6621 IE85 J28* '=>-li:;{^-\.:^ : ^ :: >;: ^'■ ; v^:;^^ : fe;^, ■''S.^iW^-.'-i-^.y'"-; ■■■ : --:. ,IN.U;W> V- in the Library of ETO & ________ ■ •'• ■ i .-.' ■ . • - ; : ■"■' •" |i - •' ■■,> i Ml i '& ' J (Qntnell Hniueraitjj Sahrarg JJtljaca, £Jno Ifnrh BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE FISKE ENDOWMENT FUND THE BEQUEST OF WILLARD FISKE LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY 1869-1883 1905 Cornell University Library Z6621.E85 J28 Descriptive catalo fl^fig. um^lllVltpHlllUM tll'llFfnil P ' S 3 1924 029 605 296 olin 0vers m Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://archive.org/details/cu31924029605296 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF ETON COLLEGE A 4'lo 4-9-1^ PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. MEMORIAE HENRICI SEXTI PRINCIPIS SANCTI ET NOBILIS MERITO HOC OPVSCVLVM DEDICO ILLIVS ENIM MVNIFICENTIA MIHI LICVIT NANCISCI QVIDQVID AVT SCIENTIAE AVT AMICORVM NACTVS FVERIM. PREFACE. THE important collection of Manuscripts described in this volume has never been catalogued at all in detail. In Bernard's Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliae et Hibemiae (Oxford, 1697 : Vol. 11. p. 46) will be found the only attempt at a Catalogue which has yet seen the light. The name of the person who made the list is not given. There were then 115 MSS. in the Library, and the contents of these are briefly noted under 126 heads, some of the volumes being catalogued twice or three times over. The order followed is roughly alphabetical, beginning with Adelard and ending with Xenophon. I should be the last to criticise Bernard's list in an unfriendly spirit : his work is a very great one. For the history of English Libraries now dispersed — nay, even for the ascertaining of the contents of many which now exist, his volumes are indispensable : yet it is certain that the Catalogues which they contain are of very diverse merits ; and it is undeniable that his Eton Catalogue is among those that are inadequate. For one thing, whereas in his time the College possessed 115 MSS., it now has 193. Since 1697, as I said, no attempt at a systematic Catalogue has been made ; but it should be mentioned that the Rev. F. St J. Thackeray's interesting papers on Eton College Library (reprinted from Notes and Queries) contain a survey of the manuscript classes. It may seem curious that Uffenbach, who explored so many English Libraries in the last century, has told us nothing of the Eton books. He was not fortunate in his visit to Eton. He was unable to get a better idea of the name than ' Cato's College ' ; vin PREFACE. and was only introduced, it would seem, to the Boys' Library, which then consisted of little more than fifty volumes. Of the history of the collection, and of the building in which it is housed, I might write at some length; but a very short summary of the facts must suffice. First, as to the books. The sources from which they came, so far as I have been able to ascertain them, are seen in the List of Donors and Owners. William Horman and Sir Henry Wotton stand out pre-eminent as the two great benefactors of the Library. The latter has contributed nearly all the most valuable MSS. The bulk of his bequest consists of Greek and Italian MSS. : and many of these — perhaps all of them — were once the property of Bernardo Bembo, the father of Pietro Bembo. These Wotton no doubt bought at Venice. Two volumes are known to me which once formed part of the same collection, but did not come to Eton: one is a Horace at King's College (No. 34), the other, which I have never seen, is a Terence at Brasenose (No. 18), of the eleventh century — " bought," says Coxe's Catalogue, " of the heirs of Pietro Bembo at Venice in 1632," which date is probably wrong. The Horace was given by Wotton to Samuel Collins in 1630, and the Terence to William Hacwell. Next, as to the building. The Founder's will provided for a Library in the East ' pane,' or walk of the Cloister : it was to be 52 feet long by 24 wide. This, however, was never built. The books belonging to the College were kept first in the vestry of the Chapel, then in "Election Hall" (where the painted glass appropriate to the different classes of books still remains in part) ; then in a room under Long Chamber: after that (in 1688, when David Loggan drew his view of the College) in the south-east part of the Cloister: and, lastly, they were transferred to the present building, which was constructed between 1725 and 1729, after the designs of one Mr Rowland. In 17 19 the chains were removed from the books "excepting the Founder's Manuscripts 1 ." ' See, for the facts here summarized, Willis and Clark, Architectural History of the University of Cambridge. PREFACE. IX Lastly, as to my own work. It has been a labour of love. The Eton Manuscripts were the first to which I had access. When I was an Eton boy, the College authorities generously allowed me to examine them. The kindness was a great one, and I hope it was not misplaced. The least I could have done in return was to put at their disposal such knowledge as they had helped me to gain ; and this is what I have tried to do. That there are mistakes and omissions in this volume I have not the least doubt : yet I cannot but hope that there is also a good deal of information which will be helpful to scholars both in England and abroad. My sincere thanks are due to the College for undertaking the printing of this Catalogue : and to the Provost, Dr Hornby, and the Vice-Provost and Librarian, Mr Warre-Cornish. The former has always been most kind in giving me access to the Library : while the latter has helped me and furthered my work in every possible way. M. R. JAMES. LIST OF DONORS, OWNERS, AND SCRIBES OF THE MSS. Donors. William Aiscough, Bishop of Salisbury, John Malberthorp, Fellow, William Wey, Fellow, Thomas Weston, Fellow, Peter Hopton, Richard Hopton, Fellow, — Spenser, Robert Elys, John Borowe, Fellow (?), Roger Lupton, Provost, William Horman, Fellow, Sir Heniy Wotton, Provost, — Moyle, Thomas Home, Fellow, T. Richardson, Fellow, Edward Waddington, Bishop of Chichester, Fellow, i Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston, Nicolas Mann, William Hetherington, Fellow, Edward Betham, Fellow, R. Huggett, Conduct and Librarian, George Henry Pitt, Anthony Storer, Lord Montague, E. C. Hawtrey, No. 1438-50 28, 29 144... 47 144... 76, ?99 1453 42 145s 101 1477 39> "4 1496 1, 2 1501 5 14 .. 120 1540 131 1535 24, 44, 48, 79, 80, 98, 119, 122, 126, 127, 148, ?i7i 1639 11, ?46, 85, 87, 88, 100, no, 112, II3, II5, Il8, ?I2I, 124, 128, 135-142, 146, 147, 149-159, l6 3> l6 5, 166, 172, 173, 174, 193 1695 9 1 1713 «■ 78 1722 49"73, 9°> J 33 1731 in, 168 1750 22-95 1754 183, 186, 187 1773 25 1775-6 86, 143. '79 177... 144, ?i83 1817 177 182... 181 1833 188 1853 184 CATALOGUE OF MSS. OWNERS. j . Monasti c. Laud, William 9°. i33 Albans, St 25> I0 3 Linguscus, Jo. '37 Belvoir (Lincolnshire) 48 Lysle, Sir John 24 Brescia, S. Apollonio 11S Mareys, Tho. 105 Chichester (?) 45 Mauclerc, Dan. 144 Farfa 124 J ac - 144 Franciscans (Coventry) 108 Joh. Hen 144 , , (Lincolnshire) I/O Medici '57 ,, (Sherborne) 33 Mocer {or Moyer), Joh. 105, 106 Haverford 9o Nevelet, F. N. 144 Merton Priory "3 Pabage, J. 9i Norwich (?) 45 „ W. 9' Otteham (Praemonstr.) 43 Parker, Matthew 123 Quarre 14 Rogers (?), J. 21 Reading (?) 84 Selby, R. 38 Winchester College 9 1 Seymour, Ed. Sherard, Sir John 2 5 177 i. Private Smyth, Walter 74 Alcantieri, Claudio (?) 75 Sugete, T. 17 Ancona, Cyriacus of 141 Sukelyn, Jo. 127 Barett, Will. So Swan, Hen. 119 Bathon., W. (v. Laud). Sybbe, Will. 34 Beaufort 114 Sybley, J. 25 Bembo, Bernardo !35> '37 . ?t 3 8, Sydeberne, J. 17 147. ?I49. Thoresby, Hugo 90 i5M5 2.153' Waller, Jo. r 79 156 West 3 Bickerstaffe, Stuart 177 Wey, Will. 42 Bylton, Peter 39. 101 W. G. 102 Canapede (?) i79 Wouw, Barth. van 9 1 Carlisle, Frederick, Earl of, 181 Chicheley, T. 105 Scribes. Cornario, Lud. Rig. i37 Agallianos 14... 141 Cyriacus of Ancona 141 Darellus 79 Delphini, Jo. 115, 124 , 138 Doukas 14181 ' 144 Edwardus devalle scolarium 32 Edyngtone, Rob. 1455 24 Eliezur(?), J. Rogers 21 Forli, Valeriano di '534 11, 100 Ellys, Sir Richard 92-95 Kempston, Nich. 18 Flobern, Elizabeth 96 Lorenzo di Stefano 136 Gibbon, Henry 182 Morton, Will. J 4°3 108 Hyle, Magister 27 Sybbe, W. 34 John of Ragusa 144 Wodewarde 42 Kempston, Nicholas 18, 36, ; !7, 117 See also nos. 45, 92, 102, I4Q, IS Languscus, Jo. 137 163, 165, 172. 182, 1: 35 AT ETON COLLEGE. COMPARATIVE TABLES OF NUMBERING OF THE MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Number. Angl. Number. Angl. Number. Angl. (ii. 46) 39 28/5? 105 16 I 3' 40 vac. 106 19 2 3i 41 79 107 18 3 89 42 43. 80 108 15 sitb fin. 4 121 43 39. 6o 109 nob 5 7 44 3 1 10 "3 6 ? 45 41 III vac. 7 20 46 8 112 44 S 7' 47 22 "3 73 9 91? 48 21 114 93 10 10 49-73 vac. "5 45 1 1 42 74 8.3 [16 118 1 2 ? 75 108 117 5° '3 66 76 75 [18 59 H 35 77 60? 119 65 r 5 IIOIZ 78 vac. 120 14, 15, 24, 2 5, 2 9 16 109 79 102 121 37,38 "7 81 80 74 122 56 iS 77 8r 11 "3 5« 19 34 82 61 124 70 20 72 83 104 125 4' 21 75 84 w '■> (2 126 S 4 11 76 85 5 127 97 n 40 86 vac. 128 4 24 27 87 106 129 1.3 25 3iP) 88 120 130 55 26 3i 89 114 !3i 36 27 3i 90 vac. 132 46 28 3i 9i — 133 vac. 29 3i 92-95 — 134 57 3° 115 96 — 135 112 3' 100 97 47 136 111 3* ? 98 90 137 125 33 67 99 49, 124 138 87 34 69 100 88 !39 78 35 117 101 17 140 107 36 98 102 62 141 116 37 68 i°3 64 1 42 126 38 28, 30 104 82 143 vac. XIV CATALOGUE OF MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Present Cat. MSS Angl. Number. Angl. Number. Angl. Number. 144 — 161 I 178 — '45 9 162 vac. 179 — 146 5i 163 123 180 — 147 12 164 vac. 181 — 148 vac. 165 96 182 6 149 119 166 53 183 vac. ISO 101 167 vac. 184 — 151 94 168 — 185 48 152 85 169 32 186 vac. ■ 153 86 170 92 187 — 154 1 °S 171 63 188 — 155 52. i°3 172 54 189 — 156 95 173 vac. 190 26 157 99 174 — I 9 I vac. 158 33 175 — 192 vac. 159 vac. 176 — 193 122 160 — 177 — II. Cat. MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Present Angl. Number. Angl. Number. Angl. Number. I 161 26 190 51 146 > 84 11 24 52 '55 3 44 28 38, 39? 53 166 4 128 29 120 54 172 5 85 3° 38 55 130 6 182 31 1, ^,25,26,27,28,29 56 122 7 5 32 169 57 134 8 4 6 33 158 58 I2 3 9 H5 34 19 59 118 10 10 35 H 60 43. 77 ji 81 36 131 61 82 12 i47 37 121 62 102 13 129 38 121 63 171 14 120 39 43 64 103 15 108, 120 40 23 65 119 16 i°5 41 45. 125 66 H 17 IOI 42 n 67 33 18 107 43 42 68 37 19 106 44 112 69 34 20 7 45 115 70 124 21 48 46 132 7i S 22 47 47 97 72 20 23 47 48 185 73 "3 24 120 49 99 74 80 25 120 5° "7 75 21, 76 AT ETON COLLEGE. Cat. MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Present Cat. MSS. Present Angl. Number. Angl. Number. Angl. Number. 76 22 93 114 no 15, 109 77 18 94 151 in <36 73 T 39 95 156 112 r 35 79 41 96 165 "3 no 80 42 97 127 114 89 81 17 98 36 "5 3° 82 104 99 157 116 [41 83 74 100 31 117 35 84 126 IOI 150 118 116 85 86 rja 102 79 119 U9 !53 103 '55 120 88 87 138 104 83 121 4 88 100 1 °S 154 122 193 89 3 106 87 123 163 90 98 107 140 124 99 9' 9? 108 75 125 i37 92 170 109 16 116 r 4 2 XVI CORRIGENDA. P- 3, 1- I9> fa Apocr. read Apoc. „ „ „ 22, „ [CM. A.] io „ 89. „ 19, lin. ult. „ „ vac. „ 28, 30. •20, 1. 6, „ Sertonis >. Serlonis J5 21, ,, r8, „ [C. M. A.] 80 » 43. 8°- 1 ) )) .; 29, 60 1 5 39- 6o - )) 23. >. 31. 22 » 22, 23. 55 29, 5) 17. 12 5) 2. '5 30, )) I7> „ „ Il6 5 ! 106. J} 39. » 10, » » 124 5 ) 49. "4 It 45. > ) 24, „ ,, 120 >) no. 1, 2. Bk. i. i, 2. Biblia Sacra. Vellum, i6| x u£, fif. 176 and 160; double columns of 58 lines each. Cent. xiii. Vol. i. in 17 gatherings of 10 leaves and one of 6. Vol. ii. in 16 gatherings of 10 leaves. Contents : Vol. i. Interpretationes nominum (Ard — Zuzim), f. i gone, followed by four blank leaves. Jerome's Prologue, f. to: Genesis to end of Ps. cl. Vol. ii. Proverbs to Acts iii. 10 qui ad... The Acts follow the Ep. to the Hebrews. There are a few historiated initials, usually of good execution : Vol. i. 1. Prologue. Initial, a nimbed man writing : on gold ground. i. Genesis. Initial extending down the page, containing seven elliptical miniatures of the Days of Creation. In Nos. r-4 Christ is holding the globe. In No. 5 he is standing, water on R. No. 6 Creation of Eve. No. 7 Christ seated. In Leviticus the decorative initial retains its red silk guard. Esdras I. is Ezra and Nehemiah in xviii. chapters. Esdras II. is 1 Esdras of our Apocrypha, more commonly known now as 3 Esdras. 3. Psalter. Beatus uir. David playing the harp, gold ground. Quid gloriaris and Dixit insipiens both have decorative initials, as also Doinine exaudi (ci. ). 4. Psalter. Dixit dominus. Christ seated blessing : gold ground. Vol. ii. 5. Matthew. Jesse asleep: from him springs a Tree with two figures in it, (1) of the Virgin, (2) of Christ seated blessing with book, beardless: gold ground. The initials to 1 Thess. and 1 Tim. closely resemble each other : they contain dragons. In Vol. i. f. 1 b is the entry- Ex dono magistri Spenser a d ni 1496. [C. M. A. 31.] 1 1 These references in square brackets are to the Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliae et Hibemiae, 1697. E. MSS. I 2 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 3. Bk. i. 3. Bible Hystorial. Vellum, I7|x i2£, ff. 241, in double columns. Cent. xiv. (1380 ?). Six leaves are lost, at the beginning of Cant. Ecclus. Matt. Phil, and two in Micah. In gatherings of 12, 10, and 8 leaves. This is the second volume of a Bible hystorial, in French : being a translation of the Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor made by Guiart des Moulins in 1291-1295. This volume contains the books from Proverbs (' Paraboles ') to the Apocalypse. The miniatures are of good average execution : their form is that of a lozenge inscribed in a quatrefoil : r. Paraboles (Proverbs). Four miniatures, together occupying half of f. I a. (a) Solomon and Rehoboam. (b) Solomon : before him three youths with a coffin. This is the first scene of a well known mediaeval story (told in the Gesta Romdnoruin). The sons each claim their father's property : the test imposed by Solomon is that each shall try to hit with an arrow the heart (or right eye) of their father's corpse. (c) Two of the three sons about to shoot at their father's corpse, which hangs on a tree : the youngest refuses (and so gains the inheritance). (d) The Biblical Judgment of Solomon. 2. Ecclesiastes. Solomon enthroned : a woman kneels to him. Cantiques: first leaf gone. 3. Sapience. A man kneels to receive a sword from a throned figure. Ecclesiasticus : first leaf gone. 4. Ysaie. The prophet seated cross-legged and bound : two men are sawing his head with a frame-saw. 5. Jeremie. Jeremiah as a youth watching sheep : Christ appears to him above. 6. Lamentations. Jeremiah points to the gates of Jerusalem : other figures behind him. 7. Baruch. Addresses six men : he is represented as old. 8. Ezekiel. The prophet looks at the vision of the four cherubim who hold scrolls with the names of the Evangelists. 9. Daniel. He is pointing Nebuchadnezzar upward to Christ in the sky. This pic- ture has a good diapered ground. Osee: no miniature. 10. Joel. Watching sheep : Christ's head appears in the sky. 1 1. Amos. In bed : Christ's head seen above, covered with blood. Obadiah, Jonah, Micah : the miniatures are gone. 12. Nahum. Walking in a river : three men watch him. 13. Habakkuk. The prophet caught up by the angel (see Bel and the Dragon) : he holds a vessel in each hand. This scene is usually called the Rapture of Habakkuk. AT ETON COLLEGE. H Zephaniah. Writing at a desk. Haggai. Holds a scroll with Ave Maria upon it. Zechariah. Holds a blank scroll. Malachi. At a desk, reading the ten commandments. 1 Mace. A kneeling man beheaded : probably refers to 1 Mace. ii. 24. ■1 Mace. : no miniature. .S. Matthew: first leaf gone. 19. S.Mark. Writing : the lion by him. 20. .?. Luke. A similar picture : the ox by him. 21. S.John. ,, „ : the eagle by him. 22. Romans. S. Paul preaching to a crowd. 23. 1 Cor. S. Paul enters a city (Corinth). 24. 1 Tint. S. Paul before an Emperor (Nero). 25. Gal. S. Paul preaching. 26. Eph. S. Paul arriving at a city (Ephesus). The other Epistles have no pictures. 27. Acts. S. Luke directs the attention of Theophilus (a crowned man) to Christ ascending. 28. Apocr. The beast with seven heads and ten horns. The work degenerates towards the end of the volume. As a fly-leaf at the end is the motto Une sans Plus (cent. xvi.). [C. M. A. 10.J 4. Bk. 1. 4. A Dictionary, etc. Vellum, \o\ x 7 J, ff. 126. Cent. xv. 1. An Index, beginning with the word celare and ending with vespertilio, f . 1 : in 3 columns to a page. It is in 12 leaves a 8 (wants 1-3) b 8 (wants 8). 2. Variae uerborum significaciones, f. 13. A dictionary, imperfect in the middle and at the end, in double columns, from Abba to Vath, in quires of 12 leaves. 3. A work on Scripture History from the Creation, f. 86. In several books : imperfect. In double columns : quires of 8 leaves. At the beginning on f. 86a is ' pater et filius et spiritus sanctus ' also the name ' west.' The prologue begins : In precedentibus pranissa descrzpciow originis et desb-wecionis artium et quorundam alioru»« ortu7« et occasuw omnium regnoruwz. 1 — 2 4 CATALOGUE OF MSS. Lib. i. begins : Primus liber tractat de misteriis rerum gestarum ab inicio usque ad abraham, continens capitula 19. It wants from Lib. viii. 2 to Lib. xii. 1 and the end of Lib. xiii. Expl. et si uenerit in 2 a uigilia et si in 3 a uenerit et ita inue- nerit, beatus ergo seruus ille : uigilias uocat ad.... [C. M. A. 121.] 5. Bk. 1. 