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 MEDIEVAL 
 
 LIBRARIES. 
 
Two hundred and fifty copies printed. 
 
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 T. Channdler presenting a copy of his works to 
 Bishop Bekinton. 
 
 [From a MS. in Trinity College, Cambridge.] See p. 119. 
 
Somerset 
 Arch/eological and Natural History Society 
 
 NORTHERN BRANCH 
 
 omersel IRebfcebal Jforaries 
 
 AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES OF BOOKS IN SOMERSET 
 PRIOR TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES 
 
 THOMAS WEBB WILLIAMS 
 
 BRISTOL 
 J. W. Arrowsmith, ii Quay Street 
 
 1897. 
 
Somerset Q^eDiaetJai Libraries 
 
 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA 
 
 p. 7, 1. 9 For Ireland read Iceland, by Niels Horrebow. 
 
 p. 44 Before Cleeve insert Buckland Denham. Psalterium et Hymni 
 
 (cum Calendario) in Gothic letter c. 1260 : said in a Catalogue 
 (whose I do not now know) to be written by an English scribe and 
 at one time in use at the Convent of English nuns here, as is 
 testified by a fading inscription on the first page of the text. 
 Rebound by Douglas Cockerell. 
 
 p. 88, 1. 11 At the end of No. 7 add (see 31a). Insert, ja, J. de Voragine 
 {Arch, of Genoa, 1230-98). Homilies. On fo. 1, " Liber monas- 
 terii S. Marie de Glastonie." Now in Bristol City Library. 
 
 p. 89 After No. 9 insert ga Hatton, 43 Hist. Eccles. (See Hardy, Desc. 
 
 Cat., i. 435.) 
 
 p. 91, 1. 20 After Gildas add See Hardy, Desc. Cat., i. 134. 
 
 p. 95, 1. 17 After perquisite suo add "The Chronicon S. Edmundi Buriensis 
 a monacho quodam, an Bostono Buriensi, compilatum " was 
 probably here as it contains the note " Libellus fratris Johannis 
 Merelynch, de perquisite ejusdem. MSS. Coll. Regin. Oxon." 
 (See Hardy, Desc. Cat., iii. 30.) 
 
 p. 96 After No. 31 add 31a, (see ya), A Rental of the Abbey called 
 
 Abbot Beere's Terrier, dated 15 14 is (? was) penes the Earl 
 (Marquess) of Aylesbury. (Proc. S.A.S., xxxiii, ii, 6.) 
 
 p. 100 At end add, In the Lambeth Palace Lib. is Aug. Sermons 
 
 (Eadmer), XIV century. 
 
 On flyleaf stuck down, Iste liber est domo loci dei de Hentone 
 ordinis Carthusie (James, MSS. in Lib. at Lamb. Pal., No. 410). 
 
 p. 108, 1. 13 For eastern read western. 
 
 1. 16 After be insert shut at night but that the one on the library 
 side be. 
 
 p. 116 After Note 5 add Mr. Paget Toynbee however suggests this was 
 
 probably a copy of Serravalle's translation of the Commedia 
 made in 1416, in prose, but often described as verse being cut up 
 into lines corresponding with the original. 
 
p. 117 To Chron. Gul. Neoburgi add the note, This is very possibly the 
 
 copy which Dean Turner sent over to Antwerp, and caused to be 
 printed in 1567. 
 
 p. 121 No. 6, after Banister Gul. insert Preb. of Eston in Church of Wells. 
 
 Insert No. 6a, Bowett, Henry, Bp. of Wells, 1401. Works 
 formerly in Sion Mon. See Tanner. 
 
 p. 122 At end of Footnote 5, add p. 131. 
 
 p. 127 After 1. 12, insert la Bodl. MS. Digby 104, Hildebertus Cenoman- 
 
 nencis ; Matthaeus Vindocinencis, XII century. 
 
 To No. 4, after London add purchased by Mr. H. W. Under- 
 
 down, of 7, Victoria St., Westminster. 
 
 p. 129, 1. 5 Add See M. R. James, ' Wanderings and Homes of MSS.,' p. 10, 
 as to this book. He also says that in a MS. at Oxford (Laud 
 Misc. 154) is a list of the books he gave to Witham. 
 Add 5a, Brit. Mus. Harl. MSS. 1032-41A. Codex membranaceus 
 in 4to. in quo habentur (1) Tabula, (2) Capitula operis, (3) Liber 
 qui vocatur Veritas Theologie in 7 libellos, (4) Participatio 
 bonorum spiritualium et Corporalium Exercitiorum Domus 
 Majoris Carthusiensis, a.d. 1465, p. 191, (5) Exempla sive 
 Formula instrumenta quo Frater Ricardus Prive Domus Beate 
 Marie de Witham ordinis Carthusiensis in Selwode et ejusdem 
 Loci conventus admiserunt in participationem bonorum 
 spiritualium ac corporalium exercitiorum ejusdem monasterii 
 dat. a.d. 20 mensis Maii 1510, p. 1916, (6) Exordium epistolae de 
 Fratris Ricardi Prioris Witham ad Dominam Elizabetham N. 
 abbatissam de Shafton, p. 1926. 
 
 p. 130, 1. 13 After psalterium add Trin. Coll. Camb. Cassiodorus in Psalmos 
 L. priores. Fol., m., s. xiii. Liber dei et beate Marie Wythm 
 ord. Chart. 
 
 1. 27 After Matheum add Pembroke Coll. Camb. No. 29 is a MS. of 
 Rad. Flaviacensis among the contents of which is " Super 
 Mathaeum " with the note " In Librario de Witham Carthusie." 
 
 p- 133 Insert 8, Trin. Coll. Camb. Macrobius de Somnio Scipionis. 
 
 This appears to have been bought in London in 1469 by John 
 Gunthorp for 55. <\d. (See Sinker Lib. of T. C. Camb., p. 26.) 
 
 Insert 9, an early printed copy of Pliny now in the Wells Cath. 
 
 Lib., the gift of Dr. Bathurst. 
 
My thanks are due to the Dean of Wells for 
 courteous permission to take and use photographs of the 
 Library, Wells Cathedral. T. W. W. 
 
 The illustrations are from photographs taken by 
 Mr. T. W. Phillips, Wells. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Preface 
 
 List of Authorities 
 
 Introduction 
 
 Athelney 
 
 Axbridge 
 
 Bath 
 
 Bridgevvater 
 
 Bruton . 
 
 Cleeve . 
 
 Glastonbury 
 
 HlNTON . 
 
 Keynsham 
 
 Montacute 
 
 muchelney 
 
 Taunton 
 
 Wells 
 
 WlTHAM . 
 
 Dean Gunthorp 
 
 Conclusion 
 
 Appendix A 
 
 Appendix B 
 
 Index of Libraries 
 
 Comparative Catalogue 
 
 General Index 
 
 Page 
 
 i 
 
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 7 
 
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 41 
 
 43 
 
 44 
 
 45 
 
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 101 
 
 102 
 
 104 
 
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 108 
 
 126 
 
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 137 
 
 M3 
 
 147 
 
 152 
 
 155 
 
Somerset flDefci&val ^Libraries 
 
 ano 
 
 Miscellaneous notices of JBoors in Somerset prior to 
 tbe Dissolution of tbe Monasteries. 
 
 A paper with the title, " Notes on Early Libraries, 
 with especial reference to Somerset," was read by 
 me to the Members of the Somerset Archaeological 
 and Natural History Society (Northern Branch) in 
 December last, being an attempt towards the History 
 of Books in Somerset prior to the Dissolution of the 
 Monasteries. It was suggested that the paper might 
 be of interest to the Members of the Parent Society, 
 and the MS. was sent to the Rev. F. W. Weaver (the 
 Secretary), who was good enough to say that he thought 
 the Society would be pleased to make use of it ; but 
 being found too long for insertion in the Proceedings, it 
 was decided to bring it out under the auspices of the 
 Society to which the original paper was read. 
 
 Portions of the paper, as read, are now omitted as 
 too general in character; some, however, are retained, 
 as it is hoped that this book, appealing to local feeling, 
 may come into the hands of some to whom the text- 
 books on the subject though perhaps accessible, are 
 not familiar. Very considerable additions have been 
 made to the local details and lists of books. One 
 
 2 
 
2 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 feature which gave life and interest to the original 
 reading is lost ; viz., the series of some twenty-six 
 lantern slides shown by the Rev. W. A. Woodward, 
 Rector of Flax Bourton, from photographs which he 
 was kind enough to take for me : these illustrated 
 mediaeval libraries and scriptoria, and their furniture, 
 illuminations in MSS., and various styles of hand- 
 writing. 
 
 The Rev. G. S. Master (our local President) pointed 
 out to me that there were some parish libraries in 
 various churches in the county ; such, however, as 
 I know are post-Reformation. I have not had the 
 opportunity of enquiring into this branch of the subject, 
 the references to books in churches hereafter given 
 being offered rather as evidence of the importance 
 attached to books than attempts to reconstruct lists. 
 
 This compilation has been a labour of love, done 
 after office hours : in confessing neglect of a well-known 
 aphorism of Morhof, "Inepti sunt qui librorum catalogos 
 scribunt e catalogis. Oculata fides et judicium 
 praesens requiritur," 1 I can only plead lack of oppor- 
 tunity and learning, though I would boldly suggest 
 that even the most apt would not be likely to discover 
 (in England) much that is not already known as 
 to the existence of Somerset MSS., except by the 
 stupendous effort suggested below ; the catalogues of 
 our great collections are so well done and set out 
 clearly any marks of ownership : so far, too, as I can 
 ascertain, there do not appear to be press marks in 
 any Somerset MSS. to assist us in identifying them 
 1 Morhof, Polyhistor. Literar., I. 230. 
 
PREFACE. 3 
 
 without marks of ownership as can be done in the case 
 of MSS. of some other places ; of course many MSS. 
 afford internal evidence of their provenance, and open 
 up a wide prospect to such as have the power to see : 
 my greatest fear is lest I should have missed some 
 authority which might add other books to the lists here 
 given. Certain books are assigned on probable grounds 
 to various Somerset houses ; a careful study of such as 
 these as are extant by a specialist in mediaeval MSS. 
 may, it is trusted, show such attribution in most, if 
 not all, cases to be correct. 
 
 It is hoped that what is here done may be a service, 
 and not an hindrance, to him who shall do for Somerset 
 houses what Dr. James has so thoroughly and learnedly 
 done for the Abbey of St. Edmund, at Bury. 
 
 My thanks are due to Mr. Falconer Madan, Sub- 
 Librarian of the Bodleian Library, for notes kindly 
 supplied to me on Somerset MSS. now in that Library; 
 to Dr. M. R. James, of King's College, Cambridge, for 
 suggestions; and to Mr. J. A. Herbert, of the MSS. 
 Department of the British Museum, for his valuable 
 assistance in several ways, and more especially in 
 supplying me with lists of books by foreign authors 
 in Somerset Libraries contained in the original MS. 1 
 of Boston of Bury's catalogue in the British Museum, 
 
 1 Royal MS. 3 Di, which has been so considered, the Rev. F. 
 A. Gasquet, O.S.B., however, who has studied it, writes me that in 
 his opinion it certainly is not Bury's Catalogue, but is founded on 
 it : from the little I know of it, I must confess that this MS. does 
 not altogether agree with such parts of Bury's Catalogue as are 
 printed in Tanner's Bibliotheca. Mr. Herbert informs me that it is 
 of the 15th century, and would seem to have been compiled for the 
 use of students of the Benedictine or Augustinian Orders. 
 
4 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 being the part of the catalogue not yet printed, the 
 part printed in Tanner's Bibliotheca relating only to 
 British authors. 
 
 I make no claim to originality, either of matter 
 {which would be difficult) or treatment, this paper 
 being a mere compilation ; all I claim is the credit of 
 having made a thorough investigation of such authori- 
 ties as are known to me. I shall be well content if it 
 be said of my task and me as Leland 1 said of Robert 
 Scriba : "In quo negotio sedulse apis industriam 
 non infeliciter aemulatus est ; " or as Robert Louis 
 Stevenson put it, that " I have played the sedulous 
 ape " to good purpose, according to my standard. 
 
 T. W. Williams. 
 
 Flax Bourton, 
 December, 1897. 
 
 1 Commcntarii, p. 202. 
 
CHIEF AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. 
 
 Archbold. Somerset Religious Houses. 1892. 
 
 Bale. Illustrium Majoris Brittaniae Scriptorum Summarium. 
 
 2 vols. I557-9- 
 Bibliographica. 3 vols. 1895-7. 
 Bradshaw. Collected Papers. 1889. 
 Bury, R. de.Philobiblon. Edited E. C. Thomas. 1888. 
 Church. Early History of the Church of Wells. 1894. 
 Clark. Mediaeval and Renaissance Libraries. 1894. 
 Dibdin. Bibliographical Decameron. 3 vols. 1817. 
 Dugdale. Monasticum Anglicanum. 8 vols. Edition 1817. 
 Edwards. Libraries and Founders of Libraries. 1865. 
 
 ,, Memoirs of Libraries. 2 vols. 1859. 
 
 Gasquet. Some Notes on Medieval Monasteries. {Downside 
 
 Review. 1891.) 
 Hardy. Descriptive Catalogue of Materials, &c. (Rolls 
 
 Series.) 3 vols, 1862-1871. 
 Hearne. Adam de Domerham. 2 vols. 1727. 
 
 ,, Antiquities of Glastonbury. 1722. 
 
 ,, Joannis Glastoniensis Chronica. 1726. 
 
 Historical MSS. Commission Reports. 
 Hunter. English Monastic Libraries. 1831. 
 James. Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury. 1895. 
 
 ,, A Descriptive Catalogue of the MSS. in the Fitz- 
 william Museum. 1895. 
 Leland. Collectanea. Edited Hearne. 6 vols. 1715. 
 
 ,, Conunentarii. Edited Hall. 2 vols. 1719. 
 
 ,, New Year's Gift, with Additions. By Bale. 1549. 
 
 Macray. Annals of the Bodleian. 1890. 
 Madan. Books in MS. 1893. 
 Maitland. The Dark Ages. 1844. 
 
 Merryweather. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages. 1849. 
 Middleton. Illuminated MSS. 1892. 
 
 Omont. Anciens Catalogues de Bibliotheques Anglaises. 1892. 
 Somerset Archczological Society Proceedings. 
 
SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Somerset Record Society. 
 Stubbs. Memorials of St. Dnnstan. 1874. 
 Tanner. Bibliotheca. 1748. 
 
 Thompson, Sir E. M. English Illuminated MSS. 1895. 
 ,, Miss E. M. Somerset Carthusians. 1895. 
 
 CATALOGUES. 
 
 Catalogi Librorum MSS. Angliae et Hib. 1697. 
 
 Catalogue of the MSS. Cambridge University Library. 7 vols. 
 
 1856-67. 
 Catalogus cod. MSS. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus 
 
 hodie adservantur. H. O. Coxe. 2 vols. 1852. 
 Catalogus cod. MSS. Christ Church, Oxford. G. W. Kitchin. 
 
 1867. 
 Catalogus Lib. MSS. Corpus Christi, Cambridge. Nasmyth. 
 
 1777. 
 A Descriptive Catalogue of the MSS., &c, St. John's College, 
 
 Cambridge. M. Cowie. 1842-3. 
 A Catalogue of the MSS., Gonville and Caius, Cambridge. 
 
 J. J. Smith. 1849. 
 Haenel. Catalogi Lib. MSS. (Leipzig). 1830. 
 M. R. James. A Descriptive Catalogue of MSS. in the 
 
 Library of Jesus College, Cambridge. 1895. 
 M. R. James. A Descriptive Catalogue of MSS. in the 
 
 Library of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 1895. 
 M. R. James. A Descriptive Catalogue of MSS. in the 
 
 Library of King's College, Cambridge. 
 M. R. James. Catalogue of the Eton College MSS. 1895. 
 Sir E. M. Thompson. Catalogue of the Salisbury Cathedral 
 
 MSS. 1880. 
 H. J. Todd. Lambeth Palace MSS. 1812. 
 Catalogues of Books in Durham Cathedral Library (Surtees 
 
 Society). 1839. 
 Ward. Catalogue of Romances in the MSS. Department of the 
 
 British Museum. 2 vols. 1883-93. 
 British Museum Class Catalogues of MSS. and MS. Royal 
 
 3 Di. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A few remarks on the formation and constitution of 
 
 Mediaeval Libraries, on the writing and illuminating 
 
 of MSS., and the course of reading prescribed in 
 
 monasteries, may not be amiss here ; any observations 
 
 on private libraries, at any rate in Somerset at the 
 
 period with which we are dealing, might be confined 
 
 within almost as narrow limits as the celebrated essay 
 
 on " Snakes in Ireland." 
 
 The opinions of many of us on the Mediaeval monks 
 
 have been founded on libel and built up of the satirical 
 
 poems written about them : the happy ease of such 
 
 verses as : 
 
 " Back and sides go bare, go bare, 
 Both foot and hand go cold," &c, 
 
 cling to the memory in our salad days, and help to 
 retard a true appreciation of what the monks have 
 done for us. 
 
 A saying of Gregory, sub-prior of the monastery of 
 St. Barbara in Normandy (about 1170), was much 
 quoted in the Middle Ages : " Claustrum sine armario, 
 castrum sine armamentario." 1 
 
 Maitland, in the book from which the above sentence 
 is quoted, shows very abundantly the appreciation of this 
 aphorism, and how great was the need felt for books 
 1 Maitland, The Dark Ages, p. 199. 
 
8 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 and the constant demand for them in the Middle Ages : 
 as all books, until at least about 1440, were in MSS., 
 it was almost imperative on those who wanted any 
 number to keep a staff of writers employed in tran- 
 scribing them, and in fact the scriptorium was almost 
 invariably an important feature in a monastery ; the 
 scribe, too, was generally held in conspicuous honour. 
 In Ireland, for instance, in the yth and 8th centuries^ 
 the penalty for shedding his blood was as great as that 
 for killing a bishop or an abbot; 1 and in Scotland 
 "scriba" was regarded as an honourable addition to a 
 bishop's name. Adamnan's Life of St. Columba is full 
 of allusions to the art of writing, in which the Saint 
 himself excelled ; and it is owing to its prominence that 
 such stories are recorded as of the monks who dropped 
 a MS. into a vessel of water and upset the Saint's own 
 ink-horn. 2 
 
 So, too, St. Dunstan was noted and honoured for his 
 skill in writing and illuminating ; and the scribe was 
 an honoured and important functionary at such great 
 centres of writing and illumination as Winchester, 
 St. Alban's, Durham, and Glastonbury, where, as at 
 some other great monasteries, was generally an his- 
 toriographus, who kept an official record of the general 
 and local history of his times. 
 
 The scriptorium of an ordinary Benedictine monas- 
 tery was a large room, usually over the chapter-house. 
 Where no special room was devoted to the purpose^ 
 
 1 Madan, Books in MS., p. 34. 
 s See Book I., Caps, xxiii., xxiv. and xxv. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 9. 
 
 separate little studies were often made in the cloisters, 
 each scribe having a window to himself, as may still be 
 seen in the exquisite cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral 
 (once St. Peter's Abbey) ; but these studies, or carrels, 
 were fully open on the one side to the cloister walk, 
 and it was only to the more learned members of the 
 community that a room, in any . way private, was 
 appropriated. 
 
 The whole room or set of carrels, as the case might 
 be, was under the general discipline of the monastery, 
 but had special super-added rules of its own. These 
 rules, as preserved to us in certain Benedictine statutes, 
 are as stringent as can well be imagined. Artificial 
 light was not permitted, lest grease or other casualties 
 should damage the MSS. ; and to prevent idleness and 
 interruption, no one was allowed to enter the room 
 besides the scribes, except the abbot, the prior, the 
 sub-prior, the precentor or cantor (who in some monas- 
 teries performed all the duties of the armarius), and the 
 armarius himself. This latter was a special officer, who 
 had charge of the scriptorium ; he portioned out the 
 work as directed by the abbot, but even he had no 
 power to give out any to be done without the abbot's 
 leave. He had to provide all that was necessary for 
 the work desks, ink, parchment, pens, pen -knives, 
 pumice-stone for smoothing the surface of the parch- 
 ment, awls to give guiding marks for ruling lines, 
 reading-frames to hold the books to be copied, rulers, 
 and weights to keep down the pages. 
 
 Absolute silence prevailed, and no one was permitted 
 to break it. The regulations for the observance of 
 
IO SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 silence in the library and scriptorium are printed by 
 Martene (" de antiquis monachorum ritibus") in a 
 chapter " De silentio et signis." When a book was 
 required the applicant was to extend his hand and 
 make a movement as if turning over the leaves of a 
 book. If a missal was wanted he was to add the sign 
 of the cross ; if a psalter, he placed his hands on his 
 head in the shape of a crown (a reference to King 
 David) ; for the Gospels, the sign of the cross on the 
 forehead ; for a gradual, to make the sign of the cross 
 and kiss the finger; for a lectionary, he pretended to 
 wipe away the grease (which might easily have fallen 
 upon it from a candle) ; for a capitulary, to make the 
 general sign and extend clasped hands to heaven ; for a 
 tract, to lay one hand on the stomach and apply the 
 other to his mouth. When a pagan work was required, 
 the general sign was to be made, and then to scratch 
 the ear with the hand after the manner of a dog, 
 because infidels are not unjustly compared with such 
 creatures. 
 
 Besides the monastic scribes and illuminators, there 
 were three classes of secular scribes who, if required, 
 worked in the monasteries, or, if not, at their own 
 homes : they were, Illuminatores, whose name explains 
 itself; Librarii, ordinary hack scribes; and Notarii, 
 who drafted what are generally called notarial acts 
 and legal instruments. 1 
 
 1 For fuller information on scriptoria vide Hardy, A Descriptive 
 Catalogue of the Materials relating to the History of Great Britain and 
 Ireland," preface to vol. iii., xi. et seq.\ Madan, I.e., p. 36; and 
 Edwards, Memoirs of Libraries, book ii., cap. vi., from which books 
 the above remarks on them are taken. 
 
INTRODUCTION. II 
 
 The first tendencies to the formation of national 
 handwritings are found in the 7th and 8th centuries 
 a.d., resulting in the Merovingian or Frankish hand, 
 the Lombardic of Italy, and the Visigothic of Spain. 
 And in the 7th century, when our earliest existing Irish 
 MSS. were written, we find not only a style of writing 
 (or indeed two) distinctive, national, and of a high type 
 of excellence, but also a school of illumination which, 
 in the combined lines of mechanical accuracy and 
 intricacy, of fertile invention of form and figure, and 
 of striking arrangements of colour, has never been 
 surpassed. 1 
 
 Sir E. M. Thompson 2 says: "The development of 
 the border is extremely interesting to follow ; and so 
 regular is its growth, and so marked are the national 
 characteristics which it assumes, that the period and 
 place of origin of an illuminated MS. may be accurately 
 determined from the details of its borders alone." 
 
 This test, alas! has not assigned any MSS., of which 
 the provenance is otherwise unknown, to any Somerset 
 house. 
 
 The mediaeval monastic scribe was, in some respects, 
 perhaps, better off than the modern collier : for he had 
 only a six-hours' day. 
 
 Assuming him to be starting the transcription of a 
 new book, a section of parchment was brought to him 
 to be written on, each sheet still separate from the 
 others, though loosely put in the order and form in 
 which it would be subsequently bound ; generally four 
 pieces were taken, each roughly about ten inches high 
 
 1 Madan, I.e., p. 28. 2 English Illuminated MSS., p. 37. 
 
12 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 and eighteen inches broad, and were folded once across, 
 so that each piece formed four pages (two leaves) of 
 what we call a quarto volume. 1 These pieces were 
 fixed one inside another, so that the first piece formed 
 the first and eighth leaves, the second the second and 
 seventh, the third the third and sixth, and the fourth 
 the two middle leaves of a complete section of eight 
 leaves or sixteen pages, termed technically in Latin 
 a quaternio, because made of four (quatuor) pieces. A 
 sufficient number of quaternions were put together to 
 form the projected book ; then the size and general 
 style of the handwriting had to be fixed : this would 
 be a matter of custom, the largest style being reserved 
 for psalters and other books to be used for public 
 services on a desk or lectern : this determined, the 
 sheets have to be ruled. 
 
 When the scribe has the ruled sheets before him, his 
 pen and ink in readiness, and the volume to be copied 
 on a desk beside him, he may begin to transcribe. A 
 simple task to all seeming ! He is strictly forbidden 
 to correct, but must simply copy down letter for letter ; 
 no responsibility, except for power of reading and for 
 accuracy, is laid upon him. Yet all who know human 
 nature, or have studied palaeography, or even had to 
 examine deeds in a lawyer's chambers, will acknowledge 
 that the probability against two consecutive leaves 
 being really correctly transcribed is about ioo to i. 
 
 The frequent use of the word "dictare" in connection 
 with writing has led some to think that scribes did 
 much of their work from dictation. The evidence on 
 1 See Madan, I.e., p. 13. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 13 
 
 the question in classical times is so scanty that we are 
 driven to conclude that scribes, almost invariably, 
 copied from a volume in front of them in silence, as 
 was certainly the case in the scriptoria of monasteries. 
 Alcuin, who describes the copying work at York, seems 
 to know nothing of it. The only dictation which was 
 common was when a letter or a message was dictated 
 by its composer to swift-penned notarii 1 : the usual 
 meaning of the word " dictare " in connection with 
 writing is "to compose," not "to dictate." 2 
 
 The necessity and importance of the scribe's work 
 was strongly felt, and there are many tales which 
 illustrate this. 
 
 Theodori, Abbot of Evroul, in Normandy, in the 
 middle of the nth century used, we are told, to lecture 
 his monks against idleness, and " also he was wont to 
 tell them this story : " 
 
 " There was a monk in a certain monastery who was 
 guilty of many transgressions against its rules ; but he 
 was a writer, and, being devoted to writing, he of his 
 own accord wrote out an enormous volume of the 
 divine law. After his death, his soul was brought 
 before the tribunal of the just Judge for judgment ; 
 and when the evil spirits sharply accused him, and 
 brought forward his innumerable crimes, the holy 
 angels, on the other hand, shewed the book which that 
 monk had written in the House of God, and counted 
 up all the letters of that enormous volume, as a set-off 
 1 Madan, I.e., 32. 
 
 2 Ducange, Glossarium, says dictare=scribere orationem, 
 epistolam componere. 
 
14 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 against the like number of sins. At length the letters 
 had a majority of only one, against which, however, the 
 demons in vain attempted to object any sin. The 
 clemency of the Judge, therefore, spared the monk, 
 and commanded his soul to return to his body, and 
 mercifully granted him space for the reformation of his 
 life."' 
 
 When the writing is finished the illuminator does 
 what rubrication may be required, colours the initial 
 letters and does the illuminations, on which I must not 
 touch now : the colours used which were made with 
 great care, as the numerous treatises on their prepara- 
 tion evince were primarily gold, red, and blue, less 
 commonly green, purple, yellow, white, and black. 
 
 The book now written, rubricated and illuminated, is 
 taken to the binder. The common binding in the 
 Middle Ages for books of some size and interest was 
 leather, plain or ornamented, white or brown, fastened 
 over solid wooden boards, with raised bands, four or 
 five in number, across the back. The sewing of the 
 sheets and passing of the threads over these bands 
 usually results in a firmness and permanence which no 
 ordinary book possesses : not infrequently the solid oak 
 sides may have given way under violent treatment, 
 while the sewing remains perfectly sound. In general, 
 however, the oak sides are as permanent as the back, 
 and the solid pegging, by which the parchment strings 
 projecting from the thread-sewn back are wedged into 
 the small square holes and grooves cut in the oak 
 sides, is a sight worth seeing for workmanship and 
 1 Maitland, I.e., 268. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 15 
 
 indestructibility. But for appearance sake in mediaeval 
 times the finest books received an ivory, silver, or 
 even gold binding, and the sides were carved or worked 
 into embossed figures and set with jewels ; and some- 
 times even wooden sides were highly ornamented. 
 Thus the Latin Gospel of St. John, taken from the 
 tomb of St. Cuthbert, and now at Stonyhurst, is 
 described as bound (in the ioth or nth century) in 
 boards of thin wood covered with red leather. 1 
 
 As examples of elaborate bindings, we read 2 that 
 Leo III., in the beginning of the gth century, gave a 
 copy of the Gospels -so ornamented with gold and 
 precious stones, that it weighed 17 lbs. 4 oz. ; Benedict 
 III. gave one to the Church of St. Calistus adorned 
 with gold and silver of nearly the same weight. In 
 Ireland, but rarely elsewhere, we find a " theca " or 
 " cumdach," a case in which a volume was kept ; and 
 on this, instead of the volume itself, the richest work 
 was lavished. It is pleasant to read that in the 12th 
 century England was before all foreign nations in 
 binding London, Winchester, and Durham having 
 distinctive styles. 3 
 
 With regard to the arrangement of the library, it 
 would seem that in many, if not most, places the books 
 were scattered about in the cloister, refectory or church, 
 and were probably kept in presses or cupboards, as we 
 know they were at Durham and Worcester ; but as the 
 number of books increased and the inconvenience of 
 
 1 Madan, I.e., p. 40. 2 Maitland, I.e., p. 72. 
 3 Madan, l.c, p. 41. 
 
l6 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 the old system became greatly felt, a separate room 
 was devoted to the books or a new one built, generally 
 over existing buildings, in the 14th and 15th centuries, 
 as at Christ Church, Canterbury, at Durham, at Bury 
 and Wells, over the cloisters : at Wells there seems to 
 have been a library, as we know it, from very early 
 days. 
 
 When books were first placed in a separate room for 
 the use of the monks, the piece of furniture used was 
 an elongated lectern or desk, of a convenient height for 
 a seated reader to use, the books being chained to a bar 
 at the top : this was the case at Bury, and at Pembroke 
 and Queen's Colleges, Cambridge, but can hardly have 
 been the sole system anywhere for very long, as it was 
 very extravagant of space, and the bookcase plan we 
 know was in use at Merton College, Oxford, in the 
 library built by Wm. Reade, Bishop of Chichester, in 
 1368 85 ; it has been so little varied from, that it may 
 be taken as a type of a mediaeval collegiate or monastic 
 library. 
 
 To this type the library at Wells conforms ; it is a 
 long narrow room with equi-distant windows, the book- 
 cases standing at right angles to the walls in the spaces 
 between each pair of windows, in front of which is the 
 seat for the reader. 
 
 It is said that the first library 1 arranged in the way 
 with which we are familiar, namely with the bookcases 
 set against the walls instead of at right angles to them, 
 is that of the Escurial; the cases being made in 1584 
 and Mr. J. W. Clark believes that Sir Christopher Wren, 
 1 Clark, Mediaval and Renaissance Libraries, p. 36 
 

 
 3 
 
INTRODUCTION. 17 
 
 when he built Trinity College Library, Cambridge, in 
 1695, was the first English architect who ventured to 
 build a library with windows which, as he says himself, 
 u rise high and give place for the desks against the 
 walls." 1 
 
 We have small materials for ascertaining the numbers 
 of volumes in the principal libraries ; we read of a 
 copiosissimus Humerus, and an ingens bibltotheca, but 
 numbers are wanting ; we have some clues, however, 
 in the catalogues and notices of libraries still extant. 
 When the Abbey of Peterborough was burned by the 
 Danes in the year 870, there was a large collection of 
 books destroyed " sanctorum librorum ingens biblio- 
 theca," so says Ingulph of Croyland. What his idea 
 of a large collection was, is not easy to say ; but he uses 
 no such expression in speaking of the library of his 
 own monastery, which was burned in his own time 
 i.e. in a.d. 1091. 3 
 
 Dr. James estimates the number at Bury as about 
 2,000 ; that at Durham, St. Alban's, Winchester, 
 Glastonbury, and perhaps one or two other great 
 Abbeys, was probably greater. 3 
 
 With regard to the use of books in mediaeval days, it 
 is interesting to read some of the regulations as to 
 them. The canons of Aelfric, written between the 
 years 950 and 1000, were addressed to Wulfin, Bishop 
 of Sherborne, and were in such a form as that he might 
 
 1 Vide loc. cit,, p. 51. 2 Maitland, I.e., p. 229. 
 3 On the Abbey of St Edmund at Bury, p. 3. 
 
 3 
 
l8 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 communicate them to his clergy, as a kind of episcopal 
 charge. The 21st canon orders: "Every priest also 
 before he is ordained, must have the arms belonging to 
 his spiritual work namely, the Psalter, the Book of 
 Epistles and the Book of Gospels, the Missal, the Book 
 of Hymns, the Manual, the Calendar, the Passional, 
 the Pcenitential, and the Lectionary. These books a 
 priest requires' and cannot do without, if he would 
 properly fulfil his office, and desires to teach the law to 
 the people belonging to him. And let him carefully see 
 that they are well written." 1 
 
 In the 48th chapter of the Rule of St. Benedict, 
 Of Daily Manual Labour, we read : " Idleness is the 
 enemy of the soul ; hence brethren ought, at certain 
 seasons, to occupy themselves with manual labour, 
 and again at certain hours with holy reading. . . . 
 Between Easter and the calends of October let them 
 apply themselves to reading from the fourth hour till 
 near the sixth hour. After the sixth hour, when they 
 rise from table, let them rest on their beds in complete 
 silence ; or, if any should wish to read to himself, let 
 him do so in such a way as not to disturb anyone else. 
 . . . From the calends of October to the beginning 
 of Lent let them apply themselves to reading until the 
 second hour. . . . During Lent, let them apply 
 themselves to reading from morning until the end of the 
 third hour . . . and in these days of Lent, let 
 them receive a book a-piece from the library, and read 
 it straight through. These books are to be given out 
 at the beginning of Lent. It is important that one or 
 1 Maitland, I.e., p. 28. 
 
INTRODUCTION. IO, 
 
 two seniors should be appointed to go round the 
 monastery at the hours when brethren are engaged in 
 reading, in case some ill-conditioned brother should be 
 giving himself up to sloth, or idle talk, instead of 
 reading steadily; so that not only is he useless to 
 himself, but incites others to do wrong." 1 
 
 To this Archbishop Lanfranc's Statute for English 
 Benedictines, dated 1070, is supplementary : 2 it was 
 based, as he himself tells us, on the general monastic 
 practice of his time : " On the Monday before the first 
 Sunday in Lent, before brethren come into the Chapter 
 House, the librarian shall have a carpet laid down, and 
 all the books got together upon it, except those which 
 a year previously had been assigned for reading. These 
 brethren are to bring with them, when they come into 
 the Chapter House, each his book in his hand. . . . 
 Then the librarian shall read a statement as to the 
 manner in which brethren have had books during the 
 past year. As each brother hears his name pronounced, 
 he is to give back the book which has been entrusted to 
 him for reading ; and he whose conscience accuses him 
 of not having read the book through which he has 
 received, is to fall on his face, confess his fault, and 
 entreat forgiveness. 
 
 " The librarian shall then make a fresh distribution of 
 books, namely, a different volume to each brother for 
 his reading." 
 
 We find Wm. Curteys, Abbot of Bury in 1429 1445, 
 setting forth in a mandate that books so given out as 
 above, had been lent, pledged and even sold by the 
 1 Clark, I.e., p. 14. 2 Clark, I.e., p. 35. 
 
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 brethren, and prescribing punishment for the offenders; 
 and by a further monition he orders that, within fifteen 
 days of the notice, all library books in the possession of 
 the monks are to be produced before the Abbot, under 
 pain of suspension from divine offices. 1 
 
 The Cistercians and Carthusians provided for the 
 loan of books to outsiders under certain conditions, and 
 the practice was, at a later date, adopted by the 
 Benedictines : and both the Augustinians and the 
 Praemonstratensians permitted their books to be lent 
 on the receipt of a pledge of sufficient value : this 
 practice has been the means of preserving the names 
 of some books in Somerset libraries, as will be seen 
 hereafter. 
 
 Many records are extant dealing with such loans and 
 securities. To a request for a loan of books, an Abbot 
 replies: "Although you desire to have the books of 
 Tully, I know that you are a Christian and not a 
 Ciceronian. But you go over to the camp of the enemy, 
 not as a deserter, but as a spy. I should therefore 
 have sent you the books of Tully which we have, De 
 re Agraria, Phillipics, and Epistles, but that it is not 
 our custom that any books should be lent to any 
 person without good pledges. Send us, therefore, the 
 Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius and Origen on the 
 Canticles." 2 
 
 Some of the advantages to be derived from reading 
 were very clearly and charmingly set out to his con- 
 temporaries, and, happily for us too, by Richard de 
 Bury (Dean of Wells in 1333, afterwards Bishop of 
 1 James, I.e., p. no. 2 Maitland, I.e., p. 175. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 2T 
 
 Durham) in his Philobiblon (written in 1344) in the chapter 
 on the " Complaint of Books Against the Clergy 
 already promoted." " Having given you Grammar to 
 suckle you, next we clad you with the goodly garments 
 of philosophy, rhetoric, and dialectic, of which we had 
 and have a store, while ye were naked as a tablet to be 
 painted on. For all the household of philosophy are 
 clothed with garments, that the nakedness and rawness 
 of the intellect may be covered. After this, providing 
 you with the fourfold wings of the quadrivials that ye 
 might be winged like the seraphs and so mount above 
 the cherubim, we sent you to a friend at whose door, it 
 only ye importunately knocked, ye might borrow the 
 three loaves of the knowledge of the Trinity, in which 
 consists the final felicity of every sojourner below." 
 
 Who could refuse to follow so delightful a leader into 
 the thorny ways of mediaeval learning ? the course of 
 which was twain, or rather sevenfold : the Trivium, 
 including Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric the in- 
 troductory Arts : the Quadrivium, the four sciences of 
 Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, and Astronomy. 
 
 The Philobiblon is a hard book to refrain from, and one 
 other, rather lengthy, passage clamours for quotation, 
 as it throws such a vivid and searching light on the 
 student of the time. In his chapter, " Of Showing Due 
 Propriety in the Custody of Books," the Bishop, after 
 adducing reasons why books should be well treated, 
 goes on : " Wherefore we deem it expedient to warn our 
 students of various negligences, which might always be 
 easily avoided, and do wonderful harm to books. 
 
 "And in the first place as to the opening and closing 
 
22 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 of books, let there be due moderation, that they be 
 not unclasped in precipitate haste, nor when we have 
 finished our inspection be put away without being 
 duly closed. For it behoves us to guard a book much 
 more carefully than a boot. 
 
 11 But the race of scholars is commonly badly 
 brought up, and, unless they are bridled in by the 
 rules of their elders, they indulge in infinite puerilities. 
 They behave with petulance, and are puffed up with 
 presumption, judging of everything as if they were 
 certain, though they are altogether inexperienced. 
 
