Arundel MS 507

Codex chartaceus et membranaceus, in folio minori, ff. 100, sec. xiv., sed nec una manami, nec uno tempore exaratus; quoad ff. 6-9, 82-89, 95-100 sec. xiii.; quondam, ut videtur, peculium Ricardi de Segbrok, monachi Dunelmensis.

1. "Exposicio duodecim ramorum Ligni Vitæ." fol. 1. Incip. "Christo crucifixus sum, Dei cruci. Verus Dei cultor Christique discipulus, qui salvatori omnium pro se crucifixo." Desin. "optinere ad laudem sanctissimi nominis tui, cui " etc.

2. The address of our Saviour to a sinner, in eight lines of English verse. fol. 10. Beginning, "Synful man loke vp and se." 3. Excerpta de quadam expositione in Regulam S. Augustini. fol. 10. b. Incip. "Quidam expositor super regulam Augustini dicit quasi in fine." 4. Meditatio Fratris Bonaventuræ. fol. 12. Incip. "Ecce descripsi eam tripliciter. Prov. xxi. Cum omnis scientia gerat." 5. "Sermo S. Augustini qualiter factus est homo ad linaginem et similitudinem Dei," sive potius excerpta ex Alcheri monachi, sive cujuscunque sit, libro de spiritu et anima. fol. 13. b.

6. Oratio ad D. N. Jesum Cliristum. fol. 14. b.

7. Medica quædam, pro visu, etc. fol. 15. b.

8. Symbolum Apostolicum, in forma scalæ. fol. 16.

9. Septem opera passionis Christi, in forma scalæ. fol. 16. b.

10. Excerpta nonnulla ex S. Augustino in Psalnium cxlviii. fol. 16. b.

11. Rota de septem petitionibus Orationis Dominicæ, septem sacramentis, septem donis Spiritus Sancti, etc. fol. 17.

12. Lignum vitæ, eum expositione brevi. fol. 17. b.

13. Narratio de S. Arsenio, de libro dicto Vitas Patrum excerpta. fol. 17. b.

14. Decem legis Mandata, in forma scalæ. fol. 18. b.

15. Arbor vitiorum. fol. 19.

16. Arbor virtuturn. fol. 19. b.

17. Octo remunerationes octo beatitudinibus propriæ, in forma scalue. fol. 20.

18. Johannis Metensis Turris sapientiae, cum expositione. fol. 20. b. - 19. Stationes et peregrinationes Terræ Sanctæ. [ad finem irnperf.] fol. 21. b. Incip. "Summa istarum stacionum et dedicacionum habet annos 79, et 9 quadragesimas, et quartam suorum scelerum partem." 20. Versus sex in laudem diseretionis. fol. 22. Incip. "Indiscretus homo merito reprehenditur omnis." 21. A history of the origin and discovery of the Holy Cross, with the title, De sancta cruce quomodo erevit et unde venit et quomodo inventa fuit. Fr. fol. 22. b. Begin. "Ky vodra oier et savoir de la Yerrai croice dont ele vient, et de quel fust cruiste, et com lungement larbre fieust verte." 22. De duodecim filiis Jacob ex libello Ricardi de S. Victore, ut videtur, excerptum. fol. 24. b.

23. De voluntate naturali, ex libro Sententiarum. fol. 28.

24. Quædam in verba "Ave maris stella," etc. fol. 28. b.

25. Epistola hortans ad amorem Dei. fol. 29. b. Incip. "Salutenm. Pro munificentia tua magna, quam ad fibricam capelle nostre tam enigna mente transmisisti." 26. Incerti auctoris tractatus de diligendo Deo. fol. 30. b. Impress. inter opera Augustini in append. tom vi. col. 75.

27. De imagine Dei in mente humana. fol. 34.

28. Oratio ad B. Mariam quam quieunque "jejunus et confessus per xxx. dies continuaverit, pro quæcunque re B. Virginem petierit, sine dubio optinebit, et visione ejus tercia die ante obitum suum nunquam carebit." fol. 34. b.

29. Quædim de insidiis diaboli. fol. 35. b.

30. Short observations upon the four tings Decessary for a right disposition in body and soul. fol. 36.

31. Similar observations upon the sins of the mouth, the eternity of future punishments, and sins of commission and omission. fol. 36. b.

32. Similar observations upon the things which cleanse from sin, which keep man in cleaness, and which draw him to conform to the will of God. fol. 38.

