Arundel MS 249

Codex partim membranaceus, partim chartaceus, ff. 120, sec. XV.

1. "Tractatus libri honeste vite, editus a Martino [Dumiensi sive Braccarensi] Episcopo, qui a multis intitulatur, De quatuor virtutibus, et attribuitur Senece." fol. Ad calcem: "Explicit tractatus de quatuor virtutibus Annei Senece Cordubensis. Deo gracias." Impress. Pictavis, 1544.

2. Oratio ad Christum, in qua fit mentio Regis Henrici Sexti. fol. 6.

3. A prayer to the Virgin and several of the Saints, in nine Stanzas. fol. 6. b. Beginning, "Mercyful quene, as ye best kan and may After your sone of wreches take pyte." End, "And I schal pray the botefull Kateryne To pray for youre and myn joyfulle metynge." 4. Nota brevis de filiis Adæ. fol.8.b.

5. Sentences in English with a Latin version, probably intended for the use of learners. fol. 9. Beginniiig, "Iff ye desire or couytte to gete or cum in to many menys fauoure." 6. Latin Phrases, with an English version. fol. 62. Beginning, "Agere vitam, to lyve." 7. Portions of letters, in English with a Latin version. fol. 73. Beginning, "It is not vnknowne to no manne how moche their childrene be beholdymge to the father." 8. Epistolæ tempore Regis Henrici VII. conscriptæ nempe, Laurencii Hampton ad Henricum quendam. fol. 81. H. G. [?] cujusdam scholastici Magdalensis Oxon. ad præsidem collegii ejusdem. fol. 81. B. Andrelini ad R. B. [?], dat. Lond. id. Feb. fol. 81. b. R. B. [?] ad B. Andrelinum poetam. fol. 81. b. Anepigrapha, sed fortassis Johannis Stokesley, ut versaretur scriptor in curia Arthuri Principis. fol. 82. Ejusdem, ut videtur, ad præsulem quendam, patronum suum. fol. 82. Anepigrapha, sed ejusdem fortasse, de exemplari interludiorum, sive comœdiarum Anglicarum, difficulter acquisito. fol. 82. b. Studiosi Thomæ cujusdam Oxoniensis ad fratrem suum. fol. 83. J. S[tokesley] in art. bac. ad [Ric. Mayeu Archidiac. Oxon. et Regis eleemosinarium. fol. 83. Ejusdem fortasso ad [Ric. Mayeu, nunc?] Harfordiæ Episcopum, de succedendo juri Magistri Martyne in collegio. fol. 83. b. [Laurentii Hampton?] ad præceptorem de studiis suis. fol. 83. b. Anepigrapha, de pecunia debita et studio poetices. fol. 84. Anepigrapha, sed Cantabrigiensis cujusdam, de febre scriptoris. fol. 84. Præsidis aulæ cujusdam Oxoniensis [forsan Joh. Stokesley?] querens de Cancellario et de scholasticis suis in carcerem commissis. fol. 84. b.

9. "De constellacionibus septem planetarum." fol. 85.

10. Epistolæ sex, tempore Regis Henrici VII. conscriptæ, nempe, E. G. [?] ad R. M. sacrarum literarum interpretem, petens de proximo vacante loco inter choristos. fol. 85. b. Thomæ Mori ad Joh. Holtum, de comoedia Salamonis, de studiis suis, de Grocino præceptore suo, et de introitu Catharinæ Arthuri Principis uxoris in civitatem, ut videtur, Londinensem. fol. 85.b. L. H. [?] ad Henricum Oxoniensem, quem ad munus ludimagistri Abbati de Bewleia nominaverat. fol. 86. N. cujusdam ad quendam ducturum in uxorem puellam ignobilem ac impudicam. fol. 86. Ad epistolam priorem responsoria, accusationem denegans. fol. 86. b. Thomæ cujusdam ad anonymum, increpans eum de epistolis ad aliummon stratis. fol. 86.b.

