A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts other than Oriental in the library of King's College, Cambridge / by Montague Rhodes James.

  • King's College (University of Cambridge). Library
Date:
1895
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Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts other than Oriental in the library of King's College, Cambridge / by Montague Rhodes James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    crowned, and Marimis with compasses. Below the globe is the motto virescit vvl- NERE VERITAS, and below this the printed title D. Aurelij August. / Ypponensis Episc. & Ecc- / lesie, Doctoris prae- / standssu7ii. / Sententia de Retract, lib. / Epistola ad Aurelium. / LIBRI. / De Sancta Trinitate. / De Nat. & origine animae / De Quantitate animae. / Below: Dedit hide Collegio Rich. / Dayus, eiusdem Socius, / An. Dom. 1575 (altered to 1576 in ink). On L. of this, on clouds, are figures of Aradts with a square instrument, Hipparchus with a sextant, Geoiuetria with rule, square, and compasses, A^dthmetica with a table of numbers from i to 10. Below the centre: the sign of Gemini, a seated figure of Mercuritis, and Virgo. On R. of centre, from top : Strabo drawing a map of Anglia, Polibites examining a comet with a cross-shaped instrument, Astronot^na with a planisphere, and Musica with a lute. In the L. lower corner is the signature i b -f f. There are three of these titles in this volume. The printed title is altered in each : the second is for the De quantitate Animae. The date 1575 is untouched. The third is to Boethius de Trinitate: the date 1575 is altered to 1576. These title-pages are enumerated by Mr Sandars in his Annotated List of Books Printed on Vellum (C. A. S. Octavo Publications, no. XV. 1878), nos. 102-103, 106. The design was used by John Day in his Cunningham’s Cosmographical Glasse, 1560, for which it must have been designed; and in Parker’s De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecelesiae^ 1572 (Sandars, 1. c.). It is described by Dibdin, Typographical Antiquities, iv. 73. The MS. is no. 2 in T. James’s list. Vitae Patrum. Vellum, iiJxS, in eights, ff. 199, double columns of 40 lines. Cent. XV. Written in England. Collation: (i ab blank) a®-q® r^ (5 bb, 6 ab blank) s^-z® (^bb blank). On a fly-leaf (the third at the beginning) is a signature Edm. H. (xvi cent.). On the verso of the last fly-leaf but one, at the end, is an inscription (late xvth cent.): Possessor huius libri quond^am fuit s^rwerissimus ac illustrissimus rex Henricus Sextus huiwj regni anglie rex ac gubernator et [later hand, over erasure] postea \n possessione domus salutacionis matris dei ordinis Cartusiewsis pr^^pe London.