5. ff. 27 a-40b. 'Incipit VITA DEMONUM, et dicitur secretum sigillum Cipriani quondam magi modo vero martiris Christianissimi, per sanctum Eusebium et sanctam Justinam virginem ad fidem orthodoxam conversi.' Begins: Universi viri validi. secreta artium.... Ends: Cooperiens et in se claudens tria subscripta scilicet anulum sigillum et ydeam 7 noctibus et 7 diebus continuis salva unum et conservata... A later hand has added here, 'Desunt 2 folia.' This treatise is mentioned by Fell in his Ed. of St Cyprian's works, App. II. p. 61, Ed. Amst. 1691. 6. ff. 41 a-45 a. Philomela. Meditatio. A Latin Poem in rhyme, containing a comparison of our Lord to a nightingale. Begins: Ends: Philomena previa temporis ameni. ] atque ceni. Dumque [talis] fueris Christum deprecare Ut nos cantus martiris doceat cantare. Amen. The author of this poem was John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1278 to 1292. See Tanner, Biblioth. Brit. p. 586. 7. HEXAMETRI RYTHMICI DE SEDITIONE JACKI STRAW.' Begins (fol. 45 a): Proth dolor accreuit nuper confusio rerum Dum virtus procerum silet et vulgus male seuit. Ends (fol. 46 b): Jak Chep, Tronche, Jon Wran, Thom Myllere, Tyler, Jak Strawe, Isti ductores in plebe fuere priores, Per quos merores creuerunt atque dolores: Istorum capita collistrigiis modo vernant, Ut populi cernant, ne cupiant vetita. The versifier narrates the murder of Archbp Sudbury ('Simon de bacca dictus et austro'), which took place, according to a marginal note, '1380, A. R. R. 2, in festo Basilii' (more correctly, June 14, 1381). 8. ff. 46b-48 b. A Latin Poem in rhyme, on the Vanity of the World. Begins: Ends: Mundi volo vanitatem, et fortune levitatem Breviter describere, Que non habet firmamentum, sed fugacem vincit ventum Tribunali non terretur, sceptrum regis non veretur, Mortis dure dura lima. Summa limat sicut yma, Prima sicut ultima. This is doubtingly attributed to Walter Mapes in Coxe's Catalogue of the MSS. in the Colleges at Oxford, Coll. Corp. Christi, p. 95. 9. ff. 49 a-73b. SOMNIUM DILUCIDARIUM PHARAONIS expositum per Joannem Lemovicensem, ad Regem Navarie.' See Fabricii Cod. Pseudepigr. Vet. Test. (Hamb. 1722), Vol. I. pp. 441 sqq.; also his Bibl. Lat. (Ed. Schöttg. Pad. 1754), Vol. iv. pp. 91 sqq. There is another MS. copy of this in the library, Ii. vi. 34. Begins: Glorioso principi potestates aereas debellanti Domino Theobaldo Dei gratia Regi Navarie Magnifico Campanie ac Vicecomiti Palatino, suus Johannes vocatus Lemovicensis... Ends: celebrentur gaudium et letitia, gratiarum actio et vox laudis. 10. 'Articuli Universitatis Cantabrigiæ ad informandum dominum regem (Ricardum II.) de antiquis consuetudinibus ejusdem universitatis.' A later hand has added Contra J. Occamum.' Printed from this MS. among the publications of the Camb. Antiq. Society, A paper book, in small quarto, bound up with the two following, and containing, on 44 pages, according to the title, CATALOGUS LIBRORUM quos Magister GULIELMUS MORE, Collegii Gon. et Caii olim socius eidem, D.D. 1659. On the waste leaf is: 'Mdm. that this booke was transcribed out of Mr Moore's own Catalogue in Caius Coll. Library for ye use of Mr Thorowgood of Cressingham, and by him returned to me.' Moore was keeper of the University Library, 1653-9. 212 213 214 Dd. IV. 37. A paper book of 58 leaves, in quarto, with about 38 lines in each page. CATALOGUS LIBRORUM EDV. BROWNE prout suis quique pluteis locantur: varia solummodo voluminum forma distinctorum 1687. According to the Catalogue, this Library consisted of 317 volumes in folio, 472 in 4to, 657 in 8vo, 127 in 12mo, 72 in 16mo. Dd. IV. 38. A quarto, on paper, of 64 pages, in good preservation, containing, 1. A charter of Hen. VIII. confirmatory of the Laws and Customes of the TowN OF SHREWSBURY. 2. The names of all the villages within the fraunchises of Shrewsbury.' 