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(3) Versus ad Angliam dolores illius plangentes.
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de aliis rebus in initio et in fine ex quodam poemate, brevi metro scripti.

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4 ff. Tall octavo, vellum, initial letters of the lines separate in a column: rubrics, and in the margin rubrical directions to the subject-matter. Initial capitals bordering, alternately red and blue. A set of elegiacs at the beginning and end—as well as the marginal notes in the hand of J. Aynsworth (comp. 372).

364. Fasciculus Morum, in vII. particulis.

'Frater predilecte ac sodalis preelecte q. sc'ptura attestante-ut n. hētur in regla bi p'ris francisci et ecce statutū ē alibi u' pplo teneam' de nuciare et p'dicare vicia et v'tutes-pena et gl'cam cù brevitate sermonis'-.

Quarto, vellum, two columns, in wood; ff. 172. Initial capitals flourished, bordering, blue in red. Elegant illuminated florial capital on p. 1. The number of chapter and title of subject is noted on each fol. in the margin. On the cover, 'ys longyth to ye Chauntry. At the end, 'Finito libello benedicamus Domino.' A table of subjects is added in a later hand.

365. LUCANUS de Bello Pharsalico.

Tall octavo, vellum, ff. 123. A MS. of 13th century or earlier. "A fine old perfect Lucan," Fr. Blomefield. Initial letters of each line apart in a column. Handsome coloured initial capitals to the books; and neatly formed ornamental devices in the margin; also occasional notes in the same hand as the text. Catchwords in elegant scrolls. At the beginning 3 ff. containing descriptions of Hosbondrie and qualifications of certain officials in that department, as le Bayliffe, le Seneschall, le Bacher, &c. in old French.

366. A medical Dictionary explaining various terms and matters, in Latin, and giving antidotes and prescriptions for divers illnesses.

'Aurea Alexandrina antidotum faciens ad reuma capitis-Zinziber
conditü'-.

A few more form an appendix. Quarto, vellum, in wood; ff. 91.
Initial capitals red, green, and blue in turn.

367. A volume of Philosophical tracts.

(1) Summa super Physico.

Valde lacerata in principio.

ff. 34

(2) Questiones.

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'Ut dicit allecebron in libro de fonte vitæ, õe qd ab-origine egedi'

(3) Liber Sex Principiorum.

(4) Comment. in lib. Prædicamentorum.

(5) Sentencie in lib. de Generatione et Corruptione.

(6) Sentencie in lib. de Cœlo et Mundo.

(7) Questiones Physicorum Aristot.

(8) Sentencie super lib. Physicorum.

(9)

super lib. VII. Metaphysicorum.

(10) De modis et figuris in dialectica.

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Quarto, vellum, two columns except (2) and (3); in wood. Figures of animals rudely sketched in the margin.

368. (1) ANTONII quæstiones super 8 lib. Physicorum. ff. 117 Cum tabula Quæstionum in initio, 1f.

(2)

questiones super 12 lib. Metaphysicorum. 106

Cum tab. quæst. in initio et tab. rerum in fine.

Quarto, vellum, in wood. Initial capitals flourished, bordering, blue in red. Title and number of book at the head of each fol.: note of subject in the margin.

369. (1) Questiones super 12 lib. Metaphysice compilate a fre ANTONIO ordinis mi(norum) provincie Arragonie scripte A° Dni м.CCCC.LXVto p M. HoWYSSON de Wygenhale, Bacchal. in Artibus. ff. 132

Cum tab. quæst. ad finem, 2 ff.

(2) Quæstiones moralis philosophie DEDACI Scripte Catabrigie in hospitio Sti Edwardi Regis, viz. Harlyston place in temp. Autumni p Mm. HoWYSSON de Wygenhale in Com. Norff. Ao Dni м.CCCC.LXVIIto. 87 Cum tab. in fine, 5 ff. Quarto, vellum, in wood. Initial capitals red.

370. Scriptum fratris THOME CLAXTON ordinis predicatorum et sac. theol. doct. sup pm Sententiarum in quæstiones divisum.

In the author's autograph. At the end, ‘Auctor manu sua:' begins

with a brief address to the reader in defence of his book.

The

title is upon leather beneath a plate of horn fastened to the cover by 8 studs.

Quarto, vellum, in wood; ff. 214. Initial capitals flourished, bordering, blue in red. A border to p. 1.

371. Quodlibeta SCOTI.

372.

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Small folio, vellum, in wood, covered with stamped leather: had fastening straps affixed with neatly formed studs. Capitals alternately blue and red, flourished and bordering. A miniature for the initial capital of the book. Subject, a man writing at a desk, quasi the author. Text italic, letters carried up into the margin and dashed with red. A few marginal notes. On the cover, 'CABOLDE,' and 'pcù xiis.'

ff. 64

(1) De Creatione et rerum creatarum natura.
'Omnibus animantibus Adam primus vocabula indidit appellans
uni cuiq. nomen ex præsenti institucõe juxta conditione naturæ.'
In the body of the text are inserted numerous illustrative figures
well executed; of the human form 6, quadrupeds 45, birds 38,
fish and reptiles 21, insects 2, trees 5.