11. Nomina plurima versibus disposita, cum glossa interlineari Anglicana. fol. 88. Incip. "Die indumentum, vestis, vestitus, amictus." 12. Versus sexdecim contra superbiam, etc. fol. 91. b. Incip. "Est vertus humilis per quam Deus altus ad yma." 13. Vocabula Latina eum interpretatione Anglicana. fol. 92.

14 "Versus Laureati Poetæ Stephani Surigoni ad varios transmissi," scilicet, Ad Jacobum [Amanatum] de Luca Cardinalem Papiensem. fol. 94. "Versus valvis ecclesiarum affixi, completo opere Georgicorum Virgilii Argentine." fol. 94. b. De moribus Coloniensium, distichon. fol. 94. b. "Epithaphium reverendissimi Archiepiscopi Bysuntinensis Quintini [Menard]." fol. 95. "In prandio compositi novi doctoris et valvis affixi in predicatoribus. " fol. 95. "Pro D. Petro Colino canonico Methensi versus in vitrinis fenestraum inscripti." fol. 95. b. "Magistro Bernardo Vomlo," tetrastichon. fol. 95. b. "Poete Stephani Surigoni a Colonia recessuri ad amicos salutacio;" distichon. fol. 96. "Ad Coloniam loquucio." fol. 96. "Ad illustrem Comitem [Mauricium] d Spegelberg." fol. 96. "Ad egregium juris utriusque doctorem M. Lopponem Walingi. " fol. 96. b. "Ad sodales loquucio;" distichon. fol. 97. "Roganti puelle Line ut sibi versus componerem, tetrastichon." fol. 97. "Ad M. Bernardum Vomlo et M. Johannem Letz contra dornicellam meretricem de Hepensten et amioum suum sacerdotem nomine Johannes Papa," tetrastichon. fol. 97. "Contra quendam detractorem in Loyanio." fol. 97. b. "M. Zibrado de Hollandia roganti istam sententiam versibus poni, Triplex funiculus dificulter rumpitur," distichon. fol- 97. b. "Amieissimo Michæli Forisio Argentine." fol. 98. "Contra M. Henricum, artis medicine professorem Argentine." fol. 98. "Ad juris utriusque doctorem M. Ropertum de Lacu et M. Carolum Virulum." fol. 98. b. "Illustri Comiti Johanni Hebersteni." fol. 99. b. "Incepturus legere in Lovanio, ad valvas ecclesiarum." fol. 99. b. "Ad M. Johannem Picardum qui cogiiate sue leno fuit." fol. 105. "Epithaphium Archiepiscopi Bisuntinensis antiqui nomine Quintinus." fol. 100. Cf. fol. 95. "Exnnio doctori D. Johanni Ergot," distichon. fol. 100. b. "Ad M. Jacobum, qui longa oratione poesim commendavit." fol. 100. b. "Ad illustrissimum principem Carolum Burgundic Ducem, Brusellis. fol. 101. "Puellea Griew poslulanti versiculos quos mittat amico suo," tetrastichon. fol. 106. b. "Contra Petrum subtilem, qui loco versum orationeni solutam