Medieval and early modern women PT.1

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MEDIEVAL & EARLY MODERN WOMEN
Part 1: Manuscripts from the British Library, London
A listing and guide to the microfilm collection
Medieval and
Early Modern Women
Part 1: Manuscripts
from the British Library, London
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CONTENTS
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Publisher's Note
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Contents of Reels for Part 1
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Detailed Listing of Part 1
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Brief notes on authors and manuscripts
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Publisher's Note
The history of medieval and early modern women has yet to be
fully understood. Given that relatively little by or about women
found its way into print before 1700, this history will depend for
its scope and wealth of detail on access to manuscript records.
This project fills the need for original source material relating to
medieval and early modern women, containing important texts
by key women authors, manuscripts bearing illustrations of
women, and sources describing the lives of women in this period
- significantly, in their own words. Much of the work presented
here remains as yet unpublished, and is therefore an extremely
valuable resource for scholars researching the lives of women in
this period. The records prove that, although women in the late
medieval and early modern periods lacked authority of public
office, they actually possessed a considerable power: the power to
describe who they were and what they thought, and to persuade
others, mainly men, that they should be heard and taken
seriously.
Part 1 of the project draws on the manuscript resources of the
British Library. The Library contains the first autobiography in
English, the early fifteenth-century Boke of Margery Kempe, in
the single surviving manuscript of the text, which was only
re-discovered in 1934. Another 'first' of this collection is the
diary of Margaret Hoby. Written in her own hand between
1599 and 1605, it is the earliest extant diary in English, and as
such is a significant research tool for scholars.
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MEDIEVAL & EARLY MODERN WOMEN PART 1
Two women authors writing in French are also represented here.
Marie de France, the earliest known French woman poet, lived
in England in the twelfth century. Reproduced here are Marie's
Lais, and some of her fables. The second French writer is
Christine de Pisan. Born in 1363 or 1364, she was a seminal
medieval writer who wrote extensively about women's lives, and
whose works are still widely read today. The British Library is
one of the foremost repositories of her work; no less than
thirteen manuscripts are displayed in this collection. Christine's
major works are all reproduced, including le Livre de la Cite des
DameS) le Livre des trois vertus, le Corps de Policie and le Livre des
fais d'armes et de Chevalerie. A particular gem is Harleian 4431,
known as the 'Queen's Manuscript'. It is a richly illuminated
volume, containing the majority of her works and many pictures
of the author in the process of writing.
Another beautifully illustrated manuscript is the Queen Mary
Psalter, dating from 1310-1320 and presented to Queen Mary
Tudor in 1553.
This volume is a valuable source of
iconographic data as it contains over 800 images, many
documenting strong female characters from Eve to Bathsheba.
Julian of Norwich, a fourteenth-century visionary and recluse,
wrote extensively about her mystical 'showings', a collection of
spiritual visions, which continue to affect readers even today.
She has been a recognised influence on writers as diverse as T S
Eliot and Iris Murdoch. The Revelations of Bridget of Sweden
(based on Bridget's powerful visions) are our final source for the
medieval period, and are another vital religious document. A
fourteenth-century saint and founder of the order of Bridgettine
nuns, her influence on devotion and spirituality on the later
Middle Ages was extremely significant.
The standard of education and erudition on display is quite
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
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outstanding among many of the early modern women. Jane/
Joan Lumley, Margaret Roper and Mary Clarcke (all
sixteenth century) translated classical works into English.
Katherine Parr, Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and Margaret
Douglas were all high-born ladies of the Tudor court. Katherine
wrote religious works, and the others contributed extensively to
the fragments of the unique Devonshire Manuscript.
Rose Throckmorton wrote an account of the religious
intolerance which blighted her early years, during the reign of
Mary Tudor. Elizabeth Jocelyn, who died in childbirth in
1622, left a moving account of herself to the child she never saw.
Katherine Austen (b. 1628), was a 'diarist with a difference'
who wrote about, for example, her dreams and the unkindness of
her sister-in-law. Her near-contemporary Katherine Aston, a
letter-writer and poet, was known affectionately as 'Belamore' or
'Good Love' because of her philosophical and religious debates
on love. Jane Barker, employed fairly late in life as a Jacobite
spy, took a keen interest in, and wrote about, the politics of the
day. Grace Gary was another visionary who was granted
prophetical revelations during the English Civil War, while
Lettice Gary, whose husband Lucius was killed in the same war,
is the subject of John Duncon's Account of the Life and Death of
Lettice Cory.
This guide provides both a brief listing of Contents of Reels (for
quick reference) and a Detailed Listing of the contents of each
manuscript. Some of these are very concise, while others (such
as Royal 2 B vii, the Queen Mary Psalter) give an incredibly
detailed register of what can be seen on each folio. Brief notes on
the authors and manuscripts included here are also provided.
Kathryn Warner
August 2000
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CONTENTS OF REELS
REEL1
Sappho
Pap 739
Portion of an ode. 3rd century.
Christine de Pisan
Add 15641 Le Livre des Troys Venus [Raison, Droiture, et Justice]
a I'enseignement des Dames. 15th century.
Add 17446
Collection of French Poems. 15th century.
Add 20698
Dutch version of the Cite des Dames. 15th century.
REEL 2
Christine de Pisan
Add 31841
Le Livre des Trots Vertus. 15th century.
Harl 4410
Corps de Policie. 17th century.
Harl 4431
Assorted works of Christine de Pisan. 15th century.
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12
REEL 3
Christine de Pisan
Harl 4605
Des fails d'Armes. 15th century.
Royal 14 E ii Chemin de Vaillance and other works including
Le Traitte Othea. 15th century.
REEL 4
Christine de Pisan
Royal 15 E vi Poems and romances in French including
Le Livre des Fails d'Armes el de Chevalerie.
15th century.
REELS
Christine de Pisan
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Royal 17 E iv Ovid's Meiamorphoses moralized, with other works
in French, including Epistle of Othea to Hector.
15th century.
Royal 18 B xxii The Boke of Noblesse. Includes considerable
passages translated from Fails d'Armes el de
Chevalerie. 15th century.
/Royal 19 A xix Le Livre de la die des Dames. 15th century.
REEL 6
Christine de Pisan
Royal 19 B xviii Le Livre dez Fails d'Armes at de Chevallerie.
15th century.
CONTENTS OF REELS
1:
Marie de France
Cotton Cal A ii A collection of old English poems or
including The Nightingale translated from th
Lay de Laustic. 1 5th century.
Cotton Vesp B xiv Le lay de Launval Chevalier de Arthur roy de
Bretagne and other works. Date unclear.
Harl 978
A collection of Lays.
13th century.
REEL?
Julian of Norwich
Sloane 2499 Sixteen revelations of Divine Love. 17th century.
Sloane 3705 Sixteen "Revelations of the unutterable love of God in
Jesus Christ". 17th century.
Add 37790
12 English translations of theological works,
including Sixteen revelations of Divine Love.
1 5th century.
REELS
Bridget of Sweden
Cotton Julius F ii
The Revelations of S Bridget. 15th century.
Jane/Joan Lumley
Add 35324
Drawings of funeral processions. 17th century.
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REELS
Jane Lumley
Royal 14 B iii Roll of moral maxims. 16th century.
Royal 12 E ii Astrological charts dedicated to [Jane], Lady
Lumley, as a new year's gift 1569.
Royal 15 A ix Translations by Joan, Lady Lumley of Isocrates
and Euripedes.
16th century.
Royal 17 A xxii Metrical version of the Seven Penitential
Psalms. 16th century.
REEL 9
Margaret Hoby
Egerton 2614 The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby. 1599-1605.
Margery Kempe
Add 61823
The Book of Margery Kempe. c!440.
Rose Throckmorton
Add 43827 A & B
Add 45027
Narrative of Mrs Throckmorton. c!610.
Certaim old stones recorded by an aged gentlewoman
to be perused by her children and posterity, c 1610.
CONTENTS OF REELS
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REEL 10
Queen Mary Psalter
Royal 2 B vii Psalter in Latin. 14th century.
{Catherine Aston
Add 36452
Correspondence of the Aston Family, 1613-1703.
REEL 11
Katherine Austen
Add 4454
Essays, meditations, and memoranda, 1664-1668.
Jane Barker
Add 21621 A collection of poems. 17th/l 8th century.
Devonshire Mss
Add 17492 Poems. 16th century.
Lettice Gary
Add 45388
John Duncon, Account of the Life and Death of
Lettice Gary. 17th century.
Grace Gary
Egerton 1044 England's Forewarninge, or a relation of true, strange
and wonderful visions and prophetical revelations
... shewedfoure orfiveyeeres since to Mrs Grace Gary,
ofBristoll 1644.
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REEL 11 (continued)
Elizabeth Jocelyn
Add 4378
The Mother's Legacie to her Unborne Childe. c!622.
REEL 12
Mary Clarcke
Harl 1860
Translations from Eusebius. 16th century.
REEL 13
Katherine Parr
Add 24965 Letterbook of Thomas Dacre, including letters by
or relating to Mary Queen of Scots, Katherine
Parr and Maud Parr. 1523, 1524.
REEL 14
Margaret Roper/More
Royal 17 D xiv Transcripts of works and letters of
Sir Thomas More and family, cl550-1557.
DETAILED LISTING OF PART 1
REEL1
Sappho
Papyrus 739
Portion of an ode addressed to her brother Charaxus.
Papyrus fragment. If. 3rd century.
Christine de Pisan
Additional 15641
Le Livre des Troys Venus [Raison, Droiture, et Justice] a
I'enseignement des Dames', in three parts, with a general preface,
and a table of chapters to each part.
Paper, cTOff, Octavo. 15th century.
Additional 17446
Collection of French Poems of Christine de Pisan and others.
Vellum, 4Iff, Folio. 15th century.
Additional 20698
Die Lof der Vrouwen: a Dutch version of the Cite des Dames
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REEL 1 (continued)
written in 1475 at the desire of Jan de Baenst Riddere Heere van
Sint Joris. Vellum, with coarsely executed miniatures and
illuminated initials, some of which are unfinished, or the spaces
for them left blank.
Vellum, 333ff, Folio. 15th century.
REEL 2
Christine de Pisan
Additional 31841
Le Livre des Trois Venus: a sequel to Le Livre de la Cite des Dames.
Imperfect, containing the greater part of the first, second and
only the beginning of the third book. With a defaced miniature.
Vellum, 7Iff, Quarto. 15th century.
Harleian4410
A French manuscript containing the Corps de Policie of Christine
de Pisan, who married Chastel, historiographer to Charles V and
VI of France. On a blank leaf prefixed is an account of the
author and her various works, written in the seventeenth
century, and founded on the authority of Labbe, Naudaes, etc.
Vellum, 73ff.
Harleian4431
A beautiful and magnificent volume, containing a large part of
the works of Christine de Pisan written on vellum, and most
richly and amply illuminated. It contains thirty articles
enumerated in the table prefixed, and marked throughout the
book. The table of contents is thus prefaced:
Cy commence la table des dictiez en general, balades, rondiaulux, et
autres particuleirs livres, quifont con tenus en ce present volume.
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Table of contents:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)
(18)
(19)
(20)
(21)
(22)
(23)
Prologue to the Queen (wife of Charles V)
f2
An hundred ballads f 3
"UneLays" f20
Other ballads of different kinds f 23
A collection of verses with Leonine rhymes: "Item, une
assembee de plusieurs rimes auques toutes leonines en
facon de lay, a qui voudroit apprendre a rimer leoniment".
f25
Another lay f27
Rondeaux
f28b
"Gieux a vendre" (Toys to sell) f34b
Several other ballads
f 37b
"Une complainte amoureuse"
f48
More ballads
f49b
The Epistle to the God of Love f 53
Another amourous complaint
f59
The contest of two lovers: "Le debat de deux amans"
f60b
The Book of the Three Judgements
f 73b
"Le Livre de Poissy"
f 83
"Lepistre Othea" (The Epistle of Othea) f 97
"Le Due des vrays amans"
f 145
"Le Chemin de lane estudes" (the Path of Long Studies)
f 180
"Le Livre de la Pastoure" (the Book of the Shepperdess)
Dated in the Prologue to 1403
f 223
Epistles against the Roman de la Rose') the dedication is
signed with Christine's name
f 239
An Epistle sent by Christine to Eustace Morel, all
in equivocal rhymes
f 257b
A prayer on the life and passion of our saviour Christ
f259
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REEL 2 (continued)
(24)
(25)
(26)
(27)
(28)
(29)
(30)
Moral Proverbs, all in distichs
f261b
"Les enseignemens que Christine de Pisan donne a son
filz" (the instructions of Christine de Pisan given to her
son), in quatrins
f 263b
A prayer to Our Lady
f 267
"Les 15 joyes notre dame"
f 269
"Le Livre de Prudence, a 1'enseignement de bien vivre"
f270
The City of Ladies f292
An hundred ballads of a Lady and her Lover B76
Vellum, 398ff.
Presented to Isabeau de Baviere, Queen of
Charles VI of France, in 1410/11, and therefore known as the
'Queen's Manuscript'. See SL Hindman in the British Library
Journal, 9 (1983), 93-123.
REEL 3
Christine de Pisan
Harleian 4605
A very curious and well preserved copy of the tract Des fais
d'Armes. The tract is divided into four books, the beginning of
each ornamented with an illumination. The first illumination
contains a portrait of the author, similar exactly in dress to most
of those in Harleian 4431 (see illustration opposite). Her name
appears in the rubric prefixed to the prologue "Cy commence Le
Livre des Fays d'Armes et de Chevalerie. " This copy is beautifully
written on vellum, and is dated at London in 1434.
Vellum, 115ff. 15th century.
Harl 4605 f. 3 (Desfaisd'Armes by Christine de Pisan: portrait of the author)
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REEL 3 (Continued)
Royal 14Eii
Chemin de Vaillance^ and other works in French verse
and
prose, including Le Traitte Othea.
1. 'Cy commence le premier (-quart) liure de ce
present volume intitule Le chemin de vaillance1 (the colophon
adds 'autrement dit le songe dore1): a long allegorical vision by
Jean de Courcy [seigneur of Bourg-Achard, near Pont-Audemer,
c!426] in octosyllabic verse. No other copy seems to be known
(see A. Piaget in Romania, xxvii, p. 582). For full description see
Ward, Catalogue of Romances, p.895. f.l. Begins: 'La glorieuse
trinite Trois persones en vnite1. Ends: Tardonnez moy car ie
songoye'.
2. 'Le traittie Othea' (so colophon) : epistle of the goddess Othea
to Hector, by Christine de Pisan. In verse, with prose gloss and
allegory. Printed with Cent histoires de Troye^ Paris, 1490, and
elsewhere (see introduction to the English version by Stephen
Scrope, Roxburghe Club, 1904). Other copies are in 17 E. IV,
art. 2, and Harley MSS 219, f. 106, and 4431, f. 95, the
last MS being the fine volume of her poems presented by
Christine to Isabeau of Bavaria, in which this work has a
dedication to Louis, Duke of Orleans. Other copies seem to have
had other dedications, but the present has none. f. 295. Begins:
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Othea, deesse deprudence, Quy les bans adresse en vaillance'.
3. 'Cy commence le breuiaire des nobles' [by Alain
Chartier]: a series of thirteen poems in balade form, put in the
mouth of Noblesse and twelve other virtues, each envoy being
spoken by the Prince; the whole concluded by a rondel a tout.
Printed in A. Chartier's Qluvres, Paris, 1529, fol. clxxi b, and
Paris, 1617, p. 581. For other copies see below, 15 E. VI, art.
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13, 17 E. IV, art. 4. f. 332. Begins: '[J]e Noblesse, dame de bon
vouloir, Royne des preux, princesse des haulz fais1.
The rondel begins: *Vostre mestier recordez, Nobles hommes, en ce
liure'.
4. 'Cy aprez sensieut des ix. malheureux et des ix.
malheureuses': eighteen ten-line stanzas (a line of the second is
missing) put in the mouth of Priam, Hercules, Samson, Saul,
Rehoboam, Pompey, Tully, Darius, Hannibal, Hecuba,
Penthesilea, Helen, Medea, Cassandra, Dido, Olympias, Lucretia
and Agrippina, and a final stanza by the Philosopher. For another
copy see 17 E. IV, art. 5. f. 335 b. Begins: l [V]ous quy voulezparce
present arroy Scauoir le cas des malheureux humains'. 5. 'Cy
commence le liure de lordre de cheuallene': a prose work, described
by Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 922. It is, as pointed out in Hist.
Litt. de la France, xxix, p. 618, a version of the Catalan tract by
Ramon Lull, Le libre de I'orde de Cavayleria. An English version
from the French was made and printed by William Caxton with
dedication to Richard III, c!484. A MS. copy of Caxton's work
is in Harley MS. 6149, f. 83. Another copy of the French is in
Add. MS. 22768, f. 97. Beg.'AUa loenge etgloire*. f. 338.
Vellum, 354ff. 18V2 in. x 13!/2 in. Late XV cent. (1473-1483).
Executed for Edward IV. Sec. fol. *me fist que'. The ornament
closely resembles that of 14 E. 1. The arms in the border off. 1
are (a) az three crowns in pale or, for S. Edmund;- (b) az a cross
bottonny between five martlets or, for S. Edward the Confessor;(c) arms of Edward IV on a banner supported by a knight in
armour ;-(d) same arms with those of his two sons, disposed as in
14 E. I. Yorkist badges appeat also in most of the border.The
variety of birds depicted is noticeable. A few figures from the
miniatures are reproduced in Strutt's Dress and Habits of the
English People, plates cxxiii, fig. 1 (f. 77), cxxv, fig. 1 (f. 194) and
fig. 7 (f. 1),. cxxviii, fig. 5 (f. 123). The subjects of the principal
miniatures are:
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REEL 3 (continued)
1. Nature appearing to the author in a dream shows him the lady
Vaillance. f. 1.2. Desire is sent by Nature to rouse the author,
lying asleep at the edge of a fountain, f. 77. 3. The author
accompanied by the Virtues issues from the forest of
Temptation, f. 1944. Charity conducts him to the garden
Perdurable, f. 250. These belong to art. 1, and nine smaller
miniatures (space for a tenth at f. 287) also illustrate the same
allegory. 5. Hector starting for the war, illustrating art. 2. f. 295.
Artt. 3, 4 have blanks for initials 6. The hermit instructing the
knight, illustrating art. 5. f. 338.e cat. of MSS at Richmond
Palace in 1535 (cf. 14 D. I); cat. of 1666, f. 13; not in CM/4.
REEL 4
Christine de Pisan
Royal 15 E vi
POEMS and Romances, &c., in French: a present to Margaret of
Anjou, Queen of Henry VI, probably on her marriage, in 1445,
from John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, KG, who had been
employed to escort her to England. The date must in any case
be before Gloucester's death in 1447. Some account of the MS.
is given by Francisque Michel, Rapporis au Ministre, 1839, p91.
Contents (table at f. 1 b) as follows:- 1. Dedicatory verses,
thirty-four couplets (for the arms and other ornament see
below), f. 2 b. Begins:- 'Princesse tres excellente, Ce liure cy
vous presente De Schrosbery le conte, Ou quel liure a maint
beau conte'.Ends:- 'Et en la fin son paradis. Amen'.On a scroll at
the foot is an envoi:-'Mon seul desir Au Roy et vous Et (sic, for
est) bien seruir Jusqu au mourir. Ce sachent tous Mon seul desir
Au Roy et vous'.2. Genealogical table (for the arms and
ornament see below) of descendants of S. Louis, in the form of
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a fleur- de-lis. The centre branch gives the direct line of French
kings from S. Louis to Charles IV; the right-hand branch the
collateral (Valois) line to Charles VI and Catharine; the left-hand
branch the English kings from Edward I; and the three unite in
Henry VI. Scrolls, etc, indicate the degree of consanguinity and
generations of descent from S. Louis, f. 3. 3. 'Cy commence le
liure et la vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre1, &c. (in the table
of contents the title is 'Le liure de la conqueste du roy Alixandre1):
the French version of the Historia de Proeliis or abridgement of
Pseudo-Calisthenes. For full description see Ward, Cat. of
Romances, i, p. 129. Beg. 'Puisque le premier pere de lumain
lignaige'; ends 'ius a force. Sy en lairay ester la parolle. amen. Cy
fine le liure du roy Alixandre filz du Roy Phillipe de Macedoine et
de la royne1. f. 4 b. 4. 'Cy commence le lieuure du roy
Charlemaine': three chansons de geste called here the first,
second, and fourth books of Charlemagne, viz.:-(a) Simonde
Pouille, a poem in about 5,300 Alexandrines. For full description
see Cat. of Romances, i, p. 627, and cf. L. Gautier, Bibliog. des
Chansons de Geste, 1897, p. 202 f. 25.
Begins :-'Or entendez, seigneurs, que dieu yous beneye
Le gloriculx du ciel le filz saincte Marie'.Ends.:- 'Si que pas ne
moubil qui la vous ay chantee'. Colophon, 'Cy fine le premier liure
Charlemaine1. (b) Aspremont, a Poem in about 7,350 ten-syllable
lines, being an abridgement of the longer poem contained in Add.
MS, 35289 See Cat. of Rom. i, p, 598, and cf, P. Meyer in
Romania, xix, p, 201. f. 43, Begins;-'Plaise vous escouter bon
chancon vaillant De Charlemaine le riche roy puissant'. Ends:'Que ca auant ung seul mot nen diron'. Colophon, 'Cy fine le
secund liure de Karlemaine'. (c) Fierabras, a poem in about
4,800 Alexandrines. Printed by Kroeber and Servois, Paris, 1860,
in Les Anciens Poetes de la France, iv. See Cat . of Rom. i, p. 615.
f. 70. Begins:-
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'Seigneurs, or faictes paix, sil vous plaist escouter Chancon flere
et horrible, iamais meilleur norres'. Ends:- 'Si que pas ne moubli
qui la vous ay chantee. Amen1. Colophon, 'Cy fine le iiiime liure
Charlemaine'. This number is perhaps a slip of the pen, but the
table of contents includes 'Le liure de Charlemaine ouquel a
quatre volumes'. 5. 'Cy commence le liure de Oger de
Dannemarche': the chanson de geste of Ogier le Danois, in
about 20,500 lines. An earlier text is given in the printed
edition of Barrois, Romans des douze pairs, Paris, 1842,
nos. viii, ix. See Cat. of Romances, i, p. 604. f. 86.
Begins:-'Seigneurs, orrez chancon dont les vers sont plaisant,
Gracieuse et bien faicte, veritable et plaisant'. Ends:'Cy fault doger la rime qui a tous plaire doit'. Colophon,
'Explicit le liure de Oger de Dennemarche', 6. Cy coumence le
liure de Regn[ault] de Montaubain': the prose romance Quatre
fils Aimon, printed s.l. el a. [1480 ?]. See Cat of Romances, i, p.
