THE PILGRIMAGE Of the Life of Man: a translation into English octosyllabic verse of the second recension [1355] of Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. The French poem forms the first book of the author's Trois Pèlerinages, the second being the Pèlerinage de l'ame, and the t...
NARRATIVE POEM in old English verse relating the revelation to St. Methodius of the history of the world from the Creation to the Day of Judgment. Begins:- "Sum tyme was there a man of state That was clepyd Methodius, An holy byshop, a gret prelate, A man nobyll and gracyous." It summarises th...
SONETTI and Canzoni of Petrarch, entitled "Lamentationes domini Francisci Petrarce de amore domine Laure." Preceded by an index of first lines, and followed in the same hand (f. 150) by the Triomphi, headed "Triumfi vi. Petrarce." The reverse of the last leaf contains a copy of Petrarch's note o...
Pierre Sala, Petit Livre d'Amour (Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour)
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The manuscript contains the collection of love poems known as LePetit Livre d'Amour (also known as Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour) by the French writer and collector Pierre Sala, copied c. 1500 (ff. 1r-17v), and an 18th-century transcript of this collection (ff. 18r-34r). Contents: ff. 1r-17v:...
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 pieces in verse and prose, mostly of a religious character; temp. Elizabeth. Included are:-(1) Ballad, in 37 fourline stanzas, in praise of Mary Watt, niece of Hugh Latimer and wife of Robert Glover, the martyr, beg. "Mary Wat the nyce in blud To Latemere the great." f. 8, and cont...
COLLECTION of Welsh Poems by various writers. Imperfect, and mutilated at the beginning. Among the names and headings are:- Bedo Brwynllys. ff. 4 b, 16, 37 b, 60, 198,225. Llywelyn ap Gyttyn. ff. 5, 160, 161, 162 b. Morys Dwyreth. f. 6 b. Davydd Llwyd. ff. 8 b, 25, 107 b, 116 b, 135, 159 b, 160...
POEMS by Sir John Beaumont, Bart., [1582-1628], brother of Francis Beaumont the dramatist, and author of "Bosworth Field." This volume contains several of his shorter poems, including two not printed in Grosart's edition, one (f. 8 b) entitled "Of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady," the other (...
Volume containing 102 poems by John Donne, poet and Church of England clergyman (1572–1631), with others by Francis Beaumont, Ben Jonson, John Hoskyns, Henry Constable and William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke. ff. 1r-3r John Donne, ‘Satyre II’. Copy titled ‘Satyre’, beginning ‘Sir though (I ...