5. S. AMBROSIUS SUPER Beati Immaculati (Ps. cxviii. Lat. cxix. Heb.). Vellum, 13^ x g\, ff. 167, double columns. Cent. xi. In quires of 8 leaves (i-xviii numbered prima manu). Binding, boards and stamped leather with medallion of crowned heads, lettered HERCV- LIS and vena (?). This binding, which must be of cent, xvi., occurs on many of the MSS. : it will be referred to henceforth as H.V. The flyleaves are from a MS. concordance to the Vulgate (cent, xv.) which is often used in connexion with the H.V. binding. An initial L at the beginning of the text seems rather Celtic in character. The hand is narrow and rather pointed at first; towards the end of the volume it becomes rounder, thicker, and more sloping. On f. \a is : Liber collegii de Eton de dono magistri Roberti Elys a d' 1501. [C. M. A. 7.] 6. Bk. 1. 6. S. AUGUSTINUS IN PSALMOS I-50. Vellum, \6\ x \\\, ff. 154, double columns. Cent. xv. (?). The hand seems English, rubricated initials. Binding H.V. In quires of 8 leaves. On the fly-leaf: ...Aug. in psalmos et incipit in 2° fo. Quam montem. At the end a note of the price : xi s xi d parue (?) tre (? parmentrie) et...pro ligatura xxxiiij d . [C. M. A. ?] AT ETON COLLEGE. 5 7. Bk. 1. 7. S. AUGUSTINUS IN PSALMOS 51-IOO. Vellum, i6£x n£, ff. 191, double columns. Cent. xiii. The hand is English. There are decorative initials, chiefly in blue; some have been cut out. The fly-leaves are from the Concordance, and from a large Gospel-book. In 24 quires of 8 leaves, numbered in Roman figures : xv. is of 7 leaves. [C. M. A. 20.J 8. Bk. 1. 8. Rob. Grosthed (Grossetete) in c. Psalmos. Vellum, 15 x 10, ff. 217, double columns. Cent. xv. Decorative initials : that of f. la has on a patterned ground these letters in gold /. ike. b. Binding H.v. An Index begins on f. 206. [C. M. A. 71.] 9. Bk. 1. 9. Commentarius in librum Psalmorum. Vellum, 13J x 9f, ff. 183. Cent, xiii-xiv. In quires of 8 leaves. Text surrounded by commentary : rubricated and flourished initials, that to Ps. cix. (ex.) Dixit Dominus has three rude heads symbolis- ing the Trinity. The Commentary is, I think, the glossa ordinaria. Inc. Cum omnes prophetas sancti spiritus reuelatione constet esse locutos. Expl. Vite eterne uox est omnis spiritus laudet dominum. Amen, hie ex. [C. M. A. 91 (?).] 10. Bk. 1. 10. R. Hampole on the Psalms. See post. [C. M. A. 10.] 6 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 11. Bk. i. ii. Demetrii Cydonii Oratio de contemnenda morte. Paper, I2| x 8f, ff. 18, 35 pp. written. Cent. xvi. (i539> tov ao^xordTov Kal XoyKOTarov tcvplov ArjfiiyTpiov tov kvoovlov X070S 07ra)? aXoyov to tov davarov Seo? airoheucvvav. Colophon : dBeXcpbs /3a\ept,avb<; (v) eriy pfikO (i 539)- ^ n " 1IS scribe see further on Bl. 1. 19. The author died after 1384. The oration was first printed with the Irrisio of Hermias by Raphael Seiler at Basel in 1553. See Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. ed. Harles, xi. 401. [C. M. A. 42.] 12. Bk. 1. 12. S. Gregorii Magni Moralium Libb. xvii-xxxiii. 17. Vellum, 14 x 10, ff. 232, double columns. Cent. xiii. (early). The hand is English : in xxix. quires of 8 leaves, numbered i-xxix. Fly-leaves from a law-book of cent. xiv. in Italian hand. Ends : ne forte in initio murmurationis excedat memoretur que timeat (xxxiii. 17). There are splendid initials at the beginning of each book : see especially books xxviii-xxx. At book xviii. is a good picture in the initial of Christ seated blessing, on gold ground, with cross- nimbus. [C. M. A. ?] 13. Bk. 1. 13. S. Gregorii Magni Moralia. Vellum, 16 x 11, ff. 213, double columns. Cent. xiv. Contents : Capitula ••••••.... f, i Visio Taionis •■■..... s Moralia Collation: a 8 P-xvi 12 xvii 12 +\ Fly-leaves from the Concord- ance : very good flourished initials of red and blue. At the end : Laus tibi sit Christe quoniam liber explicit iste. [C. M. A. 66.3 AT ETON COLLEGE. 7 14. Bk. 2. i. Cantor in Genesim, Exodum et Leviticum. Vellum, IS x iof, ff. 200, double columns. Cent. xiii. Blank fly-leaves. In the binding a leaf of a law MS. In quires of 8 leaves, numbered i-xxv., prima manu. The last leaves have suffered much from damp. At the end on a fly-leaf are some hexameters enumerating the books of the Bible. At the beginning is : Est de Quadraria liber iste crucisque (erased) Maria. Sit reus ante dezim qui tibi tollat eum. This shews that the volume belonged to Quarre (or Quarrer) Abbey in the Isle of Wight (Cistercian) founded in 11 32. [C. M. A. 3S-] 15. Bk. 2. 2. Radulphus Flaviacensis in Leviticum : Libri xx. Vellum, 13I x 10, ff. 250, double columns. Cent. xii. (late). Binding of cent, xv., brown leather on wooden boards. The hand seems English : in quires of 10 leaves (?). Good decorative initials, e.g. on f. 3 b : one at the beginning has been cut out. On the verso of the last leaf is : primus partus (sic) 2° gradu et in sinistra. [C. M. A. no.] 16. Bk. 2. 3. Rabanus in Numeros, Deuteronomium, Josue, Judices, Ruth, Reges, Thobiam, Judith, Hester. Cantor in Esdram, Neemiam, Paralipomena. Rabanus in Maccabaeos. Vellum, 14 x io£, ff. 200, double columns. Cent. xii. In quires of 8 leaves : the first gone, the rest numbered ii-xxvi. prima manu. Ends in 2 Mace. iii. occidentales. Has suffered much from damp. Binding of cent. xv. Fly-leaves from a law MS. [C. M. A. 109.] 8 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 17. Bk. 2. 4. Hugo cardinalis de Vyenna super libros Salomonis. Vellum, I2§ x 9, ff. 323 and 1, in double columns. Cent. xiv. in two hands, the second beginning at f. 92. In quires of 8 leaves. Binding H.v. Fly-leaves from Concordance. On the recto of the last leaf in the lower corner is written : deo gratias legi to turn a° 1493 18 die junii claudo. and : Iste est Johannes Sydeberne et sic dixit Tomas Sugete. [C. M. A. 81.] 18. Bk. 2. 5. HOLCOT IN LIBRUM SAPIENTIAE. Vellum, 14! x 9|, ff. 224, double columns. Cent. xv. Rubri- cated initials. Binding H.V. In the beginning : liber quondam magistri Nicholai Kempston a° d ni 1477 nun- quam vendendus secundum ultimam voluntatem defuncti sed gratis et libere occupandus a sacerdotibus instructis in lege domini ad predicandum verbum dei successive ab vno sacerdote ad alterum sacerdotem absque omni precio quamdiu duraverit. Orate pro anima eius. The same inscription is quoted from MS. Jes. Coll. Oxon. 116 by Hardy Catalogue of Materials ii., lxiv. See also MS. Rawlin- son A. 446 and S. John's Coll. Camb. MS. A. 15 : also below. Contents : 1. Index with additions by Kempston. 1. Text of Holcot. 3. An addition in the same hand, ff. 213-2140. 4. Index rerum, at the end of which is : Explicit tabula lecture Holcoti super librum sapiencie scripta per mag. Nicholaum Kempston anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo quinto. 5. Another ill-written index on 4I leaves. Explicit tabula fratris Rob. Holcoti super librum sapiencie de ordine fratrum predicatorum doctoris sacre theologie conventus norhamtonie. AT ETON COLLEGE. g In the binding at the end is written a record of an obit for A. Marshall, Vicar of All Saints, Worcester. Bishop Philip Morgan's name is mentioned. [C. M. A. 77.J 19. Bk. 2. 6. Cantor in Isaiam, Jeremiam, Danielem, xii Prophetas. Vellum, 14J x 10J, ff. 280, double columns. Cent. xii. Binding H.v. Fly-leaves from Concordance, and two from a xiith century MS. in double columns : Omelia in Genesim ii. concerning the ark. Contents : 1. Cantor in Is., Jer., Dan., Hos. — Mai. in two or three hands : has suffered from damp. ■1. A Tract on the Book of Wisdom. Inc. Quecunque scripta. An old table of contents enumerates besides the following tracts, now lost : Summa Joh. Wallensis ad omne genus hominum. Albertamis de arte dicendi et tacendi. Melybeus et prudentia de consolatione et consilio (cp. Chaucer's Persones Tale). Imago mundi. Parisiensis de prebendis. De pluralitate beneficiorum. De conuersione peccatoris ad deum. On a fly-leaf in large xvth cent, letters : Cantor in Esaiam et Jeremiam. [C. M. A. 34.] 20. Bk. 2. 7. Haymo in Esaiam. Vellum, 13 x 9^, ff. 176, double columns. Cent, xii., in an ugly hand. Flourished initials, many in light blue. Binding like that of No. 21. In quires of 8 leaves. Fly-leaves from a law MS. Contents : 1. Haymo in Esaiam f. i 2. Alexandri prioris de Essebie (Easby in Yorkshire) liber festiualis . 166 Inc. Omnia cum nequeam sanctorum scribere gesta Pauca breui calamo scribere nitar ego. IO CATALOGUE OF MSS. The tract is in elegiacs, with prologues in prose and verse. The feasts described begin with S. Andrew and end with S. Katherine and the Transitu) to the second book. Ends Expl. liber primus. 3. Notes (a) on the attitude of the fingers in blessing, (b) on the words Triclinium, Lenticula, etc. n [C. M. A. 72.] 21. Bk. 2. 8. S. HlERONYMUS IN DANIELEM, ETC. Vellum, 15x11, ff. 338, double columns. Cent, xi-xii. In quires of 20 leaves (two lost). Contents : i. Hieronymus in Danielem et xii. prophetas. One leaf of the prologue is lost, and after f. 47 is a note : desiderantur folia quaedam abrupta interpretatione a. fine cap. 1 (osee) usque ad vers. 15 cap. 4. ■1. Ambrosius de obseruantia episcoporum Hue Pastorale Ambrosii : in another hand. 3. Questio s. Ieronimi de induratione cordis Pharaonis et de aliis iiii. questionibus. 4. (fol. ult.) Ieronimus in annalibus ebreorum de xv. signis xv. dierum precedentmm diem iudicii. 5. (A prophecy). f.p.p-s-s>S'V-v.v.v.v-v-v»f-f-f»r«r«r«r.[r.]. Pars • patrie • profecta est • salus • secum • sullata est ■ veniet • victor • validus ■ vincet • vires • vestre • vrbis ■ ferro • fame ■ frigore • regale • regnum • Romanorum • ruit • Roma. On f. 1 : Sum liber Johannis Rogers (erased) Eliezur 1594. On first fly-leaf: 1713. Dedit Collegio B. M. de Etona Tho. Home Soc. [C. M. A. 75.] 22. Bk. 2. 9. S. Hieronymus in xii. Prophetas. Vellum, i5£xio£, ff. 216 (209 + 7 blank), double columns. Cent. xiv. In quires of 12 leaves, numbered as Bk. 1. 12. On the fly-leaves are many pencil notes of cent, xiv., xv. On f. 1 a xvth cent. note. Liber Jeronimi super xii, prophetas etc. incipit in 2 do folio tue prudencie. At the bottom of f. 1 of the text : L. Jeronimus super xij prophetas H (erased). [C. M. A. 76.] AT ETON COLLEGE. II 23. Bk. 2. 10. XII. Prophetae cum glossa. Vellum, 14x9^, ff. 114 (no +4 blank), text and two sets of notes. Cent, xiii-xiv. In quires of 8, 6 and 4 leaves. Erased monastic mark on the fly-leaf, also a distich on the names of the prophets : Ose • Joel • Amos • Abdi • Jon • atque Micheas • Naum • Abacuk • Sophoni • Agge • Zachar • Malachias. [C. M. A. 40.] 24. Bk. 2. 11. Berengaudus super Apocalypsim, etc. Vellum, 14^x9^, ff. 236: double columns. Cent. xv. (1455). In quires of 12 (a-t) and one (v) of 8. Contents : 1. " Belingarius " in Apocalypsim, in Latin and English . . f. 1 2. Sermones Odonis de tempore et Sanctis ..... 79 With index of the sermons and a later index rerum. Colophon : Expliciunt sermones Odonis de Cancia quondam Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis scripte per Dominum Robertum Edyngtone infra hospicium strenui militis Johannis Lysle apud Wodehouse iuxta Arden in vigilia S t! Laurencii martiris per ipsum dominum Robertum finaliter conscripte anno domini millesimo cccc mo quinquagesimo quinto ha Amen -e- On f. 1. Liber Willelmi Horman. [C. M. A. 27.J 25. Bk. 3. 1. Biblia Sacra. Vellum, 13X9J, ff. 498, in double columns, in two hands. Cent. xiii. The vellum and writing are Italian : the miniatures French. 12 CATALOGUE OF MSS. The volume was presented by William Hetherington in 1773. The text is preceded by the ' Doctrina ad cognitionem correctionis biblie ' and followed by the ' Interpretationes nominum ' f. 458. The order of the groups of books in the New Testament is Evv., Paul, Acts, Cath., Apoc. The illustrated initials are an interesting series: they run as follows : 1. Prol. A monk writing. 2. Gen. Containing 8 quatrefoils with gold grounds : (a) Christ holding two globes, light and dark; (b) holding a globe with land and water shown; (c) creating trees; (d) sun and moon; (e) birds; (/) Eve, and also beasts; (g) blessing: (A) the Crucifixion. Down each side of the initial are seven half-quatrefoils with half-lengths of prophets. 3. Exod. L. Amram, C. Moses in the ark, on water, R. Jochebed. 4. Lev. L. a man in a doorway, R. Moses, horned. 5. Num. A man speaks to Moses. 6. Deut. Moses, horned, reads the Law to the people. 7. Jos. Above, a nimbed figure (Christ) speaks to an attendant (Joshua) : below, a, man in bed (the body of Moses). 8. Jud. Warriors, and a prophet (?). 9. Ruth. Elimelech and Naomi and the sons set off to Moab. 10. 1 Sam. Hannah praying, R. Eli at altar. 11. 2 Sam. David orders the Amalekite to be slain. 12. 1 K. David in bed: two figures (Abishag and a courtier) stand over him. 13. 2 K. Ahaziah in bed, sending two men. 14. 1 Chr. A crowd of figures. 2 Chr. Decorative. 15. Ezra. A building scene. 16. Neh. Nehemiah as cupbearer before Artaxerxes. 17. Tob. Tobit blinded by the swallows. 18. Judith. Beheads Holofemes. 19. Esther. Touches the sceptre of Ahasuerus. 20. Job. Seated on the dunghill addresses his friends. 21. Psalms. David plays the harp. 22. Prov. Solomon chastises Rehoboam. 23. Eccl. Solomon throned, two attendants. 24. Cant. A boy addresses a woman. 25. Wisd. Solomon addresses a man with sword. 26. Ecclus. A man seated, with cup. 27. Isa. Sawn asunder by two men: he is bound to a pillar. 28. Jer. Christ touches his mouth. 29. Lam. Jeremiah seated at the gate of Jerusalem. 30. Ezek. In bed : five men before him : above, two censers, a wheel and a hand. 31. Dan. In the den. 32. Hosea. Embraces Gomer. 33. t Mace. Mattathias dying speaks to his sons. 34. Matt. Jesse in bed: the tree springs from him containing four half-figures in AT ETON COLLEGE. 1 3 ellipses, on gold ground. The lowest is the Virgin, crowned : two are kings : the fourth is a prophet (?) in a cap : a very fine initial. 35. Mark. The Baptism: S. Mark, a lion below him. Zacharias and the angel. Christ seated : below, John : below him, the Eagle. Paul with sword. ») >» Paul addresses a crowd of Jews on L. The Apostles in a group. ■ and Jude. Figures with books. John sits writing : seven towers (or candlesticks) behind. 36- Luke. 37- John. 38. Rom. 39' 1 Cor. 40. Heb. 41. Acts. 42. Jame: 43- Rev. 26. Bk. 3. 2. Biblia Sacra. Vellum, I3f x 9, ft 362, 3 columns : decorative initials. Cent, xii-xiii. In quires of 10 and 8 leaves. This is by far the finest Vulgate in the collection. The writing and ornaments are very fine, and the contents and aspect of the book remarkable. The number of ' versus ' in each book is stated at the end, and the rest of the leaf left blank. The order of the books is as follows : Prologue. Genesis to ii Paralipomenon. Isaiah. Jeremiah. Baruch. Incipit liber baruch notarii Ieremie prophete. De oratione et sacrificio pro vita nabuchodonosor. Epistle of Jeremiah. Lamentations : prefixed to which is an explanation of the Hebrew alphabet. Ezekiel. Daniel: divided into 'visiones'; and with the apocryphal additions obelized. The twelve prophets. Job. Ezra, Nehemiah, both called 'primus esdre.' Esther (with additions obelized). 2 Esdras ( = 1 Esdras). A blank leaf is cut away here. Proverbs. Eccl. Cant. Wisdom. Ecclus. Oratio Salomonis ('Et inclinavit' . . 1 Kings viii.). Tobit. Judith. 1, 1 Maccabees. Preliminary matter to the Psalter, occupying 15 leaves. 14 CATALOGUE OF MSS. The Psalter in three versions. Gal., Rom., Hebr., with Ps. cli. in all three. Cantica : ezechie, anne, moysi, abachuc, moysi (Deut. xxxiii. ). The beginnings of the Epistles and Gospels for the year. Jerome's Letter to Damascus, and memorial verses on the Eusebian Canons. The Eusebian Canons, called here ' Diatessaron,' in gold frames. Ew. Act. Cath. Epp. Apoc. Prologues to Romans, and 26 verses by Damasus on S. Paul. Paul. Epp. Hebr. Epistle to the Laodiceans. On fol. 1, in red: 'hunc codicem dedit domm^j mathias prior sancto albano quern qui ei abstulerit aut titulu#z deleumt anathema sit. amen.' In the xvth or xvith century it belonged to Johannes Sybley. On verso of fly-leaf, under the book-plate is : Edwarde Seymour, 27 August 1582. There are a good many marginal notes. [CM. A. 31.] 27. Bk. 3. 3. ' Biblia Sacra. Vellum, I2fx8f, ff. 388: double columns. Cent. xii. Fly- leaves from a law MS. At f. 370^ begin the Interpretationes nominum, and Capitula. All the prologues are at the beginning of the volume. The order of books in the O.T. is Gen.— Esther, Tob., Jud., Mace, Isa.— Mai. Job, Parab.— Ecclus. Oratio Salomonis, Psalmi. The only figured initials are : 1. Prol. A Bishop with mitre and crosier seated : gold ground. 2. ,, A man and monkey. 3. Genesis. The seven days of creation: gold grounds: in Nos. 1-5 Christ is holding the globe. On a fly-leaf: Liber mag. hyle vicarii collegii S t! Georgii infra castrum de Windesor super quo ego Jo. Esterfeld canonicus ibidem exposui domino Jho. . .(?) petyt capellano s. x.s de pecunia magistri stoke. [C. M. A. 31.] AT ETON COLLEGE. 1 5 28, 29. Bk. 3. 4 , 5. Biblia Sacra. Vellum (uterine), io-f x y\, two volumes, ff. 519, and ff. 520, in quires of 16 leaves, text and comment. Cent, xiii-xiv. Vol. 1. Genesis — Ps. cl. A figured initial in Genesis, representing the seven days of creation. Five leaves in Exodus mutilated. Vol. i. Esaias — ii. Maccabaeorum. On the fly-leaf : Liber Coll. Regal, beate Marie de Etona iuxta Wyndesor ex dono Willelmi episcopi Sarum. This is Will. Ais- cough (1438-1450). [CM. A. 31.] 30. Bk. 3. 6. Septuplum. Vellum, 14 x g\, ff. 105 in quires of 8 : text in 2 columns sur- rounded by comment. Cent. xv. English hand. Inc. Subuectiuam tabulam fragilitatis humane in mundi pelago carnis absortus uorticibus. It is a tract on the seven deadly sins. Binding, the original white skin on boards, has had a label on the last cover : chain-mark at lower R. corner of first cover. There is a MS. of this work, dated 1412, at Univ. Coll. Oxford (no. Ixxi). [C. M. A. 115.] 31. Bk. 3. 