622, and cf. 16 G. II, f. 8. Beg. (ch. iii of printed text) 'Or dit le
compte que du temps au roy Alixandre ne fut oye vne histoire
pareille'; ends 'et pour lame et pour le corps. Amen'. Colophon,
'Explicit lystoire de Regn[ault] de Montaubain'. f. 155.
7. 'Cy commence vng noble liure du roy Pontus filz du roy
Thibor de Galice, lequel Pontus fut sauue des mains des
Sarrazins et depuis fist de beaulx faiz darmes, comme vous
pourres oyr cy apres': the prose romance Pontus and Sidoine
(adapted from the French version of King Horn), printed, Lyons
[1480?]. See Cat. of Romances, i, p. 469. Beg. 'Compter vous
vueil vne noble hystoire dont len pourroit assez de bien1; ends
iconuienge laissier ce siecle1. Colophon, 'Explicit le liure du roy
Pontus'. f. 207. 8. 'Cy commence le liure de Guy de Warrewik':
two prose romances (see Cat. of Romances, i, p. 487), viz.:-(a)
Guy of Warwick, printed, Paris, 1525, &c. Prologue beg. 'Du
temps du roy Athlestain, prince de noble memoire1; text, 'en
icelle honnourable saison et regne1. Ends 'saluacion de corpz et
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dame. Amen'. Colophon, 'Cy fine le rommant de Guy de
Warwik1. f. 227;-(b) Heraud of Ardennes. Not printed, but see
Zupitza's edition (E. E. Text Soc.) of the English metrical
version. Beg. 'Plaisance qui ma fait parler et des. cripre1; ends
'tous culx du pays'. Colophon, 'Explicit le rommant de Guy de
Warwik et de Herolt dardenne1. f. 266 b. 9. 'Cy commence
lystoire du cheualier au Signe' (sc. Cygne): a chanson in about
5,600 Alexandrines, containing in an abridged form three
branches of this long romance (a long form of which is published
by Reiffenberg and Borgnet, Brussels, 1846-1854), viz. those
which Paulin Paris, in Hist. Litt. de la France, xxii, pp. 350-402,
entitled Helias, Les Enfances de Godefroi de Bouillon, and
Jerusalem. See Cat. of Romances, i, p. 708. f. 273. Begins:-'Or
escoutez, seigneurs, pour dieu lesperitable Que Ihesus vous
garisse de la main au d[iable]'. Ends:-'Par Mahom, dit Marbrin,
je lottroy et le gre'. Colophon, 'Cy fine le rommant du cheualier
au cisne*. 10. 'Cy commence le liure de larbre de batailes': the
treatise on warfare by 'Honnore Lone1 (sic, as in Paris MS fonds
fr. 674, for Bonnet), Prior of Salon in Provence. In four books.
Printed, Paris, 1493, &c., and from a Brussels MS by E. Nys,
Brussels, 1883. Extracts are also given in Archiv fur das Studium
der neueren Sprachen, Brunswick, 1882, xxxvi, p. 55. Summary
beg. 'An cestui liure quatre parties'; preface, 'La saincte couronne
de France'; text, 'Maintenant puisque vous veez'. Ends 'gloire de
paradis. amen. Explicit le liure de larbre des batailles'. f. 293. 11.
'Cy commence le liure de politique' : the three books of Egidio
Colonna, De regimine principum (cf. 4 D. IV, &c.), translated by
Hend de Gauchi, of whom nothing more seems to be known (see
P. Paris, Les MSS. Francois, ii, p. 211). Printed under the title of
Le Mirouer exemplaire, etc, Paris, 1517. Other copies are in
Harley MS 4385 and Add. MS 22274. Author's preface beg. 'A
son especial seigneur, ne de lignie royal, monseigneur Philipe';
text, 'Le philosophe dit que la parole de sage homme ne doit pas
estre plus longue'. Ends 'et loyaulx amis. Amen. Cy fine la
derreniere partie du tiers liure du governement des roys et des
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princes, et par consequent fin de tout le liure de politique que
frere Gille de Romme de lordre de saint Augustin fist esdiz trois
liureSj Explicit1, f. 327. 12. 'Le cronicles de Normandie' (so
colophon): a prose chronicle from the mythical Aubert to 1217.
Substantially identical with the first part of Les croniques de
Normandie^ printed at Rouen by Guillaume Le Talleur [1487,
not in the Museum-Hello t's reprint, 1881, only begins where
this MS. ends] and Jehan Burges [1505 ?]. Other copies are in
Add. MS. 20811, Cotton MS. Vitellius F. xvi (partly burnt,
extends to 1199 only), and 19 B. XIV (imperf.), below; cf. also
Hardy, Descriptive CataL, ii, p. 406, iii, pp. 54-56, etc. A large
portion (from the rescue of Regnault de Bourgogne by Duke
Richard II to 1179, with slight omissions) is printed also in
Bouquet, Recueil, xi, p. 321, and xiii, p. 220. The greater part of
the chronicle is a prose version of Wace's Roman de Ron.
Interpolated chapters from L'histoire d'aucuns des dues,
mentioned by Bouquet and contained in the Rouen edition and
the three Museum MSS. mentioned above, are here absent. The
sources of the continuation are more obscure, but from 1189 to
1199 the compiler draws either from the so-called Benedict of
Peterborough and from Ralph de Coggeshall or from a lost
source common to them. At f. 396 b is a paragraph, on the
repurchase by Richard of relics lost by Guy, equivalent to
Matthew Paris, Chron. Maioray ii, p. 378, the source of which
Luard was unable to find. For the Blondel legend (f. 398) and
other passages the source is evidently the Recits d'un Menestrel de
Reims (ed. Wailly, Soc. de 1'hist. de France, 1876). Beg.
'Combien que les vrayes croniques nous racomptent1; ends 'pour
aller en Jerusalem pour conquerre la saincte terre'. f. 363.
13. 'Cy commence le breviaire des nobles' [by Alain Chartier, cf.
14 E. II, art. 3]. Beg. 'Je Noblesce, dame de bon vouloir'. The
final rondeau beg. 'Voz matines (sic) recordez1. Colophon,
'Explicit le liure nomme le breuiaire des nobles', f. 403. 14. 'Le
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liure des fais darmes et de cheualerie' [by Christine de Pisan].
Printed by A. Verard, Paris, 1488, without the name of the
author, as Lart de chevalerie selon Vegece, and wrongly ascribed in
bibliographies to Jean de Meun. Translated into English and
printed by Caxton, 1489. In four parts, each with table of rubrics
prefixed. The passage relating to alleged English treachery
quoted by P. Paris, Les MSS. Franc., v, p. 95, is cut short at the
words 'a present regne1. Preface beg. Tourceque hardement est
tant neccessaire'; text, 'Chaton le vaillant combatant1. Ends 'des le
tempz tresancien'. Colophon, 'Explicit le liure du fait darmes
et de la noblesse de cheualerie'. f. 405. 15. 'Cy commence le ordre
du gartir1: statutes of the Order of the Garter, in French. The text
does not agree exactly with any of the four printed in the
appendix of Ashmole's Order of the Garter. Beg. 'A lonneur de
Dieu saincte Marie la glorieuse vierge1; ends 'se besoing en estoit'.
Vellum; ff. 440. 183/4 in. x 13 in. AD 1445. Gatherings irregular,
but usually of 8 leaves. Sec. fol. (f. 6) Vint ou pais'. Illuminated
initials and borders in French style, of fair execution.
Many miniatures, usually with backgrounds of stars or diaper;
a windmill is very frequently introduced (cf. 16 G. II). The
subjects of the miniatures are:-l. Shrewsbury, in a red robe seme
with Garters, accompanied by a Talbot dog, presents the book to
Queen Margaret seated beside the King. Behind the
queen 2 ladies: behind the king lords, one (Duke of Gloucester?)
with coronet and collar of SS, another with plain circlet: in an
inner room many figures, one with a crowned staff or mace. On
the roof banners of France, St. George, England, and Anjou. Part
of this miniature is reproduced, partly coloured, in Shaw, Dresses
and Decorations, 1843, pi. 49, and the whole without colour, in
Strutt, Regal Antiquities, 1773, pi. 43, and J. R. Green's Short
History, illust. ed., ii, 1893, p. 533. For the whole page (reduced)
see pi. 96, and Brit. Mus. Reprod. from Ilium. MSS, Ser. ii, p. xxix.
In the borders are daisies and, below, the arms of England
(quarterly France and Engl.) impaling Anjou (quarterly of six, 1,
barry, gu and arg, for Hungary ; 2, France ancient, a label gu.
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for Naples; 3, arg3 a cross potent between four crosses or, for
Jerusalem ; 4, France ancient, a bordure gu, for Anjou 5, az.,
crusily fitchy, two barbels hauriant addorsed or, for the Duchy of
Bar; 6, or, on a bend gu, 3 allerions arg, for Lorraine); these are
the anns of Margaret, which occur repeatedly in the book. In the
margin at the bottom of the page., to the left of the scroll, the
arms of the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, viz. quarterly, 1
and 4, az a lion rampant within a bordure or (in Doyle's Peerage
said to be Belesme !); 2 and 3, gu, a lion rampant within a
bordure engrailed or, for Talbot (or princes of S. Wales ?), over
all an escutcheon of pretence quarterly, 1 and 4, gu, a fess
between six crosses or, for Beauchamp; 2 and 3 chequy, az and
or, a chevron ermine (?), for Newburgh. f. 2 b. 2. Genealogical
table (see above), full page, Medallions of the kings, etc: the
whole fleur-de-lis is supported by two princes, viz. dexter
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, with arms, France and England
within a bordure arg, and sinister Richard, Duke of York, with
arms, France and England, with a label of 3 points arg. charged
with nine torteaux. In the ornament are also: above, dexter, arms
of France, sinister, St. George's cross within a Garter; below,
dexter, arms of Anjou within a Garter, sinister, initial M,
crowned, within a Garter; at the side, banner (see Shaw, op.cit.,
text to plate 49) of Margaret's arms wrapped with scroll 'Dieu est
(sic) mon droit', and supported by an antelope gorged with a
crown and chain (the royal device), f. 3. 3. Full page. 'La cite de
Babiloine' (sc. Cairo), with Neetanebus enthroned, and
buildings, &c.,viz. 'Le chastel du Chaire', 'Le jardin du Beaulme',
and 'Les moulins de Babiloine'. In the border at the side'a
banner of Margaret's arms supported by a herald in a tabard of
Shrewsbury arms ; at the foot arms of the Earl, viz. per pale,
dexter, 1 and 4, gu. a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or,
for Talbot, 2 and 3, arg 2 lions passant in pale gu, for Strange;
sinister, 1 and 4, arg a bend between 6 martlets gu, for
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Royal I5e vi, f. I
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Furnival, 2 and 3, or, a fret £«, for Verdon; over all an
escutcheon of pretence, 1 and 4, gu a lion passant gardant
crowned or, for Lisle, 2 and 3, ar# a chevron gu, for Tyes. This
is the form of the Earl's arms which recurs below, f. 4 b. 4. In
centre, Nectanebus receives scribe; on r. N. enchants a basin of
news of the Persians' coming; on /. a water, f. 5. 5. N. divining;
having his head shaved; and in flight, f. 5. 6, 7. N. and Olympias.
f. 6. 8. N. as a dragon at Philip's table, f. 6 b. 9. Philip takes
Alexander to Aristotle. A figure in Strutt's Dress and Habits,
1842, ii, pi. ex, figs 5. f. 6 b. 10. Death of Nectanebus. f. 7. 11.
Alexander and Bucephalus, f. 7. 12. Victory of A. over Nicolaus.
f. 7. 13. Coronation of A. f. 7 b. 14. Philip and A. dismiss
Persian envoys, f. 8. 15. Defeat of Philip by Pausanias. f. 8. 16.
A. defeats Pausanias. f. 8 b. 17. Death of Philip, f. 8 b. 18. A.
makes a speech on accession, f. 8 b. 19. Army of A. on the
march, f. 9. 20. Fleet of A. at sea. f. 9. 21. Building of
Alexandria, f. 9b. 22. Naval expedition to Crete, f. 9 b. 23.
Priests at Jerusalem bring to A. the book of Daniel, f. 9 b. 24-27.
Correspondence of A. and Darius, ff. 10, 10 b. 28. A. and
Olympias. f. 10 b. 29. A. speaks to the army. f. 11. 30, 31.
Battles of A. and the Persians, ff. 11 b, 12. 32. Surrender of a
city to A. f. 12 b. 33. A. attacks a city. f. 13 34. Burial of Darius,
f. 13 b. 35. Execution of murderers of Darius, f. 13 b. 36.
Marriage of A. and Roxana. A figure in Strutt, pi. cxix, fig. 1. f.
13 b. 37. A. receives letters from Porrus. f. 14. 38. Battle of A.
and Porrus. f. 14 b. 39. The Queen of the Amazons meets A. f.
15 b. 40-42. Battles of A. with dragons, crabs, and strange
beasts, ff. 15 b, 16. 43, 44. Duel of A. and Porrus. f. 16. 45.
Burial of Porrus. f. 16 b. 46-51. Strange tribes and animals of
India, ff. 16b-17b. 52. A. at the river Pison. f. 17 b. 53. A. has a
letter inscribed on a column, f. 18. 54. Dindymus receives a
letter, f. 18. 55. A. fights with giants, f. 18. 56. A. burns a wild
man. f. 18. 57. House of the Sun. f. 18b. 58. Trees of the Sun
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and Moon, and the phoenix, f. 8 b. 59. Candaculus robbed of his
wife. f. 19. 60. A. rescues her. f. 19. 61. A. and Candace. f. 19 b.
62. A. reconciles Candace's sons. f. 19 b. 63. A. fights dragons
and strange beasts, f. 20. 64. Women living in water, f. 20. 65.
A.dreams of Ammon. f. 20 b. 66. A. carried by griffins into the
sky. f. 20 b. 67. A. lowered into the sea in a cask. f. 20 b. 68. A.
in a tent speaks to the army. f. 21. 69-71. A. fights with unicorns,
dragons, and giants, f. 21. 72, 73. A. finds men with beads
beneath their shoulders and other strange beasts, f. 21 b. 74.
Burial of Bucephalus and present of elephants, f. 21 b. 75.
Prophetic birds (Caladrius, cf. 2 B. VII, art. 9, no. 9). f. 21 b. 76.
Two-headed serpents and other beasts, f. 21 b. 77. Surrender of
Babylon, f. 22. 78. A. sends a letter, f. 22. 79. A. consults an
astronomer about monstrous birth, f. 22. 80. A. dictates a letter.
See Palaeogr. Soc., Facsimiles^ Ser. ii, pi. 173. f. 22 b. 81. lobas
gives A. poison. See ib. f. 22 b. 82. Death and burial of A. f. 23 b.
83-85. Death of Olympias. ff. 24, 24 b. 86. Charlemagne and
four kings. Border with arms of Margaret and Shrewsbury, f. 25.
87. Ch. and Naymes (?). Same arms. f. 43. 88. Ch. and Fierabras
with the relics. Same arms. f. 70. 89. Ch. receives homage.
Baudoin killed with a chess-board, f. 86. 90. Ch. at dinner.
Aymon's sons on Bayard. Arms as before, f. 155. 91. Aymon's
sons at the fountain, f. 158 b. 92. Aymon returns to his duchess,
f. 159. 93. Aymon's sons and their mother, f. 160. 94. Richard
dismounted. Charlemagne and his host. f. 176 b. 95. Richard
rescued from the gallows, f. 180 b. 96. Fight of Regnault and
Charlemagne, f. 181 b. 97. Regnault seizes Charlemagne, f. 182
98. Siege of Montaubain. f. 188. 99. Storming of Corunna. Arms
as before, f. 207. 100. Patrices saves and embarks Ponthus and
his companions. A figure in Strutt, pi. ex, fig. 1. f. 207 b. 101.
Patrices embraces the Count of Asturias. f. 208. 102. Wreck of
Ponthus1 ship. f. 208. 103. King Haguel receives P. f. 208 b. 104.
Sidoine receives P. f. 209 b. 105. Duel of P. and a Saracen, f. 209
b. 106. Battle with Saracens, f. 210 b. 107. Rescue of the King. f.
211. 108. Massacre of Saracens, f. 211 b. 109. Return of the
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Christians, f. 211 b. 110. P. made constable, f. 212. 111. P.
meets Sidoine. f. 212. 112. Four knights challengers, f. 213. 113.
Duel of P. and Benard. f. 213 b. 114. Festival at the well. f. 215.
115. Guennelet and the king hunting: P. and Sidoine. f. 215 b.
116. P. embarks, f. 216 b. 117. P. kills Corbaran. f. 217 b. 118.
Duke of Burgundy asks Sidoine in marriage, f. 219 b. 119.
Olivier embarks, f. 219. 120. King of England receives P. f. 219.
121. Kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland receive P. f. 219 b.
122. P. petitions the kings of England and Scotland, f. 219 b.
123. Joust of P. and the D. of Burgundy, f. 220 b. 124. P.and
knights, f. 221. 125. P. makes presents to Sidoine. f. 221 b. 126.
P. kills Broadas. f. 222. 127. Fight with Saracens, f. 222b. 128.
P. offers his horse in the church, f. 222 b. 129. Guennelet gives
Haguel and Sidoine letters. A figure in Strutt, pi. cviii, fig.4. f.
223 b. 130. P. lands: he slays Guennelet at table, f. 224 b. 131.
Haguel and Sidoine greet P. f. 224 b. 132. Earl of Richmond
returns to England, f. 225. 133. P. gives, jousts, f. 225. 134. King
of England receives P. f. 225 b 135. Guy of Warwick as courtier
and as pilgrim (?). Arms as before, f. 227. 136. Herolt before the
Admiral of Africa, f. 266 b. 137. On /. the knight in a boat
drawn by a swan: on r. the mother in bed and seven children in
a cradle, f. 273. 138. Honore Bonnet offers his book to Charles
VI. f. 293. 139. Author, or translator, offers his book to a king. f.
327. 140. Aubert and Ide, Robert the Devil (?) and
Charlemagne (?). f. 363. 141. Noblesse and the other twelve
persons of the dialogue. Figures in Strutt, pi. cxix, figs. 2-5. f.
403. 142. Henry VI enthroned (arms on throne) gives
Shrewsbury the sword as constable of France: behind the king
four dukes and two earls: on /. courtiers, on r. men at arms with
Talbot banner. Reproduced in Shaw's Dresses and Decorations^
text to pi. 49, and part, in colours, in Strutt, pi. cxv. f. 405. 143.
A chapter of the Garter: the king and knights grouped round an
altar, which is surmounted by S. George and the dragon. Arms
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in border as above, f. 439.No. 101 in cat. of MSS at Richmond
Palace in 1535 (cf. 15 Dl) cat. of 1666, f. 12, b; not in CMA.
REELS
Christine de Pisan
Royal 17Eiv
OVID'S METAMORPHOSES Moralized, with other works in
French^ viz. :-l. 'Ovide Methamorphose1: substantially, with the
exception of the preface, a prose paraphrase of the metrical
moralization (see Add. MS. 10324) formerly ascribed to Philippe
de Vitry or Chretien Legouais (Hist. Liu. de la France^ XXIX, p.
502), but of which the real author is unknown (see A. Thomas in
Romania^ xxii, p. 271). Another copy of the prose, without the
preface, is in Paris MS Bibl. Nat. fonds fr. 137 (formerly 6803,
see Paulin Paris, Les MSS Francois, i, p. 266, Van Praet,
Recherches sur Louis de Bruges, p. 155). Preface beg. 'Science a
moult dennemis pour ce quil est grant multitude de ceulx qui ont
lignorance delle'. After a table of rubrics (f. 5) follows (f. 13) the
text, beg. Toutes escriptures soient bonnes ou mauuaises*. Ends
Verite retraire. Amen'. Colophon, 'Cy fine le quinzieme et
derrenier liure de Ouide methamorphose'. f. 1. 2. Epistle of
Othea to Hector [by Christine de Pisan], with commentary and
allegory (cf. 14 E. II. art. 2). The verse part is written as prose.
Beg. 'Othea deesse de prudence', f. 272. 3. 'Sensuit lepistre que
Bernard enuoya au prince Raymond, seigneur du Chastel
Ambroix, pour sauoir gouuerner sa maison1: a translation of the
well-known letter printed as St. Bernard's (Migne, Pair. Lat.
clxxxii. 647), but the writer of which is really unknown (see 6 E.
Ill, art. 16, 12 E. XXI, f. 14). The version is not the same as
either of those printed by Montfaucon, Bibliotheca
Manuscriptorum, ii, pp. 1384, 1388. Beg. '[G]racieux et eureux
prince Raymond, seigneur de chastel Ambroix, Bernard desia
ancien salut. Tu nous a demande'; ends 'faire se pourra. Amen '.
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f. 317. 4. 'Sensuit le breuiaire des nobles' [by Alain Chartier]; cf.
14 E. II, art. 3, 15 E. VI, art. 13. Written as prose. Beg. 'Je,
Noblesse, dame de bon voloir'. The final rondel beg. 'Vostre
mestier recordes'. f. 319. 5. 'Sensuit complainte des ix maleureux
et des noef maleurcuses'; cf. 14 E. II, art. 4. Written as prose.
Beg. 'Vous qui voules par ce present arroy'. f. 323.
Vellum; ff. 325. 16!/2 in. x H3/4 in. Late XV cent. Executed in
Flanders. Gatherings (beg. f. 13) of 8 leaves (xxiii4), with catchwords at right angles to the text. Double columns. The original
foliation ends with art. 1, and art. 2 begins a new quire. Sec. fol.
'pericie et subtilite'. One large and fifteen small miniatures of
mediocre quality. Borders of foliage, flowers, fruit, grotesques,
etc., on a white ground. The subjects are:- 1. Birth and
destruction of Saturn's children: space for arms in border, f. 13
(large). 2. Phaethon asks a boon of Phoebus, f. 24 b. 3. Jupiter
and Europa (curious head-dress) enthroned, f. 40 b. 4. Pyramus
and Thisbe beside a fountain, f. 55. 5. Phineus disturbs Perseus'
wedding, f. 76. 6. Arachne at the loom and Pallas, f. 87 b. 7.
Jason yokes the oxen: the golden fleece, f. 102. 8. Scylla gives her
father's head to Minos, f. 118. 9. Wrestling of Hercules and
Achelous. f. 136. 10. Orpheus, Eurydice, and fiends, f. 155. 11.
Orpheus attacked by Ciconian women, f. 172b. 12. Rape of
Helen, f. 193. 13. Dispute of Ajax and Ulysses, f. 222. 14.
Glaucus visits Circe, f. 241 b. 15. Coronation of Numa. f. 259 b.
16. Othea sends a letter and Hector receives it. f. 272.No. 42 in
cat. of MSS at Richmond Palace in 1535 (see 15 D. I) cat. of
1666, f. 12b;notinCAL4.
