A second catalogue of manuscripts, in different languages ... from the twelfth to the eighteenth century ... / Now selling ... by J. Cochran.

  • Cochran, John.
Date:
1837
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Credit: A second catalogue of manuscripts, in different languages ... from the twelfth to the eighteenth century ... / Now selling ... by J. Cochran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iii. Epistola alia. iv. Exhortatorium contra Judseos. v. Commentarius in Apocalypsin. This volume comprises the greater portion of the works of this extraor- dinary man, whom the multitude revered as a person divinely inspired, and equal to the most illustrious prophets of ancient times. His pro- phecies certainly acted strongly on the minds of many, and tended to pre- pare the way for great changes. It is well known that Richard I. of England sent to consult him. o 116 S. Thom,® Aquinatis, JJoctoris Angelici, nati anno circiter 1225, defuncti anno 1274, opuscula duo: scilicet, i. Contra errores Graecorum ad Urbanum Papam IV. libri duo. ii. Liber de articulis fidei et ecclesiae sacramentis, quem scripsit ad rogation Archiepiscopi Panormitani. Manuscript of the fifteenth century, on Vellum, with five illuminated leaves, small 4to. ... 21. 2s. This Manuscript appears to have been executed in the reign of Henry VI. for John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England, who died in 1452. In each of the illuminated pages his arms are emblazoned, viz. Or, on a chevron gules a mitie of the first: the whole within a border engrailed sable. 13 7 8. Thom/e Aquinatis libri tres Sententiarum. Manuscript on Vellum, of the 15th century, folio, in very fine state, 41. 14s. tid. A very beautiful Manuscript of the Angelic Doctor, written on the finest vellum. The first leaf is illuminated, and all the Capitals through- out the volume are elegantly painted, 118 S. Thomas Aquinas, etc. i. Thomae de Aquino Compendium Theologiae. ii. Flores super Psalterium. iii. “ Libellus de regimine rusticorum, qui etiam valde utilis est curatis, capellanis, drossatis, schultetis ac aliis offi- ciariis eisdem in utroque statu presidentibus.” Manuscript of the fifteenth century, written partly on Vel- lum, partly on paper, thick 4to, in the original monastic bind- ing of oak boards, . . . . 21. 2s. A fine and curious volume apparently of Flemish execution ; the third piece is a printed tract of great rarity, of fifty nine leaves, in a small gothic character, without signatures, colophon, or catchwords ; a full page con- tains twenty nine lines. The date is probably about 1470. 119 Recit d’une dispute de controverse qu’un religieux de St. Simon a eiie avec trois bons Mahometans dans la ville d’Halep au terns du regne d’Almalec Altaher Gazi, Roi de Halep, fils de Joseph Selahoddin (Saladin) fils de Egub (Job) et en la dixieme annee du regne de Leon fils d’ Etienne, Roi d’ Ar- menie, qui revient a fan 6615 de la creation du monde (A.D. 1215.) Manuscript, very neatly written, 4to. 1/. Is. This is a very curious account of a conference between three Mahom- medan doctors and a. Maronite Christian, in the presence of the brother
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