Language(s): Latin and Middle English
1. 9-20
Manipularius [perhaps part of the Granarium]
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
9 Misericordia. Ut clare magis dilucidetur sententia uersiculi istius
Explicit:
20 misericordiam consequutus fuit. Vide subsequenter ibidem. Hec dominus Albanensis
in suo
manipulario
Hiatt (2014), p. 16 n. 13
2. 20-21
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
Seven recipes for phlegm, burning, fevers, and toothache.
3. 21-23
Table of contents
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
21 Hec continentur in hoc reportorio videlicet
Incipit:
21 Florarium domini Albanensis de misericordia veritate iusticia et pace. fo .1. vsque
ad
.6.
Explicit:
23 Item viij. versus .ibidem. / Littera praesentatoria Episcopo: fo. 64.
4. 24
Two epitaphs for Thomas Godleef
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
24 Presbiter en Thomas Godleef iacit hic tumulatus
Explicit:
24 Moribus ant melior: finis in te sit deus vlterior
5. 24
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
Ten recipes in Latin and Middle English/Latin macaronic, and against various ailments,
including for the eyes, for
morphea, for freckles, for strangury, for toothache, and for phlegm.
6. 25-29
Sermon
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
25 Hec est uia ambulate in ea. Ysaye. 30 et pro collacione presenti. Reuerendi mei omni
qualibet uia
Explicit:
29 Contra tales dicitur a voluntate tua auertere Ecclesiasticus xviij.
7. 29
Littera receptoria ad litteram commendaticiam [title from the table of contents]
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
29 Quidam non obediunt propter casus penitentem sed attende quid B. dicit merita assigna
illi
Incipit:
29 Reuerendo in Christo patri etceatera iradi miseracione etcaetera reuerencia in domino
cum honore
Explicit:
29 et apertuis sigillatas in curio etcaetera
10. 30-36
Tractatus Horologii Astronomici
Richard of Wallingford
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
30 Incipiunt conclusiones diuidendi rotas pro horologio astronomico pro motibus
planetarum
Incipit:
30 Habita rota certi numeri dentium unam aliam rotam inuenire que habeat quotlibet dentes
equales dentibus rote date
Explicit:
36 per opere subtilissimo
North (1976), I: pp. 441-523 [edition from this manuscript]; II: p. 309 [summary description
of the
manuscript]
eTK 0594E (t0115620000)
11. 37-40
Model letters (Formulae)
11.1. 37
Littera fraternitatis capitularis
11.2. 37-38
Littera attornatoria ad deliberandam seisinam
11.3. 38
Carta feoffamenti ad litteram predictam
11.4. 39-40
Littera mandatoria pro visitacione
Ending with the note: 'Quere commissionem istius mandati in fine libri'
11.5. 40
Institucio in vicariam
12. 41-42
Oraciones de cruce [title from the table of contents]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
41 Crux fidelis arbor mitis . verus amor vera vitis: Christo dedicata
Explicit:
42 Deus qui pro nostra salute latus tuum in cruce aperit ac sanguinem tuum fundere
voluisti . presta nobis quaesumus: vt de passionis tue presidijs gaudeamus Qui viuis
13. 42
Verses from the shrine of St Germanus
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
42 Isti versus scribuntur super paruum feretrum ad reliquias
Incipit:
42 Hec sunt germanus que contulit huc uenerandus / Presul apostolici pignora sacra chori
/
Auditor crede docet hoc quia pagina bede / Ut sit in auxilium quod latet hie precium.
Full transcription by James (1907).
14. 42
Inscription in St Augustine's table
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
42 Scriptura in mensa S. Augustini doctoris: Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere famam
/
Hanc mensam vetitam nouerit esse sibi
Full transcription by James (1907)
This is the saying that St Augustine purportedly inscribed on his table (see John
Capgrave's Life of
St. Augustine).
15.
Six votive masses for the souls in Purgatory
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
43-44 Rubrica de sex missis quarum quinque debent legi de sancta Cruce et una de
Resurrectione domin. Quas si quis cum deuota intentione pro anima alicuius in purgatorio
existente legerit seu legi
fecerit; eciam si in diem nouissimum puniri debeat liberabitur. Quod egregius doctor
de ordine minorum in sermone publico
predicauit. Eundem vero sermonem due matrone honeste audientes promiserunt vt vna
pro alia que prius moreretur predictas
sex missas ordinare deberet. Quod et factum est. mortua autem vna et missis pro ea
lectis; reuersa anima in tanta claritate
apparuit ; quid alia superstes pre nimio gaudes tribus diebus sine omni refectione
cibi et potus permansit [...] Et iste
sex misse semper sunt incipiende feria tercia
Incipit:
44-45 Oracio prima feria .iij.a: Domine ihesu Christe fili dei
unu rogo te per innocentem captiuitatem quam pro nobis et pro omni genera humano sustinuisti
vt digneris liberare animam
.N. ab omni captiuitate a pena purgatorij
Explicit:
46 Oracio sexta dominica die .i. de Resurrectione: Domine ihesu Christe unu rogo te
pro
gloriosa resurrectione qua potenter resurrexisti . vt animam .N. tecum sic facias
resurgere ; vt ipsa a te numquam
separetur. Amen
Full transcription of the rubric and indulgence; this is followed by an exemplum about
a soul who is released from
Purgatory after requesting the six masses from a Cistercian monk and futher instructions
relating to performing the six
masses.