7. Napier on the Apocalypse, in Italian. Paper, 13J x 8, ff. 140. Cent. xvii. It is a Commentary on the Apocalypse by John Napier of Merchiston (rendered as Nonpareil or Nonsuch), dedicated to James VI. of Scotland. It was translated into French by George Thomson and into Italian by P. M. V. Contents : The Commentary ... .... f. 1 Index f. 92 Quattro Armonie (on the Apocalypse again). [C. M. A. 100.J i6 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 32. Bk. 3. 8. S. Bernardi etc. Tractatus. Vellum, n£ x 7f, ff. 94+120 (two volumes in one). Cent. xiii. and cent, xiv-xv. Fly-leaves from two late MSS. Part I. in quires of 12 leaves: in several hands of an Italian look. 3- 4- 5- 6. 7- 8. 9- 10. 11. 12. S. Bernardi Quo studio et affectu orandus sit deus meditaciones meditacio de redempcione humana notabilitates moralium beati Gregorii meditacio Bernardi de diligendo deo xviii libri de uitis patrum sub compendio meditacio ad concitandum timorem deploracio amisse uirginitatis .... meditacio Bernardi de planctu B. V. M. de diciplina monachorum siue apologeticon Anselmus de similitudinibus .... Anselmi cur deus homo : in two hands prefacio exhortationum Bernardi ad Eugenium ( = Bernardus de consideratione) ..... f. 1 3 9 11 19 22 38 39 42 45 48 5° 7i At the top of f. la is : Edwardus de valle scolarium ordine fecit quod sumam s... et incipit 'letabor ego super eloquia' et thema est Sicut letancium omnium habitacio. Part. II. Wallensis super Psalmos, in quires of 12, 10 and 16 leaves. Prol. inc. Beatus qui custodit uerba prophetie libri huius. On a fly-leaf at the beginning of the whole volume : iii. id. octobris anno domini m° • cc° ■ lx° • i° fui admissus cum custode. Anno domini m • cc • lxv. fui institutus.... The tops of the letters are cut off. Also there are two charms (1) for toothache " a. p. petrus supra petram sedebat" etc., (2) for bleeding at the nose: on the words bironis and bironixa, and a prayer in French (five lines) Duce dame saynt marie virgine. [CM. A.?] AT ETON COLLEGE. 1 7 33. Bk. 3. 9. S. Gregorii Dialogi, etc. Vellum, 1 of x 6\, ff. 159 (quires of 8): cent, xii., xiii. The hand is English. Binding H.v. Contents : 1 . Gregorii Dialogi de Miraculis iv f. 1 2. Hieronymi actus captiui monachi ...... 98 3. Anon, de S. Frontonio ........ 101 b 4. Hieronymi vita Pauli primi heremitae ..... 103 b 5. Vita B. Antonii ex graeco Athanasii 108 6. Hieronymi Vita S. Hilarionis ....... 147 b On the last leaf is written a Letter of Fraternity of 1256. Omnibus Christi fidelibus has literas uisuris uel audituris m. humilis prior Syreburnensis et eiusdem loci conuentus eternam in domino salutem. Nouerit uniuersitas uestra quod nos caritatis intuitu recepisse in fratres et sorores nostras hugonem de bello- monte burg. Vinton, et archebaud. cum vxoribus suis Alicia scilicet et Matilda. Concedentes eisdem plenariam participationem om- nium bonorum spiritualium etc. (17 lines). Datum a. d. m°. cc°. 1°. vi°. [C. M. A. 67.J 34. Bk. 3. 10. S. Gregorii Homiliae, etc. Vellum, 1 1 \ x 8|, ff. 199 (103 + 96): cent. xv. Two volumes bound in one. Binding, stamped leather with hatched lines. 1. S. Gregorii Homiliae in Ezechielem 22: in double columns: quires of 8, 10, and 14 leaves : ff. 103 : signature d wants the sixth leaf (blank). 2. Fasciculus Morum per Will. Sybbe de parochia de Wisbich, scriptus 1443: ff. 96: single lines, quires of 8 leaves. It is dedicated to a " Frater " and divided into seven ' particular' At the end, on f. 88, is " Finis sermonum est hec colleccio morum : hie explicit liber qui vocatur Fasciculus morum scriptus per Will" 1 Sybbe capellanum parochie de Wysebech: cuius anime Jhesus Alius uirginis marie propicietur et perducat ad gaudia eterne vite. Anno domini millesimo cccc mo quadragesimo tercio." E. mss. 2 1 8 CATALOGUE OF MSS. This colophon is followed by a long sermon interspersed, like all the rest of the work, with narraciones. English renderings of Latin phrases often occur. A quire is wanting at the end. At the beginning is ' assit principio sancta maria meo.' [C. M. A. 69.J 35. Bk. 3. 11. S. Thomae quaedam. Vellum, I2f x Q)\, ff. 178 in double columns: quires of 8 and 12 leaves. Cent. xv. and xiv. (?). Fly-leaves from a large folio of xiith or xiiith century: an inscription shewing the provenance is erased. 1. S. Thomas Aquin. de spiritualibus creaturis. Cent. xv. 2. „ „ de potentia dei. 3- >, ,, de malo (imperfect : ends in lib. xiv.). 4. (f. 167) Expositio Egidii. Inc. sicut philosophus dicit in x. ethicorum (ff. 12). Cent. xiv. ? At end : explicit liber causarum. Amen. [CM. A. 117.] 36. Bk. 3. 12. Tabula Martini, etc. Vellum, nfx8, ff. 135 and 103 in double columns. Cent xiv., XV. 1. Tabula Fratris Martini super decreta et decretales Pos- sibly in an Italian hand : ff. 135, in quires mostly of 12 leaves 2. Questiones Sancti Thome : i. de Malo. ii. de spiritualibus creaturis. ff. 103 in quires of 12, 6 and 10 leaves in BriT 1111116 bd ° nged t0 KempSt ° n ' and has his inscription, as [C. M. A. 98.] AT ETON COLLEGE. 1 9 37. Bk. 4. 1. S. Gregorii Dialogi, etc. Vellum, iof x 7^, ff. 130 (quires of 8 and one of 2 leaves) : single lines, 27 to a page. Cent. xii. Fly-leaves from a glossary of the Old Testament of cent. xiii. Binding as Bk. 3. 10. S. Gregorii Magni Dialogorum Libri iv. . . . . f . 1 S. Augustini liber decern chordarum n6<5 [C. M. A. 68.] 38. Bk. 4. 2. S. Bernardi Homiliae, etc. Vellum, 11^x7!, ff. 214, double columns: quires of 8 leaves, numbered i-xxvii. Cent. xii. On the verso of the last leaf are entries of pledges and prices, thus : Cum tribus C ts 2° fo. primi exire : 2° fo. 2 dl dissidenciam : 2 6 ta fo. 3 tU de me det. xxvj s viij d precium x s . Caucio domini Roberti Selby exposita in cista exom'e Anno domini m° cccc lx°-xx° v° die mensis octobris et habet 3^ 6 ta 2° primi exire 2° fo 2 ! dissidenciam 2° fol 3' de me det. Emptus pro xxvj s viij d - This volume was, then, pledged by Selby along with three others, of which the opening words of the second leaf in each case are here given. S. Bernardi Homiliae lxxxii. ........ f. 1 Prefatio mag. Roberti Pull (? Pulleyn) de obsidione sirie . . 1 36 b Two more sermons by the same 139 Magistri Hugonis homiliae iv. Tempus flendi etc 1 5 1 b Libellus B. Augustini de iv uirtutibus karitatis . . . . IS 2 Liber B. Pape Leonis de conflictu uitiorum atque uirtutum . . 154^ Sermo mag. Robert Pull(eyn). Quatuor reges .... 162 Eiusdem sermo • 164 £ Tractatus mag. Hugonis Parisiacensis super Lamentationes Jeremie, non tamen continue 168 Twelve homilies or extracts of varying length without author's name. One is ' de pallio Helie ' 204 The hand is very good, probably French. [C. M. A. vac] 2 — 2 20 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 39. Bk. 4 . 3- S. Bernardi quaedam. Vellum, 12 x 8, ff. 211. Cent. xiii. 1. S. Bemardus de consideratione f - r „ de amore dei ■l. Sermo magistri Sertonis de iusto homine bene uiuente . . 4°" 3. Bernardi Homiliae xlviii 59 * On the fly-leaf is : Liber Mag. Ricardi Hopton quern emit ab executoribus Petri Bylton pro xx s. Hopton was Fellow of Eton in 1453, and Rector of St Alban's, Wood-street, in 1477. 40. Bk. 4. 4. Evangelia Slavonica. Paper, \\\ x 8|, ff. 289, 19 lines to a page, cent. xv. In quires of 8 ; there remain quires T 1 to A© 1 mutilated at beginning and end. The Gospels are followed by 13 leaves of synaxarion. There is an Italian note on the last page, too much mutilated to be read. 41. Bk. 4. 5. Homiliae in Evangelia. Vellum, io|x 7 J, ff. 210, 27 and 34 lines to a page. Cent. xi. Probably written in Italy, but brought to England before Wotton's time, if we may judge by the tables of contents, which may be of cent, xv., xvi. There are two of these. In quires of eight leaves. Contents : xcii. Homilies on various Sunday and Festival Gospels. Horn. 1 begins : In illo tempore. Cum appropinquasset dominus ihesus hierosolimis et venisset bethfage...Ite in castellum et reliqua. Spiritualiter autem duo discipuli qui in castellum mittuntur, duos ordines significat predicatorum quorum unus ad iudeoram populum . . . At the end of quire xvii in red on the lower margin : Gira quaternionem in ana 4> : and in a later hand : Require in octauo folio -xlviij- post. At the place indicated is a rubric : 4> et hoc est adhuc de passione. [C. M. A. 79.] AT ETON COLLEGE. 21 42. Bk. 4. 6. [S. JOHANNIS CHRYSOSTOMl] OPUS IMPERFECTUM IN MATTHEUM. Vellum, 10 x 7, ff. 311, 29 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Binding H.v. Fly-leaf at end from a service-book with music, containing an antiphon for Epiphany. On f. 297 is this colophon : Expliciunt omelie Iohannis Crisostomi patriarche constantinopolitani super Matheum operis imperfecti etc. Quod Wodewarde. An index rerum in two hands follows on f. 297 b. At the beginning : Liber Collegii Regalis beate Marie de Eton ex dono magistri Thome Weston socii euisdem collegii xxiii die Aprilis anno domini m° ccccliii et anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti xxxi°. At the end : Eton E. C. (or I. C.) Ex dono magistri Willelmi Wey quondam socii istius collegii regalis beatissime marie de Eton. [C. M. A. 80.J 43. Bk. 4. 7. Glossa in Mattheum. Vellum, \o\ x 7|, fif. 88, quires of 8 leaves, numbered i-xi : text and gloss. Cent. xiii. The gloss is followed by a list of S. Augus- tine's works. On a fly-leaf at the beginning is written the Sibylline acrostic on the last judgment. On one at the end is a receipt for making azorium. At the beginning is : Hie liber est Canonicorum de Ottehaw?. This is the Premonstratensian house of Hottheham near Hailsham in Sussex, removed in cent. xiii. to Bayham. [C. M. A. 60.J 44. Bk. 4. 8. Albertus Magnus in Lucam et Marcum. Paper, 12 x 8£, ff. 624, in quires of 24 leaves, 33 lines to a page, in many hands. Cent. xv. Albertus in Lucam f. 1 „ in Marcum 481 22 CATALOGUE OF MSS. At the end in a hand of cent. xv. or xvi. is Ihc mercy ladi help. Many of the quires are signed, presumably by their scribes, thus : f. 49 My3hel. 265 Martyn. 289 Wylkyn. 337 Cooper. 409 Bacon. 505 Wymarke 1 . 529 Chambyr. 553 Bacon. 577 Churche. 601 Howchyne. Given by W. Horman. [C. M. A. 3.] 45. Bk. 4. 9. Petri Comestoris Historia Scholastica. Vellum, n|x8, ff. 246, in quires of 12, 10, and 8 leaves : double columns. Cent. xiii. In a fine hand : an initial on f. 1 has been defaced. At the end is, as usual, the epitaph of Petrus Comestor. At the bottom of f. 1 is a monastic press-mark h. xvij. which resembles those of Norwich or Chichester. [C. M. A. 41.] 46. Bk. 4. 10. S. Ambrosii quaedam. Vellum, 1 1 x 7|, ff. 306, in a Roman hand, with good initials. Cent. xv. In quires of 10 leaves. S. Ambrosii Epistolae f. I Idem de morte S. Satiri fratris siue de resurrectione . . . 228 Ejusdem oratio 2 6a. Idem de incarnatione 260 Idem de spiritu sancto 2 g. Possibly given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 8.] 1 Edmund Wymarke or Umarke, a secular Chaplain, took the degree of Bachelor of Canon Law, 8 July 1532, at Oxford. AT ETON COLLEGE. 23 47. Bk. 4. 11. S. AUGUSTINI CONFESSIONES, ETC. Vellum, 1 if x 8, ff. 202, in quires of 12 leaves, 5 1 lines to a page. Cent. xv. S. Augustinus de doctrina Christiana. Eiusdem Confessiones. Johannis Wodeford questio de adoracione ymaginum . . . f. 121 ,1 ,, contra Jo. Wicliffe de eukaristia. ,, ,, tractatulus de peregrinacione ad loca sancta et sanctorum reliquiarum ueneratione 128 Opinio et confessio domini Jo. Wycliff de Sacramento altaris ut reci- tat eum doctor Nicolaus Radecliff de sancto Albano in libro suo qui incipit Vniuersis christi fidelibus c. 27 . . . 131 Notabilia excerpta de questionibus Doctoris Wodeford contra eosdem Wicliffistas de eadem diuinissima eukaristia . . . . 138 ^ f. 144 is blank. S. Augustini de cognitione uerae uitae 145 Cassiodorii de institutione diuinarum litterarum excerptum Rursum inquit potest occultum inueniri ...... 156 b S. Augustini de utilitate credendi ...... 157 ,, de assumptione B. V. Mariae 166 ,, de moribus ecclesiae contra Manicheos . . . 169 Index rerum .......... 181 b Questio secunda doctoris subtilis (i.e. Duns Scotus) de ueritate fidei nostrae super prologum primi libri sententiarum . . . 194 b Excerpta S. Thomae contra gentiles ...... 198 b At the end is : Liber magistri Johannis Malberthorp. Malberthorp or Mabel- thorp gave two MSS. (vi. Lat. and ci. Lat.) to Lincoln College, of which he was a Fellow. He was Fellow of Eton in 1447. [C. M. A. 22.] 48. Bk. 4. 12. S. Augustini quaedam. Vellum, 11x7^, ff. 241, quires of 8 leaves. Cent. xii. and xiv. Two volumes in one. I. 3 1 to 40 lines on a page. Early xiith cent, well written, ff. 96. S. Augustini de adulterinis coniugiis f. 1 ,, de natura et origine animae ,, sermo arrianorum .... ,, contra arrianorum perfidiam ,, contra aduersarium legis et prophetarum de uera innocentia. Cent. xiii. . 17 b 55 57 69 97 24 CATALOGUE OF MSS. II. In double columns of 49 to 51 lines each. Cent, xiii., xiv. ff. 97-241. Annotationes anonymi in varia sacrae scripturae loca. Headed in red : Notule super Genesim. Contains notes on Genesis, the Gospels, the Catholic Epistles, Jerome's prologue, Gen., Exod., Leuit, Judic, 1 Reg. Inc. Materia Moysi in hoc opere est creatio mundi. Expl. Secundus patruus qui Iacobum interfecit. This part of the volume has this inscription : Liber beate marie de Beluero. Hunc librum dedit frater Willelmus de Beluero prior eiusdem ecclesie deo et beate Marie de Beluero quern qui alienauerit uel fraudem aliquam inde fecerit indignacionem dei incurrat : anima dicti Willelmi et aniine omnium fidelium defunctorum requiescant in pace. Amen. There is a similar note on f. 144 b. The house referred to is the Benedictine Priory of Belvoir in Lincolnshire, subject to S. Albans Abbey. The whole volume is donum Guilielmi Horman quondam socii huius contubernii. [C. M. A. 21.] 49 to 73. Bk. 5. 1-14. Bl. 5. 1-11. Opera Josephi Beaumont D.D. Twenty-five quarto volumes, ii^xg. Cent, xviii.-: containing the Theological works of Joseph Beaumont, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity (1674-1699) and Master of S. Peter's College, Cam- bridge (1 663- 1 699), copied from his autographs at the expense of Thomas Richardson, D.D., Master of S. Peter's College (1699- T733) and Fellow of Eton. Presented by Dr Richardson in 1732. Dr Beaumont's portrait is prefixed to Vol. i. The works consist of: 1. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, in ten volumes. 2 " " " >> Colossians, in three volumes. 3- 11 11 Ecclesiastes, in three volumes. 4. De Terminis Theologicis, in four volumes. 5. In loca selecta, in four volumes. _ 6. De Libertate Christiana xv Praelectiones contra Georg. Enjedinum, or Examen Emedim, in one volume. [C M. A. vac] AT ETON COLLEGE. 25 74. Bk. 6. 1. POSTILLA JANUENSIS • S • JANUENSIS SERMONES DOMINICALES. Vellum, 10^ x 7|, ff. 150, in double columns. Cent, xv., in three hands. In quires of 12 leaves. On the first and last leaf is : Pertinet ad magistrum Walterum Smyth: on f. 1 is: Christe caput gratum mihi des finemque beatum. [C. M. A. 83.J 75. Bk. 6. 2. PSALTERIUM CUM CANTICIS GRAECE. Paper, 8f x 6, ff. 93, 26 lines to a page. Cent. xv. In quires of 16 leaves. Ps. cli. occurs in the proper place. On f. 1 is : KXavSiov tov ay/cavOrjpov 1 KTrj/ia. at the end : Ice Tv -ye vie tov 6v ekerjaov fie tov afiapTwkwv. [C. M. A. 108.] 76. Bk. 6. 3. S. HlERONYMUS SUPER DANIELEM, ETC. Vellum, 9^ x 6\, ff. 40 + 92 ; two volumes in one. Cent. xii. and xv. In quires of 10 leaves. I. S. Hieronymus in Danielem. Cent. xii. Rubricated initials. Followed by the Capitula of a book on sacred numbers, and a slip of cent. xiii. on similar matter. II. 1. Barenguidus (Berengaudus) in Apocalypsim, cent. xv. : in double columns. ■i. On the women at the Sepulchre, cent. xv. : ff. 2, in double columns. On the fly-leaf: Eton. E. C. (or T C). Ex dono Willelmi Wey quondam socii istius Collegii Regalis Etone. (See Bk. 4. 6.) [C. M. A. 75 (?)•] 1 ? = Alcantieri. 2 6 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 77. Bk. 6. 4. Glossa super Mattheum. Vellum, gi x 6f , ff. 88 in quires of 8 leaves : no initials. Cent, xiii. The fly-leaves are of cent. xiv. One begins : Pitagorici autem, the other : omnes homines naturam scire desiderant. The gloss begins : Fecit deus duo luminaria in firmamento celi. A note of provenance on f. I is erased : on f. 2 b is a large number (-i8-) in red. The writing resembles that of part II. of Bk. 4. 12. The book belonged to Kempston and has his inscription. [C. M. A. 60 (?)■] 78. Bk. 6. 5. PSALTERIUM CUM CANTICIS ET HYMNIS. Vellum, \o\ x 8, ff. 161, 22 lines to a page. Cent. xiii. I. Kalendar f- I Psalterium cum canticis ....... 3 II. Hymni. Inc. O lux beata Trinitas 128 Expl. Canticum de uirginibus. Non uocaberis ultra derelicta...desolata. The Psalter is preceded by two leaves of a Kalendar in red, black, blue, green and gold. Two medallions have been cut out of the margin of each of these leaves : no doubt they represented the Zodiacal sign and the occupation of each month. The months which remain are March, April, November, December. Among English saints we find Elfege, Mellitus, Justus, Thomas (Becket), and Birinus. This points to Canterbury. The first leaf of the Psalter, and the initials to Pss. xxvii., xl., liii., cii., cix. are gone : those to Pss. lxxxiii. Exultate, and xcvii. Cantate, are left and are of good character, though rather rough. In the Litany we find SS. Erasmus, Alphege, Salvius, Blasius, Pancras, Alban, Oswald, Aedmund, Martyrs: Augustine, Odo, Dunstane ii., Audoenus, Uulganus, Remigius, Cuthbert, Swithun, Furseus, Wilfrid, Paulinus, Romanus, Guthlac, Columban, Wandre- AT ETON COLLEGE. 27 gisil, Edward (inserted later, Edmund of Canterbury, Yreneus, Wlfstan, Richard, Hugh, Bertinus, Anna, Julian, Ethilbert), Con- fessors: Baptildis, Aeldrida, Mildrida, Austroberta, OsyJ?a (inserted, Edburga), Virgins. The Hymns have a good gold initial. The volume was given by Thos. Home, Fellow, in 17 13. [C. M. A. vac] 79. Bk. 6. 