 "You may happen to see some headstrong youth 
 lazily lounging over his studies, and when the winter's 
 frost is sharp, his nose running from the nipping cold 
 drips down, nor does he think of wiping it with his 
 pocket-handkerchief until he has bedewed the book 
 before him with the ugly moisture. Would that he had 
 before him no book, but a cobbler's apron ! His nails 
 are stuffed with fetid filth as black as jet, with which 
 he marks any passage that pleases him. He distributes 
 a multitude of straws, which he inserts to stick out in 
 different places, so that the halm may remind him of 
 what his memory cannot retain. These straws, because 
 the book has no stomach to digest them, and no one 
 takes them out, first distend the book from its wonted 
 closing, and at length being carelessly abandoned to 
 oblivion, go to decay. He does not fear to eat fruit or 
 cheese over an open book, or carelessly to carry a cup 
 to and from his mouth ; and because he has no wallet 
 at hand he drops into books the fragments that are left. 
 Continually chattering, he is never weary of disputing 
 
INTRODUCTION. 23 
 
 with his companions, and while he alleges a crowd of 
 senseless arguments, he wets the book lying half open in 
 his lap with sputtering showers. Aye, and then hastily 
 folding his arms, he leans forward on the book, and by 
 a brief spell of study invites a prolonged nap ; and 
 then, by way of mending the wrinkles, he folds back 
 the margin of the leaves, to the no small injury of the 
 book. Now the rain is over and gone, and the flowers 
 have appeared in our land. Then the scholar we are 
 speaking of, a neglecter rather than an inspector of 
 books, will stuff his volume with violets and primroses, 
 with roses and quatrefoil. Then he will use his wet 
 and perspiring hands to turn over the volumes ; then he 
 will thump the white vellum with gloves covered with 
 all kinds of dust, and with his finger clad in long-used 
 leather will hunt line by line through the page ; then at 
 the sting of the biting flea the sacred book is flung 
 aside, and is hardly shut for another month, until it is 
 so full of the dust that has found its way within, that it 
 resists the effort to close it. . . . Nor let a crying 
 child admire the pictures in the capital letters, lest he 
 soil the parchment with wet fingers : for a child 
 instantly touches whatever he sees. Moreover, the 
 laity, who look at a book turned upside down just as if 
 it were open in the right way, are utterly unworthy of 
 any communion with books." 
 
 And so delightfully on and on that it is hard to part 
 from the good bishop. 
 
 The great value of the bindings of some mediaeval 
 books subjected them to a peculiar danger that of 
 
24 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 excrustation, the stripping off of the binding, the loss 
 of which was extremely likely to cause the destruction 
 of the MS. itself. This risk of course various things 
 charity and need as well as cupidity were likely to 
 produce. 1 Charity as when all the valuables ("omne 
 ornamentum in auro et argento ") belonging to the church 
 of St. Benignus of Dijon were sacrificed to provide 
 relief for the poor in the famine of a.d. iooi ; or when, 
 five years afterwards, Odilo, Abbot of Clugni, having 
 exhausted all other resources, was obliged to apply the 
 sacred vessels to the same object. Need as when, in 
 order to meet the heavy tax laid by William Rufus to 
 raise money for the purchase of Normandy, Godfrey, 
 Abbot of Malmesbury (" pessimorum usus consilio, 
 quos nominare possem, si peccantium societas crimen 
 alleviare posset magistri," says William the historian), 
 stripped no less than twelve copies of the Gospels ; or 
 when William de Longchamp, who became Bishop of 
 Ely in the year 1190, contributed 160 marks towards 
 the redemption of King Richard, and, to raise the 
 money, pawned thirteen copies of the Gospels, including 
 one of great value which had belonged to King Edgar. 
 
 That books thus pawned did not always find their 
 way back may be imagined. In the case of Bury 
 Abbey, before mentioned, the Abbot recovered some 
 books which had been illicitly pawned or sold, by 
 paying a fine for them, and with great trouble and 
 expense, to the extreme resentment sometimes, we are 
 told, of their possessors ; but the man who would so 
 redeem them was not always at hand. 
 1 Maitland, I.e., p. 218. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 25 
 
 Cupidity is an obvious source of danger. The 
 historian who relates the destruction of Hide Abbey, 
 near Winchester, tells us 1 that Henry, who was bishop 
 of that see from a.d. 1129 to 1174, got the monastery 
 into his hands. After it had been burned, in the year 
 1 141, the monks got out of the ashes sixty pounds of 
 silver and fifteen pounds of gold, and various other things, 
 which they brought to the bishop, who subsequently 
 committed the care of the monastery to Hugo Schor- 
 chevylene, a monk of Clugni, whom he made abbot. 
 This monk having, by the bishop's direction, dispersed 
 thirty out of the forty monks, laid hands on the 
 treasures of the church, and stripped ten copies of 
 the Gospels. 
 
 Of the dangers and loss caused by fire, pillage, 
 ignorance, and dishonesty much is to say ; but enough 
 has perhaps been said of the formation, management, 
 and causes of destruction of books in the Middle Ages 
 to introduce the reader to the particular subject of this 
 paper, leaving something to be said hereafter of that 
 great peril which few of the MSS., which survived the 
 dangers above pointed out, managed to escape. 
 
 Of all the Somerset houses particulars have only 
 been found of the libraries of the following : 
 
 Athelney Benedictine. 
 
 Bath 
 
 Bruton 
 
 Glastonbury 
 
 1 Maitland, I 
 
 Benedictine. 
 
 Austin. 
 
 Benedictine. 
 
 c, p. 219. 
 
26 
 
 SOMERSET MEDLEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Hinton . . . 
 
 Keynsham 
 
 Montacute 
 
 Muchelney 
 
 Taunton 
 
 Wells ... 
 
 Witham ... 
 
 Carthusian. 
 
 Austin. 
 
 Cluniac. 
 
 Benedictine. 
 
 Austin. 
 
 Secular Canons. 
 
 Carthusian. 
 
 A few miscellaneous notices of books which were 
 noted in the course of reading are included, or have 
 been relegated to an appendix. 
 
 In most cases it is feared that these particulars are 
 very scanty : in some, indeed, the lists given are 
 compiled simply and solely from Boston of Bury's 
 Catalogue ; the books by British authors from the 
 catalogue as printed by Tanner (Bibliotheca Britannico- 
 Hibernica : London, 1748, Preface xxv.) ; the books by 
 foreign authors from the MS. in the British Museum, 
 Royal MS. 3 Di. 1 The nature of the work involved 
 in compiling these lists will be best understood from a 
 short but admirable description of the Catalogue which 
 I take the liberty of quoting from Dr. M. R. James, 2 
 who, after describing certain of his sources of informa- 
 tion, continues: 
 
 "There is another source, and a very important one, 
 from which we can gain particulars of the former 
 contents of the Bury Library. This is the Comparative 
 Catalogue of Monastic Libraries which was compiled 
 by John Boston, Monk of Bury, in the 15th century. 
 
 1 See Preface, p. 3. 
 3 On the Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury, p. 34. 
 
INTRODUCTION. '27 
 
 This writer, commonly known or not known as Boston 
 of Bury, is said to have flourished about 1410. His 
 book was called Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesice. A com- 
 plete reprint of it has never appeared, but in Wilkins's 
 edition of Tanner's Bibliotheca, 1748, pp. xvii. xliii., 
 will be found the preface and a mutilated form of the 
 text. Boston's work was a great one, and must at all 
 costs be printed in full before any really thorough 
 investigation of ancient English libraries can be under- 
 taken. This excellent man travelled all over England, 
 and part of Scotland, and examined the libraries of 
 195 religious houses. He next constructed an alpha- 
 betical Catalogue of all the ecclesiastical authors whom 
 he found represented, and I fancy included all those, 
 also, whose names occurred in the Catalogus Scriptorum 
 of Jerome and Gennadius. He set down at the end of 
 his notice of each author the title and first and last 
 words of each of his works, and added in the case of 
 each tract a number or series of numbers. In these 
 numbers lies the distinctive part of his Catalogue : they 
 refer to the list of the 195 libraries which he had 
 visited, and indicate that he had seen copies of the 
 work to which they are attached, in the libraries which 
 they indicate." 
 
 Thus to " Cassiodorus super Psalterium " are affixed 
 the numbers xiii., xx., 98. On referring to our list of 
 libraries we find that xiii. is the number of Bath, xx. of 
 Witham, and 98 of Glastonbury. 
 
 The method employed by Boston having been ex- 
 plained, Dr. James proceeds to extract from the printed 
 portion of his Catalogue all the references to Bury that 
 
28 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 occur ; and then adds : " But I must state clearly what 
 the printed portion of the Catalogue is. It was Bishop 
 Tanner's intention to have printed the whole : but 
 Wilkins, his industrious editor, came, I am sorry to- 
 say, to the conclusion that this would not be worth 
 while, and, though he gives the names of all the authors 
 in Boston's list, he only prints the titles of their works 
 and the numbers attached in the case of British 
 authors. I repeat that this is unfortunate, and that we 
 sorely need a complete text of Boston's Catalogus." 
 
 As before stated, an attempt has been here made to 
 go further and deal with the unprinted portion in a 
 similar manner. 
 
 To show fully the system, the numbers of all the 
 Somerset houses in both the forms, as explained in 
 p. xxv. of the preface to Tanner's Bibliotheca, are given 
 below, thus : 
 
 Athelney (Alingeleya) = 97. 
 
 Bath = 180 or xiii. 
 
 = (not mentioned). 
 
 = 98. 
 
 = 195- 
 
 s= (not mentioned). 
 
 = 189 or xxii. 
 
 = 190 or xxiii. 
 
 = 96. 
 
 = 177 or vi. 
 
 = 187 or xx. 
 
 It will be observed that Bruton and Keynsham, the 
 two bouses not mentioned, are Austin, and that four 
 
 Bruton ... 
 
 
 Glastonbury 
 
 
 Hinton ... 
 
 .. 
 
 Keynsham 
 
 
 Montacute 
 
 .. 
 
 Muchelney 
 
 .. 
 
 Taunton 
 
 
 Wells ... 
 
 . . 
 
 Witham 
 
 
INTRODUCTION. 29 
 
 out of the remaining nine which are mentioned are 
 Benedictine. 1 
 
 In the cases of Bath, Glastonbury, and Wells, some 
 few books not recorded to have been in these respective 
 houses are inserted in their lists, because the authors 
 seem to have passed their lives in or belonged solely 
 to them. 
 
 1 And Wells, though a Church of secular canons, is dealt with by 
 Dugdale amongst the Benedictine monasteries. It is strange that 
 the books mentioned hereafter are, with one solitary exception, 
 in MS.; there must undoubtedly have been many printed books 
 in the various houses, but we have no records of them. 
 
30 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 ATHELNEY. 
 
 Of the room in which the books were at Athelney we 
 know nothing. Bury found there : 
 
 Anselm. Monologion. 
 
 Ambrosius. De fuga seculi. 
 
 De morte vel excessu fratris. 
 
 Augustinus. De peccatorum meritis et remissione 
 et baptismo parvulorum. 
 De baptismo contra Petilicianum. 
 De gratia Novi Testamenti ad Honoratum. 
 De spiritu [et] anima [ad] Marcellinum. 
 De vera innocentia qui et vocatur liber senten- 
 
 tiarum Prosperi. 
 De lapsu et reparatione hominis. 
 Sermo de laude caritatis. 
 De eo quod scribitur Respice teipsum. 
 Super mulierem fortem. 
 
 Bernardus. Super cantica canticorum. 
 
 Hainio. Super epistolas Pauli. 
 
 Hugo [de St. Victore] . De clericali disciplina. 
 De archa Noe. 
 De arra anime. 
 
 Jeronimus. Contra Vigilantium de indurato corde 
 Ph [ara] onis. 
 De nativitate beate Marie contra Elvidium. 
 
ATHELNEY. 31 
 
 Joannes Crisostomos. De compuncione cordis. 
 De jejunio et elemosina. 
 De confessione et penitentia. 
 Quod homo prelatus est omni creature. 
 
 Ysidorus. De sapientia. 
 
 Super vetus testamentum. 
 
 1. In the British Museum is a MS. Cotton Nero 
 D11., fo. 86, being the charter of foundation of this Abbey 
 by Alfred in a.d. 888. 1 
 
 2. Bishop Tanner notices a Register of this Abbey 
 as penes Wadham Windham in 1662; and Collinson 
 quotes a Register (probably the same), but neglects to 
 say in whose custody it was in his time. 
 
 1 Dugdale, Mon. Aug., ii., 405. 
 
32 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 AXBRIDGE. 
 
 Here are a few books belonging to the Corporation, 
 of which the following, of earlier date than the Refor- 
 mation, may have also belonged to the community 
 before that date : l 
 
 i. A short Latin Chronicle (a compilation probably, 
 in the earlier part, from the Abbreviations Chronicorum, 
 of Ralph de Diceto), in small quarto form. 8 
 
 2. A small book of 8vo. size, of probably the 
 beginning of the 13th century, containing the " Con- 
 stitute Extravagans Johannis vicesimi-secundi " and 
 certain Provincial Constitutions : " Incipiunt Consti- 
 tutions Provinciales in Consilio Oxoniae celebrato, 
 editaeque per Dominum Stephanum Cantuariae Archie- 
 piscopum, a.d. MCCXXIL, et anno regni Regis Henrici, 
 filii Johannis viii. In primis, de sententia Excom- 
 munications Majoris." 
 
 3. A large leaf of parchment, carefully preserved, 
 on which is entered a later copy of the account given 
 of King Edmund's escape, while hunting, in the 
 Chronicle above-mentioned. The writing in this case 
 is of about the middle of the 15th century, certainly 
 later than the other. 
 
 1 Hist. MSS. Comm., iii., p. 300, where these books and other 
 documents of later date are carefully described. 
 
 2 Extracts from this are given in S.A.S.P., xv., p. 21. 
 
AXBRIDGE. 33 
 
 4. A small quarto book, in good condition, within a 
 cover of stout vellum, upon the outside of which is 
 written " The Stentar," it being an Extent Book, or book 
 of valuation of property, belonging to the corporation. 
 The first part was written apparently in the reign of 
 Henry VI.; the latter part in that of Edward IV. It 
 is full of curious matter as to the ancient localities of 
 the place. 
 
34 SOMERSET MEDLEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 BATH. 
 
 In the library of this Abbey Bury found copies of the 
 following works : 
 Ambrosius. Super Lucam lib. IV. 
 
 De xii. Patriarchis. 
 
 De fide. 
 Athanasius. De trinitate. 
 Augustinus. Super genesin ad literam. 
 
 Omeliae ejusdem. 
 
 De pastoribus. 
 Cassiodorus. Super psalterium. 
 Gregorius [magnus] . Speculum. 
 Jeronimus. Super Ezechielem. 
 
 Super Ysaias. 
 
 Super Daniel. 
 
 Super Psalterium. 
 Origines. Super vetus testamentum. 
 Prosper. De vita activa et contempliva. 
 Yvo [canoconsis (sic) for Carnotensis ! ] 
 
 De neophitorum. 
 
 Epistole. 
 
 The following books no longer extant, or not known 
 to be, were probably in this library : 
 
 Bodeca 1 sive Dudoco [episc. Bathon. et Wellen. 
 a.d. 103S] Compilationem temporum lib. i. 
 De translatione reliquiarum lib. i. 
 1 Tanner, Bibl., p. 109. 
 
BATH. 35 
 
 Hadrianus Castellensis 1 [episc. Bathon. a.d. 1504] . 
 De sermone Latino et modis Latine loquendi. 
 Venatione ad Ascanium card. S. Viti lib. i. 
 Iter Julii ii. Romani pontificis carmine heroico 
 
 lib. i. 
 De vera philosophia lib. iv. 
 
 Henricus de Bathonia [jurisperitus] Quaedam de 
 municipalibus Angliae. 2 
 
 Livius, Titus. Elogium episcopi Bathon. carm. 
 hexam. 3 
 
 Mauritius [Fordanus sive Somersetus] . 
 
 De schemate pontificali : dedicated to Regi- 
 nald, Bishop of Bath. 4 
 
 (ft.) The following books no longer extant are 
 recorded to have been in the library : 
 
 De synodis pontificiis, given by King Ethelstan. 
 Leland says : " A few years ago I was in the library at 
 Bath, where I found some learned books, treasures of a 
 venerated antiquity, given by Ethelstan himself to the 
 monks, as appeared by inscriptions in them. One of 
 these [it was De synodis pontificiis~] attracted me both 
 by its antiquity and magnificence, and I transferred it 
 to the princely library of the most illustrious King 
 Henry VIII." 5 
 
 1 Ibid., p. 368. 2 Ibid., p. 394. 3 Ibid., p. 483. * Ibid., p. 520. 
 
 5 " Paucis abhinc annis fui in Badunensi bibliotheca, ubi reperi 
 aliquot non indoctos libros, venerandae vetustatis thesauros, ab ipso 
 Ethelstano, ut ex inscriptionibus appariit, monachis dono datos. 
 Ex illis unum, captus cum antiquitate turn majestate operis [erat 
 enim De synodis pontificiis] in palatinam bibliothecam illustrissimi 
 regis Henrici octavi transtuli." Comm., p. 160. 
 
36 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Leland also records the following : x 
 
 Isagoge Joannicii. 
 
 Libellus Galeni [ad Maecenatem] . Tempova non con- 
 spirant. Nam Maecenas obiit antequam Galenus 
 floveret. Nisi dicat aliquis, mnltos fuisse Maecenates. 2 
 
 Hiponosticon Laurentii Dunelmensis [carmine de 
 veteri et novo testamento] . Principium rerum. 
 
 Galenus de morbo et accidenti. 
 
 Liber de febribus, quern translulit Constantinus 
 monachus Cassinensis ex lingua Arabica. 
 
 Commentarii Caesaris. 
 
 (7.) The following are books, copies of which are 
 extant, but are not known to have been in this library 
 though they most probably were so : 
 
 1. Athelardus [Mon. Bad. coenobii] De naturis 
 rerum [Bodl. F. ii., 101. MS. Sup. A i. Art. 101. 
 MS. Digby ii. MS. Cotton. Galba E. iv. 6] . 
 
 Tanner, p. 55, says: "The dialogue of Adelard, 
 De causis rerum, is extant in various libraries under 
 the following titles as collected by Oudin : " and he then 
 proceeds to set them out. 3 
 
 Leland, Comm., 201, says that he saw several works 
 of Adelard's, but does not say where, except in the case 
 of his Problems, and that in London, not Bath. 
 
 2. Petrus Blesensis, who was for some time Arch- 
 deacon of Bath and buried there about 1204, wrote 
 1 Collectanea, iii., p. 264. 
 
 2 Or is it possible that this was a copy of Galen dedicated to 
 Beckington (Bishop of Bath and Wells, 14431465), who was styled 
 the Maecenas of his day ? 
 
 3 Dialogus Athelardi, De causis rerum extat in diversis biblio- 
 thecis sub sequentibus titulis, ut cos collegit Oudinus. 
 
BATH. 37 
 
 numerous epistles, etc., many MSS. of which are extant ; 
 it is however unnecessary to mention them as we do 
 not know that any were at Bath, and they are set out 
 in the interesting article on Petrus in the Diet, of Nat. 
 Biog. (See also Stubbs' Lectures on Med. and Mod. Hist., 
 vi. and vii.) 
 
 3. Bytton (or Button) Gul. Episc. Bathon. edidit 
 Constitutiones in Bathoniensi dioecesi observandas, 
 quas Synodales appellant. ' 
 
 4. In the Bodleian Laud G. 87. 
 
 1. Johannitii Isagoge ad Galen Technen. 
 2. Hippocratis Aphorismi et Prognostica. 
 3. Theophilus de urinis. 
 4. Philaretus de pulsibus. 
 5. Galeni Techne. 
 
 \ Viaticum lib. 7. 
 De dictis univ. et par, 
 6. -I Constantini monachi VDe febribus lib. 5. 
 
 De urinis. Omnia ex 
 \ J A rabico trans. 
 
 This should be compared with L eland's list supra. 
 [] . Books which were in Bath Abbey Library and 
 are still in existence : 
 
 5. In the Brit. Mus. Cott. Otho A. iv. 7. Episcopi 
 Bathoniae ab adventu Normannorum a Joanne anno 
 Ch. 1088 ad Radulphum de Salopia h.e. ad annum Ch. 
 1329 cum notatione temporis illorum promotionis et 
 obitus. 2 
 
 6. Galba E. iv. 64. Tractatus Adelardi Bathon. 
 continens dialogum inter ipsum et nepotem de variis 
 philosophicis argumentis. 
 
 1 Tanner, p. 144. 2 Cat. Lib. MSS. Angl. et Hib. 
 
38 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 7. Tiberius B. xii. 1. Opus collectum et compilatum 
 per venerabilem patrem Thomam Bathon. et Wellen. 1 
 episcopum ex Uteris allegationibus conclusionibus et 
 tractatibus nonnullisque aliis negotiis et materiis con- 
 cernentibus jus et titulum Regis Angliae ad regnum et 
 coronam Franciae cum aliis multis quae ea occasione 
 secuta sunt. 2 
 
 8. Julius F. vii. 36. Versus de novem musis ; epita- 
 phium Savarici Episcopi Bathoniensis, cum aliis. 
 
 9. Harleian MS. 3970 is a Register Book of Wm. 
 Holleweye, prior of Bath, and John Clarke, Bishop 
 of Bath and Wells, chiefly of the 28th and 29th years 
 of Henry VIII. ; containing indentures, obligations, 
 leases, etc. 
 
 10. Another Register of the priory of Bath, formerly 
 Sir Matthew Hale's, is in the library belonging to the 
 Society of Lincoln's Inn. It consists of 943 charters, 
 embracing a period from 1100 to 1357-8 ; blank, how- 
 ever, between 1284 1329. 3 
 
 11. The most important MS. relating to the Affairs 
 of the Abbgy 1S the Corpus Christi Coll., Camb., MS. 
 iii. : it was bequeathed to this college, with the rest of 
 his collection, by Archbishop Parker ; it consists of 76 
 charters 30 in A.S., the rest in Latin. 4 
 
 1 Bekyngton. 
 
 2 This was most probably either at Bath or Wells, though 
 possibly at neither. See Dugdale, ii., 280. 
 
 3 Published by the Somerset Record Soc, vol. vii. 
 
 4 Published by the Som. Rec. Soc, vol. viii. See Dugdale, 
 vol. ii., p. 261, where its contents are fully set out and many of the 
 documents printed in the Appendix. 
 
BATH. 39 
 
 12. In the library of the Marquess of Bath at 
 Longleat is the Liber Rubens Bathoniae (the Red Book 
 of Bath), bequeathed to Lord Weymouth in 1703 by 
 Dr. Guidot of Bath. 1 It contains a very miscellaneous 
 collection of documents, some of great interest. An 
 epitaph, copied in it, is said to be in the right 
 arch of the ruinous temple of Minerva, yet standing 
 1582. 
 
 John, Bishop of Bath (1088 1122) implied a bequest 
 of more than one copy of the Gospels to the Abbey 
 Church, when he left to the blessed apostle St. Peter 
 and to his servants, the monks {inter alia), all that he 
 had collected " in ornamentis ecclesiasticis " or, as 
 he proceeded to specify, "in crucibus, in textibus, 
 in calicibus," &c. This would seem to show that these 
 costly books were considered as a part of the treasure 
 of the church, rather than merely as books ; and indeed 
 the bishop bestowed them as a distinct gift from his 
 library, the whole of which he also gave to the church 
 (plenarium armarium meum). 2 The record of this later 
 gift in the Lincoln's Inn MSS. 3 reads : "Johannes Ep. 
 Bathon dedit monachis Bathoniensibus . . . maximam 
 partem bibliothecae . . . et . . . textum etiam 
 Evangelorum utraque parte ornatum." 
 
 Of Galfridus, Bishop of Bath 1123 1135, we read : 
 " Multos libros nobis contulit," 4 and of Reginald, 
 Bishop 1 174 1 191 : " Reginaldus ep. hujus loci . . . 
 
 1 It is fully described in the Third Report of Hist. MSS. Comm., 
 p. 182; and also in the Som. Arch. Society's Proceedings, vol. xxi., 
 
 P ' 57 ' 2 Dugdale, ii., 268. 
 
 3 S.R.S., vol. vii., p. 153. * S.R.S., vol. vii , p. 154. 
 
4-0 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 biliothecam eciam ecclesie nostre pluribus libris 
 ditavit." 1 
 
 " Et fratribus ecclesie S. Petri Bathon. dedit uxor 
 ipsius (Walcini) defuncti . . . necnon et missal" 
 (circa 1086) 2 
 
 Amongst the names of the brothers and sisters 
 rendering yearly anything to this house is that of 
 Agnes, sister of Leonpin, moneyer of Lincoln . . . 
 "and at her death her Psalter or the value of the same 
 at the fair of Boston." 3 
 
 Layton, one of Henry VIII.'s visitors to the 
 monasteries, writing to Cromwell on the 7th August, 
 1535, says : " Ye shall receive a boke of o r lades 
 miracles well able to mache the Canterberie tailles. 
 such a bowke of dremes as ye neuer sawe, which I 
 fownde in the librarie." 4 
 
 And the Prior, writing to Cromwell 6 from the 
 Cathedral Church, says: " I have send y r maistershipp 
 here yn an old Boke Opera Anselmi whiche one william 
 tildysleye After scrutinye made here in my libarye, 
 willed me to send unto youe by the kynge ys grace 
 and comawndment." 
 
 Dated the 24th Sept., 1535. 
 
 Where the library was we do not know. 
 
 1 Idem. 2 "Bath Chartulary," Som. Record Soc, vol. vii., p. 39. 
 
 3 Idem. From the Lincoln's Inn MS., p. I. 
 
 4 Archbold, Som. Religious Houses, p. 35. 5 Idem, p. 43. 
 
BRIDGEWATER. 41 
 
 BRIDGEWATER. 
 
 Here was a College or Hospital of Grey or Franciscan 
 Friars, 1 called by some a Priory [where, as we see from 
 a bond dated Angust, 1298,-' given by the Master of this 
 house, St. John's Hospital, to employ the corporate 
 funds in the maintenance of thirteen poor scholars 
 living within walls, " habiles ad informandum in 
 grammatica,"] there must have been books. 
 
 Angerius Gulielmus, a Franciscan and Master of this 
 College, wrote 3 Elticubrationes in Lucam Evangelistam} 
 
 Somur or Somarius Johannes, a Franciscan, was 
 also of this College. 
 
 Leland says: 5 "Extant ejus opuscula Grantae 
 Girviorum in bibliotheca Petrina. Vidi privatim ejus 
 libellum de Quantate anni." 
 
 1 Dugdale, vi., 662 and 1531. 
 
 2 See Bishop Brokensford's Reg., Som. Rec. Soc, vol. i., p. 268. 
 
 3 Leland, Commentary, 401, says : " Gulielmus Angerius, non 
 exiguae famae Franciscanus cum jam longiuscule scholas frequent- 
 asset Isiacas, decreto procerum suae religionis, gubernationi collegii, 
 quod ad Pontem Gualteri, oppidum Somurotrigum institutum fuit, 
 praeficitur : quo loco, quae ante plureis annos apud Isiacos scripserat, 
 ad limam revocavit. Placuere autori sua elucubrationes in Lucam 
 evangelistam : quas et, maturo quodam recte usus consilio, publicas 
 non sine laude fecit." 
 
 4 Leland, Comm., 401. He also says, Coll. iii., 17, that they were 
 in the library of Clare College, Cambridge. 
 
 5 L.c., 431. 
 
42 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Tanner says 1 he also wrote : 
 
 i. Ad Ricardum regem. [Addit. Bal. MS. Lei. 
 Trin. et MS. Norw. More, 820.] 
 
 2. Calendarii castigationes, lib. i. " Corruptio 
 calendarii horribilis est." Tertium calendarii, lib. i. 
 [MS. Bodl. James, viii. 337. MS. Bodl. Seld. sup. 
 go, and Add. Bal. MS. Trin.] 
 
 3. Astrorum canones, lib. i. De facultatate 
 metrica, lib. i. Calendarium ad merid. Univ. 
 Oxon., anno MCCCLXXXVII. [MS. Bodl. Laud, 
 B. 27.] 
 
 4. Tabulas de luna et aliis planetis uti etiam 
 medii motus solis in singulis 24 horis. [MS. Bodl. 
 Laud, B. 23.] 
 
 5. Calendarium ad merid. Oxon., MCCCLXXX. 
 [MS. Bodl. Digby v. Item MS. Cott. Domit. A. ii. 1. 
 Item Vespas. E. vii.] See Ward Cat., i. 320. 
 
 6. Chronica hujus Joannis. [MS. Cott. Domitian, 
 A. ii. Faustina, A. ii.] 
 
 We have no definite information that any of these 
 books were here, but it is most probable that they were. 
 
 1 Bibl., 681. 
 
BRUTON. 43 
 
 BRUTON. 
 
 i. A Cartulary of this Austin Abbey is in the library 
 of Lord Ilchester, and is published by the Som. Rec. 
 Soc., vol. viii. 1 
 
 2. Tanner mentions " Annales hujus monasterii 
 ab adventu Will. Conq. ad annum 1336 MS. Cotton 
 Otho A. iv. olim e libris magistri Tho. Allen Oxon ; " 
 but the volume perished in the fire at Westminster in 
 1731. 2 Mr. T. S. Holmes says 3 : "In the British 
 Museum among the Cottonian MSS. that were plucked 
 from the fire in 1731 there is (Otho A. iv.) one which is 
 described as Liber annalium Regum per quendam 
 monachum de Bruton." Tanner also mentions: "Mu- 
 nimenta quaedam ad hoc coenobium spectantia penes 
 Dom. FitzHarding" and " Registrum cartae, &c, penes 
 Dom. Berkeley de Stratton a.d. 1719, which were in 
 fact the same." 4 
 
 3. In Quaritch's Rough List, No. 144 (Aug., 1894), 
 is a description of what he calls the Courtenay Prayer 
 Book, a vellum MS. illuminated with about 500 coats 
 of arms, including that of Bruton, where he says this 
 MS. was probably executed circa 1350 ; at the end of it 
 is a list of advowsons in Somerset in the possession of 
 Monsignor le Comte [circa 1415], for Courtenay Earl 
 of Devon [1377 1419] A number of charters relating 
 to this Abbey are in the Archives of St. Lo in the 
 Arrondisement of La Manche, Normandy. 5 
 
 1 See also S.A.S.P., vol. vii., p. 72. 2 Dugdale, vi. 335. 
 3 S.R.S., vol. viii., p. xxx. * Dugdale, I.e. s See S.A .S.P., xix. 94. 
 
44 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 CLEEVE. 
 
 According to Tanner, a Registrum of this Cistercian 
 
 Abbey was, in 1662, in the possession of Wadham 
 
 Windham, Esq., Justice of the Common Pleas, 1 and 
 
 according to the Rev. T. Hugo, who sets out the 
 
 charters at length in the Som. Arch. Proc, vol. vi. 17, 
 
 in that of Sir Hugh Windham, also a Justice of the 
 
 Common Pleas, in 1677, 2 ^ ut which now appears to be 
 
 lost. 
 
 1 Dugdale, v. 732. 
 
 2 According to Dugdale, Origines juridiciales, p. 116. Hugo Windham 
 was a Baron of the Exchequer in 1670. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 45 
 
 GLASTONBURY. 
 
 Of the extent and beauty of this great Benedictine 
 Abbey there is no need for me to speak, and doubtless 
 the room in which was stored its collection of books 
 (one of the most magnificent in the kingdom) was well 
 worthy of the rest of the buildings. Yet of this room 
 and the scriptorium adjoining it we have no recorded 
 details, and not a vestige remains. Of the number and 
 importance of the books there we may gain some idea 
 from what Leland tells us, after he visited the Abbey 
 but a few years before it was dissolved : " I was a few 
 years ago at Glastonbury in Somerset, where is the 
 most ancient, and at the same time most famous, 
 monastery in our whole island; intending, by the favour 
 of Richard Whiting, abbot of that place, to refresh 
 my mind, wearied with a long course of study, when a 
 burning desire of reading and studying inflamed me 
 afresh. This desire, too, came upon me more quickly 
 than I thought it would. So I straightway betook 
 myself to the library, which is not open to all, to 
 diligently open out the relics of most sacred antiquity, 
 of which there is so great a number as is not easily 
 found in any other part of Britain. Scarcely had I 
 crossed the threshold when the mere sight of the most 
 ancient books took my mind with an awe or stupor of 
 some kind, and for that reason I stayed my steps a 
 
46 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 little while. Then having paid my respects to the 
 deity of the place, I examined all the bookcases for 
 some days with the greatest interest. During the 
 examination, in addition to many other specimens of a 
 noteworthy antiquity, I found a fragment of a History 
 written by Melchinus, from which, with some diligence, 
 I made the following notes." l 
 
 Even before the great fire in 11 84 there was a great 
 collection of books there, for, speaking of them, p. 38, 
 he says: "una cum libris vetustissinus [quorum erat 
 ingens Glessoburgi antequam conflagraret numerus]." 
 
 A remark, too, of his in reference to his search for the 
 works of Gildas shows his high appreciation of this 
 library 2 : "Moreover nothing as yet of the books of 
 Gildas, though I have sought for them with the utmost 
 diligence, feeling almost a sure hope that I should find 
 
 1 Leland, Comm., 41 : " Eram aliquot abhinc annis Glessoburgi 
 Somurotrigum, ubi antiquissimum simul et famosissimum est totius 
 insulae nostrae coenobium, animumque longo studiorum labore 
 fessum, favente Richardo Whitingo ejusdem loci abbate, recreabam; 
 donee novus quidam cum legendi turn discendi ardor me inflam- 
 maret. Supervenit autem ardor ille cituis opinione itaque statim 
 me contuli ad bibliothecam, non omnibus perviam, ut sacrosanctae 
 vetustatis reliquias, quarum tantus ibi numerus, quantus nullo alio 
 facile Brittaniae loco, diligentissime evolverem. Vix certe limen 
 intraveram, cum antiquissimorum librorum vel solus conspectus 
 religionem, nescio an stuporem, animo incuteret meo, eaque de 
 causa pedem paululum sistebam. Deinde salutato loci numine, 
 per dies aliquot omneis forulos curiosissime excussi. Inter vero 
 excutiendum, praeter alia multa admirandae vetustatis exemplaria, 
 reperi fragmentum Historiae a Melchino scriptae, ex quo haec quae 
 sequuntur, non sine diligentia notavi. 
 
 2 Leland, Comm., 55. " Praeterea de Gildae libris hactenus nihil. 
 Quaesivi tamen diligentia quanta potui maxima ; et spes fere certa 
 erat, si non Ventae saltern Glessoburgi aliquid invenirem. At evenit 
 ut ne pagellam quidem offenderim." 
 
GLASTONBURY. 47 
 
 something, if not at Winchester, at least at Glastonbury, 
 but it turned out that I did not meet with a single page." 
 
 The first mention of a book at Glastonbury is in the 
 Carta Sancti Patricii (MS. Ashmole 790 f, 39 b.) Patrick, 
 after an account of his arrival at Glastonbury, says the 
 brothers there showed him certain writings of the 
 Saints Phaganus and Deruvianus which told of the 
 founders of the church. He also refers to more recent 
 documents, and gives a description of his ascent of the 
 hill (the Tor) where, in an old oratory, he and his 
 comrade found a volume in which were written the 
 Acts of the Apostles, together with the acts and deeds 
 of Saints Phaganus and Deruvianus in great part 
 destroyed. At the end of this volume he found a 
 relation of the building of the oratory in honour of 
 St. Michael. 1 
 
 Concerning this charter Gerard Vossius wrote : " This 
 epistle of the legation of St. Patrick we found some 
 years since amongst the MSS. collections of Marianus 
 Victorius, Bishop of Reate, who faithfully transcribed 
 it out of a very ancient MS., belonging to Glaston, 
 
 1 Dugdale, vol. i, p. 25 : " Ostenderunt michi prefati fratres, 
 scripta sanctorum Phagani et Deruviani. In quibus continebatur, 
 quod .... Post multum vero temporis, assumpto mecum Wellia 
 confratre meo, per condensitatem silve, cum magna difficultate, 
 conscendimus cacumen montis qui eminet in eadem insula. Quo 
 cum pervenissemus, aperuit cratorium unum vetustum, et fere 
 dirutum .... locumque diligentius perscrutantes, invenimus 
 volumen unum in quo scripti erant Actus Apostolorum, pariter 
 cum actis et gestis sanctorum Phagani et Deruviani, ex magna parte 
 consumptum. In cujus tamen fine voluminis invenimus scripturam 
 que dicebat, quod predicti Phaganus et Deruvianus, per revelationem 
 Domini nostri Jesu Christi, idem oratorium edificaverunt, in honore 
 sancti Michaelis arch-angeli." 
 
48 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 many years before, when he attended Cardinal Pole, 
 sent legate into England." 1 
 
 Concerning St. Patrick, Leland says {Com., p. 37) : 
 " The authority of William [of Malmesbury] fails one 
 in the attempt to write of Patrick's return, for he 
 concludes the second book of his Vita Patricii with these 
 words : "Now I will at the same time devote my attention 
 and pen to his much desired return to his native land, 
 and his glorious translation to heaven. So much he 
 says ; but I have sought that third book he promised, 
 in many places, and especially in Glastonbury, yet have 
 I never found it. For there was nothing in the 
 Glastonbury copy, in which I expected to find every- 
 thing complete, which was not in the copy I found, a 
 little while before at Medimna, or Christ - church, or 
 Twinhamburne, to give it the older Saxon name." 
 
 And (on p. 38) he adds : " Nempe Patricium dum 
 Turriti montis antiquum oratorium repararet, inter 
 neglectas reliquias librum tantum non consumptum 
 carie reperisse ; in quo descripti erant actus Apostolorum, 
 una cum rebus a Fugatio et Damiano in Brittania 
 gestis." 
 
 Of King Ina we read that, having built a chapel and 
 made numerous gifts for use there, he caused the covers 
 of the books of the Evangelists to be made of 20 lbs. 
 [of silver] and 60 lbs. of gold. 2 
 
 The real founder of the library was St. Dunstan, 
 himself an expert scribe and painter of miniatures, 
 1 Antiquities of Glaston, p 17. 
 
 2 Dugdale i. 23. John of Glastonbury, p. 97 : " Coopertoria librorum 
 evangelii de viginti libris [argenti] et sexaginta mankis auri." 
 
GLASTONBURY. 49 
 
 specimens of his handiwork may yet be seen at 
 Canterbury and at the Bodleian, Oxford (to which latter 
 reference will be made later). Of him William of 
 Malmesbury said : " Et diebus quidem hoc fere modo 
 vivebat, si aliae curae non evocarent, aut hymnodiae 
 jugi, indefessaeque orationi insudaret, aut litterarum 
 studio et librorum emendationi totum diem insum- 
 eret." 1 
 
 Before his time there had only been a few books 
 presented by missionaries from Ireland. 
 
 a The following books are recorded to have been at 
 Glastonbury : 
 
 Britwold, a monk of this Abbey in the time of Cnut, 
 circa 1017, gave to the treasury : 2 
 
 Textus evangeliorum duos, and 
 Collectarium auro illuminatum. 
 Elnotus, also a monk of about the same date, gave : 3 
 * Rabanus de laude crucis, and 
 Librum oracionum auro pictum. 4 
 A list of books which Henry [of Blois, Abbot 11 26 
 1 171] caused to be transcribed circa, 1170 5 : 
 
 * Bibliotheca una. 
 