16. 46
Form for absolution
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
46 Forma absolucionis in mortis articulo per bullam
Incipit:
46 Dominus noster ihesus Christus pro sua magna pietate te absoluat et ego auctoritate
eiusdem dei
Explicit:
47 eadem autoritate tollo et ammones tecum que dispenso et sacramentis ecclesie te
restituo: In nomine patris etcaetera
17. 47-48
Model letter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
47 Littera attornatoria
Incipit:
47 Pateat vniversis quod nos etcaetera
Explicit:
48 Et generaliter omnia alia et singula faciendi supplendi expediendi
Final rubric:
48 Quaere residuum in 2o fol. sequente ad talem signum
Φ
18. 49-50
Oracio de domino Ihesu [title from the table of contents]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
49 Dulcis ihesu dulcor anime mee
Explicit:
50 et commorari merear; per infinita saecula saeculorum. Amen.
19. 50-51
Model letters
19.1. 50-51
Littera obligatoria pro littera attornatoria precedente
19.2. 51
Littera relaxatoria
19.3. 51
Littera manumissionis ao xijo henrici vjti
20. 52
Poem on the Artes mechanicae
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
52 Septem artes mechanicae
Incipit:
52 Lana nemus nauis miles rus medicina / Hiis sex fabrilis architectonica detur
Full transcription.
eTK 0808D (t0155430000)
21. 52
Verse
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
52 Artes post partes veteres didicere poete / Jtcirco magnum promeruere decus
Full transcription.
22. 52
Verse
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
52 Summo pontifici conuertit quomodo gentes / Christus veridici narrant baptisma
petentes
Full transcription.
23. 52
Verse
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
52 O dulcis hera qualis est facies tua vera
Explicit:
52 Hinc puer est vectus hinc agni vellere tectus
24. 52
Verse
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
52 Qui pugiles strauit et sanguine creuit iulo
Explicit:
52 A paruo pauit campio uermiculo
25. 52
Prophecy
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
52 fflamine romano crescit britanniis honor
Explicit:
52 Poscit eterni pro gestis||
The ending of the prophecy is missing; a complete version survives in the Waltham
Annals in
London, British Library, Cotton MS Titus
D.xv
, ff. 54-57 where it is associated with King Henry VI.
McGinn (2013) n. 98
26. 53
Prayer (incomplete)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: ||
53 vnigeniti tui
Explicit:
53 vt sue et tu miseracioni regraciari valeam in secula seculorum amen
The beginning of the prayer is missing due to the loss of a folio.
27. 53
Prayer
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
53 Domine ihesu Christe ego miser peccator gemens et suspirans dirigo in sinum tue immense
clemencie oracionem meam petens flebiliter
Explicit:
53 non me deferendo sed ad vitam eternam collocando amen
28. 53
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin
Two recipes for an unstated purpose.
29. 53
Continuation of the Littera attornatoria on pp. 47-48 (Φ)
Language(s): Latin
Preceded by the Greek letter Phi (Φ)
Dated to the reign of King Henry VI.
30. 54-55
Peter Damian,
Institutio monalis (Chapter 6)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
54 Pensandum quippe est cum iam peccatrix anima
Explicit:
55 solumque adipiscende perfectionis propositum indeclinabiliter custodire
Referred to as the ‘Exhortacio beati Jeronimi de hora mortis’ in the table of contents.
31. 55
Salutatations to Christ's body parts
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
55 Salue tremendum caput Christi cunctis potestatibus caput saluatoris pro nobis spinis
coronatum arundine percussum
Explicit:
55 Salue sanctissima anima Christi commendo tibi animam meam et animas parentum meorumet
omnium fidelium defunctorum
32. 55
Prayer to Christ
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
55 O domine ihesu Christe precor te humiliter per illam amaritudinem per illam
amaritudinem mortis quam sustinuisti in cruce
Explicit:
55 et face me participem omnium electorum tuorum. Qui vivis
33. 55-56
Prayer on the Five Sorrows of the Virgin Mary
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
55 Mediatrix omnium hominum
Explicit:
56 et planxisti exequias
Final rubric:
56 Quere finem istius oracionis in secunda folio praecedenti ad tale signum .2.o
Each of the prayers begins with a letter from the name "Maria".
