Add MS 44055

MORALISED EXEMPLA and other tracts, compiled and written out by John Sintram (d. 1450), Franciscan, of Würzburg; early 15th cent. (see further below). Latin with occasional German. For Sintram and for other MSS. written by him and given, in 1444, to the Franciscan library at Würzburg, including Add. MS. 30049, see Dorothy K. Coveney, Speculum, xvi, 1941, PP. 336-339; T. C. Petersen, ibid., xx, 1945, pp. 73-83, and p. Ludger Meier, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, xliv, 1951, pp. 191-209. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., x, 1935-1936, pp. 99-100. Contents:-

(1) 'Incipiunt Narraciones. Miracula. Exempla. multa de viciis & virtutibus Tabulate secundum ordinem alphabeti' (f. 1): a collection of moralised tales, beg. 'Romani miserunt quendam'. Arranged by subjects with other marginal titles or notes, the alphabetical arrangement referred to in the Latin title being apparent only in the index at the end of the volume (ff. 122 b- 127). The sources from which most of the tales, etc., are derived are:-(a) The Moralitates of Robert Holcot, the Oxford Dominican, cited below as 'Moral.', and printed as Nouum insigneque opusculum pro Christi verbum evangelizantibus moralizatum videlicet. . . Roberti Olchot, Paris, 1510 (the edition normally referred to here), and again as an appendix to his In Librum Sapientiae Regis Salomonis Praelectiones ccxiii, Basle(?), 1586, etc.;@b) The collection known

as 'Convertimini', probably also by Holcot. Cited below as 'Conv.' with references to the text as found in Royal MS. 7 C. i, ff. 93-121 b, for which see J. A. Herbert, Cat. of Romances, iii, pp. 116-136;-(c) The Gesta Romanorum (ed. H. Oesterley, 1872), cited below as GR;-(d) The Miracles of the Virgin (nos. cxx-cxxx below, beg. 'in urbe bisancea'), from the collection 'ex Mariali magno' in Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale, vii, pp. 81-120, printed in Bibliotheca Mundi, iv, Douay, 1624, and cited below as Spec. Hist.; cf. Royal MS. 13D. viii and A. Mussafia, 'Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Marienlegenden ii', Sitzungsb. d. Kaiserl. Akad. d. Wissen-. schaften in Wien, Hist.-Phil. Classe, cxv, 1888, pp. 52-57. ff. 1-51b. As follows:-(1) Carthaginians' oracle (=Harley MS. 7322, f. 162). f. 1;-(ii) Pulse betrays guilty love (Conv., no. 64; GR 40). f. I;-(iii) Fish prefers bitter water (Conv., no. 65). f. 2;-(iv) Viaticum through side (Conv., nos. 66, 127). f. 2b;-(v) Two-fold boy (Moral., 1586 ed. only, 14; Conv., no. 12; GR 176). f. 3;-(vi) Agnus castus (Conv., no. 36). f. 3;-(vii) Knight deters dragon from emerging from its cave, with a marble image. Beg. 'Nota quod quondam unus miles'. f. 3 b;-(viii) Brothers at strife (Conv. no. 60; GR 39). f. 3 b;-(ix) Falcon (Conv., no. 52; GR 84). f. 4b;-(x) Miser's heart in chest (Arundel MS. 384, f. gob; Add. MS. 16589, f. 93b). f. 5;-(xi) justice, a blind girl (Conv., no. 7; cf. GR 247). f. 5b;-(xii) Nobleman, overthrown by three kings, overheard bewailing his fate. Beg. 'Erat quondam quidam nobilis'. f. 6 b;-(xiii) Life as Wheel of Fortune, with twelve spokes, the first inscription only being given. Cf. Harley MS. 7322, f. 163b. f. 7;-(xiv) Fortune as youth with three flowers, differing from both Moral. 41 and Harley MS. 7322, f. 103 b. f. 7 b;-(xv) Wheel of Fortune again, with twelve inscriptions, some resembling those in Harley MS. 7322, f. 163b. f. 8b.-