faciebat," distichon. fol. 101. b. "Ad Consules Lovanenses." fol. 102. "Ad amicam infidelem domicelam de Hepesten dum misse sunt cordule auro intexte et per infinitas partes incise quas illa manibu suis fecerat," distichon. fol. 102. "Bernardo Vomlo." fol. 102. b. "Quadam die recessurus a Loyanio, sed postea retentus, ad discipulos loquucio, Yalvis affixa." fol. 103. b. "Dum daret munera ad composicionem epistolarum in Colonia," disticha quinque. fol. 103. b. "Juris utriusque licenciato M. Johanni Turnhout." fol. 104. "Epythaphium Leonardi Radaur, milite Augustensi." fol. 104. b. "Contra quendam fratrem Juvenalem accusantem." fol. 104. b. "Colonia in forma virginis picta vestibus a superiori parte rubeis cum coronis tribus ab inferiori albis, Beate Virgini." fol. 105. "Ad illustrissimum principem Carolum Burgundie Ducem." fol. 106. b. "M. Pontio rectori in Dola." fol. 106. b. "Epitaphyum Domine Catherine de Buren." fol. 107. b. "Pro eadem domina Catherina." fol. 107.b. "M. Bernardo Vomlo." fol. 107. b. "Dum daret munera illis qui in artificiali memoria profecerant in Colonia," disticha octo. fol. 108. b. "Ad M. Carolum Virulum." fol. 109. b. "Oracioad Sanctam Barbaram." fol. l09.b. "M. Reginaldo, legum licentiato," versibus hexametris. fol. 110. "Ad valvas camere." fol. 110. b. "Illustri Comiti Henrico de Wirtemberg." fol. 110. b. "Sui auditores Poete Stephano salutem, dum magnum preeium peteret pro lectionibus in Lovanio," cum poetæ responsione. fol. 111. "M. Engelberto de Leydis in Hollandia." fol. 110 b. "Clarissimo heroi Domino Johanni de Bergis." fol. 112. "Versus scripti in fine operis Georgicorum Virgilii quod poeta donavit Domino Antonio de Rupe, canonum doctori eximio." fol. 112. "Dum daret munera pro artificiali memoria in Argentina," disticha septem. fol. 112. b. "Contra quendam qui se nominari dicebat Petrus subtilis et disputaturum cum poeta." fol. 113. "Ad M. Andream Lederbach." fol. 113. b. "Archiepiscopo Bysuntino Carolo de Novo Castro Quadragessime tractatulus," versibus hexametris. fol. 114. "Ad illustrissimum Principem Hermannum Lantgravium Hassie." fol. 116. "Ad Dominum prapositum Apostolorum in Colonia." fol. 116. "Versus Yalvis affixi dum a Lovaniensibus retentus est et lectiones continuavit." fol. 116. b. "Versus scolaribus dati in fine sui recessus a Lovanio." fol. 116. b. "Ad M. Robertum socium." fol. 116. b. "Responsio ad literam femine rogantis ut ad eam vadat," distichon. fol. 117. b.