34. 57-58
Exhortacio ad mundi contemptum (title from the table of contenst)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
57 O hii qui nobis seruiunt sic sunt honorati / Sine fine taliter erunt cruciati
Explicit:
58 Non melius poterit vnquam caro vina domari / Mortua qualis erit quod semper
premeditari
35. 58
The Short Charter of Christ
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit:
58 Wyteth now alle þat be here / þis was yeue at caluary
Explicit:
58 And after schal be leef and deere þe furste day of þe greet mercy
Final rubric:
58 Explicit carta humane redemptione
Spalding (1914), pp. 1-16
IMEV 4184
NIMEV 4184
DIMEV 6769.6
36. 59-66
Tract on the geography of the world excerpted from the Granarium
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
59 Terram nostram habitabit videlicet illa quam autor nature eleuauit
Explicit:
66 ad secundam partem Granarii magistri Iohannis Abbatis Albanensis de historiis et
historiographis plenair informandus recurrat
The tract discusses the different subdivisions of the world into seven regions governed
by different planets, seven
climatic zones, and three landmasses (Africa, Asia, and Europe), referring to Al-Farghani
('Alfraganus'), Ptolemy, Pliny,
Solinus, Isidore, and John de Whethamstede's Granarium.
eTK 1565J (t0299120000)
Hiatt (2014), p. 16 n. 13
38. 66-70
Model letters
38.1. 66-69
Littera fraternitatis capitularis
38.2. 69-70
Littera commissoria pro visitatione exercenda
39. 71
Verses on numerals
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
71 Numerale secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti
Incipit:
71 Possidet .A. munerum ; quingenta ordine recto .v.C
Explicit:
71 Vltima .Z. canit finem bis mille tenetur .ij.Ml
40. 72
Littera fraternitatis capitularis [beginning] (title from the table of contents)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
72 Vniversis sancte matris ecclesie
Explicit:
72 et consona voluntate cupientis ipsius assiduis laboribus||
Final rubric:
72 Quere residuum istius littere in .3. fo. seq.
41. 73-77
Parable about a man called Nemo in the reign of King Emmanuel of Jerusalem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
73 Recolendi patres et domini scriptura teste
Explicit:
77 Nemo ex omni parte beatus. Et (?)item nemo sine crimine viuit
42. 77
Medical recipe for healing toothache
Language(s): Latin with a Middle English plant name
Including an English plant name: ‘reeddokke’.
43. 78
Littera fraternitatis capitularis (continuation)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: ||
78 et fidelibus fermeijs qu ob honorem et reuerentiam gloriosi patroni nostri Anglorum
protomartyris Albani
Explicit:
78 et vnanimi assensu eisdem pleniter concendo pariter et largiendo. In cuius [...]
etcaetera
Continuation of the letter on p. 72 as indicated by the Greek letter Phi (φ).
44. 79-80
Poems from the Pantheon
Godfrey [Geoffrey] of Viterbo
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
79 Godfredus Uiterbiensis
Incipit:
79 Tradicio ueterum sic diuidit aqmina fratrum ; Sem tenet archatus; asie. Cam continet
affros . Japhet in Europa fit pater inille patrum
Explicit:
80 Et velut angelicos dici decreuerat Anglos
The poems are on the sons of Noah, Samson, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, and England.
45. 81-87
Model letters
45.1. 81-82
Certificatorium ad mandatum pro uisitacione exercenda
45.2. 83-85
Littera transmissiua domini Albanensis Episcopo Lincolniensis (title from table of
contents)
45.3. 85-87
Alia eiusdem ad Cancellarium Regni (title from table of contents)
46. 87
Epitaph poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
87 Qui transis siste . morieris tu velut iste
Explicit:
87 Sit pax sit requies ; sibi sit dos gloria perpes. Amen
47. 88
Tract on Grammar
(?) Alexander Neckam
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
88 Magister alexander nekkam in principio sui libri qui dicitur ferrum
Incipit:
88 Habet grammatica suas regulas dialectica maximas . rethorica locos communes .
arismetrica aporismata id est dignitates . musica anxiomata id est nouitates . geometria
. theoreumata id est speculaciones
astronomia
Explicit:
88 in celesti pagina dicimus
49. 89-112
Monachatus, excerpted from the Granarium
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
89 Monachatus qui iuxta beatum beatum [sic: twice repeated] Dionisium status est excelsior
in tota latitudine perficiendorum
Explicit:
112 quomodo vinea huius sancte religionis extenderit a mari vsque ad mare suos palmites
; propagines vero a flumine usque ad fines orbis terre
50. 113-116
Magnificat (from John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady)
John Lydgate
Language(s): Middle English and Latin
Incipit:
113 Wyth laude and prys my soule magnifieth / Eternal lord bothe oon two and
thre
Explicit:
116 he heath maade mercy oure kynde to restore / And of all his werkis to be souereyne
.J. Lydgate
Here attributed to John Lydgate.
