Royal MS 12 G XII

TREATISES on physiognomy and medicine of the 15th century, with the original fly-leaves prefixed, containing considerable fragments of an 11th cent. MS., viz.: 1. Seven leaves and part of an eighth from the Latin grammar in Anglo-Saxon of Ælfric, Abbot of Ensham, called Grammaticus (probably not identical with either archbishop of the same name), viz. ed. Zupitza, Sammlung englischer Denkmäler, i (Berlin, 1880), (a) Pp. 194, 1. 1-201, l. 3. ff. 2, 3;-(b) Pp. 217, l. 7-226, l. 3. ff. 4, 5;-(c) Pp. 236, l. 12-240, l. 3. f. 6;-(d) Pp. 48, l. 11- 58, l. 2. The hand of this is somewhat smaller. ff. 7, 8;-(e) Pp. 246, ll. 4-6 and 18-20, 247, ll. 10-12, and 248, ll. 4, 5. f. 9. The MS. was collated (as r) for Zupitza's text. Written in two columns in two bold hands of the first half of the 11th cent. (see pl. 76). The larger hand is somewhat uneven. Rubric headings. f. 2.

2. 'Incipit Reductorium phisionomie editum per Rolandum Scriptoris medicum serenissimi principis domini Iohannis ducis Bedfordie regentis regnum Francie ac locum tenentis domini Henrici sexti regis': a lengthy compilation from the standard works on the subject. Six books, dedication and epilogue ('capitulum egressiuum'). In his address to the duke the author further styles himself 'Ulixbonensis' (of Lisbon). Another copy is in an Oxford MS. (S. John's Coll. xviii) and other works by him are in 12 C. XVI, Sloane MS. 3487, and a Cambridge MS. (Univ. Libr. Mm. i. 44). Preface beg. 'Illustrissimo ac serenissimo (&c.). Illustrissime princeps, michi dum mandatum daretis'; text, 'Cum agendi modus et operandi'. f. 10.

3. 'Introductorius medicinalis Arnaldi de Villa Noua'; imperfect at beg. and end, comprising pars i, cap. 3-pars vi, cap, 8. The title occurs at the end of each part. The book seems distinct from any of the 123 works of Arnold enumerated by Hauréau in Hist. Litt. de la France, xxviii, p. 26, and bears no resemblance to the work entitied Speculum Introductionum in the editions. The subject is De aegritudinibus universalibus (i) et particularibus (ii-v), and De certis experimentis (vi). Pars ii beg. 'Cum enim allopicia nomen sumat a vulpe'; pars vi, 'Postquam dictum est de curis'. f. 103.

Paper and vellum; ff. 189. Follo. 16 in. x 11¹/₄ in. Besides the whole of art. 1 the outside and inside leaves of gatherings throughout are vellum. XV cent. Initials in red and blue. For art. 1 (XI cent) see above. Belonged (f. 10) to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 358 ; cat. of 1666, f.8b; CMA. 8526.