Catalogue of Durham University Library Cosin MS V.iii.10

Durham University Library Cosin MS V.iii.10Medical, Astronomical, Grammatical works
Held by: Durham University Library: Cosin Manuscripts

Manuscript codex made up of 6 parts, the first four (A)-(D) containing medical texts (urinoscopy, medical recipes and bleeding), short theological and philosopical texts. The final part (F), three quarters of the surviving volume, is evidently a grammar master's collection, both practical and theoretical, similar to the short and slightly more recent preceding section (E). Marginal nota signs and bracketing distinguish many of the shorter pieces. Some pages are palimpsest, over similar matter, probably in the same hand; others are partly re-inked. Extensive annotations throughout include names of possible early owners: the manuscript was owned by George Davenport, by whom it was presented to Bishop Cosin's Library around 1670.

Physical description of manuscript

Support

f.1-2 parchment (misbound here, from Cosin MS V.iii.14); f.3-56 (A)-(E) paper (quarto); f.57-115 (F) parchment. Watermarks: (A) f.6/13, 8/11 two variants of Balance in circle, cf. Briquet nos 2445-49, 2466-67 (datings 1441-73), Piccard V.v.258-317 (1441-93), but between, not on, the chainlines; (B) none discernible; (C) f.25, 29 front, and f. 27 back, of Chien, cf. Briquet no. 3626 (dating 1487-95); f.31, 33 upper, and f.34, 36 lower, half of Boeuf, cf. Briquet no. 2782 (dating 1446-48 but not here with “vergeures cannellées”), Piccard XV.vi.1040-72 (1447-77); (D) f.42 lower, and f.50, 52 upper, half of Deux Clefs, cf. Briquet no. 3886 (Italy 1468); f.44, 45 upper, and f.48, 49 lower, half of Ciseaux, cf. Briquet nos 3655-89 (datings 1352-1496); (E) f.55 unidentified. Parchment of varying quality. Sizes vary; paper trimmed: (A) approx. 212 x 145 mm; (B) 195 x 138 mm; (C)-(D) very irregular, up to 210 x 155 mm; (E) 220 x 140 mm (f.56 guarded to 146 mm); (F) varying within 220 x 165 mm (irregular edges), f.60* 170 x 115 mm, f.115 lacking lower third (natural edge); original tears repaired by thread f.79 and 89; original holes, f.76, 103 and 112.

Extent: iii+118+i f

Size: 220 mm x 155 mm

Foliation

foliated i-ii, 1-115 repeating 53, 57 and 60.

Secundo folio: in the body

Collation

Difficult through lack of signatures and catchwords, and because of losses, guarding, stabbed re sewing and tight binding: f.3 possibly once bound with (D), according to evidence of pricking and common scribe
(A): f.4-15, twelve, with f.6/11 probably conjoint, according to watermarks and sewing, so possibly all a regular quire of twelve
(B): f.16-23, quire of eight ?
(C): f.24-40, seventeen, with f.31/36 probably conjoint, according to watermarks
(D): f.41-53, thirteen, with f.44/49 probably conjoint, according to watermarks
(E): f.53*-56, four
(F): f.57-115, sixty one leaves, apparently, from parchment matching and sewing: 1⁴, 2⁶ (1 and 6, f.60 and 64, singletons), 3⁶ + 1 leaf (f.70) after 5, 4⁵ (f.72-76), 5-6⁴, 7⁶ wants 5 [blank ?] after f.88, 8-9⁴, 10⁶, 11², 12⁶ (the central bifolium, f.108/109, is intruded), 13⁸ wants 5-8 after f.115.

Condition of manuscript(A)-(E) staining, corners cut off, f.3 guarded and repaired, lower half of f.8 (blank ?) cut off, upper half of f.53* torn off; (F) staining and other signs of heavy use; more than half of f.57* torn away; repair (19th century?) to slit in f.80.

Layout

Pricking on f. 3 at head and foot as f.44-49 (D)
(A): No evidence of pricking. Written space 163-178 x 125 mm; framed in ink, with sub divisions for diagrams, f.9^r-13^v; outer vertical in pencil, f.14^r. 26-32 long lines.
(B) No evidence of pricking. Written space 162 x 112 mm; framed by drypoint. Two columns; 57-59 lines.
(C): No evidence of pricking. Written space 155-170 x 115-130 mm; no frame or ruling. 27-31 long lines.
(D): Prickings in lower outer margins, f.44-46 (for lines of item (27)); a line of prickings horizontally across the head and foot of f.44-49, and also f.3, with no apparent function, unless for an intended but not implemented use in folio format; it is possible but not demonstrable that f.3 was once bound with f.44-49. Written space 176-183 x 130 mm, or, f.45^v-46^v, 135 x 108 mm; f.45^v-46^v ruled in ink, otherwise no frame or ruling, except inner vertical in ink on f.43^r and line ruling in ink for lower half of f.44^r. 28-35 long lines, or, f.45^v-46^v, 25 and 30 long lines.
(E): No evidence of pricking. Written space approx. 175 x 105 mm; framed in ink. 41-43 or, f.55^v-56^v, 32-34 long lines.
(F): No evidence of pricking. Written space 182-192 x 130-145 mm; no frame or ruling. 25-42 long lines or with space to the right of verse passages used for a second column.