IMEV 2574
NIMEV 2574
DIMEV 4080.12
Keiser (2009), p. 118
Wellesley (2018), p. 222
51. 116
Epitaph of King Richard I
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
116 Epitaphium Regis Ricardi primi
Incipit:
116 Pictauis exta ducis ; sepelit . tellusque chalucis
Explicit:
116 Nec fuit hoc fumus cui sufficeret locus vnus
52. 117-118
Epitaph of King John
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
117 Epitaphium Regis Johannis
Incipit:
118 Hoc in sacrophago ; sepelitur regis ymago
Explicit:
118 discute quid rerum ; pariat tibi meta dierum
53. 118
Epitaph of Richard Marsh, Bishop of Durham
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
118 Epitaphium Ricardi de Mariscoo Episcopi dunelmensis
Incipit:
118 Culmina qui cupitis laudes pompasque scititis
Explicit:
118 Quod sum vos eritis ad me currendo venitis
54. 117-118
Poem for the archdeacon
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
117 Versus exhortatorii dom. J. Albanensis ad suum archidiaconum
Incipit:
117 Qui causas regitis et lites soluere scitis
Explicit:
118 vertit et interdum ; libramen iudiciorum etcaetera
55. 118-119
Letter in verse
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
118 Epistola increpetoria eiusdem domini cuidam metrice
Incipit:
118 Pagina multiplicem tibi dicit amice salutem
Explicit:
119 Sexta scripta die ; post nuncia sancta marie etcaetera
56. 119-121
Poem on family
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
119 Eiusdem domini etcaetera de suis Auunculis
Incipit:
119 Nominis eiusdem tres lactabantur ibidem / Quo fluit in pelagus tyna recens fluuius
/
Clauiger unus erat. prior alter et hic sacer extat / Tercius Albani pastor prothomartiris
almi / Hiis tribus hoc unum
frumenti dant loca nomen Whethamstede
Explicit:
121 Precepto domini cui constat vinea celi
57. 121-122
Poems against violaters of his writings
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
121 Eiusdem quius supra imprecatio
Incipit:
122 Terra sibi fruges amnis sibi deneget undas
Explicit:
122 Aut in nunc alium quam scribitur applicat usum
Carlson (1999), p. 230
58. 122-125
Poem against the Bishop of Norwich
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
122 Eiusdem ciuius supra
Incipit:
122 Pastor magnifice vellem te magnificare
Explicit:
125 Vincere de tanto qui fecit nos munico
59. 125-126
Untitled poem
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
125 Eiusdem
Incipit:
125 Rex detestatur quod index pars habeatur / Sed tu Radulphe pudeat quod es unus
uterque
Explicit:
126 Sicque tui sterilis est sillaba nominis omnis
60. 126-127
Untitled poem
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
126 Eiusdem
Incipit:
127 Jynius [sic] es dictus iuuenum mensi similaris
Explicit:
127 Justiciam varies mox ramis r[...] fies
61. 127
Poem on Damasus
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
127 Qui gradiens pelagi fluctus compressit amaros
Explicit:
127 faciat quod surgem credo
63. 130-131
Letter of King Abgar to Jesus
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
130 Epistola Abigari regis ad dominum Ihesum - Papa Benedictus et s. vt s.
Incipit:
131 Abagarus vchanie filius thoparca; Jhesu saluatori bono qui apparuit in locis
Jherusolimorum salutem
Explicit:
131 Est autem ciuitas michi parua sed honesta que sufficiat vtrisque. Vale.
64. 131
Letter of Jesus to King Abgar
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: Rescriptum domini saluatoris ad eundem
Incipit:
131 Beatus es qui credidisti in me
Explicit:
131 Cum ergo fuero assumptus ; mittam tibi aliquem ex discipulis meis vt curet
egritudinem tuam et uitam tibi atque hijs qui tecum sunt prestet
65. 131-132
Letter of Philip, Abbot of Val Sainte-Marie, to Helinand of Froidmont
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: Epistola philippi abbatis de valle ad Helinandum historicum
Incipit:
131 Filio helinando philippus abbas salutem
Explicit:
132 et sonitus fauorum ac gloriam auribus semper eorum. Vale
66. 132
Arithmetical poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
132 Quadrantes sabbato quot nos expendimus vno / Tot crescunt solidi cum tot nummis
numerati
Explicit:
132 Proque die solo qui restat ; septima a pars sit / Dat sabbati quadrans numinum
solidumque per annum
67. 132
Poem on death
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
132 Cum mors sit ceca ; videt omnes omnibus equa
Explicit:
132 Mors domat indomitos ; nil pietatis habens
68. 133-134
Model letters
68.1. 133
Littera praesentatoria episcopo
68.2. 133-134
Littera dimissoria siue commendaticatia
69. 134-135
Epitaph for Petrus Comestor
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
134 Epitaphium Magistri historiarum
Incipit:
134 Petrus eram quem petra tegit dictusque comestor
Explicit:
135 Quod sumus iste fuit; erimus quandoque quod hic est
70. 135
Epitaph for John Bernwell (d. 1400) in St Peter's Church, St Albans
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
135 Epitaphium
Incipit:
135 Dummodo vixisti quia spemque fidem tenuisti
Explicit:
135 Sit Bernwelt [sic: Bernwell] prima ; mors et tua vita secunda
The epitaph is reprodcued in Weever (1631), p. 581
71. 135-138
Model letters
71.3. 136-137
Littera pro promotione prioris ad Episcopum diocesanum
71.4. 137-138
Littera promotoria Prioris studentium
74. 144-145
Model letter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
144-145 Commissio ad uisitandum
The letter is made for the Diocese of Lincoln.
75. 146-147
Oration
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
147 Protector pauperum oppressorumque adiutor
Explicit:
146 procellas silueruntque fluctus eius. Scriptus etcaetera
The oration, which refers to the Bishop of Norwich, begins on p. 147 and ends with
the Greek letter Phi (φ) and the note: 'in alia parte'. The second part of the speech
appears to be marked with the same
letter at the top of p. 146.
76. 146
Verse from Domitian 23.2
Suetonius
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
146 Pronosticum mortis domiciani cesaris
Incipit:
146 Nuper Tarpeio qui sedit culmine cornix
Explicit:
146 Est bene non potuit dicere . dixit erit.
77. 146
Epitaph of St Avitus of Vienne
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
146 Epitaphium sancti Auiti Viennensis Episcopi
Incipit:
146 Unus in arce fuit qui quolibet ordine fandi
Explicit:
146 Qui vixit viuit ; perque omnia secula vivet
78. 148-151
Two untitled model letters
Language(s): Latin
Both letters are written for the Diocese of Lincoln.
79. 151
Verse riddle from the Secretum philosophorum
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
151 Prima triangula longa subambula curta sequatur / Greca sit vltima pede penultima
talis amatur
Full transcription, see Galloway (1995), p. 102.
Galloway (1995), p. 102
80. 151
Verse riddle from the Secretum philosophorum
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
151 ffilia sum solis et sum sine sole creata / Sum quinquaginta sum quindecim atque
vocata - Lux
Full transcription, see Galloway (1995), p. 102.
Galloway (1995), p. 102
81. 151-152
Poem in praise of England
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
151 Anglia terra ferax et fertilis angulus orbis
Explicit:
152 Sed lingua melior liberiorque manus.
Eulogistic verses on England beginning with a phrase from Hildebert of Tours, PL 171:1443-44.
Galloway (1995), p. 102
82. 152
Poem on the foundation of Verona
Godfrey [Geoffrey] of Viterbo
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
152 De fundatione ciuitatis verone - Godfredus viterbiensis
Incipit:
152 Dum furit in armis ; fundat dux Brenno veronam
Explicit:
152 Nam quasi veroma dicta verona sonat
83. 152
Poem on popes Boniface III and IV
Godfrey [Geoffrey] of Viterbo
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
152 Tercius est papa bonefacius ille benignus
Explicit:
152 Primaque demonij tunc manet aula dei
84. 152-153
Model letter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
152 Littera testmonialis
85. 154
Poem in praise of England
Alfred of Beverley
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
154 Anglia etcaetera Glebis lacte fanis supereminet insula cunctis / Insula stat dives
quae toto non eget orbe . Et cuius totus etcaetera
Final rubric:
154 vide in folio precedente et istum versum et primum
Full transcription, with reference to the poem in praise of England on p. 151 for
the full versions of the first and
last line.
The poem also features in John Whethampstede's Granarium (see
London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero C.vi
) where it is attributed to Alfred of Beverley's Historia de gestis regalibus regum
Britanniae.
