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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS 
 
 IN THE LIBRARY OF 
 
 SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 
 
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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS 
 
 IN THE LIBRARY OF 
 
 SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 
 
 BY 
 
 MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, Litt.D., 
 
 king's college, director of the fitzwilliam museum. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE : 
 
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
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 [A// Rights resirrci/.'] 
 
CAMBRIDGE i 
 
 PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, 
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
JOHANNI WILLIS CLARK, A.M., 
 
 REGISTRARIO ACADEMIAE 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 MY chief object in writing a preface to this book is to pay my 
 best thanks to the Master and Fellows of Sidney Sussex 
 College for allowing me to write it, and to gain, as I hope, in the 
 process a good deal of that experience which is sure to come from 
 the examination of a library of manuscripts. 
 
 The collection described in these pages (for the first time since 
 1697), though numbering only a little over a hundred volumes, 
 contains several books of exceptional interest from the liturgical, 
 artistic, and literary point of view ; and it seems advisable to call 
 attention to a few of the prominent items. The oldest MS. in the 
 collection is the Ordination Service from Durham (No. 100, 
 Part II.); the most beautiful is the Psalter (No. 76); the most 
 remarkable from their subject-matter are probably the collection 
 of Miracles of the Virgin (No. 95^), and the Statutes and Inventory 
 of Rotherham College (No. 2). 
 
 There is an interesting matter to be noticed in connexion with 
 this last. Among the books left by Archbishop Rotherham to his 
 College are several which the Librarian of the University, Mr F. 
 Jenkinson, has identified as printed books. He has kindly given 
 me a note of a few ; and will, I hope, in time complete the list. 
 It is not often, I believe, that the existence of printed books in 
 English monastic or collegiate institutions in the fifteenth century 
 has been so definitely ascertained. 
 
 Another record likely to be interesting to bibliographers is the 
 catalogue of the bookseller Wymsley, printed on p. 33. 
 
 1 It has been found impracticable to make an Index to these Miracles. 
 
Vlll PREFACE. 
 
 To hagiography also I have paid some attention in compiling 
 this catalogue. Notices of two rare saints, Everildis and Jordanus, 
 will be found on pp. 22, 64. I would just note, in conclusion, that 
 the Rotherham Inventory, though mentioned by Hearne' and 
 Guest-, is not printed by either; and that the York Missal (No. 33) 
 was used for the Surtees Society edition in 1874. 
 
 Among the pieces of experience which I have gained in making 
 this catalogue, this is one — that there is a large opportunity for 
 displaying ignorance and making mistakes in this class of work. 
 There are seyeral anonymous tracts which I have not identified : 
 it is most probable that those who know more of mediaeval 
 literature than myself will be able to give these to their right 
 authors. I shall be very grateful to any one who will let me know 
 where I have gone wrong, or will supply me with the information 
 which I have lacked the means of obtaining. 
 
 MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES. 
 
 1 Liber Niger Scaccarii, ed. 2, ii. 683. ^ Historic Notices of Rotherham. 
 
 [A note of some printed Books whose names occur in the Inventory of the 
 College of Rotherham {pp. 5^8). 
 
 p. 5, 1. 25. Augustinus de vita Christiana etc. : 2 fo. stomacum facial. 
 Printed at Cologne, by Ulrich Zell, 1467, 4°. 
 
 p. 7, 1. 18. Rabanus de vniuerso : 2 fo. illius mc comparaui. = Hain 
 *i3669 (Strasburg, R. printer) F°. 
 
 ib. 1. 19. De attestacione fidei : 2 fo. vicesimus primus. Nuremberg, 
 F. Creussner, 1477, F°. 
 
 ib. 1. 26. Defensorium fidei : 2 fo. de christo summopere. Utrecht cir. 
 1473, F"- 
 
 ib. 1. 37. Speculum exemplorum: 2 fo. sihi. (Deventer, R. Paffroed 
 1 48 1, F°. I. 3 begins sibi). 
 
 p. 8, 1. 10. Theologia naturalis (Raymundus de Sabunde): 2 fo. dare 
 est deo. Deventer, R. Paffroedt, cir. 1480, F°.] 
 
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 1. A. I. I. [C. M. A. 693\ 
 
 Halimota tenta apud Langele. 
 
 Vellum, 19JX 13, ff. 130, varying number of lines to a page. 
 Cent. XV : well written. No donor's name. 
 
 a" (wants i, 7 cancelled) b^ c^ d" e" P || g" h' i' k' P m" n' o* (4 is 
 blank) || p' q^ r' (wants 8). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Halimota apud Langele. 
 
 The first is Hal. ap. Lang, post Hokeday anno R. R. Henrici xxviij" (^8 Hen. HI.). 
 A quire or more is lost at the beginning. 
 
 f. 8 ^ is blank: in margin is: nichil inveni de anno R. R. H. xliii". 
 9 /', 10 a : a similar note for the years xlv and xlvi Hen. IH. 
 
 There is a gap after 13 Ed. II. to i Ed. III. : probably a quire 
 is missing. 
 
 In and after 26 Ed. III. the name Curia de Langele appears 
 instead of Halimota. The record goes down to Easter 51 Ed. III. 
 A later note at the end says that there are 55 leaves in this part 
 of the book. 
 
 Quires a-f are foliated 2-48, quires g-o^ i-S9) and o* is a blank 
 leaf Quires p-r contain Halimota and Curiae held at Langeley 
 and at S. Albans sul> fraxino from i Hen. VI. to 38 Hen. VI. 
 A note at end gives the number of leaves as 2... There are 
 23 leaves. 
 
 The first and last quires have been a good deal damaged by 
 fire. 
 
 The number of proper names contained in the volume is 
 enormous. The Langley referred to is Abbots Langley, Herts. 
 
 ' The references are to Catalogi MStorum Angliae et Hiherniae 1697, I. 3, p. 103. 
 The volumes to which no note is attached do not appear there. 
 
 S. MSS. I 
 
2 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 2 
 
 2. A. I. 2. 
 
 Statuta Collegii Jesu apud Rotherham. 
 
 Vellum, 13 X 9, ff. 18, in the original red leather folding cover, 
 the lower /. corner burnt off. Cent. xv. 
 
 Foundation and Statutes of Abp Rotherham's College at 
 Rotherham, called Collegium Jliesu de Rotherham. Presented to 
 the College Library by Dr Jos. Craven, Master from 1723 to 
 1728 {Registrum Bibliothecae, p. 39). 
 
 Two blank fly-leaves at the beginning. 
 
 f. I is bordered with feathered work mostly in green. At the 
 bottom are the arms of the See of York surmounted by the motto 
 Da te dec : on R. are Rotherham's arms (verl, three roes argent, 
 two and one) and the same motto : at the top, the same arms 
 impaled with those of the See of York, the same motto below. 
 The initial, surmounted by the motto, has a full-length figure of 
 Rotherham, on a gold ground, in blue chasuble, dalmatic, alb, 
 mitre, and cross. 
 
 The text of this page contains the foundation of the College, 
 which is to consist of a Provost who is to be a Doctor, or at least a 
 Bachelor, of Divinity, three fellows who are to teach grammar, 
 music, and writing and arithmetic, and six choristers, besides five 
 chantry priests. 
 
 f. I b. De Prefeccione prepositi. 
 
 2. <De f>orma Juramenti prestandi pe7' prepositwn. 
 1 b. De predicacionibus per preposittim facie7idis. 
 
 De incompatibilitate prepositure. 
 
 3. De stipendio Prepositi. 
 
 De electione tri^ivi sociorum. 
 De iuramento sociortun. 
 
 3 b. De cameris sociorum. 
 
 De salario sociorum. 
 
 Propter quas causas socii debent reiiioueri a Collegio. 
 
 Quod millus socius habeat beneficia. 
 
 Quod Prepositus et socii sedeant in v < iia vieiisa > . 
 
 4. De perhendinantibus recipiendis in Collegio. 
 
 De C07nmu7iis septi7/ia7ialibus socio7'U77i et perhe7tdi}7a7tciu//i. 
 
 <De prouisio7i> e facie7tda per prepositimi itt C077i7ntmie fcuilius supp07-tentur. 
 
 4 b. De focalibus ca77ierar7it7i p7-ouide7idis per prepositu77i. 
 
 Quod prepositi et socii teiiea7itur iTiteresse diimiis ill ecclesia pa7-ochie. 
 De e.xe77ipcione prepositi et socio7-U7/i ab obedimtia Vicarij. 
 
MS. 2] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 3 
 
 De missis dicendis per socios. 
 
 5. De collectls dicendis in missis. 
 
 De exequiis soleinpnibus et de distribucionilms faciendis paiipcribus in eisdem. 
 
 5 b. De exequiis prinaiis et aliis suffragiis. 
 
 De Electione sex piierorum. 
 
 6. De missa Jhesu et antiphona beate mane decantandis. 
 De Invencione Panis et Vini. 
 
 De prouisione liberate, 
 
 6 b. De continua residencia socioritm. 
 
 De litdis inhonestis et locis sicspectis ettitandis. 
 
 7. De correccionibus delinqtiencium infra Collegium. 
 De locacione reddituum Collegij ad jirmam. 
 
 De cista et Sigillo communi. 
 
 7 b. De Inuentariis faciendis per prepositum. 
 
 8. Propter quas causas prepositus debet ammoueri. 
 
 8 b, De intimacione facienda ordinario super dilapidacione et aliis delictis Prepositi. 
 
 De lectttra statuta bis in anno, 
 
 De correccionibus sociorum per prepositum faciendis. 
 
 9. De Amocione ptterorttm et sociorum propter decrescenciam possessionuin Collegii. 
 De pena infringencitim seu contraueniencium statuta, 
 
 gb. Licencia Regia. Dated Westminster, Jan. 22, 27 Ed. IV. : attested by Rother- 
 ham in his house at Westminster, Feb. i, J482, and by Robert, Dean of York, and the 
 Chapter of York, July 22, 1484. 
 
 10. Inventory of the possessions left to the College by the Founder (see below). 
 13 iJ. Letter of Rotherham to Henry CarnebuU, Archdeacon of York, granting him 
 
 a right to the prayers of the College during his life, and an annual mass after his death, in 
 consideration of the benefactions he had made to the College : dated Cawood, Sept. 20, 
 1499. Confirmation of the above by William Graibarne, Provost, and John Naylor, 
 instructor artis scriptorie. 
 
 14. Inventory of goods given by Henry CarnebuU (see below). 
 
 H b, 15 a are blank. 
 
 15 (5, 16a. Note super reformacioites statutorum per Mag. Henr. CarnebuU 
 
 Archid. Ebor. traductas. 
 
 Inventory : 
 
 localia data per venerabilem Thomam Archiepiscopum Eboracensem et acquisita 
 post mortem eius. 
 
 In primis crux magna deaurata cum pede deaurato ponderant in toto cum pede viij 1. 
 v vnc. 
 
 Item vnum magnum vas cum aspersorio pro aqua benedicta ponderant troie v li. 
 xj vnc. 
 
 Item duo candelebra parua argentea ponderat iij li. v vnc. 
 
 Item censoria argentea partim deaurata ponderat de troie vj li. 
 
 (i) 
 Item vna nauis seu carchesa pro frankyncense ad cothap. (? conchas) 
 
 Item a goblet deauratus cum coopertorio deaurato scriptus super calices honor et gloria 
 soli deo empt ex pecunijs collegij. 
 
 I — 2 
 
4 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 2 
 
 (Then in the original hand) 
 
 Imprimis a grete chales with the patent gilt graven opon J>e paten Benedictus qui 
 venit in nomine domini and opon the fote of he chales Ihc Xpc and a crucifix enamyled 
 Weyeng xxxij vnc. lakyng di. quarter of an vnc. 
 
 Item an odir lesse chales w' the paten gilt written aboute be cuppe of be chales 
 Calicem sahitaris accipiam et nomen din inuocabo and the Trinite enamyled in be mydde 
 of be paten. Weyeng xxiiij vnc. lakyng di. quarter of an vnc. 
 
 Item a fair paxbred gilt w' )>e trinite enamyled weyeng ix vnc. di. qft. 
 
 Item an odir paxbred gilt w' a berall in be myddis Weyeng ix vnc. qrt di. qrt of an 
 vnc. 
 
 Item a par of Cruetts gilt w' Ihc xpc graven on be syde of bem Weyeng vij vnc. di. 
 and di. qft of an vnc. 
 
 Item an odir par of Cruetts gilt w' pynnys in be toppes of them weyeng vij vnc. di. 
 
 (The hand changes.) 
 
 Vnum paxbred argent, deauratum habens ymaginem christi boart a"™ {sic) gregorij 
 pety ponderans quinque vncias et di. 
 
 Item vnus calex infra Capellam Jhesu cuius anterior pars habet ymaginem crucifixi 
 et ponderat vndecem vncias. 
 
 Item vna crux argentea deaurata stans super mangum lapidem de berall et ponderat 
 liij vncias. 
 
 Item sex plane pecie argent, ad cooport. ponderant Ixx^'v vncias cum vno quartar. 
 
 < Item > xij coclearia argentea ponderancia vncias xiiij . In the margin is added quorum 
 quinque fuerunt furto ablata. 
 
 le pix ad continendum sacramentum ponder, viij vnc. & iij quarters aliud vero 
 
 in excambio. 
 
 <: aliud > le paxbred b {sic) cum osse cuiusdam sancti ponder, x vnc. et quarter. 
 
 < par > peluium Argent, partim deaurat. habendum ~] 
 
 vulpim in fundis eorum ponderancium J ^'''"J ^ '• 
 
 argentea deaurata ponderant. xlvj vnc. 
 
 pro Sacramento ponderant. iiij"' vnc. et iij qi^s et di. 
 
 ...capella cum batillo ferreo ponderant. 
 
 f. \o b {original hand). 
 
 (e) 
 Item a swte of Westments of Cloth of gold for Subdiacon Deacon & prest with a 
 
 coope. 
 
 Item an odir sewte of Westments of Red velwett browdred w' Vivat rex of gold for 
 Subdiacon Diacon & preste and a coope be orfrays of grene velwett. 
 purpull velwet 
 
 Item an odir sewte of Red Bawdkyn wrought w' fiowrys of gold for Subdiacon Diacon 
 
 & preste w' (oute erased) a coape. 
 
 Item a vestment for a preste of blak velwett browdred w' braunches of gold. 
 
 Item a vestment of Red velwett powderd w' fflowrys of gold havying in. be Orfray on 
 be bak an Aungell in his hand writen Sanctus. 
 
 Item a corporas case of white and red brawdred with gold. 
 
 Item a mytor for be barnebishop of cloth of gold w' two knopps of siluer gilt & 
 enamyled. 
 
 Item a vestment of Sylke blew colowr w' flowrs. 
 
 Item a vestment of Red sylk with lyons. 
 
 Item vj hangyngs of Red sylk for Awters. 
 
MS. 2] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 5 
 
 Item vj lytill Curteyns of Red syllck-. (Later hand in margin adds) Item vj small 
 curtens of blewe silke & ij of white siike. 
 
 Item iij lytyll pesis of Cloth of gold. 
 
 Item ij Corporas Casis of Red veluet. 
 
 Item iij Superaltaris consecrat. 
 
 Item ij Auterclothis consecrat. 
 
 Item oon Carpet in Breyde oon yerde & iij quarters. 
 
 Item oon \^estment vv' gold vpon veluet w' peyrell hauyng a ymage of Seynt Kateryne 
 on the Backe. 
 
 [Latt-r.) 
 
 Item a \vyght vestment of damask. 
 
 Item a vestment of red bawdkyn w' trees & lyons. 
 
 Item sermones super dominicalia per totum annum extracti de sermonibus Johannis 
 Abbatis de villa, m. Odonis et m. Rogeri de Salesbyry i*"" fo Cum maria. 
 
 Item sermones aurei de Sanctis ffratris Leonardi de Vtino i fo quod diuine. 
 
 Item sermones euangeliorum dominicalium totius anni editi per Albertum de Padwey 
 
 1 fo Celestiiim Itiminarium. 
 
 Item sermones ffratris Roberti Episcopi Aquensis ordinis minorum super opus quad- 
 ragesimele i fo Arbitrii violencia. 
 
 Item sermones ffratris Michaelis mediolani ordinis minorum per aduentum <et per> 
 (pStS) 
 quadragesimam i fo Sunt peccato et sunt de tribus peccatis mor<talibus> s. superbia 
 luxuria et auaricia. 
 
 Item sermones eiusdem Michaelis super opus quadrages<imale et de quatuor> vicijs 
 capitalibus s. Gula Ira Inuidia et Accidia i fo 
 
 Item Augustinus de vita Christiana de singularitate <cIericorum > de eo quod 
 
 psalmista ait Quis est homo qui < > (f. ir) de diuersis materijs raoralibus i fo 
 
 stoiiiacum faciat. 
 
 Item liber decretorum i fo appellauerunt. 
 
 Item pharatra doctorum 2 fo coratn Ileitis. 
 
 Item malum granatum 2 fo sanctus privia. 
 
 Item Bartholomeus de proprietatibus rerum 1 fo ad infinita. 
 
 Item coxamunis glosa super psalterium 1 io pite &' corpora. 
 
 Item vita TibuUij poete Item in eodem Salustius in operibus suis de vita eiusdem 2 fo 
 inter ea. , 
 
 Item Terencius in comedijs cum epistolis Pogii 2 fo qid scire. 
 
 Item glose diuerse super Terencium Item Remigius super Morcianum 2 fo quibus agit. 
 
 Item Remediarium conuersorum editum per petrum blesensem cum multis alijs ser- 
 monibus optimis 2 fo de inuidia. 
 
 Item Tumbacus de consolacione theologie 2 fo ante tabulam libri Capitula. 
 
 Item Augustinus de Trinitate Item Boecius de Trinitate Item Ricardus de Trinitate 
 Item Augustinus de Jeiunio sabbati et de conflictu virtutum et viciorum de agone 
 christiano de vtilitate agendi penitenciam de spiritu (et) anima Item idem super genesin 
 ad literam 2 fo qua recte pater etjilius. 
 
 Item magister sentenciarum 2 fo doctrina Christiana. 
 
 Item summa Raymundi et in eodem libro Jnnocencius de contemptu niundi et 
 miseria hominis Item exposicio misse secundum Remigium Item alia exposicio misse 
 
 ?"■' 
 
 2 fo pro benefuio. 
 
6 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 2 
 
 Item summa penitencialis cum alijs sermoiiibus 2 io pro recipienda. 
 
 Item communis glosa super actus apostolorum 2 fo in glosa B sensus est. 
 
 Item exposicio bona et vtilis super oracionem dominicam super aue maria et Credo 
 2 io figuram legitur. 
 
 Item Gregorius in pastoralibus 2 fo apes. 
 
 Item manipulus florum 2 fo redde quod accepisti. 
 
 Item exposicio super declamaciones senece, sermones multi, modus sermocinandi et 
 tractatus misse 2 fo dus pelli sed excusatur. 
 
 Item Epistole Ouidij de arte amandi et remedio amoris. Idem in ibice | lucanus 
 
 2 fo 710S pilon. 
 
 Item liber collacionum multarum 2 fo Altendite. 
 
 Isidorus ethnicologisarum 2 fo diuident sui. 
 
 de 
 
 sidorus de summo bono et meditaciones Barnardi Raymundus. 
 
 et penitencia 2 fo did posse. 
 
 1 fo et si presii . 
 
 pistolas Ouidij Ouidium siue titulo Ouidium de ponto de tristibus 
 
 Claudianum in maiori parte Ouidium arte amandi Poetriam 
 
 oracij Principium. 
 
 f. II b. 
 
 Boecij de consolacione Epistolas oracij Poetriam eiusdem sccundo sermones eiusdem 
 lucanum Ouidium Metliam(orphosibus) breuiter Theodolum sed deficit principium Ouidium 
 de ponto 2 fo adduxerit. 
 
 Item Ouidius de arte amandi et de remedio amoris lucanus de bello punico et gesta 
 Alexandri 2 fo sed magis ex aliqua. 
 
 Item moralizaciones lire super biblia 2 fo Adam vera. 
 
 Item Hugo de sacramentis et flores Bernardi 2 io ficacione rerum. 
 
 Item ffranciscus de vita solitaria et de remediis vtriusque fortune cum alijs 2 fo sme 
 fine. 
 
 Item sermones lincolniensis 2 fo vsurpacio. 
 
 Item Salustius in Cantilanario et Jugurtino cum Inuectiuis 2 fo detur qui. 
 
 Item summula confessionis ffratris Antonini Archiep. florentini 2 io familia. 
 
 Item parua biblia 2 fo quoque obtulit. 
 
 Item doctor de lira super machabeis et nouo testamento 2 fo iransmutata. 
 
 Item concordancie 2 fo quippiam. 
 
 Item prima pars biblie 2 fo talis. 
 
 Item dicta lincolniensis 1 fo tibus. 
 
 Item doctor de lira super uetus testamentum 1 fo me et cum. 
 
 Item secunda secunde sancti Thome 2 fo possunt. 
 
 Item psalterium glosatum 2 fo princeps. 
 
 Item Epistle pauli glosate 2 fo mortificati. 
 
 Item oraciones TuUij 2 fo barzanes. 
 
 Item i'^ pars biblie 2 io Jacob. 
 
 Item Augustinus de ciuitate dei 2 fo portans. 
 
 Item liber cronicarum 2 fo Brito. 
 
 Item Glosa communis super librum Job cum opere extracto de ~| 
 libris moralium beati Gregorij super librum Job J ^ '^° *"''^"-^ *«'«• 
 
 Item tabula super doctorem de lira 2 fo dauid. 
 
MS. 2] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 7 
 
 Item Epistole familiares TuIIij 1 fo linns pater. 
 
 Item Exposicio super cantica canticorum et apochalipsim 2 fo In bono opere. 
 
 Item commvuiis glosa super duodecim prophetas 1 fo lilruin esse. 
 
 Item Hugo de S. Victore super Ezechielem Et Ricardus de S. Victor statu in- 
 
 terioris hominis post lapsum cum alijs sermonibus 1 fo qnatiior fa 
 
 Item questiones sancti Thome de malo 2 fo sed malum. 
 
 Item liber de partibus fidei cum originalibus beati Augustini 
 
 Item Gregorius super Ezechielem 1 fo attestacione 
 
 Item pupilla oculi 2 fo consecracionibtis 
 
 f. 11 a. 
 
 Item Thomas de Alquino contra errores grecorum et articulis fidei et sacramentis 
 ecclesie 2 fo de alijs. 
 
 Item Apostrophe ad summum Pontificem Bonifacium Octauum et ysoderus Episcopus 
 super tribus libris sentenciarum 2 fo Ad probacionem. 
 
 Item Januensis in Catholicon 2 fo esse vt dicit. 
 
 Item legenda sanctorum 2 fo de sancto kalixto. 
 
 Item fortaliciimi fidei 2 fo gloriam et honorem. 
 
 Item Rabanus de vniuerso 2 fo illius ncc comparaui. 
 
 Item de attestacione fidei 2 fo vicesiimis primus. 
 
 Item Barlaam 2 fo iiovem in conhimeliam. 
 
 Item Josaphus de hello iudaico 2 fo nee eniin miserias. 
 
 Item plinius 2 fo qztia inieium omnis peceati. 
 
 Item exposicio moralis duorum nocturnorum psalterij 2 fo eariiatein. 
 
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 Item Augustinus de Ancona 2 fo questio nana. 
 
 Item iTranciscus super primum sentenciarum 2 fo toria non possimt. 
 
 Item defensorium fidei 2 fo de christo summopere. 
 
 Item quidam libellus vite sancte katerine 1 fo tarn beate katarine. 
 
 Item quidam libellus scriptus contra dicta peycok 2 fo naturalis homo. 
 
 Item liber originalium 2 fo sub colore episcopatus. 
 
 Item liber lincolniensis de venenis 2 fo de secztndo mandato. 
 
 Item liber de laudibus beate marie 2 fo apciatts ponerem. 
 
 Item Bonauentora super secundum sentenciarum 2 fo deformauit a sua. 
 
 Item lactancius de diuinis institucionibus 2 fo et quod ex calore. 
 
 Item doctor de lira super prophetas maiores et minores 2 fo tempore eieckie. 
 
 Item pulcrum missale secundum vsum Ebor. 2 fo omnis Judea. 
 
 (Another hand.) Item glosa super nouum testamentum 2 fo abraham. 
 
 Item speculum exemplorum 2 fo sibi. 
 
 (The former hand.) Item portiforium secundum usum Ebor. secundum fo. deus qui. 
 
 Item Glosa super vetus testamentum secundum fo videlicet. 
 
 Item summa dictaminis secundum fo argueretur. 
 
 Item Casuarius Juris canonici secundum fo consecracione. 
 
 Item postilla lyre super psalterium cum alijs 2 fo ipius. 
 
 liber sermonum dorainicalium cum alijs 2 iofigura. 
 
 ma pars quinquageni Augustini 2 fo subsequentur. 
 
 Angelica. 
 
 fo aula. 
 
 vij 2 fo die quod L et s. 
 
 2 fo et completa. 
 
8 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [mS. 2 
 
 f. 12 (5 in paler ink. 
 
 Prima pars lire super bibliam cuius 2 fo sum sed formosa. 
 Secunda pars lire cuius 2 fo notatur cum dicitur. 
 Tertia pars lire cuius 2 fo ysaie illuminas. 
 Quarta pars lire cuius 2 fo ea que vd. 
 Liber sermonum Roberti de licio cuius 2 fo sacerdote. 
 Opus magistri Ambrosij cuius 2 fo Angeli. 
 fflores Bernard! cum alijs cuius 2 fo e duobus. 
 Ambrosius de trinitate cum alijs cuius 2 fo que igiiur. 
 Theologia naturalis cuius 2 fo Dare est deo. 
 [added) liber de potencia del cuius 2 fo sed mediantibus. 
 
 f. 13 « in the first hand. 
 
 Item cista communis parua ferrata continens Sigillum commune continens mensuram 
 dimed. virge et quartarij. 
 
 Item Alia Cista magna bene ferrata continens in longitudine virgam et quartarium 
 virge. 
 
 Item Alia Cista Lignea continens tres Erp. (erased) in longitudine quasi duas virgas. 
 
 f. 14 a. 
 
 Inuentarium localium per venerandum virum Mag. Henricum CarnebuU Archidia- 
 conum Ebor. primum benefactorem CoUegij Ihesu in Rotherham. 
 
 In primis dedit et deliberavit ad dicti CoUegij vsum vnum magnum portiferium 
 pulcrum et completum vocatum le cowcher cum magnis claspes argentijs et deauratis 
 cum ymaginibus saluatoris et beate marie virginis operatis in eisdem necnon cum vno 
 registro argenteo et deaurato Jncipiens 2° folio in capite eiusdem libri Vobis fratres etc. 
 
 Item vnum pulcrum et completum missale simile ornatum predicto portiferio cum 
 magnis claspes argentijs et deauratis et cum vno registro argenteo deaurato Jncipiens 
 secundo fo. in capite libri lima (sc. lerosolima) et omnis Judea. 
 
 (A space.) 
 
 Item vnum par pelluium argenti in parte deauratum cum floribus vocatis Columbyns 
 ponderant. quadraginta et duas vncias. 
 
 Item duo aquaria argenti vocata Ewers in parte deaurata cum floribus de Columbyns 
 in cooportura eorundem ponderancia inter se li vnc. et di. 
 
 Item dedit duas oUas argentias in parte deauratas et winding chased ponderantes 
 inter se Ixxvij vnc. iij quart. 
 
 Item vnum magnum calicem argenti et deauratum cum patena et in eadem ymago 
 beate marie virginis cum filio suo in gremeo vocat. Mare of pety et in pede calicis 
 Christus super crucem cum maria et Johanne ponderantem xxxiiij vnc. 
 
 Item prefatur Mag. Archidiaconus dedit et deliberauit predicto preposito ad vsum 
 coUegij vt supra vnnam crateram cum cooportura operata cum vno circulo de folijs vocatis 
 hawthorne leyves et in summitate eiusdem vnum scochon cum tribus floribus de lylles et 
 vnum barr. cum tribus billitis ponderant. viginti vncias. In the margin is added: Ista 
 cratera fuit cambita et alterata in empcione 2 gobletarum deauratarum. 
 
 Item par candelabrorum argentiorum partim deauratorum ponderant. xlvj vnc. 
 
 (A space : the hand changes.) 
 
 Item idem henricus dedit predicto Collegio in festo Concepcionis beate marie vltima 
 ante mortem suam Jn primis vnum Not cum coopertorio scriptum circa pedem et ciphum 
 < b > etter may be when god wolle. 
 
 aliam mz'rram stantem haubentem Jhesus scriptum in fundo. 
 
MSS. 3, 4] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. Q 
 
 m aliam habentem nomen Jhesus scripLum in fuiido semel et in circiimferencia ter. 
 
 rram habentem Jhesus scriptum in fiindo sohim. 
 
 larium ex argento pro pueris sine coopertorio. 
 
 3. A. I. 3. 
 
 FUNDATIO COLLEGII JeSU APUD RoTHERHAM. 
 
 Vellum roll, 3 ft. 9 x 11^. Cent, xv (1498). 
 
 Containing a copy of Rotherham's Will, or Charter of Founda- 
 tion of his College of Jesus at Rotherham, with a list of the lands, 
 vestments, plate, and church books, which he bequeaths thereto. 
 
 It is attested by Thomas Water, notary. 
 
 The roll was given to the College by Dr Jos. Craven, late 
 Master {Reg. p. 39). 
 
 With it is a paper with an epitaph of Will. Wenlock, from Lord 
 Wenlock's Chapel in Luton Chancel 
 
 4. A. I. 4. 
 
 Miscellaneous Theological Collections. 
 
 Paper, 12^ x 7f, ff. cir. 200, 40 lines to a page. Cent. xvii. 
 Bequeathed by Mr Will. Papworth, of Hitchin, in 1708, along 
 with a copy of The Heavenly Academie by Rous, So says a letter 
 signed Ed. Hitchin, dated Ap. 7, 1708, which is stuck in at the end 
 of the book. 
 
 On the last leaf is a note in Papworth's hand. 
 
 For y" Library of Sydney Col. in Camb. if y"^ please to 
 accept of it. Not y" mite, but the Mind. 2 Cor. 8. 12. 
 Phil. 2. 5 to 12. 
 
 The contents are written continuously in a clear hand, and 
 are entirely theological. There are no divisions and no table of 
 matters. 
 
 A. I. 5- 
 
 Vacat. 
 
lO 
 
 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 [MSS. S, 6 
 
 5. A. I. 
 
 OuiDii Metamorphoses. 
 
 f. I 
 
 f. 5 
 
 Vellum, 8| x 6^ ff. 164, 38 lines to a normal page. Cent, xiii, 
 without donor's name. English (?) binding of cent. xvii. 
 
 Conation : a.'Q) (wants i, 6) b^^ (+ i, 7*) c» d'' e^ f " g' h'^ (wants 
 12) i» k^ (wants 6) 1'^ m» n^ o« p^ q^ f s' f u' v". 
 
 Contents : 
 
 1. A prose account of the stories contained in the Metamorphoses: 
 
 mutilated at the beginning and end : the first page much rubbed : 
 74 lines to a page :. the initials not inserted .... 
 
 2. The Metamorphoses of Ovid 
 
 With scholia in a very small hand : the outer margin has generally 
 
 2 columns of scholia. The text of the poem occupies about J of 
 the breadth of the page. There are interlinear glosses, appa- 
 rently all in Latin. 
 
 The original first leaf of the text having been a good deal rubbed, 
 a newer first leaf (cent, xiv) has been inserted containing 11. i- 
 78, vfithout scholia : on it is an ovifner's name 
 Lebaduc 
 1606 
 (then a scrawl) followed by er 1606. 
 
 There is a similar insertion after f. 1 1 of a slip containing another 
 copy of i 638-550, and on the verso in a later hand 568-585. 
 
 The colophon is 
 
 E'plicit liber ouidii methamorphoseos 
 
 bix sex milenos uersus hoc carmine scriptos 
 
 sed ter quinque minus continet ouidius. 
 
 These verses occurred in MS Balliol. cxlii, now missing. 
 
 6. A. I. 7. 
 
 Statuta Acad. Cantabr. 
 
 Paper, 9| x 7I pp. 446. Cent, xviii. Handsomely bound. Given 
 
 by Job. Lawson, Senior Fellow (B.A. 174S). 
 
 The writing is good. There are additions 
 June 25, 1802. 
 
 the latest is dated 
 
MSS. 7—9] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 1 1 
 
 7. A. I. 8. 
 
 Miscellanea Memorabilia de Parochia Swanscombiensi 
 IN Agro Cantiano, a Johanne Lawson ejusdem 
 Rectore Collecta et Inscripta. 
 
 Paper, 14I x 9^, 28 pp. written, the rest left blank. Cent, xviii. 
 
 Bequeathed by Mr Lawson, through Mr Wollaston of Chisle- 
 hurst, whose note to that effect is dated Sept. 18, 1780. Loose 
 papers in the book refer chiefly to Stonecastle Charity in Swans- 
 combe. 
 
 The book contains 
 
 A List of Rectors. 
 
 A Terrier of the Glebe. 
 
 Particulars of Stonecastle Charity. 
 
 Assessments. 
 
 8. A. I. 9. 
 
 GuiLL. Whitaker, Quaest. Theol. 
 
 Paper, 8 x 5|, ff. cir. 200, varying number of lines. Cent, xvi, 
 xvii. 
 
 The name Gul. Whitaker is several times written on f i. 
 
 The hand is extremely small, neat, and contracted. The con- 
 tents are lecture notes: one sermon is dated 9 Oct., 1595. The 
 subjects of the lectures are mostly Controversial Theology, Bap- 
 tism, Oaths, the Eucharist, Ceremonies, etc. 
 
 9. A. I. 10. 
 
 Lecture Notes by Thomas Balguy, B.D. 
 
 Read in S. John's College in 1756. On Morality or Natural 
 Law. 
 
 Paper, 8 x 6J, ff. 42. Copied by a pupil or amanuensis. 
 
12 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 10 — 23 
 
 10—20. A. I. II— 21. 
 
 Nine volumes of Dr John Hey's Lectures on Morality, presented 
 by his brother, Richard Hey: delivered between 1756 and 1777. 
 
 One volume of Lectures on Logic, by the same. 
 
 One volume containing Richard Hey's note accompanying the 
 books, John Hey's notes on the Norrisian Professorship and Lady 
 Margaret's Readership, and some Lecture notes. 
 
 21. A. I. 22. 
 
 Daniel's Prophecy of the 70 Weeks in xii Eccle- 
 siastical Lectures. 
 
 Paper, 7| x 6, ff. 99. 
 
 The twelfth and last lecture was delivered August 26, 1723. 
 
 22. A. I. 23 — 25. 
 
 A Bible (printed by Roger Daniel) in 2 vols. : xviith cent. 
 A New Testament. 
 
 Interleaved, and full of minutely written notes. 
 The N. T. belonged to T. Comber, A.M., in 1669. 
 Given by Dr Comber, Rector of Buckworth, Hunts.: the notes 
 are all by Thos. Comber, Dean of Durham (He^: p. 53). 
 
 The Bible has no name, but is uniform in binding with the N. T. 
 
 23. A. 2. I. 
 
 Martin Luther's Tischreden. 
 
 Printed at Frankfort am Mayn, 1574. 
 
 Folio. Given by Wm Dugard, Scholar ? (alumnus), in 165... 
 It is the very copy from which Henry Bell translated : his 
 version was printed at London in 1652. See Register, p. m. 
 
MSS. 24—29] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 1 3 
 
 24. A. 2. 2. [C. M. A. 691. 
 
 A Mathematicall Discourse, 
 by Jo. Waymouth, ded. to Sir John Harington. 
 
 Paper, 12^ x 8, pp. 116. Cent. xvii. Neatly written, with figures. 
 It contains solutions of various geometrical problems. 
 
 Given by Lucy, Countess of Bedford, and Lady Anne Haring- 
 ton, wife of Sir John Harington {Reg. p. 23). 
 
 25. A. 2. 3. [C. M. A. 692. 
 
 Index Controversiarum Christianae Fidel 
 
 Paper, 11 x 6f , pp. 7 written, and a good many blank. Cent, 
 xvii. 
 
 Neatly written : it is a list of points at issue chiefly between 
 the Roman and Reformed Churches. 
 
 26. A. 2. 4. [C. M. A. 694. 
 
 The Parson's Law, 
 by Wm Hughes, Esq., of Gray's Inn. 
 
 Paper, 12 x 7I ff. cir. 100: bought in 1639. Cent, xvii (early): 
 in an ugly hand. 
 
 27—29. A. 2. 5, 6, 7. [C. M. A. 695-7. 
 
 Edmundi Castelli, S.T.P. 
 
 Notae et Observationes propria manu scriptae in Lexicon 
 
 Pentaglotton Schindleri. 
 
 Not in the class. 
 
 Given by Theophilus Pickering, B.D., Fellow, Canon of Durham 
 
 {Reg. p. 35)- 
 
14 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 30, 3 1 
 
 30. A. 2. 8. [C. M. A. 698. 
 
 HisTORiA Tripartita. 
 
 Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica. 
 
 Vellum, 12 X 8f, ff. 74 and 59. Two volumes bound together. 
 Vol. I in double columns of 63 lines each, Vol. Il in double columns 
 of 83 lines each. Cent, xiv and xv. Presented by Wm Pratt, M.A., 
 Vicar of Bossal, Yorks. {Reg. p. 35). 
 
 Collation : i^-xii'^ xiii' : 74 leaves || b''' c'^ d'^ e'^ f ''^ (wants 5-8) 
 g* (wants 3) 59 leaves. 
 
 Provenance. Probably Durham. On the first leaf of each 
 volume is 'Sum Johannis Pilkingtoni Dunelmensis 1591.' 
 
 Contents : 
 
 I. Historia Tripartita. 
 
 In a hand of late fourteentli century, close and rather ugly, rude ornament on f. i. 
 The second leaf begins with the words ob hoc omnes greci. 
 
 II. Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica. 
 
 In a hand of late fourteenth or early fifteenth century in pale ink : red and blue 
 initials. 
 
 There is a gap in book v. ix hiis in partibus po... to xviii castitati et paci, and a leaf 
 is gone at the end of v. xxiv after In cantica canticorum libros vii. 
 
 The second leaf begins -am reuersus prius claudo. 
 
 31. A. 2. 9. [C. M. A. 699. 
 
 S. AuGusTiNi, Ambrosii, etc., quaedam. 
 
 Vellum, iif x7f, ff. 154, mostly in double columns of 50 or 
 69 lines each. Cent. xiv. 
 
 Given by Wm Pratt, M.A. 
 
 Collation : a'' (wants 1-4) b'' (wants 8) c'' d''' (wants 8) e"-h'^ i'" 
 (+ I) k'^ V (+ I) m" n'" (+ I) o" (wants 10). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 1. S. Augustinus super Genesim ad literam f. i 
 
 Imperfect : begins in iv. 10 ne dum dicitur laborem putare. 
 
 2. S. Ambrosii Exameron ........ cj 
 
 3. Anonymus de Musica : in another hand. Single lines, 71 to 
 
 a page : many diagrams 08 (5 
 
 Inc. Omnium siquidem perceptio sensuum ita sponte ac nhli- 
 
 ter quibusdam. 
 £xp/. Quoniara dupplicatum non ei coequatur quod monstrat 
 
 presens descriptio. Two diagrams follow. 
 
MS. 32] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 15 
 
 It is in three books, of which the second begins on f. 103, the 
 third on f. 107 <5 : this last book is in xx chapters. The rubrication 
 is very incomplete. 
 
 4. Chalcidii expositio in Timaeum Platonis 119,5 
 
 In the same hand but in double columns : full of diagrams : on 
 
 f. 125 a is one with rude busts of Sol, Terra, and Luna in 
 medallion, drawn in red and yellow. Ends imperfectly with 
 f. 140. 
 
 5. Aristotelis metaphysicae libri decem 141 
 
 The first leaf is gone : the text begins -qtie circa solem et astra 
 
 et de uniuersi generatione (i. 2). It is in a different hand, 
 in double columns: the J?, column of f. 154 is cut off and 
 the text ends in lib. X et nerui proprie tamen hee passiones. 
 
 32. A. 2. 10. [C. M. A. 700. 
 
 Bedae Flores Augustini super Epistolam S. Paul: ad 
 
 ROMANOS. 
 
 Vellum, 13! X 9, ff. i68, double columns of 36 lines each. Cent, 
 xii, xiii. Given by Wm Pratt, M.A. Modern binding. 
 
 Collation : i^-xxi^ (i-viii numbered). 
 
 Provenance. Durham : on f. i « is the letter C : f 2 begins 
 Unde Saulus. In the Catalogi Veteres of Durham (1395, Surtees 
 Soc. p. 64) is this entry : 
 
 A. Flores Bedae super Ep. Pauli ad Rom. ii fo., Unde Saulus. [In Libraria.] 
 EC. Flores B. super omnes Epp. Pauli praeter ad Rom. 1 1 fo., midivi. [Now at 
 Durham.] 
 
 The volume was for use in the Refectory : on f. i a at the bottom is written in a xvth 
 cent, hand : 
 
 Incipiunt flores venerabilis Bede presbiteri excerpti de diversis libris beati Augustini 
 episcopi super epistolam Pauli ad romanos. 
 
 ij" die et deinceps sic incipiendum est. De floribus venerabilis B. presbiteri excerptis 
 de etc. 
 
 The text is preceded on f. i a by a short Preface of Bede's own. This and the text of 
 the Flores on f. i ^ are headed by two magnificent initials, the first of interlaced blue and 
 pink bands on gold on red, the second of interlaced red, pink, and blue bands on gold on 
 blue. The writing is fine. 
 
l6 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 33 
 
 33. A. 2. II. [C. M. A. 701. 
 
 MiSSALE EbORACENSE. 
 
 Vellum, io| X y^, ff. 295, in double columns of 36 lines each. 
 Cent. XV (1460-80). Given to the College by Wm Pratt, M.A. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Six blank leaves. 
 
 Kalendar in red and black f. i 
 
 Benedictio salis et aquae 7 
 
 Proprium de tempore (Advent to Easter) ..... 8 
 
 Canon of the Mass 148 
 
 Proprium de tempore (Trinity Stmday to Dedication of the Church) 158 
 
 Proprium Sanctorum 198 3 
 
 Commune Sanctorum ......... 253 
 
 Missae votivae s. communes 265 i 
 
 Ends on f. 291, followed by 4 blank leaves. 
 
 The Kalendar is on a quire of 6 leaves ; the rest are quires of 8 : one leaf is lost before 
 the Canon of the Mass (f. 148) which no doubt had a picture of the Crucifixion; it is the 
 6th leaf of quire s. 
 
 In the Proprium Sanctorum we have the Transl. of S. Wilfrid, S. John of Beverley, 
 S. Petroc, S. William of York, S. Leufred, S. Euerildis, S. Sampson, S. Magnus, 
 S. Audoenus, S. Hylda, S. Aydanus, Transl. of S. Cuthbert, S. Maurilius, Transl. of 
 SS. Germanus, Remigius, Vedastus, Bavo and Piado (or Panto) Oct. i, S. Thomas of 
 Hereford, S. John de Brydlyngton (at length), S. Paulinus, Deposition of S. Wilfrid, 
 Transl. of S. Edward C, Relics of York, S. Romanus Abp, Transl. of S. John of 
 Beverley, S. Willebrord, S. Edmund Abp, S. Edmund K. The Transl. of S. William 
 of York is in the Proprium de Tempore (f. 29). 
 
 The Kalendar has the following characteristics : 
 
 yhn: vii. Id. Festum transl. S. Willelmi Ebor. Archiep. semper in dominica i post 
 Epiph. celebretur tanquam duplex p. (in red). 
 
 At bottom, in red, 
 
 iCircumcisio dni 
 Transl. S. WiUelmi 
 Conv. S. Pauli. 
 J^el>. 4. S. Gilbert. 
 
 f Purif. B. Marie. 
 Omnino tenenda -! Cathedra S. Petri. 
 I S. Mathie Ap. 
 Mar. S. Cuthbert, in red. 
 
 Omnino tenend. Annunciatio S. Marie. 
 
MS. 33] 
 
 SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 17 
 
 Omnino tenend. 
 
 {Tres dies pasche. 
 S. Georgii M. 
 S. Marci Ev. 
 May 7. S. Joh. Beuerlac. Archiep. duplex festum ix lect. in red. 
 App. Philippi et lacobi. 
 Inuencio S. crucis. 
 S. Joh. Beuerlac. 
 Ascencio dni. 
 yune 4. S. Petroc. 
 
