Piers Plowman : [manuscript]

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  Piers Plowman : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-106v; ff. 107-108v blank. [William Langland] Piers Plowman. Incipit: In a somer sesoun whan softe was þe sonne/ y shope me into shroudes as y a shep were. Explicit: And seende me hap and hele til y haue Peres plouhman/ And sethe he gradde aftur grace tyl y gan awake. English. IMEV 1459; C text, i group; ff. 60 and 61 reversed in binding. R. W. Chambers, "The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman in the Huntington Library and their Value for Fixing the Text of the Poem," HLB 8 (1935) 1-25; Piers Plowman: The Huntington Library MX (HM 143) reproduced in Photostat with Introduction by R. W. Chambers and Technical Examination by R. B. Haselden and H. C. Schulz (Huntington Library 1936); D. Pearsall, ed., Piers Plowman by William Langland: An Edition of the C-text (London 1978) from this manuscript with variant readings from others. ff. ii-iii verso. [Geoffrey Chaucer] Troilus and Criseyde. Incipit: //So whan thys Calkas knewe by kalkulynge/ And eke by onswere of this Appollo. Explicit: Of other sekenesse lest men of hym wende/ That the hoote fir of loue hym brende//. English. Two non-continuous leaves representing leaves 2 and 7 of a gathering of 8 leaves of a lost manuscript, and containing 20 stanzas: f. ii recto-verso: //So whan thys Calkas knewe by kalkulynge/ And eke by onswere of this Appollo . . . And under efte gan hem whielen bothe/ After hire cours ay whil that they were wrothe//; f. iii recto-verso: // And to the god of loue thus sayde he/ With pitous vois o lord now youres is . . . Of other sekenesse lest men of hym wende/ That the hoote fir of loue hym brende//. IMEV 3327; R. K. Root, ed., The Book of Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (Princeton 1926) 1:71-140 and 1:421-490; M. B. Parkes and R. Beadle, Geoffrey Chaucer, Poetical Works: a facsimile of Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27 (Cambridge 1980-81) 3:65 note 94 referring to this manuscript. Assigned Date: s. XVin.

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  [Piers Plowman; Mandeville; Troilus; etc., middle of the 15th century]

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  Collection of Middle English texts, comprised of Langland's Piers Plowman in the B-text with substantial readings from A and C; a defective version, subgroup B, of Mandeville's Travels; the Middle English poem Susannah; "The legend of the Three Kings" an excerpt from John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; and a translation of Peter Ceffons' Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros.

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  Chronicles : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-2. [Isidore] [Etymologies]. Incipit: Prima etas in exordio [sui] continet creacionem mundi. Explicit: Residuum sexte etatis tempus deo soli est cognitum. Rubric: Incipit liber v Rubrica de discripcione temporum ysidorus. Latin. Isidore, Etymologies, Bk. 5, ch. 39, PL 82:224-228. f. 2v. [Divisiones episcopatum yspanie tempore Regis Vambe = Dioceses in Spain]. Incipit: Theodosius fuit rex catholicus et fecit celebrare concilium in gallecia apud Lucensem urbem et divisit omnes dioceses inter omnes episcopos gallecie sicut hic scriptum est. Ad kathedram bracarensem dedit ecclesias. Explicit: postea divisit sedes narbonem et sunt ix sed non curavi hic ponere nomina eorum. Rubric: Divisiones episcopatum yspanie tempore Regis Vambe. Latin. ff. 2v-3v. [Ista sunt concilia que facta fuerunt in yspania Councils of the church of Spain]. Incipit: Concilium primum