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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 BY 
 
 THE REV. MORGAN COWIE, M.A., 
 
 FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE. 
 
 “ His chamber was all hanged about with rolls 
 “ And old records from auncient times derivd, 
 
 “ Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolls, 
 
 ‘ That were all worm-eaten and full of canker holes.” 
 
 Spenser’s Faerie Queene, B. 2, Cant. 9, Stanza 57. 
 
 PART THE FIRST. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE: 
 
 PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS- 
 
 PUBLISHED BY .1. & J. J. DEIGHTON, AND T. STEVENSON; 
 
 AND BY 
 
 JOHN W. PARKER, LONDON. 
 
 M.DCCC.XLII 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 & 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 
 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 The Rev. Ralph Tatham, D.D. Master of St John’s College. 
 
 COUNCIL, 
 
 The Rev. Professor Corrie, B.D. 
 
 Sir Henry Dryden, Bart. M.A. 
 
 James Orchard Halliwell, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A., Secretary. 
 Alexander Beresford Hope, Esq., B.A., M.P. 
 
 Charles Lestourgeon, Esq., M.A. 
 
 The Rev. John Lodge, M.A. 
 
 The Rev. John James Smith, M.A., Treasurer. 
 
 ■Frederic Thackeray, M.D. 
 
 Edmund Venables, Esq. B.A., Secretary. 
 
 The Rev. William Webb, D.D., Master of Clare Hall. 
 Henry Annesley Woodham, Esq., B.A., F.A.S. 
 
 AUDITORS. 
 
 The Vice-Provost of King’s College. 
 
 The Rev. William Bates, M.A. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 I relieve there is no printed Catalogue of the following MSS., for I 
 cannot meet with one, or find any record of its existence. The Catalogus 
 MSStorum Anglice et Hiberniw (Oxon. 1697,) contains the Catalogues of the 
 MS. Libraries of some of our Colleges, but not that of St John’s Col- 
 lege Manuscripts. The Eeloga Oxono- Cantab rigiensis , by T. J, (T. James,) 
 contains very few of the College MS. Libraries. It is true, that Dr Cave 
 in his Historia Literaria , and his editor Wharton , refer often to MSS. 
 existing in the College, as also Bishop Tanner in the Bibliotheca Britta- 
 nico-Hibernica , and these references being generally accurate, I must con- 
 clude that they had personal access to the Library, (Dr Cave was a member 
 of the College,) or had friends who supplied them with information among 
 the resident Fellows. It seems very probable that Mr Baker may have 
 supplied such references to the Bibliotheca of Bishop Tanner, as it is 
 asserted that he did assist in the second edition of the Notitia Monastica. 
 See Master's Memoir of him, p. 52. 
 
 How ever, if there had been a Catalogue in existence, it would not have 
 been a useless task to have reconsidered and carefully reconstructed it from 
 personal inspection. Those who have consulted the works above-named, 
 will readily agree with me, that nothing can be more meagre than the ac- 
 counts they give ; and it is often quite impossible to make any use of the 
 information, such as it is, from the careless manner in which the materials 
 have been heaped together. That I may not be supposed to erect myself 
 into a censor without sufficient ground, I will give an extract from a 
 foreign review of some note, which expresses more censure on the ponderous 
 volumes of the Catal. MSS. Ang. and Hib., than I should venture to do. 
 
 The passage occurs in a review of one of Hearne’s publications, and 
 it goes on to speak of the then expected second edition of the Bodleian 
 Catalogue of printed Books : 
 
 “ Si spera, che questa ultima Edizione non solo sara piu copiosa, ma 
 anche piu corretta, e meglio disposta delle due precedenti, e fara piu onore 
 a i compilatori di essa, di quello che n’abbia fatto a suoi compilatori il Cata- 
 logo dei Manoscritti d’Inghilterra e d’lrlanda, stampata pure in Osford 
 
VI 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 nel 1697 in due tomi in foglio, dove incredibili sono gli sbagli ed errori 
 presi nei titoli degli autori e dei libri, a riguardo della poca attenzione 
 posta nell 1 osservarli e trascriverli.” Giornale de Letterati d' Italia, Torn. 
 28, p. 401 . 
 
 An accurate and careful investigation of each particular Library ought 
 to be undertaken by some one on the spot, with ready means of reference 
 to authorities. These means exist in the Universities in abundance, and 
 our Catalogues ought to have been, before now, perfect and accurate in their 
 details. The thankless nature of the task, and the very small credit to be 
 gained by its performance, have most probably deterred those most qualified 
 to undertake it. Yet it appears to me a duty we owe to our benefactors 
 to make ourselves acquainted with their legacies, and to render them as 
 useful to literature as we can. 
 
 A desire to become acquainted with the general character of these 
 Collections was the motive that first urged me to the investigation of our 
 College MSS. I soon found that the mere titles of the works was of very 
 little service to me in this pursuit, and I then first thought of hunting 
 out what I wanted to ascertain for myself, and forming a new Catalogue 
 containing references to sources of information. This last circumstance led 
 to the notes which are appended to the descriptions of the several volumes. 
 They should be considered as references entirely, and this may perhaps ex- 
 cuse the abrupt form in which the sentences sometimes appear, as I wished 
 to contract as much as possible, that I might not trespass too far on the 
 kindness of the Society who have charged themselves with the expence of 
 the publication. 
 
 It may be expected that a few words should be said of the way in which 
 the Collection was made. The principal part we owe to the munificence 
 of Thomas and Henry W riothesley, Earls of Southampton, principally the 
 former, who purchased them of Mr William Crashawe, brother of Robert 
 Crashawe the poet, and a Fellow of St John’s 1 , admitted as Bishop of 
 Ely’s Fellow, Jan. 19, 1593. They are marked T. C. S. (Thomas, Comes 
 Southampton) and H. C. S. The next benefactor to be mentioned is the 
 pious and excellent antiquary, Mr Baker, who not only went through all 
 the other MSS. and noted several in his own hand, but left us a good 
 many very interesting relics of his own. Amongst others, Dr Beale, 
 1.9th Master, and Bishop Gunning should be mentioned; the names of 
 others will be given, whenever any MS. contains a record of the source 
 whence we derive it. 
 
 1 He was nominated by the Crown, the See of Ely being then vacant. Mr Baker 
 notices that the case is different here to what it is at Jesus College, where the Archbishop 
 of Canterbury acts if the See of Ely is vacant. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 The age of the MSS. I have not attempted to assign, being very far 
 from satisfied of the criteria usually given ; at any rate, of my own ability 
 to make use of them. Where any MS. has an undoubtedly ancient form 
 and appearance, it has been put down, but the majority of those for which 
 no date is assigned, I consider generally to belong to the interval between 
 a.d. TOGO and a.d. 1500: a range wide enough to redeem me from any 
 charge of dogmatism on the subject. 
 
 The size is merely a reference to the sizes commonly mentioned in our 
 Booksellers’ Catalogues. 
 
 The second part of the Catalogue, containing the more modern MSS. 
 and those which Mr Baker left, with some valuable foreign books of 
 the time of the Reformation, now very scarce, will be published when it 
 suits the convenience of the Society, to whose governing body I beg to 
 express my thanks for their kindness in undertaking the printing of the 
 Catalogue : all the volumes described are contained in the lock-up cases of 
 the Library, and the printed books must be considered as only a very 
 small part of the literary treasure of which the College is in possession. 
 The letters refer to the shelves of the cases. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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PART I. 
 
 ACCORDING TO THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE SHELVES. 
 
 A. 
 
 1. Hebrew Bible, with points. 
 
 Folio, vellum, given by XL. ITorne, 1546. 
 
 It contains as follows : Pentateuch. Song of Solomon. Ruth. Lamentations. 
 Ecclesiastes. Esther. Job. Proverbs, and Lections from different parts of 
 Scripture. It is marked on the back I. 
 
 Next to it stands a book in smaller folio, marked on the back .96 
 (see *) which should be 
 
 2. A vellum MS. Hebrew, containing : 
 
 Kings, B. 1, 2, 3, 4. Jeremiah. Isaiah. Ezekiel. Hosea. Joel. Amos. 
 Obadiah. Jonah. Micah. Nahum. Habakkuk. Zephaniah. Haggai, 
 Zechariah. Malachi. Judges. 
 
 These MSS. are said to have been collated for Dr Kmnicotfs edition. 
 They are marked 95, *96, in the Dissertatio generalis , where he 
 gives the following account of them : 
 
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 .95. ‘ Charactere Hispanico’ — which he refers to the beginning of the 
 
 15th century. 
 
 .96. ‘Charactere Germanico’ he refers to the end of the 14th. 
 
 In 95. “ Transpositus est Num. 1. 1 — 21. 25. post Deut. 8. 3. Deficit ad 
 Gen. 6. 9.” 
 
 96. He has put down Josh, instead of Regum 1, 2, 3, 4. In Judges 
 at 7. 14 there is a deficit. 
 
 3. Rabbi Solomon, super omnes libros V. T. excepto Pentateucho. 
 Sm. folio, MS. vellum, in rabbinical Hebrew. Ex dono ejusdem 
 
 R. ITorne. » 
 
 This was Dr Horne Bishop of Winchester from 1560 to 1579, as appears 
 from the College Records. Warton mentions this instance of his zeal for 
 promotion of learning. In the year 1570, he enjoined the minor canons 
 of his Cathedral to get by memory every week one chapter of St Paul’s 
 Epistles in Latin, and this formidable task was actually repeated by some 
 of them before the bishop, dean and prebendaries at a public Episcopal 
 visitation of the Church. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 4. (l) Guido Baifius 
 
 (2) Johannes Monachus 
 
 Dynus Mugellanus 
 
 (4) Johannes Andreas 
 
 Folio MS. vellum. Handsomely illuminated. Ex dono Gul. Mar- 
 shall. Coll. Soc. 1625. 
 
 (1) Guido Baifius , patria Regiensis, civis et archidiaconus Bononiensis (of 
 Bologna) et jurisconsultus celeberrimus. Cl. ann. 1283. Scripsit Commenta- 
 riorum, Rosarii titulo, libros 3, et in Decretal, lib. 5. Prodierunt cum notis 
 Venetiis. 1580. Cave, Hist. Literal \ 
 
 (2) Johannes Monachus. Cardinal and Bishop of Metz, 1294. Obiit 
 Avignone, 1313. He wrote ‘ Commentar. in sexturn Decretalium.’ Fabricius 
 Bibl. Med. et Inf. Lat. B. 9. There is another Johannes — of nearly the 
 same date, Johannes Calderinus “ Bononiensis, jurisconsultus Eximius. 
 Cl. 1360. Commentarius ejus in libros Decretalium recenset Simlerus 
 Biblioth. p. 350.” He was buried in the cemetery of the Dominicans, and 
 might therefore have been a Monk. Sammarthani, or S. and L. Saincte- 
 Marthe, in Gallia Christiana, Tom. 3. p. 701. Fabric. B. M. I. L. lib. 3. in 
 Calderino. H. Wharton, Addenda to Cave’s H. L. 
 
 (3) Dinus Mugellanus sive de Rossonibus, in agro Florentino, juris utri- 
 usque consultissimus, apud Bononienses Professor primarius. — Comment, 
 in Lib. sexturn Decretalium, Bonifacii VIII. jussu elucubrata, nondum 
 typis prodiisse videntur. II. Wharton, id. in anno 1301. Fabric. B. M. I. L. 
 Tom. 3. 
 
 (4) Joannes Andreas, Mugellanus, jurisconsultus celeberrimus. Cl. 1336. 
 Novella, seu Commentaria in 5 Libros Decretalium, prodiere Venet. 1581. 
 Fabric, calls him Joannes Andrea qui ob. Bononia, 1348. and refers to 
 Trithemius, c. 574, &c. II. Wharton, id. in an. 1336. 
 
 5. (l) S. Ambrosius de Fide. lib. 5. 
 
 (2) Ejusdem liber de S. Spiritu. lib. 3. 
 
 (3) Ejusdem liber de Incarnationis Dominic.® Sacramento. 
 
 (4) Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica, ex Ruffini Versione. 
 
 (5) Contentio inter abbatem S. Dogmaelis et homines de Car- 
 digan. 
 
 Folio MS. vellum. T. C. S. handsomely written, (l), (2), (3), about 
 900, (4) about 1150, (5) in a much later hand. 
 
 (1), (2), (3) are all among the published works of St Ambrose. (1) is the 
 same as De Fide et Trinitate in some MSS. addressed ‘ad Gratianum Augus- 
 tum.’ (2) A collection out of Didymus, Basilius, and other Greek authors, 
 unworthy of St Ambrose — as Ilierome says. (3) against the Allans and 
 Apollinarians. Cave, II. L. 
 
 (4) There are two copies like this in Corpus Christi College Library, 
 marked 184, 186, in Nasmith’s Catalogue. Ruffinus Aquiliensis translated 
 this, but says Fabricius “ in interpretationibus suis usus est nimia saspe 
 interpolandi libertate.” Fabric. Bibl. Latina, Vol. 1. p. 732. 
 
 Super Decretal. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
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 (5) St Dogmael, a Benedictine Priory in Pembrokeshire, subordinate to 
 St Martin at Tours, to which it was given by Robert Fitz-Martin, a. d. 1126. 
 Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, p. 283. 
 
 Mr Baker in his copy of Tanner lias referred to this. It consists of only 
 two pages. 
 
 6. Oribasii Collectanea Physica. 
 
 A Greek MS. folio. On paper, in small characters. “ Ex dono 
 Joh. Collins, 1634.” 
 
 Oribasius, physician to Julian the Apostate, about 351. 
 
 7. Magna Charta et alia Statuta ad ann. 12 Ricardi II. 
 
 Small folio, MS. vellum, beautifully illuminated, partly Latin, partly 
 
 French. 
 
 8. (l) Josephi Antiquitates, a libr. 15. and de Bello Judaico, libri 7. 
 (2) Fasciculus temporum usque in ann. MCCCCLXXVIII. 
 
 4to. vellum and paper. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) A Latin MS. vellum, 4to. partially illuminated, written about 1200. 
 There is wanting, from foh 106 to fol. 123, which has been supplied with 
 blank paper. This is probably the ancient translation usually ascribed to 
 Ruffinus. Muratori Antiq. Vol. 3. p. 918. has discussed the question, and 
 decides that it is by some later hand. 
 
 (2) A printed book on thick paper. At the end is this Inscription: 
 
 “ Fasciculus temporum a Carthusiense copilatu in forma cronicis 
 “ figuratum, (sic) usque in ann. 1478. a me Nicolao Gotz de Seltzstat 
 “ impressum.” 
 
 I can find no notice of such a printer among those in Mich. Maittaire, 
 Annales Typographic i, or in Lacaille, Histoire de l’ Imprimerie. In Ring's 
 College Library, M. 24. 1. there is a ‘ Fasciculus Temporum’ printed at 
 Strasburg — ‘ a Carthusiense compilatus ’ — but it is not the same edition as 
 this, though apparently the same work. It is the one assigned by Mr 
 Hartshorne to 1481. See Hartshorne’s Book Rarities, p. 192. 
 
 It is the work quoted by Browne, Fasciculus Rerum Expetendarum et 
 Fugiendarum, Vol. 2, p. 897, as by “ Warnerus Rolevinhus Monachus Car- 
 thusiensis, Colonics qui vixit circ. 1480;” the extracts agree exactly. See 
 Oudin, Tom. iii. p. 2738. Dihdin, Typ. Antiq. Vol. 1. p. 149 (note). War- 
 ton’s Eng. Poetry, Vol. 2. p. 311. 
 
 9. (l) S. Augustini Homili.® in Evangel. S. Johannis. 
 
 (2) Annotatio librorum Eccles. S. Jac. de Wellebek ad divin. 
 
 OFFIC. PERT1NENTIUM. 
 
 Folio, MS. Vellum, in old wooden binding, covered with parchment. 
 “ Ex dono Tho. Whalley, S. T. P. Coll. SS. Trinitatis Vice-Ma- 
 gistri.” 
 
 (2) is only a couple of pages, apparently by a Monk of S. Jac. de Wellebek. 
 Wellebek is a village of Northamptonshire not far from Worksop. The abbey 
 for Premonstratensian Canons was founded by Thomas le Flemangh. 1153. 
 Dugdale. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 The Premonstratensians lived according the rule of St Austin, reformed by 
 Norbert in 1120, at Prsemonstratum near Laon in France. Tanner, Pref. to 
 Notitia Monastica. 
 
 10. S. Augustini tractatus varii. Sc. 
 
 (1) De Trinitate, lib. 15. 
 
 (2) Super Genesin, lib. 12. 
 
 (3) Unde Malum. 
 
 (4) De libero Arbitrio. 
 
 (5) De doctrina Christiana, lib. 4. 
 
 (G) Quaistiones LXXXIII. 
 
 (7) Retractationum, lib. 2. 
 
 Folio, MS. vellum, beautifully written, about 1200, with rubric. T.C.S. 
 
 In tlris Voh, as in several others, there is the name IT. Crashawe, and 
 his motto “ Servire Deo est regnare.” 
 
 (3) is not mentioned by Cave among the works of St Augustin. It 
 occurs again, B. 25. (1), (2) and (4) — (7) are genuine works of St Au- 
 
 gustin. 
 
 (3) is distinctly ascribed to St Augustin both here and at B. 25 in the MSS. 
 
 11. Regula S. Salvatoris S. Augustini. — Constitutiones, ordi- 
 
 nationes et Ceremoni,® eorumdem. Partim Latine, partim 
 Gallice. 
 
 Sm. folio, MS. vellum, in old wood binding, beautifully written, with 
 rubric. T. C. S. 
 
 The name of Sir Thomas Challoner occurs on the fly leaf. 
 
 This order was instituted by S. Brigitta, see C. 19, about 1344. In the 
 4th book of the ‘ Revelationes,’ c. 137, (so Fabricius, but there appears to 
 be only 130 ch. in B. 4,) she demands of Pope Urban V. the confirmation 
 of this 'Regula,’ — which demand he complied with about 1363. Fabricius, 
 Biblioth. Med. et Inf. Lat. 
 
 12. (l) PoLYCHRONICON PER RaNULPH. IIlGDEN CeSTRENSEM. 
 
 (2) yEgidius Romanus de Regimine Principum. 
 
 Folio, MS. in vellum. T.C.S. 
 
 (1) is written by a Monk, whose name was John Lutton, in 1386. 
 
 Ranulphus Higden, a benedictine Monk, Cl. 1357. The work is divided 
 into seven books. The first six, coming down to the Norman times, so far 
 as they relate to British and Irish matters, were edited by Dr Gale, Dean of 
 York, in Latin. Among the Quindecim Scriptores, Oxon. 1691. The whole 
 work is found in several libraries. In the Bodleian there is by him ‘ Ars 
 componendi Sermones,’ cod. 2752. In the library of Baliol College, ‘ Spe- 
 culum curatorum/ L. cod. x. Cave. 
 
 The initial letters of the first book of the Polychronicon read thus: 
 “ Praesentem cronicam compilavit frater Ranulphus Cestrensis.” MS. note 
 on Cave’s H. L. in the Library at Lambeth, supposed to be by Archbp. 
 Tennison. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 In Nasmith’s Catalogue of C. C. C. Library, 21. “ De hoc auctore nostro 
 qui mala fide opus Rogeri Cestrensis transcripsit et pro suo evulgavit, 
 v. Wanleium Apud Cat. MS. Hurl. 1707.” V. infra H. 1. 
 
 (2) PEgidius Romanus — his real name was Gille Colonna — of the il- 
 lustrious family of Colonna' at Naples. A Monk ‘ ordinis Eremitarum 
 Sti Augustini.’ Philippe le Hardi, King of France, chose him to be tutor 
 to his son, afterwards Philippe le Bel, for whom he wrote this Treatise. 
 It was translated into most modern languages, and into Hebrew, in such 
 estimation was it held. See Wolfius, Bibl. Hebr. p. 1206. His master, S. 
 Thomas Aquinas, also wrote a book on the same subject in 4 divisions, of 
 which he probably availed himself. He was afterwards (1294) Archbishop 
 of Bourges, died 1316. Biographie Universelle. On the fly leaf, “ De Pa- 
 pissa Johanna, v. p. 154, lib. 5.” 
 
 (2) was printed in Italian, at Seville, 1494. See Maittaire Annul. Tg- 
 ' pograph. Vol. 1, p. 325. 
 
 13. (l) GrILBERTI PiCTAVIENSIS ExPOSITIO IN OMNBS PrOLOGOS 
 
 S. ITlERONYMI. 
 
 (2) S. II ieronymi Comment, in omnes Psalmos. 
 
 Folio, MS. handsomely written on vellum. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) The name Gilbertus Pictaviensis occurs in the commencement of the 
 Commentary on the prologue to the Apocalypse. 
 
 Cave, H. L. mentions him as Gilbertus Crispinu.s qui Cl. 1101, and was 
 Abbot of Westminster. His ‘ Liber contra Judceos’ has been published 
 by Gabriel Gerberon in the works of S. Anselm, Paris, 1675, p. 512 et seq. 
 There is besides, says Cave, “ Homilias in Cantica Canticorum” in Biblioth. 
 S. Petri, Cantabr, item “ in prologos S. Hieronymi super biblia,” ibid. 
 
 Henrieus Gandavensis calls him Gislebertus W estmonasteriensis. Fabricius 
 Biblioth. Eccles. ed. 1713, p. 119. 
 
 Johannes Pitseus Rel. Hist, de Rebus Anglicis says he was buried at West- 
 minster in 1117. Cave puts him down doubtfully a Norman. His desig- 
 nation here, shews that he was born at Poictiers — if it be rightly given — 
 but there was one Gilbertus Porretanus or Pictaviensis mentioned by Oudin, 
 Tom. 2, p. 1287, whose name may have been wrongly put down for Gil- 
 bertus Crispinus. Oudin however, Vol. 2, p. 930, thinks this is the work* 
 of Gilbertus, Londoniensis Episc. 1120, on the authority of a MS. in the 
 Library of St Peter’s Coll. Camb. Our MS. may have equal authority for 
 giving it to Gilbertus Pictaviensis, though which of the two seems doubtful. 
 
 (2) “Hieronymi nomen falso praeferunt ‘ Commentarii in omnes Psalmos 
 quos ejus non esse consentiunt omnes, suadent, omnia.” He then proceeds 
 to give reasons. “Sunt quidem Centones ex aliis veterum operibus eon- 
 sarcinati, in quibus Hieronymiani suas etiam habent partes. Genuinum esse 
 Hieronymi opus quam plurimis argumentis probare enixe contendit Marianus 
 Victorius qui argumenta e contra allata diluere satagit : verum in solvendis iis 
 argumentis, res adeo infeliciter ei cessit, ut operam lusisse videatur.” Cave, 
 Hist. Liter, in Hieronymo. 
 
 14. S. Hieronymi Epistolai l. 
 
 Well written MS. folio, on paper. T. C. S. containing 180 folios. 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 There is a list of the Epistles on the first page, so that it is needless 
 to repeat it here. At the end in red letters, “Explicit liber iste eplar, 
 beati Hieronimi p. man 8 , fris hermam de bercha ann. dm. 1449. scrips 8 i 
 mote sci Hieronimi, orate p. eo.” 
 
 (1) Roberti Lincoln, tractatus, qui sic incipit, “ Scriptum est de 
 levitis et de mysteriis tabernaculorum duorum, &c.” 
 
 (2) Ejusdem summa de justitia, in 9 chapters. 
 
 (3) Ejusdem tractatus, q. s. incip. “ Templum Dei Sanctum quod 
 estis vos.” 
 
 (4) RlC. DE StO VlCTORE DE STATU INTERIORIS HOMINES POST LAPSITM. 
 
 (5) Tractatus de Articulis Fidei. 
 
 (6) Tropologia super Evangelia per annum, i.e. from Advent 
 to Easter. 
 
 (7) Roberti Lincoln. Sermo ad Clerum. “ Ego sum pastor 
 bonus. Tria sunt . . . .” 
 
 (8) Tractatus de bestiis et avibus. 
 
 Small 4to. MS. vellum — in different hands. T.C.S. 
 
 There are some stray sheets at the beginning and end, which were the cover 
 formerly before the volume was bound : they are written upon, and contain 
 apparently some astrological treatise. 
 
 Robertus Lincoln. The celebrated Robert Grostete, or Grosthead, born at 
 Stradbrooke, in Suffolk, about 1175, died in 1253. Portions of his works 
 are found in most English libraries in MS. They were very voluminous. 
 There is a catalogue in Pegge’s Life of him ; and several are published in 
 Browne’s Fasciculus. 
 
 (2) (3) (7) are probably the same as those mentioned by Cave as Summa 
 de Justitia, De Officio Sacerdotali, and the Sermo ad Clerum on the same 
 text. 
 
 (8) seems to be by Robt. Grostete also. There is in one of the old 
 catalogues of the Cathedral Church of Durham, published by the Surtees 
 Society, “Liber bestiarum, avium, &c. moralizatus/’ beginning in the same 
 manner that this does, but there can be no certainty, as there are several 
 works of this kind of middle-age composition. 
 
 (4) Ric. de St Victor, a Scotchman, a regular Canon, and afterwards Prior 
 of St Victor (a priory at Paris) * Bemardi et Hugonis Victorini familiaris/ 
 Cl. 1450. 
 
 This tract has the title ‘ Ric. de S. Victor super Isaiam,’ which might 
 mislead, but on comparing the contents, I find it is the tract mentioned 
 above in the Historia Literaria, in 54 sections. 
 
 (5) Cave mentions by Grostete a ‘Tractatus de Articulis Fidei/ which 
 he calls ‘bene prolix us’ — but this is very short. It is improbable that the 
 author of such a production can be assigned at all, as there are innumerable 
 tracts occurring with this title in MS. collections; especially as this book 
 seems meant for a common-place book of theology — see the following remark. 
 
 It must have belonged to some religious house — though none is men- 
 tioned by name. There is at the beginning this inscription, “ Liber quondam 
 Magistri Nicholai Kempston, anno domini, 1477, nunquam vendendus per 
 ultimam voluntatem defunct! — ac liber occupandus a sacerdotibus ad 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
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 predicandum verbum Dei- — ab uno sacerdote ad alterum sine pretio tradendus 
 quamdiu duraverit: orate pro anima ejus.” 
 
 16 . S. Hieronymi EpistolS, &c. quorum Catalogus infra: 
 
 Ad Ctesiphontem — contra eos qui dicunt hominem posse esse sine peccato 
 si velit (i. e. Pelagianos) — Definitio Fidei symboli in Niceno Concilio — Ep. ad 
 Ciprianum — ad Demetriadem Virginem — ad Eustochium virginem de vir- 
 ginitate servanda — ad Asellam de fictis amicitiis — Libri II. adv. Jovinianum— 
 Ep. 2. ad Pammachium— Liber contra Helvidium de virginitate B. Mari® 
 — Ep. ad Heliodorum Monaclium — Liber ad Nepotianum — Ep. ad Rusticuni 
 Monachum — ad Paulam de morte Blesillae — ad Heliodorum Episcopum- 
 Epitaphium Nepotiani presbyter! — ad Pammachium de subita peregrinatione 
 Paulin® — ad Oceanum — Ep. Damasi Pap® ad Hieron. de 5 queestionibus 
 in Genesi — Rescript. Hieronymi — Tractatus in Cantic. Canticorum ex Origene 
 translatus — Ep. ad Tranquillum, quomodo Origenes sit legendus — Ep. 2 ad 
 Damasum de Seraphyn — Damasi Ep. ad Hieron. de ‘ Osanna’ — Rescriptum 
 Hieronymi ad Damasum — 2 Ep. Augustin, ad Hieron. — 2 Ep. Hieron. 
 ad Augustin. — 2 Ep. Augustin, ad Hieron. — Rescriptum Hieronymi — 2 Ep. 
 Augustin, ad Hieron. — 2 Rescripta — Ep. Augustin, ad Hieron. — Ep. Hieron. 
 ad Marcellinam et Anapsycliiam — Ep. 2 Augustin, ad Hieron. — 3 Ep. Hieron. 
 ad Augustin. — ad Alypium et Augustin. — Explanatio Fidei S. Hieronymi 
 ad Alyp. et Augustin, missa — Ep. Pammachii et Oceani ad Hieron. — Re- 
 scriptum Hieron. — Ep. Epiphanii, Cypri missa ad Johannem Constantinop. 
 translata a S. Hieronymo — Ep. Hieronymi ad Pammachium de optimo genere 
 interpretandi — (a) Tractatus de Libris Trep'i apx^ v Origenis — ubi ea qua- 
 su lit adversus Fidem Catholicam, pandit— Ep. ad Demetriadem virginem — 
 Folio, MS. paper, well written, and in good condition. 
 
 (f*) is said to be by Ruffinus — not by Jerome. 
 
 17. S. Anselmi Tractatus XVI. viz. 
 
 1. 2. Cur Deus homo, lib. 2. adv. Gentes. 
 
 3. Prosologion. 
 
 4. De Casu Diaboli. 
 
 5. De Veritate. 
 
 6. De Libero Arbitrio. 
 
 7. De Conceptu Virginali et orig. Peccato. 
 
 8. Ep. ad Walerannusi Episcopum de Azymi et Fermentati Sacri- 
 
 FICIO. 
 
 9. De Sacramentis Ecclesi.® ad eundem. 
 
 10. De Concordia Pr/escientia: Dei, Prajdestinationis, et Gratis cum 
 
 Lib. Arbitrio. 
 
 11. De gratia et lib. arbitrio. 
 
 , 12. De Processione S. Spiritus. 
 
 13. De Grammatico. 
 
 14. De Incarnatione Verbi. 
 
 15. Monologion, in 80 chapters. 
 
 16. De Similitudinibus. 
 
 S. Ath anasii Liber de Fide et Spiritu Sancto, 8 books. 
 
 Boecius de Trinitate. 
 
 EjUSDEM LIBER DE BONO AD JoHANNEM DIACONUM. 
 
 Ej USDEM LIBER DE DUABUS NaTURIS IN UNA PERSONA ChRISTI ad 
 
 eundem. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Rabanus Maurus (rectius Paschasius) de corpore et sanguine 
 Christi, c s . 67, mutilus in fine. 
 
 Folio, MS. vellum. Anselm is in a smaller hand. The last treatise 
 is much injured. 
 
 (1) All the above are genuine works of S. Anselm, except the 16th, 
 of which Cave says ‘ Non Ansehni sed Eadmeri est.’ Eadmer was the pupil 
 of Anselm, and a monk of Canterbury: floruit 1121. There are similar 
 MSS. C. C. C. Libr. Nasmith’s Cat. 155, and 154. 
 
 (2) There is by S. Athanasius a genuine treatise ‘de Trinitate et Sp. 
 Sancto,’ which exists only in Latin, but I suspect this is the treatise men- 
 tioned by Cave as ‘De Sancta Trinitate, lib. 8/ “ Latine, et omni dubio 
 procul scriptoris Latini opus ; Vigilio Tapsensi (484) asserit Chiffletius qui 
 proinde inter Vigilii opera ei locum dedit : et cum eo consentiunt Sirmondus, 
 Labbeeus, aliique. Idacio Claro (385) in Hispania Episcopo tribuunt nuperi 
 Editores.” 
 
 (3) (4) (5) are all genuine productions of Boethius. 
 
 (6) Rabanus Maurus, a Frenchman, born in 785, a disciple of Alcuin — 
 Abbas Fuldensis in 822, Archbishop of Mentz in 847, died 856, “ inter 
 saeculi sui doctrina claros facile princeps,” Cave, H. L. The work how- 
 ever here mentioned is not his, but that of Paschasius Radbertus. See 
 Usher, Biblioth. Theot. MS. p. 129. Cave, and see also the ‘Answer to 
 the Jesuit’ Paschasius was the author of new opinions on the Eucharist. 
 Mabillon found in the Codex Gemblacensis, an answer to Paschasius, which 
 he thinks to be a lost work of Rabanus, the ‘ Epistola ad Egilonem abbatem 
 Fuldensem. In this Epistle, Rabanus, or the author, whoever he may be, 
 contends for the two following propositions: 
 
 “Corpus Eucharisticum non esse prorsus idem quod natum ex virgine. 
 
 “ Christum non toties pati quoties missarum solemnia celebrantur.” 
 Paschasius was Abbot of Corbey in 844, died in 851 . Bellarminus De Script. 
 Eccles. p. 226, says, “ Primus auctor qui serie et copiose scripsit de veritate 
 corporis et sanguinis Domini in Eucharistia.” Cave however notes that many 
 things in this treatise of Paschasius disagree materially with the Romish 
 doctrine of the Eucharist, especially c s . 3, 4, 15, to which he says Sirmondus 
 has been obliged to apply “ crcapd qusedam < pappana Cave mentions this 
 MS. in the Library of S. John’s Coll, as attributing the treatise wrongly 
 to Rabanus Maurus. 
 
 18. Arnulphi Aureliani glossulad in Lucanum de Be LLIS. 
 
 Small folio, MS. vellum, in poor condition, wooden binding. T. C. S. 
 
 “ Allegantur in Statium et Britonem a Barthio Arnolphi Aurelianensis 
 scholia MSta in Biblioth. Gudiana.” Fabricius, Bibl. Lot. Vol. 1, p. 381, 
 note, Hamburg, Ed. 1721. This is the only notice I can find of the work 
 or its author. 
 
 1.9. (l) Io. Ypermanni Medicina practica. 
 
 (2) Io. Lanfranc Medicina practica. 
 
 A dirty German MS. on paper, 4to. bound in wood. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) Of this individual I can find no mention any where. His work is 
 not noticed in the Bibliotheca Medica of Lipenius. Probably no one will 
 care to investigate the matter. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
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 (2) I. Lanfranc was a physician and surgeon at Milan at the end of 
 the 13th cent. He was exiled by one of the contending parties in the con- 
 tests of the Guelph and Ghibelline factions. In 1295 he fixed himself at 
 Paris, and was in great reputation. He founded the surgical College of 
 St Come. This German translation is by Otho Bruvfels, and was published 
 at Frankfort 1566. See Biogr. Univ. 
 
 20. JANUENSIS SeRMONES DOMINICALES TOTIUS ANNI, ET DE FESTIS PR jE- 
 
 CIPUIS. 
 
 4to. MS. partly vellum, partly paper, old vellum binding. T. 0. S. 
 
 Jacobus de Viragine, or de Voragine, general of the Dominicans and Arch- 
 bishop of Genoa, thence called Januensis, Cl. 1290. “ Imperatoris partibus 
 
 favisse dicitur, unde cum die cinerum Bonifacius VIII. sententiam illam 
 pro more in eum ad pedes suos provolutum proferre debuisset ‘ Cinis es 
 et in cineres reverteris’ conjectis in cineribus oculis, liaec ei dixiss efertur. 
 Gibellinus es et cum Gibellinis tuis ad nihilum reverteris.” He was, “vir 
 in Deum devotus, in pauperes munificus, pius magis quam doctus — sed 
 in rebus historicis nimium credulus.” Cave, H. L. 
 
 He is said to have translated the Bible into Italian, but this statement 
 is controverted by Le Long and Fontanini. M° Crie’s Ref. in Italy, p. 52. 
 Cave mentions by him “Sermones pulcherrimi de tempore per totum anni 
 circulum” — and “ Sermones de Sanctis per anni totius orbitam.’’ 
 
 Some have confounded him with Johannes Januensis de Balbis says Fabri- 
 cius, and Mansi immediately proceeds to attribute these Sermons to the 
 latter instead of the former — but I think he is wrong — for neither Fabricius 
 nor Cave mention any such production by John de Balbi. 
 
 John Balbi is mentioned by Hallam, Lift, of Europe, Vol. 1. p. 107. 
 Senebier says that Januensis also means ‘of Geneva,’ but I do not find that 
 Fabricius recognizes this meaning. It is usually taken to mean ‘of Genoa.’ 
 See Senebier, Cat. MStorum, Geneva, p. 59. 
 
 Bishop Jewel had no high opinion of him. See the place quoted. F. 7. 
 
 21. Sermonarium pr^cipue S. Ambrosii et S. Augustini. 
 
 Small folio, MS. vellum, well written, bound in wood. T. 0. S. 
 
 There is an index to the contents at the beginning of the work. The 
 following is a more detailed one, and will shew what the contents of such 
 books (which are very common) usually are. 
 
 Dominica l a in adventu. 1 Sermon by S. Ambrose. 4 by S Augustin. 
 
 2 a 1 1 
 
 3 a 1 1 
 
 4 a 1 2 
 
 Prophetia Sibyllas de Adventu Domini Ex Augustini libro de Civ. Dei. 
 
 Sermo S. Augustini de ortu Domini Salvatoris. 
 
 De Nativitate Domini. 3 Sermons by S. Ambrose. 1 by S. Gregory 
 Nazianz. 13 by S. Augustin. 
 
 S. Augustinus — de Consonantia Evangelistarum in generationibus domini 
 nostri I. C. 
 
 De Nativitate. 1 Sermon by Ful ?n"us. 6 by Maximus. 1 by Isidorus. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 In natali Sti Stephani. 1 Sermon by Fulgentius. 7 by S. Augustin. 
 
 Miracula Sti Stephani ex libro S. Augustin, de Civitate Dei. 
 
 In natali S. Johann. Evang. lectiones ex historia ecclesiastica. 
 
 In natali Sanctorum Innocentum id. id. 
 
 In circumcisione Domini. 1 Sermon by S. Ambrose. 1 by Maximus. 
 1 by S. Augustin. 1 by Origen. 
 
 De Epiphania. 10 by S. Augustin. 9 by S. Ambrose. 8 by Maximus. 
 1 by Fulgentius. 1 by Gregory Nazianzen. 
 
 In natali sanctorum martyrum Fabiani et Sebastiani. 2 Sermons by 
 S. Augustin. 
 
 In natali Stse Agnetis. 2 by S. Ambrose. 
 
 In natali Sti Fructuosi Episcopi, Augurii et Eulogii diaconorum, et 
 S. Agnetis Virg. a Sermon by S. Augustin. 
 
 In natali Sti Vincentii. 2 Sermons by S. Augustin. 1 by Pope Leo. 
 
 In conversione Sti Pauli. 1 Sermon by S. Augustin. 
 
 Extr. ex Epistola beati Paulini Episcopi ad S. Augustin, in purificatione 
 B. V. ct Responsio Augustini. 
 
 In cathedra S. Petri. 2 Sermons by S. Augustin. 1 by S. Ambrose. 
 
 Septuagesima, a Sermon by Johannes Episcopus. 
 
 Sexagesima, a Sermon by id. id. 
 
 Quinquag. a Sermon by S. Augustin and one by Maximus. 
 
 Dominica l a in Quadrag. 1 by S. Ambrose. 1 by S. Augustin. 2 by 
 S. Ambrose. 1 by Maximus. 1 by S. Ambrose, and 1 by Maximus (for 
 the whole week.) 
 
 First week in Lent. Homilia beati Hieronymi ad Damasum. Sermons 
 in the following order— Ambrose— Maximus— Ambrose— Maximus— Ambrose 
 — Maximus. — Pope Leo, de transfiguratione — S. Augustin. 
 
 Dominica 2 a . Sermons — S. Augustin — S. Ambrose. 2 by S. Jerome. 6 by 
 S. Augustin. 
 
 Dominica 3 a . Sermons — 3 by S. Augustin. 4 by S. Ambrose. 
 
 Dominica 4 a . Sermons — 1 by S. Augustin. 2 by S. Ambrose. 1 by S. Au- 
 gustin. 3 by S. Ambrose. 
 
 Dominica 5 a . Sermons — 1 by S. Augustin. 3 by S. Ambrose. 1 by Johannes 
 Episcopus. 1 by S. Augustin. 1 by S. Ambrose. 1 by S. Augustin. 
 
 In Cena Domini. 3 by S. Ambrose. 
 
 In Parasceue. 1 by S. Augustin. 1 by Johannes Episc. 
 
 In Sabbato— de vigiliis pascha?. 3 by S. Ambrose. 5 by S. Augustin. 
 
 Three Sermons by S. Augustin de Sacramentis. 
 
 Two Sermons by S. Augustin de Sacramento Infantum. 
 
 22. Bedj3 Yenerabilis Presbyteri, de Rationibus Temporum, c s . 72. 
 
 Ejusdem Liber de Oompoto (sic) Lun.e. 
 
 Ejusdem Epist. ad Yicteum Presb. DE' iEQUINOCTIO. 
 
 Albericus de Compoto Lun^e, c s . 38. 
 
 Tabula Calendars. 
 
IN TOE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 1] 
 
 4to. MS. vellum, well bound in Bussia, beautifully written. ‘ Ex dono 
 G. Smith. 1 
 
 “ Hie est lib. S. Marie de Rading. que qui celavit et fraudem de eo fecit, 
 anatha sit.” This, I think, must be S. Marie de Raveningham, in Norfolk, 
 which had a college built by John de Norwych, in the reign of Edwi III. to 
 the honor of S. Mary and S. Andrew, for a master and eight priests. Tanner, 
 Not. Mon. p. 159. 
 
 Some monkish rhymes at the end: 
 
 “ Cum bene pugnaris, et vincere cuncta putaris, 
 
 “ Quod magis infestat, vincenda superbia restat.” 
 
 The two first works of Bede are genuine and in print. The third is also 
 genuine and in print. It is about the time of Easter; “ juxta anatolium 
 TEgyptium apud Euseb.” Fabricius says it is addressed “ad Wichredum,” 
 which is probably only the Saxon form of the name here given, see I. 15. 
 There was a passage in some copies of this epistle which brought forward 
 an example from a. n. 776, which induced Baronius to suppose that Bede 
 must have lived till then, whereas he died in 735, according to the most 
 probable opinion. Usher thought the work spurious. But Mabillon found an 
 old MS. copy which does not contain the reference “in bibliotheca Laubiensi,” 
 whence he concludes that it was added by a later hand. The passage is 
 therefore left out in the Paris edition of 1681, 4to. In some MSS. the work 
 is attributed to one ' Pliilippus presbyter,’ but improbably so. ' Petavius, 
 Ep. p. 157.’ Cave and Fabricius. 
 
 I cannot find the passage in question in the MS. but the references are 
 not sufficiently clear to authorize a positive assertion. 
 
 Albericus. I am in doubt to which of the two following persons of that 
 * name, this tract should most probably be referred. 
 
 Albericus Casinensis. A Monk and Cardinal who flourished 1057, and 
 was appointed by Gregory VII. to dispute against Berengarius in the Roman 
 Synod, 1079. Among his works mentioned by Peter Diaconus de viris 
 illustribus, c. 21, is one “ De Astronomia.” Cave, H. L. Fabricius does 
 not mention this by name, but refers to Peter Diaconus. 
 
 Albericus Trium Fontium. Not 'in Gallia’ as Cave says, but in Cata- 
 lonia, a monastery founded 1117. of which Albericus was a Monk, ‘ord. 
 Cisterciensis.’ Cave only mentions by him an historical Chronicon, which 
 he brought down to his own time, 1241; but Fabricius adds “Diligentem 
 in eclipsibus annotandis observavit Chifletius de Anastasi Childerici, p. 25.” 
 See also, Oudin. de S. E. Tom. 3, p. 182. The latter seems the least likely, 
 I think. 
 
 In the Catalog. MSS. Anglice et Hibernice, Vol. 2, p. 199, N°. 6474. The 
 same work is mentioned in the Library of Charles Theyer, in the county 
 of Gloucester. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 B. 
 
 1. Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole : 
 
 (1) DE INCENDIO AMORIS DIVINI. 
 
 (2) MELOS CONTEMPLATIVORUM. 
 
 (3) DE JUSTE JUDICANDO ET RECTE DISCERNENDO. 
 
 Small folio, MS. vellum, beautifully illuminated. T. 0. S. In old wooden 
 
 binding. At the end the arms of the priory of argent, a 
 
 fesse chequy vert and of the field. 
 
 Hermit of Hampole, or Ricardus de Ampullis, or Ric. Pampolitanus, patria 
 Eboracensis, theologis doctor, ordinis S. Augustini Eremita prope coenobium 
 sanctimonalium Hampolense, quatuor milliaribus a Doncastro in agro Ebora- 
 censi dissitum, vitam egit eremiticam. Claruit 1340. Obiit 1349. Habetur 
 MS. in bibliotheca Cottoniana officium S. Ricardi Hampolse eremitae in quo 
 de vita et miraculis ejus agitur. H. Wharton, Add. to Cave, H. L. 
 
 (1) Is published in the Bibliotheca Patrum, Vol. 26, p. 609. 
 
 (2) Leland mentions Script. Brittan. p. 348, c. 372 — as in the Library 
 of the Carmelite Monastery, London — carmen rhythmicum nomine Meli — 
 which is probably the same as this. 
 
 (3) I camiot find mentioned any where, not even in Pitseus, who gives 
 a very long catalogue of his works. Vide Pitseus, Rel. Hist, de Rebus Anglicis, 
 p. 465, and Oudin, Tom. 3, p. 927- 
 
 2. (l) aEgidii Romani Compendium theologic^ veritatis, lib. 7. 
 
 (2) Speculum humilitatis, only a few pages. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum, well bound. T. C. S. 
 
 JEgidius Romanus, v. supra, in A. 12. Archhishop Usher, Index to Answer 
 to the Jesuit, says it is the same work that has been attributed to Cardinal 
 Bonaventura and to Albertus Magnus. It is preceded by two tables of con- 
 tents, one alphabetical, the other by chapters. It seems to be a summary 
 of the opinions of S. Thomas Aquinas, “ super omnes Libros S. Thomse 
 de vtabs (veritatibus ?) Theologicis. The following are the titles of the 
 seven books. l a . de natura propria divinitatis. 2 3 . de operibus conditoris. 
 3\ de corruptela peccati. 4 a . de humanitate Christi. 5 a . de suscitatione 
 gratiarum. 0 a . de virtute sacramentorum. 7 a . de ultimis temporibus et 
 de poenis malorum ac preemiis beatorum. In C. C. C. Library, Nasmith’s 
 Cat. 64. 
 
 (2) This is also mentioned in Appendix to Cat. MS. in Cathedral Church 
 of Durham. Surtees’ publications, 1838, 1. p. 146. 
 
 3. Petri de Crescentiis Liber Ruralium Commodorum, ad honorem 
 
 Dei omnipotentis et serenissimi Regis Caroli compilatus. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum, well bound. 
 
 Pietro Crescenzi, Philosophus et Medicus Bononiensis (Bologna) Cl. 1280. 
 “ This very curious treatise exhibits the full details of Italian husbandry 
 about 1300.” Hallam, Middle Ages, c. 9, part 2. 
 
 It is dedicated to Charles II. King of Jerusalem and Sicily. See also 
 Fabricius, Bibl. M. et Inf. Lat. B. 3, p. 433. Ed. Mansi. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
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 4. Petri Comestoris H ISTORI A ScHOLASTICA. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum. A sacred history from the Creation to the end 
 of the Acts of the Apostles. It has been published in several 
 editions — is dedicated to Gulielmus Archiep. Senonensis. 
 
 Peter Comestor, or Manducator (Mangeur, in Fr.) a Frenchman, Chan- 
 cellor of the University of Paris ; he afterwards retired to the cloister of 
 S. Victor, where he died 1178. Trithemius gives the following reason for 
 his name, “quod Seripturarum auctoritates in suis sermonibus et opusculis 
 crebrius allegando quasi in ventrem memorise manducarit.” Of this work 
 Rich. Simon, Tom. ii. Histoire Critique du N. T. p. 320, says “ II n’y avoit 
 rien en ce terns la de plus grand ni de plus estime pour l'Ecriture Sainte, 
 que le Pierre Comestor qui a ete traduit dans plusieurs langues de l’Europe. 
 On ne lisoit la Bible que dans la maniere qu’ elle etait dans ce compila- 
 teur avec ses gloses. Cet usage a dure tres longtems en France.” Fabricius, 
 Ed. Mansi. It was translated into French by Guiart du Moulin, a canon 
 of Aire. Warton, Eng. Poetry, Vol. 2. p. 108. 
 
 In the MS. Notes on Cave, in Lambeth Library, “ De eo, memoratu 
 dignum est, quod refert Gyraldus Cambrensis ipsius discipulus — in Gemma 
 Ecclesiastica (quae hodie MS. in Biblioth. Lambeth, servatur) 2. 6. his verbis : 
 Hoc autem magistrum Petrum Comestorem in audientia totius scholae suae 
 quse tot et tantis viris literatissimis referta fuit dicentem audivi — quod nun- 
 quam hostis ille antiquus in aliquo articulo adeo Ecclesiam Dei circumvenit, 
 sicut in voti illius (sc. continentiae sacerdotum) emissione.” 
 
 Here is his Epitaph from a MS. in the King’s Library ( Casley’s Cat.) 
 
 “ Petrus eram, quem Petra tegit, dictusque Comestor: 
 
 “ Nunc comedor. Docui vivus : nunc cesso docere 
 “ Mortuus : ut dicat, qui me videt incineratum 
 “ Quod sumus, iste fuit : erimus quandoque quod liic est.” 
 
 5. Has been removed to I. 13. 
 
 6. The Bible in English metre. 
 
 MS. paper, 4to. well bound, in good order. 
 
 At the end of the Gospel History is written : 
 
 Explicit Temporale in Anglias P Pole (a fish.) (Qu. Hampole?) 
 Afterwards comes a metrical instruction about fasts and festivals ; ending with 
 (A fish) Pole is faire. 
 
 On comparing the MS. with the extract in Wharton’s Hist, of Eng. Poetry, 
 from the Vernon MS. of the Bodleian, called ‘ Sowlhele,’ the two are widely 
 different. Richard of Hampole is said to have translated several parts of 
 the Bible into Engl, metre. 
 
 7. Richard H ampole’s “ Pricice of Conscience.” Engl, metre. 
 
 4to. MS. paper. T. C. S. 
 
 There is an account of this book and specimens in Wharton’s Hist, of 
 Engl. Poetry, Vol. I. p. 256. He says: “It is the commonest MS. in our 
 Libraries.” He thinks it a very poor performance and prophecies he shall 
 be its last transcriber. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 In the Addenda to Cave’s H. L. there is this account of it : Opus in 7 
 partes di visum. l a agit de natura humana. 2 a de mundo. 3 a de morte. 
 4 a de purgatorio. 5 a de die judicii. 6 a de poenis inferni. 7 a de gaudiis cceli. 
 
 In the British Critic, No. 61, p. 23, is a short notice of the controversy 
 as to the author of this poem. It appears to have been ascribed to John 
 de Wageby, and to Robert Grostete. There are two versions of the poem, 
 differing in language and metre. The following is extracted from appendix 
 to Pegg’s Life of Grostete in the Catalogue of his works: 
 
 “ Stimulus Conscientiae (rythmis Antiquis Angl.) lib. vii. The might of 
 the Fader of Hevene. Hoc opus quod vulgo Ricardo Hampolo ascribitur, 
 dicunt MS. Bibl. Bodl. Laud. K. 65, et G. 21. ut etiam MS. Digby 14. 
 Rob. Lincoln deberi. Tanner Biblioth, The author of the Preface to the 
 Book De Cessatione Legalium, when he says the bishop wrote verse, patrio 
 Sermone, must mean this work, though the authority is doubtful. The 
 MSS. of which, there are I think four in the Bodleian, vary so much that 
 I am of opinion there were two metrical versions in English of Hampole’s 
 Latin Prose, and that Hampole was not author of either ; since, as 
 Mr Wharton observes, it is not likely he should translate his own work. 
 However the poem called the Pricke of Conscience is but a translation, 
 and if Hampole, who died in 1348, composed the original, the translation 
 could not be by our bishop : on the contrary, Mr W harton, with good 
 reason refers the two versions to the reign of Edward III.” Pegg, p. 287. 
 
 Mr Guest, Hist, of Eng. Rytlims, Vol. 2. p. 418, considers the second 
 translation to be by Thos. Ascheburne, a Carmelite, of Northampton. 
 
 8. Magistri Petri Cantoris Parisiensis Yerbum abbreviatum. 
 
 4to. MS. veil, old wooden binding. T. C. S. 
 
 In the beginning the name of “ Alex, de Hospreng.” 
 
 Petrus Pictaviensis, Canonicus S. Victoris et Theologiae Scholse Rector, 
 Cantorque, Parisiensis, sua state egregius vitaque ac scientia clarus, denique 
 Episcopatum Tornacensem (Tours) fugiens, in ccenobio quod Longus pons 
 dicitur, ord. Cisterc, in dioecesi Suessionensi (Soissons) diem obi it 1197. 
 Ex ejus lucubratione vidit lucem, Summa de sugillatione vitiorum et com- 
 mendatione virtutum, quae Verbum abbreviatum etiam solet nuncupari, quia 
 incipit a verbis Rom. 9. 28. Verbum abbreviatum faciet Dominus super 
 terrain, (in 128 cli s .) Fabricius. 
 
 It must not be confounded with the Verbum abbreviatum of Peter de 
 Alliaco, 1350, which is a commentary on the Psalms. 
 
 9. Legenda, metro Gallico. 
 
 Vit;e et Martyria Apostolorum. Gallice. 
 
 de Virtutibus et Vitus. Gallice. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum, handsomely illuminated. 
 
 At the end, “ Ce livre compila et fist uns freres de l’ordre des prescheurs 
 a la reqste dou roi de France Phelippe en l’an de l’incarnation Ihu Christ. 
 1279. Deo gratias.” 
 
 This is King Philip III. The last treatise is a collection of stories from 
 different parts of Scripture, mixed with moral essays and legends. Among 
 others, that of the Twelve Apostles forming the Creed. It is mentioned 
 also with the same subscription as above, as forming part of a MS. in the 
 
IN TIIE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
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 King’s Library. Casley Cat. King’s Library, 19, c. 2. 1 — 6. It is not an 
 uncommon kind of MS. the inscription being also at the foot of many 
 other French MS. with sometimes a variation. See Senebier Cat. Bibl. Geneve, 
 p. 404. See also Warton’s Hist, of Eng. Poetry, Vol. 2. p. 109. 
 
 10. Psalmi et alia Ecclesia stica Cantica cum glossa interim, et 
 
 ordin. 
 
 4to. MS. veil, well bound. “Ex dono Jeremiah Holt, 1 634.” 
 
 11. Petri Lombardi Sententiarum Libri IV. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum, illuminated, bound and in good condition. 
 
 Peter Lombard was Archbishop of Paris in 1159. There is a dispute 
 whether he composed his Book of Sentences out of one on the same sub- 
 ject by Bandinus “ obscurus et ignotus quidam theologus,” says Cave. He 
 refers to Thomasius de Plagio Literario § 493 — § 502. Fabricius, however, 
 says B. XV. “ tamen plagio idco neutiquam arguendus rnihi videtur, prae- 
 cipue cum de Bandino non est adeo exploratum, num ante Lombardum 
 scripserit, sed epitomen potius quandam sententiarum Lombardi referre 
 potest videri.” Biblioth. Med. et Inf. Latinitatis. 
 
 This celebrated work has been commented upon by authors innumerable. 
 The titles of the four books are — De Mysterio Trinitatis — De Creatione 
 — De Incarnatione — De Sacramentis. They consist of extracts from the 
 Fathers and digested “methodo scholastica.” It is probable that he was 
 much assisted by the works of Johannes Damascenus, which had then been 
 lately translated from the Greek. Erasmus, on Matt. 1. 19, speaks of our 
 author in commendatory terms. 
 
 12. Johannes Gower, Confessio Amantis, in Eng. metre. 
 
 Large 4to. MS. vellum. T. C. S. In old wooden binding. 
 
 There is the usual account in Latin at the end of the MS. of Gower’s 
 works, (See Ellis’s Specimens of Eng. Poetry, Vol. 1. pp. 172, 173,) legibly 
 written, and not appearing to vary much from the one he has given. I 
 need only remark that the work usually called “speculum meditantis” 
 is here called “ speculum hominis.” For the information of those who do 
 not care to search further, it may as well be noticed, that there are three 
 recorded works of Gower : “ Speculum hominis” in French metre — “ Vox 
 clamuntis,” in Latin Elegiacs, giving an account of the insurrection of the 
 serfs in Richard II’s time — and the “ Confessio Amantis.” 
 
 13. Gregorii Magni homiliaj in Ezecfiielem, Libr. II. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum, in old wooden binding, good condition. D. D. Jere- 
 miah Holt. 
 
 Pope Gregory the Great ascended the papal chair in 590. The work 
 here mentioned was according to Cave, written about 595, nine years 
 before his death. 
 
 14. (l) InTRODUCTIO DE CoNFESSIONE DE Mono INQUIRENDI DE FlDE 
 
 CaTHOLICA DE 10 PRyECEPTIS ET 7 PECCATIS DE OMISSIONIBUS 
 
 Modus confitendi — Pcenas seu Pcenitenti^e Injunct^e — In- 
 
If! 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 DULGENTIA3 SEU ReMISSIONES MoDUS ABSOLVENDI CaSUS 
 
 Prima Ciiarta — Oharta de Foresta — Magna Charta — 
 
 Instructiones de confessione. 
 
 (2) Aristotelis Secreta Secretorum. 
 
 (3) De Perseverantia, contra Inconstantes potentes et sapi- 
 
 ENTES HUJUS MUNDI. 
 
 Small 4to. MS. vellum, mutilus in Fine, bound in old wood covers. 
 T. C. S. 
 
 (1) This is called in the MS. “Prima pars oculi sacerdotis.” I have given 
 the contents as they seem of rather a heterogeneous nature; in D. 18, the 
 “ prima pars” agrees with this. D. 18 contains the whole of the work. 
 I therefore refer to that place for an account of its author, &c. 
 
 (2) The full title is “ Aristotelis liber moralium ad Alexandrum, vocatus de 
 regimine principum (or) dominorum seu de Secretis Secretorum,” no account 
 of it is given by Fabricius ; except a very short one in the Biblioth. 
 Grcec. Lib. 3. c. vi. 37, where he says it is spurious, and refers to two or 
 three authors who have mentioned it. “ Liber dedicatur Guidoni de 
 Valencia civitatis Tripolis Episcopo per Philippum clericum, qui eum de 
 Arabico Latinum fecit.” Nasmith, Cat. of C. C. C. Libr. 407- 
 
 “ For the scientific part of his work (confessio Amantis) Gower was 
 probably indebted to a spurious work of Aristotle, called Secretum Secre- 
 torum.” Ellis Specimens, Vol. 1. p. 178.; See also IVartons Hist, of Eng. 
 Poetry, Vol. 2. pp. 7, 8, where he adds concerning it, “ A work treated as 
 genuine and explained with a learned gloss by Roger Bacon, and of the 
 highest reputation in Gower’s age, as it was transcribed and illustrated 
 with a commentary for the use of King Edward the III. by his chaplain 
 Walter de Millemete, prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Glaseney, 
 in Cornwall. It is cited by Bradwardine in his work De Causa Dei.” 
 
 (3) This is mentioned by W. Crashawe in his note in the MS., as “ Epitome 
 Libri Innocent. III. de miseria humante conditionis” — but on comparing the 
 two I cannot see the least point of resemblance. It begins thus — “An- 
 selmus, in Civitate roma regnavit prudens....” It contains 37 chapters. 
 
 15. (1) Receipts and Medicines. Eng. and Lat. 
 
 (2) An Herbal. Eng. 
 
 (3) Hippocrates. 1 book. Eng. 
 
 (4) Antidotarittm Nicholai. Anglice — cum Calendario. 
 
 (5) Tractates Herbarum. Lat. 
 
 Small 4to. MS. 1. Vellum and paper. 2, 3. Paper. 4, 5. Vellum. 
 The last two having illuminated capitals — in good condition. “ Ex 
 dono Magistri Gent ecclesise Burbrooke in Essexia Rectoris — liujus 
 Collegii nuper alumnus.” 
 
 (4) In C. C. C. Library, 424, 11. Nasmith’s Catalogue, “A Treatise 
 of Medicine or Dispensatory, by Nyco/as.” 
 
 Nicholas Hostreshamus, 1443, medicus celeberrimus. Among his works 
 is given “ Antidotarium. Librum unum, qui sic incipit Ego Nicholaus rogatus 
 a quibusdam” as this does. Pitseus, Rel. Hist, de Rebus Angl. in anno 1443. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 17 
 
 16. Frier Daniel His three Bookes of Phisicke. 
 
 4to. MS. paper, in English, with old wood binding. T. 0. S. 
 
 Henricus Daniel, ordinis Praedicatorum S. Dominici, monachus Anglus 
 Vir in omni saeculai'i scientia bene versatus, in Philosophia autem naturali 
 et arte medica insigniter peritus — Scripsit “ Manipulum Florum, Lib. 1, 
 and “ De Judiciis Urinarum,” Lib. 1. Cl. 1379. Pitseus, p. 521. 
 
 There is the same MS. in the Bodleian, 3605. Cat. MS. Angl, et Hibern. 
 “ Englished by himself,” says the Catalogue. 
 
 17 . Lucerna Oonscienti^!. 
 
 Speculum Fidei et Religionis Christianas. 
 
 Hugonis de S. Victor — Speculum ecclesias. 
 
 DE OFFICIIS ECCLESIASTICIS. 
 
 DE DIE DOMINICO. 
 
 DE DECEM Pr^ECEPTIS. 
 
 Bonaventura DE 10 MANDATIS. 
 
 Bernardi Sylyestris Epistola. 
 
 DE 7 CaPITALIBUS VITUS EX EDIT. B. BeRNARDI. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum, in old wooden binding, poor condition. T. 0. S. 
 
 The vellum only extends to the three first treatises, which are well 
 written; the rest on paper and badly written, but apparently by the same 
 hand. Of the Lucerna Conscienthc I cannot find any notice. The second 
 tract is one of which the title is very common, but the contents various. 
 I cannot, on comparing it with several of the same kind, discover any 
 resemblance but that which the subject itself suggests, and I conclude there- 
 fore that no author can now be assigned to it. 
 
 (3) Hugo de St Victor, descended of an illustrious Saxon family, according 
 to Fabricius, though there has been a good deal of doubt as to his origin — 
 some making him a Fleming, others a Frenchman, and a Parisian. Was 
 a regular Canon of St Victor, the monastery of Augustine monks at Paris. 
 He died in 1140 or 1142, about 44 years of age. On comparing the treatises 
 here ascribed to him, with the edition of his works, Venice, 1575, they appear 
 to be extracts only, agreeing verbally here and there, but abridged in parts. 
 