(xvi) Twelve bad conditions of riches. Beg. 'Nota etiam quod diuicie'. f. 9 b;-(xvii) Clemency the chief god (Moral. 17; Harley M S. 7322, f. 99b). f. 10;-(xviii) Fortune with flowers (Moral. 41; Harley MS. 7322, f. 103b). Continued at foot of f. 13 with account of lily and heliotrope. f. II ;-(xix) Flattery (Moral. 42; Harley MS. 7322, f. 104). f. 12;-(xx) Fish not to be tumed over (GR 194). f. 12b;-(xxi) Chimaera (Moral., quoted in margin, 18; Harley MS. 7322, f. 99). f. 14b;-(xxii) Five men (Harley MS. 7322, f. 121 ; GR 164). f. 15 b;-(xxiii) Judgement of Paris (Royal M S. 12 E. xxi, f. 46, but with no mention of Peleus and Thetis). f. 16b;-(xxiv) Image of Honour, the sun with chariot and four horses, thunder, light, heat and cold. Beg. 'Fingunt poete'. f. 16b;-(xxv) The Sibyl gives Aeneas a leaf inscribed with three Rs and three Fs. Cf. GR 42. f. 17;-(xxvi) Faith as crowned queen. Beg. 'Secundum tullium citaronem (sic) de amicicia'. f. 17;-(xxvii) Three bad schools, flesh, world, devil, including a reference to the tale of the philosopher who throws wealth into the sea (cf. Arundel MS. 231, f. 81b). Beg. 'Tres lege malos scolas'. f. 17;-(xxviii) Four Gospels (Moral., 1586 ed. only, 13). f. 17b;-(xxix) Penitence, with five inscriptions (Moral. 21, but with no mention of knight and with different inscriptions). f. 17b;-(xxx) Pity, cleft heart (Moral. 8; GR 206). f. 18;-(xxxi) Fortune, two faces (Moral.

12; GR 209). f. 18 b;-(xxxii) Faith. As (xxvi), but longer. f. 19;(xxxiii) Love-inscriptions (Moral. 7; GR 221). f. 19b;-(xxxiv) Honour as woman, surrounded by five inscribed circles. Beg. 'Secundum tytum liuium'. f. 20;-

(xxxv) Law of Lycurgus against poverty. Cf. GR 169, which gives 12 laws. f. 20b;-(xxxvi) Pallides and her child (Harley MS. 7322, f. 160b). f. 20b;-

(xxxvii) Pride, three crowns (Moral. 10). f. 20b;-(xxxviii) Alexander and four duchesses (Moral. 1; GR 203). f. 21;(xxxix) Theft of Pallad1um. Cf. Harley MS. 7322, f. 14b. f. 21 b;-(xl) Jupiter sends messages to four elements. Beg. 'Legitur in flagicijs deorum'. f. 22;(xli) Image of Prayer (Moral. 2; GR 255). f. 22;-(xlii) King's son banished (Moral. 16). f. 22b;-

(xliii) Image of Sin (Moral. 3). f. 22 b;-(xliv) 'Therberius' as god of Death with four drawn swords. Beg. 'Secundum figmenta poetarum'. f. 23b;-

(xlv) Image of Luxury (Moral. 4; GR 204). f. 24;-(xlvi) Gods' gifts scorned (Moral. 46; GR 239). f. 24b;-(xlvii) Golden table (Moral. 15; GR 208). f. 25;-(xlviii) Son warned (Moral. 5; GR 223). f. 25b;-(xlix) Love, fourwinged boy (Moral. 6; GR 254). f. 26;-(l) Berecynthia and her offspring (Harley MS. 7322, f. 157). f. 27;-(li) Image in temple of Vesta with golden inscribed crown, beg. 'Legitur quod in templo dee Veste'. f. 27 b;-(lii) Vesta with inscribed lily (Moral. 20). f. 27b;-(liii) Penitence, scourge (Moral. 9; GR 207). f. 28;-(liv) Penitence, armed knight (Moral. 21). f. 28;(lv) Image of Death, drawing three carts and with diseased face. Beg. 'Secundum commentatorem tullij chitheronis (sic)'. f. 28 b;-(lvi) Roman triumph (GR 30; Harley MS. 7322, f. 110). f. 28b;-(lvii) Image of dead man and three executors, beg. 'Narratur quod in ciuitate romana'. f. 28b;-(lviii) Loveletters from kings (Moral. 39; GR 227). f. 29;-(lix) Penitent sinner hears voice from crucifix, beg. 'Narratur quod quidem vir'. f. 29;-(lx) Impious citizens see inscription 'FRVJPODM', beg. 'Narratur in gestis romanorum'. f. 29 b;-(lxi) Successor to sage discovered by five questions. Beg. 'Narratur in quodam libro'. f. 29b;-(lxii) Girl sings to fountain (Moral. 37). f. 30;-

