This manuscript consists of the 'First Family' of bestiaries, with a text derived from the Physiologus with additions from Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636)'s Etymologies (Etymologies) (see McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (1962) p. 31; Payne, Medieval Beasts (1990) p. 12). ...
"JOHANNIS regis vita" : extracts, chronologically arranged, from Roger de Hoveden, Matthew Paris, Ralph de Coggeshall, and other chronicles, etc., chiefly taken from printed editions. With a few marginal notes by Sir Roger Twysden. Paper; ff. 333. XVIIth cent. Folio. John of England: Extracts f...
1. " MODUS tenendi Parliamentum"; with a note at the beginning in the hand of Sir Roger Twysden (ob. 1672), referring to other copies in the library of Sir Thomas Cotton. f. 1. 2. A short treatise on the " Court of Parliament," beg. " This is the King's Majesties principall Court of Record." T...
STATE PAPERS and Correspondence, originals and copies, 1688 - 1744; collected by Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and intended to serve as an appendix to the Hanover Papers (Hargrave MS 222-232). Two volumes. Paper. Large Octavo.
A COLLECTION of English Wills, chiefly copies, with a few originals; 1002-1768. In two volumes, arranged in chronological order. The names of all the testators are given in the Index. The collection was originally arranged by T. Astle in three volumes, and included what are now Stowe charters 622-642. Paper. XVIth-XVIIIth centt. Large Quarto.
"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...
EIGHT SERMONS "de Morte," and eleven "de Passione" Christi, in Latin. A short introduction is prefixed to the first series, beg. "Cum propriam imperitiam," and each sermon begins with the words "Omnes morimur." The second series begins, "Rorantes sanguine lacrimas" (f. 29b). The end of the volum...
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...
ABSTRACTS of fines relating to lands in Norfolk; 1 John-23 Hen. VII. Latin. With an index of places (not quite complete); and with interlinear notes and corrections in the hand of Peter le Neve, Norroy King of Arms (ff. 20 b, 32, etc.). Paper; ff. 112. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. Folio. County of Nor...
COLLECTIONS relating to Hampshire, viz.:- 1. Three documents relating to Portsmouth, viz.:-(a, b) Charters granted 7 Nov. 3 Charles I. [1627], and 12 Oct. 8 Rich. II. [1384]; transcribed in 1718, the former from a copy "penes Johannem White apud Portesmouth" (see f. 23), and the latter apparen...
