"REGISTRUM cartarum Sacristarie sancti Neoti factum ad festum Annunciacionis Sancte Marie Anno incarnacionis domini mo co octogesimo sexto, tempore fratris Willelmi le Caron de Becco tunc Sacriste." The charters are ninety-nine in number, and refer exclusively to the Sacristary of the Priory of ...
CHARTULARY of the Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr in Southwark. Latin and English. The deeds are entered, not chronologically, but according to the parishes in which the lands concerned are situated, and include conveyances of the several estates between private persons, before they came into ...
"REGISTRUM cartarum Prioratus de Stone in comitatu Staffordiæ": a transcript, made in 1734 by David Casley, librarian of the Cotton Library, from Cotton MS. Vespasian E. xxiv., formerly belonging to Christopher, Lord Hatton (see Dugdale, Monasticon, vi. 1830, p. 226). Cotton Ch. xiii. 6 contains...
WILL of Alfred the Great, in Anglo-Saxon, copied from No. 944 above (f. 29 b), when in T. Astle's possession; with introduction and notes, and translations into English and Latin, by O[wen] M[anning],1776 (see f.18). Published at Oxford,1788. Followed (f. 19) by the will of Alfred the Alderman (...
REGULA Canonicorum S. Chrodegangi Metensis Episcopi, in Latin and Anglo-Saxon. Transcript of a MS. of the xith century at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (S. 12 in Wanley's catalogue of Anglo-Saxon MSS. at C. C. C., p. 130, contained in Hickes's Thesaurus, vol. ii.; and no. cxci. in Nasmith's ...
HYMN to the Virgin, in French, preceded by a calendar in a different hand. Imperfect at the beginning, the first line being, "Durement fu trauaile" (f. 8 b), and wanting leaves after ff. 9, 10. The several divisions remaining begin, "Deu te salt uirgine honore" (f. 9 b), "Virge mere preciouse" (...
LIVES OF SAINTS, in English verse. This MS. belongs to the group of which Harley MS. 2277 and Egerton MS. 1993 are representatives, described at length in C. Horstmann's Altenglische Legenden, Paderborn, 1875, pp. iii.-xxxviii., and in his introduction to The Early South-English Legendary or Liv...
CONFESSIO Amantis, by John Gower. Imperfect, both the beginning and the end being lost, including both passages by which the editions are distinguished. The text begins near the commencement of the 1st book, with the line "He hyde it nought, for yif thou feynest" (Pauli, i. p. 47), and ends in t...
1. HISTORY of the three Kings or Magi, Jaspar, Melchior and Balthasar, with an account of the three translations of their bodies until they were finally deposited at Cologne by Rainald of Dassel, archbishop, in 1164: an abridged English translation of the Historia Trium Regum of John of Hildeshe...