fuit yspania Elibertanum xviii episcoporum temporibus constantini gestum eodem tempore quo enicena [sic] sinodus habita est. Explicit: petrus elborensis, aloarius ubi est modo civitatem caliabriensem [sic]. Expliciunt concilia id est numerus conciliorum yspanie prout inveni in libro canonum. Rubric: Ista sunt concilia que facta fuerunt in yspania. Latin. Resumé of the headings and lists of bishops from Isidore, Concilia Hispaniae, PL 84:301-626. ff. 3v-6. [Incipit istoria gotica edita a Roderico toletane ecclesie sacerdote Chapter list of histoires of R. Jiménez de Rada]. Incipit: i, De Europa et generacione Iaphet. Explicit: ccciiii, De monarchia yuceh citra mare et ultra mare. Explicit. Rubric: Incipit istoria gotica edita a Roderico toletane ecclesie sacerdote. Latin. Chapter list to the histories of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, archbishop of Toledo, contained in this manuscript. f. 6r-v. [Noticia sedium cathedralium hispanie = List of the dioceses of Spain]. Incipit: Tolleto metropoli, Oreto. Explicit: Dominus philippus Fater [sic] domini regis Ramundus. Hic fuit primus loco prelati in ecclesia hispalensis ex quo modo fuit capta per christianos. Explicit. Rubric: Noticia sedium cathedralium hispanie. Latin. Includes a reference to"Gundisalvus qui nunc est"; his dates are 1280-99?. ff. 6v-8v.[Hic qui secuntur fuerunt regis gothorum = Kings of Spain]. Incipit: Era ccc lxxxi, Regnavit athanaricus primus Rex gothorum xiiii annis. Explicit: et fuit primus rex in navarra. Rubric: Hic qui secuntur fuerunt regis gothorum. Latin. Includes a reference to"Alfonsus qui nunc est quem deus dirigat" (his dates are 1252-1284), to"Dionisius [1279-1325] qui nunc est" (his dates are 1279-1325) and to James"qui habet regnum maioricorum" (his dates are 1276-1311). ff. 9-75v. [Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada] Historia gothica. Incipit: Ut veritas genesis attestatur quam moyses scripsit. Explicit: et multa alia quorum esset narrare. Hoc opusculum ut scivi et potui consumavi anno incarnationis domini M cc xliii Era MCC lxxxi Anno xxvi regni fernandi regis v feria pridie kalendas aprilis anno pontificatus nostri xxxiii Sede apostolica adhuc vacante anno uno mensibus viii diebus x gregorio papa ix viam universe carnis ingresso. Rubric: Incipit hystoria Gothica edita a Roderico Tolletane ecclesie sacerdote. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Gothica in A. Schott, ed., Hispania Illustrata (Frankfurt 1603) 2:26-148. M. C. Diaz y Diaz, Index Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Aevi Hispanorum (Salamanca 1958-59) 1241. Here preceded by a dedication and a prologue. ff. 75v-78v. [Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada] Historia romanorum. Incipit: Principium autem regum lacii istud fuit. Explicit: et variorum presidium tiranide lacerata. Rubric: De regibus lacii, ccxxi. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Romanorum in Schott, 2:186-95. Diaz y Diaz 1245. ff. 78v-83. [Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada] Historia hunnorum. Incipit: Hugnorum origo ut reffert antiquitas ita cepit. Explicit: gallia gothica in hyspaniam transtulerunt. Rubric: De origine hugnorum. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Hunnorum in Schott, 2:151-59. Diaz y Diaz 1243. ff. 83-84v. [Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada] Historia ostrogothorum et visigothorum. Incipit: Mortuo athilla Walamen rex astrogothorum et albaricus rex gepidarum. Explicit: qui in hispaniis et gallia gothica regnaverunt. Rubric: De Regibus astrogothorum et actibus theodorici, ccxlix,. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Ostrogothorum et Visigothorum in Schott, 2: 148-51. Diaz y Diaz 1242. ff. 84v-97. [Rodrgo Jiménez de Rada] Historia arabum. Incipit: Anno leovigildi regis gothorum ix Era de prima. Explicit: sed quia de adventu eorum in hystoria Gothica fuimus prosecuti hic nolumus iterare. Explicit Era M CC et lxxiiii. Laus tibi sit christe quoniam liber explicit iste. Rubric: Incipit historiam [sic] arabum de origine et exordio Mahometi, cclvi. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Arabum in Schott, 2:162-86. Diaz y Diaz 1244. f. 97r-v. [Hugh of St. Cher] Speculum ecclesie. Incipit: Dicit apostolus ad ephesios vi. Induite vos armatura dei ut possitis stare adverssus insidias diaboli. Hec armatura est vestis sacerdotalis significativa septemplicis virtutis. Explicit: mentis amaritudo in speculis mulierum. Rubric: Incipit speculum ecclesie. Incipit tractatus domini Hugonis cardinalis de ordine misse et sacerdotalium indumentorum signifficatione. Latin. Hugh of St. Cher, Speculum ecclesie, short extract containing the first and part of the second chapter; cf. Hain 8977-8992. ff. 97v-145. [Martinus Oppaviensis] Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum. Incipit: Sicut dicit Orosius ad beatum augustinum scribens a mundi creacione. Explicit: Nicholaus iii Nacione Rome anno domini M cc lxxvii sedit. Amen. Hic finit ystoria romanorum pontificum usque ad tempora nostra. Rubric: Incipit Cronica fratris Martini penetenciarii domini pape et capellani . . . De quatuor regnis maioribus. Latin. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 2974. L. Weiland, ed., Martini Oppaviensis Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum (Hannover 1872) MGH Scriptores 22:397-474, here conflating the pope and emperor lists; Weiland's recension C, as it extends to Nicholas II (1277) and includes the narration on the 4 reigns after the prologue, the section on Pope Joan (f. 131) and numerous other interpolations. ff. 145-152v. Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. Incipit: Fuit quidam rex anthiocus nomine a quo ipsa civitas. Explicit: unum in templo ephesiorum alterum blibiotece [sic] sue. Expliciunt gesta piissimi regis appolloni tyri. Rubric: Et incipit quedam ystoria satis apposito nostro remota est tamen in se admirabilis et sic proponere eam hic voluimus qualiter contigit de quodam rege antiochie qui antiochus vocabatur,. Latin. G. A. A. Kortekaas, ed., Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (Groningen 1984); listed p. 20. ff. 152v-158v. [Dares Phrygius] De excidio Troiae historia. Incipit: Pleyas rex ypolopense [sic] fratrem habuit hesonem. Explicit: palemonem ephistrophum et Scedium. Explicit ystoria troyanorum. Rubric: Hic incipit alia ystoria grecorum et troyanorum de rege pleya et iason filio hesonis fratre eius. Latin. F. Meister, ed., Daretis Phrygii De excidio Troiae historia (Leipzig 1873), with introductory epistle and the 2 supplementary sections on the casualties of the Greeks and the Trojans. ff. 159-178v. [Saba Malaspina] Rerum sicularum historia. Incipit: Tempore autem domini innocencii vi Rex Karolus regnum posolimitanum [sic] ex concessione cuiusdam domicelle. Explicit: Sique dum ad domum tamen dicti henrici cathalani vota sua convertunt et illuc dirigunt manus armatas paucos [catchword:] gallicos//. Rubric: Hic incipit ystoria de hiis que contigerunt in sicilia tempore regis karoli. Latin. Saba Malaspina, Rerum sicularum historia, Bk. 6, ch. 5-Bk. 10, chap. 5 (breaking defectively) in G. del Re, ed., Cronistie scrittori sincroni della dominazione normanna (Naples 1845-68) 2:307-80; listed in A. Nitschke,"Untersuchungen zu Saba Malaspina," Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 12 (1956) 160 n. 1.