 (7) Cardinal Bonaventura, the ‘Doctor Seraphicus’ of the Schoolmen — 
 an Italian, born in 1221, General of the Franciscans, 1256, Cardinal in 1274, 
 died the same year. Among his works is a treatise ‘ de 10 prceceptis,’ on 
 comparing with ed. Mogunti®, 1609, it is like the former ones, rather 
 abridged. 
 
 (8) Bernardus Sylvester, non diversus a Bernardo Carnotensi, (Bishop of 
 Chartres,) ob*. ann. 1180, ‘ perfectissiums inter Platonicos seculi nostri’ says 
 Johannes Sarisberiensis. This epistle is addressed ‘ad Raymundum Castri 
 Ambrosii, de modo rei familiaris utilius gubernanda?,’ is found in S. Bernard’s 
 works. Ed. Paris, 1586. 
 
 (9) There is no such tract as this by S. Bernard. It is most probably 
 an extract from his works. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 18. PSALTERIUM TrIPARTITUM. GaLLICUM. RoMANUM. HeBR^EUM. 
 
 CUM CaNTICIS. 
 
 MS. vellum, 4to. T. C. S. Mutilus in fine. 
 
 With curious drawings at the beginning — at the commencement of the 
 Psalter. There is a preface consisting of Epistles of St Jerome and St 
 Augustine, with extracts from their works relating to the Psalms. Arranged 
 in three columns, all in Latin. It gives the Vulgate, another reading 
 which is that called Gallicum, I suppose, and a third which differs a good 
 deal from both, called Hebrseum, which arrangement is found in several 
 MS. Psalters. There is one in Trim Coll. Library, well written, and in 
 good preservation. The Canticles are as follows. 1. Of David after slaying 
 Goliah. 2. Of Isaiah. 3. Of Hezekiah. 4. Of Hannah. 5. Of Moses. 
 6. Of Abacuc. 7. Of Moses. 8. Benedicite, omnia opera. 9. Magnificat. 
 10. Nunc dimittis. 11. Gloria in Excelsis. 12. Te Deum. Then the 
 3 Creeds, a Litany, and several prayers. 
 
 19. Tractatus Astronomici, per Rich. Abbatem de St Albano — 
 
 ET LuDOVICUM KaRLION. SCRIPT. CIRC. ANN. 1482. 
 
 Small folio, MS. vellum, old wooden binding, with Tables of Eclipses, 
 
 &c. 
 
 Richard Wallingford, 28th Abbot of St Alban’s; died in 1335. “He made 
 great proficiency at Oxford in the new studies then become reputable, and 
 excelled, as Leland writes, in arithmetic, geometry and astronomy. History 
 of S. Albans Abbey, p. 230. 
 
 Ludovicus Caerlion was at Oxford and Cambridge. When young he applied 
 to mathematics and astrology, then to medicine, and finally to theology. 
 By some he is said to have been Bishop of Hereford ; ob*. 1369. Pitseus, 
 who quotes his treatise on astronomy as in Lord Lumley’s Library. 
 
 There is a later copy of this work of Ludov. Caerlion. He was imprisoned 
 in the tower by Rich. III. and lost his MS., he then composed another differ- 
 ing slightly from this. Casley, King’s Library, 12. G. I. 
 
 20. (l) Calendarium. 
 
 (2) Isidorus Junior de Differentiis. 
 
 (3) Homili.® vari.e. 
 
 (4) Gesta Salvatoris, or Acta Pilati, 8 folios. Varia, viz. 
 
 Praedicatio communis omnibus populis — Sermo Publicus — Sermo S. Aug. 
 de Ebrietate — Sermo communis de criminalibus peccatis — Extracts from 
 Augustin. Isidorus, Rabanus, Gregorius, Arnobius, Effrem, Beda, Servius, 
 Maximus, Celestinus, (1 folio and J) — Homelia Augustini — Sermo de Poeni- 
 tentia contra quosdam in divina pagina titubantes et plane contra claves 
 ecclesise prsedicantes — De filiis sacerdotum et de aliis ex lapsu carnis generatis 
 — De Ecclesia et Monasterio quid sit — De Poenitentia — Versus de avaritia 
 — Proverbia Patrum : viz. Isidorus, Beda, Sixtus, Gregorius, Augustinus, 
 Seneca, Hieronimus, Laurentius, Maximus, Albinus, Prosper, Cesarius, 
 Salvius, Johannes, Dionysius Areopagita, Celestinus, Ciprianus, Solomon, 
 Ambrosius, Paulus, Jeremias, Ililarius. 
 
 (5) Excerpta ex Gregorii Epistola ad Secundinum. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE; 
 
 19 
 
 De Jejunio quatuor temporum — Sermo de decimis- — De Predicatione et 
 Fide — De Episcoporum et Presbyterorum ordine — De Antechristo, latine ; 
 (at the side, in a later writing, is the picture of a bear dressed as a mendicant 
 friar, and underneath in English, 'Of Antechriste and his Signes’) — Sermo 
 S. Gregorii de potestate ligandi et solvendi — Sermo contra iniquos judices 
 et falsos testes — Exortatio ad Plehem — De Vitandis peccatis et de judicio 
 futuro — Sermo S. Augustini de die judicii— De resurrectione mortuorum — 
 Sermo — Sermo in Dedicatione — De hoc quod omnes homines dicuntur fures 
 — 6 Sermones de Ecclesia, de Tenacitate, de Rapina, de Sacrificio, de ultione 
 Rapinae, de ultione sacrilegii — 5 Sermones ad Sacerdotes — Sermo S. Augustini 
 de periculo Sacerdotis — Sermo ad Sacerdotes— Gregorius Johanni Constant. 
 Episcopo de Superbia — 4 Sermones ad Sacerdotes — Sermo ad Poenitentes — 
 ad reddendas Decimas Sermo S. Augustini — 3 Sermones ad Contemplativos. — 
 
 ( 6 ) Liber xlvi Scintillarum. 
 
 Prologus Psalterii Beati Hieronymi — 8 Psalms — Oratio Sti Augustini dic- 
 tante angelo — Oratio ad Dominum — Oratio quamdiu sacerdos sacrat Eucha- 
 ristiam — Oratio ad Dominum patrem omnipotentem — Oratio ad S. Mariam 
 — 2 Orationes ad Dominum — Oratio metrica — Oratio ad Deum. 
 
 (7) Seneca de Institutions morum (2 pages only.) 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, in old wooden binding, and not in good condi- 
 tion. T. 0. S. 
 
 (1) The full title is as follows. “Hie snt. oms. (mini, septuagesinie : 
 XLme. Pasclie. Rogationu. Ascensiois dni. Pentecostes. collccti simul et qui 
 snt. singli p cicli decennoral’ annos singlos breviter annotati, with some hand- 
 some illustrations. 
 
 (2) Isidorus Junior, a Spaniard, Archbishop of Seville in 595. In 619 
 he presided at the 2nd Council of Seville, where he opposed Syrus the leader 
 of the Acephali, and brought him back to the Catholic faith. He died in 
 636 in the Church of St Vincent, whither he had ordered himself to be 
 carried. lie is thus honorably mentioned by the Fathers of the 8th Coun- 
 cil of Toledo. Nostri seculi doctor Egregius, Ecclesiae Catholics novissi- 
 mum decus, praecedentibus a?tate postremis doctrinae comparatione non infimus, 
 et quod majus est in saeculorum fine doctissimus atque cum reverentia nomi- 
 nandus, Isidorus. Cave, IJ. L. 
 
 The tract ‘ De Differentiis’ was published at Madrid 1599. He is often 
 called Isidorus Hispalensis. There is a short account of the work in Fubri- 
 c.ius, B. IX. It is on the differences of words — De Differentiis sive proprietate 
 verborum. 
 
 (3) Consists of 64 Homilies on all the festivals of the year : for the prin- 
 cipal holy days there are several sermons given. There is no author men- 
 tioned for any of them. 
 
 (4) This is the spurious ' Acta Pilati,’ or Gospel of Nicodemus. Its 
 full title is “ Gesta domini Salvatoris quae invenit Theodosius magnus Impe- 
 rator in Ierlm (Jerusalem) in praetorio Pontii Pilati in cod. publicis a beato. 
 Ambrosio Mediolanensi conscripta.” 
 
 In Catalogo MSS. Angliae Codicum, p. 127, Gregorio Turonensi quoque 
 tribuitur libellus de passione Domini, quern ipse Gesta Pilati videtur nomi- 
 nasse, Lib. 1. c. 23. Error iste mihi ex eo videtur obortus, quod codici fuerit 
 Gregorii Turonensis a non nemine subjectus — Sane Trithemius non agnoscit. 
 
 3—2 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP TIIE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Gerard Vossius, Lib. 2. de Hint. Lat. c. 22. Apud Fabric. Codex Apocryph. 
 
 N. T. 
 
 Fabricius also quotes from Hornbeck, Miscell. Sacr. pp. 32, 33, 34, a critical 
 refutation of all the particulars in the above title. He also asserts in a note, 
 Vol. i. p. 236, that in the Bodleian only is there a Latin MS. of this spurious 
 gospel — relying on the Catalog. MSS. Angl. et Hiberni®. 
 
 (5) This Epistle is published in “ Thesaurus Monument. Historic, et Eccle- 
 sice Canisii.” Ed. Basnage, 1725. Its subject is “de callidi hostis insidiis.” 
 
 (6) Liber Scintillarum is a common title. In the title to a tract in C. C. C. 
 Library, 337, 4, “ Liber scintillarum venerabilis Bed* presbiteri diversarum 
 scientiarum ideo sic dictus quia scintill* valent ad parandum incendium 
 ita sententi* diversorum patrum hie collect* valent et utilissim* sunt ad 
 accendendas mentes fidelium.” 
 
 (7) Inter opuscula supposita. Libellum de moribus vit* human* (sepa- 
 ratim editum, Lipsi®, 1499, 4to.) Trithemius vocat ‘ de morum institutions.’ 
 Autorem habet Martinum Abbatem Dumiensem — et liinc Episcopum Brac- 
 carensem (Braga. Portugal) qui cl. circ. 560. Extat etiarn in Biblioth. 
 Patrum, Lugdun. Tom. 10, p. 885. Fabric. B. L. Vol. 2, pp. 511, 512. 
 
 21. VlNCENTII SpECULI IIISTORIALIS LIBRI 8 PRIORES. 
 
 Folio, MS. vellum, illuminated, in wood binding. T. 0. S. A hand- 
 some volume. 
 
 “ Primurn volumen speculi historialis Magistri Thom® Abbatis.” 
 
 In C. C. C. Library, 13, 14, are two other volumes beginning with book 9. 
 These may at one time all have formed one set. 
 
 “ Vincentius Beltovacensis (of Eeauvais), a patria non ab episcopatu sic 
 dictus — ordinis pnedicatorum — regnante Philippo Augusto Luteti* literis 
 operam navavit, obiit, ann. 1264.” Fabricius, Lib. XX. Bibl. Med. et Inf. 
 Lat. The present work has been often published. 
 
 22. Sermones ex. S. Augustini et Gregorii Magni OPERIBUS. 
 
 Folio, MS. vellum, beautifully written — in bad condition. T. 0. S. 
 
 The title says “ quorum catalogum vide in fine libri,” but there is no 
 catalogue. The word “magni” has been carefully erased throughout, 
 leaving a vacant space in the titles of Pope Gregory’s Sermons. 
 
 24. S. Augustini Comment, in Evangelium S. Joiiannis. 
 
 Small folio, vellum. T. C. S. 
 
 “ Liber Sti Andree de Ilextildesham.” 
 
 Hextoldesham was the Saxon, Hagustaldunum the Latin name of Hexham, 
 Northumberland, formerly an Episcopal See. “ Thomas, Archbishop of York, 
 a. d. 1113, placed here a Convent of Canons Regular of the order of St Austin. 
 It was dedicated to St Andrew.” Tanner’s A T otitia Monastica, p. 168. 
 
 25. Operum Sti Augustini libri 17, viz. 
 
 (1) De Doctrina Christiana, Lib. 4. 
 
 (2) De Spiritu et Anima. 
 
 (3) Contra 5 h .treses. 
 
 (4) De Disciplina Christiana. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 21 
 
 (5) De Laudando Deo. 
 
 (6) De LXXXIII. Questionibus. 
 
 (7) De quantitate anisle. 
 
 (8) De Magistro. 
 
 (9) Soliloquia, Lib. 2. 
 
 (10) Retractationum, Lib. 2. 
 
 (11) De Creatione iiominis ad imaginem Dei. 
 
 (12) De mirabilibus Scripture, Lib. 3. 
 
 (13) Unde Malum. 
 
 (14) De Libero Arbitrio, Lib. 3. 
 
 (15) De Vita Beata. 
 
 (16) Meditationes. 
 
 (17) De Visitatione Infirmorum. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum. I think it is T. 0. S., but the place usually so 
 marked has been devoured by rats. 
 
 (1) , (4), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (14), (15), are undoubtedly genuine works 
 
 of St Augustine. 
 
 (2) “Alcheri Monachi Clarevallensis videtur” — says Cave. 
 
 (5) Is attributed by the Benedictine Editors to the same person. 
 
 (12) “Autor erat Augustinus quidam monachus Cantuariensis — seu potius 
 
 Cambrensis, i. e. Hibernicus” Cave. 
 
 (16) “ Ex Anselmo, aliisque consarcinatus. Certe Bernardo reeentior.” Ibid. 
 
 Tlie catalogue of contents is copied from an old list in the beginning of 
 the book. Between (1) and (2) there is “ Sermo beati Ccesarii Episcopi. 
 (11) is called a ‘Sermon.’ 
 
 (3) In the supposititious works, Tom. vm, Appendix. Benedictine Ed. 
 Paris, 1679, et seq. 
 
 27, 28. S. Thom.® Aquinatis Comment, in Epistolas S. Pauli. 
 3 vols. 4to. MS. large size, on vellum. T. C. S. In poor condition. 
 
 Feliciter incipiunt commentaria clarissimi doctoris Angelicique ac hominis 
 S. Thornse de Aquino, ordinis prsedicatorum, Super Epistolas Sanctissimi 
 gentium doctoris Pauli Apostoli, correcta, emendataque summa cum dili- 
 gentia et ingenti solicitudine per me fratrem Petrum de Borgomo, ordinis 
 fratrum prsedicatorum, saerse paging minimum professorem. 
 
 Vol. I. to end of Romans, with date 12 Dec. 1491. Vol. II. to end of 
 Galatians. Vol. III. to end of Hebrews, at the end of which. Per me fratrem 
 Micliaelem de Abiete ordinis fratrum minorum, Script, ann. 1493. 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 22 
 
 c. 
 
 1. CoNCORDANTlA3 MAJORES STUDIO DOMINI PrIORIS ECCLES. ChRISTI. 
 
 Cantuar. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum — well bound and in good condition. T. C. S. 
 
 “ Haec est tota et certa concordantiarum Sacroe Bibliothecae Historia. Hugo 
 de Santo Charo (qui ob. 12G2) primus aggressus est et ope suorum sodalium 
 perfecit, locis tantum indicatis. Johannes de Derlington (Archbishop of 
 Dublin, see Pitseus in an. 1284,) et Ricardus de Stavenesby (sic) (Pitseus 
 in an. 1295, calls him Stravanellius) et alii Angli Sodales auxerunt, ad loca 
 indicata adjectis S. Scripturae Sententiis, sed plerumque longioribus. Hae duse 
 pi-iores editiones dictae sunt Concordantiee S. Jacobi. Conradus de Halber- 
 stadt (an. 1321, Fabricius) tertiam suscepit brevioribus capitihus per qua- 
 tuor tantum literas distinctis, et sententiis S. Scripturae ex parte recisis ; 
 saeculi vero XV circiter medio Johannes de Ragusio (an. 1433, Wharton) 
 particularum indeclinabilium in prioribus omissarum alteras concordantias 
 tentavit et ope amanuensium perfecit.” Jac. Ecliard, Script, ord. Prcedicat. 
 Scec. 13, Tom. 1, p. 207, apud Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. 1, p. 457. 
 
 Celebratae imprimis ejus concordantiae, quae magnae vel etiam Anglicance 
 appellari consueverunt. Fabricius in ‘Johannes Derlingt onus’ 
 
 This MS. mentions as precedent to it the ‘ Concord. S. Jacobi.’ 
 
 2. S. Thomas Aquinas Super libros I. II. Sententiarum. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well bound. T. 0. S. 
 
 “ Henr. Prior.” At end, “Sum scriptor talis monstrat mea Ira qualis.” 
 
 This commentary on Peter Lombard is in the 6th Vol. of the large edition 
 of S. Thomas Aquinas. Rome, 1572, “ jussu et sumptibus Pii V.” 
 
 S. Thomas wrote a commentary on the other two books also. The whole 
 work has been often published ; one of the last editions is Paris," 1659. 
 
 3. Haymonis Comment, in omnes Epistolas S. Pauli. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well bound, illuminated, in good condition. “ Ex 
 dono Pet. Senhouse, Coll. Soc. I 638.” 
 
 Hagmo or Aimo, a disciple of Alcuin, and condiscipulus of Rabanus 
 Maurus, Abbot of Fulda, 839. Bishop of Halberstadt, 841. Present at the 
 Synod of Mentz, 848. Died in 853. 
 
 This commentary has been falsely ascribed to Remigius Lugdunensis, 855, 
 in the Bibliotheca Patrum. Usher says, in his Commentary on the Hebrews, 
 that it is the production of Primasius, Bishop of Adrumetum in the Byzacene, 
 550. Cave. 
 
 Dacherius has quoted from the Comment, on the Epistle to the Corinthians, 
 the following passage as shewing the doctrine of transubstantiation to have 
 been held by Haymo. “ Credimus et fideliter confitemur et tenemus, quod 
 substantia panis et vini per operationem Divinse Virtutis substantialiter 
 convertatur in aliam substantial!!, i. e. in carnem et sanguinem.” There 
 is no such passage in the present manuscripts. Fabricius, Lib. 8. 
 
 I cannot find it in this in the place referred to, viz. 1 Cor. 11. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 23 
 
 It ought to be enumerated as the work of Remigius Antissiodorensis. See 
 C. 20, but I should notice that this is entirely a different work from the 
 Commentary published under the name of Haymo, Colonise, 1529. (Coll. 
 Libr. Uu. 12. 20.) which agrees neither with this nor with C. 20. 
 
 4. V IRGILIUS GeORGICA BuCOLICA yEnEIS. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum, well bound, illuminated capitals, well written. 
 T. C. S. 
 
 There are marginal notes from the end of the 1st book to the middle 
 of the 3rd of the iEneid. 
 
 At end, “Joan, de Monasterio scripsit.” 
 
 •5. (l) QuiNTILIANI DECLAMATIONUM LIBER DE CAUSIS CORRUPTS 
 
 Eloquenti^e. 
 
 (2) Petri Blesensis Epistol^e, 191. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, neatly bound, good condition, the two works in dif- 
 ferent hand-writings. “ Ex dono Gul. Beale, olim Collegii Magistri.” 
 
 (1) Is spurious, and not a work of Quintilian’s according to some critics; 
 others think it of the age of Quintilian, if not his. Fabricius, Bibl. Lat. 
 Vol. 1, pp. 699 — 706. 
 
 (2) Petrus Blesensis, a Canon of Bourges — afterwards, successively Arch- 
 deacon of Bath, of London, and Chancellor of Canterbury, Procancellarius 
 to the King. Celebrated from 1160 to 1200 — when he is supposed to have 
 died. Fabricius. Cave mentions in the list of his works, Epistolie, 183. 
 In the C. C. C. MS. only 137 in one vol. 266; only 115 in vol. n°. 366; 
 only 78 in vol. n°. 425. See Nasmith’s Catalogue. 
 
 Cave says he was the first to use the word Transubstantiatio— but Fabricius 
 says it was used by Stephanas Augustodunensis Episc. ab an. 1112 — 1136. 
 See his work ‘ de Sacramento Altaris,’ in the Bibliotheca Patrum. Fabricius, 
 Lib. XV. 
 
 6. Thomas de Kempis — Musica Ecclesiastica, sive de Imitatione 
 Christi, lib. 3, preceded by a Calendar. 
 
 4to. vellum, MS. beautifully written, and illuminated, well bound, 
 and in good condition. T. C. S. 
 
 At end of Calendar, 
 
 “ Scriptori nierita, mater pia, redde, Maria. 
 
 “ Rogero Pynchebek de Londin. 
 
 “ Hunc finem feci, da mihi qd merui.” 
 
 Though divided into 3 books only, whereas the common editions have four. 
 This agrees with the early printed editions. See one, in black letter, College 
 Library, O. 1. 18.. where the title runs thus : 
 
 “De Imitatione Christi libri duo — nam secundus et tertius in unum con- 
 tracti sunt, eo quod ejusdem farraginis — Et quartus alterum sortitur titulum. 
 
 “ De Sacramento Altaris liber unus — qui quartus habebatur de Imit.” 
 
 In this instance what constitutes the first book of O. 1. 18. is divided 
 into two. There is the same number of chapters as in that edition, but 
 arranged as follows. B. 1, c s . 25. B. 2, c s . 12. B. 3, c s . 64. 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 24 
 
 The fourth book ‘de Sacramento’ is not in the MS. 
 
 Of the pious author of this well known book, Fabricius gives the fol- 
 lowing account. “ Thomas Hamercken sive Malleolus, a patria Kempen 
 sive Campis in ditione Coloniensi dictus de Kempis, natus est 1380, et 
 Daventriee auditor Florentini ; nomen dedit Thomas ordini Canonicorum 
 Regularium Augustinianorum, et in Camobio S. Agnetis ad Zwollam in 
 Transylvania Belgica post fratrem Priorem Johannem, Prior et Procurator 
 diem obiit, 1471, st. 92.” Fabricius, Lib. X. p. 215. 
 
 7. (l) Magistri Martini summa qUzEstionum Theologize. 
 
 (2) Magistri Stephani de Langton, Arch. Cant, summa de 
 
 HIS QU M SUNT DE DEO ET QU zESTIONES. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum. 
 
 There is a short treatise prefixed to the whole, which is nearly illegible, 
 especially at the beginning. 
 
 (1) M agister Martinus, natione Gallus, patria Turonensis, was a resident 
 of the College of St Barbara. A short time before his death he was Con- 
 fessor to Louis XI. of France, obiit 1482. H. W. Addenda to Cave, H. L. 
 in a note. “Ejusdem Summa quest. Theolog. habentur MS. in bibl. S. Vic- 
 toris Parisiis.” It is divided into 9 books. 
 
 (2) The celebrated Stephen Langton. forced by Pope Innocent III. on 
 King John as Archbishop of Canterbury ; died in 1228. “ Summa Theologian 
 ejus extat in bibl. S. Michel, in MS.” Cave. Leland, de Script. Brit, men- 
 tions a short tract “de Questionibus.” See Professor Corrie’s Notes, N°. 1. 
 p. 9. 
 
 8. Wiclif’s homilies upon the Epistles and Gospels. Anglice. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well bound. T. C. S. Mutilus initio et in fine. 
 
 This MS. is mentioned by H. Wharton in addenda to Cave’s H. L., as 
 in the Library of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge. 
 
 9. Psalterium et Oantica. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum. T. C. S. Well bound. 
 
 A most curious MS. “ written about 800.” It is certainly the oldest MS. 
 in the Library. It has very singular drawings and illuminations; rude but 
 evidently done with great pains. There is a gloss on the Psalms all through. 
 Mr Hartshorne says, written about the year 1200. The above date is assigned 
 to it by ‘ W. Crashawe,’ in whose hand-writing the note is made. 
 
 10. Titi Livii Frulovisii Ferrariensis OoMCEDIzE VII. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum ; a handsome MS. with illuminated capitals. 
 
 “D. D. Helkiah Crocus, Collegii olim alumnus. Haec Comcedia? nullibi 
 impress® extant, 12 April, 1631.” 
 
 The names of the Comedies are as follows : 1. Corallaria. 2. Claudi 
 
 duo. 3. Emporia. 4. Symmaciius. 5. Oratoria. 6. Pere- 
 grinatio. 7. Eugenius. 
 
 “ Titus Livius Ferrariensis, orator et Poeta circ. an. 1430, dictus etiam 
 de Frulovisiis. Ex ejus libro de orthograpliia — Adamus Jtechenbergius in 
 dissertatione de Ineptiis Clericorum Romanorum literariis, § 7, affert lianc 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 2 .') 
 
 notationem nominis ancillae — “Ancilla — ex Grseco an i. e. circum et cilleo 
 i. e. moveo — quia circum movetur ad servitium.’ Fabricius, lib. XI. Titus 
 Livius Forojuliensis aliis de Fralovisiis sive verum nomen sit^ sive fictum, 
 gratiosus fuit Humfredo, Glocestria? Duci, fratri Henrici V. Scripsit vitam 
 Henrici V. Regis Anglia? quam cum aliis eo pertinentibus edidit Thomas 
 Hearne, Oxon. 1716. Adde Giornale de Letterati d’ltalia, tomo XXVIII. 
 p. 400.” Fabricius, B. M . and I. L. 13. XIX. 
 
 The following extract is from the place quoted in the Giornale. 
 
 Un letterato Italiano vivente nel xv secolo, abbandonata la patria ( ob rem 
 angustam domi, says Hearne, Pref.) si rifugio in Inghilterra e fu al Ser- 
 vigio di Umfredo Duca di Glocestre, fratello del lie Arrigo V. ad instanza 
 del Duca scrisse egli la vita di esse Arrigo e la dedica al Principe suo 
 figliuolo, di cui lo storico era segretario. In questa vita l’autore voile andar 
 mascherato sotto il nome di Tito Livio, il quale a lui piacque di assumere 
 per avere imitata la fede, se non l’eleganza del vero Livio. Se la patria 
 del Friuli con cui Egli s’intitola sia la vera patria de lui, questo non e per 
 anche a nostra cognizione. 
 
 The article is a notice of Hearne's book, mentioned above. See also 
 Warton, Eng. Poet. Vol. 2, p. 49. 
 
 11. (l) ISOCRATIS ORAT. AD NlCOCLEM item AD DeMONICUM. l a . 
 
 Latine. 
 
 (2) Plutarchus, de Virtute Romanorum et de Alexandri 
 
 virtute, Lib. 2. Latine. 
 
 (3) Basilius Magnus, de Invidia. Latine. 
 
 (4) Plutarchus — de Invidia et odio. Latine. 
 
 (5) Basilii Sermones duo. Latine. 
 
 (6) Lucianus — oratio de Calumnia. Latine. 
 
 (?) Xenophon — de Tyrannide Liber. Latine. 
 
 (8) Epicteti Enchiridion cum prsefatione Simplicii. Latine. 
 
 (9) De quibusdam erroribus in lege Mahometis contentis. 
 
 Cli 9 . 18. 
 
 (10) Leonardi Aretini Contra Hypocritas Li BER. 
 
 (11) Plutarchus — de assentatoris et amici differentia. Lat. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written, all by the same band — with 
 
 ornamented capitals and coats of arms. 
 
 “ Dono Don 4 . Helkiah Crocus” ut in C. 10. At the end is written “ Gun- 
 thorp.” (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. 
 
 By the kindness of a friend, who lays claim to “ more information than 
 myself on these and most other subjects,” I have been favoured with the 
 following account of the only relic remaining in Jesus College of John Gun- 
 thorp. Among the manuscripts in the Library of that College, is a folio 
 volume of 147 pages on vellum, apparently of the 13th century, if not earlier, 
 containing five treatises of S. Augustine, and concluding with an essay incerti 
 auctoris “ de triplici sensu Scriptures preesertim de sensu morali.” On the inside 
 of the cover is a note in the hand writing of the 1 5th century, as follows : 
 
 4 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 01’ THE MSS- AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Liber M John Gunthorp decani Wellen, cmpti London, a 0 . Xri 1484'“ 
 7 quindecim solidis solutis. 
 
 It is in the original binding, with clasps, but there is no record remaining 
 to shew how it came into the possession of the College. 
 
 No. 1G4 in Nasmith’s Cat. C. C. C. ought also I think to be Gunthorp ,. 
 instead of Gwathorp. See the place. 
 
 He is said to have given books to most College Libraries. I think I 
 recollect seeing his name in Trinity Library, so they seem to have been 
 much dispersed ; as he preceded the foundation by so many years. 
 
 Warton, Eng. Poetry, Vol. 2, p. 422, says he was Master of King’s Hall ; 
 who also says he gave many books, collected in Italy, to Jesus College, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 (1) Translated by Leonardus Justinianus Chiensis Lesbi, Archbishop of 
 Mitylene, and dedicated by him to Pope Nicholaus V. He is the author 
 of several tracts addressed to this Pope. Amongst others, an account of 
 the Siege of Constantinople, 14.53. Fabricius, Lib. 11. 
 
 (2) — (5) — (8) Translated by Nicholas Perotti, a learned Franciscan Friar, 
 who died in 1480, and was in very great repute in his life time. Dedicated 
 to Pope Nicholas V. “ Latine vertit elegantius quarn fidelius.” Fabricius. 
 
 “ S. Basilii orationem de invidia ad calcem Censorini ex recensione Philippi 
 Beroaldi, circa 1500.” The rest are inedita. Fabricius, XIII. 
 
 (6) Translated by Franciscus Aretinus, and dedicated to John, Earl of 
 Worcester. Francisco Accolti, or d’Arezzo, (lat. Aretinus,) born in 1418, 
 juris utriusque professor, at Bologna, Ferrara and Siena. He was for five 
 years secretary to Francisco Sforza, Duke of Milan; died in 1483. ( Biogr . 
 Universelle . ) 
 
 (7) *— (10) The former translated by the author of the latter. Leonardus 
 Bruno Aretinus, one of the great revivers of polite learning in the 15th cen- 
 tury ; was many years Chancellor of the Florentine Republic, in which post 
 he died, 1444. (7) has not yet been published, says Mansi. (10) was pub- 
 lished Lugduni, 1689, with a dialogue of Pogyius on the same subject, and 
 in Browns Fasciculus, Vol. 1, p. 307. 
 
 (11) Translated by Guarini Veronensis, and dedicated ‘ad illustrissimum 
 Principem Dominum Leonellum Estensem.’ It is mentioned by Fabricius, 
 Lib. 7. Mansi refers to Diar. Eruditorum Italics, Tom. 12, p. 361 and 358. 
 Guarini was a great encourager and professor of belles lettres at Ferrara, 
 Verona, Trent, and finally at Florence. Obiit 1460. 
 
 In the Giornale, loc. cit. there is an account of Guarini. Of the present 
 work it says, Moltissime altre sono l’opere, che compose Guarino tra lequali 
 quella ‘ de differen. assentatoris et amici’ che su la fede del Labbe abbiamo 
 altrove (Tom. 9, p. 188,) attribuita al Vergerio e certamente un operetta 
 de Plutareo translatata da Guarino che la indirizzo al Marchese Leonello 
 d’Este, citata del Panvini et da altri — a gli Elogi di Guarino riferiti dal 
 Vossio pub aggiugnersi quello che ne fa Lionardo Aretino in una Epistola del 
 Libro 3 scritta al Niccoli che gliene avea cliiesta il giudicio. ‘Ego et alias 
 scripsi (parla de lui ancor giovane) ad te et nunc magis etiam eonfirmo 
 eruditissimum mihi videri et quern tu probare non immerito possis. 
 
 (l) De T emplo Dei mystico et morali — De Casibus Pap^e 
 RESERVATIS De SlMONIA ET UsURA. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 (2) S. Augustinus, de convenientia 10 plagarum .ZEgypti cum 
 
 10 PRiECEPTIS. 
 
 (3) De Divisione MANUS DE RABBARO.' — -Sermo in die Palmarum. 
 
 (4) Liber Bestiarum — Sermones — Expositio Symboli et ora- 
 
 TIONIS DOMINICjE. 
 
 (5) /Egidii Sarisburiensis Episcopi Constitutiones. 
 
 (6) Roberti Lincolniensis Universitates Pcenitenti^e DE 
 
 PeCCATIS DE PcENITENTIA SUMMA FIDEI SeRMONES DIVERSI 
 
 De causa institutionum dierum Rogationum et aliorum pes- 
 
 TORUM. 
 
 (7) Arsenii Narratio de iiostia cruentata. 
 
 (8) Vita S. Edmundi Cantu ar. 
 
 (9) OviDIUS DE AdMIRABILIBUS. 
 
 4to. vellum, MS., rather confused and illegible. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) De Ternplo, is by Robert Grostete. It is the same work as that 
 called by Pitseus de Officio Sacerdotali. I suspect the other two also to 
 be his, but there is no certainty. 
 
 (2) Not a separate work, but an extract, from Sermon 8, Vol. 5, Louvain 
 Edition. St Augustine himself refers to it in the Commentary on the 
 77th Psalm. 
 
 (8) Only occupies a couple of pages. c De Divisione’ is an etymological 
 account of the Latin names of the fingers. 
 
 (4) Liber Bestiarum. See A. 15. There is also a work of this kind 
 mentioned by Cave among the works of Hugo de St Victor. 
 
 (5) This must be, I think, IEgidius Bridport, who was Bishop of Sarum 
 ’ in 1256. See the Annales Ecelesia Winton. Wharton’s Anglia Sacra. iEgidius 
 
 here refers to the constitutions of his predecessor Osmundus. In the “ Chro- 
 nicon Sanctce Crucis Edinburgensis,” 1089, 1092, is an account of the founding 
 of Canonries and dedicating a Cathedral at Salisbury, by Osmundus, who died 
 in 1099. In 1102, “ Rogerius electus est in Episcop. Seresberiee,” ibid. He 
 was Chancellor to the King, and died in 1189, according to the “ Annul. 
 Eccles. Winton.” In 1198, the property of the See of Sarum was seized, 
 and the Bishop (whose name is not given) fled the kingdom. In 1217, 
 Richard, Episcopus Cicestriee (Chichester) was translated to Sarum. In 1229, 
 Robert de Byngeham was Bishop of Sarum, Richard being translated to 
 Durham. In 1245, William of York. In 1256, iEgidius Bridport, who died 
 1262. This is an account of' the succession of the See of Salisbury in the 
 “ Annales Eccles. Winton.” Wharton’s Angl. Sacra. iEgidius had been previously 
 Dean of 1 Veils. See Wharton’s Angl. Sacra, Vol. 1, p. 588. 
 
 (6) Mentioned by Tanner, Biblioth. p. 347, as in S. Joh. Coll. Libr. MS. 
 
 (7) The legend of Arsenius, a deacon of the Roman Church, who was 
 tutor to Arcadius, the son of the Emperor Theodosius in 883. He afterwards 
 retired into Egypt to lead an ascetic life at Scetis, and died aged 95. Bayle, 
 Diet. Historique. The legend here referred to is mentioned in Usher’s Answer 
 to the Jesuit- It is extracted from Simeon Metaphrastes, Tom. 4, Sarii, p. 257. 
 Ed. Colon. 1573. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP TIIE MSS. AMD SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (8) St Edmundus Rich sive Dives, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis, de- 
 functus est anno 1240. Vita ejus scripta a Roberto fratre obvia apud Surium, 
 Nor. 16. Fabricius, Med. et Inf. Lat. Biblioth. Lib. 5. 
 
 (9) De mirabilibus mundi, 3 pages of Latin Hexameters. There is no 
 mention of any such tiling among the spurious Ovidian verses mentioned 
 by Fabricius, not even in the farrago of Goldastus. I therefore think it 
 may be an extract from some part of the genuine, but not having an index 
 at hand, I cannot verify this supposition, and the verses are not very legible. 
 I have since found the same title in Gunton's Cat. MS. Monasterii Petroburg. 
 See Hist, of Peterburgh Cathedral, pp. 191, 194. 
 
 13. Thomas Littleton’s tenures. 
 
 Antony Fitziierbert de natura brevium. 
 
 Small 4to. MS. vellum, French, in old wooden binding. T. C. S. 
 
 With illuminated capitals. 
 
 Thomas Littleton, bom in Devonshire, at Frankley, about the beginning 
 of the 15th century. He studied law at the Inner Temple; was made by 
 Henry VI. Marshalsea of the King’s household, and in May, 1455, King’s 
 Sergeant. When Edward IV. came to the throne, he received the favour 
 of that prince, and became Sheriff of W orcestershire in 1466, and afterward 
 a Judge of the Common Pleas. He died Aug. 23, 1481, and is interred 
 in the Cathedral of Worcester. The first edition of the ‘tenures’ is sup- 
 posed to be by Litton and Maclilinia, All-Hallows, London, without date. 
 
 Antony Fitziierbert, in the reign of Henry VIII. ; born at Norbury, co. 
 Derby. He was at Oxford, but it is not known at what College, nor at 
 what Inn of Court he resided. He was a Sergeant in 1511. In 1523 he 
 Ibecaine a Judge of the Common Pleas. A remarkable thing is told of him, 
 that foreseeing the distribution of church lands among the laity, he made 
 his children promise that they would neither accept grants, nor make pur- 
 chases of abbey lands. He wrote many other works besides the present. 
 He died in 1538. 
 
 14. (l) S. BeRNARDI, TRACTATUS DE VERECUNDIA ADOLESCENTUM. 
 
 (2) DE CONSCIENTIA. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written, in old binding. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) There does not appear to be any tract with this title in Mabillon, 
 but the 86th Sermon ‘ Super Cantica’ is on this subject. 
 
 (2) Is placed by Cave among the ‘opera dubia.’ It is addressed “ad 
 Religiosum quendam ordinis Cistere.” Fabricius, B. 2, and Mabillon’s Ed. 
 Vol. 2. p. 367. 
 
 15. Commentaries in librum beatissimi Job. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum, well written, in old wood binding. 
 
 This is not Pope Gregory’s, I find, from comparing the two, which I had 
 been led to suppose from the frequency of MS. of his work on Job. 
 
 16. Commentaries in parabolas Solomonis venerabilis Bedjj 
 
 presbyteki. 
 
 MS. small i'olio, vellum, bound in wood. ‘Ex dono Jeremiah Holt.’ 
 
IN TUE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN S COLLEGE. 
 
 29 
 
 “ Super Parabolas, Libri 3. inter Hieronymi opera perperam Editi.” Fa- 
 bricius, B. 2. 
 
 17. PUPILLA OCULI OMNIBUS PRESBYTERIS I’RASCIPUE AnGLICANIS SUMME 
 
 NECESSARI A PER S APIENTISSIMUM DIVINI CULTUS MODERATOREM 
 JoHANNEM DE BuRGO, QUONDAM ALMA! UnIVERSITATIS CaNTA- 
 BRIG. OaNCELLARIUM ET SACRA: P AGIN A3 PROFESSOREM, NEC NON 
 ECCLESIvE DE COLINGAM RECTOREM COMPILATA A NATALI DOMI- 
 
 NICO, 1385. 
 
 MS. large folio, vellum, well written, and in excellent condition. T. 0. S. 
 
 John de Burgo (or Borough, Angl.). Tlie title of the work in Cave differs 
 a little from this. “ Pupilla oculi omnibus Sacei'dotibus tarn Curatis cjuam 
 non Curatis Summe necessaria; in qua tractatur de 7 Sacramcntorum ad- 
 ministratione, de decern prseceptis Decalogi et de reliquis Eeclesiasticorum 
 officiis, quae oportet Sacerdotum rite institutum non ignorare ” — “ quanti olim 
 habebatur liber iste, ex innumeris fere qiue Cantabrigiae in bibliothecis publicis 
 asservantur exemplaribus ejus MSS. patet adeo ut tarn insignem Scriptorem 
 Balei diligentiam penitus fugisse baud satis mirari possim.” Cave, H. L. 
 
 It was printed at Paris, 1514. Maittaire Ann. Typography — See Prof. 
 Corrie’s Notes to N° 1. Publications of C. A. S. p. 11. 
 
 18. PsALTERllTM UNA CUM CANTICIS ScRIPTURAI, LETANIIS ET OFFICIO 
 
 quotidiano B. Maria; et defunctorum. Script, circ. ann. 
 
 1300, (old title.) 
 
 A beautiful MS. on vellum, folio, with illuminated capitals. 
 
 Among the prayers is one for “ Ccenobium Sti Bertini.” — This is the only 
 indication I can find of the origin of the book. 
 
 19. S. Brigida: Revelationes. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, in 7 books, containing 59, 30, 34, 130, 44, 110, 
 31 chapters respectively. 
 
 At the end is Epistoloe sen Tractatus Solitarii cujusdam ad Reges, six in 
 number, of which I find the following notice : “ In Bibliotheca Paulina 
 Lipsiensi, Catal. p. 157. memorat librum Brigitte ad Reges, quem constat 
 nullum ahum esse quam librum Octavum Revelationum.” Fabricius, B. 2. 
 
 St Bridget was the daughter of a king of Upland in Sweden. Her husband, 
 a prince of Nericia, died in a monastery in 1344, a Cistercian Monk. She 
 then instituted the order S. Salvatoris Sti Augustini (see A. 11.). She pro- 
 cured a Swedish translation of the Scriptures to be made. These ‘ Reve- 
 lationes,’ which pretend to be inspired, were dated about 1344. She went 
 to Rome about 1346, and after travelling in Spain, Sicily, and Palestine, 
 she returned there and died 1373. In the Council of Basle there was a great 
 contest about these writings They were defended by Cardinal de Turrecre- 
 mata. They were approved hy the Council, and recognized by Popes 
 Gregory IX, Urban V, Boniface IX, Martin V. 
 
 She was canonized by Boniface IX, 1391. Cherubini Bullar. Magn. Vol. 1, 
 p. 293. Fabricius, B. 2. 
 
30 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Oudin. Tom. 3. de Script. Eccles. p. 1098, places the foundation of the order 
 S. Salvatoris in 1363: he[ quotes the c. 48 (lie does not say of what Book) at 
 length to explain the occasion of the present work. See pp. 1099 — 1109. 
 
 “ The Revelations of S. Bridget and S. Catharine (see C. 25.) for and against 
 the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary.” Bingham, pref. to 10th Vol. 
 
 20. Remigii Commentaries in omnes Epistolas S. Pauli, 
 
 Folio, MS. vellum, well written. 
 
 Remigius, monachus coenobii S. Germani Antissiodorensis, ord. S. Benedicti. 
 Post ann. 882. a Fulcone Arch. Remensi ad Scholam ibi regendam evocatus 
 est, teste Flodoardo. Hist. Rem. 4. 9. — Non confundendus cum aliis Remigiis. 
 — Operose de illo egit. Hist. Liter. Gallice, Tom. 6- p. 99. 
 
 Comment, in Ep. Pauli qui Vulgo Remigio Remensi vel Haymoni tribuitur, 
 ad nostrum potius pertinet, quia Gregorius Magnus ibi citatur et Saracenorum 
 mentio lit. Cave says that the comment was published in Bibl. P. P. Coloni- 
 ensi, under the name of Remigius Antissiodorensis, but it is not so, being 
 expressly attributed to Remigius Remensis. Fabricius, B. 17. 
 
 Either Fabricius is wrong in making the assertion that the comment by 
 Haymo and that ascribed to Remigius are the same, or this copy is not 
 correctly ascribed to Remigius, for it differs entirely from Haymo’s in c. 3, 
 and with the printed edition there referred to. 
 
 21. The mirrour op symple soules. 
 
 4to. vellum, MS. well written in English. 
 
 A translation from the French with preface by Translator, who gives only 
 the following indication of himself : 
 
 Therefore at suclie places there me semeth moost nede, I wole write mo 
 wordis thereto in maner of glose, after my symple kunynge as me semeth is 
 best, and in these fewe places that I putte yn more than I fynde writen I 
 wole begynne with the firste letter of my name J4t, and end with this lettre 
 $, the furste of my surname. 
 
 In a MS. note in the beginning of the Volume, in a late hand writing, it is 
 ascribed to Roricus Witton. It is not very clear how the information above 
 given led to this supposition. 
 
 Of Roricus Witton, Pitseus, and after him Fabricius say nothing, but that 
 he was a Franciscan Monk, and his time uncertain. 
 
 It is in the Bodleian, 2676. Gated. MS. Angl. et Hib. 
 
 There is in French ‘ Le miroir de Fame.' Casleys Cat. of MS. in the 
 King’s Library, 16 E. V. 1. 
 
 This copy has “Liber Domus Carthusie ppe Londinias” (sic.). 
 
 22. Medulla Grammatices. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum and paper, principally the latter. T. C. S. With 
 date in the same writing as the MS. 1468. 
 
 It has the name £< William Jenour,” but this seems to be the name of the 
 owner. It is a Latin Dictionary ; the explanation of the words in Latin. 
 
 23. Quatuor Evangelia cum prologis Hieronymi ET CUM INDICE 
 
 EvANGELIORUM PER TOTUM ANNUM. 
 
IN TIIF. LIBRARY OP ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 31 
 
 Handsome, 4 to. MS. vellum, with gilt capitals. Gift of Sir Thomas 
 Bendish, 1639. 
 
 24. Biblia Latina Hieronymi — cum notis marginalibus. 
 
 'Thick folio, vellum, MS. well bound. 
 
 On the first leaf the name of ‘ Christopher Walton.' 
 
 25 . The life and revelations of St Catherine of Siena. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, double columns, English, well written. T. C. S. 
 
 St Catherine of Siena, a virgin of the Dominican order, was held in high 
 estimation for sanctity during her life, and after her death at Rome, 1380, 
 was canonized hy Pope Pius II. in 1461. She wrote in Italian, and her works 
 are published under this title, Opere della Serafica Santa Caterina dr Siena. 
 Siena, 1707. 4to. in 5 vols. Fabricius suspects these works to he forged 
 by one Fr. Raymundus de Vineis, Capuanus. Mansi however indignantly 
 repels the accusation, because Raymundus was Vir gravissimus qui tanta 
 impostures creandce impar haberi debeat. If Fabricius had no other ground 
 than suspicion to go upon, this may be deemed a sufficient answer. 
 
 (2) A FAMYLIER DIALOGE OF THE FFRENDE AND THE FFELOWE 
 UPPON THE LAMENTATION OF THE MYSERABLE CALAMYTE OF 
 FFRAUNCE. 
 
 (3) A dialogue beginning “The Auctour in the tentieth year 
 
 OF MY SORROUL EXYLE.” 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, well bound — all in English. 
 
 (1), (2) are in the same hand. (3) doubtful. 
 
 I cannot find any mention of any thing like this in the Cat. MS. Angl. et. 
 Hib. It appears in the first two parts, from a cursory examination, to relate 
 the state of France after the battle of Poictiers. See Hallam, Mid. Ages, c. 1. 
 part 1. 
 
 In (1) the interlocutors are The auctour, The Jcnyghte, The peple, The clergye. 
 (3) appears to be a religious dialogue ; the first part is between Understand, 
 ynge and Faythe, the second, between Understondynge and Hope. 
 
 “ Saint Hierome olde, without controulment, 
 
 “ Written in golde on vellem parchment. 
 
 “ Before the same sett out by Scripture 
 “ You woulde not ame at verse nor rhapture.” 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (1) S. Bernardi Epistola ad Aildredum Abbatem. 
 
 (2) Speculum charitatis — Aildredi, in 3 Books, containing 34, 
 26, 40 chapters. 
 
 (3) Mauri Episcopi Convivium Dei ad Lotharium Imper. 
 
 (2 pages.) 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 “ Liber Ste Marie de Bildewas.” 
 
 (1) is introductory to (2). 
 
 (2) has been edited among the works of S. Bernard. 
 
 Aildredus, or Adildredus, or Ealredus, was educated with prince Henry, son 
 of David, king of Scotland; in 1115 he became Abbot of Riedval or Rivaulx 
 in Yorkshire, according to Fabricius (see Tanner s Not. Mon. p. 255.), but 
 Cave says he was Abbot of Revesby, a Cistercian Abbey in Lincolnshire 
 ( Tanner , p. 123.). He died in 1166. 
 
 (3) This is no doubt Rabanus Maurus, whose ‘ Homilice’ are dedicated to 
 the Emperor Lotharius. I cannot find any mention of the present work. 
 
 Bildewas, an abbey of Cistercian Monks, dedicated to S. Mary and S. Chad, 
 in Shropshire, founded by Roger, bishop of Lichfield, 1135. Tanner s Notitia 
 Monastica, p. 189. 
 
 Fasciculus medicus, cujus partes sunt 11, viz. 
 
 (1) Riiasis Antidotarium. 
 
 (2) Rhasis liber divisionum. 
 
 (3) de Secta Medicorum: i. e. de Phlebotomia. 
 
 (4) Mega tegni Galeni. 
 
 (5) De Regimine acutorum. 
 
 (6) Galeni Diagnosticon. 
 
 (7) Liber Epidemiarum. 
 
 (8) Lucidarius Bertrandi Almagest. 
 
 (9) Liber Prognosticon. 
 
 (10) Signa Completionis. 
 
 (11) Regula: ad Sciendum cujus completionis sit medicamentum. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, in wood. T. C. S. “ Liber Sti Augustin. Cantuar.” 
 
 (1) Mutilus ad init. beginning with c. 65. 
 
 (3) and (5) I suspect are by Johannes Gattisden or Gaddesden, an English 
 medical writer in 1320. See Fabricius, Bibl. Med. et Inf. Latin. Lib. 9. 
 
 Fasciculus medicus, cujus partes sunt 6, viz. 
 
 (1) Index Morborum. La tine. 
 
 (2) Petrus de Salerno, in the Romance language, in verse. 
 
 (3) Compilatio Libri a z . de Alib. a Magistro Alexandro de Hales 
 Edita. Latine. 
 
 (4) Herbalarius Platearii. Latine. 
 
 (5) Muscio de Morbis Muliebris. Latine. Cum indice Theodori 
 Preciani. 
 
 (6) Liber Cleopatra; de Passionibus Mulierum. Latine. 
 
 Small folio, MS. vellum, ill written, double columns. T. C. S. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
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 John fie Mediolano published a book of medicine in the name of the 
 Physicians of Salerno, who presented it to Robert, duke of Normandy, when 
 he passed through that town on his return from the Holy Land. It contained 
 1239 Monkish verses, of which only 373 are extant. It was called Medicina 
 Salernitana, Regimen Sanitatis Salernitance, or Flos Medicines, now known as 
 Scola di Salerno, published in London by Dr Akerman, 1792, who has pre- 
 ceded it by a notice of the School of Medicine at Salerno. An anonymous 
 parody was published in 1651, of the poem, under, the title of “L’Eschole 
 de Salerne, eu vers burlesques.” See Cat. de M. Gaignat, 1175. The real 
 name of the author was Jean Cochart. 
 
 (2) may be a translation. In the history of the Fregosi at Genoa, I have 
 searched in vain for an explanation of the following inscription at the be- 
 ginning of this tract: 
 
 “ Incipit Antidotarius transpositus a latino in Romanuin ad instantiam 
 
 Margar. ffregisse, regine yspanie, de omnibus opinionibus magis- 
 
 trorum tunc Salerine commorantium.” 
 
 Yspanie is probably a flattery, as the union of the kingdoms was in the 
 15th century. 
 
 5. (l) Richard of Hampole — Pricke of Conscience. At the end, 
 
 (2) Articles concerning the city of London. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum, in a very illegible and dirty state. Well bound. 
 
 (1) See B. 7. 
 
 (2) The ‘Articles’ are a list of questions to be inquired into in the 
 different wards. There is no date, and they appear to contain nothing 
 of interest. 
 
 6. PSALTERIUM. 
 
 A Calendar with the signs of the Zodiac, painted — A Scholastic disputation 
 about computing feasts — The daily Office — Some illuminated pages which 
 represent the scenes of our Saviour’s life — Psalter with gloss. — Cantica — 
 Creeds — Litany. 
 
 4to. vellum. T. C. S. A handsome MS. well written and ornamented ; 
 wood binding. 
 
 7. SeRMONES, viz. DE AnNUNCLATIONE DE PuRIFICATIONE DE As- 
 
 SUMPTIONE DE NaTIVITATE * DE EXCELLENTIA B. VlRGINIS. 
 
 MS. duod 0 . well written, vellum, wood. T. C. S. 
 
 * Among the works of Eadmer, there is one mentioned with this title, 
 See A. 17. 1, (note.) 
 
 8. (l) BoNAVENTURA DE VITA fiT PASSIONE ChRISTI. 
 
 (2) Manfredi summula de Casibus. 
 
 (3) TrACTATUS DE FESTIS DE 7 PECCATIS. 
 
 (4) Carta Humana Redemptions — Metrice. 
 
 (5) De octo partibus Meditationis. 
 
 4to. MS. vellum. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) See B. 17. In the Secunda pars opusculorum Bonaventurse is pub- 
 lished the ‘ Meditationes de vita Domini nostri. J. C. 
 
 (2) I cannot find any notice of this author. 
 
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 (4) See a similar production in C. C. C. MS. Nasmith’s Cat. 63, (22). 
 
 (5) Most probably by Bonaventura. There is mentioned of him, Libellus 
 meditationum and de septem partibus meditationis. 
 
 9 . 
 
 (1) Bonaventura — Formula Novitiorum. 
 
 (2) Bernardus de diligendo Deo. 
 
 (3) Horologium Sapientias. 
 
 (4) Cursus de eterna Sapientia cum officiis. 
 
 (5) Extracta Bernardi super Cantica. 
 
 (6) Epistola Macharii quo modo homo potest esse perfectus 
 
 COGNOSCENDO SEIPSUM. 
 
 (7) JoHANNIS ErEMITA EXHORTATIO AD MONACHOS CONTRA JAC- 
 
 TANTIAM. 
 
 (8) Extracta compendiosa de vitis Patrum. 
 
 (9) Athanasius de Exhortatione monachorum. 
 
 (10) Tabula super Decreta. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, bound in old wood covers. T. C. S. 
 
 \ ( 1 ) consists of two parts, both published in Bonaventura’s works De In- 
 stitutione Novitiorum and De Profectu Religioso. 
 
 (2) ad Haymericum Cardinalem et Cancellarium ; Scriptum lectu dignum 
 inprimis et a Berengario, Abelardi discipulo, temere sugillatum. Fabricius. 
 
 Not the same as ‘ de amore Dei,’ which is by one William, Abbot of St 
 Theodoric, near Rheims. It is in Tom. 2, p. 590 of Mabilhn’s edition, see 
 below, G. 17. Oudin. Tom. 2. p. 1242. 
 
 (3) in two books, by Henricus Suso, ordinis Prsdicatorum, obiit Ulnne, 
 1365. (There is a misprint in Mansi’s Fabricius , viz. 1465.) The “Horo- 
 logium Sapientia' ” has been frequently published, and in different languages. 
 There is a French MS. (see Harl. MSS. 4386, by Johan de Soushaze) of it 
 in the Library of Geneva, see Senebier, p. 307, who there gives a description of 
 its contents. Pitseus claims for Richard of Hampole a work of the same 
 name, but I suspect it is the same as this. See Pitseus, p. 467. It was 
 printed in French, Paris, 1493. Maittaire Ann. Typ. p. 322. Vol. 1. It is 
 the foundation whence Caxton’s ‘ Boke of Divers Ghostly Matters’ was taken. 
 Dibdin, Vol. 1, p. 328. {Typ. Antiq.) See also Wartons Hist, of Eng. Poetry, 
 Vol. 2, p. 112. 
 
 (4) I suspect this to be by the Hermit of Hampole ; there is a tract with 
 the same title in Casley’s Cat. of the King’s Library, 8. A. 7. 3. “ Cursus de 
 eterna Sapientia sive, ut Baleus, Officium nominis Jesu, Lib. 1.” Perhaps, 
 however, it is wrongly ascribed to him as above. Cave mentions “ Officium 
 quotidianum de TEterna Sap.” among the works of Henricus Suso. 
 
 (5) St Bernard, Abbot of Clareval, wrote 86 Sermons of the first 3 chapters 
 of Canticles. See G. 17. 1. 
 
 (6) There is an epistle of one Macharius mentioned by Wharton in ann. 
 1420, as preserved in the library at Vienna in Greek, but he does not mention 
 its contents. There is a Latin writer of this name mentioned by Fabricius, 
 but no epistle is there mentioned. This may be a translation of the epistle 
 mentioned by Wharton. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 35 
 
 (7) is only 3 pages, it seems to be an extract from D. 26, 1, which see: 
 for the author, see D. 10. 
 
 (8) consists of exhortations to those professing a monastic life. 
 
 (9) not a genuine production of St Athanasius, according to Cave. It 
 exists in Latin only. Papebrochius in Actis Sanctorum Mali, Vol. 7, p. 546, 
 thought it genuine, hut Fabricius, Biblioth. Groeca, 5. 2, 6, considers it spuri- 
 ous. There is a copy in C. C. C. See Nasmith’s Cat. 36 (8). 
 
 (10) Montfaucon, de MSS. Vatican., mentions Tabula Super Decreta by 
 Petrus Bertrandus, who was Episcopus Nivernensis, et ab anno 1321 iEdu- 
 nensis sive Augustodunensis, et ab anno 1331 ad 1349, Cardinalis. Mansi, 
 Note on Fabricius, Lib. 2. 
 
 10. .Johannes Cassianus — sive Eremita — Collationes Patrum, 
 
 4to. vellum, MS. in good wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 Johannes Cassianus, genere Scytha ex Taurica Chersoneso oriundus. 
 Athenis natus est, quamvis Photius eum patria Romanum fuisse prodat. 
 Puer adhuc vitae monasticse studiis in rare Betlilehemitico nutritus est: 
 postea monachos nitrienses (?) invisit — Exinde Constantinopolin ingressus 
 a S. Johanne Chrysostomo diaconus ordinatur et in ecclesise CP altari deser- 
 viit: anno 404 in exilium misso S. Johanne, legatus a clero CP Johannis 
 partium studioso ad Innocentium papam missus est, una cum Germano pres- 
 bytero, ut Johannis causam ageret, et immani inimicorum ejus nequitia- 
 remedium ab occidentalibus episcopis impetraret. Roma- presbyteri digni- 
 tate ab Innocentio auctus est, post expugnatam a Gothis (410) Romam, et 
 deinde Massiliam se contulit ubi duo monasteria condidit, virorum unum, 
 mulierum alteram. Scribere orsus est ab anno 424 ; obiit vero 448, aetatis 
 97. Primum inter Semipelagianos sive Massilicnses locum obtinuit ; Pelagia- 
 norum tamen hostes accerrimus. 
 
 Collationes Patrum, numero. 24, quorum decern priores Leontio Episcopo 
 Forjuliensi et Helladio S. Castoris Abbati nuncupantur: septem qu:e sequun- 
 tur ad Honoratum (nondum Episcopum Aurelatensem) et Eucherium missee : 
 septem postremee Joviniano, Minervio, aliisque monachis inscriptae sunt. He 
 is called Eremita in the printed edition, Basil, 1497. Cave, H. L. 
 
 The 13th book was opposed by Prosper, and condemned by Pope Gelasius 
 and the Synod of Orange, 441 . . ( Arausicana Synodus. ) 
 
 11. Petrus Alphonsus adversus Jud^os. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum. Mutilus in fine. T. C. S. 
 
 Petrus Alphonsus, a Jew, born at Huesca in Spain, in 1062, who at the 
 age of 44 embraced Christianity. He then took the name of Alphonsus, 
 from Alphonso VI, King of Leon and Castile, who made him liis physician. 
 Having been accused by the Jews of ignorance of the religion he professed, 
 he composed this dialogue in 12 Books to confute the Jewish tenets. A 
 “ solid and learned performance,” though at times it contains strange and 
 feeble reasoning. Biogr. Univ. 
 
 “Liber iste est Sc. Arm. de Bello capite.” 
 
 There was a Priory of Premonstratensians at Beauchief in Derbyshire, 
 founded by one of the murderers of St Thomas a Becket, to whom it was 
 dedicated. I can find no other English house to which this could refer in 
 Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. 
 
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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
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 12. Statu Thebais. Lib. 12. 
 
 Glossa super Priscianum. 
 
 Comment, in libr. Sophisticorum Elenchorum. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, old and damaged, but now well bound. Mutilus 
 in fine. T. C. S. 
 
 13. (l) IsiDORUS DE SUMMO BONO. Lib. 3. 
 
 (2) SUMMA PIENITENTI^E. 
 
 (3) CONSTITUTIONES IloBERTI ET WaLTERI, CaNTUAR. ArCHIEP. 
 
 (4.) JoiIANNIS DE STRATFORD, id. 
 
 (5) Othonis. 
 
 (6 ) Ottoboni. 
 
 (7) Extravagantes JoiIANNIS XXII papa;. 
 
 (8) CONSTITUTIONES JoiIANNIS PeCKIIAM CANT. ARCH. 
 
 (9) . Stephani de Langton id. 
 
 (10) Benedicti XII. Bulla de animarum visione. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, in double columns — different writings. 
 
 (1) Isidorus Junior, see B. 20, “de summo bono sive Sententiarum, 
 Lib. 3, ex Gregorii Paps moralibus fere excerpti.” “Eos notis illustratos 
 edidit Garcias Loyasa, Taurini, 1593.” Cave, H. L. 
 
 (2) This is not the treatise of the same name ascribed to Rob. Grostete. 
 The title is not uncommon. 
 
 (3) Robert Winchelsey, Archbishop, 1293, and Walter Reynolds, Arch- 
 bishop, 1313. The former held a Synod at London in 1296, the latter at 
 Westminster in 1316. 
 
 (4) Archbishop in 1333. He held a Synod in 1341, at which these consti- 
 tutions were framed. See Spelman, Cone. Brit. Tom. 2, p. 550. 
 
 (5) Otho, a French Cistercian monk ; was a Bishop and Cardinal, and 
 Legate of the Pope in France and England between 1244 and 1273, says 
 Fabricius, but it was in 1226 and 1237 that he held a Synod at London. 
 See Wilkins Cone. Brit. Tom. 1, pp. 620, 647 and 679; the principal articles 
 are given in Collier s Eccles. Hist. 
 
 (6) Ottobonus, afterwards Pope by the name of Adrian V. See Bioyr. 
 Univers. He was Legate in England. These constitutions were confirmed 
 in two Synods at Lambeth in 1280 and 1281, under John Peckham. See 
 Spelman, Vol. 2, pp. 327, 328. Ottobon was Legate in 1267. See Collier. 
 The principal articles arc given by him. 
 
 (7) Cave in Johan. XXII. says, ‘ Constitutiones Apostolic* XX quas 
 extravagantes apellari voluit. 1st* quidem nec ab ipso Johanne nec ab ullo 
 alio pontifice vulgats aut probat* sunt, sed privata auctoritate collects cir- 
 citer 1340.’ John XXII. taught that “ animas defunctorum fidelium ad bea- 
 tam visionem Dei ante resurrectionem non admitti.” The Sorbonne im- 
 mediately condemned the doctrine. 
 