 8. S. Willelmi Archiep. duplex festum ix lect. hi red. 
 11. S. Leufred. 
 
 {S. Willelmi Archiep. 
 Nativ. S. Joh. Bapt. 
 App. Petri et Pauli. 
 yidy 9. S. Everildis virg. 
 
 ■20. 
 31- 
 
 Aks 
 
 Sept. 
 
 10. 
 
 12. 
 19. 
 
 ■25- 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 Trans. S. Thome. 
 Marie Magd. 
 S. Jacobi Ap. 
 
 Omnino ten. 
 
 Omnino ten. 
 
 Omnino tenend. 
 
 S. Oswini M. 
 S. Hilde V. 
 S. Aidani Ep. 
 
 / Ad uincula petri. 
 S. Laurencij. 
 Assumptio S. Marie. 
 S. Bartholomeus. 
 ^ DecoUacio S. Johannis. 
 
 Nativ. S. Marie. 
 
 Exalt. S. Crucis. 
 
 S. Mathei Ap. 
 
 S. Michaelis Arch. 
 S. Thome herford. d. ix lect. red. 
 S. Paulini Ep. ix lect. 
 S. Wilfridi Archiep. d. ix lect. in red. 
 festum reliquiarum. 
 Transl. S. lohannis Archiep. red. 
 
 f S. Wilfridi Archiep. 
 
 S. Ijuce Euang. 
 . App. Symonis et lude. 
 
 Festum omnium sanctorum. 
 
 S. Martini Ep. 
 
 S. Katerine. 
 
 S. Andree Ap. 
 [ S. Nicholai Ep. 
 
 Concepcio B. Marie. 
 
 S. Thome Ap. 
 
 Nativ. domini et 
 V iiii" diebus sequenter. 
 
 Omnino ten. 
 
 Omnino ten. 
 
 Omnino ten. 
 
 S. MSS. 
 
1 8 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 34 
 
 There are no miniatures, but a few grotesques drawn rather roughly in the margin. 
 The main divisions of the book have partial borders, and fairly good ornamentation ; a 
 semi-fluid gold is employed. 
 
 34. A. 2. 12. [C. M. A. 702. 
 
 Sermones de Sanctis et de Tempore. 
 
 Vellum, 9^ X 61 ff. 244, 3 1 lines to a page. Cent xiv. Given 
 by Wm Pratt, M.A. 
 
 Collation : a'" (wants 1-3) b'^-g'^ || h'^ i'' j'" k" (wants 5) 1" 
 (wants 2) m^'' n^" o" p" q" r (wants i : i leaf left). 
 
 Provenance. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the 
 book belonged to Thomas Lyell and Robert Lyell, apparently of 
 Endworth in Yorkshire. Thomas Lyell's name is written often on 
 the margin. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Sermons from the Feast of S. Andrew to the xxivth Sunday after Pentecost. 
 Sermones de Sanctis. 
 
 1 . The first is on the text : . . . . . . . . f. i 
 
 Suspendium elegit uita mea (Job vii). Ad laudem beati An- 
 drea apostoli. A good many French proverbs and phrases 
 
 are interspersed in the text, which may be worth collecting, 
 e.g. f. 29 II ne pas ben aseur de sa meson qui uoit la sun 
 uoisin ardoir. 
 
 2. For S. Nicholas. Bonum est uiro cum portauerit iugum (Lam. 3* 
 
 iii). Dicitur wlgariter Qui mane non ambulat dietam amittit. 
 
 Li matin leuer fait la iornee. 
 On f . 5 a Tou3iors sent la pothe le hareng. 
 'Exempla' (i.e. illustrative stories) are named but not given, 
 
 e.g. f. 4 a Exemplum de pullo de harai3. exemplum de tauro 
 
 colloquente. 
 
 3. Memoria iusti cum laudibus. Wlgariter dicitur ki tant trepasse 5 a 
 
 fors bien fait. In S. Nicholas a quire is lost after f. 109 in 
 
 the middle of the sermon for the Decollation of S. John 
 
 Baptist. 
 In Horn, xiii de Inucncione S. Crucis is a pencil note : hie deficit 
 
 folium unum et sic incipit Michi absit etc. usque in Qui me 
 
 inuenit. The hiatus is in the middle of the page, and the 
 
 note refers to the archetype. 
 Hom. xviii is de Inuencione S. Stephani. xxx de S. Dionisio. 
 
 xl, xli (as well as an earlier one) de Conuersionc S. Paii/i. 
 There are xliv de Sanctis. 
 
Mss. 35, 36] 
 
 SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 19 
 
 Sermones de Tempore no 
 
 Veniet desideratus cunctis gentibus etc. (Agg. ij). Wlgariter 
 
 dicitur' kar miilt gieue qui atent. 
 The last Sermon (for one of the Sundays after Pentecost — the 
 
 beginning of it is gone) ends : Qui autem sperabunt muta- 
 
 bunt fortitudinem. Nota et expone. Explicit. 
 
 35. A. 2. 13. [C. M. A. 703. 
 
 The Treasure of Devotion. 
 
 Paper, 5| x 3f, ff 102 written, 27 lines to a page. Cent, xvi, 
 xvii. Given by Wm Pratt, M.A. 
 
 It is an allegory, of which the hero is Desiderius. In two 
 Parts of XXIII and XV chapters. 
 
 One leaf of the Proeme (which is misbound) is gone. 
 
 Text Inc. There dwell sumtime in the wast desarte or wildemes a certaine holy 
 erimite ; Desiderius was his name : he goes on pilgrimage. 
 The book is seemingly by a Roman Catholic. 
 
 36. A. 2. 14. 
 
 [C. M. A. 704. 
 
 Liber Precum. 
 
 Vellum, 6^ x 4^, ff. 198, in many hands, sometimes in two 
 columns, sometimes in one column on a page. Cent, xiii and xiv. 
 Presented to the College by Wm Pratt, M.A. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 f. I a. Scribbles relating to the finding of Easter. Cent. xv. 
 
 A table of the Historiae for the year, in red and black. Cent. xiv. 
 The Kalendar in red and black. 
 
 Lectiones de S. Maria, de S. Trinitate, de S. Augustino. Cent. xiv. 
 Hymns : Deus creator omnium. Immense celi conditor, Telluris 
 
 ingens conditor, Celi deus sanctissime, Magne deus potencie, 
 . Plasmator hominis deus. Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 Office 'in commemoracione S. AugHstini.' Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 Benedictio salis. Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 Benedictio aque. ,, ,, 
 
 Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany. Cent. xiii. 
 Hymns to Christ in \i sections in French verse. Cent. xiii. 
 Hec sunt merita uisionis corporis Christi secundum Augustinum in 
 
 libro de ciuitate dei. Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 Office of the Holy Face. Cent, xiii, xiv, followed by French verses 
 
 on the indulgences connected with that office (f. 35 b). 
 
 2 — 2 
 
 I. 
 
 2. 
 3- 
 4- 
 
 I a. 
 
 lb. 
 1. 
 
 lib. 
 
 14. 
 
 1415. 
 
 16. 
 
 30*. 
 
 34'^- 
 
 35- 
 

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 n. 
 
 36 6. 
 
 13- 
 
 37- 
 
 14. 
 
 37*. 
 
 IS- 
 
 38. 
 
 16. 
 
 44. 
 
 18. 
 
 97- 
 
 19. 
 
 127. 
 
 10. 
 
 M7- 
 
 
 152 ii. 
 
 
 153^- 
 
 
 158 ^. 
 
 
 iSgi. 
 
 
 163- 
 
 
 164 6. 
 
 
 167. 
 
 11. 
 
 170^. 
 
 12. 
 
 173- 
 
 20 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 36 
 
 Blank, with scribbles. 
 
 Oratio ante psalterium. Cent. xiii. 
 
 Office of the Holy Face. Cent. xiv. 
 
 Prayer to the Sacrament. „ 
 
 Litany. Cent. xiv. 
 
 Psalter, Cantica and Litany, in double columns, in a small hand, 
 
 the Litany partly in 3 columns on a page. Cent. xiii. 
 17. g2. Office of the Five Wounds revealed to S. Boniface through S. 
 
 Raphael. Cent. xiv. 
 Officium Mortuorum, with musical notes. Cent. xiii. 
 Psalterium salutationum B.V. Mariae: attributed to Joh. Peckham, 
 
 Archbishop of Canterbury (1278-1294). Cent. xiii. 
 Prayers to Christ, especially to Christ in the Sacrament. Cent. xiii. 
 Rhyming Hymns to Christ. Cent. xiii. 
 Prayers and Hymns to the Virgin. Cent. xiii. 
 Prayer to Christ. Cent. xiii. 
 Prayers to the Virgin. Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 
 Prayer to the Virgin and S.John Evangelist. Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 Prayer to the Virgin. Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 Rhyming Hymn to the Virgin. Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 Prayer to Christ and various Saints. Cent. xiv. 
 Hymns for Apostles, followed by Commune Sanctorum. Cent. 
 
 xiv, XV. 
 ff. 197, 8 though written continuously are in a later hand, of cent, xv; f. 198, 
 
 which is unfinished, has the first three lessons for the feast of 
 
 S. William of York, following the office de flu7-ibus virginibus. 
 
 Collation : a* (wanting 8) b" c^ d" e'^ (+ i signatum : wanting 12) 
 f 6 gi2_j^i2 ^6 (wanting 2) m^'-s" t" u' v' x' y\ 
 
 Only one leaf is missing, between ff. 36, 37 : it probably had 
 a picture of the Holy Face. 
 
 The nucleus of the volume is formed by the items numbered 
 8, 9, 10, 16, 18, 19, and part of 20: these items occupy the follow- 
 ing quires, d^" e^^ [this last was originally a quire of 12 leaves: 
 the last two leaves being originally left blank : 1 1 « is still blank, 
 II b has a later oratio ante psalterium, 12 had a picture of the 
 Veronica, and is now cut out : a leaf has been added containino- 
 the end of the Office of the Holy Face], mn p q r s^" : the hand 
 changes on f 158 b, that is, on f 3 of quire s: t being a later con- 
 tinuation. It is plain then that the original volume of early 
 13th century date contained 
 
 [a] The Penitential Psalms and Litany, followed by certain French Hymns and 
 room for additions to these : [h) Office of the Dead : {c) Psalter of Salutations to the 
 Virgm : {d) certam Prayers to Christ, and blank leaves for additions. 
 
MS. 36] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 21 
 
 The next item in date consists of the four quires g h i k, form- 
 ing no. 16, and containing Psalter, Cantica, and Litany. These 
 are in a much smaller hand on finer vellum, but still of cent. xiii. 
 They may probably have formed a separate book. 
 
 The quires b u v x (j), which contain matter of the nature 
 of a Breviary, belong mostly to cent. xiv. Quires// are in one 
 hand. Quire c is possibly of cent, xv, and a of the xivth, with a 
 good many xvth century insertions. 
 
 The Kalendar has the following noteworthy entries : 
 
 yan. vi Id. Translalio S. Wilhlmi Eborac. Archiep. in red. 
 
 Feb. ii Non. J'. Gilbert C. in hand of cent xv. 
 
 Mar. vii Id. Obitus dni IValteri Espec fundatoris nostri in red. Walter Espec 
 
 founded the monasteries of Kirkham and Rievaulx, as an xviiith 
 
 cent, note here remarks. 
 
 On this page is a scribble (xv, xvi) Amen quod thomas fayrjfax. 
 
 Ap. viii Kal. Jan. 6'. Wilfridi Archiep. 
 
 May. Non. S. yohannis Archiep. (S. John of Beverley) in red. 
 
 vii Id. Translatio i'. Andree Ap. in black. 
 Jtme. Prid. Non. 6'. /V/racaj C inserted in black. 
 
 vi Id. S. Willelmus Archiep. Ebor. in red. 
 
 xi Kal. Jul. S. Leufredus Abb. inserted in black. . 
 July. V Non. Obitus IVillelmi primi prioris, in red. 
 
 vii Id. S. Euerildis V. inserted in black : ix led. 
 
 V Kal. Aug. S. Sampson. 
 Aug. Non. S. Oswald Reg. M. 
 
 viii Kal. Sept. .S". Hilda V. inserted in black. 
 
 Prid. Kal. Sept. S. Aidanus Ep. inserted in black. 
 Sept. Id. S. Maurilitis Ep. C. inserted in black. 
 Oct. vi Non. .S". Thomas Herefordens inserted in red. 
 
 iiii Id. S. Wilfridus Archiep. inserted in red. 
 
 xiii Kal. Nov. .J. Atistreberta V. inserted in black. 
 (Oct.) ix Kal. Nov. Obitus adeline espec in red. 
 
 viii Kal. Nov. Transl. S. Joh. Beuerlac. inserted in black. 
 
 The Litanies, three in number, are all interesting. 
 
 (i) The first, in the xiiith century hand, has six litanies for 
 the days of the week. It contains on every day the invocation 
 ' S. Augustine ij' at the head of the Confessors. 
 
 Feria tertia. 
 
 SS. Julian, Cuthbert, Confessors. 
 Feria quarta. 
 
 SS. Marcialis, Amandus, Ansbertus, Confessors. 
 
 S. Geretrudis, Virgin. 
 
22 
 
 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 36 
 
 Feria quinia. 
 
 S. Johannes, Confessor. 
 
 SS. Austreberta, Benedicta, Virgins. 
 Feria sexta. 
 
 S. Pancratius, Martyr. 
 
 SS. Sampson, Patricius, Botulfus, Confessors. 
 
 SS. Cristina, Honorina, Eufrosina, Virgins. 
 Sabbato. 
 
 SS. Alban, Oswald, Edmund, Martyrs. 
 
 SS. Wilfrid, Paulinus, John (of Beverley), William (of York), Machiitus, Furseus, 
 Dunstan, Confessors. 
 
 SS. Etheldrida, Euerilda, Hilda, Egittea, Werburga, Edburga, Brigida, Virgins. 
 The Suffrage, ' Ut regi nostro et principibus nostris,' etc., occurs. 
 
 (2) The second, in a hand of cent, xiv, xv, contains : 
 
 SS. Marcialis, Timotheus, Apostles. 
 
 SS. Alban, Oswald, Edmund, Martyrs. 
 
 SS. Augustine, Paulinus, John, Wilfrid, William, Cuthbert, Swithun, Sampson, 
 
 Edmund, Jerome, Edward, Confessors. 
 SS. Austreberta, Hilda, Euerildis, Ethildreda, Virgins. 
 The Suffrages, ' A persecutione paganorum et omnium inimicorum nostrorum ' and 
 
 ' Ut regibus et principibus nostris,' etc., occur. 
 
 (3) The third, in a hand probably of late xiiith cent., at the 
 end of the Psalter, is a welding together under one head of the six 
 divisions of no. i, with additions : 
 
 SS. Thomas, Alban, Oswald, Edmund, Martyrs. 
 
 ' S. Augustine -ij-' heads the Confessors: the last of whom is S. Machar (of Aber- 
 deen). All the English Confessors of no. i occur. 
 
 The Virgins are as in no. i. S. Euerilda occurs again. Also the suffrage ' Ut 
 regi nostro et principibus nostris.' 
 
 The York provenance is, then, not doubtful. The prominence 
 given to S. Augustine and S. Euerilda, and the mention of the 
 Especs, and of William the first Prior, in the Kalendar ought to 
 make the more exact provenance clear. 
 
 Of S. Euerilda very little is known. The Bollandists on 
 July 9th (Tom. ii, 713) give three lessons for her feast from the 
 York Breviary, which say that she was a convert of S. Wilfrid, 
 and settled and died at a place called Everedisham. 
 
 Roscarrock's unedited Register of British Saints (cir. 1630), 
 which exists in part in the author's MS. (Camb. Univ. Libr. Add. 
 MS. 3041), contains some further interesting particulars about the 
 saint. One of the Wilfrids, Archbishops of York, gave her a 
 place called the Bishop's Manor, afterwards called from her 
 
MS. 36] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 23 
 
 Euerildsham, ' & is this daye in the possession of S"' Phillip Con- 
 stable. Part of her Church is yet standing & joyned with the 
 Parish Church, into w* they saye whosoever being with childe 
 Cometh, the childe hath euermore a Mark on it when it is borne 
 w<=^ they call S' Euerild's Mark.' He adds the legendary origin 
 of the mark, which is not very pleasing. The notice ends, 'there 
 is a well w* at this daye beareth her name at Euerildsham.' 
 
 But the Obits in the Kalendar give the real key: the book 
 comes from Kirkham in Yorkshire, which was founded by Walter 
 Espec and Adeline his wife in 1121. William, rector of Garton 
 and uncle of the founder, was first Prior. The house was an 
 Augustinian Priory : hence the prominence given to S. Augustine. 
 
 The seal of the Priory (which was dedicated to the Trinity) 
 has a female figure upon it, with a book. This may very likely 
 represent S. Everilda. 
 
 The Psalter of Salutations, attributed to Peckham, is not 
 usually reckoned as his work: a note of xviith cent, on f 127 
 runs thus : ' The Psalter of Salutations of the Virgin, framed by 
 John Peckham A.B. Cant : not yet printed. Psalterium medita- 
 tionum B.M. vocatur a Joh : Pitsio de lUustr. Angl. Script, p: 380. 
 deest hie prefatio sic incipiens 
 
 Mente concipio laudes prescribere 
 Sanctae Virginis ; quae nos a carcere 
 Solvit per filium, genus in genere, 
 Miri vivificans effectus opere. etc. 
 
 V. Bp Usher, ' Answ : to y^ Jesuits challenge, p. 493.' Ussher 
 /. c. does not give any reference to a MS., but quotes another 
 stanza of the Preface. 
 
 A MS., containing this Psalter of Salutations with the Preface, 
 was sold at Sotheby's in June, 1893, at the Bateman sale. 
 
 The book consists of a number of rhyming quatrains, one for 
 each Psalm and for each of the Cantica, with five additional ones 
 at the end. It begins thus : 
 
 Beatiis uir 
 
 Aue uirgo uirginum parens absque pari 
 Sine uiri semine digna fecundari 
 Fac nos legem domini crebro meditari 
 Et in regni gloria beatificari. 
 
24 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 3/ 
 
 37. A. 2. 15. [C. M. A. 705. 
 
 HORAE. 
 
 Vellum, S-jL X 3|, K 152, and 5 blank, 18 lines to a page. Cent. 
 XV (1440-50). Given to the College by William Pratt, M.A. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Kalendar in red and black f. i 
 
 Hours of the Virgin 8 
 
 Penitential Psalms and Litany 4'^ 
 
 Office of the Dead 59 
 
 Commendacio animarum 81 
 
 Psalmi de passione Domini ...... 94 
 
 Another hand, xv Cos 10° 
 
 Dulcissime domine Ihesu ...... 109 
 
 Office of the Holy Face 1 1 1 
 
 Prayer: Agios • sother • messias 112 
 
 O beata et intemerata 114 i 
 
 Sancta maria dei genitrix . . . . . ■ 116^ 
 
 Octo versus de sancto bernardo 1 20 
 
 Oratio S. Gildi regis 1 122 i 
 
 Memoriae ......... 127 
 
 XV Oos in English 130 i5 
 
 Prayers to Five Saints (Denys, George, Christopher, 
 
 Blasius, Giles) in English verse . . . . 1 39 
 Prayers to Five Virgins (Katherine, Margaret, Martha, 
 
 Christina, Barbara) in English verse . . . 141 
 
 Hymns in English to S. Leonard^ 142 i 
 
 to S. Ursula 144 
 
 to S. Sitha 145 
 
 on the Five Joys .... 145 (5 
 
 Latin Prayer to the Virgin ...... 147 
 
 Titles of five Psalms to be said in honour of the Virgin . 149 
 
 Collation: a' b' (+ i* Frontispiece) c'-g' h'"-' (i* 2*) i'-t^ u' (5 
 blank) =157 leaves. 
 
 The book vi'as written for some lady whose portrait appears in the picture to the 
 prayer beata et intemerata. In the xvith century it belonged to members of the family 
 of Churche. On the blank leaves at the end are the following entries : 
 
 Edmovnd Choorche ys a good son for he ys wyllyng to lern. Then in a slightly 
 different hand : Alas Edmovnd churche his not a good baye (boy) for he has a sha...d 
 frauncis churche at the barne dore shynting (?) Alas. The first entry is plainly written 
 
 ^ This prayer occurs in MS. Laud. Misc. 15. f. i as Oratio Gildae. 
 
 ^ This hymn occurs in Jesus Coll. MS. Q. G. 8 among the poems of Lydgate. 
 
MS. 38] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 2$ 
 
 by the mother, who is teaching her son to read out of this bool< : the second I take to 
 be written either under compulsion or in a fit of penitence by the boy himself. 
 
 Further on is a pen-trial, thus : This byll made the xix day of June in the xxxij yere 
 of the Reygne of 0' sovereygne lord kynge henry the eight wytnessyth that thomas swethe 
 of (?) pepseche haue resevyd of thomas. And lastly, we have the entry : Thys my boke 
 edmovnd churche. 
 
 The pictures and borders have been very fair, but either Edmund Churche, or some- 
 one else, has fingered them a good deal. 
 
 1. Matins of the Virgin. Full-page. The Annunciation. Red ground, with 
 flourishes. The Angel in cope, kneeling : the Dove on a ray over his head : lily pot in 
 centre : the Virgin, on R., kneels at desk, under green canopy. The Angel has sceptre 
 and gold scroll (aue-tecmn). 
 
 2. Psabni de passione. Full-page. Red flourished ground. Christ wounded, nude, 
 crowned with thorns, with crossed hands, as the Man of Sorrows, stands half-length in 
 the tomb : behind Him is the Cross, with title. 
 
 3. OJjice of the Holy Face. In text. The Holy Face, surrounded with four gold 
 fleurs-de-lys and rays. Red ground. 
 
 4. O beata et intemerata. Three-quarter page. On L. kneels a lady in butterfly 
 headdress, and red cloak with gold leopard's head, and blue border with gold fleurs-de- 
 lys : before her a desk with book. Red flourished ground. On li. stands the Virgin, 
 full face, holding the Child who has an orb. 
 
 5. Xv Oos. Initial. The Wounded Heart ; the wound drawn like an eye. 
 On f. I4'2 bis, 3. blank space (three-quarter page) for a picture of S. Leonard. 
 
 The Kalendar is not characteristic : the Litany invokes SS. Edmund, Edward, 
 Martyrs : SS. Hugo, Johannes (of Beverley), Willelmus (of York), Thomas (of Here- 
 ford), Cuthbert, Richard, Wlstan, Edward, Leonard, Botulph, Swithun, Confessors : 
 S. Etheldreda (and not S. Edith), Virgin. The use is of Sarum. 
 
 The large amount of English in this MS. is noteworthy. 
 
 The rubric to the Prayer of S. Gildus runs as follows : 
 
 Oratio S. Gildi regis quam cantauit pro anima patris sui que erat in purgatorio grauis- 
 simo. In fine autem uenit uox de celo dicens exaudita est oracio tua et quicunque istam 
 oracionem assidue cotidie cantauerit pro anima patris uel alicuius anima si in penis fuerit 
 exuetur et in regnum del deducetur. 
 
 Inc. Summe deus pater pacis cell. The speaker uses the feminine gender of herself. 
 SS. Thomas, Edmund, Leonard, Edward, the Three Maries, and S. Etheldreda are 
 mentioned. 
 
 38. A. 2. 16. [C. M. A. 706. 
 
 Philobiblon Ricardi DE Bury. 
 
 Vellum and paper, 8^ x sh ff- 44, 26 lines to a page. Cent xv 
 (late). Given by W. Pratt, M.A. {Reg. p. 35). In an ugly hand. 
 
 Collation: a" (i. 14 v. 2-13 p.) b" (as rf) d" (i. 18 v. 2-17 p. : 
 16, 17 gone). 
 
26 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 39— 41 
 
 Colophon. Expl. Philob. dni Ri. de aungeruil cognominati de Bury quondam epi 
 Dunelmensis completus est autem tractatus iste in manerio suo de aukelande xxiiij'" die 
 Januarii a" dni • m° • ccc° • xliiij'" etatis nostra Iviij" precise completo pontificatus vero 
 nostri a" XI° finiente ad laudeni dei feliciter. 
 
 39. A. 2. 1 7. [C. M. A. 707. 
 
 Prophecies of Merlin, etc. 
 
 Paper, 8 x S|, ff. 69, varying number of lines to a page. Cent. 
 XV or xvi ; very roughly written. Given by W. Pratt, M.A. {Reg. 
 P- 35)- 
 
 Collation : a.^ b"" (one gone) c* (wants 8). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 A collection of the prophecies of Merlin, S. Thomas of Canterbury, John of Brid- 
 lington, 'Beid' (=Bede), and the Sibyl, mostly in English verse. Many leaves are 
 mutilated. 
 
 40. A. 2. 18. [C. M. A. 708. 
 
 1. A Letter of Abp Grindall to Q. Elizabeth 
 
 ABOUT Preachers and Exercises of Prophesying. 
 
 2. Dr Laurence Humphrey's letter to y^ BB (Bishops) 
 
 ABOUT the use OF THE HaBITS. 
 
 3. His Petition to the Queen about the same. 
 Paper, 7| x 6, ff. 19 written. Cent, xvi-xvii. No donor's name. 
 
 41. A. 2. 19. 
 
 The Forerunner of Revendg against the Duke of 
 
 Buckingham. 
 
 Paper, 7% x 5|, ff. 22. Cent, xviii. The book was printed in 
 1625. This is a copy without donor's name. 
 
MSS 42, 43] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 27 
 
 42. A. 2. 20. 
 
 A List of Abbreviations in MSS. in alphabetical 
 
 ORDER. 
 
 Paper, 7 x 4-^, ff. 59, written : double columns. Cent, xvii, 
 xviii. Given by Thos. Scrivin, M.A. Neatly written. 
 
 43. A. 2. 21. 
 
 Chronicle of England. 
 
 Vellum, 8 x 5L, ff. 190, 30 lines to a page. Cent. xiv. There is 
 no donor's name. On the margin of f. 20 ^Ji is a pen-trial. 
 
 Datum apud Swyneshed predyct. sexto die maij. 
 Anno Regni Henrici octaui uicesimo. 
 
 Resavyd off Mr Elys by the hand of Thomas Holland Junior v=. 
 ...Jhon Hullland. 
 
 The name Thomas Holland occurs on ff. 881?, nob, and that of 
 Will. Baxter on f. 190. 
 
 Collation : a-d" e" (wants 3, 4 blank) P'-q" r" .? (wants 4, 5). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 I. a chronicle of Brutus and the early history of Britain in French 
 
 verse by Peter ......... f. i 
 
 Sermo de Bruto fit sub dictamine tuto 
 Culpa datur Petro deficiente metro. 
 Diex tut puissaunt qe ciel et terre qeert 
 Adam nostre piere de terre quant fourmert. 
 
 The poem extends from the taking of Troy to Cadvvalader : 
 it ends on 48 b with these lines : 
 
 Brutus finitur per eum missus reperitur 
 Tempus uestitur redeunti quod stabilitur 
 Tempus transibit, taurus mucrone peribit 
 Merlinus scribit, quod Bruti turba redibit. 
 
 On 49 are 24 elegiac verses on Cadwalader's baptism at Rome 
 and adoption of the name Peter. 
 
 Culmen opes sobolem poUencia regna triumpho 
 Eximios proceres menia castra lares. 
 
 49 * — 51 "■ ^'S blank. 
 
28 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 43 
 
 On 52 ^ is a table of the reigns of Kings from Cadwal to 
 Edward III. with the place of their burial : apparently the 
 list was written in Edward II. 's reign : it ends thus : 
 
 Edward sun fuiz || (then added later), regna -xx- ans et gist a 
 Gloucestre. 
 
 Edward le tierce soen fuiz regna. 
 
 52 i5 is blank. 
 
 2. A chronicle in French verse by the same author, extending 
 
 from the death of Cadwalader to the accession of Edward II. 53 
 
 Incipiunt gesta que sunt Anglis manifesta 
 Beda pater presta Petro quod dicat honesta 
 Lector narrabit id quod scriptura parabit 
 Petrus dictabit quod sibi Beda dabit. 
 En liuers Bede des antiquitez 
 Sis centz e quatre vintz et annz sunt countez 
 Apres qe de la virge jhu crist fu neez 
 Qaunt le Roi Cadwaldre lessa les regnez. 
 
 Henry of Huntingdon is quoted by name in the early portion : 
 Merlin's prophecies of Edward I. are inserted, in French 
 rhyme, in short lines. Of Edward II. nothing is told : it 
 seems that he had just succeeded to the throne. The poem 
 ends in the midst of a page (f. 172 i) with good wishes for 
 him. 
 
 Ne que fous counsaille ne haunte de pecchez 
 Deface les honurs de ly sount prophet <e>z. 
 
 3. Bull of Boniface VIII. to Edward I. on his claims to Scotland. 
 
 In French verse with a short preface . . . . . 173 
 
 Responsio facta domino pape per dominum Regem Anglie. 
 
 In French verse . . . . . . . . . 177 
 
 Dated in the igih year of his reign. 
 
 4. Mandatum communitatis Anglie domino pape transmissum pro 
 
 iure Regis Anglie ad Regnum Scocie factum per viii Comites 
 et iiii'"' (80) Barones et xv Vexillares per verba Gallica 
 quomodo immediate sequuntur. In French verse . . 182 b 
 
 Dated 12 Feb. 1300. 
 
 5. Ci commencent ascunes prophecies o des meruailles que 
 
 Merlin dist en sun temps 183 iJ 
 
 Prophecies of Merlin of Henry III., Edward I., Edward II., 
 
 Edward III. and two succeeding kings, who are not named 
 
 by the scribe. In French prose. 
 Other prophecies in Latin were by Merlin (two short sections 
 
 by the Sibyl follow) 185 15 
 
 Prophecie Merlini de Edwardo Rege Anglie tercio a conquestu. 
 
 In Latin prose : imperfect at the end ..... igy 
 
 f. 1 88 (5. 
 
29 
 
 i89 
 
 MSS. 44, 45] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 6. A List of the Bishoprics of England and Wales, imperfect at 
 the beginning : 
 Inc. ...Batoniam: decimus episcopatus Wigorniensis followed 
 
 by a list of the shires and the number of hides, excluding 
 Northumberland, Coumberland, Leones, Westmariland, 
 Cornubia ••........ 
 
 ff. 189^, 190 are blank, save for a few scribbles. 
 
 The author may be connected with Durham : he notes Bede's 
 death in his table of the reigns of the Enghsh kings, f ^\b. 
 
 On f 63 5 is a note in blacker ink (cent, xiv.) apropos of the 
 slaying of Colebrand by Guy of Warwick. 
 
 la test de cet colibraunt est vncore in Wyncestre. 
 
 44. A. 2. 22. 
 
 Commonplace Book of Dr Samuel Ward 
 (Master of the College). 
 
 Paper, 7§ x 5f, ff. cir. 250. Cent, xvi, xvii. 
 
 Paged to 440 from one end : about 20 leaves unpaged. 
 
 The contents are philosophical, physical, and theological 
 collections. 
 
 45. A. 2. 23. 
 
 Diary of Dr Samuel Ward 
 from 1595 to 1599. 
 
 Paper, 5f x 4|-, ff. 95, many blank : newly bound : has suffered 
 from damp and dirt. The entries are largely of a devotional 
 character. 
 
 The Diary contains entries from May 11, 1595 to Nov. 14, 1599, 
 and also entries in 1601, 1621, 1625, 1629. 
 
30 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 46, 47 
 
 46. A. 3. I. [C. M. A. 709- 
 
 Albert: Magni de Animalibus Libri xxvl 
 
 Vellum, 17 X 13J, fF. 383, in double columns. Cent, xv (late). 
 Given by Roger Montague, Esq. {Reg. p. 11). The hand closely 
 resembles that of A. 5. 10. 
 
 Collation: b? (wants 4, s) b^-z^ &» 9" A^-Z' R .? (only ist leaf 
 left). 
 
 Each leaf is marked at last line of col. 2 on recto Carta 
 prima etc.: quires marked also. 
 
 Provenance. On f i is a coarse border of ilower-pots with 
 pinks, columbines and strawberry-plants. In the /. border is a scroll 
 Virtuti parent omnia. (A)mez pour le myeulx. J. Gunthorpe. 
 He was Dean of Wells in 1487-1498 : MSS. at Jesus College 
 (Q. G. i) and Corpus (No. clxiv) belonged to him. 
 
 Text ends in L. xxvi. i Quedam etiam ex vermibus. 
 
 47. A. 3. 2. [C. M. A. 710. 
 
 VlTAE PaTRUM. 
 
 Vellum, 11x7^, ff 114, double columns of 33 lines each. 
 Cent. xii. In a narrow upright hand, very clear, and in very black 
 ink. Initials principally of red and green. Bequeathed by Dr 
 Samuel Ward, Master, in 1643. 
 
 Collation : a^^ b»-h» i^" k^-m^ n« (f 8*) o^ p' (f 2*). 
 
 Quires A — F marked. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Hie incipit liber quem nos moderni uitas patrum appellamus. 
 
 Incipit S. Pauli uita primi heremite (rubricated) . . . f. i 
 Prefacio and Vita S. Antonii: Evagrius's version of the life attri- 
 buted to Athanasius ......... 5 
 
 Vita S. Hilarionis with Jerome's preface ..... 26 i 
 
 Vita S. Symeonis Syri 35 
 
 Actus Malchi monachi captiui ....... 38 i 
 
 Prologus (leronimi) in uitas sanctorum patrum Egypti . . . 40 i 
 
 Capitula and Text in 36 chapters 41 i 
 
 Vita S. Marie Egypciace 72 i 
 
 De Tahisa meretrice ( = Thaide) 80 
 
 De uirgine que stultam se esse simulabat 81 
 
 De uita S. Marine uirginis 81 i 
 
 Quomodo sanctimonialis per S. Mariam de ingrato conceptu 
 
 exonerata est . . 83 
 
MS. 48] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 3 1 
 
 Incipiunt CoUationes et uite sanctorum patrum Egiptiorum quas 
 de greco in latinum transtulit Martinus episcopiis in monasterio 
 
 dumigense pascasio 84 i 
 
 In 79 chapters. 
 
 Qualiler per S. Mariam clericus quidam sit ab infirmitate sanatus 
 
 et a pena liberatus et eterne uite restitutus . . . . 1131^ 
 
 This seems to be a voUime intended for use in a refectory : hints of this I seem to see 
 in the pen-trials on the fly-leaves : sequitur uita or sequitur in uita S. Pauli primi heremite 
 sequitur in vita S. hylarionis, sequitur in actibus Malchi, etc. 
 On I a is in a xvth cent, hand 
 
 IT prologus beati Jheronimi presbiteri in vitam S. Pauli primi heremite. Explicit 
 prologus incipit vita. 
 
 On the fly-leaves at the end are scribbles of heads, a few English rhymes (cent, xvi.) 
 and the following entries : 
 Gabriell Lofthus. 
 
 Anno d'" M''.CCCC''.LXIIIJ°. In festo S. Yuonis intrauerunt frater helyas Wylle et 
 pater Willelmus Ranys post cursum vite anime (erasure) requiescant in pace. 
 A. d. M°.ccc°. intrauit willms. pry... 
 Another erased entry begins with the date 1333. 
 A rude drawing of the Virgin and Child also appears. 
 
 The allusion to the feast of S. Ives cannot fix the book to Ramsey, but very likely it 
 is an East Anglian MS. 
 
 48. A. 3. 3. [C. M. A. 711. 
 
 Albertani Causidici Brixiensis quaedam. 
 
 Vellum, 8i- X 6, ff. 231, 36 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Given 
 by Thomas Mascall, Fellow. 
 
 Collation : a? b^ c^ d" e" f g^ h* i" k" P m' n' o' p' q^ (wants 8) r' 
 (wants I, 6, 7, 8) s^ t^ u^ v* x^ y* z^ aa" bb" cc" dd* eel 
 
 On lower margin off. 126 is Liber predicatorum Lancastrie ex 
 dono d' Christophori Vrsuyk quondam helemoj-w^^rij H(enrici) vij"". 
 He died in 1522, Dean of Windsor, Archdeacon of Norfolk, etc. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 1. Albertani Causidici Brixiensis de S. Agatha Liber de doctrina 
 
 dicendi et tacendi ........ f. i 
 
 Inc. Initio et medio ac fine. 
 Written in Dec. 1245. 
 
 2. Eiusdem liber consolationis & consilii 9 
 
 Inc. Quoniavi multi stent. 
 
 Written in April, May, 1246. 
 
 3. Eiusdem liber de amore & dilectione Dei & proximi et aliarum 
 
 rerum, et de forma uitae 39 
 
 Inc. Initium mei tractatus sit. 
 
 Written in 1238 during an imprisonment at Cremona when 
 
 the Emperor Frederick was besieging Brescia. 
 
32 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 49 
 
 4. Eiusdem sermones. 
 
 a. Sermo quem composuit et edidit inter Causidicos 
 
 Jan<uenses> et quosdam Notaries super confirma- 
 tione uitae illorum, temp. Dom. Manuelis de Madio 
 1243 in dorao uiridarii Dan. Petri de Nigro Causidici 
 
 in die S. Nicolai 106 5 
 
 Inc. Congregatio nostra sit in nomine Domini. 
 
 b. Sermo factus super illuminatione et super spirituali et 
 
 corporali refectione et quae sint necessaria in refectione nob 
 
 Inc. Orate deunt,fratres. 
 
 c. Sermo secundus quem idem composuit ac edidit inter 
 
 Fratres Minores et Causid. Brixienses in congregatione 
 quara faciebant more solito . . . . . 11415 
 
 Inc. Fratres mei^ ad honorem Dei. 
 
 d. Sermo factus ad cognoscendum quae sunt necessaria in 
 
 communi et quomodo debemus intelligere super egenos 
 
 et pauperes w^b 
 
 Inc. Doming, labia mea. 
 
 e. Sermo quem idem edidit inter Causid. Brix. apud Frat. 
 
 Min. in Congreg. solita anno 1250 in media Quadra- 
 gesima super doctrina timoris Domini . . . . 124 
 Inc. Rogate Dominum, fratres, ut. 
 
 Ends on 127 a, of which half has been cut off: the verso 
 blank. 
 
 5. Anonymi sententiae aliquot alphabetice dispositae . . . 128 
 Inc. Alienum est guicquid optando euenit. 
 
 In double columns. 
 
 6. Anon. Libellus de B. Virgine et dictis authenticis contextus. 
 
 In cxlii chapters ........ 133 
 
 Inc. Si Deum ore prophetico. 
 
 7. Anon. Libellus de S. Johanne Euangelista. In xxv chapters: 
 
 in another hand ......... 208 b 
 
 Inc. Completo diligenter ex dictis sanctorum patrum. 
 
 49. A. 3. 4. [C. M. A. 712. 
 
 Exodus glosatus. 
 
 Vellum, 9 X 6i ff. 128, sometimes three columns to a page: 
 text and gloss. Cent, xiii (early). No donor's name. 
 
 Collation : a^-q^ (last 4 blank). 
 
 Provenance. On the last fly-leaves is written in a hand of 
 cent, xiii 
 
 Liber communitatis ffratrmn niinorum Bristoll : 
 and 
 
 Exodus glosatus. Communitatis fratrnm minorum Bristoll: de dono. 
 
MS. 50] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 33 
 
 It is noteworthy that A. 3. 15 is connected with the Worcester 
 Franciscans. 
 
 The binding is plain and rather rough. 
 
 50. A. 3.5. [CM. A. 713. 
 
 Miscellaneous Tracts. 
 
 Vellum, 8f X 6, fF. 90 + 10 fly-leaves. Cent, xii, xiii. 
 
 Given to the College by Mr Thomas Mascall, formerly Fellow. 
 
 Collation : a? b* (6, 7 gone) / c* d" e' P g" h^ i** k* P m^ = 90 leaves. 
 
 Provenance. There are two erased inscriptions, Liber (? sci 
 Cuthberti), on fif. vi b and i a. On the lower margin of iv a is 
 bibliolheca eliotae written in the xvith or xviith cent. 
 
 On V « is the following : 
 
 Pertinet ad Joanem Wymsley ex dono Roberti Set (?) Juris cesarei professoris. 
 Hie sequuntur nomina librorum quos in suo bibliopolio possidebat Joannes Wymsley : 
 a" icpi 1539°. 
 
 Totuni corpus Juris ciuilis ac pontificei / 
 Quinque libri abbatis panormitani / 
 Duo libri speculatoris / 
 Henricus boitf super decreta / 
 Angelus de casibus consciencie / 
 Prouinciales constitutiones / 
 Institutionum liber / 
 Casus Accursij. 
 Angelus super Instituta. 
 
 In theologia. 
 Biblia : / 
 
 Quatuor libri lyre. 
 Quatuor libri Dyonisii. 
 Diui Thome cathena. 
 Eiusdem super paulinas epistolas. 
 Epistole Hyeronimi. 
 Augustini de ciuitate dei. 
 Theophilacti opus integrum. 
 Eiusdem super euangelia Enchiridion. 
 Jacobus Vallensis super Spalmos. 
 Paraphrasis Erasmi super euang. sec. Joannem. 
 Augustinus de concordia euangelistarum. 
 Eiusdem de fide et operibus : de spiritu et litera. 
 De natura et gratia : Vna cum Ambrosio de vocatione gentium. 
 
 S. MSS. 3 
 
34 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. SO 
 
 Postille Sarterij. 
 Duo libri Jodoci Clicthouei. 
 Duo libri Eckij. 
 
 vi. In theologia •/• a' • 1539. 
 Exegesis dauentrie. 
 Vnio dissidentium. 
 Enchiridion Eckij. 
 Philippi gocij. 
 Index Vtriusque testamenti. 
 Psalterium Pellicani. 
 Dictionarium pauper«ff2. 
 Aurea contritio. 
 ego? 
 Michaell Vtgo. 
 Prevell de sacramentis. 
 RofTens. 
 
 Duo libri Noui testa. 
 Capese • Spalt • Aug • 
 Polianthea. 
 Otho BriifelliS'. 
 
 iv b (top). Ciprian vpo« pater noster. 
 Pomander of prayer. / Enchiridion. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 At each end are four leaves of a xiiith cent. MS. in two columns of 45 lines each, in 
 short paragraphs with titles in red : apparently forms of letters for use of the clergy, 
 e.g. i b Episcopus sacerdoti qui recedat a sua ecclesia, ii a clericus archidiacono ut facial 
 reddi sibi pecuniam. 
 
 On vi i is a xvth cent. Table of Contents. 
 
 In hoc volumine contenta sunt hec. 
 
 " De conveniencia sancte crucis et Sacramento altaris et efficacia in 4'"' folijs et vna 
 columpna. 
 
 " De loco purgatorij in hybernia in ix folijs. 
 ^ " Tractatus venerabilis Bede presbiteri super lectionem istam : Mulierem fortem quis 
 inueniet, in quingue foliis. 
 
 " Sermones tres cesarij episcopi ad monachos in 4°'' folijs. 
 
 " Omelie x eusebij emisseni ad monachos in x folijs. 
 
 " Augustinus contra v hereses in vij folijs. 
 
 " Regula S. Augustini de vita clericorum in duobus fol. et dim. 
 
 " Augustinus de conflictu virtutum et viciorum in -vij- folijs. 
 
 " Liber johannis Crisostomi de reparacione lapsi in 15 folijs. 
 
 " Ambrosius de obseruancia episcoporum in tribus folijs. 
 
 " Johannes Crisostomus de muliere chananea in -S- fol. 
 
 " Omelia beati gregorij pape super lectionem euangelij Rogabat ihesum quidam 
 phariseus in • 2 • fol. 
 
 " Oracio Maurelij Rothomagensis episcopi ad sanctam mariam. 
 
 " Item oracio eiusdem ad S. Jacobum. 
 
MS. 50] 
 
 SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 35 
 
 " Exposicio cuiusdam sapientis super lectionem euangelij • cum desponsata esset mater 
 Ihesu Maria Joseph in -s- fol. 
 
 " Omelia beati Gregorij pape super lectionem euangelij cum audisset Johannes in vinclis. 
 " Sermones cuiusdam sex in sex folijs." 
 
 9- 
 10. 
 II. 
 
 12. 
 
 13- 
 1 4. 
 
 15- 
 16. 
 
 17- 
 
 19. 
 
 ibi 
 
 De conueniencia s. cnicis etc. 
 