6. Petrus de Palma, etc. Vellum, 8 \ x 5^, ff. 88 (in quires of 12 leaves, and one of 4) + 36 (in quires of 10 leaves and one of 6). Cent. xv. I. 29 lines to a page. 1. Ex Rodulpho Flauiacensi in Leuiticum. ff. 1, t. 1. Postilla fratris Petri de Palma in Parabolas Salomonis. ff. 1-86. II. Index, later, on 36 ff., 46 lines to a page. Excerpsit Guil. Hormannus, scripsit Darellus. The volume is ' donum Guil. Horman.' [C. M. A. 102.J 80. Bk. 6. 7. S. HlERONYMI, ETC. QUAEDAM. Vellum, 9 x sj, ff. 138 (16 quires of 8 leaves, and one of 10), 23 lines to a page. Cent, xii., xiii. Binding H.V. 1. S. Hieronymus contra Iouinianum f. 1 1. The genealogy of Christ. Tres sorores, etc 133 b 3. De notis litterarum : a cypher used by Brutus and Augustus : b is substituted for a, c for b, etc. 4. An anthem with music. Iohannes autem...Quo auditc.Ite dicite Iohanni. 5. Some matter relating to music, with notes and memorial verses. 6. A hymn to S. Katherine, without music. Aue uirginum gemma Katerina. The volume belonged to William Barett and then to Will. Horman, who gave it to the College. [C. M. A. 74.] 2 8 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 81. Bk. 6. 8. S. Anselmi Dialogus, etc. Vellum, 8£ x 5|, ff. 42, quires of 8 and 4 leaves.. 37 lines to a page : good initials. Cent. xiii. Written in England, perhaps at S. Albans. S. Anselmi Dialogus f. 1 Miscellaneous extracts 2 ° A Hymn Prima uirtus suffragetur, with space for music . . 33 S. Gregorii Cura Pastoralis ...-•••• 37 On the last leaf is 'post hunc librum minores collaciones.' [C. M. A. i i.J 82. Bk. 6. 9. WlLLELMI DE MONTE QUAEDAM. Vellum, 9^ x 6\, ff. 90 and slips inserted, in quires of 10 and 8 leaves, 36 lines to a page. Cent. xiv. 1. Liber numeralis Willelmi de Monte (he was a Canon of Lincoln in 1330). It treats of sacred numbers up to twelve . . . f. I 2. Table to the following tract 6\ b 3. Eiusdem liber similitudinum, with many notes and insertions . 66 4. Miscellaneous extracts . . . . . . . . 88 b This volume strongly resembles the Bury S. Edmund's books. [C. M. A. 6 1. J 83. Bk. 6. 10. PASCHASIUS RADBERTUS, ETC. Vellum, 9 x 6, ff. 83 + 1 16, two volumes in one. Cent, xi., xii. and xiii., xiv. Fly-leaves from a law MS. of cent. xiv. in two columns. I. 1. Paschasius Radbertus de corpore et sanguine Domini . . f. 1 (Capitula f. 1 b. Text f. 33.) 2. Extracts from the Decretals on the primacy of Rome . . 75 ff. 83 in double columns of 26 lines each in a strange sloping hand, on very rough vellum. AT ETON COLLEGE. 29 Collation : a 10 b 8 -i 8 k 8+1 : quires numbered i-viiii. Cent, xi., xii. II. 1. Distinctiones argute: in alphabetical order. ■1. Notes on Palma and Tabemaculum. Cent. xv. ff. 116, 40 lines to a page, quires of 8 and 6 leaves. Cent, xiii., xiv. Very like a Bury book. [C. M. A. 104.] 84. Bk. 6. 11. Alani Aequivoca ad Hermengaldum Abbatem S. Aegidii. Vellum, g\ x 6£, ff. 250 + 4 blank, quires of 10 leaves and one of 4, 34 lines to a page. Cent, xiv., xv. Fly-leaves from a Kalen- dar of cent. xiv. containing the months of Oct. and March, with names of English saints Paulinus, Wilfrid, David, Gregory 'An- glorum apostolus,' Cuthbert, Wulframnus. Binding pink vellum : has had a label on the side : the number 8A remains ; also the title Alanus I A. Perhaps from Reading. [C. M. A. 12.] 85. Bk. 6. 12. Leonis Baptistae Alberti (Mantuani) Breue Com- pendium de componenda statua. Paper, io\ x y\, ff. 1 1 + 8 blank (a 8 b 6 , and 5 fly-leaves of another paper): vellum wrapper. Cent. xvi. (1544). Has a scale and two diagrams. Given by Wotton (?). [C. M. A. 5.] 86. Bk. 6. 13. Cyrilli Alexandrini Lexicon Graece. Paper, iof x "j\, not paged. Cent. xvii. (1679). A transcript from a MS. 'quinti abhinc saeculi' belonging to Jo. Ciampini at Rome. Inc. aacrdfirjv. Expl. a>. Given by Edward Betham, Fellow, in 1775. [C. M. A. vac.] Cistellaria. Epidicus. Aulularia. Sedigiti uersus (cent. xvi.). 30 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 87. Bk. 6. 14. Plauti Comoediae octo. Vellum, iox6§, ff. 112 + 6 blank, quires of 10 leaves, the signatures (catchwords) marked by grotesques and ornaments; written in Italy. Cent. xv. i. Epigramma Plauti. 6. Cassina. ■l. Amphitruo. 3. Asinaria. 4. Captiui. 5. Curculio (Gurgulio). Each play has a good initial in white and gold. On the fly- leaf is : 'Emptus patauij dum studerem leg. 1456 idibus Ianuariis' in Bernardo Bembo's hand. On f. lb the words Codex bernardi bembi have been partially erased. No doubt given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 116.] 88. Bk. 6. 15. M. T. Ciceronis Aratea cum Scholiis. Paper, 9J x 6\, ff. 43 + 8 blank (i 4 a 4 b 10 -e 10 f 3 ), in a fine Italian hand. Cent, xv., xvi. Fragmentum Arati cum a < rgu > mento nouiter repertum in Sicilia. 1. Praefatio : Aratus quidem fuit athinodori patris filius . . f. i ■1. Prolegomena : Hie est stellarum ordo utrorunque eirculorum . iv 3. M. T. Ciceronis Aratea, with marginal comment ... v 4. Comment in prose : Solem per se ipsum ..... xxvii Ends abruptly on f. xlix....siquis. Plura deficiunt que propter uetustatem et quinternionum fractionem colligi nequaquam potue- runt. No doubt from Wotton. [C. M. A. 120.J AT ETON COLLEGE. 3 1 89. Bk. 6. 1 6. L. Annaei Senecae opera. Vellum, io x 6§, ff. 187, double columns. Cent. xiii. Misbound. The collation is as follows : v 13 vi 12 vii 12+1 xvii 8 xviii 12 xix 12 xx 2 viii 2 ix 12 -xv 12 xvi 18 xx 2+1 xxi 2+1 [xxii 6 ]. 1. Seneca de beneficiis : inc. (1. iv.)...cius amamur. Tot arbusta non uno modo frugifera. Quires v-vii .... f. r 2. Naturales quaestiones. Quires xvii, xviii .... 38 3. De dementia. Quire xix ....... 58 4. Epistolae Pauli et Senecae, with preface from Jerome. Quire xx (?) 70 5. Epitaphium Senecae : 6 lines 71 £ 6. Epistolae ad Lucilium, with Capitula prefixed. Quires viii-xvi 72 7. De copia uerborum ad Paulum. Quire xx . . . . 176 8. De casibus fortuitis. Quire xxi ...... 179 9. Excerpta de epistolis Senecae. Primum argumentum composite mentis... (oy>/.) quod per neglegentiam fit. . . . 182 Ff. 182-187 are i n another hand. [C. M. A. 114.] 90. Bk. 6. 17. M. T. ClCERONIS, ETC., QUAEDAM. Vellum, 9 x 5|-, ff. 123, 42 lines to the page. Quires of 8 leaves. Very rotten with damp. Cent. xiii. Original binding of white skin over boards now replaced by a new morocco binding. Collation : a 8 b 8 (wants 4) c 6 (wants 4, 5, 6) d 8 e 8 f 8 g 8 (wants 8) h 8 i 6 k 8 (wants 1, 6, 7, 8) l 8 m 8 (wants 8 blank) n 8 o 8 (wants 4, 5) p 8 q 8 r 8 (wants 4,' 5, 6). M. T. Ciceronis Paradoxa f. 1 Laelius ......... 5 Cato Maior. Expl. ...horis impendente timeris quis (c. 67) 12 b De Officiis 19 Epitaphium Ciceronis per xii sapientes . . . 48 b Supra Tullium de amicitia 49 de senectute. de paradoxis. de officiis. Ciceronis Timaeus Platonis. Expl. admonitione perspicio ■ . 50 Two blank leaves with late scribblings 62 Marcianus Capella de nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ... 64 Inc. (1. i. p. 4 ed. Grotius) crepitucula. tinnitusque — ipsum tonant. m (P- 17)- 32 CATALOGUE OF MSS. Liber ii. Expl. plenitudo (p. 26). Followed by Liber viii. Astrologia Marciani, complete. Macrobius de Soranio Scipionis, with diagrams . . . . f- 83 Liber ii. Expl. sonorum de re acumen emittit. Many medical receipts of cent. xvii. are scribbled on the mar- gins. On f. 1 is: Iste liber est de communitate...ha«£rford...hug' de thoresby. It subsequently belonged to W. Bathon. (Laud), and was given to the College by Thos. Richardson, Fellow, in 1722. [C. M. A. vac.] 91. Bk. 6. 18. P. OVIDII NASONIS OPERA. Vellum, iof x 7§, ff. 169, double columns of 49 lines each. Rubricated initials. Cent, xiii., xiv. Collation: F-vi (numbered vii) 12 a 12 b 12 c 12 -e 12 viii 12 ix 12 (x) 2 wanting the last leaf blank. Heroides . . . . . . . . . . . {. 1 a Amores ........... j8 a De arte amandi .......... 30 b Remedia amoris .......... 42 b Nux 46 b De sompnio siue Rosa 47 {, De pulice 4 8u De Cuculo 4 8 a Fasti (with Kalendar on f. 72) 40 a Metamorphoses .......... 73 a Tristia I35 a Epistolae ex Ponto 1 ■; 3 a De mirabilibus mundi i6oa On f. 1 is ' liber vii mus - Liber collegii beate Marie prope Winton ex liberalitatc.propicietur deus Amen.' On the fly-leaf: 1695 Liber collegii Regalis Beatae Mariae de Eton ex dono Domini... (sic) Moyle. Also, Barth. van Wouw ; and Iohannes Pabage his booke ex dono patrai Willelmi Pabage Maii die 7. 1602. The order of owners is most likely : Winchester, Pabage, van Wouw, Moyle. See Shuckburgh's Heroides of Ovid. [C. M. A. vac] AT ETON COLLEGE. 33 92 to 95. Bl. 1. i, 2) 3, 4. Paper, 12^ x 13^. Sec. xvi. (1541). A work in four volumes, which must be described separately. The history of the whole set appears from the following notices in the binding : " This, with the three following volumes, was given me by the Right Hon bIe the Lord Viscount Palmerston ' Et vero et magno dignum est hoc munus amico ' [signed] R. Ellys." After his death they were returned to Lord Palmerston by the then Lady Ellys, relict of Sir Richard Ellys ; and by him pre- sented to the College in 1750 (Apr. 26), as we learn from a printed label pasted in each volume. Hanc Insignium Gentilitiorum et Imaginum seriem admirandam, a primis usque temporibus deductam, Artis Graphicae coloribus pulcherrime illuminatam, et quatuor voluminibus descriptam, Antiquitatum Historicarum Monumentum pretiosum, Henricus Temple Vicecomes de Palmerston In Schola Etonensi aliquando Discipulus, et Coll. Regal. Cantab. Soc. Commensalis pro singulari erga Etonenses suos Benevolentia D.D. Apr. 26 MDCCL. On the fly-leaf are two distichs by Maittaire : Debuit et voluit sic pingi Roma triumphans Dignus Romano est hie color imperio. M. Maittaire. Quantum Roma inter cunctas caput extulit urbes Tantum hoc pre cunctis grande refulget opus. Id. Vol. I. is Joannis Tirolli Antiquitates, ff. 220. The author was Respublice Augustane aedificiorum publicorum prefectus. Contents of Vol. I. 1 . Index. 2. Verso of last leaf of index. Sententia Heroaldi Joannes Tirollus, etc. He is represented standing on a pedestal, with gold mace and tabard, and laurel wreath ; his arm raised ; his scutcheon by him. 3. Next page, the Dedication to Henry VIII., with the arms of England supported by two griffins, two roses, crown, and garter. Verso. Dedication continued. The work was done at the expense of Jacobus Horproth, Reipublicae Augustanae consul, etc., whose scutcheon is appended. 4. f. 1. In capitals. ' Omnis caro corrupit viam suam ideo Dei ira exarsit et disperdit omnem carnem diluvio, pium vero Noe cum animabus octo tantum servavit ut in Gene: viii. et ix. cap. scribitur...Ordine regnainde ab Noe ad Romanum usque invenies, ad Romulum et Remum, deinde ad senatum Romanum vsque, deinde a primo Impera- tore Julio ad Carolum usque V. omnia hec ordine conscripta in graciam invictissimi E. MSS. 3 34 CATALOGUE OF MSS. Imperatoris Caroli V. omniumque imperatorum sibi succedencium ■ Deo ■ O. M. gloria et honor in perpetuum. Amen.' f. i b, i a. The same, in German rhyme. f. 3 a. Archa Noe. A full-page drawing, coloured, and heightened with gold. The ark in the midst. Noah at the window. In the pediment of the ark is a carving of God the Father. f. 4 a. Sem and his descendants building. A full-page painting. f. 5 a. Cham. ) i. 1a . Japhet.| Slmllar P amtln S S - f. 8 a. Nemroth and the tower of Babel. 8 b. The shield of Assur. 9 a. Half-length. Belus, with shield, and a devil on a pillar by him. 9 b. Ninus. 10 a. Ninius about to stab Semiramis. Other pictures of Assyrian kings. 130. Tartars. Full-page. Bleeding heads are brought to a chief, and wine is poured into one of them. 15 a. Half-length. Soly man with dart. 16 b. A battle with amazons. 19 £. Prester John seated on a throne with 12 lions on the steps. Courtiers and kings round him. Subject monarchs are seen in the landscape, throned, in various parts. 24 a. A Soldan using a king as his horse-block. After f. 30 are 2 ff., not numbered, with full-length pictures of the Emperor of the East, and of the West. 3 1 b. A Herald. 32 b. In capitals. Introduction to the Roman Empire. ff. 34-6 are gone. No doubt they contained the glory of Romulus and Remus. ff. 37 sqq. have full-length portraits of the Roman kings, beginning with Numa. Each has some distinguishing mark by him on the pedestal on which he stands; e.g. 39 a. Ancus Martius has beside him : on L. a peasant with whip, hat, boots, etc., borrows money from a man seated at a table : on R. the same peasant, bareheaded and barelegged, sits in the stocks ; his hands and legs (below the knee) confined. The stocks are three beams with padlocks attached. This alludes to. Ancus's Laws for Debt. f. 40 is a folded sheet of vellum, and has a large painting of the Triumph of L. Tar- quinius Priscus over the Etruscans. On a standard is the date 1541. f. 42 is a similar sheet. On it is, on R. above, Lucretia attacked by Sextus. Below, her death, her funeral, and the people swearing to expel the kings. On L. is a battle — the battle of Lake Regillus. f. 43. A Herald. 44 *» 45 "■■ Across the page. The Institution of Military Tribunes. 46 a. A Praetor, judging. 47 a. Senators. 48 a. Two Consuls, in Doctors' gowns and caps. 49 a. A Proconsul, with lictors. 50 a. A Dictator in a blue high hat, with a naked sword. 51 a. Decemviri sitting. 52 a. Tribuni plebis, under a tree. 53 a. Censors at their work. AT ETON COLLEGE. 35 54 a. Three Military Tribunes under an umbrella-like canopy. 55 a. Praefecti Annonae in a Rathhaus painted outside with hunting-scenes. 56 a. Aediles. 57 b. Standards. 58 b. Eagles. One is crowned, and smaller birds do homage to it : one flies toward the sun, another on a rock pushes - young one out of the nest. One attacks a stag, and one a dragon in a cave. 62 a. Julius Caesar full-length, and so on with the whole series of Emperors. 93 b. A herald, pointing to 94 a sqq. The 'Thirty Tyrants,' two on a page. Cyriades has a large tabby cat by him. 102. The series continues with Claudius II. 141 b, Carolus Magnus. 142 b, 143 a. Census of the Peers of Charlemagne, etc. 155 a. Under architecture, the arms of Mecklenburg, as 'archicamera regni.' 158 b, 159 «■ The Four Dukes and Four Margraves of the Empire. 160 b, i6r a. The Four Landgraves and Four Burgraves and Four ' Comites Majores.' 212 a. On a folding sheet of vellum Fredericus M. Label, aeiov. 212 b. The double-headed eagle with the shields of all the provinces upon it. 213 a. A vellum sheet. 1. Maximilian. Label, ' Halt masz.' 2. Carolus V. (1529). Label, ' Plus ultra.' 213 b. A great eagle with shields upon it. 215. 1. The Columns of Hercules with Scrolls, 'Plus ultra.' ■1. Ferdinand (1530). 216. Two great eagles, with shields shewing the extent of the Empire under Charles V. and Ferdinand. Voll. II. III. IV. contain a further work by J. Tirollus : ' De nobilitate et ortu heroum.' Bl. 1. 2, and 4 are paged consecutively and contain together ff. 413. They consist of woodcut outlines blazoned in colours (but not all finished) of the arms of German Nobles, with text in Latin and German. Bl. 1. 3 contains ff 203 and has the painted arms of all the foreign states. 96. Bl. 1. 5. Petri Pictavensis Compendium Veteris Testamenti. Vellum, i8£ x 13!, ff. 23, sec. xiii. (cir. 1244). Incipit compendium uetens testamenti editu?« a magwtro petro pictauensi et cancellario parisiensi. It is a short Universal Chronicle extending from the Creation to 1244A.D., illustrated with medallions and genealogies. 3—2 36 CATALOGUE OF MSS. The following are the figured medallions : f. i a. A circle divided into three parts : above is Christ and two angels below Him. Below on L. the Fall, with human-headed serpent ; on R. the Expulsion. Heads of Delbora and Calmana, the sisters of Cain and Abel. I b. Enoch. A hand proceeding from clouds takes his hand. Lamech. With bow and arrow. Noe. With axe. Two plans of the ark, one with people and animals in it. f. 2 is gone. f. 3 a (iiij). Heads of Booz, Ruth, and some of the Judges. 3 b. Saul seated as king. 4 a. Unction of David. Salomon holding the temple. 4 b. Some heads of kings. 5 a. Heads of kings. Athalia as a man. 5 b. Manasses holding a saw (with which he put Isaiah to death). 7 a. The rapture of Abacuc (see 'Bel and the Dragon') with reapers. Darius throned full-face ; a larger drawing. 7 b. Judith beheading Holofemes. A plan of Jerusalem. 8 a. Larger drawing. Esther and Mardocheus talk to Aman. L. Mardocheus mounted. R. Aman hanging to a tree. 8 b. Alexander seated full-face, with sword. 9 a. Judas Machabeus on horseback. Pompeius seated. 9 b. Julius Caesar as king. Joseph (the carpenter) seated, f. io cut out. f. io(ii)«. Heads of Emperors and Popes. Otho stabs himself. Vespasianus holds a head on a sword. Tytus gives a ring to a man. io*. Pope S. Alexander with aspergillum and bucket (as having instituted holy water). 5. Ignatius, a seraph singing above him ; in allusion to the vision which led to the practice of antiphonal singing in churches. I I a. Galenus holding a wide-mouthed vessel. 12 a. S. Paulus Heremita with crutch. 12 b. Diocletianus, a devil at his ear (as persecutor). S. Helena seated. S. Nicholaus as Bishop : full-length, f. 15 a. Justinianus looks at his right hand. 15 b. S. Medardus, the medallion cut out. 16 b. Mahumet, a devil coming out of his mouth. 19 a. S. Alphege, with head bleeding, and mitre falling off. 20 a. Robertus curta area in mail. 20 b. Bemardus abbas, half-length, with pastoral staff. AT ETON COLLEGE. 37 21 a. Martyrdom of S. Thomas of Canterbury. Tlie four knights; one wounds Grim's arm.. Richard I. in mail. 21 d. John... A Bishop bleeding. S. Dominic, full length, with staff and wallet. 22 a. S. Francis preaching to three birds ; fraier iohannes sits and listens. On f. 7 a is the name ' Elizabeth Flobern ' in a hand of sec. xvii. [C. M. A. vac] 97. Bl. 1. 