15. Grammatical observations upon the compounds of the verbs Sum and Fero. fol. 118.

E. G.-: Epistola ejus? ad R. M. sacrarum litterarum interpretem, petens de proximo vacante loco inter choristas.: temp. Henr. VII.

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includes:

• f. 1 Martinus, Pannonius, Abbas Dumiensis, postea Archiepiscopus Braccarensis; obiit anno 580: Tractatus honestae vitae, qui a multis intitulatur, De quatuor virtutibus, et attribuitur Senecae.: Sec. xv.
• f. 6 Prayers: Oratio ad Christum, in qua fit mentio Regis Henrici VI.: Sec. xv.
• f. 6 Henry VI of England: Oratio ad Christum, in qua fit mentio Henrici VI.
• f. 6. b Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Prayer to the Virgin and several of the Saints, in nine stanzas.: Cent. xv.
• ff. 6 b.-80 English Language, Early: The chief Mss. illustrative of the state of the language prior to the Year 1500, are to be found in the volumes marked.
• f. 8. b Adamus, protoplastus: Nota brevis de filiis Adami.: Sec. xv.
• f. 9 Philology, Anonymous dictionaries vocabularies, treatises, papers and notes relating to: Sentences in English, with a Latin version.: Cent. xv.
• f. 62 Philology, Anonymous dictionaries vocabularies, treatises, papers and notes relating to: Latin Phrases, with an English version.: Cent. xv.
• f. 73 Philology, Anonymous dictionaries vocabularies, treatises, papers and notes relating to: Portions of letters in English, with a Latin version. Cent. xv.
• f. 81 H. G., Scholasticus Collegii Magdalensis; Oxon. temp. Henr. VII: Epistola ad Richardum Mayew? praesidem Collegii Magdalensis.
• f. 81 Laurencius Hampton, temp. Henr. VII: Epistola ad Henricum quendam.: Sec. xv.
• f. 81. b R. B: Epistola ejus ad B. Andrelinum poetam, Henrico VII. regnante.
• f. 81. b Publius Faustus Andrelinus, Foroliviensis; obiit anno 1518: Epistola ad R. B. ?.
• f. 82 John Stokesley, President of Magd. Hall, Oxford, Bishop of London; died in the year 1539: Epistola anepigrapha, sed fortasse Johannis Stokesley, ut versaretur scriptor in curia Arthuri Principis --.
• f. 82 John Stokesley, President of Magd. Hall, Oxford, Bishop of London; died in the year 1539: Epistola ejus ? ad praesulem quendam.
• f. 82b John Stokesley, President of Magd. Hall, Oxford, Bishop of London; died in the year 1539: Epistola ejus? alia.
• f. 83 John Stokesley, President of Magd. Hall, Oxford, Bishop of London; died in the year 1539: Epistola ad Richardum Mayeu, Archidiaconum Oxoniensem, et Henrici VII. eleemosinaxium.
• f. 83 Thomas, Studiosus Oxoniensis, temp. Henr. VII: Epistola ad Fratrem suum.
• f. 83. b Laurencius Hampton, temp. Henr. VII: Epistola ejus ? ad praeceptorem de studiis suis.: Sec. xv.
• f. 83. b John Stokesley, President of Magd. Hall, Oxford, Bishop of London; died in the year 1539: Epistola ejus? ad Richardum Mayeu? Harfordiae episcopum.
• f. 84 Letters, Anonymous: Epistolae anepigraphae duce; temp. Henr. VII.
• f. 84. b John Stokesley, President of Magd. Hall, Oxford, Bishop of London; died in the year 1539: Epistola ejus? querens de Cancellario, et de scholasticis suis in carcerem commissis.
• f. 84. b University of Oxford: MAGDALEN HALL. Praesidis aulae cujusdam, fortassis Johannis Stokesley, Praesidis aluae Magdalensis, Epistola querens de Cancellario et de scholasticis suis in carcerem commissis: temp. Henrici VII.: Sec. xv.
• f. 85 Astrology, anonymous treatises papers, notes, etc., upon: Queedam de constellationibus septem planetarum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 85. b Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor: Epistola ad Johannem Holtum, de comaedia Salamonis, de Grocino prweeptore suo, et de introitu Catharinae, Arthuri Principis uxoris, in civitatem, ut vicletur, Londinensem, temp. Henr. VII.
• f. 85. b Katharine of Aragon, widow of Arthur, Prince of Wales, and Queen of Henry VIII: Note of her entry into London, as wife of Arthur, Prince of Wales, in a letter from Sir Thomas More to John Holt; in Latin.
• f. 86 L. H: Epistola ejus ? acl Henricum Oxoniensem, quem ad munus ludimagistri Abbati de Bewleia nominaverat, temp. Henr. VII.
• f. 86 N: Epistola ad quendam, ducturum in uxorem puellam ignobilem, eum epistola responsoria;: temp. Henr. VII.
• f. 86. b Thomas, Studiosus Oxoniensis, temp. Henr. VII: Epistola ad quendam anonymum, increpans eum de epistolis ad alium monstratis.
• f. 88 Philology, Anonymous dictionaries vocabularies, treatises, papers and notes relating to: Nomina plurima versibus disposita, eum glossa interlineari Anglicana.: Sec. xv.
• f. 91. b Poetry, Anonymous: Versus sedecim contra superbiam.: Sec. xv.