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  Works : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-223v. [Cyprian] [Cecili Cypriani Episcopi Cartaginensis Epistolarum Liber Incipit = Letters]. Incipit: Bene ammones Donate karissime Nam et promisisse me memini. Rubric: Cecili Cypriani Episcopi Cartaginensis Epistolarum Liber Incipit. Latin. For the breakdown into the individual letters and for the bibliographic citation, please see the full descriptions of this manuscript in C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). ff. 223v-229. [Incipit vita sancti Cipriani Life of St. Cyprian]. Incipit: Ciprianus religiosus antistes ac testis dei gloriosus. Explicit: Currebant undique versum omnes ad spectaculum vobis [sic] pro devotione fidei gloriosum gentibus et dolendum. Rubric: Incipit vita sancti Cipriani. Latin. Attributed to the deacon Pontius; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) XC-XCII; ending in this manuscript as in Vatican, Reg. lat. 118. ff. 229-230. [Incipit de martirio eiusdem et cetera Martyrdom of St. Cyprian]. Incipit: Ex die qua Ciprianus martirium tulit ordo martirii eius hac lectione monstratur et declaratur. Cum Cyprianus sanctus martir electus a deo de curtibitana civitate. Explicit: que sunt in via mappaliensi iuxta piscinas cum voto et triumpho magno regnante domino nostro ihesu christo cui est honor et gloria imperium et potestas in secula seculorum Amen. Rubric: Incipit de martirio eiusdem et cetera. Latin. From the Acta Proconsularia; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) CXI-CXIII; beginning in this manuscript as in Vatican, Reg. lat. 118. ff. 230-233. [Pseudo-Cyprian]. [Exhortatio de penitentia]. Incipit: Per penitentiam posse omnia peccata dimitti ei. Explicit: Item in Apocalipsi. Memento unde cecideris et age penitentiam. Sin autem tibi [sic] cito et candelabrum de loco suo movebo. Rubric: Incipit exhortatio eiusdem de penitentia. Latin. Spuriously attributed to Cyprian; PL 4:863-868. ff. 233-240. [Duodecim Abusiones]. Incipit: Sapiens sine operibus bonis. Explicit: ne sine nobis christus esse incipiat in futuro. Amen. Explicit opus Sancti Cipriani per me Bartholomeum de Schianchis clericum parmensem in Urbe 24 februarii 1456 [the year traced over in black ink] Anno [followed by an erasure which may read"per O__?___"]. Rubric: Incipiunt duodecim Abusiones Cipriani Episcopi et martiris. Latin. Spuriously attributed to Cyprian, CPL 1106; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) Appendix, 152-73. f. 240. [Jerome] [Letter]. Incipit: Tertulianus crebris [sic] est in sententiis sed difficilis in loquendo. Beatus Ciprianus instar fontis purissimi dulcis incedit. Explicit: et a lectione sempliciorum fratrum procul est. Hec Ieronimus in epistola LIX scribens ad paulinum presbiterum de institutione clericorum et monacorum que incipit bonus homo et cetera. Latin. Jerome, Ep. 59, PL 22:585. Added in a different hand. f. 240v. [Lactantius] [Divinae institutiones]. Incipit: Unus igitur precipuus et clarus extitit Ciprianus. Explicit: ad revincendum habere potuerunt. Et reliqua que sequuntur. Rubric: Lactantius Libro quinto institutionum de iustitia capitulo primo sic inquit in laudem cipriani. Latin. Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones, PL 6:551-552. Added by the same hand as the preceding text.

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  Georgics ; Aeneid ; and other Latin verse : [manuscript]

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  f. 1. [List of noble and plebian Roman families]. Incipit: Familię Nobiles Romanorum, Hostilii, Iunii ex quibus Brutus, Vallerii. Explicit: Terrentii, Aurelii, Porcii. Latin. Note added in a later cursive hand. f. 1. Vita Livii. Incipit: Titus Livius auctor presentis operis hystoriographus. Explicit: Et hodie patavii cernitur eius saxeus tumulus in monasterio sancte Iustine cum huiuscemodi saxo incisis litteris. Latin. E. Pellegrin, ed., "Notes sur quelques manuscrits de textes classiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque Vaticane," Revue d'Histoire des Textes 1 (1971) 190 with proof offered by the epigraphic inscription on Livy's tomb "in the monastery of St. Giustina in Padua." Added in the same hand as the first text. f. 1. [Jerome] Epistula 