6. Decreta Romanorum Pontificum, etc. Vellum, 17 x I2§, ff. 370, in double columns of 44 lines each. Cent. xii. The hand is very fine, possibly French. Collation : in quires of 8 leaves, numbered i-xlvi, the xlviith is of 4 leaves, 1-3 blank, the 4th attached to the cover. Contents : Index (of cent, xv.) f. i Nomina xi Regionum ......... ii Praefatio Isidori .......... 1 Aurelii Carthaginensis Episcopi Epistola ad Damasum ... 2 b Damasi rescriptum 2 b Decreta Romanorum Pontificum (from Clement to Nicholas I.) 7 b Concilia (from Nicaenum to Hispalense secundum) . . . 234 The title, in capitals, is magnificent, and the initials, usually in red on green, very bold. There are marginal notes of cent. xv. The fly-leaves are from a Concordance of cent. xv. On the first page is a title of cent, xv.: Liber Decretorum Roman. Pontif. et incipit in 2 fo. tes viij. A chain-mark is visible on the top R. corner of the first leaves : there is also a rust-mark in the centre, shewing that the book had formerly the strap and pin fastening. [CM. A. 47.] 38 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 98. Bl. i. 7. Will. Lyndewode Provinciale. Vellum, 16 x 11^, ff. 314 + 34, in double columns of 56 lines each. Cent. xv. English writing. In quires of ten leaves. The contents, preceded by a table, consist of Constitutions of the Archbishops of Canterbury from Stephen Langton to Henry Chichele. Then follow the Liber penitentialis and an Index : and lastly, some supplementary constitutions, ending with one of Abp Stratford in 1445. At the beginning of the text is the inscription : Assit principio sancta maria meo. The book was given by Will. Horman. On the last fly-leaf are several scribbles, e.g. Will™ Linwode super prouintialibus, and Willelmus Butler ys a knaue. On the first fly-leaf: Karulus Thornhyll Willelmus Butler Radulfus fferysig (?) decanus Radulfus Goth archidiaconus ; and five lines from an English version of Mapes's Apocalypsis Goliae, beginning Ther was ye deyn and ye offycyall W ij fayces lyke a dyall. ... [C. M. A. 90.] 99. Bl. 1. 8. Secunda pars Cathalogi Sanctorum Petri de Natalibus. Vellum, isfx 12A ff. 220 + Index, in double columns of 58 lines each. French writing (?). Cent. xiv. In quires of 8 leaves. The binding is original, of stamped leather over boards. The title, '2- pars Cathalogi Sanctorum,' is on the last cover, formerly protected by a slip of horn. AT ETON COLLEGE. 39 The donor's name has been erased. We can read : ex dono magistri ...ags (?) socii istius collegii. Below it is E C (or I C), which is a mark characteristic of William Wey. The contents extend from the Conversion of S. Paul (Jan. 25) to SS. Flora and Lucilla, VV. and MM. (July 29). Fol. 1 has a good initial and border of small leaf-work : a note of cent. xvii. attributes the work to Jac. de Voragine, or Petrus de Natalibus. [C. M. A. 124.] 100. Bl. 1. 9. S. Justini Martyris, etc., quaedam Graece. Paper, I2| x 9, ff. 70, 31 lines to a page. Cent. xvi. (1534). Collation : a 8 be 10 d 4 e 6 -g 6 h 10 i 10 . Contents : S. Justini Martyris Epistola ad Zenonem et Serenam . . . f. 1 Athenagorae Legatio pro Christianis ..... 8 Idem De Resurrectione ......... 34 Tatiani Oratio ad Graecos 52 There are marginal notes in Greek and Latin. The colophon at the end gives the scribe's name, Valeriano of Forli : OvaXepiavbs <£>opo\cf3iev<; 6 'AA,/3ti>oi/ Kavovi/cbs tov ttoXitov tov acoTrjpo'; ravrrjv eypaifre (SLfiKov 1 5 34- The MS. has been investigated by Gebhardt and Harnack. Their results may be seen in Texte ti. Untersuchungen, I. pp. 4-6, 68, etc. All MSS. of the apologetic works of Justin, Athenagoras and Tatian go back to the Parisian MS. 451, written by Baanes for Arethas of Caesarea (A.D. 914). This Eton MS. is a copy of one at Bologna (plut. xxii.). The scribe is not unknown. He is mentioned by Gardthausen (Griech- ische Paldographie, p. 341) and Graux {Essai sur les origines du fond grec de VEscurial, pp. 189, 267). 4Q CATALOGUE OF MSS. This MS. was used by William Worth for his edition of Tatian, Oxford, 1700, and Dechair's Athenagoras, 1706: it was collated twice for Otto, the second time by Dr Gwynne. It was no doubt given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 88.] 101. Bl. 1. 10. SS. AUGUSTINI ET GREGORII QUAEDAM. Vellum, 14! x 1 of, ff. 181 + 157, two volumes in one. Cent. xiv. and xv. Binding H.v. Part I. S. Augustini in Ioannem tractatus cxxiv. Cent. xv. : in double columns of 49 lines each. The first page is bordered. Collation: i 8 -22 8 23 4 (+ 1) : 181 leaves. Part II. S. Gregorii Magni Homiliae xl. Homiliae in Ezechielem. De Cura Pastorali (' Pastoralia '). Dialogorum libri iv. Of cent. xiv. Collation : i 1 2 12 -i3 12 14"= 157 leaves. The following note applies to Part II. of this book only : Istum librum ego Magister Petrus hopton emi ab executore petri Bylton pro Ivj s viij di a d ni m° cccc lv°. [C. M. A. 17.] 102. Bl. 2 . 1. NIC. GORRANUS SUPER LUCAM. Vellum, 15J x \q\, ff. 255, 52 lines to a page. Cent. xv. (1450). Flemish writing (?), not beautiful. There is a good initial at the beginning. Binding H.v. : in quires of eight leaves. Contents : 1. Nicholaus Gorranus (t 1295) de ordine predicatorum super Lucam. 2. Index reruin in double columns. AT ETON COLLEGE. 4 1 Colophon : Explicit opus super euangelium Luce per egregium doctorem mag. Nich. Gorram ordinis predicatorum. Scriptum anno 1450. Sit propter scripta semper trinitas benedicta Hunc que letificet qui mihi bona prebet. A monogram follows, W and G being the principal letters, and below it are the words ' per cistolam.' [C. M. A. 62.] 103. Bl. 2. 2. NIC. GORRANUS SUPER EPISTOLAS. Vellum, 14J x 10J, ff. 134, in double columns of 45 lines each. Cent. xv. Dutch writing (?) : a fine hand. Collation : a 8 -r 8 (7, 8 cancelled). Contents : Nic. Gorranus super i. ii. Epist. ad Timotheum. ,, Epist. ad Titum. „ ,, Philemonem. ,, „ Hebreos. Fol. i is bordered, and has medallions at the corners, two of Paschal Lambs and two of Eagles. The MS. belonged to S. Alban's Abbey. At the end this notice has been added : Hunc librum ad usum conventus monasterii Sci Albani assignavit venerabilis pater dominus Johannes Whethamstede olim abbas monasterii antedicti, vinculoque anathe- matis innodavit illos omnes qui aut titulum illius delere curaverint aut ad usus applicare presumpserint alienos. There is a chain-mark at the right lower corner of the front cover. [C. M. A. 64.J 104. Bl. 2. 3. Hugo de Vienna super xi Epistolas Pauli. Vellum, 1 Si x io, ff. 279. Cent. xv. English writing. Binding H.V.; fly-leaves from Concordance. 42 CATALOGUE OF MSS. Collation: a 5 (wants i) b 8 -z 8 aa 8 -mm 8 nn 2 . Contents : Hugo de Vienna super Epistolas Pauli (viz. Gal., Eph., Phil., Col., i. ii. Thess., i. ii. Tim., Tit., Philem., Hebr.). At the beginning of each Epistle is a fine initial and partial border : at the beginning of Galatians is a larger border and two good initials. [C. M. A. 82.J 105. Bl. 2. 4. S. AUGUSTINI EPISTOLAE, ETC. Vellum, I4f x 10J, ff. 179, in double columns of 40 lines each. Cent, xii., xiii. The writing and initials are good. There is a chain-mark at right of front cover, at bottom. Collation : a 4 (4 cancelled) i 8 -xxii 8 . Contents : Table f . i b S. Augustini Epistolae I Sermones duo (i) de uita et moribus clericorum . . 172 (ii) excusatorius pro clericis . . . 174 Adnotatio ad Ep. liv . . . . . . . . . 176 On the fly-leaf are these entries : Liber mag. Thome Mareys Rectoris de Stormouth in comitatu Kantie emptus de executoribus Thome Chycheley archidiaconi Cantuariensis anno d ni 1468 vltimo die mensis Aprilis. Liber mag. Joh. Mocer vicarii de tenterden emptus cantuarie ab executoribus mag. Thome maris et a mag. Simone hogges ofSciali pro 33 s 4 di. [CM. A. 16.] 106. Bl. 2. 5. S. Augustini Sermones, etc Vellum, 1 51 x \\\, ff. 139, in double columns of 47 lines each. Cent, xi., xii. and xv. Well written, with some good initials. Binding H.v. : fly-leaves from Concordance. Chain-mark lower right corner, in front. AT ETON COLLEGE. 43 Collation: 2? b 4 (1, 2 cancelled) i 8 -viii 8 1| ix 8 -xiv 8 xv 8 (6 cancelled) xvi 8 xvii 4 (4 cancelled) c 6 (6 cancelled). Contents : S. Augustini Regula f. ; S. Hieronymi Sermo de omnipotentia iii Tabula ............ t S. Augustini Sermones de uerbis domini. de uerbis apostoli. de actis apostolorum. super epistolas canonicas. duo pro defunctis. S. Augustini Vita. Index of cent. xv. The Sermon of S. Jerome is on two inserted leaves of cent. xv. of smaller size after f. ii. On f. 1 a is : Vnde supperbimus, quid ego, quid tu, nisi fimus primus homo limus, sortem mutare nequimus. Before the life of S. Augustine : Est labor est finis requies menti data binis Indita mandatis capiatur sumite gratis. At the end of quire viii, about one-third of a column is left blank, but the text has no gap. The MS. is 'donum M. Johannis mover': probably the Jo- hannes Mocer of no. 105. [G. M. A. 19.J 107. Bl. 2. 6. S. AUGUSTINUS DE ClUITATE DEI. Vellum, iSf x iof, ff. 227, in double columns of 46 lines each. Cent, xiii., in a good hand. The fly-leaves from a MS. of cent. xv. Binding, stamped leather, with four-fold diagonal lines intersecting: chain-mark at right lower corner in front. Collation : i 10 -xx 10 xxi 12 xxii 12 xxiii 4 (4 attached to cover). Contents : Capitula f. i Prologus ........... v b S. Augustinus de Ciuitate Dei ....... vi 44 CATALOGUE OF MSS. On f. vi is an initial, with gold ground, representing S. Au- gustine vested as a Bishop, writing at a desk: there are good decorative initials throughout. [C. M. A. 1 8.] 108. Bl. 2. 7. S. AUGUSTINI ET NIC. DE LYRA QUAEDAM. Vellum, 13^x9, ff. in + 108, two volumes bound in one. Cent. xiv. and xv. (1403). Binding and chain-mark as the last: fly-leaves from a MS. of cent. xv. (law). Contents : I. S. Augustinus de Trinitate. Cent. xiv. In double columns of 40 lines each : the hand has an Italian look, but is most likely English: floriated initials. Fol. 1 is mutilated. Collation: i 12 -o, 12 io 4 (i cancelled). II. 1. Tabula in Nic. de Lyra. Cent. xv. In double columns of 47 lines each: fol. 1 is bordered: the hand gets larger towards the end. Collation: a 12 b 8 -g 8 h 6 (6 cancelled) i 10 k 12 (12 cancelled) l 10 (10 cancelled) m 12 n* (4 cancelled) o 2 . Colophon : Explicit tabula super doctore de lyra compilata et scripta per fratrem Willelmum Morton de sacro ordine fratrum minorum in conuentu Couentrey anno domini m° cccc m0 tercio. t. Questiones Lyrae super biblia. Cent. xv. ff. 2. At the end is this note : Nota quod iste doctor de lira fecit tria quodlibeta : primum est contra quendam iudeum ex verbis euangelij contra Christum nequiter arguentem : 2 m quodlibetum est contra iudeos de aduentis messie et 3 m est de visione beata : et ista tria quodlibeta habentur in quodam libro in collegio lincoln. oxon. et liber erat datus per doctorem Gasthon (i.e. Gascoigne) predicto collegio ut claret in eodem libro ibid. The MS. alluded to is apparently no longer at Lincoln College. [CM. A. i S .] AT ETON COLLEGE 45 109. Bl. 2. 8. RUFFINI HlSTORIA ECCLESIASTICA, ETC. Vellum, 15^ x n£, ff. 186, in double columns. Cent. xiii. Binding H.v. : chain-mark lower R. front. Collation : i 8 -x 8 || xi 8 -xiii 8 | xiiii 8 -xxiii 8 xxiiii 2 . Contents : 1. Ruffini Aquileiensis Historiae Ecclesiasticae libri xi. . . f. 1 There is a fine initial to the prologue : and the initials through- out are coloured. 2. Vita B. Wulurici anachorete Haselbergie (t n 54) per ven. Joh. priorem de Forda ad dom. Barthol. Exoniensem Episcopum f. 81 In two books. There are two prologues, (a) to Bartholomew Bp of Exeter, {b) to Baldwin Abp of Canterbury. There are other MSS. of this Life, for which see Sir T Duffus Hardy's Catalogue of Materials, Vol. 11. p. 267, who does not men- tion this MS. : a xiith century MS. recently acquired by the University Library at Cambridge (Add. 3037) should also be added to the list. S. Wuluric lived at Haselbury in Herefordshire. 3. Robertus Miledunensis Episcopus Herfordensis Anglus de Sacramentis Veteris et Noui Testamenti, de incarnatione Christi et aliis ......... f. 105 In another hand. The author died in 1166. [C. M. A. 120.] 110. Bl. 2. 9. L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae. Vellum, 15! x 10J, ff. 52+4 fly-leaves, in three and two columns on a page, of 56 lines each. Cent. xiii. Italian writing. Collation : a 8 -f 8 g\ Contents : L. Annaei Senecae Hercules Furens f. 1 Thyestes 5 Thebais ........ 10 b 46 CATALOGUE OF MSS. L. Annaei Senecae Hippolytus r 3 ° Oedipus l 9 Troades 2 4 Medea 2 9 i Agamemnon 34 Octavia 3 8i Hercules Oetaeus 43 On f. 52 b, in three columns, is the tract Omne peccatum est acti, followed by four lines: 'Seneca Paulo. Tulit priscorum aetas Macedonum,' etc. The first seven pages are in triple columns : there are marginal notes in a later hand. On f. i b is a note of the births of two children (family name not given) in 1391 and 1395 : at the end are scribbles in Hebrew, and the following note : hoc senece volumen tragiedalle (tragicale ?) quod meum est emi ego (name erased) ducatis quinque cum dimidio id est ducatis V-H quo tempore uinantie [cum] in domo eximij arcium ac theologogie (sic) doctoris magistri Johannis fromosigine morabar anno natiuitatis milesimo quadragintessimo quinquagessimo, anno Jubilei. The MS. was no doubt given by Wotton. [CM. A. 113.] 111. Bl. 2. 9* (olim Bo. 2. 7). Propositiones Episcoporum Anglicanorum Graece et Latine. Paper, 13^ x 9, pp. 93. Cent, xviii. Given by Edward Wad- dington, Bishop of Chichester, 173 1. Contents : Upod^aas Ttves els tt)v tQ>v ko.6o\ikQ)v Kal 6p8oS6^wv ttjs eKKhijaias BpeTTaviKrjs Xeup&vwv fiera t^s ' Avaro'KiKijs Ka9d\iK7Js Kai ' Atto(Tto\ikt}s e*KK\7} in the same hand as 1. 4. de ebdomadibus Boetn, tt. 1 ) 5. Aristotelis Retoricorum libri iii. Cent. xiv. In another Italian hand. The first initial has two half-length figures of men teaching : one holds a book, the other a roll. In 60 CATALOGUE OF MSS. the border is a bearded man, half-length, and an angel with trumpet. In the initial to Book iii. a half-length man with a book, speaking. 6. Aristotelis Poetica. In the same hand. Colophon : Primus Aristotelis de arte poetica liber explicit Alleluia. Collation : a"-e 12 f \ ff. 64. [CM. A. 13.] 130. Bl. 4. 3. Disputatio Petri Prioris, etc. Vellum, \2\ x 8|, ff. 306. Two volumes in one. Cent. xiii. and xiv. Contents : 1. Disputatio Petri Prioris SS. Trinitatis Londini contra ludaeos ad Stephanum Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem et Cardinalem. Cent. xiv. In 3 books: in quires of 12 leaves, the last of 8, the last 4 blank : ff. 236. In double columns of 70 lines each. Leland {De Script. Brit.) and Bale {Cent. ill. 90) call this writer Petrus Canonicus, and say that the book was dedicated to Simon Langton, younger brother of Stephen, and Archdeacon of Kent. The author's date is given as 1230. ■1. S. Thomas super Dionysiumde diuinis nominibus. Cent, xiii., xiv. In another hand ; in double columns of 5 1 lines each. Collation : a 12 -e 12 f 10 , ff. 70. [C. M. A. ss.] 131. Bl. 4. 4. Cassiodorii Historia Tripartita, etc. Vellum, 12x8, ff. 225, in double columns of 49 lines each. Cent, xiv., xv. Collation: i 12 -xi 12 xii 12 (11, 12 cane.) xiii 12 -xvi 12 xvii 12 (n, 12 cane.) || a 8 b 6 (6 cane). AT ETON COLLEGE. 6l Contents : i. Magni Aur. Cassiodorii Historia Tripartita . . . . f. i There is a border to f. i. 2. Martini Gemblacensis de ordine predicatorum Chronicon . 142 The text extends to 1285 : two leaves follow, with Tables of Emperors and Popes. Three blank leaves. 3. Vegetius de re militari . . . ... 190 In another hand : in double columns. The book has on the fly-leaf: Donum M. Rogeri Lupton Juris canonici professoris et huius collegii quondam [C. M. A. 36.] prepositi. 132. Bl. 4. 5- Galeni quaedam. Vellum, io£ x 7§, ff. 282, double columns of 5 1 lines. Cent. xiii. Binding H.v. In quires of 12 and 8 leaves. Table on f. 1 b. In hoc volumine continentur libri infrascripti. 9 10 n 12 13 14 15 16. Primus 1. de criticis diebus. Item de crisi. de morbo et accidente. de interioribus. megategni. de ingenio sanitatis. de tactu pulsus. de voce et anelitu. de anathomia. de secretis. de spermate uel de xii. portis. de simplici medicina. de malicia complexionis diuerse. de iuuamentis membrorum. de elementis. de complexionibus. The initials to the books are of very good xiiith cent, style. Between nos. II and 12 are two pages of sortes, with accom- panying diagrams, neatly written, probably of cent, xiii., xiv. They may be worth transcribing. 62 CATALOGUE OF MSS. The diagrams are mainly wheels of 12 divisions, each headed with the name of a region. Below, the oracles appertaining to each are given. The names of countries seem derived from an oriental source : Babilonia, Elzeuge, Francia, Elmutecima, Elbulgor, Elta- fiac, Farisei, Romania. The last two pages of the book are covered with prayers composed of magical names, connected with the Ars notoria. [C. M. A. 46.] 133. Bl. 4. 6 [olim Bo. 6. 1]. Orosii Historia. Vellum, 1 1 x 7§, ff. 87, in double columns of 39 lines each. Cent. xiii. (early). In a fine hand with plain initials, generally red or green. Binding original : white skin over boards : formerly clasped, strap and pin fastening : chain-mark apparently on lower edge of front cover. On the back is the name (&>~JS{,(i§)JS)W1&X>J^> in Lombardic capitals of cent, xiii.