 * Plinius de Naturali Historia. 
 
 1 See Stubbs' Memorials of St. Dunstan, p. 314. 
 2 John of Glaston, 151. 3 Adam de Domerham, p. 93. 
 
 4 Maitland, Dark Ages, p. 210, supposes these to have been very 
 
 fine copies. 
 
 5 Antiquities of Glaston, p. 141, and Adam de Domerham, p. 317. 
 John of Glaston, p. 168, says : " dedit et librario libros, tarn de officio 
 divino quam de diversis facultatibus, ultra quadraginta." 
 
 * The books marked with an asterisk occur in the list hereafter 
 .given from John of Glastonbury. 
 
 5 
 
50 SOMERSET MEDI/EVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 * Cassiodorus super Psalterium. 
 Tria missalia magna. 
 
 Duo lectionaria [in conventu]. 
 Breviarium [in domo infirmorum] . 
 
 * Jeronimus super Jeremiam et Isaiam. 
 
 * Origines super Vetus Testamentum. 
 
 * Ejusdem Omeliae. 
 
 * Idem super Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos. 
 *Jeronimus super epistolam ad Galathas, et ad 
 
 Ephesios, et ad Titum, et ad Philemonem> 
 volumen unum. 
 
 * Vitae patrum. 
 
 * Collationes patrum. 
 Breviarium [hospitum]. 
 Antiphonarium. 
 
 Pars una moralium. 
 
 * Cyprianus. 
 Registrum. 
 
 Liber dictus Paradisus. 
 
 * Jeronimus contra Jovinianum et Ambrosius contra 
 
 Novatianos, in uno volumine. 
 
 * Septem volumina de passionibus Sanctorum per 
 
 totum anni circulum. (These are very possibly 
 the volumes mentioned on pp. 69 under separate 
 titles and apparently seven in number.) 
 
 Vitae Caesarum. 
 
 Gesta Britonum. 
 
 * The books marked with an asterisk occur in the list hereafter 
 given from John of Glastonbury. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 5 1 
 
 Gesta Anglorum. 
 Gesta Francorum. 
 * Pascasius. 
 
 Radbertus de corpore et sanguine Domini, et 
 
 sententiae quaedam in uno volumine. 
 Liber abbatis Clarevarensis 1 de amando Deo, et 
 
 liber magistri Hugonis [de sancto Victore] 
 
 de xii gradibus humilitatis et de oracione, 
 
 unum volumen. 
 Fisonomia, et Lapidarium, et liber 
 Petri Alfunsi, unum volumen. 
 
 * Retorica prima et secunda, unum vol. 2 
 Quintilianus de causis. 
 
 * Epistola Augustini de oracione Dominica, et 
 
 super Psalmum Miserere mei Deus. 
 
 * Benedictionale unum Episcopale. 
 
 * Decreta Ivonis Carnotensis episcopi. 
 *Jeronimus super xii. Prophetas et 
 
 * Lamentaciones Jeremiae, unum vol. 
 
 * Augustinus de Trinitate. 
 
 * Augustinus super Genesim. 
 
 * Ysidori Etymologiae. 
 
 * Paterius. 
 
 * Augustinus de verbis Domini. 
 
 * Hugo de Sacramentis. 
 
 * Cassianus de Incarnacione Domini. 
 
 * Anselmus cur Deus homo. 
 
 1 Clarevallensis, loc. cit. 2 Probably Bede's. 
 
 * The books marked with an asterisk occur in the list hereafter 
 given from John of Glastonbury. 
 
52 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 The following were transcribed by the order of Prior 
 Thomas about a.d. 1210: 1 
 
 * Psalterium glosatum. 
 
 * Decreta. 
 
 Radulfus super Leviticum. 
 
 * Liber Genesis glosatus. 
 
 * Exodus glosatus. 
 
 * Epistolarum Pauli duo paria giosata. 
 
 * Mathaeus et Marcus. 
 
 * Lucas et Johannes glosati. 
 
 * Deuterononium glosatum. 
 
 Versarius 2 tarn Novi quam Veteris Testamenti. 
 
 * Liber Josuae et Judicum. 
 Duo Missalia. 
 
 * Hamo. 
 
 We now come to an extremely interesting and valuable 
 list of nearly 500 books which were in the library in 
 1247 8. 
 
 An excellent account of this list was contained 
 in a letter by Mr. A. Anscombe in the Athenaum, 
 No. 3589, 8th August, 1896, from which the following 
 description is chiefly taken. 
 
 The catalogue was begun in 1247, 3 and is so dated at 
 first ; in the next year, however, another librarian inter-, 
 
 1 Adam de Domerham, p. 441 
 
 2 Ducange defines this : " Liber Ecclesiasticus, continens versus, 
 qui canuntur in Ecclesia."' 
 
 3 Possibly, as suggested by Merryweather [Bibliomania in the 
 Middle Ages, p. 140], by William Britun, who was librarian for three 
 years v. John of Glaston, p. 444. 
 
 * The books marked with an asterisk occur in the list hereafter 
 given from John of Glastonbury. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 53 
 
 polated a number of titles, and altered the date to 1248. 
 He also corrected his predecessor's classification here 
 and there, and added lists of gifts of books, of purchases 
 and recent transcriptions, and of missals, breviaries, 
 " gradales," " ymnaria," and the like, at the end. In 
 one hand and the other the catalogue preserves the 
 titles of nearly 500 MSS., bound in about 340 volumes. 
 The entries that relate to 264 of these volumes are 
 accompanied by brief memoranda, which tell what 
 state the books were in when they came into the hands 
 of the librarian of 1247. These memoranda may be 
 classified thus : 4 novi, 1 grossa littera, 1 litteris novis, 
 1 litteris minoribus, 1 litteris parvis, 104 boni, 1 bonus 
 et magnus, 3 vetusti set boni, 50 legibiles, 30 parvi 
 set legibiles, 9 vetusti set legibiles, 29 vetusti set legi 
 possunt, 4 veteres, 24 vetusti, 8 vetustissimi, 1 1 vetusti et 
 inutiles, 12 inutiles. The obviously neglected condition 
 of their library is attributable to the great loss that the 
 monks of Glastonbury had suffered on St. Urban's day, 
 May 25th, 1 184. Adam of Domerham (writing c. 1290) 
 says 1 that in this day the church and almost all the 
 conventual buildings " in tumulum cineris rediguntur." 
 [John of Glastonbury has " cumulum."] Adam goes 
 on : " Reliquiarum confusio, thesauri tarn in auro et 
 argento quam in pannis sericis libris et ceteris ecclesiae 
 ornamentis direpcio, eciam remotos haec audientes, non 
 immerito posset ad lamenta provocare." [. . . Our 
 author becomes quite Tacitean , " Monachos igitur, 
 
 1 Historia de rebus Gestis Glastoniensibus, p. 333 [not 33, to which 
 the printers have reduced Mr. Anscombe's reference by an omission 
 of either an hundred, an unit, or a ten.] 
 
54 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 pristinae felicitatis memores, dolor angebat vehemencior, 
 cum in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum sit 
 genus infortunii fuisse felicem."] 
 
 "With the catalogue of 1248 may be compared the 
 lists in Adam's chapters " De libris quos Henricus 
 fecit transcribere Glastoniae" 1 and "De libris scriptis 
 per Thomam priorem." 2 
 
 The volumes were grouped by the librarian either 
 (1) according to their contents, as bibliotheca, omeliae, 
 decreta, epistolae, historiae, libri de Sancta Maria, 
 passionalia mensalia, vitae sanctorum, regulae, physica, 
 logica, gramatica ; or (2) by authors' names as 
 Epistolae Pauli, Ambrosius, Ysidorus, etc. 
 
 "Epistolae" [Cipriani, Fulberti, Senecae, quorun- 
 dam episcoporum, etc.] contains only five volumes ; on 
 the same folio [pp. 434-5] occur " Ysidorus," which 
 contains three, and, after four other volumes which 
 were not classed, " Historiae," in which 28] works are 
 named. 
 
 Mr. Anscombe goes on to say that it is to be observed 
 
 (1) that the Glastonbury librarian of a.d. ^1247 did 
 not catalogue his copy of Gildas among " Epistolae"; 
 
 (2) that he did not call it " Epistola" when giving the 
 title of it; (3) that he entitled it "Liber de excidio 
 Brittaniae"; and (4) that he catalogued it among 
 " Historiae." 
 
 The list now given is transcribed from John of 
 Glaston, pp. 423 444. 
 
 1 See supra, p. 49. ~ See supra, p. 52. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 55 
 
 . , . . , .Ex Cod. 
 
 Numerus librovum Glastoniensis ecclesia, qui fucrunt de ^jg. coll. 
 
 librario anno gracia. M. CC. XL . l VIP [I.] Cantabr. 
 
 Fol.io2.a. 
 f Biblioteca una in duobus volu- + [item vm, biblia 
 
 minibus. Alia bibliotheca inte- integra exceptis eu- 
 
 angeliis & epistolis 
 gra vetusta, set legibihs. Pauli ac pr0 p he tis 
 
 Bibliotheca? integrae minoris litterae minoribus. 
 
 or t Item prima pars 
 
 nil [vii & s nn ta .] Dimidiapars uhUx usque ad 
 
 bibliothecae incipiens a Psalterio. Y ] 
 
 i Biblio- 
 
 theca. 
 
 Alia ver- 
 
 vetusta. 
 Bibliotheca magna versificata. 
 
 sificata in duobus voluminibus. 
 [Biblioteca? tres versificatae.] 
 Liber historiarum scolasticarum Petri ma- 
 
 joris. [mi.] 
 
 Psalterium glosatum parvum & bonum. 
 
 Item aliud Psalterium glos. bon. [& 
 
 tercium. Item Psalterium Graece & 
 
 Latine.] Item aenigmata. [supra.] 
 
 Liber genesis glosatus. bonus. 
 
 Penthateucum Moysy & Josuae & Ju- 
 
 dicum sine glosa. vetust. [supra.] 
 Item duo Anglica vetusta & inutilia. 
 [supra.] 
 Moralia libri Genesis. 
 Exodus glosatus bonus. 
 
 1 Omnia, uncis inclusa, sunt cl tnanu recentiori. Qua vero punctis sub 
 se positis notavimus, delevit eadem mantis recentior. 2 Lege, nil 1 * 1 , versi- 
 ficata in duobus voluminibus, inferendo hie verba quatuor mox post alia, 
 quo modo etiam plane legend, esse notavit mantis, quam diximus, recentior. 
 
56 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Leviticus expositus bonus. 
 
 Deuteronomium glosatum bonum. 
 
 Josue & Judicum glos. bon. 
 
 Tres libri Salomonis glos. bon. cum Job. 
 
 Diversi h- Cantica canticorum, & liber Sapiencia?,. 
 
 bri de bi- ... 
 
 bliotheca ^ P ars Ecclesiastici, vetust. & sine 
 
 glosa. [supra.] 
 
 Commentum in cantica canticorum. ve- 
 tust. 
 
 Ecclesiasticus & Sapiencia & Ysaias glo- 
 sat. bon. 
 
 Job & tres libri Salamonis glos. bon. 
 [Ewange- Ewangelia Mathaei & Lucse glos. Marci 
 
 lium u- & Tennis non glos. bon. 
 
 num ex J 
 
 quatuor.] Quatuor ewangelia vetust. & sine glosa. 
 
 inutil. 
 Lucas & Johannes in uno volumine glos. 
 
 & bon. [Item Luc. glo.] 
 Ewangel. Johannis glos. 11. paria. parva. 
 Ewangel. Marci glos. bon. [ H Job glos. 
 
 novus. 11 Lamentacio Jeremiae.] 
 Juvencus de ewangeliis, vetust. & inu- 
 til. 
 Exposiciones ewangeliorum. [ IT Cantica 
 
 canticorum glos.] 
 Actus Apostolorum, libri 1 libri" duo, 
 
 cum. vii. epistolis canonicis, sine glos.. 
 
 in quorum veteriori est Apocalipsis. 
 [Postillae super Bibliam in sex voluminibus.] 
 1 Redundat. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 57 
 
 11 Episto- 
 lae Pauli. 
 
 IT Augu- 
 stinus. 
 
 Epistolae Pauli glos. n. paria bona. 
 Epistolae Pauli ad Romanos expositae. veteres. 
 
 [*a . ." Ambrosius. supra.] 
 Item epistolae Pauli, vetust. sine glos. &] inu- 
 Item epistolae Pauli, vetustae & expositae. J ^ es 
 Epistolae Johannis, Jacobi, & Petri, glos. bom 
 Sermo 2 Johannis" Constantinopol. in epistol. 
 
 ad Hebraeos. Inutil. [supra.] 
 Augustinus super Psalterium. volumina tria. 
 
 bon. 
 Augustinus de civitate Dei. bon. 
 Augustinus super genesim. bon. 
 
 [in eodem 
 
 Augustinus de Trinitate bon. [Item Augu- 
 
 volumine] , 
 
 stinus de perfectione. Justificacio hominis 
 ad Paulum.] 
 
 Augustinus de verb, domini. bon. 
 
 Confessiones Augustini. bon. 
 
 Augustinus de oracione dominica, in quo sunt 
 quaedam alia, s. de simbolo. exposicio ejus- 
 dem super Psalmum. l. epistola ejusdem, 
 ne commorentur cum mulieribus. Epistola 
 Cipriani de opere & elemosina. Exposicio 
 Origenis super Exodum & Leviticum. bon. 
 
 Augustinus de fide & simbolo & caritate, cum 
 multis aliis sermonibus ejusdem. duo paria 
 vetust. 
 
 Liber de quadrifario beati Augustini & de 
 
 compoto. vetust. set legibilis. 
 
 1 Delend. Calami nimirum est error. 2 Hujus vocis vestigia 
 
 tantummodo remanent. 
 
58 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIiEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 [AugU- 
 stinus 
 
 De quantitate animae. 
 Unde malum. 
 De libero arbitrio li. n. 
 De vera religione. 
 De retractatione li. n. 
 De lxiii. quaestionibus. 
 De duabus animabus. 
 De spiritu & anima. 
 De inmortalitate animae. 
 De fide ad Petrum. 
 
 omnia in uno volu- 
 
 mine.] 
 
 II Augu- 
 stinus. 
 
 ' Augustinus de perfeccione hominis & per- 
 
 severancia bona, & quaedam epistolae ejus- 
 
 dem diversis destinatae. vetust. 
 Encheridion Augustini. libri n. unus bonus, 
 
 alius inutilis. 
 Augustinus super Johannem ewan- 
 
 gelistam. 
 Excerpciones Augustini. 
 Augustinus de opere monachorum. 
 Augustinus de vera innocencia & 
 
 de. xii. abusivis. 
 Augustinus de. xii. abusivis. 
 [Augustinus de concordia & admonitio Sancti 
 
 Basilii.] 
 
 omnes 
 vetusti, 
 set legi 
 possunt. 
 
 Ieronimus super xn. prophetas. bon. 
 Ieronimus super Jeremiam & Ysaiam bon. 
 Epistolae Ieronimi. bon. 
 
 Ieronimus super ecclesiasticam historiam. 
 bon, set aliquatenus vetus. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 59 
 
 Ieronimus contra Jovinianum, & Ambrosius 
 
 de pcenitencia. bon. 
 Ieronimus de diversis miraculis martirum. 
 
 legibilis. 
 Ieronimus de assumpcione Sanctse Mariae, & 
 
 sermo Fulberti de nativitate ejusdem. Item 
 f Ierom- ^ tercius sermo de eadem. legibilis. 
 
 Item Ieronimus contra Jovinianum. tractatus 
 
 de. ix. antiphonis contra natale Domini. 
 
 quaedam compendia, excerpta a diversis 
 
 patribus. epistola cujusdam Simeonis de 
 
 erroribus Origenis de vn. gradibus animae. 
 
 conversionem Helenae matris Constantini. 
 
 Ultimo diversas sentencias & sermones pa- 
 
 trum. bon. 
 Ieronimus super Origenem. bon. 
 Ieronimus super Mathaeum. \ vetu . 
 
 t Ieronimus de consonancia euangel. J stissim. 
 
 II Grego- 
 
 Moralia Gregorii super Job. volumina. v [i. 
 quorum, n. novae litterae.] 
 
 Omeliae Gregorii. xl. duo paria, i. novum, 
 aliud vetust. 
 
 Gregorii super Ezechielem libri. n. bon. 
 
 Libri dialogorum Gregorii duo, unus bon. 
 alius inutil. 
 
 Benjamin & sentenciae de quibusdam arti- 
 culis difficilibus [Ricardi de Sancto Vic- 
 tore] in Theolog. & Job glossatus bon. 
 
 Paterius. bon. 
 
6o 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 1 Ber- 
 nard. 
 
 *Fol. 102 
 b. 
 
 IF Orige- 
 nes. 
 
 Libri pastoralis curae tres. omnes vetust. set 
 
 unus legibilis, [& quartus novus, & quintus 
 
 bonus, cum multis aliis.] 
 Moralia Gregorii super Lucam. ve--\ 
 
 tust. set legi potest. J- [supra] 
 
 Vita Gregorii vetust. J 
 
 Altercacio Gregorii inter ecclesiam & sina- 
 
 gogam, & de unitate monachorum, & Apolo- 
 
 geticus Gregorii Nazanzeni. bon. 
 Libri Bernardi super Cantica Canticorum* 
 
 duo. bon. 
 Cantica Canticorum & Lamentaciones Jere- 
 
 miae glos. bon. 
 Liber de virtute gemmarum, & vita Bernardi, 
 
 & miracula S. Thomas, bon. 
 [Bernardus de amando Deo. Item Bernar- 
 
 dus de consideracione, cum diversis epi- 
 
 stolis. 
 Item aliud consimile volumen, in quo sunt 
 
 diversas epistolaa & multa alia.] 
 * Origenes super Pentateucum Moysi, & super 
 
 Josue & Judicum, & super Jeremiam omel. 
 
 xiiii. & omel. ii. super Ezechielem, & n 86 . 
 
 omel. Ieronimi super cantica canticorum. 
 
 bon. 
 J Origenes super epistolas Pauli ad Romanos, 
 
 & Ieronimus super epistolas ad Galathas, 
 
 ad Ephesinos, ad Titum, ad Filomenem. 
 
 bon. 
 Origenes super libros legis Mosaicae. vetu- 
 
 stiss. [supra.] 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 6l 
 
 IT Beda. J 
 
 ' Historiae Anglorum scriptae a Beda. bon. set 
 
 vetust. 
 Excerpcio Bedae de opusculis Augustini in" 
 
 epistolis P. contra quinque haereses. 
 Glosae Bedae & Priscianus de. ill. partibus 
 
 Oracionis, & quaedam alia. 
 Beda de arte metrica [libri n.] 
 Beda de retorica. 
 Item Beda super Lucam. 
 
 1 [continens] 
 
 Ambrosius de sacramentis & ,quaedam alia, 
 s. tractatus magistri Petri Parisiacensis de 
 contrarietatibus theologiae. librum ceri- 
 moniarum edit, a magistro David, tracta- 
 tum Petri Blesensis in Job. Senecam de 
 remediis. descripcionem Britanniae bon. 
 
 Duo libri Ambrosii vetusti super Epistolas 
 Pauli. 
 
 Exameron Ambrosii, s. de opere. vi. dier. 
 & de natura multarum rer. bonus. 
 
 Ambrosius de pcenitencia. legibilis. 
 
 Item pcenitenciale & liber Danielis de som- 
 pniis. vetust. 
 
 f Liber Haimonis de ewangeliis. bonus, [n. 
 
 volumina.] 
 Item duo libri de exposicionibus ewangelio- 
 
 rum. bon. 
 Berengarius super Apocalipsim. legibilis. & 
 
 cantica canticorum exposita. 
 
 i ^Sic, cum puncto sub dv (delend. esse indicante) & continens supra tin. 
 d manu, de qua monuimus, recentiori. 
 
 If Am- 
 brosius. 
 
 ITOme- 
 lise. 
 
62 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Cassiodorus super Psalterium. bon. 
 Epistolae ejusdem. 
 
 [V.] 
 Sentenciae Petri Lumbardi duo paria. bon. 
 [Item quarti libri sentenciarum duo paria. J 
 
 IT Decre- 
 ta. 
 
 Decreta integra in n. voluminibus grossa 
 
 littera. bona. 
 Decreta integra minori littera & bona. 
 .V.] 
 
 fex paria.] 
 Item Decreta nova non tarn bon. 
 CDecretales novae & bon. [n. paria. mi. 
 paria.] 
 Summa fratris Raimundi de pcenitencia. 
 
 bon. [libri. vi.] 
 Prometheus leg. [Item Glosae super de- 
 creta.] 
 Veteres decretales inutiles. [in. paria. 
 Item Casus decretales.] 
 Decreta apparat. bon. [Item Instituta. Item 
 
 Codex.] 
 [Item liber R. de . . diard litt. parvis. 
 Digesta nova. Item Instituta. Item Ulpia- 
 
 nus de edendo. 
 Item liber pauperum.] 
 
 Canones apostolorum libri in. cum quibus- 
 dam conciliis generalibus in primitiva ec- 
 clesia celebratis. vet. set legibilis. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 63 
 
 H Decre- 
 ta. 
 
 Canon Theodori ad remedium pcenitenciae, 
 & interrogaciones & responsiones inter 
 Augustinum Cantuariensem & Gregorium 
 papam. vetust. libri. n. 
 
 Decreta Yvonis Carnotensis episcopi, & ca- 
 talogus Romanorum pontificum, & regum 
 Britannia?, bon. 
 
 Decreta Caroli & Lodovici regum. 
 
 Decreta Gelasii papa?. 
 
 vetust. 
 
 f Specu- 
 lum ec- 
 clesiae. 
 
 I Speculum ecclesiae. 11. libri. bon. [in quorum 
 uno sunt speculum pcenitenciae, eliminacio 
 quorundam errorum, liber de gemmis, Hug. 
 de disciplina.] 
 Item Speculum ecclesiae & Beleth. bon. 
 
 [Liber Amalarii.] 
 
 Liber de arte rethorica, s. de jure civili. bon. 
 
 Hugo de Sacramentis. 
 
 Paschasius de corpore & sanguine Christi, & quaedam 
 
 alia, s. sentenciae super diversis articulis difficilibus 
 
 in theologia. 
 Sermones HUdeberti de dissensione interioris hominis 
 
 & exterioris. 
 quamplurimos sermones a diversis auctoribus ex- 
 
 cerptos. 
 de ecclesiasticis officiis. 
 Ivo Carnotensis de Sacramentis. 
 Item sermones quosdam diversorum patrum. 
 Encheridion Sixti Papae. 
 
64 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 utiles exposiciones super benedicciones Jacob, 
 ultimo quaedam verba compendiosa, a diversis auctori- 
 bus excerpta. bon. 
 
 Arnulfus de operibus sex dierum. 
 
 [qui & apologiticus dicitur.] 
 
 Bernardus de superfluitatibus monachorum. 
 
 idem de gradibus humilitatis. 
 
 liber de Sacramentis ecclesiae. 
 
 Innocencius de miseria humanae condicionis. 
 
 Dissuasio Valeriani ad Rufinum, ne ducat uxorem. 
 
 Arnulfus de sex verbis Domini in cruce. 
 
 ultimo epistolae Alexandri & Dindimi de vita & 
 moribus Bragmannorum, & epistola Alexandri ad 
 Aristotelem de India, bon. [Item Arnulphus de vi. 
 verbis domini in cruce. liber parvus.] 
 
 Anselmus, Cur Deus homo ? epistola ejusdem ad Ur- 
 
 banum papam. 
 liber ejusdem de veritate. 
 Gwimundus, Aversanus episcopus, de corpore & 
 
 sanguine Christi. 
 epistola de azimi & fermentati sacrificio. 
 Anselmus de concordia praescienciae & praedestina- 
 
 cionis & graciae Dei cum libero arbitrio. bon. 
 
 Loco hujus Didascalicon Hugonis de studio legendi, & quaedam 
 
 pronostico- alia, s. topographia Hiberniae. 
 
 rum libri, . 
 
 & ejusmo- hber Senecae ad Callionem de remediis fortuitorum 
 
 di, ad alet , 
 
 signum.w. bonorum. 
 
 Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum de ducenda uxore. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 65 
 
 Tractatus Guliardi A tamo torrida. 
 
 Epistola Petri Blesensis de subversione terrse sanclae. 
 
 quidam sermones utiles. 
 
 regula anachoritarum. 
 
 de arte grammatica. 
 
 versus magistri Johannis Sarebiriensis. utiles, bon. 
 
 Cassianus de incarnacione Christi. bon. 
 Athanasius de Trinitate. bonus. 
 Vitas patrum. bon. [libri n.] 
 
 JS" Collaciones patrum. bon. Hie ponantur Regula Sancti Jo- 
 
 o , T3 i. -d hannis Cassiani. [Item Ex- 
 
 bermones Petri Ravenna- . . ' L . 
 
 posicio regulae Sancti Benedi- 
 
 tis. bon. cti libri. 11.] & diadema mo- 
 
 Liber scintillarum bon. nachorum. sr 
 
 [in.] 
 Libri Baldewini de diversis tractatibus & sermonibus. 
 
 bon. [libri in.] 
 Excerpcio de diversis tractatibus. legibilis. 
 Liber de exortacione Sancti Cassarii episcopi. vetus set 
 
 legibilis. 
 
 Fulgenciusimmo verius Gregorius, de conflictu viciorum 
 
 & virtutum. 
 Oraciones Augustinideconcupiscencia carnis adversus 
 
 Spiritum, sumptae de epistolis Pauli. 
 Oracio Ausonii ad Deum, & monasillaba ejusdem de 
 
 gentibus. 
 versus, l. de quodam superbo. 
 Rufinus de ponderibus & mensuris. 
 ultimo quidam libellus Virgilii. 
 
 6 
 
Regulae 
 Sancti 
 Bene- 
 dicti. 
 
 66 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 IS 3 " Diadema monachorum. [libri. n. bon. i.] 
 
 Summa de virtutibus. [libri. in.] 
 
 Summa de viciis. [libri n.] . 
 
 [Regulae Sancti Johannis Cassiani de vm. viciis. 
 
 Augustinus de concordia & ammonicione Sancti Besilii 
 
 episcopi. 
 Glosae super Regulam Sancti Benedicti. 
 Exposicio Regulae Sancti Benedicti. 
 
 o 
 
 r Regula Sancti Benedicti, cum multis aliis, 
 quam scribere fecit W. Crispin. 
 Item alia, cum multis aliis statutis & con- 
 
 ciliis. 
 Item. 3 a . bona regula, cum multis tractati- 
 bus.] 
 Fol. 103. * Plinius de naturis. bon. 
 
 Rabanus de naturis rerum. bon. 
 
 Rabanus de laude crucis, libri tres, in quorum uno sunt 
 eciam alia, s. de ortu beatae Mariae & Nativitate 
 Christi Salvatoris. 
 
 liber Albini de Divinitate Christi utilis. 
 
 liber ejusdem de racione animae. 
 
 de compoto. 
 
 Actus Apostolorum. 
 
 Septem epistolae canonicae. 
 
 Martinus episcopus de formula honestae vitae. 
 
 Sermo Ambrosii de cupiditate utilis. 
 
 Apocalipsis. 
 
 Priscianus Grammaticus de situ & nominibus terra- 
 rum, cum mappa mundi. bon. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 67 
 
 Rabanus de compoto, & Ysidorus de natura rerum. 
 
 Hildepericus de compoto. 
 
 Epistola Dionisii de ordine Paschse. 
 Supputacio Esdrae & Ysidorus de temporibus mundi. 
 legibilis. 
 
 C Epistolae Cipriani episcopi. bon. 
 Epistolae Fulberti episcopi, & quorundam 
 
 aliorum. bon. 
 Epistolae Senecae. bon. 
 Epistolae vel promissiones quorundam epi- 
 
 scoporum nobilium, & de metallis. legib. 
 Salutaciones diversarum epistolarum. leg. 
 
 IT Episto- 
 lae. 
 
 IT Ysido- 
 rus. 
 
 Ysidorus Ethimologiarum. bon. 
 Ysidorus de Summo bono. bon. 
 Pars Ethimologiarum. \ ve tust. & inutil. In uno 
 { Sinonima Ysidori. J volumine. 
 
 [Item omnes libri Ysidori, de labore G. de Sowy, quos 
 
 adhuc ipse habet.] 
 Liber de consecracionibus inutil. 
 Liber oracionum, & lib. differenciarum Ysidori. 
 Item de conflictu viciorum & virtutum. 
 Item de clericis, & clericorum regulis. legib. 
 Liber Roberti abbatis de benediccionibus Jacob & 
 Moysi. legibilis. 
 ^jg, Regula Sancli Johannis Cassiani de. vin. viciis princi- 
 palibus. legibilis. 
 
68 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Histo- 
 riae. 
 
 r Libri Orosii. n. Latina lingua, tercius in 
 Anglica. vetusti set leg. 
 Egisippus. legibilis. 
 Phreculfus. 
 
 [Titus Livius de gestis Romanorum.] 
 Liber de excidio Trojae & gestis Romanorum 
 
 imperatorum. bonus and magnus. 
 Liber W. monachi Malmesbiriensis, de gestis 
 
 Anglorum. n. paria. bon. 
 Antiquitas Glastoniensis ecclesiae de eodem 
 in duobus locis. 
 ~{ [Beda de gestis Anglorum.] 
 
 Liber Gildae de excidio Britannia?, legibilis. 
 
 Brutus lingua Latina. bon. 
 
 Gesta Normannorum. bon. 
 
 Livius de gestis Romanorum. bon. 
 
 [Liber testamenti. xn. patriarcharum, cum 
 
 Bruto abreviato & aliis.] 
 Gesta diversorum pontificum Romanorum 
 
 bon. 
 Historian Affricanae provincial, & liber ca- 
 
 tholicae fidei. leg. 
 Liber de capcione civitatis Anthiochenae. 
 Gallice. legibilis. 
 [Liber de excidio Trojae, & Solinus de situ orbis ter- 
 
 rarum. leg. 
 Gesta Ricardi Regis. 
 Item gesta Alexandri Regis.] 
 Salustii libri duo. 
 
 Liber terrarum Glaston. vetust. set legibilis. 
 Lib. de consuetudinibus. n. unus editus sub Edgaro, 
 de racionali observancia. legibilis. [alius de Cadomo.] 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 6 9 
 
 vetust. set leg. 
 
 Liber de cronicis. 
 
 Liber de ordine creaturarum. 
 
 Liber de principio & fine seculi, & passiones diver- [Q uaere 
 
 inter pas- 
 sorum martirum. leg. sionales.] 
 
 [Item liber de consuetudinibus Cluniacen.] 
 
 Liber Hildefonsis episcopi de beata Maria. 
 
 bon. 
 Sanctuarium divinum. Miracula de Sancta 
 
 Maria. Vita Sancti Indracti. bon. 
 Liber de virginitate beatse Maria?, bon. & 
 
 quaedam alia, s. vita & gesta Hildefonsis. 
 
 Acta Theophili, qui Christum negavit. 
 
 Liber, Dominus vobiscum. Petri Damiani ad 
 
 Leonem inclusum. Liber Athanasii de mi- 
 
 rabilibus quae fecit ymago Domini, bon. 
 Sermones de Sancta Maria, bon. [libri. in.] 
 Visiones Elizabetht. leg. 
 
 IFDe 
 Sancta / 
 Maria. 
 
 vetust. inutil. 
 
 Liber de diversis sermonibus Anglicis. 
 Item sermones Anglici. 
 Passionale Sanctorum Anglice script. 
 [Item x quidem liber Anglice.] 
 
 Incipiens a Sancto Silvestro. 
 Incipiens a. Sancto Ignacio. 
 Incipiens a. Sancto Elphego. 
 Incipiens a. Sancto Petro. 
 Incipiens a. Sancto Mathaso. 
 Incipiens a Sancto Stephano. 
 Incipiens a Sancto Marciano. 
 Item Passionale plurimorum Sanctorum. 
 1 F. quidam. 
 
 UPassio 
 
 nalia ( 
 mensalia 
 
70 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Passiones quorundam apostolorum & multorum mar- 
 
 tirum. legibil. 
 Passiones Sanctarum virginum. 
 Vita Sancti Gutlaci, & translacio capitis Sancti Ste- 
 
 phani. 
 Vita Sancti Gutlaci & liber Pronosticorum, & de 
 
 animabus defunctorum, & de ultima resurrexione, & 
 
 aenigmata multorum. 
 Vita Sanctorum Gutlaci, Georgii, Erasmi & Eustachii. 
 Vita Sancti Cutberti. 
 Item vita Sancti Cutberti. 
 Vita Sancti Martini, libri. n. 
 Vita beati Abrae, & Sancti Hillarii, & conversio Sanctae 
 
 Pelagiae. 
 Vita Sancti Wilfridi episcopi. 
 Vitas Sanctorum diversorum patrum. 
 Vita Antonii. 
 
 Item liber de vita diversorum patrum. 
 Passiones diversorum martirum, & translacio Sancti 
 
 Benedicti. 
 Vita Sancti Egidii, & passio Sanctae Katerinae. 
 Passiones diversorum martirum. Inventio & exaltatio 
 
 crucis. 
 Translacio Sancti Benedicti, & Passio beati Edmundi. 
 Passio Sanctorum Dionisii, ^Elphegi, Clementis, Be- 
 
 nigni, Neoti, Dunstani & Vincencii. 
 Vita Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae, Marthae & Lazari. 
 Vita Sancti Dunstani & beati Nicholai. 
 Translacio Sancti Benedicti. 
 Vita Pauli, & liber de laude calvorum. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 71 
 
 It Aldel- 
 mus. 
 
 Ammoniciones Sancti Basilii, & Augustinus de con- [Iste liber 
 
 cordia fratrum, & vita Sancti Adelwoldi. Memo- Pf rtmet 
 
 hbris Au- 
 
 randum, quod hii omnes libri de vitis Sanctorum, gustini.] 
 licet vetusti sint, legi tamen possunt. 
 [Invencio Sancti Stephani prothomartiris. Passio vu. 
 dormiencium, & liber Methodii in uno volumine.] 
 
 *Duo libri Aldelmi de laude virginum. pro- * Fol. 103. 
 
 faice. 
 Duo libri ejusdem de virginitate & laude 
 
 Sanctorum, metrice. & de octo viciis. 
 
 omnes legibiles. 
 Item Aldelmus de virginitate, & Prosper & 
 
 [debil.] 
 
 Ieronimus de. xn. scriptorib. 
 
 Duo libri Albini de fide catholica, unus le- 
 
 gibilis, alius inutilis. 
 Duo libri Albini de ortographia, quorum 
 
 unus continet ortographiam Bedae, alter 
 
 lib. Caroli & Alquini de ' Dialetica. leg. 
 Albinus de diversis interrogacionibus & re- 
 
 sponsionibus de Grammatica. leg. 
 
 f Alquinus ad Gwidonem comitem, & de doc- 
 trina Basilii episcopi & exposicio Missae, 
 vetustissim. 
 Epistolae Alquini, Albini & Karoli, & bella 
 Ethelstani regis, & exposiciones diversorum 
 verborum grammat. Vita S. Wilfridi. leg. 
 Liber Alquini ad Gwidonem, & diversae sen- 
 tenciae doctorum. vetustiss. 
 1 Sic. 
 
 T Albi- 
 nus. 
 
 U Alqui- 
 nus. 
 
72 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 x 
 
 Pooantur 
 pro hiis 
 Didasca- 
 ligon Hu- 
 gonis, & 
 ejusmodi. 
 
 Liber pronosticorum. n. in altero sunt aenigmata S* 
 
 Aldelm. vetust. 
 Item liber pronosticorum. 
 
 epistola Idilii episcopi ad Julianum. 
 
 Anselmus de mocione altaris. 
 
 Sermo Caesarii ad monachos. 
 
 Omeliae Eusebii ad monachos. 
 
 Sentenciae diversorum patrum. 
 
 breviarium apostolorum. 
 
 Augustinus contra. V. haereses. 
 
 Septem gradus confessionis. 
 
 Exposicio baptisterii. 
 
 Liber Dindimi de Sancto Spiritu. 
 
 ^iprianum de. xn. abusivis. bonus. 
 Salustius. liber divisionum. epitaphia quorundam no- 
 
 bilium. liber Tullii de Senectute, & de amicicia. 
 
 liber Mithonis. bon. 
 Item Salustius, &. i. liber Oracii. leg. 
 
 ITBoe- 
 cius. 
 
 Boecius de consolacione Philosophise, libri. 
 
 in. bon. 
 Boecius de Arihmetica. lib. n. in uno de 
 
 concordia cordarum. bon. 
 Boecius de Musica. leg. 
 Boecius in 2 Ysagogis Porphirii. leg. 
 Boecius ad Symacum. bon. 
 Boecius de Trinitate. bon. 
 Glosae Boecii de consolacione, & Glosae Theo- 
 
 dol. inutil. 
 
 1 L. Ciprianus. 2 Sic. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 73 
 
 IFPhi- 
 sica. 
 
 Liber medicinae artis, qui dicitur regalis. 
 Glofae magistri Bartholomasi super philo- 
 
 sophiam. 
 Medicinale Anglicum. 
 Viaticus. alius. Dietae universales. 
 Liber graduum. alius. Summa Bartholo- 
 maei. 
 . Tres libri artis medicinae. 
 
 ' Liber Platonis, s. Tbimaeus. bonus. [Item 
 
 liber de anima.] 
 Vetus Logica Aristotelis & Boecii. bon. 
 
 [Liber priorum.] 
 Ysagoge Porphirii, cum categoriis Augustini 
 
 & Aristotelis. bon. , 
 Item categoriae Augustini. bon. 
 HLogica. J Dialetica Marciani Felicis Capellae, & com- 
 
 mentum ejusdem. bon. 
 Liber Caroli & Alquini de Dialetica. leg. 
 Glosae Virgilii & super Thimaeum Platonis. 
 
 inutil. 
 Astronomia. parvus liber legibilis. 
 [Astrologia. inutilis. 
 Noticiae super veterem Logicam. leg.] 
 
 ' Prisciani magni. n. unus bonus, unus ve- 
 tustus. 
 
 omnes le- 
 gibiles. 
 
 If Pris- 
 cianus. 
 
 [Duo] 
 
 Tres libri Prisciani de nomine, pronomine 
 & verbo. vetustiss. 
 v [Item Priscianus minor.] 
 
74 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 IT Pris- 
 cianus. 
 
 Donatus. 
 
 ' Priscianus de nomine & pronomine, & passio 
 
 Sancti Cristofori. inutil. 
 \ Item Priscianus de situ orbis. vetus, set legi 
 
 potest. 
 ^ Priscianus de. xn. versibus Virgilii. legibilis. 
 
 de Gram- 
 Liber Donati & Ysidori Hispalensis, & Pri- 
 
 matica. 
 
 scianus de nomine & pronomine & verbo. 
 
 vet. set legibilis. 
 Edicio Donati de voce & littera, & barbaris- 
 
 mus, & de naturis rerum. vetust. 
 Edicio Donati in. vin. partibus Oracionis. 
 
 vetus. 
 Regula Donati de partibus Oracionis. bon. 
 Commentum in prima & secunda edicione 
 
 Donati. De operibus. vi. dierum. De sex 
 
 aetatibus mundi majoris & minoris. De 
 
 racione temporum. De veteri Testamento. 
 
