Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    41/850 (page 21)
    On the last page are some scribblings and doggrel Latin lines, with the dates 1305 and 1318. Bound in oak boards, covered with white kid. On f. 1 is the signature “ Br. Stapleton” [? Sir Brian Stapleton, of co. Suffolk, oh. 1519]. Quarto. 33. Anselmi Epistolse ccccxvii.: a transcript of Cotton MS. Claudius A. xi., containing the complete collection of St. Anselm’s letters; made in 1670 under the inspection of Sir Koger Twysden, who certifies its correctness in an autograph note at the end. A table of titles of the letters is prefixed. Paper; ff. 268. Inserted at the end (f. 268) is a petition to Sir Koger Twysden from Margaret Snode, widow of Thomas Snode, complaining of the suppression of her Inn or Alehouse at Great Chart, co. Kent, belonging to the church of Canterbury. Folio. 34. Short Homilies on the various virtues and vices, in English. The beginning is wanting; the titles of the paragraphs which now stand first are “ Of Sorinesse ” [Sorrow] and “ Of Asolknesse, Unlust”, [Sloth]. Vellum; ff. 49. Early xiiith cent. With a strongly marked change of hand at f. 39. Bound in crimson morocco, tooled, of the 18th cent. On the last leaf is the autograph of William Fletewood [Recorder of London, 1571-1591], and at the beginning is that of Thomas Astle. Small Quarto. 35. De Corpore et Sanguine Dei : a treatise on the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper by B[aldwin], brother of the Abbey of Ford [in Devonshire, afterwards Abbot of Ford in 1168, Bishop of Worcester in 1180, and Archbishop of Canterbury 1184-1191], dedicated to B[artholomew], Bishop of Exeter [1159-1172]. No title; begins with the dedicatory epistle “ Amantissimo domino et patri B. dei gratia Exoniensi episcopo frater B. fordensis monasterii servus etemam in domino salutem.” Unfinished, ending with the words “ memoriam habundantie suavitatis eius eructabunt ” (Tissier, p. 157, col. 2, 1. 5); a few blank pages remain, which have been ruled with lines for the completion of the work. Printed in Tissier’s Bibliotheca Patrum Cisterciensium, vol. iv. (1662), pp. 103— 159; and in Migne’s Patrologia, vol. cciv. 641. Vellum; If. 103. Early xiiith cent. Large coloured initials; titles of chapters in red. Belonged to Waltham Cross Abbey; and in 1800 to Thomas Bryan Richards, who has left some notes on the inner cover. It also contains the book-plate of [Rev.] Osmund Beauvoir [D.D., ob. 1789], and the name of Charles Fotherby, to