1431 1432 This will be found in Montagu's edition of Bacon's Works, Vol. xi. A former owner presented this MS. 'to the Right Honourable ffran Lod Cottington M of his Maties Courte of wards and livereyes and one of his Maties privie Counsell. Francis Lord Cottington was sworn a member of Charles II.'s privy Council at the Hague or at Breda in 1649. Gg. II. 1. A folio, on paper, containing ff. 324, regularly paged, with 38 lines in a page. Date, the xvIIth century. BISHOP ANDREWES ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Clemens Alexandrinus writing his waıdaywyos in three bookes... Ends: ...Aug. Either amor mali inflammans, or timor mali humilians. This is the work published London 1642. The MS. gives as far only as what is paged 848 in the published edition. According to the Notice prefixed to the edition of the Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine, published in the Anglo-Catholick Library, Oxf. 1846, it consists of notes taken at Andrewes' Lectures. Gg. 11. 2. A folio, on paper, only 12 leaves of which contain any writing, in a hand of the xvIIth century. PREPARATIONS FOR A SAXO-LATIN LEXICON, extending as far as letter B; very meagre. From the 'Book of Benefactors,' (EB, 1x. 12,) p. 21, we learn that this volume was presented to the University by Sir S. D'Ewes. A printed folio, interleaved, with 30 leaves partly filled with MS. appended on each end. DE JUDICIIS NATIVITATUM LIBRI TRES. SCRIPTI A JOANNE SCHONERO CARLOSTADIO, &c. ITEM, PREFATIO D. PHILIPPI MELANTHONIS. NORIMBERGE M.D.XLV.' There are copious annotations on the blank pages in the handwriting of George Digby, Earl of Bristol, who lived 1612-1676. 1434 1435 1436 Gg. 1. 4. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS. Gg. 11. 5. A folio, on paper, 553 leaves, about 40 lines in each page; handwriting of the beginning of the xvIIth century. REPORTS OF CASES adjudged chiefly in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.; with Index. The running title of the first 23 leaves is, 'LES REPORTS DE SERIEANT BENDLOES;' but the present series does not correspond with that published in 1689, with the title 'Les Reports de Gulielme Benloe, serjeant del Ley.' Gg. 11. 6. A narrow, oblong folio, on paper, 395 leaves, about 50 lines in each page, handwriting of the xvth century: no general title. LIVES OF APOSTLES AND SAINTS, in English verse. Prologue begins (fol. 1a): Catone sais yat suthfaste thyng is Yat idilnes geffis nourysingis To vicis, yare for quha so wil be The author then proceeds to say, that being unable to work as 'mynister of holy Kirke' owing to the infirmity of old age, he undertook the translation of these pieces. The substance of them was probably derived from the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine. On other similar productions, see Warton, Engl. Poetry, 1. 13 sq. ed. 1840. The subjects appear in the following order: 1. Life of St Peter (fol. 2b). St Paul (fol. 8b). St Andrew (fol. 21 a). St James the Great (fol. 32 b). St John the Evangelist (fol. 37 a). St James the Less (fol, 52 a). 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1437 14. Life of St Luke (fol. 87 b). 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. St Barnabas (fol. 88 b). St Magdalene (fol. 91 b). St Mary of Egypt (fol. 107b). St Lawrence (fol. 148b). The Seven Sleepers (fol. 157 b). St Alexis (fol. 163 a). St John Baptist (fol. 274 a). St Adrian (fol. 291 a). St Cosmas and St Damian (fol. 298 α). St Ninian (fol. 332 a). St Agnes (fol. 347 a). St Cecilia (fol. 354 a). St Anastasia (fol. 368 a). St Effame (Euphemia, fol. 371 a). St Thecla (fol. 376 a). St Catharine (fol. 380 a). Trace of ownership: 'Ketherine Grehame with my hand.' Gg. II. 7. A small folio, on paper, 103 leaves, about 20 lines in each page; handwriting of the xvIIth century. 'A SHORTE COMPENDIUM, or BRIEFE DECLARATION of what euery officer of his Maties Courte of Exchequer ought to doe by 1438 14391444 1445 vertue of his office in England; as alsoe THE ARTICLES of the vnitinge of the late COURTS of AUGMENTATIONs and Revenewes of the Crowne, and the late Courte of First Fruites and Tenthes to the COURTE of EXCHEQUER att Westminister: written att the request of the Right Honoble the Lord Buckhurst Lord Treasuror of England in the raigne of our late Soueraigne Lord King James.' Gg, II, 8. A folio, on parchment, containing ff. 159, with 23 lines in each page. Date, the xvth century. EVANGELISTERIUM. The MS. begins f. 5, with the gospel for the first Sunday in Advent, with a rich illuminated border-the gospels for the Saints' days begin f. 122, with S. Andrew, and the Vol. ends f. 155 b with the gospel 'ad missam pro corpore presenti.' The MS. is very much injured by damp. In the gospels containing the account of the Passion, portions have musical notes. On one of the blank leaves at the beginning is written, He that in yowthe no vertue wyll yowes in aege all honor shall hym refuse. Gg. II. 9-14. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS. Gg. II. 15. A quarto, on paper, 128 leaves, about 20 lines in each page ; handwriting of the XVIIth century. 1. A description or Breife Declaration of all the Antient MONUMENTS, RYTES and CUSTOMES belonging or being within the MONASTICALL CHURCH OF DURHAM BEFORE THE SUPPRESSION' (fol. 1 to fol. 80); 'transcribed Jan. 31, 1660, per J. B.,' and dedicated to Sir Gilbert Jerrard. This was published' by J. D[avies] of Kidwelly, Lond. 1672, who professes to have collected it out of ancient Manuscripts, about the time of the suppression." 2. The History of some particuler WINDOWES in the Cathedrall Church of Durham,' &c.; 9 leaves. 1446 1447 1448 14491450 6 3. Origo Episcopatus Dunelmensis, anno Domini 1603;' 29 leaves. The date of the present copy, which is in the same hand as before, was 1661. The list of bishops is carried down to Cuthbert Tunstall, the sixtieth in the series. Gg. II. 16. See Catalogue of Oriental MSS. Gg. I. 17. A folio, on paper, of 280 pages, in good preservation. It contains the names of all the ecclesiastical benefices within the diocese of Norwich, with a statement of the firstfruits, tenths and procurations due from each of them, and of the patrons and incumbents in A.D. 1632. Gg. II. 18. A folio, containing ff. 217, regularly paged, in double columns of 46 lines. Date, the xivth century. JACOBI DE VORAGINE AUREA LEGENDA. Begins (after the Preface, Universum tempus presentis vite...and an index of chapters:) Adventus domini per quatuor septimanas... Ends, imperfectly, in the account of St Clement: ...quia enim creatorem non cognoscitis, justum est ut in cre[aturis]... Of the 176 chapters which the index shews that the MS. once contained, the last 12 are lost. The initial letter is illuminated, and there is also a representation of the Doom on f. 1. At the foot of f. 1, is written in a contemporary hand' Memoriale Fratris Johannis de Draytone monachi cuius anime propicietur deus. Amen ;' a note which has misled Tanner, Biblioth. p. 233, who cites this MS. as a work of John de Draytone's, called Memoriale.' Gg. II. 19 and 20. Two folios, on paper, containing 1196 numbered pages (in addition to 24 pages of index); the manuscript is fairly written in Law-French in a hand of about the period comprised in the work. REPORTES HORS DE LE BANCK LE ROY.' The first volume extends from Pasche 5to to Trin. 10, the second from Mich. 10 to Pasch. 13 Car. I. |