86. 154
Poem on Christ's blood
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
154 Vnda fluens aqua praeteriens aqua mixta lieo / Est Christi caro Christo sanguine
inuictus homo
Full transcription.
87. 154
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin
Five recipes: three for the eyes, for the stomach, and for the arteries.
88. 154
Poem on the Virgin Mary from the Pantheon
Godfrey [Geoffrey] of Viterbo
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
154 Hoc Godfredus Viterbiensis de sancta Anna Joachim de sponsata
Incipit:
154 Femina quod queris domino donante mereris
Explicit:
154 Nomine messias: spes bona vita via
89. 155-156
Model letter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
155 Littera fraternitatis
90. 156
Epitaph of King Henry II
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
156 Epitaphium Regis Henrici secundi
Incipit:
156 Sufficit hic tumulus cui vix suffecerat orbis
Explicit:
156 Humane speculum conditionis habe
91. 156-157
Epitaph of King Henry II (?)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
156 O dolor o plusquam dolor . heu sunt gaudia nusquam
Explicit:
157 Sed quia mors nullum patitur post fata regressum
92. 157
Epitaph of King Henry V
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
157 Aliter
Incipit:
157 Ad vitam lacrime si sufficient reuocare
Explicit:
157 Horreat horrorem sic vinat rex in id ipsum .Amen.
93. 157
Lamentation of the Lord of St Albans upon the death of King Henry V
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
157 Deploratio domini I Albanensis super morte .h. .v.ti
reg. angl.
Incipit:
157 Anglicus angelus est . cui semper credere fas est / Angelicum vultum fert a Christo
sibi dultum
Full transcription.
94. 157
Epitaph of King Edward I
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
157 De Eduuardo primo quidam sic metrice scripsit
Incipit:
157 Dum vignit [sic] rex et valuit tua magna potestas / ffraus latuit pax magna fuit
regnauit honestas
Full transcription.
95. 157
Epitaph of Berengar of Tours
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
157 Hildebertus episcopus de Berengario contra quem scripsit Lanfrancus
Incipit:
157 Quem modo miramur semper mirabitur orbis
Explicit:
157 Nec melior fiat sors mea sorte sua
The same verse with the attribution to Lanfranc of Bec is found in Ranulf Higden's
Polychronicon.
96. 158
Four riddles
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
158 Sum nimis ampla domus eternum sentio fumum / Si mihi b rapias de terris extraho
dumum.
Explicit:
158 Fecundans matrem natam genui sed ab illa / Natum cui mater natus fraterque nepos
es
The riddles have been fully transcribed in Galloway (1995), p. 102.
Galloway (1995), p. 102
97. 158
Dialogue between a porter and a traveller
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
158 Pande fores . Quare; Iubeo . non audio iussum
Explicit:
158 Intra te nosco . Tibi pareo. verna tuus sum
The text has been fully transcribed in Galloway (1995), p. 102.
Galloway (1995), p. 102
98. 158
Two verses on Mohammed
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
158 Te pariunt sternit vorat impie toxica morbis
Explicit:
158 Audiuro cessa vena vel nare repressa . dicitur t. et totiens pater noster
99. 159-162
Unidentified medical tracts relating to the heart
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
159 Ad cordulandam torqu[?e]atam cordam
Explicit:
162 arcum suum singulerem sinistre manus
100. 162
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
Recipes: two for the eyes (‘pro oculis’), for the stone (‘pro calculo’), and for haemorrhoids
(‘for the
piles’).
These items are not listed in Rand Schmidt (2001).
101. 163
Theological tract on Christ's body
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
163 Nota bene
Incipit:
163 Tribus de causis precipue reseruauit dominus cicatrices in corpore licet
incorruptibili
Explicit:
163 dicit tum Bede quod corpus domini subtile erat per effectum spiritualis potentie
et
palpabile per vitatem nature vt vitatem carnis probaret
103. 164
Model letter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
164 Littera pro ordinibus
104. 165-168
Treatise on the Signs of the Zodiac
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
165 In nomine unu patris domini nostri ihesu Christi. Accipe aurum purissimum et
fundatur sole intrante Arietem, scilicet iij kalendas Aprilis
Explicit:
168 et contra omnia apostemata et ad multa alia et portetur in renibus
A early printed version of the same text (there called "Sigilla magistri Arnaldi de
Villa nova") has been reproduced in
Germain (1872), pp. 15-17.
105. 168
Untitled poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
168 Ysidoris hispaliensis Origenem deplangens
Explicit:
168 His me collectum: [...]pia tela preniunt
106. 168
Medical recipe
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
168 Ad aperiendi arteria
Incipit:
168 Recipium ff[...]tre scabiose horehone et Isopi
Explicit:
168 et postea addatur pinta melle etcaetera
For opening the arteries.