 De gradibus ecclesiastical dignitatis. De 
 
 fide & simbolo, & vita Cutberti metrice. 
 
 vetust. 
 
 ' Duo libri Smaragdi de Grammatica. unus 
 bonus, alius inutilis. 
 Liber qui intitulatur Grammatica. 
 Liber de. vm. partibus Oracionis. 
 Liber Erchenberti de. vin. partibus Ora- 
 cionis. 
 Pompeius super Donatum, & Albinus de. 
 viii. partibus Oracionis. 
 .[Pompeius de significacione verborum.] 
 
 11 Gram- 
 matica. 
 
 * vetust. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 75 
 
 IT Remi- 
 gius. 
 
 / Commentum Remigii super, vin. partes 
 Oraciones, & super Priscianum Minorem. 
 
 h Commentum Remigii super Juvenalem. 
 Exposicio Remigii super Marcianum de 
 Musica. 
 
 h vetust. 
 
 Duo libri Euticis de verbo. vetustiss. 
 
 Glosaria de significacionibus verborum. vm. vetust. 
 
 Glosae verborum Novi ac Veteris Testamenti. legib. 
 
 Glosae super regulam Sancti Benedicti.^ 
 Lparvi set. leg. 
 
 Exposicio Regulae Sancti Benedicti. J " 
 
 Liber Pompei de significacione verborum. 1 legibilis. 
 
 iEnigmata de Psalmis, s. figurae barbarismi I 
 
 expositae per exampla in Psalmis. j 
 
 Libri ferendi diaconi. n. in uno est sermo Ambrosii, de 
 
 cupiditate. vetus. 
 Lib. Junilii. vetust. 
 Libri Prudencii de ' sicomathia tres. In quorum quo- 
 
 libet sunt quidam alii tractatus de eodem & aliis, 
 
 & quaedam dicta philosophorum. legib. 
 Lib. Fortunati ad Vitalem episcopum. leg. 
 Libri Prosperii. n. In uno sunt versus Bedae de die 
 
 Judicii, & ammonicio Basilii ad monachos. leg. 
 Libri Sedulii. mi. In uno continetur Cato. In altero 
 
 glosae de Grammatica. inutil. 
 Lib. Cap 1 , ad Encherium de Orthographia, & quaedam 
 
 alia. leg. 
 Libri Aratoris de Actibus Apostolorum versificatis, v q; . 
 
 bon. 
 Glosae Aratoris. legib. 
 
 1 L. Psychomachia 
 
76 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Virgilius Eneidos cum Georgicis & Bucolicis. bon. 
 
 Item alius ejusdem vetust. 
 
 Exposicio Servii super libros Virgilii. bon. 
 
 Lib. Persii. bon. 
 
 Anteclaudianus. bon. 
 
 Claudianus major, bon. 
 
 Lib. Aniani, & Vita Sancti Wilfridi metrice bon, 
 
 Liber Catonis cum bestiario. bon. 
 
 Cornutus super Focam. 
 
 Item Cornutus super Focam, & Priscianus de. xn. 
 
 versibus Virgilii, & Fulgencius super fabulas phi- 
 
 losophice expositas, & quaedam alia. 
 Liber : Osopis Atheniensis de fabulis. 
 [Missalia. vn. praeter. xvi. quae ad diversa sunt alta- 
 
 ria. Collect, x. Perer. x. Benedictionale episcopale. 
 
 Benedictionale S. Dunstani. Gradalia nova. vin. & 
 
 mi or . vetusta. Troparia. xiiii. Processionalia. xin. 
 
 Aspiciens. x. O Pastor, x. Lib. epistolarum. n. 
 
 Ymnarium glos. & n. non glos. 2 Martilogia. n. 
 
 Ordinalia. n. Breviaria. v q: . 
 Beda de arte rethorica. Passiones Sanctorum marti- Amissi. 
 
 rum, & Translacio S. Benedicti. Item Translacio 
 
 Sancti Benedicti. Priscianus de nomine & prono- 
 
 mine & verbo. Regula de gestis & capcione Hy- 
 
 berniae. & quaedam alia in eodem volumine. Fre- 
 
 culfus. 
 
 Libri Ricardi de Culmtone. 
 3 Tancredis de matrimoniis. 
 
 Casus Decretalium rerum de dispensacione & praecepto. 
 1 Sic. * Sic. 3 Sic. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 77 
 
 Tancredus & quaedam novae Decretales. 
 Boecius de disciplina scolarium, & barbarismus. 
 Item Boecius de disciplina scolarium. 
 Vetus Logica, & lib. Elencorum. 
 Topica Aristotelis. Pricianus de construccionibus. 
 Porphirius. . liber sex principiorum. n. paria. 
 x Sancate Grammatica, cum barbarismo.] 
 
 *Libri recepti a fratre Galfrido de Bathonia per manum *Fol. 104. 
 
 W. Britone, tunc praecentoris Glastoniae. 
 " Summa de viciis. 
 " Libri. iiii. Sentenciarum, cum quibusdam omeliis 
 
 dominicalibus Gallice scriptis. 
 "Summa magistri Johannis de Albewilla super epis- 
 tolas et ewangelia dominicalia tantum, & quasdam 
 omeliae super ewangelia dominicalia, & quidam 
 tractatus de. vn. viciis secundum Willelmum de 
 Abundone. 
 ** Quaedam moralia super Psalterium per diversa loca. 
 *' Summa 2 qui intitulatur, Parvus Ordimrius, & Summa 
 qui intitulatur, libellus Judiciarius. 
 Item libellus ad omnes materias in jure 3 canonice 
 
 inveniendas. 
 Item quoddam compendium rubricarum super Decreta. 
 Item Summa Raimundi. 
 Quidam tractatus super Decretales de natura cujus- 
 
 libet tituli. 
 Item casus Decretalium. 
 Item & quidam sermones diversi. 
 Quidam liber de diversis tractatibus & multis. 
 1 Sic. 2 Sic. 3 F. canonico. 
 
78 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 " Hii sunt libri conscripti & empti per fratrem Willel- 
 mum Britun, qui praecentor Glastoniae fuit per 
 triennium, 
 
 s. Missale, 
 
 Liber ^uuangelia. 
 
 Lib. epistolarum. n. 
 
 Aspiciens. II. 
 
 O pastor. 
 
 Gradale n. 
 
 Lib. cum responsor. & Alleluia. 
 
 Exposicio Haymonis de euuangeliis aestivialibus. i. 
 
 Psalterium. 
 
 De legenda totum temporale in duobus volumini- 
 bus, & tercium de beata Maria. , 
 
 2 Librum mortuorum. 
 lib. Priorum. 
 
 Bernardum de consideracione, cum diversis 
 
 epistolis. 
 Item aliud consimile volumen, in quo sunt 
 
 diversae epistolae, & multa alia. 
 Praeter haec unam bibliothecam bonam scripsit 
 
 manibus suis. 
 H Libri qui fuerunt Laurencii. 
 Pricianus de construccione. 
 Doctrinale magnum. 
 
 3 Grecimus. 
 Poetria nova. 
 Ovidius magnus. 
 Dictionale, & quaedam alia. 
 
 1 Sk. 2 Sic. 
 
 3 Sic. Should this be Gerimus who wrote De lege divina ? 
 Bale xii. 3. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 79 
 
 John de Taunton, Abbot of the Monastery, who died 
 in 1290, gave to the library some 40 books which he 
 had collected. The following list is that given by 
 Adam de Domerham, 1 noting the variants in John of 
 Glastonbury's list. 2 
 
 " Memorandum, quod, post mortem Johannis Abbatis 
 Glastoniensis, subscripti libri deportati fuerunt in 
 Capitulo, praente Conventu, quos quidem libros idem 
 abbas suo studio & diligentia adquisivit, videlicet 
 
 1. Librum qui intitulatur concordanciae Bibliae. 
 
 2. Item quatuor Ewangelia. glo. secundum veterem 
 glosam et novam fratris Thomae, excepto Ewangelio 
 Marci. 
 
 3. Item Epistolas Pauli. glo. 
 
 4. Item libros sapienciales. glo. 
 
 5. Item postillas super Johannem, cum tractatu 
 super Epistolas per annum. 
 
 6. Item postillas super Jeremiam, et super minores 
 prophetas. 
 
 7. Item postillas super Marcum. 
 
 8. Item postillas super Mathaeum fratris Alberti 
 Magni predicatoris Theutonici. Ad haec apud Glaston 
 Gilalle cum suis appendiciis." Et super Lamentaciones 
 Geremiae, cum parva summa de poenitencia, et postillis 
 super tractatum. 3 
 
 9. Item moralitates super Evangelia et epistolas per 
 
 1 P- 574- 2 Historia, p. 252. 
 
 3 John of Glastonbury gives No. 8 as : " Postillas Alberti super 
 Mathaeum et super Lamentaciones Jeremiae, cum summa de 
 poenitencia, et aliis quibusdam Postillis." 
 
80 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 annum, cum postillis super Apocalipsim et Epistolas 
 Canonicales et Trenis. 1 
 
 10. Item Augustinum de Civitate Dei. 
 
 ii. Item Augustinum de Trinitate et consensu 
 Evangeliorum, cum tractatu utili de Trinitate. 2 
 
 12. Item Quaestiones veteris et novae legis, cum 
 Augustino super Genesim, et ecclesiasticis dogmatibus, 
 et Encheridion cum floribus Bn. 3 
 
 13. Item librum de proprietatibus rerum. 
 
 14. Item librum de perfeccione spiritualis vitae, et 
 primam partem magnae summae 4 Theologiae, editae a 
 fratre Thoma de Aquino, cum concordanciis decre- 
 torum & decretaliurn. 
 
 15. Item secundam partem Summae Thomae. 
 
 16. Item terciam partem Summae Thomae. 
 
 17. Item quartam partem fratris Thomae. 5 
 
 18. Item questiones de malo et mortalibus crimini- 
 bus, disputatas a fratre Thoma. 
 
 19. Item primam partem secundae partis fratris 
 Thomae. 
 
 20. Item secundam partem secundae partis Thomae. 6 
 
 21. Item distincciones Mauricii. 
 
 22. Item libros naturales. 7 
 
 1 John of Glastonbury omits " et Trenis." 
 
 2 John of Glastonbury omits " cum tractatu utili de Trinitate." 
 
 3 John of Glastonbury reads " cum floribus Bernardi, libros 
 sapienciales glosatos." 
 
 4 "Summae" omitted by John of Glastonbury. 
 
 5 John of Glastonbury reads " Summae," not ' fratris Thomae." 
 
 6 Is wanting in John of Glastonbury. 
 
 7 John of Glastonbury adds " in duobus voluminibus." 
 
GLASTONBURY. 81 
 
 23. Item librum perspectivae. * 
 24. Item librum Kylwardesby super literam 
 sententiarum. 
 
 Walter, of Taunton, Abbot 1322, gave to the 
 library : 2 
 
 1. Librum sentenciarum. 
 
 Summam Gandani. 
 Quodlibet Gandani. 
 Decreta Decretales. 
 Parvum volumen. 
 Digestum novum. 
 Inasforciatum. 3 
 
 His successor, Abbot Adam of Sodbury, who died 
 1335, gave to the chapel of the Blessed Virgin : 4 
 1. Unum textum argenteum et auratum. 
 And he gave to the library : 
 
 2. Bibliam preciosam. 
 
 Historias scolasticas. 
 Librum de proprietatibus rerum. 
 Novam legendam Sanctorum. 
 Duo psalteria preciosissima, et 
 Unum benediccionale perpulcrum. 
 
 1 John of Glastonbury gives this as "librum qui dicitur la 
 perspective." 
 
 2 John of Glastonbury, p. 262. 
 
 8 Probably "Infortiatum" which according to Ducange, quoting 
 Selden, = Pars una Digesto rum Juris. 
 
 4 Idem, p. 265. 
 
 7 
 
82 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 According to Boston of Bury, the following books 
 were in this library : 
 
 Alcuin. Categoriarum ad Karolurn, lib. i. 
 
 De ecclesiasticis dogmatibus, lib. i. 
 
 Super vetus et novum testamentum. 
 
 De fide catholica. 
 
 De Trinitate ad Karolum. 
 
 Historiam quae canitur in ecclesia Anglicana. 
 
 Item vitam S. Martini a Severo Sulpitio de- 
 scriptam dictis planioribus elucidavit. 
 
 De doctrina B. Basilii, lib. i. 
 Ambrosius. Super epistolas Pauli. 
 
 De sacramentis que. 
 Athanasius. De Trinitate. 
 
 De singulis nominibus contra potentium. 
 Augustinus. De fide et simbalo. 
 
 De opere monachorum. 
 
 Super Genesim ad literam. 
 
 De vera innocentia qui et vocatur liber senten- 
 tiarum Prosperi. 
 
 Super dominicam orationem. 
 Berengarius. Super cantica canticorum, lib. i. 
 Cassiodorus. Super psalterium. 
 Fulgentius. De conflictu viciorum et virtutum. 
 Hugo [de S. Victore]. Didascolion. 
 Jeronimus. Super Ezechielem. 
 
 Super Ysaias. 
 
 Super xii. Prophetas. 
 
 Super Mathaeum. 
 
 De assumptione B. Marie. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 83 
 
 Origenes. Super vetus testamentum. 
 
 Super genesim omelie. 
 Paschasius. De corpore et sanguine Domini. 
 Rabanus. De naturis rerum. 
 
 De cruce. 
 
 Leland mentions the following books as being in the 
 library : * 
 
 Citatur in vetere quodam codice liber Melchini, qui 
 fuit ante Merlinum, ubi recitat ejusdem Melchini verba 
 de coemiterio sancto veteris ecclesiae Glasconiensis. 
 
 Speculum Giraldi Cambrensis. 
 
 Praeter historiam, quam de regibus scripsit Gulielmus 
 Malmes. vidi adjectos in fine veteris codicis tres 
 libellos titulo novellae historiae, id est, temporum 
 Matildis imperatricis ab ipso Malmesb. scriptos. 
 
 Expositiones super Evangelia, autore Clemente 
 J-.antonense, excerptae ex patribus doctoribusque. 
 
 Cassianus contra Nestorium. 
 
 Apologeticus Gregorii Nasanzeni interprete Rufino. 
 
 De unitate monachorum. 
 
 Altercatio inter ecclesiam et synagogam. 
 f Liber epistolarum Fulberti. 
 \ Epistolae Lanfranci. 
 
 Grammatica Euticis, liber olim S. Dunstani. 
 
 Ferrandus, diaconus Carthaginensis, ad Reginum 
 comitem, qualis esse debeat dux religiosus in actibus 
 militaribus. 
 
 Vita St. Guthlaci Beda [ut opinor] autore. 
 
 Carmina Hubaldi de calvitie. 
 
 1 Collectanea, iii. 260. 
 
84 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Vita Wilfridi episcopi, autore Stephano presbytero, 
 motore ad tam sanctum opus Acca episcopo, & Tath- 
 berto abbate. 
 
 iOmelia Bedae in . . . Benedicti abbatis. 
 Historia Girwicensis coenobii, cum vita Benedicti & 
 Ceolfridi abbatum. 
 
 Vita Wilfridi carmine heroico, autore Odone archi- 
 episcopo Dorubernensi. 
 
 Didymus de spiritu sancto. 
 
 Topographia Hiberniae, autore Giraldo Cambrensi. 
 
 Vita Merlini Sylvestris carmine, scriptore Galfredo 
 Monemutensi. 
 
 Historia Triveti de regibus. 1 
 
 Maurus de laude crucis, cum commendatione Albini 
 carmine scripta. 
 
 Albinus de sacrario dei, quod est virgo Maria, quan- 
 quam carmina rithmica in fine libri arguunt alterius 
 esse quam Albini. 
 
 Aenigmata Simposii, Aldhelmi, Eusebii, Tautuni. 
 Leyland, vide num legi possit, Tatwini ? - 
 
 1 This was possibly the copy now MS. Coll. Regin. Oxon. 304. 4 f. 
 67, which is said to have belonged to John Merelynch, and used by 
 Ant. Hall for his edition 1719 1722, " e codice Glastoniensi " (see 
 Hardy, III., 365). 
 
 2 Commentarii, p. 131, he says : " Ego tamen, cum duobus abhinc 
 annis essem Glessoburiae Somurotrigum, ubi coenobium est, non 
 modo pulcherrimum, verum etiam totius insulae nostrae anti- 
 quissimum, & inter ingenteis librorum thesauros veneranda plane 
 antiquitatis monimenta versarer, inveni librum Aenigmaton, 
 quern Tatvinus hexametris versis scripserat. Neque hie lectorem 
 celabo, quod ibidem repererim libellos Symposii, Aldhelmi & 
 Eusebii, qui de eadem materia scripserunt carmine non omnino 
 improbando." 
 
GLASTONBURY. 85 
 
 Aldhelmus de virginitate, prosa et carmine. 
 
 Orosius Saxonice. 
 
 Robertus abbas in librum de benedictionibus Jacob 
 
 & Mosis ad Gutlandum monachum. 
 Rabanus de compute 
 Dictionarium Latino-Saxonicum. 
 Constantini Aphricani liber, cui titulus Pantechni. 
 Quinque libri Egesippi historici. 
 Historia persecutionis Aphricanae, autore S. Victore 
 
 episcopo. 
 Cathegoriae Aristotelis, interprete Augustino. 
 Grammatica Smaragdi monachi. 
 Grammatica Erkenberti Diaconi ad Theotmarum 
 
 episcopum. 
 Timaeus Platonis, interprete Chalcidio cum com- 
 mentariis Josio dedicatis. 
 
 Gulielmus Malmesbiriensis de antiquitate Gles- 
 coniensi. 
 /Vita Patricii > 
 
 Vita Indracti autore Gulielmo 
 
 ] Vita Benigni Malmesbiriensi. 
 
 Vita Dunstani duobus libellis > 
 Epistolae Albini. 
 
 Tamerworth portus Cornubiae in Vita S. Indracti. 
 fOrtographia Albini. 
 iDialectica Albini. 
 
 The following books still extant are recorded to have 
 been in the library : 
 
 1. Bracton de Legibus, now in the British Museum, 
 Add. 21614. " Liber monasterii Glastonie de perquisito 
 
 I 
 
86 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 bone memorie Walteri de Monitone [1341 1374] 
 quondam abbatis ibidem," etc. 
 
 The abbot's initials, W. M., surmounted by the 
 letter A and an abbot's mitre, are on f. 2 b ; it is of the 
 XIV. century, folio on vellum. 
 
 2. Grammatica Euticis. In Macray, Annals of 
 the Bodleian, under the year 1601, we read: 1 
 
 "Thomas Allen, M.A., of Gloucester Hall, the 
 
 astrologer, gave twenty MSS One of these is 
 
 an extremely curious volume chiefly written in the 
 gth century (marked Auct. F. 4.32), including in its 
 contents an original drawing by St. Dunstan of himself 
 as prostrate at the feet of the throned Christ, a 
 grammatical tract by Eutychius (or Eutex as the 
 scribe calls him) with Welsh glosses ; the first book of 
 Ovid, De Arte Amandi, with similar glosses ; and lections 
 in Greek and Latin from the Pentateuch, amongst 
 which is one from Hosea containing, in the Latin 
 version, a line or two unlike any known early version 
 (although faithful to the Hebrew), but found also in a 
 quotation in Gildas." 
 
 This book was at Glastonbury when the catalogue of 
 1248 was compiled, and when Leland visited it about 
 1536 : (see lists above pp. 75 and 83.) 
 
 3. Bodleian MSS. Laud Lat. 4 contains 2 the 
 Polycraticon of John of Salisbury, and also Solinus 
 Eutropius and Orosius, written in a.d. 1406. An index 
 to each piece is written : " per fratrem Johannem 
 
 1 P. 24. For a full account of this book see Bradshaw, Collected 
 Papers, p. 455. 
 
 2 From particulars supplied by Mr. Madan. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 87 
 
 Mery lynch monachum Glastonie," to whom the book 
 belonged. There is also an inscription, " Liber 
 monasterii sancte Marie Glastonie in custodia fratris 
 Henrici Langleigh, ibidem monachi." 1 
 
 4. Bodl. MS. Laud, Misc. 128. 2 This is a late 15th 
 century MS. containing the Commentary of Thomas 
 " Valois " and Nicholas Trivet on the de civitate Dei of 
 Augustine in Latin. It bears an inscription : " Dominus 
 Thomas Wason, monachus Glastonie ; " he was elected 
 Abbot in 1493, but after a few months the election was 
 quashed. 3 
 
 5. MS. Bodl. 80, written in about 1461-5, is the auto- 
 graph of MS. John Phreas' or Free's translation into 
 Latin of Synesins de laude Calvitii (Greek). Free was 
 Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and probably gave 
 the book to Thomas de Bekynton, Bishop of Bath 
 and Wells, whose arms are in the volume. It is written 
 and ornamented by an Italian scribe and contains as 
 introductory matter a letter to the translator from 
 Omnibonus Leonicensis, dated at Vicenza, 9th July, 
 1461, and a preface by the former to the great book- 
 lover John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester. In it is 
 written : " Hunc librum . . . domino Petro Weston 
 
 1 Tanner, p. 537, refers to what is evidently this same book. In 
 MS. bibl. Bodl. Laud, C. 118, "continentur Jo. Sarisburiensis De 
 nugis curialium, cum tabula ; Solinus De mundi mirabilibus, cum 
 tabula ; Entropius de gestis Romanorum, et Orosius, De Ormesta 
 mundi, ex Perquisito hujus Johanis (uti in principio et fine notavit, 
 propria, ut videtur, manu) et fait iste liber complete scriptus 
 a.d. MCCCLVI. (per eundem Johannem)." 
 
 2 From Mr. Madan as before. 
 
 3 Collinson, ii. 255. I am obliged to the Rev. F. W. Weaver for 
 this reference. 
 
OO SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 monacho Glastoniensi dono dedit venerabilis pater 
 Johannes Selwode, abbas Glastoniensis. ! 
 
 6. The Tabula Glastoniensis, now at Naworth 
 Castle, and fully described at p. 117, pt. ii., vol. xxxiv. 
 of the Som. Arch. Soc. Proceedings, is a record of the 
 early mythical history of the Abbey. 
 
 7. In an ancient MS. formerly belonging to the 
 Abbey, and now in the possession of the Marquess of 
 Aylesbury, is an adaptation 2 of the Te Deum to the 
 praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by John Bracy, 
 Abbot of Muchelney. 
 
 The following books also still extant are believed to 
 have been, and probably were, in the library : 
 
 8. Besides the Dunstan MS. before mentioned there 
 is also at the Bodleian among the Hatton MSS. No. 30, 
 a copy of the Expositio Augustini in Apocalypsin, written 
 in Anglo-Saxon characters with the following inscrip- 
 tion in large letters on the last leaf: "Dunstan abbas 
 hunc libellum scribere jussit," a note, as Dr. Stubbs 3 
 says, evidently made before Dunstan had reached the 
 rank of either archbishop or bishop. 
 
 9. The Hatton MS. No. 42 is inscribed on the back, 
 
 " Liber Sancti Dunstani," and contains a drawing of a 
 
 child's head in rubric with the name " Wulfric Cild," 
 
 said to be Dunstan's brother. 4 This is a collection of 
 
 canons of the recension called Hibernensis which the 
 
 late H. Bradshaw believed to have been written in 
 
 1 Mr. Madan as before : and see Macray, p. 443, and Tanner, p. 598. 
 
 2 Memorials of Henry V. (Rolls Series), p. lix. 
 
 3 Memorials of St. Dunstan, cxi. : see also Macray, Annals, p. 23. 
 
 4 Stubbs, I.e., lxxvii. and cxii. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 89 
 
 Brittany in the ninth century, and to have belonged to 
 Glastonbury Abbey. ' 
 
 10. Dr. Stubbs thinks besides these two books the 
 Cottonian MS., Tiberius D. 4, possibly belonged to the 
 Abbey. 2 This is a very fine folio MS. of the 12th 
 century containing a collection of lives, of which St. 
 Dunstan's is one. It has suffered by fire, but is fairly 
 legible ; is written in double columns, 42 lines to the 
 page, and has red initial letters. 
 
 We read that the charter of King Edmund is written 
 in letters of gold in a book of the Gospels which he 
 gave to the church of Glastonbury Abbey, a work 
 exquisitely written and called the Textus of St. Dwistan. 3 
 
 11. The Cotton MS., Vespasian E. iv., contains the 
 " Vita Merlini," a poem narrating the madness and 
 prophecies of the Caledonian Merlin, and his discourses 
 with Taliessin. Leland in his Collectanea (Hearne, 1st 
 edition, pp. 16 and 17) gives three short extracts from 
 this poem, and again in his Commentarii de Scviptoribus 
 Brittanicis, torn, i., p. 191, notices the poem among the 
 works of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and adds (writing 
 about 1545) that he had lately read it with much 
 pleasure in a copy at Glastonbury. * 
 
 This work is in his list (see p. 84), and may be the 
 copy now in the British Museum, though there do not 
 appear to be any marks of ownership on it. 
 
 1 Bradshaw, Coll. Papers, 410 ; Macray, 143. 
 2 Stubbs, I.e., p. xliv. n. 2. 
 3 John of Glastonbury, p. 121 : " Scriptaque est literis aureis in 
 libro evangeliorura quern eidem ecclesiae obtulit, opere satis eleganti 
 composite qui textus sancti Dunstani dicitur." 
 
 4 Ward, Catalogue, etc., i., p. 279. 
 
go SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 The MS. Cotton, Titus A. xix., also contains this life. 
 
 12. Cotton MS., Tiberius A. v. contains a portion of 
 John's Historia de rebus Glastoniensibus, extending to the 
 year 1334; and Ashmole MS. 790 continues the history 
 to 1493, and there is, further, an index by Thomas 
 Wason, who was a monk of the Abbey about that time. 1 
 
 13. Adam de Domerham's Historia de rebus gestis 
 Glastoniensibus exists in the library of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, possibly the author's own copy. 2 
 
 14. Laud MS. D. 145 is a chroncicle of the Abbey, 
 largely quoted by Dugdale, Mon. Aug., vol. i., p. 23 et seq. 
 
 The following books are recorded to have been in the 
 Abbey, but are not known to be extant : 
 
 Schonaw, Anianus de. Bale 3 says of his work, 
 Super fabulis poetarum, lib. i. : "Opus hoc habebatur 
 Glastoniae ut testatur ejus coenobii registrum." 4 
 Beverlay, Philip. (Ex Glasconiae Registro.) 
 Questiones Perihermenias, lib. ii. 
 Super sex principiis, lib. i. 
 
 [Quae omnia in Glastoniensis monasterii biblio- 
 theca, dum floreret, inveniebantur. 5 ] 
 
 1 Hearne says (preface to John of Glastonbury, p. xxiv.) : " Exis- 
 timaverim etiam codicem Ashmolianum coenobii Glastoniensis 
 aliquando fuisse peculium." Tanner says, p. 434: " Mutila extat 
 in bibl. Cotton, Tiberius A. v., et in bibl. Ashmol, 790 ; " p. 755 : 
 " Wason Thomas monachus et prior Glastoniae scripsit indicem 
 (exactum) notasque marginales in Historiam Glastoniensis ecclesiae 
 per Johannem monachum." 
 
 2 Rev. W. Hunt, in Dictionary of National Biography, vol. i., p. 77 : 
 
 3 Scriptores, xiii. 37. 
 
 i Tanner, 656. I am unable to find this "registrum," and 
 
 Bishop Hobhouse, who probably knows more about Somersetshire 
 
 registers than any living scholar, is good enough to tell me it is not 
 
 either of those hereafter referred to. 5 Bale, xii. 14; Tanner, 99. 
 
GLASTONBURY. gi 
 
 Ercombertus. Monachus Glastoniae. 
 De octo partibus orationis, lib. i. 
 Regulas Grammaticales, lib. i. 1 
 Galfridus Marshall. Glasc. coenobii mon. 
 Repertorium dialectices, lib. i. 
 Repertorium Geometriae, lib. i. 2 
 Gerimus. Monachus Glastoniae. 
 
 De lege divina, lib. i. 3 
 Gildas, cognomento sapiens. 
 
 Historia Gildae. Cave Hist. Liter. 425 Post 
 xlii. a Polydori editione annos, incidit 
 Jo. Josselinus in duos veteres Gildae 
 codices, quorum alter literarum notis valde 
 peregrinis, et ab usu nostro jamdiu alienis 
 [quippe amplius DC hinc annis scriptis] ad 
 bibl. August. Cantuariae olim pertinuit, 
 alter quidem multo recentior, et scriptura non 
 aeque diligenti [qui tamen minimum ab illo 
 altero discrepebat] fuit olim Glastoniensis 
 coenobii. 4 
 Melchinus. Historiae fragmentum [v. p. 82] . 
 
 Historiolam de rebus Brittanicis. 5 
 Oswaldus. Librum sacrarum precationum contexuit. 
 De componendis epistolis opusculum, instar 
 epistolae. 
 
 1 Bale, xii. 6 (Ex Glasconiae registro) ; Tanner, 262. 
 
 2 Bale, xi. 34 (ex Registris) ; Tanner, 512. 
 
 3 Bale, xii. 3 : " Extatque opus diligenti cura conscriptum." 
 (Ex Glasconiae registro) ; Tanner, 312. 
 
 * Tanner, 321. 
 
 5 Leland, Comm., 41 ; Tanner, 520. 
 
92 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 [ " Tantum memini reperisse me duos lucubra- 
 tionum Oswaldi codices; unum Glessobugi 
 Somurotrigum ; alterum Ramesegae Fenni- 
 colarum. 1 ] 
 
 The following books also still extant were probably 
 at Glastonbury, but are not to be attributed to it with 
 as much certainty as those in the last list : 
 
 15. Cotton MS., Tiberius B. xiii. 3. Speculum 
 ecclesiae abstractum ex diversis libris per Robertum 
 Abbatem Glastoniae. 2 
 
 16. Laud E. 145, Compendium Chronologicum in quo 
 Glastoniensis monasterii fragmenta quaedam historica 
 usque ad a.d. 1250. 
 
 17. K. Digby 186 contains amongst others " Excerpta 
 de Glastonia, de Gigantibus," etc. 
 
 18. Bodley MSS. super D. i. Art. 14, De antiquitate 
 et augmentatione aedis vetustae Beatae Mariae Glaston- 
 iensis. [Est liber imperfectus.] 
 
 19. Cotton MS., Cleopatra D. iv. (1) Chronicon 
 Glastenburiense a coronatione Reg. Gulielmi I. ad 
 annum 1388. (2) Pars posterior historiae Ranulfi 
 Higden, quae definit anno primo R. Ed. III. sed 
 producta ad ann. XV. R. Ric. II. per ignotum : [ut 
 annotavit ibi Georgius Buc 1605. 
 
 20. Cotton MS., Titus D. vii. 1. Inventarium 
 Reliquiarum quae habentur in monasterio Glastoniensi. 
 
 21. Cotton MS., Vitellius D. vii. 67. Epistola 
 Joannis XV. Papae ad Aelfricum Ducem de plurimis 
 
 1 Leland, cxxxviii., Comm. p. 172; Tanner, 567. 
 2 Tanner, 636, says : " scripsit, sive ex Beleto aliisque collegit. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 93 
 
 malis et injuriis ab illo illatis Ecclesiae S.M. Glas- 
 toniensis. 
 
 22. Cotton MS., Vitellius D. vii. 73. Fragmenta 
 Gul. Malmesburiensis de antiquitatibus Glastoniensis 
 ecclesiae & de abbatibus ejusdem. Inseritur narratio 
 de' constructionibus quorandum monasteriorum. 
 
 23. Cotton MS., Vespasianus D. xxii. Liber de 
 antiquitatibus ecclesiae et monasterii Glaston. Prae- 
 fatio recte gerit nomen Gul. Malmesburiensis ; illius 
 enim est, sed liber ut observat T. Galeus est auctoris 
 longe junioris, qui plurima ex Gul. Malmesburiensi 
 mutuatus est. 
 
 24. Cotton MS., Cleopatra C. x. 4. Chronicon breve 
 de legibus Saxonicis et Anglicis, illorumque gestis. 
 Interseruntur sparsim quaedam & in fine continua 
 serie multa adduntur de antiquitatibus Abbatiae 
 Glastoniensis; quae fere omnia ex. Gul. Malmes- 
 buriensi excribuntur. 
 
 Vixit auctor anno 1259. 
 
 25. MS. Corpus Christi Coll. Camb. 371, fo. 10, 
 is a letter from Eadmer to the monks of Glastonbury 
 refuting their contention that the body of St. Dunstan 
 was at Glastonbury. 
 
 26. Deveral Stephanus monachus Glastoniensis. 
 Tractatum de ingratitudine. MS. penes Rog. Gale. 
 
 27. Gildas Albanius wrote several books which may 
 have been at Glastonbury, and Leland expected to find 
 them but failed : 
 
 Commentaries Evangeliorum, lib. iv. 
 De primis habitatoribus insulae, lib. i. 
 Versus vaticiniorum, lib. i. 
 
94 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 De sexto cognoscendo, lib. i. 
 [MS. Bodl. Digby, 186.] 
 Super eodem sexto, lib. i. 
 Regum Bryttanorum historiam, lib. i. 
 De victoria Aurelii Ambrosii, lib. i. 
 Acta Germani et Lupi, lib. i. 1 
 28. Stourton Eadmundus monachus Glasconiensis. 
 Bale says : 2 " Nolo hominem hunc . . . accurate 
 depingere : contentus magni registri ejusdem monasterii 
 solum subjicere testimonium, quod ilium pronunciat 
 dum viveret edidisse ; 
 
 Dialogum in regulam Benedicti, lib. i. 
 Super nominibus Mariae & Joannis, lib. i." 
 [MS.Joh. Glaston. inter Ashmol, f. 297.] 
 29. " De laude B. Mariae virginis, lib. i." 
 
 [Bodl. Ne B. iv. 2.] 
 Swincetus [Rogerus]. Suicetus vel Suineshevedus. 
 A number of works by this author (some of which are 
 extant) are mentioned by Bale, vi. 2, and Tanner, 701 ; 
 but it is extremely doubtful if any of them were at 
 Glastonbury, his only connection with which is some- 
 what legendary as quoted by Tanner : 
 
 " Subtilis Swynshed proles Glastoniae 
 Revera monachus bonae memoriae 
 Cujus non periit fama industriae," etc. 
 
 The following books not known to be extant were 
 
 probably in the Abbey : 
 
 Mavornus. Glasconiensis coenobii monachus. 
 
 Annales suae patriae 3 
 
 1 Leland, Commentarii, i. 55 ; Bale, Scriptores, i. 49 ; Tanner, 319. 
 2 Scriptores, xii. 98; Tanner, 695. 3 Bale, xi. 7 ; Tanner, 519. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 
 
 95 
 
 Soliaco, Hen. de. Abbas Glastoniae. 
 De inventione corporis Arthuri. 1 
 
 Eremita Britt. anon. 
 
 De S. Josepho Arimathensi scripsit librum 
 ignoto sermono, cui titulus Sanctum Graal, 
 lib. i. Hujus operis fragmenta quaedam 
 vidit Baleus. Pitseus, p. 122, eum scripsisse 
 asserit De rege Arthuro et rebus gestis ejus, 
 lib. i. De mensa rotunda et strenuis equitibus, 
 lib. i. 2 
 
 Suinesius Henricus. Glastoniae abbas. 
 Diversi generis pcemata, lib. i. 3 
 
 An old Custumarium of the Abbey plainly written is 
 several times referred to by John of Glastonbury. 4 
 
 Murilynch [Johannes de] monachus Glastoniensis 
 scripsit tractatum, 5 
 
 30. De librorum perquisito suo. 
 
 [MS. Olim penes Geo. Fulman; postea penes Ric. 
 
 Davis, postea in bibl. comitis Oxoniae, and now in 
 
 British Museum, Harl. MS. 641.] 
 
 Hearne writes 6 that on the 7th March, 1733-4, he 
 
 received from Lord Oxford the MS. of the Chronicle 
 
 of John Bever. There are, he says, other things in the 
 
 MS. [which is in folio] besides Bever that are worth 
 
 taking notice of, viz.: "(1) Dares Phrygius, (2) Martinus 
 
 Polonus's Chronicle, (3) John Merelynch, monk of 
 
 Glastonbury's, Additions to Martinus Polonus. In the 
 
 1 Bale, xiii. 28; Tanner, 681. 
 
 2 Bale, x. ax. Tanner, 263. s Tanner, 698. * Pp. 332 et seq. 
 
 5 Tanner, 537. 
 
 6 Reliquiae Hearnianae, 2nd ed., vol. Hi., p. 123. 
 
g6 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Martinus is the ridiculous, fabulous story about a 
 woman pope." 
 
 He says later (p. 149) that Merelynch " is of affairs 
 the nine first years of Pope John, 22 temp. Edv. II di . 
 regis Angliae." 1 
 
 The last reference before the dispersion is in a letter 
 dated 22nd Sept., 1539, from the Visitors to the Lord 
 Privy Seal, 2 in which, after describing how they brought 
 the Abbot (Whiting) from Sharpham to the Abbey, they 
 proceed : " and there of new proceeded that night to 
 search his study for letters and books ; and found in 
 his study secretly laid, as well a written book of argu- 
 ments against the divorce of the King's Majestie and the 
 Lady Dowager : which we take to be a great matter." 
 As also divers pardons, copies of bulls, and " the coun- 
 terfit lyf of Thomas Bequet in print." 3 
 
 The following Registers and Chartularies of the 
 Abbey are extant : 
 
 31. MSS. Brit. Mus. Add. 17451, being Abbot 
 Whiting's Register, having his stamp on the binding 
 with the initials R.W. 4 
 
 1 Mr. Macray, Manual of Brit. Historians, p. 52 says : " Two histories 
 are attributed to him, but both apparently upon the same slight 
 foundation, viz., that his name is written in the MSS. as the owner, 
 the words 'Liber de perquisito suo,' being added, which Tanner 
 strangely gives as the title of a book." These MSS. were probably 
 at Glastonbury. 2 Dugdale, i. 10. 
 
 3 Printed by Pynson after 1500, but without date. This is the 
 
 solitary reference to a printed book. 
 
 4 An illustration of this is on p. 61 of Father Gasquet's The Last 
 Abbot of Glastonbury. 
 
GLASTONBURY. 97 
 
 32. The Secretum Abbatis is a transcript of all the 
 charters, grants, wills and other documents relating to 
 the privileges or possessions of the Abbeywhich Walter 
 deMonyton had made in 1341, and intended always to be 
 under the immediate care of the Abbot. It is now at 
 the Bodleian in the finest preservation, with some 
 excellent miniatures. 
 
 There is also at the Bodleian a roll some nine to ten 
 feet long containing rentals and other accounts. 
 
