Royal MS 8 G X

DOCTRINALE Antiquitatum Ecclesie Ihesu Christi contra blasfemios Wycleuistas': libri i, ii of vol. i of the long controversial treatise by Thomas [Netter de] Walden, Prior provincial of English Carmelites (I414- 1430). Printed, Paris, 1532, Venice, 1757, &c. A brief subject-index is at the end. Prologue beg. 'Mea doctrina non est mea, &c., Joh. vii. [16]: Alma magestas et inuicte deitatis ymago'; lib. i (f. 9), 'Exurgat deus, [&c. Ps. lxvii. 2]: Exurgat inquam';lib. ii (f. 73), 'Beatissimi principis apostolorum'. Vellum; ff. 205. 151/2 in. x 11 in. Middle of XV cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (last5), with catchwords. Sec. fol. '-cordia suffocatus'. There is a marked change of hand from f. zi b, col. 2, onwards. Initials flourished in red and blue, a small Agnus Dei, &c., on f. 2 touched with gold. Belonged (f. 204 b) to St. Albans students at Gloucester College, Oxford: 'Hunc librum ad vsum monachorum studencium in collegio Gloucestrie Oxonie assignauit venerabilis pater Iohannes Whethamstede olim abbas monasterii s. Albani, vinculoque anathematis', &c. On f. 1 b the same is expressed in verse, 'Fratribus Oxonie datur in munus liber iste / per patrem pecorum prothomartiris Amgligenarum, / quemsi quisraptat, raptim titulumve retractet, / vel Iude laqueum vel furcas sensiat. amen'. John [Bostock of] Wheathampstead resigned the abbacy in 1440, but was re-elected 1451 and died 1464. On f. 205 b a monogram HB or BH (16th cent.?). The MS. afterwards belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 132; cat. of 1666, f. 5 b; CMA. 8097.