Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ccc NOTABLE BOOKS. English Books. CURIA SAPIENTIAE. Begin. The laberous & the most merueylous werkes, etc. At the end of the first book: Explicit liber primus de curia sapiencie qualiter misericordia et veritas obuiauerunt sibi, lusticia et pax obstulate [sic'] sunt. End. dredeful dedes of ioye and of peyne. folio. The Curia Sapientiae is a poem written in seven-line stanzas, containing descriptions of plants, fishes, birds, beasts, etc., and a survey of the arts and sciences. It is mentioned by Stephen Hawes as one of the works of John Lydgate, and is attributed to Lydgate by Stow in the manuscript copy of the poem at Trinity College, Cambridge. Of this edition only two other copies, be- sides fragments, are known. It is without place, date, or printer’s name, but is printed in Caxton’s type 4, and may be assigned to the year 1481. The present copy, which is quite perfect, with the two blank leaves at the end, was purchased, early in the year 1878, from the representatives of Maurice Johnson, of Spalding, an eighteenth-century collector. CATO. Begin. Hie incipit paruus Chato. Leaf 'verso: Hie incipit magnus Chato. End. Explicit Chato. FOLIO. The third edition printed by Caxton, but the first in folio, of the Disticha de moribus of Dionysius Cato, a very favourite school- book in the Middle Ages. The Latin text is accompanied by a