Short texts in prose and verse by various hands. Rubric (f. 38v): 'Dicta cuidam Goliardi anglici', incipit: 'Omnibus in Gallia anglus Goliardus': see H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1969), no. 13306; incipit: 'Quatuor e...
Literary miscellany in verse and prose including: Goliardic verses including poems by Walter Map (ff. 75r-107r); Rubric (f. 75r): 'Apocalipsis Golye episcopi', incipit: 'A tauro torrida lampada cynthis?', explicit: 'Tu autem domine miserere crawe. Amen'. The verses include H. Walther, Initia carm...
A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music and notes
Scope & Content:
A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music (untraced) in a 14th-century hand, headed 'Ordo libri W. de Wint[onia]' and comprising the textual incipits of eight Marian tropes under the heading 'R[esponsorium] R. de Burg[ate]', 37 alleluia settings under the heading 'Postea R[esponsori...
Theological miscellany, including Innocent III, De contemptu mundi
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f. 2*: Added table of contents in a near-contemporary hand. f. 1r: Three verses: ‘Sunt sacramenta septem. lauacrum caro cristi. / Ordo sacer. crismatio presulis et patientis. / Unctio postrema. confessio coniugiumque.’ ff. 1r–37v: ‘Ysagoge magistri Hugonis in euidentiam theologie. et primum de...
A collection of historical materials compiled by Thomas Gibbons
Scope & Content:
Historical collections extracted from manuscript and printed sources, transcribed by Thomas Gibbons. Largely legal, historical and political. With some anecdotes and a few medical recipes (ff. 235v-236r) at the end. f. 1: At head of folio: 'Fragmenta Historipolitica Miscellanea' [etc.] f. 2: ...
Expositio Rabbi Shelomonis Jarchi in Canticum Canticorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-52r: Expositio Rabbi Shelomonis Jarchi in Canticum Canticorum; with an introduction by David Stokes; dedicated to Lancelot Andrewes (b. 1555, d. 1626), bishop of Winchester.
John [of] Hoveden [Howden], Philomela; an anonymous treatise on mortal sins
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts. Part 1 (ff. 1r-43v) contains a copy of John [of] Hoveden [Howden] (d. 1275), Philomela, which was copied in the 4th quarter of the 14th century. Part 2 (ff. 44r-77v) contains an anonymous treatise on mortal sins, which was copied in the 1st quar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Notes on the Bible; The whole booke of Psalmes [London, 1586]
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Contents: ff. 1r-260v: Notes on the Bible in Latin and English, featuring memoranda dated to 1605 and 1616 (f. 7r), with the added title: ‘Short Notes upon several Places of Scripture’ (f. 2r). ff. 261r-316v: A printed text with a title-page: ‘The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into Engli...