Catalogue of manuscripts in the library of All Souls College / [Anon].

  • All Souls College Library
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1842
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    Beg. “ Jadis al tens des Engloys soleyt Engletere estre en cink partyes et a cink Beys.” 3. [Translation of a part of Peter Langtoft’s metrical Chronicle upon the wars of Ed- ward the first in England and France,] in French, fol. 87. The prologue begins, “ Ky voet oyr de rays coment chescon vesquist, E lylle ke Brutus Bretayne apeler fist.” The poem beg. “ Le jour saynt Emun ky gist Pountenye Morust le ray Henri homme de saynte vie.” It is divided into forty-six chapters, in each of which the lines have an uniform rhythmical termination, and in some may be found a few English verses introduced in abuse of the Scots. The poem ends with the following stanza, “For voule bredde in his hoke Wenne he tint that he toke With the kingedome, For he has over hipped His tipets es tipped His tabard es come.” A mutilated copy of a French transla- tion of the same poem, containing twenty- two or three chapters, is in the Bodleian Library, MS. Fairfax. 24. Compare the English version, edited by Tho. Hearne, p. 235. 4. Stationes et dedicationes ecclesiarum urbis Romse, quas statuit beatus Gregorius Papa primus, fol. 104. 5. Tabula ducum Normannorum a Rollone us- que ad Ricardum primum, Anglise regem. fol. 107 b. Incip. “ Primus Normannus duca Rollo, qui et Robertus dictus est.” Desin. “ Edward et Edmund et filias.” 6. Passio ministrorum domini Edwardi I. regis Anglise secundum opera sua a. d. 1289. fol. 109 b. Incip. “ Edwardus rex quidam nobilis abiit in regionem longinquam.” Cf. Annales Waverleienses ad annum supradictum. In fine sunt versus viginti elegiaci de eisdem, qui incipiunt, “ Sumpserunt Turbyt Weyland Brunton Lu. Leycare perit Lytbiry, Et plures facient, tanto magis sitient.” 7. Tabula regum Angli* ab anno 490 usque ad Stephanum. fol. 111. 8. Notiti* qusedam de Anglise comitatibus, epi- scopatibus, et viis regiis. fol. 112. 9. Edwardi I. regis ad Bonifacium papam VIII. epistola de jure suo super regnum Scotise. Dat. apud Notelham, 8 Maii 1301. fol. 113. Exstat apud Matth. Westmonast. Flores Historiarum, dat. Kemesye, p. 427. 10. Magistri Willelmi de Hundleby, Lincolnien- sis, in curia Romana procuratoris, ad [Jo- annem d’Aldreby,] episcopum Lincolnien- sem, epistola de aggressione in civitatem Anagniam et Papam Bonifacium ab exer- citu regis Francise in vigilia Nativitatis B. V. Marise anno 1303 facta, et de aliis eodem anno Romse evenientibus. Dat. Rom. die Veneris prox. ant. fest. S. Mich. fol. 117 b. Incip. “ Ecce, reverende pater, in vigilia nativitatis beate Marie anno Domini su- pradicto, in aurora venit ad Anagniam.” Desin. “ in tarn modico tempore, sicut nos hie vidimus.” In fine scripta est, “Anno Domini 1587, 12 die Aprilis, anno 29 reginse Elizabethse circa horam tertiam in aurora ex hac vita migravit Thomas Bromley, miles, dominus Cancellarius Anglise et regise Majestati ex intimis conciliis, vir prudens et in legibus Anglise peritissimus, et ex cujus lingua melle dulcior fluebat oratio.” XL. Codex membranaceus, in folio maximo, ff. 12, sec. xv., pictus et deauratus; olim Nar- cissi Luttrell. Tabulse genealogicse regum Anglise ab Adam usque ad Henricum sextum deduct*, cum