 In the library of the Marquess of Bath, at Longleat are : 
 
 33 (1) Registrum Cartarum Abbatiae beatae Mariae 
 de Glastonia ; folio, vellum, of the 14th century. 1 
 
 It was known to Tanner and Hearne. 2 
 
 34. (2) A folio MS., on vellum, of the early 15th 
 century, with additions temp. Henry VIII. It contains 
 a schedule of grants and charters relating to the estates 
 and offices of the Abbey. 
 
 35 (3) A folio MSS. on paper, being part of a 
 Cartulary of the Abbey, compiled about 1503 : it gives 
 the boundaries in that year and copies of early deeds. 3 
 
 36. Bishop Tanner refers to a MS., " Cart. Glaston. 
 MS. Macro f. 119b," the whereabouts of which is stated 
 to be now and for some time past to have been un- 
 known. It is said to have been rescued from destruction 
 by Bishop Tanner in a grocer's shop at Oxford, in the 
 year 1692, and to have passed into the hands of Dr. 
 Cox Macro, who died in 1767, and whose library has 
 long since been dispersed. 4 
 
 1 H. M. C, iii. 182, where it is described. 
 a Hearne, John of Glaston., 569. 3 H. M. C, iii. 201. 
 
 4 Som. Arch. Proc, xviii., pt. ii. 103. This may be the Register to 
 which Bale so often refers. 
 
98 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 It would seem, however, that this was the very book 
 which was sold in London in 1859 for /"141 15s. In it 
 was inserted a letter from Bishop Tanner giving the 
 above facts. 1 
 
 It appears 2 that charters relating to Keynsham, 
 Glastonbury, Wells, Bath, Athelney, and the Hospital 
 at Bridgewater (all of the 10th century) were penes 
 J. Hudson Gurney, Esq. Many of these were formerly 
 in the possession of Dr. Cox Macro, and when his 
 collection was sold in 1820 (at which time it belonged to 
 Mr. John Patteson, of Norwich) out of 135 volumes of 
 which it consisted, 41 passed into the hands of the late 
 Mr. Dawson Turner, of Great Yarmouth, and the 
 remainder into the hands of Mr. Hudson Gurney. 
 
 We find there were of the ancient classsics at 
 Glastonbury, Aristotle, Cicero, Claudian, Horace, 
 Juvenal, Livy, Ovid, Persius, Plato, Sallust, and 
 Vergil ; and of later Greek and Latin writers, Augustine, 
 Cornutus, Cyprian, Fulgentius, Orosius, Pliny, Priscian 
 {Cosmography, with a Map of the World), Prudentius, 
 Quintilian, Sedulius, Seneca, Synesius and Ulpian. 
 
 The following books were in English : Two vols of 
 the Pentateuch, the 3rd book of Orosius, a Medicinale, 
 some sermons, a Passionale Sanctorum, and a book 
 un-named. 
 
 The following were in French: Liber de capcione 
 civitatis Antiochenae and Omeliae dominicales. 
 
 There were also a Dictionarinm Latino-Saxonicum 
 and a copy of Orosius in Saxon. 
 
 1 H. M. C, i., App., 102. 2 H, M. C, xii., App., pt. ix. 105. x 
 
HINTON. gg 
 
 HINTON. 
 
 In this Carthusian Priory was : 
 
 St. John's College, Cambridge, MS. E. 22. 1 " Iste 
 libellus constat domui loci dicti de Henton ordinis 
 Carthus. orate, supplico, pro anima patris Johannis 
 Clerk quondam dictae domus monachi et scriptoris 
 hujus opusculi cui nomen intitulatur " Veni mecum in 
 Adjutorium.' " A collection of theological extracts. 
 Vellum, small quarto. 
 
 In the collection of the late Sir Thomas Phillips of 
 Middlehill, in Worcestershire, was an Indenture of the 
 year 1343* in which the following books are specified 
 as having been lent by the prior and convent of Hinton 
 to another house : 2 
 
 Two books of Homilies, to be read in the Refectory. 
 
 The four Gospels. 
 
 The Meditations of Anselm. 
 
 The Enchiridion of St. Sixtus. 
 
 A treatise by Peter Cluniacensis. 
 
 Life of John the Almoner. 
 
 Flores et Magna Glossa Psalterii. 
 
 The Meditations of St. Bernard. 
 
 Quendam libellum inter Orosium et Augustinum ; 
 et Templum Dei. 
 
 Life of Paul the Hermit. 
 
 1 Cowie's Cat., 1843, p. 48. 2 Hunter, p. 17. 
 
IOO SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Excerpta from the Lives of St. Anthony, St. Hilarion, 
 
 and St. Sylvester. 
 De orto Pilati. 
 Libel, de Manipul. flor. 
 Dialogus S.S. Gregorii et Augustini. 
 i Legend, totius anni, abbreviat. 
 Primar. Ecclesiast. et ii. Primar Puerorum. 
 A Breviary. 
 
 Liber qui sic incipit, "Qui benepraesunt presbyteri." 
 Stimulus amoris, et multa alia aedificatoria de manu 
 
 Domni Will, de Colle. 
 
 There was also probably in the Priory : 
 Spenserus, Thomas, monachus hujus ccenobii. 
 Comment, in Episto. D. Pauli ad Galatas., lib. i. 
 Trialogue between Thomas Bilney, Hugh Latimer, 
 and W. Repps. 1 
 
 1 Tanner, 684. 
 
KEYNSHAM. 101 
 
 KEYNSHAM. 
 
 At this Austin Abbey Leland noticed the following 
 books : * 
 Gulielmus, Praecentor Meldunensis, de miraculis 
 
 D. Mariae. 
 Gulielmus Meld : de gestis pontificum Anglorum. 
 Osberti Cantuar: liber de vita S. Aelphegi. 
 Vita Aldhelmi, eodem, ut arbitror, autore. 
 
 The following books still extant were in this house : 
 i. Bedae Homeliae, Sermones Augustini, Martini, 
 Faustini, Gregorii, Ambrosii, &c. Folio, vellum, illumi- 
 nated. " Formerly belonged to Abbey of Keynsham, 
 Gloucestershire (sic!), now at Trinity College, Dublin. 
 Press B." 2 
 
 2. Cod. MSS. J. Mori episcopi Norvic. 499 is an 
 account of the proceedings at the Electio Abbatis de 
 Keynsham in agro Som. temp. Hen. VIII. 
 
 1 Collectanea, iii. 65. 
 2 H.M.C.R., iv., App., p. 590. 
 
102 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 MONTACUTE. 
 
 In this Cluniac Priory Leland noticed only one book, 
 
 viz. : 1 
 
 Paschasius de septem sacramentis. 
 Boston of Bury mentions the following : 
 Augustinus. 
 
 Super Psalterium Omeliae 205. 
 
 Altercatio cum Pascenio. 
 Cassidorus. 
 
 Super epistolas Pauli. 
 Hugo [de S. Victore]. 
 
 Super lamentatione Jeremiae. 
 Joannes Crisostomos. 
 
 De compunccione cordis. 
 
 Hugo, prior of Montacute's, work 
 
 1. Planctum de excidio Trojae. was probably in the 
 library. The following copies are extant : MS. bibl. 
 Bodl., Digby 166, f. 27 ; Digby 53. MS. Arch. B. 52. 
 MS. Norwic. Mori 177. 2 
 
 2. Cotton Tib. A. x. 25. " Nomina priorum Montis 
 acuti a Waltero primo Priore ad Robertum Cryche 
 tricesimum octavum " was also probably in the library. 
 [This work is now so damaged by fire and so defective 
 that an accurate description is impracticable.] 
 
 1 Collectanea, iii. 155. 2 Tanner, 419. 
 
MONTACUTE. I03 
 
 Robert Gybbes, the last prior of this monastery, 
 [suppressed March 20, I53f,] by his Will dated the 2nd 
 June, 1560, gave to his nephew, Sir Robert Gybbes 
 " my gownes with certain books ; " to his friend Mr. 
 Powle, a book named Cronica Cronicarum ; to his lad, 
 James Kitto, "all such books as I have of Phisicke and 
 Surgery." 1 These books very possibly had been in the 
 library. 
 
 1 S.A.S.P., xxxviii. 344. 
 
104 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 MUCHELNEY. 
 
 Leland does not mention any books at this Bene- 
 dictine house ; the following are from Boston of Bury : 
 Anselm. 
 
 De similitudinibus. 
 
 De incarnatione Verbi. 
 Ambrosius 
 
 De fide. 
 
 De essentia patris et filii. 
 Augustinus. 
 
 Sermo de perjurio. 
 
 Sermo ad juvenes. 
 
 De excidio urbis Romae. 
 St. Dionisius [Areop.] 
 
 De ierarchiis angelica et ecclesiastica. 
 Hugo [de S. Victor e] . 
 
 Didascolion. 
 Jeronimus. 
 
 De immensitate et invisibilitate Dei. 
 
 Contra Vigilantium de indurato corde Pharao- 
 nis. 
 
 Sermones. 
 Joannes Crisostomos. 
 
 Super Psalmum L m 
 Joannes Cassianus. 
 
 De x collacionibus. 
 i. HarleianMS.43i,f. 31, contains: "Litera domini 
 
MUCHELNEY. I05 
 
 Bathon. episcopi directa domino abbati de Michelney 
 suae diocesios qui minis diu absentans a monasterio 
 suo, &c, et ut redeat et ibidem resideat." It is of the 
 fifteenth century, but neither the Abbot nor the Bishop 
 is named. 
 
 Several charters are in the Augmentation Office. 1 
 Hearne quotes several documents relating to the 
 monastery from two old Breviaries then in the 
 possession of Lord Charles Bruce. 2 
 
 2. Bodl. Ashmole MS. 189 ii. most probably came 
 from this house. 3 Mr. Madan has given me the follow- 
 ing account of it: "This is the second piece of a 
 volume containing four pieces bound together, but 
 otherwise unconnected, including some astrological and 
 religious pieces in English {e.g. The Golden Table of 
 Pythagoras, some hymns, &c). On one page is written 
 in cryptograph : Qui scripsit certe Richardus nomi- 
 natur aperte. Quod si queratur recte Wraxall cogno- 
 minatur,' and in the same handwriting : ' Dominus 
 Richardus Coscumbe prior de Muchelney est possessor 
 hujus libri.' The same hand probably wrote notes 
 about Thunder on fol. 102, but did not write the rest of 
 the piece. The Prior and Wraxall may be the same 
 person." 
 
 1 Dugdale, ii. 357 : these are referred to and extracts given, as 
 also the letter mentioned above, in the S.A.S. P., viii. 76. 
 
 2 Adam de Domerham, lxvii. 
 
 3 Macray, 445. 
 
Io6 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 TAUNTON. 
 
 In the library of this Austin priory Leland noticed : ' 
 Chronicon Ivonis. 
 Philaretus de pulsibus. 
 Theophilus de urinis. 
 
 In Boston of Bury's Catalogue are mentioned : 
 Beda. 
 
 Super Proverbia Salomonis, lib. iii. 
 Jeronimus. 
 
 Super Daniel. 
 Joannes Crisostomos. 
 
 De Compunccione cordis. 
 
 Super Psalmum L m 
 Prosper 
 
 De vita activa et contemplativa. 
 
 i. MSS. Lambeth No. 643, art. 13 and 14, are bulls, 
 dated the 4th May, 1499, from Pope Alexander VI. to 
 Prior John of Taunton. 2 
 
 2. The Rev. T. Hugo, 3 says: " I have in my col- 
 lection a Psalter, with a litany of the Saints and other 
 prayers, written in the latter part of the 13th century 
 or the beginning of the 14th century, most beautifully 
 executed and undoubtedly by an English scribe. 
 A calendar is prefixed, singularly valuable, together 
 1 Coll., iii. 260. ^S.A.S.P., vol. ix. 59. 3 Idem, 80. 
 
TAUNTON. 107 
 
 with the litany, for the number of English Saints 
 which it records. Nearly at the end of the book . . . 
 is an illumination consisting of a scroll on which is 
 inscribed, 'Jon Taunton MS.' It is not unlikely that 
 this charming volume, unless it were the work of the 
 famous Abbot of Glastonbury himself, . . . was 
 produced in the scriptorium of Taunton Priory." 
 
IOB SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 WELLS. 
 
 We feel a peculiar and pathetic interest in the library 
 of the secular canons of what is the cathedral church 
 of the See. It has had a continuity which unfortunately 
 not one of the other houses here dealt with can claim : 
 even here indeed the continuity is rather of the body 
 than the soul ; for though the building remains, the 
 books are gone with but few exceptions, which will be 
 mentioned later. x 
 
 As elsewhere, the books were probably in very early 
 
 days scattered about the building ; when they were 
 
 collected together, Canon Church conjectures 2 that they 
 
 were kept in the eastern aisle of the north transept, 
 
 and that a door from this led directly into the choir. 
 
 In 1297 it was ordered by the Chapter 3 that the two 
 
 doors de la Karole 4 on either side of the choir be open 
 
 from the first stroke of matins, until at the third 
 
 striking the door of the choir is opened. That the said 
 
 door be always closed by day because of the way the 
 
 books of the church are knocked about by visitors, 6 and 
 
 that the laymen may be prevented from hearing the 
 
 secrets of the Chapter. 
 
 1 An interesting note by Leland on the books is given later, 
 sub Dymmok, p. 118. 
 
 2 Church of Wells, 326. 3 Hist. MSS. Comm. Wells, 76. 
 
 De la Karole. Ducange says this means a place enclosed 
 by partitions or screens. 
 
 6 Propter concultationem librorum ecclesie que fit per extraneos. 
 

 
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 "3 
 
 -2 
 
 
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WELLS. IO9 
 
 The books seem to have been kept in this same place 
 until 1407, when, according to Leland, 1 Bishop Bubwith 
 " made the est part of the Cloyster with the little 
 Chapel beneth and the great Librarie over it, having 
 twenty-five windows on each side of it." And there it 
 is to this day, a most delightful room the cases between 
 the windows, as described on p. 16, the bars for the 
 chains to travel on still on the cases, but the chains are 
 now hanging on the wall. 
 
 During the time of Bishop Adrian de Castello many 
 of the muniments of the Cathedral of Wells appear to 
 have been lost. In the extracts from the register of his 
 episcopate, contained in the Harleian MS. 6966, we 
 read : " Excommunicatio in eos qui Munimenta, Registra, 
 et alias Scripturas publicas ex Archivis domini episcopi 
 furto abstulerunt, Sept. a.d. 1515." [Excommunicated 
 be those who have by stealth stolen from the archives of 
 the Lord Bishop muniments, registers, and other public 
 documents, Sept. a.d. 1515.] We have Wharton's 
 authority also for the fact that they again suffered in 
 the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, a.d. 1685 : " Nuper 
 enim direpta sunt, et impio furore mutilata ac discissa a 
 schismaticis in rebellione Somersetensi anno 1685 
 mota." 2 [Of late they were plundered, and in impious 
 fury mutilated and torn in pieces by the schismatics in 
 the rebellion in Somerset in the year 1685.] 
 
 On the 1st July, 1685, is the following 3 : "Note 
 
 1 Itinerary, iii. 
 2 Dugdale, ii. 284. 3 Hist. MSS. Comm. Welh, 264. 
 
IIO SOMERSET MEDI/EVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 made between the hours of four and five p.m., in the 
 Chapter House, where there were present T. Holt, the 
 Chancellor, and N. Nebbert, notary: 'The Civil War 
 still grows, this Cathedral Church has suffered very 
 grievously from the rebel fanatics, who have this very 
 morning laid hands upon the furniture thereof, have 
 almost utterly destroyed the organ, and turned the 
 sacred building into a stable for horses ; ' " and on the 
 7th January, 1685, it was ordered by the Chapter " that 
 the library be repaired and beautified out of Dr. Busby's 
 legacy as he desired." 
 
 A considerable number of fine and rare books were 
 uninjured, however, and are still in the Library, but 
 none of them appear to have been given until after the 
 dissolution, so do not come within the purview of this 
 paper. 1 
 
 It is a curious fact, that although practically all the 
 books which were in the library before the dissolution 
 are gone, yet there are still preserved three most 
 remarkable and interesting books, of great antiquity. 
 They were probably saved through not having been 
 kept in the library ; they are called Liber Albus i. ; Liber 
 Ruber ii. ; Liber Albus iii. 2 
 
 1. Liber Albus i. is a folio volume of 299 parchment 
 leaves, bound in boards covered with rough white 
 vellum : the early part of it was written in the reign of 
 
 1 For these see Botfield, Notes on the Cathedral Libraries 
 of England (1849), p. 417. 
 
 2 Hist. MSS. Comm. Wells, from the preface to which the following 
 descriptions of the three books are taken. 
 
WELLS. HI 
 
 Ed. I. or possibly Ed. II. ; the earliest entry is of the 
 reign of Edward the Confessor, and the last belongs to 
 the year 1393 : the information scattered throughout 
 its 1,200 documents and upwards is of the most varied 
 character, touching upon civil and ecclesiastical history, 
 ritual, architecture, manners and customs in general, 
 as well as upon the history of Wells itself. There 
 are also in this volume copies of the Great Charter, 
 the Charter of the Forests, the Statutes of Merton, 
 Windsor, Kenilworth, Marlborough, and Westminster, 
 and of the guaranty given by Edward, son of Henry 
 III., to Humphrey de Bohun and his party. 
 
 2. Liber Ruber ii. is a smaller volume, partly vellum, 
 partly paper, bound in boards and red leather; the 
 vellum part being probably older than Liber Albus i. Its 
 contents are of much the same nature, and in both 
 there are some good examples of early caligraphy. 
 
 3. Liber Albus iii. is a fine large volume bound in 
 white, written in the first part of the fifteenth century, 
 and contains 456 folios and about goo documents. The 
 contents of this book also are very varied. Papal bulls, 
 Saxon and later charters, ordinary business transactions, 
 establishment of chantries and vicarages, the regulation 
 of services, perambulation of the forests of Somerset, 
 early custumals of some of the Chapter manors, choice 
 of representatives for Parliament and Convocation, 
 manumissions, etc., are all mixed up together, with here 
 and there examples of the use made by the Chapter of 
 the power of excommunication which had been granted 
 to it by Bishop Savaric as a measure of police in its 
 own properties. Some of these are very curious, as 
 
112 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 when, in 1379, certain unknown poachers of North 
 Curry are denounced in all the churches round with 
 bell, book, and candle ; or as when one R. Gyan, also 
 of North Curry, in 1339, has to submit to eighteen 
 processional whippings on six several Sundays in the 
 Cathedral, and to a similar course of discipline on 
 other six Sundays in his own parish church. 
 
 Several of the Saxon charters are copied out in full 
 in the Hist. MSS. Comm. Report, as they differ from the 
 copies in the Codex Diplomaticus, and one not having 
 been previously printed : a will made by St. Hugh of 
 Lincoln in the time of his exile in 1212 is copied at full 
 length, showing that the copy in Collinson's Hist, of 
 Somerset is imperfect. 
 
 From these books several of the following notes in 
 the Wells Library are taken. * 
 
 In 1298, the Chapter orders " the Ordinale to be 
 corrected and emended, and then illud et Martylogium 
 dupplicentur propter pericula que poterunt evenire." 
 In order to remove all reason for discord in the singing, 
 the Antiphonaria, Gradualia, and Troperia are in the 
 like manner to be revised. 2 
 
 As evidence of the care taken of the books, we find 3 
 
 that it was necessary for the Bishop to ratify the allow- 
 
 1 In Liber Albus iii. will be found (No. 683) the extremely 
 interesting Pardon, dated 24th Aug., 1468 (see p. 184 of the Hist. 
 MSS. Comm. Report), from the benefit of which several persons 
 named are excluded : amongst whom is Thomas Malorie, miles, 
 who is suggested to be the reducer of the Morte D' Arthur into 
 English (see Athenaum, No. 3,585, nth July, 1896). The allusion 
 may be pardoned. 
 
 2 Hist. MSS. Comm., Wells, p. 109. 3 Id., 91. 
 
WELLS. 113 
 
 ance made by the Dean and Chapter of the use of 
 candles for reading in the choir during the night, and 
 also of the use of books there in the daytime. [Aug. 1, 
 1323.] 
 
 According to Giso, Duduc Bishop of Wells, who died 
 in io5o, gave many books (plurinios libros) as a death- 
 bed legacy to the church. 2 
 
 On August 4th, 1291, the Dean and Chapter acknow- 
 ledged the receipt of the following books from the Dean 
 of Sarum : 3 
 
 Hugh de Sacramentis : 
 
 The books of Bede de Temporibus ; which books the 
 said Master S, had sometime before received on his 
 request, in accordance with a pledge in writing which 
 [had been given] to Walter of Marlborough, clerk, and 
 by him transferred to the said Master S.] : " quos quidem 
 libros, idem Magst. S. aliquando precario acceperat 
 per literatoriam cautionem que Waltero de Merleberge 
 clerico . . . fuerat dicto Magr s S. per eundem 
 deferenda." 
 
 The Dean and Chapter receive from him also, at the 
 same time, the following books, as a legacy from John 
 dictus ffortis, formerly Chancellor of Wells : 
 
 Augustine de civitate Dei, in one volume. 
 His epistles, in another volume. 
 
 iLibrum Damasceni et 
 Speculum Gregorii, cum multis aliis libris 
 Augustini in tertio volumine comprehensis. 
 
 1 These two references are given here " exempli gratia " ; several 
 of a similar character and relating to service books are given in 
 Appendix B. 2 H istoriola " (S.A.S.P), xii. 150. 
 3 Hist. MSS. Comm., Wells, p. 72. 
 9 
 
114 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Another compact for book-borrowing is contained 1 in 
 an Indenture, partly mutilated, made at Wells in the 
 year of Henry VI., between John Stafford, 
 Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the Dean and Chapter 
 of the church of Wells, whereby the Dean and Chapter 
 deliver to the said " Father ten books,, for his use for 
 life," one called 
 
 " Policronicon " ; one called 
 
 " Pom . . . " ; 2 one called 
 
 " Casum Beurnium " (to all appearance) ; one 
 
 called 
 " Hugo super Decretis " ; one called 
 "Johannes Andreae super Regibus," which 
 is called Novella ; also a book called the 
 "Second Part of Hostiensis " ; a book called 
 " Hostiensis Summa " ; 
 
 A book of the Decretals ; and a book of the 
 
 Apparatus of John " de Deo Uno," with the 
 
 " Quaestiones Bartholomaei Bricsensis " 
 
 in the same ; 
 
 which books the said Reverend Father had lately 
 
 delivered to the Dean and Chapter. The Bishop is to 
 
 retain them for life, and after his death they are to 
 
 revert to the Dean and Chapter. 
 
 From an Indenture, on paper, dated the 7th year of 
 Henry IV., between the Dean and Chapter of the 
 Cathedral Church of Wells, and Walter Wyncaulton, 
 Canon and Prebendary of Warminstre and Luxevyle, 
 
 1 Hist. MSS. Comm. Rep., iii. , Appendix, p. 362. 
 
 2 Mr. H. R. Plomer, Bibliographica, iii. 146, says, "This may have 
 been a copy of the Pomerium Spirituale." 
 
WELLS. 115 
 
 it appears that the said Walter gave to the Perpetual 
 Vicars of the Church and Common Hall,-at Wells 
 (inter alia), one Missal. 1 
 
 In the possession of the Dean and Chapter is 
 a copy of the Canons of the Council of Constance 
 (a.d. 14 14) promulgated under Pope Martin V., as 
 affecting the English nation, and inserted in the Book 
 -of the Chancery of the Apostolic See. " Given at 
 Florence, a.d. 1419 on the 17th day of the month of 
 April." On vellum, and in good preservation. 2 
 
 Also in the possession of the Dean and Chapter is a 
 small folio paper volume, in its original boards, covered 
 with old calf and with clasps now broken ; it is probably 
 of the time of Edward IV., and apparently was known 
 as the Liber Proc, "Book of Procurations." It con- 
 tains forms of Presentations, Collations, Resigna- 
 tions, and various formal matters that were then 
 applicable to the business of this particular diocese. 
 It is in singularly fine preservation. 3 
 
 In the Bishop's Registry is a small folio volume in 
 very old limp vellum ; written mostly in the reigns of 
 Edward I. and Edward II., though there are entries 
 of the years 1510 and 1597 ; it contains Charters, 
 Custumals, and Perambulations of the Somerset 
 Forests. 4 
 
 John Harewell, Bishop 1366, gave to the church a 
 Missal which cost 20. 5 
 
 1 H.M.C. Hep., iii., App., p. 359. 2 Id., 360. 
 
 s H.M.C. Rep., i., App., p. 94. 
 
 * Hist. MSS. Comm. R., i., App., p. 93. 
 
 5 Dugdale, Mon. Aug., ii. 279. 
 
Il6 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Ralph Erghum, Bishop 1388, gave to the church a 
 Missal which cost 22. l 
 
 Boston of Bury noticed only two books at Wells : 
 Beda. 
 
 De metrica arte. 2 
 Jeronimus. 
 
 Super Daniel. 
 
 Leland noticed the following books : 3 
 
 Architrenius Joannis Hawillensis cum commen- 
 
 tariis. 4 
 Beda de arte metrica ad Cuthbertum. 
 Alexandri Necham Mythologia. 
 Dantes tralatus in carmen Latinum. 5 
 Terentius pulcherrimus. 
 Liber Ermeneuticon. 
 
 Interpretationes Eucherii de nominibus Hebraicis. 
 Ortographia Bedae. Ibidem de numero juxta 
 
 Latinos ac Graecos. 
 
 3 Dugdale, Man. Aug., ii., 279. 
 2 This is also in Leland's list below. 3 Coll., iii., 262. 
 
 4 This, Hautville's only known work, is a long poem satirizing the 
 vices and miseries of his age (fl. 1184). It is a work of considerable 
 literary merit. See the interesting article, Diet, of Nat. Biog., vol 
 xxv., p. 172. 
 
 5 The occurrence of this book is most interesting, and an 
 occurrence either in the original or translated, rare if not unique 
 in the annals of English monasteries. (The translation was pro- 
 bably that of Matteo Ronto, a monk of Oliveta, who died in 1443) 
 
WELLS. 117 
 
 Mythologicon libri quatuor Joannis Saresbiriensis. 
 Rabanus de naturis rerum ad Lodovicum regem. 
 Proterii, Alexandrini episcopi, de quaestione Pas- 
 
 chali, libellus ad Leonem, Ro. episcopum. 
 Isidorus de temporibus mundi. 
 Isidorus de natura rerum. 
 Chronica Hermanni ab initio mundi ad annum 
 
 domini CCCXLIX m . 
 Gulielmi, cantoris Malmesbiriae, libri 4 r de miraculis 
 
 divae Mariae. 
 Chronica Gulielmi Neoburgi. 
 Chronica Walteri de Gisburn a Gulielmo ad 
 
 Edwardum primum. 
 Liber Thomae Bekingtoni l de jure regis Angliae ad 
 regnum Franciae. 2 
 
 Dialogi Gregorii Saxonice. 
 Sermones Alfrici Saxonice. 3 
 Sermones Leonis Papae. 
 Chronica Martini poenitentiarii. 
 
 1 Leland, Comm., 447 seup : " Sic rem literariam fovit, juvit, auxit 
 quoque, ut diceretur sui temporis Mecaenas. Sentit, sentietque 
 novum Isiaci collegium ejus singularem erga literas amorem. Idem 
 quoque sentit Balneodunum." 
 
 2 Copies of this work are extant, MS. Ashmol, 1114 ; MS. Cotton. 
 Tib., B. 12. 
 
 3 Leland (Comm., 169) mentions three persons of this name and 
 says: " Grammaticen et ipse in gratiam studiosae pubis Latino- 
 Saxonicam scripsit ; opus, ut turn quidem videbatur, & doctum 
 & utile. Sed quod speravit ille apud seros nepotes de nominis sui 
 fama, tantum abest, ut hac nostra aetate sit consecutus, ut ejus 
 opusculum pulvere obsitum in aliquot deliteat bibliothecis. Non 
 ausim asserere hunc esse Alfricum, cujus doctae Conciones, lingua 
 Saxonica scriptae, in Fontana extant bibliotheca." 
 
Il8 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Prognosticon Juliani, episcopi Toletani, de futuro- 
 
 seculo. 
 Dockyngton super Deuteronomium, Job, & Lucam. 
 Richardus Hampole super Psalterium. [Magna 
 
 spiritualis suavitatis jucunditas.~] 
 Henricus de Hassia super dominicam orationem. 
 Joannes Waldeby super orationem dominicam, salu- 
 
 tationem ang. et symbolum. 
 Sermones Roberti Holcot de temporibus & Sanctis. 
 Repyngton super evangelia dominicalia. 
 Utredus, monachus Dunelmensis, de officio sacerdo- 
 
 tali & regali [Sicut ex duobus, spiritu sicilicet &> 
 
 cor pore]. 
 Rogeri Dymmok determinationes, Richardo II . dedi- 
 
 catae. 1 
 Wydford contra haereses exortas tempore Richardi 
 
 2 1 ad archiepiscopum Cantuar. 
 Determinatio magistri Sharpe de sacramento altaris. 
 
 [Mtdtorum tarn laicovum quam clericorum.~\ 
 Guilelmi Wydford Franciscani tres tractatus de 
 
 dominio civili contra Wiclevum. 
 
 1 See Comm., 387 : " Cum aliquot abhinc annis essem Glessoburgi 
 Somurotrigum, Fontanetum divertebam, ut aliquid penitioris anti- 
 quitatis eruerem. Intravi igitur bibliothecam, quae ab episcopis & 
 canonicis ejusdem urbis non parvo librorum numero olim magnifi- 
 centissime perornata fuit, ubi immensos venerandae antiquitatis 
 thesauros inveni : nempe Eucherii librum de Interpretationibus 
 Nominum Hebraicorum, Proterium Alexandrinum de Quaestione 
 Paschali, librum Hermeneuticon incerto autore, Rabanum de 
 Naturis Rerum, Isidori etiam librum non indoctum eodem titulo, 
 ut alios multos brevitatis studio omittam. Sed et ibidem recenti- 
 oris memoriae autores celebres quidem reperi ; inter quos enituit 
 Dymmochus, qui edito libro pugnae, quam contra Wicoclivum 
 prospere gessit, modum et rationes omnes Richardo secundo, 
 Anglorum monarchae, declaravit." 
 
WELLS. 
 
 119 
 
 Nicolai Radclyf, monachi S. Albani, determinationes 
 
 de Eucharistia. * 
 Wallensis colloquium [Cum doctor, sive predicator 
 
 evangelicus. 
 Hexameron Linconiensis. 2 
 Linconiensis de cometa. 
 Linconiensis super 4. r evangelia. 
 Notingham super evangelia. 
 Herveus, Dolensis ecclesiae monachus, super episto- 
 
 las Pauli. 
 Gorham super Psalterium, Marcum, Matthaeum, 
 
 Lucam, Joannem, super epistolas Canonicas, 
 
 Apocalypsim, & Ecclesiasticum, super epistolas 
 
 Pauli et actus Apostolorum. 
 Joannis Chaundelarii, cancellarii Wellensis, Apolo- 
 
 geticus de statu humanae naturae ad Thomam 
 
 Bekingtonam, episcopum Bathon. 
 Ejusdem orationes de laude Baiarum & Fonticulorum 
 
 civitatium. 3 
 
 1 See Comm., 396: " Quorsum haec ? certe non alio quam ut 
 ostendam Radoclivum non majorem ex studiis suis voluptatem, 
 quam rem publicam utilitatem accepisse. Namque cum vidisset 
 perfidum Wicoclivi de eucharistiae sacramento dogma in lucem 
 prodiise, non putabat satis esse, quod sibi saperet, nisi plebem 
 etiam indoctam, & vulgus literatorum (illam frequente divini verbi 
 declamatione, hunc edito per dialogos invictae veritatis libro, cui 
 titulus erat Viaticum salubre animae immortalis) a tanta & tam 
 periculosa peste averteret. Haec ego Fontaneti Somurotrigum, 
 cum nuper inter veterum autorum thesauros versarer, de Radoclivo 
 
 dldici -" 2 I.e., Bishop Grosteste. 
 
 8 Hunter, p. 27, says of this that " not even a fragment or quota- 
 tion is known to exist ; " but it would seem to be the same work as 
 that edited by the Rev. G. Williams, and printed xix. ii.99 S.A.S.P., 
 from a MS. in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, evidently 
 the very copy seen by Leland containing a beautiful portrait of 
 Bishop Beckington. There seems some uncertainty as to Chaundler's 
 Christian name. See Tanner, p. 171 n. Cave and Wharton say : 
 "Joannes rectius Thomas," as he is called in the MS. referred to 
 [See frontispiece] . 
 
120 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Ejusdem 4. r epistolae de laude Thomae Bekingtoni, 
 
 episcopi Bathon : 
 Ejusdem aliquot opuscula, continentia laudes et 
 celebria facta Gulielmi Wycham, episcopi Winton. 1 
 [Scripsit (ut ilia ferebant tempora) docte et carmine 
 
 et prosa. Floriut circa tempora Edwardi 4'-] 
 
 The following books still extant are recorded to have 
 been or were probably in the library : 
 
 1. Agnell [Thomas] archidiaconus Wellensis 
 scripsit volumen sermonum. 
 [MS. Bodl. Laud F. 6 3 . 2 ] 
 2. Beckington [Thomas] Ep. Wellen. 
 Sermones aliquot lib. i. 
 [MS. Lambeth ccxi.] 
 
 Liber epistolarum quern Whartonus vidit bibl. 
 Lambeth. 3 
 3. Buttonius [Johannes] . Scripsit, 
 Summam quandam. 
 
 [MS. Cantabr. in Coll. Corp. Christi cit. 
 Pitseo. 
 4. Chaundler (Candlerarius) Joannes or according 
 to Cave and Wharton, Thomas. 
 
 1 A MS. of this work under the title " De rebus a Gulielmo 
 Perotto alias Vichamo episcopo Ventano, gestis libelli aliquot" is 
 at New College, Oxon. 
 
 2 Tanner, 13. 
 
 3 Tanner, 84, and the references there given. See also Leland's 
 
 list above. 
 
 4 Id., 144. 
 
WELLS. 121 
 
 Epistolarum libellus. 1 
 
 Allocutiones duae. 
 
 Oratio qua respondet Cornelii Vitolii orationi 
 primae. 2 
 
 5. Boethius de consolatione philosophiae, 
 translated from English into Latin. 3 
 6. Banister Gul. edidit. 
 
 Prophetias quasdam. 
 
 [MS. penes Hen. Worsleium. Tanner, p. 72. 4 ] 
 7. Erghum, Radulphus, Bp. Bath and Wells. 
 
 Repetitiones in Rubricam et, De testibus. 
 
 [MS. olim in bibl. reg. Westmon. 5 ] 
 8. Gilbertus, Thomas. 
 
 Summa Sermonum quae dicitur Summa absti- 
 nentiae. 
 
 [MS. Bodl. Sup. D. i. Art. 8. 6 ] 
 
 1 Leland says (Comm., 457) of this volume as of those mentioned 
 in the list above: "The original copies themselves are still in the 
 Wells library, bound in rough silk, coloured in gold and red very 
 beautifully." [" Extant archetypi ipsi in Fontanensi bibliotheca, 
 serico villoso vestiti, auro & minio pucherrime picti."] Tanner, p. 
 171, says " inter epistolas MSS. ThomaeBeckingtoninbibl. Lambeth 
 extant epistolae vi. Thomae Chaundeler Wellensis cancellarii ad 
 Bekintonum." In MSS. Cotton Titus A. xxiv. : "extant Thomae 
 Chaundleri Cronica brevis de ortu vita et gestis Willelmi Wickam 
 lib i. praemissa meditatione interna." 
 
 2 Leland (I.e.) merely says that this volume "extat," and calls 
 Vitollius " praelector in Novo Collegio Isidis Vadi." 
 
 3 In MS. Harl. xxxiv. A. 4 "extat versio Boetii de consolatione 
 philosophiae Anglica cujus margini textus Latinus manu Thomae 
 Chaundleri cancellarii Oxon. et Wellensis appunitur." Tanner, 171. 
 
 4 Leland, Coll., ii. 510, says ex Scala Cronica " William Banestre 
 & Thomas Erceldoune, whos wordes were spoken yn Figure, as were 
 the Propheties of Merline." 
 
 5 Tanner, 263. 6 Id., 317. 
 
122 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 g. Giso. Episcopus Wellen. 
 
 Historiola de Primordiis Episcopatus Somer- 
 setensis. 1 
 10. Sperte, Thomas. Cancellarius Wellen. 
 De decimis opusculum. 
 [MS. bibl. reg. Westmon. 2 ] 
 ii. Gunthorpe, Joannes, decanus Wellen. Accord- 
 ing to Bale 3 : " In Wellia . . . reliquit." 
 Epistolas ad diversos. 
 Orationes elegantes & 
 Diversi generis carmina. 
 According to Tanner, 4 the last-mentioned book, as 
 also 
 
 Orationes quaedam Legatinae. 
 Rhetorica. 
 Dialectica & 
 
 Annotationes quaedam criticae in verba quae- 
 dam apud poetas citata, 
 Were in MS. Bodl., NE. F. ii., 20. 5 
 12. Hemingford, Gualterius. 
 
 Anglorum res gestas ab Gulielmo Nortomanno ad 
 tempora Ed. I. 
 
 Leland says: " Hanc ego ' nuper ' historiam Gis- 
 loburnae Cliviensium sedulo quaesivi, non tamen 
 
 1 See S.A.S.P., xii. 150. Printed in Mr. Hunter's Ecclesiastical 
 Documents, by the Camden Society. 
 
 2 Tanner, 684. 3 viii. 42. 4 p. 364. 
 
 5 Several books which belonged to Dean Gunthorpe are extant ; 
 but, as he seems to have had a library of his own, they are referred 
 to later, p. 
 
 6 Comm., p. 305. 
 
WELLS. I23 
 
 inveni ; alias semel vidi in Fontana, sive Wellensi 
 bibliotheca." 
 
 MS. extat in Coll. S. Trin. Cant, et Londini in officiis 
 Armorum Norf. 13 et in bibl. Cotton. Nero, D. ii. ac 
 in bibl. C.C.C. Cantab lx. et pense Thorn. Gale. 
 13. Petyt, Gullielmus. 
 
 De Anglis historiam, quam nuper in Fontana 
 
 alias Wellensi bibliotheca reperi. 1 
 [MS. in coll. C.C.C. H. vi. 2 ] 
 14. Carta. Scripta est haec Carta a Gisone 
 episcopo 20 May, 1065. 
 
 . [MS. Cotton., Tib. E, viii.] 
 15. Statuta Decani et Capituli ecclesiae Wellensis. 
 a.d. 1241 1351. 
 
 [MS. Harl. 1682.] 
 16. Statuta Decani et Capituli ecclesiae Wellensis 
 a.d. 1369. 
 
 [Cod. MS. Henrici Worseleye 63.] 
 17. Exemplar chartae Regis Edwardi Confessoris 
 Episcopo et ecclesiae Wellensi datae. 
 
