The core of this volume is a Liber vitae consisting of lists of names of brethren and benefactors of the New Minster, Winchester, recorded for commendation to God during daily mass, combined originally with a Gospel Lectionary, and supplemented with several historical texts. Contents: ff. 1r-5...
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 ...
A girdle-book containing a collection of thirteen Psalms, translated into English verse and apparently written by the legal official John Croke (b. 1489, d. 1554) in his own hand. Another copy of the text, without the hymn ‘Veni Creator’ but including Psalm 31, is now Add MS 30981, which is al...
DAVID AND ABSALOM: a Latin tragedy, in five acts, written in iambic trimeters and various choric meters. The characters are Joab, Absalom, Ahitopbel, Messenger, David, Abishai, Cushai, Zadok, Abiathar, Watchman, and Ahimaaz. A modern note on the first page attributes it to John Bale, Bishop of O...
Collection of poetry, including works by John Donne, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, Francis Phillips, Richard Corbett, Henry King, Thomas Campion, George Morley, William Strode, John Grange, Michael Drayton, John Ho...
COLLECTIONS Of poems and verses by various authors, including:- 1. "The 139th Psalm Paraphrased. By Mr. Standen," beg. "O dread Jehovah ! thy all peircing eye." f. 1. 2. "The Progress of Life," beg. "How gayly is at first begun." f. 2. 3. "Love's Defence," beg. "When, dully-wise, the Grave...
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge (in the third recension); Fabius Victor, De xiv urbis regionibus; Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis
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Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Roman Calendar; ff. 4r-245r: Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge, in the third recension; ff. 246r-253v: Fabius Victor (also known as Publius), De xiv urbis regionibus; ff. [254r-269v]: Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis; ff. [270r-271v]: Index of inscriptions. Deco...
"BREVIS DISCURSUS antiquitatis Puteolorum ac Baiarum": a short account of the antiquities of Pozzuoli and Baja, for the use of travellers. Latin. The author's name appears at the end, "Devotissimus servus Jacobus Sabbatinus, Cicero Puteolanus, notus curiosis ac virtuosis viris." Written after 17...