-xiv. This is often found on MSS. belonging to Bury Abbey. Provenance. On f. 1 is the name W. Bathon. The MS. must have belonged to Laud when Bishop of Bath and Wells. On a paper fly-leaf is : Dedit hunc librum Collegio Etonensi Thomas Richardson S. T. P. eiusdem Collegij Socius 1722. Collation: a 8 -f 8 g 8 (wants 2) h 8 (wants 8) i 8 k 8 (2 cancelled or replaced) l 8 (wants 1) m 8 (wants 3-8): quires numbered i-xi on last leaf: catchwords later: 87 leaves. On ff. 15 b, 16, occurs some very odd spaced writing, in shorter lines than usual, and written dispersedly, as if too much space had been allowed for the matter, and another quire already begun. Contents : 1. Orosii Historia f . i a The initial to Book i. is cut out : the first leaves have suffered from damp. AT ETON COLLEGE. 6$ 2. Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem . . . f. 85 a Inc. Semper memor fui. Ends imperfectly : Detractisque cornibus et dentibus insigni onustus preda in castra [C. M. A. vac] 134. Bl. 4. 7. Roberti Crikeladensis Prioris Oxoniensis EXCERPTA ex Plinii Historia Naturali. Vellum, nf x8, ff. 164, in double columns of 29 lines each. Cent, xii., xiii. In a large English hand. There is a good initial to the first Book. In quires of 8 leaves, the last of 4 ; 3 blank fly leaves. The extracts extend from Book ii.-ix. of the History, and are headed by an extract from Tranquillus (= Suetonius), 'in catalogo uirorum illustrium de Plinio.' Leland (p. 234) calls this writer Robertus Cornutus, and assigns his date to the reigns of Richard I. and John. [C. M. A. 57.] 135. Bl. 4. 8. L. Annaei Senecae Epistolae. Vellum, 1 if x 7f, ff. 167, 26 lines to a page. Cent. xii. The writing is large, probably Italian. Collation: a 2 (1 cancelled) i 8 -xx 8 xxi 8 (8 cancelled). The title page (f. 1 b) is framed in black, with interesting orna- ments : the title is written in red and green : In hoc volumine continentur Epistole Senece ad Lucilium numero octoginta novem. Prefixed are : («) A notice from Hieronymus in Catalogo virorum illustrium. (b) Epistolae Senecae et Pauli. (c) Epitaphium Senecae. On the last leaf, in a smaller hand, are : Versus de rerum mutabilitate. Nuper eram locuplex, etc. 64 CATALOGUE OF MSS. On the fly-leaves are notes in an Italian hand of cent, xv., probably Bernardo Bembo's; one is dated 1488. xxii Octobris Ro(mae) opitulante altissimo. Another relates to Dante's arms, which are sketched, and the tinctures written on the shield : party per pale rosso and azzurro a fess biancho, Wafered into the book is the following letter : Marce, heri in uisitatione Reverendissimi domini Cardinalis Legati fui inuitatus ab eo ut hodie secum accedam ad sanctum Nicolaum de littore ubi est diem hunc acturus. accedam igitur. si forte necesse fuerit expedire litteras Imperatoris cape eas a dominico nostra Bellono et signa atque domino Alexandra da. Item litteras regis Francorum habes tu. Ducis Burgundie habet ille adolescens Bartholomew, regis Boemie habet Sebastianus. Si ita opus sit, etiam ipsas signa et expedi, ne uideamur forte nostra munia neglexisse. Vale, xxiij Augusti 1463 venetie Nicol. Sagundinus pater tuus. The MS. must have come from Wotton. [C. M. A. 112.] 136. Bl. 4. 9. L. Annaei Senecae Epistolae Italice. Vellum, \2\ x 9, ff. 124, in double columns of 45 lines each. Cent. xv. Written in Italy. There are beautiful borders to the Table of Contents and to the first page of the text. In the initial of the former is a head. Collation : a 8 -o 8 p 12 . The Epistles are followed by : (a) Jerome's notice of Seneca. (b) The Letters of Paul and Seneca. Colophon : Scritto per me lorenzo di stefano sambarducci pplo (? preso) san filicie impiazza- deo gratia. Doubtless given by Wotton. [CM. A. in.] AT ETON COLLEGE. 65 137. Bl. 4. 10. VlTRUVII DE ARCHITECTURA LlBRI X. Vellum, I2jx8£, ff. 64, 51 lines to a page. Cent, xiv., xv. Written in Italy. The initial to Book i. has a half-length figure of Vitruvius, in cap, holding an adze and a hatchet. That to Book ii. has a half-length of Hercules, bearded, holding club and lion's skin. Collation : a 10 b 8 c 10 -f 10 g 8 (5, 6 cancelled, 7, 8 blank). On the fly-leaves are the following notes : (1) Ludouici Rigii Comarii. Obiit dignus uir x° Octobris 1492. N. 76. Vetruvio de architetura. (2) Codex patricii Veneti (erasure : probably Bernardi Bemlri) olim D. Jac. Lingusci. (3) Vetruuius Nobilis Archytectus exactissimi uir ingenii. Olim ex biblioteca claris- simi Mathematici Jacobi Langusci Veneti. Post eius casum patauij sub astatione multis cum aliis in nostratium cytum 1 deductus est. Anno saluatoris M. cccc. liii . Tandem multiplici amicorum indulctu prebito quod raritas tunc librorum effecerat, Veluti transfuga ■ xx • ferme annos nobis delituit nescio ne obscurus in ulua ut poeta diceret. Demum hodie Paulus Cornelius Ludouici Alius quem de Arrigio dictitant, id certior factus ex nostratibus hunc fuisse nobilem Archytectum, bonam mentem indutus Veteri domino destinandum curauit. Quod bono omine xvi Junij 1493 factum est. Quo die opportune sermo est diuinus in missarum solenniis quanti habenda sit deperditorum recuperatio, et quod celebri gaudio exilarandum sit mentibus Angelorum cum redemptio est deper- ditarum animarum insperato facta, his qui iacturam optatissimarum quidem et usu suauissimarum magni pensandum esse statuerunt. Juxta illud petrarce uersum : che piu gloria e nel regno degli ellecti Dun spirito converso et piu si stima Che de nouanta noue altri perfecti. Idibus Nouembribus Bernardi Bembi doctoris manus. No doubt from Wotton. [C. M. A. 125.] 138. Bl. 4. 11. IUVENALIS ET PERSII SATIRAE : CODEX IMPRESSUS. Paper, 11 x j\. Printed at Milan by Phil. Lauanius, 1476. The initials are finely painted, and there are many marginal notes in a most exquisite small Italian hand. The fly-leaves are from a Missal of cent. xiv. On one at the beginning is a note, in Bernardo Bembo's hand, as I think : 1 ? cyclum in the sense of 'book-case.' E. MSS. 5 66 CATALOGUE OF MSS. Inceptus die...Marcij 1481, incepi cum domino episcopo Bellunensi domino Bernardo Rubeo die 26 Decembris i486, cuius magister domus eram. j> ev mus i n Christo pater Dominus Episcopus Belunensis Dominus Bernardus Rubeus assumpsit Rotum in Ciuitate Venetia in S. Georgio maiore die undecima mensis Septem- bris 1487 hora : 19 : Another erased note follows. On the last fly-leaf was a long note, now erased, which ends : ex pleni co« supra scripto D. Ber. Rubeo Episc. Bellunensi die 16 Octobr. 1489. The name Jo. Delphini is on the lower margin of f. i. The book was no doubt given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 87.] 139. Bl. 4. 12. HOMERI ILIADIS LlBRI V. GRAECE. Vellum, 12 x 8f, ff. ?6, text surrounded by scholia. Cent. xiii. (?) In a very fine hand: the title is in gold. The MS. is much stained in parts. Collation : a B -6 s t 8 (5-8 cancelled). The text ends with v. 84 : ws ol lieu Troviovro Kara Kparcfyqv vcrfj.lv'qp. No doubt from Wotton. [C. M. A. 78.] 140. Bl. 4. 13. Cl. Ptolemaei Cosmographia Latine. Vellum, 1 iJj x % ff. 138, 38 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Written in Italy, in a beautiful hand. Collation : a 10 b" c 8 d^g 10 h 8 P-n 10 o" (+ a sheet inserted between 9 and 10). Fol. 1 has a miniature in a gold frame extending across the page. On the L. a crowned and turbaned king sits, facing R., on a throne of metal. He bends forward to receive a green book from Ptolemy, who, in purple, bearded and hooded, kneels, holding in AT ETON COLLEGE. 67 his L. hand a circular planisphere on a stand : the face of it is divided into six equal parts by three diameters : two of these parts, on L., contain the numbers 7 and 14 ; the two opposite divisions inscribed 6 and 9 : on JZ. are three men, turbaned, and a camel : a landscape behind. The page is bordered : in the lower margin two genii hold a bay wreath enclosing a wheel party per fess gules and argent, counterchanged. Each of the eight books has a good initial and partial border. The colophon is simply LAVS DEO. Doubtless given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 107.] 141. Bl. 4. 14. Strabonis Geographicorum Libri x. Graece. Paper, \\\ x 8, ff. 300, 28 lines to a page. Cent. xv. (1430 ?). Binding, calf of cent, xviii. No doubt given by Sir Henry Wotton. Collation: a w (wants 1 blank) /3 w -v w & ^ "* 10 t/3 10 iy e t S 6 < +6 *> ie" tr M it, 10 iy w 16 10 k™ Ka V2+2 {ica has two leaves inserted between 10 and 12 [end of Book vii.]) k^-ks- 1 " k^" (9 cancelled) k V * k6 w X 10 Xa 10 (2 cancelled) ; 300 leaves. The quires are marked on upper R. corner of first leaf, and lower margin of last leaf. Contents : Capitula, with a good ornament, and ArAGHI TTXHI at the top off. r. Book i. Headed in_ capitals, ArA0HI TTXHI STPABfiNOS rEfirPA$IKGN ■ A f. 3 The first page in a larger hand, only 10 lines. Book ii. .... ...... 43 b Book iii. iiroKela&ui St; cr0cu/)oei5T)s 7) yrj (11. v. p. 177 Tauchnitz). 72 The hand changes after f. 81 for two leaves, of which the first has 39 lines to the page, the second 29 and 22 lines, on the recto and verso. 5—2 68 CATALOGUE OF MSS. The writing is by the original scribe, and the marginal notes do not differ from those elsewhere in the book, f. 8 1 ends : elairteovai. rolvvv rbv rari arTJXas iropdpbv iv SefiJ fih ianv tj \i/3i5?; (p. 201). At the bottom, in red : »J< &knrev Airb rod irpuroTtiTrov T^rpadcv Kal 6 ei/pfowv dpaTXTjpojffdrw. The two supply-leaves contain the beginning of Book iii. (with- out title), aTToSeSaiKoo-t, & r)/uv (p. 2 1 8, ed. Tauch.), to the words 'AvdyKTj Be Bia, ifKetovav (p. 223). Book iv. 108 On f. 109 b, no a, the hand enlarges, as on the supply-leaves above. So on wzb, 113, 116, wy a. On f. 112 b is the note eKbirev e/c tov irpcoTOTiiTrov 7r?/s nepLoSelas. Green. "&KTr\a6,p.t]v Tr/i/de tt\v /3i|8\oc £k Bufcuriou ypa.cpeioa.11 irapa, ' AyaWiavov Sianovov UpoiAV-fiiiovos cplXov. The verso is blank. At the beginning is a parchment leaf, with a note of cent, xvii.: Strabo. Continentur in hoc volumine r tantummodo libri. There are many marginal notes in pink, blue, green, yellow, purple and black ink. Many of those in pink are by the original scribe Agallianos. Those in blue, green, purple and yellow are mostly by (or from) Cyriacus of Ancona : others in pink, green and black are in a later and more pointed hand. The contents of these scholia are, as far as I have examined them, not important, save a few of those written by Cyriacus. Of these I append all that relate to inscriptions : some have been rather inaccurately printed in the Oxford Strabo (1807). 1. f. 149 £. (tr: f. 10 b), on Book V. iv. p. 390, Tauch. On Ancona : (C. I. L. IX. 5894). ws 8£ tiXhoi fpaalv r\v irpbs rrj 7r6Xet ravrr] rrjs a.rppoolr'qs lepov' dto koX 6 'lovovevaXys &s tGiv Xarlvajv aarvpuv ttoltjttjs 0POPON • TTPOEAE|KTOY. Kol vwl ok rair-qv iXaTTU/J-hriv irvKwv irb'Ki.v §ehv\ov KaXoveriv. j CATALOGUE OF MSS. 3. f. 223 « («ry: f. 8fl), VIII. iv. (1. c. p. 182). (C. I. G. 1297.) iyi, 51 KvpLMbs els m m v nwqviav &k P (,tvo\iv t6S' tiriypwn* els \Wov etpov. ETTI ■ IEPEOI KPEI|*ONIOY • ETOYS • | PNZ | ArQNOOETHS | TIB • KAAYAIOS • KPIBTIAN|OY • YIOI ■ APIITOMENHI. 4. f. 2245 (icy: f. gb), VIII. v. p. 186. On Taenarum : (C. I. G. 1393). H ■ nOAIC|H • TAINAPIGJN | TIBEPION KAAYAI|ON • XAPTGJ- NA|TON • APICTON TTO|AEITHN • COPOCY|NHCTeKAI • THC • ne| sic PITHN • ArOPANO|MIAN • ANYnEBA|HTOY • 4>IAOT6IMIAC | EINE- KEN |TH.B~^. 5. f. 226 a («S: f. 1 a), VIII. vi. p. 190. (C. I. G. 1389.) On Eurycles : Kal ijixeU eis TO.wa.piov ire pi airov vloO Xdnuvos ride iiriypap.p.a elipov (sic). TO • KOINON • TON EAEYGEjPOAAKQNQN • TAION | IOYAION • AAKQNA ■ EYPYKAEOYZ • YION ■ | TON • IAION ■ EYEPrETHNtf | AAMAPMENIAAS | ITPATHTON | ETTEMEAHOHTJs Kopvv ihioav dvedrjicev) IEPITEYOYZHZ | TYNAIKOS AYTOY • TTAPIIIAZ • THI • ONAIIMBPOTOY $. 9. f. 258 b(ic%: f. 3 b), IX. p. 280. On Delphi: (C. I. G. 1644). ■j]jj.€is 5£ 4v AeX^oiS Tra.payev6fj.evoi, els epenrlav rov iepov irkevpav rode apx<&ov eTrLypafJLfia edpov. 0EOIZ Eni APIZTATOPA • APXONTOZ EN AEAOIZ • TTYAAIAZ • HPI- NHZ • IEPOMNHMONOYNTQN AITQAQN • nOAEMAPXOY AAEEAMENOY • AAMQ- NOZ. 10. f. 280 b (k6: f. 8 b), X. ii. p. 339. On LTaXet? in Cephallenia : (C. I. G. 346). irepl Se ttjs ■wake'wv iroKeois els ddrjvas roSe e'wtypap.p.a evpov. AYTOKPATOPA KAIZAPA TPAIA- NON HAAPIANON - ZEBAZTON£ OAYMniON TTOAIZ nAAEQN THZ KEAAA- NIAZ • EAEY0EPA ■ KAI • AYTONO- MOZ • AIA ETTIMEAHTOY • APHOY IAOY ■ TOY • ArAOOKAEOZ • YIOY ■ Below this is a note in red : on ffdfxov 6 iroL7p-7]S Kal rr\v aa/j.o8paK'r]v Xtyei. Then in Cyriacus' hand : T\j • Q • S • Q • N S • Tb • *" • p (i.e. Threiciamque Samum quae nunc Samothracia fertur. Aen. vii. 208). J2 CATALOGUE OF MSS. then in red : OprfMav re ffd/xov ri vvv tra/j.o8 p&Kia \iyiTai. There is a brief description of the MS. in Falconer's Oxford Strabo (1807), I. pp. v, vi, and the text has been used throughout that edition. [C. M. A. 1 16.] 142. Bl. 4- i5- Xenophontis Cyropaedeia et Anabasis Graece. Paper, 12 x 8, ff. 178, 29 lines to a page. Cent. xiv. (?). In a fine hand. Each book has a title ornamented in red. Collation : a 10 -t 10 || a 10 -f 10 t? 8 (8 blank). Contents : Xenophontis Cyropaedeia f. 1 0Ttx 0t £a/x/3t/co£ (xxx) . . . . . . . . . 100 b Xenophontis Anabasis ... . . . 101 The iambic verses are mediaeval, and of a moral tendency : they begin : Inc. ohhh tl repirvbv ws 7rd\cu6s ris \6yos ^djv re 'Kaf/.Trpav tt)V aM]6eiav iraaav. Expl. IXdus avauaav evrvx&s avTOKp&Tiop. This MS. was used for the text of Hutchinson's edition of the Anabasis in 1735, and is frequently quoted (from Hutchin- son) e.g. by J. G. Schneider in his edition of the Anabasis (Oxford, 1 821). It was collated for Hutchinson by John Burton, Fellow of Eton. Doubtless given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 126.] 143. Bl. 4. 16. Photii Lexicon Graece. Paper, io| x 8|, ff. 166, written. Cent, xviii. Collation : A" B 8 -T 8 V 8 X 8 , the rest blank. AT ETON COLLEGE. 73 This is a transcript from the Gale MS. now at Trinity College, Cambridge, together with an Index atictorum (ff. V 3 b-X 3 a). There is a similar transcript among Richard Topham's books in this Library (marked Bf. 1. 1). The present copy was given by Edw. Betham, Fellow, in 1773. [C. M. A. vac] [For Bl. 5-12 see above under no. 49, p. 24. J 144. Bl. 5. 13. S. Athanasii Synopsis, etc., Graece. Paper, 11J x 8|, ff. 256, varying numbers of lines to a page. Cent, xiv., xv. Bound in old patterned paper over paste-boards : two clasps. In quires of 8 leaves. Contents : 1. Synopsis Sacrae Scripturae, attributed to S. Athanasius . . f. I X6voi//iS 4irtro/xos rrjs deias ypa7]i'od . . 129 74 CATALOGUE OF MSS. It seems really to extend only as far as Cleopatra. 4. Synodicon H5 From the Apostolic Council to that of Nicaea. 5. Sophronii Kara Trdo-rjs aip&rews liber . I°3 6. Anastasii Trepi irlffreios liber . . ... 219 7. Gelasii Cyziceni avvrayna ru>v kv Nt/cafa . . . 241 8. IIpaKTiica ttjs iv "Enpefftf trvvobov ...... 337 9. Nicephori Epistola ad Leonem 49^ Ff. 1-120 are in one hand, with 35 lines to a page. On f. 72 b (p. 144) is the note : eypa.■ 3- 48. f. 108 b. A king, bearded, on canopied throne, faces R. Five men are before him: three are bearded : one with long beard and robe talks to him. 1. 7. Alexander, Polycletus, Apelles, Pyrgoteles, Apuleius (?), Clemens (?). 49. f. 109 b. Elephant, with trunk curling outwards : hairs on his body marked in red. Colophon : f. ng 6 : Finito libro sit laus et gloria Christo. On f. 122 b are Bembo's name, and the Greek alphabet and Gloria patri in Greek transliterated. [C. M. A. 12.] 148. Bl. 6. 3. Georgii Ethrigii Coniuratio Wiati sub Maria Regina. Paper, s| x 4, fif. 35 + 4 blank, 7 lines to a page. Cent. xvi. It is a poem in Greek hexameters, dedicated to Queen Mary, by the author, at Oxford, IV. Non. Apr. There is a Latin preface : the poem consists of about 370 lines. [C. M. A. vac.] AT ETON COLLEGE. 8 1 149. Bl. 6. 4 . M. T. ClCERONIS DE Officiis Libri III. Vellum, 6x4, ff- I2 7> 2 S lines to a page. Cent xv. (1497). Written at Rome ; in a beautiful hand. Collation : A 10 -M 10 N 8 (7 cancelled, 8 blank). Colophon : in capitals, red, blue and gold : JM. T. Ciceronis officiorum lib. finit. Romae die Martis xiv Februari mcccclxxxxvii. B. S. F. 1 a is a beautiful piece of work. The text is written in alternate lines of blue and gold. The border is classical, with columns, on the bases of which are blank shields. At the bottom is a painting of four sages, seated, disputing. The initial has a picture of Cicero, bearded, seated, and talking to his son. Doubtless given by Wotton. It much resembles a MS. of Horace, which also belonged to Wotton, and is now in the Library of King's College (no. 34). [C. M. A. 119.] 150. Bl. 6. 5. THEODULUS, MAXIMIANUS, ETC. Vellum, 9 x 6\, ff. 81, 29 lines to a page. Cent, x., xi. In Lombardic minuscules. Collation: a 8 (wants 1-7) b 8 -l 8 . 1. Theoduli Ecloga . . f. 1 It is a dialogue in hexameters between Pseustis and Alethia, with Fronesis for umpire. The author lived in the xth century (at Athens), and his poem has been often printed, e.g. by J. Schwabe, Altenberg, 1773. This copy is imperfect : it begins Si uictus fueris non me uicisse fateris Sed quia mutari nescit sentencia cepti En adaquare greges simul et releuare calorem Nostra uenit fronesis • sedeat pro iudice nobis. i. Maximiani Elegiae vi b These are the Elegies formerly attributed to Cornelius Gallus. E. MSS. 6 82 CATALOGUE OF MSS. See two papers by Professor Robinson Ellis: On the Elegies of Maximianus in the American Journal of Philology, 1884, pp. 1-15 and 145-163. Bahrens has used the MS. for his text of Maxi- mianus in the Poetae Latini Mmores : it is apparently the earliest and best MS. extant. There is a peculiar feature about this copy. F. 6 b opens with the end of Theodulus' Eclogue, thus : [320] Sol petit oceanum, frigus succedit opacum Desine quod restat ne desperado ledat E BAXLE .-, DAMA .