 Begins. In uirtute sancte crucis et Sacramento altaris 
 
 De loco purgatorij in hibernia et de Milite quodam qui 
 
 diuersas penas pertulit. 
 Patri suo in christo preoptato domino h(ugoni) abbati de SARTIS • 
 
 Frater H(enricus) monachorum de salceria minimus. 
 Most off. 13 b and f. 14 are blank. 
 This part is in double columns of 44 lines each. 
 
 Tractatus Bede super Mulierem fortem 
 
 Sermones tres S. Cesarij ad monachos 
 
 1. Dominis Sanctis et in Christo desiderandis 
 
 2. Ad locum hunc karissimi non ad quietem 
 
 3. Quod supplicante domino et quemadmoduin caritate iu 
 
 bente ......... 
 
 Omelie decern Eusebii emisseni ad monachos ... 
 Omelia B. Cesarij Ep. ad populum in Quadragesima Ait quodam 
 loco sermo diuinus ....... 
 
 Gregorius papa in quodam sermone. 
 
 Consideremus sine cessacione ..... 
 
 Augustinus contra v hereses ...... 
 
 Regula S. Augustini 
 
 S. Augustinus de conflictu uiciorum atque uirtutum . 
 Gregorius papa de quadam matrona ad martirura ecclesiam, Pro 
 cessi et Martini crebro uenientem .... 
 
 S. Johannes Crisostomus de reparacione lapsi 
 
 Sermo S. Ambrosii de obseruancia episcoporum 
 
 Tractatus S. Johannis Crisostomi de muliere chananea 
 
 Omelia B. Gregorii pape de eadem lectione habita ad populum 
 
 in Basilica S. Clementis in die Natali eiusdem 
 Oratio Maurilii rotomagensis archiepiscopi ad S. Mariam : Singu 
 laris meriti sola sine exemplo ..... 
 
 Oratio ad S. Jacobum Ap. fratrem S. Johannis Euang. et Ap, 
 
 Magne Jacobe, beate iacobe, benigne iacobe . 
 Jeronimus in sermone de Assumptione S. Marie Beata et gloriosa 
 uirgo maria ........ 
 
 Ambrosius de ofificiis libro iii". 
 
 Ea amicitia probabilis est. i\ lines .... 
 
 Ysidorus de summo bono. 
 Amanda est pulcritudo castitatis. i\ lines 
 Expositio cuiusdam sapientis super Euang. Cum esset despon- 
 sata Propositum nobis est in hac sacra euangelice 
 
 lectionis hysteria ......... 
 
 f \a 
 
 153 
 
 10 a 
 
 7.2 a 
 
 23 a 
 
 24 a 
 
 34 a 
 
 35 « 
 35* 
 43 « 
 45 « 
 
 5"^ 
 523 
 673 
 70 a 
 
 74(5 
 
 77a 
 
 77* 
 
 78 a 
 
 78 a 
 
 78 a 
 
 78* 
 
 3—2 
 
8s* 
 86* 
 
 36 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 5' 
 
 11. Oinelia B. Gregorii pape habita ad populum in Basilica SS. 
 Martyrum Marcellini et Petri. On the text Cum audisset 
 
 T U . . . O'Z * 
 
 Johannes ...■••■■ 
 
 23. Sermo cuiusdam sapientis in Quadragesima Semper quidem uos 
 
 dilectissimi sapienter ..•••■■■ ^ 
 
 24. Sermo cuiusdam sapientis. 
 Apostolica dilectissimi doctrina ^ 
 
 25. Sermo bonus de Confessione. In quadragesima vel quinq. 
 Confitemini domino quoniam bonus 
 
 2f. Sermo quod bona et efficax oratio contra temptationes Stabat 
 moyses in monte ....••••■ 
 
 27. De Beatis apostolis Petro et Johanne Evvangelista inquisitio 
 
 bona. 
 Illud in petro et lohanne querendum est °7 " 
 
 28. De S. Stephano. Vbi commendatur caritas. 
 
 Heri celebrauimus temporalem °°" 
 
 On f. 90 are only 6 lines. Nos. 3-28 are in single lines, 35 to the page. The hand 
 
 larger than in Nos. 1-3 : the writing throughout very good. On the lower margin of 
 
 the last fly-leaf is " vi s viij " in a xvth cent. hand. 
 
 The book most likely is from Durham. I cannot find it in the Catalogi Veteres. 
 
 51. A. 3. 6. [C. M. A. 714. 
 
 HiLDEBERTUS ET ALII. 
 
 Vellum, 9 X si, ff. 102 + 5 blank: consists of four volumes bound 
 in one. Cent. xii. 
 
 Collation: i^ a« b" / c" / d" e" / i' ii' iii' iiii' v^" vi^ vii^^ (last 2 leaves 
 being blank): 107 leaves. 
 
 Provenance : on f i a is a table of contents in a hand of cent, 
 xii, xiii. 
 
 Versus hildeberti in expositione misse. 
 
 Tractatus de corpore Christi qui sic incipit Sicut ante nos. 
 
 Epistole quedam. 
 
 Regulae de phisica. 
 
 Close in psalterium. 
 
 On {. iii b is another table in a similar hand, with additions of 
 cent. XV. 
 
 In hoc volumine continentur hec. 
 
 Versus hildeberti in expositionem misse (added : versus de eukaristia de baptismo et 
 de gradibus consanguinitatis etc. in eis nuUi coniunguntur vt conat;<?-). 
 Tractatus de corpore Christi. 
 Corrector ecclesie (lined through). 
 
 Regule de phisica (added ; et nomina i' et bonas medicinas complect.). 
 Close in psalterium (added : compendiose). 
 
MS. 51] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 37 
 
 On f. I a is 
 
 Sum Johannis Pilkingtoni Dunelmensis 1591. This John Pilkington was the brother 
 of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (ti675). and was made Archdeacon by him. 
 His name occurs again on f. 47 a, at the beginning of the gloss on the Psalter. 
 
 On f. 1 a is also the letter P in a xvth cent. hand. 
 
 The MS. is from Durham. It occurs in the Catalogue of 
 
 ' Le Spendment ' in the Surtees Society volume of Durham 
 
 Catalogues (Catalogi Veteres, 1838), p. 24. 
 P. Versus Hildeberti de Exposicione Missae. Tractatus de 
 
 corpore Christi. Regulae de Medicinale. Glosa in Psalte- 
 
 rium. 1 1 fo. Neve superveniens . 
 
 Contents : 
 
 I. Versus Hildeberti Cenomannensisepiscopideexplanationemisse f. i 
 Versus de corpore et sanguine domini ..... 13 
 
 Melchisedech domino panem uinumque libauit. 
 Versus de Baptismate 14 
 
 Hostia • coniugium • baptismus • qualia primo. 
 Versus quare non copulentur in coniugio consanguine! . • 14 
 
 Baptismalis quedam forma fuit in diluuio. 
 Explicit, followed by four lines ...... 15 
 
 Est aliquando bono bene ne grauibus superetur. 
 Ends on f. 15 ^ : f. 16 is blank. 
 
 This tract is in a hand of cent. xii. with rubricated headings, 
 26 lines to a full page. 
 
 II. A Tract on the Eucharist : begins 
 
 [S]icut ante nos quidam sapiens dixit .... 17 
 
 It is composed of extracts from Ambrose, Leo, Augustine, 
 Basil, Gregory, Jerome, Fulgentius, Eusebius, Cyril, Hilary, 
 whose names are in red : and is directed against Paschasius 
 Radbert, whose name is in black : the names of Rabanus 
 and Ratrannus also occur. 
 The tract ends : Liquet igitur non obnoxium secessui esse. 
 The hand is of cent, xii, xiii, slightly larger than the last : 
 there are 26 lines to the page. 
 
 III. Medical receipts 27 
 
 Begins : (A)d caput purgandum uel uocem exclarandam uel 
 
 uuam exsiccandam uel glandulas • absincij fasciculum unum 
 alterum fasciculum marubij. 
 Written in a hand of cent, xii, xiii, smaller than the last: 
 26 lines to the page. The hand changes slightly : and on 
 f. 45 is a slightly later addition : f. 46 is blank. 
 
 IV. Gloss on the Psalter 47 
 
 Begins : Prophecia est inspiracio diuina. 
 
 In double columns of 39 lines each : in a small hand of cent. xii. 
 The gloss includes the Cantica, and ends : incarnacionem filii 
 
 futuram non intelligerem michi profuturam. 
 The text of the Psalms is not given. 
 
38 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 52—54 
 
 52. A. 3. 7. [C. M. A. 715- 
 
 COMMENTARIUS IN SECUNDAM SECUNDAE. 
 
 S. ThOMAE AqUINATIS ad QUAEST. T'] ET 78 DE 
 
 CONTRACTIBUS. 
 
 Paper, 8^^ x 6, ff. cir. 200 : 30 lines to a page. Cent, xvi, xvii. 
 Without donor's name. The writing is very neat. 
 
 53. A. 3. 8. [C. M. A. 716. 
 
 ThOMAE DE ChABHAM SuMMA DE CaSIBUS ET DE 
 PeNITENTIA SECUNDUM CaNONES. 
 
 Vellum, 8^ x 6\, ff. 85, double columns of 37 lines each. Cent, 
 xiii, xiv. Without donor's name. 
 
 Collation: i" ii'^ (wants i) iii"' (called iv) iv" (called vi) v" (called 
 viii) vi'" (ix) vii" (x) viii^ 
 
 Contents : 
 
 The Summa in viii parts. 
 
 Inc. Cum miserationes domini sint super omnia opera eius. 
 
 54. A. 3. 9. [C. M. A. 717. 
 
 Franconis Monachus Afflighemiensis DE Gratia. 
 
 Paper, 8:| x 5^, ff. 78, 38 lines to a page. Cent, xv (1490). 
 Given by Dr Sam. Ward. 
 
 Collation ; a" b^^ c" d« e^" f" g". 
 Contents : 
 
 1 . Epistola domini Fulgencii abbatis ad Franconem monachum 
 
 pro libro de gracia. 
 
 2. Rescriptum d. Franconis ad d. Fulgencium. 
 The text in xii. ' Thomi ' follows. 
 
 Expl. liber d. Franconis de gracia. Finitus anno domini 
 m°.cccc°.lxxij°. infra octavas gloriosi patroni nostri martini 
 episcopi. 
 
 3. Tractatus perutilis et valde notabilis mag. Joh. Gerson de 
 
 p?-«aitibus domini Ihesu verbis Venite ad me omnes. Expl. 
 anno 1490 vite mee 75. 
 Inc. Inspiracio dei interior qualiter fiat. 
 
MS. 55] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 39 
 
 Tract, mag. Jo. Gerson pro deuotis qualiter se in suis exerciciis 
 desuete et caute habere debent. Deus vult ut sit rationabile 
 obsequium. 
 
 Expliciunt bona documenta, anno M.CCCC. 90. 
 4. Colloquium hominis contemplatiui ad animam. 
 Incipit secretum colloquium, 
 
 Expl. Anno M cccc xc vite mee septuag. 6°. 
 
 55. A. 3. 10. [C. M. A. 718. 
 
 Speculum Christiani. 
 
 Vellum, 8| x 5f, ff. 54, etc., 32 and 33 lines to a page. Cent. xv. 
 Given by Dr Sam. Ward, 1643. Two volumes in one. 
 
 Collation : a^-e^ |1 f^^. 
 
 Provenance : Durham (.■'). On f. i is : Sum Jo. Pilkington 
 Dunelmensis ex dono Henrici Wanless clerici 1594. Morbus est 
 non judicium damnare quod non inspexeris. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 1. John Walton's Speculum Christiani (?see Jesus MS. Q. G. 3). 
 
 It begins : Euangelium. Qui ex dec est uerba dei audit. The 
 next few sections are headed : Tria sunt genera elemosinarum. 
 Constitucio lambeth. Octo tabule. Symbolum Athanasii. 
 Symb. apostolorum (with names of Apostles). It contains 
 the X commandments in English rhyme, and verses on the 
 seven deadly sins, a hymn to the Virgin, and other English 
 passages. At the end is a couplet, referring plainly to 
 S. Christopher : Ha premor et puer es : cur coUo tam grauis 
 eres | Ne lateat te res : quem fers est celicus heres . . f. i 
 
 2. A treatise in English containing the archbishop's order with 
 
 the council of his Clergy, what Parsons, Vicars, etc. ought 
 to teach their Parishioners. A form of their Bidding Prayer 
 and the decrees of a Synod under Abp. Chicheley, held in 
 
 1434 41 
 
 Such is the description in Catal. MSS. Angl. 
 
 Inc. As a grete clerke shewith in his boke of alle creatures. It 
 treats of the x commandments, the vii sacraments, the vii 
 dedis of mercy, the vii vertuys and the vij dedly synnys. 
 
 The Bidding Prayer begins on f. 50. 
 
 The constitution of Chicheley on f. 52 b. 
 
 The fly-leaves are a single leaf of a xiiith cent. MS. in double 
 columns dealing with Canon Law. 
 
40 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 56 
 
 56. A. 3. II. [C. M. A. 719- 
 
 Galfridus de Vinsauf, etc. 
 
 Vellum, 8{ x 5f, ff. 193, 32 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Given 
 by John Bramhall, D.D., formerly Scholar (J?e^. p. 102), cir. 1632. 
 
 From Durham : on the first fly-leaf is : 
 
 Liber domini Willelmi Law monachi ecclesie cathedralis Dunelmensis ex dono vene- 
 rabilis patris at domini Domini Ricardi Bell prioris eccl. cath. Dunelm. 
 
 On the verso : 
 
 Liber Willelmi Law monachi Dunelm. 
 
 In isto libro continentur subscripta. 
 
 In primis tractatus de noua poetria qui dicitur 7'ria sunt Gaufridi Anglici. 
 
 Item 3"' liber Ouidii Nasonis de uetula. 
 
 Item expositio fratris Nicholai Triwet super 1 5 libros Ouidii methamorph. 
 
 Item liber Johannis de Cessolis quem composuit de ludo scacherii. 
 
 On the verso of the 2nd fly-leaf : 
 
 Tractatus de arte dictandi qui intitulatur tria sunt 2° fo. a prouerbio. 
 Iste liber assignatur Nono Armariolo in Claustro Dunelmensis Ecclesie per venera- 
 bilem patrem magistrum lohannem Aukland priorem eiusdem ecclesie. 
 
 John Aukland was prior from 1484 to 1494. This book and 
 others of his time are consequently not to be found in the Catalogi 
 veteres published by the Surtees Society, the latest of which is of 
 1416. 
 
 Collation : a'^-f' | g' h* (wants 8) |1 ii^-o^^ p^^ (f. 12*) || qi= r'^ s». 
 
 Contents : 
 
 1. Galfridi de Vinsauf Anglici tractatus de arte dictandi . . p. i 
 The hand changes on p. 145 : capitula on p. 148. 
 
 1. Ouidii Nasonis de uetula liber tertius 149 
 
 47 lines to a page : in the hand which began on p. 145. 
 
 There are a few marginal selections. 
 Colophon, p. 165 : 
 Ouidii Nasonis Pelignensis de uetula liber tercius explicit 
 
 duobus primis hie omissis propter multa que insunt scurrilia. 
 
 Amen. 
 Followed by 
 Tractatus et causa quare singula uolumina sua composuit iste 
 
 Ouidius poeta doctissimus. 
 In librorum iniciis.... 
 Followed by the Preface in verse of Leo, Protonotaiy of the 
 
 sacred palace at Byzantium. See Jesus Coll. MS. Q. G. 22. 
 
MSS. 57, 58] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 41 
 
 pp. 171 — 174 are blank. 
 
 3. Nicolai Trivet Commentarius super xv libris Metamorphoseon 
 
 Ovidii . . . . . . . . . • p- 175 
 
 A veritate quid auditum auertent ad fabulas. 
 
 48 lines to a page. 
 
 Colophon. Expl. exposicio fratris Nicholai Tryuet in quatri- 
 plici sensu super 15 libros Ouidii Methamorphoseos. Amen 
 quod Willelmus Seton monachus ecclesie Dunelmensis. 
 
 Followed by a Table on p. 330. 
 
 4. Jacobi de Cessolis tractatus de ludo Scaccarii. 
 Multorum fratrum ordinis nostri..,. 
 
 50 lines to a page. 
 
 Colophon, p. 382. Hunc autem libellum ad honorem et 
 solacium nobilium et maxime ludum sciencium ego frater 
 Jacobus de Cessolis composui et ad hunc finem perduxi don- 
 ante illo a quo descendit omne datum optimum et perfectum : 
 quod Willelmus Seton (over erasure) monachus Dunelmensis. 
 
 p. 383 is blank. 
 
 5. An extract on the composition of a sermon .... 384 
 Predicacio est thematis assumpcio eiusque thematis diuisio 
 
 In another hand : ends on p. 385. 
 
 p. 386 is blank. 
 
 Nos. I and 3 have handsome partial borders at their beginnings, 
 principally in blue and gold. The volume closely resembles 
 one in Jesus College (Q. G. 21) written at Durham by 
 R. Emylton. 
 
 57. A. 3. 12. [C. M. A. 720. 
 
 EXPLICATIO QUARUNDAM SURATARUM EX AlCORANO 
 
 Arabice. 
 
 Paper, 7| x 5f, ff. 22, 15 lines to a page. 
 No name of donor. 
 
 58. A. 3. 13. [C. M. A. 721. 
 
 HORAE. 
 
 Vellum, 8^ x 5|, ff. 80 + 4 blank leaves and fly-leaves, 14 lines 
 to a page. Cent, xv (1470). Bequeathed to the College by Dr 
 Samuel Ward, 1643. It is in quires of eight leaves. 
 
42 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. $9, 6o 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Medical receipts in English (on second fly-leaf). 
 
 Hours of the Virgin f- ' 
 
 Penitential Psalms and Litany 54 
 
 Receipts on last fly-leaf but one. 
 
 The use is of Sarum : there is little to remark upon in the 
 book. On a fly-leaf at the end is the entry 
 
 Robertus Mathews oriundus fuit vicesimo tercio die december Anno domini 
 
 There is a border on f. i : gold, pink, and blue initials : a 
 large hand. 
 
 59. A. 3. 14. [C. M. A. 722. 
 
 Thomae Campiani Londinatis, D. Med., de puluerea 
 
 CONIURATIONE LIBRI DUO ReGI DICATI. 
 
 Paper, 7^ x 5f, ff. 28, 25 lines to a page. Cent. xvii. No 
 donor's name. 
 
 A Latin poem on Gunpowder Plot : in hexameters : five epi- 
 grams prefixed. 
 
 Inc. Querna corona loui datur olim, laurea Phoebo. 
 
 60. A. 3. 15. [C. M. A. 723. 
 
 Tractatus de Machumete, etc. 
 
 Vellum and paper, s| x 4, ff. 38 -|- 31, 24 and 30 lines to a page. 
 Cent, xiii, xiv. The donor's name does not appear. 
 
 Collation: a^^ b^^ (wants 10 and 12) || d» d" || 31 of paper. 
 Contents : 
 
 I. A Tract on Mahomet and the Koran .... f 
 
 Imperfect at the beginning : the first 12 and part of the 13th 
 
 chapter lost. 
 Inc. interfecerit eum . et quidam mori . sc • finees et abdia 
 nomme salon postea dictus habdalla nomine sellen. 
 
MS. 6l] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 43 
 
 c. xiv begins on f. 2 b. Quartum decimum capitulum de ficta 
 uisione mahometi. 
 
 c. XV, f. 5 o, XV cap", questiones communes super alcoranum. 
 Six questions are treated. 
 
 c. xvii (f jV), f. 140;. de preheminencia euangelii ad alcoranum. 
 
 c. xviii, f. 18 rt. Responsio sarracenorum ad predictum, ends 
 f. 19^, -s- quod euangelium sit lex a deo sanctissima pariter 
 et obsseruabilis mundo. 
 
 On ff. 19 1>, loa, 21 d, 22 a, are notes in pale ink of cent, xiv, 
 XV, on Mahomet, Sergius, Tholosanus episcopus, mortal 
 sins. 
 
 On 21 3 are the names ai ffrater Thomas horwe, and Willelmus 
 Mercyall precium hunts libri iiij'', and a copy of a deed : 
 Sciant omnes homines tocius mundi quod frater Willelmus 
 Amerton natus iuxta Charcote in comitatu Stafford obiit in 
 conuentu ffratrum Minorum Wygornie anno domini mil- 
 lesimo ccc. Iiij. Qui quidem ffrater Willelmus Amerton 
 indutus fuit Stafford siue factus frater per tres vel quatuor 
 annos ante suam mortem. Ista testamur caritatis intuitu. 
 This is in the same hand as the other notes. 
 
 2. Historia Apollonii Tyrii ........ 23 
 
 30 lines to a page : ends on 37 ^. On 38 a is an extract in the 
 
 same hand from Rufinus, Hist. Eccl., about the Philosopher 
 
 at the Council of Nicaea. 
 38 b is blank. The names Thomas and Philip Stream, Rob. 
 
 Danson, Rychard Emerson, occur on margins. 
 The Romance of Apollonius has been often printed ; last in 
 
 Teubner's Classical Series. 
 
 3. A printed tract, de mundicia et castitate sacerdotum, in Gothic 
 
 letter, printed by Denis Rose (a la venture) : 33 lines to a 
 
 page. 
 Signatures a, b, d and c (wanting c 8) remain, in that order. 
 The name Edmund Brooker occurs ond 1. 
 
 61. A. 3. 16. [C. M. A. 724. 
 
 Paper, 4x3, ff. 79 written, 1 1 lines to a page. Cent. xvii. 
 No donor's name. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Extracts from various Canons. 
 Inc. 6 SexVf OS '"'"^s 'Koyiffiioii t&v avdpumuv dtp^iKei. e&ai. . . . 
 
44 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 62 
 
 62. A. 3. 17. [C M. A. 725. 
 
 DiURNALE. 
 Vellum, 3 X 2, ff. 210 + 2 fly-leaves, 20 lines to a page. Cent, 
 xiii, xiv. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Kalendar, in red, pink, and black f. i 
 
 Psalter from Ps. cix Dixit Dominus — cxlix, followed by Ps. xxi 
 Deus, deus meus, and Litany. In the Psalms only the first half 
 of each verse is given ......... 7 
 
 Proprium de tempore from ist Sunday in Advent to the isth Sunday 
 
 after Pentecost 23 
 
 Proprium de Sanctis from S. Andrevif to S. Katherine . . . 106 
 
 Commune Sanctorum 160 b 
 
 Office of S. Cuthbert 191 
 
 Corpus Christi 192 b 
 
 ff. 195 b — 198 are blank. 
 
 Collects for Saints, from S. Silvester to S. Damasus . . . 199 
 Memoria of Richard, Abp. Scrope, added (xvth cent. ) . . . 207 li 
 ff. 209, 2 to blank. 
 
 Collation: Two fly-leaves, then Kalendar on one quire of six 
 leaves, then 17 quires of 12 leaves each, with catchwords, 210 -I- 2. 
 
 The MS. was bequeathed to the College in 1643 by the Rev. 
 Dr Samuel Ward, Master. 
 
 The Kalendar has the following distinctive feasts : 
 
 Jan. v Id. Trans. S. Willelmi, in red. 
 
 Ap. viii Kal. Mai. S. Wilfridi Archiep. ix lect. in red. 
 
 May. Non. S. Johannis Archiep. ix lect. in red. 
 
 vii. Id. Trans. S. Andree Ap. in black. 
 June, vi Id. S. Willelmi Archiep. in red. 
 
 xi Kal. Jul. S. Leufredi Abb. in black. 
 Aug. Non. S. Oswaldi Reg. et M. in pink, 
 viii Kal. Sept. S. Hilde V. in black. 
 Oct. vi Id. S. Paulini Ep. in black. 
 
 iv Id. Nat. (written over Trans.) S. Wilfridi, in black, 
 xiv Kal. Nov. Commem. sanctarum reliquiarum, in pink. 
 X Kal. Nov. S. Romani Archiep. in red. 
 The Litany invokes S. Marcialis as Apostle: SS. Oswald and Thomas as Martyrs: 
 SS. John, Wilfrid, Paulinus, William, Eadmund as Confessors (' S Augustine • ij •' begins 
 the list of confessors): S. Hilda as Virgin. The suffrage ' Ut regibus et principibus' 
 occurs. 
 
 In the Proprium Sanctorum the following English Saints occur : SS. Cuthbert, John 
 of Beverley, Augustine, Trans. S. Thomae, Oswald, Trans. S. Cuthberti, Edward.' The 
 Feast of the Relics occurs between those of SS. Luke and Simon and Jude. S. Augustine 
 of Hippo has an octave. 
 
MS. 63] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 45 
 
 The Collects at the end include those for Trans. S. Willelmi, S. Wilfrid, Trans. S. 
 Andreae, S. William, S. Radegund, Trans. S. Hildae, S. Hilda. 
 
 The influence of York is very plain : on the whole it seems likely that the MS. is 
 from an Augustinian monastery in the North, not impossibly Carlisle. 
 
 The suffrage for Richard Scrope at the end runs as follows : 
 
 Surregor laicus de nacione Ebreus ex inspiracione diuina hanc oracionem composuit 
 ex mandatd beati Ricardi Scrop hue transmisit cum sentencia subscripta hie est vere ille 
 choruscans inter mille sanctorum. Ante deum oret pro nobis e 
 
 Supplica pro nobis beate Ricarde vt ueniamus celo sine tarde. Oremus. Omnipotens 
 sanctorum sancte vniuersorum domine qui [quere (above line)] cotidie pij Ricardi meritis 
 quam plurima ostendis miracula concede propicius quod sicut negocia nostra continue 
 
 in 
 tibi offerat ut die nouissimo coram te gloriose nos perducat per dominum nostrum. 
 
 The person addressed is Richard Scrope, Abp of York, beheaded in June, 1405, at 
 his palace of Bishopthorpe, for rebelling against Henry IV. He is buried in York 
 Minster, at the extreme N.E., and his tomb was for long a place of pilgrimage. 
 
 The writing and ornament of this little book are very beautiful : the majority of the 
 pages have a border on three sides : the prevailing colours being blue, pink, and 
 burnished gold. Occasionally there are grotesques and birds. The solitary figured 
 subject is in the initial to the Psalm Dixit Domimis, which represents Christ seated, full- 
 face, blessing, and shewing His wounds : the ground is gold. The binding is probably 
 of the xviith century. 
 
 63. A. 4. I. [C. M. A. 726. 
 
 JOH. GOWER CONFESSIO AmANTIS. 
 
 Catonis Disticha. 
 
 Paper^ iif x 8|, ff. 210, double columns of 43 lines each. Cent. 
 XV. Given by Dr Sam. Ward. Roughly written. 
 
 Collation: l^^ (wants \)-\^^^^ 18" (4 cancelled) 19= (blank). 
 Contents : 
 
 1. Gower's Confessio Amantis beginning imperfectly in the 
 
 Prologue ......... f. 2 
 
 \'' heuen wot what is to done 
 But we V duelle vnder Y mone. 
 
 2. Catonis disticha cum versione Anglica .... 202 b, col. 2 
 
 Cum animaduerterem quam plures homines. 
 
 When I bethenke me hertli 
 
 how fele men erren greuousli. 
 Ends on 208 a. 
 On the blank leaves at the end are scribbles : one is 
 
 be me master Thomas meverll. 
 Another of cent, xv, xvi is in rhyme. 
 
 ^ One fly-leaf of parchment at the beginning. 
 
46 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 64 
 
 64. A. 4. 2. [C. M. A. 727. 
 
 RicARDUs Archiep. Armachanus contra Mendicantes. 
 
 Paper, 11^ x 7|, fif. 132, 49 and 32 lines to a page. Cent. xv. 
 Badly written. Given by Mr Clement in 1633 {Register, p. lOi). 
 
 Collation: ist fasciculus of ff. 29, 2nd of 7, 3rd of 14, 4th of 8, 
 Sth of 14, 6th of 17, 7th of 20, 8th of S, 9th of 4, loth of 10, nth 
 of 10. 
 
 On f I ^ 
 
 magister will° morus (erased). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 (Opera dom. armachani contra mendicantes. 
 (Item opera mendicantium contra dom. armachanum. 
 In isto libro continentur per ordinem infrascripta. Then follows an incomplete table 
 of contents, which I do not give. 
 
 1. Articuli 55 omissi inferius in transsumpto libelli fratrum men- 
 
 dicantium contra dom. Armachanum . . . . . [. 2 
 The title says, qui ibidem omissi fuerant causa breuitatis : hie 
 iam sunt completa et introduci debent ibid, ad tale signum 
 o HC. 
 
 2. Appellacio fratrum mendicancium contra d. Armach. (1356) . 4 
 
 3. Peticiones prelatorum et curatorum regni ffrancie...in Curia 
 
 Romana contra ffratres mendic. ...... 5 ^ 
 
 4. Informacio Episcopi Eliensis (Thomae de Insula, ord. predicat.) 
 
 against the Friars Minors : with a summary of the articles . 6 i 
 
 5. Excerpta de libris d. Armachani quos intitulauit de pauperie 
 
 saluatoris .......... 7 
 
 6. Sermo D. Armachani... factus ad populum in aula Episcopi 
 
 London, in Wlgari anno 1356 iv" dom. Aduentus Dirigite 
 
 viam Domini ......... 30 
 
 Followed by 14 conclusions, f. 36. 
 
 f. ^66 is blank. 
 
 7. Sermo eiusdem factus ad populum in wlgari dom. ii post, octau. 
 
 Epiph. apud crucem in cimiterio s. Pauli London, anno 
 
 1356- 
 
 Quodcunque dixit vobis facite jy 
 
 With six conclusions, f. 46. 
 
 8. Condempnacio errorum Marsilii de Padua et Johannis de 
 
 Janduno 46^ 
 
 9. De priuilegiis fratrum predicatorum quibus innituntur in preiu- 
 
 dicium curatorum .- ^ 
 
 10. Bulla Innocentis iv". Etsi animarum affectantes . . . 48* 
 
 f. 49 6 is blank. 
 
MS. 64] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 47 
 
 11. Tertius sermo do. Armach. aput crucem ecclesie S. Pauli 
 
 London. Anno 1356 i™" dom. quadragesime factus ad 
 
 populum in wlgari. 
 
 Die ut lapides isti panes fiant 50 
 
 With 8 conclusions, f. 57 : f. 57* blank. 
 
 12. Sermo quartus eiusdem ibid, ii^" dom. XL°"' in vulgari anno 1356, 
 
 ex consecratione eiusdem anno x™". 
 Nemo vos seducat 58 
 
 13. Proposicio d. Armachani facta in consistorio apud Auinio- 
 
 nem 8 Nov. 1357. 
 
 Nolite iudicare secundum faciem 72 
 
 Ends on 87 a. 
 
 14. Bulla Johannis xxii. Vas eleccionis . . . . . 87 15 
 
 15. Bulla Bonifacii. Super cathedram 88 
 
 16. Obiectiones et responsiones d. Armach. circa mendicitatem 
 
 Christi preterusam per fratres ...... 89 
 
 17. Errores mag. Joh. de poliaco 97 
 
 18. Six Articles on the Bull Vas eleccionis 97 
 
 19. Informacio breuis pro clero et populo contra abusus fratrum 
 
 mendic. .......... 105 b 
 
 20. Note on excommunication ....... 106 c 
 
 2 1 . Copia buUe quam fr. Rogerus de Coneway optinuit in Romana 
 
 Curia anno Chr... 1359 ....... 107 
 
 22. Bulla concessa patribus (by Innocent VI.) ne aliquid innouetur 
 
 contra eosdem pendente lite ...... 107 b 
 
 23. A Deed from Innocent VI. (in 1358) to Richard of Armagh . 107 b 
 
 24. Recordacio commissionis facte. ..in causa d. Ardmach. 1357 . 108 i 
 
 25. Peticio d. Ardmachani pro commissione optinenda... . . 109 
 
 26. Processus summarius cause d. Armach. contra fratres . . nob 
 f. 113 blank. 
 
 27. Libellus d. Armachani . . . . . . . . 114 
 
 „ fratrum mendic. contra d. Armach 118 
 
 28. Excepciones procuratorum de ordinibus contra libellum d. 
 
 Armach. .......... 119 
 
 29. Excepc. d. Armach. contra libellum procuratonim . . . 119^ 
 
 30. Allegaciones d. Jacobi de Sena pro fundacione libelli d. 
 
 Armach 120 
 
 Other documents in the cause follow. 
 I. 12"] b is blank. 
 
 31. Obiectiones contra fratres mendic. secundum quod recitantur in 
 
 tract, de euuangelica perfeccione ca°. 16 ... . 128 
 
 32. Transsumptum of certain constitutions of a council held at 
 
 Avignon, 17 Oct. 1341 129 
 
 33. (Headed: Michael archangele veni in adiutorium.) Cause of 
 
 Joh. Burton de Doncastre against the abbot and convent of 
 Whalleye, at Rome ; about the possession of the chapel of 
 S. Michael in castro de Cliderhou Lichefeld dioc. . . 130-138 
 
48 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 65 — 6^ 
 
 65. A. 4. 3. [C. M. A. 728. 
 
 Matthaei Blastaris de sacris Synodis Synopsis Graece. 
 
 Paper, 11^ x 8i, ff. 6^ of MS., 30 lines to a page. Two vols, in 
 one. Cent. xvi. Given by Emmanuel Baines to Dr Ward and 
 by him to the College. In a beautiful hand, imitated from print : 
 red ink is used for titles, sections, etc. 
 
 Collation: i» (wants i) A"-G' H' (2-4 blank). 
 
 TiOtpuiTWTOv iv ' lepofiovaxoLS KvpoG 'M.aT&aJ.ov 
 Trepl Tujv leptjjv Kal deltjjv ffvpbdtav (rOvoipLS. 
 
 Ends with the 180 canons of the Council of Carthage. 
 Bound up with it is a printed book : 
 
 Theodoreti Ecclesiastica Historia Graece. Basle. Froben. et Episcopius, 1535. 
 
 66. A. 4. 4. [C. M. A. 729. 
 
 John Scott's Foundation of the University of 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Paper, io| x 8, ff. 34, 30 lines to a page. Cent. xvii. Given 
 by the author to Dr Ward. 
 
 Dated April the loth, 16 19. 
 
 The arms of the Colleges are emblazoned. The author presented 
 copies of the book to all (?) the College Libraries in Cambridge. 
 
 See a paper by Mr W. St John Hope in the Transactions 
 of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1892-3. (No. xxxv, p. 
 109.) 
 
 67. A. 4. 5. [C. M. A. 730. 
 
 Aristotelis quaedam Latine versa a Leon. Aretino. 
 
 Paper, lof x 8^, ff. 13 1, 37 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Given by 
 Francis Combes of Hemmel-Hempstead, Esq., formerly of the 
 College: in 1641. 
 
 Collation : A^-Ni" O'. 
 
MSS. 68 — 70] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 49 
 
 Contents : 
 
 1. Aristotelis Ethica f. i 
 
 2. Eiusdem Oeconomica (F 8 ^) 
 
 3. Eiusdem Politica {G 2 1>) 
 
 {. I a has a good initial, and the remains of a coat of arms in the lower margin : azure 
 a stag proper (facing dexter): surmounted by R. R. in gold, and surrounded by ornament. 
 The hand is Italian, of cir. 1480-90. 
 
 The name Thomas Seall occurs on D 2. 
 
 68. A. 4- 6. [C. M. A. 731. 
 
 Liber de Problematibus. 
 
 Vellum, lof X 7|, ff. 40, double columns of 45 lines each. Cent, 
 xiv, XV. No donor's name. In a pointed hand, with red and blue 
 capitals. 
 
 Collation : a'^'-c'^ d .' (4 leaves remain, misbound). 
 
 Liber de problematibus que sunt circa medicinalia. 
 
 The table gives 38 sections, of which 36 and part of the title of 37 remain. 
 
 69. A. 4. 7. [C. M. A. 732. 
 
 HeNRICI VIII. LITERAL PATENTES CONCESSAE JaCOBO 
 
 Episcopo Eliensi et Roberto Priori et Conuentui 
 eiusdem locl 
 
 Vellum, 10^ X 7|, ff. 26, 25 lines to a page. Cent. xvi. 
 Given by John Land, B.D., formerly Fellow, Vicar of Horning 
 in Norfolk, in 1632. 
 
 The document is dated i June, 2 Hen. VHI. 
 
 70. A. 4. 8. [C. M. A. 733. 
 
 Henrici Huntindoniensis Archidiaconi Chronicon. 
 
 Vellum, iO| X 7f, ff. 84, 39 lines to a page Cent, xv (early, or 
 late xiv). Given by Dr Samuel Ward. 
 Collation : a'-k' l\ 
 
 S. MSS. 4 
 
so CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 71 
 
 On f. I is a border of slight flourishes, and in the lower margin a coat of arms : 
 quarterly i and 3 sable a chevron or between three crescents argent, 2 and 4 barry of six 
 argent and gules with three crescents sable. 
 
 On a blank page at the end is a late scribble of a shield argent a cross engrailed sable, 
 and two lines of a document beginning Antonius patriarcha Jerusalomitanus (xvii). 
 
 Appended to the text of the Chronicle is the Epistola de regilius hebreorimi addressed 
 to Henry I. by the author. 
 
 71. A. 4. 9. [C. M. A. 734. 
 
 Ernaldus Boneuallensis, etc. 
 
 Vellum, 10^ X 7, ff. 149, varying number of lines to a page. 
 Cent, xii, xiii. 
 
 Bequeathed by Samuel Ward, D.D., Master, in 1643. 
 
 On f. I a, in capitals of cent, xii, is LiBER SCE MARIE DE 
 WARDOA^. 
 
 Wardon was a Cistercian house in Bedfordshire (N. of Shefford) 
 founded in 113 5. 
 
 On the same page, in a hand of cent, xvi, is Papam cum eius 
 auctoritate abrenuntio, and in the same hand, at the bottom, Henricus 
 Smyth. 
 
 Collation: a" b^» c" (wants i, 2) d« e*^ || f" g" h^ i^ k" 1" (wants 4) 
 m" n' o* p' q' r^ (+ i) s^ t* (wants 4). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 1. Tractatus domni Ernaldi abbatis Boneuallensis de quinque 
 
 uerbis Domini in cruce ....... f. i 
 
 Ultima Christi uerba que cruci afhxus... 
 
 24 lines to a page : very fine hand. 
 
 Ernaldus lived in 1156: Bonneval is in the present diocese of 
 
 Blois : it was a Benedictine house founded in 841. Some of 
 
 Ernaldus' works are printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. Tom. 
 
 clxxxix. 
 Two leaves are lost after f. 20 : an old numbering (of cent, xv) 
 
 goes up to f. 28. 
 The first initial U has been scraped off the vellum, probably 
 
 for the sake of the blue pigment. 
 
 2. Liber Aurelii Cassiodori Magni senatoris de anima . . 43 
 In another hand, very good, but slightly later than the last : 
 
 30 lines to a page. 
 
 3. Liber Rathranni de anima gg 
 
 In the same hand. 
 
 4. Liber Rathranni de eo quod Christus de uirgine natus est, per 
 
 naturalem corporis partem -g ^ 
 
92 
 
 MSS. 72, 73] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 5 1 
 
 5. Alexandri III. Papae Epistola ad Alexandrum abbatem 
 
 Cistercii et uniuersis eiusdem ordinis abbatibus (anno 1168) . 91 
 
 Subjoined is a note of not much later date on the duration of 
 Alexander's pontificate. 
 
 6. Expositio Magistri Hugonis (de S. Victore) super lamenta- 
 
 ciones leremie ......... 
 
 In a rather later hand and paler ink : 30 lines to a page, 
 ff. 138 i5, 139 a are blank. 
 
 7. A tract on the interpretation of Scripture followed by . . 139 i^ 
 
 Note super Genesim ad literam 142 
 
 Inc. Lectores diuinarum scripturarum iustruere oportet. 
 
 In a small hand of cent, xii, xiii: double columns of 57 lines 
 
 each. 
 Ends on f. 145 b. Followed by 4 blank leaves marked in 
 
 pencil with the beginnings of a table. 
 
 72. A. 4. 10. [C. M. A. 735. 
 
 S. Ambrosii librorum de Officiis defloratio. 
 
 S. HiERONYMI LIBRI II ADUERSUS IoUINIANUM. 
 
 Vellum, io| X 7, ff. 103, 36 lines to a page. Cent. xii. No donor's 
 name. Well written, with interesting initials of red and green, with 
 flourished ornament. 
 
 Collation : a" b^ c^ d^ e^ P g^^ h" i^ k= P m^^ (4, 6, 8-12 cancelled). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Incipit libellus ualde utilium preceptorum atque consiliorum de libris 
 
 officiorum Scacissimi (sic) Ambrosii Mediolanensis collectus . f. i 
 
 S. Hieronymi libri duo aduersus louinianum ..... 43 
 Preceded by a capitulatio of the two books. 
 The smaller initials are for the most part not inserted. 
 
 73. A. 4. II. [C. M. A. 736. 
 
 MONACHI CUIUSDAM CrOYLANDIAE EXCEPTIONES. 
 
 Vellum, \o\ X 7, ff. 271, 30 lines to a page. Cent. xiii. No 
 donor's name. On f. i a are the words, homo bulla Bulley (cent. 
 xvi or xvii). 
 
 Collation : a" (4 cancelled) b^-ii^ kk'°. 
 
 Provenance. Crowland. Liber croylandiae is written on f. 6. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 I. On f. I b. 
 
 Qualiter sunt intelligende auctoritates subscripte, quarum principia inferius sunt 
 notata • facile quis reperire poterit si earum signa et paregraffa una cum Require diligenter 
 attenderit. 
 
52 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 74 
 
 Faciamus hominem ad ymaginem et similihidinein nostram. 
 
 Require in questionibus Orosii ad Augustinum hoc signo O- . The whole list, which 
 ends on f. 3 b, consists of texts, and symbols analogous to that given shew where they are 
 explained, fif. 4 a and 5 a are blank. 
 
 2. On ff. 4 ^ and 5 b are two copies of one and the same table of contents. The first 
 has not the heading or section numbers. 
 
 Hec continentitr in hoc uolumine. 
 
 Excepciones a libro beati Augustini de quantitate anime i. 
 
 Retractaciones eiusdem libri. 
 
 Excepciones a questionibus Orosii presbiteri ad Augustinum ii. 
 
 Excepciones a Celestii questionibus quibus respondet Augustinus • iii • 
 
 Excepciones a quatuor libris beati Augustini de doctrina Christiana ■ iiii • 
 
 Excepciones a libro beati Augustini de natura boni • v • 
 
 Augustinus ad Dardanum • vi • 
 
 Excepciones a libro confessionum beati Augustini • vii • 
 
 Excepciones a tractatu beati Augustini super primam partem psalterij • viii • 
 
 Excepciones a tractatu beati Augustini de quatuor decim beatitudinibus • ix ■ 
 
 Excepciones a libro beati Augustini de Ciuitate Dei • x • 
 
 Excepciones ab epistolis beati Augustini ad suos missis dilectos: nee non et ab 
 aliorum epistolis ad dictum Augustinum transmissis : quas immediate secuntur Excep- 
 ciones a tractatu beati Augustini super secundam et terciam partem psalterij • xi • 
 
 Excepciones a xl Omeliis beati Gregorij • xii • 
 
 Excepciones a libro beati Ambrosij de bono mortis : simul et excepciones a libro 
 Anselmi de conceptu uirginali et peccato originali • xiii • 
 
 Excepciones a tractatu Petri Blesensis de vera amicicia • xiiii • 
 
 Excepciones a libro Smaragdi super regulam beati Benedicti ■ xv • 
 
 Excepciones a libro sententiarum Johannis Daraasceni • xvi • 
 
 Quedam notabilia a sentencijs magistri Petri Lumbardi sumpta • xvii • 
 
 Excepciones a summa fratris Simonis de Heyntun ^ de ordine predicatorum • xviii • 
 
 These last are followed by ' quedam questiones de confessione ' (f. kk 8). 
 
 Inc. Queritur quid sit confessio. They end imperfectly : tunc enitn discrete est 
 iterate confitendum, et hoc ex licentia \\ sacerdotis (the last word being the catchword for 
 quire 11, which is gone). 
 
 There is a prologue of 13 lines to the excerpts, Incipiunt excepciones quas Monachus 
 quidam Croylandie a uarijs theologie libris attente excerpsit, quaradiu iuuenili etate inibi 
 se uigere conspexit : Nam. ..in sua iuuentute ab actibus uanis...se subtraxit et claustrali 
 iugo ouanter se tradens huic operi magnifico totaliter insudauit. etc. 
 