 (8) John Beckham, Archbishop from 1278 to 1293. These constitutions 
 forbad the cup to be administered to the Laity. Yet so late as 1287, we 
 find the Bishop of Exeter refusing compliance. See Collier. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN S COLLEGE. 
 
 37 
 
 (9) Stephen Langton, Archbishop from 1206 to 1229. Wilkins, Vol. 1, 
 p. 585. These constitutions were agreed upon in a Synod at Oxford, 1222. 
 
 (10) This Bull condemned the opinion of John XXII. It came out in 
 1336. At the end is written: 
 
 “ Hanc bullam citat Bellarminus de re Pontifica in defensionem Papa- 
 Johann. XXII. et exstat apud Matthseum inter constitutiones Paparum ; at 
 vero in multis discrepat ilia impressa ab hac manuscripta. Caveat igitur 
 hac in re prudens et cordatus lector a pontificiorum praestigiis et astutiis. 
 Hoc ego attestor Gul. Crashawe, 1613.” 
 
 14. Epistol,® Sti Pauli, cum glossa. 
 
 Folio, MS. vellum, 3 columns, with preface; a handsome volume. 
 
 “Liber de Claustro Roffensi.” “Alex. Prioris Ep. Pauli.” 
 
 The Alexander mentioned was probably Alexander de Glanvil, the only 
 Prior of that name. “Electus 1242, ob*. subito 1252.” Wharton’s Anglia Sacra, 
 Pars 1, p. 393. It was originally a monastery for Secular Priests, founded by 
 king Ethelbert in 602 to the honor of St Andrew. In 1089, Bishop Gundulf 
 introduced Regulars, but in King Henry VIII. ’s time they were removed 
 for the Cathedral of the New Foundation. Tanner’s Not. Mon. pp. 95, 6. 
 
 15. (l) Liber Pastoralis Regul^e beati Gregorii Pap,e. 
 
 Rythmi in laudem Christi et Peat ae Virginis. 
 
 (2) Vita B. Mari.® tEgyptiacje. Metrice. 
 
 H YMNUS IN IIONOREM B. VlRGINIS. 
 
 Hymnus — containing a Summary of Christian Faith. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, well written, in old wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) Pope Gregory the Great wrote this tract in the beginning of his 
 Pontificate, i.e. about 590. It was paraphrased in the Saxon language by 
 Alfred, according to Wanley, Lib. Vet. Septent. Cat. p. 71. Cave, II. L. 
 
 (2) This was first written in Greek by Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, 
 629. It was first translated into Latin by Paulus Diaconus. I suspect the 
 present metrical version is by Hildebertus de Lavardino, a disciple of Beren- 
 garius, in the 11th century, and Archbishop of Tours. K. 23. 
 
 16. Quintiliani Institutiones oratorum. 
 
 Robertus Lincoln, de oculo morali, 
 
 MS. small Ito. vellum, wood binding. “ Ex dono Gul. Beale, Col- 
 legii Magistr. 11 
 
 (1) Mutilus ad init. — in a very small but distinct character. 
 
 (2) In a different writing and inferior condition; mentioned by Pitseus as 
 
 in the Libraries of New College, Merton and Magdalen, Oxon. and Pem- 
 broke Hall, Cambridge. Whether or not this be the same as the work 
 mentioned by the Cat. MS. of Catharine Hall, I cannot tell. It is here 
 ascribed to Robertus; there Professor Corrie has given it to William of 
 Lincoln. See Camb. Antiq. Soc. No. 1, p. 7. Oudin, Tom. 3, p. 150, men- 
 tions a short treatise with this title among the works of Grostete, as in 
 the Library at W estminster. I cannot find Gulielmus Lincoln in Oudin. 
 
 Tanner, in his Biblioth. does not mention this among his works, but he does 
 among those of Rob. Lincoln. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 17. Epistol^i Sti Pauli, cum gloss. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, bound in wood. “D.D. Jeremiah Holt.'” As in 
 D. 14, it is in 3 columns. 
 
 18. (l) Prima pars oculi sacerdotis. 
 
 (2) Dextra pars, ejusdem. 
 
 (S’) Sinistra pars, ejusdem. 
 
 (4) Constitutiones Gul. de Grenfield, Ebor. Arch. 1300, Pon- 
 tificates anno l m0 . 
 
 (5) Constitutiones Othonis, 1237. 
 
 (6) Ottoboni, 1268. 
 
 Old vellum, MS. 4to. double columns, well written. “Ex dono Thos. 
 Hutton, Nov. 14, 1638.” 
 
 (1) (2) (3) Oculus Sacerdotis. There are two persons mentioned as 
 authors of works having this name, viz. Gulielmus de Pagula, or Paghamus, 
 and Gualterus Parcherm. 
 
 Gulielmus de Pagula, was Vicar of Winfield, near Windsor, about 1350. 
 He is mentioned by Boston de Bury with commendation. Oudin, Tom. 3, 
 p. 807, says, Oculus Sacerdotis in plurimis Anglise Bibliothecis absque authoris 
 nomine (as in this case) reperitur. He mentions the work being sometimes 
 ascribed to Parker, and thinks them the same person. Before meeting this 
 authority, I had concluded the same from the uncertain way in which 
 Pitseus and Fabricius speak of Parker. See also Tanners Biblioth. p. 570. 
 
 In Casley’s Catalogue of the King’s Library, it occurs three times, 6. E. 1. 1, 
 where it is ascribed to Parker, and 8. B. 15. 1, and 8. C. 2, 1, where it is 
 given to Gul. de Pagula. 
 
 (4) “William Greensfield was Lord Chancellor under King Edward I.; 
 consecrated at Lyons by Pope Clement V. in 1305. He was joined in com- 
 mission with Baldok, Bishop of London, to examine into the charges against 
 the Templars. He was so convinced of their innocence, that on the dis- 
 solution of their houses, he provided for a great many. He died in 1315.” 
 Collier. The accusations against the Templars may certainly be considered 
 as one of the greatest frauds of the middle ages, whatever conclusions we 
 may form on the necessity of suppressing the order from political reasons. 
 See Addison’s History of Knights Templars. 
 
 (5) (6) See D. 13. 
 
 19. Ivo Carnotensis. 
 
 (1) De saoramentis neophitorum. 
 
 (2) De excellentia sacrorum ordinum et de vita ordinandorum. 
 
 (3) De significations sacerdotalium indumentorum. 
 
 (4) De saoramentis dedicationis. 
 
 (5) Quid significat descriptio alphabeti. 
 
 (G) De convenientia veteris et novi sacerdotii. 
 
 (7) Quare Deus natus et passus sit. 
 
 (8) De Adventu Domini. 
 
 (9) De nativitate Domini. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, beautifully written, bound in wood. “ D. D. 
 J. Holt.” 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 39 
 
 “ Baldewinus fieri fecit hunc librum. Siquis eum ab ecclesia Sti Edmundi 
 abstulerit, excommunicatus est.” (Sic.) 
 
 Ivo, a Frenchman, and disciple of Lanfranc, while the latter was Prior 
 of Bee, afterwards Abbot of St Quentin, at Beauvais, and in 1092 Bishop 
 of Chartres; obiit 1115. He denied the power of the Pope to excommunicate 
 any person whatever without assigning cause. These tracts are Sermons 
 from the Book entitled “ De Ecclesiasticis Sacramentis et officiis et preecipuis 
 per annum festis Sermones, 24,” except (5), of which I can find no mention. 
 
 S. Edmundi Ecclesia. See Dugdale’s Monasticon, Vol. 1, p. 300. 
 
 (1) Januensis compendium. 
 
 (2) De oratione Dominica — de die Dominica — de Articulis 
 Fidei de Sacramentis. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum. T. C. S. 
 
 To folio 143 is in a clear well written hand. The writing then changes 
 for 24 more folios, and the treatise (1) ends abruptly. Then follows a 
 fragment of a Sermon, in English, with this title, 
 
 “ Thys will sue on the Sonday after Trinite Sonday, or ellys on the Sonday 
 before Ashe Wednesday or in Sexagesimal 
 
 Then follow (2) in a different hand. 
 
 (1) In hand writing of W. Crashawe. “Quere an hie sit Antonius 
 Januensis qui librum scripsit quern praenotavit — Compendium figurarum 
 moralium.” 
 
 This Antonius Januensis was ‘ ordinis Fratrum Eremitarum Sti Augustini.’ 
 He flourished in 1418, and was present at the Council of Constance. See 
 Trithemius. Fabricius, Bibl. M. and I. L. Lib. 1. 
 
 Wharton calls him Antonius Rampelogus, and gives a different name to 
 his book. See infra, E. 7. 
 
 Hymtji per annum cum notis musicis. 
 
 Instructio de Festis et Jejuniis. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, bound in wood. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) Valerius Maximus — de Gestis Antiquorum. 
 
 (2) Solinus de Mirabilibus mundi, Lib. 6. 
 
 (3) Frontini Stratagemata, Lib. 4. 
 
 (4) Polyhistori deflorationes auctorum Latinorum. 
 
 (5) Liber Falconing Probag — uxoris Probi consulis. Metrice. 
 
 (6) Flores Auctorum Latinorum. 
 
 (7) Extracts from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in Latin. 
 
 (8) Index in Valerium. 
 
 MSS. 4to. vellum, well bound — a thick volume containing 302 folios. 
 
 (4) 1 suppose this is a work of Solinus, as Fabricius mentions one of 
 his by tlois name. Biblioth. Latina, Vol. 1, p. 414. Hamburg, ed. 1721. 
 
 (5) Anicia Falconia Proba, uxor Anicii Probi praetoris praefecti, non 
 Adelphi pro-consulis, ut habet Isidorus Ilispalensis. Claruit, anno 371. 
 She is highly praised by St Jerome, Ep. 8. On the invasion of Italy by 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Alaric, she fled to Africa, where she became acquainted with St Augustine, 
 who addressed to her the tract ‘ dc Videndo Deum,’ and Ep. 179. Exstat 
 (says Cave) ab ea, Cento Virgilianus de rebus divinis. 
 
 23. (l) Orosii historiarum Lib. 7. 
 
 (2) Alexandri Epistola ad Aristotelem. 
 
 Folio, MS. vellum, wood binding, handsome with illuminated capitals. 
 T.C. S. 
 
 (1) Orosius, a Spaniard, presbyter of Tarracona, cl. 416. In 413 
 he was sent on an embassy to St Augustine by two Spanish bishops, in 
 415. He went to St Hierome, in Palestine, where in the Council of Jeru- 
 salem he exposed the Pelagian errors. Tiie object of this history is to shew 
 by enumerating the calamities that befel Pagan Rome — that the calumnies 
 of the Pagans were false — for they attributed the seizure of Rome by the 
 Goths to the provocation of the Gods at the spreading of Christianity. 
 Gibbon sneers at him every now and then in his notes. His book was 
 translated into Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred, and is quoted by Sir David 
 Lyndesay, Signat. F. ii. 
 
 (2) See Aldus Gellius, Noct. Att. xx. v, and Fabricius in Biblioth. Gram, 
 2, 10, 17. 
 
 24. Fasciculus Medicus, cujus partes sunt, ut infra. 
 
 (1) ASgIDIUS versus de urinis cum comment. Gilberti. 
 
 (2) IsAGOGE J OHANNICII AD TeGN. GaLENI. 
 
 (3) Tegni Galeni. 
 
 (4) Philaretus de pulsibus. 
 
 (5) Hippocrates Amphorismata (Sic). 
 
 (6) Hippocratis Prognostica. 
 
 (7) Theophilus de Urinis. 
 
 (8) Tractatus de Libro Animalium. 
 
 (9) Isaac de Urinis. 
 
 (10) Hippocratis Amphorismata. 
 
 (11) Constantini Viaticus. 
 
 (12) Isaac diet.® universales. 
 
 (13) ID. ID. PARTICULARES. 
 
 (14) ID. DE FEBRIBUS. 
 
 (15) De Urinis signific antibus mortem. 
 
 (16) Tractatus de Effectibus qualitatum. 
 
 (17) Conferenti.®. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum. T. 0. S. “ De Librario St Augustin. Cantuar.” 
 
 The table of contents is copied from one in an ancient hand writing at 
 the commencement. 
 
 25. Rhetoric a Tullii. 
 
 Roberti Lincoln, qu^estiones in libh. posterior, sententiarum. 
 
 W alter de Burley super lib. Porphyrii pr,edicator. et peri 
 
 ERMENIAS (irep'i epyt]velas.') 
 
 NoBILIA QUA3DAM SUPER LIB. POSTERIOR. SENTENT. 
 
 Q,UA?STIONES DE MOTU. 
 
 DlSPUTATIONES et Questiones. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 41 
 
 FrATER ^EgIDIUS SUPER LIBR. PRvEDICAMENTORUM. 
 
 Nobilia in librum Porphyrii id. 
 
 In librum phisicorum Aristotelis. 
 
 Tractatus de ‘scire’ et ‘dubitare.’ 
 
 Magistri R. de Shierwood Insolubilia. 
 
 QuESTIONES NOBILES DE UNI VERS ALI BUS. 
 
 Dubitationes super librum posterior em (sc. Sententiarum) . 
 
 QuESTIONES MULTR3 SUPER LIBR. ElENCHORUM ET AlIA EJUSD. 
 
 FARRAGINIS. 
 
 4to. well bound, vellum. 
 
 A most unintelligible MS. The list above given is copied from an old 
 one, as in D. 24. 
 
 “Liber Monast. Ste Marie de Swynesliead in Hoyland.” 
 
 Swynesliead, an Abbey of Cistercian Monks in that part of Lincolnshire, 
 called Holland. It was founded by Robert de Gresley, 1134, and dedicated 
 to St Mary. Tanners Not. Mon. p. 119. 
 
 Walter de Burley, an English Priest, cl. 1337, of Merton College, Oxon. 
 He was for a time the fellow disciple of William Occam under Johannes 
 Scotus, but he afterwards vigorously opposed his master. Pitseus, who men- 
 tions (3) (4) and others of the same kind. 
 
 Robertas de Shirewoode, born at Coventry, a Doctor of Divinity of Oxford. 
 He taught theology at Louvain, and Greek and Hebrew literature. He 
 flourished in 1530. Pitseus, who mentions two of his works, but not this. 
 
 (1) CaSSIANUS DE SpIRITU SuPERBIyE. 
 
 (2) Passio Sanctorum Martyrum Sergii et Bachi. 
 
 (3) Rincmari Remensis Vita S. Remigii Francorum Apost. 
 CUM PrvEF. et Hymno. 
 
 (4) Vita S. Gregorii Nazianzeni. 
 
 (5) Vita S. Mauritii presbyteri. 
 
 (6) Versus in iionorem S. Felice. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well bound, well written. (4) has been bound up 
 in the middle of (3). 
 
 (1) It is the 12th Book of Johannes Eremita (D. 10) de Coenobiorum 
 Institute. 
 
 (2) Probably from Symeoti Metaphrastes on 7 Oct. as in Cave, H. E. 
 Vol. 2, p. 89. 
 
 (3) Rincmar or Hincmar, a man of noble descent in France, became 
 Archbishop of Rheims 845. From Cave’s sketch of him he appears to have 
 led a very busy life. He died in 882, during an invasion of the Normans. 
 Flodoardus mentions his having written the life of his predecessor St Remi- 
 gius. Flod. Hist. Rem. Cave, H. E. 
 
 (4) St Gregory Nazianzen wrote some Iambic autobiographical verses. 
 See Fabricius, Biblioth. Grceca, Tom. V. § 13. Gregorius Presbyter also 
 wrote a life of him. 
 
 6 
 
42 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (6) Perhaps by Gregorius Turonensis. It was transcribed, as an inscrip- 
 tion says, by Archanaldus, a deacon of the church of St Martin, at Tours, 
 by order of the Bishop, Raino. See Fabricius, B. Med. et Inf. Lat. Lib. 
 XVII. p. 47; Lib. VII. p. 105. Raino was Bishop in the 10th century. 
 
 28. OoNSUETUDIN ARIU M MoNASTERII B. MaRIE, EbOR. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum. “ D. D. Thos. Hutton.” The name of Bar- 
 nard is scribbled in different parts of the volume. 
 
 Alan, Earl of Richmond, 1088, built a stately abbey at York for black 
 monks to the honor of St Olave, but it was afterwards dedicated to the 
 Blessed Virgin by command of King William Rufus. Tanner’s Notitia 
 Monastica. Mr Baker, in his copy of Tanner, has referred to this MS. 
 
 29. Stephani de Patrington Repertorium. 
 
 ScHOLASTICA ExERCITIA, OxON. 
 
 4 to. MS. paper, well bound. 
 
 Stephen Patrington, a D.D. of Oxford, was Provincial Master of the 
 Carmelites for 15 years. Leland describes his eloquence such as to draw 
 ‘ incredibilis ad eum audiendum concursus.’ He was confessor to the King 
 and Queen; Bishop of St David’s 1414, died 1417. Pitseus. 
 
 E. 
 
 * 
 
 1. Expositio vocabulorum Bibli^: vel Dictionarium Biblicum. 
 
 MS. 1 2mo. vellum, well written. T. 0. S. 
 
 2. (l) De septem climatibus expositio. Lat. 
 
 (2) Of the Astrolabe and its uses. Angl. 
 
 MS. 1 2mo. vellum. T. 0. S. In an old parchment cover. 
 
 (2) Perhaps a translation of Bede’s work with the same name. 
 
 3. (l) STATUTA CURIA;! CANCELLAR. RoBERTI, ArCH. OaNT. 
 
 Modus introducendi negotium in tutoriis. 
 
 (2) Statuta curias de arcubus Johannis Arch. Cant. 
 
 Indices in Constitutiones Otiionis et Ottoboni. 
 
 (3) Constitutiones Othonis. 
 
 Ottoboni. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, in old wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) I suppose this to be Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop, 1272 — 1278. He 
 then was promoted to the Cardinalate, and went to Rome. Collier mentions 
 that he composed Statutes for the Court of Arches. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 43 
 
 (2) John Peckham, most probably, by the company in which he appears, 
 though Collier and Pitseus mention no such statutes by him. John de Strat- 
 ford, however, in 1333 — 1348, who was a great proficient in Civil Law, may 
 be the author. 
 
 (3) See D. 13. 
 
 4. (l) S. Augustinus — de Sermone Domini in monte. 
 
 Miscellanea qujjdam Tiieologica. A few pages only. 
 Vocabularium juris. 
 
 (2) Symachi (sic) EpisTOLyE aliquot “usque ad 28, libri primi.” 
 
 (3) Petrus Alphonsus adv. Jud^jos. 
 
 Plato. Apparently some Latin Extracts, translated. Only a 
 few pages. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) A genuine work of St Augustine. In Part 2, Vol. 3 of Benedictine 
 Edition. St Augustine wrote it about 393. 
 
 (2) Symmachus, Bishop of Rome 498, died in 514. “ Extant ab eo Scrip- 
 ts Epistolae 12. Concil. Tom. 4, p. 1291. apud Dacherii Spicilegium, Tom. 5, 
 p. 583.” Cave, H. E. Fabricius mentions several others. The words in 
 inverted commas are in the hand writing of W. Crashawe. 
 
 (3) See D. 11. 
 
 ■5. Summa vocata dextra et sinistra partes oculi sacerdotis. 
 
 MS. 12mo. vellum. T. 0. S. 
 
 See D. 18. 
 
 (i. The common place book of Thomas Betson de Spon, containing 
 
 Decretum abbreviatum. 
 
 Casus Papales. 
 
 EpITAPHIA QUA4DAM. 
 
 De officio vicarii. 
 
 (1) Bonifacius be regulis et casibus juris. 
 
 Fragmenta medica, Angl. et Lat. 
 
 Protocolum de libris S. Clementis et decretalium. 
 
 MS. very small 4to. paper and vellum, old binding. T. 0. S. 
 
 (1) This is Boniface VIII, Pope from 1294 to 1303. “Praeterea Ludo- 
 vicus a S. Carolo memorat ejus (sc. Bonifacii VIII.), p. 32, de regulis juris." 
 Fabricius in Lib. 2. B. M. et I. L. 
 
 7. Figure Biblijs, a common place book of references to Holy Scripture 
 on various subjects. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper, old vellum binding. T. 0. S. 
 
 Antonius Rampelogus natione Italus, Genuensis, ord. Eremitarum Sti Au- 
 gustini frater, S. T. D. disputavit in concilio Constantiensi adv. Hussitas, 1418. 
 Scripsit ad juvenes ordinis sui in ccenobis Neapolitano studentes. Super 
 varios V. T. locos opuseulum quod Figuras Biblice inscripsit ‘ rudo et trito 
 Eloquio Scriptum’ refert Sixtus Senensis Bibl. Sanct. Lib. 4, p. 198, in quo 
 
 6—2 
 
44 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 sacras historias exponens singulas ad morales virtutes accommodavit. It hais 
 been often published. Robertus Gerius, Addenda to Cave, H. L. man. 1418. 
 
 8. (l) Excerptiones de diversis librorum voluminibus, (Theolo- 
 
 gical.) 
 
 (2) Lotharius sive Innocentius III. de miseria humana, Lib. 3. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written. T. 0. S. 
 
 (2) Lotharius or Innocentius III. became pontiff in 1198, at the age of 87 : 
 he died in 1216. This book is called f de contemtu mundi sive de miseria 
 humana.’ It has been often published, and is addressed to Peter, Cardinal of 
 Oporto. See Labbceus, Vol. 1, p. 508. 
 
 9. (l) Compendium Tiieologicje veritatis, Lib. 7, cum tabula. 
 
 (2) Distinctiones Magistri Nich, Gorani. 
 
 MS. 8vo. vellum, thick vol. T. C. S. “ De comi (communi) librar. 
 mnchrum Dv/nelm 
 
 There is an account of this ancient Library in one of the Publications 
 of the Surtees Society. 
 
 (1) It is the same as that attributed to JEgidius Romanus, B. 2. 
 
 (2) Pitseus makes Nicholas Goranus or Gorliamus, an Englishman; but 
 says Fabricius, non Anglus, nec Belga, sed Gallus, a loco natalitio in con- 
 finibus Cenomanensium et Aremoricorum, nuncupates. Ordinis Prsedica- 
 torum, et Theologize Magister, Parisiis, ubi diu docuit et conventui S. Jacobi 
 Prior Praefuit, obiitque ann. 1295. Wharton places him, with Pitseus, a cen- 
 tury later, and considers him an Englishman, of St Alban’s. It appears that 
 these “distinctiones” have never been published. 
 
 10. (l) Speculum Juniorum. 
 
 (2) S. Bernardi Sermo de quadruplici debito. 
 
 (3) De Horologio Aciiaz. 
 
 (4) De Sacramentis. 
 
 (5) Tabula denotans qu^e sententia quovis die legatur. 
 
 (6) Regula Sti Benedicti. 
 
 (7) S. Bernardi Epistola ad Abbatem Columbensem. 
 
 MS. 12mo. vellum, well written. T. C. S. “Robertus de Flaneyn.” 
 
 (2) Sermon 22, Torn. 3, p. 1127, Benedictine edition. It is addressed to 
 the Monks of Clarevall, Four reasons why their lives are due to God. He 
 tells them that he had had certain signs that the souls of the dead at Clarevall 
 had flown to heaven. With this exception (viz. his pretension to a super- 
 natural revelation) the Sermon seems a very admirable one. 
 
 (6) In Fabricius, Lib. 1, in voce ‘ S. Benedictus’ is given an account of 
 this Regula. It is published in the Bibliotheca Patruni, Colon. Vol. 1, p. 706, 
 and in 2 d Lugdun. Vol. 9, p. 655. It was translated into English by Bishop 
 Fox (of Durham), published in 1516. 
 
 (7) I cannot find any such Epistle as this among the published works of 
 St Bernard. See Index to Mabillons Edition. 
 
 11. Psalterium vetus Latinum, nec tamen vulgatse translationis. 
 
 A handsome MS. 8vo. vellum. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 45 
 
 (1) Expositio Epistol^e Valerii ad Rufinum de dissuasione 
 
 NUPTIARUM. 
 
 (2) Tractatus contra malos religiosos. 
 
 (3) PlLILOBIBLON DOMINI RlC. DE AnGUILE COGN. DE BuRY, EpISC. 
 Du NELM. 
 
 (4) Gul. de Occiiam flisputatio inter railitem et clericum de potes- 
 tate commissa prelatis ecclesiasticis et principibus terrarum. 
 
 (5) Euchiridion Magistri Alani de Planctu naturae. 
 
 ( 6 ) Tractatus de moribus regalibus — id. de maximis, cum Com- 
 ment. 
 
 (7) Prologus Alani de Planctu naturae. 
 
 (8) Senecas proverbia aliquot — alphabetice — a diversis libris ejus. 
 
 (9) ...... liber de copia verborum — sive de 4 virtutibus, quae 
 
 dicitur formula vivendi — ad Paulum. 
 
 (10) Seneca tres Epistol^: ad Lucillum, viz. Ep. 2, 76, 77. 
 
 8vo. MS. vellum, well written. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) I can find no notice of tliis in the accounts (in Fabricius and Cave) of 
 Ruffinus Aquiliensis, nor under any other. In Fabricius, B. L. sub Valerio 
 Maximo, ad finem. Dissuasio ad Ruffinum ne ducat uxorem sub nescio cujus 
 Valerii nomine Scripta, legiter inter Opera S. Hieronymi, Tom. 5. Ed. Johannis 
 Marciancei, p. 337. Le/and, de S. B. pp. 307, 327, mentions Commentaries 
 on it. Among others who so wrote were Nicolas Trivet, 1328, and John 
 Rideval, 1330. Gunton, Hist, of Peterburgh Cathedral. 
 
 (3) Richard de Angerville or Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham and 
 Chancellor to King Edw. Ill, died in 1354. Hie cum Oxonioe bibliothecam 
 fundasset, librum de amore librorum et institutione illius Bibliotheca' a Ro- 
 berto Holkot conscribi fecit, inscripsitque Philobiblion, illique Epistolam an. 
 1344, suo nomine praefixit, unde libellus iste etiam sub Ricardi nomine 
 prodiit saepe numero ut Spirae, 1483. Paris. 1503, &c. Morhofio judice, Pliilo- 
 biblion, etsi dictio genium istorum temporum sapit, tamen eleganter Scrip- 
 turn est, ac multa proponit rei Bibliothecariae arcana. At the end of the MSS. 
 (and in this one also) is written, Explicit Philobiblon domini Ricardi de 
 Augerville, cognominati de Bury quondam Episc. Dunelm. Completus est 
 tractatus iste in manerio nostro de Auklande, 24 Jan. a.d. 1344, tetatis nostri 
 58. Pontificatus II.” Fabricius, B. 3. 
 
 He was also Dean of Wells, and Tutor to the Black Prince. 
 
 (4) William of Occharn, the Venerabilis inceptor and Doctor Singulars et 
 Invincibilis of the Schoolmen, was famous about 1330. He violently opposed 
 John XXII. in the matter mentioned D. 13, hut was protected by Lewis of 
 of Bavaria; he died in 1347. Fabricius. 
 
 (5) Alanus de Insulis, a Fleming, the Doctor Universalis of the Schools, 
 ‘theologus Parisiensis ejusque academia; moderator. Tandem ordinis Cistern 
 ciensis Conversus seu frater laicus factus est, A. 1215,’ and died 1294- 
 ‘Librum de planctu natura; contra Sodomia; vitium,’ edidit Leyserus Hist. 
 Poematum medii JEvi, p. 1012, &c. 
 
 (8) Qua; in Editionibus antiquis feruntur sub titulo, proverbiorum Senecas 
 parum differunt a P. Syri Sententiis. Fabricius, B, L. 
 
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 (9) This is mentioned thus by Fabricius, Bibl. Lat. In iisdem Epistolis 
 (i. e. in the Epistles of Pseudo Seneca to St Paul,) Pseudo Seneca ait se ad 
 Paulum inittere librum de copia verborum, et Thomasinus de Bibliothecis 
 Fatavinis, p. 58, testatur in Bibl. Monasterii S. Antonii urbis Patavinae extare 
 inanu Exaratum, L. Anneei Seneeae Cordubensis Stoici discipuli librum de 
 copia verborum ad Paulum. Nugee, Nugae, inquit Nic. Antonius haec narrans 
 T. 1. Bibl. Vet. Hispan. 1. 8, p. 81. 
 
 13. A CALENDER OF PISTLIS Yt BE RAD I YE CHURCH. 
 
 Epistles of St Paul — Dedis of the Apostlis — James — Petre 
 1, 2. — Joon. 1, 2, 3. — Judas — Apocalips of Joon. — with Pro- 
 logues. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, beautifully written. “ Ex dono Oliv. Dand. 
 Coll. Soc. 1635.” 
 
 14. Psalms in English — Canticles, from Is. 12; Is. 38; 2 Kings 1; 
 
 Exod. 15; Hab. 3; Deut. 32. Song of 3 children, in an abbre- 
 viated form. Te Deum — Magnificat — Benedictus — Nunc Di- 
 mittis — Athanasian Creed, with comment, on each article. 
 Proverbs — Ecclesiastes — Canticles — Wisdom — Ecclesiasti- 
 cus. 
 
 MS. very small size, vellum, beautifully written. “ Ex dono Edw. 
 Powell, hujus Collegii grsemialis.” 
 
 Seems to have been a book of private devotion. There is a prayer and 
 some reflections at the end in a later hand writing. 
 
 15. PsALTERIUM CUM CaNTICIS. 
 
 MS. small as before, vellum, beautifully written and illuminated. 
 “ D. D. W. Beale.” 
 
 The part of the Litany containing the invocations of Saints has been 
 scratched out with a furious pen. 
 
 16. Instructiones ad monachos, viz. 
 
 De octo omamentis Monachorum. De 3 temptationibus Monachorum. De 
 Milite Spirituali. De armis Ejus et Equo. De Divitibus. De Monachis. 
 De Corpore Christi. Homilia Eusebii Episcopi. De tribus habitaculis : Cselo, 
 Mundo et inferno. 
 
 Sermones diversi Eusebii, Gregorii, Isidori, aliisque. 
 
 MS. small size, vellum, wood binding. 
 
 Seems to be a sort of common-place book of Theology for a Monk. The 
 ‘Sermones’ are by far the largest portion of the book. 
 
 17. (l) Tractatus de conscientia et Fama. 
 
 (2) Petri Lombardi Sententiarum Libri 4. 
 
 (3) De duobus Tabernaculis. 
 
 (4) Celebratio Miss.® in commem. Passionis Christi. 
 
 (5) Animadversiones qUjEdam Tiieologic^:. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 47 
 
 (6) Sermones super Epistolas Dominicales. 
 
 (7) De Animas Essentiam, ejusque potentiis. 
 
 (8) Seneca de Remediis Fortuitorum. 
 
 (9) de Beneficiis. 
 
 (10) Boecius de disciplina Scolarum. 
 
 (11) De statu magistricii. 
 
 (12) Tullius de Amicitia. 
 
 (13) de Senectute. 
 
 (14) Tractatus plurimi philosophici. 
 
 (15) Numerus Capitulorum Biblia3. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, in different hands. “ Ex dono Mri Gent,'” 
 at B. 15. 
 
 (1) These pages merely serve as a cover to the other parts, when the 
 MS. was unbound. Petrus Cellensis (see infra) also wrote £ de Conscientia.’ 
 
 (2) See B. 11. 
 
 (3) This may be an extract from Petrus Cellensis : “ Mosayci tabernaculi 
 mystic* Expositionis, libri 2.” See in Biblioth. Patrum, Tom. 23, p. 636, 
 et seep See Care, H. L. Vol. 2, p, 248. 
 
 (9) A genuine work, in 7 books, ad TEbucium Liberalem Lugdunensem ; 
 cujus mentio fit, Ep. 91. Videtur illud opus respicere Seneca, Ep. 81. 
 
 (10) Hunc librum, Boethii nomine, quod prse se fert, maxime indignum, 
 a Dionysio Rikelio Carthusiano qui ob. 1471, scriptum esse prodit Labbceus. 
 Cave, H . L. But Fabricius says Labbceus is wrong, and after mentioning other 
 conjectures, approves of the one fixed on by Thomasius, who gives it to 
 Thomas Brabantinus, or Cantipratanus, qui A. 12.50. I find, however, that 
 tliis differs from the Venice Ed. 1491, and the Basil. Ed. 1570; it is much 
 shorter. 
 
 (11) This is the third Book de disciplina scolarum. The same remark 
 applies to it. 
 
 18. Evangel according to St Joon. 
 
 Psalms, various. 
 
 An Explicacion or Summe of the Creed. 
 
 MS. 12mo. size, vellum. T. C. S. 
 
 19. Expositio vocabulorum Bibli.e. “Joh. de Pratis a quibusdam 
 
 auctor fuisse creditur.” Handwriting of W. Crashawe. Online 
 alphabetico. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written. T. C. S. 
 
 Cave, Fabricius, and Labbceus mention no such person as Joh. de Pratis. 
 It is most probably a mistake for Arlottus de Prato, Tusciae oppido, ordinis 
 minorum Generalis, obiit an. 1287. Hie Concordantias Bihlicas scripsisse 
 traditur ab Albicio, ut ex ejus libro Conformitatum, quem an. 1389, absolvit, 
 notavit Oudinus, Tom. 3, p. 569. Arlotique liujus esse putat concordantias 
 Latinas quee toties recusce sunt in variis locis, atque Hugoni de St Charo 
 tribuuntur Florentino, aliisque. Alii referunt ad Conradum de Halberstadt 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 48 
 
 vel Ricardum Stavenesby vel ad Joh. Derlington ; sicut particularum concor- 
 dantias ad Johannem de Segovia. Arlotum secutus est Is. Nathan ut ipse 
 profitetur qui Hebraicas concordantias composuit. Fabr. Lib. 1. 
 
 20. S. Biblia — Vulgate editionis — cum prologis et indice. 
 
 MS. 12mo. size, vellum, beautifully written. “ Ex dono Mri Gent.” 
 
 21. Vocabularii fragmentum. 
 
 Sermones, 34. 
 
 MS. 12mo. size, vellum, well bound. 
 
 22. Iste Libellus constat domini loci dicti de Henton ordinis Carthus. 
 
 Orate, Supplico, pro anima fratris Johannis Clerk quondam dicte 
 dornus Monachi et scriptoris hujus opusculi cui nomen intitulatur 
 “ Veni mecum in adjutorium.” 
 
 It contains 17 chapters, of which the following are the contents: 
 
 (1) Anselmus de examinatione mortis, perpetu® poena? et sempiternse 
 gloriae. 
 
 (2) Bernardus de Ingratitudine. 
 
 (3) De guerra inter Jerusalem et Babilonem. 
 
 (4) Meditatio devotissima et valde utilis — compilata a magistro Ughtredo 
 Dunolini — sacra 1 paginse professore. 
 
 (5) Formula compendiosa vita spiritualis, ex Horologio Sapientiae, Lib. 2, 
 c. 16. 
 
 (6) De Scientia utilissima liomini mortali, quae est scire mori. 
 
 (7) Qualiter Christus in Sacramento Eucharistiae sit devote recipiendus. 
 Hor. Sap. 2, 4. 
 
 (8) Quare divina sapientia suos caros in hoc mundo permittit tarn mul- 
 tipliciter tribulari. Hor. Sap. 1, 20. 
 
 (9) De Cruciatibus Infemalibus. Hor. Sap. 1, 10. 
 
 (10) De gaudiis paradisi terrestris. 
 
 (11) Nota remedia contra temptationes — De utilitate temptationum et 
 tribulationum quibus deus Electos suos temporaliter affligi et fatigari per- 
 mittit. 
 
 (12) De oratione et de modo orandL 
 
 (13) De tribus periculis in orationibus Cavendis, secundum Bernardum. 
 
 (14) Tria sunt in oratione consideranda id. id. 
 
 (15) De Libro qui vocatur F/orarium Bnrtholomai, i. e. de vita perfecta. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written, bound in wood. T. C. S. 
 
 De Henton, in Somersetshire, in 1227. Ela, Countess of Sarum, founded 
 a monastery for Carthusian monks, dedicated to St Mary and St John. In 
 the Monasticon Anglicanum, it is placed in Wiltshire, which Tanner corrects. 
 Not. Mon. p. 200. 
 
 (1) I find no separate tract with such a name among the works of 
 St Anselm. 
 
 (2) Among the Sermones de Diversis, N°. 27, p. 1139, Vol. 1, Benedictine 
 Ed. {Main lion.) 
 
 (3) See S. Bernardi Parabola II. Vol. 1, p. 1248, ditto, 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 4i> 
 
 (4) Ughtred Bolton, ordinis Sti Benedicti, monachus Dunelmensis. Pits 
 calls him an opponent of Wiclif, and mentions by him a book ‘ meditationum,’ 
 and some others. “Cum Guil. Jordano Dominicano et. Jo. Hiltono Fran- 
 ciscano propter Fratres mendicantes controversias habuit.” Fabricius who 
 refers to Leland, c. 449, and Baleus, Cent. 6, 33. See Pitseus, in anno 1380. 
 
 (5) For the Horologium Sapientise, see D. 9. 3. 
 
 (13) The fourth Sermon in quadragesima. See Mahillon’s St Bernard , 
 Vol. 1 . p. 821. 
 
 (14) The fifth Sermon, ditto. 
 
 (15) Bartholomceus Florarius, cl. 1420, a man not in orders and very much 
 inclined, says Pitseus, ‘ religiosos non facile ferre et in eos quando se offerebat 
 occasio debacchari,’ in consequence of this his writings were suppressed, 
 and very few remain. Pits gives only the names of two, Florarium and 
 de Abstinentia. “ Ex ejus libro de abstinentia locum profert Jo. Wolfius, 
 Tom. 1, lectionum memorabilium, p. 801.” Fabricius, Lib. 6. See Professor 
 Corrie’s Notes to the Catalogue ofCath. Hall MS. books, N°. 1, p. 10. 
 
 (l) S. Augustinus — de Pastoribus. 
 
 (2) — de Ovibus. 
 
 (3) DE CURA AGENDA PRO MORTUIS AD PaULINUM. 
 
 (4) DE DISCIPLINA ClIRISTIANORUM. 
 
 (5) DE DECEM CHORDIS. 
 
 (6) DE SYMBOI.O CONTRA JuDASOS. 
 
 (7) Schema morale. 
 
 (8) Aurelii Oassiodori magni Senatoris liber de Anima, in 18 ch s . 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, beautifully written. T. 0. S. Wood binding. 
 
 “Liber Ste Crucis de Waltham.” 
 
 (1) (2) are on the 34th chapter of Ezekiel. They are contained in the 
 Antwerp edition, 1577, Tom. ix, but not in the Benedictine edition. 
 
 (3) A genuine production, script, circ. 421. It is in Benedictine ed. Tom. 6. 
 I quote the following curious note of Labbams. “ Ex quo vel unico libro 
 subrui potest universa Justificationis Calvinistic® substructio: si vel atten- 
 das verba Paulini ‘ Universa pro defunctis Ecclesia supplicare consuevit. : 
 sive auream Augustini sententiam. In Maehabaeorum libris legimus oblatum 
 pro mortuis sacrificium. Sed etsi nusquam in Scriptis veteribus omnino 
 legeretur non parva tamen est Universes Ecclesiee Auctoritas : ubi in precibus 
 sacerdotis qu;c Domino Deo ad ejus altare funduntur, locum suum etiam 
 habet commendatio mortuorum. Quid clarius ?” Vol. 1 , p. 134. S. Aurelius 
 Cassiodorus — in aulis regum Gothorum Theodorici ej usque successorum gra- 
 tiosus Praefectis Prsetorio, et anno Christi 513, consul, deinde postremis annis 
 ab anno 534, in Monasterio inter libros et sacras meditationes consenuit, 
 producta ultra annum 93 state. In Commentario ad Ps. 145. Cassiodo- 
 rus librum ‘ animee’ sive ‘ de anima’ testatur tertium decimum in Variarum 
 opere contineri, quod ab editoribus hactenus etiam a Garetio neglectum. 
 Fabricius. Notwithstanding, the book was published at Paris in 1500. 
 See the last edition of Cave, H. L. 
 
 (4) See B. 25. 
 
 (5) (6) See Labbceus, Vol. 1, p. 146. They are in the same volume 
 of the Antwerp edition. 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Waltham, was a College of Secular Canons founded by Earl Harold, 10(12, 
 which was changed by King Henry II. to a College of Regulars in 1177 ; 
 dedicated to the Holy Cross and St Laurence. Tanner’s N. M. p. (10. 
 
 (1) Speculum Edwardi regis. 
 
 (2) Carta liberta domini nostri Jesu Christi. Metrice. 
 
 (3) Speculum S. Edmundi confessoris, in 36 ch s . 
 
 (4) Some English Verses, about 2 pages. 
 
 (5) PcENITENTIUM REGUL.E QUA5DAM. 
 
 (6) S. Bernardi meditatio de Compassione B. V. Marine. 
 
 (7) M ELITO SARDIENSIS DE ASSUMPTIONS B. V. MaRIE. 
 
 (8) ClEMENTIS LaNTHON PRIORIS EXPLANATIO SUPER ALAS ChE- 
 
 RUBIM ET SERAPHIN. 
 
 (9) Narratio de Spiritu Guidonis. 
 
 (10) De horis canonicis. 
 
 (11) Nicodemi historia de passione Christi. 
 
 (12) Anastasii Episcopi sermo de imagine Christi. 
 
 (13) Missje quas apares angls regi Karulo maifestabat ei 
 qd p pcco suo celebretur. 
 
 (14) Trentale aureum Gregorii Pap^:. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written, old wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) The title is in Casley’s Cat. of King’s Lihr. 8. F. 7. 4. Speculum 
 Sacerdotis Secundum Visionem Edwardi regis, Libro 1. Neither Pitseus nor 
 Fabricius mention this in the writings of King Edward the Confessor, nor 
 any other. It is therefore most probably a forgery. 
 
 (3) S. Edmundus Rich, sive Divitis Arch. Cantuar. defunctus 1240. 
 his life in C. 12. Speculum Ecclesice ad Cistercienses Pontiniacensis 
 Monasterii monachos — in Bibliotheca Patrum (Paris) and in Lugdunensi, 
 Tom. 25, p. 316. He was bom at Abingdon, a friend of Roger Bacon, and 
 Treasurer of Salisbury, afterward Archbishop of Canterbury from 1233 to 
 1240. Leland says the Speculum is the only one of his wiitings that he had 
 seen, but there is in Lindwood and Spelman, Constitutiones Synodales. Fahr. 
 
 B. 5. 
 
 (6) Perhaps from a spurious tract de Vita Mystica seu de Passione Do- 
 mini, C. 10. See Mabillon’s Ed. of St Bernard, Vol. 2, p. 442. 
 
 (7) Melito, Bishop of Sardis, a.d. 170. The full title here given is “Re» 
 latio vera beati Millitonis Sardiensis Episcopi de Assumptione B. V. Marie, 
 quam audivit a B. Johann. Evangelista et Scriptam fratribus Laodicensibus 
 misit, apud Anselm. Eccles. Hist.” 
 
 Extat sub ejus nomine liber de transitu B. V. Marie (sed ab omnibus pro 
 spurio habitus etiarn a Baronio, ann. 48, et 172. Sexto Senensi, Brasichallano, 
 Possevino, Bellarmino, Labbseo, &c.) lat. in Bib!, Patrum, Tom. 2. Pri- 
 mus quod sciam sub Melitonis nomine citavit Beda, Retract, in Act, C. 8. et 
 
 C. 13, qui nonnulla in eo S. Scripturae veritati repugnantia notat, qua; prop- 
 terea in editionibus nonnullis omittuntur: inimo figmentum diserte vocat 
 et plura in eo mendacia animadvertit. Cave, H. L. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 51 
 
 FabriMus, Biblioth. Grceca V. 1, 2, says there are several Greek copies 
 extant of it under the name of St John, which appear, however, to be more 
 ancient than the Latin version. 
 
 (8) Clemens Lanthon, Anglus, Canonicus regularis et presbyter circ. ann. 
 1170. Fabricius, Lib. 11. Leland, C. 199. Pitseus, p.232. Prior of Langdon 
 a Premonstratensian Abbey in Kent. 
 
 (9) A vision of Gydo in civitate Alcsco, 24 miles from the Curia Aposto- 
 lica, in 1323, assuring him of a future state. 
 
 (11) See B. 20, 4. 
 
 (12) Anastasius Episcopus, patriarch of Antioch, called also Sinaita, Cl. 
 561. I suppose this to be a Latin translation of the Sermon given by Com- 
 befisius, Hist. 45, num. 15. See Cave, II. L. 
 
 (13) After the title. Si quis illas in honorem domini nostri Ihu Christi, 
 
 Stse Marise, et Sti iEgidii habuerit celebratas cum oracionihus formarum 
 sequentium et oracione Sti iEgidii adeo impetrabit quicquid juste petierit. 
 
 (14) Trentale, an office for the dead, to he said for 30 days. I had sus- 
 pected this to be an extract from the Services of Pope Gregory I, but I cannot 
 find it there. 
 
 25. The chastening of God’s children. 
 
 MS. 8vo. paper, in English, 27 chapters, well bound. 
 
 Printed by Caxton, in folio. See Mr Hartshorne, Book Rarities, p. 138, 
 and p. 233, with this title, “ The prouffytable boke for manes soule, and 
 right comfortable to the body, and specyally in adversite and tribulation, 
 whiche boke is called The Chastysing of Goddes Chyldren.” 
 
 “ There is a MS. of this book in St John’s Library: it is written in exactly 
 the same hand as the MS. of Ovid in the Pcpysian, and might have passed for 
 the autograph production of the immortal typographer, were there not a 
 much earlier one on vellum in the British Museum.” Hartshorne, loc. cit. 
 
 26. Missale cum Calendario. 
 
 Psalterium abbreviatum ex dispositione S. Hieronymi. 
 
 MS. 8vo. vellum, beautifully written, with illuminated capitals. T. 0. S. 
 
 27. Hugo de S. Victor, de Sacramentis, Libri 4. 
 
 MS. thick volume, 8vo. vellum, well bound. T. 0. S. 
 
 Cave mentions “ de Sacramentis Xtianse fidei, Lib. 2.” There are however 
 several other tracts by him which refer to the same subject, and which 
 are here included. • 
 
 28. (1) Ricardus de S. Victor. 
 
 (1) In Ps. 29. 
 
 (2) De septem desertis. 
 
 (3) In Ps. 122. 
 
 (4) De statu interioris hominis post lapsum. 
 
 (5) De exterminatione mali et promotione boni. 
 
 (6) De studio sapientiae et ejus commendatione. 
 
 (7) De 6 generibus contemplationum. 
 
 (8) De Tabernaculo, Area et Propitiatorio. 
 
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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (II) Hugo de S. Victor. 
 
 (1) De meditatione. 
 
 (2) Prsef. ad tractatum de quadruplici sensu 3 Scriptur®. 
 
 (3) De oratione. 
 
 (III) Bonaventura. 
 
 (1) De 7 gradibus contemplationis. 
 
 (2) De efficacia caritatis in anima suspirante ad amorem Dei. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written, in old binding. T. C. S. 
 
 (I) In the edition of 1650, Rotomagi, 1 Vol. in 2 Parts. (5) occurs 
 
 p. 1, part 1. (1) (3) p. 425, part 2. (4) p. 23, part 1. (8) p. 402, part 2. 
 
 (6) is probably the same as de Eruditione, p. 46, part 1 ; and (7) is from 
 the book called Benjamin Minor in part 1. 
 
 (II) In the edition Rotomagi, 1548, in 3 vols. (1) (3) are in Vol. 2, 
 p. 284 and 238. The tract (2) does not occur there. 
 
 (III) In the edition Rome, 1588 — 1596. (1) is in Tom. 6, part 2. 
 
 (2) I cannot find in the notices of that edition. 
 
 29. Fasciculus medicus — cujus partes similissimm sunt ad D. 3, 4. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, with many MS. notes in the margin, old binding. 
 
 T.C.S. 
 
 30. PoSTILLA SUPER EvANGELIA PER ANNUM. 
 
 H istorije Extracts ex libris narrationum. 
 
 MS. small 8vo. size, vellum, well written, bound. 
 
 The MS. affords no clue whatever, that I can discover, as to the author 
 of the Postils. 
 
 31. Petrus de Riga. Aurora. Metrice. 
 
 Commendationes omnium Apostolorum. 
 
 MS. 4to. double columns, vellum, old wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 Petrus de Riga, Cantor et Canonicus Remensis ab anno 1170, defunctus 
 circiter 1209. The book called Aurora is a metrical translation of the 
 books of the Bible, some in hexameters, and some in elegiacs. The greatest 
 part of it is still unedited. There is a twofold edition in the Libraries, 
 one as it came from the hands of Petrus de Riga, and another which was 
 interpolated during the life-time of the author by iEgidius Parisiensis. In 
 Leyser’s collection of middle age poetry, there is an account of the dif- 
 ferent parts of the work as far as he could ascertain. It is doubtful whether 
 Petrus de Riga translated the whole or only part of the Bible; whether 
 or not, iEgidius completed it. From a copy of a MS. in the Library 
 at Vienna, which contained the Sacred History down to the end of the 
 Book of Ruth, and the Gospels, it appeared to be proved in the opinion 
 of P. I. Lambacher, that this was the only part which P. de Riga per- 
 formed. He confirmed his opinion by quoting Henricus Gandavensis, who 
 says that P. de Riga versified the Heptateuch, 2 Books of Kings, and the 
 Gospels. Both Hear. Gandavensis, and the MS. referred to are of the same 
 age with P. de Riga. A MS. at Turin contains more than the Vienna MS. 
 viz. Tobit, Daniel, Judith and Esther in addition, and the Maccabees, and 
 the Acts of the Apostles, with an epitome or recapitulation of all that pre- 
 
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 53 
 
 cedes the Acts. It has been hence conjectured that TEgidius wrote only the 
 epitome and the versification of the Acts. Fabricius. 
 
 The MS. here catalogued contains a hymn in honor of St Agnes. Pen- 
 tateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 2 Books of Kings, Cantic. Cantic. coming 
 between them, Tobit, Esther, Judith, Daniel, Maccabees, Gospel History, 
 Acts of Apostles, and recapitulation of what precedes. In the Vienna MS. 
 there is said to be a hymn to the B. V. Mary, after the Book of Ruth : 
 there is none in this MS. 
 
 Some English verses about the days of the week. 
 
 Calendarium, handsomely written. 
 
 Ma rtilogium do. with illuminated capitals. 
 
 Officium S. Gabrielis, later and coarser writing, 2 pages only. 
 
 MSS. 4to. vellum, well bound, wood. T. 0. S. 
 
 “ Constat ayo Xpof. (sic) Caldecott.” “ Dono Dedit Thomas Gyles, 
 12 Mai. 1558” 
 
 The Martilogium is the commentary on the Calendar, being the principal 
 part of the volume. It contains short notices of the lives of the Saints, 
 arranged according to the days of the month. 
 
 The office of S. Gabriel the Archangel, containing the introits, &c. for 
 that festival. 
 
 There are traces, in the binding, of a very handsome illuminated MS. 
 which has been used up to bind this one with. 
 
 (1) Narratio de Spiritu Guidonis. 
 
 (2) Vit^e sanctorum aliquot — Tractatus moralis. 
 
 (S) Speculum laicorum. 
 
 (4) Sermones Michaelis de Ungaria. 
 
 (5) Speculum Religiosorum. 
 
 De confessione, (6 pages only.) 
 
 De pr.edicatione verbi Dei, (2 pages.) 
 
 MS. dto. paper, well bound. 
 
 (1) See E. 24, 9. 
 
 (2) In the following order. S. Pauli Eremitic. S. Antonii. S. Hilla- 
 rionis. S. Thaycis(?) S. Johannis. S. Or. De S. Thebarde. De S. Tlieone. 
 De S. Apollonio. De S. Ammon. De S. Coprete. De S. Abbate — (I cannot 
 read it.) De S. Ileleno. De St Eulogio. De S. Appelle. De S. Paphnutio 
 Abbate. De S. Isidoro. De S. Apollonio. De S. Machario. De S. Amone. 
 De Antonio et Paulo. De S. Promone. Then come: Interrogationes — de 
 Oratione — de Continentia — contra Fornicationem — de nihil possidentibus — de 
 Abbate Helie — de Distreccione (sic) — de Humilitate — de Patientia — de Cari- 
 tate — Johannes Subdiaconus — Abbas Johannes. 
 
 (4) There are 13 of these Sermons. All that Fabricius says of him is 
 as follows. “ Michaelis de Ungaria Doctoris Theologi Sermones prodiere 
 Colonise, 1496, 8vo. apud Hermannum Baumgart de Ketwich : nulla hujus 
 Michaelis mentio in Davidis Czwittingeri Specimine 7/ ungaria Litteratee.” 
 I do not find him mentioned any where else, but Fabricius has not given 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 the first edition. There is one in C. C. C. Library bearing date Argentorat, 
 1493. See Nasmith’s Cat. 429. 
 
 (5) By Gul. de Pagula, I suspect. Pitseus however says that it begins 
 ‘ Accipe disciplinam meam.’ ‘ Aecipite, vos religiosi, disciplinam meam,’ 
 is the beginning of a MS. Norvic. More. 76, according to Bishop Tanner, 
 Biblioth. p. 570. The present treatise begins ‘Aecipite, vos religiosi, hunc 
 speculum.’ There is perhaps sufficient similarity to conclude they are mainly 
 the same treatise of Gul. de Pagula, see D. 18. There is a MS. with the 
 same title in the Harley Collection attributed to St Edmund Rich or St 
 Edmimd Pountney (de quo v. E. 24, 3.) See Harl. MS. Cod. 3490, 5441. 
 
 34. Richard of Hampole — Stimulus conscienti^e. English metre, 
 the titles of the Sections in Latin. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, well bound. 
 
 See B. 7. 
 
 F. 
 
 1. Gul. Peraldi summa de vitiis et virtutibus. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, full of marginal notes, old wood binding. 
 “D. D. J. Holt.” 
 
 ‘ Liber Sti Edmundi.’ 
 
 Gulielmus Peraldus sive de Petra alta, a Frenchman of the province of 
 Vienne ; became a Dominican friar in 1219. He is by some said to have 
 been Archbishop of Lyons, but it is most probable he was only a Suffragan 
 Bishop. The year of his death is differently mentioned, by Cave, 1275. 
 Fabricius, 1250, and Possevimts Apparatus Sacr. Tom. 1, p. 710, in 1255. 
 This work has been often published. 
 
 There were several monasteries in England dedicated to St Edmund. See 
 D. 19. 
 
 2. Hymni Ecclesiastici — cum notis musicis, vel Processionale. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum. T. C. S. Well written, old wood binding. 
 
 The chants are in Latin, the rubrics in English. 
 
 3. Explicatio vocum in S. Bibliis. 
 
 Aelredus de oneribus Isaias. Mutilus in fine. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, well written, wood binding. “ 1). D. J. Holt.” 
 
 (1) Seems a very common MS. There are several such works noticed 
 in the authorities. See E. 1, E. 19. This however is not in alphabetical 
 order, and seems something of the same kind as 1 should conceive the Dicta 
 of Grostete must be. It begins ‘ Tres sunt paradisi, tres incolee, tria ligna,’ 
 &c. Occasionally there are a few pages written continuously in the same 
 hand. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 55 
 
 (2) This work of Aelredus, see D. 2, 2. is generally found among the 
 works of St Bernard. It consists of 11 Sermons. Cave. Fabricius says 
 there are 31 Sermons on Is. 13, 14, 15, 16, ‘of the burden of Babylon.’ 
 It is in Vol. 2, Mabillon’s edition of St Bernard, p. 555. It is in one place 
 ‘ Ethelredus.’ 
 
 4. (l) Tractatijs theologicus. 
 
 (2) Gul. de Monte, de inquirendis in confessione. 
 
 (3) Sermones 4 de diver, sis. 
 
 (4) Tractatus theologicus, in 133 ch\ 
 
 (5) Speculum Pcenitentis, in 65 ch s . 
 
 (6) Joh. Beletiius — de Ecclesi asticis officiis. 
 
 (7) Excerpta de Vitis Patrum ad Monachos, quas de Grseco in 
 Latin, transcripsit Jeronimus. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, wood binding. T. 0. S. 
 
 (1) This seems to be on a variety of subjects, but it is so contractedly 
 
 written, that I cannot make out the beginning of it, thus Dicit Deus cenral 
 
 (2) Gulielmus de Montibus, or Montanus, or Leycestrius, Anglus, Cano- 
 nicus Augustinianus Lincolnensis, circ. aim. 1217. Fabricius. This work 
 is not mentioned. It is probably an extract. See infra. 
 
 (3) Four Sermons without name — de utroque adventu — de jejunio, &c. 
 
 (4) Begins — De malis innotescendis ex Acilio Cabilonensi — whose name 
 occurs neither in Cave nor Fabricius. 
 
 (5) Mentioned as by Gul. de Montibus in Tanner s Biblioth. p. 361. (See 
 Nasmith’s Cat. C. C. C. 217.) where several other works of the same kind 
 are also given. One in the Bodl. ‘ Wilelmi de Montibus scriptum, quomodo 
 religiosi monendi sunt ad confitendum et quae poenitentise pro peccatis reli- 
 giosorum est injungenda.’ Oudin, p. 117, Tom. 3, seems wrongly to have 
 confounded him with Gulielmus de Scliirewood (See Tanner and Pitseus,) 
 for which lie gives no reasons. 
 
 (6) Johannes Beletiius, Theologicae Scholae Rector Parisiis ut testatur 
 Henricus Gandavensis, c. 18, de Script. Eccles. Deinde in Ecclesia Am- 
 bianensi ( Amiens ) floruit, teste Alberico in Chronico ad ann. 1182, p. 363. 
 The present work has been often edited. Fabricius, Lib. 9, Tom. 2, p. 1589, 
 calls it ‘nobile opus.’ Gunton, Cat. Monast. Peterb. says it is often found 
 with the Rationale of Durandus. 
 
 (7) Among the ‘opera falso adscripta Hieronymo,’ in Cave, H. L. ‘De 
 Vitis SS. Patrum liber sub Hieron. nomine Antwerp, 1615, excusus partim 
 ex Hieronymo, partim ex aliis autoribus consarcinatus.’ See also Fabricius. 
 
 5. FoRMULARIUM AUDIENTIA3, PRO GROSSARIIS ET PROCURATORIBUS 
 
 UTILE. 
 
 Large 8vo. MS. vellum, well bound. T. 0. S. 
 
 A book of Ecclesiastical Law. ‘Liber Thomas VVelde, Monachi.’ ‘De 
 Librar. Sti Augustin. Cantuar.’ 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
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 6. (l) Juliani Toletani Episcopi Prognosticon, Lib. 3. 
 
 (2) Sermones LXXIII. Mutilus in fine. The index gives 73, the 
 MS. terminates in the middle of 71. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) Julianus Toletanus, not to be confounded with Julianus Pomerius, 
 Bishop of Orange (Arausicanum) anno 495. Our author was Bishop of 
 Toledo; he was a Spaniard of Jewish extraction, and was Bishop from G80 
 to 690. He presided at the 12, 13, 14, 15 Councils of Toledo, and was 
 commended by Pope Stephen VI. This work is Prognosticon futuri saeculi 
 ad Idalium Episcopum Barcinonensem (Barcelona) de prsescientia futuri 
 saeculi: Lib. 1, de origine mortis humans, — Lib. 2, de animabus defunctorum, 
 quomodo se habeant ante corporum resurrectionem, — Lib. 3, de suprema cor- 
 porum resurrectione. Published Leipsic, 1535. Fabricius, Lib. ix. Bib/. 
 M. et I. Latinitatis. 
 
 (2) There is no name given to these Sermons. 
 
 7. Jacobi de Voragine Sermones Dominicales, 159. 
 
 MS. thick volume, 8vo. vellum, ill written. 
 
 It contains also an Index Sermonum and an Index Rerum, by Thomas 
 Vowne, a.d. 1381. 
 
 In the beginning he is styled Januensis. See A. 20. Bishop Jewel’s 
 opinion of him may be seen in his Index to the Answer to the Jesuit under 
 Simeon Metaplirastes. 
 
 8. Joh. Latiibury, Tractatus origin alium sive Alphabeta Mo- 
 
 ralis, Pars l ma . per litteras A, B, C. 
 
 MS. small 4 to. vellum, poor condition. 
 
 An Englishman, Ord. Minor., about 1406. This work is the same as 
 that called Distinctiones Theologies, as it is designated by both these titles 
 in the MS. of St Peter’s College, according to the Catalogue. Oudin thinks 
 it also the same as the one called Loci Communes, in University College, 
 Oxford, Cod. 820, and Exeter College, Cod. 20. Fabricius, Lib. ix. Oudin, 
 Tom. 3, p. 2212. Wharton, Addenda to Cave, p. 85. Cat. of St Cath. Hall, 
 MS. Professor Corrie, p. 9. 
 
 9. Breviarum Romanum. 
 
 MS. thick 8 vo. vellum, well written. 
 
 10 . 
 
 Poemata vetusta, viz. 
 
 (1 ) Cartula Approbata. ) . , 
 
 (2) Liber Urbani. } m rhyming verses. 
 
 (3) Liber Catonis. 
 
 (4) Versus Pcenitentiarii. 
 
 (5) Libellus Equivocorum verborum. Metrice. 
 
 (6) Liber Enchiridion (sic) ditto, same subject. 
 
 (7) Liber pni Doctrinalis, ditto. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 (2) Daniel Church, or Ecclesiensis, not Becclesiensis, as Geo. Brown 
 has it in the Cat. MSS. of Trin. Coll. Dublin. See Bale, Cent. 3, N°. 17. 
 Scripsit, Latinis versibus, Urbanum — de uxorum comitate Liber 1, Clar. 1190. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
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 (2) (3) are probably the same productions as those quoted in War ton’s 
 Eng. Poetry, Vol. 2, p. 170. 
 
 (5) There is a work with this title in the Library of Trin. Coll. Dublin. 
 See Cat. MSS. Angl. et Hibern. Vol. 2, Part 2, p. 32, N°. 468, by Joannes 
 Serlo, grammaticus, ex Eboracensi Canonico Monachus Fontanus, Cisterciensis 
 ordinis, et tandem Abbas, Cl. 1170. Bale, Scrip. Brit. Cent. 2, N°. 91. 
 See also Chrysostomus Henriquez, Phoenix reviviscens, p. 80. 
 