-, IACN • USNANSA Emula quid cessas finem properare senectus Cur et in hoc fesso corpore tarda uenis. The capital E belongs probably to the Eclogue ; it may be a mistake for an F, the initial of Fronesis, for the initials of the interlocutors are placed at the end of the lines throughout the poem. The enigmatical line that follows, might, I have thought, be a corrupt form of the title of the Elegies that follow : and the name Maximianus may be concealed therein. 3. P. P. Statii Achilleis 29 Readings from this MS. are given by Dr Karl Schenkl. 4. P. Ouidii Nasonis liber de remedio amoris .... 38 5. „ Epistolae (Heroides i. 7-vii. 159) . . 52 Used by Mr E. S. Shuckburgh in his edition of the Heroides. 6. Aratoris subdiaconi Historia Apostolica 71 Ends with i. 521 : _ Erumpensque dies alieno tempore sanctos. Most probably given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 101.J 151. Bl. 6. 6. Io. Baptistae Mantuani Secunda Parthenice. Vellum, 8| x s|, ff. 48, 27 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Written in Italy: a beautiful MS. Collation : a 10 b 8 -e 8 f 6 (4-6 blank). AT ETON COLLEGE. 83 Contents : 1. Some verses and an extract from S. Hieronymus ad Deme- triadem : in Bern. Bembo's hand (?) f. 1 2. De fratre Baptista Mantuano carmen Petri Bembi Bernardi filii 2 b Ten lines in purple ink : two corrections seem to be in Ber- nardo Bembo's hand. 3. Letter from Jo. Bapt. Mantuanus to B. Bern. Bembus patricius Venetus Iurisconsullus ....... 3 a The initial has in it the words IN DEO SALUTARI MEO, and branches of bay and palm. In the lower margin are Bembo's arms, with similar branches, and a motto, VIRTVS ET HONOR. 4. Argument of the Poem ........ 4 a 5. The Poem Secunda Parthenice, on S. Katherine. It is followed by a copy of Elegiacs by Franc. Caeretus of Parma, Juris Pontificii scholaris, addressed in Inuidum Lectorem. Colophon : Secundae Parthenices opus diuinum Bononie impressum solerti animaduersione Franc. Cereti permensis communibus impensis Benedicti Hectoris Bibliopolae Platonis- que eiusdem impressoris accuratissimi ciuium bononiensium anno natiuitatis dominicae M • cccc • lxxix • Quinto die Februarii. Doubtless given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 94.] 152. Bl. 6. 7. IUVENALIS SATIRAE. Vellum, 8£ x 5^, ff. 66, 30 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Written in Italy. Collation : i 10 -v 10 vi e . Text ends on 64 a. There are notes at the end in Bern. Bembo's writing, giving the subjects of the Satires, etc. Sat. i. has a very good initial. The margins are cut. A running title extends as far as Sat. ix. After the text is YHS MARIA, and three blank pages. Doubtless from Wotton. [C. M. A. 85.] 6—2 84 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 153. Bl. 6. 8. IUVENALIS ET PERSII SATIRAE. Vellum, 6f x 4, ff. 92 + 4, 25 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Written in Italy, in a beautiful hand, resembling that of B. Bembo. Collation : i 10 -ix 10 x 2 ; 4 fly-leaves. The Satires of Persius begin on f. 79. At the bottom of f. 1, an angel holding the shield of Bembo. There are notes in B. Bembo's writing at the end. The Satires of Juvenal are divided into five books, with argu- ments in hexameters, and titles in red. No doubt given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 86.] 154. Bl. 6. 9. COMMENTARIUS IN PERSII SATIRAS. Paper, 8J x 5|, ff. 62, 24 lines to a page. Cent. xvi. Written in Italy : quite a plain MS. Collation : A 8 -G 8 H 6 . Inc. Aulus Persius Flaccus natus est pridie non. dec. Expl. Ut qui auaritie eius finem uoluerit imponere facile uideatur et syllogismum Chrysippi deffinire. No doubt from Wotton. [C. M. A. 105.] 155. Bl. 6. 10. EUTROPII HlSTORIA CUM CONTINUATIONE PAULI DlACONI. Paper, ;| x 5 £, ff. 80, 35 lines to a page. Cent, xv., xvi. In an upright Italian hand, with initials in pen and ink. Collation : i 12 -vi 12 vii 8 . No doubt from Wotton. [C. M. A. 52, 103.] AT ETON COLLEGE. 85 156. Bl. 6. 11. Pauli Marsi Pierii Piscinatis Bembice Peregrine. Vellum, 8| x 4f, fif. 40 + 2, 18 lines to a page. Cent. xv. In an Italian hand. Collation: a 2 i 10 — iv 10 : text ends on f. 35 a. On f. ib is Bembo's motto, VIRTUS et HONOR, surrounded by bay and palm. On f. 2 a are Bembo's arms in a red ribbon, and the title of the poem, and an address of the author to his book. The contents are poems by " Paulus Marsius, ex Argolica Profectione (here is inserted in green, by Bembo, uocatus ac demum) inuitatus ad Hispalicam" (added, ad B. Beinbum in hispania le- gatum). There are also Poems addressed to the Virgin — to the Senate and people of Syracuse, who feared the plague, and would not let the author land — to Cronicus ; and verses written at Malta, on the sight of Carthage, at Hippo (dated 28 Aug. 1477). At the end are five blank leaves : on the last is this note (of an election at Venice) : pro censor. Cos. et Triumuiratu - 13 Julii 1494. Bembus 82.. 417 Jo. Maurotus 798 444 Donatus 606 644 Lauredanus 3°9 936 Sanutus 650 593 Grimaldus 634 646 No doubt from Wotton. [C. M. A. 95.] 157. Bl. 6. 12. Naldi de Naldis Bucolica. Vellum, 8£ x 5, ff. 32, 20 lines to a page. Cent. xv. In an Italian hand. Collation : a 4 b 10 c 10 d 8 . 86 CATALOGUE OF MSS. Contents : i. Naldi Naldii Florentini epigramma ad clarissimum Virum Bernardum Bembura legatum Venetum . . • • '■ 3 " i. Naldi de Naldis Bucolica in Laurentiura Mediceum Iuuenem clarissimum. Daphnis. Aegloga in Laurentium eundem (in gold capitals) .... . 4 This page is finely bordered : in the initial is Daphnis chasing a nymph. In the lower margin are the Medici arms, with the lilies in the centre. There are xi. Eclogues. Given doubtless by Wotton. [C. M. A. 99.] 158. Bl. 6. 13. IO. BOCCACIUS DE MULIERIBUS CLARIS. Paper, 8| x 5|, ff. 96, 31 lines to a page. Cent. xv. In an Italian hand, well-written, and quite plain. There are some scribbles in Greek on the last page. Collation: i 10 -ix 10 x 6 . No doubt from Wotton. [C. M. A. 33.J 159. Bl. 6. 14. A Poem in Italian, without title. Paper, %\ x 5f, ff. 70 + 1 blank, 14 lines to a page. Cent, xvi., xvn Inc. Vanne libello mio uanne film' Chio scio clie anderai in assai gente Ma se alcun mai Ti mordera con dente Sapia che udio sol errar non lui. The hand resembles that of the Musae admirantes (see no. 174). From Wotton. [C. M. A. vac] AT ETON COLLEGE. 87 160. Bl. 6. 15. Tractatus de Physicis, etc. Vellum, 6f x 4§, ff. 26 + 2, 29 lines to a page. Cent. xiv. (It is said to bear the date 1497, but I was unable to find this.) It is a fragment, consisting of 2 quires of 10 leaves, numbered xxii and xxiii, and 1 of 6 leaves, numbered xxiiii : the leaves are numbered 204-227. Contents : 1. Inc. modo siccum ex uicinitate estatis modo eadem ratione calidum modo frigidum f. 1 With diagrams of the changes of the Moon, and of eclipses. 2. De eis que agit relatus a firmamento ..... 1 b 3. De eclipsi solis 3 ^ 4. Capitula tercie particule . 5 ^ 1. De aere. Quae vi ue zone sunt in aere non in ethere. There are 26 chapters : the last is : Unde sit quod in lunacione modo crescunt humores, modo decrescunt. 5. Capitula quarte particule (38 in number) 12* 1. De diversis qualitatibus terre. 38. De iuuentute et senectute et senio. The end is complete : ...non enim extincto naturali calore diu potest homo viuere. At the end are two supplementary leaves, in paler ink, con- taining : (a) Twenty-two hexameter verses on the names of Christ . f. 1 Inc. Omnipotens dominus ihc xpc deus altus. (b) The beginnings of the four Gospels 2 (c) A rhyming hymn 3 deus magnus et immensus et quem nullus capit sensus deus iudex equitatis. (d) An adjuration, partly erased, against all dangers . 3 b A prayer against evil spirits. (e) Ps. cvii. (cviii.) 4 [C. M. A. vac] CATALOGUE OF MSS. 161. Bl. 6. 16. Adelardus Batoniensis de solutione quaestionum naturalium. Vellum, 6| x 4§, ff. 37, 30 lines to a page. Cent. xii. Collation : a 8 -d 8 e ?8 (wants 6-8). The last two leaves have suffered much from damp, before they were in their present binding (of cent, xviii.). Contents : Incipit liber Adelardi Batoniensis ad nepotem suura de solucione questionum naturalium ........ f. i The title is not in the original hand. The tract is imperfect, ending : ... Quidam autem altius uel intelligentes uel furentes ... There are tags on the margins of the leaves, written by the original scribe. In the opinion of Mr Holmes, the Queen's Librarian, this is very probably Adelard's autograph MS. (Rev. H. St J. Thackeray, Eton College Library, p. 14.) Tanner in the Bibliotheca Britannica, s. v. Athelardus mentions this MS. Adelard's date was 11 30 (Bale, i. p. 183). [C. M. A. i.J 162. Bl. 6. 1 7. Traditions illustrative of passages in the Koran : in Arabic. Paper, 8 x 5f, ff. 29, 15 lines to a page. Cent. xvii. (?). Muti- lated at both ends. Collation ; a 10 b 10 c 8 (+ 1). Written in the Maghrik character. [C. M. A. vac.] AT ETON COLLEGE. 89 163. Bl. 6. 18. Vita Alexandri Magni Graecobarbara. Paper, 8J x 5^, ff. 209, 20 lines to a page. Cent. xvi. Bound in green velvet. Collation: a 8 -* 8 Ka< 12+1 > «/3 8 -k8 8 *e 12 . Title: 'H y&vTio-is Kal Siriyqaii rod a\\e£av5pov p.aKeSdvav rb irCis iyewfidrf Kal avedpacprj Kal to lrws efyev T V AvSptav Kal tt]v /j.6.$7j(nv Kal rty x^piTax d-iro ry]v apxhv. Inc. Htov d7r6 deov 6picrp.bs Kal rfrov 34 a - Initials to a Salue Regina in nine parts : the initials shew nine AT ETON COLLEGE. 1 09 choirs of angels with scrolls, on which the names of the nine orders are written : the angels do not differ in form or attributes from each other : they are thus distributed : f. 33 1>- f. 34 «• Seraphyn, Quatriplex. Troni, Medius. Cherubyn, Triplex. Principatus, Secundus contratenor. Dominationes, Primus contratenor. Virtutes, Inferior contratenor. Potestates, Tenor. Archangeli, Secundus bassus. Angeli, Primus bassus. On the lower margin of f. 34 a are these lines, which explain how the music was to be sung : Antiphona hec christi laudem sonat atque marie Et decus angelicis concinit ordinibus Qui sunt angeli erunt archangeli et ordo sequetur Virtutum — que potestatum, tunc principat alter Post domina-que-tiones adde tronos cherubynque Et seraphyn junges qui loca summa tenent. 3. f. 36 b. In an initial are the words Robertus Wylkynson cuius anime propicietur deus. 4. ff. 641^, 650. Four shields in the initials to an anthem by Davy, domine celi terreque. (a) Arms of England. (b) Arms of the Confessor. (c) Arms of Magdalen College, Oxford. (d) Sable a fess or between three stags' heads couped argent, two and one. At the end of the anthem is : hanc antiphonam composuit Ricardus Davy uno die collegio Magdalene Oxoniis. 5. f. 47 b. A large initial, gold ground, to an anthem by W. Lambe. S. John Baptist, with scroll ecce agnus dei : a lamb on a book by him. 6. f. 50 a. Arms of Eton College. The stave is of 5 lines. There are two remarkable indices to the book, one at each end ; the second is an incomplete replica of the first, which I here transcribe : Name of the Antiphon Aue lumen gracie Ad te purissima uirgo Ascendit cristus Aue cuius concepcio Aue maria mater dei Aue lux tocius mundi Ascendit cristus Number of parts : in red Composer's name Quire : in red Leaf of quire ?: in red 4 parcium ffayrefax t 5 H 5PC Cornysch s 7 22 4 pc Lambe V 6 14 4 pc ffayrefax 3 22 5 PC Cornysch x 4 15 5 pc Browne p 1 21 5 pc Huchynge z b 21 no CATALOGUE OF MSS. Number Quire : Leaf ?: of parts : Composer's in of in Name of the Antiphon in red name red quire red Gaude flore uirginali (i) 7 pc Kellyk a 5 23 (») 6 pc Davy b 6 22 (3) 6 pc Wylkynson c 4 22 (4) 6 pc Cornysch f 2 ^3 (5) 5pc Dunstable 8 2r (6) 5PC Turges r 1 22 (7) 4 pc Turges X 2 '4 (8) 5P<= Lambe n 5 21 (9) 5 P= Horwud m 5 21 (10) 5P C Browne P 5 22 (") 4 pc Lambe V 8 14 Gaude uirgo mater christi (1) 6 pc Sturton d 6 15 (») 5Pc Horwud m 8 21 (3) 4 pc Wylkynson t 8 14 (4) 4 pcium Cornysch X 5 14 Gaude rosa sine spina 5 PC Hawkynes q 6 22 Gaude uirgo salutata (i) 4 PC Holygbome x 7 19 (») 5 pcium Hawkynes q 4 22 In honore summe matris 5 pcium Davye 1 8 22 Nesciens mater uirgo uirum 5 pcium Lambe 1 3 22 O domine celi terreque 5PC Davye k 4 22 O maria saluatoris mater 8pc Browne a 1 22 maria pleua gracia 6 pc Lambe b 1 21 Regina celestis glorie (1) 6 pc Lambe c 4 ^3 w 5 pc Lambe n 2 20 O Regina mundi clara 6 pc Browne d 3 15 O Maria et Elizabeth 5 pc Banester m 3 21 O mater uenerabilis 5 pc Browne r 7 18 Virgo prudentissima 6 pc Wylkynson c 1 22 Virgo uirginum preclara 4pc Lambe f 7 14 Quid cantemus innocentes 5 pc ffayrefax 5 21 Salue regina uas mundicie 6 pc Hawkynes e 7 23 Salue decus castitatis 5PC Wylkynson r 4 22 Salue Ihesu mater uera 5PC Davye w 7 22 Salue Regina ( 1 ) 7PC Sutton h 4 n (*) 5 pc Horwud g 2 21 (3) 5 pc Davye g 4 2 3 (4) S pc Cornysch g 6 22 (5) 5 pc Lambe h 2 22 (6) 5 PC Browne g 8 21 (7) 5PC Browne i 8 15 (8) 5 pc Hacumplaynt h 6 22 (9) 5PC Hygons i 6 22 (10) 5 pc Huchyne h 8 22 (") 5 pc Hampton k 2 22 (12) 5pc Wylkynson 1 2 22 AT ETON COLLEGE. Ill Name of the Antiphon Salue Regina (13) (■4) Stabat mater dolorosa (1) (*) A marginal note here : bonus cantus (3) (4) (5) Stabat iuxta christi crucem Stabat uirgo mater christi (1) (») Stella celi Virgo templum trinitatis Virgo gaude gloriosa Et exultauit (1) (*) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (.8) (19) (*>) (21) (22) (n) (m) (*5) (26) {27) (28) Dominica in Ramis palmarum. domini Passio Number of parts : in red 5 pc 5 P<= 6 pc 5pc 5 pc 5pc 5 pc 6 pc 6 pc 4PC 4 pc 5PC 5 PC 7 pc 5 pc 5 pc 5 pc 5 pc 5 pc 5 pc 5 PC 5 pc 5 pc 6 pc 5 PC 5 pc 5 pc blank 4 pc 4PC 4 pc 4PC 4PC 4PC 4PC blank blank 4 pc 4 pc SPC blank 4 pc Composer's name ffayrefax Brygeman Browne ffayrefax Cornysch Cornysch Davye Browne Browne Browne Lambe Davy Lambe Browne Nesbett Davye Kellyk Horwud ffayrefax Lambe Cornysch Browne Browne Wylkynson Wylkynson Mychelson Brygeman Sygar Browne Turges Turges Baldwyn Baldwyn Sygar Turges Stratford Davye Quire : Leaf ? : in of in red quire red i 4 22 f 7 19 C I 22 I 21 q 1 23 P 7 18 1 2 21 d i 14 c 6 23 V 2 14 I- 4 15 1 5 22 n 7 21 y 2 22 y 8 22 y 5 22 z 422 Z 2 23 aa 3 22 z 721 bb 3 23 aa 1 22 bb 5 22 bb 1 22 aa 7 22 aa 8 22 aa 5 19 21 22 21 i? Davy bb 8 cc 2 cc 4 cc 6 cc 8 dd 4 dd 2 dd 6 14 cc 2 14 dd 8 14 cc 4 22 One of the anthems has the word regali written by it. On the verso of the last leaf is the Creed set to music and 112 CATALOGUE OF MSS. divided among the Twelve Apostles, by Robertus Wylkynson. The following couplet is written below it : huius distinctas muse tot sumite partes margine quot paruo nomina scripta uides. The second index goes down to Virgo templum trinitatis. I add the Christian names of the composers as they appear in various parts of the book, at the beginnings of the several com- positions. Willelmus Horwud. Ricardus Davy. Willelmus Cornysch. Johannes Browne. Walterus Lambe. Johannes Sutton (p. 50 a: Eton arms in the initial). Nicholaus Howchyn. Robertus Feyrfax. Ricardus Hygons. Johannes Hampton. Gilbertus Banester. Edmundus Turges. Hugo Kellyk. Robertus ] T , )■ Wylkynson. Johannes ) Of these names nos. 2, 3, 4, 8, n, and probably others, are well known to musicians : they occur in a MS. once belonging to Ralph Thoresby of Leeds (Cat. MSS. Angl. ii. p. 229, no. 7573). Similar MSS. exist at Caius College, Cambridge, and Lambeth Palace. Compositions by some of these authors are printed in Stafford Smith's Musica Antiqua. 179. Biblia Sacra. Uterine vellum, 6 x 4, ff. 542, in double columns. Cent, xiii., xiv. In a minute hand, Anglo-Norman. In an English binding of cent. xvii. AT ETON COLLEGE. 113 Contents : The following points in the order and contents of the volume are worth noting : Esdras i = Ezra. Neemias ii = Nehemiah. Esdras iii = 4. (or 2) Esdras i, ii, often called 5 Esdras, part 1. It is divided into chapters as follows : c. i. Liber esdre prophete, i. 1 of our chapters, ii. Quid tibi faciam iacob, i. 24 „ iii. Hec dicit deus, Ego eduxi, ii. 1 ,, iiii. Hec dicit deus ad esdram, ii. 10 „ v. Ego esdras accepi, ii. 33 ,, Esdras iiii = 3 (or 1) Esdras. Esdras v = 4 (or 2) Esdras ii.-xiv. Esdras vi = 4 (or 2) Esdras xv., xvi., or 5 Esdras, part 2. The MS. is not included in the late Professor Bensly's list of English MSS. containing 4 Esdras. The Psalter is followed by two prologues, (a) Cum omnes propketas, (b) Dauid filius /esse, and by orationes, secreta, com- memorations and post-communions. The running-titles of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus are inter- changed. In the New Testament the Acts follow the Catholic Epistles. The Interpretationes Nominum begin on f. 518. The following figured initials occur : 1. Genesis. An I divided into six trefoil-headed compartments with blue grounds. ( 1 ) Christ holds a scroll inscribed fiat, and a globe marked Asia, Africa, Europa, and surrounded by celvm. (2) Christ with scroll, fiat firmamentum . (3) ,, germinet terra herb. (4) „ fiant luminaria. (5) ,, producant aqzie reptil. : birds and fish on A'. (6) ,, man, woman and beasts on Ji. 1 Regum. A good decorative initial. 2. Psalterium. Beatus uir. David sits cross-legged, playing his harp. 3. Parabolae. Solomon holding a scroll. Mattheus. A good decorative initial with dragon. 4. ad Romanos. Paul seated, writing. On the fly-leaf at the end is a faint note of cent, xv.: Ista biblia sunt (or sac.) magistri canapede doctore quern emebat apud hereford pro iii" vi" iiij d . E. MSS. 8 114 CATALOGUE OF MSS. At the beginning : Jo. Walter 1625 ; and an erased note. Also: Liber collegii B. M. de Etona d. d. Edw. Betham Socius 1776. By the book-plate is pencilled : "Time of Henry 3 rd , Sam 1 Meyrick LL.D." 180. Greek Prayer-Book. Paper, 5§ x 3f. Cent. xvii. There is no cover : the MS. was brought from Mount Athos. Inc. a-pxn T & v twprwv deairortKOu ixapTTjpoip d.pxa.yyfa<*>v dvapyipcov . . . 181. Horae. Vellum, 6| x 4 J, ff. 140. Cent. xv. (1470 ?). Bound in red leather. The following owners' names occur : E libris Ant. Storer. Donum Frederici comitis Carliolensis an. Dom. 1776. Contents : Kalendar in French, in black and red f. 1 Sequentiae of the Gospels 13 Hours of the Cross 1 8 Hours of the Holy Ghost . 