• f. 92 Philology, Anonymous dictionaries vocabularies, treatises, papers and notes relating to: Vocabula Latina, eum interpretatione Anglicana.: Sec. xv.
• f. 94 Jacobus Amanatus, de Luca, Cardinalis Papiensis; obiit anno I 1479: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 94 Stephanus Surigonus, laureatus Poeta Mediolanensis: Epigrammata atque Poematia a Stephano Surigono conseripta et ad varios transmissa.: Sec. xv.
• f. 94. b Cologne, Germany: Stephani Surigoni distichon de Moribus Coloniensium.: Sec. xv.
• f. 95. b Petrus Colinus, canonicus Metensis: Stephani Surigoni versus pro eo in vitrinis fenestrarum inseripti.: Sec. xv.
• ff. 95, 100 Quintin Ménard de Flavigny, Archbishop of Besançon; died in the year 1462: Epitaphia duo in Menardum per Stephanum Surigonum compositum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 96 Mauricius de Spegelberg: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 96, seqq Cologne, Germany: Stephani Surigoni versus alii ad Coloniam spectantes.: Sec. xv.
• f. 96b Walingi, M Loppo: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 97 Lina: Stephani Surigoni ad puellam sic dictam tetrastichon.: Sec. xv.
• f. 97 Johannes Letz: Stephani Surigoni tetrastichon ad Bernardum Vomlo et Magistrum Johannem Letz, contra domicellam meretricem de Hepensten et amicum suum sacerdotem nomine Johannem Papam.: Sec. xv.
• f. 97 Bernardus VOMLo: Stephani Surigoni tetrastichon ad Bernardum Vomlo et Magistrum Johannem Letz, contra domicellam meretricem de Hepensten et amicum suum Sacerdotem nomine Johannem Papam.: Sec. xv.
• f. 97. b Zibradus, de Hollandia: Stephani Surigoni ad eum distichon.: Sec. xv.
• f. 98 Michael Forisius: Stephani Surigoni versus ad euni.: Sec. xv.
• f. 98 Henricus, artis medicinae professor Argentinae: Stephani Surigoni versus contra eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 98. b Ropertus de LACu, juris utriusque doctor: Stephani Surigoni versus ad M. Ropertum de Lacu et M. Carolum Virulum.: Sec. xv.
• ff. 98. b., 109. b Carolus Virulus, vulgo Monneken, Rector Lovaniensis; obiit anno 1493: Stephani Surigoni versus ad M. Ropertum de Lacu et M. Carolum Virulum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 99. b Comes Johannes Hebersten: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 100 Johannes Picardus: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 100. b D. Johannes Ergot: Stephani Surigoni ad eum distichon.: Sec. xv.
• f. 100. b Jacobus quidam: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 101 Dukes of Burgundy: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 101. b Grica puella: Stephani Surigoni ad eam tetrastichon.: Sec. xv.
• f. 101. b Petrus quidam: Stephani Surigoni contra eum distichon.: Sec. xv.
• f. 104 M. Johannes Turnhout, juris utriusque licentiatus: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.
• f. 104. b Leonardus Radaur, Miles Augustensis: Epitaphium ejus per S. Surigonum compositum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 106. b Pontius, rector in Dola: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 106. b Dukes of Burgundy: Stephani Surigoni versus alii ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 107. b Katharina de Buren: Epitaphium Katharinae de Buren per Stephanum Surigonum composituin.: Sec. xv.
• f. 107. b Katharina de Buren: Stephani Surigoni versus pro Katharina de Buren.: Sec. xv.
• f. 109. b Saint Barbara,; Martyr; prid. non. vel non. Dec: Stephani Surigoni Oratio ad eam metrica.: Sec. xv.
• f. 110 Reginaldus, Legum licentiatus: Stephani Surigoni versus hexametri ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 110. b Henry? Count of Würtemberg: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 111. b Engelbertus de Leydis: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 112 Antonius de Rupe: Stephani Surigoni versus, scripti in fine operis Georgicorum Virgilii quod ei poeta donavit.: Sec. xv.
• f. 112 Johannes de Bergis: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 113. b Andreas Ledfrbach: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 114 Charles de Neufchatel, Archbishop of Besançon; died in the year 1498: Stephani Surigoni ad eum tractatulus, versibus hexametris compositus.: Sec. xv.
• f. 116 Hesse, Landgraves of family: HERMANN I.; died in the year 1413. Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 116. b Robertus, quidam: Stephani Surigoni versus ad eum.: Sec. xv.
• f. 118 Grammar, Anonymous treatises papers, add notes on: Observations upon the compounds of the verbs Sum and Fero.: Cent. xv.