 [MS. Cotton. Julius D. viii., 74.] 
 18. Gratia facta per Joannem Papam D. Thomae 
 de Trillak de canonicatu et praebenda in eccles. 
 Wellensi, una cum executoria et processu. 
 [MS. Cotton. Vitellius, E. iv. 17.] 
 
 The following books not known to be extant were 
 very probably in the library : 
 
 Beckington Thomas. In epistolas Petri Blesensis 
 lib. i. 
 
 1 Leland, Comm., p. 203. 2 Tanner, p. 595. 
 
124 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Viduus Robertus. Sub-Dean of Wells. 
 
 Carmen & 
 
 Epigrammata. 
 
 Leland says : "A book of Epigrams by Viduus is 
 extant, which I came across in a most happy manner. 
 John Redman, a man accomplished in all good arts and 
 eloquence, had acquired somewhere a MS., in which 
 were two books, Tiburtinarum Lucubrationum, dedicated 
 by Robert Fleming, protonotary and dean of Lincoln, 
 to Sixtus the Roman Pontiff. Annexed to these was 
 the " Querela Bacchi," on a vine despoiled by a goat, 
 written by John Phreas and dedicated to Tiptoft, Earl 
 of Worcester. 
 
 "The Epigrammata of Viduus followed, and, if I re- 
 member rightly, his Carmen, in which he compared 
 Edward the Black Prince with Hector so charmingly, 
 elegantly and skilfully as easily, it seems to me, to have 
 acquired a wide reputation for beauty and grace, as 
 well indeed as of majesty." 9 
 
 19. In the Episcopal Registry are preserved (amongst 
 others) the registers in twelve vols, from 1316 to 1534 
 
 9 Leland, Comm., 486: " Extat libellus Epigrammatdn Vidui, 
 in quem casu hoc plane opportunissimo incidi. Joannes Redoman- 
 nus vir ad bonas artes omnes et eloquentiam natus, comparaverat 
 sibi alicunde exemplar raanu scriptum, in quo duo Tiburtinarum 
 Lucubrationum libelli, a Roberto Flemingo, protonotario et decano 
 Lindocollino, Sixto, pontifici Romano, dedicati, apparebant. 
 Adjuncta erat Querela Bacchi ob vitem a capro derosam, scripta 
 quidem a Joanne Phrea, dedicata vero Tipetoto, comiti Bran- 
 goniano. Sequebatur ibidem Vidui Epigrammata, & si recte 
 memini, Carmen ejusdem, quo Eadveardum Nigellum principem 
 cum Hectore, tam venuste, tam eleganter, tam dextere etiam 
 confert, ut omne veneris, leporis, denique & majestatis punctum 
 mihi quidem facile tulisse videatur." 
 
WELLS. 
 
 125 
 
 (after which there is an intermission of some years) : 
 these record institutions, ordinations, elections, and 
 matters of ecclesiastical discipline. 1 
 
 20. There is also in the library of the Cathedral a 
 fragment of a book in small quarto of the 10th or nth 
 century treating of monastic regulations : it is in Latin 
 with a translation in Saxon : it is suggested to be a 
 fragment of the rules of St. Benedict : the translation 
 is probably that by Ethelwold, Abbot of Abingdon and 
 Bishop of Winchester, a copy of which is to be found 
 in Cotton. MS. Faustina A. x. 2 
 
 21. There is, penes Mr. Serel, a large quarto thin 
 paper volume containing various proceedings in con- 
 nection with the discipline of the Vicars " Choral of the 
 Cathedral Church," probably made under the super- 
 vision of Bishop Bekynton in the 15th century; but it 
 contains entries as early as 1393. 3 
 
 There is only one classical writer mentioned in our 
 lists of Wells viz., Terentius ; but it is abundantly 
 certain that there were many works of classical writers 
 there. 
 
 There were copies of Gregorius, Aelfric and a frag- 
 ment of the Rules of St. Benedict in Saxon, and 
 Boethius de consolatione philosophiae translated into English. 
 1 H.M.C., Rep. i., App., p. 92. 
 2 Id., p. 94. 3 Id., p. 93. 
 
126 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 WITHAM. 
 
 "When St. Hugh (in about 1181) had finished building 
 this, the first Carthusian house in the kingdom, he 
 bethought himself of books, and on one occasion men- 
 tioning his lack of them and of parchment for copying to 
 the King (Henry II.), the latter gave him ten marks to 
 purchase skins the Prior having modestly said that 
 one would do for some time and promised also to 
 give him a Bible. Henry, mindful of his word, 
 looked about where he might lay his- hands on 
 the best Bible. It so happened that the monks of 
 St. Swithun's, Winchester, had just made a magnificent 
 copy to read at their meal times. The Prior, being 
 summoned to give it up, whether he would or not, was 
 obliged to obey and accept a promised gift in place of it. 
 St. Hugh on receiving it was delighted with the beautiful 
 volume ; but, later, when entertaining a monk of Win- 
 chester at Witham, he came to learn how the King had 
 beguiled St. Swithun's Monastery of it, and though his 
 guest protested that he and his brethren were glad that so 
 holy a man should have it, he insisted on returning it, 
 thinking how grieved they really must have been to part 
 with their costly handiwork, and the monk went back 
 to his own house not more rejoiced at his regained 
 possession than at the courtesy and neighbourly love of 
 .his late host." l 
 
 1 Miss Thompson, Somerset Carthusians, p. 59. 
 
WITHAM. 
 
 127 
 
 Adam the Scot, a Premonstrant, and the author of 
 numerous theological works, appears to have lived for 
 many years at Witham, and copies of his works were 
 probably there, though we have no record that this 
 was so. * 
 
 1. MS. Bodl. 801 is a miscellaneous collection of 
 theological pieces, beginning with the "Summa Cleri- 
 corum," written early in the 15th century in England. 
 In it is written: "Liber Domus beate Marie de Witham 
 ordinis Carthusiani ex dono magistri Johannis Blacman." 
 Later in the 16th century: " Stephanus Batmanus 
 hujus libri possessor." 2 
 
 2. Magdalen Coll., Oxon, MS. 191 : "Olim conventus 
 de Witham ex legato Andreae Holes, postea coll. Magd. 
 ex dono Arthuri Throkmorton, militis 1626." The volume 
 is a vellum MS. folio, written by Jo. Baert in 1440, of 
 the " Summa de casibus conscientiae of Bartholomaeus 
 de S. Concordio, of Pisa." Bequeathed to Witham 
 Priory in 1477 by Andrew Holes, Archdeacon of 
 Wells. 3 
 
 3. MS. penes Sir W. Cope, Bart. A vellum folio 
 of the 12th century; very beautifully written. Petri 
 Cassiani Destinctionum Theologicarum pars secunda. 
 It has the note : " Liber ecclesie Dei et beate Marie de 
 Wytham ordinis Carthusiane." 4 
 
 4. MS. formerly penes Earl of Ashburnham, about 
 
 to be sold in London : " Preces piae. Meditationes 
 
 1 Id., p. 71. 
 
 2 From a note supplied by Mr. Madan. 
 
 3 H. O. Coxe, Catalogus. . . . Oxoniensibus. 
 
 * Hist. MSS. Comm. Rep. iii., 242. 
 
128 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 beati Augustini de spiritu sancto, orationes, sermones 
 et alia." 
 
 This is a quarto MS. on vellum of the 15th century, 
 bound in dark Russian leather. At the foot of 132b is 
 written: "Liber iste pertinet domui Salutationis Matris 
 Dei prope Londinias juxta Smyffeld quem dominus 
 Wilhelmus Rolbst attulit secum ad domum de Witham 
 per licenciam Reverendipatrisdompni Willelmi Tynbyth 
 prioris tunc existentis .... Carthusienses ibi . . . .** 
 
 At fol. 135b:" . . . Liber iste pertinet domui Saluta- 
 tionis matris dei ordinis Cartusiensis prope Londonias 
 juxta Smyffed." According to Dugdale, vi. 9, William 
 " Tinbigh " was prior of the Charterhouse from 1499 
 1529. x 
 
 5. Also penes Earl of Ashburnham : " Ranulphi 
 Higden, monachi Cestrensis, Polycronicon ab origine 
 mundi ad annum Christi 1353 in semptem libris ab eo 
 compilatum, cum anonymi continuatione ad annum 
 1420." 
 
 A folio MS. on vellum of the 15th century, bound in 
 crimson morocco. At the top of the first page are the 
 royal arms quarterly, France and England, and each 
 book has an illuminated initial, with the arms of Eton 
 College, and a marginal ornament in gold and colours. 
 There are ten leaves preceding the beginning of the 
 book. On the second of these is a genealogical tree of 
 the descendants of Edward III. down to Henry VII. ; 
 then follows an alphabetical index occupying six leaves 
 and part of a seventh ; then a genealogy and short 
 account of the Kings of England from Egbert to 
 1 H.M. Comm. Rep., viii., App. pt. iii., p. 103. 
 
WITHAM. 129 
 
 Edward IV., with pen-drawn portraits of some of the 
 kings and a view of Windsor Castle. 
 
 At the foot of the first page of the Chronicle is the 
 inscription : " Liber domus beate marie de Witham 
 ordinis Carthusiensis ex dono m. Johannis Blacman." l 
 
 The following books still extant were very probably 
 in this house : 
 
 6. Cottonian MS. Vespasian D. ix. It is a small 
 volume containing amongst other works a fragment 
 bearing on the history of Witham. The unknown 
 author knew and referred to the works of Adam the 
 Scot, as contained in two great volumes, entitled : 
 Sermonarii Magistri Adami. 2 
 
 7. Stone [Gilbert de]. Epistolae, dedicated to Jo. 
 Langryshe, prior of Witham. 
 
 MS. Cotton. Vitellius, E. x. 17. 
 
 Bibl. publ. Oxon : Super D. i. 123. 3 
 
 Boston of Bury, noticed the following books in this 
 house : 
 
 Anselm. De. xiv. beatitudinibus. 
 Alex. Nequam. Super mulierem fortem lib. iii. 
 Petrus Blesensis. Epistolarum cxlv. lib. i. 
 Ambrosius. Super Lucam. lib. iv. 
 
 De laude viduarum. 
 
 De lapsu virginum. 
 
 Ad virginem lapsam. 
 
 1 H.M. Comm., viii.. App., pt. ii., p. 105. 
 
 a Miss Thompson, I.e., 72. 3 Tanner, 693] 
 
 IO 
 
130 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 De morte vel excessu fratris. 
 
 Super Matheum. 
 Augustinus. Super genesim ad literam. 
 
 De spiritu [et] anima [ad] Marcellinum. 
 
 Questionum lib. vii. 
 
 Super psalterium Omel. 205 
 
 Meditationes. 
 Bernardus. Super cantica canticorum. 
 
 De precepto et de dispens [atione] . 
 
 De amore Dei. 
 
 De vi verbis Domini in cruce. 
 
 Sententie contemplative. 
 Cassiodorus. Super psalterium. 
 Gregorius [magnus]. Speculum. 
 Hugo [de S. Victore]. De arra anime. 
 
 De anima Christi. 
 
 De claustro materiali. 
 
 De claustro spirituali. 
 
 De vanitate mundi. 
 Jeronimus. Super Matheum. 
 
 Super Marchum. 
 Joannis Crisostomos. Super Matheum. 
 Innocentius III. De miseria condicionis humane. 
 Leo II. [Opera Sancti Leonis. Epistole, Sermones]. 
 Origines. Super Matheum. 
 Paschasius. De corpore et sanguine Domini. 
 Radulphus [Flaviacensis]. Super Matheum. 
 Ysidorus. Sinonima. 
 
DEAN GUNTHORP. 131 
 
 DEAN GUNTHORP. 
 
 The only private collection of books of which we 
 have any particulars is that of Gunthorp. The following 
 books are extant, and known to have belonged to him : 
 
 1. Cotton. Tiberius, A. ix., is a 13th century 
 folio on vellum, with initials in red and blue. It con- 
 tains the "Prophecies of Merlin:" both those of 
 Merlin Ambrosius and those of Merlin Sylvester (in 
 Latin), standing first in a collection of the minor 
 works of Ralph de Diceto, etc., which is here followed 
 by the Annals of Osney, written in one hand to the end 
 of 1233 and continued in several hands to 1347. These 
 works are bound up with 14th century lives of the 
 Abbots of St. Augustine's, Canterbury ; and a few 
 miscellanea, including a prophecy of Merlin on the six 
 successors of King John, in French prose. At the foot 
 of f. 2 is written : " Liber Joannis gunthorp [ob. 1498] 
 decani ecclesie cathedralis Wellensis emptus apud 
 Westmonasterum viii v0 . Junii, anno domini 1493, de J. 
 Barrett librario pro xs. solutis." 1 
 
 2. Camb. Univ., Ff. vi. 20, Biblia. vulgata sancti 
 
 Hieronymi: vellum, i2mo., 15th century. It has the 
 
 following inscription on f. 452 : " Hunc librum contulit 
 
 Magister Willelmus (sic) gunthorp decanus de Wels 
 
 collegio Jhesu 2 sub hac condicione ut aliquis predicatus 
 
 1 Ward, Cat. MSS., i. 294. 
 
 2 Jesus College was founded in 1496, only two years before 
 Dean Gunthorp's death. 
 
132 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 haberet usum et per unum ad alium transferatur ita quod 
 semper esset in usum socii vel discipuli dicti collegii." 
 
 On f. 1 is the name Matth. Saunders. 
 
 3. Camb. Univ. Mm. iii. 4. A Latin version of 
 the Odyssey, beginning " Virum mihi pande, musa . . ." 
 and ending " Mentori assimilata atque quidem corpore 
 atque voce." Paper, folio, 15th century. The following 
 inscription is on a blank leaf at the end: "Liber 
 magistri Johannis Gunthorp decani ecclesie cathedralis 
 Sancti Andree Wellensis, xii. Mai, anno Christi 1475* 
 anno regis Edwardi quarti xv mo ' emptus apud Westm. 
 pro xiii.5. iiii.i. solutis eodem die." 
 
 4. S. Joh. C. Camb., C. 11. Isocrates, Plutarch, 
 Basil, Lucian, Xenophon : various works of, in Latin. 
 Also Leonardi Aretini contra Hypocritas Liber. A 
 small 4to. on vellum, date not specified, but evident^ 
 about the middle of the 15th century. 
 
 " Inscription : ' Dono Don 1 . Helkiah Crocus ' " [Fellow, 
 fl. 1631]. At the end is written " Gunthorp." [In 1470 
 there was one John Gunthorp, Dean of Wells, and after- 
 wards Keeper of the Seals. He retired to Jesus College, 
 Cambridge, to give himself up to study.] This is 
 probably a mark of his. 1 
 
 5. Jesus C, Camb., 49. Various works of Augustine 
 in Latin. Vellum, iof-in. x 7 in. 12th century. 
 
 " The binding and the handwriting of the table of 
 contents, as well as the folio numbering, recall very 
 strongly the Bury MSS., but there is no press mark. 
 This may have been on one of two fly-leaves lost at the 
 beginning." 2 
 
 1 Cowie's Catalogue, p. 25. 2 James's Catal., p. 79. 
 
DEAN GUNTHORP. 
 
 J 33 
 
 Inscripti on inside the cover : " Liber m. Johannis 
 Gunthorp' decani Wellensis emptus London xx decem- 
 bris a xpc 1484* pro quindecim solidis solutis." 
 
 "The binding is the original boards covered with 
 white vellum, and formerly fastened by two straps and 
 pins, of which the lower one remains. There is a chain 
 mark on the middle of the lower edge of the first 
 cover." 1 
 
 6. Sid. Suss. C, Camb. Alberti Magni de Animali- 
 bus. Libri xxvi. Vellum, 17m. x i3jin., 15th century 
 [late] . Given by Roger Montague, Esq. 
 
 On f. i. is a coarse border of flower-pots, with pinks, 
 columbines, and strawberry plants. In the 1. border is 
 a scroll " Virtuti parent omnia. [A] mez pour le 
 myeulx. J. Gunthorpe." 2 
 
 7. C. C. C, Camb., 164. Vellum, small folio. 
 14th century. Higden's Polychronicon, Moralizationes 
 Avium, Tractatus de rota fortune, Sermones, etc. 
 
 Inscription: " LiberM. Johannis Gwathorp [evidently 
 misread for Gunthorp] decani Wellensis a David Henel 
 11 Julii, a vii. Henry VII., pret. 4s. 4d." 3 
 
 The account by Edmund Leversegge, of Frome, 
 co. Som., of a vision he saw when supposed to be dead 
 of the plague, May, 1465, 4 would most probably have 
 been in the possession of some Somerset owner. 
 
 1 Id., pp. 78, 79. 2 James's Catal., p. 30. 3 Nasmith. 
 
 i Now contained in Brit. Mus. MSS. Additional 34, 193; 
 Ward, ii., 487. 
 
134 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 As Mr. Sidney Lee says 1 : " The havoc made among 
 the monastic manuscripts at the dissolution of the 
 monasteries caused Leland infinite distress, and he 
 entreated Cromwell to extend his commission (to make 
 a search for English antiquities in the libraries of all 
 cathedrals, abbeys, priories, &c.) so as to enable him to- 
 collect the manuscripts for the King's library. ' It 
 would be a great profit to students, and honour to this 
 realm,' he wrote ; ' whereas now the Germans, per- 
 ceiving our desidiousness and negligence, do send daily 
 young scholars hither that spoileth them and cutteth 
 them out of libraries, returning home and putting them 
 abroad as monuments of their own country.' " 
 
 Now in 1539 Glastonbury was the only house not 
 dissolved in Somerset, and this fact affords an explana- 
 tion of the somewhat meagre results of his quest, both 
 as to the comparatively small number of MSS. he did 
 send up to the King's library and the meagre lists in 
 his Collectanae in spite of his marvellous care and 
 diligence ; he well deserves the commendation given 
 him by Bale in one of his " declaracyons enlarging 
 Leland's Newe Year's Gyfte" 2 : " Yf he be worthy prayse, 
 whyche seketh to profyte a commen wealthe Johan 
 Leyland is not to be neglected here, for thys hys 
 1 Diet, of Nat. Biog., vol. xxxiii., sub Leland. 
 2 Ed. 1549, C. ii. 2. 
 
CONCLUSION. * I35 
 
 laboryouse journey & costuouse enterpryse. For therby 
 he hath saued the profitable workes of many excellent 
 wryters, which els had bene lost, to no small decaye of 
 that wholsome veryte, whiche is both to be sought in 
 the scriptures of the Byble, and also in the moste olde 
 & autentyck Chronycles of our prouynce." 
 
 Of the immensity of the sacrifice of books at the 
 dissolution there is no better statement than that by 
 Bale 1 : " Never had we bene offended for the losse of 
 our lybraryes, beynge so many in nombre, and in so 
 desolate places for the more parte, yf the chiefe 
 monumentes & most notable workes of our excellent 
 wryters, had bene reserved. If there had bene in every 
 shyre of England, but one solepne lybrary, to the 
 preservacyon of those noble workes, and preferrement of 
 good lernynges in oure posteryte, it had bene yet 
 sumwhat. But to destroye all without consyderacyon, 
 is & wyll be unto Englande for ever, a most horryble 
 infamy, amonge the grave senyours of other nacyons. 
 A great nombre of the whych purchased those super- 
 stycyouse mansyons, reserved of those lybrarye bokes, 
 some to serve theyr jakes, some to scoure theyr candely- 
 styckes, and some to rubbe their bootes. Some they 
 solde to the grossers and sope sellers, and some they 
 sent over see to ye bokebynders, not in smal nombre, 
 but at tymes whole shyppes full, to the wonderynge of 
 the foren nacyons. Yea, the unyversytees of thys 
 realme, are not all clere in this detestable fact. . . . 
 I knowe a merchaunt man, whych shall at thys tyme 
 1 Leland's New Year's Gifte, preface, B. i. 2. 
 
I36 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 be namelesse, that bought the contents of two noble 
 lybraryes for xl shyllynges pryce, a shame it is to be 
 spoken. Thys stuff hath he occupyed in the stede of 
 graye paper by the space of more than these x yeares, 
 & yet he hath store ynough for as many yeares to come. 
 A prodygyouse example is this, & to be abhorred of all 
 men which love their nacyon as they shoulde do." 
 
 As an illustration of the number of MSS. changing 
 hands by some means or other, we read 1 that Stephen 
 Batman (the "possessor" of the Summa Clericorum, &c, 
 mentioned on p. 127) on p. 400 of his book The Doom 2 
 asserted that he collected 6,700 books for the Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury in a term of four years. We 
 should gladly have known what these were and whence 
 they came ; it is something that they were saved at all. 
 
 1 Tanner, Bibl., p. 80. 2 Published London, 1581. 
 
APPENDIX A. I37 
 
 APPENDIX A. 
 
 There was probably nothing that could be construed 
 as the rudiments of a parochial library before the Refor- 
 mation; and such books as there were in churches, were 
 probably only service books, the few known instances 
 to the contrary notwithstanding. A few references to 
 books in churches have been noted, as they seem of 
 interest both in themselves and as showing that the 
 difficulty which was felt later as to dilapidations had 
 not yet arisen, they are given below. 
 
 In Bishop Drokensford's Register (Somerset Record 
 Society, vol. i.) we read : 
 
 In June, 13 18, the Archdeacon of Taunton was 
 ordered to sequestrate the late Vicar of Thurloxton's 
 goods for the repair of the chancel, books, &c. (p. 12). 
 
 In February, 13 13-4, the Bishop gave a receipt for 
 ^"20 for dilapidations of the chancel, books, &c, from 
 the Executors of the late Chancellor. 
 
 In February, 1320-1, the Bishop decreed that the 
 Rector of Inkpene should bear all charges, save wax- 
 lights and repair of books and vestments ; and in April 
 of the same year that the Vicar of St. Decuman's was 
 
I38 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 to keep the books and ornaments in repair (p. 180) : 
 also on the 29th December, 1320, that the Vicar of 
 Cleve is to repair the books and ornaments (p. 186). 
 
 In an inspeximus by Robert Prior of Bath of a 
 charter by Walter Bishop of Bath and Wells, we read : 
 "The monks of Keynsham to provide for the repair 
 of the chancels, ornaments, and books in the mother 
 church and chapels." ' 
 
 From the assessment,- &c, of the portion of the 
 vicarage of Crich : " The Vicar shall also in future bear 
 the burden of the repair of chancel, books, &c." 2 
 
 Mem. On the day after the Feast of S.S. Simon 
 and Jude, a.d. 1243, with the consent of the King in the 
 Manor Court, the Chapter by its Proctors Walter de 
 Cosinton and John de Derham received possession of 
 the Church of Cungersbury at the hands of R. Passelewe 
 " custodis episcopatus," and Galfrid de Were, dean of 
 the place, gave them possession, and this by the 
 authority of W. de Button, Archdeacon of Wells. And 
 H. the sub-dean was the proctor of the Chapter to 
 grant it ad fivmam to P. Sarracenus in the presence of 
 the whole parish and many others who had come there 
 for divers reasons. He also delivered the ornaments 
 and the books of the church to the said P. in the chapel 
 of the church, on the day following. 3 
 
 1 Bath Chartulary, p. 120. 
 2 Bruton and Montacute Chartularies, p. 204. 
 3 Hist. MSS. Comm., Wells, p. 39. 
 
APPENDIX A. I39 
 
 In the Communa Accounts for 1343-4 we nn d ' ! 
 In 15 litteris illuminandis super unum legendam s . d. 
 
 pro Wynescomb 1 3 
 
 For writing the said legenda, iod. ; & for 
 
 binding it, 3d 1 1 
 
 In an inventory of the vestments, &c, belonging to 
 St. Katherine's He, in the church of Bridgewater, is the 
 following : " In pm remayneth a masse boke with 
 ii. claspes of sylver : and Item remayneth a quir of 
 Comemorations." 2 
 
 The following books now belong, and very possibly 
 did belong to the Corporation of Bridgewater prior to 
 the Reformation : 3 
 
 A roll about 7ft. in length, containing the " Statute 
 of Labourers," passed at Westminster in the 23rd year 
 of Edward III., a.d. 1349. It is preceded by another 
 statute in French, the title of which is torn off. The 
 third statute contained in the roll is entitled "Statutum 
 de tempore Domini Regis Ricardi Secundi, ad potes- 
 tatem [doubtful] custodum pacis pertinens." Except 
 at the beginning, the roll is in fine condition, and the 
 writing is appparently of the time of Richard II. 
 
 Mr. Riley i tells us that the Water Bailiffs' Accounts 
 were statements of moneys received at the quay on 
 goods imported or exported : and are contained in 
 
 1 Id., 275. 2 Som. Arch. Soc. Proc, vol. vii., p. 100. 
 
 3 Hist. MSS. Comm. Rep., iii. 310. 
 
 4 Hist. MSS. C. Rep., i., App., p. 99. 
 
I4O SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 numerous paper volumes, in thin pamphlet form, one 
 for each year; the earliest belonging to 19 Henry VI., 
 1441. One peculiarity attached to them is that, in 
 many instances, the accounts of the latter half of the 
 1 6th century are bound or rather enclosed in parch- 
 ment covers, or vellum, made from the leaves of Missals 
 or Service Books of the 14th century, and perhaps 
 of an earlier date. In some instances the musical 
 notation of the hymns and anthems forming part of the 
 various services is given in full upon these fragments. 
 Another cover, again, is made from a manuscript con- 
 taining a Latin and Greek Dictionary, the Greek words 
 being expressed in Latin letters. Copies of the Pandects, 
 or similar compilations, seem also to have been made 
 available for the like purpose. It is not improbable 
 that these fragments, some of which are elaborately 
 illuminated, may have been supplied by the dispersion 
 of the library of Glastonbury Abbey at the Dissolution. 
 
 For example, the accounts of the Water Bailiffs of 
 the town in 1565 are wrapped in a large folio parchment 
 sheet of a manuscript of Pliny's Natural History, of 
 the 14th century, containing, apparently, a part of the 
 Introduction, with the heads of Books II. VII., and 
 the authorities used in the compilation of them. Those 
 for 1579 are wrapped in a large folio parchment sheet of 
 a MS., apparently part of an Antiphonar of the 14th 
 century, being a calendar or summary of its contents. 1 
 
 Copy of a Latin memorandum formerly inserted in a 
 book [probably a Breviary or Mass Book] which had 
 been presented to the Church by John Colsweyn, Vicar. 
 1 Rep., iii. , p. 315. 
 
APPENDIX A. I4I 
 
 [Tr.] " Pray for the soul of Sir John Colsweyn, Vicar 
 of this Church of Bruggewater, who, to the end that 
 his soul might be kept in especial memory for the future, 
 made and left this book, prepared at his own costs and 
 labour, to lie in the Church aforesaid, before the Vicar 
 thereof, of his own free will ; as also, in part by way of 
 relief of all his parishioners." He was Vicar in 1465, 
 temp. Edward IV. 1 
 
 A paper writing, in the form of an indenture, to the 
 following effect : 2 " The delyverauns of the Goodys of 
 the Chirchis of Briggwater, by the Vycary William atte 
 Well, Johan Sely, & others, to Johan Martyne & 
 William Snothe, Wardens of the seide chirche, the 
 yere of our Lord MCCCCXLVII" the iiii. day off 
 October," mentions [inter alia] : " . . . Item iii. 
 massebokys. Item a Grayles [Gradal]. Item ii. Pro- 
 cessionaries. Item i. Pystolar [Epistolar]. Item i. 
 Colitare [Collectary]. Item i. Mortylage [Martyrology]. 
 Item i. Antiphoner tofore Seynt Mare preste. Item 
 i. Portas [Portehors, or Portifory] of the bequest of 
 Will. Hurste. Item i. Antiphoner before the Dekyn. 
 Item i. Manuell. Item i. Ordynall.' : 
 
 Nicholas de Sontesbury, Sub-dean of the -Cathedral 
 Church of Wells, by his will (probate of which is dated 
 a.d. 1372) gave To John Stafford his portifory, with 
 musical notation, covered with silk, and his Constitutiones, 
 bound in leather. To his successor as Sub-dean, for 
 the time being, his Statutes. To the Church of St. 
 Mary, at Welintone, one [book called] Hugntio, to be in 
 ild., p. 313. * Id., p. 316. 
 
I42 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 the keeping of the Vicar and the Wardens, but to be 
 delivered, upon good security, to the Master who keeps 
 the schools there, " that he and his boys may specially 
 pray for me." To Cristina Coram, his Manual, bound 
 in boards, which belonged to his mother. 1 
 
 1 H.M.C, iii., App. 359. 
 
APPENDIX B. 143 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 VARIOUS NOTICES OF BOOKS IN OR ABOUT THE 
 CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WELLS. 
 
 From a deed, dated 1341, in Latin, John Martel, 
 Canon of the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew, at 
 Wells, founded a chantry therein, at the altar of St. 
 Katherine, giving 100 pounds ; the Dean and Chapter 
 to find a sufficient Missal, etc. 1 
 
 A cover, apparently of a thin book, endorsed in a 
 hand of the 15th century, " Liber Actorum Capitu- 
 larium Wellen": is a judgment given by a Judge and 
 Commissary of the Court of Rome in a clerical matter 
 relating to Norwich. It is in Latin, on vellum, and 
 dated 1453. 2 
 
 On May 29, a.d. 1298, a monition was given to W. 
 de Winton, Robert de Avobury, and William le Jumer, 
 " quia non habent vocem multum delectabilem apponant 
 diligentiam imfra annum ad faciendam (sic) psalterium, 
 et cetera spectantia ad servitium ecclesie, sub pena 
 statuti." 3 
 
 On the same day, John Mayle, Ric. de Chapmanslade ; 
 Maurice . . . Robert de Childingfold ; Gilbert de 
 
 1 H.M.C. R., iii., App. 359. 2 Id., 360. 
 
 ZH.M.C, Wells MSS., 75. 
 
144 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIEF. 
 
 Welwe, and Master John de Congresbury, and Richard 
 de Mora receive the same order, " quia non habent 
 vocem placabilem." 1 
 
 On August 8th, a.d. 1382, Canon W. Camel, in the 
 presence of the Chapter, presented librum antiphonar- 
 ium sive legendarium," etc. 2 
 
 On October 30th, a.d. 1238, Bishop Ralph, pro tribunali 
 sedens in the Chapter, noted, inter alia, that the books 
 and vestments needed repair, and ordered this to be 
 done. 3 
 
 x From an indenture, dated the Thursday next after 
 St. Mark's Day, 1368, it appears that the Dean and 
 Chapter received from the Executors of the late Bishop 
 Ralph : 
 
 Unum missale notatum ad magnum altare : . . 
 et unam legendam sanctorum eis venditur pretii, 13s. 4d. 4 
 
 The Dean and Chapter in consideration of the 
 liberality of Canon Richard Drayton, Prebendary of 
 Whit-Lakeyngton, who has given to Hugh Morland 
 and William Martyn, the principales communis aule et 
 omnium annellariorum of the church, and to the whole 
 body (inter alia) ... a manual, . . . ordered 
 a mass to be said weekly for the soul of the said Canon. 
 20th April, a.d. 1414. 5 
 
 John Chamber, the Treasurer, Walter Cretying, 
 
 1 Id., p. 75. 2 Id., 125. 3 Id., 138. 
 4 Id., 177. 5 Id., 192. 
 
APPENDIX B. I45 
 
 Archdeacon of Bath, Robert Bysse, and John Gy, 
 canons, appointed by the Chapter to produce on their 
 behalf before Thomas Crumwell, etc., etc., viceregent 
 of the King, etc., etc., " Librum Ordinalis et statutorum 
 eccl. cathedralis Wellensis et rerum ejusdem libri 
 exemplar, ac omnes et singulas bullas seu scripta sive 
 rescripta papistica in archivis nostris reperta . . . 
 Given in the Chapter House, January 31st, a.d. 1535. 1 
 Similarly, Mr. Richard Eryngton, and Roger Edge- 
 worth, Professor of Theology, canons residentiary of 
 Wells, are appointed by the Chapter to produce before 
 Thomas Crumwell, etc., etc., etc., "Omnia et singula 
 scripta, cartas sive munimenta originalia dicte ecclesie," 
 etc., etc. 
 
 Given in the Chapter House, April 22nd, a.d. 1536. 2 
 Collation by Thomas Crumwell, etc., the Dean, and 
 the Chapter, of John Smith, junior, a vicar choral, to 
 the Chantry in the Chapel of All Saints, etc. 
 He must provide himself with books, " Vulgariter nun- 
 cupat : square books and pricke song books," for the 
 choir, etc., and shall leave them to his successors. 
 
 Given in the Chapter House, Wells, May 13th, a.d. 
 i 53 8. 3 
 
 In the roll of the Communa Accounts for the year a 
 festo S. Michaelis, a.d. 1327, usque ad idem festum 
 sequens. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 Clerico scribenti Registrum 6 8 
 
 In pergamento empto pro eodem et litteris 
 pro generali convocatione 4 2 o 
 
 1 Id., p. 223. 2 Id., p. 223. 3 Id., p. 226. 4 Id., p. 274. 
 11 
 
146 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 The Roll, a.d. 1414-5, mentions: " Solut. 
 pro ii. virgis et ii. Cathenis pro i. portiphor 
 et i. psalterio ex dono magri Ricardi Drayt n in 
 choro continen. iii. pedes, cuilibet 3 9 
 
 Item pro lecterno ad supportand. librum 
 juris canonicalis ex parte boreali chori 2 5 
 
INDEX TO LIBRARIES. 
 
 147 
 
 INDEX OF LIBRARIES. 
 
 For convenience of reference herein, the Libraries 
 
 are numbered as follows: 
 
 
 Athelney . 
 
 i. 
 
 Axbridge .... 
 
 ii. 
 
 Bath .... 
 
 iii. 
 
 Bridgewater 
 
 iv. 
 
 Bruton .... 
 
 v. 
 
 Cleeve .... 
 
 vi. 
 
 Glastonbury 
 
 vii. 
 
 Hinton 
 
 viii. 
 
 Keynsham 
 
 ix. 
 
 Montacute 
 
 X. 
 
 Muchelney 
 
 xi. 
 
 Taunton . 
 
 xii. 
 
 Wells 
 
 xiii. 
 
 Witham 
 
 xiv. 
 
 Dean Gunthorp's 
 
 XV. 
 
 
 No. in Cat. 
 
 Ashburnham, Earl of 
 
 xiv. 4 
 
 >) m 
 
 xiv. 5 
 
 Axbridge, Corporation of 
 
 ii. 1 
 
 )> >> 
 
 ii. 2 
 
 j> >> 
 
 3 
 
 > >> 
 
 ii. 4 
 
 Aylesbury, Marquess^of . 
 
 vii. 7 
 
148 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Cambridge : 
 
 Corpus Christi, iii. 
 37i 
 
 lx. 
 
 H. vi. 
 164 
 Jesus, 49 
 St. John's, E. 22 
 C. 11 
 
 Sidney Sussex 
 Trinity 
 
 ,, (See p. 119 n 
 
 3-) 
 
 Cambridge University Lib., Ff. vi 
 
 Mm. iii. 4 
 
 Cope, Sir W., Bart. 
 
 Dublin, Trinity College Press B. 
 
 Gale, Roger 
 
 Hugo, Rev. T. 
 
 Ilchester, Lord 
 
 London : 
 
 British Museum. 
 Cottonian : 
 
 Cleopatra, D. iv. 
 
 C. x. 4 
 
 Domitian, A. ii. 1 
 
 20 
 
 No. in Cat. 
 
 iii. 11 
 
 vii. 25 
 
 xiii. 6 
 
 xiii. 15 
 
 xiii. 16 
 
 xv. 7 
 
 xv. 5 
 
 viii. 1 
 
 xv. 4 
 
 xv. 6 
 
 vii. 13 
 
 xiii. 
 
 xiii. 15 
 
 xv. 2 
 
 xv. 3 
 
 xiv. 2 
 
 IX. 1 
 
 vii. 26 
 xii. 2 
 
 v. 1 
 
 vn. 19 
 
 vii. 24 
 
 iv- 5 
 
INDEX TO LIBRARIES. 
 
 I 4 9 
 
 London : 
 
 
 
 British M 
 
 useum. 
 
 
 Cottonian : 
 
 No. in Cat. 
 
 Domitian, A. ii. . 
 
 iv. 6 
 
 Faustina, A. ii. 
 
 iv. 6 
 
 Galba 
 
 , E. iv. 6 
 
 iii. 1 
 
 > 
 
 E. iv. 64 . 
 
 iii. 6 
 
 Julius 
 
 F. vii. 36 . 
 
 iii. 8 
 
 >> 
 
 D. viii. 74 
 
 xiii. 20 
 
 Nero, 
 
 D. ii. 
 
 i. 1 
 
 >> 
 
 >> 
 
 xiii. 15 
 
 Otho, 
 
 A. iv. 7 
 
 iii. 5 
 
 >> 
 
 A. iv. 
 
 v. 2 
 
 Tiberi 
 
 us, A. v. 
 
 vii. 12 
 
 >> 
 
 A. ix. . 
 
 XV. I 
 
 >> 
 
 A. x. 25 
 
 X. 2 
 
 j> 
 
 B. xii. 1 
 
 iii. 7 
 
 >> 
 
 B. xiii. 3 
 
 vii. 15 
 
 n 
 
 D.4 . 
 
 vii. 10 
 
 J) 
 
 E. viii. 
 
 xiii. 17 
 
 Titus, 
 
 A. xxiv 
 
 xiii. 7 
 
 )> 
 
 D. vii. 1 . 
 
 vii. 20 
 
 Vespasian, D. ix. 
 
 xiv. 6 
 
 >> 
 
 D. xxii. 
 
 vii. 23 
 
 > 
 
 E. iv. 
 
 vii. 11 
 
 ) 
 
 E. vii. 
 
 iv- 5 
 
 Vitellius, D. vii. 67 
 
 vii. 21 
 
 >> 
 
 73 
 
 vii. 22 
 
 >i 
 
 E. iv. 17 
 
 xiii. 21 
 
 >> 
 
 E. x. 17 
 
 xiv. 7 
 
 Harleian 
 
 : 431 f. 31 
 
 xi. 1 
 
150 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 London : 
 
 
 British Museum : 
 
 No. in Cat. 
 
 Harleian : xxiv. A. 4 
 
 xiii. 8 
 
 ,, 1682 
 
 xiii. 18 
 
 n 397o 
 
 iii. 9 
 
 >> 
 
 vii. 30 
 
 Additional, 17,451 
 
 vii. 30 a 
 
 21,614 
 
 vii. 1 
 
 College of Arms, Norf. 13 
 
 xiii. 15 
 
 Lambeth Palace, 643, art. 13 & 14 
 
 xii. 1 
 
 ,, ,, CCXl. 
 
 xiii. 5 
 
 Lincoln's Inn 
 
 iii. 10 
 
 Quaritch B. Rough List, 144 
 
 v. 3 
 
 Longleat, Marquess of Bath 
 
 iii. 12 
 
 ?j )) >> 
 
 vii. 32 
 
 5> )> >> 
 
 vii. 33 
 
 5> >> >) ' 
 
 vii. 34 
 
 Naworth Castle, Lord Carlisle 
 
 vii. 8 
 
 Norwich, More, 177 . 
 
 x. 1 
 
 n 499 
 
 ix. 2 
 
 820 
 
 iv. 1 
 
 Oxford : 
 
 
 Ashmolean, 189 ii. 
 
 xi. 2 
 
 297 
 
 vii. 28 
 
 790 f- 39 b 
 
 vii. (p. 47) 
 
 Bodleian, 80 
 
 vii. 5 
 
 801 . . 
 
 xiv. 1 
 
 ,, F. ii. 101 
 
 iii. 1 
 
 Digby, 166 
 
 x. 1 
 
 186 .. . 
 
 vii. 17 
 
INDEX TO LIBRARIES. 
 