Script

f.3^r-^v written, apart from later additions, in textura in red for Latin zodiacal names, otherwise by the first hand of (D) below
(A): f.4^r-^v first word of last line, a mixture of anglicana and secretary,with single compartment a, competently, by one hand; f.4^v last line 15, anglicana, proficiently, by one hand
(B): Italianate hybrida, proficiently, by one hand, two columns
(C): Current anglicana, with simple v and w, competently, by one hand
(D): f.41^r-44^r/11, 47^r-53^v and 3^r-^v, a current mixture of anglicana and secretary, with secretary g, competently, by one hand; f.44^r/12-39 and 45^v-46^v/19, textura, unsteadily, by three hands
(E): A mixture of anglicana and secretary, with single compartment a, proficiently, by two hands, changing for item (33)
(F): Anglicana, in places with single compartment a, competently, possibly by one hand over a considerable period of time, with many changes of ink and size.

Decoration

Some text capitals lined with red, f.3^v, section (B), and, in (F), f.57^r-69^r, 72^r-76^r, 81^r-84^r/10, 85^r-86^v, 92^r-93^r/22, 94^r-95^v/21, 98^v-99^v/9, 100^v, 101^v-102^r, 103^v, 106^v. Paraphs, in red, in (B). Brackets in red in (F): f.59^r-60^r, 62^r-63^r, 66^v, 67^v. Initials, 2 line, red, in (B), and, in (F), f.81^r-83^r, 85^r-89^r, 94^r-95^r (with human faces), 98^r-104^r.

Drawings in ink: f.3^v (naked man); f.9^r-13^v (diagrams of urinals); f.16^r-17^r and 19^v-20^r (astronomical diagrams); f.40^v (naked man); f.71^r (plough); f.91^v, crude sketch of quadruped on a leash (added 16th century?); f.107^v, animal head terminal to ornamental band, drawn in folded quire (see ends of snout on f.106^v).

Corrections and annotation

Jottings in English, 15th/16th century, on f.9^r, 15^r, 15^v, 24^r, 31^r, 36^v (incomplete recipes), 40^r, 41^r, 45^r-^v, 46^v, 47^r-^v (English names of herbs). A number of these are by one 15th century hand. Others on f.65^v, 67^r, 71^r, 83^r, 91^v (drawing of quadraped), 96^v, 97^v, 108^v, 110^v, 111^v: many merely 16th century scribbling. Pen trials: cursive t, b, f.54^r; textura a, b, f.67^r; “Fuit homo missus adeo cui nomen erat iohannes bbbb”, f.66^r.

Binding

Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over thick wooden boards (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th century)

Manuscript history

Creation

Written in England (apart from (B) written in Italy), late 14th - 15th century.

Provenance

Written in England save (B) in Italy, to judge by script; spellings in English verses (f.72^v) in item (37), section (F), have north west Midland features. The alliterative phrase, “Wyll a wod of sell besyd senoke (?)”, f.8^v, partly repeated, “wyll a wood of sello”, f.46^r, in the same hand, perhaps giving names, one possibly Sevenoaks (Kent). Inscriptions of 15th/16th century, most by one hand, which also added recipes and names of herbs: “Johan dayn”, f.3^r; “Wylliam”, f.8^v; “sent lenard yn setford”, f.13^v, upside down, cf. Seighford (Staffordshire) with a medieval form Seteford, or possibly Thetford (Norfolk); “Scansla” in a rhomboid, f.15^r; “Thomas dyby Day”, f.23^v; “Thys byl be delyueryd to holman”, f.32^v (cf. “holmon”, f.45^r); “? Sore da v. dbe M Morice Jonys”, f.37^v; “the lade of kyllbore saue þe land (?)”, f.42^v, sideways, cf. Kilbourne (Derbyshire); “margret hanne for the hendys”, f.44^v; “mastere persosen at the seyn of the bere”, f.46^r. Inscriptions in section (F), 16th/17th century, by one or two hands, italic and secretary; several contain the name Wigley, which appears to have been most common in Derbyshire, “Henry Wigley”, f.91^v, and, upside down, f.82^r, 97^v (twice); “Thomas Wigleye oth (?) this Booke”, upside down, f.87^v. Also other marginal jottings include “Jhon Popan and purchoice (?)”, “from Mistris Frauncis White ...”, f.57^r; “tomas wigley”, f.65^v (upside down) and 109^r; “Henry Stafford”, “Cosen Henry stafforde of blabberbeycke Gent doth accknowledge”, f.71^r, no Blabberbeck or Blubberwick identified; “George dany” (or dauy), upside down, f.97^v.
Inscription “Geo. Davenport. 1663.”, f.i^v; his note of contents, f.ii^v. Ex-libris and shelfmark by Thomas Rud on f.i^v.