(lxiii) Wheel of Fortune, with ten inscriptions, differing from (xv) above. f. 30;-(lxiv) Virgil's statue with bell (Conv., no. 30; GR 186). f. 3 ';-(lxv) Judgement of Paris. As (xxiii) above. f. 3 1 ;-(lxvi) Two virginity tests; unchaste paralysed, or struck by statue with lamp and sword. Beg. 'Tyberius de mirabilibus Indie'. f. 31 b;-(lxvii) Image of Riches (Moral. 32). f. 31 b.- (lxviii) Sun and chariot. As (xxiv) above. f. 32;-(lxix) Aeneas and Sibyl. As (xxv)above. f.32b;-(lxx)Ass in lion's skin(Moral.43). f.32b.-(lxxi)Three laws (Moral. 40). f. 32b;(lxxii) Love, heart exposed (Moral. 19). f. 33;-

(lxxiii) Shield bearing devices of kite, magpie and raven, for rich man. Beg. 'Erat quidam homo'. f. 33b;-(lxxiv) Seven words and seven wounds. Version of moralization of Moral. 6. f. 34;-(lxxv) Fool eats sparks (Moral.

33). f. 34;(lxxvi) Four laws on walls of temple of Vesta, beg. 'Secundum annalia indorum'. f. 34 b;-(lxxvii) Three knights created by Antigonus make three vows and assume shields of white, black and red. Beg. 'Romulus in annalibus grecorum'. f. 35;-(lxxviii) City safeguarded by image of Berecynthia, beg. 'Narrat Valerius'. f. 35-,(lxxix) Posy-rings (Moral. 30; GR

225). f. 35b;-(lxxx) Helen's image of Love (Moral., 1586 ed. only, 25; GR 240). f. 3 5 b;-(lxxxi) Achilles (Conv., no. 117). f. 3 5 b;-(lxxxii) Sirens (Moral. 28; GR237).f.36;-(lxxxiii) Alexander's faults( Moral.39). f.36b; -(lxxxiv) Circe (Moral., 1586 ed. only, 16). f. 36 b;-(Ixxxv) Tyrant softened (Moral. 35; GR 222). f. 37;-(lxxxvi) Column and mirror undermined by search for treasure. Variant of the tale 'Virgilius' in Historia Septem Sapientium, ed. G. Buchner, 1889, pp. 42-46. f. 37b;-(lxxxvii) Oracle at Antioch (Harley MS. 7322, f. 63b). f. 38;-(lxxxviii) Philosophers at Alexander's tomb (Conv., no. III; GR 31). f. 38;-(lxxxix) Tablets found (GR 226). f. 38;-(xc) Brother dies for emperor's daughter condemned for adultery, beg. 'Erat quidam imperator'. f. 38;-(xci) Twin brothers and seven shields, beg. 'Narrat agellius'. f. 38;-(xcii) King 'Purus' besieges city of five marvels, beg. 'Narratur quod rex purus'. f. 39;-(xciii) Purpose of mirrors, beg. 'Seneca in naturalibus questionibus libro il capitulo ultimo'. f. 39;-(xciv) Frenchman named Geoffrey died without good works: his wife married again. Unfinished, beg. 'Erat quidam homo in francia'. f.39;-(xcv) Atalanta (Moral. 27). f. 39;-(xcvi) Wheel of Fortune, with ten inscriptions, differing from (xv) and (lxiii) above. f. 39b;-(xcvii) Four wheels and four follies (moralization of Moral. 21). f. 40;-(xcviii) Horatii and Curiatii (Moral. 45). f. 40;-(xcix) Penitence, scourge. Variant of Moral. 9. f. 40b;-(c) Poor man, sentenced to hanging for treachery by a King, among three friends, finds one ready to die for him. Variant of the tale in St John Damascenus, Vita SS. Barlaam et josephat, xiii (Patr. Graeca, xcvi, col. 977; Patr. Lat., lxxiii, col. 494). f. 41;-(ci) Sarcophagus found. Version of GR 16 and 192. f. 41b;-(cii) Gravecloth of Saracen prince. Version of Jacques de Vitry, Exempla, ed. T. F. Crane, 1890, no. 119. f. 41b;-(ciii) Julius Caesar (Moral.