 (7) Alexander de Villa Dei, or Alexander Neckham. See Christopher 
 Hendreigh, Pandect. Brandenburg, p. 108, Patria Normannus, Dolensis non 
 vero ut alii putant Burgunda, Doctor Sorbonicus, Cl. 1240. See Wadding, 
 Ord. Minor. Script, p. 9. Scripsit volumen metro leonico de Grammatica, 
 quod prsenotavit Doctrinale puerorum. Henricus Gandavensis de S. E. c. 59, 
 says it was much used in schools in his time. It was published, Venct. 
 1483. Alanus de Insulis also wrote a work, called Doctrinale. 
 
 All quoted from the Historia Poetarum et Poematurn Medii JEvi, by 
 Polycarp Leyser. 
 
 11. (l) Sermonarium. 
 
 (2) Concilium Lateranense sub Alex. III. Papa. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) Consists of notes and observations on different subjects; a sort of 
 common-place for Sermons. 
 
 (2) Concilium Lateranense VIII, anno 1168 coactum. In quo Fredericus 
 Imp. ob intrusion in sedem Apostolicam Victorem antipapam damnatur et 
 imperio privatur. Consulentur Johannes Sarisburiensis, Ep. 60, et Epist. 
 ad Cantise Sub-priorem. In eadem Synodo decretam esse legationem ad 
 pellendos Episcopos (quos vocant) scliismaticos et catholicos sedibus suis 
 restituendos testatur chronicon Laudense A. 1168. 
 
 12. Scoti quodlibetic.e qu^estiones, 21. 
 
 MS; small folio, vellum, well bound. “ D. D. J. Holt.” 
 
 “Liber W. Feckenham, Scolaris.” 
 
 Johannes Dunstonensis Anglus (Leland calls him Johannes Dunostenus) 
 a patria Duns, quod vocabulum Graecis <tk6to s, Scotus communiter appel- 
 latus non ut Sexto Senensi visum, veluti o-kotciw?, ob profundissimam obscu- 
 ritatem, discipulus Alexandri de Hales et Gulielmi Veri sive Guaronis, pre- 
 ceptor Occami et ab eo oppugnatus ; ipse (ord. min.) docuit Oxonias primum, 
 deinde ab ann. 1304, Parisiis, inter Scliolasticos Doctor Subtilis ac Realium 
 sect:e fax et tuba, dogmatis de immaculata conceptione B. V. oppugnator 
 fervidus. Colonise mortuus, 1308, setatis 73. 
 
 The 12th volume of his, works, ed. Paris, 1519, contains the present 
 opusculnm — and Antwerp, 1620, or Col. 1635. Waddingus added a com- 
 mentary from Venice ed. 1520, and a solution of 243 objections of Guido 
 Bartolucio, who had fancied he had observed so many contradictions in 
 the works of Scotus. 
 
 13. (l) Gregorii Magni Dialogus, in 4 books, containing 12, 38, 38, 
 
 61 chapters respectively. 
 
 (2) Gregorii Magni Pastorale. 
 
 MS. 8vo. paper and vellum, well written. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (1) Dialogus in quatuor libros divisus inter Gregorium et discipulum 
 ejus Petrum Diaconum de vita et miraculis patrum Italicorum et de eter- 
 nitate animarum. It lias been often published. Pope Zacharias (ann. 741 — 
 752) translated it into Greek, and it has been translated into most modern 
 languages, as well as into Anglo-Saxon. Fabricius, B. 7. 
 
 (2) See D. 15. 
 
 Id. Missale cum NOTIS MUSICIS. 
 
 MSS. small 4to. vellum, incomplete. There are a number of pages 
 
 ready ruled. T. 0. S. 
 
 15. Procli Comment, in libr. Platonis de Republica, Greece. 
 
 Quarto, MS. beautifully written in small Greek character on paper, 
 
 T.C. S. 
 
 See Fabricius, Bibl. Grceca, Lib. 5, c. 26, § 16. 
 
 16. (l) Isidori Archiepiscopi Soliloquiorum liber qui Sinonima 
 
 NUNCUPATUR. 
 
 (2) Regula B. Basilii Ep. Cappadocia. 
 
 MSS. small 4to. paper. T. C. S. “Scriptus circ. 1340,” says W. 
 
 Crashawe. 
 
 (1) See B. 20, 2. In ed. Colon. 1617, p. 216 — 227, praemissa Epistola 
 ad Braulionem Archidiaconum. Meditationes et praeceptiones morales sunt 
 quae soliloquia vocantur quia homo solus plangens secum vel rationem suam in 
 consilium vocans inducitur: synonima vero, quia eadem res aliis aliisque 
 verbis repetita inculcatur. Italicae versionis meminit N. Antonius, Tom. 1, 
 p. 263. Fabricius. 
 
 There is no Ep. ad Braulionem in this MS. The work is in 2 Books. 
 
 (2) In 18 chapters. It is probably an extract from the more diffuse 
 work attributed to St Basil. I cannot find any mention in the authorities 
 of a work answering the description of this MS. V. Cave, Vol. 1, p. 240. 
 H. L. Fabricius, B. G. Lib. 5, c. 19, § 6, 9. 
 
 17. Sermones 56 super Evangelia totius anni. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum. Mutilus in fine. “ Ex dono W. Beale, Coll. 
 
 Mag.” 
 
 There is no indication whatever, that 1 can discover, of an author in 
 this volume. 
 
 18. 0) Aristotelis Liber de Secretis. 
 
 (2) Algorismus — metrice cum commentario. 
 
 (3) De 7 Capitalibus criminibus. 
 
 (4) Tractatus de sphara et rebus astronomicis. 
 
 (5) Expositio nominum quorum usus est in theoria plane- 
 
 TARUM. 
 
 (6) Tractatus AsTROLOGicus—metrice, qui sic incipit “ Est tua 
 
 Saturne, domus.” 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 59 
 
 (7) Tractatus Astronomicus et Geometricus — cum tabulis et 
 figura -Zbdiaci. 
 
 (8) De Meteoris. 
 
 (9 ) Ludi Salomonis quos fecit pro requestu regin al Acrys. 
 
 (10) Trotula mulier Salernitana — de morbis mulierum, c s . 86. 
 
 (11) Walteri Mapes Apocalypsis — metrice. 
 
 (12) Rhetorica. 
 
 (IS) SUMMA CUJUSQUE DISTINCTIONIS IN LIB. 4. SENTENTIARUM 
 
 carmen heroicum. 
 
 (14) Summa Omnium (Sc. 101) distinctionum 1® et 2 x part, 
 decreti aurei Gratiani — metrice. 
 
 (15) Mirabilia orientis et Anglias. 
 
 (16) Sentential ex diversis auctoribus. 
 
 MS. small 4to, vellum. “ Ex dono W. Beale.” 
 
 (1) SeeB. 14. 2. 
 
 (10) Trotula quad ct Broth' dicitur cujus ‘Curandarum segritudinum mu- 
 liebrium ante in et post partum liber extat cum medicis antiquis Venet.’ apud 
 Aldos filios 1547, p. 71. Fabricius, B. 19. 
 
 (11) ‘ Gualterus Mapes, Henrici II. regis Sacellanus circ. ann. 1210, archi- 
 diaconus Oxon.’ says Fabricius, who notices that Leland confounded him with 
 Gualterus Calenius. This latter however was also archdeacon of Oxford. 
 Walter Mapes was a Canon of Salisbury, precentor of Lincoln, 1196, and 
 Archdeacon of Oxford, 1197. ‘ Vir admodum festivi ingenii qui lapsos cleri- 
 corum et monachorum mores mordaci sale acriter perfricuit.’ Cave. Scripsit 
 Apocalypsis Goliae pontificis. Liber 1. De vita et moribus ecclesiasticorum, 
 MS. in several libraries, see Tanner’s Biblioth. p. 507. His poems have been 
 lately published by the Camden Society of London. 
 
 19. Has been removed to L. 20. 
 
 20. Sti Gregorii Homiliae in Evangelia, 40. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum, beautifully written, old wood binding. T. 0. S. 
 
 ‘ Liber iste est de Societate fratrum minorum Herefordise.’ 
 
 “ De diversis lectionibus Evangelii homiliae 40, ad Secundinum Tauromi- 
 nitanum Episcopum, anno 592, absolutae.” Cave, H. L. 
 
 They have been translated into Italian and French. Fabricius, B. 7- 
 
 21. Biblia cum prologis Hieronymi et Epistola ejusdem ad Pau- 
 
 LINUM. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum, well written and perfect, well bound. “ Ex 
 dono Oliveri Dand quondam Collegii Socii.” 
 
 22. Richard Lepar, Capellanus de Foston, de 7 Sacramentis spon- 
 
 salibus. 
 
 Richard Lepar, Testamentum ejus. 
 
 Conjurationes seu Exorcismi. 
 
 8—2 
 
(iO 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Inventarium Tho. Marshall de Barton, anno 1455. 
 
 De die Dominica — imperfect. 
 
 Fasciculus Morum — cum indice. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper, in poor condition, leaves have been torn out 
 by wholesale. T. C. S. 
 
 This seems merely to he a common-place book; the name ‘ P. Marshall’ 
 occurs in another book of the same kind, see F. 26. I can find no notice of 
 the name Richard Lepar, and I should think that the antiquity of the book 
 is its only merit, as a curiosity. 
 
 23. (l) Gul. Occam disputatio inter Clericum et Militem de potestate 
 
 regia. 
 
 (2) De Deo creatore, Scholastica disceptatio, in 21 cli 8 . 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, ill written ; the first occupies 6 folios, the latter 
 186 folios, and is in a different hand writing. T. 0. S. 
 
 Gul. Occamus, a Franciscan, and disciple of Duns Scotus, afterwards his 
 great opponent. c Patronus nominalium et signifer occamistarum, Fraticel- 
 lorumque, paupertatem Christi adv. Johann. 22 asserentium, ambitionem- 
 que Rom. Pontif. convellentium, clarus circ. 1330, defunctus, 1347.’ 
 
 (1) has been published at Paris, 1598, et apud Goldastum, Vol. 1, p. 13, 
 also in Eng. at London, 1540. ( Tanner , p. 555.) There is a dialogue on the 
 same subject, Univ. Library, and St John’s Library, printed by Thomas Ber- 
 thelet. Hartshorne, pp. 167, 433. 
 
 (2) begins ‘ Cuncte res difficiles...’ I can find no indication of the author. 
 
 24. (l) Legenda Sanctorum totius anni cum Homiliis. 
 
 (2) De translatione S. Johan. Beverlaci, (one page at the end.) 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, wood binding. T. 0. S. 
 
 (2) Folcardus, a Cluniac Monk, an. 1066, addressed to Aldred, Archbishop 
 of York, two books containing the “Vita et miracula Johannis Beverlacii, ex 
 Hagustaldensi Episcopo (an. 687.) Archiepiscopi Ebor.” John Beverley died 
 in 721 or 722. The life is in MS. in C. C. C. Library, see Tanner’s Biblioth. 
 p. 99. 
 
 25. (l) Robertus Lincoln, computus ecclesiasticus cum tabulis et 
 
 calendario. 
 
 (2) De Astrolabio, cum figuris nitide exaratis. 
 
 (3) Introductio in Zaelis Oalendarium. 
 
 (4) De planetis (different hand writing.) 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, in poor condition. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) This is an undoubted work of Bishop Grosseteste’s. See Pegge’s Cata- 
 logue, p. 282. 
 
 (2) I had thought this most probably by Bishop G., but it begins ‘ Scito 
 quod Astrolabium est nomen Grscum,’ whereas the treatise ascribed to him by 
 Tanner begins ‘ Astrolabii circulos et membra.’ Pegge, p. 281. Tanner, 
 p. 349. 
 
IN TIIE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 61 
 
 (4) begins also differently from the tract with this title ascribed to Gros- 
 seteste. See Tanner, p. 347. 
 
 26. A Latin Grammar in English. 
 
 Vocabularium Lat. Engl, as far as 0. 
 
 Praefatio ad pugnam gallorum a P. Marshall. 
 
 Miscellanea qujedam. 
 
 Tractatus Grammaticalis. 
 
 Artogropiiia (sic) prob. for Ortiiograpiiia. 
 
 Vocabulary, Eng. Lat. 
 
 Fragmenta duo — latine — sine titulo vel auctore. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. The very dirty common-place book of — Mar- 
 shall. T. 0. S. 
 
 27. Translatio S. Benedicti. 
 
 Miracula ejusdem. 
 
 Sermo in honorem ejusdem, Mutilus in fine. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written. T. C. S. W ood binding. 
 
 “Liber Sti Augustin. Cantuar.” 
 
 Aimoinus, gente Aquitanus, Ord. Bened. monachus Floriacensis (de Fleury) 
 claruit ante 1001, juvenis adhuc monachus factus, Oylboldo caenobii prsefec- 
 turam tenente. Sub Abbonc et Guazlino (afterwards Archbishop of Bourges, 
 Fabric. B. 1.) abbatibus vitam egit; atque ilium anno 1004 ad monasterium 
 Sq uirs comitatus est, ej usque neci interfuit. Vir cum eloquentia turn mul- 
 tarum rerum peritia et mirabili ingenii flumine praestantissimus ut de eo 
 loquitur Usserius. Inter scripta ejus, De miraculis S. Bened., Libri 2, ad 
 Guazlinum abbatem. Habentur apud Johannem a Bosco in Bibliotheca Flo- 
 riacensi, p. 79. Sermo in festivitatibus S. Bened. apud eund. p. 270. Trans- 
 latio reliquiarum corporis S. Bened. in Galliam. Duchesne inter historicos 
 Francorum. Tom. 3, and Mabillon Scec. Bened. 2, p. 359. Cave, H. L. Vol. 2, 
 in anno 1001. 
 
 28. Gulielmus Swarby — Annotationes in Genesin et Exodum. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper, poor condition. T. 0. S. 
 
 Gulielmus Pepinus, a Frenchman of Evreux, (Ebroicensis) ord. Praedicat. 
 Scripsit Commentarium in Genesin et Exodum, circ. ann. 1500, quod saepe 
 typis excusum est. v. Bob. Gery. add. to Cave, Vol. 2. I do not know whether 
 this is the individual or not. Perhaps it may be Gulielmus, 3d abbott of 
 Melrose, who was previously prior of Kirkham in Yorkshire. Died in 1170. 
 Among whose works, Tanner .mentions Expositio in Genesin, Lib. 1 . Tan- 
 ner’s Biblioth. p. 359. 
 
 29. Novus Abbas de S. Cecilia — de sponsalibus et matrimonio. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper and vellum, poor condition. T. C. S. 
 
 I have not been able to find out anything of tliis author. 
 
 30. (1) La Lumiere a Lais. 
 
 (2) Le Manuel des Pechez. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, beautifully written, in old French verse. 
 
&2 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (1) La Lumiere a Lais. See Cat. Harl. MSS. cod. 4390, art. 1. “ A long 
 Poem in old French verse, styled in the Prologue and at the end, Le Romanz 
 qe est apele lumiere a lais. Light for the Laity. It is not however any other- 
 wise a Romance than as being written in the Romance language. It is in fact 
 a system of Divinity beginning at the creation and carried on to the general 
 judgment. The author seems to name himself Pieres, ‘Par Pieres puet qi 
 cest livre fist,’ in 6 Books.” By comparing with a copy in the University 
 Libr. Gg. 1. 1. The name is accurately known. “Ceo est le oreison de 
 mestre Peres de Peccham, auctour de ceste livre.” It is divided into 6 Books, 
 and is in the form of a dialogue between master and scholar, and begins thus, 
 
 Verrai Deu omnipotent 
 Ke est e fin e commencement 
 De tute les choses ken le secle sunt 
 Ke avant furent e apres serrunt. 
 
 (2) by Bishop Grostete. See Tanner. “Enchiridion, Lib. 1. quod idem sit 
 cum Manuel des Peches quod galliee scripsit Rob. Grost. et in asglicos Rythmos 
 transtulit Rob. Brunensis quem vide.” In the Cat. Harl. MSS. it is said to be 
 Anglice, and is perhaps the translation of Robert of Bourne, who flourished 
 1303. See Wartons Hist. Eng. Poetry, 1, p. 59, and Mr Hearne’s pref. to 
 Robert of Glocester, p. 58. Neither original nor translation except some ex- 
 tracts from the latter are published. Warton, ibid. I presume it may be 
 extant in the Bodl. Libr. 4057, though the Bishop’s name be not added. 
 Pegge’s Life of Grostete, p. 285. 
 
 31. (l) Hugo de St Victor de virtute orationis. 
 
 (2) S. Anselmi meditatio. 
 
 (3) Liber ad Paulum et Jusloch de utilitate Psalmorum. 
 
 (4) Augustini Doctoris de excellentia Psalmorum. 
 
 (5) Orationes vari^e. 
 
 (6) Oratio Maurilii Andegavensis Episcopi ad S. Mariam. 
 
 (7) Enchiridion Sexti Pythagorici cum prologo et commen- 
 
 DATIONE HlERONYMI. 
 
 (8) Oratio ad Dominum. 
 
 (9) Meditationes 2, sc. S. Augustini et S. Bernardi. 
 
 (10) Tractatus de confessione et oratione cujusdam Thom^: 
 Monachi. 
 
 (11) Extracta de libro Anselmi de convicione Monachorum. 
 
 (12) DE GRADIBUS HUMILITATIS. 
 
 (13) Oratio Sti Edmundi Archiepiscopi ad B. Mariam. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, written in very large characters. T. 0. S. 
 
 (1) Cave mentions no such work by Hugo de S. V. as a separate treatise, 
 nor does Oudin, but I find the title is wrong, it should be ‘ de modo orandi,’ 
 for with this treatise it agrees. See Venice, Ed. 1588, p. 110, Vol. 2. I leave 
 the title however as it stands on the MS. 
 
 (2) This contains two meditations of S. Anselm. De miseria humana, 
 Ed. Colon. Agrip. 1012, Tom. 3, p. 184, and de redemptione generis humanre, 
 Tom. 3, p. 197. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHNS COLLEGE, 
 
 (»3 
 
 (3) is ascribed to St Hierome. 
 
 (4) most probably an extract from the Enarrationes in Psalmos. 
 
 (6) Andegavensis (of Angers). See D. 26, 5. 
 
 (7) Sextus sive Sixtus cujus Sententias ex Rufini versione latine tantum, 
 et ab interprete forte an liinc inde interpolatas, habemus, exceptis paucis 
 quibusdam illarum, qu;c Grace sparsim occurrunt inter sententias Democritis 
 llemophilique et apud Originem. De hoc Sexto quem Pythagoricum vocat 
 Eusebius, et cum Sixto Episcopo Romano sciens forte confudit Rufinus, dixi 
 in Bibl. Lat. Sextum Philosophum sub Adriano Imp. floruisse ait Syncellus. 
 Catal. Pytliagoricor. apud, Fab. Biblioth. Graca, Lib. 2, c. 13. 
 
 Cave says merely : ‘ Xysti sive Sexti Pythagorci philosophi Enchiridion sen 
 sententi® a Rufino vers®, et ab eo mala fide sub Sexti pap® nomine edita 
 extant Lovan. 1518. Basil. 1520. Colon. 1522, &c. See also Fatrricius, 
 B. Med. et Inf. Lat. B. 19, p. 196. 
 
 (9) I have compared the Meditatio ascribed to St Augustine with the 
 Bened. Ed. Appendix to Tom. 6, p. 107. It agrees with it as far as c. 5 ; 
 there is then two folios inserted different from the printed copy, and then 
 agrees with c. 5, to the end of c. 9, and then stops. See B. 25, 16. St Bernard. 
 It is the tract called, Meditatio devotissima ad human® cognitionis cogni- 
 tionem, alias Liber de anima. See Ed. Paris. (F. Picard.) 1632, page 1048. 
 Mabillons Ed. Vol. 2, Tom. 5, p. 332. It is considered spurious. “Ex Ber- 
 nardo aliisque collect®, qualcs leguntur in Hugonis de St Victor libro quarto 
 de anima.” 
 
 G. 
 
 Hi STORIA ECCLESIASTICA TRIPARTITA CUM PRA2FATIONE CaSSIODORI, 
 
 Lib. 12. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well bound. 
 
 “De societate fratrum minorum Herefordi®.” 
 
 Epiphanius Scholasticus, clarus circa ann. 510, et amicitia Cassiodori atque 
 suscepta cjus precibus versione Latina insignium Gr®corum scriptorum, 
 famam non obscurum consecutus. Hie est qui Historiam Ecclesiasticam 
 Socratis, Sozomeni, et Theodor’eti misit in compendium, cui digesto in duo- 
 decim libros imposuit nomen Historice tripartita qui lucem primum viderunt 
 August. Vindelic. 1472. Fabricius Mir®us ad Sigeberti (c. 12) Annotat. 
 Epiphanium, Cassiodoro postulante, Theodoreti, Socratis et Sozom. Hist. 
 Eccles. ex Gr®co Latinam fecisse, Cassiodoram vero, ex translatione Epi 
 phanii, Hist, tripart, contexuisse. Ac si Cassiodori prefationem consulas 
 venim dixisse Mir®us videbitur. Si vero attendas verba, cap. 17. Instit. 
 Divin. Lect. veriorem pronuntiabis Sigeberti sententiam qui ait Epiphanium 
 (non Cassiodorum) tres liistorias, suadente Cassiodoro in unam compegisse. 
 Mansi note on Fabric. B. M. et I. L., B. 5. 
 
f>4 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS' 
 
 2. (l) Hugo de St Victor de Institutions Novitiorum. 
 
 (2) Ordinarium sive Dietarium vit,e religiose. 
 
 (3) Forma vitas regularis. 
 
 (4) Formula novitiorum, with an Index rerum alphabetice, and 
 Index per capita. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well bound. I). I). J. Holt. 
 
 “Liber Monachorum Sti Edmundi.” 
 
 (1) Oudin assigns this to Gulielmus Peraldus (F. 1.) in Hugo de S. Victor, 
 Tom. 2, p. 1143, but lie does not mention it under Peraldus, Tom. 3, p. 458. 
 He then however does speak of a tract de Vita Monastica, which appears 
 to liave gone under different titles, and which may be the one he refers to. 
 
 (2) (3) These subjects were so often written upon in former times, 
 that it seems almost hopeless, without a very full acquaintance with middle 
 age writings to attempt to assign their authors. Such titles are extremely 
 common, when the contents vary in every way. 
 
 (4) This is the same as D. 9, 1, by Cardinal Bonaventura . 
 
 This was probably the common book of reference for the religious house 
 to which it belonged. 
 
 3. Philosophia W. de Oonchis, ex editione secunda. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well written. (I suspect T. 0. S.) With ex- 
 cellent geometrical figures. 
 
 “De Librario Sti Augustin. Cantuar. 
 
 W. de Conchis, (of Evreux) Ebroicensis Normannus, quam per triennium 
 audivit Parisiis Johannes Sarisburiensis, qui post Bernardum Carnotensem 
 Grammaticum opulentissimum appellat. Fuit autem Philosophus et The- 
 ologus. There are two Philosophise, Minor et Major. This appears to be 
 the latter. In hoc opere quod ipse Philosophiam quodammodo Theologicam 
 appellavit nonnulla scripserat quse ipse deinde recantavit in Dragmatico 
 Philosophic sive Dialogo cum Henrico II. Normannise Duce et Comite Ande- 
 gavensium quod scriptum adhuc in variis Bibliothecis Anglise servatur. 
 Fabricius, B. M. et I. L. B. 3, p. 408. Obiit circ. 1150. 
 
 4. Antidotarium VETUS ALPHABETICE. 
 
 MS. 8 vo. well written. (I suspect T. C. S.) 
 
 “Sti Cuthberti, Dunelm.” 
 
 5. (l) Le Roman de la Rose, old French metre. 
 
 (2) A METRICAL COMPOSITION IN OLD FRENCH, 3 folios Only. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, bound in wood, with illuminated capitals. T. C. S. 
 
 The Roman de la Rose was written by Guillaume de Lauris, finished 
 Jean Duclos: 3 copies, in Casley’s MSS. of the King’s Library, p. 295, 297, 
 302, have at the end ‘commence en vers Fran^ais par Guilaume de Lauris 
 et paracheve par Jean de Mehun.’ See Senebier, Cat. MS. Geneve, p. 432. 
 See Mansi's Note on Fabricius, B. M. et I. L. Lib. 9, p. 98. 
 
 (2) Begins, 
 
 II fablers trop me grevent 
 
 Rimer je ne senent 
 
 Chaunter, lire, dire fors de fables, 
 
 &c. &c. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 65 
 
 There is a copy in the University Library, Gg. 1, 1. (23.) It is there 
 entitled “ Du bounte des femmes et de lur pronesces,” but I cannot find 
 any name of the author. 
 
 There is an account of the Roman de la Rose in Hallam, Mid. Age*, 
 ch. 9, part 2. 
 
 6. PsALTERIUM CUM CaLENDARIO ET RuBRICIS. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper, well written, wood binding. T. 0. S. 
 
 The rubrics are in Dutch. 
 
 7. (l) TrACTATUS BREVIS DE PRJEDIC ATIONE. 
 
 (2) S. H IERONYMI EPISTOL^E AD DeMETRIADEM ET EuSTOCHIUM, 
 
 (3) de 42 mansionibus Israel. 
 
 (4) Tractatus theologicus, cujus initium est, Ps. 45, v. 10. 
 
 (5) Glossa interlin. et comment, in Cantic. Canticorum. 
 
 (6) Dieta salutis cum tabula. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, wood binding. T. C. S. 
 
 (2) Epistola ad Demetriadem. There are two Epistles of this name extant ; 
 one genuine, written about 414, in Vol. 4, Benedictine Edition, and one 
 spurious, which Cave ascribes to Pelagius in Tom. 5 of the same edition. 
 
 Epistola ad Eustochium, on the same subject de custodia Virginitatis, 
 in Tom. 4, part 2. 
 
 (3) Epistola Critica ad Fabiolam, written post ann. 400, in Tom. 2, same 
 edition. 
 
 (6) There is a treatise of this name ascribed to Nicholaus de Hanapis, 
 a Frenchman, of the diocese of Rheims, in 1288, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 
 died in 1291. Also to one Gulielmus de Lancea, Aquitanus, ord. minor. 
 And another is a work of Cardinal Bonaventura (at least commonly attributed 
 to him). 
 
 8. (l) Philippus Spencer, Speculum Christiani, in English and 
 
 Latin. 
 
 (2) Tractatus duo Lat. sine titulo vel auctore. 
 
 MS. 8vo. vellum, poor condition. T. 0. S. 
 
 ( 1 ) Is principally in Latin, but there are portions in English, both verse 
 and prose interspersed. At the end of the tract is “Explicit tractatus qui 
 dicitur speculum Christiani per Philippum Spencerum compilatum cujus 
 animre propitietur Deus.” Tanner does not mention such a writer. There 
 is a treatise with the same name, liar l . MSS. 6580, ascribed to Roger Byrde, 
 and one anonymous, Camb. Univ. Libr. 1136, MS. The treatise is followed 
 by two symbolical ladders leading upwards and downwards, and a short 
 tract beginning ‘ Lerne and rede ye how thy bedde made shall be,’ in English. 
 
 In Cassianus de Instit. Monachor, (Coll. Libr. P. 3. 29, pp. 285, 188,) 
 there are two Seals Symbolics like these, ascribed to St Benedict. 
 
 9. Provinciale Romanum. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum. 
 
 9 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (56 
 
 It is a list of Cardinalates, Bishoprics, &c. throughout the Roman obe- 
 dience. There is no date about it, hut it mentions the following list of 
 kingdoms feudatory to Rome, viz. Jerusalem, Sicily, England, Arragon, 
 Hungary, Sardinia, which prevents it from being a very late composition. 
 See Nasmith’s Cat. C. C. C. 372. 
 
 10. Jo. Nider consolatorium TIMORATjE conscienti^e. 
 
 MS. 4 to. vellum, beautifully written. (I suspect T. 0. S.) 
 
 At end “ Exaratum quippe est hoc opusculum Parisiis per Magistrum 
 Petrum Le Dru, 1494, ultima die Januarii.” 
 
 Joannes Nider sive Nyder ex pago Sueviae, ord. Preedic., Prior conventus 
 Basileensis, etiam concilio Basileensi praesens interfuit. In the Strasbourg 
 edition he is called ‘ Conventualis Nurembergensis Prseceptor.’ La Caille, 
 Hist, de rimprim. p. 20. Jacobus Quetif, Tom. 1, p. 792, says he was alive in 
 1440, others say he died in 1438. He was a voluminous writer. See 
 Fabricius, B. M. et I. L. Lib. 9, p. 109. This work was published at 
 Strasbourg 147 G, at Paris, 1487, in 4to. and 1494, 8vo. It is singular there- 
 fore that a written copy should have been made when the book was 
 already printed, three times at least. 
 
 11. (l) Expositio Symboli Apostol. quam collegit quidam Doctor 
 
 secundum S. Thomam. 
 
 (2) Tractatus ejusdem de X pr^eceptis — et de Oratione Do- 
 minica. 
 
 (3) Peter Blesensis — de amicitia Christiana — et de Amore 
 Dei et proximi. 
 
 (4) Speculum Sti Eadmundi (sic) confessoris. 
 
 Summaria compilatio metrificata docens quid communius 
 
 ET UTILIUS CONTINETUR IN UNOQUOQUE CAPITULO TOTIUS BIBLIJE 
 UNUMQUODLIBET VERBCM UNIUS CaPITULI SENTENTIAM TENET. 
 
 Tabula denotans singulas Epistolas et Evangelia totius 
 
 ANNI. 
 
 Decretum abbreviatum. 
 
 MS. paper, 8vo. well bound, good condition. 
 
 (3) See Biblioth. Patrum, Lugd. p. 1209, and p. 1218, Tom. 24. In the 
 Paris edition, 1667, of which Oudin, Tom. 2, p. 1647, gives a summary. 
 There is Tractatus Duplex de Amicitia Christiana, p. 497, which very 
 probably answers to these two, as they are found together in the Bibl. Patr. 
 as mentioned above, of Peter Blesensis. See C. 5. 2. 
 
 (4) See E. 24. 3. 
 
 12. (l) Lilium medicine a B. de Gordonio. 
 
 (2) Liber Joh 3 . de S. Amando de conferentibus et nocentibus. 
 
 Index, at end of which ‘ Magistro Johanni de Palma.’ 
 
 MS. vellum, 4to. well bound. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) Bernardus de Gordonio, Medicus Montispellanus, defunctus circa 
 ann. 1305, cujus Lilium Mcdicinue MS. memorat Sanderus in Biblioth. Be/gica, 
 
IN TIIE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 G7 
 
 Tom. 2, p. 89. Scepe typis excusum est, post primam ed. Venet. 1494. At 
 the end of this copy is written “ Explicit Liber, Deo gratias, anno 1312.” 
 
 13. (l) FrAGMENTUM OPUSCULI DE . . . . NARRATIONIBUS QUJE DE MULTIS 
 
 LIBRIS AUTHENTICIS SUMPTJE SUNT ET IN CERTIS CAPITIBUS ORDI- 
 NATE — only 2 pages (mutilus in init.) 
 
 (2) De Decem preceptis — cum Tabula. 
 
 (3) De 7 peccatis mortalibus — cum prologo — in duas partes divis. 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, good condition, bound in wood. D. D. J. Holt. 
 
 (2) Begins with the 1st Commandment, after which ‘In hoc mandato 
 sicut liquet ex glosis divinis.’ 
 
 (3) The 'prologue begins thus: ‘ Quid am cujus nomen diversis ex causis 
 in hoc opusculo reticetur, compilavit quemquidem libmm ex multis...volu- 
 minibus, tractatibus et epistolis extractum, atque in unum volumen redactum, 
 grandi labore, multoque studio conscripsit; non solum pro sui ipsius utilitate 
 
 et consolacione sed ad aliorum rudorum et simplicium sibi similium vit;e 
 
 contemplationem vacantium.’ 
 
 14. A book of Alchemy, containing 
 
 (1) Notabilia ad hanc artem spectantia. 
 
 (2) Liber Marie sororis Moysi. 
 
 (3) Visio Johannis Dastyn de dono gratie, (anno 1311.) 
 
 (4) Visio Edwardi secretarii phie. 
 
 (5) Lilium Alchemie — de ordine procedendo (sic.) 
 
 (6) Liber Turbe Piiilosophorum — cum Indice. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper and vellum. D. D. W. Beale. 
 
 (3) Johannes Dastyn, sive Dastinus Philosophus Anglus. See Pitseus, 
 p. 853 and 871. This ‘Visio/ is in the Ashmolean MSS. At the beginning 
 is written 
 
 “Credibile est circen mutasse potentibus herbis 
 “Inque sues monachos in monacliosque sues." 
 
 (4) The margin is full of abusive notes of tile monks, in English. 
 
 (5) At the side is written, 
 
 “ Is this Flowrc a Monke’s weed? 
 
 “ A faire Lilly for so fowle a rowte.” 
 
 At end of the book, Explicit Liber, 10 Dec. 1479. Warton’s Eng. Poetry, 
 Vol. 2, p. 135, seq. gives some account of English Alchemists in the 15th 
 century. , 
 
 « 
 
 15. Novum Testamentum — Lat. cum Canonibus S. Simonis Abbas 
 
 DE S. ALBANO. 
 
 MS. 12mo. vellum, well bound. ‘Roberti Hare.’ 
 
 The order of the book is thus. Canones. Ep\ Hieronymi ad Damasum. — 
 Gospels and Acts, James, Peter 1 and 2, John 1, 2, 3, Jude, Apocalypse, 
 Romans to Hebrews in common order. Ep. to Laodiceans. 
 
 I find one Simon Soutraye, a monk of St Albans, circ. 1385. but Quere. 
 
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 16. (l) Chronica Alexand. Magni victoris totius orbis in XII 
 
 ANNIS. 
 
 (2) Liber de Situ et regibus Brittani.® et qui prim, eam 
 habitaverint — per Walterum Oxenf. Archidiaconum. 
 
 (3) Prophetia Aquil^e Septorii. 
 
 (4) Distinctio ejusdem. 
 
 (5) NaTHANIS J UD.EI LEGATIO AD TlBERIUM CeSAREM. 
 
 (6) Chronicon Henrici Huntingtoniensis, 12 Books. 
 
 (7) De omnibus sibillis et de nominibus earum et de origine 
 
 ET P ATRIA ET ACTIBUS EARUM A DIEBUS AlEXANDRI MaGNI. 
 
 (8) Historia Alexandri magni, Philippi Macedonis filii — 
 cum Epistola Alex, ad Aristotel. et historia de Gog et 
 Magog ab eo inter montes conclusis. 
 
 (9) Historia Anglorum et Saxonum juxta Mag m . Gatifredum 
 
 Y ITBIENSEM. 
 
 (10) Historia ejusdem Saracenorum et de Mahumeth. 
 
 (11) Cronica de Doctrina Gr^ecorum tripartita ab Adam 
 USQUE AD FrEDERICUM I. PER EUNDEM. 
 
 (12) De ordine et officio miss^: — quod unusquisque papa addi- 
 dit, a tempore Petri Apostoli usque ad Papam Clementem III. 
 
 (13) Li ber Methodii Episcopi de principio S^eculi. 
 
 (14) Liber ejusdem de Antechristo. 
 
 (15) TuRPINUS ArCHIEP. ReMENSIS de BELLO RoSCIDIVALLIS. 
 
 (16) Historia Daretis — a Graeco in Lat. translata per Cok- 
 
 NELIUM NEPOTEM CUM EpIST. EJUSDEM CoRNELlI AD CrISPUM 
 Salustium. 
 
 (17) Narratio ex libro qui Greece vo- \ 
 
 _ . . a Roberto Lmcolmensi 
 
 catur Suda, (1. e. Suidas.) } . 
 
 . ... VTT Episcopo, Lat. versa. 
 
 (18) Iestamenta All. 1 atriarcharum. J 
 
 MSS. 4to. vellum, well written, ‘ circ. 1250,’ says W. C. T. C. S. 
 
 (2) Godfrey of Monmouth is the author of this Chronicle, who was made 
 Bishop of St Asaph, 11.51, according to Matthew Paris. The name of Walter, 
 Archdeacon of Oxford, is introduced, on account of the following reason, 
 from the commencement of the history. The title is Historia Britonum ab 
 TEnea et Bruto ad mortem Cavalladri, (i. e. ann. 689.) Reges autem illorum, 
 qui ah illo tempore in Gualliis successerunt Carodolo Lancarbanensi con- 
 temporaneo meo in hac materia scribendo permitto. Reges autem Saxonum 
 Guilelmo Malmesburiensi et Henrico Huntendonensi, quos de regibus Bri- 
 tonum tacere juheo, cum non habeant ilium librum Brittanici sermonis quern 
 Gualterus Oxenofordensis Archidiaconus ex Brittania advexit, quern de his- 
 toria eorum veraciter editum in lionore Prsedictorum principum hoc modo 
 in Latinum Sermonem transferre curavi. The first version was in 4 Books 
 (as this MS. is). It was afterwards distributed into 8 and then 12 Books. 
 V. Tanner, Biblioth. p. 305. Fabricius, Bibl. M. et I, Lat. B. 7. 
 
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 (3) (4) (5) are only parts of (2). (5) occurs separately in Nasmith’.* 
 
 Cat. C. C. C. 196. 
 
 (6) Henricus Huntingdonensis, Archdeacon of Huntingdon wrote this 
 Chronicle, 1135, at the request of Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. 
 
 (7) The question of the ancient Sybils is learnedly discussed in Fabricius, 
 Bibl. Grcec. Lib. 1, c. 29. Of the present treatise I cannot give any account. 
 
 (9) Godfridus Viterbiensis presbyter, Conradi III. Frederici I. et Henrici 
 IV. imperatorum Capellanus et Notarius, post longinqua variaque per xl annos 
 itinera, locuplete linguarum rerumque comparata notitia, scripsit Memorias 
 ScEculorum sive Pantheon, sive Chronicon universale prosa partim, partim 
 metro, ab orbe condito usque ad ann. 1186 divisum in xx sectiones et dicatum 
 Urbano III. pap® ab ann. 1185 ad an. 1187. Fabricius, B. M. et I. L. B. 7- 
 
 (13) (14) I find no such works enumerated among those of Methodius, 
 Vol. 5. Fabricius, Bibl. Graeca, p. 255. They may probably be extracted 
 from the work called Apocalypsis, which however is not by Methodius, 
 but by some later hand. Perhaps (13) may be the book mentioned by Tri- 
 themius as the Liber Methodii de novissimis diebus. In the Univ. Libr. MSS. 
 1498, there is Liber Metodii Martiris Et episcopi Paterensis quern de Hebreeo 
 et Graeco in Latinum transferre curavit, i. e. de principio seculi et de regnis 
 gentium et fine seculorum, quern illustris. B. Hieronymus opusculis suis col- 
 laudavit. There is also the following notice of it in Nasmith’s Cat. C. C. C. 
 404. Hoc opus Methodio Paterensi minirne esse tribuendum, multis argu- 
 mentis evincit Cavesius; nec de autore, quicunque demum fuerit, opene pre- 
 tium erit disquirere, cum ipse codicem celitus demissum affirmat : “ Cum 
 sanctus Methodius captus fuisset et incarceratus pro confessione nominis 
 Cluisti, exoravit Dominum ut ostenderet ei quale fuit initium liujus saeculi 
 et quis finis venturus; quod cum obtinuisset a Domino, oblatum est ei per 
 angelum hoc scriptum Graecum et Hebraicum.” 
 
 (15) Turpinus Remensis. The history of Charlemagne usually attributed 
 to Turpin, Archbishop of Rheims in 773, and for nearly 40 years afterwards. 
 It seems agreed on all hands now that the title is spurious, and that some 
 other individual is the author (Fabricius conjectures Pope Calixtus II. on the 
 autli6rity of Oudin, Tom. 2, p. 1006. See Fabric, in Calixtus II.) Calixtus II. 
 was Pope from 1119 to 1124. At any rate this Pope commended the work. 
 Another conjecture is that the author lived about 1100, as there is mention 
 made of a legendary visit of Charlemagne to the Holy Sepulchre, and this 
 might very probably have been forged to promote the Crusades. It was 
 published at Frankfort, 1566, by Simon Schardius, and afterwards at Frank- 
 fort, 1584, and Hanov. 1619. 
 
 Lambecius, Tom. 2, p. 333, mentions the Latin MSS. of this work. There 
 was a great quarrel about it between Du Plessis-Mornai and Coeffeteau. 
 Vossius de Hist. Latinis, 2, 32, p. 299, asserted that Pope Calixtus had 
 confirmed it on the authority of Thos. James, who had it from the Fasciculus 
 Temporum of Wernerus Rolevinkus. Whereupon Du Plessis-Mornai, Mystere 
 d’ Iniquite, p. 279, makes this a charge against the Council of Rheims, 1119, 
 that they had confirmed a manifest imposture. Coeffeteau objects to the 
 authority of the Fascic. Temporum in the Repome au Mystere d’ Iniquite, 
 p. 754. See also the Jesuit Gretser’s answer to Du Plessis Mornai, in his 
 Examen. p. 375. See also Rivet Remarques sur la Reponse au Mystere 
 d' Iniquite, Tom. 2, p. 238. This story is told at length in Bayle’s Dic- 
 tionary, v. Turpin. 
 
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 (16) Daretis Historia a Cornelio Nepote translata. Dares, the Phrygian, 
 is mentioned by iElian Var. Hist. 9, 2, who says his Iliad was then extant, 
 (see also Eustath. Odyss. X. p. 453,) but it was considered spurious by better 
 judges than iElian. See Perizonius on iElian. Fabric. B. G. Lib. 1, c. 5. 
 
 It is only now known by this Latin version, which is evidently a late 
 production. It was the foundation of the metrical story of the fall of Troy, 
 written by Josephus Iscarius Devonius (who flourished 1210.) See Leyser, 
 Hist. Poem. Med. JEvi, p. 771. Vossius conjectures that the author lived 
 in the time of St Ambrose. See Conjectura 4, 50, de Idololatria. See also 
 Gronovius, Observat. Eccles. c. 25. and Perizonius Dissert, de Dictye. c. 37. 
 ( Fabricius , Bibl. Lat. Vol. 1, p. 71.) The work appeared in print at Milan, 
 1477. 
 
 (17) “ Assertio Virginitatis Divae Mari® e Graeco translata,” Leland. Bishop 
 Tanner adds, Lib. 1, Temporibus piisimi imp. Justiniani. Ita incipit narratio 
 ex libro qui Greece Suda vocatur, quem composuerunt viri sapientes, quam 
 transtulit Magister R. Lincoln, Episcopus, e Graeco in Latinuni, viz. De Vir- 
 ginitate et Foecunditate B. V. Mariae et de filio ejus Jesu qualiter electus est 
 in sacerdotem in Templum Domini. See Fabricius, B. G. 9. p. 622, and 
 p. 635- Fabric. Cod. Apocryph. JV.T. i. p. 371., ii. p. 547- Warton’s Hist, 
 of Eng. Poetry, Dissert. 2. p. 142. The MS. is in C. C. C. Libr. Nasmith’s 
 Cat. N°. 179, and in Trin. Coll. Libr. Cantabr. Pegge’s Life of Grosseteste, 
 p. 291. 
 
 (18) Testamenta XII. Patriarcliarum a Roberto Grosseteste Latine con- 
 versa prodiere Paris., 1549, 12mo. et in Biblioth. Patrum, Basil, p. 861. 
 Latine transtulit Lincolniensis, anno 1242, juxta Annales Londinenses MSS. 
 Sic etiam nota vetusta ad calcem exemplaris ipsius MS. in Trin. Coll. Cant, 
 quae sic liabet r nostris temporibus venerabilis Lincolniensis Episc. Robertus 
 anno Domin. Incam. 1242, illud scriptum a Graeco in Latinum, quibus 
 idiomatibus fuisse perhibetur peritissimus, assistente ei Clerico Elicherio ab 
 ecclesia B. Albani beneficiato, natione et conversatione Graeco, diligenter 
 transtulit et fideliter, Wharton, Angl. Sacr. Vol. 2. We are told by M. Paris, 
 that the version was de verbo in verbum. John of Tinmouth says, the Bishop 
 caused many things to be translated out of the Greek, and then mentions 
 the Testament, (Angl. Sacr. Vol. 2, p. 347,) but M. Paris is express that 
 the Bishop made the version himself, and these authors are easily recon- 
 ciled together, by supposing that his Lordship was assisted in the work, 
 as he very probably was. The book has been translated into French, Dutch 
 and English. The English version, by Arthur Golding, was printed by 
 John Daye near Aldersgate, 1581. Pegge’s Life of Grosteste, pp. 289, 290. 
 
 17. (1) S. Bernardi Sermones in Cantica, 86. 
 
 (2) DE PRjECEPTO et dispensatione ad duos Mona- 
 
 chos Carnotenses. 
 
 (3) S. Bernardi Epistola ad Robertum. 
 
 (4) Be Amore Dei. 
 
 (5) Exiiortationum ad Eugenium Papam, Libri 5. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum, well written. 
 
 (1)— (4) See D. 9. 
 
 (5) Libri V. de consideratione ad Eugenium III. Papam: valde probati 
 feruntur Pio V., Gregorio XIII., Urbano VII., Clementi VIII., ae novissime 
 Clementi XI. Fabricius, B. M. et I. L. Tom. 1, p. 228. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
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 18. Leonis Magni Papje Sermones. 
 
 MS. small 4 to. vellum, well written, bound in wood. T. 0. S. 
 
 The following is the list of the Sermons : 3 de ordinatione sua — 5 de Col- 
 lectis — 7 de Jejunio deeimi mensis — 10 de Nativitate Domini — 7 de Epiphania 
 — 12 de Quadragesima — omelia in Evang. sec. Lucam — 21 de Passione Domini 
 — 2 de Ascensione Domini — 3 de Sancto Pentecosten— 4 de Jejunio in Eb- 
 domada Pentecostes — 2 in natali aplrum. Pet. et Paul. — 1 in octava ejusdem 
 — 1 in natali Storum Machabeorum ( ! ) — 1 de Passione Sti. Laurentii — 9 de 
 Jejunio septimi mensis — omelia in Evang. sec. St Matth. — Leonis P. contra 
 heresin Euticen. in Basilica Stse Anastasis Virginis. 
 
 19. (l) A book of Sermons, in English, called ‘Liber Festinalis,’ 
 
 or ‘ Festivalis.’ 
 
 (2) The book called ‘ Quatuor Sermones.’ 
 
 (3) The manner of denouncing the greater Excommunication. 
 
 (4) The bidding of the bedes on the Sonday. 
 
 MS. small folio, paper, bound in wood. T. 0. S. 
 
 ( 1 ) At end, “ Finitum et completum extat hoc opusculum in celeberrima 
 
 civ Rothomagensi per magistrum Martinum Morin, 1499. Impensis Jo- 
 
 hannis Richardi.” Martin Morin first began to print at Rouen in 1494. See 
 Lacaille, Hist, de V Imprinierie, p. 39. 
 
 For an account of the contents of the whole of this MS., which was after- 
 wards printed by Wm. Caxton, see Dibdin s Typographical Antiquities, Vol. 1, 
 pp. 161—176. 
 
 (2) Contains an ‘ Exposition of the four parts of the Catecliisme,’ ac- 
 cording to a note in an old hand-writing. Dr Dibdin gives a more accurate 
 account of it. 
 
 (3) First orderd by Stephen Langton, Arch, of Canterb. See Dibdin. 
 
 (4) A sort of bidding prayer. 
 
 At end : “ Impressum est hoc opus impensis et sere Johannis Richardi 
 Mircatoris in civitate Rothomagensi.” (Rouen.) 
 
 20. Friar Sannal’s vision. 
 
 The book of spiritual love. 
 
 The book of the Passion of our Lord. 
 
 The Sermon of Tribulacion. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, beautifully written in old English. 
 
 21. The Eomaunce of the Pilgrimage of Man’s lyfe. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well written, bound in wood. T. 0. S. 
 
 Made at the Abbey of Chalice, (Qu. de Calceto or Pynham near Arundel], 
 vide Tanner s N. M., p. 224). At end, “ Here endes the Romaunce that a 
 Monke made off the Pilgrimage of the lyfe of manhede ... taken off the 
 Romaunce of the Rose ... wherein the art of lyfe is enclosed. 
 
 There is a copy of this work in the University Libr. F f. 5, 30 — “ Lyfe 
 of manhode which is made for good pilgrims that in this world such way 
 wole holde that he go to good hevene, and that he have of hevene the 
 joy.”... It is there called ‘The Romance of the Monk.’ 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 22. Postils on the Gospels — for the Sondayes after Trinitie 
 
 AND HOLYDAYES. 
 
 MS. 8vo. vellum, well written, ‘ Ex dono Magri Gent.’ 
 
 23 . The History of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, in metre. 
 MS. small 8vo. paper, written about 1487. 
 
 Written in Scottish verse by John Barbour, bom about 1326, was Arch- 
 deacon of Aberdeen in 1357, and died, aged about 1396. He wrote this 
 poem in 1375 ; about 1440, Bower or Bowmaker, the continuator of For- 
 dun’s Hist, of Scotland gives him this praise, Lib. 12, c. 9, speaking of 
 Robert Bruce: ‘ Magister Johannes Barbarii Archidiaconus Aberdenensis in 
 lingua nostra matema, diserte et luculenter satis ipsa ejus particularia gesta, 
 necnon multum eleganter peroravit.’ See Pinkertons edition of ‘ the Bruce,’ 
 the first genuine edition, from a MS. in the Advocate’s Libr. at Edinburgh, 
 dated 1489. In 3 vols. 12mo. London, 1790. 
 
 24. A Prayer Book, containing a Calendar — Morning and Even- 
 
 ing Prayer — The 7 Penitential Psalms — The 15 Psalms 
 of degrees — The Dirge and Placebo — Commendacion for 
 all Christen soules — The Psalms of the Passion. 
 
 A very handsome MS. 8vo. on vellum. 
 
 Written about 1300 says one note ; after 1377 says another, referring to 
 a note in the calendar, 16 July, where it is said, ‘ King Richard was crowned 
 1377.’ But this note appears, from the colour of the ink, to have been a 
 later addition to the MS., so that the first date may not be wrong. 
 
 25. (l) A Catechism in English, called Lucidarie. 
 
 (2) Comment on the Apocalypse. 
 
 (3) The passion of our Lord J. Christ. 
 
 (4) How the sacrament of the altar may be received wor- 
 thily ET DEVOUTLY. 
 
 (5) Commentary on Matthew. 
 
 Vellum, 8vo. well written. 
 
 ( 1 ) begins, “ Here begyneth a tretis yt is clepid Lucidarie, how a disciple 
 axith (sic) questiones of his maister and ye maister assortith him. Trans- 
 lated into English by Andrew Chertsey.” See Dibdin, Typ. Antiq. Vol. 1, 
 p. 343. 
 
 (2) Here endeth the Apocalips glosid into Eglish. 
 
 (3) ‘ Composed of Clemet a prieste of the chirche of Lamony.’ Qu. 
 whether the work of Clement prior of Langtlion, vide E. 24. Tanner s 
 Biblioth, p. 183, note, mentions an English MS. of his Concordance of the four 
 Evangelists. This MS. is a compilation of the gospel history of our Lord’s 
 passion from the four gospels. See Dibdin, Typ. Ant. Vol. 1, p. 343. 
 
 (4) Qu. whether by Sir T. More. Tanner, p. 534, Cf. with Nasmith, 
 Cat. C. C. C. 143. 
 
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 26. English translation of the following Books: Proverbs, Ec- 
 
 clesiastes, Song of Songs, W isdom, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, well written. 
 
 27. (Caret.) 
 
 28. Wicliffe’s Catechism, with Prologue, sometimes called “ W's. Pore 
 
 Caitiff:’ 
 
 MS. small 8vo. vellum, well written, full of notes, at beginning and 
 end in a Latin hand-writing. 
 
 The prologue begins, “ This tretis compilid of a pore caitiff.” There is 
 an account of it at the end of Le Bus Life of Wiclif, p. 440. 
 
 “ I pray you restore this booke to St John’s Librarie in Cambridge.” 
 
 There are two copies in the Univ. Libr. MSS. 135G, 1377. 
 
 29. Boethius de Consolatione, with Paraphrase, in English metre. 
 MS. folio, paper. 
 
 The Bodleian Catalogue contains under ‘ Boethius,’ a book printed in 1525 
 at the Abbey of Tavistock, Devonshire, ‘ by me Dan. Thomas Richard, monk 
 of the said monastery. To the instant desire of the right worshipful Squyre, 
 Mr Robert Langdon.’ A metrical paraphrase of Boethius in English. 
 
 Mr Ames conjectures that this Richard may be the same as the Paris 
 printer, T. Richard, subsequently. The R. Langdon is Langdon of Keverill, 
 Esq., near Looe, Cornwall. 
 
 This is the only notice 1 can find of any English paraphrase of Boethius 
 in metre. In the Univ. Libr. MSS. 1501, it is said to be by Johannes 
 Capellanus ; but see the following note from the end of Cat. MSS. Univ. 
 Library. 
 
 “ The editor of Tanner seems to consider Capellanus as a sirname, but I 
 rather think it derived from his office of chaplain or chantry priest. The 
 Bishop and Mr Hearne have also, on the authority of the Oxford MSS., 
 ascribed the same translation to John de Walton, Canon of Osney; for that 
 it is the same translation is evident from the date and beginning of the poem 
 being the same in both. See Tanner’s Biblioth. pp. 171, 753, Hearne’ s Pref. 
 to Camden’s Elizabetha, p. 133, and Glossary to Robert of Glocester, p. 707. 
 Now it is not improbable that this John, originally a chaplain or chantry 
 priest, might afterwards be admitted a regular Canon, and then assume the 
 name of Walton or de W altune, it being the custom for the regular clergy 
 on their admission to take new names, which were frequently derived from 
 the place of their nativity. The Bishop has further asserted that the tem- 
 poralities of the abbey were restored to John Walton, canon there, 31 
 Henry VI. or 145§ ; and we learn from Steven’s Supplement, that the said 
 John Walton was 20 years afterwards promoted to the see of Dublin; he 
 could not therefore be the translator of Boethius in 1409. Neither is it 
 possible, as the Bishop inadvertently asserts, that the translator should be 
 the John de Walton who exchanged the living of Stretton in 1381 and 
 died 1384.” Then follows an apology for the criticisms on the Bishop, at 
 the same time regretting he should have been occasionally too positive on 
 doubtful points. (Bowtell tells me these notes are by Dr Nasmith of Corpus 
 Christi College.) See also Warton’s Hist, of Eng. Poetry, Vol. 2, p. 34. 
 
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 30. A BOOK OF SHRIFTE AND PENANCE. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, well written. T. 0. S. 
 
 31. The History of the Patriarchs. 
 
 MS. 8vo. paper, well written. (Mutilus in fine.) 
 
 It begins, £ The Almighty everlasting in his power,’ and is a history of 
 the world from the creation to Jacob's death. 
 
 32. Robertus Lincoln, de Doctrina Cordis. 
 
 MS. very small, vellum, beautifully written, T. C. S. 
 
 ‘ De Doctrina Cordis,’ ‘ Preparate corda vestra,’ ‘ Hunc Tractatum edidit 
 Fr. Aloysius, Neapoli. 1607, 8vo. et Fr. Gerardo Leodiensi ascribit.’ Ant. Wood. 
 MS. Tanner, Biblioth. p. 347- The MS. is mentioned by Cave as in St 
 John’s College Library. Pegge’s Life of Grosseteste, p. 269. 
 
 It is found MS. in the New College Libr. Oxon. 119, and Cambridge Univ. 
 Libr. 57, 3. Tanner. 
 
 It has been also published under the name of Gerardus Leodiensis (Ord. 
 Prsedic. circ. ann. 1270) at Paris, 1605. It is in seven books, and purports 
 to be a commentary on 1 Sam. 7. 3. “ Septem dispositiones circa cor faci- 
 endos docens, multaque ad sdificationem pertinentia hinc et inde ex scripturis 
 colligens.” Henr. Gandavensis de script, eccles. c. 53. 
 
 There is a neat drawing at the beginning of the vol. The 7 books con- 
 tain 35. 7. 5. 6. 2. 3. 2. chapters respectively. 
 
 33. (l) S. H IER0NYMI EpISTOL^E, viz., 
 
 (a) Ad Eustochium. 
 
 (/3) Ad Damasum. 
 
 (7) Ad Oceanum de vita clericum — ad Julianum Diaconum Aquilei.® 
 
 — ad Paulum Presbyterum de Institutions clericorum — Ep. 
 Exhortatoria ad Heliodorum Episcopuji— ad S. Augustinum. 
 
 (2) Gtalfridi Monumethensis Historia Britonum. - 
 
 (3) Portiforium precum. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum. T. C. S. 
 
 (1) ( 7 ) is a spurious epistle. See Bened. Ed. Tom. 5. Epist. Series 3. 
 
 (2) See G. 16, 2. 
 
 (3) Consists of Litany and prayers, another Litany, ordo visitandi in- 
 firmos. Burial service with chaunts and divers prayers, all in Latin. 
 
 34. MlSSALE, PRyECIPUE AD USUM SaRUM. 
 
 MS. 8vo. vellum, well written, with rubric, and illuminated capitals, 
 and musical notes. D. D. Oliv. Dand. 
 
 The second mass is called missa de nomine Christi, with this introduc- 
 tion : — 
 
 “ Quicunque hanc missam subscriptam celebraverit vel celebrari fecerit 
 per triginta dies veneris habet pro qualibet missa xxx u millia annorum 
 indulgentise concessa a Domino Papa Bonifacio. Item, decimo nono die 
 mensis Julii anno Dmi. M.CCCCXI. Robertus Episcopus Sarum in suo 
 castro de Schirbam concessit omnibus vere confessis et contritis, diccntibus 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 7 5 
 
 vel audientibus, in vi feria, istam missam de hoc nomine Jhu quadraginta 
 dies indulgentise quotiens tociens esse dixerit et audierit, perpetuis temporibus 
 duraturis.” 
 
 There is also before this the missa de 5 vulneribus Christ!. 
 
 35. A BOOK OF CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE, in 93 dl S . 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum. T. C. S. 
 
 It begins, ‘ Ghostely brother in J. C., I pray thee that in the calling 
 wherewith our Lord hath called thee to his service.’ At the end is ‘ Forma 
 sit luec vitae, quam scripsi nunc sine lite.’ 
 
 36. “The Birle abridged — by the author of ‘The Office of a Justice 
 
 of the Peace. 1 Mich. Dalton. Donum amicissimi viri J. Perkins, 
 S. T. B.” Tn the hand-writing of T. Baker. 
 
 MS. 8vo. paper, in old parchment cover. 
 
 Michael Dalton was born in Cambridgeshire 1584, and studied Law at 
 Lincoln’s Inn. The work of the office of the Justice of the Peace has gone 
 through many editions. He died before the beginning of the civil wars. 
 Fuller’s Worthies, p. 159. 
 
 See Granger’s Biographical Hist, supplement to 1st ed. p. 137. Mr Granger 
 says he is probably the lawyer, c Mr Dalton,’ mentioned in Neal’s Hist, of 
 the Puritans, Vol. 1, p. 511. 
 
 The Biographical Dictionary (English) mentions a MS. by him in the 
 British Museum on a subject rather akin to the present one. 
 
 H. 
 
 1. (i) H igden’s Polychronicon, translated into English by 
 John de Trevisa, preceded by 
 
 (2) A Dialogue between Miles and Clericus, and 
 
 (3) Sermo domini Archiepiscopi Armachani. 
 
 And a copious Index to the Polychronicon. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, beautifully written, with illuminated capitals and 
 gilt letters, frequently interspersed. Ex dono Magistri Baile de 
 Newington in agro Middlesex, 1674. 
 
 ( 1 ) See A. 12. John de Trevisa was a Cornishman, Chaplain to the Earl 
 of Berkely, at Berkely in Glocestershire, where there is every reason to 
 suppose he was a sedulous cultivator of his native language. The trans- 
 lation of Higden by Trevisa was completed in 1387. It was printed by 
 Caxton, 1482, folio, of which there is a copy in the College Library be- 
 queathed by Mr Baker. See Dibdin, Typ. Ant. Vol. 1, p. 138. 
 
 (2) This dialogue appears to be different from that in the printed edition. 
 
 10—2 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP TIIE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 7<> 
 
 (.3) This is mentioned by Dibdin among the translations of John de 
 Trevisa, ‘ a translation of the Latin Sermon of Radulf, or Fitz-Rauf, Arch- 
 bishop of Armagh, Nov. 8, 1357.’ Among the Hurl. MSS. 1900. It is 
 against the mendicant Friars. Vide Dibdin, Typ. Antiq. Vol. 1, p. 141. 
 
 2. Virgilius — Bucolica, Georgica, AEneidos Libri XII. 
 
 Maphei Veggii Liber XIII us . AEneidos. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, beautifully written, with illuminations. “ Liber R. 
 Nykke, Epi Norwicens.” “ Ex dono domini Shillotor Atturnia 
 forum Camerse Stellatse unius, Dec. 17, 1 624.” 
 
 Mapheus Veggius ex Laude Pompeia Laudensis, Martini V. Paps Datarius, 
 diem obiit Romae, 1458. Scripta ej us extant in Supplement, ad Bibl. Patrum, 
 Colon. — et in Bibl. Patrum, Lugdun, Tom. 26. Supplementum libri xii. 
 /Eneidos Virgiliame, Ssepe prodiit in variis Virgilii editionibus (as in that 
 of Pulmann, Antwerp, 1561,) et Gallice translatum per Petrum le Mouchant. 
 Fabricius, B. M. et L. B. 12. 
 
 He also wrote a poem on the death of Astyanax, and four books on the 
 golden fleece, both published together by Francisc. Modius, Cologne, 1589, 
 besides other poems. Id. and Mansi’s note. 
 
 In the Biblioth. Latina, Fabricius speaks of the present as no despicable 
 work. 
 
 The Bishop’s name mentioned as on the fly leaf, (at the end,) is most pro- 
 bably Richard Nix, Bishop of Norwich, who died January 1536. See Collier’s 
 Eccl. Hist. Vol. 4, p. 374, (new ed.) Vol. 2, p. 130, fol. edition. He was 
 the Bishop that punished the poet Skelton for his bufFooneries in the pulpit 
 and his satirical ballads against the mendicants. Ant. Wood says, Skelton 
 was punished by the Bishop “for having been guilty of certain crimes, 
 as most poets are.” 
 