(2) ALEXANDRI NECHAM de laude divine Sapientie. ff.75
In 7 books of Latin Hexam. verse, and marginal rubrics; con-
cludes with an address ad libellum suum.' At the end,
'Xpe tuis natis ignosce Johannis amore

Milham qi gratis hoc scribi fecit honore.'

'Istu libru contulit ffr Joнs. de MILHAM Rev'edo Sacr. theol. doct. ffr Joh. Zowch.' 'Marie for 3yn holy grace, help ffrere John Milam in every place.' On the last fly-leaf, 'Nota quod tribus viabus nunciata fuit fides Xi et baptismus in Anglia,' &c. On the 3rd and 4th fly-leaves are several curious reminiscences of readers' lucubrations, and 'THOME HATCHERI Liber.' On a page before (2), an anecdote respecting the author in the hand of JOHN AYNSWORTH, Christi Collegii Cantabrigiensis.

Small folio, vellum, in wood, covered with pink leather and again with rough sheepskin, as a reading case. Initial capitals flourished, bordering, alternately red and blue. A MS. of 13th cent.

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(3) BERNARD. de GORDONIA de Flebotomia; in 20

cap.

46-60

(4) BERNARD. de GORDONIA de regimine 7 etatum, seu de conservatione sanitatis.

61-87

ars curandi diversas egri

tudines secundum diversitatem urinarum; in 24

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cap.

(6)

88-110

tractatus urinarum. 111-3

(7) Compilatio de diversis medicamentis, vel de dosi

medicinarum.

(8) MAURI tractatus de Flebotomia.

114-6

116-7

(9) De medicinis ex acipitre, ex libro de natura re

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(15) BERNARDI de GORDONIA de gradibus medecinalibus. Imperf.

2 ff.

Octavo, two columns, vellum, red capitals. The i is accented throughout, and the only stop used is the dot in the middle of the height of the line. The volume is paged in old numerals. The list of contents on the fly-leaf is not so old as the MS. Titles are in rubric. The following are in the list, but missing:

Mag. PETRI de HISPAN. Thesaurus Pauperum.

de formatione Hominis.

Mag. RICARDI anatomia.

de Virtutibus aque vite.
Sinonomia medicinalia.
Chirurgia cujusdam ignoti.

In the same hand as this list is on the fly-leaf, 'R. Marchall.'

374. Summa vel compendium ad notitiam S. Scripturæ (O.T.) Historiarum; cum variis notulis ad finem.

Octavo, thick paper, 108 ff. Capitals and headings in rubric: B. is noted on each page.

375. (1) Quæstiones super 4 lib. Sententiarum a diversis auc

toribus; in 4 lib.

Lib. 1. has 35 ff., 11. 86ff., 111. 128ff., iv. 55 ff. The questions to 116 numbered in margin: for lib. 1. and ш. in the heading of the question.

(2) Quodlibeta Thome de Aquino.

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The letters are carried into the margin and curiously adorned with heads. It contains the 42 questions and part of 43rd. On one of the fol., 'Secundum Johannē Veele.'

Octavo, vellum, two columns. Catch-words at the foot of the page.

376. De urinis tres libri, Anglico sermone contexti, a HENRICO DANIEL, ordinis fratrum predicatorum.

Quarto, vellum, in bad condition, letters carried up into the margin and dashed with red; ff. 196. The treatise opens with an address, 'Magistro dilecto Socio in Xpo magistro Waltero de Ketyne,' wherein several treatises on the subject are referred to.

377. Quæstiones Grammaticæ.

Octavo, paper, in bad condition. Capitals in red ink; ff. 117. The subject-matter contains many verses interspersed.

378. (1) Liber distinctionum Theologicarum e Patribus desumptarum.

Hic liber similis est Rosario Theologie 232 et 354, sec. ordinem alphabeti compositus, cum tabula in initio, 6 ff. 'AbstinenciaZelus.'

(2) Moralium dogma philosophorum, seu dicta Poetarum concordantia cum virtutibus et viciis moralibus, compilata per mag. ODO.

21 ff.

Octavo, vellum, in wood. Initial capitals bordering, flourished, blue in red. On the cover, W. Lincolniensis.' On fol. 7, 'Liber Thome Assheby.' The letter and number of subjects under each letter are noted on each fol.

379. A volume of medical tracts.

(1) Liber virtutum medecinariorum simplicium secundum
Johannem de Scto Paulo.
19 ff.

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(2) Compendium medecina multiplici medicaminum varietate medicis subvenire docens.

'Medecina

excedit.'

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