38; GR 97; Conv., no. 51). f. 42;-(civ) Sinners in hell (Conv., no. 29). f-42;-(cv)Justice, blind girl.As(xi)above.f-42b;-(cvi) Wife-hanging tree (Moral. 23; GR 33; Cony., no. 8). f. 42b;-(cvii) Diogenes (Moral. 34; GR 183; Conv., no. 9). f. 43;-(cviii) Tree and Serpent (Moral. 23; GR 176, 185; Conv., no. II). f. 43;-(cix) Viper and lamprey (Conv., no. 17). f. 43b;-

(cix) Passion week (Conv., no. 69). f. 43 b;-(cxi) Owl and nightingale (Moral.

25; GR 228; Conv., no. 78). f. 43 b;-(cxii) Harpy (Conv., no. 81). f. 44;-

(cxiii) Princess elopes (Moral. 26; GR I). f. 44b;-(cxiv) Two-fold boy. As (v) above. f. 45;-(cxv) Vulture (GR 248). f. 45;-(cxvi) Cursacius (Conv., no. 85). f. 45 b;-(cxvii) Seven petitions of damned, beg. 'Septem peticiones petunt dampnati'. f. 45 b;-(cxviii) Five fountains (Moral. 14). f. 45 b;-

(cxix) Five precautions in cult of Serapis, including statue prescribing silence, as in St Augustine, De civitate dei, xviii, 5 (Patr. Lat., xli, col. 564), and GR 22. f. 46;-(cxx) Worms (Conv., no. 1 ; GR 32). f. 46 b;-(cxxi) Jew lends to Christian (Spec. Hist., vii, ch. 82). f. 46 b;-(cxxii) Chaste Empress (ibid., chh. 90-92). f. 47;-(cxxiii) Rich man and poor widow (ibid., ch. 96). f. 48 b;-

(cxxiv) Ring on finger of Mary-Image (ibid., ch. 87). f. 49;-(cxxv) Pilgrim in the sea (ibid., ch. 88). f. 49b;@cxxvi) Jewess helped in childbirth (ibid., ch. 99, para. I). f. 50;-(cxxvii) Bread offered to Christ-child (ibid., ch. 99,

para. 2). f. 50;-(cxxviii) Five psalms, with initials MARIA (ibid., ch. 116, para. 2). f. 50;-(cxxix) Milk: tongue and lips (ibid., ch. 84). f. 50b;-

(cxxx) Childbirth in the sea (ibid., ch. 85). f. 50b;-(cxxxi) Subdeacon sees devil (ibid., ch. 118). f. 51.