 Oxford : 
 
 Digby, 1 86 
 
 ii. 
 
 v. 
 Hatton, 30 
 
 4 2 
 James, viii. 337 
 Laud, B. 23 
 
 B. 27 
 
 D. 145 
 
 E. 145 
 
 F. 63 
 
 G. 87 
 
 Lat. 4 
 
 ,, Misc. 128 
 Ne., B. iv. 2. 
 Ne., F. ii. 20 
 Seld., Sup. go 
 Super A. i. art. 101 
 D. i. art. 8 
 
 >> >> 14 
 
 Auctarium, F. iv. 32 
 Magdalen, 191 
 
 Serel, Mr. [Wells] 
 
 Wells Cath. Lib. 
 
 ,, Epioc. Reg. 
 Worsley, H. 
 63 
 
 151 
 
 No. in Cat. 
 
 vii. 27 
 
 iii. 1. 
 
 iv. 5 
 vii. 8 
 
 vii. 9 
 
 iv. 2 
 
 iv. 4 
 
 iv. 3 
 
 vii. 14 
 
 vii. 16 
 
 xiii. 4 
 
 iii. 4 
 
 vii. 3 
 
 vii. 4 
 
 vii. 29 
 
 xiii. 14 
 
 iv. 2 
 
 iii. 1 
 
 xiii. 11 
 
 vii. 18 
 
 vii. 2 
 
 xiv. 2 
 
 xiii. 24 
 
 xiii. 1 
 
 xiii. 2 
 
 xiii. 3 
 
 xiii. 23 
 
 xiii. 22 
 
 xiii. 9 
 
 xiii. 19 
 
152 SOMERSET MEDI/EVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 COMPARATIVE CATALOGUE. 
 
 (The numbers refer to the various libraries according 
 
 to the list on p. 147.) 
 Ambrosius : 
 
 Super Lucam, iii., xiv. 
 
 De morte vel excessu fratris, i., xiv. 
 
 De fide, iii., xi. 
 
 Athanasius : 
 
 De trinitate, iii., vii. 
 
 Augustinus : 
 
 De vera innocencia, i., vii. 
 
 De civitate Dei, vii., xiii. 
 
 De spiritu & anima, i., vii., xiv. 
 
 Epistolae, vii., xiii. 
 
 Sermo de laude caritatis, i., vii. 
 
 Super Genesim ad literam or ad literam, iii., vii., xiv. 
 
 Super Psalterium omeliae, vii., x., xiv. 
 
 Beda: 
 
 De arte metrica, vii., xiii. 
 Omeliae, vii., ix. 
 Ortographia, vii., xiii. 
 
 Benedictus, S. : 
 Regula, vii., xiii. 
 
COMPARATIVE CATALOGUE. 153. 
 
 Bernardus, S. : 
 
 Super cantica canticorum, i., vii., xiv. 
 
 Cassiodorus : 
 
 Super Psalterium, iii., vii., xiv. 
 
 Gregorius : 
 
 Dialogi, vii., xiii. 
 Speculum, iii., xiv. 
 
 Higden : 
 
 Polycronicon, xiv., xv. 
 
 Hugo [de S. Victore] : 
 De arra anime, i., xiv. 
 De sacramentis, vii., xiii. 
 Didascolion, iii., xi. 
 
 Jeronimus : 
 
 Contra Vigilantium, i., xi. 
 Super Daniel, iii., xii., xiii. 
 
 ,, Ezechielem, iii., vii. 
 
 ,, Isaias, iii., vii. 
 
 ,, Mathaeum, vii., xiv. 
 
 Joannes Crisostomos : 
 
 De compunccione cordis, i., x., xii. 
 Super Psalmum L m , xi., xii. 
 
 Leo [Pope] : 
 
 Sermones, xiii., xiv. 
 
154 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Origenes : 
 
 Super vetus testamentum, iii., vii. 
 
 Pascasius : 
 
 De corpore & sanguine Domini, vii., xiv. 
 
 Philaretus : 
 
 De pulsibus, iii., xii. 
 
 Prosper : 
 
 De vita activa & contemplativa, iii., xii. 
 
 Rabanus : 
 
 De naturis rerum, vii., xiii. 
 
 Sixtus S. : 
 
 Enchiridion, vii., viii. 
 
 Theophilus : 
 
 De urinis, iii., xii. 
 
 Wm. of Malmesbury : 
 
 De miraculis D. Mariae, ix., xiii. 
 
 Ysidorus : 
 Sinonima, vii., xiv. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 155 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Abbots of St. Augustine's, Canterbury 
 
 J3 1 
 
 Abrae, Vita Sancti 
 
 70 
 
 Actus Apostolorum 
 
 56,66 
 
 Adam de Domerham, Hist. 
 
 53> 79> 90 
 
 Adam of Sodbury, Abbot of Glaston. 
 
 81 
 
 Adam, the Scot 
 
 127 
 
 ,, ,, Sermonarii 
 
 129 
 
 Adamnan; Life of St. Columba 
 
 8 
 
 Adelwoldi, Vita St. 
 
 7i 
 
 Adrian de Castello 
 
 iog 
 
 Aelfric, Dux 
 
 93 
 
 ,, Canons of 
 
 17 
 
 ,, Sermones 
 
 117 
 
 Aelphegi St. Vita, by Osbert 
 
 101 
 
 Aenigmata de Psalmis . 
 
 75 
 
 ,, multorum 
 
 70 
 
 ,, Simposii, Aldhelmi, Eusebii 
 
 
 Tautuni 
 
 84 
 
 Aesopus (?) Atheniensis de Fabulis 
 
 76 
 
 Affricanae provinciae, Historiae . 
 
 68 
 
 Agnell, Thomas ; Volumen sermonum 
 
 120 
 
 Agnes [sister of Leonpin] 
 
 40 
 
 Albans, St. . 
 
 8 
 
 ,, number of books at 
 
 17 
 
 Albertus Magnus de animalibus 
 
 J 33 
 
i56 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Albertus Magnus Postillae super Matt. 
 Albini & Karoli, Epistolae 
 ,, Commendacio 
 
 Page 
 79. 
 
 71 
 84 
 
 >> 
 
 De sacrario Dei 
 
 84 
 
 Albinus de diversis interrogacionibus & re 
 Sponsionibus de Grammatica 
 ,, de divinitate Christi 
 
 71 
 66 
 
 
 de fide catholica, duo libri 
 
 7i 
 
 
 de viii. partibus oracionis 
 
 74 
 
 
 de racione animae 
 
 66 
 
 
 Dialectica 
 
 85 
 
 Alcuin 
 
 Epistolae 
 Ortographia 
 
 71,85 
 
 7i, 85 
 
 *3 
 
 >> 
 
 Categoriarum 
 
 82 
 
 ii 
 
 de doctrina 
 
 82 
 
 >, 
 
 de eccles : dogmatibus 
 
 82 
 
 >> 
 
 de fide catholica 
 
 82 
 
 ii 
 
 de Trinitate 
 
 82 
 
 j, 
 
 historiam 
 
 82 
 
 >> 
 
 super vetus et novum testamentum 
 
 82 
 
 >> 
 
 vitam S. Martini 
 
 82 
 
 Aldelmi, S. Aenigmata 
 ,, de laude virginum 
 
 72 
 
 71 
 
 
 
 de octo viciis 
 
 7i 
 
 >> 
 
 de virginitate & laude sanctorum 
 Vita 
 
 71,85 
 
 IOI 
 
 Alexander VI., Bulls of 
 
 106 
 
 Alexandri ad Aristotelem epistola 
 
 64 
 
 >> 
 
 & Dindimi de vita & moribus Brag- 
 mannorum epistolae 
 
 64 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 157 
 
 Alexandri Regis, Gestae 
 
 Page 
 68 
 
 Alfred, King 
 
 3i 
 
 Alfunsus, Petrus 
 
 5i 
 
 Allen, T. 
 
 86 
 
 Allocutiones duae. J. Chaundler . 
 
 121 
 
 Alquini & Caroli, Liber de Dialectica 
 
 7i, 73 
 
 Alquinus ad Gwidonem 
 
 7i 
 
 ,, de doctrina Basilii 
 
 7i 
 
 ,, Epistolae 
 
 7i 
 
 ,, exposicio missae, &c. 
 
 71 
 
 Altercatio cum Pascenio. Augustinus 
 
 102 
 
 ,, inter ecclesiam & synagogam 
 
 60 
 
 Amalarii liber 
 
 63 
 
 Ambrosius, ad virginem lapsam 
 
 129 
 
 
 , contra Novatianos 
 
 50 
 
 
 , de xii. Patriarchis 
 
 34 
 
 
 , de essentia patris & filii 
 
 104 
 
 
 , de fide 
 
 34 io 4 
 
 
 , de fuga seculi 
 
 3 
 
 
 , de lapsu virginum 
 
 129 
 
 
 , . de laude viduarum 
 
 129 
 
 
 , de morte vel excessu fratris 
 
 30, 130 
 
 
 , de pcenitencia 
 
 61 
 
 
 , de sacramentis 
 
 61, 82 
 
 
 , Exameron 
 
 61 
 
 
 , Sermo de cupiditate . 
 
 66, 75 
 
 
 , Sermones 
 
 IOI 
 
 
 , super epistolas Pauli . 
 
 61, 82 
 
 
 , Super Lucam 
 
 34, 129 
 
 
 , super Matheum 
 
 130 
 
 Ammo 
 
 miciones S. Basilii 
 
 7i 
 
i 5 8 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Anachoritarum regula 
 
 
 Page 
 65 
 
 Angerius, Gul. 
 
 
 4 1 
 
 Anianus 
 
 
 76 
 
 Annals of Bruton 
 
 
 43 
 
 Anscombe, Mr. (quoted) . 
 
 
 52 
 
 Anselmus, cur deus homo 
 
 5^ 
 
 [, 64 
 
 de concordia, &c. 
 
 
 64 
 
 ,, de incarnatione verbi . 
 
 
 104 
 
 ,, de mocione altaris 
 
 
 72 
 
 ,, de xiv. beatitudinibus . 
 
 
 127 
 
 ,, de similitudinibus 
 
 
 104 
 
 ,, epistola ad Urbanum . 
 
 
 64 
 
 ,, liber de veritate 
 
 
 64 
 
 ,, Meditationes 
 
 
 99 
 
 ,, Monologion 
 
 
 30 
 
 ,, Opera 
 
 
 40 
 
 Anteclaudianus 
 
 
 76 
 
 Anthony, Excerpta from life of St. 
 
 
 100 
 
 Antiochenae, liber de capcione civitatis 
 
 
 68 
 
 Antiphonarium 
 
 50, 112, 
 
 141 
 
 Antonii, Vita 
 
 
 70 
 
 Apocalipsis 
 
 56 
 
 , 66 
 
 Arator de Actibus Apostolorum versif. 
 
 
 75 
 
 ,, Glosae 
 
 
 75 
 
 Aristoteles, Categoriae 
 
 73 
 
 85 
 
 Logica 
 
 
 73 
 
 ,, Topica 
 
 
 77 
 
 Arnulfus de openbus, &c. 
 
 
 64 
 
 ,, de sex verbis, &c. 
 
 
 64 
 
 Aspiciens . 
 
 76, 
 
 78 
 
 Astrologia . 
 
 
 73 
 

 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 159 
 
 Astronomia 
 
 Paqe 
 73 
 
 Athanasius de singulis nominibus 
 
 82 
 
 >> 
 
 de Trinitate 
 
 34> 65, 82 
 
 > 
 
 liber de mirabilibus 
 
 69 
 
 Athelardus, de naturis rerum 
 
 36 
 
 >> 
 
 dialogum 
 
 37 
 
 Athelney 
 
 . 
 
 30 
 
 >> 
 
 Charter of foundation of 
 
 3i 
 
 >> 
 
 Register of . 
 
 31 
 
 Augustinus, ad literam (see Super 
 
 
 
 Genesim) 34'5 I >57 
 
 , 80, 82, 130 
 
 >> 
 
 Altercatio cum Pascenio 
 
 102 
 
 >> 
 
 Categoriae . 
 
 73 
 
 >' 
 
 confessiones 
 
 57 
 
 >> 
 
 contra v. haereses 
 
 72 
 
 >> 
 
 de baptismo contra Petilicianum 30 
 
 >> 
 
 de civitate Dei 
 
 57, 80, 113 
 
 , 
 
 de compoto 
 
 57 
 
 >> 
 
 de concordia 
 
 58 
 
 >> 
 
 de concordia fratrum 
 
 7i 
 
 >> 
 
 de concordia & ammonicone 
 
 
 
 S. Besilii 
 
 66 
 
 >> 
 
 de duabus animabus 
 
 58 
 
 *> 
 
 de xii. abusivis 
 
 58 
 
 >> 
 
 de eo quod scribitur Respice teipsum 30 
 
 >> 
 
 de excidio urbis Romae 
 
 104 
 
 >) 
 
 de fide & simbolo 
 
 5758,82 
 
 
 
 de gratia Novi Testamenti 
 
 30 
 
 >> 
 
 de immortalitate animae 
 
 58 
 
 >> 
 
 de lapsu & reparacione hominis 
 
 30 
 
 >> 
 
 de libero arbitrio 
 
 58 
 
i6o 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Augustinus 
 
 ;, de opere monachorum 
 
 Page 
 58, 82 
 
 >> 
 
 de oracione dominica 
 
 5i 57 82 
 
 , 
 
 de pastoribus 
 
 34 
 
 > 
 
 de peccatorum meritis 
 
 30 
 
 ;, 
 
 de perfectione 
 
 57, 58 
 
 ,, 
 
 de quadrifario 
 
 57 
 
 , 
 
 de quantitate animae 
 
 58 
 
 5> 
 
 de retractatione 
 
 58 
 
 5) 
 
 de lxiii. quaestionibus 
 
 58 
 
 
 
 de simbolo . 
 
 57 
 
 5, 
 
 de spiritu & anima 
 
 3 58, 130 
 
 ,, 
 
 de Trinitate 
 
 5i578o 
 
 5, 
 
 de vera innocentia 
 
 . 30, 58, 82 
 
 J> 
 
 de vera religione 
 
 58 
 
 5, 
 
 de verbis domini 
 
 5i. 57 
 
 ,, 
 
 Encheridion 
 
 58 
 
 S, 
 
 Epistola ne commorentur cuir 
 
 1 
 
 
 mulieribus 
 
 57 
 
 ,, 
 
 Epistolae 
 
 58, 113 
 
 5, 
 
 & Gregorius, Dialogus 
 
 100 
 
 5, 
 
 & Orosius, quendam libellum 
 
 99 
 
 
 
 Excerpciones 
 
 58 
 
 >> 
 
 Exposicio in Apocalipsim 
 
 88 
 
 J 
 
 Exposicio super Psalmum L. . 
 
 5 1 
 
 )> 
 
 Justificatio hominis . 
 
 58 
 
 >> 
 
 Liber Damasceni 
 
 "3 
 
 J, 
 
 Meditationes 
 
 127, 130 
 
 >> 
 
 Omeliae 
 
 34 
 
 )) 
 
 Oraciones de concupiscencia 
 
 
 
 carnis adversus Spiritum 
 
 65 
 
 -5> 
 
 Questionum, lib. vii. 
 
 130 
 

 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 
 161 
 Page 
 
 Augustinus, Sermo ad juvenes 
 
 
 104 
 
 >> 
 
 ,, de laude caritatis 
 
 
 30 
 
 j> 
 
 Sermo de perjurio 
 
 
 104 
 
 >> 
 
 Sermones 
 
 
 IOI 
 
 >> 
 
 Speculum Gregorii 
 
 
 "3 
 
 >i 
 
 Super genesin 34, 51, 
 
 57, 80, 82, 
 
 130 
 
 >> 
 
 Super Johannem 
 
 - 
 
 58 
 
 >> 
 
 Super mulierem fortem 
 
 
 3 
 
 >> 
 
 Super Psalterium omeliae 
 
 57, io2j 
 
 130 
 
 >> 
 
 unde malum 
 
 
 58 
 
 Ausonius, 
 
 monosillaba de gentibus 
 
 
 65 
 
 u 
 
 Oracio ad Deum 
 
 
 65 
 
 Axbridge 
 
 . 
 
 
 32 
 
 Baert, Johannes 
 
 Baldewinus, Liber de diversis tractatibus & 
 
 sermonibus 
 Banister, Gul., Prophetias quasdam 
 Barrett, J. 
 
 Bartholomaeus, Glosae super philosophiam 
 ,, Summa 
 
 ,, Bricsensis. Quaestiones 
 
 Basilius 
 
 ,, ammonicio ad monachos . 
 Bath 
 
 ,, Marquess of 
 
 Battman, Stephen 
 
 Beckington, T., In epistolas Petri Blesensis 
 
 ,, Liber de jure regis Angliae 
 
 ad regnum Franciae 
 ,, Liber epistolarum 
 
 12 
 
 127 
 
 65 
 121 
 
 J 3! 
 
 73 
 
 73 
 114 
 
 132 
 
 75 
 
 34 
 
 39,97 
 
 127, 136 
 
 123 
 
 117 
 120 
 
l62 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Beckington, T., Sermones aliquot 
 
 Page 
 1 20 
 
 Beda, de arte metrica 
 
 61, 116 
 
 
 , de arte rethorica . 
 
 61, 76 
 
 
 , de gestis Anglorum 
 
 61, 68 
 
 
 , de numero 
 
 116 
 
 
 , de temporibus 
 
 IJ 3 
 
 
 , Excerpcio de opusculis Augustini, &c. 
 
 61 
 
 
 , Glosae 
 
 61 
 
 
 , Omeliae 
 
 84, IOI 
 
 
 , Ortographia 
 
 71, 116 
 
 
 , Super Lucam 
 
 61 
 
 
 , ,, Proverbia Salomonis 
 
 106 
 
 
 , versus de die Judicii 
 , Vita Guthlaci 
 
 75 
 83 
 
 Bekynton, Bishop (v. Beckington) 
 Beleth (? for Bethleem) 
 Benedictionale 
 
 119, 120 
 
 63 
 
 78 
 
 ,, Dunstani S. 
 
 76 
 
 episcopale 
 
 76, 78 
 
 ,, perpulchrum 
 Benedictus, Abbot of J arrow 
 
 81 
 84 
 
 S. Regula 
 ,, ,, Translacio 
 
 18, 66, 125 
 76 
 
 III., gift by 
 Benignus S., Church of 
 
 15 
 24 
 
 Benjamin & sentenciae . 
 
 59 
 
 Berengarius super Apocalipsim 
 
 61 
 
 ,, ,, can. can. 
 
 61, 82 
 
 Berkeley, MS. formerly penes Ld. 
 Bernardus S. de amando Deo 
 
 43 
 60 
 
 
 ,, de amore Dei 
 
 130 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 163 
 
 Bernardus S. de consideracione 
 
 Page 
 60, 78 
 
 ,, de gradibus humilitatis 
 
 64 
 
 ,, de precepto & de dispensatione 
 
 130 
 
 ,, de sex verbis domini in cruce 
 
 130 
 
 ,, de superfluitatibus monachorum 64 
 
 de virtute gemmarum 
 
 60 
 
 ,, Meditationes 
 
 99 
 
 ,, Sententie contemplative 
 
 130 
 
 ,, Super cantica canticorum 
 
 30, 60, 130 
 
 Bestiarium 
 
 76 
 
 Beverlay, Philip, Quaestiones Perihermenias 
 
 ; 91 
 
 ,, ,, Super sex principiis 
 
 9i 
 
 Biblia. Postillae super . 
 
 56 
 
 ,, preciosa 
 
 
 81 
 
 Bibliotheca 
 
 . 
 
 49, 55 
 
 Bindings 
 
 
 H 
 
 Bishops of Bath 
 
 . 
 
 37 
 
 Blacman, John 
 
 . 
 
 127 
 
 Black Prince, The 
 
 . 
 
 124 
 
 Bodeca [sive Dudoco] 
 
 . 
 
 34 
 
 Boecius ad Symachum 
 
 . 
 
 72 
 
 ,, de Arithmetica 
 
 
 72 
 
 ,, de consolacione Philosophiae 
 
 72 
 
 ,, ,, ,, Glosae 
 
 72 
 
 trans, 
 into English by J. Chaundler 
 
 ( 121 
 
 ,, de disciplina scolarium et barbaris- 
 
 mus 
 
 77 
 
 ,, de Musica 
 
 72 
 
 ,, de Trinitate 
 
 72 
 
 ,, in Ysagogis Por] 
 
 )hirii 
 
 72 
 
164 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Books, lending of 
 
 20 
 
 ,, sources of danger to 
 
 24 
 
 Boston of Bury, MS. of 
 
 3, 26 
 
 Bracton de legibus 
 
 85 
 
 Bracy, J., Abbot of Muchelney 
 
 88 
 
 Breviarium 
 
 5> 7 6 > I0 
 
 ,, apostolorum 
 
 72 
 
 Bridgewater 
 
 41 
 
 ,, Water Bailiffs' Accounts 
 
 i39 
 
 Britone, W., precentor Glaston. . 
 
 77 
 
 Britwold, monk of Glaston. 
 
 49 
 
 Bruton 
 
 43 
 
 Brutus 
 
 68 
 
 ,, abreviatus 
 
 68 
 
 Bubwith, Bishop 
 
 109 
 
 Bury, Richard de . 
 
 20 
 
 Bury St. Edmunds 
 
 17 
 
 Busby, Dr. . 
 
 no 
 
 Buttonius, J., Summa quaedam 
 
 120 
 
 W. . 
 
 37 
 
 Caesar 
 
 36 
 
 Caesarius, S. Liber de exortacione 
 
 65 
 
 ,, Sermo ad monachos 
 
 72 
 
 Camel, W. 
 
 144 
 
 Canon Theodori 
 
 63 
 
 Canones Apostolorum 
 
 62 
 
 Cantica Canticorum 
 
 56, 60 
 
 ,, commentum in 
 
 56 
 
 ,, exposita 
 
 59 
 
 ,, Glosae 
 
 56 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Cap 1 ad Encherium de Orthographia Lib. 
 Caroli & Alquini de Dialectica 
 Cassianus contra Nestorium 
 
 ,, de incarnatione Christi . 
 
 ,, Distinctionum theologicarum 
 
 ,, S. Joh. Regula de viii . viciis 
 
 Cassiodorus, Epistolae . 
 
 ,, super epistolas Pauli 
 
 ,, Psalterium . 34, 30, 62, 82 
 
 Casum Beurnum 
 Catalogus, Regum Brittaniae 
 
 ,, Romanorum pontificum 
 
 Catholicae fidei, Liber 
 Cato 
 
 Catonis Liber 
 Ceolfrid, Abbot of Jarrow 
 
 Chartularies (v. Registers) 38, 43, 44, 96, 97, 1 10, 1 
 Chaundler, J., Aliquot opuscula 
 
 ,, Allocutiones duae . 
 
 ,, Apologeticus de statu humanae 
 
 naturae 
 ,, Boethius de consolatione, 
 
 trans, into English 
 ,, Epistolarum libellus 
 
 Oratio qua respondit Corn 
 
 Vitelii orationi primae 
 ,, Orationes de laude Baiarum 
 
 & Fonticulorum civitatium 119 
 
 4 r epistolae de laude T. Bek- 
 
 ingtoni ep. Bathon. . 120 
 
 Chronica Hermanni . . . 117 
 
 165 
 
 Page 
 
 75 
 
 71 
 
 83 
 
 5 1 * 65 
 
 127 
 
 67 
 
 62 
 
 I02 
 
 130 
 
 114 
 
 63 
 63 
 68 
 
 75 
 
 76 
 
 84 
 
 11, 124 
 
 120 
 
 121 
 
 119 
 
 121 
 121 
 
1 66 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Chronica Martini 
 
 ,, Walteri de Gisburn 
 ,, William de Newbury 
 Chronicle, at Axbridge 
 
 ,, of Glaston 
 Chronicon breve de legibus Sax. & Angl. 
 
 ,, Glastenburiense 
 Church, Canon 
 Cicero, de amicita 
 
 ,, de senectute 
 Claudianus 
 Clarevallensis, Abbas 
 Clark, J. W. (quoted) . 
 Clarke, John, Bishop of Bath and Wells 
 Cleeve 
 Clement of Llantony, Expositiones super 
 
 Evangelia 
 Clerk, J. 
 Cleve, Vicar of 
 
 Cluniacen, Liber de consuetudinibus 
 Collationes patrum 
 Collectarium auro iiluminatum 
 Collinson's Somerset 
 Colsweyn, John, Vicar of Bridgewater 
 Commemorations, Quire of 
 Compendium Chronologicum 
 
 ,, rubricarum super Decreta 
 
 Constance, Canons of Council of . 
 Constanti Aphricani liber, cui titulus Pan 
 
 techni 
 Constantini monachi, Viaticum, &c. 
 
 Page 
 117 
 
 117 
 
 117 
 
 32 
 90 
 
 93 
 92 
 
 108 
 
 72 
 
 72 
 
 76 
 
 51 
 16, 19 
 
 39 
 
 44 
 
 83 
 
 99 
 
 138 
 
 69 
 50,65 
 
 49 
 112 
 141 
 
 139 
 92 
 
 77 
 115 
 
 85 
 37 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Constitutio Extravagans 
 
 Constitutions, Provincial 
 
 Conversio Helenae matris Constantini 
 
 Cornutus super Focam 
 
 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 
 
 Coram, Christina 
 
 Coscumbe, Richard, prior of Muchelney 
 
 Cost of illuminating, &c. 
 
 Courtenay Prayer Book 
 
 Crich, Vicar of 
 
 Crispin, W. 
 
 Cristoforus S., Passio 
 
 Crocus, Helkiah 
 
 Cromwell, T. 
 
 Cronica Cronicarum 
 
 Cryche, Robert, prior of Montacute 
 
 Cumdach 
 
 Curteys, Wm., Abbot of Bury 
 
 Custumarium 
 
 Cuthbertus, S., Tomb of 
 Vita 
 
 Cyprianus 
 
 ,, de xii. abusivis 
 
 ,, Epistola de opere, &c. 
 
 ,, Epistolae 
 
 167 
 Page 
 32 
 32 
 59 
 76 
 38 
 142 
 
 105 
 
 139, H5 
 
 43 
 
 138 
 
 66 
 
 74 
 132 
 
 40, i45 
 
 103 
 
 102 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 95 
 
 15 
 
 7o, 74 
 
 50 
 
 72 
 
 57 
 67 
 
 Damianus, ad Leonem 
 
 Daniel, liber de sompniis 
 
 Dantes, tralatus in carmen Latinum 
 
 David, liber cerimoniarum 
 
 De antiquitate aedis B. M. Glaston 
 
 69 
 61 
 116 
 61 
 92 
 
i68 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 De arte grammatica 
 De beata Maria 
 
 Page 
 6 5 
 
 78 
 
 De compoto 
 
 De ecclesiasticis officiis . 
 
 67 
 63 
 
 De legenda totum temporale 
 Decreta 
 
 78 
 52, 62 
 
 ,, Caroli & Ludovici regum 
 
 63 
 
 ,, compendium rubricarum super 
 ,, Decretales 
 
 77 
 
 81 
 
 ,, Gelasii 
 
 63 
 
 Decretales, Tractatus super 
 
 77 
 
 ,, novae 
 
 62 
 
 ,, quaedam novae 
 Decretalium casus 
 
 77 
 77 
 
 ,, rerum, &c, casus 
 
 76 
 
 Decretals, A book of 
 
 114 
 
 Descriptio Brittaniae 
 
 61 
 
 Determinatio magistri Sharpe de sacran 
 
 lento 
 
 altaris 
 
 118 
 
 Determinationes de eucharistia N. Ra( 
 
 fclyff 119 
 
 ,, R. Dymmok 
 Deuteronomium glosatum 
 
 118 
 52, 56 
 
 Deveral, Stephanus 
 
 94 
 
 Diadema monachorum . 
 
 66 
 
 Dialectica, J. Gunthorp . 
 
 122 
 
 Dialogi Gregorii 
 
 Dialogus S.S. Gregorii & Augustini 
 
 117 
 
 IOI 
 
 Dictating 
 Dictionale 
 
 J 3 
 
 78 
 
 Dictionarium Latino Saxonicum . 
 
 85 
 
 Didascolion, Hugo de S. Victore . 
 
 82, 104 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 169 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Didymus de spiritu sancto 
 
 72, 84 
 
 Dietae universales 
 
 73 
 
 Digestum novum 
 
 81 
 
 Dindimi de S. spiritu, Liber (v. Didymus) 
 
 72, 84 
 
 Dionysius. epistola de ordine Paschae 
 
 67 
 
 ,, S. [Areop.], De ierarchus angelica 
 
 
 & ecclesiastica 
 
 104 
 
 Diruvianus, S. 
 
 47 
 
 Distincciones Mauricii . 
 
 80 
 
 Dockyngton super Deuteronomium, &c. 
 
 118 
 
 Doctrinale magnum 
 
 78 
 
 Dominicam orationem, H. de Hassia super 
 
 118 
 
 ,, ,, J. Waldeby super 
 
 118 
 
 Donatus 
 
 74 
 
 Duduc, Bishop of Wells 
 
 JI 3 
 
 Dunstan, S. 
 
 8,48 
 
 ,, Drawing of 
 
 86 
 
 Vita 
 
 89 
 
 Durham 
 
 8, 16 
 
 ,, number of books at 
 
 17 
 
 Dymmok, Roger, Determinatisnes 
 
 118 
 
 Eadmer 
 
 93 
 
 Ecclesiasticus, &c. 
 
 56 
 
 Edgar, King 
 
 24 
 
 ,, Liber de consuetudinibus 
 
 68 
 
 Edmund, King, escape of 
 
 32 
 
 Edmundi, Passio beati 
 
 70 
 
 Egesippi historici, quinque libri 
 
 85 
 
 Egidii, Vita S. 
 
 70 
 
 Egisippus 
 
 68 
 
170 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Electio abbatis de Keynsham 
 Elencorum, lib. 
 Elizabeth, visiones 
 Elnotus, monachus Glastoniae 
 Encheridion cum floribus 
 
 ,, S. Sixti 
 
 Epistola de azimi 
 
 ,, Joannis XV. Papae ad Aelfricum 
 Epistolae Johannis Jacobi & Petri 
 
 ,, Pauli 
 Epitaphia quorundam nobilium 
 Erchenberti, Liber viii partibus oracionis 
 Ercomberbus, v. Erchenbertus and Erken 
 
 bertus (mon. Glast.) 
 Ercomberbus, Regulae grammaticales 
 Eremita, Britt. anon. 
 
 ,, ,, De mensa rotunda 
 
 ,, ,, De rege Arturo 
 
 ,, ,, Sanctum Graal 
 
 Erghum, Ralph, Bishop of Wells 
 
 ,, ,, de testibus 
 
 ,, ,, Repetitiones in rubricam 
 
 Erkenbertus, Grammatica (v. Erchenbertus) 
 Ermeneuticon, Liber 
 Escurial, Library of the 
 Esdrae supputacio 
 Ethelstan, King, Gift by 
 
 Bella . 
 
 Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester 
 Eucherii, Interpretationes de nominibus 
 
 Hebraicis 
 
 Page 
 101 
 
 77 
 69 
 
 49 
 80 
 
 63. 99 
 
 64 
 
 93 
 
 57 
 
 52, 57 
 
 72 
 
 74. 9i 
 
 91 
 
 9i 
 
 95 
 
 95 
 
 95 
 
 95 
 
 116 
 
 121 
 
 121 
 
 91 
 116 
 16 
 67 
 35 
 7i 
 125 
 
 116 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 171 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Eusebii, Omeliae ad monachos 
 
 72 
 
 Eutex de verbo 
 
 75 
 
 Eutex Grammatica 
 
 83,86 
 
 Eutropius . 
 
 86 
 
 Evangelia quatuor 
 
 56 
 
 glos. 
 
 56 
 
 Excerpcio de diversis tractatibus 
 
 65 
 
 Excerpta de Glastonia . 
 
 92 
 
 ,, from the lives of St. Anthony, St 
 
 
 Hilarion & St. Sylvester 
 
 100 
 
 Excrustation . 
 
 24 
 
 Exodus glosatus 
 
 5 2 > 55 
 
 Exposicio Augustini in Apocalipsim 
 
 88 
 
 ,, baptisterii 
 
 72 
 
 Haymonis de euuangeliis aesti- 
 
 
 valibus 
 
 78 
 
 ,, Regulae S. Benedicti . 
 
 66, 75 
 
 Exposiciones diversorum verborum gram. 
 
 7 1 
 
 ,, evangeliorum 
 
 56 
 
 ,, super evangelia; Clement o 
 
 F 
 
 Llantony 
 
 83 
 
 Faustini, Sermones 
 
 101 
 
 Ferrandus ad Reginum comitem . 
 
 8 3 
 
 Fisonomia 
 
 5i 
 
 Fleming, Robert 
 
 124 
 
 Flores et magna glosa Psalterii 
 
 99 
 
 Forests, Charter of the 
 
 in 
 
 Fortunatus ad Vitalem episc 
 
 75 
 
 Free : translation of Synesius de laude 
 calvitii .... 
 
 87 
 
172 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Fulbertus, Epistolae 
 
 ,, sermo de nativitate S. Mariae 
 
 Fulgencius de conflictu viciorum & virtutum 
 
 ,, super fabulas philosophice 
 
 expositas 
 
 Page 
 
 >7, 83. 
 
 59 
 
 65,82 
 
 76 
 
 Galen 
 
 36, 
 
 37 
 
 Galfredus Mon. Vita Merlini Sylvestris 
 
 
 84 
 
 Galfridus de Bathonia 
 
 39 
 
 77 
 
 Gandani Quodlibet 
 
 
 81 
 
 ,, Summa 
 
 
 81 
 
 Genesis glosatus, liber . 
 
 5 2 
 
 55 
 
 Geoffrey, Bishop of Bath 
 
 39 
 
 17 
 
 Gerimus, mon. Glaston. De lege divina 
 
 78 
 
 91 
 
 Gesta Anglorum 
 
 5i 
 
 68 
 
 ,, Britonum 
 
 
 5 1 
 
 ,, diversorum pontificum Rom. 
 
 
 68 
 
 ,, Francorum 
 
 
 5 1 
 
 ,, Normannorum 
 
 
 68 
 
 Gildas 
 
 
 46 
 
 ,, Albanius 
 
 
 94 
 
 ,, de excidio Brittaniae 
 
 
 68 
 
 ,, Sapiens, Historia 
 
 
 91 
 
 Gilbert, Thomas. Summa Sermonum 
 
 
 121 
 
 Giraldus Cambrensis, Speculum eccles. 
 
 
 83 
 
 ,, Topographia Hiberniae 
 
 
 84 
 
 Girwicensis ccenobii, Historia 
 
 
 84 
 
 Giso 
 
 
 122 
 
 Glastonbury 
 
 8, 45 et 
 
 seq. 
 
 ,, Liber terrarum 
 
 
 68 
 
 number of books at . 
 
 
 17 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 173 
 
 Glastonbury Tor 
 Glosae de Grammatica 
 
 Page 
 48 
 
 75 
 
 super Philosophiam 
 
 ,, super regulam Benedicti . 
 
 ,, ,, Thimaeum Platonis 
 
 73 
 66, 75 
 
 73 
 
 ,, verborum Novi ac Veteris Test. 
 
 75 
 
 ,, Virgilii 
 Glosaria de significacionibus verborum 
 
 73 
 
 75 
 
 Gloucester Cathedral 
 
 9 
 
 Godfrey, Abbot of Malmesbury 
 Golden Table of Pythagoras 
 
 24 
 
 105 
 
 Gorham super Epistolas canonicas, &c. 
 
 119 
 
 >, Pauli 
 
 119 
 
 ,, ,, Psalterium, Marcum, &c. 
 
 119 
 
 Gospels 
 
 99 
 
 Gradale 
 
 78 
 
 Gradalia nova & vetusta 
 
 76 
 
 Gratia facta per Joannem Papam D. Thomae 
 
 
 de Trillak 
 
 123 
 
 Great Charter, The 
 
 in 
 
 Grecimus (? Gerimus) 
 
 78 
 
 Gregorii Altercatio inter ecclesiam & sinago- 
 
 
 gam 
 ,, Moralia super Ezechielem 
 
 60 
 60 
 
 >, Job 
 
 Lucam 
 
 * 59 
 60 
 
 ,, Nasanzeni, Apologeticus 
 
 60 
 
 ,, Omeliae 
 
 59 
 
 Gregorius. Dialogi 
 
 59, "7 
 
 ,, [magnus] Speculum 
 
 34, "3 
 
 Vita 
 
 60 
 
174 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Gregory [of St. Barbara] ; saying of 
 
 ,, Sermons 
 Guliardus 
 Gunthorp, Dean of Wells 
 
 J. Annotationes quaedam criticae 
 Dialectica . 
 diversi generis carmina 
 Epistolae ad diversos 
 Orationes elegantes 
 
 ,, quaedam legatinae 
 Rhetorica 
 Gutlaci, Georgii, Erasmi, &c, Vitae 
 
 Vita 
 Gwimundus, Aversanus episc. 
 Gyan, R. . 
 
 Hadrianus Castellensis 
 Haimo (sub Hamo) 
 
 ,, Exposicio de euuangeliis aestivalibus 
 
 ,, Liber de ewangeliis 
 
 ,, Liber de exposicionibus ewangelorum 
 
 ,, Super epistolas Pauli 
 Hale, Sir M. . 
 
 Hampole, Richard. Super Psalterium 
 Harewell, John, Bishop of Wells 
 Hautville. Architrenius ' . 
 
 Hemingford, Walter, Anglorum res gestae. 
 Henricus de Bathonia 
 
 ,, de Hassia. Super dominicam ora 
 
 tionem 
 ,, Episc. Winton 
 
 Page 
 
 7 
 
 IOI 
 
 65 
 131 
 122 
 122 
 122 
 122 
 122 
 122 
 122 
 
 70 
 7o, 83 
 
 64 
 112 
 
 35 
 5 2 
 78 
 61 
 61 
 
 30 
 
 38 
 
 118 
 
 "5 
 
 116 
 
 122 
 
 35 
 118 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 175 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Henry of Blois, Abbot of Glastonbury 
 
 49 
 
 Henry II. . 
 
 126 
 
 Hermanni Chronica 
 
 117 
 
 Herveus super Epistolas Pauli 
 
 119 
 
 Hexameron. Linconiensis 
 
 119 
 
 Hiberniae Topographia . 
 