Royal 18 B xxii
'THE BOKE OF NOBLESSE compiled to the most hygh and
myghty prince Kyng Edward the iiii111 for the aunauncyng and
preferryng the comyn publique of the royaumes of England and
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of Fraunce1 (this title, the colophon, and long marginal additions
are in the hand of William Worcester, secretary to Sir John
Fastolf): an epistle on the relations of England and France, with
a view to the recovery of the English conquests by a fresh
invasion, made originally, as appears from a passage on f. 21 b, in
1451, but revised by Worcester in 1475, as appears from the
colophon, 'Here endyth thys epistle vndre correccion the xv day
of June the yeere of Crist m1 iiiic Ixxv and of the noble regne of
Kyng Edward the iiif" the xvne'. Printed from this, the only, MS
for the Roxburghe Club, 1860, by J. Gough Nichols, who
recognized some connexion with Fastolf, but failed to identify the
hand of the reviser. For this see G. F. Warner's introduction to
The Epistle of Othea to Hector, Roxburghe Club, 1904, where the
authorship of both the earlier and later recensions is fully
discussed and attention called to the connexion between the
latter and Worcester's collections respecting the wars of the
English in France and Normandy, printed from Lambeth MS.
506 by J. Stevenson, Wars of the English in France, Rolls Ser. 1864,
ii, pp. [519]-[742], which form a sort of appendix of pieces
justificatives to the present work. As to the original text, which
includes considerable passages translated from Christine de
Pisan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie (here wrongly called the
Tree of Batailes, the title of a work by Honore Bonet, from which
Christine borrowed, see 15 E. VI, artt. 10, 14), it is suggested
that Stephen Scrope, Fastolf s stepson, may have had a hand in it.
The words 'Edward' and 'iiii* 'in the title have been erased to
substitute 'Harry' [? VI or VII], but the original reading has been
restored (cf. somewhat similar changes made by Worcester's son
in the Lambeth MS., where the dedication has been transferred
from Edward V to Richard III). Leaves are missing after ff. 25,
33. Beg. 'First in the worship of the holy Trinite... Here folowethe
the evident examples and the resons of comfort'. Two paper
leaves from an old binding contain:-(a) Original letter of John
Appulton, captain of Le Pontdonne and La Haye du Puits, to Sir
John Fastolf, asking for a grant of one of his seigneuries in
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Normandy, viz. either Pirou [near Lessay], which has been
granted for 2,000 francs to Degory Gamel, who failed to pay, or
Beaumont [? near Cherbourg], which also adjoins lands of the
writer at Asnieres' Reference is made to the recent loss of
Granville [1450]. Dated La Haye du Puits, 31 May, s.a. Fr. f.
44;-(b) The Bailiffs of Winchester to - [some Exchequer officer
?], asking for a writ to compel the farmers of awnage duties to
pay their dues, without which the bailiffs cannot pay their own
farm; Winchester, 3 May, s.a.[15th cent.]. Both these letters
areprinted by Nichols, op. cit. p. Ivi.
Paper (with five vellum leaves, of which four are blank, from the
old binding); ff. i + 45. Quarto. IVA in. x 81A in. Circ. 1475.
Gatherings of 12 leaves (iii9). Sec. fol. 'lamentations'. Attached
to f. 1 is a scrap of purple skin with the words 'Edwarde iiii (?)
wych ys1 and in another hand (?) 'bold'. On f. i b is the name
(15th-16th cent.) Symond Samson, on f. 35 (16th cent.) Robert
Savyle. 'On f. 42b much 16th cent, scribbling, including Symeon
Sampson, Rycharde Dyconson, 'Edward Jones of Clementes in
(sc. Inn), 'John Twychener ys boke | he that stellys thys booke |
he shall be hangid a pon a hoke | that wyll macke ys necke to
brake | and that wyll macke ys neck awrye', and 'A nyes wyffe
and a backe dore | makythe outoun (sic. often) tymys a ryche
man pore'. Belonged also (f. 42 b) to Edward Banyster (cf. 7 D.
Ill, etc) and (f. 1) to [John, Lord] Lumley. Not identified in the
old catalogues.
Royal 19 Axix
'Livre de la cite des dames', by Christine de Pisan. Not printed
in full, but extracts and an analysis are given by Mademoiselle de
Keralio, Coll. des meilleurs Ouvrages composes par des Femmes,
1787, iii, p. 22 (cf. E. M. D. Robineau, Christine de Pisan, sa vie,
ses osuvres, 1882, p. 302). An English translation by Bryan Anslay
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was printed by Pepwell in 1521. Each of the three parts is
preceded by a table of contents, not always, owing to the scribe's
carelessness, in agreement with the headings of the chapters. The
text agrees in the main with Harley MS. 4431, ff. 290 b-372, with
some variations of order, e.g. pt. i, ch. xxi of the Harley MS. is
here ch. xxv. Beg. 'Selon la maniere que iay plus en vsaige'; ends
'qui ainsi le vous octroit. amen'. Colophon, 'Explicit la troisiesme
et derreniere partie du liure de la cite des dames'.Vellum; ff. 172.
11 VA in. x 8 in. Third quarter of XV cent, (before 1460 ?). Double
columns. Gatherings (beg. f. 2) of 8 eaves (xi7), lettered. Sec. fol.
in table 'Item demande'; in text 'Examinez'. Each part has an
illuminated initial and ivy-leaf border with cornflowers and
marguerites in French style. Other initials flourished in blue and
red or gold and black. In the border of f. 4 are introduced the
white rose and the fetter-lock, perhaps indicating Richard, 3rd
Duke of York (d. 1460), father of Edward IV. For the use of the
fetter-lock (without a falcon) as his badge cf. his seal drawn in
Cotton MS. Julius C. VII, f. 177. On f. 1 are the title and
press-mark (15th cent.) 'La cite des dames k.1 and old large
numbering 93; cat. of 1666, f. 14 b; not in CMA.
REEL 6
Christine de Pisan
Royal 19 B xviii
'LE LIVRE DEZ FAIZ DARMES et de Cheuallerie', by
Christine de Pisan (cf. 15 E. VI, art. 14). The passage relating to
alleged English treachery is retained. Table of contents to each
part. Preface (f. 4) beg. 'Pource que hardiment est tant
neccessaire'; text, 'Chaton le vaillant combatant'. Incomplete at
the end, breaking off (f. 99 recto) in ch. 16 of pt. iv (the last
chapter but one) with the words 'mais les fourches'. The title
from an old cover (15th-16th cent.) on f. 1 is 'A boke of chyualrye
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REEL 6 (continued)
and of fayttes of armes made by Christyne of Pyse in Frenshe'.
Vellum; ff. 99. 12!4 in. x 9 in. Middle of XV cent. Gatherings
(beg. f. 4) of 8 leaves, with catchwords. Sec. fol. in table 'Item
dit1; in text let quioncques*. Illuminated initials of English work
with border-prolongations poorly executed to each part. Other
initials flourished in red and blue. On f. 4 has been inserted a
shield of arms, quarterly az and gu, surmounted by a coronet of
unusual shape (fleurs-de-lis alternating with crosses pattees).
Cat. of 1666, f. 11 b; not in CMA.
Marie de France
Cotton Caligula A ii
Codex Chartaceus, in 4to;
A collection of old English poems or Lays under the following
titles; some prose tracts intermixed:
(1)
Sussan or the Story of Susannah and the Two Elders.
(2)
Eglamor of Anas.
(3)
Four medical recipes for the Cholic and gravel.
v
(4)
Moral
Advice and Council.
'
i
(5)
The Chorle and the Bird', by Lydgate.
(6)
Octavian Emperator.
(7)
Launfal Miles', translated by Thomas Chestre from the
French song by Marie De France.
(8)
Lybeaus Disconus.
(9)
O mors quam amora est memoria tua.
(10) A Paraphrastical poem on the Ten Commandments.
(11) The Nightingale-, translated from the Lay de Laustic by
Marie de France.
(12) Deus in nomine tuofalvum mefac.
(13) A treatise of John de Burdeux, against the evil of
pestilence.
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(14) For the better abide.
(15) All way fond to say the best.
(16) Thonke God of All.
(17) Make amendes.
(18) A form of confession of sins, in prose.
(19) Emare, an old romance.
(20) Cartajhuxpi.
(21) Ypotis, a religious legend.
(22) The stacynonys of Rome.
(23) Trentale Sci. Gregorii.
(24) Urbanitis.
(25) Quindecim signa, which are to precede Doomsday.
(26) Amen for charite.
(27) Owayne Myles; on the wonders of St. Patrick's purgatory.
(28) Tundale: a religious legend.
(29) Venij coronaberis.
(30) Myn owene woo.
(31) Chronicon breve, a Bruto ad regum Edwardum IV.
(32) The sege of Jerusalem.
(33) Chevalere assigne (the knight of the swan).
(34) Isumbras, a romance.
(35) Quinque vulnera.
(36) Quinque gaudia.
(37) Jerome.
(38) Eustache, imperfect.
Some few idle Latin rhymes at the end. 196ff.
Marie de France
Cotton Vespasian B xiv
Codex membran. in 4to longiori, constans foliis 113
(1)
Le lay de Launval Chevalier de Arthur roy de Bretagne, ens
vers par Marie (See an old English translation. Cotton
Caligula A ii)
f1
(2)
Histoire abregee du royaume d'Angleterre, depuis Egbert
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(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
jusqu a Richard I
f 8b
Versus Latini rhythmici; de excidio Trojae f 18
Les fables d'Esope en vers
f 19
Vita etpassio S. Thomae martyris Archiep Cantuar f 33
La Vie de St Thomas archeveque de Canterberry> en vers par
PLangtoft
f95b
Nomina archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium et Eboracenisium,
et Episcopor Dunelmensium f 113
115ff
Marie de France
Harleian 978
Codex membranaceus in
simulcompactis, constans;
sequuntur, sc.
126 items, including:
4to ex diversis Tractatibus
quorum Argumenta ordine
"...in very old French verse, some fabulous stories of love and
strange adventures, made (as it seems by the conclusions of
several of them) by the Poets of Bretaigne in France, who used
to call this kind of poems Lais (which is a word yet common
among our modern English poets) and they were sung to the
harp, as appears by the conclusion of the tale of Guygemar."
The tales follow the Prologue to the collection in the following
order:
(108)
(109)
(110)
(111)
(112)
(113)
Guigemar
Equitain
Fresne
Bisclaveret
Lanval
DeusAmans
f!39b
f!46
f!48b
f!52b
f!54b
f!59b
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Harley 978 (Ia«va/ by Marie de France)
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114)
(115)
(116)
(117)
(118)
(119)
Ywenet
Laustic
Milun
Chaitivel
Cheverefoil
Eluduc
172ff
f!61
f 165
f 166
f!70
f!71b
f!72b
REEL?
Julian of Norwich
Sloane 2499
Sixteen revelations of Divine Love, shewn to a devout servant of Our
God, called Mother Juliana, an anchorite of Norwich, on the 8th
May in the year 1373; published by Hugh Paulin de Cressey.
Paper, 5 I f f . 17th century.
Sloane 3705
Sixteen "Revelations of the unutterable love of God in Jesus Christ,"
feigned to have been made "to a simple creature that could [read] no
letter, in the year of our Lord 1373, the 8th day of May.
Paper, 141ff, Quarto. 17th century.
Additional 37790
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS of theological works, etc., viz.:1. "This boke is off mendynge of lyfe or ellys off the rewle of
lyfynge," etc.: the De emendatione vitae of Richard Rolle of
Hampole. The translator's name is given in the colophon: "Thus
endis the xii chapetyrs off Richarde Hampole into Englys
45
translate be frere Rycharde Misyn to infformacioun off crystyn
saulis anno domini millesimo cccmo xxxiiii." The text is closely
akin to the Oxford MS. (Corpus Christi College ccxxxvi.) from
which the Rev. R. Harvey printed Misyn's works, Fire of Love, etc.
(Early Engl. Text Soc., 1896), but neither appears to be his
autograph. Another English version of Hampole's tract is in
Lansdowne MS 455, f. 41. Beg. "Tary pou not to cure lord to be
turnyd," and ends "with dedys of thankynge in warlde of warldys.
Amen." f. 1. 2. "Incendium amoris": by the same author and
translator. Printed as above. Colophon: "Explicit liber de
incendio amoris Ricardi Hampole heremite translatus in
Anglicum instanciis domine Margarete Heslyngton recluse per
fratrem Ricarduni Misyn sacre theologie baohalarium tune
priorem Lyncoln ordinis Carmelitarum anno domini
m°ecccxxxvto in festo translacionis sancti Martini episcopi quod
est iiii Nonas Julii per dictum fratrem Ricardum Misyn scriptum
et correctum" (the colophon to lib. i. is dated the same year).
Beg. "At the reuerence of oure lorde Jesu Criste. To the askynge
of thy desire," and ends "sarif to the hie emprowre in warlde of
warldys. Amen." f 18 b.
3. "This pistill made saynt Barnarde vnto his cosyn the whiche is
calde a goldyn pystill: Wor the grete abundaunce of gostely fruyto
that is contynede in itt"; a translation of the brief spurious
tract (beg. "Si plene vis assequi") printed in the appendix to
St. Bernard's works (Migne, Pair. Lat. clxxxiv. coll. 1173, 1174).
There are at least two other English versions of this tract: one by
Richard Whitford of Syon, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, A
goodly treatyse and it is called a notable lesson otherwyse it is called the
golden pystle (reprinted by Wyer, 1531, etc.), the other printed by
Thomas Godfray with St. Bridget's Revelations. Begins, "My
ffrende yf ye will come perfitely to tho thynges," and ends "I that
he of my syns will have mereye. Amen. Jesu mercy, lady helpe,"
with monogram I.S. f. 95 b. 4. "Here es a vision schewed be the
goodenes of god to a deuoute woman and hir name es Julyan
that is recluse atte Norwyche and zitt ys on lyre anno domini
46
REEL 7 (continued)
millesimo ccccxiii0," etc. : the text is doubtless abridged, but is
much older and better than that printed by Hugh Paulin (or
Serenus) Cressy, Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, 1670
(reprinted 1843), that (Sloane MS 2499) used by Henry Collins,
Mediaeval Library of Mystical and Ascetical Works, 1877, or
Sloane MS. 3705. Beg. "I desyrede thre graces be the gyfte of
god," and ends "and to oure euen cristen. Amen. Explicit Juliane
de Norwych." f 97. 5. "A trettesse the whiche is called the
trettesse of perfeccion off the Sonnys of God," anonymous
translation into English from the Latin version (by Willem
Jordaens?) of the Flemish mystical tract Dat Hantvingherlijn oft
van den Blickenden Steene of Jan van Ruusbroec, al.
Buysbroeck, prior of the Augustinian Monastery of Groenendael
near Brumels. The Flemish is published by the Maetschappy der
Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, 1868, 3e Ser. no. 12, p: 195; also a
Gelders version by A. von Arnswaldt, Vier Schriften von Johann
Ruysbroeck (Hanover, 1848), p. 169. In the Latin paraphrase by
Laurentius Surius, Opera Joannis Busbrochii (Cologne, 1549, etc.)
the title is De calculo sive de perfections filiorum dei. See also W.
de Vreese, De Handschriften van J. van Ruusbroec's Werken
(Ghent, 1900-1902). Preface beg. "In the name of the blissed
Trinite.... I intende to transpose for myne owne lernynge a
trettese from Latyn into Englyseh compiled bi dan John
Rusbroke"; and text, "Who so euer will lyffe in the moste perfytt
state." Ends "and euer to praye for pe writer, whilke graunt
lesus. Amen. Explicit the tretyse of perfeecioun off the sonnes of
god conteynynge xvi. chapitures to man sawle ryghte behofulle
and necessary. Jesu mercy. Deo gracias." f. 115. 6. Portions of
Richard Rolle's Forma vivendi and Ego dormio, but differently
arranged from the text printed by Horstmann, Richard Rolle and
his Followers, vol. i., viz. (a) "De triplici genere amoris
spiritualis," an abridgement of Forma vivendi, ch. viii-x. pp 3145. Beg. "The fyrste degre of loue is called Insuperabile," and
47
ends "as I was in saule." f. 130b;-(b) "Incipit tractatus de
diligendo deo," consisting of ch. vii. (pp. 29, 30) of
Formavivendi, followed by an abridgement of Ego dormio, pp.
50-61. Beg. "Amore langueo: thyr two wordes are writtene in the
boke of luf," and ends "botte ay be in thy louynge. Amen. The
fyrste degree of luf is Insuperabill the secounde Inseperabill, the
thyrde Synguler." f. 132. 7. "Formula compendiosa rite
spiritualis" part of ch. iv. of the English abridged version of the
Horolgium Sapientiae (in the Latin lib. ii. cap. iii.), which is itself
translated from the German of St. Amandus (Henricus de Suso,
Heinrich von Berg). The dialect is different from the text printed
by Horstmann in Anglia, x. p. 353, cf. also Add MS 37049, f. 43
b. Beg. "In the felaschippe of sayntis, whilke as pe morne sterne
schone," and ends "principles of gostely hele. Deo gracias." f. 135
b. 8. J?e myrroure of symple saules": English version of an
unidentified French mystical work of some length, mainly in the
form of a dialogue between Reason and Love. The translator in
his preface gives the initials of his name and surname, M. N.,
which he uses to mark the beginning and end of his own
insertions in the text, and states that he made the translation long
before and has now revised it. In the author's preface three
persons are mentioned as having seen the work, a friar
minor,"frere Johan of Querayum," a Cistercian, "daun Franke,
chauntour of the abbay of Viliers [Villers, dioc. Liege]," and a
doctor of divinity, "maister Godfrey of Fountaynes." The last is
possibly Godefroi de Fontaines; chancellor of Paris in 1280.
Translator's preface beg. "This boke the which is called the
myrroure of symple saules"; author's preface, "I creature made of
the makere bi me that the makere hase made"; and text "O soule
touched of god disseuered of synne." The text concludes with a
songe which begins and ends "Therfore his ize behaldes me; pat
he loues noon mare than me." Colophon, "Here endeth the Boke
that Loue calles the myrroure of Symple Saules. Who that this
booke wille vndirstande Take pat lorde to his spouse louande
That is god in Trinite.Iesu mercy and grace Marie praye for us.
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Add 35324, showing the funeral procession of Mary Queen of Scots
49
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En dieu desormes. M.N. Sizhe and sorowe deepelie Morne and
wepe ynwardlie Pray and thenke deuoutly Loue and longe
contynuely." Followed by a prayer to the Trinity ending
"magnifie euerlastingly withouten ende. Amen. ]esu merci.
Amen." f. 137. 9. "Sequitur hie quedam introductiua ad
contempla ionem extracta ex diuersis deuotis tractatibuset
precipue ex libro soliloquiorum beati Augustini episcopi.
Capitulum quadragesimum octauum": possibly a chapter from
some large treatise. In Latin. It includes the greater part of ch.
xxxi.-xxxvii. of the spurious Liber soliloquiorum animae ad deum
in vol. vi. of St. Augustine's works (Migne, Pair. LaL. xl. coll.
888-898), extracts from St. Bernard, etc. Beg. "Qui diuinitatem
domini nostri lesu Christi," and ends "donee intrem in gaudium
domini mei, qui est trinus et unus deus benedictus in secula
seculorum. Amen." f. 226. 10. "Via [sic] ad contemplacionenm
capiat qui potest capere quia gracia est ductrix," etc.: an extract
in English on 3 ways of contemplation (purgative, illuminative
and unitive). Beg. "Therefore euere new discipull ascende to the
perfeccioun of this seyence," and ends "pou hase woundyd my
herte in on of thyne eyne." f. 234. 11. Short extract, beg. "Labure
hastely for the tyme is schorte," and ending "more compassioun
of a synnere than a synnere can haue of hym selfe, etc." f. 236.
12. Brief note on the visions of St. Bridget. Imperfect by the
cutting out of f. 237. Beg. "God almyghty appered to Seynte
Bryde sayings to hyr on this wyse, Doughter, he sayde, be meke."
f. 236 b. On the flyleaf (f. 238) is a rough pencil-drawing of the
Virgin and Child. Vellum; ff. ii. + 238. 10 in. x 6 in. Middle of xv.
cent. On ff. 96 b, 226 is possibly a scribe's monogram LS. See.
fol. "sais Oculi." Initials in blue (thickly laid on) flourished in red.
On f. 1 is a 16th cent, owner's name "Vincit Winge his Booke."
Bookplates of arms of Will Constable, F.R.S., of Burton
Constable, co. York (d. 1791) and Lord Amherst. Burton
Constable sale-cat. 1889, lot 148; Amherst sale-cat, lot 813.
50
REELS
Bridget of Sweden
Cotton Julius F ii
The Revelations of S Bridget, books i-vii.
Codex Chartaceus, in folio min. constans foliis 254 sec xv.
The Visions and revelations of S Brigid (died 1372). At the end
are three chapters on the quality, person, and vertues of holy
Brigid; (f 248), and on the last leaf, a short account of her life,
and a Latin prayer to her. An edition of these visions was
printed at Nuremberg, 1517.
Vellum, 255ff, 12inx8in. 15th century.
Jane/Joan Lumley
Additional 35324
ROTHSCHILD BEQUEST. Vol. XV.
Drawings, mostly in Indian ink (artt. 5, 7, coloured), of funeral
processions:-(l) "Funeral processions of a Knight of the Garter
and a Duchess." f. l;-(2) Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII.
(ob. 1557). f. 7;-(3) Sir Christopher Hatton (ob. 1591). f. 10;-(4)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1587). f. 14;-(5) Lady Lumley [Joan,
dau. of Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and first wife of John,
Lord Lumley]; with epigraphs, Engl. and Lar., and prayers used
by her. The Latin epitaph dates her death 28 July, 1578 (cf.
Manning and Bray's Surrey, ii. p. 469, where the date Mar.
1576-7 is given on the authority of the Cheam parish register).
Coloured figures and banners. At the end, "A true report from
Mr Richard Browne, Mr Richard Leuknor and Mr Dallender,
Esquires, who had the charge of these Funeralls". f. 17;-(6)
Henry Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex (ob. 1593). f. 23;-(7) Queen
Elizabeth (1603). Coloured figures, banners, etc. Another copy
in pen and ink by W. Camdem is in Add MS 5408, and has
been reproduced by the Soc. of Antiquaries, Vetusta Monumenta,
51
vol. iii. f. 26. In all cases, names are written against the chief
figures in the processions; but there seems no attempt at
portraiture, unless perhaps in the stunted figure of "The
Principall Secretary, Sir Robert Cicell," on f. 35. Paper, inlaid in
cardboard (formerly in rolls); ff. 39. Early XVIIth cent. From the
library of Capt. Walter R. Tyrell (sale-cat. 7 Dec. 1891, lots
344-350). Oblong folio, 2 x 3 ft. (dimensions of drawings, as now
divided, 9in x 2 ft 5in.).
Royal 14 B iii
Roll of moral maxims made for Joan, Lady Lumley (died 1577),
daughter of Henry FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel.