53 ad Paulinum. Incipit: Ad Titum Livium lacteo eloquentie fonte manantem [sic]. Explicit: ut urbem tantam ingressi aliud extra urbem quererent. Rubric: Idem in prologo genesis. Latin. Excerpt from Jerome, Epistula 53 ad Paulinum. I. Hilberg, ed., S. Hieronymi Epistulae. CSEL 54 (Vienna 1910) 443-44. Added in the same hand as the first two texts. f. 1. [Giovanni Antonio Porcelli Pandoni?] [Descriptio gratiarum per porcelium Vatem Romanum Poem]. Incipit: Sunt nudę carites niveo de marmore at illas/ Diva columna suis edibus intus habet. Explicit: Inde aliter cecus placida sub matre cupido/ Inde voluptates inde alimenta dei. Rubric: Descriptio gratiarum per porcelium Vatem Romanum. Latin. Same poem in Vatican, Pal. lat. 907, f. 103v, in 10 verses; here in 12 verses attributed to Giovanni Antonio Porcelli Pandoni (ca. 1405-after January 1485), protégé of Pius II. Added in a humanistic hand. f. 1v. [Servius] [Mauri Servii Honorati Gamatici [?] In tria Virgilii opera expositio incipit et Primo In Bucolica]. Incipit: Bucolica ut ferunt inde dicta a custodia boum. Explicit: fluctu tam littora. Necque saxosas inter decurrunt flumina valles. Rubric: Mauri Servii Honorati Gamatici [?] In tria Virgilii opera expositio incipit et Primo In Bucolica. Latin. Other creator(s): Commentarii in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica. G. Thilo, ed., Servii grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica Commentarii (Leipzig 1887) 1-4. Added in a cursive hand, s. XVI. ff. 2-37v. [Vergil] [Georgics]. Incipit: Quid faciat letas segetes quo sidere terram. Explicit: Corporaque ipsa bovum frondoso desere luco [erased catchword:] Post ubi//. Rubric: Publii maronis vergilii Georgicorum liber primus. Latin. R. A. B. Mynors, ed., P. Vergili Maronis opera (Oxford 1969) 29-100, breaking defectively in 4, 543. Here preceded by the Pseudo Ovidian verses, " Versus ovidii super libro Gergicorum [sic] virgilii primo, Quid faciat letas segetes que sidera servet . . . Et docuit messes cum magno fedore [sic] reddi," edited in A. Riese, ed., Anthologia latina (Leipzig 1894-1906) n. 2. ff. 38-204. [Vergil] [Aeneid]. Incipit: Arma virumque cano troie qui primus ab horis. Explicit: Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras. Latin. Mynors, 103-422, with 2 leaves missing after f. 104, containing Book 6, 1-105. The entire text is preceded by an Argumentum generale, " Primum habet libicam veniant ut troes in urbem . . . Ultimum imponit bello turni nece finem." The books of the Aeneid are preceded by Pseudo Ovidian verses, edited in Anthol. lat., n. 1. f. 204. [Praefatio Aeneidis]. Incipit: Ille ego qui quondam gracili modulatus avena. Explicit: Gratum opus agricolis At nec horrentia martis. Arma virumque cano. Latin. C. Hardie, ed., Vitae Vergilianae Antiquae (Oxford 1966) 16. Although the text constitutes an introduction to the Aeneid, it is nontheless a preface. f. 204r-v. [Vergil] [Aeneid, excerpt]. Incipit: Aut ignibus egro dedere/ Iamque adeo super unus eram cum limina veste. Explicit: Talia iactabam et furiata mente ferebar/ Cum michi se non ante, alia. Latin. Aeneid, 2, 566-589, the episode of the encounter with Helen in burning Troy, supposedly suppressed by Virgil's friends, Tucca and Varius, and thus not copied in the normal sequence on f. 61; here copied straight on after the preceding text, i.e. the Praefatio Aeneidis. f. 204v. [Verses]. Incipit: Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane. Latin. Five sets of verses: Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane/ Divisum imperium cum iove cesar habens [2 verses; Anthol. lat., n. 256]; Hos ego versiculos feci tulit alter honorem/ Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves/ Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes [3 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 257; 2 verses added in the margin in a noting hand:] Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves/ Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves; [space] Meonium quisquis romanus nescit homerum . . . Hec grais constant singula trina michi [6 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 674a]; [space] Sus iuvenis serpens casum venere sub unum . . . Hic fremit ille gemit sibilat hic moriens [4 