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![erroneous. No trace can be found elsewhere of any English physician of the name— Friar George Francis or Frenchman. On the margin of leaf 21, we get the name of another English physician, Master Symon of Witeby, who is cited for the cure of a cough by means of a mixture compounded of fennel-root, parsley, calamint, hyssop, venus-hairs, marubium, hore houne, figs, reysine, liquiritia, This was added about the year 1290-1300. 75 GILBERT FOLIOT. Gtitesertrus super ¢. ¢. [SermMonus in Canrica Cayticorum] In lectulo meo per noctes quesiui quem diligit anima'mea. Sermo. . Fol. 87: . . Explicit. Incrprr pronocus Bratt BrRNarpt Abbatis super tractatum de Gracia et Libero Arbitrio-. . Incipit tractatus ..» Fol. 96 reverse: Smnrentias PaitosopHorum.. Fol. 108: . . Liber sce Marie de Regali Monte. Small folio, rive MS. on vettum, 108 leaves, written in double columns ; unth painted capitals, and having several curious drawings on the margins ; im excellent condition, in the original binding of wooden boards covered with white leather About 1250 32 0 0 Written in the Abbey of Royaumont ( Regalis Mons) near Paris, which was founded by St. Louis in 1227. The rubricator, who was apparently also the illustrator, was an artist of considerable skill and fancy. On leaf 13, he has added a head on the margin in continuation of the ornamental line from the initial P ; Something similar on leaves 20, 24, 32, 37, 60, 68, 71, 83; on 46 a white griffin rampant on a red roundel ; on 49, a rustic preaching or protesting with outstretched finger ; on 50, two men carrying a basket slung upon a bar supported on their shoulders, before whom a grotesque dog stands upright ; on 56, within a roundel, a green tree or double fleur-de-lis, on one side of which is a warrior with a red shield, in the mail and helmet of the early twelfth century, who strikes with his sword at an upright beast like a grotesque lion, on the other side ; on 57, two similar grotesque animals fighting ; on 66, another hybrid animal; on 72, a grotesque lion; on 79, a very curious horned dragon with a head at each end, biting his tail; on 92, a fight between a grotesque lion and a rustic whose weapon is a flail with a ball at the end. This last is a striking picture. 76 THE GOLDEN LEGEND BY JACOBUS DE VORAGINE. Fol. i? Uniuersum tempus presentis uite in quatuor distinguitur .. Fol. 346a: - ut tandem in eo habitare dignetur qui uiuit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Fol. 346b: Iste defectus debet legi post assumptionem beate uirginis marie. Modus sacratissime assumptionis .. Fol. 354b: Si uero non ut debui ignosce obsecro tu et tui. 4to. FINE Manuscript on VELLUM, 354 leaves in double columns, written in a handsome Italian Gothic letter, with painted initials, two of them historiated with a picture of the author; bound in. boards covered with stamped pigskin, at Rebdorff in Bavaria for the Augustinian Monastery of St. John the Baptist Lombardy, about 1350 10 0 0 An interesting’ Italian MS.—Bound at Rebdorff late in the fifteenth century and bearing on the flyleaf a note of the ownership, and an intitulation: ‘“ Legende Sanctorum Jacobi Ianuensis Lombardi.” The end-leaves are parts of a liturgical MS. on vellum written in Germany in the eleventh century. 7? GRAMMATICI. Capri Orthographia, 184 pp.—(Luonicenvs) Tractatus de Scansione elegantissimi Onibeni de Lunico, 194 pp.—(ANONYMI Prosodia) Pes est syllabarum et temporum certa dinumeratio . . 13 pp. —Prisctanus de duodecim Carminibus, 66 pp.—Prisciant Institucio de Nomine, Verbo, ete. 204 pp.—Priscranus de Accentibus, 403 »p.— Donati Figure, 114 pp.—Brpa Figurarum liber . “ Solet aliquotiens in scripturis,” 15 pp.—Hic lege qui curas diuersas nosce figuras . 4 pp. In 1 vol. sm. 4to. MS. on papsr, a little water-stained, in a small cursive Roman hand approximating to Italic; in the original limp vellum wrapper About 1465 110 O A fine and very strong glazed paper, Oriental rather than European in appearance. | The mark is a barred circle from which rises a rod surmounted by a trefoil. Sixteen leaves of it, intended for a transcript of Donatus, are entirely blank. 9 *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30857958_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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