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Details for manuscript 405

Manuscript №
405
Location
London
Collection
British Library
Reference
Arundel 292
Headnote
Miscellany of both religious and secular work
Estimated date of production
s.xiii (med)
Folia
116
Place of production
Produced for
Notes
foliation approximate ; added later: "The complaint of two monks, named Dawn Watere [Dan Walter] and William, upon the difficulty of learning Church Music, a poem in old English, written in a later hand, probably of the time of Edward II. fol. 71. b. Beginning, "Vncomly in cloyster I coure ful of care, I loke as a lurdeyn and listne til iny lare." End, "I1 hayl were thu boren, zif thu make defawt, Thanne sais oure mayster, que wos ren ne vawt."
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Manuscript contents

Contents
Text Title Language Start folio (ordinal) End folio (ordinal) Total pages
1 1. The Credo, the Pater Noster, Ave Maria, in manus tuas, and short meditations upon the words "memorare novissima tua, et in eternum non peccabis" English 3r (5) 3v (6) 2.0
2 2. A Bestiarium, or natural history of certain animals, with the moral significations appended; translated into old English verse, chiefly from the Latin of Hildebertus Cenomanensis. fol. 4. Beginning, "De leun stant on hille And he man hunten here." End, "In hole of ston ge make hire nest, In Cristes milce irre hope is best." English 4r (7) 10v (20) 14.0
3 3. De vanitate vitæ, versibus resonantibus circiter quinquaginta. fol. 11. "O caro carnea, Jam modo glaria, Postmodo vermis, Nunc homo debilis Es miserabilis, Vnde superbis?" Latin 11r (21) 11v (22) 2.0
4 4. "Narraciones" sive Fabulæ "Magistri Odonis de Ciringtonia." fol. 12. Incip. "Quomodo elegerunt sibi regem. Iverunt lingna ut ungerent super se regem." Desin. "Illos autem qui nesciunt conspicere nisi terrena, proicit in tenebras exteriores." Latin 12r (23) 24v (48) 26.0
5 The four daughters of God (Dean no. 685) French 25r (49) 30v (60) 12.0
6 The Fall, Harrowing of Hell, and Passion (Dean no. 599) French 31r (61) 38r (75) 14.33
7 Bele Aliz matin leva (Dean no. 130) French 38r (75) 38r (75) 0.33
8 7. "Sermo Magistri Stephani de Langedune, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, de S. Maria," Yersibus nunc Latinis, nunc Gallicis. fol. 38. Incip. "Benedietione appostolica Benedicatur gens ecclesiastica." Desin. "Est regin iusticie, Mater misericordie; Quæ portauit regem celorum et Dominum, qui cum patre, etc." Latin 38r (75) 40v (80) 5.33
9 8. "Historia Apollonii Regis Tiri." fol. 41. Impress. in 4to. Aug. 1595, et sæpe alibi. Latin 41r (81) 61r (121) 41.0
10 9. Merlini Ambrosii Vita, excerpta e libro Galfridi Monemutensis de origine et gestis Britainnorum. fol. 61. b. Impress. in ed. Paris. 1517, fol. 50. b. Latin 61v (122) 68v (136) 15.0
11 10. Quid agendum sit, si fortepanis alit vinum in Eucharistia Domini caderet in terram. fol. 69. Incip. "Si aperta, quod absit, negigencia de corpore aut sanguine Christi acciderit." Desin. "tercia viventes hoe est in sanguine tineta." Latin 69r (137) 71v (142) 6.0
12 12. Verses against blacksmiths; probably of the time of Henry VI. fol. 72. b. Beginning, "Swrarte smekyd smethes smateryd wythe smoke Dryue me to dethe wythe den of here dyntes." English 72v (144) 72r (143) 0.0
13 13. "De Purgatorio S. Patricii," scilicet, de vision cujusdam militis, Owein nomine, qui anno 1153 purgatorium S. Patricii visitavit; compilatum e narratione simili in Historia Matth. Paris. sub eodem anno. fol. 73. Latin 73r (145) 87r (173) 28.5
14 Distichs of Cato, by Everart (Dean no. 255) French 87r (173) 104v (208) 18.5
15 14. Instructions by a monk named Averard, or Everard, upon various religious and moral subjects, in old French Poetry, interspersed with Latin lines. fol. 88. Beginning, "Catun esteit paen, E ne saueit ren De Crestiene lei." End, "Od Deu eiens part, E del pechur Euerard Aeit darmie Deu rnerci." Latin 88r (175) 105v (210) 19.0
16 15. De compositione chilindri, qui dicitur orologium viatorum." fol. 106. Incip. "Sumendum est lingnum maxime." Desin. "et sic de aliis partibus intellige, et sic per umbram scies altitudinem." Latin 106r (211) 109r (217) 7.0
17 16. "Decompositione quadrantis." fol. 109. b. Incip. "Post chilindri compositionem." Desin. "et in tali gradu altitudinis erit stella in eadem hora." Latin 109v (218) 112r (223) 6.0
18 17. Tractatus brevis de sortibus, eum tabulis. fol. 112. b. Incip. "Qvia omnis præscientie verissime." Latin 112v (224) 114r (227) 4.0
19 18. Ænigmata quædam versibus Latinis. fol. 114.b. The fly-leaves at the end [ff. 115, 116] Contain an imperfect list of the contents of the volume, by which it appears that tracts "De rege et joculatore," and "De combustione ecclesiæ cathedralis sanctæ Trinitatis Norwie." are now lost. Latin 114v (228) 116v (232) 5.0

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