(2) 'Exempla et narraciones secundum ordinem alphabeti' comprising:-

(a) Extracts from the Alphabetum Narrationum attributed to Arnold of Liége (edited from the English version of Add. MS. 25719 by M. NI. Banks, An Alphabet of Tales, Early English Text Soc., original ser., vols. 126, 127, 1904, 1905). The text varies slightly from that of the corresponding passages in the Latin version of Harley MS. 268, ff. 45-201 b, for which see Herbert, op. cit., PP. 423-438. ff. 52-55b;-(b) Exempla and discourses relating mainly to Natural History, derived from Pliny, the Specula of Vincent of Beauvais, and other sources. ff. 55b-65. The contents include:-(i) 'Abbas non debet esse nimis rigidus' (Banks, op. cit., no. i). f. 52;-(ii) 'Abbas debet esse compatiens peccatoribus' (ibid., no. ii). f. 52;-(iii) 'Abbas uel quiscumque (sir) homo debet reuocare peccatores quantum potest' (ibid., no. vii). f. 52;-(iv) 'Abbas infirmis multum debet condescendere' (ibid., no. xii). f. 52b;-(v) 'Abstinencia ammirabilis patrum' (ibid., xxii). f. 52b;-(vi) 'Accusat demon peccatores et conscribit peccata eorum' (ibid., xxx). f. 52b;-(vii) 'Adultera uxor non est tenenda' (ibid., xxxv). f. 52b;-(viii) 'Adulterium etiam aves abhorrent' (ibid., xxxvii). f. 53;-(ix) 'Agrorum terminum transponentes vel invasores puniuntur' (ibid., xlvi). f. 53;-(x) 'Ambicio inducit homines ad habendum convenciones cum dyabolo' (ibid., l). f. 53;-(xi) 'Amicus debet probari' (ibid., lvli). f. 53;-(xii) 'Amici falsi multa promittunt que non implent' (ibid., lxii). f. 53b;-(xiii) 'Andree apostoli ex legenda lombard" (ibid., lxvii). f. 53 b;-(xiv) 'Ave maria dictum devote liberat hominem de potestate dyaboli' (ibid., lxxi). f. 54;-(xv) 'Archidyaconus quidam ad episcopatum spirans perpetrauit homicidium' (ibid., lxxviii). f. 54;-(xvi) 'Audire sermonem impedit demon' (ibid., lxxxv). f. 54b;-(xvii) 'Balliui frequenter munera recipiunt nec faciunt quod promittunt' (ibid., xcix). f. 54b;-(xviii) 'Blasphemus corporaliter quandoque punitur' (ibid., cxvii). f. 54b;-(xix) 'Cantus proprius multos decipit qui credunt se bene cantare et pessime cantant' (ibid., cxx). f. 54b;-(xx) 'Cantus clamorosus (sic) deus parum reputat et dyabolus approbat' (ibid., cxxii). f. 55;-(xxi) 'Carnis temptacionem mediante (sic) dyabolus etiam sanctos ducit in desperacionem' (ibid., cxxix). f. 55;-(xxii) 'Communio etiam corporalem fortitudinem confert' (ibid., clxiii). f. 55;-(xxiii) 'Confessor dure loquens confitentibus est contra se ipsum' (ibid., clxxxiii). f. 55 b;-(xxiv) Dispute between Kings of England and Ireland over the ownership of the Isle of Man settled by seeing whether serpents would thrive there. Cf. Harley MS. 7322, f. 25, where the kings and island are not identified. f. 58b;-(xxv) Cyrus's device for rousing the Persians to fight, beg. 'Iulius sextus refert libro i, capitulo 5' (Frontinus, Strategemata, i, II). Cf. Harley MS. 7322, f. 41. f. 61;-(xxvi) The Carthaginian Marabal (al. Maharbal) drugs rebellious Africans with mandragora, beg. 'Idem Iulius sextus Refert libro 2 capitulo 5' (ibid., ii, 5). f. 61;-

(xxvii) Xenophon on horseback changes place with soldier beneath yoke, beg. 'Sextus Iulius 4 libro capitulo 6' (ibid., iv. 6). f. 61;-(xxviii) None may enter temple of Jupiter without drinking from pitchers both of happiness and unhappiness at the entrance. Beg. 'Legitur in gestis romanorum'. Cf. Harley MS. 7322, f. 53 b. f. 61b;-(xxix) Twin brothers: fat one chosen as heir, but thin one retums from exile and successfully claims inheritance. Beg. 'Quintilianus declamacione ultima' (sic). f. 62;-(xxx) Unchaste woman, thrown from rock, survives her punishment. Beg. 'Seneca libro primo declamacionum casu tercio' (i.e. Seneca, Controversiae, i, 3). f. 63;-(xxxi) Panopio saved by his friend changing clothes with him, beg. 'Valerius libro 6' (i.e. Valerius Maximus, vi, 8; cf. Harley MS. 7322, f. 48). f. 64b;-(xxxii) Sponge used to heal breast of princess (= GR 266). The moralisation breaks off with the words 'Vide alibi quia non plus hic', beneath which is written the opening of a discourse on lying attributed to St Gregory, beg. '[C]auete fratres mendacium'. f. 65.