 3. Antiquity Revived, setting forth the ancient and brimary 
 
 HABITATIONS, ORIGINALS AND DESCENTS, OF THE NoBILITY, BaRONY 
 
 and Gentry in the realme of England and principality 
 of Wales, according to the several Counties, with other 
 notes and observations of antiquity. By Richard Butcher, 
 Gent. 
 
 MS. folio, paper, with a picture of the author in the 61st year of his 
 age, a. d. 1648. 
 
 Mr Richard Butcher was town-clerk of Stamford, in Lincolnshire, of which 
 he published an Antiquarian History in 1646. It was afterwards continued 
 by him to 1660, and intended to have been re-published, but was not till it 
 tell into the hands of Mr Francis Peck, Rector of Godeby, in Leicestershire, 
 who re-printed it in 1727 at the end of his ‘Antiquarian Annals of the Town 
 of Stanford,’ folio. I cannot find that the present work was ever pub- 
 lished. Mr Peck does not speak highly of Butcher’s abilities (see Pref. to 
 his Book, p. 12,) so we may the less regret that the present work has not 
 seen the light. 
 
 4. The third part of Antiquity Revived, containing those of Scot- 
 
 land, Ireland, and the Tsles which lie within the British Ocean. 
 By Richard Butcher, Gent, ut supra. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 5. The Pistell of Othea the goddess to Hector, when he was 
 15 yere of age, with Prologue addressed to ‘ Homfray, cousin to 
 the King, Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Hereford, Stamford and 
 Northampton.’ 
 
 Fables consisting of Texte, Glose and Allegorie. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, in English. The first few pages have some most 
 carefully executed drawings, which are very handsome. In old wood 
 binding. 
 
 I think the person to whom this is dedicated must be Humfrey, Duke 
 of Glocester, as he was Earl of Buckingham before he was created Duke 
 of Glocester, and was c Cousin to the King.’ See Froissart, Vol. 2, c. 48, 
 Vol. 3, c. 45. 
 
 Warton has given an account of Duke Humfrey in the Hist, of Eng. Poetry , 
 Vol. 2, p. 44, et seq. 1 think this MS. must have belonged to him, as it 
 contains such rich illustrations, and he appears to have had many such 
 presented to him. “ Multos codices, pulcherrime pictos ab abbatibus done 
 accepit.” Leland, quoted by Warton. 
 
 1 have since accidentally fallen on a few lines referring to the subject of 
 this MS. in Warton’ s account of Lydgate, where, speaking of his poem on tin 
 Siege of Troy, and remarking how late it was before Greek was known 
 in Western Europe, “yet,” says he, “some ingenious French critics have 
 insinuated that Homer was familiar in France very early, and that Christina 
 of Pisa, in a poem never printed, written in 1398, and entitled ‘ L’Epitre 
 d’ Othea d Hector,’ borrowed the word Othea, or wisdom, from w tiea in 
 Homer, a formal appellation by which that poet often invokes Minerva.” 
 This MS. is called in the Brit. Museum “ La Chevalerie Spirituelle de c-e 
 Monde.” Warton, Vol. 2, p. 85. 
 
 f 6. (l) Venerabilis Bedte presbiti Expositio Apocalypsis, with 
 Prologue and Preface. 
 
 (2) .Gennadii Massilie pbti Tractatus de 1000 annis et de 
 Apocalypsi B. Johannis. 
 
 (3) Fulcardi vita beatissimi Botulphi Abbatis. 
 
 TRANSLATIO ejusdem. 
 
 (4) AmBROSII LIBER DE UTILIT ATE ET LAUDE STI JEJUN1I. (Mllti- 
 
 lus in fine.) 
 
 MSS. 4to. vellum. (I think T. 0. S.) Well written, bound in wood. 
 
 (1) Cum Prologo ad fratrem Eusebium de septem ejus Periochis et 
 septem ad earn intelligendam regulis Tychonii, in Tomo V. Oper. Bed® 
 Venerab. Colon. 1688, p. 761—816. Hunc Commentarium, in quo Primasium 
 etiam secutum se, Beda non diffitetur plurimi faciunt, N. Zegerus notis in 
 N. T. et Rich. Simon, Tom. 3, Histoire Critique du N. T. p. 345. Fabricius , 
 Bibl. M. et I. L. Book 2. 
 
 (2) Gennadius of Marseilles , ante an. 495. This treatise is enumerated 
 among the opera deperdita, by Cave and Fabricius, 
 
 (3) In Cotton. MSS. Tiber, D. 3, 53. There were two persons of the 
 name of Folcardus, placed by Gudin in 1050 and 1060. The one to whom 
 he doubtfully attributes this fife was a monk of Canterbury. See F. 24, 2. 
 
7« 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (4) The same as the Treatise De Elia et Jejunio, Benedict, ed. Vol. 1, 
 p. 535. The defect at the end is only in the last section, viz. the 85th. 
 The Benedictine Editors say that the title is frequently found in the MSS. 
 as above. 
 
 7. Concilium Constansiense. 
 
 MS. folio, paper and vellum, well bound, and well written. 
 
 The Council of Constance, held in 1414 — 1418. The principal acts of 
 this Council were as follows (from Sir II. Nicholas) in the first Session, 
 16 Nov. it was decided that deputies and lay doctors should have a deli- 
 berative voice; in the second, 2 March, 1415, the Pope solemnly published 
 his act of cession. Third Session, 26 March, the Council was declared to 
 be lawful. 29 May, Pope John XXIII. was deposed. 4 July, Gregory XII. 
 abdicated. In the seventh Session, 2 May, 1415, Wiclif was condemned. 
 6 July, 1415, John Huss was condemned to be burnt. 11 Nov. 1417, Otho 
 Colonna was elected Pope by the name of Martin V. The Council ended 
 22 April, 1418. This is an authentic copy of the acts of the Council, with 
 this title : “ Incipiunt capitula omnium actitorum et decretorum generalis 
 Concilii Constant, dictim. a principio usque in fine ejusdem juxta formam 
 per notarios de singulis nationibus per decretum ejusdem concilii ad hoc 
 deputatos expresse notatam.” 
 
 8. W hittaker’s Ecclesiastical Polity, in Latin. 
 
 MS. folio, paper, well bound. 
 
 This is Dr Whittaker, the celebrated controversialist, bom 1548, died 
 1595, having been Master of St John’s before he was 40. Baker’s MS. Hist, 
 of St John’s College, folios 221 , 223, from which comes the following extract 
 referring to the present MS. 
 
 “ When he commenced B.D. one of his questions was ‘ Disciplina Eccle- 
 siastics non est a sacris fontibus eruenda.’ There is a treatise without a title 
 amongst our MSS. on this subject ; whether it might not be composed by him, 
 I leave to others to enquire, but it has been wrote about this time, and by no 
 common pen. If it leans towards Erastianism, that to me is no objection, 
 for so did several of the Heads (and other Divines) at that time.” MS. Baker, 
 folio 223, in Hist, of Dr Whittaker, 16th master. 
 
 Whittaker’s Life is in Fuller’s ‘Abel Redivivus,’ pp. 401 — 408. 
 
 9. («) Vita Johannis Barwick, Ecclesi,e Sti Pauli apud Lon- 
 
 donienses Decani et Coll. St Joiiannis apud Cantabr. olim 
 
 Socii a Petro Barwicko ejusdem Coll, olim alumno con- 
 
 SCRIPTA. 
 
 MS. folio, paper, with an appendix signed ‘John Barwick.’ 
 
 Hand writing of Mr Baker. ‘ Donum ornatissimi viri Johannis Wood- 
 ward, M.D. et in Collegio Greshamiensi Medicime Professoris.’ 
 
 Dean Barwick was in the King’s interest during the Rebellion. He was 
 born April 28, 1612, at Wetherslack in Westmoreland, was educated at 
 Sedburgh school, went to Cambridge and entered St John’s 1631, Dean of 
 Durham 1670, Dean of St Paul’s 1671 ; he was also Rector of Therfield, 
 in Hertfordshire, where he died October 2, 1674. The writer of this Life 
 was his brother, who was M.D. and one of the physicians to King Charles II . 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 7!) 
 
 appointed in 1670. He began this history of his brother in 1681, died 
 Sept. 4, 1689. This is His own MS. which he gave to Dr Woodward, and 
 which was sometime kept in the Library of St Martin at Westminster. It 
 was published in 1721, ‘ Typis Gulielmi Bowyer, Londini,’ with an appendix 
 containing the letters in the two following MSS., by H. Bedford, formerly 
 Fellow of St John’s College, in 8vo. p. 464, with a copious Index ; the 
 Presentation Copy of the author to the Library of St John’s, is to be found 
 there, C. 9, 29. Mr Bedford says in his Preface, p. a. 3, that he collated 
 this MS. with the following one. An English Edition by the same author 
 was published in 1724. Hilkiali Bedford was ‘ Ejected’ at the same time 
 that Baker was, or perhaps rather before. They were on very friendly 
 terms. See Masters’ Memoir of T. Baker, p. 49. 
 
 9 ( b ) Idem Liber. 
 
 Three Letters of King Charles II. in his own hand writing. 
 
 A receipt for £100, signed ‘Charles R.’ 
 
 MS. tto . well written, on paper. 
 
 This Copy was made by the author’s directions for the Library of St John’s, 
 and seems from Mr Bedford’s collation to be the corrected copy of the former. 
 It appears from the Preface to the printed edition that the Editor got into 
 trouble with the Barwick family for having ventured to use both MSS., the 
 family considering this to be the genuine copy and not the former. See 
 Pref to Eng. Ed. of Berwick’s Life. 
 
 !0. A Collection of Letters to and from Dean Barwick, as follows: 
 Lord Chancellor Hyde to B. 4 May, 1659, received May 25. indorsed 
 May 7. 
 
 Lord Chancellor Hyde to B. supersc. (for Mr Burdon), 4 June, 1659, 
 received May 31. 
 
 Lord Chancellor Hyde to B. supersc. (for Mr Brookes), 12 June, 1659. 
 Dean Barwick to Lord Chancellor Hyde, 21 June, 1659. 
 
 The Cypher for the following Letters. 
 
 Lord Chancellor Hyde to Dean B. in cypher, 27 June, 1659. 
 
 , Next to this is the copy written out at length in the Dean’s hand. 
 
 Lord Chancellor Hyde to Dean B. 8 June, ( should be July, note in the 
 Dean’s writing.) 
 
 Lord Chancellor Hyde to Dean B. 25 July. 
 
 Ditto to ditto 28 July 
 
 Dean Barwick to Lord Chancellor Hyde, 15 September, 1659. 
 
 Lord Chancellor Hyde to the Dean, 25 September. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 to 
 
 ditto 
 
 29 ditto. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 to 
 
 ditto 
 
 17 October. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 to 
 
 ditto 
 
 21 November. 
 
 Ditto 
 
 to 
 
 ditto 
 
 28 ditto, and the 
 
 Dec. 5, Dec. 26, Jan. 12, 1660, Jan. 14, Jan. 16, Jan. 22, Feb. 20, March 8, 
 April 2, April 16, April 22, the last two from Breda, the others from Bruxelles. 
 
 VI Instructions for our Commissioners within the City of London, 
 and the libertyes thereof, signed ‘Charles II.’ without date, but belonging 
 to the year 1659. 
 
 A Parchment warrant, dated Bruxelles, 14 Jan. 1660. It was intended 
 for Sir Thomas Middleton, as appears from Chancellor Hyde’s Letter of 
 the same date, and appoints him Commander in Chief of the Counties of 
 N. Wales. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 A List of the King’s Chapel Plate, 34, Appendix. 
 
 The Address of the County of Northampton to General Monk, 
 35, Appendix. 
 
 The Memorandum signed Tho. Holder, p. 94. 
 
 A letter dated Jan. 10, without signature. Appendix 35. 
 
 Memoranda, Appendix, N°. 37. 
 
 Folio, paper. 
 
 Many of the letters have still the seals adhering to them. They are all 
 published in the Appendix to the Life of J. Barwiek, above mentioned. 
 All Lord Chancellor Hyde’s letters are in the same hand writing, probably 
 his own, and all the deciphered copies in the Dean’s hand. 
 
 11. (l) Isidori Archiep. Hispal. Libri Etymologiarum XX, CUM 
 
 Ep a . ad Braulionem. 
 
 (2) Isidori Archiep. Hispal. de summo bono Libri III. cum 
 indice. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well written, a handsome MS. with very curious 
 initial letters. Ex dono Mag ri Hugonis Williams filii Gruffini Wil- 
 liams de Penrhyn, Arm. 1651. 
 
 “ Liber Ecclesise Sti Jacobi de Wigemore. Si quis ilium ab eodem monas- 
 terio aberravlt aut hunc titulum maliciose delavlt, anathema sit donee resi- 
 piscat et dignam satis factionem premat.” 
 
 Wigmore, a college of Herefordshire, founded by Ralph de Mortimer, 
 a.d. 1100, changed by his Son 1197 into a priory, under the patronage of 
 S. James. Tanner , Not. Mon. p. 85. 
 
 See B. 20. 2. D. 13. 1. F. 16. 1. 
 
 (1) is the most useful of all his works. Its value has been doubted by 
 Christopher Beckmann, and Salmasius, ad Hist. August, p. 28, ‘ quem tamen 
 in multis defendendum alii eruditi docuere vid. Nic. Anonium, Tom. 1, 
 p. 251, seq.’ Fabric. B. M. et I. Lat. B. 9. 
 
 12. Statuta Ecclesi/E Menevensis. 
 
 MS. folio, paper. 
 
 “This book was given to St John’s College by Thomas Watson, D.D., 
 sometime Fellow of the said College, and consecrated Bishop of St David’s 
 1687. The same reverend person gave the College the patronage of two 
 livings, Brinkley and Fulbourn St Vigors, both in the Diocese of Ely, together 
 with some coins and medals of good value.” 
 
 “ He has since given the patronage of Brandsburton. Com. Ebor.” 
 
 “ I have compared this Copy with the original statutes in several par- 
 ticular chapters, and find it to be exactly taken.” T. Baker. 
 
 “ This MS. is very valuable, for the original or most authentic copy from 
 whence it was taken, though it were wrote on parchment, yet was so eaten 
 with moisture or wasted with age when I saw it, that it cannot be preserved 
 long, and can hardly ever be copied again with equal certainty and exact- 
 ness.” T. Baker. 
 
 All these notes are in Mr Baker’s own hand-writing. The volume is in 
 perfect preservation. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 81 
 
 13. Breviarium. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, most handsomely written and ornamented with draw- 
 ings and painted borders in the most finished style. ‘ Ex dono 
 Thomse Gardiner, Armigeri.’ 
 
 14. (l) Not^e Thomse Smithi in Epist. duas S. Olementis ad Corinth. 
 
 (2) Copy of Petition to Queen Elizabeth for confirming the 
 Book of Articles, 1566. 
 
 (3) The Earl of Manchester’s Letter to the President and 
 Fellows of St John’s College for ejecting Dr Beale, then 
 Master, 13 March, 1643, (parchment.) 
 
 (4) A copy of a Letter written in Cardinal Wolsey’s own- 
 hand to King LI enry VIII. ‘which I transcribed from a copy 
 taken of it by Archbishop Abbott, for he endorsed it thus with 
 his own hand,’ “ The original I sent back to the office of the King’s 
 Papers.” ‘ Ita est, G. Cantuar, April 17, 1616.’ 
 
 Wolsey’s Letter dated at ‘my house besides Westminster, 5 Feby.’ 
 (no year.) 
 
 (5) A Copy of a dispensation from Cardinal Pole for Gossips 
 to Marry, dated prid. Kal. Junii, 1556. 
 
 (6) A Transcript of a paper thus endorsed in Archbishop 
 Laud’s own hand, June 12, 1637, a Transcript out of my 
 Registry concerning the 20th article of those that were 
 made, 1562. 
 
 loose papers tied together. 
 
 (1) This was very probably Baker’s friend, Dr Thomas Smith, of Mag- 
 dalene College, Oxon. See Master s Memoir of Baker, p. 47- 
 , (2) There are no signatures to this. 
 
 (3) The Right Hon. Edward, Earl of Manchester, in pursuance of an 
 ordinance of Parliament for regulating and reforming the University of 
 Cambridge: on the 11 April, 1644, he forcibly intended John Arrowsmith. 
 Dr Beal died at Madrid, having Lord Edward Hide and Lord Cottington 
 in their embassy as Chaplain, apparently in 1651. Extract from Baker’s 
 MS. Hist, of St John’s College, folios 259 and 262. 
 
 (4) Is published in Dr Hymer’s Edition of the Funeral Sermon of Lady 
 Margaret, by Bishop Fisher, p. 262. 
 
 (5) This shews that Cardinal Pole then exercised his Legatine authority, 
 though at variance with the Pope. He had been elected Chancellor of 
 Cambridge, 1 April, 1556. 
 
 (6) It is hardly necessary to refer to any place for the accounts of this 
 controverted passage. See however Collier’s Feel. Hist, in the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth, and Hr Lamb’s Hist, of 39 Articles. 
 
 15. (l) I. Overall, Episc. Norwic. de Statu questionum V inter 
 
 Remonstrantes et contra Remonstrantes controversarum. 
 
 11 
 
82 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (2) Sir Thomas Browne, M.D. Religio Medici. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “Ex dono venerabilis viri Bambridge Dean hujus 
 Coll. olim. alumni,” in Mr Baker’s writing. 
 
 (1) “John Overall, bishop of Norwich, died 1618. He was master of 
 Cath. I-Iall, and King’s Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. He was a 
 strong genius, made a great improvement in study, and was reckoned one 
 of the most learned controversial divines of his time.” Collier’s Eccl. Hist. 
 
 Natus 1559, admissus 1575, in Coll. Job. sed an. seq. migravit ad Coll. 
 SS. Trin. 1577, admissus ibi Socius 1581, Theol. Bac. 1591, Professor, 1594, 
 Preeses. Aul. Cath. 1598, Consecratus Licli. et Cov. 1614, Norwic. 1618, 
 mortuus 1619, 12 Maii. Juvenis admodum venit in amicitiam Petri Baronis 
 indeque didicit de decretis divinis modeste sentire et caute loqui: mediam 
 iniit viam, progressurus forte ulterius nisi Baronis vestigia deterruissent, quod 
 si controversiam istam non plane dilucidavit aut penitus exliausit (quis enim 
 sufficit istis) viam certe stravit posteris. Sententia ejus de prsedestinatione, 
 brevis quidam ilia sed dilucida et explicata excusa extat, ann. 1631, una cum 
 articulis Lambethanis. Baker’s Catalog. Episc. qui e Coll. Div. Joh. Ev. 
 prodierunt. 
 
 (2) There were two Editions of this celebrated work. Sir T. Browne, it 
 appears, wrote it in 1635, and never intended it for the press, having com- 
 posed it only for his own exercise and amusement. He had however com- 
 municated it to his friends, and by some means or other a copy fell into a 
 printer’s hand, who published it 1642 ; and it excited general attention. The 
 Earl of Dorset recommended it to Sir Kenelm Digby, who returned his 
 judgment of it in a book of critical disquisition on its contents. Sir Thomas 
 was induced by this to publish a more correct edition, which had much 
 success. I have compared this with an old edition called Sir Kenelm Digby ’s 
 Edition, from which it varies in many particulars ; but I am uncertain, from 
 not having ready means of reference, which Edition it agrees best with. 
 See Dr Johnson’s Life of Sir T. Browne, Talboy’s and Pickering’s Ed. 
 Vol. 6, p. 475. 
 
 There is an old Cavalier’s song at the end, thus: 
 
 I. 
 
 Cursed bee that Cavaleer 
 That eyther droop or feare. 
 For so the King be great, 
 
 Als one to mee; 
 
 By what mysterie in State, 
 Or chemistry in Fate 
 So ere it bee, 
 
 If good to him, tis so to me. 
 
 II. 
 
 Courage, be firme and smile, 
 
 Tis wisedome yet a while ; 
 
 Yet lets not be like some, 
 
 Who shrink and start, 
 
 As votes pass to and from 
 The Speaker 1 and Sir Tom 2 
 To eyther part ; 
 
 Wee know that dawbing is in art. 
 
 III. 
 
 Whilst two 3 are in a ffray. 
 
 Ye third may catch ye prey ; 
 
 O may that proverb hold ! 
 
 Yet if by Foes 
 
 Charles to his crown of gold 
 Bee brought, I dare bee bold 
 To honour those. 
 
 Not for the action, but the close. 
 
 16. Holy Bible — printed Book, by Richard Grafton, Lond. 1541. 
 Folio. 
 
 1 Lentall. 
 
 2 Sir Thos. Fairfax, then Generali. 
 
 Parliament and Army. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN S COLLEGE. 
 
 83 
 
 There is a deficiency at the beginning to nearly the end of Gen. c. 24, 
 and at the end part of a Table for finding the Epistles and Gospels is wanting. 
 
 I do not know why this book has found its way into the lock-up case, as 
 there are several equally valuable early printed bibles in the Library, viz. : 
 Coverdale, 1535 (T. 4. 19.); Taverner, 1539 (T. 5. 2.); Matthew, 1637 
 (T. 4. 15.) ; Grafton, 1540 and 1541 (T. 3. 18 — 3. 24.); Whitchurche, 1549 
 (T. 4. 18.); Taverner, 1549 (T. 4. 24.); Daye, 1549 (T. 4. 21.); Matthew, 
 1551 (T. 3. 28.); Coverdale, 1509 (T t. 9. 10.) ; Queen Elizabeth, (Rouen), 
 1550 (T. 1. 16.); Barker, 1572 (T. 1. 11. and 4. 2.); Barker, 2 Vols., 1577 
 
 (T. 5. 34. 35.) ; Barker, 1582 (S. 5. 35.) ; Barker, 1599 
 
 10 . 22 . 
 
 17. Proclamations and Proceedings in Parliament, beginning 
 24 March 1602, and continued to the Prorogation, on account of 
 the Plague in 1610 or 1611. 
 
 MS. thick folio volume, paper, the gift of Dr Kennedy, Master of 
 Shrewsbury School. 
 
 Hume says the journals of the Session 1610 are lost. See Vol. 4, p. 272. 
 This MS. may perhaps supply some of the missing papers, but it appears 
 to contain only occasional acts, &c., not any continued succession of docu- 
 ments. 
 
 18. S. Chrysostom i PI omilia5 — Calendis habita cum non venisset in pub- 
 licum eo die Episcopus Antiochiie Flavianus contra eos qui novilunia 
 observant, et in civitate choros ducunt et in dictum Apostoli ‘ omnia 
 in gloriam Dei facite.’ Latine versa a J. Cheke, with Dedication 
 to Henry VIII. dated 1543. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. 
 
 “This Book is in Sir John Cheke’s own hand (which I have often seen), 
 
 , and was probably the same book that was presented to the King, or at least 
 to some courtier or man of quality.” T. Baker’s writing. 
 
 John Choice, born at Cambridge 1514, fellow of King’s, Public Orator, and 
 then Provost of King’s, was made a Canon on the original foundation of 
 Christ Church, Oxon. by Henry VIII., was afterwards Reg. Professor of 
 Greek at Cambridge, made a Knight 1551. Tutor to King Edward VI. 
 In Queen Mary’s time he was exiled, and travelled abroad, was made Pro- 
 fessor of Greek at Strasburg, but he was afterwards seized by King Philip 
 at Brussels, and sent over to England to the Tower; he is there said to 
 have recanted before Cardinal Pole, and so obtained his liberty. He died 
 in London, 1557. Tanner’s Bibliotli. 
 
 There is no doubt about Cheke’s recantation. In the MSS. of C. C. C., 
 see Nasmith’s Cat. 102, 25, there is his letter to Cardinal Pole, begging him 
 to receive him again into the Church, dated 15 July, 1656. There is also 
 in the same volume a treatise on the Real presence in Cheke’s own hand. 
 
 This Latin translation was published by Reyner Wolf, London, 1543. It 
 was translated into English, and published by Thos. Chaloner at Berthelet’s, 
 1544, according to Mr Baker’s notes. 
 
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84 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 1.9. JOHANNIS ChRISTOPIIERSONI TrAGCEDIA GRA2CA QU JR VOCATUR 
 
 ‘Jephtha, 1 with Dedication to Cuthbert, Bishop of Durham. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. 
 
 John Christopher son was born at Ulverston, in Lancashire; was first at 
 Pembroke Hall, then at St John’s College, B. A. in 1540, elected a fellow 
 on Mr Ashton’s Foundation, May 9, 1542. He was named a Fellow of Trinity 
 College in the Charter of Foundation, and became Master in 1553 when 
 Dr Bill was ejected in Queen Mary’s time. He was one of the Queen’s 
 confessors, was made Dean of Norwich, 1554, and Bishop of Chichester, 1567, 
 died in 1558. His Latin versions of several Greek books are said to be very 
 inaccurate. (See Biogr. Univ.) The particulars of his University career 
 are given from a note of Mr Baker. 
 
 This book was formerly the property of ‘ Henricus Knewstub.’ The tra- 
 gedy was also written in Latin. 
 
 20. Liber Valorum omnium beneficiorum Anglic et Wallin. 
 
 MS. folio, paper, written a.d. 1627. 
 
 In the University Library MSS. there is a copy of this work made by one 
 Francis Heve, Scholar of St John’s College, for which the University paid 
 £4., and which after passing through two other hands finally arrived at 
 its destination. It was very probably copied from this. See the Catalogue. 
 
 21, 22, 23. Fabri Thesaurus cum notis MSS. Adriani Beverlandi, 
 
 3 Vols. 
 
 Folio, printed book with interleaved pages, containing many MS. notes. 
 
 Adrian Beverland was an Advocate at Middlebourg, born in 1653 or 1654, 
 but he neglected his profession to apply himself to classical literature. He 
 appears to have been an immoral, licentious man. Two works which he 
 published, De stolatce virginitatis jure, Leyden, 1680, and a treatise, De 
 Peccato Originali, printed in 1678 and 1679, were considered both indecent 
 and irreligious by the university of Leyden, and the author was punished 
 by imprisonment and fine, and he regained his liberty only by apologizing 
 and retracting his offensive opinions. He then retired to Utrecht, and 
 lampooned the Leyden professors in a publication called Vox clamantis in 
 deserto. He was soon banished from that city for his loose conduct, and 
 came over to England, where Isaac Vossius procured him a small pension 
 in consequence of his literary talents, which it appears were by no means 
 despicable. He here pretended to repent, and published a treatise called 
 De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, London, 1697, in which he disavows his 
 former licentious sentiments. But his sincerity has been strongly doubted. 
 He subsequently fell into great misery, and died in 1712, in a state of 
 insanity. Biographic Universelle. 
 
 There is nothing to shew how these books came into the possession of the 
 College. There are two MSS. of his in the Univ. Library. A copy of the 
 treatise De Fornicatione Vitanda, 817, and one of notes on Juvenal, 2547. 
 
 24. Deus et Rex, Rex et Episcopus vel Unio beatissima Coronas 
 et Mitr.e. 
 
 Carmen Heroicum per P. Fisherum, in Caroli I. exercitu servientem 
 majorem. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN S COLLEGE. 
 
 sr, 
 
 Folio, printed book, 1657, dedicated to Bishop Gunning, who left it 
 to the College. 
 
 It is preceded by some French verses addressed to ‘ Major Payen Fisher/ 
 by P. D. C. There is also contained in the same thin book, 
 
 “ Paean Panegyricus pro restaurata valetudine Georgii Monachi Ducis de 
 Albemarle.” 
 
 “Ode in adventum serenissimae reginse Matris Henrietta: Mar A” 
 
 It is remarked by Baker in another Copy, small 4to. (A. 16. 1. Coll. Libr.), 
 that all the Copies of this man’s poems are different. 
 
 Payne Fisher was born at Warneford in Dorsetshire, in 1616. In 1634 
 lie entered Hart Hall at Oxford, and thence came to Magd. Coll. Cambridge. 
 Ant. Wood says he was 2 or 3 years at Hart Hall “ under the severe tuition 
 of two Tutors.’’ He took a degree in arts at Cambridge, but soon threw 
 off his gown, and served first in Brabant. A short time after he came to 
 England and entered the King’s service ; he was an ensign in the army 
 raised against the Scots, 1639. He served in Ireland under Sir John Clot- 
 wortliy (Viscount Masarene) ; in Cumberland under Sir Patrick Curwen, 
 and was at Marston Moor. When the King’s affairs were ruined, he went 
 to London and lived in obscurity by his wits ; favoured by his pen the success- 
 ful Rebellion, and ‘like most poets,’ says Wood, as a true time server, he 
 ingratiated himself with those who were in power, and became Laureate 
 to the Protector. After the Restoration he turned about, and put forth 
 the great sufferings he had endured for his loyalty ; but his palpable flat- 
 teries of the great men among the rebels could not be concealed, so he 
 met with no reward, was very poor, and spent some time in the calm re- 
 pose of a prison, viz. the Fleet. “His usual way was, when he had written 
 and printed a book, to write many Dedication Papers to be put before them 
 as occasion served, or his necessities required, and took all occasions to write 
 Epitaphs or Sepulchral Eulogies, purposely to present them to the sons, 
 grandsons, and other relations of the party deceased, mostly for lucre sake, 
 and partly out of private ambition.” Abridged from Wood's Athence, Ox on. 
 Vol. 2, p. 899. 
 
 _ This was probably a copy given to Bishop Gunning with the sinister 
 designs alluded to, as I cannot find any where else any mention of such 
 Dedication. 
 
 Payne Fisher died in the Old Bayly, in a Coffee House, on 2 April, 1693, 
 and was buried on the 6th. 
 
 The name of P. D. C. is Peter de Cardonnel, who wrote several laudatory 
 poems of his friend P. Fisher. One more trick of his and we have done 
 with him. “He wrote a book of Heraldry, printed at London, 1682, wherein 
 are a many coats of arms of such gentlemen, to whom he presented a copy 
 to obtain a reward.” All extra from the Ath. Oxon. as above. 
 
 5. “ Dialogues in English and Gentue, written by Bayasum Paupia, 
 
 a Gentue Braminy,” anno 1714, with an alphabet of 63 letters. 
 MS. very large folio, paper. 
 
 6. A Catalogue of Mr Baker’s books. 
 
 MS. folio (thin) paper. 
 
 It is not in his own hand-writing. 
 
8t> A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. &C. 
 
 27. Biblia Islandica — (printed book.) 
 
 Folio, paper, bound in wood. “Liber hie pretiosissimus et rarissimus 
 Hafnise emptus pretio £3. sterlingarum. Gul. Wotton.” 
 
 Le Long gives this account of it. ‘ Biblia Islandica juxta versionem Ger- 
 manicam Lutheri interpretibus Gutbrando Thorlacio et aliis, jussu Friderici 
 II. Danis regio, fol. Holmise, 1584/ “ I)e Bibliorum Islandicorum versione 
 illud velim D. Pastorem admonuisse, interpretes (qui forte multi erant) non 
 ad iinguem aliquando secutos esse Martini (Lutheri) translationem ita ut 
 verbo verbum respondeat in toto illo Biblico opere, sed aliquando Latinam 
 versionem.” Gutbrandus Thorlacius in Epist. ad Johan. Hainschium, page 
 100, libelli Epistol. de Bibliis Elianis anno 1604, Norimbergce Editi. Le Long, 
 Bibliotheca Sacra, cap. 12, § 1. 
 
 Gutbrand Thorlakson was Bishop of Holum. See Horne’s Introduction , 
 Vo/. 2, part 2, p. 90. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 41 
 
 
A 
 
 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 BY 
 
 THE REV. MORGAN COWIE, M.A., 
 
 LATE FELLOW OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 “ His chamber was all hanged about with rolls 
 “ And old records from auneient times derivd, 
 
 “ Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolls, 
 
 “ That were all worm-eaten and full of canker holes.” 
 
 Spenser’s Faerie Quecne, B. 2, Cant. 9, Stanza 57. 
 
 PART THE SECOND. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE : 
 
 PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY J. & J. J. DEIOHTON, AND T. STEVENSON; 
 JOHN W. PARKER, LONDON; 
 
 AND 
 
 J. II. PARKER, OXFORD. 
 
 M.DCCC.XLIII. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 
 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 The Rev. William Webb, D.D., F.L.S., Master of Clare Hall. 
 
 COUNCIL. 
 
 Charles Cardale Babington, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., St John’s 
 College, Treasurer. 
 
 The Rev. Professor Cobrie, B.D., S. Catharine’s Hall. 
 
 Sir H enry Dryden, Bart., M.A., Trinity College. 
 
 Alexander Beresford Hope, B.A., M.P., Trinity College. 
 Charles Lestourgeon, M.A., Trinity College. 
 
 The Rev. John Lodge, M.A., University Librarian, Magdalene 
 College. 
 
 James Packe, M.A., Vice-Provost of King’s College. 
 
 John Power, B.A., Pembroke College, Secretary. 
 
 The Rev. John James Smith, M.A., Caius College. 
 
 The Rev. Ralph Tatham, D.D , Master of S. John’s College. 
 Frederic Thackeray, M.D., Emmanuel College. 
 
 Henry Annesley Woodham, M.A., F.S.A., Jesus College. 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Samuel Woollaston, M.A., S. Peter’s College. 
 
 AUDITORS. 
 
 The Rev. William Bates, M.A., Christ’s College. 
 
 The Rev. James Goodwin, B.D., Corpus Christi College. 
 
PART II. 
 
 ACCORDING TO THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE SHELVES. 
 
 I. 
 
 1. S. Augustini Comment, in Evangelium S. Joiiannis. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well written. D. D. Thos. Baker. In old wood 
 binding. 
 
 In Mr Baker’s hand “ Liber olim ornatissimi viri Thomae W agstaff.” 
 
 “ Hie liber attinet ecclesiae Sti Johannis Baptist® de Hardrayk (?) qui olim 
 Prioratui de Chyksand pertinebat.” — “ Et jam tenetur a Gulielmo Walchero 
 S. Theol. Baccalaur. Ex dono honoratissimi domini D. Russelli Baronis de 
 Thornhaugh.” 
 
 There is another copy in A. 9. Chicksand was a Priory of Nuns of the 
 order of S. Gilbert of Sempringham, founded temp. Hen. I. in Bedfordshire. 
 Tanner, Not. Mon. 
 
 2. COMMENTARIUS IN Jus CaNONICUM ET ClVILE. 
 
 Tractatus de absolutions a sententia Excommunicationis IN 
 ARTICULO MORTIS. 
 
 MS. folio paper. In different hands. D. D. T. Baker. “ Liber olim 
 T. W. (ut ante).” 
 
 .3. Brevis et vera explicatio causarum quibus serenissimus et 
 POTENTISSIMUS PrINCEPS ET DoMINUS DoM. FrEDERICUS, EJUS 
 NOMINIS SECUNDUS, DaNIyE, NoRVAGIA?, VaNDALORUM GoTHORUM- 
 que Bex, Sleswici, Holsatia:, Stormarias et Dietmarsiye Dux, 
 Comes in Oldenborcii et Delmenhorst, ad propulsandum 
 Erici SwecIyE Regis vim atque injuriam, juste et necessario 
 FUIT ADDUCTUS. ExHIBITA IN RoSTOCHIANO CONVENTU SACRA? 
 Cesarea: Romanorumque Regia? majestatis Saxonia? item 
 et Brandenburgensis Electoris atque Henrici Brunswicens. 
 Duels LEGATIS A SERENISSIMI DaNIA) ReGIS AD EUNDEM CoN- 
 VENTUM COMMISSARIO. 
 
 Anno Dom. 1564. 26. Jul. 
 
 MS. folio paper. D. D. T. Baker. “ . . . ut ante.” 
 
 See Dunham’s Hist, of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, in Lardner’s Cab. 
 
 Cyc. Vol. 3, p. 131. It appears that there is a difficulty in ascertaining the 
 
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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 88 
 
 merits of this war, as to who was the aggressor. This paper, if hitherto 
 unknown, might throw some light on the question. The war was concluded 
 by the peace of Stettin in 1570. 
 
 Frederick was an enlightened monarch, an enterprising and energetic man, 
 and a great encourager of literature and science. He died, 1588. 
 
 4. (l) Sir Walter Raleigh’s Apology. 
 
 (2) A Treatise of Man’s several dignities and their several 
 
 CORRUPTIONS. 
 
 (3) The Bishop of Rochester’s (Buckridge) defence of the 
 Power of Kings against Papo-puritanical Expositions of 
 texts of Scripture. 
 
 (4) A Discussion of three Questions that may arise concern- 
 ing the Solemn League and Covenant. 
 
 (5) A Boke of the Power of Judges Ecclesiastical. 
 
 (6) Reasons why the Bishops in England ought to sit and 
 VOTE IN THE Lord’s HoUSE. 
 
 (7) Whether lay people ought to communicate under both 
 kinds — compiled by M. B. P., Professor of Divinity. (At the 
 end is the signature ‘Mat. Rawf.’) 
 
 Folio paper. D. D. Thomas Baker. Liber olim Thomte Wagstaff. 
 
 (1) ‘This seems to be a good copy, bearing date the month and year of 
 Sir W. Raleigh’s death.’ T. B. 
 
 (3) ‘ This is in the Bishop of Rochester’s own hand writing, as Mr Wag- 
 
 staff affirmed, who Was better acquainted with it than I am, and as such is 
 more valuable.’ T. B. 
 
 John Buckridge was Bishop of Rochester, 1611. He was also president 
 of S. John’s Coll. Oxon., and one of the king’s chaplains. He was one of the 
 four appointed to preach at Hampton Court, Sept. 1606, and I think this is 
 probably the substance of his sermon on that occasion, when he handled the 
 king’s supremacy. Archbishop Spotswood was present. lie says, ‘ It grieved 
 the Scotch ministers to hear the Pope and Presbytery so often equalled in 
 their opposition to sovereign princes.’ See Wood’s Athena. Vol. 1. p. 557. 
 
 5, 8. De Veritate — prout distinguitur a Revelatione, a Verisimile, 
 
 A P OSSIBILI ET A FALSO. AuCTORE EdW. HERBERT. MlL. DE 
 le Bath. 
 
 MS. folio paper, in 2 vols. D. D. T. Baker. Olim ornatissimi viri 
 T. Wagstaff. 
 
 This is an autograph copy, signed “ E. Herbert, Parisiis consummatum est 
 opus U Jan. 1623.” 
 
 Of this work of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Robert Hall, in his 
 Sermon on Infidelity, says, “Its object was not so much to impugn the doctrine 
 or morality of the Scriptures as to attempt to supersede their necessity, by 
 endeavouring to shew that the great principles of the unity of God, a moral 
 government, and a future life, are taught with sufficient clearness by the light 
 of nature.” He says in his ‘ autobiography,’ published by Horace Walpole, 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 89 
 
 that Grotius approved of the work. See the extraordinary story of a sign 
 given him from heaven, p. 279. See also Leland’s View of the Deisticm 
 Writers, 1, p. 27. 
 
 7. The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia. 
 
 MS. folio paper. D. D. T. Baker. Olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 “ William Walker, B.D., bought this book among other MSS. of the 
 executor of Sir Edmonde Scorie, knight, and now possesses it, a. n. 163.3.” 
 “ W. W alker of Cheswick in Middlesex.” The executor’s name was Mr 
 Busbie. See I. 1. 
 
 Of this famous production of Sir Philip Sidney, I extract the following 
 account from Wood. 
 
 The most celebrated Romance that ever was written. It was dedicated 
 to his noble sister Mary, wife of Henry Earl of Pembroke, who died 25 Sept. 
 1621. This Arcadia, though then and since it was and is taken into the 
 hands of all ingenious men, and said by one living at or near the time when it 
 was published to be a book most famous for rich conceit and splendour of 
 courtly expression, yet the author was not so fond of his amorous production, 
 for he desired when he died to have it suppressed. Wood then goes on to 
 notice continuations of it. See Vol. 1, p. 227. JEtheruz Oxon. 
 
 8. CoMCEDIAS DUJ). LeANDER ET LaBY'RINTHUS. 
 
 MS. folio paper, well written. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wag- 
 staff. 
 
 The scene in both is laid in Florence. The only indication of an author 
 is H. H. at the end. 
 
 9. A Treatise against Bishops — addressed to the King. 
 
 MS. folio paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 The date at the beginning is 2 March, 1570; at the end, 12 Nov. 1571 ; 
 anno setatis, 32. 
 
 10. CoNcordantia Hebraica. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum. B. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 11. (l) Liber de Mundi Creatione, et historia Mundi usque ad 
 
 Noachum. 
 
 (2) Liber qui dicitur Mappa Mundi. 
 
 (3) Martini Poloni Chronicon cum additamentis. 
 
 (4) La petite Philosophie en vers Fran£AIS. 
 
 (5) Recapitulatio Terr^; Sanct^: et descriptio ejusdem. 
 
 RoMiE 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well written. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wag- 
 staff. 
 
 “Est idem liber qui citatur in Fasciculo edito ab Edv. Browne qui inde 
 adstruit aut confirmat Historiam de Johanna Papissa quit quidem hie occurrit 
 inter Leonem et Benedictum recte ne an secus videant alii. Certe credidit 
 Edv. Browne, sed non ego credulus illi.” T. Baker. 
 
 It is there quoted as the Chronicon of Sigebertus Gemblacensis , who died at 
 an advanced age, 1112. See Preface of the Fasciculus , p. xxviii, and Ap- 
 
 12—2 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 pendix, pp. 236, 237. The story of Pope Joan is now almost universally 
 rejected. I think however Mr Baker is mistaken in saying that this is the 
 authority that Browne quotes. Sigebert’s Chronicon begins with the year 
 381, when that of Eusebius ends. Browne gives in his Fascic. Epistola ad 
 Leodienses, by Sigebertus. There is a similar MS. in Nasmith’s Cat. C. C. C. 
 372 and 194, and 59 (4). In this last there is no mention of Pope Joan. 
 
 (3) Martinus Strepus, Oppaviensis e Silesia quae Regno Bohemiae ad- 
 haerebat et Poloniae etiam computatur unde Poloni cognomen: sive quod 
 ad primatum Poloniae vocatus est a Nicolao III. Monachus ord. Praed. Pon- 
 tificum Clem. IV. Greg. IX. Innoc. V. et John XXI. ac denique Nicol. Ill, 
 1277, major Pcenitentiarius et anno interjecto Archiepiscopus Gnesnensis, 
 nec diu post defunctus. Nihil celebrius ejus Chronico. He has been sup- 
 posed the first chronicler who recorded Joan as a Pope. Fabricius confesses 
 that in many of the best MSS. however the story is wanting, and if he is the 
 first that mentions it, Sigebertus, who lived a century before him, could not 
 have done so. I think Browne must have referred to this Chronicon and not 
 to Sigebertus as he says he does, and probably this was what Mr Baker 
 meant. 
 
 (5) There is a curious book on this subject called Itinerarium Terra- 
 Sanctae, by Ludolph, rector of Suchen, written in 1341, and addressed to 
 Baldwin, bishop of Paderborn. There is a printed copy in the College 
 Library, O. 5, 12. Prodiit, says Fabricius, sub typography initia. This 
 is evidently a very early printed book ; it has no name, date or place of 
 printer. It was published however afterwards along with Marco Polo’s 
 Travels. 
 
 12. ClCERONIS LlBRI III. DE OrATORE. 
 
 de Claris Oratoribus sive Brutus. 
 
 Orator. 
 
 Paradoxa. 
 
 Tusc. Quest. Libri V. 
 
 De Amicitia. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper, well written. D. D T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wag- 
 staff. 
 
 13. (l) Ven. Bed.® H ISTORIA AnGLORUM. 
 
 (2) De obitu Ven. Bed.® pbtri. 
 
 (3) Liber Prophetiarum St.e Hildegardis virginis. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum. T. C. S. Old wood binding. ‘ Constat Col- 
 legio de Plecv.’ 
 
 Plecy in Essex ; a College for a master and eight priests, founded by 
 Thomas de Woodstock, duke of Glocester, 17 Rich. II. to the honor of the 
 Holy Trinity. Tanner, A T ot. Mon. p. 67. Dugda/e, M. A. T. 3. part. 2. 
 
 p. 120. 
 
 (1) Dedicated to king Ceolulf; in 5 books, from the landing of Julius 
 Csesar to the year 731 . “ Opus prseclarum quanquam arguitur Beda a Monta- 
 cutio, 2 Origin, p. 210, quod rebus notatu dignioribus omissis fabulas inficetas 
 quandoque fuit scctatus.” Fabricius. 
 
 (2) See Mabillon, Fart 1, Seculi tertii Benedictini, ann. 735. His life was 
 written by Turgot, prior of Durham, in 1100. See the Decern Scriptores 
 Hist. Anglicance. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 91 
 
 (3) S. Hildegardis de Alemannia ex nobili genere Magistra Sororum sive 
 Abbatissa Coenobii in Monte S. Roberti in Pingis sive prope Bingiam in 
 diocesi Moguntina, ord. Benedict, nata 1099, obiit 1178. 
 
 Prophetise Hildegardis contra Monachos Mendicantes quas ex codice 
 Manipuli Florum Tliomse de Hibernia protulit Bzovius ad ann. 1495, tanquam 
 supposita rejiciuntur in Act. Sanct. Tom. 1. p. 067. 
 
 In Nasmith’s Cat. C. C. C. 404, it is entitled “ Proph. B. Hildeg. Virginis 
 ex libro qui dicitur Pentacronon sive speculum temporum futurorum.” 
 
 14. Catalogue of the English Nobility, from William the Con- 
 queror to Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 MS. paper, folio, well written. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wag- 
 staff. 
 
 At the end, “ This is a true copy of the originall, examined by Daniel 
 Dabbes and Dan. Crorne.” Probably it is a copy obtained from the Herald's 
 College, and these may be the signatures of the heralds at the time. 
 
 14. ( b ) A Tractate against disloyalty in generall, and more spe- 
 
 cially DISCOVERING THE MANIFOLD PERNICIOUSNESS OF A TREATISE 
 CRIED UP AND DOWN IN OPEN STREETS IN THE NAME OF Mr PrIN. 
 
 His egregious falshoods, prevarications, paradoxes, contra- 
 dictions AND DISSIMULATIONS, DESTRUCTIVE TO THE ESSENCE OF 
 Parliament in every degree, and repugnant both to the 
 TESTIMONIES OF SCRIPTURES ALLEDGED BY HIMSELF AND IIIS OWN 
 PRINCIPLES, DEGENERATING ALSO FROM PRIMITIVE CaTIIOLIQUE 
 DOCTRINE, AND THE PROTESTANT PROFESSION OF THE ClIURCH OF 
 England. 
 
 MS. folio paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 Probably about the year 1637, or later perhaps. 
 
 15. (l) Calendarium. 
 
 (2) Yen. Bed.® de Temporibus liber. 
 
 (3) Epistola ad Witiiedum Presbyterum de HCqui- 
 
 NOCTIO VERNALI. 
 
 (4) Dionysii Epistola de termino Paschali. 
 
 (5) . ad Bonifacium de eodem. 
 
 (6) Hilperici compotus. 
 
 (7) Compotus vulgaris qui dicitur Epiiimerides Abbonis. 
 
 (8) V ictoris Pap^e Epistola ad Theophilum Caksariensem Pa- 
 lest. Episc. de Termino Paschali. 
 
 (9) Ali.® regul^e divers.® de Termino Paschali. 
 
 (10) Gtarlandi compotus Bedam imitantis. 
 
 (11) Libellus de regulis Algorismi. 
 
 (12) Libellus cujusdam ignoti de regulis numekandi. 
 
 (13) Libellus Abaci. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (14 ) Dionysii Tabula diverse cum expositionibus earundem. 
 
 (15) Descriptio sive Figuratio RotA: Fortune. 
 
 (16) Libellus de Regulis Abaci. 
 
 (17) Tabula de Clavibus Terminorum. 
 
 (18 ) Descriptio de 12 ventis, quorum 4 sunt geniales, 8 fatales. 
 
 (19) Tabula de Nonis, Oalendis et diebus cujuslibet mensis 
 
 ANNI. 
 
 (20 ) Tres Cycli DECENNOVALES. 
 
 (21) Garlandi Tabula cum Canone ejusdem. 
 
 (22) Liber Garlandi. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, well written. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wag- 
 staff. 
 
 (2), (3) See A. 22. 
 
 (4) Dionysius Exiguus, natione Scytha, Monachus et Abbas Romanus 
 diem obiit ante ann. 556. This is found in Bede’s Works, Tom. 1, p. 321, 
 and is perhaps the same in substance as (21). 
 
 (5) Ad Bonifacium primicerium notariorum Bonumque Secundericium . 
 Apud Patav. p. 497, 499. 
 
 (6) Hilpericus, Abbas Sancti Galli ( Oudin , Tom. 2, p. 480.), cl. sub anno 
 980. See Mabillon, Tom. 1, Analectorum, p. 113. 
 
 (7) S. Abbo, Floriacensis Abbas et Martyr. 990. Cujus Comment, in 
 Victoris Canonem Paschalem periit. Oudin, Vol. 2. This may be the work 
 Oudin supposes lost. 
 
 (8) Victor. I. ann. 198, but the letter was written by Theophilus; it is a 
 summary of the acts of the council of Cesarea, an. 196. 
 
 (10) Garlandus, Johannes (vitiose Gerlandius sive de Gallandia) Anglus, 
 Grammaticus et Poeta Clarus circa, an. 1040. 
 
 De computo Ecclesiastico Scriptores medii /Evi sunt praetor anonymos 
 quosdam, Beda, Dionysius Abbas Romanus, Garlandus sive Gerlandus Lothar- 
 ingius, Helpericus Abbas Anglicus quern dedit Bernhardus Pezius, Tom. II. 
 (part 2d.) Anecdotorum, Lambertus Matthaeus, Magister Nigrellius, Rabanus 
 Maurus Vulgatus a Baluzio, Tom. I. Miscellan., Petrus de Rosenheim, 
 Wicpertus et Wicramnus de quibus laudatus Pezius in dissertatione Isagogica 
 ad Tom. II. Anecdotorum, p. 25, et seq. 
 
 16. Tractatus de Reformations novitate. Latin and English. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D.D. Thos. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 The English section is headed ‘ Luther instructed in the Protestant Religion 
 by the Devil,’ but it appears to be all of a piece, violent declamation, and so I 
 suppose it forms only one work. 
 
 17 . Gommentarius in libros Proverbiorum. Ecclesiasten. Cantic. 
 
 Prophetarum et Threnor. Macchabeorum. Judith. Eccle- 
 siastic. 
 
 MS. small 4to. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. Curiously 
 stamped cover. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHNS COLLEGE, 
 
 m 
 
 18. (l) A REVISION OP THE GRIEVANCES OP SOME SCANDALOUS APPEALS 
 
 DECLARING HOW THEY DEROGATE FROM THE DIGNITY, AND IMPEACH 
 
 the Power of Bishops. 1636. 
 
 (2) Briefs of the Certificates for the Dioceses of England 
 and Wales, 1592. 
 
 (3) The umpire unveiling Episcopacie, briefly surveying the 
 
 PIlSTORIE AND MySTERIE OF THE LATE REFORMATION AND Re- 
 
 Reformation of the Church of Scotland, by one of Zion’s 
 servants, (T. Hart), addressed to John, Earl of Laudun, 
 Lord Chancellor of Scotland. 
 
 (4) The Life of Gaspar Colinius, Admiral of France — (mutil. 
 ad init. begins c. 51.) 
 
 (5) The Corruption of the Roman Church in Practice. Paris 
 9 April, 1599. 
 
 (6) A LETTER WRITTEN BY A DUTIFUL SoN OF THE CHURCH SHEWING 
 THE LAWFULNESS AND NECESSITY OF COMMON PRAYER. 
 
 (7) A MIRROUR FOR SEPARATISTS AND SCHISMATICS, WRITTEN BY 
 A LATE LEARNED DIVINE, AND NOW PUBLISHED BY W. C. GeNT. 
 
 (This last information has been erased again). 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 (1) Probably in answer to Bastwick, Burton, and Prynn’s libels, written 
 about this time. See Collier, Vol. 2, p. 771. 
 
 (2) For all the dioceses except Bath and Wells, Chester, St David’s and 
 Man. 
 
 (3) This is probably the same date as (1), as about this time it was that 
 Archbishop Laud had succeeded in introducing the Liturgy into Scotland, 
 which called up so much bitter feeling. 
 
 (4) The Latin life of the celebrated protestant Gasper Coliguy, has been 
 by some attributed to John de Serves, a French protestant divine, and a volu- 
 minous writer, who lived from 1540 to 1598. It appeared in 1575, but 
 La Monnoye and the Abbe Merrier de St Leger claim it for Francois Hotmail, 
 a French lawyer of the same century, born 1512, died 1590. 
 
 (7) Quere, — whether the same as ‘a Looking-glass for Separatists,’ by 
 Josiah Ricraft, London, 1645, 4to. He was a bigoted Presbyterian, a mer- 
 chant of London. See Wood’s Athence, under William Brereton, Vol. 2, p. 123. 
 
 19. Libellus instrumentorum, tempore Regis Rich. II. Scriptus in 
 
 Oxonia et . . . Regina per Glyn. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 A Law Book. 
 
 20. Regin ALDI PoLI EPI9TOLA AD CrANMERUM CaNTUAR. ArCHIEP. Oct. 
 
 1555. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper, in old parchment cover. D. D. T. Baker. Liber 
 olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 “ This letter or letters by the cover (containing a confirmation by Car- 
 dinal Pole of Sir Thomas Tresham to be Prior of the order of S. John of 
 Jerusalem) seems to have been the Cardinal’s own copy. The instrument 
 is dated Kal. Dec. 1557, in the Pontificate of Paul IV. the third year, and 
 agrees well enough with the time of Sir Thomas Tresham’s being constituted 
 Prior by Queen Mary, Nov. 20, 1557. See the Parchment cover. It is only 
 a first or foule draught, as appears by the interlineations, &c. He was then 
 Cardinal St® Mari® in Comedin, &c.” T. Baker. 
 
 The original of this letter, which is written in Latin, is preserved in the 
 Royal Library at Paris, MS. V. 10213, p. 43. It was translated into French 
 by M. Le Grand, and appears in Cardinal Quirini’s Collection of the author’s 
 letters, part 5, p. 238. Its date is a short time previous to Cranmer’s 
 execution. 
 
 21 . Parergon Explicationis nostra in tertiam partem Galeni de 
 
 Arte Parva ubi agitur de Potu convalescentium et senum — 
 auctore Walter Bailei, Jan. 1582. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 Walter Bayley was admitted Doctor of Physic May 21, 1563, at Oxford, 
 being of New College. He was the Queen’s Professor of Medicine in that 
 University. See Wood's Fasti Oocon. in ann. 1563. 
 
 This Walter Bayley was born in Dorsetshire, 1529, and died 1592. The 
 present work is not mentioned among his publications. 
 
 22. The Book de Regimine Principum, in English verse, by Thomas 
 
 Occleve. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D.D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 Warton, Hist, of Eng. Poetry, Vol. 2, p. 38, places Occleve in 1420. The 
 work he says is a sort of paraphrase of the first part of Aristotle’s epistle 
 to Alexander, called ‘ Secretum Secretorum of iEgidius and of Jacobus de 
 Casulis.’ iEgidius’ work was probably recommended to Occleve’s notice 
 by the translation of John de Trevisa, about 1390. Occleve’s poem lias 
 never been printed. In the prologue there are some pathetic lines on Chaucer, 
 who probably encouraged him. (In this MS. the prologue seems to be 
 wanting. ) 
 
 23. Apologia Turrecremat^:, Bellarmini et Eugenian.e factionis 
 
 Theologorum pro suprema jurisdictione Generalium Conci- 
 liorum contra Rom. Pontificis a tempore Eugenii IV. h^e- 
 retice et injuste tyrannidem usurpatam in Concil Ocumen. 
 per Eusebium Germanum Catiiolicum Apostolicum Romanum 
 Sacerdotem et S. Theologize Doctorem. Cosmopoli. 1620. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 This is evidently a feigned name. I cannot at present find any indication 
 of such a work in the authorities. 
 
 There are more MS. treatises relating to this controversy in C. C. C. Li- 
 brary. See Nasmith’s Cat. 157- 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 95 
 
 24. Not.® in Evangelia S. Matthei et S. Marci. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 This contains frequent references to the Rhemish Testament. “ This MS. 1 
 bought out of my lord of Aylesbury’s library, and was one of those that 
 aunciently belonged to the lord Burghley Cecil.” 
 
 25. Sabbatum redivivum ; or, a Defence of the Lord’s Day. By 
 
 John Mundey, B.D. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. 
 
 This is dedicated to king Charles. 
 
 26. A SURVEY OF THE ANSWER TO THE LORD BlSHOP OF CHALCEDON’s 
 
 Letter to tile lay Catholics of England sent unto him by 
 
 the Heads of the three Regular Orders in England. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 This appears to be one of the tracts to which the following circumstances 
 gave rise : Dr Richard Smith (born in Lincolnshire, 1566, and student of 
 Trin. Coll. Oxon. 1583.) having joined the Romish Communion, and taken 
 a D.D. degree at Valladolid in Spain, was sent over to England by the Pope, 
 to succeed William Bishop, the titular bishop of Chalcedon, with a com- 
 mission to exercise episcopal jurisdiction over the Catholics here. The chief 
 stage of his action was Lancashire, where he made himself notorious, but 
 in consequence of a proclamation in 1628, he was obliged to fly the country. 
 Collier, Eccl. Hist. Vol. 8, p. 40. The validity of his episcopal power here 
 was warmly contested by his flock ; principally by John Floyd, Horucan, 
 Lumley, and Nich. Smith, a regular priest, the bishop being only a secular. 
 He died in Paris, 1651. 
 
 He had a controversy with Archbishop Bramhall. Before or after his death, 
 says Wood, a manuscript, containing letters, and epistles to the pope, to some 
 cardinals, bishops, and superiors, written by him, came into the hands of 
 Edw. Knott the Jesuit, and thence to those of Seth Ward, bishop of Salis- 
 bury. Hon Carlos Coloma published at Brussels, 1631, a declaration of the 
 lay Catholics of England against the power of this bishop of Chalcedon. 
 
 27. The Historie of the Lamentable Life and Deplorable Death 
 
 of Marie, Queene of Scots. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. 
 
 “ This seems to have been the first draught of the printed life, first published 
 in fol. London, 1624, under the name of William Stranguage, and afterwards 
 in 8vo, 1636, under the name of Udall, being the same book under different 
 names.” T. Baker. 
 
 28. Biblia S. Latina — vulgat^e Ed. 
 
 MS. small 4<to. vellum. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 The order of the books of the New Testament in this copy, as Mr Wagstaff 
 observes, being different from all copies that he had met with either printed 
 or manuscript, viz., the Apocalypse after the Acts of the Apostles, then the 
 Catholic Epistles, and then St Paul’s Epistles; from this and other reasons 
 he inferred the copy to be very ancient, there being no present copy that 
 it could follow. T. B. 
 
 At the end there is the usual explanation of Hebrew words, and a table of 
 the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holy days. 
 
 13 
 
96 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 29. Captaine Thomas Lea. The discovery and recovery of Ireland, 
 
 with his Apology. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 “ This book was written by Captain Thomas Lea, and presented to the Erie 
 of Essex, the Lord Mountjoy, and Mr Secretary Cecil, 1599.” It is probable 
 that the author was disappointed in his expectations, for I can find no mention 
 of his work ever having been in print. This copy seems to have the Author’s 
 autograph signature. 
 
 This manuscript was formerly the property of W. Walker, for his motto 
 is in it, “ Will and Walke aright.” 
 
 30. The proceedings against Mary Queen of Scots — containing: 
 
 Her removing to the Castle of Fotheringaye, in the co. of Northampton. 
 
 The coming thither of the Lords Commissioners for the hearing of her 
 
 CAUSE. 
 
 The Sermon preached there before them, by Dr Fletcher, Dean of 
 Peterborough. 
 
 Her appearing and answering for herself. 
 
 Her execution with the exhortations and prayers thereat. 
 
 A Sermon preached before the Queen immediately after the Execution, 
 by Dr Fletcher. 
 
 The manner of her Funeral. 
 
 MS. small 4 to. paper, 1586. D. D. T. Baker. Olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 Mr Richardson, who compiled a Catalogue of Mr Baker’s hooks and MSS., 
 left to the College, thought that this was Dr Fletcher’s own copy. 
 
 Richard Fletcher, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Dean of Peter- 
 borough 1583, bishop of Bristol 1589, and was soon after translated, first to 
 Worcester, and then to London. He died June 15, 1596. 
 
 31. Considerations on the State of Europe, about 1602. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D.D. T. Baker. Olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 32. An Interpreter or Vocabularie, by John Cowell. Autograph 
 
 Copy. 
 
 MS. small 4to paper. D.D. T. Baker. Olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 John Cowell, an eminent civilian, born at Ernsborough in Devonshire, 1554, 
 educated at Eton, King’s Scholar in 1570 and Fellow of that College, sub- 
 sequently King’s Professor of Civil Law, and Master of Trinity Hall. Arch- 
 bishop Bancroft was his patron, and directed him to compile this work, which 
 is an explanation of law terms, published at Cambridge, 1607. It was 
 reprinted in 1609, S: c. and 1638, for which Arch. Laud was charged on 
 his trial. Cowell’s book was the subject of very fierce attack by the House 
 of Commons in king James’s time. He died, 11 Oct. 1611, and is buried in 
 the chapel of Trinitv-Hall. See Master s Memoir of Mr Baker, p. 68. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 97 
 
 33. A BRIEFE DISCOURSE IN PRAISE OF KlNG RlCHARD III. OR AN 
 
 Apologie against the Malitious Slanders of his detractynge 
 
 ADVERSARIES. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Olim T. Wagstaff, olim 
 
 Humfridi Dyson, notarii publici 1611. 
 
 King Rickard has had very few panegyrists. Sir Thomas More’s history 
 (which however was not printed till 1651,) seems to have settled his fate. 
 He had one notable friend in Sir George Buck, knight, one of the gentlemen 
 of the king’s Privy Chamber (1612). See Antony Wood, Vol. 1. Atli. Oxon. 
 p. 38. Perhaps this may he the production of Sir G. Buck. 
 
 34. In Januam Rerum sive Totius Pansophia3 Christiana Semi- 
 
 narium. Lib. 2. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 35. Petri Lombardi Sententiarum libri 4. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum. D.D. T. Baker. Olim T. Wagstaff'. 
 
 See B. 11. It contains a copy of verses sent with the book to Dr Joseph 
 Crowther, President of St Mary’s Hall, Oxon. by Thomas Dugard, Nov. 6, 
 1671. See an account of Dr Crowther, Wood’s Fasti Oxonienses, Vol. 2, 
 p. 135. 
 