 64 
 
 Hide Abbey . 
 
 25 
 
 Hieronymi S. Biblia vulgata 
 
 1 3 1 
 
 Higden, Ranulfi, pars posteriori historiae 
 
 93 
 
 ,, Polychronicon . 
 
 128, 133 
 
 Hilarion, S. Excerpta from life of 
 
 100 
 
 Hildeberti Sermones de dissensione, etc. 
 
 63 
 
 Hildefonsis, Liber de Beata Maria 
 
 69 
 
 Vita & gesta 
 
 69 
 
 Hildepericus de compoto 
 
 67 
 
 Hillarii, S. Vita 
 
 70 
 
 Hinton 
 
 99 
 
 Hiponosticon . 
 
 3& 
 
 Hippocrates 
 
 37 
 
 Historiae scolasticae 
 
 81 
 
 ,, ,, Petri majoris. 
 
 55 
 
 Holcot, Robt. Sermones de temporibus 
 
 118 
 
 Holes, Andrew 
 
 127 
 
 Holleweye, Prior of Bath 
 
 3& 
 
 Holt, T., Chancellor of Wells 
 
 no 
 
 Homilies 
 
 61, 99 
 
 Horace 
 
 72 
 
 Hostiensis, Second part of 
 
 114 
 
 ,, Summa 
 
 114 
 
 Hugh, St. of Lincoln 
 
 112, 126 
 
 Hugo de disciplina 
 
 63 
 
176 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Hugo [de S. Victore] De archa Noe 
 De arra anime 
 De anima Christi 
 De claustro materiali 
 De claustro spirituali 
 De clericali disciplina 
 De sacramentis 
 De vanitate mundi 
 Didascolion 
 Super decretis 
 
 lamentacione 
 Jeremiae 
 ,, [Prior of Montacute] Planctum de 
 
 excidio Trojae 
 Rev. T. 
 Hugutio 
 -Hurste, Wm., Bequest by 
 
 Idilii, Epistola ad Julianum 
 
 Ilchester, Lord 
 
 Illuminatores 
 
 Ina, King 
 
 Inasforciatum 
 
 Indracti, S. Vita 
 
 Ingulph of Croyland 
 
 Inkpene, Rector of 
 
 Innocencius de miseria &c. 
 
 Instituta 
 
 Inventarium reliquiarum Glaston 
 
 Inventio & exaltatio crucis 
 
 Isidorus de natura rerum. v. Ysidorus 
 
 5*> 
 
 64, 
 
 Page 
 
 30 
 
 30, 130 
 
 130 
 
 130 
 
 130 
 
 30 
 
 63, 113 
 130 
 
 82, 104 
 114 
 
 102 
 
 102 
 106 
 
 141 
 141 
 
 72 
 
 43 
 10 
 48 
 81 
 69 
 17 
 1 37 
 64 
 62 
 
 93 
 
 70 
 
 117 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 177 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Isidorus de temporibus mundi 
 
 117 
 
 Isocrates 
 
 132 
 
 Ivo Carnotensis de sacramentis (v. Yvo) 
 
 63 
 
 Ivo Chronicon. 
 
 106 
 
 James, M. R., (quoted) . 
 
 . 17, 20, 26 
 
 Jeremiae, Hugo super lamentacione 
 
 102 
 
 Jeronimus . 30,34,50,51,58,71,82,104, 
 
 106, 116, 130 
 
 Joannes Andreae super Regibus 
 
 114 
 
 ,, Cassianus. de x. collacionibus 
 
 104 
 
 ,, Crisostomos . 31, 102, 1 
 
 04, 106, 130 
 
 Joannicius 
 
 36 
 
 Job & tres libri Salomonis. glos. 
 
 
 56 
 
 Johannes de Taunton 
 
 
 79 
 
 Johannis Constantinopol, Sermo . 
 
 
 57 
 
 ,, de Albewilla, Summa 
 
 
 77 
 
 ,, Epistolae 
 
 
 57 
 
 ,, Evangel, glos. 
 
 
 56 
 
 ,, Saresbiriensis, versus 
 
 
 65 
 
 John Apparatus de Deo uno 
 
 
 114 
 
 ,, Bishop of Bath 
 
 
 39 
 
 ,, dictus Ffortis 
 
 
 IJ 3 
 
 ,, Mery lynch 
 
 
 87, 96 
 
 ,, of Glaston., Historia 
 
 
 90 
 
 John of Salisbury. Mythologicon 
 
 117 
 
 ,, ,, Polycraticon , 
 
 80 
 
 - Prior of Taunton 
 
 106 
 
 ,, St., Gospel of 
 
 15 
 
 ,, the Almoner [of Hinton], Life of 
 
 99 
 
 Josuae & Judicum, Liber . , 
 
 52 
 
 Julian. Prognosticon de futuro seculo 
 
 118 
 
 13 
 
 
 
178 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Junilii, Liber 
 Juvencus de ewangeliis 
 
 Karole, de Ja , 
 
 Katerinae S. Passio 
 Katerines He, St., Bridgewater 
 Keynsham 
 
 ,, Electio Abbatis de 
 
 ,, Monks of 
 
 Kitto, James 
 Kylwardesby [or Kilwardby] . Liber super 
 
 literam sententiarum 
 
 Lamentaciones Geremiae 
 Lanfranc, Archbishop, Statutes of 
 
 ,, Epistolae 
 
 Langleigh, Henry 
 Lapidarium 
 
 Laurencii, libri qui fuerunt 
 Laurentius [Dunelmensis] 
 Layton 
 Lazari, Vita 
 Lectionaria 
 Legenda Sanctorum 
 
 Nova 
 
 ,, totius anni abbreviat. 
 Leland, J., Newe Year's Gift 
 Lending of books, the . 
 Leo, Pope. Epistolae 
 
 ,, Sermones 
 
 Leo III., Gift by 
 
 79 
 19 
 83 
 87 
 5i 
 78 
 36 
 40 
 70 
 5o 
 
 144 
 81 
 
 100 
 
 134 
 
 20 
 
 130 
 
 117, 130 
 
 15 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 179 
 
 Leonardus Aretinus contra hypocritas 
 
 Page 
 132 
 
 Leonpin 
 
 40 
 
 Leversegge, Edmund 
 
 J 33 
 
 Leviticus expositus 
 
 56 
 
 Libellus ad omnes materias in jure canonicc 
 
 ) 
 
 inveniendas 
 
 77 
 
 ,, de Manipul. flor. . . 
 
 100 
 
 ,, inter Orosium & Augustinum 
 
 99 
 
 ,, Judiciarius 
 
 77 
 
 Liber Albus i. of Wells. 
 
 no 
 
 hi. 
 
 in 
 
 ,, Annalium Regum 
 
 43 
 
 ,, Damasceni 
 
 "3 
 
 ,, de animabus defunctorum . 
 
 70 
 
 ,, de antiquitatibus Glaston. . 
 
 93 
 
 de arte grammatica 
 
 65 
 
 ,, de arte rhetorica 
 
 63 
 
 ,, de clericis & clericorum regulis 
 
 67 
 
 ,, de conflictu viciorum & virtutum 
 
 67 
 
 ,, de consecracionibus 
 
 67 
 
 ,, de cronicis 
 
 69 
 
 ,, de diversis sermonibus Anglicis 
 
 69 
 
 ,, de ,, tractatibus 
 
 77 
 
 ,, de excidio Trojae & gestis Roman- 
 
 
 orum imperatorum 
 
 68 
 
 ,, de febribus 
 
 36 
 
 ,, de gemmis 
 
 63 
 
 ,, de laude calvorum 
 
 70 
 
 ,, de viii partibus oracionis . 
 
 74 
 
 ,, de ordine creaturum 
 
 69 
 
 ,, de perfectione spirituals vitae 
 
 80 
 
i8o 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Liber 
 
 de principio et fine seculi 
 
 69 
 
 >> 
 
 de proprietatibus rerum 
 
 80, 81 
 
 >> 
 
 de sacramentis ecclesiae 
 
 64 
 
 5> 
 
 de ultima resurrexione 
 
 70 
 
 > 
 
 de virtute gemmarum 
 
 60 
 
 > 
 
 de vita diversorum patrum 
 
 70 
 
 If 
 
 dictus Paradisus . 
 
 50 
 
 1) 
 
 divisionum 
 
 72 
 
 J) 
 
 Dominus vobiscum 
 
 69 
 
 >J 
 
 epistolarum 
 
 78 
 
 *> 
 
 Ermeneuticon 
 
 116 
 
 > 
 
 Ewangeliorum . , 
 
 78 
 
 1> 
 
 graduum 
 
 73 
 
 }> 
 
 medicinae artis 
 
 73 
 
 > 
 
 mortuorum 
 
 78 
 
 > 
 
 oracionum [auro pictus] 
 
 49 
 
 > 
 
 pauperum 
 
 62 
 
 J> 
 
 priorum 
 
 73, 78 
 
 f > 
 
 Proc. 
 
 115 
 
 )> 
 
 pronosticorum 
 
 72 
 
 > 
 
 qui intitulatur " concordanc 
 
 iae Bibliae " 79 
 
 >> 
 
 ,, Grammatic 
 
 a . 74 
 
 J> 
 
 ,, sic incipit " qui bene 
 
 praesunt 
 
 
 presbyteri " 
 
 100 
 
 >> 
 
 Ruber n. of Wells 
 
 in 
 
 > 
 
 Rubeus Bathoniae 
 
 39 
 
 >> 
 
 S. Dunstani 
 
 88 
 
 )> 
 
 Scintillarum 
 
 6 5 
 
 JJ 
 
 sex principiorum . 
 
 77 
 
 Libra 
 
 testamenti xii. patriarcharu 
 rii 
 
 m . 68 
 10 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 i8r 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Libraries, Arrangement of Mediaeval 
 
 15 
 
 Libri epistolarum 
 
 76 
 
 ,, ferendi diaconi 
 
 . 
 
 75 
 
 ,, Kylwardesby 
 
 
 
 81 
 
 ,, naturales 
 
 
 80 
 
 ,, perspectivae 
 
 
 
 81 
 
 ,, sapienciales glos. 
 
 
 79 
 
 ,, sentenciarum 
 
 . 
 
 77 
 
 Life of John the Almoner [of Hinton] 
 
 99 
 
 ,, Paul the Hermit 
 
 99 
 
 Linconiensis [i.e. Grosteste] Hexameron 
 
 119 
 
 de cometa 
 
 119 
 
 super 4 or evangelia . 
 
 119 
 
 Lincoln's Inn . 
 
 38 
 
 Livius, Titus . 
 
 68 
 
 ,, de gestis Romanorum 
 
 68 
 
 Elogium episc. Bathon. 
 
 35 
 
 Logica, vetus . 
 
 77 
 
 Logicam, noticiae super veterem . 
 
 73 
 
 Longchamp, Wm. de 
 
 24 
 
 Lucas et Johannes glosati 
 
 52, 56 
 
 Lucian 
 
 . 
 
 132 
 
 Madan, F. (quoted) . . 8, 11, 12, 13, 15 
 
 Maitland (quoted) . 7, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 24, 25 
 
 Malmesbury, Wm. of 48, 49, 68, 83, 85, 93, 101, 117 
 Marciani Feiicis Capellae Commentum . 73 
 
 ,, ,, ,, Dialectica 
 
 Marcus, Ewangelium. Glos. 
 Maria, Miracula de Sancta 
 ,, Sermones de Sancta 
 
 73 
 
 5& 
 
 69, 101 
 
 69 
 
l82 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Mariae, Liber de virginitate beatae 
 
 69 
 
 Mariae Magdalenae, Vita 
 
 70 
 
 Marshall, Galfridus, Repertorium Dialectices 
 
 91 
 
 ,, Repertorium Geometriae 91 
 
 Martel, John .... 
 
 H3 
 
 Martene (quoted) 
 
 IO 
 
 Marthae, Vita . 
 
 70 
 
 Martilogia . 
 
 76, 112, I4I 
 
 Martin, Chronica 
 
 117 
 
 ,, Sermones 
 
 IOI 
 
 Martinus episc. de formula honestae vitae . 
 
 66 
 
 S. Vita 
 
 70 
 
 Mathaeus & Lucas. Evangelia glos. 
 
 56 
 
 Mathaeus & Marcus 
 
 52 
 
 Mauricii distincciones 
 
 80 
 
 Mauritius de schemate pontificali 
 
 35 
 
 Maurus de laude crucis 
 
 84 
 
 Mavornus, mon. Glaston. Annales suae 
 
 
 patriae 
 
 95 
 
 Medicinae artis Liber qui dicitur regalis 
 
 73 
 
 ,, ,, Tres libri 
 
 73 
 
 Medicinale Anglicum 
 
 73 
 
 Meditationes Anselmi 
 
 99 
 
 ,, S. Bernardi 
 
 99 
 
 Melchinus 
 
 46, 83 
 
 ,, Historiae fragmentum . 
 
 92 
 
 Merelynch (or Merylynch) Joh. 
 
 87, 94 
 
 Merlinus 
 
 83, 131 
 
 Vita 
 
 89 
 
 ,, Sylvestris. Vita 
 
 84 
 
 Merton Coll. Oxon. 
 
 16 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 
 i3 
 Page 
 
 Methodii, liber . 
 
 
 71 
 
 Minerva, Temple of ,. 
 
 
 
 39 
 
 Missal 
 
 
 50, 
 
 52, 76, 78 
 
 costing ^"20 
 
 
 
 "5 
 
 
 
 
 
 116 
 
 Mithonis (for Milonis ?) liber 
 
 
 
 72 
 
 Monmouth, Duke of. Rebellion 
 
 
 
 iog 
 
 Montacute 
 
 
 
 102 
 
 Montisacuti, nomina priorum . 
 
 
 
 102 
 
 Moralia libri Genesis 
 
 
 
 55 
 
 ,, super Psalterium 
 
 
 
 77 
 
 Moralitates super Epistolas 
 
 
 
 79 
 
 ,, ,, Evangelia 
 
 
 
 79 
 
 Moralium pars una 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 Moralizationes avium 
 
 
 
 *33 
 
 Muchelney 
 
 
 
 104 
 
 ,, Letter to Abbot of 
 
 
 
 104 
 
 Mythologia ; Alex. Necham 
 
 
 
 116 
 
 ,, John of Salisbury 
 
 
 
 117 
 
 Nebbert, N. . 
 
 
 
 no 
 
 Necham, Alex. Mythologia 
 
 
 
 116 
 
 ,, ,, (or Nequam) Super muiierem 
 
 
 fortem ... 
 
 
 129 
 
 Neoburgi, Gul. Chronica 
 
 
 117 
 
 Nicholas de Soutesbury ; Bequest by 
 
 
 141 
 
 Notarii 
 
 
 10 
 
 Notingham super evangelia 
 
 
 119 
 
 O Pastor 
 
 , 
 
 76,78 
 
 Odilo of Clugni 
 
 
 . 
 
 24 
 
1 84 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Odo Archiep. Dorubernensis ; Vita Wilfrid 
 
 Odyssey, Latin version of . 
 
 Omeliae Bedae 
 
 ,, dominicales, Gallice scriptae 
 ,, Eusebii 
 
 ,, super ewangelia dominicalia 
 ,, ,, Psalterium. Augustinus 
 
 Omnibonus Leonicensis 
 
 Oracii, liber 
 
 Ordinalia 
 
 Origenes. Exposicio super Exodum & Levi 
 ticum 
 ,, Omeliae 
 
 ,, ,, ii. super Ezechielem 
 
 ,, ,, xiiii. super Jeremiam 
 
 ,, ,, super Genesim 
 
 ,, super Epistolas Pauli ad Romanos 
 ,, ,, Josue & Judicum . 
 
 ,, ,, libros legis Mosaicae 
 
 Mathaeum 
 
 ,, ,, Pentateucum Moysi 
 
 ,, ,, vetus testamentum 
 
 Orosii, libri . . 68, 
 
 Orosius [Saxonice] . . 
 
 Ortographia ; Bede 
 
 Osbert Cantuar. Vita S. Aelphegi 
 
 Osney, Annals of 
 
 Osopis (? Aesopus) Atheniensis de fabula 
 
 Oswaldus. De componendis epistolis 
 
 Ovidius 
 
 ,, de arte amandi 
 
 Page 
 
 84 
 
 132 
 
 84, 101 
 
 77 
 72 
 
 77 
 102 
 
 87 
 72 
 76 
 
 57 
 50 
 60 
 60 
 
 83 
 50 
 60 
 60 
 130 
 60 
 
 34> 50, 83 
 85, 86, 99 
 
 85 
 
 71, 116 
 
 101 
 
 131 
 76 
 92 
 
 78 
 86 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 185 
 
 Paradisus, Liber dictus 
 
 Page 
 
 5 
 
 Parker, Archbishop 
 
 38 
 
 Parvum volumen 
 
 81 
 
 Parvus Ordinarius 
 
 77 
 
 Pascasius 
 
 5i 
 
 de corpore & sanguine Domini 
 
 63, 83, 130 
 
 ,, de septem sacramentis 
 
 102 
 
 Passio S.S. Dionisii, Aelphegi & al. 
 
 70 
 
 Passio vn. dormicncium 
 
 7i 
 
 Passionale Sanctorum Anglice Script. 
 
 69 
 
 Passionalia mensalia 
 
 69- 
 
 Passiones diversorum martirum . 
 
 70 
 
 ,, quorundam apostolorum 
 
 70 
 
 ,, sanctarum virginum 
 
 70 
 
 ,, sanctorum 
 
 50 
 
 ,, ,, martirum 
 
 76 
 
 Pastoralis curae libri tres 
 
 60 
 
 Paterius 
 
 5 J > 59 
 
 Patricii Carta . 
 
 47 
 
 Paul the Hermit, Life of 
 
 99 
 
 Pauli, Epistolae 
 
 52, 57, 79 
 
 Vita . 
 
 70 
 
 Pelagiae S. Conversio 
 
 70 
 
 Pembroke Coll. Camb. . 
 
 16 
 
 Penthateucum Moysy, &c. 
 
 55 
 
 ,, duo Anglica 
 
 55 
 
 Perer [sic~\ 
 
 76 
 
 Persius 
 
 7& 
 
 Peterborough Abbey 
 Petrus Alfunsus 
 
 17 
 5i 
 
 ,, Blesensis 
 
 36 
 
i86 
 
 SOMERSET MEDLEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Petrus Blesensis Epistola de subversione terrae 
 sanctae 
 
 ,, ,, Epistolae 
 
 ,, ,, Tractatus in Job 
 
 Cluniacensis. Tractatus 
 
 ,, Lumbardus. Sentenciae 
 
 ,, Parisiacensis. Tractatus de contrarie- 
 tatibus theologiae 
 
 ,, Ravennas. Sermones 
 Petyt, Wm. De Anglis historia 
 Phaganus, S. ... 
 
 Philaretus de pulsibus . 
 Phillips, Sir T. 
 Philobiblon 
 Phreas, John 
 Phreculfus 
 Pilati, de orto 
 Plato, de anima 
 
 ,, Timaeus 
 
 ,, ,, Glosae super 
 Plinius de naturali historia 
 
 ,, de naturis 
 Plutarch 
 Poetria nova 
 Policronicon 
 
 Polycraticon. John of Salisbury . 
 Pomerium Spirituale 
 Pompeius de significatione verborum 
 
 ,, super Donatum 
 Porphirius 
 
 Ysagoge 
 
 Page 
 
 65 
 129 
 
 61 
 
 99 
 62 
 
 61 
 
 65 
 123 
 
 47 
 37, 106 
 
 99 
 21 
 
 87 
 
 68, 76 
 
 100 
 
 73 
 73,85 
 73 
 49 
 66 
 
 132 
 
 78 
 
 128, 133 
 
 86 
 
 114 
 74 
 74 
 77 
 73 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 187 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Portifory . 
 
 141 
 
 Postillae super Apocalipsim . . 
 
 80 
 
 ,, Epistolas canonicales 
 
 80 
 
 ,, ,, Jeremiam 
 
 79 
 
 ,, ,, Johannem 
 
 79 
 
 ,, ,, Marcum 
 
 79 
 
 ,, ,, Mathaeum 
 
 79 
 
 ,, ,, Minores Prophetas 
 
 79 
 
 ,, ,, tractatum 
 
 79 
 
 Powle, Mr., Gift to 
 
 103 
 
 Preces piae . 
 
 127 
 
 Primar ecclesiast. 
 
 100 
 
 ,, Puerorum 
 
 100 
 
 Principiorum, liber sex . 
 
 77 
 
 Priscianus de construccione 
 
 77, 78 
 
 ,, de nomine, pronomine & verbo 
 
 74> 76 
 
 ,, de situ orbis 
 
 74 
 
 de situ & nominibus terrarum cum 
 
 
 mappa mundi 
 
 66 
 
 ,, de iii. partibus oracionis 
 
 61 
 
 ,, de xii. versibus Vergilii 
 
 74. 76 
 
 ,, minor 
 
 73> 75 
 
 Processionalia 
 
 76 
 
 Prognosticon de futuro seculo. Julian 
 
 118 
 
 Prometheus 
 
 62 
 
 Pronosticorum, liber 
 
 70, 72 
 
 Prophecies of Merlin 
 
 131 
 
 Prosper. De vita activa & contemplativa 
 
 34, 106 
 
 ,, & Jeronimus de xii. scriptoribus 
 
 7i 
 
 Prosperii, libri duo. 
 
 75 
 
 Proterius de quaestione Paschali . 
 
 117 
 
SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Page 
 
 Prudencius de Psychomathia . . 75 
 
 Psalter . . . . 40, 78 
 
 ,, from Taunton . . . 106 
 
 Psalteria duo preciosissima . . 81 
 
 Psalterium glosatum . . 52, 55 
 
 ,, Graece & Latine . . 55 
 
 Pythagoras, Golden Table of . . 105 
 
 Quaestiones Bartholomaei Bricsensis . 114 
 ,, de malo & mortalibus criminibus 
 
 disputatas a fratre Thoma . 80 
 
 ,, perihermenias . . 91 
 
 ,, veteris & novae legis . 80 
 
 Queen's Coll. Camb. ... 16 
 
 Querela Bacchi . . . 124 
 
 Quintilianus de causis : . . 51 
 
 Quodlibet Gandani ... 81 
 
 Rabanus de computo . . 66, 85 
 
 ,, de cruce . . . 83 
 
 ,, de laude crucis . . 49, 66- 
 
 ,, de naturis rerum . .66,83, 117 
 
 Radbertus de corpore & sanguine Domini 51 
 
 Radclyff, Nich. Determinationes de Eucharistia 1 19 
 
 Radulphus de Salopia ... 37 
 
 Radulfus super Leviticum . . 52 
 
 ,, [Flaviacensis] super Matheum . 13a 
 
 Raimundus. Summa ... 77 
 
 ,, ,, de pcenitencia . 62 
 
 Ralph de Diceto. Minor works . 131 
 
 Reade, Wm. Bp. of Chichester . . 16 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 189 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Redman, John 
 
 1 24 
 
 Reginald, Bp. of Bath . 
 
 39 
 
 Register of Athelney 
 
 3i 
 
 Bath 
 
 38 
 
 ,, Bruton 
 
 43 
 
 ,, Cleeve 
 
 44 
 
 ,, Glastonbury 
 
 50, 96, 97 
 
 Wells 
 
 124 
 
 Regula anachoritarum . 
 
 65 
 
 Regula de gestis & capcione Hyberniae 
 
 76 
 
 Regula, S. Benedicti 
 
 18, 66, 75 
 
 Regulae, S. Benedicti exposicio 
 
 66, 75 
 
 ,, S. Johannis Cassiani de viii. viciis 
 
 66 
 
 Regulam S. Benedicti Glosae super 
 
 75 
 
 Remigius. Commentum super viii. patres 
 
 
 oracionis 
 
 75 
 
 ,, Commentum super Juvenalem . 
 
 75 
 
 ,, Exposicio super Marcianum de 
 
 
 musica 
 
 75 
 
 Repyngton super evangelia dominicalia 
 
 118 
 
 Retorica .... 
 
 51. 63 
 
 ,, Bedae 
 
 61, 76 
 
 ,, J. Gunthorp 
 
 122 
 
 Ricardus de Culmtone. Libri 
 
 76 
 
 ,, de S. Victore . 
 
 59 
 
 ,, Rex. Gesta 
 
 68 
 
 Robertus [Abbas Glaston.]. Liber de bene- 
 
 
 diccionibus Jacob, &c. 
 
 67,85 
 
 ,, Speculum ecclesiae 
 
 92 
 
 Rolbst, W. . 
 
 128 
 
 Rufinus de ponderibus & mensuris 
 
 65 
 
igo 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Rule of S. Benedict (v. Regula S. B.) 
 
 18, 
 
 Page 
 &c. 
 
 Sacramentis, Ambrosius de 
 
 
 82 
 
 ,, Hugo de . 
 
 63, 
 
 IX 3 
 
 ,, Ivo Carnotensis de . 
 
 
 63 
 
 ,, liber de 
 
 
 64 
 
 Salomonis, Tres libri glos. 
 
 
 56 
 
 Salustii libri duo 
 
 
 68 
 
 Salustius 
 
 
 72 
 
 Salutaciones diversarum epistolarum 
 
 
 67 
 
 Sancate Grammatica cum barbarismo 
 
 
 77 
 
 Sanctorum diversorum patrum, Vitae 
 
 
 70 
 
 Sanctuarium divinum 
 
 
 69 
 
 Sapienciae liber 
 
 
 56 
 
 Savaric Bp. .... 
 
 38, 
 
 in 
 
 Schonaw, Anianus de. Super fabulis poetarum 
 
 
 90 
 
 Scriptorium described 
 
 
 8 
 
 ,, rules of 
 
 
 9 
 
 Secretum Abbatis 
 
 
 97 
 
 Sedulius. Libri iiii 
 
 
 75 
 
 Selwode, J. Abbas Glaston. 
 
 
 88 
 
 Seneca de remediis 
 
 61 
 
 , 64 
 
 ,, Epistolae 
 
 
 67 
 
 Sentenciae diversorum patrum 
 
 
 72 
 
 ,, doctorum, diversae 
 
 
 7i 
 
 & sermones patrum 
 
 
 59 
 
 Petri Lumbardi 
 
 
 62 
 
 Sentenciarum liber 
 
 
 77 
 
 ,, libri iiii . 
 
 
 62 
 
 Septem dormiencium. Passio 
 
 
 7i 
 
 ,, epistolae canonicae 
 
 
 66 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 191 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Septem gradus confessionis 
 
 72 
 
 Serel, Mr. MS. penes 
 
 125 
 
 Sermo ad juvenes. Augustinus 
 
 104 
 
 ,, ad monachos. Caesarius . 
 
 72 
 
 ,, de cupiditate. Ambrosius 
 
 66 
 
 ,, de laude caritatis. Augustinus 
 
 3 
 
 ,, de perjurio. Augustinus 
 
 104 
 
 ,, Johannis Constantinopol. . 
 
 57 
 
 Sermones. Aelfricus 
 
 117 
 
 ,, Agnell 
 
 120 
 
 ,, Anglici 
 
 69 
 
 ,, Augustini, Martini, Faustini, Gre- 
 
 
 gorii, Ambrosii 
 
 IOI 
 
 ,, Beckington 
 
 120 
 
 ,, de S. Maria . 
 
 69 
 
 ,, de temporibus& Sanctis, R.Holcot 
 
 118 
 
 ,, diversi 
 
 77 
 
 ,, Hildeberti 
 
 63 
 
 ,, Jeronimus 
 
 104 
 
 ,, Leo, Pope 
 
 "7> 13 
 
 ,, Petri Ravennatis 
 
 65 
 
 ,, quidam 
 
 65 
 
 ,, quosdam diversorum patrum 
 
 63 
 
 Servius. Exposicio super libris Virgilii 
 
 76 
 
 Sharpe. Determinatio de sacramento altari: 
 
 3 118 
 
 Signs for books 
 
 10 
 
 Simeon de erroribus Origenis 
 
 59 
 
 Sinonima Ysidori 
 
 67, 130 
 
 Sixtus Pope 
 
 124 
 
 Sixtus, S. Enchiridion 
 
 63, 99 
 
 Smaragdus de Grammatica 
 
 74, 85 
 
192 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIAEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Soliaco, Hen. de [Abbas Glaston] . De in 
 
 vencione corporis Arthuri 
 Solinus . . . 
 
 ,, de situ orbis terrarum 
 Somur, Joh. Libellum de quantitate 
 Speculum. Gregorius 
 Speculum ecclesiae 
 
 ,, Giraldus Cambrensis . 
 
 ,, poenitenciae 
 
 Spenserus, T. [mon. Hinton.] Comment, in 
 Epistolas Pauli ad Galatas 
 ,, ,, Trialogue between Bilney 
 
 Latimer & Repps. 
 Sperte, T. . 
 
 Stafford, John, Bishop of Bath and Wells 
 Statuta Decani & Capituti eccles. Wellen. 
 Statute of Kenilworth . 
 Labourers 
 Marlborough 
 Merton 
 Westminster 
 Windsor 
 Stentar, The 
 Stephani prothomartiris, Invencio S. 
 
 ,, translatio capitis S. 
 Stephanus presbyterus. Vita Wilfridi 
 Stephen, Archbp. Cant. 
 Stimulus Amoris 
 Stone, Gilbert. Epistolae 
 Stonyhurst 
 Stourton, Eadmundus [mon. Glaston] 
 
 Page 
 
 95 
 86 
 68 
 4i 
 34 
 63, 9 2 
 83 
 63 
 
 100 
 
 100 
 122 
 114 
 123 
 in 
 
 139 
 
 in 
 
 in 
 
 in 
 
 in 
 
 33 
 
 7i 
 
 70 
 
 84 
 32 
 100 
 129 
 15 
 94 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 193 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Suinesins, Hen. [Abbas Glaston.] Diversi 
 
 
 generis poemata . ... 
 
 95 
 
 Summa Bartholomaei 
 
 73 
 
 ,, Buttonius 
 
 120 
 
 ,, Clericorum 
 
 127 
 
 ,, de casibus conscientiae Bartholomaeus 
 
 
 de S. Concordio 
 
 127 
 
 ,, de poenitencia . 
 
 62, 77 
 
 ,, de viciis 
 
 66,77 
 
 ,, de virtutibus 
 
 66 
 
 & decretalium iv. partes . 
 
 80 
 
 ,, fratris Raimundi de poenitencia 
 
 62, 77 
 
 ,, Gandani 
 
 81 
 
 ,, magna Theologiae. T. Aquinas 
 
 80 
 
 ,, mri Johannis de Albewilla 
 
 77 
 
 qui intitulalur Libellus Judiciarius . 
 
 77 
 
 ,, ,, ,, Parvus Ordinarius . 
 
 77 
 
 Sermonum 
 
 121 
 
 Supputacio Esdrae 
 
 67 
 
 Swincetus Rogerus 
 
 95 
 
 Swithun's S. Winchester, Bible taken from 
 
 
 and given to Witham 
 
 126 
 
 Sylvester S. Excerpta from life of 
 
 100 
 
 Synesius de laude Calvitii 
 
 87 
 
 Synodales .... 
 
 37 
 
 Synodis pontificiis, De . 
 
 35 
 
 Tabula Glastoniensis 
 
 88 
 
 Tabulas de luna 
 
 42 
 
 Tamerworth .... 
 
 85 
 
 14 
 
194 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Tancredus de matrimoniis 
 
 
 Page 
 77 
 
 Tanner, Bp. . . 
 
 48 et pi 
 
 issim 
 
 Taunton - 
 
 
 106 
 
 ,, John de 
 Tautuni Aenigmata 
 Te Deum, Adaptation of 
 
 79> 
 
 107 
 
 84 
 88 
 
 Terence 
 
 
 116 
 
 Textus argenteus & auratus 
 
 
 81 
 
 ,, evangeliorum duo 
 
 
 +9 
 
 ,, S. Dunstani 
 
 
 89 
 
 Theca 
 
 
 15 
 
 Theodoli glosae 
 
 
 72 
 
 Theodori [of Evroul] quoted 
 
 
 13 
 
 ,, Canon ad remedium pcenitenciae 
 
 
 63 
 
 Theophilus. Acta 
 
 
 69 
 
 ,, de urinis 
 
 37, 
 
 106 
 
 Thomas de Aquino. Quaestiones . 
 ,, ,, Summa 
 
 
 80 
 80 
 
 ,, : frater Glaston Glosae & Postillae . 
 
 7^ 
 
 , 80 
 
 ,, de Trillak Summa 
 
 
 123 
 
 Thompson, Sir E. M. (quoted) 
 Throkmorton, Arthur 
 
 
 11 
 127 
 
 Thurloxton, Vicar of 
 
 
 137 
 
 Tiburtinarum Lucubrationum, Liber 
 
 
 124 
 
 Tildysleye, Wm. 
 
 Tinbigh, Wm. : prior of the Charterhouse, 
 
 
 40 
 
 London . . 
 
 
 128 
 
 Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester 
 
 87, 
 
 124 
 
 Topica Aristotelis 
 
 
 77 
 
 Tractatus de ingratitudine. Steph. Deveral . 
 
 
 94 
 
 ,, de rota Fortune 
 
 
 J 33 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Tractatus de vii. viciis secundum Willelmum 
 de Abendune 
 
 ,, de Trinitate . 
 
 ,, super Decretales 
 Translacio S. Benedict! . 
 Trenae [s*V] 
 Trialogue between Bilney, Latimer & Repps 
 Trinity Coll. Library Camb. 
 Trivet N. & T. Valois, Commentary on De 
 
 Civitate Dei 
 Trivetus, Historia de Regibus 
 Trojae, Liber de excidio 
 Troparia 
 Twinhamburne 
 
 Ulpianus de edendo 
 
 Unitate monachorum, de 
 
 Utiles exposiciones super benedicciones Jacob 
 
 Utredus de officio sacerdotali & regali 
 
 195 
 Page 
 
 77 
 80 
 
 77 
 
 70, 76 
 
 80 
 
 100 
 
 17 
 
 87 
 
 84 
 
 68 
 
 76, 112 
 
 48 
 
 62 
 
 83 
 
 64 
 
 118 
 
 Valerianus. Dissuasio ad Rufinum ne ducat 
 
 uxorem . . . 64 
 
 Valois, Thomas & N. Trivet. Commentary on 
 
 De Civitate Dei ... 87 
 Verba compendiosa a diversis auctoribus 
 
 excerpta ... 64 
 
 Versarius .... 52 
 
 Versus de novem musis . . 38 
 
 Versus L. de quodam superbo . . 65 
 
 Vetus Logica . 73, 77 
 
 Viaticus 73 
 
ig6 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Victor, S. Historia persecutionis Aphricanae 
 
 85 
 
 Victorius, Marianus 
 
 
 47 
 
 Viduus, Robertus: subdean of Wells. Carmer 
 
 t 
 
 
 & epigrammata 
 
 
 124 
 
 Virgilii Glosae 
 
 
 73 
 
 Virgilius. Eneidos cum Georgicis & Bucolicis 
 
 
 76 
 
 ,, quid am libellus 
 
 
 65 
 
 Visiones Elizabeth 
 
 
 69 
 
 Vita Abrae 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 ,, Adelwoldi 
 
 
 
 7i 
 
 ,, Aelphegi 
 
 
 
 IOI 
 
 ,, Aldelmi . 
 
 
 
 IOI 
 
 ,, Antonii 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 ,, Benigni 
 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 ,, Bernardi 
 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 ,, Cutberti 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 .74 
 
 ,, Dunstani 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 ,89 
 
 Egidii 
 
 
 \ 
 
 
 70 
 
 ,, Erasmi 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 ,, Eustacii 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 Georgii 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 ,, Gregorii 
 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 ,, Gutlaci 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 83 
 
 ,, Hillarii 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 ,, Indracti 
 
 
 
 
 85 
 
 ,, Martini 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 ,, Patricii 
 
 , 
 
 . 
 
 
 85 
 
 ,, Pauli 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 Wilfridi 
 
 
 
 70, 71 
 
 ,84 
 
 Vitae Caesarum 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 ,, patrum 
 
 
 
 50, 65 
 
 70 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Vitae S. Dunstani & beati Nicholai 
 
 ,, S. Mariae Magdalenae Marthae & 
 Lazari 
 Vossius Gerardus . 
 
 Walcini, uxor 
 
 Waldeby, Joannes, Super orationem dom. 
 
 Wallensis Colloquium 
 
 Walter de Monyton 
 
 Walter of Gisburn. Cronica 
 
 Marlborough 
 
 ,, Montacute, prior 
 
 Wason, T. [mon. Glaston.] 
 Wells Cathedral, Library of 
 Welsh Glosses on Eutex 
 
 ,, ,, on Ovid de arte amandi 
 
 Weston, Peter 
 Wharton (quoted) 
 Whiting, Abbot of Glaston. 
 Wiclevum, Wydford contra 
 Wilfridi S. Vita 
 William de Colle 
 
 ,, of Abendune. Tractatus de vii 
 viciis 
 
 ,, of Malmesbury. Antiquitas Glas 
 toniensis 
 
 ,, ,, de gestis Anglorum 
 
 ,, ,, pontificum An- 
 
 glorum 
 
 ,, ,, de miraculis D. 
 
 Mariae 
 
 197 
 
 Page 
 70 
 
 70 
 
 47 
 
 40 
 
 118 
 
 119 
 
 86,97 
 
 117 
 
 "3 
 
 102 
 
 87, 90 
 
 16, 108 
 
 86 
 
 86 
 
 87 
 109 
 
 45> 96 
 
 118 
 
 70, 71, 84 
 
 100 
 
 77 
 
 68,93 
 68 
 
 101, 117 
 
1 98 
 
 SOMERSET MEDIEVAL LIBRARIES 
 
 William of Malmesbury. Fragmenta 
 ,, ,, Historia 
 
 ,, ,, Vita Benigni 
 
 ,, ,, ,, Dunstani 
 
 ,, ,, ,, Indracti 
 
 , Patr 
 
 ,, of Newbury. Cronica 
 Winchester . 
 
 ,, number of books at 
 
 , William of 
 
 Windham, Hugh 
 
 ,, Wadham 
 
 Witham 
 Worcester 
 Wren, Sir C. . 
 Wulfin, Bp. of Sherborne 
 Wulfric Cild. . 
 Wydford contra haereses 
 
 ,, tres tractatus de dom 
 contra Wiclevum 
 Wyncaulton, Walter 
 
 Xenophon 
 
 Ymnarium glos. & ii. nonglos. 
 
 York 
 
 Ysagoge Porphirii 
 
 Ysidorus de natura rerum 
 ,, de sapiencia 
 ,, de summo bono 
 ,, de temporibus mundi 
 
 en 
 
 nio civili 
 

 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 199 
 
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 51.67 
 
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 Hispalensis liber 
 
 74 
 
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 Liber de clericis & clericorum 
 
 
 
 regulis 
 
 67 
 
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 virtutum 
 
 67 
 
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 67 
 
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 34 
 
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 De sacramentis 
 
 63 
 
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 Decreta 
 
 5i. 63 
 
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 Epistolae 
 
 34 
 
 THE END. 
 
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