Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton.

  • Worcester Cathedral Library
Date:
1906
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Credit: Catalogue of manuscripts preserved in the chapter library of Worcester Cathedral / compiled by John Kestell Floyer and edited and revised throughout by Sidney Graves Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FRAGM E NTS. I. Leaf from cover of Q 51 in xth-cent. 4 Irish ’ script, according to Schenkl. Part of a treatise on repentance and confession. Inc. ‘ quando sentit Adam interius operantem.’ The first fresh paragraph begins : ‘ Ex eo is unus quisque iustus esse incipit ex quo sui accussator extiterit.’ II. Fragment (6 ff.) of a theological work, well written in xiiith-cent. hand. Inc. f. i. *. . . . et exempla patrum que non in hoc spalmo’ [sic]. Paragraphs beginning with coloured capitals :— f. 2. ‘ Minime sunt pene illorum qui nulla actualia originali.’ f. 2b. ‘ Tunc tamen deo subest.’ f. 3b. ‘ Eterna incomprehensibilia sunt.’ f. 5. ‘ Dicit Xpus Ego non quero gloriam meant? f„ 5b. ‘ Raptis atque subuectis mentibus apostolorum ad celestial Ilia. A single sheet, folded (2 ff.), which seems to be the original fly-leaf to ft. 41, and contains an index to that volume (in hand of xvth cent.) ; the works mentioned are : Liber viatici, Febres Ysaac, Vrine Ysaac, Diete vniuersales et particularesf instructio Rogerina, Vrine Mauri cum aliis sum- mulis. This list gives the treatises now to be found in ft 41, in their proper order : only the last two items are wanting : and a great part of one of them is contained in Illb. A fragment of 10 ff. Inc. f. I. ‘ Sicut ab antiquis habemus auctoribus.’ This is the beginning of the Rogerina maiorx, a medical treatise named from Roger Bacon, to whom it was falsely attributed. The fragment is poorly written in several hands (xivth cent.), and ends on f. iob (imperf.): except in size of page, it does not correspond with