 36. Meditationes LX. de habitibus vitiosis. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper, interleaved. D. D. T. Baker. 
 
 37. Tractatus de Sphara, dictante H oratio Grassi, 1623. 
 
 Tractatus de Instrumentis Spiritalibus, id. id. 
 
 Tractatus Vincentii Arauca in librum II. Meteorum. 
 
 Opusculum imperfectum R. P. Angeli Galvin, de Fortitudine. 
 
 Disputatio unica de Contractibus per R. P. Fr. Piccolomi- 
 
 nium. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. D. D. T. Baker. Liber olim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 Evidently the common-place book of a student at Rome, at the beginning 
 of the 17th century. 
 
 “ II. P. Orazio Grassi, Gesuita Savonese, che era lettore de matematica in 
 Roma ove anche fini di vivere nel 1654 ( Sotnell . Bill. Script. Soc. Jesu. p. 351). 
 In una dissertazione Latina senza il suo nome stampata nel 1618, all’ occasione 
 di tre comete che in quell’ anno si videro, sostenne la stessa opinione di 
 Ticone:” viz. that comets moved in elliptic orbits about the Sun. Tiraboschi, 
 Letteratura d’ Italia, Tom. 7, p. 189. 
 
 Francisco Piccolomini, professor at Padua from 1561 to 1601, published 
 a treatise on Moral Philosophy in Latin. “ Ed esso ancora fu allor ricevuto 
 come il piu perfetto lavoro che bramar si potesse.” Tiraboschi, id. Tom. 7, 
 p. 585. 
 
 38. Isidori Liber de Virtutibus et Vitus. 
 
 Bartiiolomai Fatii Libellus de Felicitate. 
 
 Ejusdem Epistola. 
 
 13—2 
 
9K 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Epistola Demosthenis ad Alexandrum. 
 
 EpISTOLA iEsCHINIS. 
 
 Orationes III — iEscHiNis, Demaclis et Demosthenis. 
 
 Carmen in honorem B. V. Marine ex Porchellio. 
 
 Carmen Petrarchi redeuntis e Gallia in Italiam. 
 
 Vita P. Virgilii Maronis et censura carminum. mutil. in fine. 
 
 MS. 12mo. vellum. D.D. T. Baker, dim T. Wagstaff. 
 
 Isidori liber de conflictu vitioruni et virtutum lectus est inter opera S. Am- 
 brosii, Augustini et Leonis Magni. Vide Nic. Antonium, p. 265, Tom. 1, qui 
 malit tribuere ad Ambrosium Autpertum quod Oudino etiam placet, Tom. 1, 
 p. 1596. 
 
 Ambrosio Autpertus was a Benedictine monk, abbot of St Vincent near the 
 source of the Voltomo in Campania, about 777- 
 
 Bartholomceus Facius was born at Spezzia in the territory of Genoa, 
 and died, 1457, at Naples. He was a bitter opponent of Laurentius Valla, 
 whom cardinal Bellarmine called, not without reason, the precursor of the 
 Lutherans. M c Crie, Ref. in Italy, p. 48. His writings were chiefly his- 
 torical. This is a dialogue between three persons, dedicated to Alphonso 1, 
 king of Naples. Several epistles of his are found among those of /Eneas 
 Sylvius, Venet. 1533. 
 
 Porchellius. Neapolitans, quamvis ipse Romans potius dici voluit, poeta, 
 et Alphonsi I utriusque Siciliie Regis Scriba sive Secretarius, a quo, 1452, fer- 
 vente bello inter Venetos et Mediolanenses in castra Venetorum missus est, ut 
 singula, quae ibi gererentur, nunciaret. His account of this war is given in 
 Muratori’s collection of writers on Italian Antiquities. His poems were pub- 
 lished at Paris, 1539, with those of some others. See the Giornale de Letterati 
 d’ Italia, tom. 9, p. 148. 
 
 39. HoRA3 B. Virginis. 
 
 MS. extremely small, vellum. D. D. T. Baker, dim T. Wagstaff'. 
 
 40. Homilia Angi.o-Saxonica, P. cum versione Anglica. 
 
 Eadem MS. Scripta manu doct. Fceminzb Eliz. Elstob. 
 
 8vo. paper. D. D. T. Baker. 
 
 Eliz. Elstob was born at Newcastle, 1683. She assisted her brother Wil- 
 liam Elstob in his studies. This latter seems to have been the most dis- 
 tinguished scholar of his time for Anglo-Saxon Antiquities. He was first 
 at Catli. Hall, Cambridge. He, in consequence of the climate not suiting 
 his health, went to Queen’s College, Oxford, and became subsequently a 
 Fellow of University College. The Latin version of this Anglo-Saxon homily 
 was published in 1709, Oxon. Eliz. Elstob published the English trans- 
 lation. She died May 30, 1756, and is buried in St Margaret’s Church, at 
 Westminster. 
 
 41. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. Sermons on the 7 Peni- 
 
 tential Psalms. 
 
 His Funeral Sermon at the death of Henry VII. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 99 
 
 John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. Funeral Sermon for the 
 Lady Margaret, called a mornynge remembrance at the 
 monetii minde of Lady M. 
 
 Three books, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1509. 
 
 “ Hos tres libellos raros admodum nec facile parabiles lego Coll. D. Job. 
 Evang. in memoriam Pientissimae Fundatricis et Optimi Praesulis, hujus 
 Collegii tantum non alterius Fundatoris.” T. Baker. 
 
 42. A Copy of Mr Baker’s publication of the Sermon in honor 
 
 of Lady Margaret, with the Catalogues of Preachers and 
 Professors, and a Preface, published by P. A. Bosvile, 1708, 
 with two letters from the king to his mother, and the Act of opening 
 the College. 
 
 D. D. Humfrey Gower, S. T. P. Coll. Magister. 
 
 43. Institutio Principis Christiani per Erasmum. P. Colonize, 
 
 1529, with a Greek letter to Queen Elizabeth, by John Fox the 
 Martyrologist, date 1589. 
 
 “Liber olim Edwardi VI. Regis Anglia: et demum Elizabeths Regime. 
 Ex dono A. Bosvile Bibliopolie Londinensis, procurante T. Baker, Coll. Joh. 
 Socio ejecto (locum meretur inter MSS.).” In Mr Baker’s writing. 
 
 There is in king Edward’s hand at the end, this extract from Cic. de 
 Amicitia : “ Lelius milii vero non minori cur® est qualis Respubliea post 
 mortem meam futura sit, quam qualis hodie sit and underneath, “ The 
 Prince this did wright when he first went to schole.” Mr Hartshorne notices 
 this book in his Book Rarities of Cambridge. 
 
 K. 
 
 1. The Koran. (Arabic MS.) 
 
 4to. thick volume on paper. 
 
 2. Historia Ecclesiastic a a Georgio Elmacino, historic Sarracenicse 
 
 authore conscripta. 
 
 Syriac MS. 8vo. paper. 
 
 3. “ Christianus Ranius, N. G. Berlinensis Marchichus, Collegio floren- 
 
 tissimo S. Johannis in famosissima et Antiquissima Academia Can- 
 tabrigiensi, orientalium linguarum studiis celeberrima, hoc MStum 
 Persico-Turcicum in Bibliotheca ejus Collegii reponendum dono misit. 
 Londin. 30 Dec. 1641. Continentur autem duo: 
 
 (l) Poeta Suavissimus Turcicus, nomine Ahmed Tab-Tarah, 
 
100 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (2) Epistolica instructio Persica qua et elegantissimus ejus lingua? 
 stylus continetur et multa artificia demonstrantur ad eleganter incho- 
 andam et claudendam Epistolam Persicam. In tali genere floscidorum 
 Persse sunt ad stuporem admirandi : ita suavissime scribunt ut in his 
 palmam omnibus nationibus prseripere velle videantur. 
 
 Auctor posterioris Mahmud Teheleby Effendi. 
 
 Small 4to. on paper. 
 
 4. Descriptio Ismaelitismi, confictis passim colloquiis cum Deo et 
 
 Mahumete, Ali Abubecro, aliisque hujus horrendie sectse principibus. 
 Deest initium hujus libri. Constat tamen initio hie depingi a Mus- 
 lirnino quodam auctore hujus libri laudes ipsius Pseudo-prophetse 
 Mahumetis et pergit in mysteriis Musliminismi impii aperiendis. 
 Scriptus in anno Hegira: 863. 
 
 MStum Arabicum. Small 4to. paper. 
 
 5. Psalmi Davidis cum sacris canticis quibusdam uti Magnificat, &c. 
 
 in fine. 
 
 MStum Arabicum. 8vo. paper. 
 
 6. Quhsdam Meditationes tralata? per principes Barahieorum. Sunt 
 
 autem quoruindam Satellitum Haricseorum Sultani, viz. Domini 
 Magni Achmad filii tov Abi’lhasana-rraphahy-’lhaseini. 
 
 MStum Arab. 8vo. paper, with ornamented letters. 
 
 7. Expositio Massacetii Aroth, sive Tractatus. 
 
 MStum Rabbinicum. Small 4to. paper. 
 
 Hoc MStum in Archivis Coll. Divini Johannis Evangelists, Cantabrig. 
 reponi dedit vir clarissimus, Linguarum orientalium peritissimus, Edmundus 
 Castellus, S. T. P. ac in Academia Cantabrigiensi Linguae Arabics Publicus 
 Professor. 
 
 8. Manuscriptum Arabicum. The legend of Antara, the son of Shed- 
 
 dad, of the family of Abs. His adventures and conflicts with various 
 horsemen of the pagan Arabs before the appearing of the Lord of 
 creatures Mohammed, on whom be blessing and peace ; also of what 
 happened from the time of Abraham and Ishmael, on whom be peace, 
 and the traditions of the race of Nizar (descendant of Ishmael, from 
 whose two sons sprang the several Arabian tribes, of which were An- 
 tara and the authors of the Moallakat contemporaries of the Prophet). 
 4to. paper. The book with this title in page 2, opens with the division 
 of the territories between the sons of Nizar, and is a collection of 
 traditional stories of the patriarchal ante- Mohammedan period of 
 Arabian history. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 101 
 
 9. Manuscriptum Arabicum. 
 
 Small 4to. paper. This book, defective both at the beginning and end, 
 relates to the warlike adventures of the same Antara, son of Sheddad, 
 of the sons of Abs, and is largely interspersed with poetry. 
 
 10—14. MSS. A RABICA. 
 
 Three in small 4to, two in a smaller size, on paper ; all relate to the 
 same subject, and are apparently odd volumes. 14 is called the last 
 volume, but it closes abruptly, evidently requiring more to follow. 
 The whole story of Antar (which has been partially translated by 
 Mr Terrick Hamilton into English) would fill, probably, about fifteen 
 such sized volumes as these 1 . 
 
 15. Biblia Sacra, vulg. editionis, cum Prologis Hieronymi et explicatione 
 
 vocurn Hebraicorum. 
 
 Small 4to. vellum. Liber olim Thomse Gerard et Henrici Gerard. 
 
 Formerly belonging to some monastery, but the name has been erased. 
 Well written. 
 
 16. Concio ad Concionatores de conjungenda vibe sanctitate cum veri 
 
 scientia. A Sermon dedicated to the Master and Fellows of Trinity 
 College, by H. 13. olim Collegii alumnus. Small 4to. paper. 
 “ Edwardus Salmon, D. 1). dedit.” 
 
 In Mr Baker’s writing, ‘ Liber R. Goodwin.’ 
 
 17. Versio latina Targum librorum Ciironicorum sive Paralipo- 
 
 menorum. 
 
 4to. paper. “ Ex dono Humfr. Gower, S. T. P. olim Coll. Mag.’’’ 
 
 At the end is “ absoluta est ha?c versio 15 Nov. 1662.” 
 
 18. M vrifxoavvov Collegii Div. Joh. Evang. in Acad. Cantabrigiensi, 
 
 universse Societatis sumptibus exaratum exornatumque in piam me- 
 moriam pientissimae Heroinae Margaretae Comitissae de Richmond 
 et Derby, Henrici VII. matris, nobilissimae Fundatricis hujus Collegii, 
 et Reverendi in Christo Patris Johannis Episcopi Lincolniensis qui 
 magnificentissimam hanc Bibliothecam fundavit aliorumque munifi- 
 centissimorum Benefactorum . 
 
 Folio, vellum, with paintings of coats of arms. 
 
 Two pictures of Lady Margaret, Bishop Williams, and 
 
 The arms of the following persons : — John Williams, bishop of Lincoln ; 
 
 1 I am indebted for a knowledge of the contents of these MSS. to the kindness of 
 Dr Mill. 
 
102 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Sir Ralph Hare ; Thos. Morton, bishop of Durham ; Henry Wri- 
 othesley, Earl of Southampton ; William Howard, baron Naworth ; 
 Valentine Carey, bishop of Exeter ; David Dolben, bishop of Bangor ; 
 John lord Carie of Hunsdon ; Viscount Rocheford, son of the Earl of 
 Dover; John Hackett, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry; Peter 
 Gunning, bishop of Ely; Thomas Wentworth, heir to the earl of 
 Strafford ; Sir Robert Heath, Attorney General to king Charles ; 
 Edward Benlowes, Esq. ; Robert Mason, LL.D. ; Robert Metcalf, 
 D.D. Hebrew Professor ; Joseph Thurston ; Griffith Bodurda ; 
 Allen Henman; Tobias Rustat; Cadwallader Jones; Samuel How- 
 lett ; Lambrochius Thomas, dean of Chichester ; William Lloyd, 
 bishop of Norwich ; Richard Hill. 
 
 There is abundance of room for a hundred or so more. It is probably this 
 hook to which the following entry refers, Harl. MSS. 7047. “ To S*. Crashaw 
 of Pemb. for drawing the pictures in Book of Benefactors to the Library, 
 .ful. 11. 1635. T 13. 0.S'. 8 d.” — See Hartshorne, Book Rarities, p. 333. 
 
 1.9. The Booke of Common Prayer. 
 
 The Booke of Genealogies and a Description of Canaan. 
 
 The Holy Bible, with many Engravings. 
 
 The Old Version of the Psalms. 
 
 Forms of Prayers for Particular Occasions. 
 
 Folio, printed book by Barker, at the end the date 1632. The title 
 pages have the date 1633. Splendidly bound in velvet, with rich 
 silver mouldings and ornaments, very handsomely chased ; the gift of 
 Thomas Dawes. 
 
 20. The same, without engravings, handsomely bound. 
 
 21. Thesaurus Sacrarum Historiarum Veteris et Novi Testa- 
 
 MENTI, ELEGANTISSIMIS IMAGINIBUS EXPRESSUS EXCELLENTISSI- 
 MORUM IN HAC ARTE VIRORUM OPERA, NUNC PRIMUM IN LUCE 
 EDITUS SUMPTIBUS ATQUE EXPENSIS GeRARDI DE JoDE, AnT- 
 
 werpij), 1585. 
 
 A Collection of Engravings. D. D. T. Benlowes. 
 
 22. (l) Sermones Varii et Tractatus Johannis Geileri Iveiser- 
 
 spergii, cum vita ejusdem, cura Petri Wickgram, printed by 
 John Bruniger, 1518. 
 
 (2) Comm ent ariorum in Evangel, libri duo per D. Johannem 
 Draconitem, printed Basilece , 1545. 
 
 Royal 8vo. black letter, paper. 
 
 Johannes Geilerus natus Schafthusae, ann. 1743. Cssare monte vero sive 
 Kaisersborge a proavo educatus; Argentorati denique ubi per annos 33, 
 sacras condones cum fractu habuit, defunctus 1510. Fabricius. Viri hujus 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 103 
 
 pii vitam brevi compendio tradidit B. Rhenanus absque loco et tempore 
 excusam. Mansi. There is no notice of this printer in Maittaire, Annal. 
 Typograph. There is a life of Geilerus in Boissard, leones Firorum Illus- 
 trium. part 2. p. 229. 
 
 (2) There is a copy in the University Library of the Sermons of Dra- 
 conites on the Gospels, bound up with a Latin translation of the Targum of 
 Onkelos, by Fagius, *K. 1. 25. The title page is wanting, and there is no 
 clue to date, place, or name of printer. For Draconites, see Melchior AcUim 
 Theologorum vita'. 
 
 Sermones LXXX Hildeberti Turonensis et aliorum. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum. 
 
 Hildebertus i. e. Hildebertus de Lavardino, D. 15, ex Monacho Cluniacensi 
 Archidiaconus et post quinque annos, 1097, Episcopus Cenomanensis (i. e. Le 
 Mans.) atque inde 1125, Turonensis Archiepiscopus defunctus 1139. 
 
 The first Sermon only is by him, and it is ascribed to liim on the authority 
 of the Bibl. Patrum, ed. 3. Tom. 3, p. 315, where this Sermon is printed under 
 his name. The others have no names to them. There is a list at the be- 
 ginning of the first words of each. 
 
 (1) P. Antoninus Abchiep. Florentines de Instructione seu 
 directione simplicium confessorum. Printed book, no date or 
 name. 
 
 (2) Petri Blesensis Opera, impensis Johan. Petit. Paris. 1519, per 
 Andre Boccard. 
 
 Small folio, black letter. 
 
 Antoninus, whose name was Antonius, but called Antoninus on account 
 of his small stature, was born 1392, at Florence, was made Archbishop of 
 Naples in 1446 ; he died 2 May, 1459, leaving behind him a great reputation 
 for sanctity. He was canonized by Pope Hadrian VI. Wharton. Fabricius 
 says he was Archbishop of Florence. This work has been often printed. 
 
 (2) The same as the following' in Maittaire, Ann. Typogr. Vol. 2, p. 339. 
 Petri Blesensis opera ex recensione Jacobi Merlini, opera et industria Magistri 
 Andre* Boucard, impensis Joannis Petit, fol. Paris, 1519. Lacaittc says, 
 C’est la premiere edition de ce livre. Boccard avait pour devise autour de 
 sa marque representee par les armes du Roy, de 1’ Universite et de la Ville de 
 Paris, ces vers 
 
 Honneur au Roy, et a la Court, 
 
 Salut a V Universite, 
 
 Dont nostre bien procede et sourt, 
 
 Dieu gard’ de Paris la Cite'. 
 
 From which our. Printers might take a hint. 
 
 (l) Hugo de S. Victor, de arrha Anim^:. 
 
 (2) de archa, Lib. IV. 
 
 (3) DE TRIBUS DIEBUS, CUM SeRMONE EJUSDEM. 
 
 (4) Liber Domini Petri Abbatis Cluniacensis. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum, well written. “ De Librario S. Augustin. Can- 
 tuar.” “ De adquisitione Magistri Joh is Pston.” 
 
 14 
 
104 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (1) Soliloquium de arrha animae ad fratres suos in Hamersleve (the 
 Augustinian convent then near Halberstadt). 
 
 (2) De area Noe. Sensum moralem investigatur. 
 
 (4) A book of legends and miraculous stories, in 46 chapters. Petrus 
 Mauricius Mauboiserius cognomento Venerabilis. Ord. Bened. Abbas nonus 
 Cluniacensis ab anno 1122 ad ann. 1156. His life is in the Bibliotheca 
 Cluniacensis of Andre du Chesne, Paris, 1614. “ De miraculis sui temporis 
 libri duo, in Biblioth. Patrum Lugdun. p. 1087. Saepius etiam seorsum ex- 
 cusi ; ut Duaci, 1595.” Fabricius, B. M. I. L. Lib. xv. 
 
 26. Psalterium, containing 46 paintings of scenes from the Old and New 
 
 Testament history. Tabulae Calendariae. The Psalter. Te Deum, 
 and other Canticles, Litany and Prayers. 
 
 MS. small folio, vellum, well written. “ Ex dono Caroli Baker.” “ Memo- 
 rial venerabilis viri Francisci Leeke, quondam hujus Collegii discipuli 
 et nuper Ecclesiae Collegiatae B. Mari* de Southwell Canonicus 1672.” 
 
 At the beginning of the Tabulae Calendariae, 
 
 “ Ad honorem Dei et Virginis gloriosae necnon sanctorum confessorum Fran- 
 cisci Antonii et Episcopi Lodowici. In hoc opusculo Kalendarii ad in- 
 
 stanciam nobilissimae Dominae, Dominae Johannae Principissae Walliae, Ducissae 
 Cornubiae, Comitissae Cestriae et dominae de Wake, ac matris illustrissimi 
 Regis Angliae et Franciae, Ricliardi secundi post conquestum, ad meridiem 
 
 Universitatis Oxoniae ex precepto reverendi patris, fratris Thomae 
 
 Kyngisburi ministri Angliae, composito a fratre Johanne Somur, ord. minor. 
 a. d. 1380, &c.” 
 
 27. Letters between Mr Moyle and Mr Reynolds : 
 
 1 . Mr Moyle to Mr , desiring him to ask Mr Reynolds whether 
 
 Egypt was placed in Asia or Africa. Bake, Jan. 30, 170| . 
 
 2. Answer of Mr Reynolds, that Strabo doth not reckon Egypt in 
 Africa. 
 
 3. Mr Moyle’s rejoinder, Oct. 1713, with a list of Syrian kings from 
 Pagi apud Baronium. 
 
 4. Mr Moyle’s letter to Dr Musgrave on the same subject, Dec. 24, 
 1713. 
 
 5. Reynolds’ defence of his Reflexions on Justin’s Mille Urbium 
 Bactrianarum Prsefectus. 
 
 6. Reynolds on the Bactrian kings, and the Parthian Epocha. 
 
 7. Reynolds’ letter to Moyle with the foregoing Papers. Feb. 13, 171 1. 
 
 8. list of Coins found at Exeter in the beginning of the 
 
 18th century. 
 
 9. Moyle’s discourse on Mela’s Fatum Jacentis. 
 
 10. Moyle to Reynolds, May 9, 1719. 
 
 11. A paper of Mr Moyle on the Jewish Autonomia. 
 
 12. Do. Do. on the 1000 Bactrian cities mentioned by 
 
 Trogus. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 105 
 
 13. Reynolds to Moyle, May 30, 1719. 
 
 14. Do. Do. on Chronology of Syrian kings, by Sulpicius, 
 
 June 4, 1719. 
 
 15. Moyle to Reynolds, June 23, 1719. 
 
 16. Moyle’s Paper on the Battle of Ancyra. 
 
 17. Reynolds to Moyle on Vaillant’s Medals. 
 
 18. Do. Do. on Justin, 41. 1. 
 
 19. Moyle’s answer on the Medals, July 17, 1719. 
 
 20. Reynolds’ reply, Aug. 15, 1719. 
 
 21. Moyle to Reynolds, Aug. 18, 1719. 
 
 22. Paper of Moyle’s on the Chronology of the Syrian kings. 
 
 23. Moyle’s answer to a part of Reynolds’ Letter of July 17. 
 
 24. Reynolds to Moyle, Sept. 7, 1719. 
 
 25. Reynolds on a passage of Apollodorus in Strabo, B. 15. 
 
 26. Moyle’s Answer, Sept. 18, 1719. 
 
 27. Moyle to Reynolds, desiring Mr Atwell’s opinion of Plutarch’s 
 Scapheia, Oct. 22. 
 
 28. Mr Atwell’s letter to Mr Moyle in answer. Morton Hampstead, 
 Nov. 27. 
 
 29. Do. Do. Do. 
 
 30. Moyle’s answer to Reynolds on Justin, 41. 1. 
 
 31. Reynolds to Moyle on Apollodorus. 
 
 32. Moyle to Reynolds, Nov. 8, 1719. 
 
 33. Reynolds to Moyle on the 1000 Bactrian cities, Nov. 16. 
 
 34. Moyle to Reynolds. 
 
 35. Do. Do. in answer to 33. 
 
 36. Reynolds to Moyle, on Chronology of Syrian kings, Feb. 1, 17^. 
 
 37. Reynolds’ Paper on Antiochian coins. 
 
 38. Reynolds to Moyle, on Chronology of Syrian kings. 
 
 39. Moyle to Reynolds, Feb. 8. 
 
 40. Moyle to Reynolds, on Chronology of Syrian kings. 
 
 41. Reynolds to Moyle, March 22. 
 
 42. Moyle to Reynolds, on Battle of Ancyra. 
 
 43. Do. Do. on the meaning of the word emergo. 
 
 44. Reynolds to Moyle, a letter of thanks, May 7, 1720. 
 
 45. Moyle’s answer, terminating the Controversy, May 10. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. D. D. W m . Barlow, olim Coll. Socius. 
 
 14—2 
 
10t> 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Mr Walter Moyle, born at his seat Bake, in Devonshire, (the son of Sir 
 Walter Moyle,) in 1672. He was at Oxford, and afterwards at the Temple, 
 subsequently member for Saltash, which he relinquished in consequence of 
 his pursuits being more literary than political. He seems to have borne the 
 character of a very honourable, industrious, and learned man. He died June 
 9, 1721, aged 49. In 1727, his whole works were published, but among them 
 I do not find these letters. He had not distinguished himself much before 
 1695, I should presume, or Anthony Wood would have been sure to give a 
 place in the Athena 1 . Of Mr Reynolds I cannot find any mention. 
 
 28. Chronographi.® Sacr.e utriusque Testamenti Historias con- 
 
 TINENTIS LlBRI QuINQUE, DeDICATI SERENISSIM.E ET POTENTISSIM JE 
 
 H eroin m et Dominie Dn. Elizabeths Regins Anglis, Francis, 
 
 et Hybernis, Domins mes longe clementissims. Authore M. 
 
 Christophoro Herningio Misnense Poeta Cesareo Coronato, 
 
 EXULE ChRISTI. 
 
 MS. folio, paper, Latin verse, well written. D. D. T. Raker. “ Liber 
 olim Elizabeths Regime uti patet ex insignibus codici a tergo impressis 
 ex dono ornatissimi viri Zach. Grey.” T. B. With a letter from 
 Dr Zachary Grey to Mr Baker, May 17, 1717. 
 
 I cannot find any notice of the author of this book. The number of foreign 
 protestants in this country in queen Elizabeth’s time renders it difficult to 
 trace any particular one. 
 
 Poets Laureat abroad were appointed by the Universities or by the State, 
 not often by the prince or immediately by him. Warton’s Eng. Poetry Vol. 2, 
 p. 134. Selden’s Tit. Hon. Vie de Petrarque, Vol. 3. notes, and L'Abbr du 
 Resnel, Mem. Litt. X. p. 507. 
 
 29. OoMMENTARIUS IN PsALMOS. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well written. Mutilus ad init. et ad finem. 
 
 It seems to be a compilation from S. Augustine, Cassianus, and S. Jerome. 
 
 30. Ps A LTERIUM ET CaNTICA, CUM CaLENDARIO. 
 
 MS. 4 to. vellum, well written, with illuminated capitals. D. D. T. Baker. 
 
 31. Musical Compositions about the time of Henry VIII. Anthems. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, well written. ‘ Launcelot Prior.’ 
 
 32. The Proceedings at the Coronation of King Charles II. 
 
 (Latine). 
 
 MS. folio, paper. Ex dono B. Kennedy, D. D. olim Soc. June, 1831. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 107 
 
 L. 
 
 1. Ohaucer’s Tiioilus and Crisseid. 
 
 The Testament of Crisseid. 
 
 MS. 4 to. vellum. 
 
 The latter is in a much later hand. 
 
 2. Elementa Physics Practice, authore Gul. Davison, M.D. 
 
 Chim. Profess. 1631. 
 
 De Applicatione Remediorum Chymicorum in morbis, ejusdem. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. Ex dono Martini Lister filii D. Martini Lister 
 militis et Coll. D. Johan. Socii, anno 1664. 
 
 Dr William Davison was born in Scotland. He practised at Paris, where 
 according to some he was ‘ Medecin du Roi et intendant du Jardin des Plantes.’ 
 He was afterwards chief physician to the king of Poland. M. Chaumeton, 
 in the Biog. Universelle, says, “ Ses ouvrages ome's d’ inscriptions ridiculement 
 fastueuses sont un assemblage monstreux d’ hypotheses frivoles et d’ absurdites 
 revoltantes !” 
 
 3. Expositiones qu^bdam antique in Epistolam Divi Pauli ad 
 
 Philemonem, ex diversis Sanctorum Patrum Greece scriptis 
 
 CoMMENTARIIS OPERA ET DILIGENTIA CEcUMENII COLLECTOR et 
 
 nunc primum Latine versj®, Cantabr. a. d. 1542. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper, beautifully written. D. D. Johannes Bernard, M.A. 
 Coll. Soc. 1726. 
 
 “ Libellus iste scriptus est tarn manu quam opera ipsius Aschami.” T. Ba- 
 ker’s note. 
 
 Among other accomplishments, Ascham was remarkable for writing a very 
 tine hand. He taught the prince Edward and the lady Elizabeth, and Henry 
 and Charles, dukes of Suffolk in succession ; and for many years before he 
 was appointed Public Orator, wrote all the letters of the University to the 
 king and persons of quality. See Grant’s Oratio de Vita et Obitu Rog. Aschami, 
 p. 9. 
 
 This MS. most fully bears out his claim to great neatness and beauty of 
 handwriting. It is at the same time very singular, and looks like printing so 
 much, that I at first thought it must be a mistake to call it manuscript. 
 
 4. Deux Catalogues des Livres Fran^ais qui se trouvent ad 
 
 Palais de Buckden en l’exquise Bibliotiieque de Monseig- 
 neur l’Eveque de Lincoln. Lincoln, 1634. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. 
 
 . 5. A true relation of the treatie and ratification of the mar- 
 riage concluded and agreed upon betweene our Soveraigne 
 Lord Charles, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, 
 
108 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 AND THE LaDYE HENRIETTA MaRIA, SISTER TO THE FRENCH 
 
 King. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. “Ex dono Petri Gunning, D.D.” 1684. 
 
 6. Here followeth a morninge remembrance at the month minde 
 
 OF THE NOBLE PRINCESS MARGARET C/OUNTESS OF RICHMOND AND 
 
 Derby, &c. compiled by the Reverend Father in God, John 
 Fi sher, Bishop of Rochester. 
 
 M S . 4to . paper. Copied accurately from the edition by W ynkyn de W orde . 
 
 “ Transcribi curavit Gulielmus Beale et Bibliothecae applicari in memoriam 
 Regiae Fundatricis et Praesulis optimi.” 
 
 7. The Complaint of Henrie Duke of Buckingham, by r f. 
 
 MS. folio, paper. 
 
 This is the first part of the 1 Mirrour for Magistrates/ by Thomas lord 
 Sackville of Buckhurst, made earl of Dorset by James I, 1604; bom 1536, 
 died 1608. Of that work lord Sackville of Buckhurst wrote only a preface 
 and this introduction in verse. It was highly esteemed in queen Elizabeth’s 
 time, says Anthony W ood. It was completed by Baldwine, Higgons, Ferrers, 
 and Churchyard. See the edition of it published by R. Nicholls, 1610. 
 
 8. The Epistle of Paul to Philemon, in Slavonic, English, and 
 
 German, with some particulars of the Slavonic language, 
 by Conrad Glesingki, dedicated to Bishop Gunning. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. “ D. D. Peter Gunning.'” 
 
 At the end is a list of persons who rewarded the author for his pains. It is 
 a curious account of his successful foraging on the benevolent of the day. 
 
 .9. Concilium Willielmi Regis et Lanfranci Archiepisc. de 
 Primatu. 
 
 A MS. copy of the Act of the Council on parchment, with a copy of the 
 signatures, given by Mr Baker, who had it from A. Bosvile, his London 
 bookseller. 
 
 The Synod of London, a.d. 1075. See Collier’s Eccles. Hist. Vol. 1. p. 245, 
 or new edition, Vol. 2, p. 19. Collier quotes tills manuscript by name (as in 
 the Library of S. John’s College). 
 
 10. English verses on the Calendar, the Moon, &c., written a.d. 
 
 1421, tempore Henrici V. 
 
 MS. 12mo. vellum. 
 
 11. Parson’s Leycester’s Commonwealth, 1584. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. “Ex dono T. Baker.” “Ex dono dignissimi 
 viri Joannis Bagford noti in Historia Typographica.” 
 
 Strype’s Annals, Vol. 3, p. 358,9, anno 1585, where he says, the book made 
 a great noise, being a very severe libel upon the Earl of Leicester, the queen’s 
 favorite. The full title is Leicester’s Commonwealth ; conceived, spoken, and 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 109 
 
 published with most earnest protestation of all dutiful good will and affection 
 toward this realm, for whose good only it is made common. It is written 
 dialogue-wise, between a Gentleman, a Lawyer, and a Scholar. The Queen 
 issued a proclamation about it. Strype does not mention the author Parsons, 
 who was an English Jesuit, born 1547, M.A. of Baliol College, Oxon. In 
 1579, when he had become a Jesuit, Cardinal Allen sent him to England from 
 Rome as a missionary, and the companion of Campion. He was afterwards 
 Rector of the English College at Rome, and died April 15, 1610. 
 
 12. The Order of the King’s Coronation, as it was observed Feb. 
 
 2, 1625, at the Coronation of Kinge Charles our most dread 
 
 AND GRACIOUS SoVERAIGN, AT WeSTMINSTRE, BY CrEORGE ABBOTT, 
 
 Archbyshop of Canterburye. William Laud, Bishop of' S. 
 David’s, supplied the roome of the Deane of Westminstre. “ The 
 daye was very faire, and the ceremonye was performed without anye 
 interruption, and in verye goode order.” It is full of Archbishop 
 Laud’s notes in his own hand, being the very same book that he used 
 on that occasion. 
 
 The forme of Dedication of a Church or Chapel. 
 
 The forme of Consecration of a Church-yard. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper, gilt edged. “ Donum optimi prcesulis Ofulielmi 
 Lloyd, Ep. Aorwic.” Mr Baker’s writing. There is also a note 
 of Archbishop Sancroft’s about the Coronation Service in the Ordo 
 Romanus. 
 
 13. Forms of prayer and ritual extracts by Archbishop Sancroft, 
 
 in his own handwriting. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. D. D. Gul. Lloyd, Ep. Norwic. 
 
 Mr Baker says in a note, that it contains many curious things, tlic arch- 
 bishop being very much interested in ritual researches. 
 
 14. The Forme of the Coronation Service. 
 
 MS. Svo. paper. 
 
 This is the copy that archbishop Sancroft used at the coronation of king 
 James II. and his queen consort. Written in the archbishop’s own hand. 
 
 15. The same as 12. 
 
 It is full of notes in archbishop Sancroft’s wilting, small 8vo. paper, well 
 bound. Mr Baker thinks it is probably the same as that which the king him- 
 self used when he was crowned. 
 
 16. Forms of Consecration of Churches, Chapels, and Church- 
 
 yards, a collection in Archbishop Sancroft’s writing. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. 
 
110 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 17. Lucani Pharsalia. P. Rome, 1469. 
 
 Folio, paper (ed. princ.). Ex dono Johannis (illegible) quon- 
 
 dam Coll, hujus Socii. 
 
 Printed by Sweynheim and Pannartz, with an epistle from Johannes Andreas, 
 Antistes Aleriensis to pope Paul 1 1. An excessively rare and valuable edition, 
 of which only 275 copies are said to have been struck off. In the introductory 
 epistle the bishop of Aleria severely lashes those collectors and possessors of 
 MSS. who will not suffer them to be printed. The cardinal Lomenie Bri- 
 enne’s copy sold for £35. 8s. and the Crevenna, which is said to have been 
 a very beautiful copy, for £48. 12s. See Mohs’s Class. Man. Vol. 2, p. 233. 
 
 18. Sir George Carew’s observations concerning the State and 
 
 Government of France under H ENRY IV, 1609. 
 
 MS. folio, paper. 
 
 This is Sir George Carew, earl of Totness, who wrote Pacata Hibernia, born 
 1557, a descendant of the Carews of Pembrokeshire. In the first year of king 
 James I, he was made lord Carew of C'lopton, being a very meritorious officer, 
 and in the first year of king Charles I, Earl of Totness. See Ant. Wood, Ath. 
 Oxon. Vol. 1, p. 529. He was ambassador at Paris, and appears to have made 
 many historical collections, but Wood does not mention this. There is also 
 another Sir George Carew of the Carews of East Anthony in Cornwall, who 
 must be distinguished from our author. See Ath. Oxon. Vol. I, p. 530. 
 
 19. Vita Riti e Costumi de gl 1 H ebrei, in brevissimo compendio 
 
 ma amplamente raccolti e descritti da Leone Modena Hebreo 
 DA VeNETIA. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. “Boswell.” “ Ex dono authoris, Sept. 1628.” 
 
 It was published, Paris, 1G37, under the title “ Historia degli Riti Hebrseici, 
 dove si ha breve et total relatione di tutta la vita, costumi, et riti, et osservanze 
 degl’ Hebrei di questi tempi, di Leone Modena Rabi Hebreo di Venetia,” with a 
 letter from Giacomo Gaffarelli to Leo Mutiniensis, another Venetian Rabbi. 
 Leo Modena dedicated his book “ all’ Illustrissimo ed Excellentissimo Signore 
 mio Padrone colendissimo il signore Presidente Claudio Malliero, consigliero 
 del He Christianissimo, e suo ambasciatore alia serenissima Republica di Ve- 
 netia.” I cannot conceive how this came to the possession of the College, unless 
 it be one of Dr Ferrari’s books. 
 
 20. (l) Cicero de Officiis, Lib. in. 
 
 (2) Paradoxa. 
 
 (3) Versus XII Sapientum positi in Epitaphio M. T. Ciceronis. 
 
 (4) Q. Horatius Flaccus, Manlio Torquato. The ode ‘ Diffa- 
 qere nines .’ 
 
 (5) Ambrosius de Officiis, Lib. in. 
 
 (1 — 4) printed, paper, 4to. by Fust, in 1466. (5) MS. folio, paper. 
 
 T. C. S. 
 
 This is the edition mentioned by Mr Hartshorne, as in the University 
 Library, see p. 41. A copy of it, on vellum, has sold for £45. in London, 1804. 
 The copies on paper are not such great curiosities. There is an account of it 
 in Maittaire's Annul. Typograph. and Moss’* Classical Man uni, Vol. 1, p. 303. 
 
a* 
 
 IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 Ill 
 
 At the end of (3) is this inscription: 
 
 'Presens Marci Tullii Clarissimum opus Johannes Fust Moguntinus civis 
 non atramento plumali Cano neque aerea, sed arte quadem perpulchra manu 
 Petri de Gerushem pueri mei feliciter effeci, finitum anno 1466, quarta die 
 mensis Februar:’ 
 
 which also occurs in several books printed by Guttemburg and Fust at 
 Mayence. See Lacaille, Hist, de I’Imprim. p. 12. 
 
 21. Apollonii Riiodii Argon autica, Greece, cum Scholiis. (ed. Prin- 
 
 ceps) . 
 
 4to. paper. Printed at Florence, 1496. “D.D. Humfrey Gower.” 
 
 La Caille says of another book : viz. Anthologium Grsecum Florcntinum, 
 printed at Florence by Laurent Francois de Alopa (of Venice), ‘ Ce livre est 
 curieux etant imprime tout de caracteres dc capitales de Grec.’ The same 
 remark applies to this. 
 
 Moss in the Classical Manual says, “an extremely rare and beautiful book/’ 
 Dr Askew’s copy sold for £12. 8s. Gd., Dr Heath’s for £10. 
 
 22. The Life and manner of the death of that most holy Prelate 
 and Constant Martyr, John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester 
 and Cardinal of the Holy Church of Rome. 
 
 MS. folio, paper. D. D. Chester Pern, Coll. D. Joan. A.M. 
 
 This is the production of some zealous Romanist, for queen Mary is spoken 
 of in rapturous terms. It is probably a copy of the MS. which was the 
 foundation of the 'Life of Bishop Fisher’ by Dr Hall (of Christ’s College, 
 and afterwards of Douay, where he died, 1604,) which was published in 
 London, 1655, 12mo, under the name of T. Bailey, D.D. (also a Roman 
 Catholic). See Ant. Wood. Ath. Oxon. in Lewis Bailey. See College Library, 
 V. 20. 29. It agrees with this book in several places in whole paragraphs, but 
 the MS. contains more particulars, and appears to me much better arranged, 
 and more carefully written than the printed life. 
 
 . Tully of Old Age. Engl, by W. Caxton, 1481. 
 
 Tully of Friendship. Engl, by the Erle of Wurcestre, id. 
 
 P. 4to. paper. “ William Parcker.” 
 
 The translator of the book ' de Senectute ’ is known from Mr Anstis’ Re- 
 gister of the Order of the Garter. It was William de W yrcestre, alias Botaner, 
 and he presented his translation to William W aynflate, bishop of Winchester, 
 probably in 1473. See Dibdins Typ. Antiq. Vol. 1, p. 123, where there is also 
 a full account of the earl of Worcester. The College Library contains also 
 the following productions of Caxton’s press : The Dictes and Sayings of Phi- 
 losophers, and the Polychronicon. 
 
 15 
 
112 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 M. 
 
 1. Commentaries in l a . et 2 a . S. Thom^e. 
 
 Tractatus de Conscientia. 
 
 # MS. 4to. paper. Hen. C. S. 
 
 2. Tractatus de censuris in communi et primo de Excommuni- 
 
 catione. 
 
 DE ExCOMMUNICATIONIBUS IN BuLLA CcENiE CONTENTS. 
 
 DE PR^ECIPUIS DIFFICULTATIBUS CIRCA MATERIAM DE 
 
 Excommunicatione. 
 
 DE INTERDICTO. 
 
 DE IRREGULARITATE. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. Hen. C. S. 
 
 3. (1) Tractatus de charitate secundum se sumpta, 
 
 (2) DE VIRTUTIBUS. 
 
 (3) DE INDULGENTIIS. 
 
 (4) DE HORIS CaNONICIS. 
 
 (5) DE ABSOLUTIONE EXCOMMUNICATIONIS. 
 
 (6) DE JEJUNIO. 
 
 (7) de Bulla Ccenas Domini. 
 
 (8) ....... de Pcenitenti/E Sacramento. 
 
 (9) de blaspiiemia. 
 
 (10) DE DIEBUS FESTIS. 
 
 (11) DE IRREGULARITATE. 
 
 (12) DE BENEFICENTIA ET ELEEMOSYNA. 
 
 (13) DE CORRECTION E FRATERNA ET JUDICIARIA. 
 
 (14) DE BENEFICIIS ECCLESI AST [CIS. 
 
 (15) DE BELLO. 
 
 (16) . DE TRAN SGRESSIONE PRyECEPTI. 
 
 (17) DE SACRAMENTO CONFIRMATIONS. 
 
 (18) DE SACRAMENTO ORDINIS. 
 
 (19) DE SACRAMENTO EXTR. UNCTIONIS. 
 
 (20) DE VARIORUM CASUUM RESOLUTIONE. 
 
 (21) DE LEGIBUS. 
 
 (22) DE SERVIS. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. Hen. C. S. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 113 
 
 At the beginning of (8) there is the date 1578. After (20) a'short Spanish 
 tract on this question : ‘ de Papa, quando ut Papa, quando ut Doctor respondere 
 censeatur,’ with date 1576. 
 
 (21) and (22) are called Responsiones patris Ferdinandi Peres ad qusestiones 
 factas in Brasilicas regiones (Brazils). Also, Resolutiones a Patre Tolosa. 
 
 Ferdinando Peres d’Oliva was born at Cordova in 1497, and studied at Sala- 
 manca, Alcala, Rome, and Paris. He read lectures on Aristotle in Paris till he 
 returned to Spain and became Theological Professor, and finally rector of the 
 University of Salamanca. He died in 1533. His works were published at 
 Cordova in 1586 or 1588, hi 4to. by his disciple and nephew, Amb. Morales. 
 
 4. PiiAii’ATio, quod Papistic falso sibi vendicant Catholicario nomine. 
 
 Reprobatio nugalium responsionum Marci Antonii Constantii 
 
 ad objectiones ortiiodoxorum. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. Hen. 0. S. 
 
 Marcus Antonius Constantius was the name under which Stephen Gardi- 
 ner, bishop of Winchester, wrote. The title of his book is “ Confutatio Cavil- 
 lationum, quibus Sacrosanctum Eucharistise Sacramentum ab impiis Capernaitis 
 impeti solct, authore M. A. C. Theologo Lovaniensi.” Paris, 4to. 1552. There 
 is a copy in the College Library, formerly Mr Baker’s, Q q. 10. 1, lettered on 
 the back “ Steph\ Winton.” 
 
 5. R.P. Santarelli de Septem Sacramentis et de Sacrificio missas. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. Hen. C. S. 
 
 These last five manuscripts seem to have been made by the same amanu- 
 ensis. 1, 2, 3, 5 seem to have been the subjects of lectures, &c. in some 
 Spanish University, and were probably the property of an English Romanist 
 exile. 
 
 6. Fr. Francisci Titelmanni Expositio in Librum Job. 
 
 MS. 8vo. paper. Thos. 0. S. 
 
 It has the date 1534. “ Explicit Expositio fratris Francisci Titelmanni 
 Hassell en, in lib. Job, compilata et conscripta per me fratrem Jodocum An- 
 thonium Sol, a trajecto veteri van ollthruht in 9 m mmoru. lovanii an°. dni- 
 1534.” 
 
 7. Confessio Saxonica. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper. T. 0. S. with the names “ Thomas Sackevyle.” 
 
 “ Gr. Burde.” “ W. Crashawe, 1610.” 
 
 The title was Confessio Augustana, but Saxonica has been written in a later 
 hand. It certainly is the same confession as that called ‘ Confessio Saxonica ’ 
 in the Corpus et Syntagma Confessionum, Genev. 4to. 1612, where it is de- 
 scribed as ‘ Saxonica Confessio Fidei, quss scripta fuit anno domini 1551, in 
 Synodo Witteberg® ubi Saxonicarum et Misnicarum Ecclesiarum Pastores 
 et Academiarum Doctores convenerant : qui omnes ei subscripserunt tan- 
 quam Augustanse Confessioni repetitse, Tridentinse congregationi proponendae. 
 Earn comprobarunt Illustrissimi Principes Brandeburgici atque generosissimi 
 Comites a Mansfelt et Argentinenses Ministri: atque Pastores et Ductores 
 Ecclesiarum Pomerania' Scriptis Confessioni annexis. Eadem ab aliis Ecclesiis 
 comprobata; et ab Ecclesiis Polonicis in ipsarum Consensu vel Conciliatione 
 Commendata.’ 
 
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 8. O /wXoy'ia Ttj s opdoSo^ou Tr'iGTeoos in ro rwr ypaiKwv TroirjQt]aofxevri 
 
 TrpoGTa r yfxa.Ti rod ayiwraTo v Kvp'iou rjnw v K vp'iou rpijyop'iou 
 rin7ra ly . ev^odeiaa. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. Ex dono Petri Gunning, S. T. P. 1684. “Tobias 
 Goodwin.’” 
 
 Pope Gregory XIII. founded a College at Rome for Greeks, amongst other 
 foreign nations, and this seems probably to have been the Confession they 
 subscribed on their entrance. 
 
 9. Certain Slanderous Speeches against the present Estate of the 
 
 Church of England, published to the people by the Precisians, with 
 the particular causes that have so stirred them, and blasphemous and 
 seditious positions held by them, with refutations of the same, and an 
 Index of Browne’s heresies, with their refutation. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper, well written. 
 
 10. Magna Charta et alia Statuta. 
 
 MS. very small, vellum. Mutil. ad init. et ad tinem. 
 
 N. 
 
 1. S. Biblia Latina, juxta vulg. edit. 
 
 MS. 4to. vellum, old wood binding. Ex dono viri ornatissimi Oaroli 
 Hotham, A.M. liujus Coll. Soc. 1689. 
 
 Cum prologis S. Hieronymi. At the end the table of Introits, Epistles, 
 and Gospels, and the Interpretatio vocum Hebraicorum. 
 
 2. A Calendar in French. 
 
 Breviarium, beautifully illuminated. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum. Ex dono Rev. Viri Johan. Boughton, S. T. P. 
 huj. Coll. Soc. sen. 1690. 
 
 3. S. Biblia Latina, juxta vulg. ed. 
 
 MS. small 4to. vellum, well bound. It has the name “Geo. Calvert, 
 3 May, 1618.” 
 
 4. The Four Gospels in old English, with Prefaces. 
 
 Small 1 2mo. vellum. “ Ex dono Rev. Viri Gulielmi Lynge, M.A. rectoris 
 de S. Vigors in Fulburne in agro Cantabrigiensi, April 23, 1688.” 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 115 
 
 5. (l) Con stit utiones Provinciales. A digest of the Constitutions of 
 
 several Archbishops. 
 
 (2) Constitutio Henr. Chicheley, de Augmentatione Vicariarum. 
 
 (3 ) Constitutio Dni Walteri Walden de inductione istorum fes- 
 torum sc. Sti Davidis, Ste Cedde, Stee Winnifredse, Sti Thomse. 
 
 (4) Constitutiones Otiionis et Ottoboni. 
 
 MS. 12mo. vellum. “ P. G.” which means perhaps, Peter Gunning. 
 
 (2) Collier does not mention this Constitution of archbishop Chicheley, 
 as far as I have examined his account of that prelate’s government of the 
 Church. This Constitution is in Concil. M. Britan, et Hibern. Vol. 3, p. 535. 
 
 (3) Walden was only archbishop two years ‘ de facto/ Arundel being 
 archbishop ‘ de jure.’ See Collier, end of book 6, and beginning of book 7. 
 In Concil. M. Brit, et Hib. this Constitution is ascribed to Archbp. Chicheley, 
 Vol. 3, p. 376. 
 
 6. Privilegia Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis. 
 
 Prioris et Conventus Cantuar. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum. 
 
 7. A Folio MS. on parchment, apparently relating to the same subject. 
 
 8. S. Biblia Latina, vulg. edit. 
 
 MS. small 8vo. vellum, beautifully written. ‘ Liber olim Gulielmi Rey- 
 neri Lincolniensis Hospitii ex dono Thomse Holcroft de Valeroyal, 
 militis 11 Aug. 1611/ 
 
 9. A MS. Copy of the Hebrew Pentateuch, on rollers, small sized 
 
 pages, but most beautifully written, it is supposed by a Polish Jew. 
 It can hardly be distinguished from printing. It is in a little box 
 with a lock, and on small pieces of vellum sewn together, and is 
 without points. 
 
 0 . 
 
 The following MSS. and rare Books were given by Dr Ferrari. In all of 
 them there is this Inscription : 
 
 “ In grati animi testificationem, ob plurima Humanitatis officia a Coliegio 
 Divini Johannis Evangelist® apud Cantabrigienses multifariam eollata, Librum 
 hunc inter alios lectissimos eidem Coliegio legavit Ulustrissimus Vir Domini- 
 cus Antonius Ferrari, J. U. D. Neapolitanus, 1744. Teste J. Creyk.” 
 
 1, 2. Hesychii Lexicon ex ed. Sciirevelii, 1668, interleaved, with 
 Dr Ferrari’s MS. Notes. 
 
 P. 4 to. paper. 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 Mb’ 
 
 3. (xIORNALE DI CoNCILIO DI TrENTE E LeTTERE RACCOLTE DAL SlGNOR 
 
 Filippo Mujotti che vi intervenne. 
 
 MS. small 4to. paper, well written. 
 
 “ As a present given to me in Cambridge 1716, by the Hon. Mr Campbell, 
 who had it from the Rev. Mr Pawlett S. John, who told him that his father, 
 who lived for many years at Florence, in great favor with the then Grand 
 Duke, brought it over.” Dr Ferrari’ s writing. 
 
 4. Le Prime Nove del Altro Mondo, cioe : Tadmirabile Historia et 
 
 non meno necessaria et utile da esser letta et intesa da ogni uno, che 
 stupenda ; intitolata : La V ergine V enetiana : parte vista, parte pro- 
 vata, et fidelissimamente scritta per Gulielmo Postello, primogenito 
 della Restitutione, et Spirituale Padre di essa Vergine. 
 
 Jerem. 51. Appresso del Autore, 1555. 
 
 “ Di questa Vergine Veneziana ne parla Lodovico Domenichi nella sua istoria 
 di detti e fatti dcgni de memoria, &c. nel libr. 10, p. 567, del’ edizione del 
 Giolito, 4to. del 1557.” 
 
 A MS. copy of an extremely rare book. “ Personne n’ignore la rarete 
 extraordinaire de ce fameux ouvrage de Postel, qui est regarde comme un des 
 plus rares de tous les livres; et dont la rarete excessive a fait, pendant un 
 longtems, douter de son existence, qui est actuellement bien positive et bien 
 reconnue, puisque nous en connaissons deux exemplaires a Paris, l’un dans la 
 Biblioth. du Roi, l’autre dans le Cabinet de M. le President de Cotte.” Bib- 
 liographie Instructive de De Bure, Tom. 6, p. 458. 
 
 5. Le Ciel Ouvert a tous les hommes, ou Traite Theologique dans 
 
 lequel sans rien deranger des pratiques de la Religion, on prouve 
 solidement par l’Ecriture Sainte et la raison que tous les hommes 
 seront sauves. Compose par Pierre Cuppe, Prestre, Bachelier en 
 Theologie, Chanoine regulier de S. Augustin et Prieur, Cure de la 
 paroisse de Bois dans le diocese de Xaintes. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper, no date. 
 
 Of this hook De Bure, Vol. 6, p. 413, says, “ Livre dangereux, et rempli de 
 maximes impies, dont les copies se vendoient autrefois tres cher, a cause de la 
 difficult^ qu’il y avait d’en trouver; mais depuis quelques annees, le nombre 
 s’en etant accru, elles sont devenues assez communes et ont fait tomber cet 
 ouvrage dans le discredit.” 
 
 b. Epistola Aiimet Benandala, Mauri Mahumetani ad Auriacum Prin- 
 cipem Comitem Mauritium et ad Emmanuelem Portugallise Prin- 
 cipem, continens Religionis Christiana; censuram. 
 
 MS. small 12mo. paper. 
 
 7. Morlini Novell.®. Neapoli in iEdibus Joan. Pasquet de Sallo, 
 1520, 8 April. 
 
 P. 4to. paper. 
 
 “ Liber rarissimus de quo vide M. de la Monnoye.” 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 117 
 
 “ Ouvrage d’une rarete si extraordinaire, et dont les curieux font taut de 
 cas, que les exemplaires en sont portes a un prix considerable dans le com- 
 merce.” It is full of obscene stories. “ Ce qu’il y a de plus singulier, c’est que 
 le volume ait ete mis au jour dans le sein pour ainsi dire de 1’ Inquisition, et 
 repandu dans le Public, muni d’un Privilege authentique accorde pour dix 
 ans par l’Empereur et le Pape. II y a cependant lieu de croire que ce Privi- 
 lege ne fut obtenu que par fraude; et la rarete des exemplaires donne lieu de 
 presumer, que la suppression en fut ordonnee, des quo le Ministere fut instruit 
 de l’existence de ce livre.” Dr Bure, Vol. 5, p. 91. 
 
 See Hartshorne, p. 387, who gives the extraordinary prices which this book 
 has occasionally been sold for. 
 
 8. Dialogi d’Amore di Maestro Leone Medico Hebreo. Stampata 
 
 in Roma per Antonio Blado d’Assola, 1535. 
 
 P. 4to. paper. 
 
 “ Editio nitidissima et pene ignota. Certe Wolfius in Bibliotheca Hebr., 
 ubi fusius de liujus libri Editionibus et versionibus agit, nullam de hac 
 mentionem faeit. Hanc primam Editionem esse affirmare non dubito.” 
 
 Rabbi Jeliuda Abarbanel, quern Leonem Hebraeum appellare solent, Me- 
 dicus et Philosoplius Eximius, filius Isaac Abarbanel natu maximus, vixit 
 Sseculo XVI. nomenque sibi comparavit, editis Dialogis Tribus de Amore. 
 Wolfius then goes into a discussion as to whether the work appeared first in 
 Latin or Italian. He decides rightly, however, that they appeared first in 
 Italian, for a French version was made in 1551. A Latin one appeared for 
 the first time at Venice, 1554 (probably). Leo Hebrseus is mentioned by 
 Picus Mirandulanus, Adv. Astrologos, lib. ix, c. 8, p. 454, as a celebrated ma- 
 thematician ; but this is probably another person, as Picus Mirandula died in 
 1484. Isaac Abarbanel was banished from Spain in 1492. He went first to 
 Naples, and thence to Genoa. Wolfius, in loco. 
 
 9. (1) Vergerius de Idolo Lauretano quod Julium III. Romanum 
 
 Episcopum non puduit in tanta luce evangelii undique erumpente 
 veluti in contemtum Dei atque hominum approbare. Vergerius Italiee 
 scripsit, Ludovicus ejus nepos vertit. P. 1554. 
 
 (2) Extracta e Letteris Petrarch, de corruptionibus Ecclesite. 
 
 P. id. 
 
 (3) De Miraculis a Gregorio I. Papa relatis et de Vita ejus, 
 a Vergerio. P. Regiomonti Borussise, excud. Joh. Daubmann, 1556, 
 
 Small 4to. paper. 
 
 For the eventful life of Vergerio, I must refer to Tiraboschi, Tom. 7, lib. 2, 
 1, 41, M° Cries Hist, of the Ref. in Italy, or to Bayle’s Crit. and Hist. Dirt. 
 It would far exceed my limits to give even a short sketch of it. All his 
 works are excessively rare, having been suppressed almost as soon as pub- 
 lished by the papal party. I will only just add, to account for this, that he 
 was Roman Catholic bishop of Capo d’lstria, and afterwards became one of 
 the Reformed. De Bure says that he apostatized on account of his being 
 refused the Cardinalate. See Niceron, Tom. 38. 
 
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 (1) is contained in the collected works of Vergerio, of which only one 
 volume appeared, Tubingce, 4to. 1563. 
 
 This volume is very scarce. See De Bure, Vol. 6, p. 382. 
 
 10. H esiodi Opera, cura Graevii et variorum. P. Amsterd. 1701. 
 
 8 vo. paper, with MS. notes. 
 
 Clement cites the words of M. de la Monnoye, and observes that this is the 
 best edition which the editors (Leclerc) have published, and that M. Stolle, 
 in the AnmerJcung. uber 1). Hermanns, ‘ Conspectum Reipublicce Literarice,’ 
 Jena, 1738, p. 37, positively states that this edition is the best, and that it 
 is becoming rare. Moss’s Class. Man. Vol. 1, p. 470. 
 
 11, 12. Luciani Dialogi, Greece. P. 2 Vols. Venet. apud Lucam Ant. 
 
 Juntam Florentinum, 1535, with MS. notes by Du Soul. 
 
 12mo. paper. 
 
 Du Soul began to make these notes about 1700: in the second volume his 
 name occurs with the date 1723, “ quo anno notas in Lucianum Bibliopohe 
 imprimendas tradidi.” 
 
 “ A very rare edition, which, though interpolated, and not entirely free 
 from typographical errors, yet, says Reitzius, is not much inferior to the 
 editio princeps.” Moss’s Class. Man. Vol. 2, p. 261. I suppose this Du Soul 
 is the same as Solanus, whose notes are given in the Amsterdam edition, 
 4to. 1743. 
 
 13. (l) Sebastiani Corradi Questura. P. Bononiae apud Anselm. 
 
 Giacarellum, 1555. 
 
 (2) M. T. Ciceronis Historia per Consules Descripta per Franc. 
 
 Fabric. Marcoduranum. P. Colonise apud Materum Cholinum, 1564. 
 
 12mo. paper. Of (1) “ Editio prima et optima nec inventu facilis.” 
 
 Sebastian Corrado, born at Castel d’Arceto in the duchy of Modena, was 
 professor of Greek and Latin at Reggio in 1540, where he assisted in establish- 
 ing the celebrated Academy of the Accesi. He was afterwards professor at 
 Bologna, from 1545 to 1555, when he returned to Reggio, and died there 
 Aug. 19, 1556. In 1537 he published a book in 8vo, with the same title, 
 which is extremely rare, but which is not the same as this, which is a general 
 Essay on Cicero, his life, and his relations. It has been reprinted several 
 times. See Weiss’s Life of him in the Biographie Universelle. This is noticed 
 in Memoires de Niceron, Vol. 19, p. 312. He gives this account of it. 
 
 “ Corrado feint dans cet ouvrage, qui est en forme de dialogue, qu’il est 
 Questeur, et que Baptiste Egnatio et Jean Pierre Valerianol sont Consuls, 
 que ces Consuls lui font rendre compte de l’argent qu’il a rapporte de sa 
 Province ; Province qui n’est autre chose quo les (Euvres de Ciceron et sa 
 vie, que Corrado avait fort bien etudiee : ce qu’il en dit passe pour de l’argent 
 qu’il compte aux Consuls qui le regoivent sur ce pied la.” 
 
 The unpromising nature of this allegory is partly atoned for by the good 
 style and great learning of the author. 
 
 14 . Syruporum Ratio ad Galeni censuram expolita, authore 
 
 Michaele Villanovano. P. Paris, ex off. Simonis Colinei, 1537. 
 
 12mo. half the book is made up of blank paper. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
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 15. Le Malitie Bettine del Mutio Justinopolitano. P. in Pesaro 
 per gli heredi di Bartolomeo Cesano, 1565. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 Mutio Justinopolitanus. There is a translation of ‘Bern. Occhini Re- 
 sponsio qua rationem reddit discessus ex Italia, Venet. 1544/ called ‘ Epitre a 
 Mutio Justinopolitain.’ Be Bure mentions a work “Le Mentite Ochiniane 
 del Mutio Justinopolitano,” Venet. 1551. This however is a ditferent work 
 from the present. This is one of the same land directed against Francesco 
 Betti, who about the same time embraced the Reformed doctrines, viz. in 1558. 
 Betti answered this book in 1574, but Muzio was then too old to continue 
 the controversy, says Tiraboschi. There is also another work, ‘ Difesa della 
 Messa, de Santi, e del Papato, del M. Justinopolitano.’ In Pezaro..-1568. 
 