33. De quatuor generibus monachorum in omni claustro, etc. fol. 39.

34. Oratio ad Beatam Virginern. fol. 39. b.

35. Upon the loye of God, grace, free will, etc. fol. 40. Begin. "Thu that list love, helde thi nere and here of love; in the sange of love [it is] writen, ego dormino et cor nieum vigilat, that is, I slepe and my herte." 36. A meditation upon the Passion of Jesus Christ. fol. 48. Begin. "Oppyn thi hert with sighings sare til thinke on the pynes that Jhesus Crist suffred." 37. Ricardus [Hampole], Heremita, de electione sua vitæ solitariæ. fol. 49. b. Incip. "Cum infeliciter florerem et juventus jugulalus aclolescentie jam advenisset." 38. A summary of Christian faith and duty, written about the year 1357 by John de Caterige, monk of York, in consequence of an order of the Archbishop that the laity of his diocese should be instructed upon Sundays in their vernacular tongue. fol- 50. Beg. "Als a grete clerk shewis in his boke of alle the creatures that God made in heun and in erthe." End, "to the whillk blisse he us alle bring, that made us and bought us with his dere blode." Another copy of this tract, arranged metrically, is contained in the Harl. Ms. 1022, where the following note is appended, "Transsumpta erat ista prædicatio a linglua Latina in nostram matternam linguam de mandato Domini Johannis de Thoresby, Ehor. Archiepiscopi, per venerablem et discretum virum Johannem de Taysteke, monachum monasterii B. Mariæ Ebor. anno Domini m^o.ccc^o. quimquagesimo septirao." 39. Versus viginti de variis theologiæ angtimentis fol. 54.

40. Quædam de stirpe Annæ et Mariæ. fol. 54.

41. A treatise upon the value of time and its proper employment. fol. 5 4. b. Beginning, "Three thinges are nedeful til ilk man til mikil his mede thurghe Goddis grace help and that him sal lede." End, "that is, Goddis in liknes of men are comen downe til us." 42. Oratio ad Deum Spiritum Sanctum. fol. 60.

43. Commentaritis in Psalmos xiv. et xxxviii. fol. 67.

44. Præcepta quædam sacra et moralia versibus Leoninis centum et sex comprehensa. fol. 69. Incip. "Est nichil utilius humanae, crede, saltiti, Quam morum novisse lliodos et moribus uti." 45. Præcepta moralia, et proverbia de rebus medicis, ænigmata, et alia ejusdem fere argumenti, versibus eirciter 500 cornprehensa. fol. 70. b. Incip. "Subtili visu sociorum probra videmus, id discernendum propria sensus habet." 46. Versus 43, tam Latine quam Anglice, ejusdem fere styli. fol. 76. b. Incip. "Dic, homo mente pia, die quinquies Ave Maria." 47. Anselmus ad quasdam monachas contra inutiles cogitationes." fol. 77. Incip. "Filie karissime, cum aliquid parvum vel magnum agere disponitis." 48. Orationes duæ, quarum prior B. Gregorio tributa est. fol. 77. b.

49. S. Anselmi Epistola ad Odonem et Lanzonem inscripta, in qua sanctioris vitæ regulam a Lanzone rogatus præscribit. fol. 78. Impress. inter opera Anselmi, fol. Paris.

171, p. 312.

50. Ejusdem Epistola ad Rodbertum et sorores et filias suas, in qua petitam mittit exhortationem. fol. 78. Impressa, sed multo auctior, ibid. p. 414.

51. De variis monachorum regulis, etc. fo1. 78. b.

52. "Informacio qualiter confessor electus absolvere debet penitentem vigore literarum apostolicarum plene remissionis." fol. 80.

53. Litere Petri [de Colombis de Bellitio], Archiepiscopi Tarentini, directæ Priori Dunelmensi, concedentes licentiam absolvendi criminia, nisi talia, propter quæ Sedes Apostolica merito sit consulenda. Dat. Januæ, "sub sigillo quo dudum tit Episcopus Senogathensis utebamur," id. Nov. an. 8 pontificat. Urbani VI. [1386.] fol. 80. b.

54. Gregorii Xl. Literæ indulgentiarum R. de S. [Ricardo de Sabrok?], monacho Dunelmensi directæ. Dat. Avinoniæ vi. id. April. an. 4 pontificat. [1374.] fol. 80. b.