 74. A. 4. 12. [C. M. A. 737. 
 
 Sermons by Wycliffe, etc 
 
 Vellum, loi X 7, ff. 207, 37 lines to a page. Cent, xv .? Given 
 by Dr Sam. Ward. 
 
 ^ I do not find mention of Simon de Heyntun in Tanner. 
 
MS. 75] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 53 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Sermons f. i 
 
 A fragment of a Sermon covered with a later paper title is followed 
 by one 
 
 In die S, Trinitatis. 
 
 Septem lampades ardentes sunt septem spiritus dei. 
 The last is 
 
 Dom. vi infra oct. Ascencionis. 
 
 Caritas operit multitudinem peccatorum. 
 
 A treatise upon the Pater Noster 143 
 
 f. 167 is blank. 
 
 A sermon preached at Paul's Cross at Quinquagesima in 1389 by 
 R.i Wymbeldon. 
 
 Redde rationem villicationis tue ..... 168 
 
 Exposition of the X Commandments. 
 
 Cristene childur in god 181 
 
 Exposition of Ave Maria. 
 
 Heyl marie ful of grace 1 89 15 
 
 Six sermons in three different hands 191 b 
 
 75. A. 4. 13. [C. M. A. 738. 
 
 Miscellanea. 
 
 Vellum, io| X 7, ff. 178, double columns of 35 lines each. 
 Cent, xiii (early). Well written : plain coloured initials : ff. 104- 
 178 are in a slightly different hand. Probably bequeathed by Dr 
 Samuel Ward. 
 
 The first fly-leaf is strengthened by a leaf of vellum endorsed 
 To the WorshipfuU my good frynnde Mr Doctor Ward M"^ of 
 Sidney Colledge in Cambridge. 
 
 Collation : i" ii* iii^ iiii^ v' vi* vii* viii^-xii* xiii* (wants 3-6) xiv* 
 (wants 8 blank) || i* (+ 5* -tem secum) ii*-ix* x^ (3, 4 cancelled). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 On the verso of the fly-leaf is a table of contents of early cent. xiii. 
 
 In hoc uolumine continentur ista. rubr. 
 
 Liber expositionum partium ueteris et noui testamenti. 
 
 Liber fulgentii ad calcidium de quibusdam nominibus. 
 
 Interpretationes echirii episcopi de nominibus hebraicis. 
 
 Differentie similium partium a cicerone et ab aliis composite. 
 
 1 Or Thomas W. : so says a colophon of cent. xvi. 
 
54 
 
 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 75 
 
 Liber Bede presbiteri de ortografia. 
 
 Item de numero. Item de littera. 
 
 Item de uerborum declinatione. 
 
 Item de partes excerpte de libro ethimologiarum ysidori. 
 
 Item partes exceppte de prisciano secundum magistrum petrura. 
 
 Regule terminationum et generum nominum. 
 
 Regule de uaria diffinitione casuum tercie declinationis. 
 
 Hysteria de bello troiano. 
 
 Hysteria britonum cum dictis merlini. 
 
 Prologus in libro ermeneumatum. 
 
 Quoniam sunt non nulli in conuentu fratrum . . . . f. i 
 
 Expl. prol. Inc. liber expositionum parcium ueteris et noui 
 
 testamenti i 
 
 Prologus • prolocutio • prohemium initium dicendi. 
 
 The obscure words in the books of the Bible are explained in 
 
 the order of the books. 
 Liber Fulgencii episcopi ad Calcidium de quibusdam nominibus 39 
 
 De tuorum preceptorum domine serie nostra quicquam artasse. 
 Interpretationes Echirii (Eucherii) episcopi de nominibus he- 
 
 braicis ac uariis uocabulis atque expositione rerum diuersarum 41 
 
 At the end is a list of the sounds made by animals, Accipiter 
 
 pipat — Ursus seuit, and some distinctions of words, Cella 
 
 pinaria non penuria dicendum ...... 44 
 
 Differencie similium partium orationis a Cicerone et ab aliis 
 
 sapientibus uiris in sensu et litteratura per alphabetum dis- 
 
 posite. Incipit de A. 
 Inter absconsum et absconditum ...... 45 i 
 
 The ' explicit ' and ' incipit ' to some of the letters of the alpha- 
 bet is varied in form, e.g. Finit de A littera consequenter 
 
 Inc. de B. Explicit de Q Inc. e uestigio de R. Finit de R 
 
 sed reuiuiscit S. 
 Incipit de diuersis partibus in eadem significacione positis. 
 
 Ueturio suo Cicero salutem 55 iJ 
 
 The same variations in the ' explicit ' may be noticed. 
 
 Finit de C, sed suboritur D. Cecidit E, surgit F. Moritur I, 
 
 nascitur L. 
 Followed by the list De uitiis gentium and De uirtutibus earum 
 
 in parallel columns ........ eg 
 
 On proper names, chiefly of places 58 * 
 
 Instances are used, Vbi fuisti ? Rome, Rothomadis,...Vernone: 
 
 Carthago, Londonie, Athene, Thebe, S. Dionisius, Anglia, 
 
 are the other names employed. Vernon is in Normandy. 
 Hie liber primus domini Bede presbyteri de ortografia. Hie 
 
 titulus positus quasi prosopopeia utens. 
 
MS. 75] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 55 
 
 Me legat antiqims qui uult proferre loquelas 
 Me qui non sequitur uult sine lege loqui ... 59 
 
 f. 64. Finit liber primus. Inc. liber secundus Bede famuli 
 xpisti de ortographia. Quod in hoc libro de A seu ceteris 
 alfabeti litteris minus plene scriptum inueneris in prescripto 
 ortographie libro tam de isto quam de aliis libris exceptum et 
 coUectuni plenius digestum inuenire poteris. 
 g. Inc. de numero iuxta Latinos. 
 
 Per • i • litteram representatur unitas . .... 71 
 
 Item expressius de nominibus numerorum .... 72 
 
 De numero iuxta grecos . . . . . . . ■ 7^ ^ 
 
 10. Without title. 
 
 (A)d extrahendam radicem alioruni numeri . . . . 73 ^ 
 
 Littera est nota elementi. 
 ir. Inc. epilogus. Omnium uerborum perfectam et equalem de- 
 clinationem habentium in O uel in M desinentium. 
 
 12. Inc. partes secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti excerpte et 
 
 collecte de libro ethimologiarum Beati Ysidori episcopi . 81 iJ 
 
 13. Inc. partes per dispositionem litterarum alfabeti excerpte de 
 
 Prisciano iuxta magistri Petri expositionem cognominis Helie 90 
 
 Ends on f 102. The end of letter V is lost, and apparently a 
 
 good deal of what follows (four leaves in quire xiii). 
 f. 94 ends in the section de littera V. ... debebant enim eis 
 
 singule ; a pencilled note of cent, xiv says, hie usque (?) de 
 
 sunt : sequitur de sursum, so that the gap is as old as cent. xiv. 
 f. 95 begins 
 
 similiter sursum quod est simplex. 
 The next section is 
 
 Questio de constructione. 
 On f. 102 6 is a. column and a half less well written. 
 Hoc differt inter uesper uesperis masculini generis et uespera 
 
 uespere fem. gen. 
 
 14. Daretis Phrygii historia de bello troiano 104 
 
 ff. 103 — 107 are less well written than the rest : a third of 
 
 col. 2 on f. 107 l> is blank, and the text of the beginning of 
 f. 108 slightly overlaps the end off. 107. 
 
 15. Galfridi (Monemutensis) historia Britonum .... 113^ 
 Ends on f. i^6i ...in latinum sermonem transferre curaui. 
 
 There follows an appendix, extending to the end of col. i, 
 
 f. 178. 
 Post diluuium tribus filiis noe. On the descent of various nations. 
 Eleven paragraphs on wonderful rivers, lakes, etc., in Britain. 
 
 The first is 'stangnum lummonomi in Scotia,' the last a 
 
 ' fons in regione ceretiaica... nomine crucinare.' 
 f. 178 i is blank. 
 
56 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. J^ 
 
 76. A. 4. 14. [C. M. A. 739- 
 
 PSALTERIUM CUM CANTICIS. 
 
 Vellum, 10 X 6f, ff. 153: one blank leaf is cut out before 
 Ps. cix (ex), and two leaves at least are gone at the end. The 
 gatherings are of 12 and 10 leaves. Cent, xiv (cir. 1330-40). 
 English work. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Psalter f- i 
 
 Cantica and Litany I37 
 
 The provenance seems to be the diocese of Exeter : among 
 other saints invoked in the Litany we find : SS. Petroc (of Dart- 
 mouth), Brannoc of Brampton in Devon, and Sativola, the last 
 a distinctively Exeter saint. 
 
 The MS. has at one time been in very Protestant hands : 
 almost every face has been scratched out, and all the Saints in 
 the Litany, except SS. Thomas of Canterbury and John the 
 Baptist, have had a line drawn through their names. 
 
 The plan of illustration is as follows. Each of the portions 
 into which the Psalter is divided has a figured initial, and a border 
 of figures under canopies. The first of these pages shews the 
 Angelic Hierarchy, the second the Apostles, the third Martyrs, the 
 fourth Confessors, the fifth Doctors, the sixth Virgins, the seventh 
 a choir of angels, the eighth a choir of ecclesiastics, the ninth the 
 Last Judgment. Every such page has, moreover, a band of busts 
 in quatrefoils along the top. Every intermediate page has a 
 border at top and bottom of rather rough leaf-work, and usually 
 a grotesque figure, or bird, or beast. As a whole the book is a 
 very fine one. Two contemporary scribes have been at work on 
 the text: one has written the first quire of 12 leaves, and the last 
 quire but one, also of 12 leaves. 
 
 The proper antiphons and versicles are written in the lower 
 margins of the pages in a hand of the early xvth century. 
 
 Descriptions of the illustrations follow : 
 
 I. Ps. i. Beatus uir. Initial. On a gold ground, with incised leaf-pattern, David 
 seated, playing a harp with a plectrum and also with his hand. 
 
 Border. At top, six nimbed busts in quatrefoils. 
 
 On Z., under a trefoiled canopy, a six-winged seraph in long robe, full-face : gold 
 ground. 
 
MS. ^6] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 57 
 
 On J?., three similar beings (Seraphim and Cherubim, and ? thrones). 
 At bottom, six figures under trefoiled canopies, on gold ground : viz., i, on Z., S. 
 Michael with shield and spear piercing the dragon. (Archangels.) 
 
 2. Angel without attribute, looking Z. 
 
 3. Angel with nude figures (?), probably souls, in his robe, looking R. 
 
 4. Angel without attribute, looking Z. 
 
 5. Similar angel, looking /?. 
 
 6. Angel weighing souls in a balance, looking Z. 
 
 II. Ps. xxvi (xxvii). Dominus illuminatio. 
 
 Initial. Gold ground. David, crowned, kneeling, points to his eye : Christ with 
 book stands on R. 
 
 Border. At top, four busts in quatrefoils. 
 
 At bottom, six figures of Apostles, on gold grounds, under arches, viz. : 
 
 1. Z., S. Peter with keys. 
 ^. S. Paul with sword. 
 
 3. S. Andrew with small saltire cross. 
 
 4. S. James in hat with scallop, girt with a gypciere or scrip with two scallops, 
 holding book and burdon, or pilgrim's staff. 
 
 S- S. John Evangelist with palm and book. 
 
 6. R., S. Bartholomew with knife and book. 
 
 On R., three more Apostles with books. 
 
 OnZ., three more Apostles, all have books; the second, S.James the Less, has a club. 
 
 III. Ps. xxxviii (xxxix). Dixi custodiam. 
 
 Initial. Gold ground. Similar to that of Ps. xxvi, save that David here points to 
 his mouth. 
 
 Border. At top, five busts in quatrefoils : that on Z. is mitred : all have wounds on 
 the head or neck. 
 
 The bottom row of figures is cut off. 
 
 On R., under canopies, three scenes of martyrdom, viz. : 
 
 I (top). S. John Baptist, half-length, leans out of a stone tower with peaked tiled roof: 
 an executioner in tunic is about to behead him. 
 
 2. S. Alban kneeling by a tree, faces Z. : below him a spring bursts out : on Z. a 
 soldier in blue surcoat and coat of mail about to behead him : his eyes are dropping out. 
 
 3. S. Edmund crowned in white tunic, bound full-face at a tree : he is pierced with 
 six (or seven) arrows : a man on R., outside the border, is about to discharge an eighth 
 arrow at him. 
 
 On Z., under a canopy, S. Stephen, in dalmatic and alb, holding five stones in his R. 
 hand. 
 
 IV. Ps. li (lii). Quid gloriaris. 
 
 Initial. Gold ground. A prostrate man (Saul ?) in red surcoat and mail is about to 
 be slain by another in blue surcoat and mail with raised sword. 
 
 Border. At top, six nimbed busts in square compartments ; Nos. 1 and 3 are mitred, 
 the rest appear to be tonsured. 
 
 At bottom : under arches, six Confessors on gold grounds. All have pastoral staves. 
 They are vested as follows : 
 
 I (Z.), 2, 5, 6, in chasuble and alb. 
 
 3, 4, in mitre, chasuble, dalmatic, and alb. 
 
 On Z., two more Confessors with pastoral staves : 
 
$8 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 76 
 
 I (top), in mitre, chasuble, dalmatic, and alb. 
 
 2, in chasuble, dalmatic, and alb. 
 
 On J?., three similar figures with pastoral staves : 
 
 I (top) and 3, in mitre, chasuble, dalmatic, and alb. 
 
 2, in chasuble, dalmatic, and alb. 
 
 In every case the alb has a red apparel. 
 
 V. Ps. Hi (liii). Dixit insipiens. 
 
 Initial. Gold ground. The fool, in ragged white linen breeches, with a curved 
 pliant bauble or mace in his L. hand, stabs himself with a sword: a head in a cloud on R. 
 
 Border. At top, five nimbed and (?) tonsured heads in square compartments. 
 
 At bottom, six figures of Doctors seated on benches reading books, which are placed 
 on desks with stems curving outwards. 
 
 I (Z.) and 6 are in mitres and chasubles and albs, and represent SS. Ambrose (or 
 Augustine) and Jerome : Nos. 3, 4, 5 are in long gowns (blue or pink) over red tunics. 
 
 On L., two more Doctors : the top one is mitred, and is either S. Ambrose or 
 S. Augustine. 
 
 On R., three similar figures : the top one is S. Gregory in a peaked tiara with single 
 crown, red chasuble and alb. 
 
 VI. Ps. Ixviii (Ixix). Saluum mefac. 
 
 Initial. Gold ground. Jonah nude, his legs in water, one of them just leaving the 
 mouth of the fish : he catches hold of a tree : God's hand in a cloud on R. 
 
 Border. At top, six nimbed busts of female Saints in square compartments? Nos. 2, 
 4, 5, 6 are veiled. 
 
 At bottom, under arches, six female saints. 
 
 1. On Z., S. Clare in Franciscan habit, with book. 
 
 2. S. Etheldreda (or Radegund) in black veil and crown over white robe, with book 
 and pastoral staff. 
 
 3. S. Katherine, crowned, with wheel and sword. 
 
 4. S. Margaret, crowned, standing on (or emerging from) a dragon, which she 
 pierces with a long crossed staff: she has a book. 
 
 5. S. Agatha, holding two curved staves or blades enclosing her breasts. 
 
 6. Female saint with short sceptre. 
 On R. , three female saints : 
 
 1, at top, in veil, with book. 
 
 2, crowned, with short sceptre. 
 
 3, crowned, with book. 
 On Z., two more : 
 
 1, at top, crowned and veiled, with sceptre. 
 
 2, crowned, with sceptre. 
 
 VII. Ps. Ixxx (Ixxxi). Exultate. 
 
 Initial Gold ground. Christ seated full-face, blessing : He holds a globe divided 
 into three parts. 
 
 Border. At top, six busts in quatrefoils. 
 
 At bottom, a choir of six musicians playing, under arches. 
 
 I (Z.) and 6 are angels with trumpets. 
 
 2, 5 have drums. 
 
 3, hurdy-gurdy in ornamental case. 
 
 4, large fiddle. 
 
MS. 76] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 59 
 
 On R., three more angels : 
 
 1 (top) has small organ. 
 
 2 has mandolin, with two plectra. 
 
 3 has harp. 
 
 On the border are perched five singing birds, among them a thmsh, goldfinch and 
 robin (?). 
 
 On L. , two more angels : 
 
 1 (top) has fiddle. 
 
 2 has zither, with one plectrum. 
 
 VIII. Ps. xcvii (xcviii). Cantate. 
 Initial. Similar to the last. 
 
 Border. At top, six busts in quatrefoils. 
 
 On i., on gold grounds, two pairs of ecclesiastics, singing from books on desks. 
 
 I (top), two secular priests in copes. 
 
 2, two Benedictine monks in black habits. 
 
 At bottom, six more pairs of ecclesiastics, viz. : 
 
 3 (Z.), two Cistercians in white. 
 
 4, two Dominicans in black over white. 
 
 5, two more in white, (?) Praemonstratensians. 
 
 6, two more Dominicans. 
 
 7, two Franciscans in brown. 
 
 8, two in white over black (?) Carmelites. 
 
 9, two more Benedictines. 
 All the above figures face R. 
 On R. : 
 
 10, two Franciscan nuns, facing Z. 
 
 11, two Benedictine nuns, ,, 
 
 12, 13, two acolytes, in albs, kneeling and swinging censers. 
 Ps. ci (cii). Domine exaudi is not distinguished from the rest. 
 
 IX. Ps. cix (ex). Dixit Dominus. (Preceded by a blank leaf. ) 
 
 Initial. Gold ground. Christ as Judge, seated on the rainbow, showing the wounds 
 in His hands, feet, and side. 
 
 Border. At top, six busts in quatrefoils. 
 
 On Z., at top, an angel in white, kneeling, holds three nails and the lance. 
 
 On R., at top, a similar angel holds the cross (green), with the crown of thorns hung 
 upon it, and two bloody scourges. 
 
 On Z., below the angel, 
 
 1. S. Peter with the keys, seated. 
 
 2. S. Andrew with small saltire cross, seated. 
 
 3. S. Bartholomew with knife, seated, 
 On R., below the angel, 
 
 1. S. Paul with sword, seated. 
 
 2. S. John Evangelist with palm, seated. 
 
 3. S. James with pilgrim's staff, seated. 
 
 At bottom. On Z. and li., two angels in white robes barred with light blue, blow 
 long trumpets. 
 
 In the Centre are seven figures rising from a long tomb, dotted to imitate marble, and 
 coloured pink and blue. Four coped coffin-lids of the same marble, carved with crosses, 
 
6o 
 
 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 71 
 
 are outside the border. The figures, from Z., are : a civilian, a king, a pope, a bishop, 
 a woman, a monk, a man. 
 
 Among the grotesques at the bottoms of the pages are : 
 
 f. I *, a dog. 
 
 2, a stork. 
 
 ib,2i cat and mouse. 
 
 3, a hare. 
 
 4, a bat. 
 
 5, a goat. 
 
 5 i5, a fox and cock. 
 
 7 iJ, an elephant. 
 
 8, a butterfly. 
 
 8 b, an antelope (?). 
 
 9, a dog barking. 
 
 9 b, an unicorn. 
 ID, a rabbit. 
 27, an owl. 
 30, an ape. 
 
 30 b, a doe. 
 35, a lion. 
 41, a bear. 
 51 i, a rabbit with bow and horn. 
 
 77. A. 4. 15. [C. M. A. 740. 
 
 S. HlERONYMI IN JeREMIAM LIBRI VI. 
 
 Vellum, \o\ X 7^, ff. 134, double columns of 31 lines each. 
 Cent. xii. There is no donor's name. 
 
 Collation: a'"' (wants i) i-xvi^ xvii' (+ 3*). 
 
 Provenance. Kingswood (Cistercian, in Wiltshire) : on f. i ^ in 
 red capitals is : 
 Liber i monachorum • scb : marie \ de \ kingeswde \ 
 
 On f. 2 a is the name E. Thomkyns. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 On p. I a is the end of a document (xv cent.) of a legal nature 
 
 about the recovery of property. 
 On f. I ^ an extract from Gennadius' Catalogus about S. Jerome, 
 with a list of his works. 
 
 Prefatio S. Hieronymi presbyteri in explanationem leremie 
 prophete .......... f. 2 
 
 With a large initial of green and red interlaced work. There are 
 smaller initials to the six books. Those to Books i, ii, vi re- 
 semble that of the Preface : the rest are coarser. 
 
MSS. 78, 79] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 6l 
 
 Book i begins on f. 2 b. 
 The colophon (f. 134) is in green and red ; 
 
 leronimi Eusebii presbiteri bethleemite super ieremiam prophetam 
 liber sextus explicit. Tu autem domine miserere nostri. 
 
 78. A. 4. 16. [C. M. A. 741. 
 
 JOHANNIS DE AbBATIS ViLLA EXPOSITIO IN EpISTOLAS ET 
 EUANGELIA DoMINICALIA A DoM. I AdUENTUS USQUE 
 AD DoM. XIII POST PeNTECOSTEN. 
 
 Vellum, 9f x 6i, ff. 149, double columns of 50 lines each. Cent, 
 xiii. No donor's name. In a fine minute hand. 
 
 Collation : a«-c* d" e'-k'' || m' n* o' p* q« r'" s" t' u" (wants I, 
 
 4>9)- 
 
 On f. I is the name N. de Well. Archids (cent. xiv). 
 
 Text begins : 
 
 Dom. i in aduentu, 
 
 Cum sacrosancta mater ecclesia. 
 k 8 ends the first part. 
 Part ii begins 
 
 Deus caritas est etc. hec epistola in prima 
 
 Dominica post pentecosten legitur. 
 
 79. A. 4. 17. [C. M. A. 742. 
 
 Martyrologium Romanum. 
 
 Vellum, 9I X 6|, ff. 87, varying numbers of lines to a page. 
 Cent. XV. No donor's name. 
 
 Collation: a" b" c'" d" e°-k* 1^(4, 5, 6 cancelled) m^ 
 
 Provenance. West Wretham in Norfolk. 
 
 At 8 March is noted (cent, xv) Obitus w' chabley in Anno diil M° ■ CCCC° ■ LXXXXIIIJ". 
 
 S. Patrick's feast is inserted : also S. Ethelbert's, S. Botulph's, Visitacio B. V. M., 
 Trans. S. Osmund, Commem. S. Oswald, Transfiguration, Name of Jesus. VIII Kl. Oct. 
 in red, Ded. eccl. cath. Norwic. Inserted at top of Oct. is Ded. eccl. cath. Norwyc. 
 dioc. xx" die Oct., Mem. S. Leodegar 2 Oct., Trans. S. Etheldrede, 3 Nov. S. Wene- 
 frede V. M. prouinc. ix LC. sine expos, (original) : Prid. Id. Nov. (inserted). Ded. eccl. 
 Westwrottgm fest. principal. Oct. cum reg. chori. 
 
 4 Dec. (ins.) Depos. S. Osmundi. 
 
 At m' 
 
 Inc. Liber de gradibus virtutum a S. Ambrosio ordinatus. 
 
62 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 8o 
 
 Followed by 
 
 Regina celi, noted, late. 
 
 Psallat hec contio, to S. Nicholas Epus. 
 
 Cruor fiisus iesu xpi, noted. 
 
 Cruciferarii, humiliate uos, noted. 
 
 On last page scribbles ; inter alia : iuxta Thetforthe in com. Norfolchie. 
 
 John Beuel de Westwrothin. 
 
 Marg. Bonde de eadem. 
 
 Johes porter de Stanfford. 
 
 Marg. Sewall de Westwrothin. 
 
 80. A. 4. 18. [C. M. A. 743. 
 
 HORAE, AFTER THE USE OF SarUM. 
 
 Vellum, 9^ x 7, ff. 130, 17 lines to a page. Cent, xv (1450). 
 English. 
 
 This is a good specimen of the handsome English Horae of 
 
 the middle of cent, xv which contain no pictures. It is fixed to 
 
 the neighbourhood of Bristol by the commemoration of the almost 
 unknown saint Jordanus. See p. 64. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Blank f. i 
 
 Memoria of S. Apollonia 2 
 
 Blank ............ 2d 
 
 Kalendar in red and black 3 
 
 Hours of the Virgin ......... g 
 
 Seven Psalms and Litany, imperfect at the beginning ... 36 
 
 Office of the Dead 49 
 
 ' Beati immaculati ' is bordered ....... 76 
 
 The XV Oos with a rubric in English . . . . . . 87 
 
 Prayer of S. Augustine. Deus propicius esto michi ... 93 
 
 Prayer to the Cross. Sancta et veneranda crux .... 94 
 
 Cause declinandi ad crucem ........ g^d 
 
 Prayer to Christ, followed by prayers to the Three Persons, and to 
 
 the Trinity . . . / 95 
 
 Prayer : Domine exaudi oracionem meam quia iam cognosce . . 97 
 Hymn : Salue virgo speciosa, followed by prayers and hymns to 
 
 the Virgin 100^ 
 
 Prayers to S. Anne iq. 
 
 Prayers to S. Thomas of Canterbury 105 ^ 
 
 Hymn to S. Katherine : Gaude virgo Katerina .... 106 i 
 
 S. George : Salve miles nobilis George Messie . . 107 6 
 
 Prayers to S. Christopher 108 
 
MS. 80] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 6t, 
 
 Euuangelium compositum per D. papam Johannem duodecimum 
 apud Auinionam tercio die ante decessum suum. A brief Har- 
 mony of the Passion 100 
 
 Prayer on the Passion . . . no 
 
 Prayer to S. Dorothea no 
 
 Psalmi Pascionis christi m 
 
 Psalterium S. Barnardi no 
 
 Prayer, 'Anima Christi,' and indulgence of John II. . . . 119 i 
 
 Prayer at the Elevation I20i5 
 
 English Hymn to Christ. 
 
 Prayer: Tibi domine commendo animas 122 
 
 Prayers to S. Sebastian, against the plague 122 b 
 
 Oracio bona ad veronem (j/f). Office of the Holy Face . . 123* 
 
 Salutation to Christ ......... 124 
 
 Prayers to the Virgin. English rubric 124* 
 
 (Another hand, not much later) Obsecro te 127 
 
 O domina glorie .......... 128 
 
 Hymn and Collect for S. Jordanus. 
 
 Prayer to S. Herasmus 128^ 
 
 to S. Dorothea. 
 
 to S. Christopher 129 
 
 to the Trinity. 
 
 Libera me . . . . . . . . . . . 129 i 
 
 A leaf stitched in from a smaller MS. Stella cell extirpauit and 
 
 prayer 130 
 
 Charm against bleeding, in English : the word used is Beronexa 
 
 for a woman, Beronex for a man 130^ 
 
 Two leaves are lost, one after f. 23, which contained the be- 
 ginning of Prime, the other after f. 35, which contained the be- 
 ginning of the Penitential Psalms. 
 
 Collation : i' ii^ + ^ a' (wanting 8th) b^ c' (wanting Sth) d^-o' p* 
 = 130 leaves. The quires have signatures in most cases, which I 
 have used as far as they go. 
 
 The ornamental work of the volume consists in the first place 
 of a number of borders to the pages which begin divisions of the 
 book. These occur on f 9 Matins of the B. V. M., 14 Lauds, 
 25 6 Tierce : Prime being imperfect. 2y 6 Sext, 29 None, 31 Ves- 
 pers, 32 d Compline, 49 Office of the Dead, 76 Commendationes 
 animarum : nine in all. Also there is the usual profusion of 
 smaller initials in burnished gold on grounds of pink and blue. 
 The borders are very characteristically English, the prevailing 
 colours being light blue shading into dark blue, and pink shading 
 into red, together with burnished gold and green. As to the 
 
64 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 8o 
 
 provenance: Kalendar and Litany are of ordinary Sarum type. 
 The personal prayers insert no name of an owner, and use the 
 masculine gender, e.g. ' famulum tuum ■ N • ' The owner would 
 seem to have had a particular devotion to S. Dorothea. But the 
 history of the book receives some light from the occurrence of a 
 slightly later hymn and collect for S. Jordanus on f. 128, which I 
 transcribe. 
 
 Ad honorem del et sancti Jordani, 
 
 O ffelix christi confessor concius (i.e. conciuis) celi Jordane. 
 Sis pro fide intercessor nostre gentis anglicane 
 Quam in fide perfecisti Augustino baptizante 
 Cui consors extitisti ipso anglis predicante. 
 Huius loci sis patronus in quo iactes (iaces) tumulatus 
 Sed in celo nitens thronus tibi semper est donatus 
 Ergo pater O Jordane memor esto tui gregis 
 Ut perducas ilium sane ad superni regnum regis 
 Confer nobis tua prece culpe nostre penitere 
 Et ut a peccato (-i) fece mundemur et spem tenere 
 De eterne dono vite pro qua christum sic exora 
 Ut dicat nobis venite in extrema mortis bora 
 Et in regno beatorum nobis semper sit solamen 
 Ubi pax est angelorum quo ducat nos cbristus Amen 
 Pf Sancte Jordane intercede pro cunctis fidelibus 
 Ut digni efficiamur christi promissionibus. 
 
 Oracio. Omnipotens mitissime deus preces nostras quaesimus benignus exaudi ut 
 omnes qui in hac oratorio sepulcrum sancti Jordani confessoris tui denote visitauerunt et 
 peticionum suarum optatum effectum quacunque ne<ce>ssitate at te clamauerunt et 
 omnium peccatorum suorum veniam consequi mereantur. Per. 
 
 This saint Jordanus, here described as a companion of S. 
 Augustine, and apparently buried in an oratory in England, is 
 unknown to the BoUandists, who mention three or four others 
 of the name. Roscarrock's Register (see p. 22) helps us here 
 again : he has a short article : 
 
 Of Jordan. 
 There resteth by report one Jordaine that was one of the Companie of our Apostle 
 S' Augustine in a Chappell on the Topp of an Hill not far from the confluence of the 
 riuers ffroome and Auon by Bristow hard by the Chappell there. Reed Mr. Camden 
 in Somersetshire where you shall find he was interred in that Chappell, w"^' bearing his 
 name seemeth to be dedicated vnto him & there liliely to have bene esteamed a Saint. 
 
 Camden, 1. c, merely says that Jordanus, a reputed companion 
 of S. Augustine, is buried in a chapel — now a free school — on a hill 
 
MS. 80] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 65 
 
 outside Fromegate, at Bristol. Modern guides to Bristol have not 
 thrown any light on the matter. 
 
 Evidently, however, the hymn and prayer just quoted are 
 meant to be used in the Chapel at Bristol. The MS. before us 
 must then almost certainly have belonged at one time to a Bristol 
 man. 
 
 The English hymn on f. 120^ is so beautiful that it must be 
 transcribed in full. 
 
 Ihesu as thow madest me 
 
 And with thi blessed blode hast me bouth 
 
 ffor 3eue me that y haue greued the 
 
 In word warke wyl and thouth 
 
 Ihesu for thi woundes smert 
 
 In fete and hondes to 
 
 Make me meke and low of hert 
 
 The to loue as y shuld do 
 
 Ihesu lord to the y calle 
 
 As thow art god ful of myth 
 
 3eue me grace that y ne falle 
 
 In fle(s)hly synne as y haue fyth 
 
 Ihesu graunt me myn askyng 
 
 Parfet paciens in my dissese 
 
 That y may neuer to do that thyng 
 
 In eni wyse schuld the displese 
 
 Ihesu as thow art heuen kyng 
 
 Stedfast god and man also 
 
 Graunt me grace of gode endyng 
 
 And hem that y am be holden to 
 
 Ihesu for thi delful terus 
 
 That thow weptist as for my gilt 
 
 Here and spede my prayers 
 
 And spare me that y be not spilt 
 
 Ihesu for the y the beseche 
 
 That wrathyn the in eny wyse 
 
 With hold fro hem thyn hond of wreche 
 
 And lete hem leue in thy seruice 
 
 Ihesu ioyful for to seen 
 
 Wyth thi seyntes euerychon 
 
 Comfort hem that earful ben 
 
 And help hem that beth wo begon 
 
 Ihesu as thow art with owten lese 
 
 Almythti god in trenite 
 
 Stent these warres and send vs pese 
 
 With lasting loue and charite 
 
 S. MSS. 5 
 
66 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 8 1, 82 
 
 Ihesu kepe hem that beth gode 
 
 ffor jeue hem that greuith the 
 
 And send hem frute of erthly fode 
 
 As euery man nedyth in his degre 
 
 Ihesu as <thow> art gostely ston 
 
 Of alle holy chirche in erthe 
 
 Bryng thy flocke in to a fold on 
 
 And rewle hem alle with on word 
 
 Ihesu for thi blessed blode 
 
 Bryng tho sowles in to blis 
 
 That y haue had of eny gode 
 
 And for jeue hem that ha«« don a mysse. Amen. 
 
 This is a portion of a hymn attributed to Richard de Castre, 
 which consists of 14 stanzas, and is printed from MS. Lambeth 
 853 in Furnivall's Hymns, etc., E. E. T. S. 24, p. 15, in a rather 
 different text. The stanzas here given are nos. i, 3, 5-14 of the 
 fuller text. 
 
 81. A. 4. 19. [C. M. A. 744- 
 Baldewini Archiep. Cantuar. liber de Sacramento 
 
 ALTARIS. 
 
 Vellum, g\ x 6|, ff. 120, 27 lines to a page. Cent. xiii. No 
 donor's name. 
 
 Collation : i^-xv*, quires marked on last leaf 
 
 Ends in comment on the manna in Num. xi. 9 — descendebat pariter et Man. 
 — et dum de uita bonorum scrutantur exempla et solatia. 
 
 82. A. 4. 20. [C. M. A. 745. 
 
 S. Bernardi quaedam. 
 
 Vellum, 9| x 6J, ff. 39, 34 lines to a page. Cent. xii. No 
 donor's name. Well written. 
 
 Collatiott : a-d* e* (wants 8 blank). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Quatuor homiliae S. Bernardi (pp. 20-48, Tom. I, ed. Basil.). 
 Scala humilitatis gradus ascendendi et descendendi, \ page. 
 Eiusdem epistola ad Will, abbatem (Tom. 11, 1680). 
 De gradibus humilitatis (Tom. I, 1651, ed. Basil.). 
 
MSS. 83, 84] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 6] 
 
 83. A. 4. 2 1. [C. M. A. 746. 
 
 BiBLiA Sacra. 
 
 Vellum, 9i x 6^, ff. 554, double columns of 46 11. Cent, xiii, xiv. 
 Collation : a* b" || c'" etc. ; one quire of 8 leaves. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Interpretationes nominum in 3 cols, in a somewhat later hand . f. i 
 
 Prologue 17 
 
 Genesis-Ruth 21 
 
 Hester 133 
 
 I Regum-Job (without the apocryphal Esdras) . . . . i37* 
 
 Daniel ............ 257 6 
 
 I, II Machabeorum 266 
 
 Parabolae-Ecclus 290 
 
 Isaias-Malachias 331 
 
 Mattheus-Johannes 423 
 
 Ad Romanos-ad Hebreos 473 
 
 Actus ............ 503 i 
 
 Cath. Epp J 19 
 
 Apoc 525 
 
 Table of Epistles and Gospels ....... 533 
 
 Interp. nomin. in 3 cols, begins on page where table ends, Face 
 
 aperiens-Thubalcain, not mutilated ...... 535 
 
 Decorative initials are of red in and after Proverbs, in the earlier books they are 
 absent. There are a few notes in English of cent, xv or xvi. 
 
 84. A. 4. 22. [C. M. A. 747. 
 
 EXCERPTA EX LIBRO DE PANIBUS DOMINI PeTRI CeLLENSIS 
 ABBATIS AD MAGISTRUM lOHANNEM SaLESBIRIENSEM 
 CONSCRIBTO. 
 
 Vellum, 91 X 6f, ff. 70, double columns of 27 lines each. Cent, 
 xiii (early). There is no donor's name. 
 
 Collation: 2^ (wants i) i-viii" ix" (wants 6). 
 
 Contents : 
 
 I. Excerpta ex libro de panibus Petri Cellensis . . . . f. 2 
 
 5-2 
 
68 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 85 
 
 On f. I 6\sa table of the xxiv sections : 
 
 xiii De pane mercennariorum 
 
 
 De pane 
 
 fermentato 
 
 ii 
 
 M 
 
 azimo 
 
 iii 
 
 „ 
 
 pamulorum 
 
 iv 
 
 „ 
 
 perfectorum 
 
 V 
 
 ,, 
 
 primiciarum 
 
 vi 
 
 De panibus prepositionis xii"'™ 
 
 vii 
 
 De pane 
 
 similagineo 
 
 viii 
 
 )» 
 
 ordeaceo 
 
 ix 
 
 „ 
 
 lugentium 
 
 X 
 
 ,j 
 
 letantium 
 
 xi 
 
 „ 
 
 filiorum 
 
 xii 
 
 „ 
 
 seruorum 
 
 xiv 
 
 , subcinericio 
 
 XV 
 
 , ex diuersis speciebus 
 
 xvi 
 
 , uitali et cotidiano 
 
 xvii 
 
 , sacerdotali 
 
 xviii 
 
 , qui coquitur in clibano 
 
 xix 
 
 , in sartagine cocto 
 
 XX 
 
 , asso in craticula 
 
 xxi 
 
 , cincto 
 
 xxii 
 
 , consperso 
 
 XX iii 
 
 , frigido et dure 
 
 xxiiii 
 
 , calido 
 
 ;lareuallen 
 
 em de conscientia 65 
 
 The initials are bold and rather rough : brown, yellow, red and green are among the 
 colours employed. 
 
 85. A. 4. 23. [C. M. A. 748. 
 
 HiSTORIA BaRLAAM ET loSAPHAT, ETC. 
 
 Vellum, 9 X 6, ff. 225, 34 lines to a page. Cent. xiv. There is 
 no donor's name. 
 
 Provenance. On f. i i^ is 
 
 Liber domini Symonis de Gowshille Canonici domus de Chikesond et quondam 
 prioris eiusdem. In quo continentur libri subscripts 
 
 Then follows the table of contents. This is in a xivth cent, 
 hand, closely resembling that of the book itself Below in blacker 
 ink, and probably later, judging by its position on the page, is : 
 
 Constat Johanni Stamborn monacho de kyrkestall. 
 
 Another erased entry of Kirkstall is on p. 6 (fly-leaf) of cent. xv. 
 
 Chicksand was a priory of Gilbertines in Bedfordshire, founded 
 in 1150. 
 
 Collation : a" b" c" d'' e'' f g' h' i* (inserted between h 5 and 
 h 6) k'' P" m'-^ n' o" (2 cancelled) p" q" r' s' t" u'^ v^ + i blank. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Three fly-leaves with notes of cent. xv. On the iirst page are sayings from Augustine 
 and Aristotle, and anonymous sentmtiae. Also this : 
 
 Bos suburbano rome ad arantem locutus est se frustra br.,.re non enim frumenta sed 
 homines breui defecturos. 
 
MS. 85] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 69 
 
 In most cases the sign IT (which occurs on f. i a of A. 3.2) is prefixed. 
 
 On p. 2 is another form of the same note about the ox : 
 
 Bos loquitur arranti. In breui deficient <tam> homines quam iumenta uel ut 
 quidam libri habent ffrumenta. 
 
 P- 3- 
 
 for to scoure a mans tethe & malie thame whyte take salt & barlymele or floure & 
 wessh y° teth y' w'. 
 
 Also a modern table of contents. 
 
 p. 4. 
 
 Headed, In festo omnium sanctorum. 
 
 Moral sayings. Augustine, Bernard and Job are quoted. 
 
 P- 5- 
 
 Heading, ffor a cawrcher. 
 
 Follows : 
 
 Wete botys in pluuia • dry buskyns in aurora serena • ynke paper pen parchment sele 
 redwax luke thow lake none • thymbyll cum needyll bodkyn poynte leste y' y' goorth 
 breke • cloke budget tayke wy' the y' comme nyght cappe leve not be hynde the • then 
 rydys thow surely • yff thy spore be not lefte in y" hostr^y. 
 
 Three other notes (one from Augustine) : the second is this : 
 
 Cum de mane surrexeris Michaelem in mente habeto et letum diem obtinebit (sic). 
 Cum tonat Gabrielem et non nocebit tibi tonitruum. Cum commederis Raphaelem et 
 omnia habundabunt tibi. Cum ueneris contra aduersarium tuum Hurielem et ab eo 
 uictoriam accipies. Cum itinere perrexeris Ragueleni et omnia prospera euenient tibi. 
 Cum in iudicium ueneris ad aliquem potentem adire uolueris Barachielem et graciam 
 consequeris. Cum ad conuiuium ffueris Pantassaron et omnes congaudebunt tibi. 
 
 The same note is found in a Cologne MS. of cent, ix, x, no. ccxiv in Jaff6 and 
 Wattenbach's Catalogue (1874), p. 73. The names and their order there are as 
 follows : Gabrihel, Michahel, Orihel, Raphahel, Raguhel, Barachahel, Pantassaron. The 
 occasions for their invocation are the same, though the phraseology differs. 
 
 p. 6. 
 
 Sayings from Augustine and Ypocras, and an erased entry of cent. xv. 
 
 Iste liber constat kyrkestall ex dono, and another line illegible. 
 
 Then the lines of Virgil, Sic uos non uobis, etc. 
 
 After this the main volume begins. 
 
 1. Liber gestorum Barlaam et Josaphat seruorum dei editus greco 
 
 sermone a Johanne Damasceno uiro sancto et erudito . . f. 2 
 
 2. Libellus S. Augustini de conflictu uiciorum et uirtutum . . 74 i5 
 At the end of this, on f. 79 6, is this interesting note : 
 
 In libro qui intitulatur omelie Cesarii Episcopi in paruo arma- 
 riolo apud Wardon continetur Johannes Cassianus de insti- 
 tutis cenobiorum et de octo principalium uitiorum remediis 
 in • vij • libellis . 
 
 Wardon is in Bedfordshire: this note is in the hand of Symon 
 de Gowshill : evidently written at Chicksand. 
 
 3. [Lincolniensis] tractatus de ueneno 81 
 
 In a very similar hand, but smaller : 37 lines to a page. Ends 
 
 on f. 94 (according to the old foliation). 
 
 4. Exempla super auctoritates libri Job sub metaphora . . 94 
 
70 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 8S 
 
 Inc. Multi homines quibus nondum boni mores. 
 
 5. Innocentius 3°" de mundo qui dicitur similis scaccario . • 97 * 
 Mundus iste similis est scaccario. 
 
 6. Sermo de ascensione • 99 * 
 
 Relinquo mundum et xiado ad patrem. 
 
 7. Meditationes B. Augustini '°^ 
 
 Domine deus meus da cordi meo. 
 
 The hand becomes much smaller on 104 b : the text ends with 
 the first half of 105 a. 
 
 8. Augustinus de cognicione uere uite 105 i> 
 
 In the hand of i. 
 
 9. Soliloquium Hugonis de arra anime 116^ 
 
 10. Summa magistri fratris lohannis de sancto Edmundo de insti- 
 
 tucione religiosorum seu clericorum secularium circa confes- 
 
 sionem. Et diuiditur summa in duas partes. Prima autem 
 
 pars est de generali confessione in ingressu. Secunda autem 
 
 pars est de cotidianis confessionibus in progressu quod 
 
 uidelicet hie euidenter notatur. 
 /tie. Primo sumitur occasio loquendi ab illo uersu prophete 
 
 /n exitiL Israel etc, 
 I do not find this writer in Tanner ; if he be identical with 
 
 lohannes a Fano Eadmundi, a Carmelite of Ipswich, who 
 
 flourished in 1350, this work of his is not mentioned. 
 i(. Narraciones perplures ad diuersas materias .... 142 
 This is the old title written by Gowshille. The stories are all 
 
 Miracles of the Virgin ; there are 29 of them. 
 The first is of a knight in England who confessed a mortal sin 
 
 to a devil disguised as a monk, and was delivered on his 
 
 deathbed by the Virgin, S. Peter and S. Mary Magdalene. 
 The second is of a man at Rome whose wife and two sons were 
 
 done to death by a devil, and revived by the Virgin. 
 The last is from the Vitae Patrum, of a beautiful maid Alexan- 
 
 drina (or of Alexandria), who shut herself up in a cell. 
 On f. 145 b, which was blank, are notes in the hand which 
 
 appears on the fly-leaves, 
 f. 146 a is blank : on the verso is stitched a Privilegium papale 
 Cartusiensibus de Retinendis fratribus, from Clement. 
 
 12. Tractatus de oculo morali ...... 
 
 In the hand of i, etc.: ends on 190 b. 
 