Vellum roll 5ft 4in x 9in, 16th century. Illuminated initials and
coloured flourishes.
Royal 12Eii
'Tabellae Cardinales.' Tables of the Right Ascension of about 130
fixed stars by Richard Forster.
Dedicated to [Jane], Lady Lumley, as a new year's gift 1569.
Paper, 28ff, Octavo. 5in x3in.
Royal 15 Aix
TRANSLATIONS by Joan, Lady Lumley (cf. 15 A. I, 15 A. II).
Holograph. Contents:
1. Isocrates, orations as follows, in Latin, viz.:-(a) Ad
Demonicum. Incomplete, f. 2;-(b) Ad Nicoclem, dedicated as a
new year's gift to her father, f. 4;-(c) Nicocles. f. 12;-(d)
Evagoras, another copy of 15 A. II, including the dedication, f.
23;-(e) De Pace. f. 40. 2. Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, in English,
with The Argument1 prefixed. The choric parts are omitted, f.
63. At the end are inserted:-(a) Notes, in a legal hand, from the
Charter Rolls, 41 Hen. 111-21 Edw. I, relating to the family of
Thweng, subsequently represented by the Lumleys. f. 99 b;-(b)
Extract, in Lady Lumley's hand, from the Pandectae Medicinae of
Matthaeus Silvaticus (one edition was published at Lyons, 541),
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cap. 395, 'De lapide aquilae'. f. 101 b.
Paper; ff. 102. Small quarto. 7/2 in. x SV&in. XVI cent. Belonged
to (John, Lord] Lumley (f. 1). Lumley cat. f. 293; cat. of 1661
(Roy. App. 86), f. 28 b; cat. of 1666, f. 20b; CMA. 8504.
Royal 17 A xxii
METRICAL VERSION of the seven Penitential Psalms in
English terza rima, each with a prologue in stanzas of eight lines
[by Sir Thomas Wyatt]. Printed as Certayne psalmes, &c., 1549
(cf. Aldine Poets ed., 1866, p. 203). The text differs in details,
but some of these appear to be the scribe's errors. Prologue beg.
'Loue, to giue lawe vnto his subiect hertes'; Psalm, 'O lorde,
sins [in] my mouth thy mighty name'.
Vellum; ff. 37. 6 in. x 4!/4in. XVI cent. On f. 1 b is the name
Marie Brograue. Cat. of 1661 (Roy. App. 86), f. 35, Engl. no. 6
not in cat. of 1666 or CMA.
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Margaret Hoby
Egerton 2614
Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, daughter of Arthur Dakyns, of
Hackness, Yorkshire, and wife of Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby;
9 Aug. 1599-21 July, 1605. Mutilated at the beginning and end.
Lady Hoby was previously married, first to Walter Devereux,
brother of the 2nd Earl of Essex, who was killed in a skirmish
near Rouen, 8 Sept. 1590; and secondly, in 1592, to Thomas,
son of Sir Henry Sydney, who died in 1595. She was married to
53
Sir T. P. Hoby in 1596. See The Fortescue Papers, ed. S. R.
Gardiner (Camden Society), 1871.
Paper. Small Quarto. From the Farnborough Fund.
Margery Kempe
Additional 61823
The Book of Margery Kempe: autobiography; c!440. Middle
English. Written in East Anglia, probably King's Lynn. The
unique manuscript of the autobiography of the Norfolk mystic,
Margery Kempe of Lynn (born circa 1373), recounting her
travels in England and on pilgrimage to the Holy Land and
Santiago di Compostela. Margery was illiterate and dictated her
text, circa 1432. She deemed this version unsatisfactory and
reworked it in July 1436 with a priest of Lynn. This may have
been the scribe 'Salthows1 [of Salthouse in Norfolk] whose
colophon appears on f. 123 of the present volume, although
textual considerations indicate that this is not the exemplar but
'an immediate copy of the priest's manuscript' (Meech, p. xxxv),
perhaps a fair copy written at Lynn under Margery's supervision.
A bound-in letter of 1440 (f. vii) from Peter de Monte, apostolic
notary, to [William Bogy] the vicar of Soham, co. Camb., further
links the manuscript with the vicinity of Lynn. See S. B. Meech
and H. E. Allen, edd., The Book of Margery Kempe, Early English
Text Soc., vol. 212 (1940); L. Collis, The Apprentice Saint (19'64);
R. K. Stone, Middle English Prose Style, Margery Kempe and Julian
of Norwich (1970). Ex libris inscription of Mount Grace Priory,
co. York, (f. iv verso), perhaps acquired under the influence of
the prior and mystic, John Norton (fl. 1485), see Meech, p. xxxvi.
Owned by the Bowdon family from at least the 18th cent,
(bookplates, ff. i and ii, of Henry Bowdon, b.1754). Rediscovered
by Miss H. E. Allen who announced it in The Times, 27 Dec.
1934. Sold by Capt. M. E. Butler-Bowdon, via Sotheby's, see sale
catalogue, 24 June 1980 (lot 58). Paper, with vellum flyleaves; ff.
vii+124. Sec. fol.: 'dallyawns sche'. 207 x 142mm.
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Modern vellum pastedowns and 2 medieval vellum flyleaves to
front. Gatherings (11) of 12, except iii4 (lacks 13, blank), iiii2
(lacks 12, blank), ixi2 (lacks 11-12, blank), xio, xis. Ruled (single
bounding lines) in ink for single columns of 33 lines.
Catchwords, some leaf signatures and guideletters. Written
space 145 x 85mm. Script is an English cursive bookhand by one
scribe. Initials, embellished with human faces and nomina sacra,
and capitula in red. Annotations and rough marginal drawings by
four subsequent hands. Original binding of tawed skin over
bevelled wooden boards, with two clasps (missing). Vellum
sewing guards. Sewn on five cords. Contemporary leather
chemise binding, now Add. 61823*.
Rose Throckmorton
Additional 43827 A & B
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCES, Written down
c!610 (see below), of Rose Throckmorton (d. 1613), daughter
of Sir William Lock, and widow of Simon Throckmorton,
mainly concerning the sufferings of herself and her first
husband, Anthony Hickman, a London merchant, as Protestants
in the reign of Queen Mary, at first in England and afterwards in
Antwerp. The present MSS. comprise two later 17th cent,
copies of the work; a third copy is Add MS 45027. Most of the
narrative is printed, apparently from Add MS 43827 A, ff.
1-18b, but with the wrong date (1620) and with some other
errors, by Adam Stark, History and Antiquities of Gainsburgh, 2nd
ed., 1843, pp. 452-458, in his account of the Hickman family,
through which the present MSS presumably descended to the
donor. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., ix, 1934-1935, pp. 74-76.
Paper. Two volumes. Octavo and small octavo. XVII cent.
Presented by Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon, Bart.
DEAILED LISTING OF PART 1
Add 43827: Reminscences of Rose Throckmorton
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Additional 45027
'CERTAIN OLD STORYES RECORDED BY AN AGED
GENTLEWOMAN to be Perused by her Children and
Posterity. Anno Domini 1610': a late 17th century copy of the
autobiographical reminiscences of Rose Throckmorton, (d.
1613), daughter of Sir William Lock and widow of (1) Anthony
Hickman, and (2) Simon Throckmorton, of which two other
versions are now Add MSS 43827 A, B, described previously.
The text was printed from Add MS 43827 A, ff. 1-18b, by A.
Stack, History and Antiquities of Gainsburgh, 2nd edition, 1843,
pp. 452-458. The present MS. omits the accounts of the death
of the author's mother and of the 'Deliverances sent to Sir
William Hickman'. Also included in it are:-(a) A verse Epitaph
upon the death of this old Gentlewoman1, f. 7qqb;-(b) 'The
Ofspring of this old Gentlewoman this present year 1637': an
account of Rose Throckmorton's descendants by her first
husband Anthony Hickman. ff. 7b-8. Paper; ff. vii + 8. Folio.
XVII cent, (after A.D. 1637). Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps,
Bart. (MS. 17847: Sotheby's sale-cat. 18 June 1908, lot 716).
Dobell's cat. no. 32, 1937, item 43. Presented by Sir Hickman
Beckett, Bacon, Bart.
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Queen Mary Psalter
Royal 2 B vii
PSALTER, in Latin, with the Canticles, Litany, &c., executed
in England, and profusely illustrated. The full contents are: 1. Series of two hundred and twenty-three tinted drawings,
mostly two on a page, illustrating Old Testament history from
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the Fall of Lucifer and the Creation to the Death of Solomon,
with explanations below in French, beg. 'Coment lucifer chayit de
ciel e devient diable e grant multitudo des angeles ouesqe lif.
ff. 1 b-66 b.
Some apocryphal matter is introduced, e.g. 'Coment le diable
viint en forme de homme a la femme Noe e demanda v son mari
estoit. E ele disoit qe ele. ne soutou. il est ale purtoi trayr e tote le
mund. preyne ces greynes e fetez vn aboycion e le donetz a boyre.
e il te dirra tote. E issint fist ele1 (f. 6). The following pages are
occupied solely by text, viz. ff. 14, 20b-22, 31b-32 b, 35, 35 b, 39
b, 42. The writer is not always accurate in his Bible history, e. g.,
f. 33, 'Coment dame Delbola [Deborah] occist le Roy Cyzera
[Sisera] en dormaunt, feraunt vne clowe par mi sa teste.1 The
figures are sketched in ink with wonderful grace and vivacity, and
are lightly tinted in green, violet, red, and brown. The rectangular
borders are formed of plain, narrow, red bands with green
quatrefoils at the corners, from each of which springs a branch
with three tinted leaves. The whole series has been engraved by
N. H. J. Westlake and W. Purdue, The Illustrations of Old
Testament History in Queen Mary's Psalter, i865. For a coloured
plate see Warner, Ilium. MSS in the Brit. Mus., 1903, pi. 29; and
for collotypes, Brit. Mus. Reproductions from Ilium. MSS, ser.
iii, 1908, pi. xx, and the present Catalogue, PI. 24.
2. Tree of Jesse, on a burnished gold ground within a key-pattern
blue and pink narrow ribbon-border with three daisies at each
corner; nine figures, five crowned; vine foliage, red, green, blue,
and violet. For this miniature and those in artt. 3, 4, see Westlake
and Purdue, op. cit.3 pi. cxvi-cxix. f. 67 b. Miniature in four
compartments, the subjects, beginning from the bottom, being
(I) S. Anne and her three husbands, Joachim, Cleophas, and
'Salomee'; (2) the three Marys, her daughters, and their
husbands, Joseph, Alpheus, and Zebedee; (3) the Virgin and
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Child, James the Less, son of Alpheus, and James the Greater,
son of Zebedee; (4) Christ enthroned, Simon and Jude, sons of
Alpheus, and John, son of Zebedee.
Backgrounds in the two upper compartments of blue and gold
lozenge and chequer diapers, in the others of burnished gold
with a trellis pattern. Explanatory text in French below (see
Legenda A urea, ed. Graesse, 1846, p. 586). f. 68.
4. Two miniatures in six compartments, each containing figures
of a prophet and an apostle, holding scrolls, viziJeremiah, Peter
David, Andrew.
Isaiah, James.
Zechariah, John.
Hosea, Thomas.
Amos, James the Less.
Zephaniah, Philip.
Joel, Bartholomew.
Micah, Matthew.
Malachi, Simon.
Daniel, Thaddeus.
Ezekiel, Matthias.
The scrolls are inscribed with verses (not always
correctly assigned) and, in the case of the Apostles,
with sentences of the Creed. Backgrounds of diapers
or patterned gold. ff. 69 b, 70. Followed by four
blank pages.
5. Calendar, each month occupying two pages, with a
miniature (4 !/2 in. x 2!/4in.) at the top of each. ff. 71b-83.
Among the saints are:
Jan. 19. Wulstan (ix, red).
Mar. 2. Cedda(ix, red).
Mar 18. Edward k. m. (ix, lake).
Mar 20. Cuthbert (ix, red).
Apr. 3. Richard (ix, red).
Apr 19. Alphege (iii, red).
May 19. Dunstan (ix, lake).
May 25. Aldhelm (ix, red).
June 9. Transl (ii, lake)
June 16.Transl. Richard bp. (lake).
June 20. Transl. Edward bp. conf.
(sic, k.m.) (ix, blue).
June 21. Werburg ( her usual day is Feb 3).
June 22. Alban
June 23. Etheldreda.
July 7. Transl. Thomas mart, (duplex, gold).
July 15. Transl. Swithun (ix, red).
Aug.31. Cuthburg.
Sept. 4. Transl. Cuthbert (ix, lake).
Sept 16. Edith (ix, lake).
Oct. 12. Wilfrid.
13. Transl. Edward Conf. (dupl. gold).
Oct 19. Fredeswide (ix, lake).
Nov. 16. Edmund abp. (ix, blue).
Nov 17. Hugh bp. (ix, lake). '
Nov 20. Edmund k. m. (ix, lake).
Dec. 29. Thomas mart, (dupl., gold erased).
The subjects of the miniatures, which are on gold
and diapered grounds, are :Jan.
(1) A king, queen, and elderly man at table; on 1. a youth with
cup, on r. a harper, f.71 b. (2) Three men in a boat, bailing
with pitchers (Aquarius), f. 72.
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Feb.
(1) A man seated on a bed before a fire, a kneeling youth
handing him a stocking, another behind him. f. 72 b.
(2) Three men in a boat hauling in a net with fish (Pisces),
f. 73.
Mar.
(1) Three men pruning, f. 73 b. (2) Two rams butting, sheep
on rising ground behind; on 1. a bearded man with hooded
cape, on r. a youth holding a dog (Aries), .f 74.
Apr.
(1) Five maidens picking flowers and making chaplets.
f. 74b. (2) A woman (1.) driving two cows, a man (r.) driving a
bull (Taurus).
May.
(1) A gaily attired youth on a white horse, with hawk on wrist;
on 1. and r. two attendants with hawks, f. 75 b. (2) Two nude
figures, male and female (Gemini), carrying a large shield,
uncoloured, charged with a lion's head between four fleurs-delis in saltire ; on 1. a calf (?), on r. a lion, each lying under a tree,
in which is a bird. f. 76.
June.
(1) Three men mowing grass, f. 76 b. (2) Two men in a boat,
lifting a huge crab out of the water (Cancer), f. 77.
Jul.
(1) Three men weeding; on r. a woman carrying a sheaf on her
head. f. 77 b. (2) A man leading a lion by a chain (Leo), f. 78.
Aug.
(1) Three men reaping; on 1. a farmer directing them,
f. 78b. (2) Four maidens band in hand, two others, 1. and r.,
tending flowers (Virgo), f. 79.
Sept.
(1) Two men in a large vat treading grapes, two others, 1.. and
r., bringing grapes in baskets, f. 79b. (2)youth holding scales,
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on 1. and r. a vendor and purchaser (Libra).
Oct.
(1) A youth with basket sowing corn, another addressing him; on
1. a man and pack-horse, f. 80 b. (2) Two men holding up an
enormous scorpion (Scorpio). f. 81.
Nov.
(1) Two men with clubs beating oak-trees, swine below feeding
on acorns. f.Slb. (2) Two centaurs with bows, shooting birds
in trees (Sagittarius), f. 82.
Dec:
(1) A man killing a pig with the back of an axe, another cutting
open a pig suspended by the hind-legs, f. 82 b. (2)Two goats,
and, 1. and r., two goatherds, one playing a flageolet, the other a
long, slightly curved instrument with a mouthpiece at the side
(Capricornus). f. 83.
6. PSALTER, illustrated with miniatures of the Life of
Christ, on gold and diapered grounds within architectural
settings, ff. 85-280 The subjects are:(1) Facing Ps. i. The Annunciation, Gabriel and the Virgin both
standing, a lily in a pot between them; below, the Visitation,
Mary and Elizabeth embracing, within an embattled gateway. In
niches at the sides, (a) The Law (Synagogue), as a female,
blindfolded, dropping the two Tables; (b, opposite)
the Gospel (Church), as a female, crowned and nimbed, holding
a church and a chalice; (c) a king; (d) a king holding a church;
(e) Moses holding the two Tables; (f) an Evangelist holding the
Gospels, f. 84 b.
(2) Ps. i. The Nativity: the Virgin suckling the infant, Joseph
seated on r., heads of the ox and ass behind a manger in centre,
two angels with scrolls above. In niches, SS. John Bapt., John
Evang., Peter, Paul, Andrew, and James the Greater, with
emblems. In initial B, David playing a harp, music on
a stand before him, a dove in a cloud above f. 85.
(3) End of Ps. xxv. The Shepherds at Bethlehem: three
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shepherds, one holding a dog, another with bagpipe, an angel
on raised ground speaking, two others, r. and 1., in clouds, with
scrolls, 'Gloria in excelsis1, &c. f. 112.
(4) Ps. xxvi. Adoration of the Magi. In niches, (a) The Virgin,
crowned, with lily-sceptre, (b) S. Clare (?), with book, (c) S.
Katharine, with wheel, (d) S. Margaret, with long cross and
dragon, (e) female saint, with no emblem, (f) S. Mary
Magdalene, with pot of ointment. In initial D, David kneeling,
pointing to his eyes, the Almighty in a cloud, f. 112 b.
(5) End of Ps. xxxvii. The three Magi before Herod. In niches,
two knights in banded mail, with coifs and surcoats. f. 131.
(6) Ps. xxxviii. The three Magi, in one bed, an angel, in a cloud
above, warning them. In niches, six figures without nimbi
(prophets), the last (David) crowned. In initial D, David
kneeling, touching his lips, the Almighty in a cloud, f. 131 b.
(7) Ibid. Massacre of the Innocents: Herod in centre, seated,
drawing a long sword, above him a devil, on r. and 1. a soldier,
woman and child. In niches, six other prophets, f. 132
(8) End of Ps. 1. -The Nativity: on r. Joseph leaning on the foot
of the bed, an angel with blank scroll in a cloud. Below, the
Descent into Egypt; on r. idols falling. In niches, six prophets.
f. 148 b.
(9) Ps. li. Presentation in the Temple; Joseph with doves, a
woman holding a long taper. No niches. In initial Q, David,
beheading Goliath, f. 149.
(10) End of Ps. li. A small subject (21A in. x 4 in.). The Virgin,
crowned, with the Child, an angel on either side swinging a
censer, two others in niches, with tapers, f. 150.
(11) Ps. Hi. Jesus in the Temple with the Doctors: the Virgin
(4), with her hands on his shoulders, about to lead him away,
three doctors standing, four seated, one on a bench and three
on the ground. In niches, six figures without nimbi. In initial D,
David, crowned, a fool with round cake and bauble, the
Queen Mary Psalter, fl!2v
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almighty in a cloud. For a coloured plate see Warner, Ilium.
MSS. in Brit. Mus., 1903, pl.28. f 150b.
(12) Ibid. The same subject: Jesus in centre, seated on a high,
slender column, within a niche ; on 1. the Virgin and Joseph,
and three doctors seated on the ground ; on r. four doctors, two
seated. In niches, six figures without nimbi, f. 151.
Ps. Ixviii Marriage at Cana: four figures at table, the bride, Jesus
(beardless, the Virgin (crowned), and a disciple; in front, on 1. a
boy playing a fiddle, on r. a maid on her knees holding up a
cup. In niches, six angels with musical instruments. In initial S,
Jonah cast overboard, and thrown up on land. f. 168b.
(14) Ibid. Feeding of the Four Thousand: Jesus in centre to r.
with a loaf in his hand, two disciples and six of the crowd
(seated) before him, disciple with two fishes and four loaves,
and a lad behind him with two loaves. In niches, six apostles (?).
f. 169.
(15) Ps. Ixxx. Baptism of Jesus: full-face, standing in water
heaped up round him, with the Holy Dove hovering above ; on
1. an angel holding his garment, on r. the Baptist pouring on his
head from a bottle. In niches, four seraphim and two angels. In
initial E, David striking a row of five bells with small hammer, f.
190 b.
(16) Ibid, The Temptation: Jesus on a pinnacle of the Temple,
the devil below; in a lower compartment, on 1. the devil offering
Jesus a stone on r. Jesus on a bill, the devil below and also
emerging from a hole in the side of the hill.
In niches, two kings with swords and sceptres, two seraphim
with spears, and two angels with sword and spear, f. 191.
(17) Ps. xcvi. 6. Jesus and Martha (John xi. 20): On r. Martha
holding out a (blank) scroll, on 1. three apostles. In niches, four
male figures, f. 21 b.
(18) Ps. xcvi. 9. Raising of Lazarus. Mary (with nimbus)
standing at head of sepulchre, Martha (without nimbus)
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kneeling at foot; on 1. two apostles.
In niches, two male and two female figures, f. 211. In initial C of
PS. xcvii (f. 211 b), three figures, singing, with reading-desk.
(19) Ps. c. 5. Preaching of S. John Baptist: John turned to r.,
holding an Agnus Dei; on 1., behind him, a lion, ox and calf, on
r. seven men seated, under a tree. In niches, four male figures.
f. 213b.
(20) Ps. c. 7. Preaching of Jesus: turned to r., holding a book, on
r. two men standing, three seated. See Brit. Mus. Reproduced
from Illum.MSS, ser. iii, 1908, pl.xxii. f.214. In initial D, of Ps.ci
(f. 214b), the anointing of David.
(21) Ps. cix. Entry into Jerusalem: Jesus riding sideways, two
apostles only, man in a palm-tree, foal following. In initial D,
The Trinity, the Father and Son seated, holding spheres, the
Holy Dove descending between them. f. 233 b.
The succeeding miniatures are mostly in four compartments,
often within
(22) Ibid, (a) Jesus giving sight to Bartimaeus; (b) anointed by
Mary Magdalene; (c) disputing with the Pharisees and (d) giving
Judas the sop.
(23) Ps. cxviii. Peter led by the angel out of prison; (b) Christ
enthroned, with emblems of the Evangelists; (c) Institution of the
Eucharist: Jesus, with two apostles, pointing to himself, in the
form of a child (with cruciform nimbus) seated on comer of the
table; (d) Jesus washing the apostles' feet. f. 241 b.
(24)Ibid. Four scenes at Gethsemane. f.242.
(25) PS. cxviii. 33. Four scenes at Gethsemane (two repeated
from art. 24).
In initial L, Jesus before Pilate, f. 244 b.
(26) Ibid, (a) Jesus before the High Priest; (b) Joseph of
Arimathaea leaving the council and held back by his mantle; (c)
Jesus scourged; (d) Peter at the fire, the maid accusing him. See
PI. 25. f. 245.
(27) Ps. cxviii. 81. (a) Jesus mocked and buffeted, and (b) before
Pilate; (c) Judas throws down the thirty pieces of silver.
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and (d) hangs himself, the devil carrying off his soul. f. 248 b.
(28) Ibid.(a) Jesus before Pilate and (b) mocked and scourged;
(c) the devil appearing to Pilate's wife in her sleep ;(d) Pilate
washing his hands. In initial D, Jesus bound to a column and
scourged, f. 249.