55 . Brief narritive on the danger of incontinence in old French verse. [Imperf. at the beginning.] fol. 81. Begin. "Le prestre apres est devise, E la prestresse en vie demorree." 56. Epigramma de morte Ricardi Mariscalli, comitis quinti de Pambroke. fol. 82. Totium erseribere lubet ; "Plange lingua detestando prælium Ybernie, Et super Comitis occasum fiat carmen flebile, Qualiter tocius orbis fuit flos milicie, De parentis Mariscalli nobili progenie, Persecutor Dorivalli, pugil reipublice, Dolo jacet interemptus præsulis Wyntonie. Hoc opus seductionis Petrus procuraverat, Multiformis proditoris ad occasum veneret; Titulum nominis liberalis nullus amor legerat: Quando venit ergo duri plenitudo temporis, Missus est ab arce Petri perpetrator Seleris, Et ventre Iberniali prodiit mors Comitis. Si egressus hic fuisset, sicut decet militem, Non hunc tergo percussisset, sed ante in faciem Terra, pontus, astra, mundus confundant artificem." 57. Tractatus allegoricus de templo Dei spirituali. fol. 82. Incip. "Templum Dei sanctum est quod estis vos. 1 Cor. iii. Sermo iste, quamvis omnes tangat quos Spiritus Dei inhabitare debet, specialiter tamen sacerdotibus." fol. 86.

58. R. de Wyterige Sermo in Synodo. fol. 88. b. Incip. "Vos estis lux mundi. Ista verba scripta sunt in Evangelio secundum Mathæum, in quibus tria videntur esse consideranda videlicet, cujus sint hec verba." 59. Clementis IV. [?] Bulla, qua vetat Episcopos Italiæ clericum ullum de partibus ultramontanis ordinare. fol. 89. b.

60. Proverbia varia, versibus Leoninis. fol. 89. b.

61. A remedy "for the ydropsy and many other evels in a man," etc. fol. 90.

62. Quædam de planetis et morbis ex eisdem procedentibus. [Capite mutil.] fol. 91.

63. Nota de pecuniis, yasis, vestibus etc. Ricardi de Segbrok monachi Dunelmensis, die Ascensionis Domini an. 1396. fol. 92. b.

64. Bulla Bonifacii IX., directa Ric. de Segbrok monacho Dunelni., Gilb. Elwet et Matildæ uxori ejus, Johan. Ayre, Emmæ de Chester, mulieri, et Aliciæ, relictæ quondam Rob. Couper, viduce, Dunelm. dioc., concedens licentiam transmittendi eorum oblationes ad quasdam ecclesias in civitate Rom. Dat. Romæ, vii. id. Novemb. an. 1 pontificat. [1389-90.] fol. 93.

65. "Informatio qualiter confessor electus absolvere debet penitentem vigore literarum Apostolicarum plene remissionis." fol. 93. b.

66. Extracts from Seneca, Jerome, the Vulgate, etc. with a version in old French verse, preceded by a short prologue. fol. 95. Beginning "Chers amys receuez de moy Vn beau present, que vous enuoy." 67. Quædam de virtutibus herboe Seabiosce, Anglice Collyrdoddynge." fol. 99. b.

68. A list of follies, in old French verse. fol. 99. b. Beginning, "Cynkante et dix folis sont, Ki conuersantz sont en le mond." 69. "Modus ad faciendum incaustum." fol. 100. b.

French Language, Early: For the chief Mss. illustrative of the state of the language prior to the year 1500, see the volumes marked.

Ricardus de Segbrok, Monachus Dunelmensis: Possedit olim codicem.

includes:

• f. 1 Arbores, Rotae; Scalae, aliaque consimilia: Expositio duodecim ramorum Ligni Vitae.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 1 Saint Bonaventura,; Cardinal-bishop of Albano: Anonymi Expositio duodecim ramorum ligni vitae.: Sec. xv.
• f. 10 Poetry, Anonymous: The address of our Saviour to a sinner; in eight lines.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 10. b Saint Augustine,; Bishop of Hippo: Excerpta de quadam expositione in S. Augustini Regulam.: Sec. XIV.
• f. 12 Saint Bonaventura,; Cardinal-bishop of Albano: Meditatio, incip. Ecce descripsi eam tripliciter.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 13. b Alcherus, Monachus Claraevallensis, claruit seculo duodecimo: Excerpta ex Alcheri libro de spiritu et anima.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 13. b Saint Augustine,; Bishop of Hippo: Sermo qualiter factus est homo, sive potius excerpta ex Alcheri monachi libro, De spiritu et anima.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 14. b Prayers: Oratio ad Dominum Nostrum Jesum Christum.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 15. b Medicine, Anonymous treatises papers, and notes upon: Medica quaedam pro visu, etc.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 16 Creeds: Symbolum Apostolicum in forma scalae.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 16. b Saint Augustine,; Bishop of Hippo: Quoedam ex S. Augustino in Psalmum cxlviii. excerpta.: Sec. xiv.
• f.16. b Arbores, Rotae; Scalae, aliaque consimilia: Scala de septem operibus passionis Christi.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 17 Lord's Prayer: Rota de septem petitionibus orationis Dominicae: Sec. xiv.
• f. 17. b Saint Bonaventura,; Cardinal-bishop of Albano: Tabula eadem, eum expositione brevi.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 17. b Arsenius, S; obiit anno Christi 445, xiv. kal. Aug: Narratio de S. Arsenio, de libro dicto Vitas Patrum excerpta.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 17. b Arbores, Rotae; Scalae, aliaque consimilia: Lignum Vitae, cum expositione brevi.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 18. b Arbores, Rotae; Scalae, aliaque consimilia: Scala de decem legis praeceptis.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 19 Arbores, Rotae; Scalae, aliaque consimilia: Arbor vitiorum.: Sec. xiv.
• f.19.b Arbores, Rotae; Scalae, aliaque consimilia: Arbor virtutuni.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 20 Arbores, Rotae; Scalae, aliaque consimilia: Scala de octo remunerationibus, pro octo beatitudinibus.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 20. b Johannes Metensis, Abbas: Turris Sapientiae, sive Speculum theologiae.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 21. b Palestine: Stationes et peregrinationes Terrae Sanctae.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 22 Poetry, Anonymous: Versus sex in laudem discretionis.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 22. b Cross, The Holy: A history of its origin and discovery.: French.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 24. b Ricardus de Sancto Victore, obiit anno 1173: De duodecim filiis Jacob ex libello ejus ? excerpSec. xiv.
• f. 28 Petrus Lombardus, Bishop of Paris: Quaedam de voluntate naturali, ex libro sententiarum.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 29. b Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: Epistora hortans ad amorem Dei.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 30. b Saint Augustine,; Bishop of Hippo: De diligendo Deo tractatus.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 34 Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: Quaedam de imagine Dei in mente humana.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 34. b Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Oratio alia ad Beatam Mariam.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 35. b Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: Quaedam de insidiis Diaboli.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 36. b Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: Some observations upon sin, future punishments, etc.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 39 Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: De quatuor generibus monachorum in omni elaustro, etc.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 39. b Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Oratio ad Beatam Mariam.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 40 Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: Observations upon the love of God, grace, free will, etc.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 48 Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: A meditation upon the passion of Jesus Christ.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 49. b Richard Rolle, of Hampole, hermit and author: De electione sua vitae solitariae,: Sec. xiv.