 Girolamo Muzio, whose proper name was Nuzio, was bom at Padua in 
 1496. He had to make his own way in the world, and was successively em- 
 ployed in the court of the emperor Maximilian, in that of Alphonso duke of 
 Ferrara, the duke of Urbino, the marchese del Vasto, Ferrante Gonzaga, and 
 finally by Pope Pius V. He remained a poor man till his death, which 
 happened in 1575. He was a voluminous writer in Italian, in prose and also 
 in verse, but his poetry is not spoken highly of by Corniani. Tiraboschi 
 speaks thus of his theological works (Istoria, Tom. 3, lib. 2, ch. 1), “In 
 queste opere il Muzio non e un profondo teologo, ma un robusto ed accorto 
 guerriero che sa usar saggiamente quell’ armi che la buona causa gli som- 
 ministra; scuopre le imposture e gl’ inganni de’ suoi awersari, gl’ insegne 
 e gl’ incalza con forza, e avvalora le ragione e gli argomenti coll’ arte e colla 
 eloquenza.” Corniam, however, thus qualifies his commendation of him, 
 “ Egli era perduto a tel segno dietro i formolari di cavalleria, che voile trat- 
 tare cavellerescamente questioni ancora di teologia e di letteratura, intitolando 
 alcune sue opere di simil genere Mentite e Duelli.” See Fontanini, Tom. 2, 
 p. 445. Corniani, Tom. 6, p. 34. Tiraboschi, Vol. 7, lib. 2. 1. 34. 
 
 16. Cremonensium Orationes III. adv. Papienses in Controversia 
 Principatus. P. Cremonae, 1550. 
 
 12mo. Marked “Bibliotheca Colbertina.” 
 
 “ Auctor hujus elegantissimi et a paucis visi libelli est Hieronymus Vida 
 Cremonensis, de quo vide Biblioth. Cremon.” 
 
 Marco Girolamo Vida nacque in Cremona verso 1’ anno 1490, da famiglia 
 nobile ma ridotta in tenui fortune. Abbracio 1’ ordine de’ canonici regolari 
 Lateranensi e di buon’ ora ebbe Roma per corrispondente teatro alia leggiadra 
 gia spiegata de’ suoi talenti. In 1 542 he was the means of exciting the citizens 
 of Alba to resist the French, so that they were obliged to raise the siege, 
 being then bishop of that city : after a rule of 34 years in the church, he died 
 in 1566. “Insorse gara di preminenza tra le citta di Cremona e di Pavia, 
 faciente ambidue parte dello stato di Milano. La controversia si agito inanzi 
 al Senato Milanese. Cremona scelse il Vida, illustre suo .figlio a far cam- 
 peggiare le sue ragioni e ad imprimere un vivo risalto sopra le sue prerogative. 
 L’ amor della patria infiammo la sua penna a tessere tre orazione ripiene di 
 eleganza e di copia, ma piu di effervescenza e di sdegno, che meritarono di es- 
 sere per antonomasia appellate le Verrine del Vida. Le amarulente invettive 
 di cui le sparse contro 1’ avversa citta, diedero fondamento alle voce che queste 
 orazioni per decreto dell’ anzidetto senato fossero condannate ad essere lacerate 
 
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 ed arse per mani di carnefice. Francesco Arisi pero, zelante compatriotto 
 e difensore del Vida, con luculente prova ha dimostrato il contrario. Le 
 orazioni del Vida portano il titolo “ Cremonensium actiones tres adversus 
 Papienses in controversia principatus.” Rispose ad esse per i Pavesi Giulio 
 Salerno con tre discorsi anch’ essi assai riputati, cui diedesi il titolo “ Pro 
 Ticinentibus adversus Cremonenses de jure possessionis.” Queste pero rimasero 
 transcribe, e giacente, ed indecisa rimase la questione accenata. Corniani della 
 Letteratura Italiana, Tom. 5, p. 97- 
 
 17. (l) Al Serenissimo Duce Donato et alia Excellentissima Repub- 
 
 lica di Yenetia oratione et difension del Vergerio. P. 1551, April. 
 Dated Vico soprano. 
 
 (2) Risposta del Vergerio ad una Ambasciata del Cardinal di 
 Trento. Nell’ anno 1553. P. 
 
 (3) Instruttione per un Giovane, il quale voglia imparare a dettare 
 il principio et il fine di una bella lettera Cristiana di M. Francesco 
 Grisoni da Capo d’Istria. In Geneva. P. 1550. 
 
 (4) La Forma delle Publiche Orazione et della confessione et 
 assolutione, la qual si usa nella chiesa de forestieri che e novamente 
 stata instituta in Londra per gratia di Dio con 1’ autorita et consenti- 
 rnente del Re. With preface by Vergerius. P. 
 
 12mo. paper. 
 
 (2) Seems to be of the same kind as that mentioned by De Bure, Vol. 6, 
 
 p. 209. “ Risposta di Vescovo P. P. Vergerio ad un libro di Friderico 
 
 Nausea Vescovo di Vienna, scritta in laude del Concilio Tridentino. Pos- 
 ciano, 1552, 8vo, a very rare volume, as he says. 
 
 (3) A satirical work, evidently. I suspect this is the person whom 
 M c Crie, Ref. in It. p. 225, calls ‘ Annibale Grisoni,’ who, he says, being 
 sent as Inquisitor into the dioceses, spread alarm and dismay around him. 
 He was succeeded by Tomaso de Santo Stella, who, after irritating the in- 
 habitants by his vexatious proceedings, endeavoured to persuade the Senate 
 of Venice to put garrisons into their principal cities under the pretence that 
 Vergerio meditated an invasion of Istria; this brought forth (1), of which 
 Niceron gives only the title. 
 
 (4) This does not seem to be mentioned by any of the authors who give 
 lists of the works of Vergerio. 
 
 18. (l) Catalogus Librorum Hasreticorum sanctissima? Inquisitionis 
 
 Venetiarum. P. Venetiis apud Gabr. Julitum de Ferraris, 1554. 
 
 (2) Annotationes in Catalogum auctore Athanasio (Vergerius) 1556. 
 P. 
 
 (3) Vide quid Papatus sentiat de illustrissimis Germanise Princi- 
 pibus ac de liberis civitatibus qu;e Evangelic* nomen dederunt. P. 
 1556. 
 
 (4) Catalogo del Arcimboldo Arcivescovo di Melano ove egli con- 
 danna et diffama per lieretici la maggior parte dei figliuoli de Dio 
 
IN TIIE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 121 
 
 et membre di Cristo, i quali ne loro scritti cercano la riformatione 
 della Chiesa Oristiana con una risposta fatta gli in nome d’ una 
 parte di quei valenti huomini. P. 1554. 
 
 (5) Postremus Oatalogus LLereticorum Romae conflatus, 1559. 
 P. cum annotatione Yergerii. Corvinus excudebat Pfortzheimii, 1560. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 (1) Giovanni Giolito de’ Ferrari di Trino nel Monferrato, dopo avere 
 exercitata quest’ arte (printing) nella sua patria si trasferi a Venezia ove 
 ed egli e poscia Gabriele di lui figliuolo et per ultimo Giovanni e Giampaolo 
 figli di Gabriele si acquistarono in essa tal nome, che le loro stampe sono 
 tuttora 1’ oggetto dell’ amore e delle ricerche di molti. Tiraboschi, Vol. 7, 
 lib. 1, 2, 5. He says, however, afterwards, that the productions of this press 
 are more beautiful than correct. 
 
 (2) Vergerio wrote several things under this name ‘ Athanasius.’ See 
 Bayle, Diet. Ilistorique et Critique. 
 
 (3) This is a series of extracts from a scurrilous papal publication called 
 Typus Martini Lutheri per Q. Jacobum Moronessam, Monachum celestinum, 
 Venice, 1555. “ Vix fuere unquam scripti illius "famosi libelli atrociores et 
 luculentiores.” ( Ferrari .) Niceron agrees in this character as far as a Roman- 
 ist could do so: “ Get auteur (Jacques Moronessa) faisait le portrait de Luther 
 d’une maniere extremement violente et emportee.” 
 
 (4) Niceron does no more than mention the title of this book. 
 
 (5) On apprend ici que le premier Catalogue semblable que les Papes ont, 
 fait faire est de l’an 1548, et imprime a Venise, mais qu’il contient a peine 
 70 auteurs. Vergerio ecrivit quelque chose en Itahen contre ce premier 
 Catalogue. II en parut un autre a Florence en 1552. On en donna un 3 e a 
 Milan en 1544. Un 4 e fnt publie' a Venise, la meme annee 1544, et Vergerio 
 l’attaqua encore par un ecrit Latin (l, 2 of this Volume). Ce dernier ren- 
 ferme les 4 precedens. Niceron, Memoires, Tom. 38, p. 89. 
 
 (1) Confessio Fidei ac Religionis Baronum ac Nobilium Regni 
 Bohemige serenissimo ac Invictissimo Romanorum Bohemiae Rem, 
 Viennae Austrige, sub ann. Domini 1535, oblata. Adjectum simul 
 quorundam gravissimorum virorum de liac Confessione judicium. 
 Nunc iterum excusa ann. 1558. 
 
 Cum praefatione Yergerii. Dated Tubingae, Aug. 1557. P. 
 
 (2) Epistola Vergerii ad Serenissimum Sigismundum Augustum 
 D. G. Poloniae Regem, Magnum Lithuania} Ducem — de Legatione 
 Papa: in Poloniam destinata ut colloquium a sua sacra Majestate 
 Regia in causa religionis instituendum impediat. Sept. 1558. P. 
 
 (l) Niceron, Tom. 38, p. 84, refers to ‘ Joacliimi Camerarii Historica 
 Narratio de Fratrum Ortliodoxorum Ecclesiis in Bohemia, Moravia et Po- 
 lonia.’ Heidelberg, 1605, p. 279. 
 
 It is from this edition that the Confession is printed in the Corpus et Syn- 
 tagma Confessionum Fidei, Geneva, 1612. It is there entitled ‘ Bohcmica 
 Confessio Fidei quae et Waldensium Confessio nuncupatur, ex Confessionibus 
 
 16—2 
 
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 longe antiquioribus consituta a Luthero, Melancthone et ab inclyta Academia 
 Witebergensi comprobata/ 
 
 (2) was printed at Tubingen, 1558. See the Memoires de Niceron. 
 
 20. (l) Vide quid Papatus, &c. Same as 0. 18. 3. 
 
 (2) Pauli IV. Pontificis Maximi ad Joannem Gropperum Car- 
 dinalem designatum Episcopum. P. 1557. 
 
 (3) Articuli contra Cardinalem Moronum de Luteranismo accu- 
 satum et in carcerem conjectum — a Procuratore Fisci et Camerse 
 Apostolicse et nomine officii sanctae Inquisitionis instituti, 1558. P. 
 
 (4) Lectura super Canone de Consecr. Dist. III. de Aqua Bene- 
 dicts, per Reverend. Decretorum Doctorem et Episcopum Argo- 
 licensem D. D. Gerardum Busdragum de Luca, in Episcopatu Pa- 
 duano suffraganeum. P. 1554. 
 
 (5) Heus, Germani, cognoscete ex hac Epistola quid de vobis sentiat 
 et pradicat beatissimus Papa. With prefatory Epistle by Lauren- 
 tius Millenaries, Histrius. 
 
 (6) De Fanini Faventini ac Domini Bassanensis morte qui 
 nuper ob Christum in Italia Romani Pontificis jussu impie occisi 
 sunt Brevis Historia, Francisco Nigro Bassanensi Authore. P. 
 1550. 
 
 (7) Epistola de morte Pauli III. Pont. Max. deque iis quae 
 ei post mortem ejus acciderunt — una cum antithesi Pauli Apostoli 
 Tarsensis et Pauli Farnesii (Piratae, he is called further on) Romani 
 qui se tertium appellavit, Romae Scripta, Feb. 1550. P. Placentiae. 
 
 (8) Qua pompa et magnificentia Julius III. Pont. Rom. coronatus 
 est Auctore Vergerio. P. 1550. 
 
 (9) Consilium quorundam Episcoporum Bononi^e congregatorum 
 quod de ratione stabiliendiae Romanae Ecclesiae, Julio III. Pont. 
 Max. datum est Oct. 1553. P. 
 
 (10) Epistola du^e ex quibus flagitiosa Pontificum Pauli III. Julii 
 III. et Cardinalis Poli et Steph. Gardineri, Winton. Pseudo-Episcopi, 
 eorumque sectatorum ratio potest intelligi. P. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 (1) See 0. 18. 3. 
 
 (8) See M c Crie, p. 269. He was not always, however, suspected of 
 Lutheranism, one would think, for he complains of the prevalence of Lu- 
 theran doctrine in Modena, of which city he was bishop, in a letter to Cardinal 
 Contarini, 1542. Quirini, Diatribe ad Vol. 3. Epist. Card. Poli, p. 286. 
 Sadoleti Epist. Famil. Vol. 3, p. 317. M c Crie, Ref. in It. p. 78. This book 
 has Scholia by Vergerio. It is given in the 12th Vol. of Schellhorns Amce- 
 nitates Litterarice, p. 568. Vergerio was rebuked for his bitter style by the 
 
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 123 
 
 duke of Wirtemberg. See Fischlini Memories Theologorum Wirtember- 
 gensium, p. 116. 
 
 (4) There is also Busdragi Epistola de Italia a Luteranismo conservanda 
 in Serin. Antiq. Tom. 1, p. 324. It has been supposed that Vergerio concealed 
 himself under the forged name of Gerardus Busdragus, and that the whole 
 letter is a piece of irony. M c Crie, p. 57. 
 
 (5) is by Vergerio. See Memoires de Niceron, Vol. 38, p. 78. 
 
 (6) Domenica della Casa Bianca, a native of Bassano, suffered at Piacenza. 
 This is one of the works which M c Crie, p. 276, says he was not able to meet 
 with. Fanino suffered at Ferrari in 1550. 
 
 (7) Probably the production of Cselius Secundus Curio, a native of S. Chi- 
 rico in Piedmont, bom 1503, and a remarkable man in his time as one attached 
 to the Reformed doctrines. After being driven successively from several towns 
 in Italy by the activity of the Inquisition, he finally came to Bale, where he 
 was professor of literature in 1547, and died there in 1569. “ On lui attri- 
 bue avec raison Pasquillorum tomi duo, Milan, 1528, 1544. 2 tomes en un 
 vol. Ce qui l’a fait juger l’Editeur de ce Recueil, e’est qu’il est lui-meme 
 auteur des deux Pasquillus Extaticus en 8vo, l’un sans date, l’autre de Geneve 
 1544. Le second a ete reimprime avec Pasquillus Theologaster, Genevse, 
 1667. (A copy is in the University Library). Satires sanglantes que la me- 
 chancete d’une part, et l’envie de l’autre de les supprimer, ont fait rechercher. 
 Les bibliomanes ajoutent a ces deux volumes les CEuvres d’un certain Alle- 
 mand, nomine Pasquillus Merus.” Dictionnaire Universel. 
 
 (8) See O. 27. 3. This tract was also printed in Italian under the title 
 “ La Sontuosissima Festa fatta in Roma per la Coronatione di Papa Giulio 
 terzo. Con la solennita e Ceremonia usata nel aprire la porta santa del 
 Jubileo, 1550.” 
 
 (9) During the last century Cardinal Quirini took occasion from this 
 private council to extol the exertions of the pope to reform ecclesiastical 
 abuses, in his Prefaces to his edition of Cardinal Pole’s letters, and his Diatribe 
 de gestis Paulli III, Farnesii, Brescia, 1745. To this two able replies were 
 made, viz. J. Rud. Keisling. Epistola de gestis Pauli III. ad emendandam 
 Ecclesiam Spectantibus, Lipsise 1747, and J. G. Schellhorn de consilio de emen- 
 danda ecclesia jussu Pauli III. sed ab eodem neglecto, Tiguri, 1748. M c Crie, 
 note, p. 85. Whether or no this be the same council that is meant, I rather 
 doubt. M c Crie places it in Bologna, in 1537, and he gives the names of the 
 persons composing it, p. 84. Niceron says of this production of Vergerius, 
 “C’est une piece Satyrique de la facon de Vergerio. Elle est datee de 
 Bologna, 20 Oct. 1553.” 
 
 (1) Dialogi VII. del Reverendo Padre Frate Bernardino Occhino, 
 Senese, Generale dei Frate Capuzzini. P. Venetiis, 1542. 
 
 (2) Expositione di Messer Bernardino Occhino sopra la Epistola 
 di Paulo ai Galati. P. 1546. 
 
 (3) Risposta di Bernardino Occhino alle false calumnie et impie 
 biastemmie di frato Arabrosio Catharino. P. 1546. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 Bern. Occhini, bom at Siena, 1487, was a Franciscan observant. After- 
 wards, in 1534, a Capuchin ; in 1538 he was sent by Cardinal Bernbo to 
 preach at Venice ; at the request of the principal men there, and the same 
 
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 year, he was chosen general of the order. In 1542, at Venice, he openly 
 preached against the Papal tenets, and was therefore summoned to Rome, 
 hut at Florence he received information, which made him fly to Ferrara, 
 and thence to Geneva. In 1555 he succeeded Beccaria at Zurich, having 
 been in the interim in England with Peter Martyr. He ultimately became 
 a Socinian, retired into Moravia, and died at Slacovia, 1564. Tiraboschi, Tom. 
 7, lib. ii. 1, 39. Burch. Gottlieb. Struvius has published a life of him in 
 Observ. Select. Litter. Halenses, Tom. 4, pp. 409 — 414. 
 
 (1) was written by him before he became a protestant; “liber profecto 
 unicus nemini qui Ocliini vitam vel catalogum ejus operum dedit notus.” 
 Ferrari. Niceron only mentions (2); (1) and (3) he passes over in silence. 
 
 22. Il Catechismo o vera institutione Cristiana di Bern. Occhino 
 
 di Siena in forma di Dialogi. P. Basil, 1561. 
 
 12mo. paper. 
 
 “ Sunt qui hunc Catechismum credere nolint auctorem habere Ochinum. 
 Vide Observat. Hullens. Select. Tom. 4, p. 437.” Ferrari. 
 
 Niceron merely mentions the name of this work, Tom. 19, p. 182. 
 
 23. (1) Francisci Stancari Grammatics Hebrasa: Compendium. 
 
 P. 1547, Basil. 
 
 (2) Ejusdem Grammatics Hebr. Institutio. P. 1547. Do. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 The first edition of Stancari’s Hebrew Grammar was in 1525. See M c Cries 
 Hist, of Reformation in Italy , p. 43, who refers to Tiraboschi, Tom. 7, p. 1087, 
 and Hetzel’s Geschichte der Heb. Sprache, p. 169. 
 
 “ Hujus auctoris opera admodum rarissima sunt. Certe in Catalogis plu- 
 rium instructissimarum Bibliothecarum ne unum quidem Stancari Scriptum 
 reponetur.” Ferrari. 
 
 (1) consists of only 36 pages; (2) of 270 pages. 
 
 24. (l) Liceat ne homini Ghristiano Evangel, doctrinse gnaro, papis- 
 
 ticis falsis cultibus externa societate communicare, dialogi IV. per 
 
 Eut. Mionem. P. Basil, 1549. 
 
 (2) Zographia Joannis Cochlea per Tlieod. Bezam Vezelium. 
 P. 1549. 
 
 (3) CaTECHISMUS COMMUNIBUS RENATAS NUPER IN EVANGELIC 
 
 Genevensis Ecclesi^: suffragiis receptus, auctore Jo. Calvino. 
 
 P. Basil, 1538. Ex off. R. Winter. 
 
 ( 1 ) I cannot any where find a notice of this little tract. 
 
 (2) Perhaps a production of Beza, but I have not been able to identify it. 
 Coclilams was a writer on the Papal side. See an account of him, with a 
 portrait, in Boissard leones virorum Illustrium, part 2, p. 197. 
 
 (3) This was published anonymously in Italian, 1545. Miscell. Lipsiens. 
 Nov. Vol. 1. p. 636. 
 
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 125 
 
 25. Epistol q u je d a m piissimie et eruditissimse Johannis Huss quae solse 
 
 satis declarant Papistarum pietates esse Satanic furias. Addita est 
 D. Mart. Lutheri Prsef'atio. P. Vitembergae, 1537. Ex officina 
 Johannis Lufft. 
 
 See O. 26. 1. 
 
 26. (l) Tres Epistol^e Sancti Martyris Johannis H ussn e carcere 
 
 Constantiensi ad Bcemos script* cum Prsefatione Mart. Lutheri. 
 P. Vitemb. 1536. Ex officina Joseplii Klug. 
 
 (2) Epistol M. Lutheri quibusdam Theologis ad Augustana Co- 
 mitia, anno 1530, scripts. P. 1549. 
 
 (3) Quod locus Lucie VII. Dico tibi remissa sunt .... nihil Phari- 
 saic* justiti* patrocinetur, per Matth. Flacium Illyricum. P. Mag- 
 adaburgi, 1549. 
 
 (4) Scholia in Epist. ad Coloss, per Phil. Mel. (ancthon ?) P. Vitem- 
 bergse, 1534. Ex officina Josephi Klug. 
 
 (5) Determinatio pacultatis Theologis Parisiensis super ali- 
 quibus propositionibus, certis e locis nuper ad earn delatis — de 
 Veneratione sanctorum, de canone missse, deque sustentatione minis- 
 trorum altaris, — cum familiari Expositione, in quae Hereticorum 
 rationes confutantur. P. 1524. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 (1) The Pope had ordered a Council to assemble at Vicenza to effect some 
 reformation in the Church, but the tone of his decree took away all hopes of 
 good. Luther however published this for the benefit of the Cardinals who 
 were to assemble there. See Melchior Adam in Vita M. Lutheri, p. 148. 
 
 There is a rare book in the College Library, U u. 14. 20. Johannis Huss 
 Opera, edited by Otho Brunfels, with epistle dedicatory to Martin Luther, 
 of the date 1524. 3 vols. 4to, bound in one. It was given by Dr Zachary 
 Grey to Mr Baker, and by him left to the College. 
 
 (2) This was written from Coburg, and is principally addressed to Me- 
 lancthon. See extracts from it in Melchior Adam, Vita Lutheri, pp. 138, 139. 
 
 (3) Matthias Flacius Illyricus was bom March 3, 1520, at Albona in 
 Istria. His real name was Francowitz, as we learn from Bucliolcer, Chrono- 
 logic, p. 831, but he never assumed it. He studied under Franchscus Ascerius, 
 a Milanese of reputation. He designed to enter some monastic order, but was 
 dissuaded by Baldus Lupatinus (who afterwards was thrown into the sea on 
 account of his embracing the reformed doctrines). Flacius retired to Basle, 
 where he read under Simon Grynseus. He thence set out to gain a precarious 
 livelihood by teaching theology, and was Professor at Wirtemberg in 1540, 
 and subsequently, when peace was re-established in 1547 ; afterwards at Jena, 
 1557, and elsewhere ; but being suspected of Maui clue ism, he died neglected at 
 Frankfort, March 11, 1577. He was a man of abilities, but of too impetuous 
 
12(5 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 a temper. Niceron, Memoires, Vol. 24, who mentions O. 26. 3. among his 
 works. 
 
 27. (l) Consilium Delectorum Cardinalium de emendanda Ecclesia, 
 
 et Bulla Pauli III. pro reductione multorum populorum Germanic* 
 Nationis. P. s. a. 
 
 (2) P. iEsQuiLii (sic) Epistola ad M. Forium (id. liber cum 0. 20. 7). 
 
 (3) Ad Edwardum VI. Anglise Begem, de creatione Julii Pontif. 
 Rom. turn quid de ejus Papatu sperari possit. P. 1550. 
 
 (4) Declaratio Futuri Jubilei Rome. Accessit Martini Borrhai 
 de Jubileis quos Deus instituit, quidque inter hos et falsos ab ad- 
 versario confictos intersit, Explicatio, — cum Epistol. commendat. ad 
 Raphaelem Paravicinum. P. 1550. 
 
 (5) Aque consecrate (sive, ut vocant, Benedict*) et Campanse 
 baptizatse origo ex Ital. versus ab Antonio Stupa Rhseto Praegaliensi, 
 ad Jac. Mullerum. 
 
 (6) Bulla Diaboli qua paterne Papam suum admonet atque in- 
 struit quo modo gerere se debeat in Regenda Romana curia et toto 
 terrarum orbe. P. 
 
 12mo. paper. 
 
 (1) Probably by Johannes Cochloeus ; if so it was published in 1538. 
 “ Petit volume ecrit d’une maniere fort vive. Les exemplaires en sont rares 
 et tres difficiles a trouver.” De Bure, Vol. 6, p. 370. 
 
 (3) “Cette Lettre de Vergerio est datee du 15 Fevrier, 1550. Jules III. 
 avait ete elu le 8 de ce mois.” Memoires de Niceron, Tom. 38, p. 70. 
 
 (4) The dedicatory epistle is dated “Basiles, Kal. Jan. 1550.” Borrhaus 
 was born at Stutgard in the duchy of Wirtemberg, in 1499, and was a disciple 
 of Capnio. He taught philosophy at Tubingen at first; and having unfor- 
 tunately embraced anabaptist errors, he fell into the hands of the Prussian 
 sovereign, and was imprisoned. In 1536 he renounced his erroneous opinions, 
 came to Basle, and changed his name from Cellarius to Borrhaus; he was 
 sometime afterward a professor of divinity at Basle, where he died of the 
 plague, 1564. Melchior Adam, p. 399 ; who however does not mention his 
 name in connexion with this work. 
 
 (6) “ Cette petite piece est fort rare, et se trouve tres difficilement.” De 
 Bure, Vol. 6, p. 387. Its date is 1545. 
 
 28. (l) Psalterium B. Marise Virginis ante annos 68 per Joannem de 
 
 Halis Venetiis impressum. Nunc vero hoc 1554 anno in testimonium 
 et confusionem Antichristi Romani et omnium Papistarum excusum. 
 P. 
 
 (2) Modus solennis et autenticus ad inquirendum et inveniendum 
 et convincendum Luteranos, maxime necessarius ad salutem Sanct. 
 Apostolic* sedis et in M. Luteri proditionem compositus 1519, per 
 
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 127 
 
 Silvestrum Prieratem anno 1 558, revisus et emendatus per Reve- 
 rendissiraos Oardinales ad officium sanctrn Inquisitionis deputatos. 
 P. Romie per Jordanuin 1553. 
 
 (3) Idem liber cum 27. 4. 
 
 (4) 1 n Regulam Minoritarum Commentarii plane aurei quibus 
 palam fit quid de ea sentiendum sit. Auctore Francisco Lamberto 
 Avenionense cum epistola commendatoria Annemundi cocti equitis. 
 P. Argentorat. 1525. 
 
 (5) De Justificatione hominis coram Deo et controversia de Jus- 
 titia Fidei ab Osiandro Mota, dijudicata. P. Rostoch. ex officina 
 Ludovici Ditii, 1554. 
 
 (6) Dialogus P. Schalichii de Lika, de Missa. P. Tubingae. 1558, 
 with a commendatory epistle to Johannes Sebast. Phauser, one of 
 the Council of the King of Bohemia. The dialogue is between Sol 
 and Luna. 
 
 (1) This work is generally ascribed to Cardinal Bonaventura, and is con- 
 tained in the 6th Vol. of the edition at Rome, 8 Vols. folio, 1588—96 ; but 
 Oudin, de S. E. Vol. 3, p. 411, thinks it ought not so to he. 
 
 At the end are extracts from the Fathers, shewing that the practice of 
 Rome was condemned by them. 
 
 (2) At the end is an epistle thus: “ Ad R. P. F. Spiritum Ruterum, Aqui- 
 tanicum Fidei Inquisitorem, Epistola Congratulatoria simul et commone- 
 factoria F. Paschalis Murnori, ex eodem ordine Praedicatorum doctoris.” 
 
 Silvester Mazolini, called also Prierias, or a Prieria, because he was born at 
 l’rierio in Montferrat, flourished in the beginning of the 15th century. The 
 exact date of his birth is unknown, and also that of his death. In very early 
 youth he became a monk. He was professor at Bologna, and afterwards at 
 Rome, and was engaged in controversy with Luther ; but he succeeded so ill 
 that the Pope forbade him to write any more on the matters in discussion. 
 He w r as nevertheless associated with the bishop of Ascoli as a judge on 
 Luther's case. A list of his works is given in the Dict.ionnaire Critique of 
 Prosper Marchand, art. Mazolini. See the Biographie Universelle. Tirabos- 
 chi, Vol. 7, lib. 2, calls him Mozzolini, and places his death in 1523. He 
 is rather annoyed that Erasmus speaks ill of our author as a controversialist, 
 but is compelled to allow it to be true. See also Echard, Script. Ord. Prce- 
 dicat. Vol. 2, p. 55, et seq, 
 
 (4) The Epistle Commendatory is dated “Wittenberg®, 1523.” 
 
 Francisco Lambertus was one of the first of the monks in France who became 
 a Lutheran. He went to Wirtemberg in 1523, ( Seckendorf Hist. Lutheran. 
 lib. 2, p. 40) and taught theology there. He was a voluminous author. 
 Luther wrote a preface to this work, as appears from his Letters, lib. 2, 
 p. 128. He assumed the name of Johannes Serranus. He was afterw r ards 
 professor of theology at Marpurg, where he died in April, 1530. Bayle. 
 
 (5) is very probably a work of M. Flacius Illyricus, who had a long 
 controversy on this subject. See Memoires de Nicer on, Vol. 24, p. 10. 
 
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 128 
 
 (6) Schalichius de Lika Conies Hunorum et Baro Zkradini, S. T. Doct. 
 There is also an epigram by G. Ostermarius. 
 
 (5) and (6) have in them the name of “ Henry Bullinger.” The latter 
 “ D. Henrico Bullingero helius Solinus.” 
 
 29. (l) Advertissement tres utile du grand profit qui reviendrait a 
 
 la Chretiente s’il se faisait inventoire de tous les corps sainctz et 
 reliques qui sont en Italie, en France, en Allemagne, en Hespaigne, 
 et autres Royaumes et pais, par M. Jelian Calvin. With the motto, 
 “Non veni pacem mittere sed gladium.” Geneve, par Jelian Girard. 
 P. 1545. 
 
 (2) Epitre envoyee an Due de Lorraine, par Guil. Farel. P. id. 
 
 (3) Declaration de la reisgle et etat des Cordeliers. P. 1542. 
 Black Letter. 
 
 (1) This little tract is not mentioned by De Bure. He does however men- 
 tion a “Traite des Reliques par Jean Calvin, Geneve, 1599, 12mo. Petit 
 traite peu commun et assez recherche. 11 a ete imprime plusieurs fois, mais 
 on ne fait point de choix dans les editions.” 
 
 30. (1) D ialogus apud inferos habitus inter Papas Leonem et Clementem 
 
 atque Cardinalem Spinnolam, in mense Julio, anno 1538, e Bononia 
 in Germaniam missus. Nostri seculi cognitione dignus, baud dubie 
 lusus a Pasquillo, et per totain Italiam sparsus. Adjecta liuic est 
 duplex oratio monitoria et deprecatoria ecclesiae pro concilio mature 
 celebrando a superioris seculi quodam pio et docto viro Ecclesiae Re- 
 formationis et sitientissimo et scientissimo, Heroico Carmine com- 
 posita. P. 1538. (Hans Varnier). 
 
 (2) Dialogus TrapaGofcos, quo Romani Pontificis orator una cum eo 
 qui est e confessionibus, colloquuntur. Cum Preefatione. P. without 
 date or name of printer. 
 
 (3) Dialogorum libri II. quibus aliquot Ecclesiae Catholicae dog- 
 mata, Lutheranorum et verbis et sententiis corroborantur per J. Hoff- 
 meysterum. P. Friburgi Brisgoie, 1538, ex officina Johan. Fabri 
 Emmei Juliacen. With epistle, “ Heinrico Reutterio Priori Monas- 
 terii Parisiensis, ex aedibus nostris Colmarise. Sexto Cal. Febr. 
 1538.” 
 
 (4) Dialogus mire jocosus in Rubei laudem conscriptus. Epistola 
 Alectus Furiae ad Jo. Rubeum Amatorem. Rubei (qui totas im- 
 pudentiae habenas concessit) Epistola in qua amicae Alecto responded 
 P. 
 
 (5) Dialogi pueriles C. Ilegendorphini duodecem lepidi sane juxta ac 
 docti. With an epistle Doctissimo Viro Simoni Phem Gymna- 
 
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 129 
 
 siarchcB in monte Divte Annse. P. Lugd. 1538. Ex officina Theo- 
 badi Pagani. 
 
 (6) Our et quo modo Christianum Concilium debet esse liberum, 
 item de conjuratione Papistarum. Formula solennis juramenti eis 
 qui Doctoratum ambiunt in Scliolis Papisticis et aliorum juramen- 
 torum, cum annotationibus. P. Vitebergse, 1537. Ex officina Klug. 
 
 (7) Pasquilli de Ooncilio Mantuano judicium ; querimonia Pa- 
 pistarum ad Legatum Pontificium in comitiis Schmalcaldianis. Landes 
 Romani Pontificis, scriptse ad placitum Romanse curiie per venera- 
 bilem dominum Doctorem Joannem Cochlteum, Teutonice ‘Doctor 
 Rotzloffel,’ et Georgium Weicelium cognomento ‘ Meister LugenmauF 
 Romanae Ecclesiae propugnatores egregios. P. Bonne, 1537. 
 
 (8) Passio Mart. Lutheri secundum Marcellum. 
 
 (9) A iTaveia Germanorum, cum Epistola a Pontifice Romano, 1522. 
 1 Dec. 
 
 (10) Epistola Pasquilli ad Marforium. 
 
 Responsio Marforii Romani ad Pasquillum. 
 
 Supplicatio non minus lepida quarn necessaria ejusdem Pasquilli ad 
 S.D.N. papam. 
 
 Decretum Papre super supplicationem Pasquilli. 
 
 Epistola Publii Schnarregalli Maironis Imp. Cancellarii ad Alveldianum 
 Franciscanum Romanistam. 
 
 (3) “ Hoffmeister, Jean, religieux de l’ordre de S. Augustin, natif de 
 
 Souabe dans le XVI e siecle, Vicaire-general de son ordre en Allemagne et dans 
 les Pays-Bas. Vide Le Mire de Script. Sac. XVI. Herrera in Catalog. 
 Augustin.” Moreri, Diet. Historique. 
 
 (6) Cum Prefatione P. P. Vergerii was republished, Regiomonti, 1557- 
 It was by some unknown writer. “ Vergerio etant alle en Allemagne en 1541 
 pour empecher la tenue d’un Concile National, par la promesse d’un general, 
 et voyant qu’il tendait a renverser ses desseins en rassembla le plus qu’il put 
 d’exemplaires, et les jetta au feu. Mais ayant depuis change de religion, 
 il tacha de le rendre commun, en le faisant reimprimer. C’est ce qu’il nous 
 apprend dans un Epitre dedicatoire a Aurifaber.” Nicer on , Tom. 38, p. 85. 
 
 (Aurifaber was the name of the first printers at Wirtemberg. See Melchior 
 Adam in Vita Schneidewini.) 
 
 Philothei Jordani Bruni Nolani Cantus Circasus, ad earn 
 memorise praxim ordinatus quam ipse judiciariam appellat, dedic. 
 ad altissimum Principem Henricum D’Angouleme. P. Paris. Apud 
 iEgidium Gillium. 1582. 
 
 12mo. paper. “ Domino de Gauvan.” 
 
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 The epistle dedicatory is signed Jo. Reynault. Jordanus Brunus, of Nola 
 in the kingdom of Naples, was a man of great parts, but he made an ill use 
 of his knowledge. He wrote against various truths of religion, and also 
 against Aristotle’s philosophy. Being expelled from Italy, he ran over 
 Germany, France, &c. but at last it is said he returned to Italy, and was 
 burnt for heresy at Rome, in 1600. He was a Dominican friar. Bayle , — 
 who does not however seem to believe the story of his being burnt. This 
 book is mentioned by Du Verdier. 
 
 32. Apocalypsis insignium aliquot Heresiarcharum, interprete H. S. F. 
 
 D. M. D. P. Lugd. Bat. 1608. cum iconibus. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 “ Libellus rarissimus. Inter icones est et Michaelis Serveti icon. Fuisse 
 hunc libellum ignotum doctissimo Mosheimo, vita? Scriptori Serveti, patet 
 ex his qua? edisserit de effigie Serveti, p. 148.” Ferrari. 
 
 33. Thesourodos Dinim que o povo de Israel he obri gado saver e 
 
 observar. composta por Menasseh Ben Israel. P. ann. 5405. Am- 
 sterdam. 
 
 8vo. 
 
 “ Hie liber complectitur omnes ritus et ceremonias atque officia Juda?orum 
 quae praestare. ..(illegible). ..librum ipsum non solum authoris nomen com- 
 mendat, unde majus in pretio apud Judaeos habetur, verum etiam raritas, 
 quamobrem non inutilem Reipublicae Litterariae operam facturus erit qui 
 ilium latine vertere susciperet.” Ferrari. 
 
 Manasseh ben Israel was a Spaniard, who lived at Amsterdam, and was 
 a preacher there, having succeeded his master Rabbi Isaac Usiel. He was 
 much esteemed, both by his own people and by many learned men, as Vossius, 
 Bari a? us, Episcopius, and Grotius. He died about 1659. He had a printing- 
 machine in his own house, and published his own works himself. The year 
 5405 answers to the year 1645 of the Christian sera. 
 
 34. Dissertatio qua disputatur quo jure quo ve fructu Hseretici sunt coer- 
 
 cendi gladio vel igne. P. no date or year. 
 
 “Actiones diue Secretarii Pontificii, quarum altera disputatan Paulus debeat 
 cogitare de instaurando Concilio Tridentino (magna enim est spes de pace) 
 altera vero an vi et armis possit deinde imperare Protestantibus ipsius Concilii 
 Decreta, 1556.” Such is the title of a work of Vergerio (in Niceron), who 
 published another edition in 1559. See on this subject a letter of Caelius 
 Secundus Curio, 1 Nov. 1558, in the collection of Simon Abbas Gabema. 
 
 35. Gasp a r Oontarini ad Paulum III. de Potestate Pontificis in usu 
 
 Clavium, et epistolse duae. P. Florenza. 1558. 
 
 IV. L ettere di Gasp. Contarino. Florenza. P. 1558.' 
 
 I2mo. 
 
 Gaspar Contarini was born at Venice, 1 488 ; he studied at Padua under 
 Pomponacio, and was ambassador to Charles V. from the republic, and sub- 
 sequently governor of Brescia. In 1527 he was ambassador at Rome, and 
 then at Ferrara; on his return he became a senator. Paul III. made him a 
 cardinal in 1535, he was then bishop of Belluno, and he afterwards became 
 bishop of Bologna. In 1540 he was the Pope’s legate at the diet of 
 
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 131 
 
 Ratisbon, and when liis attempts to reconcile religious differences failed there, 
 he returned to Rome ; lie was afterwards legate at Bologna, where he died in 
 1542. His works were published at Paris, folio, 1571. There is a life of 
 him in the Monumenta Latina of John Casa, 4to. Florence, 1564, and also 
 one in Italian by Beccatello, edited by Cardinal Quirini. See also Corniani 
 della Letteratura Ital. Tom. 4, p. 205. Tiraboschi, Vol. 7, lib. 2, cap. 1, 10. 
 
 36. Guida Spirituale del Mich, de Molinos. P. Venet. 1685. 
 
 Breve Trattato della Cotidiana Communione, del medesimo. 
 
 P. Venet. 1685. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 “ The author is the famous De Molinos, who would have been cardinal, had 
 not the court of France, then in dispute with the court of Rome, discovered to 
 the pope the heresies contained in this book, for which he was put in the 
 Inquisition and obliged to recant publicly, which he did, with a smile; but 
 whether he maintained or not these heresies which are imputed to him, 
 adhuc sub judice lis est.” Ferrari. 
 
 37. Le Nouveau Testament, par Calvin, Geneve. P. 1552. 
 
 32mo. 
 
 “Cette traduction de Calvin est tres rare. Voyez le texte de 1’Epitre de 
 S. Jean touchant la Trinite.” Ferrari. 
 
 38. Giordano Bruno Nolano dela. causa, principio et uno. P. 
 
 Venet. 1584. 
 
 de l’ infinito, universo e mondi, id. 
 
 8 vo. 
 
 “ Pour avoir le systeme complet de cet auteur, il faut joindre ces deux 
 traites aux precedens (O. 39. the following work, and another there re- 
 ferred to). Moins rares a la verite que les autres ils ont cependant leur 
 merite particulier, pareeque Jordanus Brunus y ayant acheve et parfait son 
 systeme, ils en deviennent par ce moyen uue suite indispensable. Le Vol. de 
 la Causa, &c. commence par une apologie de l’ouvrage qui a pour titre La Cena 
 de le Ceneri.” De Bure. 
 
 The first Book is dedicated to M. de Castelnau. See O. 39. The second to 
 Sir Philip Sidney. Bayle. 
 
 3.9. La Cena de le Ceneri, in cinque Dialogi. P. 1584. 
 
 8vo. by Giordano Bruno Nolano. 
 
 “ Volume tres rare et tres recherche. II est divise en cinq Dialogues dedie 
 a M. de Castelnau, seigneur de Mauvissiere. (This gentleman was the French 
 ambassador at the court of Queen Elizabeth. Bayle.) La raison du titre, est 
 que l’on suppose, que ce sont des entretiens tenus a table le premier jour de 
 Careme. Dans le premier Dialogue, l’auteur y expose les differentes manieres 
 de philosopher. Dans le second, apres avoir traite de differens effets de phy- 
 sique et des singularites de la nature, il y propose son systeme sur l’univers 
 cree. Dans le troisieme, il fait voir la necessite de l’etude de differentes 
 langues, et il cherche a trouver du mysterieux dans les phenomenes et dans 
 les ecarts de la nature. Dans le quatrieme, il y declare que sa maniere 
 de penser est exactement conforme a ce qu’il a avance ; et il acheve enfin dans 
 le cinquieme Dialogue tout ce qui peut rendre son systeme complet.” De 
 Bure, Vol. 6, p. 467- 
 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 The first volume of this author is as follows (a very rare work) : “ Spaccio 
 de la Bestia trionfante, proposto da Giove, effetuato dal Conseglio, revelato da 
 Mercuric, recitato da Sofia, udito da Saulino, registrato dal Nolano, diviso in 
 tre Dialogi, subdivisi in tre parti. In Parigi. 1584.” 
 
 De Fcenicum (Phcenicum) litteris commentatiuncula, auctore 
 Gulielmo Postello Barentonio. P. Paris 1552. 
 
 The full title is as follows: “De Fcenicum Litteris, seu de prisco Latince ac 
 Grsecae linguse charactere, ej usque antiquissima origine et usu commentati- 
 uncula, in qua ostenditur quomodo ex una Foenicum lingua et Latini et Graeci 
 characteres ortum ducant ut hac ratione excitetur Christianismus ad primae 
 linguae mundi admirationem.” 
 
 See Memoir es de Nicer on, Tom. 8, p. 831. 
 
 The New Testament. P. Geneva, by Conrad Badius, 1557. 
 
 32mo. 
 
 “A Calvinianis Anglis Genevae, Marianis temporibus exulibus haec versio 
 adornata et edita fuit.’’ There are some marginal notes. 
 
 A volume of excessive rarity, and not known to exist elsewhere except in 
 the collection of Earl Spencer. Neither of the two copies are perfect. See 
 Hartshorne’s Book Rarities, p. 411. 
 
 Du Benefice de Jesus Christ crucifie envers les Chrestiens, traduit 
 du vulgaire Italien en langage Frangaise. Plus une traduction de la 
 8 me Homelie de St Jean Chrysostome, de la Femme Cananee, mise 
 de Latin en Frangais. P. 1552. 
 
 See O. 51. 
 
 La Biblioteca Aprosiana, passatempo autunnale di Cornelio As- 
 pasio Antivigilmi tra vagabondi di Tabbia detto l 1 Aggirato, all 
 illustrissimo e generosissimo Signore Geo. Niccolo Cavana. Patri- 
 tio Genovese. P. in Bologna per li Manolessi, 1673. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 “Liber rarissimus et a nonnullis inter cAckootou? numeratus, ut testatur 
 Wolfius, qui primam tantum partem Latine vertit, plura de eo legas apud 
 Planium.” Ferrari. 
 
 Merlini Cocaii Macaronica. P. 1521. 
 
 3 2 mo. 
 
 “ This is the second edition, a very rare one ; the first which was made 
 without the author’s knowledge was of 1517, Venet. 8vo. apud Alex. Paganini, 
 which contains but 17 Macaronese, very much different from those that are 
 in the following editions. The author of this book was Girolamo Folengo, 
 (Hieronymus Folengus) a Benedictine monk, who died Dec. 9, 1544. By 
 others he is called Theophile, but this diversity perhaps might be on account 
 that monks change their Christian name when they enter the order.” Ferrari. 
 
 See the Life of Theophile Folengo, Memoires de Niceron, Tom. 8, p. 1. 
 
 Candelaio Commedia del Bruno. P. Parigi apud Guglelmo Giuliano, 
 1582. 
 
 12mo. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 133 
 
 “ One of the scarce books of Giordano Bruno.” Ferrari. 
 
 He here gives himself the title of Academico di Nulla Academia, detto il 
 Fastidito. See Bayle , who quotes Du Verder in Supplem. Bill. Gesneri, p. 33. 
 
 46. Histoire et Amours Pastorelles de Dapbnis et de Chioe, escrite 
 
 preincrement par Longus en Grec, et maintenant raise en Franc-ais. 
 
 Un Debat judiciel de Folie et d 1 Amour, faite par Dame L. L. L. 
 
 Poesies par P. M. D. R. Poetevin. P. Paris, 1578. 
 
 12mo. 
 
 “An uncommon book; the first an old French translation of f Longi Pas- 
 toralia;’ the author of the second, marked here L. L. L. was Louise Labe 
 Liopoise. She was a famous courtezan, more admired for her accomplish- 
 ments by the learned of that age (16th cent.) than for her beauty. She was 
 very commonly called La Bella Cordiera because she was married to a ‘ Mar- 
 chand de Cables,’ and it was on her account that the street where she lived 
 was called, as it is to this day, La Rue de la Belle Cordiere. See Jasper 
 Colonia, Histoire Litteraire de Lyon, and the author of Recherches Curieuses 
 et Nouvelles d’ Histoire et de Literature. Geneve, 1731.” Ferrari. 
 
 47. Paradossi, cioe Sententie fuori del Commun. parere novellamente 
 
 venute in luce. P. Lione per Jacobbo de Millis, 1550. 
 
 48. Vita di Maria nel Ventre di Sant 1 Anna — Opra del. R. P. D. 
 
 Luigi Novarini Chierico Regolare. P. Verona, 1641. 
 
 Luigi Novarini was born in 1594, at Verona, became a monk 1612, in the 
 monastery of St Mary of Glarea at Verona. He was afterwards superior of 
 that house, where he died in 1650, aged 56. He was a very voluminous author, 
 and a man of great learning. Niceron does not mention this among his works, 
 but he mentions one with a similar subject ; both extraordinarily extravagant 
 ideas. The name of this latter is Calamita de’ Cuori, cioe Vita di Giesu nel 
 ventre di Maria. A catalogue of his works, 80 in number, was published at 
 Verona, 1646. 
 
 “As for St Anne, mother of the Holy Virgin, and the most celebrated lady 
 of this name among the Roman Catholics, she is nowhere spoken of in the 
 scriptures nor in the writings of the three first centuries. St Epiphanius is 
 the first who mentions her, and yet the following ages trumped up a long 
 legend concerning St Anne.” Bayle. 
 
 49. Abrahami Patriarchs liber Jezirah per Postellum. P. Paris, 
 
 1552. 
 
 “ II signe l’epitre qui est a la tete : Postellus, restitutus et jam sextum 
 mensem verse vitae agens ; ce qui a donne lieu au conte de sa resurrection. Ce 
 mot ressuscite lui ayant ete reproche par Mathieu d’Antoine, il lui repondit : 
 Otons ce mot ; je devais dire enseigne et releve du profond des tenebres. C’est 
 ainsi qu’il prenait plaisir d’en imposer par des expressions figurees.” Bioy. 
 Univ. His propensity may perhaps be accounted for by his familiarity with 
 the figurative and hyperbolical style of eastern languages. 
 
 See the Memoires de Niceron, Tom. 8, p. 328. 
 
134 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 50. Description et Charte de la Terre Saincte, painte et descrite 
 
 PAR GuiL. PoSTELL, DEDIEE a CATHERINE DE MeDICI. 
 
 Printed at Paris 1553. “Cet ouvrage est ordinairement reuni a la Vie de 
 Jesus Christ par Louis Mire'.” 
 
 “ Petit volume assez rare de 108 pages seulement. II faut prendre garde de 
 la Carte de la Terre Sainte, qui manque ordinairement dans la plupart des 
 exemplaires.” De Bure, Vol. 6, p. 464. It is wanting here. 
 
 51. Trattato del Beneficio di Giesu Cristo Crocifisso verso i 
 
 Cristiani. P. Venet. 1543. 
 
 12 mo. 
 
 The first edition of this book. It was afterwards translated into Spanish 
 and French. Its author was Aonio Paleario, a native of Veroli in the 
 Campagna di Roma, who in 1534 was professor at Siena. It gave very great 
 offence. There is a description of its contents in Riederer JVachrichten zur 
 ldrchen gelehrten, Tom. 4, pp. 121, 235 — 241. Vergerio says of it, “Many are 
 of opinion that there is scarcely any book of this age, or at least in the Italian 
 language, so sweet, so pious, so simple, so well fitted to instruct the ignorant 
 and weak, especially in the doctine of justification. I will say more, Reg. 
 Pole, the British cardinal, the intimate friend of Morone, was esteemed the 
 author of it, at least it is known that he, with Flaminio Priuli and others, 
 defended and circulated it.” M c Crie, Ref. in It. p. 127. 
 
 The work is excessively rare. See M c Crie’s note, p. 339. It is put among 
 the libri proibiti, by the Bishop of Milan, Arcimboldo. See O. 18. (4). 
 
 52. The Funeral Sermon of Lady Margaret, by John Fisher, 
 
 Bishop of Rochester. 
 
 8vo. 
 
 Mr Baker’s reprint, and his own copy of that reprint, with his MS. notes, 
 whence Dr Hymers reprinted his new edition, 1840. Given by F. W. Beadon, 
 M.A., late scholar of the college, grandson of Dr R. Beadon, bishop of Bath 
 and Wells, formerly fellow and tutor of the college. 
 
 s. 
 
 1. Holy Bible, by Richard Taverner. P. black letter, 1539. 
 
 Folio. 
 
 Donum ornatissimi viri Ric. Rawlinson, LL.D. 
 
 It is deficient both at the beginning and end. The first 24 chapters of 
 Genesis are wanting, and at the end all after the lltli chapter of Hebrews is 
 missing. There is however a perfect copy of this edition in the open shelves 
 of the Library. T. 5. 2. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE. 
 
 135 
 
 2. Tabula Anglijb. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “Ex dono Rob, Grove, A.M. hujus Coll. Soc. et 
 Academia; Registrarii Principalis.” 
 
 It is the same kind of work as the “ Liber Valorum,” and is dated 1638. 
 At the end there is an extract from Dugdale’s Monasticon. 
 
 3. (1) L. A. Senec.® Ludus de Morte Claudii Ctesaris, cum Scholiis 
 
 Rhenani Selstadiensis. 
 
 Synesii Cyrenensis Encomium Calvitii, interprete Johan. Phrea, cum 
 notis Rhenani. 
 
 Erasmi Roterodaini Morim Encomium — cum prefatione ejusdem et 
 commentariis Gerhardi Listrii. 
 
 Epistola Apologetica Erasmi Roterodami ad Martinum Dorpium 
 Theologum. P. Basil, 1519. 
 
 See Dibdin’s Introduction to a Knowledge, &c. Vol. 2, p. 205, for (1). 
 
 Gulielmi Lilii Antibossicon. 
 
 Gulielmi Hormani Antibossicon ad Gul. Lilium. 
 
 Epistola Aldrisii ad Hormanum. 
 
 Apologia Hormani ad protovatem bifarium. P. London, by Pynson, 
 1521. 
 
 Erasmi libellus de conscribendis Epistolis, with dedication to Bishop 
 Fisher. 
 
 Luciani opusculum 7 repi A i\|/ac)w, Henrico Bullocko interprete. 
 
 Oratio ad Card. Wolseium, per H. Bullock, cum annotationibus mar- 
 ginalibus. P. Cantabrigise, per Joannem Siberch, 1521. 
 
 4to. “ Ex dono T. Baker.” 
 
 The following notes are in Mr Baker’s hand-writing. 
 
 Henricus Bullock (vel Bovillus) admissus Soc. Coll. Reginal. Cant. (Prse- 
 sidente Jo. Fishero. Ep. Roff.) circa annum 1506. Erat ille Erasmi amicus 
 quo cum familiariter vixit hi Coll. Regin. Vide Erasmi Epist. 
 
 Erasmus de conscribendis Epistolis and Henry Bullock’s oration to Car- 
 dinal Wolsey, &c. are two of the first books that I ever saw printed at 
 Cambridge. (I or Mr Bagford who has seen more books than most men in 
 England.) One other book I have seen printed and no more. Dr Fuller’s 
 Hist, of Canib. pp. 58, 59, seems to be of the same opinion, though he had 
 never seen Erasmus’ book, as appears by mistakes there made. I never 
 could meet with another copy of either of these books in this university, but 
 I have since seen one at C. C. C. of Erasmus. William Lily and William 
 Horman’s books are likewise very scarce. In the other book printed by 
 Siberch at Cambridge, in 1521, he styles himself “Jo. Siberch, primus utri- 
 usque lingua? in Anglia impressor.” 
 
 4. (l) Johannis Rossii Histor. Reg. Anglise, edente T. Heame. 
 
 (2) J. Lelandi ntenia in mortem Henr. Duddelegi. P. Oxon. 1716, 
 
 8 vo. 
 
 18 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (1) John Ross of Warwick died in 1491. See Leland, p. 585. Baleus, 
 p. 8, 53. Pitseus, p. 682. Brianus Twynus apud Vossium. Hist. Lat. p. 637- 
 
 (2) Wood, Ath. Oxon. Vol. 1, p. 85, mentions this as in manuscript in his 
 time. 
 
 Mr Baker’s Note. Sold for 3 guineas out of Mr Gyles’s Catalogue, book- 
 seller in London. Sold on large paper at an auction of Mr Bridge’s hooks for 
 £6. 8s. as Dr K. told me. 
 
 5. The seconde Tome of Homelyes. P. black letter, 1563, Jugge 
 
 and Cawood. 
 
 4to. “Ex dono T. Baker.” 
 
 This edition is the same as that in Emmanuel College, given them by 
 Archbishop Sancroft. There is a former edition the same year. Class 9. 4. 8 
 by Jugge and Cawood. 
 
 6. Galfridi Monumethenis de gestis Britonum. 
 
 S. Augustini Sermo de oratione Dominica. 
 
 Yen. Bed.® Presb. Historia Anglorum Ecclesiastica. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum. “Ex dono Edm. Waller, M.D. huj. Coll. Soc. Sen. 
 1739.” 
 
 See ante. 
 
 7. A MS. Letter on the subject of the Lord’s Day — whether it be ever 
 
 called Sabbath by the primitive Christians. 
 
 Folio, paper. “ Olim T. Wagstaff,” whence I conclude, “D. D. T. 
 Baker.” 
 
 8. A Treatise which appears to have been written in Queen Elizabeth’s 
 
 time, containing several things that are curious and in diminution 
 of the Scottish claim. 
 
 A Copy of the arraignment and indictment of my Lord Macguyre, 
 taken by me, William Barnes, in the Court of King’s Bench. 
 
 MS. folio. “Olim T. Wagstaff,” D. D. Thos. Baker. 
 
 The date at the beginning of this latter is 1644, but all through the re- 
 mainder of it the date is 1649. See Clarendons Hist, of the Rebellion. 
 (Oxford edit. 1826), Vol. 2, p. 582, Appendix D. 
 
 9. Concio in Diem Veneris Passionis Hebdomadse, descripta e Kiovensi 
 
 Cathedrali, Sacemino Pescherschio Coenobio — in Slavonic. 
 
 4to. paper, with engravings. 
 
 JO. Thomas Seghetus a gravi calumnia vindicatus. P. Magdeburg, 
 1622, with a MS. Latin Letter by T. Seghetus, addressed to King 
 James I. dated Hamburgh, March 1622. 
 
 4to. paper. 
 
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 137 
 
 11. An advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of 
 
 England. 
 
 MS. Small 4to. paper. 
 
 12. Liber precum publicarum Ecclesise Anglicanm — Latine Grseceque 
 
 redditus a Gulielmo Wittakero, Coll. S. Joh. Prtefecto. P. London, 
 1669. 
 
 12mo. cum Prsefatione ad Nowell, S. Pauli Decan. 
 
 Versionem hanc Liturgise Anglicanse, Gr. Lat. rariorem esse et paucis fore 
 innotuisse liquet e vita Wkittakeri. Hunc igitur libellum, ne quis tanti viri 
 non innotesceret foetus, vel collegio olim suo non super esset, Bibliothecae 
 Coll. Joh. habendum de J. Taylor, Socius. 
 
 13. Extracts in Arabic, from the Koran. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. “ D. D. W. Wotton, A.M. huj. Coll. Socius Meri- 
 tissimus,'” 1686. 
 
 14. A Chinese Almanac. 
 
 Thin Indian paper. 
 
 This Almanac was given to Mr John Dacres, merchant in the East Indies, 
 by Pun Poin then king of Tyon. (sic). 
 
 15. Letters of Matthew Prior, viz. 
 
 1. Prior to Earl of Dorset, Paris ff Decem. 1698. 
 
 2 the same — Hag. ^ June 1699. 
 
 3 (no name — hut probably the same) Tuesday, 7 in the 
 
 morning. 
 
 4 ditto ditto ditto, Hagu. h 1 May, 1694. 
 
 4to. 
 
 “ These letters of Mr Pryor were given me by the Rev. Mr Upton, preben- 
 dary of Rochester, to be deposited in St John’s College Library, May 17, 1751.” 
 John Taylor. 
 
 16. De Potest ate Ecclesiastica Prtelectiones in Schola Theologica 
 
 Cantabrigiensi habitse a Roberto Jenkin S. Theologise pro Domina 
 Margareta Professore ; — Prsemissa oratione inaugurali ab eodem 
 liabita, Mali 3, 1711. 
 
 MS. Folio, paper, in nine chapters. 
 
 “ Coll. D. J. Evang. Cantabr. Feb. 1, 1754. Ex donatione Rev. Viri Thoms 
 Jenkin, liujus Collegii olim socii. Sub his conditionibus ut nemini sane istius 
 vel imprimendi vel interpretandi permittatur licentia, nisi concessu prius im- 
 petrato a praedicto Thoma Jenkin aut ab ejus Haeredibus, Hsredibusve eorum 
 quicunque fuerint superstites. Quin et ipsorum cuicmique ad imprimendum 
 meditanti, aditus et usus ejusdem pateat.” 
 
 17. The Common-place Book of — Allsop (Darbiensis). 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. 
 
 Allsop, a gremial in the years 1685 — 1688. 
 
 18—2 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 18. A Common-place Book of Theology, formerly the property of 
 
 Dr Berry. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “ D. D. T. Baker.” 
 
 At the end are copies of the University Orations, &c., beginning from the 
 Installation of the Duke of Monmouth as Chancellor. 
 
 19. Homilije in Evangelia. 
 
 MS. 12mo. vellum. “D. D. T. Baker, liber olim ornatissimi viri Zach. 
 Grey.” 
 
 20. A Common-place Book of Theology. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. 
 
 This is very well written, and appears to contain some passages of interest 
 in the present day. It has no name or date. 
 
 21 . A MS. Collection (formerly the property of Dr Lloyd, Bishop 
 
 of Norwich, who left it with Mr Baker in trust for the College,) 
 of Papers relating to the non-jurors. 
 
 Folio, paper. The following is a list of the contents : 
 
 ( 1 ) Short Memoir of the Parliament held at W estminster, May 19,1 685 . 
 
 (“ In the Bishop of Norwich’s own hand-writing.” T. B.) 
 
 (2) Mr Dodwell’s letter to the Bishop of Bath and Well. (No date.) 
 
 (3) Mr Dodwell to , (No date.) 
 
 (4) Dr Sherlock to my Lord of Canterbury. 
 
 (5) My Lord of Canterbury’s Answer. 
 
 (6) Dr Sherlock to Dr William Pope (11 am not quite sure about 
 this last name.) 
 
 (7) A Brief Kesolution of that Grand case of Conscience concerning 
 the allegiance due to a Prince ejected of force out of his Kingdom, 
 by Dr Hammond. 
 
 (8) The Recantation of Ralph Lowndes, Sept. 26, 1690. 
 
 (9) An Epitaph of Passive Obedience. 
 
 (10) A Quere to the Ministers of the Church of England, with its 
 Solution. 
 
 (11) Dodwell to Dr Sherlock. 
 
 (12) The Death Bed Declaration of the Right Rev. John, late Lord 
 Bishop of Chichester, Aug. 27, 1689. 
 
 (13) An account of the proposals made by the Lord Archbishop of 
 Canterbury with some other Bishops to his Majesty in a letter to 
 N. B. Esq. 
 
 (14) Dr Sherlock’s Minute given in to Dr H. Dean of Worcester. 
 (1.5) Notes of Law, touching the right to seize the temporalities of 
 
 Bishops. 
 
 ( 16 ) Of Deprivation by Statute. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 139 
 
 ( 17 ) A Resolution of some three Important Questions concerning 
 Deprivation. 
 
 (18) Of Parliaments. 
 
 ( 19 ) A Case upon the Statute for abrogating the Oaths of Allegiance 
 and Supremacy. 
 
 ( 20 ) Dr Lowth to Dr Beveridge. 
 
 ( 21 ) Mr Dodwcll to Dr Tillotson, May 12, 1691. 
 
 ( 22 ) H. Watkinson to Dr White, Bishop of Peterborough. York, 
 Oct. 25, 1690. 
 
 (23) The names of the suspended and deprived non-juring Clergy in 
 the diocese of Norwich (“ drawn up with a view to their relief.” T. B.) 
 
 (24) The attestation of George Treby, Notary Public. 
 
 (25) The case of the deprived Clergie. 
 
 ( 26 ) A Mandate from William, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Feb. 9, 
 1691, directed to the Bishop of Norwich. 
 
 ( 27 ) A Copy of the legal record of the Consecration of the Bishop of 
 Norwich, May 6 , 1672. 
 
 (28) An apology for the suffering Bishops. 
 
 22. (l) Tom Tell-trutii, or a free discourse touching the manners of 
 
 the Times, directed to his Majesty by way of humble advertise- 
 ment, anno 1621. 
 
 ( 2 ) The Three Kingly States of the New Testament. 
 