 13. Tractatus de habundancia exemplorum ad omnem materiam . 191 
 Prol. inc. Quoniam plus exempla quam uerba mouent. 
 Inc. tractatus. Prima pars de timore continet capitula • 10 • 
 Part ii seems to begin on 199(5, and to treat of Hell, (c. i) de 
 
 inferno, (c. 2) de penis inferni, (c. 3) de condicionibus tu- 
 torum, (c. 4) de condicionibus corporum dampnatorum : 
 cc. 8 sqq. deal with purgatory. There appear to be 22 
 sections in all in this part : chiefly Exempla. 
 Ends. In legenda lohannis Ewangeliste legitur quod quidam 
 
 147 
 
MS. 86] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 7 1 
 
 iuuenis suscitatus ab eo uiderat demones multum gaudentes 
 de ruina quorundam quos beatus lohannes conuerterat. 
 Follows the rubric : Et cetera quere in libro qui intitulatur 
 Bernardus de disciplina monachorum etc. In toto ultimo 
 quaterno in fine libri ad tale signum. A rude section-mark 
 and outline of a dragon follows. This is on f. 223 «. On 
 2-2315 is a xvth cent, note, Dicit gelasius de anima. 
 
 224 a, the puzzle of the 15 Christians and 15 Jews, without 
 explanation. Note from quidam sanctus on Virginity, and 
 from Augustine on Dreams. 
 
 f. 2 24 iJ. 
 
 hie spasmus ye crampe. hoc liripipium a typet. 
 
 Explanation of the names Michael, Gabriel, Raphael. Three 
 other notes, one on the wood of the cross. 
 
 f. 225 a. A few notes : and the puzzle of the Christians and 
 Jews, without explanation. This puzzle I may as well ex- 
 plain : the problem is to arrange 15 Christians and 15 Jews 
 in such a way that every isth, or 12th, or loth person (the 
 number varies) shall always be a Jew. There are two 
 memorial lines for the puzzle, viz. : 
 
 Populeam virgam mater regina tenebat, 
 and 
 
 Rex Paphi cum gente bona dat signa serena. 
 
 These keys act thus; the vowels stand for numbers: a=i, 
 e = 2, i = 3, = 4, u = 5; the second line Rex Paphi, etc., 
 gives the following arrangement : 
 
 Christians | | | | | | 1 | I | | | I I I = iS 
 
 Jews I I I I I I II M I I 11 I = 15 
 
 Every loth person will be a Jew. This is the arrangement 
 given in the MS. The arrangement given by the Une 
 Populeam virgam may be left to the ingenuity of readers. 
 
 86. A. 4. 24. [C. M. A. 749. 
 
 NiC. DE ClEMANGIIS ECCL. BaIOCENSIS CANTORIS OPUSCU- 
 LUM DE RUINA ET DESOLATIONE EcCLESIAE TEMPORE 
 SCHISMATIS. 
 
 Vellum, 9x6f, ff. 22, 31 lines to a page. Cent. xv. No 
 donor's name. Written in England. 
 Collation : a." W c\ 
 On the last page in another hand is 
 
 Litera directa Regi Angl. Henr. V" per ducem Geldrie. isi lines. 
 Magnifice princeps : apparently congratulatory on his French victories. 
 
72 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 8/, 88 
 
 87. A. 5. I. [C. M. A. 750. 
 
 S. HiERONYMI EpISTOLAE. 
 
 Vellum, 1 5| X 11^, ff. 427, 37 lines to a page. Cent. xv. Given 
 by Peter Witham, M.A., formerly of the College, Rector of 
 S. Alban's, Wood-street. 
 
 Collation : i* ii* (wants 4 ?) a^-ss'" tt^ 
 
 In a very beautiful Roman hand, on the finest vellum. The 
 initials contain a great deal of the virhite interlaced ornament 
 common in Italian MSS. of this date. 
 
 The only figured initial is that to the first Epistle, on f. 6. It represents S. Jerome 
 kneeling, naked, in the desert, before a crucifix on J?., and beating his breast with a stone. 
 By him is the lion, and a cardinal's hat on the ground. The miniature is circular, ij in. 
 in diameter. Three sides of the page are bordered with white interlaced work, with 
 rabbits and parrots : in the lower margin two genii support a wreath, enclosing a blank 
 space for a coat of arms. 
 
 Blank fly-leaf f i 
 
 Register of Epistles ......... 2 
 
 Text, cxxxx Epp. ......... 6 
 
 followed by CoUationes de ratione anime excerpte ex epistolis Hieron. et Aug., xxxvi in 
 number, on fol. tt 3. 
 
 88. A. 5. 2. [C. M. A. 751. 
 
 Tabula Beneficiorum in Anglia et Wallia, cum 
 annuo singulorum valore. 
 
 Paper, i6| x io|-, ff. 78, written cent. xvii. Given by > "to 
 Dr Ward and the Fellows of the College, 1627 ", as an inscription 
 in the first initial says. 
 
 A general summary of the Counties is followed by a detailed 
 statement for each County, according to the Rural Deaneries. 
 
MSS. 88 — 91] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. Tl 
 
 89. A. 5. 3. [C. M. A. 752. 
 
 PSALMI LaTINE ET AnGLICE CUM PARAPHRASI AnGLICE. 
 
 Vellum, 15 X loi ff. 188, double columns of 36 lines each. 
 Cent, xiv, xv. No donor's name. 
 
 Collation: at-y^ z^ Text ends on z^ b. 
 
 The English paraphrase, verse for verse, is that of Richard Rolle of Hampole : the 
 Latin of each verse is given in large letters. 
 
 On the last leaf but one are copies of three deeds relating to Thedilthorpe. In the 
 third Robert Malberthorp is mentioned. 
 
 90. A. 5. 4. [C. M. A. 753. 
 
 Thomas Bradwardine de Causa Dei aduersus Pelagium. 
 
 Vellum, 15 X io\, ff. 232, double columns of 65 lines each. 
 Cent. xiv. Given by Dr Sam. Ward. In a fine delicate hand. 
 The border and initial of ff. i « and 4 b are very good. 
 
 Collation : a'^-t'^ vt (5-8 cancelled). 
 
 Colophon, on fol. u* a. 
 
 Explicit istud opus de causa dei contra pelagium et de virtute causarum, virtute dei 
 cause causarum. perscriptum londoii : anno millesimo tricentesimo quadragesimo quarto 
 d. n. I. C. 
 
 91. A. 5. 5- 
 
 Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae Sidney Sussexiensis 
 quibus praenotantur nomina singulokum benefac- 
 torum quorum munificentia dicta bibl. locuple- 
 tata fuit. 
 
 Vellum, 14I X 9f, ff. 58. Anno 1618. 
 
 ff. 1-28 vcritten, 20 blank, lo more written at the end. 
 
 The Register is kept till about 1780 in various hands. There is no list of Dr Ward's 
 donations. 
 
74 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 92—93 
 
 A. 5. 6. 
 
 Vacat. 
 
 92. A. 5. 7. [C. M. A. 754. 
 
 Robert: Grosthead Epistolae 58, prout repertae sunt 
 in libro imperfecto in bibliotheca dunelmensi. 
 
 Petri Blesensis Epistolae 130. 
 
 Paper, 14 x 9^, ff. 118 + 50, SI lines to a page. Cent xvii. 
 Given by Dr Sam. Ward. Well written. Collated by Dr J. A. 
 Giles in July, 1845. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 1. Epistolae Petri Blesensis Bathonensis Archidiaconi • cxxx • . f. 1-117 
 
 2. Epistolae quaedam Reuerendi patris Roberti Grosthead 
 
 quondam Lincoln. Episc. prout repertae sunt in libro 
 imperfecto manuscripto in bibliotheca Dunelmensi : Iviii • . 1-50 
 
 Partly on a smaller size of paper. On the last page, reversed, is a bit of a document 
 
 1 
 dated 6 Nov. 27 Eliz. , and signed Thos Pylkyngton. I think it possible that the whole 
 
 volume is written by John Pilkington. 
 
 93. A. 5. 8. [C. M. A. 755. 
 
 HiSTORIA DE BeLLO SaCRO GaLLICE. 
 
 Vellum, 14 X 9, ff. 191, double columns of 33 lines each, in pale 
 ink, blue and red initials. Cent. xiv. Bequeathed by Dr Ward, 
 1643. 
 
 Collation: a"-e'' f'= (wants i) g" h'''' i'^ (wants 10-12) k'' 1'^ m" 
 n'^ (wants ID, 11)0'^ (wants 2-1 1) p'^ q" r''' 3(1-3 only left). 
 
 Contents : part of a French version, by Hugues Plagon (?), of 
 William of Tyre's (1177) History of the Crusades. The original 
 work consists of XXIII books. 
 
 Inc. Les ancienes estories dient qe Eracles qi fu mult bons crestiens gouerna lempire 
 de Rome mes en son terns mahoumez auoit ia este qui fu messages du diable. 
 
 Bk I ends on f. 18. It has xxxvii chapters . . . . . f. i 
 
 „ II in xxiii chapters jg ,5 
 
 „ HI „ xxvi ,, 29 
 
MS. 94] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 75 
 
 Bk IV in xxiv chapters 30 
 
 I, V „ xxi „ (c. xxii to end is gone) .... 50 
 
 ,, VI begins in c. i : xxiii chapters 6i 
 
 » VII „ xxiv y] 
 
 X VIII ,, xxiii 83 
 
 „ IX ends in c. xxi P4 
 
 ,, X begins in c. v : xxviii chapters 105 
 
 11 XI „ xxxi 117 
 
 ,, XII ends in c. xxv ijj b 
 
 ,, XIII, parts of CO. iv-viii and xxvi-xxvii remain . . . 150 
 
 „ XIV in xxvii chapters i^i-b 
 
 „ XV „ xxvii „ 167 
 
 ,, XVI ends in c. xv 183 |5 
 
 C. i of Bk XVI mentions the death of Fulco and the coronation of Baldwin IH. 
 I find in this volume a paper headed 
 
 Exley 
 
 Extractus Curie ffrancisci paston tent. ibid. 
 
 The date is 5 Oct., 3 and 4 PhiHp and Mary. 
 
 A list of 36 names, and payments amounting in all to 5s. 4d., follows. 
 
 94. A. 5. 9. [C. M. A. 756. 
 
 S. AUGUSTINI QUAEDAM. 
 
 Vellum, 13^ X 9, ff 184, double columns of 62 lines each. Cent, 
 xiii. Given by Dr Sam. Ward. 
 
 Collation : a^^-d^^ e« || f'^ g'^ h^^ (one cancelled) i^^ k^^ U^ m^^ n'^ o'^ 
 p" qi2 (wants 3, 4. 5)- 
 
 Provenance. The Franciscans of York. On 'i.\b is the mark 
 Aug. 5, and on f i of text, Liber de communitate fifratrum mi- 
 norum Ebon There is a contemporary table of contents on the 
 fly-leaf. 
 
 Contents (copied from old table) : 
 
 In hoc volumine continentur isti libri. 
 
 1. Liber Augustini de Trinitate libri xv . . . . . f. 1 
 
 2. ,, Confessionum libri xiii . . . . . 57 
 
 3. ,, super genesin ad litteram libri xii . . . 83 b 
 
 4. Enchiridion beati Sixti pape liber vnus (with Rufinus' prologue 
 
 to Athanasius) . . . . . . . . . ii\ b 
 
 5. Ammonitio Ysidori episcopi liber vnus . . . . . 123 
 
 6. Liber Hugonis Farsiti de gratia conseruanda liber vnus . . 1241^ 
 Inc. Prater hiigo fratri roberio salutem. 
 
76 
 
 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 [MS. 95 
 
 little 
 
 129 
 
 131 
 
 7. Liber quatuor questionum Hugonis Victoriensis liber vnus . 127 
 Inc. Domino suo ac precordialiter dilecto. 
 
 8. Epistole Senece liber vnus 
 
 Rubric. Pauca que secuntur ex emplis (^sic) senece excerpta sunt. 
 
 Sixteen paragraphs follow. 
 
 9. Liber leronimi in quarto commentario super leremiam prophe- 
 
 tam liber vnus ......... 
 
 Rubric. Hie liher qui est ieronimtis in 4'° commentario lihro 
 
 super ieremia-m est expositio Ubri enchiridion beati sisti pape 
 
 uidelicet supra ubi inuenies hoc signum '%' . 
 On f. \iib, margin, at the beginning of the Enchiridion, is this 
 
 rubric : In decimo folio sequenti inuenies hoc signum * . 
 
 Vide quid ieronimus de hoc libro intelligat. 
 
 10. Liber Anathasii (Athanasii) contra hereticos libri iii 
 
 1 1 . Disputatio eiusdem contra Arrianum libellus paruus, a 
 
 more than a column ...... 
 
 12. Liber Augustini de nupciis et concupiscentiis liber vnus 
 
 13. Eiusdem de bono coniugali liber vnus 
 
 14. Eiusdem de sancta virginitate liber vnus . 
 
 15. Eiusdem de sancta viduitate liber unus 
 
 16. Eiusdem de moribus ecclesie contra Manicheum liber unus 
 
 17. Eiusdem super Genesin contra Manicheos libri duo 
 
 18. Liber Boetii de sancta trinitate cum commento liber vnus 
 
 19. Liber beati B(ernardi) de gratia et libero arbitrio liber vnus 
 No. 17 ends in Book 11 (f. 177 b) 
 
 que carnaliter mentientem diuina lege consequuntur. 
 
 f. 178 has part of 18, Boethius de Trin., surrounded by a gloss, 
 abstracta atque separabilis. Nam dei substantia. 
 
 f. 179 continues to the end of the tract (half of a column): a rubric follows: Item 
 tractus boetii de sancta trinitate ad iohannem subdiaconum urbis rome. Quaero an pater, 
 only one column. 
 
 No. 19 begins on the same page and continues to the end of the volume, f. 184. 
 
 132/' 
 
 144 
 
 144^ 
 
 148* 
 
 ■53 
 
 159 
 
 163 
 
 i6g 
 
 178 
 
 179 
 
 It begins : motu 
 
 95. A. 5. 10. 
 
 [C. M. A. 757. 
 
 MiRACULA B. V. Mariae. 
 
 Vellum, 13:1 X 9, ff. 226, double columns of 45 lines each. Cent. 
 XV {1 1409)- Ex dono venerabilis viri loannis Clement Artium 
 magistrl, ecclesiae de Chesterton in Com. Huntingdonensi Rectoris, 
 dicti Collegii quondam Scholaris. Ann. Dom. 163 1. (Registered 
 3 Nov. 1632. Reg. p. 102.) 
 
 Collation : f k'-t' v' x" y» z' / i' 2' 3' 4^ 5^ 6' f 8' 9' o' 1 1' 12' 
 (quires 13 and 14 gone) 15' (4 and 5 gone) 16' = 226 leaves + two 
 
MS. 95] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. "J"] 
 
 fly-leaves originally fastened to the boards, and showing traces of 
 two clasps and a chain-mark at the bottom of the last cover. 
 
 On f. I is the entry: George Rayner of Peterborough pretium 
 XX • s • : cf no. 95. 
 
 There is also a note of xvith cent, on the fly-leaf: hie liber 
 continebat in se trescenta folia optimae membranae. If we allow 
 for the loss of quires a'-h* (= 64 leaves), and of the 18 leaves 
 missing in the present volume, we get 308 leaves as the original 
 total. 
 
 The work contained in this volume is almost complete. It is 
 a large collection, the largest I have seen, of Miracles of the Virgin. 
 
 The rubric to the Prologue runs thus : 
 
 Incipit prologus prime partis tractatus miraculorum beate et perpetue virginis Marie 
 genetricis dei per quemdam monachum de Thome (written in black over an erasure) 
 diuersis ex libris collect! et in banc formam ad laudem eiusdem virginis redacti. Anno 
 domini Millesimo cccc™° ix. 
 
 f. I rt is framed in gold, pink and blue. There are similar, but 
 plainer, frames at the beginnings of the several books of which the 
 work consists. 
 
 The initial of the prologue contains a rude outline in ink of a 
 monk kneeling to the crowned Virgin : the Child on her knee 
 blessing him. 
 
 The prologue begins : 
 
 Etema dei sapiencia attingens a fine usque ad finem fortiter et disponens queque 
 suauiter ; ends i.ib: regina virginum lux seculorum refugium peccatorum perpetuum 
 solamen omnium christianorum. Amen. 
 
 Book I begins on f. i /;, and contains loi chapters. 
 
 A rhyming hymn follows : Aue uirgo virginum que virgo concepisti. The first words 
 of the lines make up the Ave Maria. 
 
 Book II begins on f. 43 b (o \b), and contains 100 chapters. 
 
 A hymn in elegiacs follows : Alma creatura sacra virgo femina felix 
 
 Vera dei mater et decus orbis aue. 
 
 Book III begins on f. 94 15 (v %b), and contains 87 chapters. 
 
 A hymn in elegiacs follows : Mater digna dei fuga noctis origo diei 
 
 Luminis etherei Stella memento mei. 
 
 Book IV begins on f. 136a (3 2 a), and contains 105 chapters. 
 
 A hymn follows, in quatrains, of which the initial words make up the Ave : it has a 
 preliminary stanza : 
 
 O benigna mater gentis misero merenti faue 
 Vota suscipe timentis peccatorum pondus graue 
 
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 Tu que nil peccati sentis terge quicquid egi praue 
 Carnem maculose mentis sume concinentis aue. 
 Book V begins on f. 193 a {10 1 a), and contained 106 chapters. There is a gap extend- 
 ing from the middle of c. 54 to the middle of c. 91 (sixteen leaves): and another from 
 near the beginning of c. 102 to the end (one leaf). 
 
 A table of the chapters follows, of which the first leaf (cc. 1-64) 
 is gone. The contents, however, of all the missing portions of text 
 and table can be recovered : for complete rubrics are prefixed to 
 the chapters in the text, which supply the deficiency in the table ; 
 and the table of the fifth book is complete ; whence the contents 
 of the gap in the text can be ascertained. 
 
 I append the table of contents of this very important collection: 
 and I add references to the British Museum Catalogue of Romances 
 by H. L. D. Ward, Vol. il, p. 586 — 740, which contains a large 
 amount of most useful information on the subject. 
 
 Liber primus. 
 
 Cap. I. De vita et conuersacione parentum B. V. Marie. 
 1. De concepcione sacratissime V. Marie. 
 
 3. De festo concepcionis gloriose V. M. qualiter apud Anglos et Normannos 
 
 primo fuerit institutum. 
 Abbot "Agylein". Cat. 614. 
 
 4. De festo concept, glor. V. qualiter apud ffrancos et Almannos inuentum est. 
 Canon drowned in the Seine and revived. 
 
 5. De festo concept, perp. V. M. qualiter apud Hungaros et adiacentes na- 
 
 ciones ordinatum est. 
 Clerk about to marry dissuaded by Virgin. 
 
 6. De clerico qui nitebatur festum concept, benignissime V. M. impedire 
 
 qualiter correptus est. 
 Alexander Necham is the hero. Cat. 693. 
 
 7. De sacerdote qui festum concept, precellentissime V. M. celebrare neclexit 
 
 qualiter correptus fuerit. 
 Found the office written in gold in his book. Quotation from Anselm's 
 Meditations follows. Cat. 653. 
 
 8. De natiuitate preciosissime V. M. et nominis eius dignitate. 
 
 9. Qualiter nomen B. V. M. demones eflfugauit et monachos a terroris periculo 
 
 conseruauit. 
 Demons taking away the soul of Ebroin. 
 
 10. Qualiter nomen B. M. mulierem a demonis molestia liberauit. 
 
 11. Qualiter nomen B. M. demonem in specie Sacerdotis ad puerum venientem 
 
 fugauit. 
 Told by a priest of the diocese of Cambrai. 
 
 12. Qualiter nomen B. M. raptum iuuenem a potestate demonis liberauit. 
 ■*■ Witnessed by Anselm in Italy : a vision of Hell occurs. 
 
 13. Qualiter nomen B. M. deuotum virum a latronibus custodiuit illesum, 
 
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 14. Qualiter nomen B. M. Judeam a periculo partus liberauit. 
 At Narbonne. 
 
 15. Qualiter nomen B. M. Judeam ab alto cadentem sanam et uiuam seruauit. 
 In rhyme : Judeis nata fuit una puella probata. 
 
 Arce manens alta castelli qua fuit alta. 
 
 16. Qualiter nomen B. M. Judicem in aqiiis cadentem ne mergeretur erexit. 
 
 17. Qualiter nomen B. M. monachum cum equo sub aquis mersum custodiuit 
 
 illesum. 
 A prior falls off a bridge. 
 
 Qualiter nomen B. M. mulam de ponte lapsam illesam eleuauit. 
 Told by a canon regular of a church of the Virgin, yet living. 
 Qualiter nomen B. M. blasphemum ab equo cadentem extinxit. 
 Of a heretic ; his ' trotarius ' or groom is mentioned. 
 Qualiter nomen B. M. naufragum a periculo maris liberauit. 
 A Bishop sees the souls of his drowned companions as doves. Cat. 626. 
 Qualiter nomen B. M. monachum necligentem a pena dampnacionis eripuit. 
 He could not get up for Matins. 
 
 Qualiter nomen B. M. monialera se ipsam mergere volentem retraxit. 
 In Germany : her name was Agnes. 
 
 23. Qualiter nomen B. M. luxuriosum pro peccatis fecit contritum. 
 He died on learning that his mistress's name was Mary. 
 
 24. Qualiter nomen B. M. puellam a demonis temptacione liberam fecit. 
 Clerk consults a wizard to induce the girl whose name is Mary to love him : 
 
 and repents. Cat. 62 1. 
 
 25. Qualiter nomen B. M. militem in morte compunctum etemam adquisiuit 
 
 salutem. 
 Similar : the knight is killed at a tournament. Cat. 628. 
 
 26. De festo natiuitatis S. M. V. qualiter in ecclesia primo cepit celebrari. 
 A Hermit hears angels singing. Cat. 633. 
 
 27. De conuerso quodam qui in festo S. M. V. eandem gloriosam dominam 
 
 audiuit cum angelis laudes deo canentem. 
 At Clairvaux. 
 
 28. De conuersacione et educacione B. V. in templo domini et desponsacione 
 
 eius sancto viro Joseph. 
 
 29. De salutacione Gabrielis archangeli et concepcione virginali. 
 
 30. De duobus hominibus a demonibus obsessis virtute verborum, sc. verbum 
 
 caro factum est liberatis. 
 In Aquitaine. 
 
 3 1 . Qualiter angelicam salutacionem abbas Johannes commendauit. 
 Abbot Joh. de Bella Villa, on his death-bed. 
 
 32. Qual. ang. salut. usurarium quemdam peccatum suum deserere fecit. 
 
 33. Qual. angel, salut. militem a potestate diaboli liberauit. 
 The robber knight : devil in form of a servant. Cat. 628. 
 
 34. Qual. angel, salut. conuersum quemdam a diabolica temptacione saluauit. 
 ' Diabolus ei dentes excuciat qui te hoc carmen docuit.' 
 
 35. Qual. angel, salut. inclusam a fantasmate diabolica seruauit. 
 
 36. Qual. angel, salut, demonem succubum a viro fugauit. 
 In rhyme : Vir recubans lecto. 
 
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 37. Qual. angel, salut. demonem incubum a muliere prohibuit. 
 
 Of Adelheydes, mistress of a priest who hung himself ' in villa de Biiiie,' 
 diocese of Cologne. 
 
 38. Qual. angel, salut. militeni vitam in melius mutare fecit. 
 Milk in a foul dish. 
 
 39. Qual. angel, salut. rusticum a dampnacione perpetua liberauit. 
 He moved landmarks. Cat. 607. 
 
 40. Qual. angel, salut. latronem a suspendio saluauit. 
 The thief Ebbo. Cat. 606. 
 
 41. Qual. angel, salut. latronem in duello victorem fecit. 
 
 Of Robertus Brodeye, near Oxford, made to undergo the ordeal by battle. 
 
 42. Qual. angel, salut. corpus peregrini a latronibus occisi longo tempore in- 
 
 corruptum custodiuit. 
 ' Robbatores' killed him and planted his staff on his grave : it became a tree, 
 with the Ave on every leaf. 
 
 43. Qual. angel, salut. lilium ex ore militis crescere fecit. 
 He had entered a Cistercian monastery. Cat. 654. 
 
 44. Qual. ang. sal. mulierem a morte suscitauit. 
 
 Quoted from S. Ambrose : she fell dead when receiving the sacrament at 
 Easter. 
 
 45. Qual. ang. sal. Jviueni confitendi gratiam contulit. 
 At the siege of Seville under king Aldephonsus. 
 
 46. Qu. per ang. sal. mulier multa miracula fecit. 
 
 An old woman who laid her hand on the sick and said the two words Ave 
 Maria. Cat. 666 (?). 
 
 47. Qu. ang. sal. raptum auem gremio magistre sue restituit. 
 
 A starling taught to say Ave Maria : a hawk attacked it, and fell dead on 
 hearing the words. 
 
 48. Qu. ang. sal. libidinosum fecit continentem. 
 He was husband of a lady of Narbonne. 
 
 49. Qu. ang. sal. puerum a fluctibus maris eripuit. 
 He was caught by the tide. Cat. 665. 
 
 50. Qu. ang. sal. puerum Ihesum mulieri apparere fecit. 
 
 A lady who always taught the salutation to children : she met the child 
 Jesus. Cat. 658. 
 
 51. Qu. ang. sal. puellam post mortem gloriosam fecit. 
 Of the niece of a nun. 
 
 c,2, Qu. ang. sal. iuuenem a graui pedum infractione curauit. 
 
 On a journey he was attacked by the swelling: when cured he walked 12 
 miles the first day. 
 
 53. Qu. ang. sal. clericum graui labiorum ac tocius corporis ulceracione tactum 
 
 sanauit. 
 The Virgin appeared and healed him with her milk. 
 
 54. De partu B. M. perpetue virginis. 
 
 55. De diuersis miraculis in ipsa Christi natiuitate vel circa Christi nat. contin- 
 
 gentibus. 
 I. The mid wives Zebel and Salome. 
 From Bartholomeus in compilacione. 
 
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 2. Vines of Engaddi bore flowers and fruit. Id. 
 
 3. Josepli brought an ox and ass to Bethlehem. They adored Christ and 
 
 warmed him with their breath. Bonaventura. 
 
 4. Death of the impure. 
 
 5. Light at night. 
 
 6. Spring of oil at Rome in the Trastevere. 
 
 7. Statue of Romulus and others fell. 
 
 8. Jeremiah prophesied the birth to the Egyptians. 
 
 9. The Temple of Peace at Rome fell. 
 
 56. De perpetua virginitate B. Christi matris ex parte exempli et ex parte signi 
 
 dati. 
 The bee and vulture are cited. 
 
 57. De perp. virgin. B. Christi matris ex parte facti in effectu demonstrate 
 Grosseteste's version of ' Suda' {i.e. the article 'IrjcroCs in Suidas). 
 
 58. De muliere cui visum est quod Christus Marie filius de ea nasceretur. 
 She was 'de terra Basctorum.' 
 
 59. De muliere desiderante virginitate seruata parere per B. M. a precipicio 
 
 mirabiliter liberata. 
 The birth of S. Kentigern. 
 
 60. De circumcisione Christi domini et benedicto nomine Ihesu. 
 
 61. De quodam fratre a febre, et quodam obstinato a rancore virtute nominis 
 
 Christi Ihesu liberato. 
 
 62. De quodam per virtutem huius nominis Ihesu a dampnacione liberato. 
 
 63. De excellenti pulcritudine perpetue V. M. 
 
 64. De duabus impudicis puellis pulcritudinem suam Christi matris pulcritudini 
 
 comparantibus. 
 One was of Sandwich, the other of Herford (Hereford). 
 
 65. De purificacione mundissime et purissime V. et matris Christi M. et quare 
 
 candele accense in festo purificacionis portantur. 
 
 66. De festo Purif , qualiter ab ecclesia primo fuerit celebratum. 
 
 A pestilence, temp. Justinian, ceased when the image was carried in pro- 
 cession. Cat. 638. 
 
 67. De conuerso qui in festo purif. per se processionem fecit quam B. V. M. 
 
 presencia sua solemnizauit. 
 He was horsekeeper at a Cistercian Abbey. 
 
 68. De matrona que in festo purif. missam in visu noctis mirabiliter audiuit. 
 She received a miracle-working candle. Cat. 658. 
 
 69. De muliere seipsam in festo purif. disciplinante quam B. V. M. pre omnibus 
 
 offerentibus commendauit, et de muliere que in eodem festo sensum per- 
 ditum recuperauit. 
 
 (a) The feast called ' canderaria ' : the poor woman scourges herself. The 
 rods bud. 
 
 (b) A woman who had a delusion about a flag is cured. 
 
 70. De tribulacione S. M. V. post Natiuitatem filii eius et de fuga eiusdem in 
 
 Egiptum et de puero cuiusdam mulieris a continuo fletu per balneum 
 Christi liberato. 
 
 71. De conuersacione Christi matris et qualiter monacho cuidam reuelauit tribu- 
 
 laciones quas passa est in Egipto. 
 
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 A letter of Ignatius is quoted. 
 72 De dolore quem habuil piissima V. M. in passione filii sui. 
 
 Bonaventura quoted : the stone of the Virgin's weeping is shown at CPol. 
 
 73. De scolari qui continue meminens doloris piissime V. M. pro fiho celum per 
 
 illam recepit pro merito. 
 The son of a knight in England. 
 
 74. De muliere ob recordacionem passionis Christi plorante cuius lacrimas 
 
 crucifixus manibus suscepit et piissime matris sue demonstrauit. 
 Also the number of Christ's wounds, as revealed to S. Edmund of Can- 
 terbury. 
 
 75. De moniali que orando dolores B. M., non gaudia recitauit. 
 Sister of a knight in captivity. Cat. 645. 
 
 76. De sanctimoniali femina que beate Marie dolores passionis Christi impro- 
 
 perauit. 
 Apparently the same story in slightly more flowery language. 
 
 77. De gaudio quod habuit gratissima dei mater in resurreccione filii sui. 
 
 The appearance of Christ to the Virgin. A passage from ' Ancelmus ' 
 follows. 
 
 78. De gaudio quod habuit gratissima V. dei mater in ascensione dilecti filii sm. 
 From Bonaventura (?). 
 
 79. De assumpcione gloriose V. M. 
 Cum beate marie dormicio instaret. 
 
 80. De Abbate per glor. V. a carcere liberato, et quare euangelium Introiuit 
 
 Ihesus in assumpcione precipue legitur. 
 Of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny, captured on the way to Rome. 
 
 81. De monacho qui de assump. corporali glo. Virginis hesitauit, qualiter per 
 
 earn instructus fuit. 
 Told by Anianus, a Dominican friar, famous ' apud Wallenses ', on the 
 authority of a Cistercian monk. 
 
 82. De assumpcionis veritate gloriosa V. beate Elizabeth ostensa. 
 S. Elizabeth of Schonau. 1152. 
 
 83. De cereis in assump. gl. V. ardentibus Rome sed non vastatis. 
 At S. Maria Major. 
 
 84. De matrona que festum assump. gl. V. M. specialiter honorabat ab infinni- 
 
 tate liberata. 
 Her youth was restored. 
 
 85. De quodam muto diebus sabbati ad honorem veneraude V. M. jejunante, 
 
 cui in morte ipsa apparuit et paradisum promisit. 
 On his deathbed he said Bene veniatis {? venistis). 
 
 86. De adulteris per votum in sabbato ieiunandi et penitenciam reductis. 
 
 87. De quodam in sabbato ieiunante per venerandam V. M. ab aque submersione 
 
 liberato. 
 
 88. De latrone in sabbato ieiunante qui sine confessione mori non potuit. 
 Heard from Mag. Ricardus Normannus, and seen by the narrator on a 
 
 tablet at Beauvais. 
 
 89. De quodam in sabb. ieiunante qui ab inimicis captus sine communione 
 
 occidi non potuit. 
 Of one Ruccus, ' militis Caturcensis cliens.' 
 
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 90. De rectore qui in sabb. ob reuerenciam venerande V. magnum festiuitatem 
 
 facere consueuit, unde per eandem V. ecclesie qua priuatus extiterat 
 restitui meruit. 
 In Canterbury diocese, temp. S. Thomas. Deprived by him : he went to 
 Pontigny. 
 
 91. De clerico qui in sabb. ob reuerenciam venerande V. ab adulterio se 
 
 abstinuit cuius anima per eandem V. saluata fuit. 
 A Paris student, and the wife of a knight. 
 
 92. De usurario qui in sabb. noluit usuras recipere, unde per venerandam V. 
 
 liberatur a morte corporis et anime. 
 He revives when about to be buried. 
 
 93. De muliere que in sabb. ob reuerenciam ven. V. M. solebat candelam 
 
 offerre. 
 Her husband, drowning in a river, was saved by the Virgin, wlro appeared 
 with one of his wife's candles. 
 
 94. De muliere in sabb. operante grauiter afiflicta sed postmodum per ven. V. M. 
 
 sanitati restituta. 
 A woman of Figeac ; swallowed her needle. 
 
 95. De quodam ieiunante vigilias B. M. quem letaliter vulneratum sine confes- 
 
 sione ipsa misericordie mater mori non permisit. 
 Wounded in a fight between Bologna and Modena. 
 
 96. De quodam ieiunante B. V. annunciacionem cuius caput abscissum loquelas 
 
 edidit et communionem accepit. 
 The talking head was found by a traveller in a field of standing corn. He 
 took it to the Pope, who eventually houselled it, and the soul left it. It 
 is still shown at Rome. 
 
 97. De mercatore qui ieiunium annunc. promissum fregit. 
 
 In diocese of Cologne. The Virgin paid him 15 coins for the 15 days he 
 had fasted. Told by Henry and Hermann of Cologne. 
 
 98. De milite ieiunium annunc. infringente qualem penam sustinuerit. 
 
 Gorlof, a vassal of the Duke of Leuburg. Told by a comrade, and witnessed 
 by Kyrkotrere. 
 
 99. De quodam jeiunante vigilias B. V. qui membratim cesus et euisceratus 
 
 sine confessione et corporis Christi communione mori non potuit. 
 In 123s in Auvergne. 
 100. De quodam adultera vigilias ieiunante vig. B. M. quam nouem diebus sub 
 aquis demersam eadem misericordie mater viuam seruauit. 
 ' Nacinensis quedam ' drowned in a sack by her husband. 
 loi. De quodam ieiunante vig. B. M. quem eadem misericordie mater in morte 
 visitauit eiusque famulam ad ieiunandam excitauit. 
 
 Liber secundus. Prologue. 
 
 Cap. I. De reliquiis graciose V. in generali. 
 
 ■2. De capilHs mundissime V. qui in ignem missi permanserunt incombusti. 
 
 Belonged to Ida, Countess of Boulogne, who placed them in ' quodam 
 castro veteri quod a Mercuric constructum antiquitus dicitur,' and 
 founded a monastery of black monks. Cat. 643. 
 
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 3. De monacho qui temerarie capillos perp. V. videns excecatur et postea 
 
 illuminatur. 
 The monastery was called Merch. Cat. 643. 
 
 4. De abbate qui per clauem scrinii reliquiarum sanctiss. V. M. a subita in- 
 
 firmitate liberatur. 
 Abbot Theodoric of Merch : ill on a journey to Rheims. Cat. 644. 
 
 5. De ceco aurifabro ad feretrum reliquiarum sacrate V. illuminato. 
 At Trabatum, near Laon. Nos. 5-7 : Cat. 724, 5. 
 
 6. De piratis ad eleuacionem feretri reliquiarum B. V. M. submersis et de lanis 
 
 mercatorum combustis. 
 At Wytsondia (Wissant). 
 
 7. De puella contracta ad feretr. reliq. beatiss. V. M. sanata et de domo 
 
 matrone cuiusdam ab igne conseruata. 
 She came to Canterbury with the shrine : and returned home : then went 
 to a market town with a church of xii canons. 
 
 8. De sotulari mitissime V. M. per quem multa miracula diuinitus sunt patrata. 
 At Soissons. Told in the first person, (a) a rustic punished, (b) a fire 
 
 stopped, (c) one John saved from robbers. Cat. •J26. 
 g. De tunica S. M. V. per quam ciuitas Karnotensis ab hostibus mirabiliter 
 est liberata. 
 In 898 : Duke RoUo against Bp Walchelin. Cat. 603. 
 
 10. De ymagine B. M. que ludeum de mendacio conuicit et negociatorem ab 
 
 illius fraude liberauit. 
 At CPol. Theodore and Abraham. Cat. 638. 
 
 11. De ymag. S. M. V. a B. Luca euang. sculpta que de loco suo furtim ablata 
 
 visa est volando multis cernentibus redire. 
 Stolen from its church at Rome, and taken to the Lateran. Cat. 657. 
 
 12. De ymaginibus intem. V. CPolis celitus commendatis multisque ac variis 
 
 signis. 
 One at Agyasophia, the other at Blachernae. Cat. 616. 
 
 13. De ymag. digniss. V. M. quam quidam ludeus dehonestauit. 
 At CPol. Cat. 611, 12. 
 
 T4. De ymag. graciose V. M. quam saraceni conculcare volentes contingere 
 minime potuerunt. 
 In Palestine after battle of Ramleh against Baldwin. 
 
 15. De ymag. perp. V apud castrum Radulphi cuius vestis videtur scissa propter 
 
 iniuriam per alliatores sibi et filio suo factam et de juuene coram dicta 
 ymag. ab insania liberato. 
 In 1 187 'apud castr. Rad. in Berico quod Dolis dicitur in finibus Nor- 
 mannie.' Cat. 630. 
 
 16. De ymag. quam Judeus fiirtim abstulit et gladio punxit ac in puteum pro- 
 
 iecit, unde et sanguis exiuit. 
 In S. Sophia. Another miracle: Julian tried to burn the image. 
 
 1 7. De cerea ymag. et ulcione perfidorum Judeorum. 
 At Toledo. Cat. 610. 
 
 18. De ymag. sacratiss. V. in villa Kyrkby dicta. 
 
 luxta castrum de Bridelowe, dioc. Couentrensi temp. Ep. Richardi cui 
 cognomen peccatum. Thieves tried to steal the child : the Virgin's arm 
 
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 closed round it. The thieves found themselves at the church door in the 
 morning. 
 
 19. De ymag. gratiss. V. que latronem filium suum spoliare volentem retinuit. 
 In rhyme. Ecclesiam quandam fur ingressus — noua pandam. 
 
 20. De ymag. cerenissime V. in ecclesia quum apostoH emerunt. 
 At Libia, near Diospolis. Col. 611. 
 
 21. De ymag. puriss. V. M. que pictoris manum ne caderet retinuit. 
 Southey's Pious Painter. ' Zabule ' occurs for ' diabole.' Cat. 628. 
 
 22. De ymag. grac. V. sine pictoris manu miraculose depicta. 
 At Gethsamini. Cat. 611. 
 
 23. De ymag. sacre V. per quam Parmenses facditer hostes suos vicerunt. 
 Emperor Frederick repidsed in 1248. Cat. 706. 
 
 24. De ymag. digniss. V. M. que vulnus in crure suscipiens portantem se dlesum 
 
 seniauit. 
 At Orleans. Cat. 625. 
 
 25. De ymag. misericordiss. V. M. que cameas mamillas videtnr habere. 
 The property of a Saracen who was converted by it. Cat. 670. 
 
 16. De ymag. piiss. V. M. que apud Sardeneyam multa operatur. 
 Occupies ten columns. Cat. 655. 
 
 27. De ymag. predicta quomodo soldanum excecauit et iterum illuminauit, 
 
 sacerdotem et monachum temere LUum tangentes percussit et sanauit. 
 The hand seems to change on f. q 3 t>. 
 
 28. De ymag. predicta cuius oleum pedem clerici cuiusdam mirabiliter sanamt. 
 William KyUesby, Abp elect of York. 
 
 29 . De ymag. que monachum dormientem ne combureretur excitauit. 
 
 Only seven lines written: a blank of three-fourths of a cohimn, in which 
 George Rayner has written his name. 
 
 30. De duobus ymagg. que combustis ecclesiis suis ab igne permanserunt illese. 
 (i) at Mont S. Michel, {2) at Rheims. 
 
 31. De ymag. B. M. que paniulum Judei filium in ardenti clibano conseruauit 
 
 illesum. 
 Jew of Bourges. Cat. 601. 
 
 32. De ymag. diabolica fraude conflcta, que ostenso vero Christo in sacramento 
 
 disparuit. 
 In 1231, when Conrad was preaching against heretics in Germany. Cat. 
 668. 
 
 33. De ymag. matris christi in vase apum inueuta, que ministerio sacerdotis in 
 
 eucharistiam est conuersa. 
 Temp. Karoli regis Francie. Host hid in a hive for a charm. 
 
 34. De ymag. B. matris Christi que filium cuidam mulieri restituit eo quod 
 
 filium siinm de gremio suo abstulit. Cat. 662. 
 
 35. De ymag. Christi matris que filium cuidam mulieri restituit eo quod filium 
 
 suum de gremio suo tollere dispostdt. 
 The same story. 
 
 36. De ymag. B. M. que cuidam denote doraine quasi compaciens cum tristi 
 
 tristis cum gaudente gaudens apparuit. 
 
 37. De ymag. B. M. que puerum ipsam pluries salutantem a submercione 
 
 liberauit. 
 
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 In Lombardy : the image was in the house. 
 
 38. De ymag. B. M. apud Westmonasterium que puerum cecum a natiuitate 
 
 benigne liberauit. Cat, 645. 
 
 39. De ymag. B. V. M. que clericum ipsam deuote salutantem benedictionem 
 
 promisit. 
 
 40. De ymag. sanctiss. V. M. militem ipsam in mala vita salutantem reppulit et 
 
 eius seruicium indignanter refutauit. 
 In England. 
 
 41. De ymag. B. M. cuius ad filium intercessione meretrix quedam peccatum 
 
 suum deseruit. 
 
 42. De ymag. B. V. cuius ad filium intercessione miles qui Christum negauerat 
 
 veniam optinuit. 
 In Dioc. Leodiensi prope Florenciam. Knight impoverished consults the 
 Devil, and refuses to deny the Virgin. Cat. 629. 
 
 43. De ymag. B. M. que visa est cuidam infantulo loqui et finem vite denun- 
 
 ciauit et quod cum ipso regnaturus esset predixit. 
 At Pisa : the end of the story says in Lorraine. 
 
 44. De ymag. que visa est cum infantulo loqui que post triduum moriturum 
 
 predixit. 
 At Spires : the vi'ords of the child are 'pupa papa.' Cat. 623. 
 
 45. De ymag. B. M. que cum puero visa est loqui et comedere. 
 In an Abbey : the abbot and the boy die on Christmas Day. 
 
 46. De ymag. grac. V. M. que custodi ecclesie locuta sanctum Alexium intro- 
 
 duci precepit. 
 Refers to Legenda aurea. Story of Alexius. 
 
 47. De ym. benigniss. V. quam clericus quidam anulo deuote desponsauit. 
 
 Cat. 626. 
 
 48. De ym. benigne V. que baroni depauperate omnia bona sua liberaliter restituit. 
 Refusal to deny the Virgin. 
 
 49. De ym. glor. V. que militi monoculo plenum oculorum lumen donauit et sic 
 
 a morte liberauit. 
 He had kicked a Jevi' for blaspheming. Cat. 658. 
 
 50. De ym. perp. V. que monacho apostatare volenti dorsum vertit. 
 No text : a blank of two columns. 
 
 51. No title or text: not in the table. 
 
 52. De institucione horarum et misse B. et glor. ac perp. V. M. 
 
 By the Pope, when the Virgin had conciliated S. Peter. Cat. 638. 
 
 53. De complectorio B. M. V. quod eadem V. quendam religiosum cantare per 
 
 ordinem docuit. Cat. 612. 
 
 54. De complect. B. M. V. per lapsum temporis necligentes omisso sed per 
 
 eandem V. cuidam persone per visum notificato. 
 She appeared to him on his sick bed, with SS. Cecilia and Tecla. 
 
 55. De officiis grac. V. M. omissis et iterum inceptis. 
 
 56. De monacho horas B. M. V. morose decantante cui eadem V. in morte 
 
 apparuit et osculum ei benigne tribuit. 
 A Cistercian in Spain. 
 
 57. De scolari horas B. M. deuote cotidie dicente qui per eandem V. ad mona- 
 
 chatum admittitur. 
 
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 He became a Cistercian. 
 
