Volume 2

A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

  • Bodleian Library
Date:
1895-1953
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A summary catalogue of Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9^^ MISCELLANEOUS MSS. [1886-7 Eg. ‘ Lordyngs leue & dere, listne]? to me astounde’: but three leaves are almost entirely wanting after fob 325, containing lines 31-210. Three short poems by John Lydgate, without titles, have been added on blank leaves by a rather later 15th cent, hand :—a (fob 45) Verses on the Kings of England, here anonymous : b (fob 331) the Book of Curtesy or Stans puer ad mensam ; c (fob 332^) Dietary: beg. ‘ For helth of bodie ’, not certainly by Lydgate. Presented by sir George More in 1604. Now MS. Bodl. 48. 1886. 894. In Latin and English, on parchment; written about A. D. I400: X 5i in., ii + 50 leaves : with illuminated capitals, &c. : imperfect. 1 (fob i). ‘ Speculum Christi’ or Christiani, a Latin religious treatise [by Thomas Watton t] in eight Tabulae, with English verse and prose interspersed: beg. ‘Jeronimus. In principle cuiuslibet . . . Magna differencia est ’: at fob 44 follow some theological notes. Single leaves are wanting after foil. 2, 6, 10, 36, 43. 2 (fob 45). ‘ Carta Christi ’, an English religious poem : beg. ‘ Ihesu Crist of heuene and helle ’. This is a separate piece in a different handwriting. The date 1431 is written on fob 49 in Latin and French: also (15th cent.) ‘ Harwod’, and (i6th cent.) ‘ Thomas P ’ (?), ‘ Iste liber constat domino Thome Geybrygge.’ Probably acquired between 1613 and 1620. Now MS. Bodl. 89. 1887. 555. In French and Latin, on parchment: written in the second half of the 13th cent, in England: 9x5b in., ii + 109 leaves: with coloured capitals. 1 (fob i). Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, in French: the first beg. ‘ Ici comence vn especial sermon de orgoil . . . Inicium omnis peccati est Superbia. Ceste auctorite est escrite b 2 (fob 52). ‘ Isci comence Confession. Confitemini alterutrum . . . Seint lake li apostle ke del Seint Esperit ’ : ends abruptly (in the middle of a page) in the 12th chapter of the second part. 3 (fob 78). ‘ Euangelium Nichodemi de Passione Ihesu Christi’, in Latin : beg. ^ Factum est in anno nonodecimo imperii Tiberii ’: e7ids ‘in codicibus pupplicis pretorii sui ’ : then (at fob 88) follows the spurious letter of Pilate to Claudius {beg. ‘ Pontius Pilatus regi Claudio salutem. Nuper accidit ’): at end is the colophon giving the title of the Gospel, as above. Some theological notes are on fob 77L 4 (fob 88^). Short apocryphal pieces about Christ:—a ‘ Passio Domini nostri Ihesu Christi ... In diebus illis erat quidam Titus ’, an account of inquiries made by Titus and Vespasian : b (fob 90^) a letter from the empress Helena to her son Constantine {beg. ‘ Non semper Augusto . . . Helena . . . Veritatem sapientis ’), with the reply : c (fob 91) the contention of the Jews against the Christians before the emperor