2 2 Hours of the Virgin . 25 Seven Psalms and Litany gn Officium Mortuorum . 85 Obsecro te 126 6 O intemerata 130 £ Stabat Mater . . . . . . . . . . 112 i Quand on se veult confesser 1 34 * Memoriae (of SS. Sebastian, Nicolas, Pantaleon, Agnes, Barbara) . 138 b AT ETON COLLEGE. 1 15 In the Kalendar : Jan. S. Savinian, in red. S. Savine. 7 Ap. S. Winebault. 30 Ap. S. Vordre. 27 July. S. Loup, in red. In the Litany : SS. Savinian and Quintin, Martyrs: Frodobert, Aventinus, Lupus, Confessors: Savina, Mastidia, Syria, Virgins. All of these except Quintin are Troyes saints. The MS. is undoubtedly of the diocese of Troyes. The use is that of Sens. The following miniatures, of fair style, occur : 1. Sequentia of S. John. Half-page, with border of flowers and line and leaf ornament. S. John on isle, writing; on his knee a scroll. In principio erat uerbum. Eagle holds inkstand : town behind. 2. Hours of the Cross. Crucifixion : on L. the Virgin, S. John, and Mary Magda- lene (?) : on R. centurion and two horsemen : Jerusalem in the background. 3. Hours of the Holy Ghost. Descent of the Holy Ghost : the Virgin in the midst, arms extended : dove in centre of a rose-window behind, rayed : some of the Apostles kneel. 4. Hours of the Virgin. Annunciation : angel on R. kneels with sceptre ; dove on ray : architecture in gold. The other Hours have only partial borders, and initials. 5. Seven Psalms and Litany. David kneels, face Z., on a lawn outside a city gate. In air is a red angel with a sword : crown and harp on ground. 6. Obsecro te. Full-page. Pieta by the Cross : two angels in air ; the one on L. has lance, reed and sponge, and nails : that on R. has scourge and column. 182. Alchemical Tracts. Paper, \\\ x 8, ff. 161 (+ 8 fly-leaves). Cent. xvi. (1573). Written in Germany. Contents : 1 . Liber de Alkimia qui bucella dulcedinis uocatur. In 118 chapters. At the end is: W. 1573. B Henry Gibbon. At the beginning- is a good initial in gold and colours. 8—2 Il6 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 2. Speculum hominum. Dated 1574. 3. Breuiarum Iohannis pauperis de arte Alkymia. In seven chapters. 4. Speculum elementorum, by Joh. Vienensis : called uenerande pater. 5. Tractatus mirabilis. Occupying three pages. 6. Hermes de salibus et corporibus. [C. M. A. 6.] 183. Bp. 3. 7. m^moire historique et politique sur la province de Languedoc. Paper, 14I x g\, ff. 181. Cent. xvii. (31 Dec. 1697). By M. de Baville, Conseiller d'Etat, Intendant. Drawn up by order of the Duke of Burgundy. There are two maps and a few drawings. Bequeathed by Nicolas Mann in 1754. [C. M. A. vac.] 184. Bp. 3. 11. Supplement to Walpole's Historic Doubts. Paper, 1 if x 7§, 26 pp. Cent, xviii. " In Lord Orford's hand." Presented by E. C. H(awtrey) in 1853- [C. M. A. vac] 185. Bp. 3. 13. Jo. Dauth de Rebus publicis Saxoniae. Paper, 1 if x -j\, ff. 102. Cent, xvi., xvii. AT ETON COLLEGE. 117 Discursus generalis et specialis de Rerumpublicarum inferioris Saxoniae illustrium perfecto regimine et statu, oppositus Guelficis male consutis centonibus, etc. At the end is the signature Ioannes Dauth D. Francus sua manu. [C. M. A. 48.] 186. Bp. 3. 14. Register of Despatches. Paper, 13^ x 8£, ft". 400. Cent. xvii. (1626). Premier Registre de depesches envoyes ez pais estrangers par Mgr. de' Herbault en l'an mil six cens vingt six. Bequeathed by Nicolas Mann, 1754. [C. M. A. vac] 187. Bp. 3. 15. HlSTOIRE DE Ph. de Waurin. Paper, 13! x 8f, ff. 465 written. Cent. xvii. Suite de l'histoire d'Angleterre ecrite par Messire Philippe de Waurin. Transcribed from a MS. in the Bibliotheque du Roi. Waurin's history has been edited in the Rolls Series. Bequeathed by Nicolas Mann, 1754. [C. M. A. vac] 188. Bp. 4- 18. Letters of Sir H. Wotton. Bound in a folio volume, 12x9. They were written by Wotton between 161 7 and 1620, when he was Ambassador at Venice : there are also letters of Gregorio di 1 1 8 CATALOGUE OF MSS. Monte (1619, 1620), and others, with a few other state papers. All Wotton's letters are printed in the Reliquiae Wottonianae. The volume was presented by Lord Montague in 1833. [C. M. A. vac] 189. Bp. 5. 16. Theodori Liber Poenitentialis. Paper, 11^x9, pp. 116. Cent, xviii. A transcript of the Penitential of Theodore, Abp of Canter- bury, from the MS. at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ; made by Fr. Muriall, Fellow of Corpus Christi, and collated with the original by Dr Thomas Greene, Master. Perhaps made for Mr Huggett. [C. M. A. vac] 190. Bp. 5. 18. B. Aretini Bellum Sacrum. Paper, n|x8. Cent. xvi. (1501). Benedicti de Accoltis Aretini de bello a Christianis contra Barbaros gesto pro Christi sepulcro ac Judea recuperandis. The prologue (addressed to Piero de' Medici) and first leaf of text are supplied in a later hand. [C/-M. A. 26.] 191. Chronicle, of the World in Roll-form. Vellum roll, 21 ft. 6 in. x 13 J in. Cent. xv. (1420). A Chronicle of the World from the Creation to the time of Henry V. AT ETON COLLEGE. 119 Coarsely written : illustrated with medallions of the following subjects : Christ seated on the rainbow, in a gold-starred sky. Adam and Eve at the tree : the serpent round it. Noah and his family in the ark (a ship with a red house in it). King Brute : three sons before him. The Nativity : ox, ass, the Virgin and Joseph. Shields of kings. The Saxon kings are represented by red and blue medallions, with crowns, orbs, and sceptres. The Norman dukes bear the three lions. Constantine bears or, a double-headed eagle sa., Arthur az., three crowns or. The English kings are represented by their shields. 6. Bust of S. Thomas of Canterbury with cloven head. [C. M. A. vac.] 192. Roll of New Year's Gifts. Vellum, 13 ft. 6 in. x i5f in. Cent. xvi. (27 Elizabeth). New Year's Gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth at Westminster. Signed by the Queen. [C. M. A. vac] 193. Venetorum Nobilium Liber. Paper, 11 x 8, ff. 90, 30 lines to a page. Cent. xvi. Collation: A 4 -H 4 (signatures cease) || a 4 -o 4 p 2 . Contents : Priuilegium magni Alexandri sclauis et lingue eorum concessum ex quodam libro greco antiquissimo, apud constantinopolim reperto extractum latinum de uerbo ad verbum translatum. Nos Alexander Philippi Regis macedonum archos monarchiae figuratus . f. 1 Ends : totius orbis. Ego Julianus Baldasar seccretarius hoc priuilegium Dalmatiae in quadam Bibliotheca antiquissima reperi. ........ 1 b Jesu mcccx a di xxvii Zugno indictione viii. Letter from Doge Pietro Gradenigo to Zorzi Dolphin Baylo of Armenia . 1 b 120 CATALOGUE OF MSS. List of the citizens of Venice who in December 1379 "se offerse alia guerra de Zenonesi de andar con le soe persone al aquisto de Chioza " . . • • 2 " List of the "xxx casade che romase del conseglio zoe le soprascritte " : and of the "altre xxx casade che fono ballotade alincontro de le soprascritte ballotadi a do a do," etc 7* Questa si e la uera summa de tutte le xxx casade de citadini fono fatti del conseglio alia guerra di Zenonesi del mccclxxxi, . . . . . • .12 xii casade de tribuni piu antixi n^ Nomi de casade mudade 1 2 £ xv casade enrolled in 1310 .......... 13 vii casade enrolled in 1296 13 Casade enrolled in 1297 13^ Caualeria of Candia . . . . . . . . . . .13^ Prologue to the list of "Zentil homini da Venetia" 15 Le nobel fameglie et casade de Venetia 17 In alphabetical order : the arms of each family neatly drawn and blazoned in colours, in the left hand margin of each page. The Catalogue runs from Anafesto to Zustignani (f. 89). f. 90 is blank. No doubt given by Wotton. [C. M. A. 122.] Addendum (see page 5). 10, Bk. 1. 10. R. Hampole on the Psalms. Vellum, ff. 170, double columns of 40 lines each. Cent. xv. Collation: a 16 b 12 -h 12 i 10 k ,2 -o 12 =i7o leaves + 2 blank at each end. Inc. . . . gret habundance of gasteli comforth. Expl. in ye joy of heuen. Amen. [C. M. A. 10.J INDEX. Accoltis, B. de, Bellum Sacrum, 190. Adelardus of Bath, 161. Alarms, Aequivoca, 84. Alberti, Leo Bapt., works by, 85, 128. Albertus Magnus in Luc. et Marc, 44. Alchemy, tracts on, 182. Alexander de Essebie, liber festiualis, 20. -i. Alexander Magnus, Ep. ad Aristotelem, 133. Life, in Greek, 163. and see 193. Ambrose, S., on Psalm cxviii., 5. Pastorale, 21. tracts, 46, 145. Anastasius de fide, 144. Anonymous, Scripture history, 4. on the Book of Wisdom, 19. 2. Sermons, 38, 41, 120. notes on Scripture, 48. Allegoriae, 120. de Bona Fortuna, 129. poem in Italian, 159. tract on Physics, 160. verses, 160. Anselm, S., tracts by, 32, 81, 120. Anthem Book, 178. Apocalypse, illustrated, 177. Apuleius, L. , Metamorphoses and Florida, 147. Arabic MS., 162. Arator, Hist. Apost., 150. Arden, 24. Aretinus, B., Bellum Sacrum, 190. Aristotle, Ethica Nicom. , 122, 129. Politica, 129. Rhetorica, 129. Poetica, 129. Arms, 92-95, 140, 151, 156, 164, 178, 191, 193. Athanasius, Pseudo-, synopsis, 144. Athenagoras, 100. Augustine, S., in Psalmos, 6, 7. in Joannem, 101. de Civitate Dei, 107. de Trinitate, 108. Epistolae, 105. Sermones, 105, 106. Regula, 106. Vita, 106. Tractatus, 37, 38, 47, 48, 120. Aurora, Petri de Riga, 169. Azure, receipt for making, 43. Barenguidus, see Berengaudus. Bartholomaeus de Pisis, Vita S. Francisci, 118. Batson, Gosuin, 167. Baville, M. de, 183. Beaumont, Jos., Theological works, 49-73. Bedwod, H., Anatomie of Spayne, 164. Bembo, Bern., notes by, 128, 137, 138. Benvenuto da Imola, Comm. on Dante, 115. Berengaudus, in Apocalypsim, 24, 76. Bernard, S., tracts by, 32, 39. Homiliae, 38, 39. 122 INDEX. (Bernard, S.) Tractatus vi., 120. letter, 124. Bible Hystorial, 3. Biblia, 1, 2, 28-29, 179. Gloss, on Psalms, 9 ; xii. Proph., 23 ; Matthew, 43, 77. Psalters, 75, 78. Evangelia Slavonica, 40. Biblia Pauperum, 177. Bibliorum Figurae, 177. Binding, 5, 119, 178. Boccaccio, de Mul. Claris, 158. Boethius, tracts by, 120, 129. Boxley, 173. Bracton, H., de legibus, 176. Burton, J., 142. Caeretus, Franc, 151. Campbell, Archibald, Bp, 111. Canons, Eccl., in Greek, 121, 144. Cantor, Petrus, in Gen., Ex., Lev., 14. in Esdr., Neem., Paral., 16. in Prophetas, 19. Case, G. , poem on Judges, 173. Cassiodorius, Hist, tripartita, 131. excerpt, 47. Catalogus Sanctorum, 99. Cautiones, 119, 127. Charms, 32. Chronicle, roll, 191. Chronicon anon., 144. Chrysostom, Pseudo-, Opus imperfectum, 42 ; see Johannes Chrysostomus. Cicero, M. T., Aratea, 88. Paradoxa, Laelius, Cato Maior, Timaeus, 90. de officiis, 149, 190. Clocks, planetary, treatise on, 172. Collier, Jer., 111. Comestor, Peter, 3. Historia Scholastica, 45, 125. Composers of cent, xv., English, 178. Councils, Ecclesiastical, 121, 144. Cydonius, Dem., Oratio, 11. Cypher, a, 80. Cyriacus of Ancona, notes by, 141. Cyrillus, Lexicon, 86. Dante, Divina Commedia, 112. Comm. on, 115. Dauth, J., 185. Dechair, 100. Decreta, Table on, 36. extracts, 83. complete, 97. Dictionary, 4. Dionysius Areopagita, S., tracts by, 120, 131. Dionysius Periegetes, 146. Distinctiones argute, 83. Dondis, J. de, on clocks, 172. Dorotheus, Pseudo-, Synopsis, 144. Easby, Alexander of, 20. 2. Egidius, expositio, 35. Elizabeth, Queen, signature of, 192. Enjedinus, G. , 73. Esdras, 4th Book of, 179. Ethridge, G., poem on Wyatt, 148. Eustathius, in Dionys. Perieg., Gr., 146. in Eth. Nicom., Lat., 121. Eutropius, 155. Evangelia Slavonica, 40. Farfa, documents relating to, 124. Flores Historiarum, 123. Forda, Joh. de, 109. Francis, S., Life of, 118. Franciscus Cyprius, de Purgatorio, 166. Fraternity, Letter of, 33, 170. Fromosigine, Joh., 110. Fulgentius, Mythologiae, 117. Galen, 127, 132. Gascoigne, Doctor, 108. Gearing, Simon, 167. Gelasius Cyzicenus, 144. Gentry of England and Wales, List of, 175. Goliae Apocalypsis, quoted, 98. INDEX. 123 Gorranus, Nic., in Lucam, 102. Epistolae, 103. Themata, 171. Greek Church and Nonjuring Bishops, 111. Greek MSS., 75, 86, 111, 113, 121, 139, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146, 148, 163, 166, 180. Gregorius, S. , Moralia, 12, 13. in Ezechiel, 34, 101. Dialogi, 37, 101. Pastorale, 81, 101. Homiliae, xl., 101. Epistolae, 119. Vita, 124. Grossetete, Rob., in Psalmos, 8. Dicta, etc., 117. Hampole, R., on the Psalms, 10 and p. 1 20. Haselbury, 109. Haymo in Esaiam, 20. Heraldry, 92-95, 193 : see Arms. Herbault, M. de, Despatches, 186. Hermes de salibus, 182. Herodoti Historia, 113. Hieronymus, S., in Dan. et xii. proph., 21. in Dan., 76. adv. Jovinianum, 80. de xv. signis, etc., 21. 3, 4. in xii. proph., 22. Sermo, 106. Hill, Wm, 167. Hippocrates, 127. Holcot in Sapientiam, 18. Homer, Iliad I-V, 139. Horae, 181. Horproth, Jac, 92. House of Lords, Orders for, 168. Hugo de S. Victore, Homiliae, etc., 38. de Archa Noe, 120. Hugo de Vienna, in libros Salomon, 17. in xi. Epp. Pauli, 104. Hutchinson, 142. Hymns, 78, 80, 81, 160. Illustrated MSS. : Apuleius, 147*- Bibies, 1, 2*, 3*, 25, 27, 28, 179. Biblical, 92, 177* (Types and Apoca- lypse). Chronicles, 96, 123, 191. Cicero", 149. Clocks*, 172. Dante, 112. Funeral of S. Gregory *, 124. Heraldry*, 92-95. Horae, 181. Initials, 9, 12, 107, 118 (S. Francis), 129 (Aristotle), 137 (Vitruvius, Hercules), 157, 178. Ptolemy", 140. Roman History*, 92. Inscriptions, Greek and Latin, 141. Januensis, Sermons, 74 Joannicius, Isagoge, 127. Johannes Chrysostomus, S., de reparatione lapsi, 119. de proditione Judae, 120. Pseudo-, opus imperfectum, 42. Johannes Damascenus, S., tracts by, 120. Johannes Diac, Vita S. Gregorii, 124. Johannes, Prior of Ford, 109. Johannes fil. Serapionis, tracts by, 126. Johannes Viennensis, 182. Justin Martyr, S., Ep. ad Zen. et Ser., 100. Juvenal (printed), 138 ; (MS.) 152, 153. Lambeth, MS. at, p. 104. Languedoc, Memoire sur, 183. Laodiceans, Epistle to, 26. Lee, Fra., 111. Leo Baptista Albertus, Works by, 85, 128. Leo, S., tract by, 38. Lincoln College, Oxford, MSS. at, 47, 108. Lollards, tract against, 170. Lombardus, P., Sententiae, 114. Lotichius, J. P., poem by, 174. Lyndewode, W., Provinciale, 98. Lyra, Tabula in N. de, 108. Macrobius de Somn. Scip., 90. Maittaire, M., 92. 124 INDEX. Mantuanus, Jo. Bapt., Secunda Parthe- nice, 151. Mapheus Vegius, tracts by, 165. Marshall, Vicar of All SS., Worcester, 18. Marsius, Paulus, Bembice Peregrine, 156. Martianus Capella, 90. Martinus Gemblacensis, Chronicon, 131. Martinus, Tabula super decreta, 36. Matthaeus Westmonast., Flores Histori- arum, 123. Matthias, Prior of S. Albans, 26. Maximianus, Elegiae, 150. Medical tracts, 126, 127. Melibeus, tale of, 19. Methodius, Revelation of, 125. Michael Ephesius, in Eth. Nicom., 122. Miledunensis, Rob., de sacram., 109. Miniatures, see Illustrated MSS. Monte, Greg, di, Letters of, 188. Monte, Will, de, Works by, 82. Montfaucon, 144. More, Sir T., Life of, 167. Morgan, Phil., Bp, 18. Musae Admirantes, 174. Music, 80, 178. Naldus de Naldis, Bucolica, 157. Napier of Merchiston, on the Apocalypse, 31. Natalibus, Petrus de, 99. Nemi, description of, 128. New Year's gifts, Roll of, 192. Nonjuring Bishops, Proposals of, 111. Odo de Cancia, Sermones, 24. i. Oratio Salomonis, 26, 27. Orosius, 133. Ovid, Poems of, 91. Remed. Amoris, 150. Heroides, 150. Palma, Petrus de, 79. Paschasius Radbertus, 83. Paul and Seneca, Epistles of, 89, 110, 135, 136. Paulus Diaconus, 155. Penitential of Theodore, 189. Persius, printed, 138. MS., 153. Coram, on, 154. Petrus Canonicus, Disputatio, 130. Petrus Cantor, see Cantor. Petrus Comestor, 3. Petrus de Palma, 79. Pharetra Sacramenti, 170. Philaretus, 127. Photii Lexicon, 143. Pictavensis, Petrus, Compend. V. T., 96. Plautus, Comoediae viii., 87. Pliny, Nat. Hist., excerpts, 134. Press-marks, old, 15, 22, 84. Prophecy, a, 21. 5. Prophetae xii., Gloss on, 23. Psalms, Gloss on, 9. Psalter, Greek, 75. Psalterium cum Hymnis, 78. Psalterium triplex, 26. Ptolemy, CI., Geography, 140. Pulleyn, Robert, sermons, 38. Purgatory, demonstration of, 166. Rabanus, in Num., Deut., etc., 16. in Mace, 16. RadeclifF, Nicolas, 47. Radulphus Flaviacensis in Levit., 15. Receipt, 43. Riga, P. de, Aurora, 169. Robert of Cricklade, Exc, from Pliny, 134. Robertus Miledunensis, de sacram entis, 109. Rome, S. Peter's, ancient drawing of, 124. Rubeus, Bern., Bp of Belluno, 138. Rufinus, Hist. Eccl., 109. Sagundinus, Nic, letter of, 135. Saints, English, 78. Lives of, 99. of Troyes, 181. Saxony, tract on, 185. Scholia, on Cicero, 90. on Homer, 139. on Strabo, 141. INDEX. 125 (Scholia) see Eustathius. Seneca, L. Ann., tracts by, 89. Tragoediae, 110. Epistolae, 135; in Italian, 136. Letters to Paul, 89, 110, 135, 136. Epitaph, 135. Verses, 135. Sens, use of, 181. Sententiae, 114. Septuplura, 30. Serlo, sermon by, 39. Service book, Greek, 180. Sharp, John, D.D., 111. Sibylline acrostic, 43. Slavonic Gospels, 40. Sophronius, 144. Sortes, 132. Spain, Anatomie of, 164. Spells, 132, 160. Statius, Achilleis, 150. Strabo, Geogr. I-X, 141. Sybbe, W., Fasciculus morum, 34. Synodicon, 144. Tatian, Orat. ad Graecos, 100. Theodore, Abp, his Penitential, 189. Theodulus, Eclogue, 150. Theophilus, 127. Thomas Aquinas, S., works by, 35, 36. excerpts, 47. Summa I, 116. super Dionysium, 131. Tirollus, Jo., Antiquitates, 92. de ortu et heroum, 93-95. Trinity, arms of the, 117. Troyes, Saints of, 181. Types, illustrations of, 177. Vegetius de re militari, 131. Venetian nobles, names of, 137, 156, 193. Vienna, H. de, see Hugo. Vincent of Beauvais, de consol. mortis, etc., 119. Vitae Sanctorum, 99. Vitruvius, 137. Wallensis super Psalmos, 32. Walpole, H., tract by, 184. Waurin, Ph. de, History, 187. Whethamstede, Abbot, 103. Willelmus de Monte, liber numeralis, 82. de similitudinibus, 82. Wisbech, 34. Wodeford, John, tracts by, 47. Wodehouse, 24. Worcester, 18. Worth, Will, 100. Wotton, Sir H., Letters of, 188. Wuluric, S., Life of, 109. Wyatt's conspiracy, poem on, 148. Wycliff, Jo., 47. Xenophon, Cyrop. and Anab., 142. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.