 58. De Juuencula quadam lioras B. V. cotidie dicente que meritis eiusdem V. 
 
 a peccato luxurie cum suo amatore liberatur. 
 Tlie lover sees tlie Virgin and tiie dead attending on his mistress in a 
 garden at night. 
 
 59. De monacho qui vidit in visu noctis in B. M. conquerentem coram filio suo 
 
 de monachis horas eius necligenter et cursim dicentibus. 
 Also a story 'which I heard from brother Galfridus de Dunked of a priest in 
 Burgundy,' who said the office hurriedly and was repeatedly dashed to 
 the ground by the devil. A saint in England was 50 years in Purgatory 
 for the same offence. 
 
 60. De monacho cui glor. et perp. V. formam dicendi psalterium eius benigne 
 
 patefecit. 
 At the Abbey of S. Giles : the Virgin appeared to him without manicae or 
 birri. 
 
 61. De Religiosi cui glor. V. M. formam dicendi psalt. eius reuelauit. 
 
 62. De quodam iuuene psalt. glor. V. frequentante qui per eandem V. a 
 
 uanitate mundi reuocatur et ad celum virginitate seruata perducitur. 
 Died on the point of marriage : in Germany. 
 
 63. De milite psalt. B. V. deuote repetente quern eadem V. a carnali concu- 
 
 piscentia retraxit et anulum mortis nuntium dedit. 
 
 64. De adultera psalt. glor. V. cotid. repplicante unde cum suo adultero ad 
 
 vitam meliorem reducitur et cum eraula sua pacificatur. 
 
 65. De iuuene psalt. perp. V. cotid. dicente qui per eandem V. a dampnacionis 
 
 sentencia liberatur. 
 In 1271. Vidi et cognoui iuuenem in partibus Brabancie. 
 
 66. De conuerso qui psalt. B. V. M. dicere consueuit, unde per eandem V. 
 
 Christi matrem a dampnacione liberari promeruit. 
 Judgment-scene with scales. 
 
 67. De diiobus nouiciis antiphonam Salue reglna cantantibus, qui meritis grac. 
 
 V. a pena purgatorii misericorditer liberantur. 
 
 In a suburb of Paris. They become monks under S. Bernard, bathe 
 without leave, and are drowned. Bernard sees their souls in an interest- 
 ing vision. Then follows a long rhymed version of the miracle by a 
 monk, occupying seven columns. 
 
 Pange lingua cor letare cithariza digite • omnis homo gratulare ciues cell 
 plaudite • Ihesu Christi matris care laudes simul agite. Cat. 652. 
 
 68. De magistro Jordano qui ant. Salue Regina contra seuiciam demonum post 
 
 completorium decantari instituit. 
 Also a ball of fire seen to light on the head of each brother who sang it in 
 an English monastery. 
 
 69. De matrona quadam que vidit B. M. intus psallentes Salue Regina stantem 
 
 et quasi gracias referendo singulis deuote inclinantem. 
 In a Dominican Church. 
 
 70. De religioso per decantacionem ant. Salue Reg. a demonio liberato. 
 A Dominican of Bologna. 
 
 71. De Relig. qui tempore quo ant. Salue Reg. m. cantaretur vidit B. V. M. 
 
 filium suum pro totius ordinis conseruacione supplicantem. 
 
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 72. De monachis ant. Salue Reg. M. m. deuote cantantibus, unde maxima ces- 
 
 sauit tempestas et celi secuta est iocunda cerenitas. 
 At Fovium, a Cistercian house. 
 
 73. De canonici ant. Salue Reg. m. deuote cantantibus qui ab inopia liberantur 
 
 et bonis omnibus misericorditer replentur. 
 A house of ' Cassinenses, ' in dioc. Beziers or Bourges (Bitericensi). 
 
 74. De quodam conuerso qui ant. Salue Reg. m. repplicando vineam suam a 
 
 grandine seruauit illesam. 
 Toulouse Cistercians. 
 
 75. De clericis ant. Salue Reg. deuote modulantibus unde ignis vehemens est 
 
 per matrem misericordie extinctus. 
 In the province of Narbonne, in a fenced city. 
 
 76. De Juuene quodam qui ant. Salue Reg, deuote cantando a laqueo liberatur. 
 
 Et de sacerdote qui per iteracionem eiusdem ant. a suspendio mirabiliter 
 similiter eripitur. 
 I. At Narbonne. 1. An adulterous priest hung by the feet in a wood by 
 demons. 
 
 77. De tribus scolaribus ympnum Ave Maris Stella deuote cantantibus a fulgure 
 
 et tempestate per pietatis matrem liberatis. 
 At Paris. Cf. Cat. 673. 
 
 78. De scolari ympnum Ave Maris Stella deuote pronunciante ab impulsu 
 
 diabolico liberato. 
 He had studied necromancy ; said to have been John de Garlandia. Ends 
 with a metrical exhortation. 
 
 79. De monachis antiphonam Felix namque est deuote cantantibus a maris 
 
 periculo liberatis. 
 ' Didici ab ipso abbate qui hoc idem quod scribo expertus est.' But it is 
 the old story : the Abbot had eaten one apple in two days. Cat. 626. 
 
 80. De canonicis audientibus angelos '^l. Felix namque canentes. 
 
 During an interdict at Soissons : Prior John Besebase, of S. Jean les Vignes. 
 
 81. De sacerdote fomicario qui ant. Sancta maria dicere consueuit, cuius corpus 
 
 post mortem rosis redolentibus inuentum est. 
 In France. 
 
 82. De ceco nato qui "^. Gaude M. V. composuit unde mirabiliter illuminari meruit. 
 At Rome, temp. Pope Boniface. 
 
 83. De puero cantante 9:. Gaude M. a Judeo iugulato sed per benigniss. Christi 
 
 genitricem M. a mortuis suscitato. 
 In Italy. 
 
 84. De puero cantante '^l. Gaude M. a iudeis occiso, pro quo Salue sancta parens 
 
 celitus cantari auditur. 
 No place given. Cat. 656. 
 
 85. De quodam monacho cantante ^. Gaude M. a iudeo iugulato set per B. 
 
 Christi matrem a morte suscitato. 
 He was buying an electuary. 
 
 86. De mon. qui cantando ^. Gaude M. spiritum deo reddidit. 
 A monk of Evesham. 
 
 87. De puero a iudeis interfecto, qui ant. Alma redemptoris cantare non cessauit 
 
 donee funeris officium conpleretur. 
 
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 In terra Albegeorum. 
 
 88. De Waltero clerico qui orationem Aue mater composuit quem ideo eadem 
 
 domini mater in morte visitauit et confortauit. 
 Walter de Ango, Vicar of Poleslewe, two miles from Exeter. 
 
 89. De clerico qui or. O beata et intemerata deuote dicens per B. M. a potestate 
 
 demonum liberatur. 
 He appeared after death. The text of the prayer is given. 
 
 90. De B. Edmundo qui or. b. et intern, dicere semel omittens per B. Joh. 
 
 Euang. et Ap. increpatur. 
 
 91. De quodam mobili (nob.) viro per or. intern, a fraude demonis miseri- 
 
 corditer conseruato. 
 The devil as servant : but here the master is a good man. The devil, when 
 he is detected, says he is unus de septem spiritibus tenebrarum. 
 
 92. De men. per or. b. et intern, a penis infernalibus liberato. 
 He left the abbey for a year, and died. 
 
 93. De clerico ant. b. et intern, frequentante qui propter enormitatem scelerum 
 
 extra cimiterium tumulatus iussu B. V. postmodum in ecclesia est sepultus. 
 A flower found in his mouth. 
 
 94. De cler. qui ant. mater digna dei cotid. dixit unde ne sine confessione 
 
 moreretur graciose promeruit. 
 In Aragon in 1270, beheaded by his enemies. Text of the prayer given. 
 
 95. De cler. qui or. Domine Jhesu Christe composuit et eam cotid. dixit, unde a 
 
 penis infernalibus liberari promeruit. 
 One of two scholars at Paris. Text of prayer given. 
 
 96. De mon. qui militis uxorem ant. aue mater domini dicere informauit unde 
 
 eadem domini mater a scandalo diaboli et sorde peccati utrumque 
 custodiuit. 
 This is a story versified by Rutebeuf ' Le soucretain et le chiualer.' The 
 monk and lady elope, and are imprisoned: 'fortiter vinculati': two 
 demons are substituted for them. Cat. 654. 
 
 97. De cler. qui or. Gaude dei genitrix cotid. deuote dixit, cui B. V. gaudium 
 
 celorum pro labore suo benigne donauit. 
 A canon regular at Chartres. Text of prayer given. 
 
 98. De S. Thoma cui B. V. septem eius gaudia reuelauit atque ut ilia cotid. 
 
 repplicaret admonuit. 
 The seven joys in rhyme follow. Gaude virgo mater Christi, etc. 
 
 99. De Episcopo qui cartam a B. V. missam accipere meruit, in qua qualiter 
 
 eam cum ant. Aue benignissima salutaret ipsum instruxit. 
 Letter and antiphon are given. 
 100. De muliere quam preciosa dei mater admonuit Vers. Aice benigne Ihisu ante 
 
 salutacionem angelicam pronunciare. 
 An image spoke to her. 
 
 Liber tercius. Prologue. 
 
 Cap. I. De B. Gregorio papa qui ymaginem B. M. V. contra infeccionem aeris 
 portari fecit, unde et pestis mortalitatis cessauit et serenitas remeauit. 
 The story of S. Angelo. 
 
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 2. De quodam Juuene per B. dei genitricem in papam electo et de miraculo 
 
 Rome habito in raonte Auentino. 
 The monks on the Aventine admonished by a triple apparition to dig for 
 a spring. A youth, who would cense one particular picture of the 
 Virgin, is made a pope. Adrian IV. disperses the monks. A long 
 story about the spring, on the authority of Rogerus, surnamed Eleemo- 
 sinarius. 
 
 3. De papa qui raptus in spiritu audiuit a B. Petro quod non intraret ianuam 
 
 celi, quem B. M. per fenestram intraturum intimauit. 
 The Hymn, gloriosa domina, was made by this Pope, and is quoted. 
 
 4. De Leone papa qui per B. V. M. manum abscisam recuperauit. 
 
 He was tempted at the Easter mass by a woman, and cut off his hand. 
 Cf. Cat, 674. 
 
 5. De Arnulpho patriarcha qui Beate V. derogans infortunium pertulit et ob- 
 
 probrium. 
 He was feigning illness at Ptolemais. 
 
 6. De S. Thoma Cant. Archiep. qui de ecclesia B. M. Sarum antequam con- 
 
 strueretur prophetauit : et qualiter eadem B. V. predictum sanctum ad- 
 huc paruulum visitauit. 
 
 7. De S. Thoma cui B. V. M. apparuit et de unctione regum Anglie et eorum 
 
 victoria intimauit. 
 Told in the first person by Thomas. 
 
 8. De S. Dunstano Cant. Arch, cui se B. V. cum suis virginibus manifestauit. 
 
 Cat. 631. 
 
 9. De S. Edmundo Cant. Arch, qui cum B. V. glor. M. colloquium habuit, in 
 
 quo duas animas a purgatorii penis liberatas aspexit. 
 Seen by Richard, his Chancellor. 
 
 10. De S. Edmundo Cant. Arch, qui B. V. M. in ymagine sua cum anulo 
 
 quodam desponsauit, quam postea in omnibus necessitatibus suis sibi 
 propiciam inuenit. 
 At 1 2 years of age. 
 
 11. De S. Edm. Cant. Arch, cui Christus in forma pueri apparuit, et se ac 
 
 matrem eius adiutores illius esse promisit. 
 
 12. De S. Edm. Arch, cui B. V. M. baculum et mitram contradidit que et 
 
 crusibolum eius extinctum per eius nominis inuocacionem accendit. 
 The lamp was put out by a mouse's tail. 
 
 13. De Hildefonso Tholetanensi Arch, cui B. et perp. V. vestimentum attulit 
 
 de paradiso quod nuUus post ipsum valuit induere. Cat. 604. 
 
 14. De Esrilo Lundensi archiepiscopi. 
 
 (Rubric not finished: a xviith cent, hand adds the number.) His vision 
 when 16 years old : he founds five monasteries when made Abp. Many 
 other stories of him are given. All ' heard from him ' : gj columns. 
 
 15. De Otrano Januensi Arch, cuius brachium horribiliter fetens mundissima V. 
 
 sanauit. 
 His Lady-chapel described : his cure, and funeral. He had 'regius morbus' 
 in his arm. 
 
 16. 
 
 De Mauricio Trecensi Archidiac. qui per piiss. Christi genitricem M. epi- 
 scopus efficitur Cenomannensis ciuitatis. 
 
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 17. De Petro Londonie quondam Archid. qui per intern. V. in visu corripitur 
 
 et in meliorem vitam mutatur. 
 Official to Galfridus Ridel, Bp of Ely. 
 
 18. De Bonefacio fferentis ciuitatis Ep. qui B. M. pro duodecim aureis exorauit 
 
 quos ab ea mox fulgentes gratanter optinuit. 
 Mentioned by Greg. Dial. 1. 
 
 19. De Manasse Arelatensi Ep. qui per B. M. ab infirmitate graciose liberatur 
 
 et plene sanitati restituitur. 
 
 20. De Bonitto Clarimontis Ep. qui coram B. V. missam celebrauit et ab ea 
 
 vestem preciosissimam gratanter suscepit. Cat. 622. 
 ■21. De Jeronimo Papiensi Ep. quem glor. V. M. per visionem ordinari precepit. 
 Cat. 658. 
 
 22. De ffulberto Carnotensi Ep. quem lacte mamille sue V. M. ab infirmitate 
 
 mirabiliter liberauit. Cat. 637. 
 
 23. De Egwino Wigornensi Ep. qui B. V. M. vidit et ab ea benedici promeruit, 
 
 unde et monasterium Eweshamense opere mirifice construxit. 
 Temp. Ethelred, K. of Mercia. 
 
 24. De Guidone Starrensi Ep. qui pro amore S. Anne per liberaliss. V. M. de 
 
 carcere educitur et de captiuitate libertati restituitur. 
 In Spain : he was captured by the Saracens and made to spin. Told by 
 his friend, the Archdeacon Helyas. Cat. 644. 
 
 25. De Wlfrido Eboracensi Arch, cui Christi genitrix usque ad mortem infir- 
 
 manti subuenit et a filio suo vitam impetrauit. 
 
 26. De Ep. qui vasculum vini pro amore dei et eius genitricis dedit, unde dolium 
 
 plenum vino recipere meruit. 
 He gave it to a beggar, thinking he had no more. 
 
 27. De Decano Aurelianensi qui per B. V. a graui infirmitate et carnali con- 
 
 cupiscencia sa/uatur, cui et habitus fratrum predicatorum per eandem 
 confertur. 
 Reginald, Dean of S. Aignan. Temp. S. Dominic. 
 
 28. De Decano Mauriacensi qui acuta febri detentus per B. M. ab articulo 
 
 mortis est liberatus. 
 Named Mathfredus. 
 
 29. De Archidiacono qui dominum suum Episcopum insidiose peremit, set per 
 
 B. V. subita morte percussus interiit. 
 In Teutonia : he killed the Bp by loosening a stone over a church door. 
 Vision of judgment seen by a servant at a banquet. 
 
 30. De Theophilo vicedomino qui Christum eiusque matrem abnegans diabolum 
 
 adorauit set per eandem misericordie matrem reconsiliatus, Christi gra- 
 ciam penitens misericorditer recuperauit. Igitur descripto miraculo quod 
 
 beatiss. dei genitrix et perp. V. M. dignata est in igneo elemento 
 
 ostendere, iam nunc stilus vertatur ad aerium elementum. 
 Eight columns. Cat. 602 (this version). 
 
 31. De Bernardo Caturcensi Rectore qui per B. M. de morte vite restitutus est. 
 
 32. De Rectore quodam in fluuio demerso set per B. V. M. precibus parochia- 
 
 norum suorum a morte suscitato. 
 
 33. De Rect. beneficiis abutente et de sacrificiis incontinencium sacerdotum. 
 
 A vision seen by Willelmus, an Englishman, 'apud S. Mariam de Bures 
 
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 natus et nutritus,' who became Abbot of Sor, an Abbey founded in Den- 
 mark (Dacia) by the Abp of Dacia. He celebrated the Virgin's feasts 
 ' anglicane ecclesie morem in cantibus et in prosis et in musicis instru- 
 mentis diligenter imitans.' 
 
 De Vicario B. Marie deuoto et per eandem ab infirmitate que calculus dicitur 
 liberato. 
 
 Vicar in Scotland, ' de quadam parochia de Perch (Perth).' 
 
 35. De sacerdote unam tantum missam sciente qui ab Episcopo suspensus per 
 
 B. M. ad officium suum est restitutus. Cat. 607. 
 
 36. De duobus sacerdotibus quorum unus tantum de S. M. alter pro defunctis 
 
 celebrare consueuit. 
 Two stories : both the same plot as 35. 
 
 37. De sacerdote quem B. V. grauiter flagellauit eo quod concubinam suam peplo 
 
 eius ornauit. 
 
 38. De sacerdote qui pixidem cum corpore Christi irreuerenter ponens per B. V. 
 
 dure increpatur, sed post compunccionem per eandem pie consolatur. 
 After giving the viaticum to a sick man on his way home he fished in a 
 stream, as was his habit, and put the bursa, with the Host, on the ground 
 by him : lost it, rebuked by the Virgin, and eventually found it. 
 
 39. De sacerdote a cuius conspectu diabolus cum cathenis apparens per B. M. 
 
 fugatus est. 
 On his sick bed. Cat. 617. 
 
 40. De sacerdote lubrico per castiss. V. M. precibus consortis sacerdotis a penis 
 
 purgatorii liberato. 
 He was ' secta scolasticus. ' 
 
 41. De sac. intra cuius sotularem fulmen cecidit set per B. V. pedem illesum 
 
 habuit. 
 He was ringing the bell in a storm ; the bolt entered by the hole in which 
 the rope worked. 
 
 42. De sac. per Christi genitricem M. in exitu vite sanitati integre restituto. 
 Guillelmus Carnotensis : ill from S. Nicholas' day to S. Vincent. Our 
 
 Lady of Rochemador was invoked. 
 
 43. De sac. cui prec. Christi mater et V. M. per rusticum mandauit ut ecclesiam 
 
 suam dilataret. 
 In terra S. Edmundi erat campestris ecclesia : a rustic at night met S. Mar- 
 garet : a message and sign given by the Virgin to the priest. Cat. 714. 
 
 44. De sac. qui glor"" V. M. in inestimabili decore meruit contemplari. 
 Of Narbonne. 
 
 45. De Guymundo et Drogone capellanis qui defectu venti in mare diu sunt 
 
 fatigati set per B. M. ventum optatum graciose sunt assecuti. 
 Ex capellanis regis anglie: it liappened on the way to Jerusalem. Cat. 
 732. 
 
 46. De Maymundo presbitero per B. dei genitr. M. a naufragio cum ceteris 
 
 liberato. Presbiter episcopii Neuraasensis (Nemaus. = Ntmes) tempore 
 belli regis Aragonensis et Raymundi Tolosani comitis. 
 They were bringing com ' ad alimentum Montis pessulani. ' 
 
 47. De quodam sac. qui dans viaticum cuidam mulieri glor" V. M. meruit 
 
 contemplari. 
 
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 48. De sac. in ueritate corporis Christi dubitante qui per B. M. V. optime 
 
 instruitur et in fide recta plenius solidatur. 
 He was ' natione Theutonicus.' Cat. 673. 
 
 49. De Cler. lubrico et dissoluto cuius preces propter inmundiciam suam Beate 
 
 V. non placuerunt. 
 Food in a foul dish. Cat. 651. 
 
 50. De Cler. Carnotensi extra ciuitatem sepulto, set iussu B. V. M. in cimiterium 
 
 translate. 
 Flower in mouth. Cat. 605. 
 
 51. Idem miraculum metrificatum. Clericus in quadam fuit urbe ; metris noua 
 
 tradam. 
 
 52. De quodam Cler. in aqua submerse in cuius ore reperta est cedula angelica 
 
 salutacione litteris aureis conscripta. Cat. 612. 
 
 53. De Cler. Rothomagensi lubrico et dissoluto qui per B. M. a loco sepulture 
 
 despecto leuatur et in ecclesia honorifice sepelitur. 
 Lily in mouth. Cat. 641. 
 
 54. De Nono (Nouo ?) Cler. submerso per B. V. a demonibus erepto et a morte 
 
 temporali misericorditer liberato. 
 SS- De Cler. lubrico per B. V. a morte suscitato et per confessionem et peni- 
 tenciam saluato. 
 The margin is Ellens, dloces. 
 
 In 1247, in Ely diocese, 'in villa quadam Wynelyngham (Willing- 
 ham) nuncupata que a Cantabrigia per quinque leucas distare 
 dinoscitur.' John was the Vicar. Reginaldus was the clerk in 
 question. 
 s6. De Cler. qui per visum dampnacionem suam videns, pie matris M. precibus 
 liberatur et euigilans melioris vite efficitur. 
 ' In quadam Uniuersitate ' : the hymn, O glorlosa domlna, follows. 
 
 57. De Cler. per liberaliss. V. M. a perpetua liberato, qui postmodum ipsam 
 
 singulariter honorauit et cuius officium solempniter decantauit. 
 He was a pilgrim to Cambrai. 
 
 58. De Cler. quem B. V. a matrimonio maleficiis demonum impetrato salubriter 
 
 reuocauit. 
 He was a necromancer : could not deny the Virgin. 
 Sg. De Cler. B' seruiente qui per eandem sacram V. uxorem et filios a demone 
 iugulatos resuscitatos recuperare meruit. 
 His wife had cursed her children. 
 60. De Cler. qui lacte B. V. a grauissima infirmitate quae cancrum vocatur 
 misericorditer liberatur. 
 ' In superioribus partibus Europe.' 
 6r. De Cler. frenetico per mitissimam V. M. sanitati pristine restitute. 
 At Rochemador. 
 
 62. De Mathia Cler. melancolica grauiter infirmitate depresso et per B. M. V. 
 
 graciose curato. 
 Math. Latoriensis (De la Tour) clericus de Gasconia. 
 
 63. De Cler. quem B. V. M. cum sua matre graciosa Anna in morte sua ad se 
 
 venientes clarissime vidit (sic). 
 A clerk of Lichfield devoted to S. Anne. 
 
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 64. De Cler. qui prius B= dei genitr. fuit deuotus set postea neccligencia factus 
 
 ab ea salubriter est increpatus. 
 Went to Rome to see S. Luke's portrait of the Virgin ; returned to Oxford, 
 and fell ill. 
 
 65. De Cler. stuprum recusante iniuste concremato, ad cuius ossa multa pro 
 
 gloria S. M. fiebant miracula. 
 In ' Suesia.' 
 
 66. De Cler. qui incantaciones plurimas frequentans est morti condempnatus set 
 
 per B. V. ab igne conseruatus. 
 In ' Aluernia.' 
 
 67. De Cler. a periculo maris et temptacione carnis miraculose liberate. 
 Stephen, a Frenchman : told by an abbot, to whom Stephen told it. Cat. 
 
 640. 
 
 68. De Cler. qui B. V. M. videns oculum amisit quem postea per eandem V. 
 
 recuperauit. 
 
 69. De Cler. qui nomen Marie Uteris aureis scribere consueuit, cuius anelitus in 
 
 morte riuulus aureus apparuit. 
 
 70. De Cler. qui puellam sponsam sibi oblatam ut in ea delectaretur per gratiam 
 
 dei et eius matris M. monitis suis religiosam efficit. 
 
 71. De Cler. per propriam matrem diabolo commendato set per B. M. ab eodem 
 
 diabolo liberato. 
 Conceived in Lent. 
 
 72. De Cler. Petro cui B. V. precipit ut nunciet sodalibus quod a blasphemia 
 
 nominis eius et filii abstineant aut grauiter punientur. 
 Of Petrus de castro Gelaseo quod est in diocesi Aquensi. The Virgin tells 
 him she is going to burn a ' castrum cui nomen est Global ', one league 
 off, for blasphemy. 
 
 73. De Cler. qui in examinacione pre timore non valuit respondere, set per B. 
 
 dei genitr. confortatus cunctis satis fecit. 
 At Narbonne : examined by archdeacon for orders. 
 
 74. De Cler. qui diabolum in specie simie vidit et risit valde vnde ab Episc. ab 
 
 officio est remotus set per B. V. M. est restitutus. 
 Devil writing sins in church. 
 
 75. De Cler. cui demon in specie mulieris apparuit quem per nomen B. V. M. 
 
 in anulo scriptum fugauit. 
 In a wood on the way to Oxford. 
 
 76. De Scolari horribiliter a diabolo temptato set per B. M. graciose liberato. 
 Twice : at Oxford and at Paris. 
 
 77. De Scol. in nube magistro suo apparente cui et dixit se per B. V. M. a 
 
 purgatorio liberatum. 
 Infra breue tempus iuxta Grantham in dioc. Lincoln. His name was 
 David. 
 
 78. De Scol. grauiter infirmato et per B. M. in sompnis curato. 
 Sent for when ill by his parents. He made this verse : 
 
 Insolito more secor et suor absque dolore. 
 
 79. De Scol. qui semper solebat ad missam B. V. offerre. 
 
 A German : offered a silver brooch he had meant to give to Mariota, his 
 mistress, 
 
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 80. De Scol. qui per B. M. in infirmitate consolatur et ut ad alcioris vite frugem 
 
 se transferal informatur. 
 In ciuitate Claudia. Cat. 645. 
 
 81. De Scol. lubrico qui ob amorem B. dei genitricis M. puellam nomine Mariam 
 
 violare noluit • unde castitatis donum per eandem V. glor. optinuit. 
 At Paris. He made this verse : 
 
 Cessa • condono • pugna • ////c • viuace • corono. 
 
 82. De tribus ScoU. qui ope B. V. M. columpnas leuauerunt quas multi fortes 
 
 mouere non potuerunt. 
 At CPol. Cat. 625. 
 
 83. De Stephano Judice, qui per summum iudicem etema morte dampnatus per 
 
 beatiss. dei genitr. est ad vitam restitutus. 
 At Rome : Petrus and Stephanus were brothers. 
 
 84. De Judice qui per membra Christi iurare consueuit set per B. M. in visione 
 
 Christum membris carentem aspiciens se correxit. 
 
 85. De Judice qui in ecclesia occiditur cuius anima nunciante Beata virgo 
 
 maria (sic) in celo coUocatur. 
 A version in hexameters follows. Deditus ecclesie iudex orando marie. 
 
 86. De Judice et aduocatis qui contra viduam conducti omnium accionum per 
 
 B. M. in iudicio sunt obliti. 
 A widow of Bayeux (Baiocasensis) who had a case against a Gascon (vasco). 
 
 87. De aduocato qui falsam causam contra viduam attemptans per B. V. in 
 
 lutum cum suis testibus proicitur. 
 He got four witnesses to say that her husband owed him 1 00 Marebetinos. 
 He eventually had to pay 14 'libras parisiensium.' 
 
 Liber quartus. Prologue. 
 
 Cap. I. De Abbate Morismundi ab etema morte inperpetuum et ab temporali ad 
 
 tempus per piiss. verbi dei matrem misericorditer erepto. 
 Petis a me, mi Willelme : the tale told by William to the writer, and now 
 
 recorded by him, at the instigation of Wilfricus. The story is in the 
 
 first person ; five columns. 
 
 2. De Abb. Waltero Thanestochie (Tavistock) qui ad indicium diuinum raptus 
 
 et dampnatus per Christi matrem glor. ab etema morte misericorditer 
 liberatur. 
 From Alex. Necham super Cantica, Bk v., c. 12: temp. Henry, Bp of 
 Winchester : seven columns. 
 
 3. De Stephano Abb. Cluniac. qui graui languore correptus de vita desperans 
 
 per M. sospitati est restitutus. 
 
 4. De Bernardo Abb. Cisterc. qui grauissima febre vexatus per B. V. est 
 
 repente sanatus. 
 Ad Obasinensem ecclesiam. 
 
 5. De Hugone Abb. Clun. qui vidit B. M. filium suum in ulnis gestantem et 
 
 diabolum sibi insidiantem. 
 At Christmas time. 
 
 6. De Johanne Abb. Damasceno qui manum abscisam per beatiss. D. G. M, 
 
 recuperauit. Cat. 683. 
 
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 7. De Alexandre Abb. Cist, cum aliis a maxima tempestate maris per beatiss. 
 
 M. liberate. 
 With John ' Belli loci canonicus Brinuensis ' and the Abbot of All SS. at 
 Chalons-sur-Marne (Catalaun). 
 
 8. De Abb. qui naupredam (? lamprey) pro amore sanctiss. D. G. semperque 
 
 V. M. pauperi dedit. 
 The beggar ascended into heaven. 
 
 9. De Abb. qui (cui) precibus S. V. reuelatum est de saluacione cuiusdam 
 
 usurarii. 
 The usurer came to the Bp of Tareutum : seven columns. 
 
 10. De Juliano Abb. qui per B. V. M. multa fecit miracula. 
 
 He was crowned with roses, and lilies, and gems by Christ, when about to 
 marry. 
 
 11. De Priore Papiensi cuius anima per B. V. a penis in requiem est adducta. 
 At S. Salvatore, Pavia : appeared to the sacrist Hubert. Had suffered ' in 
 
 quadam regione cuius princeps vocatur Smima.' Cat. 607. 
 
 12. De Leurico Westmonasterii mon. per sereniss. V. M. a dampnac. perp. 
 
 graciose curialiter liberato. 
 Told by Edricus ; Leuric wanted to get Chertsey Abbey. Cat. 617. 
 
 13. De Mon. turpiss. vitam ducente cui spacium penitencie per misericordie 
 
 matrem ac piam Christi V. M. misericorditer est indultum. 
 Near Arrandus : seven columns. 
 
 14. De Mon. coloniensi qui per B. M. a diaboli potest, eripitur et vite restituitur. 
 At S. Peter's Abbey. Peter interceded for him. Cat. 606. 
 
 15. De Mon. submerse set meritis S. D. G. M. resuscitate viteque mirabiliter 
 
 restitute. 
 Fell off a bridge. 
 
 16. De Mon. submerso per B. M. ab inferno miseric. liberato cuius corpus sub 
 
 aquis quasi sub arcu diu jacebat incorruptum. 
 In Burgundy: iij columns. 
 
 17. De Mon. qui demone temptante in actum libidinis se precipitaturus per B. 
 
 M. liberatur qui confessus vidit firmamentum plenum faciebus virorum et 
 mulierum. 
 
 18. De AureUano mon. spiritu femicacionis grauiter temptate qui videns B. M. 
 
 ab emnimoda carnis temptac. liberatur. 
 Monachus quodam de Rouford. 
 
 19. De Mon. guloso et excommunicato per B. M. a morte corporis et anime 
 
 saluato. 
 In rhyme. Insinuasse virum recolo mirabile mirum Dictus Galfridus 
 
 vir iustus in ordine.... 
 A white Canon : the story happened in a monastery of Black monks in a 
 
 German town where he was. 
 ■20. De Mon. qui impenitens mortuus est set per B. D. G. vite restitutus penituit, 
 
 et sic in pace postmodum quieuit. 
 
 21. De Mon. Burgundie subito monente per B. M. a demonibus erepto et 
 
 gaudiis angelorum reddito. Cat. 620. 
 
 22. De Vettino mon. qui responsum accepit se veniam de peccatis habiturum si 
 
 illos corrigeret quos exempio prauo peccare fecerat. Cat. 713. 
 
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 ■23. De Mon. qui raptus in spiritu et ante iudicem accusatus ac verberatus est set 
 
 per B. M. V. Chr. Mat. benignissime liberatus est. 
 24. De Mon. pro peccato grauiss. desperante qui per B. V. Chr. G. veniam 
 
 miseric. optinuit. 
 ■25. De Mon. peccante et postmodum penitente per B. M. ad statum priorem 
 
 reducto. 
 ' Theothocos ' occurs in the doxology at the end. 
 
 26. De Monachis fame oppressis quibus liberaliss. V. M. donauit farris plurimam 
 
 habundanciam. 
 Near Jerusalem. 
 
 27. De Mon. inebriato qui a trina impeticione diaboli per benign, alque piiss. V. 
 
 est miseric. liberatus. 
 The Drunken Sacristan. Cat. 612. 
 
 28. De Mon. ebreo (ebrio) qui ab altari B. M. dormiens proicitur set postmodum 
 
 per eand. V. ab infirmitate pie liberatur. 
 
 29. De Mon. quern B. V. redarguit austerius eo quod oracionis tempore in eccl. 
 
 dormire presumpsit. 
 
 30. De Mon. quem sacro lacte grac. V. M. a graui infirmitate miseric. liberauit. 
 He was diseased in the face. Cat. 613. 
 
 31. De Mon. quodam religioso deo et eius matri deuotissimo lacte eiusd. V. a 
 
 graui morbo liberato. 
 The same, in much the same words. 
 
 32. De Mon. a tumore colli lacte prec. V. ac Mat. Chr. saluato. 
 
 33. De Mon. quem B. V. a gutta rosea benigne liberato (liberauit) et de 
 
 monachis in choro dissolutis ac officium mortuorum necligenter per- 
 soluentibus. 
 Told by Simon, Abbot 'de lees,' Cistercian. Cat. 630. 
 
 34. De Mon. qui de puriss. V. M. iugem habens memoriam ab ea post mortem 
 
 receptus est in gloriam. 
 
 35. De Mon. qui sacratiss. Chr. G. ac V. M. docetur quomodo ipsam debeat 
 
 honorare atque laudare. 
 
 36. De Mon. B" M. V. perp. deuoto qui ab ead. V. glor. meruit visitari et 
 
 osculari. 
 
 37. De Mon. B° M. deuoto qui per eand. V. specialissimam edoctus fuit quo- 
 
 modo sibi in orando (originally written ignorando) placeret. 
 Carthusian at Cologne, afterwards Prior. 
 
 38. De Mon. qui quinque psolmos (psalmos) in honore B. M. V. ootid, dicebat 
 
 e.x cuius ore post mortem 5 rose puUulabant. 
 Named Jostius, of S. Omer. Cat. 633. 
 
 39. De Mon. qui salutaciones B. M. V. equitando decantans a latronibus per 
 
 ipsam est saluatus. 
 They saw roses fall from his mouth. Cat. 668. 
 
 40. De Mon. qui in hon. B. V. M. solitus prosterni quem cum se nequiuit 
 
 eleuare Chr. Mat. dignabatur erigere. 
 ' In orientali territorio.' 
 
 41. De Mon. quem B. Chr. G. a terrore demonum liberauit et illi trium vir- 
 
 tutum graciam attulit. 
 Carthusians of Meriac, in Burgundy. Told by Henry, Prior of Clairvaux. 
 
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 42. De Mon. ex latrone conuerso qui per B. V. M. ante mortem visitatur et 
 
 consolatur. 
 Converted by Ode of Cluny. 
 
 43. De Mon. qui in fide corporis Chr. dubitauit set per Gra. Chr. Matr. pleniter 
 
 instructus in fide vera solidatur. 
 In partibus transmarinis. 
 
 44. De duob. Mon. quibus Christus se manifestauit in specie pueri. 
 Gerard of Cluny saw it at Bellus Mons, in dioc. Cabilon. 5^ columns. 
 
 45. De Mon. qui lintheum vino rubeo tinctum per B. V. M. precibus recepit 
 
 candidatura. 
 The Corporal of Clusa. Cat. 608. (Greg. Dial.) 
 
 46. De Mon. qui in visione vidit S. Egwynum Ep. coram B. V. Mat. M. missam 
 
 celebrantem. 
 Seen at the feast of S. Egwin by Sperculphus, a monk of Coventry. 
 
 47. De Mon. qui in visione vidit Cistercienses mon. sub pallio B. V. M. ap- 
 
 parentes. Cat. 635. 
 
 48. De Mon. qui vidit in visione B. V. M. pro humano genere deprecantem et 
 
 fratres Cisterciensis ordinis monacho illo recommendantem. 
 
 49. De Mon. literatura strenue honorato cuius candela tempore oracionis est 
 
 illuminata. 
 Of Gescelin (Goscelin) of S. Bertin, who was staying at Peterborough, 
 temp. William I., and Thorold, Abbot. He wrote three books on the 
 Saints who lie at Peterborough. 
 
 50. De Monachis alte et fortiter cantantibus ac in seruicio diuino prompte 
 
 laborantibus quos B. V. M. pigmento optimo potauit et basse canenteni 
 pertransiit. Cat. 630. 
 
 51. De Monachis in laudibus B. M. multum ac strenue laborantibus quibus 
 
 filium suum optulisse visa est. 
 At Christmas. 
 11. De Mon. qui vidit B. V. M. commonachos suos opere manuum laborantes 
 salutantem osculantem et sudores illorum extergentem. 
 At Clairvaux. Cat. 629. 
 
 53. De Mon. qui post mortem per B. V. M. auditus est in ecclesia cum aliis 
 
 cantare. 
 
 54. De Mon. pro grossis cibariis murmurante qui per B. M. increpatur set 
 
 eidem penitenti optimum electuarium ab ipsa donatur. 
 At Clairvaux. 
 
 55. De duob. Mon. quibus B. V. M. electuarium quod ceteris tribuit dare renuit. 
 Two stories of monks who studied medicine. 
 
 56. De Mon. pro communibus cibariis murmurante qui monitu B. V. M. in 
 
 latere crucifixi buccellam intinxit. 
 
 57. De Mon. in infirmitate laborante quern Mat. Chr. visitauit et ad tolleran- 
 
 ciam incitauit, 
 A scholar, born near Warden, after a vision became a Cistercian in the 
 abbey there. He suffered from ' pectus obtusum et angustum.' 
 
 58. De duob. Mon. quoram unus longe proiectus alter per Chr. Mat. a languore 
 
 sanatus est. 
 One at Jumii;ges, the other ' in nostra ecclesia Eoueshamensi,' 
 
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 59. De Mon. cui grac. V. M. in morte apparuit. 
 Of Evesham (Egueshamensis). Cat. 714. 
 
 60. De Mon. qui incaute penitenciam alterius suscepit. 
 
 61. De Giraldo mon. qui astucia diaboli deceptus se ipsum primo castrauit et 
 
 postmodum interfecit, set per B. M. vite restitutus penitenciam egit. 
 Told by Hugo Duniacensis (?Clun-), Abbas: Giraldus was on pilgrimage to 
 S. James. 
 
 62. De Mon. Saginensi qui precibus B. M. Grac. V. sentenciam euasit dampna- 
 
 cionis. 
 Of Seez (?). Five columns. 
 
 63. De Mon. tribus vicibus apostatante qui ne quarta vice apostataret per 
 
 beatiss. D. G. M. V. angelo dictante docetur. 
 Henry, a Cistercian of Sancta Columba, in Lombardy : interesting. 
 
 64. De dulci visione Heruei mon. de Hamma. 
 
 65. Visio mirabilis cuius(dam) Nouicij ostensa per B. V. M. et sanctum patronum 
 
 monachorum Benedictum. 
 Thirteen columns. Cistercian. 
 
 66. De Nouic. qui per E. V. M. a variis temptac. et corporis infirmitatibus libe- 
 
 ratur et multipliciter honoratur. 
 Monk of Teritorium S. Justi, in France. 
 
 67. De duob. Nouiciis recedere proponentibus qui per B. V. M. in ordine 
 
 permanserunt. 
 I. The Virgin and two other beautiful ladies visit the Monastery. 2. At 
 Fontfroid, dioc. Narbonne. 
 
 68. De Nou. qui B. V. M. deuote salutans per ipsam celum promeruit. 
 Cistercian. 
 
 69. De Nou. quern B. Chr. Mat. V. M. a diabolica temptac. graciosissime 
 
 liberauit. 
 Secular priest enters Cistercian house. Vision of three ways. Tells against 
 the Cluniacs. 
 
 70. De Canonico quem beatiss. Do. Ma. V. M. a carnali ardore et temptac. mire 
 
 liberauit. 
 Teothgarus, Canon of S. Paul's in London. 
 
 71. De Canon, qui per B. V. M. correptus uxorem et omnia que habuit dereliquit. 
 Canon of S. Cassian near Pisa : inherited estates. 
 
 72. De Canon, qui per B. V. Mat. M. et Joh. Ewangelistam a purgatorio 
 
 liberatur. 
 Canon of Cambrai, who became a monk. 
 
 73. De Canon, dolose occiso cuius anima per B. V. M. a purgatorio liberatur et 
 
 eius occisor penitens misericordiam consequitur. 
 About 1202, in Germany. 
 
 74. De Canon, qui moriturus vana leticia exultauit set per B. V. M. refrenatur 
 
 et quod in timore dei persistat deuocius admonetur. 
 Naruerius, Canon of S. Jean des Vignes at Soissons. 
 
 75. De Canon, qui in eccl. S. Martini presumptuose pemoctans B. V. M. vidit 
 
 et post triduum vitam finiuit. 
 Canon of S. Martin, at Tours, who wanted to know why no one dared stop 
 in church after vespers on the Ord. or Transl. of S. Martin. 
 
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 76. De Canon, qui B. V. M. blasphemauit et statim expirauit. 
 
 A Canon. Verundensis, dicing with a Jew, lost ;^io and won back only 
 30s. 
 
 77. De Canon, cui dictanti prosam Salue mater saluatoris B. V. M. apparuit et 
 
 ceruicem quasi graciam rependendo humiliter inclinauit. 
 Of S. Victor at Paris. 
 
 78. De fratribus predicatoribus et minoribus quos Christus optentu sue pie 
 
 matris in mundum misericorditer destinauit. 
 Vision of S. Dominic. Cat. 680. 
 
 79. De B. Thoma Alquino quem B. V. M. visitauit et sibi multas gracias 
 
 contulit. 
 
 80. De duob. fratr. predic. quorum uni vestem pulcherimam ostensam promisit 
 
 et alteri literature scienciam maximam contulit. 
 Two stories, i, at Catalaunum, 2, a vision. 
 
 81. De frat. pred. qui per B. V. M. corpus Chr. sibi ministrantem ab graui 
 
 infirmitate liberatus est. 
 
 82. De tribus fratr. pred. a infirmitatibus diuersis per B. V. M. liberatis. 
 
 I. Leper. 2. Of Bayonne, ill at Narbonne. 3. Impatient of his 
 sickness. 
 
 83. De fratr. pred. qui prius per B. M. in infirm, visitatur, deinde a diabolica 
 
 decepc. defenditur et postremo ab infirm, liberatur. 
 Told by him to the writer. 
 
 84. De fratribus pred. qui super altare gloriosam V. M. cum filio suo mirabiliter 
 
 apparentem viderunt. 
 Apud Thranum ciuitatem Lumbardie. 
 
 85. De frat. pred. qui cum a diabolo temptaretur per V. Glor. liberatur a qua 
 
 postmodum visitatus carne exuitur. 
 At Limoges (?) ' Lemocinensis.' 
 
 86. De duob. fratr. pred. quorum unus capam ordinis super flumen explicauit 
 
 et inuocans Christum et eius matrem super earn sedit, sicque siccis pedibus 
 pertransiit. Alter post mortem socio apparens meritum quod pro sua 
 predicacione habuit ostendit. 
 I. About 1289 in Germany. 2. From the Life of S. Dionisius Conf., of 
 a friar named Henry. 
 
 87. De fratribus Minoribus quibus B. V. M. diuersimode suam graciam ostendit. 
 Two stories. 
 
 88. De conuerso Cartusiensi qui per B. M. a terrore demonum liberatur et quod 
 
 vilibus escis vescens abiectis vestibus indutus labori manuum insistat 
 salubriter admonetur. 
 Carthusian : opening identical with that of c. 41. 
 
 89. De conuerso Cluniac. qui de fide sacramenti grauiter temptatus per B. V. 
 
 M. est a temptac. miseric. liberatus. 
 A smith. 
 go. De Heremita Godrico quem B. V. M. docuit canticum quod in omni tribu- 
 lacione et necessitate sua monuit fore canendum. 
 S. Godric of Finchale. Hymn only in Latin. 
 91. De solitario iuxta Neapolim de monte Veseuo qui mirabilem vidit visionem. 
 Demons waiting for Pandulph and Johannes magister militum. 
 
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 92. De Heremita a spiritu fornicacionis temptato set per viitutem regine 
 
 celonim liberate. 
 
 93. De Herem. per benign. D. G. fornicacione reseruato. 
 Devil in form of a woman. 
 
 94. De Herem. qui pro fideiussore coram deo per sompnum est accusatus set 
 
 per B. V. M. Mat. est benigne liberatus. 
 Eulogius surety for a stonecutter. 
 
