Royal MS 12 E XI

POETICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.:

1. 'Noua Poetria Galfridi Anglici' (so colophon): the art of poetry, in about 2,100 hexameters, by Geoffrey de Vinsauf, dedicated to Pope Innocent [III, 1198-1216] Edited from four unnamed MSS. by Leyser, 1724 (cf. 12 B. XVII, art. 2). Here, among other notable variations, is an insertion of forty-two lines after l. 202 of the printed text, and the lines (2099-2119) beg. 'Imperialis apex' are omitted. Beg. 'Papa stupor mundi si dixero papa Nocenti'. Colophon, 'In omni tempore benedic deum quod J. A. Qui scripsit carmen, sit benedictus. amen'. A short prose analysis is appended (f. 52), beg. 'Liber iste diuiditur in prohemium et tractatum'. f. 3.

2. 'Encheridion Alani minimi capelle de conquestione nature', &c. (so colophon): the De planctu naturae of Alanus de Insulis (cf. 7 C. I, art. 20, &c.). Beg. 'In lacrimas risus, in luctus gaudia verto'. f. 54.

3. 'Mithologie Fulgencii ad Catum prisbiterum Cartaginis philosophice exposite' (so colophon): the three books of Mythologica of the 5th cent. African writer Fabius Planciades Fulgentius. Printed in Van Staveren's Auctores Mythographi, Leyden, 1742, p. 595. Beg. Quamuis inefficax petat studium res que caret effectu'. f. 110.

4. 'Poeticae fictiones cum expositione' (so 16th cent, title): an apparatus to Ovid's Metamorphoses, comprising two parts, viz.:-(a) Introductory verses to each book. Lib. I beg. 'Paruus maiori paret veloxque viator'. Other copies, are at Oxford, Digby MS. 104, and Canonici MS. Lat. 9, in both of which the name Johannes Anglicus (i.e. probably John de Garlandia, cf. 15 A. XXXI, art. 8) occurs in the title. See also E. Habel in Mitteil. der Ges. für deutsche Erziehungs- und Schulgeschichte, xix (1909). In ll. 5-9 the object of the work is described thus: 'Morphosis Ouidii parua conclaue Iohannis Panditur et presens cartula seruit ei. Nodos secreti denodat, clausa reuelat, Rarificat nebulas, integumenta canit';-(b) Prose analysis and exposition, with moralizations, of each book. These constitute what are termed 'integumenta' and are found (besides the Oxford MSS. mentioned above) in Burney MS. 224 (ff. 2b, 181 b). The analyses beg. 'Mutaciones huius libri sunt hec: Chaos mutatur in species'; the moralizations, 'Quod chaos in species in veritate fuit'. Imperfect, ending in lib. xiii. The work does not appear to have any connexion with the Moralitates contained in Cambridge Univ. MS. Ii. ii. 20 along with works of John de Ridevall and printed at Paris, 1509, under the name of Thomas Walleys. f. 143 b. The fly-leaves (ff. 2, 180) are from a commentary on the Apocalypse in a minute hand of the end of the 13th cent., containing part of capp. iv, v. The folios are numbered 212, 213. Vellum; ff. 180. 6¹/₄ in. x 4¹/₄ in. Middle of XV cent. Gatherings (excl. fly-leaves), i¹¹, ii-iv¹², v-xvii¹⁰. Sec. fol. 'fortune sed'. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1125'; cat. of 1666, f. 20 b; CMA. 8483, 8485, 8520.

includes:

• ff. 1-53 J. A: Wrote: 15th cent.