107. 168
Medical recipe
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
168 Ad spissitudinemnem .ca. fero iij. cap .mane gri. iii coclear.
Only the rubric is present due to the loss of the next four leaves.
108. 169
Hildebert, Archbishop of Tours [Hildebert of Lavardin],
Poem on the monuments of Rome
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
169 Hildebertus de rome ruina sic metrice scribit
Incipit:
169 Par tibi roma nichil ; cum sis pene tota ruina / ffracta docere potes; integra
quanta fores
Full transcription.
Gibson (2017), p. 153.
109. 169-176
Treatise on charters excerpted from the Granarium
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
169 Compositio cartarum et aliarum evidentiarum
Incipit:
169 In primis sciendum est quid sit carta; Carta est quoddam feoffamentum siue scriptum
sigillatum de re immobili data cum pacifica seisma
Explicit:
176 post datam carte videlicet per vnum , duos ; vel tres dies debet ordinari
Hiatt (2014), p. 16 n. 13
110. 177
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
177 Aborsus: Suctus centauree
Explicit:
177 et sic donec tota materia conversa sit in aqua et sic habebit aquam mour.
111. 177
Recipe to keep ink from freezing
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric:
177 To kepe blak ynke from fresyng
Incipit:
177 Put þe quantite of a pest ful of Caumfer to a galon pot of ynke and it schal neuer
frese
This item is not listed in Rand Schmidt (2001).
112. 178
Tract on determining the Dominical Letters for the year 1412
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
178 Si vis inuenire litteram dominicale primo incipies infra anulum ad annum domini .M.
CCCC. xij. sic oblique script. ad finem eiusdem .D.
Explicit:
178 tunc deme de diebus quot sunt ab .a. vsque ad finem
113. 179
Tract on determining the Sun and Moon conjunctions for any particular year
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
179 Si vis scire coniunctiones solis et lune orte habere radicem semel in anno pro
quocumque anno valueris habere
Explicit:
179 et illid quod remanet est [...] illius meus
114. 179-180
Letter from John Whethamstede to Syon Abbey
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
179 Salutem in hujus visceribus Lathomi qui dat gratiam coedificandi habitaculum
spiritus sancti
Riley (1870), I, 272
115. 180
Epigram
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
180 Pauper languentes non pectant bis comedentes / Praegnans vexati, peragrans puer
inuetati
Full transcription.
116. 180
Verse
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
180 Lagana listrigone laurino lita liquore ; / lites linores litigia longa
labores
Full transcription.
117. 181
Sermon on Ephesians 3
Language(s): Latin with some Middle English
Incipit:
181 Ambulate ad Eph. iiio. fforsake youre synne þat doon a
mys and sue þe weye þat ledeth to blis
Explicit:
181 Nota est de loco Indie qui retinet omnem ferrum cum [...]
After the Middle English in the incipit, the rest of the sermon is in Latin.
This item is not listed in Rand Schmidt (2001).
118. 182-183
Sermon on Canticles 2
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
182 Vinee florentes odorem dederunt. Cant. 2o.
Explicit:
183 perfidie lyrenas audijt nec accessit
119. 183
Poems attributed to Godfrey of Viterbo
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
183 Godfredus viterbiensis in suo
Incipit:
183 Credite vos senones ; nobis deus ista parauit
Explicit:
183 Idem de fundatione mediolam: Sus erat in medio lanoso vellere tergo / A vario tergo
dux Brennius intulit ergo / Hec mediolani nomen habebit ait
120. 184
Model letter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
184 Littera fraternitatis capitularis
121. 184-191
Tract on the wonders of the world excerpted from the Granarium
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
184 Mirabilia
Incipit:
184 Inter alia orbis mirabilia hoc habet admiracione dignum paphos veneris quod in
ipsius area nunquam cadit pluuialis aqua
Explicit:
191 vide cum fictionis veritate in supra deo ysidoro libro .iio. cao. 3o. bene vltra medium.
Hiatt (2014), p. 16 n. 13
122. 191-192
Letter from (?) John Whethamstede to (?) Bishop William Alnwick
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
191 Johannes miseracione etcaetera Willelmo etcatera
123. 193-202
Poem on the corruption of age
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
193 Vox in rama resonat plorantis rachelis / Et peremptos eiulat natos
israelis
Explicit:
202 Hinc est theorema / Si cartam infregeris feres anathema. Amen
124. 202
Epitaph of Thomas de la Mere (1309-1396), Abbot of St Albans
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
202 Occidit anglorum sol illustris monachorum / Qui dum vinebat in aurum benedictus
habebat
Explicit:
202 fflete super funus quia non est par suus vnus
125. 202
Untitled poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
202 Omnia sunt homini tenui pendencia filo
Explicit:
202 Nunc stat et obstat homo flat et efflat floret et aret / Incipit et teritur stant
ea
pene simul
126. 202-221
Astrological treatise
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
202 Incipit tractatus qui dicitur Cavete medici
Incipit:
202 Quando sol est in illis duobus punctis
Explicit:
221 pertinent ad occultacionem
Final rubric:
221 Explicit
Another copy is extant in
London, British Library, Arundel MS
11
.
