'ALARME to the Battle of that greate day of God Almightie': a religious anti-Roman discourse, by John Wade. This is only the first of six treatises set forth on the title-page. With a dedication to James I. Apparently autograph. Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. 9 in. x 63/4 in. Circ. 1620. Not in the old...
'OF THE DOMES of Urines', by Henry Daniel: a treatise compiled in 1378 (see lib. ii, cap. 6, f. 47 b) or 1379 (Sloane MS. 1100, f. 118, in some Latin lines appended at the end). Other copies, usually with the prologue in Latin and often entitled Liber Uricrisiarum, are in Sloane MSS. 1100, 1721,...
'THE LYFE of Theseus': a translation by Henry Parker, Lord Morley (cf. 17 A. XXX, &c.), from Plutarch through the Latin version of ' Lappus Florentinus', i. e. Lapo Birago (printed 1478, 1496, &c.). With a prologue addressed to Henry VIII, whose style is that used after 1543. Vellum; ff...
'THE PLEASAUNT POESYE of princelie practise, composed of late in meatre royall by the symple and vnlearned Sir William Forrest preciste, muche parte collecte owte of a booke entiteled The gouernaunce of noblemen, which booke the wise philosopher Aristotele wrote too his discyple Alexandre the gr...
'THE MAISTER OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, 2nd Duke of York (1402-1415). The order of the chapters and the headings correspond with 17 B. XLI, but at the end is the Latin colophon :- 'Ardula (sic) lucra labor pariens non est honorosus. Dulcia sepi (sic) graui sub pondere munera c...
REGINALD PECOCK, 'Þe folewer to þe Donet': a sequel to the Donet into Cristen Religioun of the same author, who was Bishop of St. Asaph 1444 and of Chichester from 1450 till his resignation, circ. 1459. Some account of both works is given by C. Babington in his introduction to Pecock's Repressor...
TWO MYSTICAL TREATISES on Theology, in English, viz.:- 1. 'The diuine clowde of vnknowynge' (so colophon); see 17 C. XXVI, XXVII. Certain passages scored through in red in 17 C. XXVI (ff. 7, 22) correspond to omissions in the text of this MS., the language of which is much modernized, but the r...
A GODLY MEDITATION of Hieronymus Savanorola vpon the 80 [79] psalme of David, Qui Regis Israell, intede.' Beg. 'Forasmoche as we knowe the Lorde by workes'. Girolamo Savonarola's exposition was printed in Latin at Venice, 1505, and Italian and German translations in 1496 and 1542. Paper; ff. 35...
'OON OF FOURE, þat is o book of alle foure gospeleris gaderyd schortly in to oo story by Clement of Lantony' (so colophon); cf. 17 C. XXXIII, art. i. Prologue beg. 'Clement a preest of þe chirche of Lantony gaderid alle þe sentensis'; text, 'In þe bigynnyng eipir first of alle pinges was goddis ...
PARAPHRASE in verse of Psalms xxi and xlv, by Edmond Skory, with a fulsome dedication in prose to James I. The writer was a son of John Scory, Bishop of Hereford (d. 1585), and another work of his was printed as An extract out of the Historie of the Last .King Henry the fourth, &c., 1610. He...