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 160, footnote]. f. 205. [Martial] [Epigrammata]. Incipit: Si memini fuerant tibi quatuor helia dentes. Explicit: Nil istic quod agat tertia tussis habet. Latin. W. Heraeus, ed., M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton liber (Leipzig 1929) 15, here n. 1, 19. ff. 205-206. [Verses]. Incipit: Ergone supremis potuit vox improba verbis. Latin. Six sets of verses: Ergone supremis potuit vox improba verbis . . . Laudetur vigeat placeat relegatur ametur [36 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 672]; [space] Mantua me genuit calabri rapuere tenet nunc . . . [12 distichs with epitaphs of Vergil, Anthol. lat. nn. 506 bis-516, 518; followed straight on by:] Cedite romani scriptores cedite grai/ Nescio quid maius nascitur yliade [2 verses; Propertius, Elegiae, 3, 32, 65-66; Anthol. lat. n. 264]; Defensor patrie iuvenum fortissimus ethor [sic] . . . Condidit et merens hac tumulavit humo [10 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 631]; Hic iacet arpinas manibus tumulatus amici . . . Tullius eternis vulneribus lacerat [6 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 603]; Corpus in hoc tumulo magni ciceronis humatum . . . Suppliciisque [sic] datis prestiti incolumen [6 verses; Anthol. lat. n. 604]. f. 206v. [Carmen in honorem Pii secundi papae]. Incipit: Quid miser invidia Martini tempora carpis. Explicit: Et sua Pius nostris secula quisque probet. Latin. Twenty-eight verses added in a humanistic hand copied in palimpsest over as many as 3 erased texts: 2 short prose pieces and an epitaph (see next text). f. 206v. [Epitaph of Bolesława Chrobrego (992-1025)]. Incipit: Hic iacet in tumba princeps generosa columba/ Cabri tu es dictus sis in evum benedictus. Explicit: Propter Luctamen sit tibi salus amen. Latin. Epitaph of Bolesławła Chrobrego (992-1025): one of the underlying texts on the palimpsested leaf that contains the preceding poem in honor of Pius II (?) on its surface. f. 207r-v. [Aulus Gellius]. [Noctes Atticae]. Incipit: Reprehendit higinus virgilium correcturumque eum fuisse putavit quod in libro vi scriptum est. Explicit: de pirrho importune missus est quem virgilius procul dubio exempturus inquit. Rubric: Augelius [sic] notium acticarum libro 9 foliis 115. Latin. P. K. Marshall, ed., A. Gellii Noctes Atticae (Oxford 1968) 1:318-20, here 10, 16. Medical recipe added on f. 207v in a noting hand.

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  Statutes : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-38v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. ff. 38v-44v. Fet asaver. Incipit: Fet asaver que au comencement de chescun play que est plede en la Court le rey. Explicit: Mes si la terre luy fust donee en franc mariage donc covendra que ele seit//. Rubric: Incipit Summa Fet asaver. French. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 53-96, here ending defectively. ff. 45-50. Hengham Parva. Incipit: //Et iacet solummodo in omni breve de recto ante apparenciam. Explicit: Si compertus fuit ille qui primo cassavit breve verus tenens. Explicit Summa de quinque essoniis. Latin. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 54-71, the "Summa Parva" here beginning defectively. ff. 50-54. Judicium essoniorum. Incipit: Primum capitulum de difficultate essoniorum circa viros et mulieres. Explicit: et sic procedere debent ad alia placita iuxta eorum discrecionem. Explicit Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Rubric: Incipit Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Latin. Woodbine, 116-42. ff. 54-59; f. 59v blank. Cadit assisa. Incipit: Rex vicecomiti salutem. Si Adam Bonde fecerit te securum de clamore suo prosequendo. . ., Cadit assisa si petatur tenementum per assisam. Explicit: si petens ius petendi remanebit possessio suo loco ut predictum est. Rubric: Incipit Summa Cadit assisa. Latin. See Woodbine, p. 1 and n. 4 giving references to Bracton; the text is preceded by an assize of mort d'ancestor by Adam Bonde in the time of Edward I. ff. 60-83v. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right to the sheriffs of London (no names given) and ending defectively in a note concerning disseisin of husband and wife.

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