SECTION: (preliminary)

Manuscript contents

(0) f.1-2

Modern title: Flyleaves

Date: late 16th century

Language: Latin

Language: English

These two leaves were misbound here in the 19th century and belong after the 2 remaining end flyleaves in DUL Cosin MS V.iii.14. The various notes found there are continued by: references to 7 days in item (1) of Cosin MS V.iii.14, italic; two references in English, Secretary, both partly cut away with most of the leaf; three references in Latin, italic, the beginning of each cut away; two references, Secretary, both partly cut away; six references in English to sermons, the last “Master Latt[imer ?] experiens 102”; “Quicquid agas prudenter agas respice finem”; “the lord hath destroyed ...”.

(1) f.3^r

Modern title: Recipes

Incipit: To make pouder of holonde for the colyke... For þe backe ... For bleryd yeyn & blodschott

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Three medical recipes, with names of herbs added by other hands

(2) f.3^v

Modern title: Medical drawing

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Drawing in ink of the front of a naked man, with zodiacal names in red on parts of his body and red lines to places of bleeding for ills specified in English (For frensy sawsefleme & malicolie & emeraudis & eny spice of þe falyng euyll ...) Probably displaced from item (22), section D

SECTION: (A)

Manuscript contents

(3) f.4^r-8^r

Modern title: Urinoscopy

Incipit: Vryn in an hote accesse black lytell in quantyte. fatte & styngyng sygn[ifieth] deth

Explicit: Not wyth stondyng who so euer wyll labour dylygently thys tretyse he schall hawe suffycyently practyke to do hym self nede and hys frend also wyth grace and excecice. Quia omne artificium e<st?> Explicit nouus tractatus de Iudicio Vrinarum quod Bele

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Beginning as Oxford, Bodleian Library MSS Digby 95 f.103^r, and Hatton 29 f.61^r, which also contains item (4); Cambridge, Magdalene Coll. MS Pepys 1307 f.61^r, and London, Wellcome Institute MS 564 f.193^v, which also contains items (4)-(5). In Digby, where it has the sub heading “Vrine mortis tam hominum quam mulierum”, it is part of a larger treatise (The Dome of Urines); in Hatton it is designated as cap. ii. There are ten signs in Digby but eight here, the first in both cases being the second of ten in Cosin MS V.v.13 f.32^v-33^r. This version goes on to three regions and fifteen contents, the latter but not the former also in Cosin MS V.v.13, f.33^v-40^v (where there follows a lacuna; V.v.13 f.41^r does not correspond with the rest in V.iii.10). The compiler writes of drawing the treatise into English from Latin, f.7^v-8^r. Most of f.4^v line 2 is cancelled as duplicated and there is other evidence of miscopying, incomprehension or corruption, e.g. “Traynes” for “Graynes” (V.v.13).

Cited: Dome, section I

(4) f.9^r-13^v

Modern title: Urinals

Incipit: Karapos The dropsy a wynd vndere the syde

Explicit: wyth a lyttel hony and vse yt.

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Language: Latin

20 sections. Two ink diagrams side by side occupying the upper half of each page, with colour names in Latin, symptoms and remedies in English. Other copies include Oxford, Bodleian Library MSS Ashmole 1447 (p.166-85), Digby 75 (f.108^r-^v, without the medicines), and Hatton 29 (f.68^v-72^r, 16 urinals), which also contains item (3); Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College MSS 336/725 (f.137^v-139^r) and 451 (f.58^v-67^r, also two to the page); BL MS Sloane 635 (f.88^r-92^v); London, Wellcome Medical Library MS 564 f.128^v-130^v, which also contains items (3) and (5). The same set is also in Cosin MS V.iv.7 f.50^r-59^v, but with legends in a different order.

Cited: Voigts 2000, 3287-3300

(5) f.14^r-15^r

Modern title: Urinoscopy

Incipit: Galian sayth in foure maneres thow schalt know the body

Explicit: rysyng to the hert and gendyrys a postom

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

In the form of 15 discretions. Incipit as London, Wellcome Institute MS 564 f.195^v, which also contains items (3)-(4).

(6) f.15^v

Modern title: Couplet

Date: added end 15th century

Incipit: Iste equus non est ecus sed ex vtraque parte cecus non est honor neque decus equitare tale pecus.

Language: Latin

Recipe “For the gowte Take and gethyr þe xij handfvll of þe bodds of eldar” added 15th/16th century.

(7) f.15^v

Modern title: Medical recipe

Date: added beginning 16th century

Incipit: For swellynge in the legis suddenly come Take ye vrren or pysse of man a Quarte and sethe yt

Explicit: Probatum est.

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

“wenday fore senyt antere bartamday” added below, upside down, 15th/16th century.