(29) Ps. cxviii. 129. (a) Jesus crowned with thorns; the (b) the
Jews lay hold of Simon the Cyrenian; (c) the shaping of the
Cross with an axe; (d) the forging of the nails.
In initial M, Joseph of Arimathaea before Pilate, two soldiers in
(30) Ibid. (a,b) Jesus bearing the Cross;(c) nailed to it; (d)
raised upon
(31) Ps. cxix. The Crucifixion; two men (not soldiers) casting
dice. In initial A, a pope ( with a high conical tiara springing
from a crown and terminating in a ball), king, bishop, and
others kneeling before an altar, f. 256 b.
(32)Ibid, (a) Pilate and Joseph of Arimathaea; (b) the Descent
from the Cross; (c) Pilate and the High Priest giving orders to
the soldiers; (d) Joseph and Nicodemus anointing the body of
Jesus, f. 257.
7. Canticles, etc, with scenes from the Passion, etc,
continued, ff. 280 b-302. The subjects are:(33) Confitebor. (a) Jesus in the (uncovered) sepulchre, soldiers
repulsing a disciple (?); (b) Joseph of Arimathaea sent to
prison (Gosp. of Nicodemus);
(c) the Resurrection: Christ with long pennoned cross seated on
the open sepulchre, two angels in clouds, two sleeping soldiers;
(d) two angels releasing Joseph from prison, and the risen
Christ also doing the same. In initial C, a kneeling figure (Isaiah
?), the Almighty in a cloud holding him by the hand.
f. 280b.
(34) Ibid, (a) Christ in Hades ; (b) the three Marys at the
sepulchre ; (c) the supper at Emmaus; (d) Christ with St.
Thomas, and with Mary Magdalene in the garden, f. 281.
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(35) Ego dixi. No separate miniatures here or in nos.36-43.
In initial E, a woman (Hannah) in bed praying, the Almighty
above in a cloud, f. 281 b.
(36) Exultavit. In initial E, Hannah bringing Samuel to Eli.
f. 283.
(37) Cantemus. In initial C, Moses, Miriam with tambourine,
Egyptians in the Red Sea. f. 284.
(38) Domine, audivi. In initial D, the Virgin standing; in a cloud,
Christ on the Cross, f. 286.
(39) Audite, caeli. In initial A, Moses, the Almighty in a cloud,
three Israelites (Korah, Dathan and Abiram), and the flaming
mouth of Hell. f. 288.
(40) Te Deum. In initial T, a bishop with asperging brush, and
five figures (41) Benedicite. In initial B, the three children in the
furnace, f. 294.
(42) Benedictus. In initial B, on r, S. John Baptist with Agnus
Dei, standing
(43) Magnificat. In initial M, on 1. the Annunciation, the Virgin
seated, on r. the Virgin kneeling, the Almighty in a cloud.
f. 296 b.
(44) Nunc dimittis. (a) The Ascension; (b) Pentecost; (c) Death
of the Virgin, Chris beside the bed carrying her soul, four
apostles in the room, others at the door. In initial N, the
Presentation in the Temple, f. 297 b.
(45) Ibid, (a) Funeral of the Virgin with miracle of the Jew who
touched the bier; (b) Coronation of the Virgin: (c) Entombment
of the Virgin ; (d) the Virgin, crowned, in a mandorla supported
by four angels, f. 298.
(46) Quicumque vult. Christ enthroned, holding a sphere, with
four angels in clouds; within a lozenge, outside which are the
emblems and names of the Evangelists.
In initial Q, a pope (with tiara as in no. 31), addressing an
audience f. 298 b.
(47) Ibid. The Father enthroned, supporting a tau-cross on
which hangs the Son, over whose head hovers the Holy Dove;
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angels with censers in the four corners, f. 299.
8. Litany; with miniatures of saints, &c. The only English saints
included in the general Litany are Swithun, Birinus and Edith.
Feria iii has Thomas (erased) at the head of the Martyrs,
Dunstan, Grimbald, and Etheldreda; Feria iv, Cuthbert and
Fedicula (Fr.); Feria v, Zechelwold [TEthelwold]; Feria vi,
Kilian, Judoc, Petroc and Botulph; and Sat., Aldhelm,
Oswald and Sexburg. ff. 302 b-318. The subjects of
the miniatures are:(48) The Last Judgement. Christ seated on an arc, the Virgin
kneeling on his r., crowned, baring her breast, other kneeling
figures, and angels in clouds with emblems of the Passion;
below, figures in grave-clothes rising from tombs, two angels in
clouds blowing trumpets (for a coloured plate see Sir E. M.
Thompson, English Ilium. Mss., 1895, P. 45). In initial K, a
pope (with tiara as in nos. 31, 46), with bishops and others,
kneeling, f. 302b.
(49) St. Peter, with an angel, admitting souls to Paradise, on r.
Christ enthroned; below, an angel with sword driving souls to
hell, devils receiving them and casting them into a flaming hellmouth f. 303.
(50) The Virgin, crowned, suckling Child, two angels in clouds
supporting her veil. In niches, four angels, two with fiddle and
guitar, two with tapers, f. 303 b. 43
(51) Nine compartments: (1, 2) Two six-winged seraphim or
cherubim, standing on wheels; (3-5) four winged angels,
holding (3) a sceptre; 4) a sword and sceptre, and (5), a figure
in armour, an axe; (6) a six-winged angel standing before
an altar; and (7-9) six-winged angels holding (7) a lance, (8) a
trumpet, and (9) nothing. The wings of 1-6 are gold, those of 79 silver, f. 304.
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(52) Moses between six other figures (patriachs) without nimbi;
below, S. John Baptist with Angus Dei, between six similar
figures, f. 304 b.
(53) Four saints (apostles), without emblems; below, SS. Peter
(keys), Paul (sword), Andrew (saltire-cross) and John (palm and
eagle), f. 305.
(54) Eight saints (apostles and evangelists), without emblems,
f. 305 b.
(55) Eighteen saints, nine and nine (disciples), f. 306.
(56) Eight saints, four and four, including S. Stephen (holding
stones in a napkin) and S. Clement (anchor), the rest without
emblems, f. 306 b.
(57) Twelve saints, eight and four, including a king, pope, and
bishops, and S. Denis (carrying his mitred head), f. 307.
(58) Eight saints, four and four, without emblems, f. 307 b.
(59) Thirteen saints, nine and four, without emblems, f. 308.
(60) SS. Mary Magdalene (pot of ointment), Mary of Egypt
(covered with long white hair, holding a loaf), Margaret (piercing
a dragon with long cross), and Scholastica (with lily), f. 308 b.
(61) Seven female saints, one with palm. f. 309.
(62) Christ, quarter-length, in a cloud; below, six kneeling
figures, one with crown, two with mitres, no nimbi, f. 309 b.
(63) Christ, as in no. 62; six kneeling figures, three of them
women, f. 310.
9. From f. 85 b onwards the lower margins contain a series of
exquisite little tinted drawings in the style of the Bible scenes in
art. I. They include illustrations of the Bestiary, tilting and
hunting scenes, sports and pastimes of all kinds, grotesque
figures and combats, groups of dancers and musicians, banquets,
etc, and end with Miracles of the Virgin and Lives and Passions
of Saints.
The full list of subjects is as foliows:(1) Lion, huntsman, with horn and spear, pursuing, f. 85 b.
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(2) Lion couchant, guardant. f. 86.
(3) Lion breathing life into a cub (see Migne, Patrologia Lat.
clxxvii, col. 57.) f. 86 b.
(4) Lion springing a man. f. 87.
(5) Antelope, with horns bent forward but not serrated,
drinking from a stream (ib.). f. 87 b.
(6) Antelope, with horns entangled in a tree, a huntsman
piercing its flank with a spear, f. 88.
(7) Serra, with wings erect, running on the sea (ib. col. 105).
f. 88 b.
(8) Serra racing a ship on the sea. f. 89.
(9) Caladrius (a white bird) perched on a sick man's bed, with
head turned towards him, a prognostic of recovery (ib. col, 48).
f. 89 b.
(10) Caladrius similarly perched, but with head averted, a
prognostic of death; beside the bed a man and woman
mourning, f. 90.
(11) Pelican on a nest of young birds, f. 90 b.
(12) Pelican tearing her breast to resuscitate her young with her
blood (ib. col. 29). f. 91.
(13) Bat flying from a man armed with a branch, f. 91 b.
(14) Bat, with a man on either side scaring it away. f. 92.
(15) Eagle at a fount of water (Cahier et Martin, Melanges
d'Archeologie, ii, 1851, p. 165). f. 92.
(16) Eagle testing her young by exposing them to the rays of the
sun (Migne, clxxvii, col. 53). f. 93.
(17) Phoenix in the flames, a man on r. f. 93 b.
(18) Phoenix rising from the ashes, a man on r. f. 94.
(19) Bird in a nest (Alerion ?, Cahier, p. 162), three other birds
perched on the edge. f. 94 b.
(20) Alerion flying from the nest to drown herself in the sea (?),
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two smaller birds escorting her. f. 95 b.
(21) Ants swarming on an ant-hill, a tree on either side. f. 95b.
(22) Three dogs attacking two chicken nursing each other armed
with swords and shields.
(23) Two sirens on 1., on the sea, one ending in the tail of a fish,
the other in the body of a bird; on r. a ship, with the crew asleep
(Migne, clxxvii, col. 78). f. 96 b.
(24) Two sirens attacking a sleeping crew. f. 97.
(25) Hedgehog, its back covered with grapes adhering to its
quills (ib. col. 58; Cahier, p. 198). f. 97 b.
(26) Hedgehog attacked by two dogs. f. 98.
(27) Ibis flying over the sea (ib. col. 55 ; Cahier, p. 201),
f. 98 b.
(28) Ibis feeding on carrion, f. 99
(29) Fox pretending to be dead, birds pecking at him (ib. col.
59; Cahier, p. 208). f. 99 b.
(30) Fox carrying off a hen, three other birds flying away. f. 100.
(31) Unicorn charging an elephant, f. 100 b.
(32) Unicorn in the lap of the maiden, a huntsman spearing him
from behind (ib. col. 59; Cahier, p. 221). f. 101.
(33) Castor biting off his testicles to save his life (ib. col. 61;
Cahier, p. 229); on 1. hunter with axe and horn. f. 101 b.
(34) Castor on his back; on 1. a hunter bidding him go free,
f. 102.
(35) Beast with long pointed snout, crested back, bushy tail and
long claws crouching on the surface of water (? crocodile, ib. col.
60). f. 102 b.
(36) Hyena devouring a corpse in a tomb (ib. col. 61). f. 103.
(37) Hyena attacking a prostrate man. f. 103 b.
(38) Hydrus swallowed by a crocodile, eating its way out at the
side (ib. col, 60; Cahier, iii, p. 212; cf. 12 C. XIX, 12 b). f. 104.
(39) Two wild goats on a mountain ; on 1. a hunter with spear
(ib. col. 63; Cahier, iii, p. 218). f. 104 b.
(40) Three wild goats browsing, f. 105.
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(41) Two wild asses with foal. f. 105 b.
(42) Two wild asses as above, one licking the foal. f. 106.
(43) An ape seated under a tree pulling on a boot; on 1. two
men expressing surprise, f. 106 b.
(44) Two men, one with spear, pursuing an ape, the foremost
holding him by the hind legs. f. 107.
(45) Ape carrying two young, one in her arms, the other on her
back (ib. col. 62; Cahier, iii, p. 230); on 1. a hunter, with spear,
blowing a horn. f. 107 b.
(46) Ape with a young one on her back climbing a tree, another
young one on the ground; on 1. a hunter as above and another
with an axe. f. 108.
(47) Panther reclining (ib. col. 69; Cahier, iii, p. 235). f. 108.
(48) Panther (painted in variegated colours) crying aloud; lion,
deer, and other animals collected to inhale the fragrant odour
from his mouth, f. 109.
(49) Large bird riding on the water (? fulica, ib. col. 58; Cahier,
iii, p. 208). f. 109b.
(50) Fulica (?) sitting on a nest, and (r.) catching a fish. f. 110.
(51) Ship, with a crew of five, sailing, f. 110 b.
(52) Same ship with sail furled; on 1. a whale on the surface of
the water, on its back a fire, over which is a pot, a man blowing
bellows and another stirring the pot (ib. col. 82 ; de
Aspidochelone, Cahier, iii, p. 251). f. 111.
(53) Four birds rising from a field of corn. f. 111 b.
(54) Man snaring birds with a net. f. 112.
(55) Two weasels standing mouth to mouth; on r. a weasel
giving birth to young through the ear (ib. col. 66; Cahier, ii,
p. 147). f. 112b.
(56) Two weasels carrying young in their mouths, f. 113.
(57) Ostrich with two eggs, and, on r., trying to fly (Cahier, ii,
p. 197; iii, p. 257). f. 113b.
(58) Man feeding an ostrich with nails and horseshoes, f. 114.
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(59) Two birds (doves ?) standing beak to beak. f. 114 b.
(60) Dove perched on a branch of a dead tree. f. 115.
(61) Four stags in water (Cahier, iii, p. 266). f. 115 b.
(62) Stag killing a serpent, f. 116.
(63) Beast with crested back and long twisted tail, ending in a
tuft, biting a dragon, f. 116 b.
(64) Similar beast without the tuft at the end of the tail in a tree,
eating fruit, f. 117.
(65) Pigeons flying into, and out of, a dovecot, ff. 117 b, 118.
(66) Elephant and young in water, a dragon in the air (Migne,
clxxvii, col. 72; Cahier, iv, p. 55). f. 118 b.
(67) Elephant with a tower and armed men on his back, on r. a
man in armour with spear, f. 119.
(68) Two mandrakes (human figures, male and female) growing
heads downward in the earth, with feet enveloped in leaves
above ground, a dog, fastened to the feet by a cord, tugging at
them to reach a piece of meat; on r. a man encouraging the dog.
f. 119 b.
(69) Man showing two mandrakes to three other men. f. 120.
(70) Wolf with head averted from a man who is looking towards
him (Migne, clxxvii, col. 67). f. 120 b.
(71) Wolf with head turned towards a man whose head is
averted, f. 121.
(72) Wolf taking a sheep from a fold. f. 121 b.
(73) Wolf with sheep pursued by man and dog. f. 122.
(74) Tiger pursuing a horseman who is carrying off a cub (ib.
col. 83; Cahier, ii, p. 140). f. 122 b.
(75) Tiger stopping to look in a mirror thrown down by the
horseman, f. 123.
(76) Four cranes, one holding a stone in its raised foot (ib. col.
40; Cahier, ii, p. 142). f. 123 b.
(77) Three cranes flying, f. 124.
(78) Peacock and peahen standing beak to beak. f. 124b.
(79) Same subject repeated, f. 125.
(80) Beast lying under a tree, with one ear on the ground and the
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other stopped by the end of his tail, round him four musicians,
playing a harp, trumpet, fiddle and guitar; meant for the aspis
(ib. coll. 65, 76; Cahier, ii, p. 147). f. 125 b.
(81) Beast (aspis) asleep under a tree, two musicians with handorgan and double pipe, and two men taking balm from the tree
(Cahier, ii, p. 148). f. 126.
(82) Two beats, male and female, the former with his snout in
the other's mouth (the viper, Migne, col. 68; Cahier, ii, p. 134).
f. 126 b.
(83) Young of the viper issuing from its mother's side. f. 127.
(84) Beast flying from a naked man (serpent, ib. col. 102;
Cahier, ii, p. 143). f. 127 b.
(85) Same, attacking a man who is clothed, f. 128.
(86) Owl in a tree attacked by two other birds (ib. col. 45;
Cahier, ii, p. 169). f. 128 b.
(87) Owl in flight, pursued by other birds, f. 129.
(88) Crow feeding her young in the nest (ib. col. 31; Cahier, ii,
p. 156). f. 129 b.
(89) Crow picking out the eye of a dead man. f. 130.
(90) Bear and Horse fighting, f. 130 b.
(91) Bear lead by a chain springing at a woman, the man who
leads him whipping him. f. 131.
(92) Two knights tilting, f. 131 b.
(93-111) Combats of half-human and other grotesques
mounted on nondescript beats, ff. 132-141.
(112) Two rams butting, f. 141 b.
(113) Goat and Stag butting, f. 142.
(114) Two cocks fighting, f. 142 b.
(115) Two fish fighting, f. 143.
(116)Two knights, half-length, on fish, tilting, one wearing a
crested helm, the other having long ass's ears. f. 143 b.
(117) Two men, half-length, on dragons, fighting, one with
club, the other with sword, f. 144.
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(118) Bull tied to a stake, three dogs baiting him, two men
urging them on, f. 144 b.
(119) Three hounds attacking a boar. f. 145.
(120) Lion and griffin face to face. f. 145 b.
(121) Archer, half-length, on a lion, shooting at a knight, halflength, on a horse. F. 146.
(122, 123) Two men with swords and small round shields
fighting, ff. 146b, 147.
(124) Two mounted grotesques, one with bow, the other with
lance, fighting, f. 147 b.
(125) Grotesque, upper half a knight, lower half a dragon,
opposed to two snails, f. 148
(126) Lion and dragon fighting, f. 148 b.
(127) Grotesque, formed of a human head with a single horn
and the hind
(128) Knight, wearing a fan-crested helm and ailettes, pursuing a
Saracen
(129) Knight and Saracen, as above fighting, f. 150.
(131) Man and two women, mounted, hawking, another man on
foot with
(132) Hunter, mounted an attendant with bow and arrows, and
two dogs. f. 151 b.
(133) Two dogs hunting a stag, one of them seizing him. f. 152.
(134) Two ladies on horseback, riding astride, one blowing a
horn. f. 152b
(135) Lady with bow and arrows, a stag flying from her with an
arrow in his head and a dog seizing him. f. 153.
(136) Four men urging on a dog; on another holding two
greyhounds in a leash. f.!53b.
(137) Man with two greyhounds, one catching a hare. f. 154.
138) Two men, one blowing a horn, and two hounds running,
f. 154 b.
(139) Stag on his back, two hounds seizing him, and a man
blowing a horn. f. 155.
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(140) Woman putting a ferret into a rabbit-hole, another
netting a rabbit coming out. f. 115 b.
(141) Man and woman killing rabbits with clubs, f. 156
(142) Two men,mounted, each carrying a hawk. f.!56b.
(143) Mounted man, a hawk striking a heron, who opposes his
beak to him. f. 157.
(144) Fox with mitre and pastoral staff preaching to a crane,
goose, duck and robin, f. 157 b.
(145) Woman with distaff pursuing a fox with a duck in his
jaws. f. 158.
(146) Four men and two women in a group, f. 158 b.
(147) Two knights tilting, each standing in a boat with two
scullers, f. 159.
(148) Man with lance and round shield pursuing an ape.
f. 159b.
(149) Two men, one with a club, pursuing a dog carrying off a
fowl. f. 160.
(150) Two wrestlers,in short drawers, each holding a scarf
thrown round the other's neck; on r. and 1. spectators, seated,
one holding up a pole with a cock on the top. f. 160 b.
(151) Two men shooting arrows at a cock and another bird,
f. 161.
(152) Two men wrestling, each mounted on another man's
shoulders, f. 161 b.
(153) Man seated holding up one leg horizontally, another man
standing on one leg and pushing with the other against that of
the seated man, foot to foot,
(154)Two men with crossbows shooting at a bird in a tree,
f. 162 b.
(155) Man, with sword and round shield, fighting a dragon,
f. 163.
(156) Two boys with butterflies, and another with a bird, tied to
the end of a string f. 163 b.
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(157) Two boys whipping a top. f. 164.
(158) Knight on horse back fighting a lion. f. 164b.
(159)Man on horseback shooting a grotesque with an arrow,
f. 165.
(160)Two men with flails threshing corn in sheaves, f. 165 b.
(161)Girl and satyr, f. 166.
(162) Four youths playing at bob-cherry, f. 166b.
(163) Two youths playing at club-kayles with pins and a stick,
f. 167.
(164) Two men, one naked, playing with knuckle-bones,
f. 167b.
(165) Two men, naked, wrestling f. 168.
(166) Two grotesques fighting, f. 168. b.
(167) Grotesque with axe and shield fighting with a dragon,
f. 169.
(168 Three men in a boat, two sculling, one (a swimmingmaster) standing up. f. 169b.
(169) Man swimming, another treading water, f. 170.
(170) Man blowing a horn, two greyhounds catching a hare,
f. 170 b,
(171) Man leading two greyhounds in a leash, boy with hare
following, f. 171.
(172) Man blowing a horn, boy, with an axe, leading two
hounds, another hound running, f. 171 b.
(173) Man breaking up a stag, two hounds looking on. f. 172.
(174) King, with horn, and two others on horseback; a man in
front, leading
(175) A wild man covered with hair attacked by three dogs,
f. 173.
(176) Two youths and two maidens standing in a row. f. 173 b.
(177) Two musicians with guitar and fiddle, f. 174.
(178) Two men blowing horns, a small hound between them,
f. 174 b.
(179)Two men with spades at a fox-earth, a fox bolting, and a
hound in pursuit f. 175.
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(180) Two apes, holding shields, mounted on two other apes,
f. 175 b.
(181) Two apes, with swords and shields, mounted as above,
fighting; two others on foot, with tambourine and trumpet.
f. 176.
(182) Monk, friar and two nuns, in a row, holding ribbons,
f. 176b.
(183) Nun playing a psaltery, and friar with a guitar, f. 177.
(184) Two women, each with a hawk, and a dog. f. 177 b.
(185) Two women, a hawk striking a bird, and two dogs. f. 178.
(186) Two men and two women in a row, holding ribbons,
f. 178 b.
(187) Three musicians, two with long trumpets,the third with
cymbals.f. 179.
(188) Four apes, clothed in smocks, f. 179 b.
(189) Two apes, clothed, with fiddle and harp. f. 180.
(190) Two dragons fighting, f. 180b.
(191) Same subject, f. 181.
(192 )Two men and two women in a row, holding ribbons,
f. 181
(193) Two women with tambourines, f. 182.
(194) Man leading a lion by a rope. f. 182 b.
(195) Lion crouching and a man holding up a puppy and
whipping it. f. 183.
(196) Two knights tilting with lances, f. 183 b.
(197) Knight, armed with a sword, unhorsed by another with a
lance, f. 184.
(198) Two servants carrying dishes preceded by a musician with
a fiddle, f. 184b.
(199) King and two courtiers at table, a man kneeling on one
knee offering a covered cup. f. 185.
(200) Two knights tilting, their horses caparisoned, with fancrests, f. 185 b.
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(201) Melee of knights armed with swords and maces, a
trumpeter on 1. f. 186.
(202) Man, with sword and buckler, fighting a dragon, f. 186b.
(203) Man prostrate, a dragon devouring him. f. 187.
(204) Cock and winged serpent, f. 187 b.
(205) Wild cat springing at a grotesque beast, f. 188.