 (3) A true relation of the carriage of Mr LI. Burton before and 
 at his sufferings in the pillory, at Westminster, June 30, 1637. 
 
 (4) The several Speeches of Mr Burton, Dr Bastwick, and Mr 
 Prynne, on the Pillory, at Westminster, June 30, 1637. 
 
 (5) Verses in honor of the late virtuous and rarely paralleled virgin 
 M 3 . Elizabeth Nevill. 
 
 (6) A Tract to prove that the observance of the Lord’s Day is 
 not commanded in Scripture, but is an Ordinance of the Church. 
 
 ( 7 ) Mr Burton’s petition to the Llouse of Commons, when im- 
 prisoned in Guernsey. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “ D. D. Thos. Baker.” 
 
 (7) (“This is printed in Ruslnvorth’s Collection, Par. 8. Vol. 1. pp. 78, 79. 
 As far as I have compared, they agree.”) T. B. 
 
 23. Poems, by T. Carew, and others. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. 
 
 T. Carew, of the Carews in Gloucestershire, was Gentleman of the Privy 
 Chamber to King Charles I. Sir John Suckling writes thus of him: 
 
 Tom Carew was next but he had a fault 
 That would not well stand with a Laureat, 
 
 His muse was hide-hound and the issue of’s brains 
 Was seldom brought forth but with trouble and pains. 
 
 Wood, Ath. Oxon. Vol. 1, p. 630. 
 
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 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 24. A book very similar in its appearance, subject, and hand-writing, to 
 
 I. 37. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. Mutil. ad init. et ad finem. 
 
 25. Redditus ad Eleemosinariam, 
 
 Londin. Spectantes. 
 
 MS. 8vo. vellum. 
 
 It seems to be a collection of deeds, &c. relating to the charity trusts 
 in the City of London. 
 
 26. A Volume of Miscellaneous Subjects, as in the list subjoined. 
 
 Folio, paper. “ D. D. Thos. Baker.” 
 
 (1) A MS. on some Theological Subject, given to Mr Baker, by 
 Francis Peck, 1731, folio. 
 
 (2) The Life of Mr Matthew Robinson, M.A. Vicar of Burniston, 
 in the North Riding of Yorkshire and diocese of Chester, and some- 
 time Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, written in his own 
 hand, except the last four pages, folio. 
 
 ( 3 ) A Journall or Diary of the most material Passages of the Par- 
 liament of Westminster, Jan. 20, 1628 to May 10, 1628, in the 
 fourth year of the reign of King Charles, together with his Majesty’s 
 Proclamation, Speech and Declaration of the causes which moved 
 him to dissolve the same, folio. 
 
 ( 4 ) A printed copy of the Proclamation of March 27, in the 5th 
 year of King Charles I. 
 
 ( 5 ) A printed Copy of the Proclamation of March 27, for appre- 
 hending Walter Long and William Strode. 
 
 (6) Reasons and Protestations entered on the Journal of the House 
 of Lords, March 23, 1688, April 5, 1689, April 20, 1689, May 25, 
 1689. P. 4to. 
 
 (7) Prince George’s and Lord Churchill’s Letters to the King. P. 4to. 
 
 (8) Princess Anne’s (of Denmark) Letter to the Queen. P. folio. 
 
 (9) Resolution of the States General, Oct. 28, 1688. P. folio. 
 
 (10) The declaration of Nottingham, Nov. 22, 1688. P. folio. 
 
 (11) An original warrant of apprehension for Francis Stisson, of Whit- 
 well, in the county of Derby, Jan. 22, 1599. 
 
 (12) His Majesty’s Declaration, 1628. P. 4to. 
 
 ( 13 ) Articles of Religion agreed upon at Dublin, 1615, with MS. notes 
 by Mr Baker. P. small 4to. 
 
 27. MicnAEL Dalton’s Common-place Book of Law. 
 
 Breviate of the Controversies between 
 
 the Papists and Us. 
 
 MS. Folio, paper. D. I). Thos. Baker. 
 
 (torn off). 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 141 
 
 “ Both by Mich. Dalton, author of the ‘ Justice of the Peace,’ in his own 
 hand. Domum amicissimi viri J. Perkins, S.T.B. nuper Coll. Joh. Soc. 
 modo Rectoris et Vicarii de Fulborn ubi Domicilium ac Patrimonium Mich. 
 Dalton, arm. ej usque Hseredum. See my MSS. Collect. Vol. 34, p. 354.” 
 Mr Baker’s note. 
 
 There is also a letter from Mr Perkins, dated June 21, 1738, giving 
 the hook to Mr Baker. 
 
 28. Readings op Gilbert, Spilman, Bromely, and other learned 
 Lawyers. 
 
 Observacons sdr Littleton, by W M. FlEETWODE. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. D. D. T. Baker. 
 
 2.9. An interesting Collection in different hands, of which the fol- 
 lowing is a Catalogue : 
 
 (1) Articles of high Treason against my Lord of Strafford, before the 
 Lords, by his Majesty’s Attorney General, Jan. 3, 1641. 
 
 (2) Sir Francis Seymour’s Speech in the House of Commons, April, 
 1640. 
 
 (3) Mr Sergeant Glanvil’s Speech to the King on being presented 
 as Speaker by the House of Commons, April 15, 1640, with the 
 other proceedings of the day. 
 
 (4) The Duke of Buckingham’s Speech to his Majesty at the Council 
 Table on Friday. 
 
 (5) A collection of Legal Instruments and Remarks on divers points 
 of Law. 
 
 (6) The manner of holding Courts Baron. 
 
 (7) The Law Lectures of John Calthrop, of Lincoln’s Inn. 
 
 (8) On the Office and Duties of a Coroner. 
 
 (9) A Treatise of the Duties and Office of a Justice of the Peace. 
 
 (10) A few pages of Miscellaneous Law Subjects. 
 
 (11) Transcripta qusedam e Libro Statutorum Acad. Oxon. talia prae- 
 cipue quae ad historiam aliquo modo pertinent— e MSS. Trin. Coll. 
 Cant. S. 4. 8. In Mr Baker’s hand. 
 
 (12) A Transcript of the Proeme to Caxton’s edition of Tully, De Senec- 
 tute ; also in Mr Baker’s writing. 
 
 ( 1 3) Catalogus veterum Librorum in Bibliotheca Cantabrigiensi conten- 
 torum. Also by Mr Baker. It is a list of books printed before 
 1500, arranged chronologically. 
 
 (14) A Commission from King James to certain persons therein named. 
 There is no date, but Mr Baker refers to Rymer. Acta Publica, 
 Tom. 17. 
 
 (15) Tracts on Law Subjects. 
 
 ( 16 ) Certain Considerations on the Duties both of Prince and people. 
 No name. This is in 4to. The preceding are all folio. 
 
142 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AJS T D SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (17) Three Injunctions of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Clergy. 
 There are dates assigned to the first and last, viz. Aug. 12, 1622, 
 and Sept. 4, 1622. This is also in 4to. ; the remaining number 
 is in folio. 
 
 (18) Commissio Registratus sive Officii Registrarii de Burgo S. Petri, 
 by Richard, Bishop of Peterborough, April 9, 1588. 
 
 MS. Folio, paper. D. D. Thos. Baker. 
 
 30. Legenda, in old French. 
 
 The dirge and placebo, with other funeral rites, in English. 
 
 Several Pages of old English verse, of a religious character. 
 
 MS. Folio, vellum. D. D. T. Baker. 
 
 “Librum hunc milii Testamento suo legavit Thos. Leech, S. T.B. hujus 
 Coll. Socius, reliquis Collegis suis, doctrina par, pietate omnibus superior. 
 Quantus et qualis vir!” Baker’s note. 
 
 31. An old Common-place Book. 
 
 MS. Small 4to. paper. 
 
 32. A collection of Poetry, by various Authors. 
 
 MS. Small 4to. paper. 
 
 33. An index of different explanations of words and phrases. 
 
 MS. Small 4to. paper. 
 
 There is fastened into it a little printed Tract, Lond. 1632, for finding 
 the Epistles and Gospels, &c. 
 
 34. A book of Themes, Verses, Latin Letters and Speeches, by Alexander 
 
 Bolde, electus Soc. Aul. Pembroch. 1620. 
 
 MS. Small 4to. paper. 
 
 35. An old Common-place Book, chiefly of Theology. 
 
 MS. 8vo. paper and vellum. 
 
 36. Castrum anim/i;, or Castrum conscientiie, ad illustrissimum atque 
 
 doctissimum Edouardum Rutlandise comitem, a.d. 1586. 
 
 MS. Small 12mo. vellum and paper. 
 
 37. A Miscellaneous Collection, as follows: 
 
 (1) Proceedings in Parliament, anno 1628. 
 
 (2) The Certificate of his Majesty’s Commissioners in the present case 
 of St John’s College, in Cambridge. 
 
 This is the matter of Dr Lane and Mr Houldsworth, concerning which 
 the following extract from Baker’s MS. Hist, of the College, will give all the 
 requisite particulars. 
 
 “ Dr Gwyn being gone, the Fellows were upon an equal foot in the choice 
 of a new Master. Dr Lane was then President of the College, a man of 
 no mean abilities, and favoured by the Seniors, but his party not being strong 
 enough among the Fellows, a way was thought of to strengthen his interest 
 by dispatching Dr Ambrose to Court, upon pretence of giving notice of the 
 Master’s death, but in reality to procure his Majesty’s letters. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 143 
 
 Dr Ambrose was the fittest person that could be thought of to this purpose, 
 being a man of some character, and yet not actually one of the number 
 of Seniors, though he was favoured by them, as appeared by a pretty noted 
 instance, when being about to commence B. D. an. 1627, he laid down as 
 Caution, a College Pot, &c. which could not have been done without the con- 
 sent of the Master and Seniors. Forty pounds was allowed him for his jour- 
 ney, and his negociation was successful, for he procured his Majesty’s letters, 
 dated from Berwick, Ju. 11, 1633 — in pursuance whereof the Seniors, with 
 some of their friends, chose Dr Lane their Master. 
 
 Mr Holds worth, a man of much greater worth, and sometime Fellow of 
 the same Society, was put up by the younger set of men, and was undoubtedly 
 chosen by a clear majority, but being then suspected as puritanically inclined, 
 (though he approved himself otherwise in the time of Tryal), he met with less 
 favor in the University. Both parties presented their Master Elect to the 
 Vice-Chancellor, Dr Laney, in order to admission, but the case being doubtful, 
 or he unwilling to do anything that should look like opposing the Court, 
 which he must have done by allowing the better plea, he refused to meddle 
 or to admit either of them: upon which refusal both parties returned to 
 the College, gave the oath and a sort of admission to their pretended Heads, 
 and so the House enjoyed two Masters. 
 
 Irregular things passed on both sides : in the lapse of time, and that the 
 Seniors wanted numbers to make an election, vacancies were made in order 
 thereunto, and both Mr Skelton’s and Mr W: right’s fellowships were declared 
 void, either upon reasons that were insufficient, or upon such as were not 
 thought of till the present juncture, and though this sentence ought to have 
 been submitted to (having been passed by the President and Seniors) till 
 redress could have been had, yet both Mr Wright and Mr Skelton seem 
 to have voted, and what was more irregular, Mr Wright admitted MrHolds- 
 wortli Master, being Senior (as I suppose) of that party. 
 
 Thus matters continued for some time, till his Majesty was pleased to 
 vouchsafe a hearing, when such heinous crimes and aspersions were cast 
 upon Dr Lane, as he thought it necessary to grant a commission to the 
 Heads of Houses to enquire into the truth of them. Enquiry was made 
 upon that commission; but neither then did truth clearly appear, oaths 
 being returned almost directly against oaths, as well in defence of, as against 
 Dr Lane. So the matter continued yet perplexed, and the Commissioners 
 divided. His Majesty took the matter back again into his own hands, and 
 partly upon colour of a devolution, as well as upon the right he had from both 
 parties having submitted themselves to his determination, to prevent divisions, 
 and least either of the parties should be exasperated if the other were pre- 
 ferred, he pitched upon a third man and sent his letters mandatory for 
 Dr Beale, who after a long struggle of eight or nine months betwixt the 
 contending parties, was admitted Master Feb. 20, 1633, by the greater part 
 of the Fellows.” 
 
 Dr Lane after this soon died, it is said of vexation and annoyance. Mr 
 Holdsworth was afterwards Master of Emmanuel College, April 26, 1637 ; 
 lived to be preferred by the King, and to suffer for him, and has left to 
 posterity the reputation of his sufferings as well as of his learning. 
 
 (3) Dr Beale’s Protestation, Dec. 1 2, 1633. 
 
 (4) Dr Martyn’s Protestation, Dec. 12, 1633. 
 
 (5) The Heads’ answer to Dr Martyn’s Protest, Dec. 14, 
 
 19 
 
144 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 (6) A speech reported to be made to his Majesty by the Duke of 
 Leonoxe (sic.) concerning war with Scotland. 
 
 (7) A Petition to the King by John “the unfortunate bysshope of 
 Lincolne”. 
 
 (8) The Petition of the inhabitants of Wellyn (Qu. Welwyn) in the 
 county of Hertford, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, with his Grace’s 
 answer. 
 
 (g) His Majesty’s Speech, 13 April, 1640. 
 
 (10) A Petition from Scotland. 
 
 (11) A Petition from the Grand Jury of the county of Berks, July, 1640. 
 
 (12) A Petition from the Grand Jury of the county of York, July 28, 
 1640. 
 
 (13) A Petition to the King, signed, Bedford, Warwick, Hertford, 
 Essex, Bullingbroke, Mandeville, Mulgrave, Saye and Seale, Brooke, 
 Howard. 
 
 (14) The King’s Speech at York, Sept. 24, 1640. 
 
 (15) The particulars of the treaty with the Scots at Rippon, Oct. 1640. 
 
 (16) The King’s Speech in Parliament, Nov. 30, 1640. 
 
 (17) Sir Benj. Rudyer’s Speech, Nov. 9, 1640. 
 
 (18) Sir John Culpepper’s Speech, ditto. 
 
 (19) Mr Grimston’s 
 
 (20) Sir Edward Bearing’s 
 
 (21) Mr Bagshawe’s 
 
 (22) Lord Geo. Digby’s 
 
 (23) Sir John Wraye’s 
 
 (24) Sir Edw. Dearing’s 
 
 (25) Mr Prynne’s 
 
 (26) Message to the House of Lords, Nov. 11 
 
 (27) Articles against the Earl of Strafforde. 
 
 (28) Lord Falkland’s Speech, Dec. 7. 
 
 (29) Sir Edw. Dearing’s Speech. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. 
 
 ditto, 
 ditto, 
 ditto, 
 ditto, 
 ditto. 
 
 ditto, Nov. 25, 1640. 
 ditto. 
 
 ditto, 
 
 ditto, 
 
 ditto, 
 
 ditto, 
 
 ditto, 
 
 38. Translations of different passages from Terence, Sallust and Ovid. 
 MS. Small 12mo. paper. “ Ohm T. B.” 
 
 39. A Collection of legal Instruments, Conveyances, &c. 
 
 MS. Folio, paper. “ Olim T. B.” 
 
 Most of them seem to relate to the county of Cambridge, The book may have 
 come from Fulborn as a relic of Michael Dalton, but it is not in his writing. 
 
 40. A Manor-roll, containing as follows: 
 
 Liberi Tenentes in Monewden, Soham, Framgden, et Cretingham. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 14 5 
 
 Tenentes per Copiam Botulorum Curise in Monewden et Framgden. 
 Tenentes ad Yoluntatem et per Copiam Botulorum Curiae in Monewden 
 et Cretingham. 
 
 Tenentes per Copiam Botulorum Curiae in Brandston. 
 
 Tenentes per Copiam Botulorum Curiae in Manerio de Cretingham. 
 
 The Bental of the Manor of Monewden. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. 
 
 “ The Book of Lord George 1 „ 
 
 “ Lord of the Manor of Mon J ° m ° 
 
 Monewden, a parish in the hundred of Loes, in the county of Suffolk, 
 5 miles from Wickham Market. 
 
 Soham. I suppose this must be either Earl Soham or Monk Soliam, near 
 Framlingham, in Suffolk. 
 
 Framgden, perhaps the same as Framlingham. I do not find this name in 
 the Topographical Dictionary. 
 
 Cretingham, a parish in the hundred of Loes, about 4 miles from Fram- 
 lingham. 
 
 Brandston, or Brandeston, in the same hundred, and about the same 
 distance from Framlingham. 
 
 41. Bishop Westfield’s Notes taken from Sermons preached at Cam- 
 
 bridge. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “ Olim T. B.” 
 
 Westfield, of Jesus College, afterwards Bishop of Bristol. The notes were 
 taken when he was a young man. 
 
 42. A Book of Private Devotions. 
 
 MS. 32mo. paper. “ Olim T. B.” Well written. 
 
 There is no indication of an author’s name. At the beginning is written, 
 u I pray you remember the sender of this Booke, whoe never will be unmind- 
 ful of y r Ladiship.” 
 
 43. Tachygrapiiy, the art of shorte writing 1 . 
 
 MS. Small 12mo. paper. “Olim T. B.” 
 
 44. A Common-place Book. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. “Olim T. B” 
 
 It contains some curious things ; amongst others, 
 
 (1) Oratio habita coram Bege Woodstochke, Aug. 30, 1635, a Gul. 
 Strode, publ. Acad. Oratore. 
 
 (2) Oratio ad serenissimum Begem Carolum habita in Biblioth. Bod- 
 leiana a Gul. Herbert, nobilissimi Comitis Pembrock. filio. Aug. 
 30, 1635. 
 
 45. The Common-place Book, (supposed by Mr Baker) of Dr H. Smith, 
 
 Master of Magdalene College, and thrice Vice-Chancellor. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. “Olim T. B.” The contents as follows: 
 
 19—2 
 
146 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 ( 1 ) A Latin Comedy, ‘ probably compiled and acted in St J ohn’s Col- 
 lege,’ says Mr Baker. 
 
 (2) A Collection of Epitaphs, in Mr Baker’s writing. 
 
 (3) An Account of the age of Henry Jenkins, in a Letter from 
 Mrs Anne Savile to Sir Richard Graham, 1661-2, copied by Mr 
 Baker. “ It is published in the Philosophical Transactions, but in 
 a mutilated state. It is here given entire.” Mr Baker’s note. 
 
 (4) Lord Russel’s Letter to the King after his sentence, July 19, 1683. 
 
 (5) De Fundatione Collegii Reginalis. Both these last in Mr Baker’s 
 hand. 
 
 (6) An Account of the Manors of Cambridgeshire, 1° Henr. IV., from 
 an old MS. in the possession of Mr Francis Peek, in Mr Baker’s 
 hand. 
 
 (7) A Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the University, 
 by Dr H. Smith, or his amanuensis. They extend from 1620 to 
 1650, qmm proximo. 
 
 46. (l) Parson’s Leycester’s Commonwealth. 
 
 (2) A Sermon, supposed to be by Wickliff or Wm. Thorpe, anno 1388. 
 
 (3) Vox Populi, or News from Spain. Impr. 1620. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “ Olim T. B.” 
 
 These are the principal contents of the volume, but there are other smaller 
 things, receipts, epitaphs, &c. interspersed. 
 
 (1) See L. 11. 
 
 (2) Of William Thorpe. See Collier’s Eccl. Hist, under Archbishop 
 Arundel. 
 
 (3) See S. 56. 
 
 47. The Castle of Christianitie, detecting the long erring estate as 
 
 well of the Romain Church as of the Bishop of Rome, together with 
 the defence of the Catholique Faith. 
 
 P. 12mo. Impr. at London by Henry Denham, 1568. “Olim T. B.” 
 
 On the reverse, the Queen’s arms, with the motto ‘ Est piger ad pcenas 
 Prineeps ad praemia velox,’ and yet, says Mr Baker, the author (Lewis Evans) 
 was not preferred. This volume is bound in velvet, with the Royal Cypher 
 worked in with silver thread. It was probably the presentation copy. Ant. 
 Wood, Ath. Oxon. Vol. 1, p. 178. 
 
 48. Liber Actorum et Rerum Memorabilium Aul.e Trin. Cantabr. 
 MS. 4to. paper. “ Olim T. B.” 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE. 
 
 147 
 
 49. A Collection of Papers and Documents relative to the Diocese of 
 
 Ely. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “ Olim T. B.” 
 
 It contains some MS. notes by Mr Baker. 
 
 50. A Sermon or Tract, without any title. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “Olim T. B.” 
 
 There is at the end the date, London, March 14, 16||. 
 
 51. A Fragment of some Medical Work. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. 
 
 52. A Chinese Almanack. 
 
 8vo. India paper. 
 
 53. Tractatus de vitiis et virtutibus. 
 
 MS. 12mo. vellum. “Olim T. B.” 
 
 54. Fragments of old English verse. 
 
 MS. Small 4to. paper. “Olim T. B.” Nearly obliterated by damp. 
 
 55. AvToo"x e ^' ia(T l JLaTa de studio Theologise, 1674. Auctore Gul. Barlow. 
 MS. Folio, paper. “ D. D. T. Baker.” 
 
 “ This was taken from Bishop Barlow’s own copy. What additions or 
 alterations have been made since is more than I know. Mr Offley can 
 give the best account; but it has been since printed. This MS. may be 
 of some use in correcting mistakes in both copies.” Baker’s note. 
 
 56. Vox Populi, or News from Spaine, by — Scott, Gent., translated 
 
 according to the Spanish coppie, which may serve to warne both 
 England and the United Provinces how farr to trust to Spanish 
 pretences. Impr. 1620. 
 
 MS. 12mo. paper. 
 
 57. De Conciliis. 
 
 De Conciliorum Auctoritate. 
 
 De Ecclesia Militante. 
 
 De Notis Ecclesia. 
 
 De Romano Pontifice. 
 
 MS. 32mo. paper. No name is given. 
 
 58. A Political Tract. 
 
 A memorable Speech in the House of Commons. 
 
 A Petition to the King. 
 
 Grievances presented to the King’s most excellent Majesty by the 
 Commons, July 7, 1610. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. All in the same writing. 
 
 There is no date to the first three, but the last tells us their character 
 pretty well. 
 
148 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MSS. AND SCARCE BOOKS 
 
 59. Valetudinarium, (a Latin Comedy), auctore M ro Johnson, Coll, 
 
 Regin. Soc. 
 
 MS. Folio, paper. “ Olim T. B.” 
 
 60. Of the right usage of the Fathers. 
 
 MS. Folio, paper. Mutil. ad init. et ad finem. 
 
 It is a fragment of a translation into English of M. Daille’s book, probably 
 the one afterwards published by T. S. (Smith) of Christ’s College, Cambridge. 
 
 61. Notes on the Gospels. 
 
 Some loose papers without order, or name of author. 
 
 62. Translation of some Latin Play (I conjecture). 
 
 MS. Folio, paper. The beginning is wanting. 
 
 63. “The Office of the Justice of the Peace, abridged by the 
 
 author himself, Mich. Dalton.” Mr Baker’s title. 
 
 MS. 4to. paper. “ Donum amicissimi viri J. Perkins.” 
 
 In Mich. Dalton’s own writing. See G. 36. 
 
 T. 
 
 1 — 7. Memoires et Actes touchant ceux de la Religion pretendue 
 Reformee en France. 
 
 MS. folio, paper. 
 
 This volume and all the following were given to the College by William 
 Grove, B.D. formerly Fellow of the College, in 1762. 
 
 Tiie present volumes are a collection of all kinds of papers relating to the 
 French Protestants, both in the way of laws against them, &c. and their own 
 internal arrangements. 
 
 8. Rational du Divin Office. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, beautifully written, with illuminated Titles, &c. 
 
 The full title has. Translate en Fran^ais par Maistre Jeham Golem de 
 l’ordre de Notre Dame de Carme, docteur en Theologie, par le commande- 
 ment du roy Charles le quint qui regnait l’an m trois cens lxxix. 
 
 E Libris Bibliothecae D. D. Caroli de Pradel. Eppi Montpe. 
 
 9 — 11. Les CEuvres Divers de M. Pierre de Marca, Archeveque 
 de Paris. 
 
 MS. 3 vols. folio. 
 
 All on Ecclesiastical subjects. There is at the beginning a list of the 
 contents of each volume. 
 
IN THE LIBRARY OP ST JOHNS COLLEGE, 
 
 149 
 
 I suppose this is the same work as that published at Paris by Faget, a 
 relation of the Archbishop, after his decease. Pierre de Marca was born 
 Jan. 24, 1594, at Gant, in the Bearnois. He was president of the parliament 
 of Pau in 1621. In 1647, being a widower, he was made bishop of Couserans, 
 afterwards of Toulouse, in 1652. In 1661 Louis XIV. made him a minister of 
 state, and named him to the archbishopric of Paris, void by the cession of 
 Cardinal de Retz: this dignity, however, he never lived to enjoy, as he died 
 the very day that the bull arrived from Rome, June 29, 1662. He was 
 a very learned man, but his sincerity is much doubted by Bossuet, Baluze, 
 and the Abbe de Longuerue. His principal work is a defence of the liberties 
 of the Gallican Church, entitled ‘ De Concordia Sacerdotii et Imperii,’ which 
 has been printed several times. Tabarand in the Biogr. Univ. 
 
 12, 13. Recueil d 1 Epitres de plusieurs Papes qui ont tenu le saint 
 Siege a Avignon, Anagni et Rome, avec des Remarques sur les 
 dites Epitres faictes par M re . L, D. L’ Abbe Commendat ie de LT Ab- 
 baye du I. 
 
 MS. 2 vols. folio, paper. 
 
 The collector of these letters says that they are of great use for illustrating 
 the history of the transactions in which the Popes interfered. There are 
 five parts: 1. Letters of Innocent VI. 2. Letters of Urban V. 3. Letters 
 of Gregory XI. from Avignon. 4. Letters of the same from Rome and 
 Anagni. 5. Subsequent letters. 
 
 14. L’ Instruction de la Vie Mortelle. 
 
 MS. folio, vellum, in old French verse. 4 E Libris D. D. Car. de 
 Pradel,’ (ut ante). 
 
 On the cover is stamped the name and arms of Jo. de Plantavit de la 
 Pause Episcopus Lodovensis, Montis bruni Comes. 
 
 15, 16, 17, 18. Concilium Parisiense, 1415. 
 
 MS. 4 vols. folio, paper. ‘ E Libris D. D. Car. de Pradel,’ (ut ante). 
 

 
 
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PART III. 
 
 ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. 
 
 The Names in Capitals refer to the printed Books, those in ordinary Roman type 
 to the MSS. 
 
 The figures refer to the pages of the Catalogue. 
 
 A. 
 
 Abaci libellus, 91. 92. 
 
 Abarbanel. Rabbi Juda, 117. 
 Abbonis Ephimerides, 91. 
 de Absolutione a Sentent. Excomm. 
 87. 
 
 Acta Pilati, v. Gesta Salvatoris. 
 Advertisement of Controversies in 
 the Church of England, 137. 
 iEgidius (Medicus), 40. 
 iEgidius Romanus, 4. 10. 43. 
 iEgidius Sarisberiensis, 27 • 
 iEgidius Scholasticus, 41. 
 vEschines, 98. 
 
 Ailredus, 32. 54. 
 
 Aimo, v. Haymo. 
 
 Alanus de Insulis, 45. 
 de S. Albano (Simon), 67. 
 Albericus, 10. 
 
 Alchemy, books of, 67. 
 
 Alexandri Ep. ad Aristotelem, 40. 
 
 68 . 
 
 Gesta, 68. 
 
 Algorismus, 58. 91. 
 
 Alplionsus (Petrus), 35. 43. 
 de S. Amando (Johannes), 66. 
 Ambrose (S.), 2. 9. 10. 77. 
 Ambrosius, de Officiis, 110. 
 
 20 
 
 Anastasius (Episcopus), 50. 
 
 Andreas (Johannes), 2. 
 
 Angerville (Ric. de), v. Bury. 
 Anglo-Saxon Homily, 98. 
 Anglo-Saxon Homily, 98. 
 
 Anne, Princess of Denmark, 140. 
 Anselm (S.), 7. 48. 62. 
 
 Antar, legend of, 100. 101. 
 Antidotarium, 64. 
 
 Antoninus Archiepiscopus Floren- 
 tines, 103. 
 
 Antonius Januensis, v. Rampelogus. 
 Apocalypse, Comment on, 72. 
 Apocalypsis Insignium Heresiar- 
 CHARUM, 130. 
 
 Apollonius Riiodius, 111. 
 
 Aquinas (S. Thomas), 21. 22. 
 
 Arabic MSS., 99. 100. 101. 137. 
 Arauca (Vincentius), 9 7. 
 
 Aretino (Leonardo), 25. 
 
 Aristotle, 16. 58. Comment, on, 
 36. 40. 41. 97. 
 
 Arnobius, 18. 
 
 Arnulphus Aurelianensis, 8. 
 Arsenius, 27- 
 
 Articles op Dublin (1615), 140. 
 de Articulis Fidei Tractatus, 6. 
 Ascham (Roger), 107. 
 
152 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Astrolabe (Treatise of), 42. 6 0. 
 Astrologica, 18. 42. 58. 59. 60. 
 Athanasius (S.), 7. 34. 
 
 Augustine (S.), 3. 4. 9- l°- 18> 20 - 
 27. 43. 49. 6l. 87. 136. 
 
 Autpertus (Ambrosius), 98. 
 
 B. 
 
 HOLY BIBLE— 
 
 Hebrew, 1 . 115. 
 
 Latin, 31. 48. 59- 95. 101. 114. 
 115. (Vulgate). 
 
 English (parts thereof), 46. 47. 
 73. 114. 
 
 — (in verse), 13. 
 
 Latin (parts thereof), 30. 37. 38. 
 67. 107. 
 
 — — - (not Vulgate), 44. 
 
 Slavonic, 108. 
 
 French (New Testament), 131. 
 Genevan (in English), 132. 
 Islandic, 86. 
 
 English, 82 . 134 . 
 
 Bagshawe, (Mr), 144. 
 
 Baifius (Guido), 2. 
 
 Bailey, W., 94. 
 
 Baker (Thos.), 85. et passim. 
 Barbour (John), 72. 
 
 Barker (printer), 102. 
 
 Barlow (Bishop), 147. 
 Bartholomteus Florarius, 48. 
 Barwick (Dean), 78. 79- 
 Basil, (S.), 25. 58. 
 
 Bast wick (Dr), 139- 
 Beda Venerabilis, 10. 18. 28. 77. 90. 
 91. 136. 
 
 Belethus (Johannes), 55. 
 
 Benandala (Ahmet), 11 6. 
 
 Benedicti (S.) Vita, 61. 
 
 Rcgula, 44. 
 
 Benedictus XII. (Papa), 36. 
 Bernard (S.), 17. 28. 32. 34. 44. 48. 
 50. 62. 70. 
 
 Bernardus Sylvester or Carnotensis, 
 17. 
 
 Bertrandus (Medicus), 32. 
 Bestiarium, 6. 27- 
 Beveridge (Bishop), 139- 
 Beverland, Adrian, 84 . 
 
 Beverley (S. John de), 60. 
 
 Beza (Theodore), 124. 
 
 Bibliotheca Aprosiana, 132. 
 
 Bidding of the Bedes, 71. 
 
 Bishops (Answer to the Attack on 
 them), 93. 
 
 (whether they should sit 
 
 in the Upper House), 88. 
 — (Treatise against), 89. 
 Blesensis (Petrus), 23. 66. 103. 
 Boethius, 7- 47. 
 
 — - — (in English metre), 73. 
 Bolton (Ughtred), 48. 
 
 Bonaventura (Cardinal), 17. 33. 34. 
 52. 64. 126. 
 
 Bonifacius VIII. (Papa), 43. 
 Borriiaus (Martinus), 126. 
 
 Botulph (S.), 77. 
 
 Breviaria Romana, 56. 81. 114. 
 Briefs of Certificates of Dioceses of 
 England, 93. 
 
 Brigitta (S.), 29. 
 
 Bromeley, 141. 
 
 Browne (Sir Thos.), 82. 
 
 Bruce (The), see Barbour. 
 
 Bruno (Philotheus Jordanus), 129. 
 131. 132. 
 
 Buckingham (Duke of), 141. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 153 
 
 Buckridge (Bishop), 88. 
 
 Bulla Diaboli, 126. 
 
 Bullock (Henry), 135. 
 
 Burgo (John de), 29. 
 
 Burley (Walter de), 40. 
 
 Burton, H., 139. 
 
 Bury (Ric. de), 45. 
 
 Busdragus (Gerardus), 122. 
 
 Butcher (Richard), 76. 77- 
 
 C. 
 
 Calendar (writers on the), 10. 18. 
 
 53. 60. 91. 92. 108. 114. 137. 
 Calthorp (John), 141. 
 
 Calvin (John), 124. 128. 131. 
 Cambridgeshire (Manors of), 146. 
 Canon Law (Comment on), 87. 
 Canterbury’s (Archbishop of), In- 
 junctions, 142. 
 
 Canticles (Book of), Comment on, 
 
 65. 
 
 Cantor (Petrus), Parisiensis, 14. 
 Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Privi- 
 legia, 115. 
 
 — — — Prioris et Conventus, 
 
 115. 
 
 Capellanus (Johannes), 73. 
 
 Carew (Sir Geo.), 110. 
 
 Carew (Thos.), 139- 
 
 Carta IJumanee Redemptions, 33. 
 
 Cartula Approbata, 56. 
 
 Cassianus (Johannes), 34. 35. 41. 
 Cassiodorus (Aurelius), 49. 63. 
 Castle of Christianitie, 146. 
 
 Castrum Animae, 142. 
 
 Casus Papales, 26. 
 
 Catalogue of Mr Baker’s Books, 85. 
 
 Catalogue of Bishop of Lincoln’s 
 Books, 107. 
 
 Ancient printed Books 
 
 in the University Library, 141. 
 Catalogo del Arcimboldo, 120. 
 CatALOGUS LiBRORUM HiERETICORUM, 
 
 120 . 121 . 
 
 Catherine (S.) of Siena, 31. 
 
 Catonis (liber), 56. 
 
 Caxtons, 111. 141. 
 
 Celestinus, 18. 
 
 Cellensis (Petrus), 46. 
 
 Cena (la) de le Ceneri, v. Bruno. 
 Chalcedon (Bishop of), 95. 
 
 Charles I. (Coronation of), 109. 
 
 — , 144. 
 
 Charles II. (Coronation of), 106. 
 
 (Letters of), 79- 
 
 Chastening of God’s children, 51. 
 Chaucer, 107. 
 
 Chertsey (Andrew), see Lucidarie. 
 Cheke (Sir John), 83. 
 
 Chicheley, Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury, 115. 
 
 Chinese Almanac, 137. 147. 
 Christopherson (Bishop), 84. 
 Chronica, 68. 89. 136. 
 
 Chrysostom (S.), 83. 
 
 Cliurche (Daniel), 56. 
 
 Churchill (Lord), 140. 
 
 Clarendon (Earl of), 79- 
 Cleopatrse (Liber), 32. 
 
 Cicero, 40. 47. 90. 118. 
 
 Ciel (le) ouvert a tous les hommes, 
 116. 
 
 CochLjEus (Joh.), 124. 126. 
 
 Coligny (Admiral de) Sa vie, 93. 
 Comoedipe Latinse, 89. 146. 148. 
 Comestor (Petrus), 13. 
 
 20—2 
 
154 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Commendationes Apostolorum, 53. 
 Comments on Scripture, 28. 65. 72. 
 92. 95. 106. 107. 
 
 on Canon Law, 87- 
 
 112 . 
 
 Common-place Books, viz. — - 
 of Allsop, 137. 
 
 — Dr Berry, 138. 
 
 — Thos. Betson de Spon, 43. 
 
 — Marshall de Barton, 60. 
 
 — Dr H. Smith, 145. 
 
 — - A Student at Rome in 17th 
 Cent., 7. 97- 140. 
 
 (old), 142. 145. 
 
 Common Prayer (Treatise of), 93. 
 Communion in both kinds (Treatise 
 of), 88. 
 
 Conchis (W. de) 64. 
 
 Concilium Constantiense, 78. 
 
 • Lateranense VIII., 57. 
 
 Londinense, 108. 
 
 Parisiense, 149. 
 
 Tridentinum, 11 6. 
 
 Conciliis (de), 147. 
 
 Concio ad Concionatores, 101. 
 Concordantise, S. S., 22. 89. 
 Confessio Gregorii XIII., 114. 
 
 - — Saxonica, 113. 
 
 Confessio Bohemica, 121. 
 de Confessione, 53. 
 
 Consecration of Churches, &c., forms 
 
 of, 109. 
 
 Considerations of the State of Eu- 
 rope (1602), 96. 
 
 of duties of Prince 
 
 and People, 141. 
 
 Constantinus (Medicus) 40. 
 Constitutiones (Episcopales et Pa- 
 pales), 36. 38. 42. 115. 
 
 Consuetudinarium Monasterii B. 
 
 Virg s . Ebor., 42. 
 
 CONTARINI (GASPARO), 130. 
 
 Contemplative Life (Book of), 75. 
 Coronation Service, 109. 
 
 Coroner (office of a), 141. 
 
 Corrado (Sebastian), 118. 
 
 Covenant, Solemn League and, 88. 
 Cowell (Dr John), 96. 
 
 Crescenzi (Pietro di), 12. 
 
 Culpepper (Sir John), 144. 
 
 Cuppe (Pierre), 116. 
 
 Curio (Ccelius Secundus), 122. 126. 
 128. 129. 
 
 Cursus de Eterna Sapientia, 34. 
 
 D. 
 
 Daillee (Pierre) on the Right use of 
 the Fathers, 148. 
 
 Dalton (Michael), 75. 140. 148. 
 Daniel (Friar), 17. 
 
 Daretis Historia, 68. 
 
 Dastyn (John), v. Alchemy. 
 
 S. David’s (Statutes of the Church), 
 
 80 . 
 
 Davison (Wm.), M.D., 107. 
 
 Dearing (Sir Ed.), 144. 
 de Decern Prieceptis, 66. 67. 
 Decretals (writers on the), 2. 34. 43. 
 59. 66. 
 
 Demacles, 98. 
 
 Demosthenes, 98. 
 
 Dialogi Miscell., 31. 
 
 Dialogues (Satirical), 128. 
 Dictionarium Biblicum, 42. 47. 54. 
 Die (de) Dominica, 60. 
 
 Dieta Salutis, 65. 
 
 Digby (Lord Geo.), 144. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 155 
 
 Dionysius Exiguus, 91. 92. 
 Doctrinale, 56. 
 
 Dodwell (Mr), 138. 
 
 Dogmael (S.), the Priory of, 2. 
 Draconites, 102. 
 
 Dynus Mugellanus, 2. 
 
 E. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Law, 42. 43. 55. 88. 
 
 v. Constitutions. 
 
 Edmundus (S.), Rich., 27. 
 
 Edmundi (S.), Speculum, 50. 62. 
 
 66 . 
 
 Edwardi Regis Speculum, 50. 
 Edwardi Visio, see Alchemy. 
 Effrem, (S.), 18. 
 
 Elizabeth (Queen), 81. 136. 
 Elmacino (George), 99- 
 Elstob (Eliz.), 98. 
 
 Ely (Diocese of), 147. 
 
 Enchiridion Liber, 56. 
 
 Epictetus, 25. 
 
 Epiphanius (Scholasticus), 63. 
 Epitaphs, 146. 
 
 Equivocorum Liber, 56. 
 
 Erasmus, 99- 135. 
 
 Eremita (Johannes), v. Cassianus. 
 Erotis, v. Trotula Salernitana. 
 Europe (State of) in 1 602, 96. 
 Eusebius, 2. 46. 
 
 Eusebius Germanus, 94. 
 
 Evans (Lewis), 146. 
 Excommunication, 71. 
 
 Exorcismi, 59. 
 
 Explicatio Yocum in S. S., v. Dic- 
 tionarium. 
 
 Explicacion of the Crede, 47. 
 Expositio Symboli Apost. 66. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fables, 77. 
 
 Facius (Bartholomseus), 97. 
 
 Falconia Proba, 39. 
 
 Falkland (Lord), 144. 
 
 Farel (Wm.), 128. 
 
 Fasciculus Temporum, 3. 
 
 Felice (S.), 41. 
 
 Festis (de) Tractatus, 33. 39. 
 Festivalis Liber, 71. 
 
 Ferrari (Dr), 115, et seq. 
 
 Figurse Biblite, v. Rampelogus. 
 Fisher (Bp), his Life, 111. 
 
 Fisher (Bp), 98. 99. 134. 108. 
 Fisher (Payne), 84. 
 
 Fitz-Herbert (Ant y ), 28. 
 
 Flacius Illyricus, 125. 127- 
 Fletcher, Dr, (Dean of Peterbo- 
 rough), 96. 
 
 Fletewode, 141. 
 
 Flores Auctorum Latinorum, 39- 
 Folcardus, 60. 77. 
 
 Folengo (Girolamo), 132. 
 
 Fortume Rota, 92. 
 
 Fralovisiis (Titus Livius de), 24. 
 Francowitz, v. Flacius Illyricus. 
 Frederick II. of Denmark, 87. 
 French Verse, 14. 61. 64. 89. 
 Frontinus, 39. 
 
 Fulgentius, 9. 10. 
 
 Funeral rites (old English), 142. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gabrielis (S.) officium, 53. 
 Gaddesden (Medicus), 32. 
 
 Galeni Medici, Varia, 32. 40. 
 
156 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Galfridus Monumethensis, v. Chro- 
 nica. 
 
 Galvin (Angelo), 97- 
 Gardiner (Steph.), 113. 
 
 Garlandi Computus, 91. 92 . 
 
 ' Geilerus, v. Keiserspergius. 
 Gennadius Massiliensis, 77- 
 Gentue dialogues, 85. 
 
 Geographica, 89. 
 
 George (Prince), his Letter to the 
 King, 140. 
 
 Gesta Salvatoris, 18. 50. 
 
 Gilbert, 141. 
 
 Gilbertus Pictaviensis, 5. 
 
 Glanvill (Sergeant), 141. 
 
 Glesinglti (Conradus), 108. 
 
 Golem (Jehan), 148. 
 
 Goranus (Nicholaus), 44. 
 
 Gordonio (Bernardus de), 66. 
 
 Gower (John), 15. 
 
 Grammatica, 30. 6l. 
 
 Grassi (Orazio), 97- 
 Gregorius Magnus, 15. 18. 20. 37. 
 46. 57. 59- 
 
 Nazianzenus, 9. 10. 41. 
 
 - XI. (Papa), 149. 
 Greenfield (Arch, of York), 38. 
 Grimston (Mr), 144. 
 
 Grosseteste (Bp of Lincoln), 6. 26. 
 
 27. 37. 40. 60. 62. 68. 74. 
 
 Guido Baifius, 2. 
 
 Guidonis (de Spiritu), 50. 53. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hammond, Dr, 138. 
 
 Hampole (Hermit of), see Rolle. 
 Hart’s Umpire unveiling Episco- 
 pacie, 93. 
 
 Haymo, 22. 30. 
 
 Hebrew MSS., 1. 89. 
 Hegendorphinus, 128 . 
 
 Herbals, 16 . 
 
 Herbert (Lord) of Cherbury, 88. 
 Herningius, Christophorus, 106. 
 Hesiodi Opera, 118 . 
 
 Hesy chius, 115. 
 
 LI. H. (anonymi), Comoedise Latinse, 
 89. 
 
 Hieronymus (S.), 5. 7. 10. 62. 65. 
 74. 
 
 Higden (Itanulph), 4. 
 
 Hildebertus Turonensis, 103. 
 Hildegardis (S.), Prophetise, 90. 
 Hilpericus, 91. 
 
 Hippocrates, 16. 40. 
 
 Historise ex libris Narrationum, 52. 
 67. 
 
 Hoffmeyster (J.), 128 . 
 
 Homilse in Evangelia, 138. 
 
 LIomilies (Second Tome of), 136. 
 Horse B. Virginis, 98. 
 
 Iloris (de) Canonicis, 50. 
 
 Horologio (de) Achaz, 44. 
 Horologium Sapientise, 34. 48. 
 Hormann, (Wm.), 135. 
 Llostreshamus (Nicolaus), 16. 
 
 Hugo de S. Victor, v. S. Victor. 
 Huntingdon (Henry of), 68. 
 
 Huss (John), 125. 
 
 Hymns, 37. 39- 41. 54. 98. 
 
 I. 
 
 Injunctions of Arch, of Canterbury, 
 142. 
 
 Innocentius III. (Papa), 44. 
 
 — — - VI. (Papa), 149. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 157 
 
 Instruction de la Vie Mortelle, 14-9. 
 Insulis (de) Alanus, v. Alanus. 
 Invectivum Quadrologium, 31. 
 
 Iode (GeRARD de), 102. 
 
 Ireland (Discovery of), 96. 
 
 Isaac (Medicus), 40. 
 
 Isidorus, Junior, 9. 18. 36. 46. 58. 
 
 80. 97. 
 
 Isocrates, 25. 
 
 Israel (Menasseh Ben), 130. 
 
 Ivo Carnotensis, 38. 
 
 J. 
 
 Januensis, v. Voragine (Jacobus 
 de). 
 
 v. Rampelogus (Ant.) 
 
 Jenkins (Dr), 137- 
 Jenkins (Henry), 146. 
 
 Jezirah (Liber), 133. 
 
 Job (Comment, in librum), 28. 113. 
 Johannes Andreas, 2. 
 
 Episcopus, 10. 
 
 — Eremita, v. Cassianus. 
 
 Monachus, 2. 
 
 — XXII. (Papa), 36. 
 
 Johannicius (Medicus), 40. 
 Josephus, 3. 
 
 Julianus Toletanus, 56. 
 
 K. 
 
 Karlion (Ludovic), 18. 
 Keiserspergii Sermones Varii, 102. 
 Kempis (Thos. a), 23. 
 
 Kilwarby (Robt.), Arch. Cant., 42. 
 Kingly States of the N. T., 139. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lambertus (Franciscus), 127- 
 Lanfranc (Johannes) Medicus, 8. 
 Langton (Steph.) Arch. Cant., 24. 
 36. 
 
 Lanthon (Clement), 50. 
 
 Lathbury (Johannes), 56. 
 
 Laud, Archbishop, 81. 108. 144. 
 
 Lea (Captain Thos.), 96. 
 
 Legal miscellanies, 141. 144. 
 Legendes (in old French verse), 14. 
 142. 
 
 Legenda Sanctorum, 6 0. 
 
 Leland (John), 135. 
 
 Lennox (Duke of), 144. 
 
 Leo, Hebrasus, v. Abarbanel. 
 
 Leo, Magnus, 10. 71. 
 
 Lepar (Rich.) de Foston, 59. 
 
 Liber Valorum, 84. 
 
 Liber Scintillarum, 19. 
 
 Libellus Instrumentorum, 93. 
 
 Lilly (Wm.), 135. 
 
 Liopoise (L. L.), 133. 
 
 Litania Germanorum, 129. 
 
 Littleton (Thos.), 28. 141. 
 
 Lloyd (Dr), Bishop of Norwich, 138. 
 Lombardus (Petrus), 15. 46. 97. 
 London (City of), 33, 140. 
 
 Longi Pastor alia (French trans- 
 lation, 1578), 133. 
 
 Lowndes (Ralph), 138. 
 
 Lucani Pharsalia, 110. 
 
 Lucerna Conscientise, 17- 
 Lucianus, 25. 118. 135. 
 
 Lucidarie (a Catechism), 72. 
 Lugenmaul, 129* 
 
 Lumiere a Lais, 6l. 
 
 Luther (Martin), 125. 129. 
 
158 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 M. 
 
 Macaronica, v. Folengo. 
 
 M'Guyre’s (Lord) arraignment, 136. 
 Macharius, 34. 
 
 Magna Charta, 3. 114. 
 de Mahumetismi Erroribus, 25. 
 Manchester (Earl of), 81. 
 Manfredus, 33. 
 
 Manor Roll, 144. 
 
 Manuel des Peches, 6l. 
 
 Manes (Walter), 59. 
 
 Mappa Mundi, 89. 
 
 Marco Duranus, F. F., 118. 
 
 Marca (P. de) ses oeuvres, 148. 
 
 MaRFORIUS, V. CoCHLASUS. 
 Martilogium, 53. 
 
 Mary (S.) the B. V., 37- 98. 
 
 ■ — — Egyptiaca, 37. 
 
 Queen of Scots, 95. 96. 
 
 Martinus Polonus, 89. 
 
 Martinus Magister, 24. 
 
 Massaceth Aroth, 100. 
 
 Matthew (S.) Comment on, 72. 
 Mauritius Andegavensis, 62. 
 Mauritius (S.), presbyter, 41. 
 Maurus, v. Rabanus. 
 
 Maximus, 9. 10. 
 
 Medical writings, 3. 8. 16. 17- 32. 
 40. 43. 52. 59. 64. 66. 94. 107. 
 
 118. 
 
 Meditationes de habitibus Vitiosis, 
 97. 
 
 Melancthon (Philip), 125. 
 
 Melito Sardiensis, 50. 
 
 Michel de Ungaria, 53. 
 
 Millenatius (Laurentius), 122. 
 Mion (Eutychius), 124. 
 
 Mirabilia Orientis et Anglue, 59. 
 
 Miriam (Book of), v. Alchemy. 
 Mirror for Separatists, 93. 
 
 Mirrour of Symple Soules, 30. 
 
 Missa in Commem. Passionis, 46. 
 
 — — - (a particular one), 50, 
 
 Missale Romanum, 51. 58. 
 
 ad usum Sarum, 74. 
 
 Mnemosunon Coll. D. Joh., 101. 
 Modena (Leone) Rabbi, 110. 
 Molinos (Michael de), 131. 
 ad Monasticam vitam spectantia, 
 45. 46. 64. 
 
 Monk (General), 80. 
 
 Monmouth (Godfrey of), 68. 74. 
 Monte (Gul. de), 55. 
 
 Moralia Arionyma, 49.58. 60. 6 7. 147. 
 Morlini Novella, 1 1 6. 
 
 Morone (Cardinal), 122. 
 
 Moronessa (Jacopo), 121. 
 
 Moyle (Walter), 104. 
 
 Mujotti (Filippo), 11 6. 
 
 Mundey (John), 95. 
 
 Mundi (de Creatione), 89. 
 
 Muscio (Medicus), 32. 
 
 Musical compositions, 106. 
 
 Muzio (Girolamo), 119. 
 
 N. 
 
 Neckham (Alex.), v. Doctrinale. 
 Nevill (Mrs Eliz.), 1 39. 
 
 Nicodemus, Gospel of, v. Gesta Sal- 
 vatoris. 
 
 Nider (Johannes), 66. 
 
 Niger (Franciscus), 122. 
 
 Nobility (English), Catalogue of, 91. 
 Nonjurors, Papers relating to, 138. 
 139. 
 
 Novarini (Luigi), 133. 
 
 Novus, Abbas de S. Cecilia, 61, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 159 
 
 ♦ 
 
 O. 
 
 Occham (Wm. de), 45. 60. 
 
 Occhini (Bernardino), 123. 124. 
 Occleve (Tlios.), 94. 
 
 Oculus Sacerdotis, 15. 38. 43. 
 Orationes, 62. 
 
 Orations (University), 145. 
 de Oratione Dominica, 66. 
 Oribasius, 3. 
 
 Origen, 10. 
 
 Orosius, 40. 
 
 Otho, Cardinalis, 36. 38. 42. 115. 
 Ottobonus, Cardinalis, 36. 38. 42. 
 115. 
 
 Overall, Bishop of Norwich, 81. 
 Ovidius, 39. 
 
 Ovidius (pseudo), 27. 
 
 P. 
 
 Paghamus, see Oculus Sacerdotis. 
 Paleario (Aonio), 132. 134. 
 Paradossi, 133. 
 
 Parcherus, see Oculus Sacerdotis. 
 Paris (Univ. de), 125. 
 
 Parliament, Proceedings in, 83. 138. 
 140. 142. 144. 
 
 Parsons, the Jesuit, 108. 146. 
 Paschasius, 8. 
 
 Pasquilla, v. Curio. 
 
 Passion (the book of the), 71. 
 Patriarchs, History of the, 74. 
 
 Testamentum, 68. 
 
 Patrington (Stephen de), 42. 
 Peccham (Pierre de), 61. 
 
 Peck (Mr Francis), 140. 146. 
 Peckham (John), Arch. Cant., 36. 
 42. 
 
 21 
 
 Pei’aldus (Gulielmus), 54. 
 
 Peres d’Oliva (Fernando), 113. 
 de Perseverantia Tractatus, 16. 
 Persian MS., 100. 
 
 Petrarch, 98. 11 7. 
 
 Petroburgi Commissio Registratus, 
 142. 
 
 Petrus Abbas Cluniacensis, 103. 
 
 Alphonsus, v. Alphonsus. 
 
 Blesensis, v. Blesensis. 
 
 Cantor, v. Cantor. 
 
 — Comestor, v. Comestor. 
 
 Crescenzi, v. Crescenzi 
 
 ■ Lombardus, v. Lombardus. 
 
 Philaretus (Medicus), 40. 
 Philosophic (la petite), 89. 
 Piccolomini (Francisco), 97- 
 Pisa (Christina of), 77- 
 Platearius (Medicus), 32. 
 
 Plato, 43. 
 
 Plutarch, 25. 
 
 de Poenitentia, Tractatus Anonymi, 
 de Poenitentia, 18. 
 
 Summa Pcenitentim, 36. 
 
 Rcguke Poenitentium, 50. 
 
 Versus Poenitentiarii, 56. 
 Penance (book of Shrifte and), 
 74. 
 
 Poetry, Collection of, 142. 
 
 Pole (Cardinal), 81. 93. 
 
 Political Miscellanies, 147. 
 Polychronicon (Higden’s), 4. 
 
 in English, 75. 
 
 Pope (Dr Wm.), 138. 
 
 Porchellius, 98. 
 
 Portiforium precum, 74. 
 
 Postello (Gul.), 116. 
 
 Postello, 132. 133. 134. 
 
 Postilla, v. Sermonarium. 
 
160 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Prsedicatione (de), 53. 65. 
 
 Pratis (Arlotus de), 47. 
 
 Prayer Book, 72. 74. 
 
 Prayer (Common), in Latin and 
 Greek, 137- 
 
 Prayers (Private), Manual of, 145. 
 Precianus, 32. 
 
 Precisians, Tract against the, 114. 
 Prierias (Silvestro), 127. 
 
 Prior (Letters of) Matthew, 137. 
 Priscianus, 36. 
 
 Proclamations, 140. 
 
 Procli Comment, 58. 
 
 Protests on the Lords’ Journals, 
 140. 
 
 Proverbia patrum, 18. 
 
 Provinciale Romanum, 65. 
 
 Prynne (Wm.), 91. 139. 144. 
 Psalmos (Comment, in), 10 6. 
 Psalteria, 15. 18. 24. 29. 33. 46. 51. 
 65. 104. 106. 
 
 PSALTERIUM, B. VlRGINIS, 126. 
 Pupilla Oculi, v. Burgo. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quatuor Sermones (the Book so 
 called), 71. 
 
 Queen’s College, 146. 
 
 Quintilianus, 23. 37. 
 
 R. 
 
 Rabanus Maurus, 8. 18. 32. 
 Rabbinical MSS., 1. 100. 
 
 Raleigh, Sir W., 88. 
 
 Rampelogus (Antonius), 39. 43. 
 Rational du Divin office, 148. 
 de Reformationis Novitate, 92. 
 
 Reformation in France, Actes et 
 Memoires, 148. 
 
 Regulag Ordinum Monasticorum, 4. 
 42. 44. 58. 127. 128. 
 
 Remigius Antissiodorensis, 30. 
 
 Remigius (S.) Francorum Apost., 41 . 
 
 Revolution of 1688, Papers relating 
 to, 140. 
 
 Reynolds, (Walter) Arch. Cant., 36. 
 
 Rhases (Medicus), 32. 
 
 Rhetorica, 59. 
 
 Ricardus, de S. Albano, 18. 
 
 • de S. Victore, v. S. Vic- 
 
 tore. 
 
 — III. Rex Angliee, 97. 
 
 Riga (Petrus de), 52. 
 
 Rincmarus, Remensis, 41. 
 
 Robertus Lincolnensis, v. Grosse- 
 teste. 
 
 Robinson (Rev. Matt.), 140. 
 
 Rolevinkus (Wernerus), 3. 
 
 Rolle (Richard) the Hermit of 
 Hampole, 12. 13. 33. 34. 54. 
 
 Romance of the Monk, 71. 
 
 Roman de la Rose, 64. 
 
 du bounte des femes, 64. 
 
 Rome (Church of Rome) its cor- 
 ruptions, 93. 
 
 General Council superior to 
 
 Pope, 94. 
 
 Rossi (Joh.) Hist. Reg. Anglic, 135. 
 
 Rotzloffel, v. Cochl.eus. 
 
 Rudyer (Sir Benj.), 144. 
 
 Russel, (Lord Wm.), 146. 
 
 S. 
 
 Sabbath (letter on the subject of 
 the), 136. 139. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 161 
 
 Sackville (Thos., Lord) of Buck- 
 hurst, 108. 
 
 Sacrament of the Altar (devotional 
 Treatise), 72. 
 de Sacramentis, 44. 
 
 Salerno (Petrus de), 32. 
 
 Salomonis (ludi), 59. 
 
 Salvatoris (S.) Regula, 4. 
 
 Sancroft (Archbishop), 109. 
 Sanctorum Vitas, 34. 53. 55. 60. 
 Sannall (Friar), 71. 
 
 Santarelli (R. P.), 113. 
 
 ScHALICHITTS DE LlKA, 127. 
 Scholastica, 40. 41. 42. 47. 59. 60. 
 112 . 
 
 Scintillarum (liber), 19. 
 
 Scotus (Duns), 57. 
 
 Scott (Michael), 146. 147. 
 
 Seghetus (Thos.), 136. 
 
 Seminarium Pansophise Christiana, 
 97. 
 
 Seneca, 19. 45. 47. 135. 
 
 Sententiae Patrum, 59. 
 
 Sergius et Bachus (S. S.), 41. 
 
 Serlo (Johannes), v. Equivocorum. 
 Sermonaria, 9. 18. 19. 20. 27. 33. 39. 
 
 47. 48. 52. 55. 56. 57- 58. 
 
 Sermons in English, 71- 72. 
 
 Servius, is. 
 
 Sextus Pythagoricus, 62. 
 
 Seymour (Sir Francis), 141. 
 Sherlock (Dr), 138. 
 
 Shierwoode (Robertus de), 41. 
 Siberch, 135. 
 
 Sibillis (de) Liber, 68. 
 
 Sidney (Sir Philip), 89. 
 de Simonia et Usura, 26. 
 
 Simplicius, 25. 
 
 Slavonic language, Remarks on, 108. 
 
 Slavonic, a Sermon in, 136. 
 
 Smith, Dr Richard, 95 . 
 
 Dr Thomas, 81. 
 
 Solinus, 39. 
 
 Solomon (Rabbi), 2. 
 
 Speculum Christiani, 65. 
 
 Ecclesias, 50. 
 
 — S. Edmundi, 50. 62. 66. 
 
 • Edwardi Regis, 50. 
 
 — Fidei, 17. 
 
 — — Humilitatis, 12. 
 
 Juniorum, 44. 
 
 Poenitentis, 55. 
 
 ™ — Religiosorum, 53. 
 
 Spelman, 141. 
 
 Spencer (Philip), 65. 
 
 Spiritual Love (the boke of), 71. 
 Stancari (Francisco), 124. 
 Statius, 36. 
 
 Statuta Anglicana, 3. 114. 
 
 . Acad. Oxon., 141. 
 
 Stisson (Francis), 140. 
 
 Strafford (Lord), 141. 144. 
 
 Stupa (Antonio), 126. 
 
 Summa Capitulorum Bibliie, 66. 
 Suso, Henricus, 34. 
 
 Swarby (Gul.), 61. 
 
 Symmachus, 43. 
 
 Synesius, 135. 
 
 Syriac MSS., 99- 
 
 T. 
 
 Tab Tarah (Turkish poet), 99. 
 Tabula Anglke, 135. 
 
 Tachygraphy, 145. 
 
 Targum libror. Chronicorum, 101. 
 Teheleby Effendi, 100. 
 
 Toll-Truth, Tom, 139- 
 Terra Sancta, 89. 
 
162 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Theologica Miscellanea, 43. 44. 46. 
 55. 65 . 112 . 
 
 Theological Tracts, 140. 147. 148. 
 Theophilus (Medicus), 40. 
 Thesaurus, Sacr. Hist., 102. 
 
 Thomas Monachus, 62. 
 
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 Tractatus de Moribus Itegalibus, 45. 
 Translations, 144. 
 
 Treatise of Man’s Dignity and Cor- 
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 Treaty of Marriage between Charles I. 
 
 and Henrietta Maria, 107. 
 Trentale aureum Gregorii Papse, 50. 
 Trevisa (John de), 75. 
 
 Tribulacion (Sermon of), 71. 
 
 Trinity Hall, 146. 
 
 Tropologia super Evangelia, 6. 
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 U. 
 
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 Urbanus (liber sic dictus), 56. 
 
 V. 
 
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 Vergerio, P. P., 117. 120. 121. 122. 
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 Vergine (la) Venetiana, 11 6. 
 
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 Victor, de Termino Paschali, 91. 
 Victore (Hugo de S.), 17. 51. 62. 
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 Victore (Ric. de S.), 6. 51. 52. 
 
 Vida (Girolamo), 1 19. 
 
 Villa Dei (Alexander de), v. Doc- 
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 V ILLANOVANO (MlCH.), 118. 
 Vincentius Bellovacensis, 20. 
 Virgilius, 23. 7 6. 98. 
 
 Visitation of S. John’s College, 142. 
 143. 
 
 Vitae Patrum, 34. 55. 
 
 Viterbiensis (Godfridus), 68. 
 Voragine (Jacobus de), 9. 56. 
 
 Vox Populi, 146. 147. 
 
 W. 
 
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 Wallingford, Richard, Abbot of S. 
 
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 Watkinson, H., 139. 
 
 Weicelius, v. Lugenmaul. 
 
 Wellebek (Abbey of), 3. 
 
 Westfield (Bishop), 145. 
 
 White (Bishop), 1 39. 
 
 Whittaker, Coll. Magister, 78. 
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 Witton (Roricus), 30. 
 
 Wolsey (Cardinal), 81. 135. 
 
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 Xenophon, 25. 
 
 Y. 
 
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