3. A note of the names of those which have been bayliffs of the towne of Salop since the 46th yeare of Edward the Thirde, with the yeare of our Lord God and day of the month wherein the Kings and Quenes of this realme of England began their raigne.' Commencing with A.D. 1372, and ending with 1614, when the book was written. Dd. Iv. 39. A quarto, on parchment, (much damaged), of 300 leaves, with 21 lines in the page. A Byzantine MS. probably of the xith century. ff. 228—230 are of paper, and the handwriting of a later date. In some other places portions of pages have been similarly supplied, as in ff. 221, 236, 238, 240. At f. 123 an illumination occurs. Ψαλμοὶ καὶ ὕμνοι. f. 1 begins with Ps. xxi. 24: Ἅπαν τὸ σπέρμα Ιακώβ... Pss. xvii. 48 to xxi. 3, however, occur in ff. 221-226. At the end of many Psalms follow hymns, prayers, &c. usually with the titles, τροπάριον ἢ σχόλιον, and in some of the later Psalms, ὕμνοι τριαδικοί. A leaf is missing after ff. 48, 77, 100, 103, 104, 115, 146, 151, 166, 173, 253, and 261. The Psalter ends f. 280, and the usual Canticles follow, the MS. ending f. 300 with v. 14 of the Benedicite. 215 216 217 218 Dd. Iv. 40. A paper book, in quarto, containing, on about 220 pages, written in the xvi1th century, Catalogus Librorum MSS. Græcorum, qui in Bibliothecâ Vaticanâ reperiuntur, a Theodoro Ryckio Romæ scriptus. The Catalogue is alphabetical and entirely in Greek, with the exception of the title by another hand. Dd. iv. 41. A quarto, on paper, in good condition, handwriting of the end of the xvith century, 183 ff. Eight leaves wanting at the beginning, nine leaves of index at the end. No date or reference. A LAW COMMON-PLACE BOOK. Dd. IV. 42. A quarto, on vellum, containing 167 ff. with from 27 to 33 lines in each page. Date, xivth century. Βιβλίον τοῦ Δεκεμβρίου μηνός, or, a Greek MENOLOGIUM for the month of December, giving the accounts of the martyrdoms of all the Saints of the Greek Church in that month, with the addresses and sequences. The MS. is imperfect at the commencement, beginning in the middle of an address to St Nicholas (Dec. 6): [ἔμ]ψυχε καὶ ἔμπνουσ ̓ εἰκών· ὡς θεῖον γὰρ θησαυρόν σε ἡ τῶν μυρέων ἐκκλησία ἀγαμένη προσήκατο, κ.τ.λ. And ends (complete): ἐκ σοῦ πάρθενε τίκτεται, ὑπὸ τὸ θεῖον σπήλαιον, ἐν φάτνη τῶν ἀλόγων δὲ σπαργανωθεὶς ἀνεκλήθη λύον παρ' ἐγκλημάτων. To leaf 110 b a note in Arabic is prefixed, and f. 136 a is written in a different and very inferior hand. It corresponds throughout with the volume bearing the above title1 published at Venice by Pinelli, 1628, in the series of the Liturgia Græcorum, but has not all the sequences printed there, and varies slightly in the accounts of the martyrdoms. Dd. iv. 43. A small quarto, on paper, of 17 leaves, bound up with the three following. In the Library, 2. 22. 6.1 219 220 The title is f. 1 a 'An Essay of God's Goodnes and Justis with Respecte to Mankind in oposetion to the Doctrine of the Super- and Sub-lapsarians. November ye 10th 1705.' f. 2 a. The same title is repeated, with the substitution of the Doctrine of Predestination' for 'the Doctrine of the S. and S.' and the treatise is said to be by L. D. M.' Begins (f. 2 a): Had I under my Caire a Servant... Ends (f. 17 b): That God cannot gouverne them. Dd. iv. 44. A small quarto, on parchment, containing 36 leaves, with about 34 lines on a page, written in the early part of the xvth century. A Collection of RECIPES and CHARMS for the diseases of horses. It appears to be two or three treatises stitched together with several loose leaves appended. The first treatise is of 16 leaves (two have been cut out), beginning in red letters, 'Here bygynnep pe maladies pt hors havep of here own kynde.' It closed originally with a recipe for ‘a plastre to don awey wickide fleisch,' with a charm ending, 'sy il beyt quit pur son chyual q sors estoyt,' but another hand has written in two more recipes. The second treatise occupies not quite a page: Practica Willi Marescalli Prioris Mertonie de infirmitate equorum' [in red] Cryst hym self was y bore in bemergebyre in benyngbyre. Bedleem hit hist. Ends: 'by pe offryng of pes candels in pe worship of Seint Firmyn.' The third treatise on the foot of the same page, occupying the remainder of 7 leaves, begins with 'This is the Marchalcie of Piers Mori3 good and trewe' [in red], and ends with a charm and adjuration of Seynt Loye, 'for to make an hors stande stille.' The remainder of the book is in several hands, and contains a promiscuous farrago of charms, ending with the abracadabra. Dd. iv. 45. A small quarto, part paper, part parchment, 35 leaves, about 30 lines in each, written in the xvith century. Various treatises on subjects connected with ALCHEMY and the Philosopher's stone. |