SECTION: (B)

Manuscript contents

(8) f.16^r-20^r

Original title: Tractatus de Sphera

Author: Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230

Incipit: Spera est transitus circumferentie dimidij circuli

Explicit: aut tota mundi machina dissoluitur.

Language: Latin

Without the four final Latin verses, and with eleven diagrams, f.16^r-17^r, 19^v-20^r, in ink.

(9) f.20^v-21^r

Original title: Breve Compendium Potentiarum Anime

Incipit: Potentia est immediatum principium operationis: circa formale obiectum. Obiectum est id quod primo & principaliter se representat

Explicit: Quarto vocatur liberum arbitrium. quia vult aliquid in ordine <aliqui>d (?) oppo<sito ?> <consimilia crossed out> vel electionem.

Language: Latin

A differently arranged version of this text, with table, in Rome, Bibl. Angelica MS 835 (Q.B.10) f.35^r-38^r (Italy, 15th century), has the definitions of Retentiva and Expulsiva reversed, and goes on to the humours before the senses. Closely written in the margins, like a formal commentary, in the hand of (a) “Tractatus hic. In quo Actor sanctus [?] agit de anime potencijs. Per sui diuisione diuiditur in partes duas. In quarum prima obiecit quid sit potentia”. Refers to “doctore sancto” (Albertus Magnus ?), Isidore, Avicenna, Algazelus, and Aquinas. Letters lost at the edges. Although their terminology is largely the same, neither text nor commentary agree closely with the text of Albertus Magnus, De anima.

(10) f.21^v-23^r

Modern title: Philosophical text

Incipit: Ad euidentiam et expositionem huius veritatis istius opinionis premittimus aliqua. Primum omne quod est preter Intellectum est vnum numero siue singularitate

Explicit: quia tamen falsum est et nihil plus addo.

Language: Latin

On philosophical and logical matters, citing Boethius and Porph[yr]i more than once. The copyist left a space for a word or two on f.22^v/b, presumably illegible or lacking in the exemplar.

(11) f.23^r

Modern title: Two notes

Date: added, later 15th century

Incipit: Mouere intellectum est cum intellectu noticiam sui producere terminare autem est posse intelligi.

Incipit: Nota quod pro formacione secunde intencionis quod ad ipsum 6 condiciones requiruntur ... quod prius hebebat pro termino et e converso

Language: Latin

Written in a small English (?) secretary hand. A space of 25 mm left between the two is now filled with names, English, 15th/16th century

SECTION: (C)

Manuscript contents

(12) f.24^r-28^v

Modern title: Medical recipes

Incipit: For a styche vnder the syde Take thyne awne vryne a potell sethe it with Comyn

Explicit: & vse þat bothe even & morow.

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

52 medical recipes, unnumbered. Not with the same starting order as the group in Cosin MS V.iv.1, f.23^r. Parts of the headings at the top of f.24-25 torn away.

(13) f.29^r

Modern title: On unfavourable days

Incipit: There ben xxxij dayes of perell in the yere Ferst in Januare ther ben <v deleted> vij dayes. of perell

Explicit: Decembre hath iij þe vth. vjte. &. xvth

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

(14) f.29^r

Modern title: How to catch rabbits

Incipit: For to take Conyes Take & make afyre in the felde

Explicit: in the bely & ther as

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Incomplete?

(15) f.29^r-30^v; 37^r-40^r

Modern title: Medical recipes and charms

Incipit: To make alectuarij For the breste Take horehounde Isoppe Rote of Enelacampana

Explicit: bothe even & morow & be hole

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

48 items, including an alternative to the first added immediately below it by the main hand, and the third repeated f.34^v margin and 38^r. The first on f.38^v, For the pockes, is of three decasyllabic rhyming couplets, beginning “Saynte nycasye had a pocke small”. Items (16)-(21) occupy a quire of six, largely in the main hand of section C, but in darker ink and apparently inserted between f.30 and 37.

Cited: NIMEV, 3030.55

(16) f.31^r-33^v

Modern title: Medical recipes

Incipit: To make nervale þat is a precious oynement Take wylde savge. Camamyll. betony. Mynte

Explicit: & j parte of this on 20 of lime

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

17 items, the last heading cancelled, so what follows may be for another purpose, perhaps alchemical.

(17) f.34^r

Modern title: Recipes

Date: added 15th/16th century

Incipit: For þe agoo a provyde medicen Item take vj sponfulle of good Reade vineger and a vj hasyle leves

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

3 items

(18) f.34^v-35^r

Modern title: Recipes

Incipit: for to make whyte led & ceruse Take anew erthen potte & put there to agood quantyte of good stronge veneger

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

6 items, in the main hand of section (C). The third item is repeated by another later 15th century hand, up the outer margin of f.34^v.

(19) f.35^r-36^v

Modern title: Recipes for horses

Incipit: Here be gynyth the medsyns for horse

Explicit: with the sayde broth of the molle

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

19 items. Two incomplete recipes added on f.36^v, in the hand (?) of item (17b-c).

