Lives of Saints and theological collections of the early 14th cent., in Latin; bound up with a Latin metrical arithmetic and other matter in hands of the 15th cent. Contents: 1. Algorismus Metricus: the common versified arithmetic [by Alexander de Villa Dei], cf. 8 C. IV, art. 11. Without title...
'A BOKE of the kynges navie on the see' (so endorsement): a list of twelve ships with their portage, captains, and complement, n. d. In Letters and Papers, Hen. VIII, under 1513, no. 3979, but more probably circ. 1522-1523 (see ib. 1523, p. 1337, no. 12). Paper roll. 3 ft. 91/2 in. x 1 ft. Circ...
THE DREME OF SYPYON, taken owt of the syxt boke of Cicero intytlyd de republyca': translation of the Somnium Scipionis by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), with a letter of dedication to 'the Lady [afterwards Queen] Mary, sister to . . . kyng Edwarde the syxt'. Vellum; ff...
1. 'LE LIVRE de vices et de vertus' (so colophon): the moral treatise or series of treatises known as 'Somme le Roy', composed by Frère Laurent, al. Lorens, Friar Preacher, confessor to Philippe III, le Hardi, King of France (d. 1285). It agrees in substance and order with Cotton MS. Cleopatra A...
19 D. IV, V THE SAME WORK, but in the less amplified form called by Berger 'petite bible historiale', though in certain respects (e.g. by inclusion of Baruch) it approximates to the type of bible moyenne (Berger, La Bible française au Moyen Âge, pp. 213, 393). In two volumes. The rubric at the end of Comestor's prefatory letter (f. 3) states that the author has 'escript le texte de la bible premierement de grosse lettre, et puis apres en ord[r]e les hystoires de plus delie lettre un poi, et...
'SERMONES Parisiensis' (so late title): homilies on the gospels throughout the year, printed as part ii of the sermons of Guillaume d'Auvergne, Bishop of Par's 1228-1249 (Opera, Orleans, 1674, ii, p. 159), but really, it would seem, the work of Guillaume Pdrault, Prior of the Dominicans at Lyons...
BIBLE, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version; preceded by the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1). The books of the Old Testament are in the usual order, except that Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther (and originally Tobit and Judith) are placed between Malachi and Maccabees. After f. 126 some leaves have, how...
BIBLE, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version; preceded by the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. i). The books of the O. T. follow the usual Vulgate order, with the addition of 3 Esdras after Nehemiah. Jerome's prologues, except those to Chronicles, Esdras, Job (for all of which spaces are left), and ...
TROPER and Gradual for St. Albans Abbey, in Latin. Some account of the MS. is given by Rev. W. H. Frere in his Winchester Troper (Hen. Bradshaw SOC., 1894), PP. xxxi, 132-139. The notation is Guidonian, on a four-line stave, except at ff. 107 b, 108, where there are some neums. Contents:- 1. F...