 95. De Abbatissa instinctu diaboli impregnata set in die partus per B. miseri- 
 
 cordie Mat. ab onere ventris simul et ab infamia est benigne liberata. 
 Five columns. Cat. 626. 
 
 96. De Beata peccatrice documento pie Mat. Chr. ad penitenciam reducta et a 
 
 criminibus est benigne purgata. 
 S. Mary of Egypt. CaL-jic,. 
 
 97. De preposita Monialium cui Chr. apparens Mat. suam presentem esse 
 
 nunciauit. 
 In the form of a child. 
 
 98. De Moniali qui (que) oculos proprios ne violaretur eruit quos per B. M. 
 
 recupetauit. 
 Of Henry I. of England. 
 
 99. De Rachele ludea que per B. M. vocata Katerina sanctimonialis est effecta. 
 Seen by narrator : of Cologne : moved to Lolanium in Brabant, entered a 
 
 nunnery called Portus Dominarum, half a league from it. 
 100. De Moniali ad seculum redire proponente que per glor. V. M. in visu 
 
 graciose correpta ad monasterium est reuersa. Cat. 634. 
 loi. De Moniali que cum amatore diu vagabunda per B. M. conseruatur im- 
 
 maculata. 
 Sacristan of her monastery. 
 
 102. De Moni. quindecim annis in meretricio viuente que per grac. mundi 
 
 dominam in eius effigie seruientem excusatur et tandem sine nominis 
 infamia monasterio restituitur. 
 Named Beatrix. Cat. 659. 
 
 103. De Moniali in carnis peccatum lapsa et ante penitenciam completam mortua 
 
 que in pena purgatorii dampnatur unde per Mariam confortatur. 
 
 104. De Moni. B. M. deuota que per earn a paralisi liberata pristine deuocioni 
 
 est restituta. 
 Named Juliana, in the diocese of York. 
 
 105. De Moni. quem (quam) grasciosa V. M. ammonuit morosius angelicum Aue 
 
 pronunciare. 
 Ap. S. Edwardum Scestonie (Shaftesbury). Cat. 614. 
 Rubric. Istud miraculum quidam metrice sic composuit. 
 
 Femina composuit sceptonie monialis serua Marie. 
 
 Crebro salutabat dominam quam semper amabat. 
 
 106. De Reclusa per B. V. M. a fallaciis diaboli graciose conseniata. 
 
 A hand pushed her back when about to leave her cell with the Devil. 
 
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 Liber quintus. Prologue. 
 
 Cap. I. De Octauiano Imperatore qui videns in circulo solis virginem puerum in 
 gremio gestientem ipsam adorauit. 
 Octavian and the Sibyl : from Thimotheus historiographus and Orosius. 
 
 2. De Juliano Imp. qui iubente B. M. lancea S. Mercurii fessus occiditur. 
 Two accounts : the second from Historia tripartita. Cat. 602. 
 
 3. De Alexio Imp. qui per annum integrum conclusus set per piiss. D. G. 
 
 illesus seruatur. 
 Had a wife Jordana : was shut in by a fall of earth in a mine. (Really 
 happened to a miner in dioc. Grenoble. Cat. 675.) 
 
 4. De Reg. Francorum Philippo et Reg. Anglorum Ricardo quibus per 
 
 mundiss. Chr. Mat. prohibitum est ne muros Tholomaydis destnierent. 
 
 5. De Reg. Franc. Lodowico qui viso quodam grac. V. miraculo valde de- 
 
 uocior postmodum fuit. 
 S. Louis : sees Child Christ at Mass. 
 
 6. De Reg. Angl. Arthuro qui per humill. Chr. Mat. V. M. hostes suos deuicit. 
 Killed 470 men himself: in gestis eius legitur. 
 
 7. De Reg. Saracenorum Musilimo per celi reginara ab obsidione CPolitana 
 
 mirabiliter et graciose repulso. 
 Temp. Hilderic (Childeric) and Theodosius. Cat. 639. 
 
 8. De Reg. Tartarorum qui cum maximo excercitu per beniguiss. D. G. M. et 
 
 ems militem Georgium a paucis Christianis deuictus fuit. 
 (Genoese) merchants at Capha. 
 
 9. De duce Barbarorum et Basculorum cum exercitu suo per glor. miserorum 
 
 protectricem M. a ciuitate Mimatensi fugatis. 
 Deliverance of Mende. 
 
 10. De duce Thorbagath (Corbagath) pagano ab obsid. Antiochie per beatiss. 
 
 V. M. Chr. G. fugato. 
 First Crusade. 
 
 11. De Milite qui ut diuicias perditas recuperaret uxorem suam diabolo 
 
 vendidit. 
 The story of Amoras : no name given here. Cat. 661. 
 
 12. De Milite qui ab inimicis conclusus manica B. M. Mat. Chr. Dom. nostri 
 
 graciosissime coopertus et inuisibilis factus euasit. 
 Willelmus Crispinus protected in answer to the prayer of Abbot Herlewin 
 (of Bee?). 
 
 13. De Mil. qui miraculis B. M. V. non credens toto corpore fuit contractus, set 
 
 postea penitens per eandem est sanatus. 
 Miles de Longo Vado : went to Jerusalem : but laughed at people who 
 went to Rocamadour. 
 
 14. De Mil. qui uxorem mortifere vulneratam per misericordie Mat. V. M. 
 
 recepit sanitateni (sic). 
 She stabbed herself out of jealousy. 
 
 15. De Mil. qui nee deo nee Sanctis eius set tantum B. V. M. deferens a 
 
 calumpnia demonum per ipsam est liberatus. 
 Vision of Judgment. 
 
 16. De Mil. qui ne cum ceteris terra absorljerelur ))er glor. D. G. V. M. 
 
 adiuuatur. 
 
MS. 95] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 103 
 
 In 1169. Hormundus, saved in earthquake in S. Peter's Church at Antioch 
 on S. Peter's day at the sixth hour. 
 
 17. De Mil. blasphemo qui seipsum volens occidere per B. V. M. D. G. 
 
 proibetur. 
 He was mad, and thought his enemy Radulphus Basset would kill him. 
 
 18. De Mil. blasphemo per sanctiss. D. G. a morbo caduco graciose liberate. 
 A Knight of Basacum (Bazas) in Gascony, did penance at Rocamadour. 
 
 19. De Mil. blasphemo qui multis ridentibus euisceratus terribiliter et horri- 
 
 biliter expirauit. 
 Named Gauderius : lost money in ciuitate Rutensi (Rodez ?). 
 10. De Mil. qui peregrinos B" D. G. M. deridens ab ea increpatur et a terrore 
 
 demonum liberatur. 
 Philippus nobilis de Cherram laughed at people who went outside Italy on 
 
 pilgrimage : he had to go to Rocamadour. 
 
 21. De Mil. qui domum suam aliis undique combustis per B. D. G. V. M. 
 
 optinuit illesam. 
 A fort at Wiirzburg called Ystoberth : knight called Riculphus : had been 
 to Rocamadour on pilgrimage. 
 
 22. De Mil. qui molendinum per patrem suum Monachis traditum iniuste cona- 
 
 batur auferre. 
 Of an Abbey of the Virgin near Langres : claim settled by ordeal of battle. 
 
 23. De Mil. qui a medicis desperatus per B. M. sanatus et post eius seruicio 
 
 mancipatur. 
 Told by Gwillelmus of Aska in Brabant : the knight joined the Teutonic 
 order. 
 
 24. De Mil. ad torneamentum properante qui ob amorem B. V. M. missas in 
 
 itinera deuocius audiens, eiusdem V. ministerio victoriam adeptus est. 
 Ca'. 662. 
 
 25. De tribus Milit. ulciscente deo igne grauiter exustis et per B. D. G. M. 
 
 clementer liberatis. 
 They killed a man in a church of the Virgin ; were ordered to wear 
 their swords girt to their naked bodies. One of them was seen by the 
 narrator at Ansfridi Villa, near the river Itona (Amfreville-sur-Iton). 
 Ca/. 613. 
 
 26. De Mil. ab hostibus suis capto set per Chr. G. piiss. ne perimeretur conser- 
 
 uato. 
 Willelmus e Sirincastro in pago Lugdunensi : invoked our Lady of Roca- 
 madour. 
 
 27. De Mil. qui in confessione oblitus est peccatum mortale set per B. et mitiss. 
 
 D. G. M. optinuit contra diabolutn graciosissime iuuamen. 
 In rhyme : Innumeris horis diues magnique decoris Extiterat miles annos 
 peragens iuueniles. 
 
 28. De Mil. qui peregrinum B. D. G. M. pede percuciens utroque pede priuatur. 
 In Poitou : Ardenius de Mawly laughed at a pilgrim's hat, and asked what 
 
 he would take for it. 
 
 29. De Mil. qui trans viscera inimici lancea confossus per mundi dominam 
 
 gratiss. seruatur. 
 Willelmus miles Rotonensis. 
 
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 30. De Mil. quodam ad torneamentum properante, etc. 
 Same story as 24, in the same words. 
 
 31. De Mil. qui crucem et sepulcrum domini et eius matris membra periurauit, 
 
 quomodo barba cum cute cecidit. 
 Near Jerusalem : a quarrel at dice : told by Radulphus monachus Pratee, 
 
 who saw the Knight at Jerusalem. Two-thirds of a column are blank 
 
 here. 
 33. De duob. Milit. confederatis adinuicem quod nullus eorum absque alterius 
 
 consilio uxorem duceret. 
 Told in form of a letter : happened in Germany. Has nothing to do with 
 
 the Virgin. The survivor consults his dead friend and is answered. 
 
 33. De viro quodam innocente per grac. D. G. V. M. a morte miraculose 
 
 liberato. 
 The story of Fridolin, told by Frater Joh. de Cantabrigia of an Englishman 
 William, the Count of Burgundy, and the Count's brother-in-law, Robert. 
 
 34. De viro quem sacratiss. V. M. Mat. Dom. N. I. Chr. mirabiliter de carcere 
 
 liberauit. 
 In Gascony : a devotee of Our Lady of Rocamadour : at first ' cathenis 
 ferreis et compedibus ponderosis ligatus,' then bound and placed in a 
 subterranean dungeon specially constructed. 
 
 35. De viro quodam histrione quem B. D. G. M. V. perp. de carcere miseri- 
 
 corditer liberauit. 
 William, the histrio, or ioculator, of the King of France, had made a song 
 against the King of Castile. Was caught by him at Rures when on 
 pilgrimage to S. James. Delivered with 13 out of 14 others. Never 
 composed any but sacred songs afterwards : some of them are still in use. 
 Cat. 674. 
 
 36. De viro quodam contracto per reuerend. D. G. miraculose sanato. 
 
 Heard from a Canon of Merton, of a German told to go to Curlenges in 
 territorio S. Edmundi. Cat. 648. 
 
 37. De quodam viro qui pedem abscidit set abscisum per digniss. Chr. G. V. M. 
 
 ilium recuperauit. 
 In urbe Winaria (Viuaria=Viviers). Cat. 619. 
 
 38. De quodam viro B" M. deuoto et per earn a latronibus liberato. 
 
 39. De viro quodam quem beatiss. V. M. a furore latronum miraculose liberauit. 
 Johannes Faber of Acra, devotee of Rocamadour, going to S. James. 
 
 40. De viro blaspheme qui mutus et amens effectus per glor. Chr. G. est curatus. 
 An Esquire of Montreal, swearing at dice : struck mad : insutus panno nouo 
 
 et manicas ferreas habens : healed at Rocamadour. 
 
 41. De viro et muliere qui cum filio suo debitum honorem Mat. Chr. non im- 
 
 pendentes morte festina multantur. 
 In 1 181 at Rocamadour : they would not return some curtains which had 
 been pledged by the monks. The woman died at Bethlehem. 
 
 42. De quodam viro qui B. M. in cereis et aliis obsequiis honorans a fallacia 
 
 demonis per earn fuit conseruatus. 
 A noble of Pontefract, who confessed to the Devil at Westminster. 
 
 43. De quodam viro excommunicato set ex precepto glor. V. M. mirabiliter 
 
 absoluto. 
 
MS. 95] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 105 
 
 Story of the Fool of Alexandria. Cat. 722. 
 
 44. De quodam viro in visu capto et per Chr. G. a sentencia dampnacionis 
 
 liberato. 
 Vision of Judgment. Defended by Veritas, Justicia and tlie Virgin. Scales. 
 
 45. De viro quodam desperante per B. miseric. Mat. ab specie reducto et a 
 
 fallacia diaboli graciosissime liberato. 
 Story told to Hugh of Lincoln by a young man at Rochester. 
 
 46. De viro quodam qui pro amore prec. V. M. panem pauperi tribuit unde per 
 
 earn a dampnac. perp. saluari pronieruit. 
 The loaf outweighs all his sins, and he is restored to life. 
 
 47. De viro quodam qui ad indicium raptus et dampnatus per preces B. D. G. 
 
 V. iM. fuit saluatus. 
 In dioc. of York, at a town called Eddone, seven miles from Beverley. 
 Vision of the Final Judgment. 
 
 48. De quod, viro a diabolo oppresso set per B. V. M. liberato. 
 
 In 1250, in dioc. of Norwich. Two Dominicans and a sick man. 
 
 49. De viro alio per diabolum oppresso set per beatiss. et mitiss. D. G. M. 
 
 graciose liberato. 
 In Devon : John of Vinberley, servant to William Cokerel, seneschal to 
 Johanna de Campo Arnulphi, Gallice Chambernun. He was chased by a 
 black horse at night and went mad. Brought to the Chapel of the 
 Virgin at Vinberley. Seen by Johanna, Margeria de Nonant, and Walter 
 her chaplain. He spoke Latin, French, and Cornish. Witnessed by 
 the narrator, Frater Henricus de Wedestoun. Johanna rebuilt and en- 
 larged the Chapel. Cat. 676. 
 
 50. De viro quod. Judeo qui ficte ad Christianitatem conuersus, iubente B. D. 
 
 G. M. per decrepitum occiditur. 
 In ciuitate Valensis : converted at the request of Count Hawmundus, who 
 gave him his own name, and made him his chief counsellor. 
 
 51. De viro quod, qui Judeum Christum et eius matrem blasphemantem pugno 
 
 viriliter prostrauit et exanimauit. 
 At Toulouse : whence the yearly custom that a Jew, drawn by lot, should 
 be smitten once by a Christian. There is great competition to be the 
 dealer of the blow : few have succeeded in braining the Jew, save a 
 blacksmith, who did it several years running. 
 
 52. De viro ex Saracenis conuerso per B. M. a leone liberato. 
 He was a prisoner. 
 
 53. De viro qui de de {sic) misericordia dei meritis B. M. V. presumens ipsam 
 
 inuenire meruit. 
 A voice from God said ' Pium me vocasti, pium me inuenies.' 
 
 54. De viro paupere per piam Chr. Mat. M. in morte ad requiem eternam 
 
 inuitato. 
 Seven lines only left. 
 Two quires are here lost : the titles of cc. 55-91 are supplied from the table 
 
 at the end of the volume. 
 
 55. De quodam viro qui in specu subterraneo conclusus per unum annum 
 
 meritis B. M. viuus conseruatur. 
 Probably the story of a miner, practically identical with c. 3. 
 
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 56. De viro Judeo per M. ab errore Judaico miseric. libeiato. Cat. 631 (?). 
 
 57. De quod, viro blasphemo matrem Chr. eiusque ventrem benedictura male- 
 
 dicente horrida morte defuncto. 
 A dicer, probably. 
 
 58. De viro qui periurauit per omnia membra Chr. quomodo mox percussus est 
 
 subita morte et horribili. 
 
 59. De quodam viro in egritudine sua per piiss. M. visitato. 
 
 60. De viro iaculo percusso set per misericordie matrem ab eodem liberate. 
 
 61. De viro coram iudice pro peccatis suis dampnando set precibus B. M. 
 
 saluato. 
 
 62. De viro qui per visionem dampnari videbatur set ut peniteret precibus B. M. 
 
 vite restituebatur. 
 
 63. De viro cui B. M. duos pedes igne infernali consumptos restituit : 
 
 aliosque mille sexaginta eadem informitate debilitatos benignissime 
 curauit. 
 ? At Soissons. 
 
 64. De viro mercatore qui multis nauibus naufragium passis per M. optinuit 
 
 saluam. 
 
 65. De viris sub aqua mersis quos glor. M. ita benigne custodiuit illesos ut nee 
 
 maddidi apparerent. 
 
 66. De viro qui uxorem castam suspectam habens qualiter per M. corripitur. 
 
 67. De viro qui pedem quo pedem (sic) quo matrem percusserat precidit set per 
 
 merita S. M. V. recuperauit. 
 
 68. De Imperatrice que pro castitate maximas tribulaciones passa tandem ab 
 
 aquis per celorum imperatricem graciose liberatur. 
 (Vincent, Spec. Hist, vii 90-92.) The Crescentia legend. Cat. 680. 
 
 69. De muliere Romana que incestum cum filio committens et partum occidens 
 
 per B. M. ab igne liberatur. 
 (Vincent, vii 93.) Cat. 627. 
 
 70. De mul. homicida que igne proiecta per B. M. seruatur illesa. Cat. 663 (?). 
 
 71. De Regina quadam cui mundi regina vestem misit preciosam. 
 
 72. De Mul. leprosa que tactu B. M. in sompnis est curata. Cat. 645 (?). 
 
 73. De Mul. que in torrentis profundum proiecta set per Chr. G. M. conseruatur 
 
 illesa. 
 
 74. De Mul. quam V. M. in periculo maris cum omnibus qui cum ilia ftierant 
 
 conseruauit. 
 (At Mont S. Michel.) 
 
 75. De Mul. que per S. M. loquelam perditam recepit. 
 
 76. De Mul. partu grauida per Chr. G. a morte liberata. 
 
 77. De Mul. grauida que in profundo maris parriens per B. M. G. cum partu 
 
 seruatur illesa. 
 (At Mont S. Michel.) Cat. 602. 
 
 78. De Mul. sterili que interueniente Chr. Mat. concepit et peperit, qui puer 
 
 subito mortuus ipsa donante reuixit. Cat. 647 (?). 
 
 79. De Mul. meretrice que patrem et matrem interfecit, cui meritis Mat. Chr. 
 
 omnia peccata sunt dimissa. 
 
 80. De Mul. clade percussa repentina set ab eadem per Mat. misericordie 
 
 liberata. 
 
MS. 95] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 107 
 
 81. De Mul. sterili que meritis Chr. Mat. puerum ediclit et eundem puerum 
 
 postea mortuum vLuum recepit. 
 Cf. 78. 
 
 82. De MuL de maleficio accusata set per M. ab igne liberata. 
 
 83. De Mul. quadam cui B. V. sensum perditum redidit (sic) et capitis dolorem 
 
 in ea repressit. 
 
 84. De Mul. quadam a tumore ydropici per M. sanata. 
 
 85. De Mul. precibus S. M. a morte suscitata et facta confessione mox iterum 
 
 defuncta. 
 (Vincent, vii 117.) Cat. 633. 
 
 86. De Mul. adultera per M. ab infamia liberata set pro presumpcione sua 
 
 postea conbustione manu percussa. 
 
 87. De Mul. cuius lingue et palato cultellus adhesit per M. sanata. 
 
 88. De Matrona Algiua Glastonie que medam per preces gloriose M. V. fusas 
 
 multiplicauit. Cat. 614. 
 
 89. De Mul. adultera precibus B. M. ad penitenciam reducta. 
 
 90. De Mul. per B. M. a crurifragio graciose liberata<:m>. 
 
 91. De Mul. ydropica per D. G. V. M. sanata. 
 Cf. 84. Text begins again : 14 lines remain. 
 
 92. De Puella igne infernali adusta per B. V. cum aliis seruata. 
 At Chartres. 
 
 93. De Puella que vidit B. V. M. ecclesiam quandam intrantem et omnes 
 
 infirmos ibidem existentes graciose curantem. 
 At Soissons. 
 
 94. De Puella propter castitatem multum afBicta set per Chr. G. graciose consolata. 
 A noble maid, betrothed by her parents, runs away and becomes a servant. 
 
 95. De Puella pro castitate multa perpessa per puriss. D. G. ab igne infemali 
 
 miseric. liberata. 
 At Arras : she was made to marry, and separated by the Bishop. 
 
 96. De Puella cui B. Chr. Mat. in sompnis psalterium Dauidicum contulit quod 
 
 mox sine docente miraculose legit. 
 She became a recluse. 
 
 97. De Puella cuius precibus per S. Chr. G. pater eius in morte est confortatus. 
 In the diocese of Norwich. 
 
 98. De Puella Musa nomine quam Beatiss. D genitricem V. M. (sic) sobrie 
 
 viuere ammonuit. 
 (Greg. Dial.) Cat. 620. 
 
 99. De Puella morti vicina per mundiss. Chr. Mat. pristine sanitati restituta. 
 Swallowed a spider (arena for aranea). Cat. 650. 
 
 100. De Puella qui amore iuuenis se tradidit diabolo set per B. M. saluatur. 
 
 The youth is the hero : he wrote a bond, but could not deny the Virgin. 
 The bond is returned. 
 loi. De Puero per sompnum rapto qui excitatus historiam ab origine mundi 
 quasi legens pronunciauit. 
 A shepherd boy who had the fire in his feet. 
 102. De puero qui per B. V. M. arte musica dormiens informatur. 
 Two lines only remain. 
 [From the table.] 
 
I08 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 95 
 
 103. De Puero defuncto et per digniss. celi Reginam a morte suscitato. 
 
 104. De Puero paruo qui in puteura cadens auxilio D. G. V. M. super aquas 
 
 stetit illesus. 
 
 105. De Puero cuius lingua abscidebatur set meritis B. M. iterum illi restitue- 
 
 l)atur. 
 
 106. De Puero qui crucifixo panem porrexit, a quo accepit quod post triduum in 
 
 regno celorum secum comederet. 
 
 'ill be seen that the classification of the Miracles is well defined. It n 
 
 Book I. 
 
 I. 
 
 Early Life of the Virgin. 
 
 
 2-101. 
 
 Miracles connected with Feasts of the Virgin. 
 
 
 2-7. 
 
 The Conception of the Virgin. 
 
 
 8-27. 
 
 The Birth and Name of the Virgin. 
 
 
 (28. 
 
 Education and Betrothal of the Virgin.) 
 
 
 29-53- 
 
 The Annunciation and Angelic Salutation. 
 
 
 54-59- 
 
 The Nativity of Christ. 
 
 
 60-62. 
 
 Circumcision and Name of Jesus. 
 
 
 (63, 64. 
 
 Beauty of the Virgin.) 
 
 
 65-69. 
 
 Purification. 
 
 
 70-78. 
 
 Sorrows and Joys of the Virgin. 
 
 
 79-84. 
 
 Assumption. 
 
 
 85-101. 
 
 Fasts in honour of the Virgin. 
 
 Book II. 
 
 1-9. 
 
 Miracles connected with Relics of the Virgin. 
 
 
 10-50. 
 
 ,, ,, Images „ 
 
 
 (51- 
 
 Vacat.) 
 
 
 52-100. 
 
 Miracles connected with Offices, Anthems, etc., 
 
 viz. 
 
 52-59- 
 
 Hours of the Virgin. 
 
 
 60-66. 
 
 Psalter ,, 
 
 
 67-76. 
 
 Salue Regina. 
 
 
 77. 78. 
 
 Aue maris Stella. 
 
 
 79. 8°- 
 
 Felix namque. 
 
 
 81. 
 
 Sancta Maria. 
 
 
 82-86. 
 
 Gaude Maria. 
 
 
 87-100. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Book III. 
 
 1-82. 
 
 Miracles wrought on Secular Ecclesiastics. 
 
 
 1-4. 
 
 Popes. 
 
 
 5- 
 
 Patriarchs. 
 
 
 6-15- 
 
 Archbishops (and 25). 
 
 
 16, 17. 
 
 Archdeacons (and 29). 
 
 
 18-26. 
 
 Bishops. 
 
 
 27,28. 
 
 Deans. 
 
 
 30. 
 
 Vicedominus. 
 
 
 31-33- 
 
 Rectors. 
 
 
 34- 
 
 Vicars. 
 
 
 35-48- 
 
 Priests. 
 
 
 49-75- 
 
 Clerks. 
 
MS. 96] 
 
 SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 
 
 109 
 
 Book IV. 
 
 Book V. 
 
 76-82 
 
 Scholars. 
 
 83-87 
 
 Miracles wrought on Legal dignitaries. 
 
 83-86 
 
 Judges. 
 
 87 
 
 Advocates. 
 
 1-106. Miracles wrought on Regular Ecclesiastics. 
 
 I-IO 
 
 Abbots. 
 
 II 
 
 Prior. 
 
 1 2-64 
 
 Monks. 
 
 65-69 
 
 Novices. 
 
 70-77 
 
 Canons. 
 
 78-87 
 
 Friars (79-86, Dominicans, 87, Franciscan) 
 
 88,89 
 
 Lay brothers. 
 
 90-94 
 
 Solitaries. 
 
 95 
 
 Abbess. 
 
 96 
 
 Penitent. 
 
 91 
 
 Prioress (?). 
 
 98-10 
 
 5. Nuns. 
 
 10 
 
 6. Female solitary. 
 
 I-IO 
 
 6. Miracles wrought on Lay persons. 
 
 1-3- 
 
 Emperors. 
 
 4-10 
 
 Kings and Princes. 
 
 11-32 
 
 Knights. 
 
 33-67 
 
 "Men." 
 
 68 
 
 Empress. 
 
 69,70 
 
 Noble Ladies (?). 
 
 71 
 
 Queen. 
 
 72-91. 
 
 Women. 
 
 92-10 
 
 3. Girls. 
 
 lOI-IO 
 
 5. Boys. 
 
 96. A. 5. 
 
 1 1. 
 
 BiBLiA Sacra. 
 
 [C. M. A. 758. 
 
 Vellum, 1 71 X 8f, ff. 404 + two fly-leaves, in double columns of 
 56 lines each. Cent, xiii (cir. 1300). Anglo-French work. The 
 gatherings are normally of 12 leaves: the volume consists of two 
 parts. 
 
 Prologue. Genesis to Psalms, f. 1-184, in 15 quires of 12 leaves each, and i of 4. 
 Proverbs to Apocalypse, f. 185-376 (f. 376 being blank), in 16 quires of 12 leaves each. 
 Index, f. 377-404, in 2 quires of 12 leaves each, and i of 4. 
 
 The contents are in some respects interesting: the MS. contains 
 the Fourth Book of Esdras, arranged thus : 
 
 I Esdras = Ezra. 
 Neemias. 
 
I lo CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 96 
 
 1 Esdras = 4 Esdr. i, ii. 
 
 3 Esdras = 3 Esdras (i Esdras of English Apocrypha). 
 
 4 Esdras = 4 Esd. iii-xiv. 
 
 5 Esdras = 4 Esd. xv, xvi. 
 
 This MS. is C. 11 in Bensly's list (Missing Fragment, p. 42). 
 
 Lamentations v follows the Epistle of Jeremy, with the rubric, Incipit oratio iercmie 
 que deberet poni atite libriitn baruch. 
 
 In the New Testament the order of books is Evv. , Paul's Epp. (where the Ep. to the 
 Laodiceans comes between 2 Thess. and i Tim.), Act., Cath. Epp., Apoc. 
 
 The MS. belonged (as did A. 5. 10) to 'George Rayner of 
 Peterborough ' in the xvith century : he has written his name in 
 many places. He bought it for £'i. 
 
 A certain number of Church Lessons are marked in the margin 
 in a hand of the xvth century. The MS. was given to the 
 College in 163 1 by the Reverend John Clement, M.A., formerly 
 Scholar, and Rector of Chesterton in Huntingdonshire. 
 
 This is a very admirable specimen of a Bible of late thirteenth 
 century. It does not deviate much from the ordinary type of such 
 books, save in the excellence of the work. In this it is distinctly 
 above the average. A detailed description of the illustrations 
 follows : 
 
 1. Prologue. S. Jerome, nimbed, in dark habit over white, writing at desk. 
 
 2. Genesis. Initial I, extending the length of the column of text, and containing 
 
 II medallions. 
 
 1. Christ, half-length, on clouds blessing, the Dove on a blue disc in front. 
 
 2. Christ, face R., with raised hand : a white ray above. 
 
 3. Christ, half-length, on clouds blessing : below, five trees. 
 
 4. Christ, face R., half-length, holds the crescent in R. hand, and supports the 
 
 sun with L. 
 
 5. Christ, half-length, below Him four birds, and iish in water. 
 
 6. Christ, face R., moulding Adam : on L. the heads of a lion, horse, dog, hare, 
 
 and another. 
 
 7. A battlemented wall in front, with four openings : within it C. the tree, 
 
 Z. Christ, R. Adam and Eve. The Prohibition. 
 
 8. The Fall. In front, the wall : within it C. the tree, and serpent human- 
 
 headed, L. Eve, R. Adam eating. 
 
 9. Christ, full-face, seated, blessing. The Seventh Day. 
 
 10. The Annunciation : Angel on L. Virgin in red and white. 
 
 11. The Crucifixion, with the Virgin and S. John. 
 
 3. Exodus. Moses standing, face A"., horned, takes off his shoe. Christ in the 
 bush hands him the Tables. 
 
 4. Levit. A cloud above, and fire falling. Two figures bend over a third prostrate 
 one. ? Death of Nadab and Abihii. 
 
MS. 96] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 1 1 1 
 
 5. Num. Balaam, with whip, in peaked hat, rides R. : the ass looks back : Angel 
 on X. with swoid. 
 
 6. Dmt. Larger. Moses, horned, with tables, face R., talks to crowd of four. 
 
 7. /os. Joshua, robed and nimbed, with book, leads a crowd of four to J?., and 
 looks up at the sun. 
 
 8. Jitd. Samson, youthful and long-haired, rending the lion. 
 
 9. J?ui/i. In lower margin : £. Ruth : C. Boaz, in hood, looks at her and points 
 Ji. to reaper, in broad hat and tunic, cutting corn. 
 
 10. I Reg. L. Servant with pitcher, and ox: Hannah, in flat head-dress, presents 
 Samuel at altar : hand above. 
 
 11. 1 Reg. Amalekite, in close linen hood, carrying crown: R. David crowned, 
 throned, cross-legged. 
 
 12. 3 Reg. L. Attendant in hooded cloak : R. David crowned in bed : one on each 
 side of him : curtain above. 
 
 13. 4 Reg. L. Elisha, beardless, kneels, and holds end of Elijah's cloak : he ascends 
 in two- wheeled car, with angel : the hind -quarters of a blue dappled horse are seen on R. 
 
 14. I Paral. Samuel, with golden cruse, lid thrown back, lays hand on head of 
 David : one on R. holds crown. 
 
 15. 2 Paral. L. Two men carry golden ark : David, in crown and linen drawers, 
 walks in front. 
 
 16. I Esdras. Three men kneel : one has a basin, one a bottle of gold : altar on 
 R. : architecture above. 
 
 17. Neem. Nehemiah, in gold cap, with covered cup, stands before Artaxerxes 
 crowned. 
 
 18. 1 Esdr. L. A ruined city, on which fire falls : C. a youth points L. and R. : 
 R. five seated men. 
 
 19. 3 Esdr. Temple with gold roof: R. a man in peaked hat and tunic, sprinkles it 
 from gold bucket. 
 
 4 Esdr. 5 Esdr. Decorative. 
 
 20. Tobit. Tobit lies in gold tunic : above, a swallow flies up to a nest : R. a 
 man standing. 
 
 21. Judith. L. Maid takes crowned head : C. Judith, with sword, stands over 
 headless Holofernes, nude, covered with gold quilt. 
 
 22. Hest. At top, Ahasuerus seated reaches down sceptre to Esther, crowned : 
 below, Haman in linen drawers, hands tied behind him, hanging. 
 
 23. Job. Z. Job's wife in gold mantle : j?. Job, covered with spots, sits on a dunghill. 
 
 24. Psalter. Beatus uir. David in gold mantle, seated, plays harp. 
 
 25. Dominus illuminatio. Kneeling man in tunic points to eye : Christ 
 
 stands on R. 
 
 26. Dixi custodiam. Seated man points to mouth : another stands on R. 
 i-j. Quid gloriaris. Decorative. 
 
 28. Dixit insipiens. David throned, points upward : naked fool, with 
 
 bauble, sits on ground. 
 
 29. SaluMii me fac. Above, two men in a ship : Jonah, nimbed, ejected 
 
 by whale : tree on each side : he catches at one on R. 
 
 30. Exultate. David plays on 10 gold bells with two hammers. 
 
 31. Cantate. Two coped clerks sing at desk. 
 
 32. Dixit dominus. The Father, cross-nimbed, seated, beckons to the 
 
 Son, who stands on R. 
 
112 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 96 
 
 33. Parab. Solomon, throned, talks to Rehoboamin red tunic. 
 
 34. Eccl. A seated man points down to a circular gold object (? a heap of money) : 
 a crowned king points up. 
 
 35. Cant. Two figures embrace. 
 
 36. Sap. Sal. A king and two others kneel at altar. 
 
 37. Ecclus. Wisdom, crowned, seated, points up. 
 
 38. Isai. Isaiah nude, nimbed, bound to two uprights, sawn upwards by two men. 
 
 39. Jer. Jeremiah kneeling, stoned by two men, one of whom has a curious 
 winged head-dress. 
 
 40. Threni. Jeremiah, with two others, seated, weeping : Jerusalem on R. 
 
 41. Baruch. Baruch, standing with book, addresses four seated people. 
 
 42. Ezech. Christ touches the eye of Ezekiel, a boy. 
 
 43. Dan. An angel sets Habakkuk (a boy holding a cake) on the ground ; Daniel 
 looks out of a window : two lions' heads at openings below. 
 
 44. Osee. Hosea, seated, talks to two women standing. 
 
 45. Joel. Joel, nimbed and hooded, with book, speaks to two seated people. 
 
 46. Atnos. Very small. Amos speaks to a seated figure. 
 
 47. Abd. ) 
 
 o T \ Two similar pictures : very small. 
 
 49. Mich. Single figure, nimbed, seated. 
 
 50. Naum. Nahum, nimbed, faces L. : a city on R. 
 
 51. Abacuc. Seated writing ; an angel in the sky on R. 
 
 52. Soph. Swinging a censer : a city on R. 
 53- ^SS- Seated, with scroll. 
 
 54. Zach. Similar. 
 
 55. Malach. With book, addresses three seated people. 
 
 56. I Mach. A crowned man kneeling with four others to nude demon-figure on altar. 
 
 57. 2 Mach. A knight in mail charging two on R. 
 
 58. Math. Jesse sleeping : out of him springs a tree with five figures — a prophet, 
 David, Solomon, the Virgin and Child, Christ blessing, with orb: fine execution. 
 
 59. Marc. At top of letter, John, in camel's hair, baptizing Christ, nude : the 
 Dove descends. At bottom, winged lion. 
 
 60. Luc. Zacharias swinging censer : demi-angel with scroll over altar : in lower 
 margin, winged ox. 
 
 61. Joh. At top of letter, John writing : eagle below him. 
 
 62. Ad Rom. Paul falling off dappled horse : cloud above. 
 
 63. I Cor. L. Paul, blind, sits on ground and looks up : C. Hand with scroll : 
 saule saule quid me per. : R. seated attendant. 
 
 64. 2 Cor. L. Paul kneeling. R. Ananias, nimbed, by marble font, touches his eyes. 
 
 65. Gal. Paul addresses two seated Jews : hand in sky. 
 
 66. Eph. Paul pushed towards a prison door by a gaoler with stick. 
 
 67. Phil. A man in a tower lets down Paul in a basket : a nimbed man on R. 
 
 68. Col. Paul, with tall cross, addresses four seated people. 
 
 69. I Thess. Paul kneeling, hit and stoned by two men. 
 
 70. 2 Thess. Addresses two seated Jews. 
 
 71. Laod. Seated, holds sword by point. 
 
 72. I Tim. A messenger takes a roll from Paul, who is seen at the window of a 
 tower. 
 
 73. 2 Tim. Addresses a seated man. 
 
MS. 97] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 113 
 
 74. Tit. With Silas (nimbed) seated ; each has one foot in the stocks (two red 
 beams with no perceptible openings). 
 
 75. Philem. Paul pours money out of a long linen bag into a fire : two men, 
 dejected, on R. watch him. 
 
 76. Hebr. Paul kneels, face C. : executioners on L. about to smite him. 
 
 77. Act. Peter crucified head downwards by two men who stand on the arms of the 
 cross : his hands are nailed, his feet bound. 
 
 78. Jac. James, a single nimbed figure, with slender white staff. 
 
 79. I Pet. Andrew bound to saltire cross by two men. 
 
 80. 2 Pet. Single, beardless, nimbed figure, with hands raised. 
 
 81. \Joh. The Last Supper: an Apostle on each side: John on Christ's breast: 
 Christ gives the sop to Judas. 
 
 82. ijoh. John, seated, with scroll. 
 ^S- Zjo^- Similar picture. 
 
 84. /udae. Jude, single figure, faces R. 
 
 85. Afoc. Christ, beardless, full-face, in white, with gold bands crossing on the 
 breast : the two-edged sword in his mouth, horizontal : the seven-branched candlestick 
 immediately behind him. 
 
 97. A. 5- 12. [C. M. A. 759. 
 
 Petri Cantoris Verbum Abbreuiatum. 
 
 Vellum, 12^^ X 8|, ff. 112, double columns of 31 lines each. 
 Cent. xii. No donor's name. The hand is very fine and regular. 
 
 Collation : a* b* c' (5 cancelled) d* (3 cancelled) e' f* g' h* i* k' 1'" 
 (10 ? cancelled) m^ n* o* p* q' r* (quires xviii and xix gone) s* f (a 
 quire gone) u* (table). 
 
 Provenance. A Cistercian house : on the last fly-leaf, in a hand 
 of cent. XV is : sit deus alborum dux et custos monachorum | In- 
 structor morum • fidei lux • regula morum. There is a fly-leaf at 
 the beginning from a smaller MS. of cent, xiv, xv, an Interpretatio 
 Nominum of some kind. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Petri Cantoris liber qui dicitur Verbum abbreuiatum. 
 
 A table is prefixed, shewing that there were in all cxlvi chapters, of which parts of 
 Ixxxviii-cv and part of cxvi— end are gone. At the end is an alphabetical table on five 
 pages, in a pointed hand of cent. xiii. 
 
 On the last fly-leaf (cent, xiii), Pandet nudatum pectus • rubet sanguineum latus • tensa 
 arent viscera • decora languent lumina • Regia pallent ora • protracta rigent bragia • crura 
 pendent marmorea • terebratos pedes rigat beati sanguinis unda. 
 
 S. MSS. 8 
 
114 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. 98, 99 
 
 his vnwrowene breste bigan to lyne • his blodegede side bigan to rudie« • istreit 
 bodi bigan to druinen • his faire eiene bigan to dwinnien ■ the kinges lippes biganne to 
 wannie < n > • his longe eremes biganne to stvnien • his faire thies biganne to cheldi • a 
 stremes wyse of Jiat blod fro his borede fot. 
 
 Some very similar Hnes occur in a MS. at Bury S. Edmund's. 
 
 98. A. 5. 13. [C. M. A. 760. 
 
 Aegidii Romani libri III DE Regimine Principum. 
 Petri Blesensis Epistolae clxxxi. 
 
 Vellum and paper, iif x 8, ff. 258, double columns of 50 lines 
 each. Two volumes in one. Cent. xv. Given by John Sackett, 
 B.D., formerly of this College, Rector of Mungeham in Kent. 
 
 Collation: a" (12 cancelled : 2, 6, 7, 11, v), then a blank leaf V, 
 then b" (i, 6, 7, 12, v) c'^-k'^ same arrangement, P° (i, 10, v) || 
 Paper a^-q^ : q^ (6-8 blank). 
 
 The hand seems foreign : the initials in Part I rude. 
 
 I. Egidii Romani libri ill de Regimine Principum. 
 
 With capitula. Ends on fol. I 4 b. 
 1. Petri Blesensis Epistolae 181. 
 
 Inc. Epistola. mag. P. Blesens. Bathononiensis {sic) Archiepiscopi (!). However 
 this is corrected in the colophon : Expl. Eple mag. Petri Blesens. Bathon. Archidyac. 
 Et sic est finis. 
 
 99. A. 5. 14. [C. M. A. 761. 
 
 The New Testament in English, etc. 
 
 Vellum, 12^ X 8^, ff. 230, double columns of 36 lines each. 
 Cent, xiv, xv. No donor's name. In a fine, clear hand : the initials 
 red and blue, flourished with the pen. 
 
 Collation: a^ (wants i, 2) b*'-ff'. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 I. Table of Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, imperfect . f. 1 
 ffridayi. Numery 2 : ^ be children of isfl m& halowid in hem. 
 John 4 : b Ihs cam in to a citee. E sauyour of he 
 world. 
 Ends f. 6 a after the heading _^r requiem. 
 
 ' Before 4th Sun. of Lente, 
 
MS. lOO] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 115 
 
 Here ben writen )>e quotaciouns of epistles and gospels hat ben 
 rad bi al J>e 3eer. 
 
 2. New Testament. 
 
 Evv., Paul. Epp., Acts, Cath. Epp., Apoc 7 
 
 3. Here begynneth i>e lessonns of l>e olde lawe hat ben rad in t>e 
 
 churche. 
 
 he first fi-idai pistil of aduent ysaie 51 cc 1 a 
 
 Ends with ' he pistil at \>e masse of salus populi.' ysa. 18 & 19. 
 Expl. lecciones ueteris testamenti que leguntur per totum annum. 
 On the lower margin of Heb. xi is (cent, xvi) 
 All wylde beasts a man maye tame All wilde beasts a man may make Meeke 
 
 But a womanes tongue will never be lame. But a womanes aunswer ys never to seeke. 
 E. C. 
 
 100. A. 5- 15- [C. M. A. 762. 
 
 Bestiary, etc. 
 
 Vellum, ii| X 8^ : lof x 7, ff. 43 and 14, two parts bound in 
 one volume. Given by Mr Genings. He was Rector of Willingale- 
 Spain in Essex. 
 
 Collation : a* (wants 7) b^ (wants 2, 5, 6) c" (wants 7) d^ (wants 2) 
 e^ (wants all but 2 and 7) P (wants 4, 5) g" h'' (wants 4 blank), 
 43 leaves. 
 
 Part I, of 43 leaves, is written in double columns of 32 lines 
 each : it is of cent, xiii, and of English work. 
 
 Contents : 
 
 Incipit prologus. Desiderii tiir karissime . . . . . f. i 
 
 Preface. Cam scribere illiterato debeam ...... 1 
 
 Incipit libellus cuiusdam ad Rainerum conuersum cognomine corde 
 benignum '. Incipit de tribus columbis. Si dormiatis inter medios 
 
 cleros ............ 2 a 
 
 The chapters of the work are headed : 
 
 Mistice de columba 2 a 
 
 Moraliter de columba ......... I'b 
 
 De columba 3 ^ 
 
 De pedibus },b 
 
 De pennis de argentatis 4 '^ 
 
 De posterioribus dorsi columbe 4 a 
 
 De oculis columbe ......... 4 15 
 
 De colore reliqui corporis . . ■ . • • . • • 4 ^ 
 
 De diuersis proprietatibus columbe ■ . . . . • \b 
 
 Surge aquilo et c. .....-.■■ ici 
 
 ' There is or was a MS. of this tract in the Sion College Library in London. 
 
 8—2 
 
Il6 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. 100 
 
 Ponam sedem meam ad aquilonem etc. S" 
 
 Veni auster £ « 
 
 Ero similis altissimo 5^ 
 
 Beatus Gregorius de accipitre quomodo plumescat . . • 5 ^ 
 
 De domestico et siluestri accipitre ...... 6 a 
 
 Qualiter accipiter plumescere debat {sic) 6i> 
 
 Quod accipiter in manu sinistra gestatur . . . . • 6 b 
 
 De pertica accipitris ......... 6li 
 
 Justus ut palma (tit/e gone) 70 
 
 Nidulus turturis latet in arbore crucis . . . . . . 7 « 
 
 De turture {bis) 7 ^ 
 
 De cedro et passeribus qui in ramis cedri nidificant . . . 8 « 
 
 De niticorace (=nycticorace) 90 
 
 De coruo 9 (5 
 
 [De gallo, beginning gone] 1 1 i 
 
 De strucione 12 a 
 
 (De vulture) 15 a 
 
 De grue. grues 16 a 
 
 De milluo i6b 
 
 De hyrundine 17a 
 
 De ciconia 18 a 
 
 De merula 18 i 
 
 [De gragulo, title gone] 19 « 
 
 De ansere ........... 20 a 
 
 De ardea 10 b 
 
 De caladrio, text gone ......... 20 ^ 
 
 [De phenice, end only left] . . . . . . . . 21 
 
 De perdice : furtum perdicis insidie demonis . . . . 21a 
 
 De cotumice : coturnix maria transeans et animalia labencia calcans 11b 
 
 De huppupa .......... 22 « 
 
 De eigne itb 
 
 De pauone 23 a 
 
 De aquila ........... 24 ^ 
 
 De hybi ic^b 
 
 De fulica [ends] fugiens in uado ludit . . . . . . i(,b 
 
 At least four leaves are gone, and it is consequently difficult to 
 see exactly where the treatise addressed to Rainer ends, and where 
 the Bestiary begins — if indeed the whole be not one work. 
 