• f. 50 John de Catepigf, Monk of York: A summary of Christian faith and duty written by him, about 1357.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 54 Poetry, Anonymous: Versus viginti de variis theologiae argumentis.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 54 Our Saviour Jesus Christ: Quaedam de stirpe Annae et Mariae.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 54. b Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: A treatise upon the value and proper employment of time.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 66 Prayers: Oratio ad Spiritum Sanctum.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 67 Bible that is, the Holy Scriptures and Apocryphal Books: Commentarius in Psalmos xiv. et xxxviii.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 69 Johannes, Magister: Praecepta queaedam, versibus leoninis evi. comprehensa, ex Morali excerpta.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 70. b Proverbs: Praecepta moralia, et proverbia de rebus medicis, etc., in versibus circiter quingentis comprehensa.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 76 b Poetry, Anonymous: Praecepta moralia, etc., versibus quadraginta quatuor comprehensa.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 77 Saint Anselm,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Epistola ad quasdam monachas contra cogitationes.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 77. b Gregory I; Pope; the Great: Oratio S. Gregorio tributa.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 78 Saint Anselm,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Epistola ad Odonem et Lanzonem.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 78 Saint Anselm,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Epistola ad Rodbertum et sorores et filias suas.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 78. b Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: De variis monachorum regulis, etc.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 80 Penance: Tractatulus docens, qualiter confessor absolvere debet peenitentem.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 80. b Gregory Xl; Pope; Pierre Roger, of Chateau de Maumont, in the diocese of Limoges: Litterae indulgentiarum directae Ricardo de Segbrok ? monacho Dunelmensi. Dat. Avinoniae, vi. id. Apr. 1374.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 80. b Ricardus de Segbrok, Monachus Dunelmensis: Gregorii Papae Xl. Litterea indulgentiarum, Ricardo de Segbrok ? directae.: Dat. Avinoniae, vi. id. Apr. 1374.
• f. 80. b Robert Benington, Prior of Durham: Litterae Petri de Colombis de Bellitio, Archiep. Tarentini, Roberto de Benington alias Walworth directae, concedentes licentiam absolvendi crimina, etc.: Dat. Januae, id. Nov. 1386.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 81 Poetry, Anonymous: Brief narratives on the danger of incontinence.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 82 Theology, Anonymous books papers, and notes Reverend Catena Patrum: De templo Dei Spirituali tractatus allegoricus.: Sec. xiii.
• f. 82 Richard Marshal, fifth Earl of Pembroke; died in the year 1234: Epigramma de morte ejus.: Sec. xiii.
• f. 88. b R. de Wyterige: Sermo in Synodo.: Sec. xiii.
• f. 89 . b Proverbs: Proverbia varia, versibus Leoninis expressa.: Sec. xiii.
• f. 89. b, Clement IV; Pope: Bulla Clementis IV.? qua vetat episcopos Italiae clericum ullum de partibus ultramontanis ordinare.: Sec. xiii.
• f. 90 Medicine, Anonymous treatises papers, and notes upon: Remedy for the dropsy, etc.: Cent. xiv.
• f. 91 Astrology, anonymous treatises papers, notes, etc., upon: Quaedam de planetis, et morbis ex iis procedentibus.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 92. b Ricardus de Segbrok, Monachus Dunelmensis: Nota de pecuniis, vasis, vestibus ejus, etc., die Ascensionis Domini anno 1396.
• f. 93 Johannes Ayre, diocese Dunelmensis: Bulla Bonifacii IX. directa ei aliisque.: Dat. Romae, vii. id. Nov. an. 1. Pontif. 1389-90.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 93 Emma de Chester, of the diocese of Durham: Bulla Bonifacii IX. directa ei aliisque.: Dat. Romae, vii. id. Nov. 1389, 1390.
• f. 93 Alicia Couper, widow of Robert, diocese Durham: Bulla Bonifacii IX. ei aliisque directa. Romae, vii. id. Nov. 1389-90.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 93 Boniface IX; Pope: Bulla directa Ricardo de Segbrok, Gilb. Elwet et Matildae uxori ejus, Johan. Ayre, Emmae de Chester, et Aliciae Couper, viduae, Dunelm. dioec., concedens licentiam transmittendi eorum oblationes ad quasdam ecclesias in civitate Rom.: Dat. Romae, vii. id. Nov. ann. 1389-90.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 93 Gilbertus et Matilda uxor Elwet, diocese Dunelm: Bulla Bonifacii IX. eis direeta aliisque.: Romae, vii. id. Nov. 1389-90.
• f. 93 Ricardus de Segbrok, Monachus Dunelmensis: Bulla Bonifacii IX. directa ei aliisque concedens licentiam transmittendi eorum oblationes ad quasdam ecclesias in Roma.: Dat. Romae, vii. id. Nov. ann. 1. pontif. 1389-90.
• f. 93. b Penance: Informatio qualiter confessor electus absolvere debet peenitentem vigore literarum Apostolicarum plenae remissionis.: Sec. xiv.
• f. 95 Poetry, Anonymous: Extracts from Seneca, Jerome, etc., with a version in French verse, preceded by a short prologue.: Cent. xiii.
• f. 99. b HERBALs and other tracts, papers, and notes relating to Herbs: Quaedam de virtutibus herbae Scabiosae , Anglice Collyrdoddynge.: Sec. xiii.
• f. 99. b Poetry, Anonymous: A list of Follies.: Cent. xiii.
• f. 99. b Collyrdoddynge: quaedam de virtutibus herbae Scabiosae, Anglice, Collyrdoddynge.: Sec. xiii.
• f. 100. b Ink: Modus ad faciendum incaustum.: Sec. xiii.