1. Add MS 45557
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 45557
- Title:
- MORALISING WORKS, in Latin, viz.:- (1) Disticha Catonis. Book I (without prologue) and four lines of Book II, including the line 'humanos si forte velis depellere morbos', for which see Marcus Boas, Disticha Catonis, Amsterdam, 1952, pp. 91-92. The text appears to belong to the Traditio Vulgata recentior of Boas (op. cit., pp. lx-lxii), and resembles that of MS. V in his apparatus. Interlinear glosses in Latin and English. ff. 2-4. (2) Gesta Romanorum. Forty-three chapters from the branch usuall...
- Scope & Content:
- Bindings ENGLISH: Limp vellum: 15th cent. includes: f. iv Bookplates and Book-stamps: Ashburnham Appendix CCXLVI: affixed 1897.ff. 2-4 Dionysius Cato: Disticha Catonis: 15th cent.: Lat.: Imperf.ff. 5-80b Romances: Gesta Romanorum: 15th cent.: Lat.ff. 81-84b Sermons: On Job xvii. 1, and Matt. xxi. 5:...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 item