(3) Exempla from various sources. ff. 65 b-77 b. As follows:-(1) Jew saved by crossing himself (St Gregory, Dialogues, iii, 7; Patr. Lat., lxxvii, col. 229. Cf. Jacques de Vitry, Exempla, ed. T. F. Crane, 1890, no. 131). f. 65 b;-(ii) Dying man learns that greater indulgence is granted him by the cross than by his good deeds (Speculum Laicorum, ed. J. T. Welter, Thesaurus Exemplorum, fasc. v, 1914, no. 3 24). f. 65 b;-(iii) Dying man, advised in 1267 by a bishop to take the cross, escapes Purgatory, and appears in a vision to his brother (ibid., nos. 149 and 325). f. 65 b;-(iv) Man (here named Johannes de Lewes), after dissuading others from taking the cross, falls and bites his tongue off. Differs from versions in Speculum Laicorum, no. 151, and Harley MS. 2385, f. 59 b, in omitting the warning by a dead comrade and in narrating the madness and death of a second scoffer, a 'rector ecclesie' named Hugh. Some words in German. f. 65 b;-(v) A Cistercian is told by Christ in a vision to dip his crust in His blood. Similar to the version in Royal MS. 7 D. i, f. 79 b. f. 66;-(vi) Heraclius stopped by an angel at gate of Jerusalem (J. de Voragine, Legenda Aurea, ed. T. Graesse, 1846, ch. cxxxvii, p. 607; cf. Harley MS. 2385, f. 58). f. 66;-(vii) Provost who robbed St Andrew of a field punished (ibid., ch. ii, p. 21; cf. Add. MS. 18344, f. 136b). f. 66;-(viii) Body of one of the 11,000 virgins put in a wooden coffin instead of a silver one (ibid., ch. clviii, § 2, p. 704). f. 66b;-(ix) Julian [uncle of Julian the] Apostate insults church and is punished with disease and death (Cassiodorus, Hist. Trip., vi, 10; Patr. Lat., lxix, col. 103 6). f. 66 b;-(x) Priest adoms his concubine with robe from image of the Virgin, who reproaches him in a vision. Beg. 'Quidam sacerdos beate virginis'. f. 66b;-(xi) Man who wandered in his faith reformed by seeing flesh and blood on the altar, beg. 'Legitur in vitis patrum'. f. 66 b;-(xii) Captured knight loosed by a brother's mass (Bede, Hist. Eccl., iv, 22). f. 66b;-(xiii) Man buried underground kept alive by wife's mass (Petrus Venerabilis, De Miraculis, ii, 2; Patr. Lat., clxxxix, col. 911 ; cf. Add. MS. 33956, f. 74). f. 67;-(xiv) Host vanishes thrice from sinful priest (Petrus Venerabilis, op. cit., i, 2; Patr. Lat., ibid., 853. Cf. Add. MS. 22283,

f. 10). f. 67;-(xv) Two priests in the diocese of Winchester are consumed by fire, but their vestments remain intact (cf. Royal MS. 7 D. i, f. 67). f. 67;-