(20) f.40^v

Date: added early 16th century

Crude drawing in ink of the front of a naked man, and of the zodiacal signs, named in Latin, against parts of his body. Childish sketches of two heads and a woman in domestic dress full length, the latter previous to a superimposed recipe.

(21) f.40^v

Modern title: Medical recipe

Date: added 15th/16th century

Incipit: for ache take nettefote oyle & the gal of a oke

Explicit: Probatum

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

SECTION: (D)

Manuscript contents

(22) f.41^r-41^v

Modern title: Instructions for bleeding

Incipit: ... arme be not droyn out. Also lest þat þe wyckyd blo<d> in þo ryt arme passe not in to þe left arme

Explicit: Also kepe þe fro alle hote spicis in hote wedere.

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Instructions for bleeding and other remedies against the plague, in English; probably the end of an abbreviated version of the treatise by John of Bordeaux.

(23) f.41^v-43^r

Modern title: On blood letting

Incipit: The mastris þat vsyn blod letyng and þer with getyn here leuyng

Explicit: So mot be sey now we Amen amen Fo cheryte

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

90 lines of bracketed rhyming couplets, with sidenotes Capud and Corpus; here with the six line introduction.

Cited: NIMEV, 3848 no. 23

(24) f.43^r-44^r

Modern title: Medical recipes

Incipit: For the wyldefere Take leke heddis & stamp hem well

Explicit: ix deyys first & last

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

11 items; text is evidently missing between f.43^v, with catchwords “a woman”, and 44^r.

(25) f.

Modern title: Medical recipes

Incipit: For þe scabe Take helena campana and de rote of fole fote

Explicit: & anowynte hit well. amen.

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

7 items, added in space, in textura.

(26) f.44^v-46^r

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Names and quantities of herbs, added on blank pages by hands responsible for some of the additions on f.34^r, 36^v and the margins of f.45^v-47^v.

(27) f.45^v-46^v

Modern title: Medical recipes

Incipit: For to wete yf aman schall be stanchid of þe menisune Take him to ete apeni wight of kerse sede

Explicit: as hoot as þou may suffer &c

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

17 items, the first fifteen written in textura, by more than one hand.

(28) f.47^r-49^v

Modern title: Medical recipes

Incipit: For a vayne or senew cutt Take white wyne or whyte wyne drestys

Explicit: The water of betayn ys good for ache & for eyyn & hely[th] hem well

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

35 items

(29) f.50^r-53^v

Modern title: Medical recipes

Incipit: þe seke man þat ys costyff Anoder Take vyolet in þe sted of rose

Explicit: & sede hyt tyll

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

44 items (beginning and end missing)

SECTION: (E)

Manuscript contents

(30) f.53*^r-55^r

Modern title: Grammatica

Incipit: ... vana Quero qui pronomina

Explicit: Euge cuius significacionis. Dolentis Quare quia significat dolorem vnde versus Euge bis dictum vult significare dolorem si semel esse datur tunc plausus significatur.

Language: Latin

A grammatical summary, corresponding to Priscian, Institutiones, lib. viii onwards. It deals with verb, adverb, participle, conjunction, preposition and interjection, quoting Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, 434-5, 1366-8. Beginning defective; upper half of f.53* torn away.

(31) f.55^r

Incipit: Illumina oculos meos [Ps. 12:4] Illumina cuius persone secunde Contra probo quod est prima persona quia est persona quarum nulla est prior

Explicit: non tamen est prima persona quantum ad intellectum quia non significat rem de se loquentem

Language: Latin

Short scholastic argument

(32) f.55^r-56^r

Incipit: Respondendum est quod omne uerbum substantiuum & omne uerbum uocatiuum regunt nominatiuum

Explicit: Respondendum est quod omnis comparatiuus terminans in or ...

Language: Latin

Short statements on grammatical points, with confirmatory Latin verses.

(33) f.56^r

Incipit: Velox homo currit queritur que pars velox

Explicit: non alie inherentem conuocando rei qualitatem.

Language: Latin

Short scholastic argument

(34a) f.56^r-56^v

Modern title: Sets of Latin verses

Incipit: Abscondo dat itum geminans di non geminans sum; Moyses ebreas kadmy prudensia grecas

Explicit: Sepes trina canes & equos homines super addas Suos & cornos aquilas & cete marina.

Language: Latin

The last pair with roman numbers above most of the words

Cited: Walther 1963, 9750
Cited: Walther 1963, 5066
Cited: Walther 1963, 3428
Cited: Walther 1963, 13883
Cited: Walther 1963, 33617a

(34b) f.55^v-56^v

Incipit: hec urla a purfel hoc cluuiculum a spayre

Explicit: hic seroticarius glufar hic sutor a sutare hic sissor atalʒure

Language: Latin

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Written in spaces to the right of Latin verses (34a), but with no obvious relation to them. Latin words and English equivalents, the last added in different ink and another hand.

