). Gg. 1. 35. A quarto, on paper, in good preservation, containing 46 numbered folios, and written in English in a hand of about the early part of the xvi1th century. BACON'S BREIFE DECLARATION CONCERNING THE USE OF THE LAWE.' |