(xvi) Monk, excluded from communion, accepts host but cannot swallow it (Vita S. Bernardi, Acta Sanctorum, 20 Aug., p. 271). f. 67;-(xvii) Jew of Bourges. See E. Walter, Der Judenknabe (H. Suchier's Bibliotheca Normannica, ii), i879. f. 67;-(xviii) Youth goes unshriven to altar of Virgin and is tortured for four days (cf. Harley MS. 2385, f. 53 b). f. 67 b;-(xix) Death of King Sigeberht [II of the East Saxons] after he had dined with an excommunicated man (Bede, Hist. Eccl., iii, 22). f. 67b;-(xx) Death of excommunicated priest who tries to celebrate (Vita S. Eligii, xxv; Patr. Lat., lxxxvii, col. 556). f. 67b;-(xxi) Paulus Simplex sees sinner freed from devils (De vitis Patrum, iii, 167; cf. v, 18, 20, vii, 23, 2; Patr. Lat., lxxiii, coll. 795, 985, 1046. Cf. Add. MS. 27336, f. 65 b). f. 67 b;-(xxii) Schedule of a man's sins, laid on the altar, is found blank (Miracula S. Jacobi maioris 1; Acta Sanctorum, 25 July, p. 48. Cf. Add. MS. 18364, f. 16). f. 68;-(xxili) Abbot Serapion, as a boy, throws out bread he had concealed, and a torch appears in his lap (De vitis Patrum, iv, 47; Patr. Lat., lxxiii, col. 842). f. 68;-(xxiv) A pupil of St Bernard, asked how he spends his leisure time, replies in a parable that he drives an ass (his body), guards a maiden (his soul), tames a wild beast (his will), and adorns an altar (his heart). Beg. 'Legitur quod beatus bernardus'. Partly in German. f. 68;-(xxv) Three letters. Cf. GR 188. f. 68b;-(xxvi) Moralisation on the evils of bad society, beg. 'Quidam secularis desiderauit'. f. 69b;-(xxvii) Moralisation on the destructive effect of sin, beg. 'Nota mali plus exspendiunt de bonis domini'. f. 69b;-(xxviii) Hermit and angel (Jacques de Vitry, op. cit., no. 109; cf. Harley MS. 463, f. 8, and Herbert, op. cit., iii, pp. 8-9). f. 70;-(xxix) Extracts from the Dialogues of St Gregory, i. 8, 9 (Patr. Lat., lxxvii, coll. 188, 193-196), including an abbreviated version of the tale of how Boniface sold the horse of Constantius for the poor. f. 70b;-(xxx) A rabbi named David, 'Olonucensis diocesis' [?Olmutz], sees a beautiful boy at mass. Beg. 'Quidam rabi scilicet magister'. Cf. Harley MS. 1288, f. 46b. f. 71;-(xxxi) Dialogue between Labour and Leisure: Labour tells of a shepherd who neglected his flock, and Leisure of a man named Codrus whose wife, sent to a mill to collect flour, lost it all through over-zealousness. Beg. 'Legitur quod labor et ocium'. f. 71;-(xxxii) Further extracts from 'Convertimini', attributed to Robert Holcot, corresponding, with some omissions, to chh. i (omitting Exemplum 2), ii, iii, v-viii, x, xi (omitting Exempla 15-21, xii-xvi, xxvi of Royal MS. 7 C. i, as described by Herbert, op. cit., pp. 116-136. Beg. 'Conuertimini ad me in toto corde vestro'. Some exempla are not told in full, but references are given to other leaves of the present MS. where they appear, and occasionally also to other MSS., cf. e.g. the marginal note 'de hijs vide in libro j folio. 178'. (f. 73b), and at the end (f. 77 b) the rubric 'Residuum vide in libro ff folio 150'. ff. 71 b-77 b.

(4) Exempla about women. ff. 78-78b. As follows:-(1) A miller's wife, beaten by her husband, recommends him as a physician to their paralysed

lord; she then rescues her husband from his predicament by giving him a curative herb, on condition that he no longer ill-treats her. Beg. 'Quidam molendinarius habens uxorem'. f. 78;-(ii) Three woman-friends of an illtreated wife promise to secrete themselves in the house at Easter, and appear in the guise of the Three Marys in her defence when she invokes them. Beg. 'Ad idem. Mulier conquesta'. f. 78;-(iii) A quarrelsome woman throws a heated stone into the garden of a neighbour, who gets burnt in trying to throw it back. Beg. 'Due mulieres convicine'. f. 78;-(iv) An ill-treated wife dresses her drunken husband as a monk and leaves him in the street; captured by the watch, he is at first disowned; but later acknowledged by her, when he promises to treat her better. A version of Jacques de Vitry, op. cit., no. 231. Beg. 'Item quedam mulier habens virum'. f. 78b;-(v) An old woman has three wishes; she wishes for a long beak, because she likes eating marrow, but her husband wishes for her to have wings and fly away. Beg. 'Item antique vetula'. Partly in German. f. 78b;-(vi) A husband and wife dispute over the significance of a cuckoo's song indicating five more years to live; each bribes a man for his support with cheeses, but he says the song is for neither, but for himself, indicating the five cheeses he has obtained. Beg. 'Item vir et mulier multis annis'. Cf. Sloane MS. 3102, f. 81, and Add. MS. 18364, f. 22. f. 78b.

(5) 'Exposiciones vocabulorum et nominum illorum qui gerunt officia et dignitates in Romano imperio' (f. 80): a glossary of Roman law terms, showing some variations from the edition printed by M. Conrat, Die Epitome exactis regibus, Berlin, 1884. Incomplete. Beg. (f. 80) 'Exactis a romana ciuitate regibus'; ends (f. 79b, after continuation back from f. 93b) lege si petenti mihi rem &c' (ibid., tit. ix, § 11, p. 121), with a note, in red, 'non plus invenitur'. Cf. Royal MS. 8 C. v, f. 47. ff. 94-95 b contain an index. ff. 79-95 b.