 2. Incipit liber qui phisiologus appellatur ; de naturis bestiarum. De natura leonis. 
 
 Parcere prostratis scit nobilis ira leonis. Tu quoque fac simile (inserted in black) 
 quisquis dominaris in orbe. Incipit liber de naturis bestiarum. 
 
 De leone. Text gone •••••..,. id b 
 
MS. lOO] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 117 
 
 End of a chapter (2J lines) : cum eos Christiana lex dimittere iubeat 
 
 liberos 
 
 De antula 
 
 De onocentauro 
 
 De herinacio 
 
 I'j a 
 
 27(5 
 
 27 15 
 
 [Desimia] ,8 a 
 
 I'ecapro ,8 (5 
 
 End of a chapter (5^ lines) : euangelice lecfionis attestatione sus- 
 
 tentant 
 
 De salamandra •••....... 
 
 De canibus 
 
 De mustela 
 
 De lapidibus igniferis ......... 30 (5 
 
 De lupo 31 s 
 
 29 « 
 29a 
 
 29 b 
 
 30 a 
 
 [De pantera] beginning gone : captum ydolisque mancipatum . . 32 « 
 
 De dracone (no title) . . . . . . . . . 33 « 
 
 De elephante et dracone 34 « 
 
 De elephante (no title) 34 i 
 
 De pelhcano (no title) 35 (^ 
 
 De lacerta (no title) 36 a 
 
 De formica ........... 36 15 
 
 De aspide 37 ^ 
 
 De caladrio (no title) . . 38 a 
 
 De sirenis 38 15 
 
 De adamante ........... 39 i 
 
 De quodam lapide (mermecoleonte s. concha sabea) . . . 40 (5 
 
 De belua (aspide = chelone) 421: 
 
 Ends on 43 a, exaudiuit me de uentre inferi. 
 
 f. 43^ is blank. 
 
 I proceed to a description of the miniatures in this part of the 
 MS. They are of very fine execution, and in general effect good ; 
 probably they are English. Hardly any gold is used : the grounds 
 are usually dark blue or dark brown-red. The best pictures are 
 towards the end of the Bestiary. 
 
 1. {. I a. Two birds, the one on Z. black, on red ground, the other white, on blue 
 ground, facing each other under two arches. Above is Clerkus et miles. In the cui-ve 
 of the arches is ecce in eadem pertica sedent accipiter et columba : below, hec pertica est 
 regularis : also below the two ends of the picture on L., paries sanctarum cogitationum, 
 contemplatiua uita, on R. , paries bonorum operum, actiua uita. 
 
 2. f. r b. Half-page. A blue dove on red ground, face Ji., in centre of a wheel 
 with eight spokes. This wheel is enclosed in a square (with small projections at top and 
 bottom), and in the spandrels are four circles. The whole is full of writing. Round the 
 dove : /titer medias sortes dormit qui sperat et diligit. Inter extremas tiigilat qui sperat 
 
Il8 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. ICO 
 
 et desiderat. In the eight spaces between the wheel-spokes, beginning at top and going 
 to^., 
 Expictatio celesHum. Timor pern. Vetus iestamentam. Spes venie. 
 
 Due extreme. Due medie. 
 
 Contemptus terrenorum. Desiderium glorie. Nouum iestamentmn. Amor grade. 
 
 Sortes. Sortes. So7-tes. Series. 
 
 On the tire of the wheel : Inter expectationem et contemptum terrenorum dormit qui 
 inter hos duo uitam finit. In medio sorcium ueteris et noui testamenti dormit qui eonim 
 auctoritatibus acquiescit. Sortes is the supposed equivalent of cleri, = pots. 
 
 On the upper medallion on Z., color argenteus in pennis est in lingue docencium 
 sermo sc. exortacio : round it, Qiiis dabit michi pennas sicut columbe : outside, Penne tiir- 
 tutum £r^ simplicitas columbe. Upper medallion on R. , Color argyriteus in posterioribus 
 est d {?) infuturo estis retribucionis mundus : round it, et uolabo et requiescam : outside, 
 . Volabo in desiderio &" requiescam in pace. 
 
 Lower medallion on L., Color aerius in alis est amor diuine contemplacionis : round it, 
 Ecce elongaui fugiens : outside, Elongaui mente fugiens mundum. Lower medallion on 
 R. , Color maris in reliquo tem.pore (sic, ? corpore) iribulacione{m) designat in carnali 
 mente : round it, et mansi in solitudine : outside, Perseueraui in contemplacione, mansi 
 in solitudine. 
 
 In the frame of the square, Si dormiatis inter medios cleros penne columbe deargentate 
 et posteriora dorsi eius in pallore auri. 
 
 In projection at top, oculus croceus maturilas sensus: at bottom, nitor pedum cruor 
 martyrum. 
 
 i. 1 a has a good initial. 
 
 3. f. 2 b. Three medallions, each containing a dove, facing R. The uppermost is 
 red on blue ground, the second, white on red, the third, grey and pink on blue. Round 
 the first is, Columba unica est spiritus sancti gratia : round the second, Columba uaria est 
 sancta ecclesia: round the third, Columba est a ma nigra sed formosa. On the frame is 
 Columba christi data gratis non pro meritis : Columba dauid amicta uarietatibus • uariis 
 uirtutibus : Columba noe formosa opere nigra tribulatione. 
 
 4. f. 5 a. A hawk, on blue ground, with raised wings. Numquid per sapientiam 
 tuam plumescet accipiter expandens suas alas (inserted) ad austrum. 
 
 5. f. 9a. The nicticorax (marg. cent, xvi, ' a nyght crowe '), an owl, on red ground. 
 
 6. f. 9 b. Coruus, black on blue ground. 
 
 7. f. 12 a. Struthio ('an oystresche,' marg.), face L., a horseshoe in its beak. 
 A vulture, on blue : round it, Semitam ignorauit auis nee intuitus est 
 
 Grus, blue on red ground, face L. 
 Miluus, on blue ground. 
 Hirundo, black and white on red. 
 
 Ciconia ('a storke '), head raised : black and white on red. 
 Merula ('a blacke macke, or owsell'), slate-coloured on blue, turning 
 its head back to L. 
 
 14. f. 20 a. Anser, brown and white on blue. 
 
 15. i.iob. Ardea ('an hearon'), blue on red. 
 
 The chapter de caladrio has the gloss ' a whyte byrde. ' 
 i6. f. 210. Perdix, on a mound, on blue ground. 
 17. f. 21 b. Coturnix, white on red. 
 
 8. 
 
 f. 15 a. 
 
 oculus uulturis. 
 
 9- 
 
 f. 16 a. 
 
 10. 
 
 f. 16 b. 
 
 II. 
 
 i.iTb. 
 
 12. 
 
 f. 18 a. 
 
 13- 
 
 f. 18*. 
 
i8. 
 
 
 ■22 a. 
 
 19. 
 
 
 22 6. 
 
 ■20. 
 
 
 233- 
 
 21. 
 
 
 24^. 
 
 22. 
 
 
 25*- 
 
 MS. 100] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. II9 
 
 Huppupa, whitish-pink, with two small horns on its head, on blue. 
 Swan, on red ground, fairly well drawn. 
 
 Peacock, slate-blue on blue, his tail extending outside the picture. 
 Eagle, one foot raised, looks back to L., on red. 
 
 Hybis, brown, with raised wings, eating one of two white fish in green 
 water, red ground. 
 
 23. f. 26 6. Fulica, white on red ground. 
 
 24. f. 27 a. A larger picture in two tiers. Above the aniula, or antelope, brown, 
 with serrated horns, which are supposed to be caught in a green tree, is approached by a 
 hunter, with gold shield, sword raised, blue tunic and hood, and red hose ; a second tree 
 on 7i. Below, on blue ground, antula is catching his horns in the tree. 
 
 25. f. 27 b. Onocentaurus, with blue horse-body and white human body, is shooting 
 an arrow to R. 
 
 26. f. 27 i. Two trees: below each of them is a hedgehog on his back, impaling 
 green apples on his spines : a third, above, walks away to R. 
 
 27. f. 28 a. Centre a tree : L. an ape walks R. on all fours, R. a female ape seated, 
 a small ape on her back, another in her arms. 
 
 28. f. 28 b. Red ground : centre a tree : Z. caper, a large brown goat, goes L. and 
 looks R. : R. a hunter, in red cap, blue tunic, red hose, stands holding spear and club. 
 
 29. f. 29 a. Salamandra, a brown lizard, with white head and green legs, walking 
 on its own coiled up tail. 
 
 30. f. 29 b. Dogs : on red ground : L. a white and blue hound, C. a turreted 
 kennel, or part of a house : in the entrance a small black dog barking : R. a huge brown 
 mastiff. 
 
 31. f. 30 a. Weasels, brown : one brings forth a small one out of its mouth, the 
 other walks to R. 
 
 32. f. "iob. The stones therobolos, round green objects : above, they are separated, 
 and fireless : below, they are in contact, and surrounded with fire. 
 
 33. f. 31 a, L. a black wolf, biting its fore paw (for having trodden on a twig), on 
 R. a sheepfold, with blue and red gate, and white arch, with masonry : within it, on a 
 black ground, are six white beasts (two sheep and four cows). 
 
 34. f. 33 b. L. a two-legged dragon, brown, blue, and red, two-winged, crested, with 
 long red tongue : his tail is coiled round one of the hind legs of a black elephant on R. 
 
 35. f. 34 a. Three-quarters of a page. In two tiers. A. Blue ground : on Z. a 
 black elephant about to eat a mandrake, represented by a half-figure of a woman growing 
 in the ground : R. a mass of building, with four towers inside, some of which are 
 topped with crosses : this is Paradise, outside which the mandrake grows. B. Red 
 ground : Z. a black elephant plants his fore feet on the back of a dragon like that in 
 no. 34 : his hind legs are in green water : R. a black female elephant, also standing in 
 water : below her a small elephant just bom : two fishes in the water. 
 
 On f. 35 3 is a blank space for a picture of a pelican. 
 
 36. f. 36 b. Blue ground : on it 18 black ants, in six rows of three, proceeding to or 
 from a hole, indicated by a brown bowl-like object on Z. 
 
 37. f. 37 b. Red ground : Z. a man in red cap and hose, and blue tunic, with 
 shield, extends a wand to the head of an asp (a dragon, winged, and two-legged, green 
 and scarlet), who has his tail in his right ear, and stands on his left ear, which is supported 
 on a small mound. This is a deaf adder. 
 
 f. 38 a has a blank for the picture of the caladrius. 
 
I20 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. lOO 
 
 38. f. 38 b. Three-quarters of a page. Red ground. Above, three men, two in 
 hoods ; one, in close white cap, stands in a white boat, with red dragon's head on prow : 
 each holds a paddle. Below, in green water, two sirens : one on L, has white body, and 
 holds a mirror : her lower half has two feathered wings and a fish tail, and two legs with 
 large webbed feet : a fish behind her. The one on R. has a white body, and holds a 
 double comb, and a fish : her lower half is that of a fish. They face each other. 
 
 39. f. 39 i. Blue ground : above, a red sun, flaming : below, a mound, and on it a 
 round green stone, the adamant. 
 
 40. f. 40 b. Red ground. Above, the sun, as in no. 39 : below, on green water, 
 the stone mermecoleon, or concha sabea, represented as two green bowls, opening to admit 
 the sun's rays. It is really the pearl-oyster. 
 
 41. f. 42 b. Half-page. Red and blue ground : at bottom, in green water, a small 
 red boat, with mast and sail down : above it an enormous blue fish (the aspido-chelone) : 
 on its back a mass of white sand : on this, two men : the one on L., in blue hooded 
 cloak, sits and warms one of his bare legs at a fire in the centre : the one on R., in blue 
 tunic and red hose, is planting a pole in the sand. 
 
 Part II. Ordo de sacris ordinibus benedicendis. 
 
 fif. 14, io| X 7, 22 lines to a page. Cent xi. 
 
 Collation : a^ b' (wants 7, 8 blank). 
 
 Provenance: Durham: f. \ a \s blank, except for the words 
 Liber sancti Cuthberti in a hand of cent. xii. The lower margin 
 has been cut off. 
 
 i. \b begins in red uncials : 
 
 ORDO ENINCHOAT 
 
 de sacris ordinibus benedicendis. 
 
 Psalmista • id est cantor • potest absq«s scientia 
 
 e^iscopi • sola iussione sacerdotis officium suscipere, etc. 
 
 Quod ore cantas. 
 
 Ordinatio hostiarii. 
 
 Sic age quasi. 
 f. 2 a. Praefatio hostiarii. 
 
 DEUM PATREM omnipotentejH 
 
 Benedictio eiusdem. 
 
 Domine sancte pater omnipotens aeterne deus. 
 
 Ordinatio lectoris. 
 f. 2 b. Accipe et esto. 
 
 BENEDICTIO LECTORIS. 
 
 Domine see pat omps aeterne deus. 
 
 Ordinatio exorciste. 
 
 Accipe et commenda, 
 f. 3 a. Praef. exorcistae. 
 
 Deum patrem omnip. supplici deprecamur. 
 
 Bened. exorcistae. 
 
 Dne see pat omps aet. deus. 
 
 Acolitus cum ordinatur- 
 
MS. lOo] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 121 
 
 f. 3 b. Bened. acoliti. 
 
 Omnip. sempit. deus,fons lucis. 
 
 Ordo qualiter in romana ecclesia presbiteri • diaconi • subdiaconi • ordinandi 
 sunt. 
 f. 4 a. Aitxiliante deo et domino nostra. 
 
 Capitulum sancti gregorii papae. 
 
 Sicut qui inuiiatus renuit. 
 
 On the lower margin of this page is the name Rogerus tongus, written in 
 cent. xvi. 
 f. 4 b. Subdiaconus cum ordinatur. 
 
 Vide cuius misteriuni. 
 f. 5 a. Ordin. subdiaconi. 
 
 Oremus deum et dominum nostrum. 
 
 Bened. subdiaconi. 
 
 Domine see pat omnip. aet, dens. 
 i. 5 *. Diaconus cum ordinatur. 
 
 Oratio ad ordinand. diaconum. 
 
 Oremus dilectissimi deum. 
 
 Alia. Exaudi domine preces nostras. 
 f. 6 a. Item. Dne ds omps preces nostras. 
 
 Consecratio. 
 
 Ad esto quaesumus omps ds. 
 f. 7 a. Ad consumandum diaconatus officium. 
 
 Commune uotuvt permaneat. 
 
 sequitur bened. 
 
 Domine sancte spir. 
 f. 7 b. Inc. oratio ad stolas uel planetas benedicendas. 
 
 Deus inuicte uirtutis. 
 f. 8 a. In nomine sanctae trinitatis. 
 
 Consecratio manuum diaconi de oleo et crisma. 
 
 Consecrentur manus iste. 
 f. 8 b. Missa in die consecrationis diaconi. 
 
 Ad preces nostras. 
 
 Secretum. Suscipe quaesumus domine. 
 
 Infra comm. Hanc igitur oblationem. 
 
 Bened. Benedicat te deus. 
 {. 9 a. Ad comm. Praesta quaesumus. 
 
 Praesbiter cum ordinatur. 
 
 ORATIO AD ORDINAND. PRESBITERUM. 
 
 Oremus dilectissimi deum. 
 
 Alia. Exaudi nos quaesumus. 
 i. a b. Consecratio. Dne sTe pat omps aet. deus honorum auclor. 
 f. 10 a. Bened. uel consecr. manum sacerdotis. 
 
 Benedic domine et sanclijica, 
 f. lo b. Consecratio manuum sacerdotis de oleo crismatis. 
 
 Consecrentur manus iste. 
 
 Consecr. capitis cum oleo. 
 
 Vnguatur et consecretur capud tuum. 
 
122 
 
 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MS. ICO 
 
 Quando eum sacerdotem ordinaueris. 
 Benedictio dei patris. 
 f. 1 1 a. Consummatio praesbiteri. 
 Sit nobis domine communis. 
 Oratio. 
 
 Sanctificationum auctor, 
 !. 11 k Missa in die consecrationis praesbiteri. 
 Exaudi domine supplicuni. 
 Secreta. 
 
 Tuis domine quaesumus. 
 Infractione. 
 
 Hanc igitur oblationem. 
 f. \i a. Ad comm. 
 
 Ompl sempit. deus respicere. 
 Bened. episcopalis eiusdem. 
 Da ei domine tempora tranquilla. 
 Ad commun. 
 Hunc quern reficis. 
 f. 12 b. ORATIO AD PUEROS CONSIGNATOS. 
 
 Omp's sempit. deus qui rege^ierare. 
 f. 13 a. Consigno et confirmo. 
 Hie ligandi sunt. 
 Deus qui apostolis tuis. 
 f. 131^. Bened. episcopi super pueros. 
 
 Benedicat nos omp's deus qui cuncta ex nichilo. 
 I. 13 b. In a very slightly later hand : the initials and rubrics have not been added. 
 
 English letters S > are employed in vyriting the name of Cuthbert, but 
 
 novifhere else : the peculiar j-cc (ra) is also employed. 
 (S)anctus domine cuthberhtus sacerdos et pontifex. 
 (H)aec tibi domine quaesumus beati cuBberhti in hac die migrationis ad 
 
 christum sanctissimi sacerdotis cu'Sberhti. 
 f. 14 i. Te domine ergo deprecamur. 
 
 (Deu)s qui nos sanctorum tuorum temporali. 
 
 Seven lines in a different hand are added, Virith neumes. They refer to S. 
 
 Nicholas. 
 O pastor eterne o clemens et bone custos qui dum deuotis gregis preces 
 
 adtenderas {sic) uoce lapsa de celo presuli sanctissimo dignum episcopatu 
 
 nicholaum ostendisti tuura famulum. Adoremus regem seculorum in quo 
 
 uiuit nicholaus honor sacerdotum. 
 Nobilissimus siquidem natalibus ortus uelud lucifer nicholaus emicuit. Post- 
 
 quam domi puerilera decurrit etatem cunctis mundi huius spretis oblecta- 
 
 tionibus christi se iugo subiciens documentis Sanctis suum prebuit auditum. 
 The only scraps of ornament in this part of the volume are in true English 
 
 style. They occur on ff. 1 a, 10 b, 11 a: on 14 (5 some ornament has been 
 
 sketched with a dry point. 
 Both uncials and 'rustic' capitals are employed in the rubrics. 
 
MS. lOl] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 1 23 
 
 101. A. 5. 16. [C. M. A. 763. 
 
 Decreta non glosata. 
 
 Vellum, i2| X 8, fif. 234, double columns of 53 lines each. 
 Cent. xii. Given by Dr Sam. Ward. 
 
 Collation: a^" (10 cancelled) iMv^ v^" vi^" (2 cancelled) vii^ viii* 
 ix^ (3 cancelled) x'-xiv^ xv^= (10 cancelled) xvi^-xxii^ xxiii" xxiv^ 
 [a sheet of two leaves inserted here] xxv^-xxvii^ Quires marked 
 with small Roman numeral on middle of bottom edge of first leaf 
 
 Provenance: Durham. On f 3« upper margin, in a hand of 
 cent, xiv or xv is : ff. Decreta non glosata. liber Sci Cuthberti. 
 i^ gi ff 
 
 The second leaf of the text begins : tempus quoque prefigi uitia 
 quern diem. This is entered in the Catalogi Veteres, p. 35 : F. 
 Decreta non glo. ii fo., tempus quoque. 
 
 The writing is most probably Italian: it is exceedingly minute and beautiful. At 
 least three annotators — not Italian, and probably English in cent, xii, xiii, and in 
 cent, xiv — have made marginal notes, the first in a remarkably beautiful hand. He also 
 probably inserted the sheet between quires xxiv and xxv, and very likely is also 
 responsible for a series of grotesque outline drawings, sometimes illustrative of the text 
 and sometimes not, which appear at intervals on the margins : e.g. on f. 6 i5 of quire v is 
 a man with axe in hand, a tree half cut through, and the bust of another man : this 
 illustrates the text, which relates to the case of two brothers ; one of whom cuts a tree 
 nearly through and calls to his brother to take care; but the brother is killed : on f. 5 1^ of 
 quire vi is a church on fire, to which reference is made in the text : on ff. 5 ^, 6 ^ of quire 
 xi are pictures of a Bishop, and of a Bishop dead in bed. 
 
 The inserted leaves between xxiv and xxv are remarkable. The outer sides are 
 blank. On f. 209 (5 is a full-page picture : a king, bearded, in an embroidered mantle 
 over a dalmatic with embroidered cuffs and hem, green shoes, a jewelled diadem, holding 
 a sceptre with leaves at the top, and an orb with leaves worked on it, in his outstretched 
 hand. In front of his body is a table of this form : at a is a medallion of the heads of 
 
 a man and woman. All the rest of the table is occupied with medallions shewing the 
 relationships of this pair, calculated to seven generations in every direction. 
 
124 CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS. [MSS. I02, IO3 
 
 The opposite page, f. 210 a, has another full-page picture. In the centre is a round 
 arch surmounted by three battlemented towers of masonry. Those on J?, and Z. have 
 each a coloured quatrefoil and four green discs, below the battlement : that in the centre 
 has a half-length figure of a man blowing a green horn. In the round arch below these 
 are half-length figures of a bearded man and a woman; the head dress of each is a round, 
 ornamented brown hat with a knob on the top. The man is in a white mantle with 
 fibula on shoulder and a tunic : the woman has hair down her back, a white mantle, and 
 an under-garment with brooch at neck. Their /?. arms cross each other and hold cords 
 attached to the top of a table full of medallions shewing the consanguinei and affines 
 of each to the tertium genus. 
 
 These drawings seem certainly to be of cent, xii, and to be the work of the first 
 English annotator. 
 
 102. A. 5. 17. [C. M. A. 764. 
 
 Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica. 
 
 Vellum, iif X 8, fif. 77, 42 lines to a page. Cent, xv, well 
 written, with red and blue flourished initials. There is no donor's 
 name. 
 
 Collation: a'-h* i'" (7 cancelled) k^ (5-8 cancelled, blank): 77 
 leaves. 
 
 Provenance. Bury S. Edmund's. On f. \ a upper R. corner is 
 the xvth cent, mark B. 295, which is in the special form of the 
 Bury press-marks. Volumes marked B. 280, B. 282, B. 287, B. 290, 
 B. 292 exist in various libraries, are all from Bury, and are all 
 copies of various works of Bede. A hand which I recognise as 
 that of a Bury Librarian has added the numerals to the chapters in 
 the tables to several of the books of the History in this MS. 
 
 There is a rust-mark shewing the position of the chain on the 
 lower margin of the first leaves. 
 
 The text ends with Bede's Retractatio. 
 
 103. A. 5. 18. [C. M. A. 765. 
 
 Liber astrologicus Arabice. 
 
 Paper, 11 x 71 ff. 12, in one quire. Well written; cent. xvii. 
 No donor's name. In a folding cover of oriental make. 
 
MSS. 104-6] SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE. 125 
 
 104. A. 5. 19. 
 
 A SURVEY OF THE SEVERAL FaRMS AND LaNDS IN THE 
 county's of WorC. AND StAFF. BELONGING TO SiD. 
 
 Sus. Coll. in Camb. Surveyed in the year 1767 
 BY John Snape. 
 
 With a beautifully drawn title-page. 
 
 Paper and vellum, i8| x 11}. With folding maps. Cent. xvii. 
 
 105. A. 5. 20. 
 
 Paper, 14I x loj, ff 20 written at one end and cir. 100 columns 
 at the other. Cent, xviii. 
 
 Excerpts and observations from the Chron. Paschale, Ps. 
 Dorotheus, George Syncellus, etc. 
 
 Preparations for a work on ancient chronology. 
 
 106. A. 5. 21 (?). 
 
 Notes from M. des Vignoles' Sacred Chronology (1738). 
 
 Paper, 7 J x 5f, ff. 54 written. Cent, xviii (1742). 
 More collectanea by the author of A. 5. 20. Some loose papers 
 are dated 1742. 
 
I. LIST OF DONORS AND FORMER OWNERS OF MSS. 
 
 Baines, Emm. 65 
 
 Balguy, Th. 9 
 
 Baxter, W. 43 
 
 Bedford, Countess of 24 
 
 Bell, R., Prior of Durham 56 
 
 Bramhall, J. 56 
 
 Bristol, Franciscans of 49 
 
 BuUey, — 73 
 
 Bury S. Edmund's Abbey 102 
 
 Castell, Edm. 27—29 
 Chicksand Priory 85 
 Church, Edm. 37 
 Clement, J. 64, 95, 96 
 Comber, Th. 22 
 Combes, Era. 67 
 Craven, Dr J. 2, 3 
 Crowland Abbey 73 
 
 Lebaduc (?) 5 
 Lyell, R. 34 
 Lyell, Th. 34 
 
 Mascall, Th. 48, 50 
 Mercyall, W. 60 
 Meverll, Th. 63 
 Montague, Roger 46 
 Morus, W. 64 
 
 Papworth, W. 4 
 Pickering, Theoph. 27-29 
 Pilkington, J. 30, 51, 55, ? 92 
 Pratt, W. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 
 38.39 
 
 Rayner, G. 95, 96 
 
 Rotherham, Jesus College at 2, 3 
 
 Dugard, W. 23 
 
 Durham Priory ? 30, 32, ?43, ? 50, 51, 56, 
 100 (Pt II), loi 
 
 Fairfax, Th. 36 
 
 Genings, Rev. Mr 100 
 Gowshille, Simon de 85 
 Gunthorpe, J. 46 
 
 Harington, Sir J. 24 
 Harington, Lady 24 
 Hey, J. 10-20 
 Hey, R. 10-20 
 Holland, Th. 43 
 Horwe, Th. 60 
 
 Kingswood Abbey 77 
 Kirkham Priory 36 
 Kirkstall Abbey 85 
 
 Lancaster, Dominicans of 48 
 Land, J. 69 
 Law, W. 56 
 Lawson, J. 6, 7 
 
 Sackett, J. 98 
 Scrivin, Th. 42 
 Seall, Th. 67 
 Seton, W. 56 
 Smyth, H. 71 
 Stamborn, J. 85 
 
 Thomkyns, E. 77 
 Thorney Abbey ? 95 
 
 Urswick, Christopher 48 
 
 Wanless, Hen. 55 
 
 Ward, Dr Sam. 44, 45, 47, 54, 55, 58, 62, 
 
 63. 65. 66, 70, 71, 74, 75, 90, 92, 93, 94, 
 
 lot 
 Wardon Abbey 71 
 Well., N. de 78 
 West Wretham 79 
 Whitaker, W. 8 
 Witham, P. 87 
 Worcester, Franciscans of 60 
 Wymsley, J. 50 
 
 York, Franciscans of 94 
 
II. INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS CONTAINED IN 
 
 THE MSS. 
 
 Abihu (Nadab and) 96. 4 
 
 Adam and Eve 96. 2 
 
 Adamant 100. 39 
 
 Agatha, S. 76. vi 
 
 Alban, S., martyrdom of 76. iii 
 
 Ambrose, S. 76. v 
 
 Ananias and Paul 96. 64 
 
 Andrew, S. , martyrdom of 96. 79 
 
 Angels, orders of 76. i 
 
 with musical instruments 76. vii, 7 
 at Last Judgment 76. ix 
 
 Animals, various id. Jin., 100 
 
 Annunciation 37. i, 96. 2 
 
 Antelope 100. 24 
 
 Ants 100. 36 
 
 Apes 100. 27 
 
 Apostles, the Twelve 76. ii 
 
 at Last Judgment 76. ix 
 
 Augustine, S. 76. v 
 
 Balaam and angel 96. 5 
 
 Baruch 96. 41 
 
 Benedictine monks ) 
 
 > 76. Vlll 
 nuns \ ' 
 
 Birds, various 76. vii, 100. 4-23 
 
 Carmelites (?) 76. viii 
 
 Centaur 100. 25 
 
 Christ, as Man of Sorrows 37. 2 
 
 in glory 76. vii, viii, 96. 85 
 
 as Judge 63, 76. ix 
 
 Head of 37. 3, 4 
 
 Baptism of 96. 59 
 Cistercians 76. viii 
 Clare, S. 76. vi 
 Confessors, pictures of 76. iv 
 Creation, days of 96. 2 
 Crucifixion 96. 2 
 
 Daniel, in den 96. 43 
 
 David, plays harp 76. i, 96. 24 
 
 points to eye 76. ii, 96. 25 
 
 David, points to mouth 76. iii, 96. 26 
 
 with fool 96. 28 
 
 plays bells 96. 30 
 
 anointed 96. 14 
 
 with Amalekite 96. 1 1 
 
 with ark 96. 15 
 
 death of 96. 12 
 Decreta, illustrations of loi 
 Doctors, pictures of 76. v 
 Dogs 1 00. 30 
 Dominicans 76. viii 
 
 Doves, emblematical pictures of 100. 1—3 
 Dragons 100. 34, 35, 37 
 
 Edmund, S., martyrdom of 76. iii 
 Elephants 100. 34, 35 
 Elijah, translation of 96. 13 
 Esther and Ahasuerus 96. 22 
 Etheldreda, S. 76. vi 
 Ezekiel, call of 96. 42 
 
 Fool 76. v, 96. 28 
 Franciscan friars 
 
 \ 76. 
 
 Goat and hunter 100. 28 
 God the Father 96. 32 
 Gregory, S. 76. v 
 
 Habakkuk, rapture of 96. 43 
 Haman hung 96. 22 
 Hedgehog 100. 26 
 
 Isaiah, martyrdom of 96. 38 
 
 James, S. ^(>. 78 
 
 Jeremiah, martyrdom of 96. 39 
 
 Jerome, S. 76. v, 85, 96. i 
 
 Jerusalem, destruction of 96. 18 
 
 Jesse-tree 96. 58 
 
 Job and wife 96. 23 
 
 John Baptist, S. 96. 59 
 
 martyrdom of 76. iii 
 
128 
 
 INDICES. 
 
 John Evangelist, S. 96. 61, 82, 83 
 Jonah 76. vi, g6. 29, 48 
 Joshua and the sun 96. 7 
 Jude 96. 84 
 Judgment, Last 76. ix 
 Judith 96. 2 1 
 
 Katherine, S. 76. vi 
 King loi 
 
 Last Judgment 76. ix 
 Last Supper 96. 81 
 
 Maccabees, illustrations of 96. 56, 57 
 
 Mandrake 100. 35 
 
 Margaret, S. 76. vi 
 
 Mermaids 100. 38 
 
 Monastic Orders 76. viii 
 
 Moses, at the bush 96. 3 
 
 with Jews 96. 6 
 Musical instruments 76. vii 
 
 Nadab and Abihu, death of g6. 4 
 Nehemiah and Artaxerxes 96. 1 7 
 
 Paradise 100. 35 
 
 Passion, instruments of 76. ix 
 
 Paul, S., his life and death illustrated 
 
 96- 62-76 
 Pearl-oyster 100. 40 
 Peter, S., martyrdom of 96. 77 
 Praemonstratensians (?) 76. viii 
 Prophets, figures of the minor 96. 44-55 
 
 Ruth gleaning g6. 9 
 
 Salamander 100. 29 
 Samson and lion 96. 8 
 Samuel presented 96. 10 
 and David 96. 14 
 Saul, death of 76. iv 
 Sea-monster 100. 41 
 Ships 100. 38, 41 
 Silas 96. 74 
 Sirens 100. 38 
 Snake-charmer 100. 37 
 Solomon and Rehoboam 96. 33 
 Stephen, S. 76. iii 
 Stocks 96. 74 
 Stones, marvellous 100. 22, 39, 40 
 
 Temple restored and cleansed by Ezra 96. 
 
 16, 19 
 Tobit blinded 96. 20 
 Tombs 76. ix 
 Tower loi 
 
 Veronica-head of Christ 37.3 
 Virgin and Child 37. 4, 95 
 Virgin Saints, figures of 76. vi 
 
 Weasels loo- 31 
 Wisdom, figure of 96. 37 
 Wolf 100. 33 
 
 Zacharias and angel 96. 60 
 
III. GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Abbatis Villa, John de 78 
 Abbot's Langley, Hall-moots held there i 
 Abbreviations in MSS., collection of 42 
 Aegidius Romanus 98 
 S. Alban's, Hall-moots held there i 
 Albertanus of Brescia, Tracts by 48 
 AJbertus Magnus de Animalibus 46 
 Alexander III., Letter of 71 
 Ambrosius, S., Hexaemeron 31 
 Extracts 50, 73 
 de officiis, extracts 7-2 
 de gradibus 79 
 Angels, the Seven p. 69 
 Anne, S. 80 
 Anonymus, de Musica 31 
 
 de Problematibus 68 
 de interpr. Scripturae 71 
 liber expositionum vel erme- 
 
 neumatum 75 
 de oculo morali 85 
 exempla 85 
 
 ad Rainerum de columbis 100 
 Collections on Chronology 
 105, 106 
 ApoUonia, S. 80 
 Apollonius Tyrius, History of 60 
 Arabic MSS. 57, 103 
 Aretino, Leonardo, versions of Aristotle's 
 
 works by 67 
 Aristoteles, Metaphysica 31 
 Ethica 67 
 Oeconomica 67 
 Politica 67 
 Armachanus, Richardus, Archiep., works 
 
 by 64 
 Arms 2, 67, 70 
 
 Astrology, Arabic tract on 103 
 Athanasius, S., Tracts 94 
 Auckland 38, p. 26 
 Augustinus, S., super Genesim 31 
 
 Flores super Ep. ad Rom. 
 
 32 
 Various tracts 50, 85, 94 
 Extracts 73 
 
 S. MSS. 
 
 Aukland, John, Prior of Durham 56 
 
 Baldwin, Abp of Canterbury, de Sacra- 
 mento 81 
 Balguy, Thomas, Lectures by 9 
 Balliol College, MS. of Ovid at 5 
 Barlaam and Josaphat 85 
 Beda, Historia Ecclesiastica 30, 102 
 Flores Augustini 32 
 Prophecies 39 
 Super mulierem fortem 50 
 Bede, grammatical tracts 75 
 Benefices in England and Wales, list of 88 
 Bernard, S., tracts by 82, 94 
 Bestiary 100 
 Bible, in Latin 83, 96 
 
 Exodus, gloss on 49 
 Psalter, gloss on 51 
 Psalter 76, 89 
 
 New Testament, and Lessons in 
 English 99 
 Bidding Prayer 55 
 Bishoprics of England and Wales 43 
 Blastares, Matth., his synopsis 65 
 Boethius de trinitate 94 
 Boniface VIIL, Bull of 43 
 Bradwardine, Abp, de causa Dei 90 
 Brannoc, S. 76 
 Bristol, Franciscans at 49 
 Bristol, Horae from 80 
 Brutus, Chronicle of, in French verse 43 
 Buckingham, Duke of. Forerunner of Re- 
 venge against 41 
 Bury, Richard de 38 
 
 Cadwalader 43 
 Caesarius, S., Homilies of 50 
 Cambridge, Foundation of, by Scott 66 
 Cambridge, Statutes of the University 6 
 Campian, Dr T., poem by 59 
 Canons, Extracts in Greek from 6r 
 Cassiodorius, Historia Tripartita 30 
 
 de anima 71 
 Castell, Edmund, notes by him 27-29 
 
130 
 
 INDICES. 
 
 Catalogue of Books at Rotherham 2 
 
 belonging to John 
 Wymsley 50 
 of donations to Sidney College 
 Library 91 
 Catonis Disticha in English 63 
 Cessolis, Jac. de, on Chess g6 
 Chabham, Thomas de, his Sumnia 53 
 Chalcidius in Timaeum 3 1 
 Chess, Jac. de Cessolis on 56 
 Chicheley, Abp, Constitution of 55 
 Christopher, S., couplet on 55 
 Chronology, works on 105, 106 
 Chrysostom, see John 
 Cicero, Differentiae 75 
 Colebrand, giant 43 
 
 Comber, Thos., notes on the Bible by 22 
 Controversy, Romish 25 
 Crowland, Collections by a monk of 73 
 Cuthbert, S., Mass of p. 122 
 Cuthbert, S., Office of 61 
 
 Daniel, anonymous Lectures on 2 1 
 Dares Phrygius 75 
 Decreta loi 
 Desiderius 35 
 Dorothea, S. 80 
 
 Ely, James, Bp of 69 
 
 Prior and Convent of 69 
 English, Sermons 74 
 
 Hymns 37, 76 
 
 Rhymes 85, 97 
 
 Paraphrase of Psalms 89 
 
 New Testament 99 
 Ernaldus Bonevallensis, tracts by 71 
 Esdras, Fourth Book of 96 
 Espec, Walter pp. 21, 23. 36 
 Eucharist, Tract on 51 
 Eucherius de nominibus Hebraicis 75 
 Eusebius of Emesa, homilies by 50 
 Everildis, S. p. 17, 22, 23 
 Exley 93 
 
 Franciscans, tracts against 64 
 Franco of Afflighem, tracts by 54 
 French proverbs, etc. 34 
 hymns 36 
 
 French Chronicle of England 43 
 
 version of William of Tyre 93 
 Fulgentius, Abbot, letter of 54 
 Fulgentius de nominibus 75 
 
 Galfridus de Vinsauf 56 
 
 Galfridus Monemutensis 75 
 
 Gerson, John, tract by 54 
 
 Gildus, S., prayer of 37 
 
 Gower, John, Confessio Amantis 63 
 
 Greek MSS. 61 
 
 Gregory, S., various tracts and excerpts 
 
 50, 73 
 Grindall, Abp, Letter of 40 
 Grosseteste, Rob., de veneno 85 
 Epistolae 92 
 Gunthorpe, John 46 
 Guy of Warwick 43 
 
 Hampole, paraphrase on the Psalms 89 
 
 Harington, Sir John 24 
 
 Henry V., letter to 86 
 
 Henry VIII. , Letters patent, to Bp of Ely 69 
 
 Henry of Huntingdon, quoted 43 
 
 Chronicon 70 
 Epistola 70 
 Henry de Sawtrey, on S. Patrick's Pur- 
 gatory 50 
 Hey, John, Lectures by 10-20 
 Hildebert, S., on the mass 51 
 Hours, books of 36, 37, 58, 80 
 Hughes, W., The Parson's Law, by him 26 
 Hugo de S. Victore, on Lamentations 71 
 de arra animae 85 
 quaestiones 94 
 Hugo Farsit 94 
 
 Humphrey, Dr Laurence, letter of 40 
 Hymns, Latin 36, 80 
 French 36, 95 
 English 37, 80 
 
 Illuminations 37, 62 
 Innocent III., tract by 85 
 Isldorus, S., extracts 50, 75 
 ammonitio 94 
 
 Jerome, S., Life of S. Hilarion 47 
 S. Malchus 47 
 
INDICES. 
 
 131 
 
 Jerome, S., on the Assumption 50 
 ad Jovinianum 72 
 in Jeremiam 77, 94 
 Epistolae 87 
 Johannes de Abbatis Villa, on the Epistles 
 
 and Gospels 78 
 Johannes de S. Edraundo 85 
 John of Bridlington, prophecies of 39 
 
 Office of 33 
 John Chrysostom, tracts by 50 
 John of Damascus, S., extracts from 73 
 John, S., Evangelist, anonymous tract on 
 
 48, f 208 
 Jordanus, S., Hymn to : particulars of him 
 80 
 
 Kalendars 33, 36 
 Kirkham Priory 36 
 
 Lancaster, Dominicans at 48 
 Leo, Protonotary, verses by 56 
 Lincolniensis (Robertus), de veneno 85 
 Litanies, Saints invoked 36, 37, 76 
 Luther, Martin, Table-talk 23 
 
 Machar, S. p. 22 
 Mahomet, tract in Latin on 60 
 Malberthorp, Rob. 89 
 Martinus Dumiensis 47, f. 84 
 Martyrologium Romanum 79 
 Maurilius, S., prayers by 50 
 Medical receipts jt, 58, 85 
 Merlin, prophecies of 39, 43 
 Missal, York 33 
 Musica, Anonymus de 31 
 
 Nennius, extracts from tifin. 
 Neumes p. 122 
 
 Nicholas, S., part of Office p. 122 
 Nicolaus de Clemangiis 86 
 
 Oculo Morali, de 85 
 Ordination, Office for 100 (ii) 
 Ovid, Metamorphoses 5 
 
 de vetula liber iii 56 
 
 Paston, Francis 93 
 
 Patrick's S., Purgatory, tract on 50 
 
 Peckham, Abp, Psalterium salutationum 36 
 
 Peter Lombard, extracts 73 
 
 Petroc, S. 76 
 
 Petrus Blesensis, extracts from 73 
 
 Epistolae 92, 98 
 Petrus Cantor, verbum abbreviatum 97 
 Petrus Cellensis, de panibus 84 
 
 de conscientia 84 
 Petrus Helie, extracts from Priscian 75 
 Philobiblon 38 
 Plagon, Hugues, version of William of 
 
 Tyre 93 
 Plate, Ecclesiastical, inventory of 2, pp. 3, 8 
 Priscian, extracts 75 
 Prophecies of Merlin, etc. 39 
 Psalter, Latin 76 
 
 Latin and English 89 
 Puzzle p. 7 1 
 
 Rathrannus, tracts by 7 r 
 
 Receipts, see Medical 
 
 Richard de Castre, hymn by 80 
 
 Roscarrock, his Register of British Saints 
 p. 22, 64 
 
 Rotherham, Abp, portrait of 2 
 
 College of Jesus founded 
 by him : its Statutes : Inventories of 
 vestments and Catalogue of Library 2 
 
 Rous, The Heavenly Academic, by him 4 
 
 Sativola, S. 76 
 
 Scott, John, Foundation of the University 
 
 of Cambridge 66 
 Seneca, extracts 94 
 Sermones, de Sanctis et de Tempore 34 
 
 Anonymous 50 
 
 by Richard of Armagh and others 
 
 64 
 English, by Wycliffe, etc. 74 
 Sibyl, prophecies of 39, 43 
 Sidney Sus-sex College, Register of Library 
 
 Survey of Farms 
 
 7. 104 
 Simon de Heyntun, extracts 73 
 Sixtus, Enchiridion of 94 
 Smaragdus, extracts from 73 
 Snape, John 104 
 
132 
 
 INDICES. 
 
 Speculum Christiani 55 
 
 Swanscombe, in Kent, collections relating 
 
 to 7 
 Swineshead 43 
 
 Thedilthorpe, deeds relating to 89 
 Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History, printed 
 
 Thomas Aquinas, Comment on 52 
 Thomas of Canterbury, S., prophecies of 39 
 Thomas de Chabham : Summa de Casibus 
 
 53 
 Treasure of Devotion, the 35 
 Trivet, Nicholas, on the Metamorphoses of 
 
 Ovid 56 
 
 Vernon, in Normandy p. 54 
 Vestments, inventory of 1, p. 4 
 Vignoles, des, extracts 106 
 Virgin, Miracles of 47, 85, 95 
 Virgin, Anonymous, Tract on 48, f. 133 
 Vitae Patrum 47 
 
 Ward, DrSamuel, his Commonplace Book 44 
 
 Ward, Dr Samuel, his Diary 45 
 Watton, John, his Speculum Christiani 55 
 Waymouth, John, Mathematical Discourse 
 
 by 24 
 Wenlock, W. , epitaph of 3 
 Whitaker, W., Theological Lectures by i> 
 William of Tyre, History 93 
 William of York, S. 33, 36 
 Worcester, Franciscans at 60 
 Wycliffe, Sermons by 74 
 
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 Wymsley, John, bookseller, list of his 
 
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 Xystus, Enchiridion of 94 
 
 York, Missal 33 
 
 Saints and Festivals characteristic 
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