SECTION: (F)

Manuscript contents

(35) f.57^r-80^v

Modern title: Latin verses

Incipit: Parentes sinculam mei mactauerunt

Explicit: Pulmones & appota cati detulerunt

Language: Latin

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

The first group consists of four hexameters with one rhyme bracketed; following verses include f.57^r/5-10 Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale 830, f.57^r/11 Walther 1959, no. 19401; f.57^v/6, no. 719; f.58^r/1-10, no. 15542; 11-12 Doctrinale 980-1; f.61^r/24 “Istec Hugo canit Priscianus talia stranit”; f.62^r “Prelia gallorum venient iam belligerorum ... ... Victor finalis sit benedictus Amen” (32 lines in rhyming couplets, bracketed as quatrains, not the same as the verses on the same subject in Cambridge, St John's Coll. MS F.26 f.28^v-29^r, or those in Oxford, Bodleian Libary MS Rawl.D.328 f.72^r); f.65^v/29 “Hic vult Papias, Hugucio Petrus [Helias] hos”; f.68^r/3, Doctrinale 1030-1; f.69^v/1-2 Walther 1959, no. 17853; f.71^r/2-25 (to the right of drawing) a farced version of the hymn for St John the Baptist, “Salue festa dies. oritur Quem lux atque quies. sequitur ... ... Aufer ab emeritis. Maculas”, 24 lines in rhyming couplets. f.61^v/7- 24 prose passage beginning “Hugucio habet ...”, damaged by slits in this leaf, on various spelling variants. Most of the left hand side of f.71^r is occupied by a 15th century drawing running up the page, apparently in the same ink as the accompanying labels and texts, of a plough (Aratrum) with parts named in Latin (buris, stiua, trabis, aura duplex, dentale, intercemium, culter, vomer, pes, rote, iugum, malliolus; stimulus, stimula, scorpio (held by the servant); pobea (? a separable tool like a hoe or spade)), with a ploughman (Rusticus) and servants (famula and famulus); subsequently scribbled over in the 16th century. The line “Ad caudam stiue semper tu rustice viue” is written down the inner margin. Other pictures of English medieval ploughs with part names are in Bodleian MS.Top.Lincs.d.1, f.53^r, late 13th century, Cambridge, Gonville & Caius Coll. MS 136/76 p.12-13, late 13th century, and BL MSS Royal 8 C.IV f.41^r 13th/14th century, and Sloane 1210 f.136^r, 14th/15th century, according to Dr Kathleen Scott. Spaces to the right of the verses on most pages contain Latin prose questions, rules, exercises and explanations; also, f.72^v/1-14, “Os I went to yo kyrk wepond I met a nowld wyfe crepond ... mak ʒow me thys laten o reyt”, 14 rough lines rhyming aaabaabbbccddd, written as prose, the spelling suggestive of the north west Midlands, NIMEV 378.5, followed, lines 15-29, by a Latin version,“Sicut iui ad ecclesiam egilans ... componite mihi istam latinitatem recte & cetera”. Many Latin words with English equivalents occur on f.57^v-58^r, 60^r-^v, 61^v, 62^v, 64^r-65^r, 66^r, 67^v-69^v, 70^v-71^v, 72^v-73^r, 74^r-75^v, 76^v-77^r, 78^r, 79^r-^v and 81^r, mostly in the right hand texts, but also as inter linear glosses to the left hand texts; “Diruuo is to dreyue secundum Wyllelmum”, at the head of f.75^r in contemporary hand and ink, with the initial stroked in red like the texts below it.

(36) f.81^r-83^r

Modern title: Part of a grammatical treatise

Incipit: Nota quod si propria nomina locorum & quatuor nomina apellatiua naturam eorum habentia

Explicit: Que sunt etheroclita defectu in quibus aliquid vt precis ci cem aprece & pluraliter hec(?) preces versus Nomina sunt septem que casibus in tribus extant

Language: Latin

One paragraph, f.82^v, has the same incipit “Quot sunt forme casuales Sex que Monaptata. Diptota. Triptota ...” recorded by Bursill-Hall, 149.112.8: BL MS Harley 1002 f.82^v, but there it goes on, after four lines, with a set of verses not found here.

(37) f.83^v-84^v

Incipit: Quot modis fit comparacio tribus quibus literatura & sensu Literatura & non sensu sensu & non literatura

Explicit: Album natura facit est res candida cura Estque dealbatus paries albidine tinctus.

Language: Latin

Incipit as for "Regulae utiles secundum usum Magistri Johannis Harford", BL MS Add. 17724 f.20^r-22^r, but that has only four lines (not here) before “Quot modis deficit comparacio”, where there are several paragraphs beginning “Quot modis ...” on different topics, accompanied and followed by sets of verses. Here, as in item (35), prose is written to the right of verses.

(38) f.85^r-86^v

Modern title: On cases

Incipit: Assit principio sancta maria meo Quot casus reguntur a nomine. quatuor qui Genotiuus Datiuus Acusatiuus & Ablatiuus

Explicit: vt quantum vini habes tu & cetera

Language: Latin

Similar in form to item (42). It differs from the "Regule bone et utiles secundum modernos" in Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College MS 203/109 f.168^r-175^r, a volume of similar grammatical contents, handwriting and date.