(6) 'Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum', beg. 'Aaz adprehendens', generally much abridged from the version, elsewhere attributed to Remigius of Auxerre and others, that is printed in Bedae Opera (Cologne, 1688), iii, coll. 371-479. Cf. Royal MS. I A. ii, f. 565, etc. ff. 96-117.

(7) 'Formularium Iuris': notes on the divisions of Canon and Civil Law, beg. 'Corpus Iuris diuiditur in Ius canonicum et Ius civile'. ff. 117- 118.

(8) Tale of a rich man, who induces his children, amongst whom he has divided his wealth, to provide properly for him by the pretence that he has a chest of jewels. Cf. Royal MS. 7 D. i, f. 84b; Add. MS. 27336, f. 17. Beg. 'Quidam vir habens multos pueros'. ff. 118-118b.

(9) Mnemonic verses for the tituli of the five books of Decretals of Pope Gregory IX. Beg. 'Summum constitue rescriptum'. Cf. Add. MS. 22041, ff. 312b, 313. ff. 120-121.

(10) Further notes on Canon and Civil Law, followed (f. 122) by the tituli of the Sext. Beg. 'Canon nomen proprie dicitur'. ff. 121b-122.

(11) Alphabetical index to the tales in artt. 1-4, 8. ff. 122b-127. Paper and vellum; ff. ii + 127. 223 mm. x 150 mm. Early xv cent. Colophon at end of art. 7 (f. 117): 'Haec scripta sunt in Rutlinga [Reutlingen, in

Würtemberg] per fratrem Iohannem Sintram lectorem ibidem sub Anno domini Moccccxv. et finita In die quae fuit festum niuis scilicet festum beate virginis [5 Aug.] Et eodem anno celebratum fuit capitulum primum provinciale ministri huius provincie scilicet Iodoci langenberg in esslinga [Esslingen, in Würtemberg] rominica proxima post Iacobi et in codem capitulo factus fui lector in hallis.' Other dates noted are: 'In columbaria [Colmar, in Alsace] anno 1421' (f. 117), 'mocccclxxij' (in red; f. 82), 'anno 1424.' (f. 78), 'homilium in Vlma [Ulm, in Würtemberg] dominica tertia adventus 1428' (f. 71). Artt. 6-9 and II are in double columns. Gatherings of 16 leaves (iv wants 9), generally with catchwords, the outer and inner leaves of each gathering being vellum. Sec. fol. '[pal]lescere sub labore'. Contemporary arabic foliation. Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red. Two exempla are marginally illustrated with crude pen drawings, in black and red, viz: a cleft heart (f. 18), and two symbolical shields (f. 22b). Contemporary marginal notes include verses in German which are versions of Latin mottoes in the text, or compositions of a similar nature. At the foot off. 1 27 b are written a few Latin words with their German equivalents. In the margin of the back flyleaf (f. ii) is a tale, partly in German, with a cross-reference to f. 8, of a robber who surreptitiously changes horses with his enemy, a rich man, who is then thrown and injured; beg. 'Quidam diues et hospes'. Contemporary binding of beech boards covered with alumed doeskin, with an iron chain stapled to the top edge of the front cover (cf. Add. MS. 30049) and with the remains of a clasp. At the top of the back cover is a large letter R, in ink, and beneath it a vellum label with the title 'Narraciones miracula et exempla multa et ymagines fulgences et diuersa documenta cum tabula decretalium et eetera vidz'. The pastedowns (ff. i, ii) are from an 11th-cent. missal and contain parts of the masses, 'De Angelis' (f. i), and for the anniversary of the dedication of a church (f. ii). Presumably one of the MSS. given by Sintram in 1444 to the Franciscan library at Würzburg (see further above). Bought from Bernard Quaritch, bookseller (cat. 15 Apr. 1859, no. 630), by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. (M S. 14887; sale-cat., 6 June 1898, lot 105). Presented, through the Friends of the National Libraries, by Edmund Sykes Lamplough, Esq.