Royal MS 16 E VIII

This MS. has been missing since 7 June, 1879. It contained as follows, see Francisque Michel, Charlemagne, London, 1836, p. xxii, and his Rapports au Ministre for 1835 (in Coll. de doc. inédits), p. 56, and Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 176:

1. 'Cy commence le proloug de la liuere del nature de bese peciouns et oysez': the Bestiaire in French verse by Guillaume de Normandie (see R. Reinsch's ed., Le Bestiare, Leipzig, 1890, 1892). f. 2.

2. 'Missus Gabriel': a French imitation of the prose Missus Gabriel de celis. Printed by P. Meyer in Romania, iv, p. 372. Like artt. 4 and 6, an addition in a late 13th cent. hand. Beg. 'Nostre seignor la sus del ciel'. f. 72.

3. 'Ci commence le liure Titus et Vaspasianus': chanson de geste in 2092 lines (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 176). Beg. 'Or escotez, seignur cheualier et seriant'. f. 73.

4. 'Letabundus': a drinking-song in French mixed with Latin lines. Printed by F. Michel, Eustache le Moine, Paris, 1834, p. 114, and Rapports, l.c., by Ferdinand Wolf, Über die Lais, Heidelberg, 1841, p. 439, Daniel, Thesaurus Hymnologicus, 1844, ii, p. 62, and Thomas Wright, Reliquiae Antiquae, ii (1843), p. 168. Beg. 'Or hi parra'. f. 103.

5. 'Ci commence le liure de la proverbes peres Anforse': a metrical version, in 3694 lines (often called Le Chastoiement d'un Père à son Fils), of the Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alfunsi (see Cat. of Romances, ii, p. 265). Beg. 'Ki uelt henor ei siecle auoir'. f. 104.

6. Christmas carol, without title. Printed by Francis Douce, Illustr. of Shakespeare, ii (1807), p. 215, Sir Henry Ellis in Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities (1813), i, p. 371 and (1841) i, p. 263, De la Rue, Essais historiques sur les Bardes, Caen, 1834, i, p. 196, Michel, Rapports, 1.c., and T. Wright, Christmas Carols, Percy Soc., 1841, P. i. Beg. 'Seignors, ore entendez a nus'. f. 130.

7. 'Ci comence le liuere cumment Charels de Fraunce voiet in lherusalem et pur parols sa feme a Constantinople pur vere roy Hugon': chanson de geste in 870 Alexandrines (see Cat. of Romances, i, p. 625, and Gaston Paris in Romania, ix, p. i). Printed by F. Michel as above, with facsimile of the first few lines. Edited by E. Koschwitz in W. Forster's Altfranzösische Bibliothek, ii (Heilbronn, 1880). Beg. 'Un iur fu Karleun al seint Denis muster'. f. 131.

8. A short description of England in Latin prose, without title. f. 144.

9. Phases of the moon proper for any business, &c., in French prose. f. 145.

Vellum; ff. 147. 8vo. XIII cent. Marginal drawings to art. 1. Westm. invent. of 1542 (Add. MS. 25469), f. 13; cat. of 1666, f. 14 b; not in CMA.