(39) f.87^r-87^v

Incipit: [G]ratis voluntarie sponte vltro. wyth gode wyll. hic her

Explicit: at yo last. affatim abunde. aboundonly

Language: Latin

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

A sequence of Latin words and English equivalents.

(40) f.87^v

Modern title: On cases after participles and conjunctions

Incipit: Quero quot casus reguntur a participiis Dico quod quatuor

Explicit: retinet quandoque falarnum

Language: Latin

(41) f.88^r

Incipit: In singulari numero hic & hec & hoc mille in plurali numero neutro generi adinugitur Non flectes mille sed milia neutrificabis

Explicit: Millia mancipia dominos fallemus ditantur

Language: Latin

One introductory prose line and five lines of verse.

(42) f.88^r-91^v

Incipit: Diabolus est mendax et pater eius [John 8:44] sic exponitur

Explicit: eciam ne id est numquid vtrumque id est multociens

Language: Latin

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Grammatical explanations of phrases from the Vulgate Latin Bible, in alphabetical order D-Z of head words, and so presumably lacking A-C before f.88; English equivalents of some words included. The text begins to the right of the verses in item (43).

(43) f.91^v

Modern title: Hymn or sequence of St Nicholas

Incipit: Sospitati dedit egros olei perfusio

Explicit: reditur cum filio

Language: Latin

Written one word per line, with the first 12, out of 32, provided with explanations or derivations.

Cited: Chevalier,19244

(44) f.92^r-92^v

Incipit: Quot modis ponitur caro Dico quod caro proprie dicitur humana Vnde apud gallum maximianum Carnis ad officium carnea membra placent

Explicit: est singularis si plura est pluralis.

Language: Latin

Various grammatical questions and answers, illustrated with verses.

Edited: Maximianus, i, line 86

(45) f.93^r

Modern title: On the evils of the times

Incipit: Quant homme parlere videat que verba loquatur Ceo couont auere ne stulcior Inueniatur

Explicit: Thoge cannst alle rytton fac ne proiamus in igne

Language: Latin

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Macaronic poem, 22 lines rhyming internally and finally in couplets: prose is written in a column to the right of the verses.

Cited: NIMEV, 2787 no. 7
Edited: Aspin, 157-168

(46) f.93^r-93^v

Modern title: Grammatical questions and answers

Incipit: (a) Quot modis ponitur pasca quatuor ... (b) Hoc stadium est spacium continens in se centum viginti & quinque passus ... (c) Quero quare nomina literarum sunt indeclinabilia ...

Explicit: gracia cuius subiecto potest loqui de se

Language: Latin

(a-b) added in spaces to the right of item (45) and the three lines of verse at the start of (45).

(47) f.94^r-95^v

Incipit: Literarum alie sunt vocales alie sunt consonantes. Vocales sunt quinque

Explicit: Et stetit & dedit & sedit & fidit & tulit hec sex.

Language: Latin

Corresponds to BL MS Add. 17724 f.36^v-38^v "Regule versificandi", and Cambridge, Gonville & Caius Coll. MS 377/597 p.91-95, both 14th century; the latter lacks the final paragraph here f.95^r-^v “Tres sunt pedes versificandi ...”.

(48) f.95^v-97^v

Original title: Expositiones verborum difficilium in hymnis secundum usum Sarum

Incipit: De natiuitate domini alleuiare. fort alege. zabulon id est demon

Explicit: Inter promissum sic differt pollicitumque &c c c.

Language: Latin

In the order of the church year: Christmas*, Stephen*, John evangelist, Thomas of Canterbury*, Circumcision, Epiphany, Vincent*, Conversion of Paul, Purification*, Mathias*, Gregory, Annunciation*, Mark, Philip & James, Finding of the Holy Cross, Augustine,, Barnabas, John the Baptist*, Peter*, Margaret, Mary Magdalene*, James, James, Peter's Chains, Laurence, Assumption*, Bartholomew, Beheading of John the Baptist, Nativity of B.V.M., Exaltation of Holy Cross, Martin. Those marked * are also in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 103. The opening of the first expositio differs from that in BL MSS Add. 14023 f.7^r and Burney 331 f.12^r. English equivalents of some words included.

(49) f.97^v

Incipit: Quem librum audis. librum Magni doctrinalis Que est materia huius libri sunt regule date (a Presciano) sub compendio sumpte

Explicit: Titulus talis est Scribere clericulis paro doctrinale nouellis Pluraque doctorum sociare scripta meorum.

Language: Latin

6 lines; the last two are the first of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale.

