Volume 4

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

  • Bodleian Library
Date:
1895-1953
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

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

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    21728. In French, on parchment: written in about A. D. 1300- ii + 124 leaves, in double columns: with coloured capitals, &c. Forty-two religious tales or fables, in French verse : beg. ‘ Incipit Vita Patrum’ : the first is about two hermits, beg. ‘ En nom de Dieu, rois Ihesu Crist.’ Douce has added a table similar to that in no. 21724. Now MS. Douce 154. 21729. In French, on paper : written in or soon after 1778 : pf x 6|- in., i + 123 leaves. ‘ Choix de Livres frangois concernant . . . les Romans, la Poesie et I’Histoire. Londres, m. dcc. lxxviii,’ in the form of three letters (foil. 3, 62, 82) to the duchess of Devonshire, and a dedication, all signed J. ‘ Le Jeune’ : an account of the best French books on those subjects, with indexes. Now MS. Douce 155. 21730. In English, on parchment: written late in the 14th cent.: io^x6| in., ii+ 176 pages : with illuminated border, capitals, &c. : imperfect. The Prick of Conscience, a translation into English verse of Richard Rolle’s Stimulus Conscientiae : this copy begins ‘ Here bigynneth the soth to say | A noble book with out nay | The which is cald of conscience pricke ’: prol. beg. ‘ Byfore that any thyng was wrought ’ : part I beg. ‘ Man of foulest matere God wrought ’: parts are transposed in binding, there is a gap after p. 6, and all after ‘ That hit may neuer slakid bee ’ in part 6 is lost: pp. 9, 45, 71, are mutilated. Now MS. Douce 156. 21731. In English, on parchment: written in the second half of the 14th cent.: 104 X 7f in., xiii + 119 leaves. ‘ Incipit Stimulus Consciencie,’ the Prick of Conscience, as no. 21730, in English verse : this copy begins ‘ The mighte of the Fader almyghtty ’: * the rubrics are in Latin. ‘Eduardi Umfreville,’ i8th cent.: notes by him and Douce about the treatise are on foil. i-xi. Now MS. Douce 157. 21732. In English, on parchment: written in the 15th cent,: io| x 74 in., iii + 101 leaves : with illuminated border, capitals, &c. Two poems by Thomas Occleve :— 1 (fob i). ‘ Diologus inter patreni & filium,’ otherwise known as Consolation offered by an old man : beg. ‘ M[usyn]g vpon the restles bisynesse.’ This is of the nature of a prologue to the next article. 2 (fob 36). ‘ De principum regimine,’ based largely on Aegidius de