(206) King seated, an attendant, on one knee, offering him a
cup. f. 188b.
(207) Four youths in a row, with hands connected, on r. a
musician with a guitar f. 189.
(208) King with hawk on wrist, riding, two other men with him.
f. 189b.
(209) Hawk striking a heron over water, on 1. a falconer coming
up. f. 190. (210) (211) Two mermaids, one with a harp, the other with a trumpet,
holding up a mirror, f. 191.
(212) Two half-human grotesques, one with a harp, the other
with a pipe. f. 191 b.
(213) Two grotesques with guitar and bagpipes, f. 192.
(214) Grotesque with guitar and ape with pipe. f. 192 b.
(215) Two grotesques with psaltery and viol. f. 196.
(216) Two grotesques with double-pipe and hand-organ,
f. 193 b.
(217) Ass with a pipe, and cat with a tabor, f. 194.
(218 Ape, with a long trumpet, mounted on a goat. f. 194 b.
(219) Man, cut short at the waist, mounted on a stag. f. 195.
(220) Two grotesques with tambourines, f. 195 b.
(221) Two grotesques with trumpet and viol. f. 196.
(222) Four men in a row, three wearing hoods, f. 196 b.
(223) Two men with bagpipes.and tabor, f. 197.
(224) Two women, riding astride, tilting. f.!97b.
(225) Two women blowing long trumpets f. 198.
(226) Man and woman playing chess(?) f. 198 b.
(227) Two men holding covered gold cups f. 199.
(228) Three men and a woman at table f.199 b.
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(229) Three men carrying dishes, f. 200.
(230) Two men and two women seated on a bench, one of the
latter holding a lap-dog, f. 200 b.
(231) Four youths standing in a row, on r. two trumpeters,
f. 201.
(232) Two men and two women on a bench, f. 201 b.
(233) Three men bearing covered gold cups. f. 202.
(234) Three men at table, another, on one knee, offering a cup.
f. 202 b.
(235) Two musicians with guitar and viol dancing, f. 203.
(236) Four men at table, on r. a harper, f. 203 b.
Nos. 238-293 illustrate the Miracles of the Virgin.
(238) Theophilus kneeling before a statue of the Virgin and
Child over an altar ( Ward, Cat. of Romances, ii, p. 595).
f. 204 b.
(239) The devil restoring to the Virgin the deed by which
Theophilus had bartered his soul. f. 205.
(240) The devil drowning a man, who is falling from a boat; on
r. the Virgin and devil in dispute ( Drowned sacristan, ib. pp.
604, 612). f. 205 b.
(241) Ebbo the thief supported on the gallows by the Virgin (ib.
p. 606). f. 206.
(242) Priest on his death-bed, the devil at his head, the Virgin
at his feet, stretching out her hand to protect him (ib.p.617). f.
206b.
(243) Monk assailed by the devil in form of a lion, the Virgin
coming to his aid (ib. p. 612). f. 207.
(244) Son of the Jew of Bourges receiving the Eucharist, over a
houseling cloth held by two priests (ib. p. 601). f. 207 b.
(245) Jew of Bourges casting his son into an oven, the Virgin
rescuing him. f. 208.
(246) The unchaste abbess prostrate before a statue of the
Virgin and Child, on r. the Virgin giving an infant to an angel
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ib. p. 626). f. 208b.
(247) The angel delivering the infant to a hermit, f. 209.
(248) Clerk of Chartres (ib. p. 605): the Virgin appears to the
bishop in bed. f. 209 b.
(249) Bishop and others open the clerk's tomb, and find a lily
growing from his mouth, f. 210.
(250) Five Gaudes (ib. p. 205) : on 1. a monk praying before a
statue of the Virgin, on r. the Virgin appearing to him on his
death-bed.
(251) Artist painting a fresco of the Virgin trampling on the
devil, the devil breaking the ladder which he is standing, and the
Virgin in the picture supporting him with her hand (ib. p. 628).
f. 211.
(252) Man who cut off his diseased foot has it restored by the
Virgin.
(253) Virgin appears to a charitable almsman on his death-bed
(ib. p. 605).
(254) Virgin appears to the priest suspended for knowing no
Mass except hers (ib. p. 660). f. 212b.
(255) The priest kneeling before the archbishop [Becket], who
restores him. f.213.
(256) Drowned sacristan (cf. 240): two devils pushing him off a
bridge, the Virgin on r. raising him from the water, f. 213b.
(257) Virgin protects a woman overtaken by the tide on her way
to Mont St. Michel by keeping off the waves with her sleeve
(Childbirth in the sea, ib. p.602); on r. and 1. groups praying, f.
214.
(258) Monk [ of St. Pete's, Cologne] dying unconfessed, two
devils taking his soul from his mouth, on r. the Virgin, St. Peter,
and the monk restored (ib.p.606). f.214b.
(259) Virgin healing victims of the ' mal des ardents' at
Soissons, King Louis [VII] kneeling, with head turned towards
her, before an altar, at which stands a priest, blessing the chalice
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(ib. p. 644). f. 215.
(260) The monk Anselm spilling the sacramental wine over the
corporals; on r. the Virgin restoring it to him unstained (ib. p.
608). f. 215 b.
(261) Virgin appearing to a group of worshippers (Pat Toledo, ib.
p. 610). f. 216
(262) The devil promises wealth to a knight if he will bring him
his wife; on r. husband and wife riding together (ib. p. 661).
f. 216 b.
(263) Wife (see above) prostrate in a trance before the altar of
the Virgin in a wayside chapel; on r. the Virgin riding with the
knight in her stead, devils above in trees, f.217.
(264) The incestuous Roman matron before the Emperor, seated
with two assessors (ib. p. 627). f. 217 b.
(265) The Virgin intervening between the matron and the devil,
her accuser, f. 218.
(266) Nun praying before the altar of the Virgin, and, on r.,
riding away with a lover (ib.p. 6 5 9). f. 218b.
(267) The same nun, on her return after fifteen years, confessing
to the abbess, having found that the Virgin had impersonated her
all the time. f. 219.
(268) Virgin leading a monk by the hand; on 1. two devils (? the
monk who debauched a nun, and was saved by the Masses of a
friend, ib.p. 638). f. 219b.
(269) Virgin saving from drowning a woman who had offered
her a candle, which they are both holding(see Add. MS. 27909,
f. 4).f. 220.
(270) A bishop and two others at the foot of a bed, on which lies
a dead man (? the monk who said daily five Psalms with the
initials M A R I A and out of whose mouth, at his death, five
roses grew ib.p.632). f.220b.
(271) Virgin with a monk on her knee; on 1. an angel (the monk
cured of cancer on the lip by the Virgin's milk,ib. p. 637).
f. 221.
(272) Monk kneeling before the Virgin (the Cistercian who
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could learn nothing except, the two words 'Ave Maria 'ib .p.
654). f.221b.
(273) The same monk's tomb being opened, and a lily found
growing from his lips. f. 222.
(274) Virgin with an angel taking the lance and coat of mail of S.
Mercurius from his tomb (ib.p.602). f.222b.
(275) S. Mercurius overthrowing Julian the Apostate in battle,
f. 223.
(276) The clerk of Pisa riding with his bride to be married (ib. p.
609). f. 223 b.
(277) Virgin appearing to the same clerk and inducing him to
discard his bride for her sake. f. 224.
(278) Two boats full of pilgrims, the Virgin saving one of them
from drowning (ib. p. 626). f. 224 b.
(279) The pilgrim whom the Virgin saved telling his story to the
bishop, f. 225.
(280) The nun Eulalia of Shaftesbury kneeling before the altar of
the Virgin (ib. p. 614). f. 225 b.
(281) The Virgin appearing to Eulalia by night, and enjoining
her to say her Ave Maria more slowly, f. 226.
(282) S. Bon, Bishop of Clermont, kneeling before the altar of
the Virgin (ib. p. 622). f. 226 b.
(283) S. Bon celebrating Mass by night before the Virgin and
angels, f. 227.
(284) Monk attacked by the devil (? ib. p. 651). f.227 b.
(285) Virgin appealing to a kneeling monk. f. 228.
(286) Archbishop Dunstan seated at a reading desk before the
altar of the Virgin (ib. p. 631). f. 228 b.
(287) Virgin with her choir of angels singing in S. Dunstan's
hearing; on r. an angel playing a guitar, f. 229.
(288) Widow, whose son had been taken captive, snatching the
Child-Christ from the arms of his mother as a pledge (ib. p.
662). f. 229 b.
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(289) Virgin restoring to the widow her son released from
bondage, f. 230.
(290) Monk with ulcered mouth laid out as dead (ib, p. 613).
f. 230 b.
(291) Monk restored by the virgin with her milk.' f. 231.
(292) Virgin on her knees before the Trinity, pleading' for a
monk arraigned for judgement (ib.p.640). f.231b.
(293) Virgin leading the monk by the band; on r. the monk
kneeling before her. f. 232.
Nos. 294-463 depict lives and passions of Saints. As far as no.
387 the name of the saint is inscribed underneath.
(294, 295) S. Stephen preaching, three Jews on 4 ; and praying,
two men stoning him, the head of God in a cloud, ff. 232 b, 233.
(296, 297) S. John, with palm-branch, preaching, three men on
1.; and nude, in a cauldron, two men, one with bellows, tending
the fire. ff. 233b, 234.
(298, 299) Herod, seated, giving orders to three men in armour;
and two soldiers slaying Innocents, a woman on the ground, ff.
234 b, 235.
(300, 301) S. Thomas of Canterbury, with a monk and another,
at table, a messenger on 1. bringing news (cf. no. 422) ; and
kneeling at the altar, two knights striking him on the head with
their swords, the other two standing by, a cross-bearer holding
up the cross (cf no. 423). ff. 235 b, 236.
(302, 303) S. Fabian before the Emperor, in custody of an
officer; and on the ground, two men shooting arrows at him.
ff. 236, 237.
(304, 305) S. Agnes in custody before a judge; and kneeling, an
executioner beheading her. ff. 237 b, 238.
(306, 307) S. Vincent in custody before a judge; and laid, with
hands bound, on a fire tended by two men with bellows and
poker, ff. 238 b, 239.
(308, 309) S. Paul receiving letters from the High Priest
(crowned) to Damascus, three soldiers behind him (cf. no. 432);
and falling from his horse, other horsemen round him, the head
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of the Almighty above (cf. no. 433).
ff. 239 b, 240.
(310, 311) S. Agatha in custody before a king; naked to the
waist, two men with pincers tearing off her breasts, ff. 241 b,
242.
(312, 313) S. Valentine before a judge ; and being beheaded.
ff. 242 b, 243.
(314, 315) S. Juliana before a judge; and hung by her hair to a
tree, two men mocking, ff. 243 b, 244
(316, 317) S. Edward k. m. riding with an attendant, a
huntsman in front with two hounds; and being stabbed in the
groin, when drinking, by the cupbearer, on r. his stepmother
Îfthryth and one of her women. See pi. 25. ff. (244 b, 245.
318 319) S. Tiburtius standing before a judge (crowned); and
being beheaded, ff. 245 b, 246.
(320, 371) S. Mark standing before the altar, three men
throwing a noose round his neck ; and stretched on the ground,
two men mocking, ff 246 b, 247.
(322, 323) S. Vitalis before a judge; and being buried alive.
ff. 247b, 248.
(324, 325) S. James the Less praying, the head of God above in
a cloud; and thrown down from the roof of the Temple, ff. 248
b, 249.
(326, 327) S. Pancras before the emperor; and being beheaded.
fr. 249 b,250.
(328, 329) S. Barnabas preaching; and stretched on a fire
tended by two men with bellows and poker, ff.250 b, 251.
(330 , 331) S. Alban (crowned), in custody of two men in
armour, before a king; and being beheaded, ff. 251 b, 252.
(332 , 333) S. Peter, with a key, before the emperor; and
crucified head downwards, his feet supported by a man on
either side. ff. 252 b, 253.
(334, 335) S. Paul before the emperor; and being beheaded.
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ff. 253 b, 254.
(336, 337) S. Kenelm with an attendant on horseback, following
a huntsman and two hounds ; and being cast by two men into a
pit. fr. 254 b, 255.
(338, 339) S. Margaret before the prefect; emerging from the
back of a dragon, holding a cross in her hand, and, on r., being
beheaded, ff. 255 b, 256.
(340, 341) S. Christina cast into the sea and rescued by angels ;
and held by two men, one of whom stabs her with a sword.
ff. 296 b, 257.
(342, 343) S. James the Greater preaching; and being beheaded.
ff.. 257 b, 258.
(344, 345) S. Oswald, crowned, riding to battle against Penda;
and being slain in a melee, ff. 258 b, 259.
(346, 347) S. Donatus restoring the broken chalice, on r. two
priests holding a houseling cloth, and four communicants
kneeling (see Legenda Aurea, ed. Graesse, 1846, P. 485) ; and
being beheaded, ff. 259b. 260.
(348, 349) S. Laurence before the emperor Decius ; and roasted
on a gridiron, three men with bellows, etc, standing by. fr. 260 b,
261.
(350, 351) S. Tiburtius, in custody of an officer, before a king;
and being beheaded (cf. 322, 323). ff. 261 b, 262.
(352, 353) S. Hippolytus scourged by two executioners, on 1. a
king, seated; and being beheaded, ff. 262 b, 263.
(354, 355) S. Bartholomew, in custody of an officer, before a
king; and being flayed alive, ff. 263 b, 264.
(356, 357) Herod, his queen, and three others at table, a
cupbearer offering a covered cup, on r. Salome standing head
downwards on her hands ; and S. John Baptist being beheaded,
on 1. Salome with a dish. ff. 264 b, 265.
(358, 359) S. Felix, with an officer, before a mitred judge ; and
being beheaded, ff. 265 b, 266.
(360, 361) S. Maurice and two others, as soldiers in mail, before
a king: and kneeling, unarmed, being slain by two soldiers, ff.
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266 b, 267.
(362, 363) A judge giving orders to two swordsmen; and S.
Cyprian (with mitre) and S. Justina being beheaded, ff. 267 b,
268.
(364, 365) SS. Cosmas and Damian, with an officer, before a
judge ; and being beheaded. ff.268b,269.
(366, 367) S. Faith, with an officer, before a mitred judge; and
being beheaded. ff.269b,270.
(368,369) S. Denis, mitred, arguing with a group on 1.; and
being beheaded, also, on r.,carrying his severed head in his
hands. ff.270b, 271.
(370, 371) S. Nicasius,mitred, and two companions before a
judge; and being beheaded, ff. 271 b, 272.
(372, 373) The 11,000 Virgins in a ship at sea ; and landing,
two on shore being slaughtered by soldiers, ff. 272 b, 273.
(374, 375) SS. Simon and Jude, with three magicians on 1. ;
being beaten to death with clubs, or fullers' bats, on r. a devil
issuing from an idol (Leg. Aurea, P. 710). fi. 273b, 274.
(376, 377) S. Quintin, with an officer, before a judge; and being
beheaded, a dove issuing from his mouth (?). ff. 274 b, 275.
(378, 379) S. Theodore, with an officer, before a judge; and
crucified, two men tearing his flesh with forks, ff. 275 b, 276.
(380,381) S. Edmund, crowned, held by two soldiers, before a
king; and bound to a tree, three archers piercing him with
arrows, ff. 276 b, 277.
(382, 383) S. Cecilia, with an officer, before a king; and being
beheaded, ff. 277 b, 278.
(384, 385) S. Clement, with papal mitre, held by two officers,
before a king; and being cast into the sea. ff. 278 b, 279.
(386, 387) S. Chrysogonus, with an officer, before a king; and
being beheaded, fr. 279 b, 280.
(388, 389) S. Katharine, with an officer, before the emperor
Maxentius, on r. the burning of the wise men (Leg,. Aurea, P.
89
790); and being scourged, ff. 280 b, 281.
(390, 391) S. Katharine (crowned) sent to prison ; and visited
there by the empress, who finds angels ministering to her. ff. 281
b, 282.
(392, 393) S. Katharine, with two officers, before the emperor;
and standing in the midst of fragments of the broken wheel, with
angels slaying the executioners, ff. 282 b, 283.
(394, 395) S. Katharine being beheaded ; and laid in a tomb by
angels on Mount Sinai, ff. 283 b, 284.
(396, 397) Two saints unnamed, with an officer, before a judge;
and being beheaded, ff. 284 b, 285.
(398, 399) S. Andrew, with two officers, before a judge; and
crucified on a cross saltire. ff. 285 b, 286.
(401, 401) A female saint before a king; and being beheaded, ff.
286 b, 287.
(402, 403) A bearded saint before a king; and being beheaded,
on 1. two soldiers in armour, with lance and axe. ff. 287 b, 288.
(404-425) Life and Passion of S. Thomas of Canterbury, viz.:(404) His mother, the Saracen Emir's daughter, who had
followed Gilbert Becket from Palestine, is recognised by his
servant Richard in London; on 1. a youth with a basket, on r. a
group, seated,mocking. f. 288b.
(405) She is baptized, immersed in a large font, by two bishops,
f. 289.
(406) She is married to Gilbert Becket by a bishop, f. 289b.
(407) She is lying on a bed, with the infant Thomas in a cradle
by her side. f. 290.
(408) The king gives Thomas a letter nominating him for
archbishop.f. 290b.
(409) Thomas, with mitre, pall, and cross, is consecrated,
f. 291.
(410) Thomas and the king in altercation, two attendants with
each. f. 291 b.
(411) Thomas, in a boat with four others, goes into exile, f. 292.
(412) The king, with outstretched sword, orders all his kindred
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to be banished, f. 292 b.
(413) They are in a boat crossing the Channel, f. 293.
(414) They journey on foot, the women carrying infants,
f. 293b.
(415) Thomas welcomes and blesses them. f. 294.
(416) He resigns to the pope his pontifical ring and cross, f. 294
b.
(417) He is at table with the pope, a youth is drinking from a
cup (miracle of the water changed into wine, see Mat. for Hist,
of abp. T. Becket, Rolls Series, ii, p.291). f. 295.
(418) He is welcomed by the Abbot of Pontigny. f. 295 b.
(419) He has a vision of Christ, as he prays before the altar,
f. 296.
(420) He is reconciled with the king. f. 296b.
(421) He is in a boat returning to England, f. 297.
(422) He is at table, and a messenger announces the arrival of
the four knights (cf. no.300). f. 297 b.
(423) He is martyred, kneeling before the altar, his cross-bearer
standing by (cf. no. 301) f. 298.
(424) He is laid in a tomb by two bishops, one blessing him, the
other censing, f. 298 b.
(425) He kneels, supported by two angels, before the Saviourenthroned.
(426-431) Life of S. Mary Magdalene:(426) with another woman, she is talking with three youths.
(427) She anoints our Lord's feet. f. 300.
(428) She kneels before him in the garden, f. 300 b.
(429) She announces his Resurrection to the Apostles, f. 301.
(430) She is carried up to heaven by angels in a sheet, and
refreshed with [NB431+432-441 missing)
(432) The High Priest (crowned) gives him letters for
Damascus; on 1. two soldiers in armour (cf. no. 308). f.302 b.
(433) He is struck from his horse; five other horsemen with
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him, the head of Christ, with lightning, above (cf. no. 309). f.
303.
(434) An angel appears to Ananias; on r. Ananias leads Paul by
the hand. f. 303 b
(435) Paul seated, Ananias addressing him; on r. they are at
table, f. 304.
(436) Paul, naked in a large font, is baptized, the hand of God
above, f. 304 b.
(437) Paul, with nimbus, preaches to a seated group, f. 305.
(438) On 1. Nero seated; in centre Patroculus falling headlong
with a devil on either side of him; on r. Paul kneeling in prayer,
three others standing (Leg. Aur., p. 381). f. 305 b.
(439) On 1. Nero seated; on r. Paul, in the grasp of an officer,
borrows a veil from Plautilla (ib. p. 383). f. 306.
(440)Paul, with his eyes covered with Plautilla's veil, is
beheaded, f. 306 b.
(441)He appears to Nero, seated at table with the empress (ib.
P. 384). f. 307.
(442-455)Life and Passion of S. Margaret:(442) She sits spinning, with sheep feeding beside her; on r. the
prefect Olybrius on horseback (ib. p. 400). f.307b.
(443) She stands, in. custody, before the prefect (crowned, with
sceptre).
(444) She is tied by the hair, scourged and lacerated with forks,
f. 308 b.
(445) She is committed by the prefect to prison, f. 309.
(446) She is issuing from the back of a dragon, holding a cross in
her hands, f. 309 b.
(447) She scourges two devils, holding a cross in her left band,
f. 310.
(448) She stands, in custody of two officers, before the prefect,
f. 310 b.
(449) She is in a tripod cauldron over a fire; on r. and 1. a man
with bellows, f. 311.
(450) She is again before the prefect, as before, f. 311 b.
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(451) She is led of to execution, three women following, f. 312.
(452) She is kneeling in prayer, gazing at the Saviour in the
clouds above; on 1. three women, on r. two executioners
mocking, f. 312 b.
(453) She is beheaded ; on 1. and r, two men struck prostrate
from heaven, f. 313.
(454) She is laid in a tomb, the hand of God in a cloud above,
f. 313 b.
(455) She kneels, supported by two angels, before the Saviour
enthroned, f. 314.
(456-463) Life of S. Nicholas:(456) He lies in a cradle beside his mother's bed, a woman at
the foot of the bed. f. 314b.
(457) He refuses his mother's breast (Leg. Aur., P. 22); her
husband and two women at the foot of her bed. f. 315.
(458) A poverty-stricken neighbour lies on a bed, at his feet his
three daughters stand weeping (ib. P. 23). f. 315 b.
(459) S. Nicholas puts gold in at the window to relieve them
from want and shame, f. 316.
(460) A bishop, seated, explains to four clergy how they may
recognize the divinely chosen successor to the ace of Myra.
f. 316 b.
(461) S. Nicholas is consecrated bishop, f. 317.
(462) He is addressing three children standing naked in a tub.
f. 317 b.
(463) He is stilling a storm and saving a crowded vessel from
wreck, f. 318.
Vellum ; ff. 319. 10 7/8. in. x 6 in. Early XIV cent. Sec. fol. in
Psalter, 'Astiterunt'. The miniatures and tinted drawings noticed
above all appear to be by the same artist, whose hand may also
be seen in 19 B.xv.The initials of the ordinary psalms are
decorated with foliage, and occasionally with dragons, etc, both
in the interior and at the corners, and initials of verses are in
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gold on pink and blue grounds relieved with white. The linefillings consist of ribbons of the same colours varied with gold
and covered with very delicate white foliated and other designs.
There is no indication of provenance, and in the Calendar the
only English saints in gold, with a duplex, are S. Thomas (both
29 Dec., and his Translation, 7 July) and S. Edward the
Confessor (Transl., 13 Oct.). On f. 84 is the half- erased 16th
cent, note, 'This boke was sume tyme the Erie of
Rutelands, and it was his wil that it shulde by successioun all
way go to the lande of Ruteland or to him that linyally succedis
by reson of inheritaunce in the seide lande.1 No doubt this refers
to Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland of that family (cr.
