Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
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Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whom the volume was given by his uncle Charles Fotherby. At the end is the name of William Kottorend, Canon of Waltham. Bound in boards covered with (modem) leather. Octavo. 36. Eight Sermons “ de Morte,” and eleven “ de Passione ” Christi, in Latin. A short introduction is prefixed to the first series, beg. “Cum propriam imperitiain,” and each sermon begins with the words “Omnes morimur.” The second series begins, “Eorantes sanguine lacrimas ” (f. 29 b). The end of the volume is lost. The author’s name is given at the beginning of each work as Guibertus ; and in a MS. at Douai containing the sermons “de Morte” he is called Guibertus Tornacensis, i.e. Guibert de Tournai, who died in 1270. In the Histoire Litteraire de la France, vol. xix., pp. 141, 142, two treatises are attributed to him, entitled “ de morte non timenda ” (in MS. at Tournai) and “ de verbis Domini in cruce ” (in MS. at Liege). The Douai cataloguer believes the former MS. to be identical with that now at Douai (cf. Catalogue General des MSS. des Bibliotheques Publiques des Departements de France, vol. vi., p. 209). Guibert was also the author of several volumes of sermons. Vellum; fif. 62. xiiith cent. In double columns, of 34 lines. Initial letters in red, blue, and green. A few marginal notes in a later hand. Small Quarto. 37. “ Hencheridiom Magistri Alani [de Insulis] de Conquestione Naturae ”: a treatise against immorality, in mixed prose and verse, beg. “ In lacrimas risus, in luctus gaudia verto.” Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. ccx. 429-482. At the end, in a somewhat later hand and on two leaves which originally formed part of a different volume, are:—(a) a poem, containing a philosophical discussion of the nature of the world, beg. “ Declarare fidem quis ait VOS detrahit error,” ending “ Omnipotens opifex opus ammirabile mundi | Fecit et archetipon tribuit qui sensilis esset.” f. 35;— and (b) Khyming verses (written as prose), beg. “ Omne datum optimum et donum perfectum | Apud patrem luminum nil est in- perfectum,” and ending “ Ergo sancta trinitas, deus tarn mirabilis, | Humanata deitas, simplex inefiabilis, | In die iudicii sis nobis placabilis.” f. 36 b. Vellum; ff. 36. Written in France, in the xinth cent.; with illuminated initials. Octavo. 38. “A TRETis Jjat suffisiji to eche cristen man and womman to lyuen Jjeraftir,” beg. “ This tretis compilid of a pore caitif,” and hence commonly known as “ The Poor Caitiff.” The authorship has been