Add MS 34652, ff 4-43

Contents:

f. 4: Psalm 119: 88-106 with initials in blue, red or green, from a Psalter of the 12th century;

f. 5: A miniature of the Crucifixion (f. 5r); a fragment of a Missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin, late 12th century (f. 5v);

f. 6: Canticum Canticorum, chapter 4:7 and capitula to Sapientia, with initials in red, green and purple, 1st half of the 11th century;

ff. 7-8: Life of S. Remigius (fragment) from a Legenda, with initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour, late 12th century (Additional MS 18628, f. 46 v contains the same text); a modern leaf with a paste-down containing a note on the purchase of f. 7;

ff. 9, 10: A commentary concerning Jewish festivals, 13th century;

ff. 11-12: Epistles of Sidonius Apollinaris, Book I, fragment (Migne, Patrologia Latina, lviii., coll. 443-468);

f. 13: Commentary of St Augustine on Psalm 139: 3-6 (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 37, col. 1805);

f. 14: Leaf from a Pontifical or manual containing a service of exorcism;

f. 15: Fragment of a leaf from a work on canon law, late 13th century;

f. 16: Membrane from a roll containing part of the law tract called Brevia Placitata in French, 13th century;

f. 17: Decretals of Gregory IX, Book 5, fragment with marginal commentary, 2nd half of the 13th century;

f. 18: Genesis (fragment);

ff. 19-20: Missal (fragments);

f. 21: Breviary, fragment, containing part of the Commemorations of Saints), written in 2 columns with pen-flourished initials in blue and red, early 14th century;

f. 22: Index to the vocabulary of the Bible, fragment containing Ind-Inf;

f. 23: Decretals of Gregory IX, Book 5, fragment with marginal commentary; one inhabited initial with a figure in profile, framed initials in gold on blue and red grounds and pen-flourished initials in blue and red, 14th century;

ff. 24-26: Fragments of treatises on theology and canon law;

f. 27: John de Bromyard, Treatise on civil and canon law, fragment containing prologue and first section, with pen-flourished initials in blue and red;

f. 28: Latin dictionary, fragment, containing Acin-Ador;

f. 29: Part of the marriage service with pen-flourished initials;

ff. 30-31: Collationes of Joannes Cassianus, fragment containing parts of collationes iii-vii (Migne, Patrologia Latina, 49, coll. 580, 666), with a 16th-century draft of an indenture of apprenticeship of Raffe Snellym, of Yoxforthe to Margaret Borrowe and Edmund Horringe her son, of the same town, copied in the lower margins;

f. 32: Leaf from an Antiphonal, with blank spaces for music and initials, containing the services for part of Passion-week;

f. 33: Leaf from a Psalter containing part of Psalms 21-23, with small initials in gold on blue and rose grounds and a partial foliate border, early 15th century;

f. 34: Leaf from a Legenda containing lessons for the Octave of Christmas;

ff. 35-36: Missal fragment containing the office for the 8th and 12th Sundays after Pentecost with initials in gold on blue and rose grounds, partial foliate borders and pen-flourished initials in blue and red, early 15th century;

f. 37: Leaf from an alphabetical work on civil law; an inscription with the names Francis Hugson and Thomas Martin [of Palgrave] in the lower margin (f. 37v);

f. 38: Statutes of a college (fragment), a note in the band of Thomas Martin of Palgrave records his discovery of the leaf in Rickinghalle church, Suffollk;

ff. 39-41: Legal documents including statutes of Edward III in French and Latin, with pen-flourished initials in blue and red, 14th century;

f. 42: A fragment 'from the library at Popes' in Hebrew;

f. 43: A leaf from a printed Breviary with rubrics in red.