1525, d. 1543). Henry, the 2nd Earl, was imprisoned at the
accession of Queen Mary, which may account for the fact
recorded in a Latin note by another hand at the end (f. 319 b),
that in Oct. 1553 the MS. was about to be taken abroad ('nautis
ad exteros transvehendum datum'), but was detained by Baldwin
Smith, a London customs officer, and given to the Queen. On
this account it is known as 'Queen Mary's Psalter'. The binding,
which is much worn, dates from her time. It consists of oak
boards covered by crimson velvet, with a large pomegranate,
Mary's badge, worked on the sides, and silver-gilt corner-bosses
and clasp-fittings, the latter engraved with the Tudor badges of a
portcullis, fleur-de-lis, lion and dragon.
Perhaps Cat. of 1666, f. 15 b, and CMA. 7768.
Katharine Aston
Additional 36452
The Aston Papers Volume IX.
Private family correspondence of the Aston Family of Tixall,
Staffs. 1613-1703.
ff225.
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Katherine Austen
Additional 4454
Essays, meditations, memoranda, etc., in prose and verse by
Katherine Austen, 'Book M'; 1664-1668. A note (f. 1) states that
her husband was born 11 Aug. 1622 and died 31 Oct. 1658 (?
Thomas Austen of London, matriculated at Lincoln College,
Oxford, 24 Apr. 1640). By other family notes in the volume it
appears (f. 93) that she was the daughter of Robert Wilson,
perhaps of Highbury (cf. ff. 103b, 104). Cf. also
references, f. 72, to her brother-in-law 'Sir Edw. Cropley' and to
Aunt Wilson'. Sir Edward Cropley, 2nd Bart., married Martha,
dau. of Robert Wilson, of London. The note (f. 114b) Tom
went to Oxford' probably refers to Thomas, son of Thomas
Austen of Hoxton, who matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford,
16 July 1664.
Paper; ff. 114. Small quarto. 1664-1668.
Jane Barker
Additional 21621
A collection of poems, referring to the times; since the King's
[James II] accession to the Crown, by Jane Barker, authoress of
the first part of Political Recreations and dedicated to HRH [James
Francis Edward] Prince of Wales, the Pretender in 1700. With
the signature of the authoress at the end of the dedication. On
folio 1 is a plate of the arms of Armand Louis du PlessisRichelieu, Due d'Aigullon.
Paper, ff 55, Quarto.
96
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Devonshire Manuscript
Additional 17492
Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, with a few of Lord Surrey,
Anthony Lee, Richard Hatfield, and EK [Edmund Knyvet?],
and with others in autograph by Thomas Lord Howard (written
in the Tower), his wife Lady Margaret [afterwards Countess of
Lennox], her son "Harry Stuart" [Lord Darnley] and Mary
Shelton [the mistress of Sir John Clere?].
In original stamped leather covers, bearing the initials MF and
SE. The names of Lady Margaret Howard and Mary Shelton
are inscribed by their own hands on the flyleaf.
Paper, ff 96, Small quarto. Earlier half of the 16th century.
Lettice Gary
Additional 45388
JOHN DUNCON: Account of the Life and Death of Lettice
Gary, wife of Lucius Gary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (d. 15 Apr.
1647), written in the form of a letter from Duncon, Lady
Falkland's domestic chaplain, to her mother, Lady Morison, wife
of Sir Richard Morison, of Tooley Park, co. Leic.; (?) 16471648. The present text differs from all the printed editions, but
as some of the corrections, cancellations, and additions appear
in the printed text, it is possibly a revised autograph draft. The
work was first printed in The returnes of spiritual comfort and grief
in a devout soul, 1648, pp. 143-202; second edition, enlarged,
1649; and separately issued in a third edition, with additions,
1653, under the title
The Holy life and death of... Letice,
Vi-Countess Falkland (Wing D 2605, D 2606, D 2604
respectively). The second edition was reprinted by M F
Howard, 1908.
Paper; ff. 19. Quarto. (?) 1647-1648. On ff. 2, 4, 10, 14 is a
watermark (a pot with the letters GRO on it) similar to that in
97
W. A. Churchill, Watermarks in Paper, 1935, no. 469, p. cccxlvi;
the Churchill specimen is dated 1645. On f. 1 (reversed) is
written 'E Dawson1 in a 19th-cent. hand.
Colbeck Radford cat. no. 80, 1934, item 48. Presented by
Professor T O Mabbott, of New York.
Grace Gary
Egerton 1044
England's Forewarninge, or a relation of true, strange and wonderful
visions and prophetical revelations concerning these tragicall times,
shewed foure or five yeeres since to Mrs Grace Gary, of Bristoll, etc3
dated June, 1644. Autograph. The presentation copy to Sir
Benjamin Reager, Knt. A later hand has filled the greater part of
the volume with medicinal and culinary recipes.
c50ff. Small quarto.
Elizabeth Jocelyn
Additional 4378
The Mother's Legacie to her Unborne Childe, by Elizabeth Jocelyn
(died 1622), with The Approbation of Dr Thomas Goad and
Dedicatory Letter to her husband Tourell Jocelin. Autograph;
First printed in 1624 with Approbation and Letter.
Paper, 5Iff, Duodecimo, c.1622.
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Mary Glarcke
Harleian 1860
A paper book in small folio wherein are fairly written divers of the
Translations made by Mrs Mary Clarcke from Eusebius; and by
her dedicated to the then Lady Mary, afterwards Queen Mary, in
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the following order:
(1)
(2)
(3)
A Pystle to the Lady Maryes Grace f 1
Contenta Proemij, necnon sigulorum Capitum Libri Primi
Ecclesiasticae Historiae Eusebij Pamphili. f 9
Eustebij Pamphili Episcopi Caeariae Palestinae Ecclesiasticae
Historiae Liber Primus; Maria CLARCKE Interprete
flO
Then follows her English translations from the Greek:
(4)
(5)
The Contenys of the Fyrste Booke.
f 59
The Fyrste Booke of the Ecclesyastycall Hystorye of Eusebius
Pamphyly Byshoppe of Caesare in Palestyne.
f 61
(6)
The Contenys of the Seconde Booke.
f 114
(7)
The Seconde Booke, &c.
f 116
(8)
The Contenys of the Thyrde Booke.
f 170
(9)
The Thyrde Booke, &c.
f 172
(10) The Contenys of the Fourthe Booke.
f 243b
(11) The Fourthe Booke, &c.
f 246b
(12) The Contenys of the Vth Booke.
f 306
(13) The Vth Booke, &c.
f 308
Paper; ff 379, Small folio. 16th century.
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Katharine Parr
Additional 24965
LETTER-BOOK of Thomas Dacre, 2nd Lord Dacre of
Gillesland, warden of the Marches towards Scotland, preceded
by original letters, warrants, etc, addressed to him; 2 June,
1523-24 Sept. 1524.
Harl 1860, fl: Work of Mary Clarcke
99
100
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here are also, at ff. 144, 148, two papers belonging to the years
1503, 1511. The original letters, etc, are in order of date; but in
the Letter-book, which begins at f. 144, chronological
sequence is not strictly adhered to. The contents are:1. Letters to Lord Dacre fromH[enry Algernon Percy, Earl of] Northumberland; Wresill
Castle, 5 June [1523]. Signed f. 10.
Margaret [Queen of Scotland, widow of James IV.]; 10 June,
1523-23 July, 1524. The first four hologaph; the rest copies.
ff.. 11, 115,117,133,162,297.
James [Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrew's], Chancellor [of
Scotland]; Edinburgh, etc, 10 June, 1523-23 July, 1524. The
first two signed, with seals; the rest copies, ff. 12, 40, 162,292 b,
296.
T[homas Wolsey] Cardinal of York; Westminster, 12 June
[1523J-21 July [1524]. Signed; the first and fifth with seals, ff.
13, 14, 16, 89, 93, 109, 120,128, 136.
T[homas Howard, Earl of] Surrey [afterwards Duke of
Norfolk]; Newcastle, London, etc., 18 June [1523]-23 July
[1524]. Signed and holograph; with seals; the last two copies ff.
18, 19, 22, 27, 31, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 46, 50-53, 55, 56, 58-65,
67,77,88. 189.299.
[Dr.] T[homas] Magnus; Newcastle, 24 June-14 Dec. [1523].
Holograph; with seals.ff. 20, 21, 54, 71, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 81.
Maud Parre [widow of Sir Thomas Parre]; Rye, East
Hampsted, Greenwich, 14 July, 22 Aug. [1523],15 Mar.
[1524]. Signed; the last partly autograph, ff. 23, 38, 103.
Henry VIII.; Greenwich, 16 July [1523]. Signed; with seal. f.
25. M[armaduke Huby], abbat of Fountains; Fountains, 18 July
[1523]. Signed; with seal. E 26.
William Blithmane; Newcastle, 26 July [1523]. Holograph.
f. 28.
[Sir] William Compton [Chancellor of Ireland]; Richmond, 29
101
July [1523]. Signed, f. 29.
John More; Newcastle, 2 Aug. [1523]. Holograph; signed also by
[Sir] John Heron, f. 30.
[Sir] William Parre [afterwards Lord Parr and Marquis of
Northampton]; Kendall, 6 Aug. [1523]. Signed; with seal. f. 35.
Adam Trumbull, of Bullerwell; Bullerwell, 6 Aug. [1523], f. 36.
Thomas [Ker], abbat of Kelso; 8 Sept. [1523], 28 Feb. [1524].
Holograph; the first unsigned, ff. 44, 97.
[Christopher Threlkeld or Thirkell]; Coldstream, 13 Sept.
[1523]. Copy. f. 48.
Humfrey Conyngesby; London, 15 Oct. [1523]. Holograph,
f. 57.
W[illiam] Frankeleyn [Franklin], Chancellor of Durham
[afterwards Dean of Windsor, etc]; Newcastle, Durham, 8 Nov.
[1523]-16 Mar. [1524], Holograph; with seals, ff. 66, 84, 101,
104.
Edmund [Whalley], abbat of [St. Mary's] York; "at our
Monasterie," 2 Dec. [1523]. Signed, f. 68.
Francis [Lord] Talbot [afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury];
Handsworth, 4 Dec. [1523]. Signed, f. 72.
William Smyth; Newcastle [8 Dec. 1523]. Holograph, f. 76.
G[eorge Talbot, Earl of] Shrewsbury; Handsworth, 17 Dec.
[1523]. Signed, f. 83.
[Sir] William Ellerkar; [28 Dec. 1523]. Hologaph; with seal. f.
85.
Richard Thirkeld; [- Dec. 1523]. Holograph, f. 86.
John [Stuart, Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland]; Edinburgh,
12 Jan.- 3 May [1524]. Eng. and Fr. The first three signed, the
rest copies; the second and third with seals, ff. 87, 102, 107, 223,
231, 246, 249, 250, 252, 266.
William Holgill, priest [Steward to Cardinal Wolsey]; Savoy, 17
Feb. [1524]. Signed, with autograph P. S. by Magnus, f. 92.
[Sir] John Bulmer; Norham [24 Feb. 1524]. Holograph, f. 96.
Thomas; Darcy, Lord] Darcy; Templehurst, 19 Mar. [1524].
Signed; with autograph postscript, f. 105.
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[Sir] W[illiam] Bulmer [Lieutenant of the East March]; Newton
[- Mar. 1524]. Signed, f. 106.
Sir Brian Tuke; London, 12 June, 1524. Holograph, f. 124.
Robert [Maxwell, Lord] Maxwell; Lochmabane,19 June [1524].
Signed, f. 126.
[Archibald Douglas], Earl of Angus; London, 4 July, 1524.
Signed, f. 127.
[James Hamilton], Earl of Arran; Kennelle, 16 July [1524].
Signed, with autograph postscript; with seal. f. 135.
Robert Alanby, Prior of St. Bees; St. Bees, 18 Oct. [1523].
Copy. f. 188.
2. Copies of letters from Lord Dacre to[William Conyers] Lord Conyers; Newcastle, 2 June, 1523,
f. 149.
[Thomas Ker] Abbat of Kelso; Hexham, 5 June, 1523, 23 Jan.,
3 Mar.
1524, ff. 149b, 21 I b , 224 b.
[James Beaton, Archbishop of St. Andrew's] Chancellor of
Scotland; Whitingham, Morpeth, etc., 5 June, 1523-4 Aug.
1524, ff. 149 b, 155 b, 271 b, 278 b, 286 b, 290 b, 292 b, 293,
303 b, 304.
The gentry of the border; Carlisle, Morpeth, 6, 26 Juue, 1523,
ff. 150b, 164.
Cardinal Wolsey; Morpeth, etc, 12 June, 1523-26 July, 1524. ff.
151 b, 158, 161, 194, 198, 203, 205 b. 207 b, 212 b, 214, 218,
225 b, 234, 236, 256, 258 b, 261, 270, 277 b, 280, 285, 291,
300.
[Thomas Howard] Earl of Surrey [afterwards Duke of Norfolk];
Carlisle, Morpeth, etc, 12 June, 1523-28 July, 1524, ff. 152, 154
b, 165 b, 167, 167 b, 168, 172b, 173b, 175 b, 177 b, 182, 183,
184, 187, 187b, 190, 191, 191b, 192, 195, 195b, 198b, 204b,
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209, 210 b, 211, 239, 302.
Sir William Percy; Harbottle, 13 June, 1523, f. 153 b.
[Henry Algernon Percy] Earl of Northumberland; Harbottle,
Nawarth, 14 June, 4 Dec. 1523, ff. 154,197.
[Margaret] Queen of Scotland; Hexham, Whittingham,
Morpeth, etc, 14 June, 1523-26 July, 1524, ff. 156, 174 b, 175,
209, 242, 264 b, 265, 274 b, 279, 286, 291 b, 293 b.
Dr. [Thomas] Magnus; Morpeth, Naworth, 18 June, 29 Nov.,
14 Dec. 1523, ff. 157, 196, 199 b. William Hals, steward of the
household of the Earl of Surrey; Morpeth, 21 June, 1523, f. 157
b. Edward Reyngeley, Master of the Ordnance; Morpeth, 21
June, 1523, 222. f. 158.
[Andrew Carr or Ker] Laird of Cesfurd Mark Carr, and David
Pringle; Morpeth, 8 July, 1523, f. 166 b.
[Thomas Hawley], Carlisle herald; Morpeth, 8 July, 1523,
f. 166 b. [Marmaduke Huby], Abbat of Fountains; Morpeth, 10
July, 1523, f. 166b.
Sir Edward Grey, of Chillingham; Harbottle, 16 July 1523,
f. 168 b.
Anthony Brekenbury; Newcastle, 12 July, 1523, f. 172.
William Clifton [Vicar-General of Durham]; Newcastle, 21 July,
1523, f. 172 b.
[Maud] Lady Parr; Newcastle, Morpeth, 30 July, 1523, 25 Mar.
1524, ff. 173, 230 b.
Sir John Heron; Naworth, 3 Aug. 1523, f. 174.
[Edmund Whalley], Abbat of St. Mary's, York; Whittingham,
Morpeth, etc, 7 Sept. 1523-28 July, 1524, ff. 176 b, 196 b, 226
b, 242 b, 277, 303.
- Weshton; Kirkoswald, 5 Oct. 1523, f. 182.
Laurence Starkey, Sheriff of Lancashire; Carlisle, 8 Oct. 1523,
f. 183 b.
[Henry Clifford] Lord Clifford [afterwards Earl of Cumberland];
Carlisle, 14 Oct. 1523, f. 186.
- Coningsby; Naworth, Morpeth, 27 Oct. 1523, 11 Jan., 25 Mar.
1524, ff. 190b, 210, 230.
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William Pekering, Robert Moresby, and Gilbert Lowther;
Naworth, 27 Oct. 1523, f. 191.
[George Talbot] Earl of Shrewsbury; Naworth, 14 Nov. 1523,
f. 192.
William Frankeling [Franklin], Chancellor of Durham;
Naworth, Morpeth, 11 Nov., 14 Dec. 1523, 13 Mar. 1524, ff.
192 b, 199 b, 227.
John Hering, provost of the church of St. Oswald, Kirkoswald;
5 Dec. 1523. Latin, f. 197 b.
(Sir Anthony Ughtred] captain of Berwick; Morpeth, 10, 15
Dec. 1523, ff. 197 b, 207.
Sir John Buhner; Morpeth, 14 Dec. 1523, 9, 27 Feb. 1524,
ff. 200, 221.
Sir Roger Grey and Sir William Ellerker; Morpeth, 14 Dec.
1523, f. 200.
Sir William Eure; Morpeth, 14 Dec. 1523, 9 Feb. 1524, ff. 200
b, 221.
[Henry le Scrope] Lord Scrope; Morpeth, 17 Dec. 1523,
f. 200 b.
[Francis Talbot] Lord Talbot [afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury];
Morpeth, 12 Dec. 1523, f. 201 b.
(John Stuart] Duke of Albany; Morpeth, Whittingham, etc., 24
Dec. 1523- 6 May, 1524, ft. 202 b, 205, 205 b, 209 b, 211 b,
219 b, 221 b, 228, 228 b, 239 b, 240 b, 241 b, 242 b, 244, 257,
263, 264.
Sir William Ellerker; Morpetb, 31 Dec. 1523, f. 206.
John Carr [Ker] and John Clavering; Morpeth, 29 Dec. 1523,
f. 206 b.
[Richard] Candishe, Master of the Ordnance at Berwick;
Morpeth, 15 Dec. 1523, 11 July, 1524, f. 206 b, 287.
[William] Holgill; Morpeth, 30 Dec. 1523, f. 207.
Thomas Musgrave, constable of Bowcastle; Morpeth, 1 Jan.
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1524, f. 207 b.
John de Barbon [secetary to the Duke of Albany]; Morpeth, 24
Jan. 1524, f. 212.
Sir Thomas Forster, marshal of Berwick; Morpeth, 8 Feb. 1524,
f. 220.
The Prior and convent of Lanercost; Morpeth, 28 Feb. 1524,
f. 224.
Sir John Delavale; Morpeth, 4 Mar. 1524, f. 225.
[Thomas Darcy] Lord Darcy; Morpeth, 21, 30 Mar. 1524, ff.
227 b, 233.
Sir William Buhner; Morpeth, 28 Mar. 1524, f. 229 b.
"Sundry lordes of Scotlande;" Hexham, 30 Apr. 1524, f. 267.
Sir William Lisle; Morth, 13 May, 1524, f. 268.
William Carr [Ker]; Morpeth, 14 May, 1524, f. 268 b.
[James Hamilton] Earl of Arran; Morpeth, 19 May, 12, 18 July,
4 Aug. 1524, ff. 269, 287 b, 292, 304 b.
Sir Ralph Fenwick; Naworth, 16 June, 1524, f. 281 b.
[Robert Maxwell] Lord Maxwell; Carlisle, 20 June, 1524,
f. 282.
3. Warrant from T[homas Howard, Earl of] Surrey, lieutenant of
the army in the north, etc., appointing Lord Dacre his temporary
deputy; Newcastle, 3 June, 15 Hen. VIII. [1523]. Vellum.
Signed; with seal. f. 9.
4. Articles for the marriage of [John] Scrope [afterwards Lord
Scrope] to [Katharine] Parre, daughter of Sir Thomas Parre; [14
July, 1523],f. 24.
5. T[homas Howard, Earl of] Surrey, to Queen Margaret of
Scotland; [3 Aug. 1523]. Copies, ff. 33, 34;-to Cardinal Wolsey;
[14 Sept. 1523]. Copy, f 47;-to Sir Edw. Radclyffe; Barnard
Castle, 23 July [1523]. Copy. f. 171.
6. [The Prioress of Coldstream to Sir John Bulmer; Sept. 1523,
f. 42.
7. "A diretion taken for the ordre of Tyndale by my lord lieutenaunte;" Dec. 1523]. Signed T. Surrey, f. 69. With list of
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names in the band of, and signed by, the Earl of Surrey.
8. Towns in the East Marches willing to take soldiers to board;
[Feb. 1524]. In the hand of Sir John Bulmer. f. 98. with copy,
f. 100.
9. Towns in the Middle Marches willing to take soldiers to
board; [Feb. 1524]. In the band of, and signed by, John Eure.
f. 99. With copy, f. 100 b.
10. Bail given to Lord Dacre by Sir Nicholas Ridley, William
Carnaby and others, for the appearance of Sir N. Ridley at the
assize for allowing the escape of a felon; Hexham, 7 May, 16
Hen. VIII. [1524]. Signed, f. 114.
11. Henry VIII. to James V. of Scotland; [21 July, 1524]. Copy,
f. 138;-to Queen Margaret of Scotland; 6, [21] July, 1524.
Copies, ff. 140, 283.
12. Cardinal Wolsey to [James Beaton] Chancellor of Scotland;
[21 July, 1524]. Copy. f. 142;-to [Thomas Howard] Earl of
Surrey; The More, 1 Oct. [1523]. Copy. f. 178.
13. Bond from Sir William Heron and Sir John Heron to Lord
Dacre to produce John Hall and Lowry Hull at the next session;
Newcastle, 24 Sept. 16 Hen. VIII. [1524]. Signed, f. 143.
14. Articles concerning the dowry of Margaret, daughter of
Henry VII., on her marriage with James IV. of Scotland; June
[1503]. Latin Copy. f. 144.
15. Bills of cattle stolen on the borders; Coldstream, 19 July,
3 Hen. VIII. [1511],f. 148.
16. Plans of expeditions by Lord Dacre against the Scottish
borders; 10, 29 June [1523], ff. 150, 164. With lists of
commanders, etc, ff. 150 b, 164 b.
17. [William Dacre] Lord Graistok [Greystock, afterwards Lord
Dacre] and Sir [Christopher] Dacre to [Thomas Ker] abbat of
Kelso, [Andrew Ker] laird of Farnihurst, and Mark Carr [Ker];
Carlisle, 12 June, 1523. Copy. f. 154.
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8. Queen Margaret of Scotland to Henry VIII.; Perth, 24 June
[1523].
Copies, ff. 156 b, 163; - to Patrick Synclare;-13 Got. [1523].
Copy. f. 185 b.
19. License from Lord Dacre to Thomas Dymmylton, of
Grymlisby [Grimsby], to engage Scotsmen to navigate certain
ransomed vessels from Leith to Berwick or Holieland [Holy
Island]; Morpeth, 3 July, 1523. Copy. f. 166.
20. Memorandum of misdemeanours in Northumberland; [July,
1523], f. 169.
21. Memorandum of bills of complaint of Nicholas Thornton
against Lord Dacre; 16 July, 1523, f. 170.
22. Sir Christopher Dacre to [Edmund Whalley] Abbat of St.
Mary's, York; Carlisle, 7 Sept. 1523. Copy. f. 176 b.
