Add MS 34652

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1901):

COLLECTION of MS. fragments, 1lth-15th c., and of facsimiles of MSS. Contents:-

'Leaf from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle containing the genealogical and chronological preface found also in the Parker MS. ( ) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and on the single leaf (f. 178) of Cotton MS. Tib. A iii., which is believed to be taken from Tib. A vi. Some of the dates differ from both the other copies. Begins: "Þy geare pe waes agan fram cristes acennednesse," and ends "on wealum geeodon." 11th century. The leaf measures 9½ x 7 inches, but has probably been clipped. At the top is written: "Ex Bibliotheca cl. T. Tanner," [Bishop of St. Asaph, 1732-1735]. f. 2. Leaf (5¾ x 3 5/8 in., but clipped) containing part of [chapters] lx. to lxii. of a collection of canons or theological tracts, in Latin and Anglo-Saxon. Chapter lxi., "De Clericis," somewhat resembles that in Cotton MS. Nero A i., f. 127, attributed by Wanley to Wulfstan, but is fuller. 11th cent. Leaf from a Psalter containing Ps. cxix. 88-106. Latin. Coloured initials. 12th cent. Octavo. f. 4. Miniature of the Crucifixion, probably of Flemish work. Late 12th cent. Octavo. f. 5. Leaf from a MS. of the Old Testament containing part of Canticum Canticorum (ch. iv. 7-the end) and of the epitome of the book Sapientia. Coloured initials. Latin. Late 12th cent. Folio. f. 6. Leaf from a Legenda containing part of a life of S. Remigius identical with that in Add. 18,628, f. 46 b. Coloured initials. Latin. Late 12th cent. f. 7. A note on f. 8 of purchase by Edw. Redo from Bryget Reynor, widow, in 1639, apparently refers to this leaf. 7. Two leaves from a commentary [on the Pentateuch?] concerning Jewish festivals. Latin. 13th cent. ff. 9, 10. Two leaves containing the first and parts of the second and last letters of Book I. of the Epistles of Sidonius Apollinaris (Migne, Patr. Lat., lviii., coll. 443-468), with philological notes in the margin. Latin. 13th cent. Quarto. Heading in a later hand: "Libri Epistolarum Sidonii pro noua libraria london per me f. Johannem Lowe." ff. 11, 12. Leaf from the commentary of S. Augustine on Ps. cxxxix. 3-6 (Migne, xxxvii., col. 1805). Latin. 13th cent. f. 13. Leaf from a pontifical or manual containing a curious exorcismal service; with spaces left for Initials and music. Latin. 13th cent. Octavo. f. 14. Fragment of a leaf from a work dealing with questions of canonlaw. Latin. Late 13th cent. f. 15. Membrane from a roll containing a portion of the law tract called Brevia Placitata. Includes the writs of Covenant, Customs and Services, Villenage, etc. French. 13th cent. f. 16. Leaves from two MSS. of Book V. of the Decretals of Gregory IX., with marginal commentary. 13th and 14th centt. ff. 17, 23. Small fragment of Genesis in Latin, containing ch. xix. 12-15; xx. 4-9; xxii. 24-xxiii. 8; xxiii. 21-29. Coloured initials. 13th cent. f. 18. Small fragments of two leaves from a Missal. Latin. Late 13th cent. ff. 19, 20. Leaf from a Breviary, containing part of the Commemorations of Saints. Ornamental initials. Latin. Early 14th cent. f. 21. Leaf from an index to the vocabulary of the Bible in Latin, containing Ind-Inf. 14th cent. f. 22. Fragment from Books xxv. and xxvi. of some theological treatise. Latin. 14th cent. f. 24. Two leaves from some treatise on canon law. Latin. 14th cent. ff. 25, 26. Leaf containing the beginning of John de Bromyard's treatise on Civil and Canon Law. Latin. 14th cent. f. 27. Leaf from a dictionary, containing Acin.-Ador. Latin. 14th cent. f. 28. Leaf from a service-book containing a part of the marriageservice. Ornamental initials. Latin. xivth cent. f. 29. Two leaves from the Collationes of Joannes Cassianus, containing parts of collationes iii., iv., vi. and vii. (Migne, xlix., coll. 580, 666). Latin. 14th cent. At the foot is a draft of an indenture of apprenticeship of Raffe Snellym, of Yoxforthe [Yoxford, co. Essex?], to Margaret Borrowe and Edmund Horringe her son, of the same town. 16th cent. ff. 30, 31. Leaf of an Antiphonal, with blank spaces for music and initials, containing the services for part of Passion-week. Latin. End of 14th cent. f. 32. Leaf from a Psalter containing part of Ps. xxi-xxiii. Illuminated initials. Written in England, early 15th cent. f. 33. Leaf from a Legenda containing lessons for the Octave of Christmas. Latin. Written in England, 15th cent. f. 34. Two leaves from an illuminated Missal containing the office for the 8th and 12th Sundays after Pentecost. Latin. Written in England, 15th cent. ff. 35, 36. Leaf from an alphabetical work on civil law closely resembling Arundel MS. 437; contains the article "excommunicatio." 15th cent. The names Francis Hugson and Thomas Martin [of Palgrave] appear on the leaf. f. 37. Leaf from the statutes of some college, connected with a chantry. 15th cent. A note in the band of Thomas Martin of Palgrave records his discovery of the leaf in Rickinghalle church, co. Suff. f. 38. Two leaves from a collection of statutes, containing fragments of :-(a) The first statute of 1 Edw. III., dated 7 Mar. 1327 ('Unexpected End of Formulae' Statutes of the Realm, i., p. 251); -(b) "Aliud statutum editum anno primo," an act passed, or purporting to have been passed, in 1 Edw. III. for indemnity of the Despensers' opponents, modelled on that of 15 Edw. II. There is another copy in Royal MS. 19 A xiv, f. 24, but the act is not on the statute-roll or in the printed editions;-(c) Confirmation of the perambulations of the forest, dated 13 Mar. 1 Edw. III. [1327]. Latin. A copy in Royal 19 A. xiv. is in French; cf. the Patent Rolls;-(d) The statute of Northampton, 2 Edw. III. [ 1328]; see Stag. Realm, i., p. 257. French and Latin. Ornamental initials in red and blue. Early l5th cent. Quarto. ff. 39, 40. Fragment of a notarial certificate (?) concerning a benefice at Perpignan, in Pyrenées Orientales. Latin. f. 41.

The rest of the collection, except a Hebrew fragment "from the library at Popes" (f. 42), and a leaf of a printed Breviary, circa 1510 (f. 43), consists of facsimiles, including:-(a) Drawing of King David playing on bells, by "H. H. Dec. 1815," from a MS. in the Royal library (the reference given is wrong). f. 45; (b) Two leaves of the vellum reproduction in facsimile type of the Codex Alexandrinus. ff. 46-48;-(c) Two leaves of a paper facsimile of the Codex Bezae. ff. 49, 50;-(d) "Specimen of the Royal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England," by Joseph Strutt, London, 1772; being reproductions from the Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS. Nero D iv.) and from Cotton MS. Otho B vi. f. 51;-(d) Paper facsimiles from Greek Psalters in the Bodleian library, viz.: B ii. 17 [now called Misc. v.], f. 165, and Cromw. 13 [now Cromw. 5]. ff. 58, 59.

Vellum (except the facsimiles); ff. 82. Folio. Belonged to Thomas Astle.'