Volume 4

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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    21S72. In French, on parchment: written in about A.D. 1400: io|x8|- in., iii -f- 88 leaves, in double columns : with five miniatures, and borders, &c. Boethius’s treatise de Consolatione Philosophiae, in French verse, ‘ Cellui qui bien bat les buissons.’ ‘ Huius volumin[i]s verus est possessor Johannes Morellius,’‘ Moreau ’ (early 17th cent.) : there is also the anonymous armorial bookplate of Jean Joseph Languet de Gergy (C. 1753) as archbishop. Now MS. Douce 298. 21873. In Latin, on parchment: written in about A.U. 1400, in England: io| X 8 in., V + 119 leaves. ‘ Historia magni & nobilis principis Alexandri ’ Magni: in five books, with a prologue and lists of chapters : prol. ‘ Historian! magni principis ’ : text ‘ Inter ceteras mundi partes ’ : the authors from which the present compilation was made are enumerated in the prologue. M. Paul Meyer {Alexandre le Grand, 1886, ii. 57, 63) has investigated this volume, which is the unique MS. of an attempt to combine the Epitome of Julius Valerius with a fabulous history com- piled at St. Alban’s abbey. The author’s name began with T, as the prologue shows : and his reference to Ralph Higden (fob i) shows that he wrote probably in the second half of the 14th cent. Now MS. Douce 299. 21874. In French, on parchment: written early in the 15th cent. : lofx 8| in., iv+ ] 25 leaves, in double columns : with many small miniatures. ‘ Le Pelerinage de la Vie humainne en Francois,’ the first part of the Trois Pelerinages by Guillaume de Deguileville: beg. ‘A ceulx de ceste region ’ ; e?ids ‘ Que doint Dieu aux mors & aux vifs. Amen.’ The dates of the composition of the poem (1330 and 1331) will be found at foil. 4b 47^. In the La ValliLe sale (1783) no. 2763. Now MS. Douce 300. 21875. In English, on parchment: written in the 15th cent.: 11x8 in., i+29 leaves: with illuminated capitals : imperfect. A history of the Three Kings of Cologne, in 37 or 38 chapters : beg. in chap, i (a leaf or two being lost) ‘ town called Sabob ’ : foil. 2-3, 6, 9-T0, 12*, 20-2T are injured. An old engraving of ‘Colonia Agrippina,’ with a German distich beneath, is on fol. i. Owned by dr. ‘ R[ichard] Farmer,’ who has written a note. Now MS. Douce 301. 21876. In English, on parchment : written in about the second cpiarter of the 15th cent. : ic|- x 7|- in., ii + 36 leaves, in double columns : imperfect. Religious poems and legends by ‘ Jon Awdelay,’a blind and deaf canon of Haughmond abbey, of xbuslin Canons, in Shro})shire. They