23. Attestation by Lord Dacre concerning the family of
Dichand, of Worsington; Newcastle, 2 Sept,. 1523. Copy.
f. 177.
24. Sir Brian Tuke to the Earl of Surrey; The More, 1 Oct.
1523. Copy. f. 180.
25. - to the prioress of Coldstream; Edinburgh [13 Oct. 1523].
Copy. f. 185.
26. [William Dacre] Lord Graistok [Greystock] to - Salter;
Naworth, 14 Nov. 1523. Copy. f. 192 b.
27. Gentlemen serving in the Scotch war [? Nov. 1523], f. 193.
28. "Copie of the Duke of Albany Instructions" delivered to a
pursuivant to lay before the Earl of Surrey; [Dec. 1523], f. 198b
29.Commission from Henry VII. [sic] to Sir. John Musgrave, as
constable of Bowcastle, co. Cumberland; nd, f 202.
30. Instructions from Lord Dacre to John More to be declared
to the Duke of Albany, through John de Barbon, his secretary,
and in his absence to the lords of the council of Scotland;
Morpeth, 28 Jan. 1524. Copies, ff. 213, 214 b.
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31. Instructions from the Duke of Albany to John de Barbon, his
secretary, to be shown to Lord Dacre; Edinburgh, 5 Feb.
1523 [4].
Eng. translation from the French, f. 215 b.
32.The Duke of Albany to Cardinal Wolsey; Edinburgh, 28
Mar., 13 Apr. [1524]. English and French Copies, ff. 232, 247.
With translation, f 248.
33. Instructions from the Duke of Albany to Unicorn Pursuivant
to be shown to Lord Dacre; Edinburgh, 13, 18 Apr. 1524.
Copies, ff. 249, 251.
34. Agreement between Queen Margaret of Scotland and the
Duke of Albany; [Apr. 1524.] French Copy. f. 253. With
translations, ff. 255, 266 b.
35. "Copie of a protection granted by my lord Dacre to all
the inhabitantes of Tyndale," etc; Morpeth, 13 May, 1524,
f. 268 b.
36. "Copie of a proclamacion" from Lord Dacre, summoning the
inhabitants of Tynedale to appear before him at the court of
Wark; Naworth, 16 June, 1524, f. 281 b.
37. Warrant from Cardinal Wolsey to Richard Candishe, Master
of the Ordnance at Berwick, to deliver bows and arrows to Lord
Dacre; Greenwich, 31 Mar. 1524. Copy. f. 288.
38. Institutions from Lord Dacre to John More and William
Hathrington, to be declared to [James Beaton] Chancellor of
Scotland [16 July 1524]. Copy. f. 289.
At f. 1 is an index of contents by [Sir.] W [alter] Cfalverley]
T[revelyan, Bart.], 1828 ; and at f. 7 "a Note of Things to be
transscrib'd from this Collection", in the hand of Thomas
Hearne, who printed some of the letters in his "Chronicles of
Otterburne and Whethamstede".
Paper; 1523, 1524. Folio.
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Margaret Roper/More
Royal 17Dxiv
TRANSCRIPTS of works and letters, etc, of Sir Thomas
More, Lord Chancellor (exec. 1535), mostly written by
him when a prisoner in the Tower (April, 1534-July,
1535). In English, with a few exceptions. Printed,
with a few exceptions mentioned below, in The Workes
of Sir T. More (ed. by William Rastell, his nephew) in
1557, for which edition these transcripts were probably
made. They are in a clerk's hand, but revised by
another (see ff. 390 b, 426 b, &c.). Contents :1. Letters of More:- (a) 'To all my loving frendes';
n.d. [circ. Apr 1534]. In Workes, p. 1432; cf. Gairdner,
Letters and Papery Hen. VIII, 1534, no. 747. f. 1;(b) To Dr. Nicholas Wilson, two letters; n. d. In Workes,
p. 1443, L. andP.y 1534, nos. 1115, 1116. ff. 1, 1 b;(c) To his wife; Woodstock, 3 Sept. [1529]. In Workes,
p. 1419, cf. L. and P., 1529, 1530, no. 5941. f. 4;-(d) To
Thomas Cromwell, the King's Secretary; n. d. [circa
Mar. 1533/4]. Omitted by Rastell, but printed by Burnet,
Hist, of the Reformation, v, 1861, p. 431, and in Singer's
ed. of Roper's Life of Sir T. More, 1817 and 1822, app.
ii, cf. L. and P., 1534, no. 287. Another copy is in
Arundel MS. 152, f. 296. f. 376;-(e) To Henry VIII;
[Chelsea, 5 Mar. 1534]. In Workes, p. 1423. Variant
drafts of the original are at the Record Office and in
Cotton MS. Cleopatra E. VI, f. 176, see L. and P., 1534,
no. 288. f. 383;- (f) To Thomas Cromwell, two letters;
Chelsea, Saturday [Feb. or Mar.] and n. d. [5 Mar.
1533/4]. In Workes, pp. 1423,1424, cf L. and P., nos. 265,
289. The original of the latter is in Cleop. E. VI, f. 144.
ff. 385 b, 386;-(g) To his daughter Margaret, wife of
William Roper, eight letters; nd [April 1534-July
1535]. Other copies of some are in Arundel MS. 152.
All are printed in Workes, pp. 1457 passim, cf.
L. and P., nos. 576, 575, 1119, 745 (all of 1534), 988, 659,
815 (of 1535), and 1118 (of 1534). ff. 393 b, 398, 422 b,
425, 426 b, 427 b, 431, and 453 b (continued on f. 394 b);
-(h) To [master Leder, a virtuous priest]; 16 Jan.
[1534/5]. In Workesy p. 1450, cf L. and P., 1535, no. 54.
f. 435;-(i) To Antonio Bonvisi; n.d. [1535]. Latin.
Printed, with an Engl. translation, in Workes, p. 1455,
cf. L. and P., 1535, no. 987. f. 438.
2. Treatise by Sir T. More, but purporting to be
'A dyalogue of comforte agaynst trybulacion made by
an Hungaryen in latyne, and translated owt of latyne
in to frenche, and owt of frenche in to englysche1, the
speakers being 'Anthony1 and his nephew 'Vyncent'
(Workes,p. 1139).f. 5.
3. 'A treatyse vppon the passyon1 (ib. p. 1270);
wanting the short introduction in the printed edition,
and imperfect at the end. f. 193.
4. Treatise entitled 'To receyve the blyssed bodye
of our Lorde, sacramentally and virtually bothe' (ib.
p. 1264). f. 315.
5. 'De tristitia, tedio, pavore, oratione Christi ante
captionem eius, Mathei 26, Marci 14, Luce 22, lohannis
18.' Printed in T. Mori Opera, Frankfurt, 1689, p. 148
(an English translation by his granddaughter Mary
Bassett in Workes, p. 1350). f. 325.
6. Short Latin treatise on 'Omne periurium est...
mortale peccatum' (cf. Arundel MS. 152, f. 293). In
the colophon the author states that he has treated this
subject in the 4th Book of his Dialogue (cf. Workes,
p. 103). f. 436 b.
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copies of some see also Arundel MS. 152) :-(a) Letter from Alice
Allington [wife of Sir Giles Allington and daughter of Sir T.
More's second wife] to her step-sister, Margaret Roper;'Monday
after Sainte Laurence1 [17 Aug. 1534]. In Workes, p. 1433, cf L.
and P., 1534, no. 1113. f. 402;-(b) Margaret Roper to Lady
Allington; n. d. [Aug. 1534]. In Workes, p. 1434, cf. L. and P.,
no. 1114. f. 404 ;-(c) Petition of More's wife and children for his
release; n.d. [?Dec. 1534]. Not printed by Rastell, but in
Archaeologia, XXVII, 1838, p. 369, cf. L. andP., 1534, no.
1591. f. 440;-(d) Acts of Parliament, 26 Hen. VIII, cap. 23, and
27 Hen. VIII, cap. 58, for More's attainder (see Statutes of the
Realm, iii, pp. 528, 629). ff. 441 b, 450 b;-(e) Indictment and
record of trial of More, 1 July, 1535. Printed in Archaeologia,
xxvii, p.370, cf. L.andP., 1535, no. 974. f. 444;-(f) Two stanzas
in rhyme royal, headed respectively 'Lewes the lost louer' and
'Dauy the diser', printed as 'two short ballettes which SirThomas
More made ... while he was prisoner', Workes, p. 1432, cf. L. and
P., 1434, no. 748. Beg. 'Ey flatteringe [Dr. Gairdner emends
'Fy, flatteringe'] fortune, looke thow neuer so faire and 'Longe
was I, ladye lucke, your seruynge man', f. 453;-(g) Latin
quatrain and distich punning on More's name. f. 453.
Quatrain :'Moraris, si sit spes hie tibi longa morandi,
Hoc te uel Morus, More, monere potest.
Desine morari et coelo metitare (sic) morari,
Hoc te uel Morus, etc.'
Distich:'Qui memor est Mori, longe tibi tempora vitae
Sint et ad aetemam peruia porta mori.'
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-(h) Two letters of Margaret Roper to her father; n. d.
[1534]. In Workesy pp. 1432, 1446, cf. L. andP., 1534,
nos. 746, 1117. ff. 454, 454b.
Attached to the fly-leaf (f. 1) is a Latin letter of thanks for
assistance in procuring a servant (?); of no obvious connexion
with the rest of the volume.
Paper; ff. i + 455. Folio. 11 in. x 73/4 in. c!550-1557.
From the Theyer library, sale-cat, no. 76; CMA. 6582.
Brief Notes on Authors and Manuscripts
Christine de Pisan
Born in Venice in 1363 or 1364, Christine was the daughter of
Thomas de Pizzano, a physician and astrologer, who gave her an
excellent education. She spent most of her life in Paris, where
she married (c!379) Etienne de Castel, secretary to Charles V
and Charles VI. When he died c!389, she was left impoverished
with three young children, as well as other family members, to
support. From c. 1393, she decided to try to live by writing and
working as a scribe, rather than re-marrying, which was the
obvious way for women to make their living in this period.
Whatever Christine's reasons for choosing to make her writing
her life - an unheard-of decision for a woman - it certainly paid
off, as many members of the aristocracy took an interest in her,
and started to pay her well for her writing.
Christine's son lived in England in the early fifteenth century,
where she corresponded with John Montacute, Earl of Salisbury
(executed in 1399 for conspiring to kill Henry IV). Her
reputation was soon established in this country, as it already was
in France, where many lords and ladies were her patrons. Many
members of the French royal family were admirers of Christine,
including Charles VI and Queen Isabeau, the Duke of Berry, the
Duke of Burgundy, and the Duke of Orleans. Christine often
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presented beautifully illuminated manuscrpts of her works to
these lords and ladies, and indeed two of the manuscripts
presented here have a royal provenance: Harleian 4431,
prepared under Christine's supervision, was presented to
Isabeau de Baviere, Queen of France, in 1410/11, while Royal
15 E vi was a present to Margaret of Anjou when she married
Henry VI of England (Isabeau's grandson) in 1445.
Christine wrote love poems from a woman's perspective, and
prose works defending women against typical masculine
attitudes of courtly love. She also engaged in heated academic
debates with male scholars of the age on the position of women,
denouncing the way in which women were portrayed in
literature such as the Roman de la Rose, destroying the
misogynistic arguments typical of medieval literature with wit
and skill. Christine's final piece of work was the Hymn to Joan of
Arc, the only contemporary tribute to Joan. Her extraordinarily
successful and prolific career came to an end in c!429, when she
died.
Marie de France
The earliest known female poet writing in French, Marie's
identity remains obscure. All that is known for certain is that
she lived in England in the twelfth century, was evidently
acquainted with royalty, knew English and Latin but wrote in
French. Some scholars have identified her with the Marie who
became Abbess of Shaftesbury in 1181, and who was the
illegitimate half-sister of Henry II of England.
Other
possibilities include: that she was Mary, Abbess of Reading; that
she was the (legitimate) daughter of Stephen, King of England;
and that she was the daughter of Waleran de Beaumont, one of
the great noblemen of the period. A now discredited theory
once stated that she was Marie de Champagne, daughter of
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, and thus the step-daughter of Henry II.
Ultimately, however, her identity remains a mystery.
She wrote, before 1189, 12 Lais (short narrative poems of love)
dedicated to 'the king', presumably Henry II, and a collection of
102 Aesopic fables. She was greatly admired by English writers
from the twelfth century onwards.
Julian of Norwich
Born c!343, Julian was an anchoress attached to the church of St.
Julian and St. Edward in Norwich, and may also have been a nun
for a time. Few biographical details exist for Julian, but she
probably knew Latin and was extremely well-educated for a
woman of her time - although she refers to herself as unlearned.
In May 1373, at the height of a serious illness, Julian experienced
a series of sixteen mystical 'showings' which she used to write her
'Revelations of Divine Love\ The so-called 'short' version simply
records the facts, while the longer version sets her visions into the
context of her reclusive and spiritual life. The Revelations are an
extraordinary exploration of Christian mysteries, possessing a
depth of insight into her own experience, and beautifully and
intelligently written. Julian's reputation spread quickly, both in
England and abroad. She died after 1413.
Bridget of Sweden
Born in c!302, Bridget died in 1372 and was canonised in 1391.
Married with numerous children, after a divine revelation she
took a vow of chastity and received a Rule of religious life. Her
virginity was restored as a result of her vow. The Pope allowed
her to found two monasteries as long as they followed the Rule of
St. Augustine, and not her own. (In 1378, however, the
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Bridgettine Rule was confirmed by the new Pope at the request
of Bridget's daughter, St. Katherine). Four male secretaries
wrote down her Liber celestis revelationum, and translated it from
the vernacular into Latin. This seems to suggest that she was
both illiterate and unfamiliar with Latin. Bridget was an
incredibly influential visionary of the Middle Ages whose Rule
led to the creation of the order of Bridgettine nuns, firmly
established in England in the 1420's. She had an enormous
influence on lay devotion in fifteenth-century England.
Jane/foan Lumley
Born c. 1537, Jane/Joan (there is evidence for both) was a
member of a very well-connected family. Her father was Henry
Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel (owner of the finest library in
England), her sister Mary was Duchess of Norfolk, and her
cousin was Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England 1553. She
married Baron Lumley in 1550, aged about thirteen, and
produced soon afterwards the earliest surviving English
translation of a Greek tragedy: Euripides' Iphigenia. She died in
1576.
Margaret Hoby
Born 1571 and married three times, once to the brother of the
Earl of Essex, once to Thomas Sidney and once to Thomas
Hoby, Margaret wrote the earliest extant English diary, in
Yorkshire, between 1599 and 1605. It began as a strictly
Puritan exercise to catch herself out failing to pray, or
committing sins: as time went on, however, it became a record of
her life and filled with less spiritual concerns. As the supervisor
of her third husband's estates, the days she describes were busy
indeed. The diary stops abruptly in 1605, and Margery died in
1633.
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Margery Ketnpe
In contrast with Margaret Hoby, Margery was illiterate and could
not write her own Boke - famous as the first autobiography in
English. Instead, it was transcribed by a scribe named Salthows.
Born c!373 in Norfolk, Margery's background was similar to St.
Bridget's, in that she was married with numerous children, and
also took a vow of chastity. Never well educated, and from a
fairly privileged background, she nevertheless set out on
pilgrimages around England (including a visit to Julian of
Norwich), and to the Holy Land, Compostella, Italy and
Germany. She became notorious for excessive religious fervour,
often shrieking and crying, and was extremely unpopular with her
fellow travellers, who took to cutting up her clothes and doing
their best to escape from her. She was questioned several times
on suspicion of Lollardy, but was found completely orthodox,
although her former parish priest was burned alive for heresy.
Margery Kempe had - and still has - her critics, but she was
unquestionably holy, and her Boke stands as a unique social
record by an irrepressible early female traveller. Margery died
after 1439.
Rose Throckmorton (nee Locke)
To continue a religious theme, in the life of Rose Throckmorton
we find a continuation of the religious intolerance which touched
even Margery Kempe. Born c!527, daughter of a London
merchant, Rose was educated as Protestant, 'very privately for
feare of treble'. The mid-sixteenth century, as the early fifteenth,
was not a good time to shout about differences of religious
opinion, and Rose and her first husband Anthony Hickman (m.
1543) were persecuted by Queen Mary (Tudor) for harbouring
clergy. Eventually they fled to Antwerp, only returning to
England in 1558 after Queen Elizabeth had succeeded and it was
safe to be Protestant. Rose married Simon Throckmorton after
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she was widowed, and wrote brief reminiscences for her children
towards the end of her long life, in 1610. She died shortly
afterwards.
Queen Mary Psalter
Two points of great interest arise from this stunning piece of
medieval illumination. Firstly, that it belonged to Queen Mary
Tudor (see also above), and is therefore the third of the
manuscripts presented here to have belonged to a Queen (along
with Harleian 4431 and Royal 15 E vi). Secondly, that the
illumination, unusually for its time (1310-1320), attaches a great
deal of importance to women and their actions. Medieval art is
hardly known for its interest in strong female characters, but the
Psalter is a notable exception. Its provenance is unknown - and
probably unknowable - but some scholars have focused on
Isabella, Queen of Edward II (1307-1327) as a possible patron.
The reasons are too complex to go into here, but there is much
in the Psalter to assume a royal patronage (not least the sheer
expense of it), the dates are correct, and Isabella (the 'She-Wolf
of France' and sometime Regent of England for her son Edward
III) would no doubt have found much to admire in the portrayal
of so many strong, powerful women becoming greater still
through motherhood.
Katherine Aston
Born c!619, Katherine is mainly known through her family
correspondence, in particular a letter in which she debates the
nature of love. This gave rise to her nickname 'Belamore'. She
died in 1658 after the birth of her tenth child; her husband wrote
an affecting account of her death. He collected copies of poems,
many by women and some by Katherine herself, and wrote his
own poetry, which unfortunately does not survive.
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Katherine Austen
Born in 1628, Katherine appears to have been the daughter of
Robert Wilson of Highbury. When her husband died in 1658,
she was left very well-off. She wrote poems, essays, complaints
and debates, as well as notes on sermons, her dreams and
supernatural occurrences, and about other assorted subjects such
as the rudeness of academics. She never re-married (the subject
of one of her debates with herself), and died in 1683.
Jane Barker
Born in 1652 in Lincolnshire, Jane began writing poetry in c 1674
and wrote Political Recreations in 1688, as well as other political
poems, under the name 'Fidelia'. In 1718 she was employed as a
Jacobite spy. She also wrote prose works, such as A Patch-Work
Screen for the Ladies, 1723, and The Lining of the Patch-Work
Screen, 1726. Jane, who could apparently turn her hand to
almost anything, was also taught medicine by her brother. She
died c!727.
Devonshire Manuscript
Three of the hands identified on this varied sixteenth-century
manuscript are those of Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and
Margaret Douglas, all well-born women at the court of Henry
VIII, and all connected with the household of Anne Boleyn,
Queen of England from 1533 until her execution in 1536. Mary
Fitzroy, nee Howard, was married to Henry VIIFs illegitimate
son Henry Fitzroy, and Margaret Douglas, future Countess of
Lennox, was the mother of Lord Darnley, second husband of
Mary, Queen of Scots. Margaret's correspondence with Lord
Thomas Howard, found in this manuscript, points to their affair,
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which led eventually to their imprisonment. As many as twentythree people contributed to this manuscript, although Shelton,
Fitzroy and Douglas were the principal contributors, and it
seems to have circulated around all the group before being given
to the Fitzroys as a wedding present. While none of the c. 184
poems or fragments in the manuscript is considered to be of
great significance, Mary Shelton's importance to the Tudor
literary world has generally been seriously undervalued, and it is
extremely interesting to catch a glimpse of sixteenth-century
women's lives as revealed by this informal, entertaining
manuscript.
Lettice Gary
Very few biographical details are available about Lettice. She
was married to Lucius Gary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, who was
killed at the battle of Newbury in 1643. Lettice herself died in
1647. Her domestic chaplain, John Duncon, wrote an account
of her life and death in a letter to her mother Lady Morison.
Grace Gary
Even less is known about Grace Gary. She lived in Bristol in the
seventeenth century and had visions 'concerning these tragicall
times', that is, the Civil War, in 1644.
Elizabeth Jocelyn
Born c. 1595, she married Tourell Jocelyn in c!615. Elizabeth's
grandfather was Master of Queens' College, Cambridge, and
taught her religion, languages and history. She died nine days
after giving birth to her only child Theodora, in 1622. Her
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unfinished Mother's Legacie to Her Unborne Childe was written
throughout her pregnancy and ends in a very shaky hand. It was
published two years after her death and included a moving letter
to her husband. Elizabeth believed that an education such as the
one she herself received was unsuitable for a girl, and that
housewifery and Bible study should suffice.
Mary Clarcke
Born c!522, she translated Greek works into English and
dedicated them to Lady Mary Tudor, afterwards Queen Mary
(see also above for other works presented here which relate to
Mary). She died in 1572.
Katherine Parr
Born in 1512, she was married four times, including to Henry
VIII as his sixth and final wife. One of only eight Englishwomen
published between 1486 and 1548, she was strongly interested in
Protestantism, which interest she passed on to two future Queens
of England, Lady Jane Grey and her stepdaughter Elizabeth.
She protected the universities and strongly encouraged
Elizabeth's own writing during the period she oversaw her
education. She also persuaded her other stepdaughter, Mary
Tudor, to translate the Gospel of St. John. Katherine often held
religious debate with Henry VIII, and her religious beliefs
brought her close to execution, especially as she was closely
associated with Anne Askew, a young woman burned alive for
heresy in 1546. Anne was tortured illegally in the hope that she
would implicate Queen Katherine, but she did not, and
fortunately Henry decided to let his wife live. With a good
knowledge of Latin and Greek, Katherine published a collection
of Prayers and Medytacions in 1545, which went into sixteen
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editions by 1608, and Lamentation of a Sinner in 1547, the year
of Henry VIII's death. She died in childbirth in 1548, during
her fourth marriage to Thorns Seymour, brother of Henry's
third wife Jane and the uncle of Edward VI, Katherine's stepson.
Margaret Roper (More)
Born in 1505, Margaret was the eldest child of Sir Thomas
More, Chancellor of England, statesman, churchman and
author, who firmly believed in the education of women and
taught his daughters the full syllabus of classics, science and
theology. Margaret wrote, mostly in Latin, works that are now
lost, including an essay on the eschatological Final Things death, heaven, hell and the Last Judgment. She also translated
Erasmus' Devout Treatise Upon the Pater Nosier, and wrote to
him, correcting him on a theological point. She also wrote
fluent, expressive and learned letters in English to her father
during his imprisonment in the Tower 1534-1535, saw him
executed, and preserved his letters. Margaret married William
Roper at the age of sixteen, gave birth to five children, and died
in 1544, a Catholic in self-imposed exile abroad. After her
death, her children had her work shown to scholars, who were
awestruck by her erudition.

Medieval and early modern women PT.1

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