Add MS 16164

MAGISTRI WILLELMI de Montibus [sive de Leycestria, Cancellarii ecelesiæ Lincolniensis] Versarius; a metrical exposition of Scriptural terms and subjects, in alphabetical order, with a marginal gloss. Inc. " Adventus Christi primus.-Quis veniat, videas, quo, quando, quomodo, quare," ff. 15-58;-A similar work, with marginal gloss, probably by the same author, Inc. " Adventus Christi secundus. -Regis ad adventum ,Runt hec venientis in urbem," ff. 63-108. [At ff. 12, 13 b., is a Table of heads or matters, included in both the above works] Interspersed in the volume occur:-Sermo brevis in verba, Pax Dei quoe exsuperat omnem sensum, f. 2;-Quædam in thesin "Imperativa quandoque ponuntur exhortative;" neenon "de homine in quadrivio hujus mundi posito," f. 2 b. ;-Versus glossati, Inc. " Tu Cananeus, Etheus, Euheus, tu Pherezeus," f. 14;-

Grammaticalia queedam, metrice, Inc. " Est altum magnum nutritum Domini saltum," f. 49 b.;-Versus breves de ratione vitae puræ, (le Christo, de hominis transgressione, de Deo patre, ff'. 59 b., 108 b., 125 b. ;-Various theological common-places from Jerome, Augustine, Ambrose, etc., written with a plummet, occur on ff. 16, 3 b.-9, 61 b., 62, 109 b.-l25, 126 b.-131. On vellum, xiiith cent. On fol. 11 b. occurs the following note : " Hunc librum dedit dominus Johannes, quondam Ardfertensis episcopus,deo et ecelesie Sancti Albani." [See MS.Cott.Nero,D.VII.f.87b] Small Folio. [16,164.]