'VRBIVM et regionum quarundam clogia. Item Geographie et Rhetorice Compendia': commonplace-book of geography and rhetoric, containing brief quotations in Latin verse concerning cities, countries, &c., and definitions of rhetorical tropes, &c. The 'figurae ultimae' (f. 15) seem to be late...
TWO EXERCISES, in Latin, probably for the degree of D.D. in the schools at Cambridge, by Theophilus Feild, royal chaplain [fellow of Pembroke College 1598, Bishop of Llandaff 1619, St. Davids 1627, and Hereford 1635- 1636, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.]. Dedicated to James I. The first (f. 3) is dated 1...
'EPITHALAMIVM in nuptias honoratissimi Comitis Somersetensis [Robert Carr, al. Ker, Earl of Somerset] et nobilissimae virginis Franciscae Howarde' [divorced wife of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex], 26 Dec. 1613, by William Alabaster [fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Roman Catholic convert a...
Dedication in elegiacs (Grosart's introduction, p. xli), and appeal to the King for aid against extortions by the patron of his vicarage [Bere-Regis, co. Dorset]. The poem, entitled 'Carmen gratulatorium' and addressed to the King on his accession, consists here of 725 hexameters, beg. 'Musa qui...
Prose preface and the passage in 145 hexameters beg. 'Sic munere missum', afterwards incorporated in book iii. Addressed to the King as a new-year's gift [1604].
COMPLIMENTARY POEMS, in Latin, to Queen Elizabeth and (f. 31 b) Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper; written shortly after the Queen's accession by 'Huiccus'. i. e. Robert Huicke, physician to Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Elizabeth (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). The verses (in hexameters) include poems in m...
LATIN GRAMMAR for English use, consisting apparently of two distinct treatises, the first on grammar in general, the second on the conjugation of verbs, although the two occur together also (still more imperfect) in Add. MS. 32425. The examples and translations are in English. Contents: 1. Trea...
'DE ANNI FERIIS mensibus et statis Iudaeorum ieiuniis (&c.). Autore Galtero Deleno': a tract, in Latin, on the Jewish calendar, by Wouter Deelen or Deleen (cf. 7 D. XX), dedicated as a new year's gift for 1541 (f. 75) to Henry VIII. Paper; ff. 75. 8vo. 71/2 in. x 5 in. A. D. 1540. Gauffered...
MEDICAL TRACTS and notes, in Latin and French, viz.: 1. Part of the metrical herbal De viribus herbarum of the Pseudo-Aemilius Macer, al. Macer Floridus, a work in Latin hexameters, ascribed by Choulant, Macer Floridus, &c. (Leipzig, 1832), to the 10th, by Renzi, Collectio Salernilana, i, p....
SCINTILLAE and Diadema: two collections of extracts from Scripture and the Fathers, in Latin, viz.:- 1. 'In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi. Incipiunt sentencie [extra]cte decatholicis libris in unum collecte': the collection called Scintillae, compiled probably by Defensor, a monk of Ligugé ...