(50) f.98^r-104^r

Modern title: Commentary on Priscian

Incipit: Quia regule de regiminibus casuum traduntur (vel trahuntur) ab autoribus propter construcciones tenendas. ut dicit Petrus Helias

Explicit: quia eius accionem vel passionem terminat secundum mediante prepositionis adminiculo ut dicit Petrus Helias in minori. Explicit tractatus de regiminibus casuum secundum Petrum.

Language: Latin

Not apparently based on the genuine commentary by Peter Helias on Priscian Minor, of which no manuscripts are known in English libraries; the answer to the first question, see above, probably refers therefore to the commentary beginning Absoluta, often ascribed to Helias, but now attributed to Petrus Hispanus.

(51) f.104^r-107^v

Incipit: Quero utrum verba impersonalia passiue vocis possunt regere acusatiuos casos Dico secundum Petrum Heliam in fine libri qui sic incipit absoluta Nullum inpersonale

Explicit: patet per Petrum in Maiori Futura infinitorum habent supina per circumlocucionem cum hoc verbo ire. ut amatum ire locutum ire & sic de similibus.

Language: Latin

On six constructions, citing Petrus Helias again.

(52) f.107^v; 110^r-110^v

Incipit: [Q]vero utrum gerundia sunt nomina vel verba. Dico quod nomina propter triplicem rationem

Explicit: ita & gerundium potest ut prius resoluitur.

Language: Latin

Cites P[etrus] H[elias]. Cf. Bursill Hall 282.9.2: Udine, Bib. Comunale Cod. C.237.

(53) f.108^r-108^v

Modern title: On prosody

Incipit: Prosodie normas pueris pro dogmate promam ... In isto tractatu prosodie talis erit processus. Primo pona accentus difinicionum

Explicit: hic certus ei sicut dictum erat

Language: Latin

Begins with 5 lines, Walther 1959, no. 14844 ("Tractatus de prosodia"); analysed in 7 divisions. Defective, in the fourth division, through loss of one or more leaves. The copy in Cambridge UL MS Oo.VII.110 f.82^r-7^r has another verse between lines 4 and 5 here, and is left unfinished in the fifth division. At the start the prose commentary here is written in the column to the right of the verses and in long lines between them, as in items (35) and (37) above.

(54) f.109^r-109^v

Original title: Peniteas cito peccator

Author: William, de Montibus, approximately 1140-1213

Incipit: [P]enitias cito peccator cum sit miserator

Explicit: Et cure grauitas & consuetudo ruine Explicit liber penitenciarij qui ...

Language: Latin

Incomplete colophon, by loss of following leaf. Variant version, 109 lines, as against 106 in Patrologia Latina 207, 1153-6, lacking PL lines 16 and 24, reversing 18/19, 33/34, 85/86, and with 5 additional lines: after line 71 one (Quisquis amans), 74 two (In prauos casus) and then a change of pen, 94 one (Arguo consulo), and 96 one (Quo defunctus egit). Latin inter linear glosses, up to line 48 only, by the same or a similar hand.

Edited: Goering 1992, 107-138
Cited: Bloomfield, 3812 (supplemented in Newhauser & Bejczy)

(55) f.111^r

Modern title: Grammatical note

Incipit: Ego diligo me est transitiua

Explicit: sed illud quod significat diuersa per modum diuersorum.

Language: Latin

(56) f.111^r

Modern title: On the name Pontius Pilatus

Incipit: Pontius a ponte iuxta pontem datur esse

Language: Latin

3 verse lines with prose notes

(57) f.111^r

Date: added in space, early 15th century

Incipit: Mulieribus sepius que adultere uel accusate fuerunt

Language: Latin

Short grammatical exercise.

(58) f.111^v

Incipit: Vnus duo tres

Explicit: millesimo & quingentesimo

Language: Latin

Cardinal numbers spelled out to 1000 and ordinal to 1500, with the corresponding roman numerals above each.

(59) f.111^v

Incipit: (a) Decem sunt precepta dei. Vnum deum collaudare ... (b) Septem sunt opera misericordie ... (c) Septem sunt peccata mortalia ... (d) Quinque sunt sensus hominum ... (e) Septem sunt etates hominis ... (f) Quinque sunt digiti diaboli ...

Language: Latin

(a) comprises 10 monorhyming lines.

(60) f.112^r-115^v

Incipit: [S]alus eterna. Hec salus tis est integritas corporis siue sanitas & caret plurali numero

Explicit: & proprie in verbis vnde iocari & iocundari ...

Language: Latin

Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Expositions, including a few English words, of difficult words in sequences, apparently of Sarum use, including Advent, Christmas, Stephen, John evangelist, Innocents, Thomas of Canterbury, sixth day of Christmas, Circumcision, Epiphany (with mention of “gens anglicana” f.113^v/6), Purification, Easter day, Wednesday after Easter, Tuesday after Easter, Jubilantes, Regi regum, Gaude mater. Cambridge, UL MS Dd.III.87(4) differs somewhat in the opening words; Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 103 differs in the first and last (Gaude mater) here. Top of f.115 cut away, with loss of text.

Microfilm

Microfilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham University Library.

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