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127. 222-223
Poem (by John Whethamstede?)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
222 Promite pierides si dulce quid est eliconi
Explicit:
223 Emendet lector que male scripta legit
128. 223
Poem (by John Whethamstede?)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
223 Simonis esto uia rogo semper uirgo maria
Explicit:
223 Quicquid agam socia sis michi uirgo pia
129. 223-225
Poem (by John Whethamstede?)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
223 Felix qui nouit alienos cernere casus
Explicit:
225 Et sic nolle nephas est quoque velle salus
130. 225-227
Poem (by John Whethamstede?)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
225 Hec ex reportoriis eiusdem
Incipit:
225 Ue tibi mi ciate veniens since concauitate
Explicit:
227 Quando conualuit prauus ut ante fuit
131. 227
Moral distichs
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
227 fflamen nate pater assis michi diaque mater / Et simon caule domini dux docteque
paule / Mentem verba manum nichil inquinet oro prophanum / Sensum veri victum finem
quoque des benedictum
Explicit:
227 Quando languebat, agnus lupus esse volebat . / Quando convaluit, pranus vt ante
fuit
132. 227-251
Sermon
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
227 Cani sunt sensus hominis sapiencie .4. capitulo et in espistola quam hodie in
emmoriam passionis sancti prothomartirum anglorum albani sua et suorum monachorum
legit ecclesia
Explicit:
250-251 in qua sensus ab excellenti non ledetur sensibili et intellectus a super
excellenti intellecti beatificandus copulabitur ipsi deo. Ad quem nos perducat qui
sine fine viuit et regnat.
Amen
133. 251
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin
Three recipes, for burning (‘Pro arsura’), for delirium/frenzy (‘Pro frenesi’) and
for the teeth (‘pro
dentibus’).
134. 251
Verse
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
251 Pax tibi roma nichil cum sis pene tota ruma / ffracta docere potes ; integra quanta
fores
Full transcription.
135. 251-270
Treatise on Papal power excerpted from the Granarium
John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
251 Papa presidens suppremus in ecclesia
Explicit:
270 Hec omnia colligi potuerunt ex autoribus supernis allegatur hinc inde sparsim in
suis locis
The text includes references to the Italian Augustinian friars Alexander of San Elpidio
(1269–1326) [‘Alexander de
helpidio’] and Augustinus Triumpus (1243–1328) [‘Augustinus de Anchona’], Dante Alighieri's
(1265–1321) De Monarchia [‘Dans de monarchia mundi’], Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)'s De
potestate regia et papali [‘Thomas de potestate papali’]; Alvarus Pelagius (c. 1280–1352) [‘Aluarus de
planctu ecclesie’]; and a work by Marsilius of Padua (1270–1342) [‘Marsilius de ecclesiastica
potestate’].
Hiatt (2014), p. 16 n. 13
136. 270-284
Treatise on the five parts of the Church
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
270 Nacio. Quemadmodum in primis nascentis temporibus sancta mater ecclesia in membra
quinque fuerat sinodaliter principaliterque subdiuisa
Explicit:
284 ne ipse forsan iterum in sui ignominiam sputum proprium reglutire
137. 284-303
Treatise on herbs (organised alphabetically)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
284 Herba
Incipit:
284 Inter herbas absinthium virtutes fertur habere contrarius laxatiuam videlicet
constrictivam
Explicit:
303 Zizannia vero herba tritico multum nocina vnu habet ventoasam et quodammodo
venenosam; et ideo cito in ebriatis caput leditur
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138. 306
Two verses
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
306 Non vt adoretur fit ymago sed vt ueneretur / ffactorem factura suum qui cuncta
creauit. Rusticus in luna quem sarcina detinet vna / Monstrat per spinas nulli prodesse
rapinas.
The verses have been written below a large circular diagram drawn in red ink.
139. 307
Astronmical poem (accompanying the unfinished diagram on p. 306)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
307 Versibus hiis breuibus presentem pinge figuram
Explicit:
307 Tunc F. descendat ; quam recta G.J.K. rescundat; ET .K. dico fore; punctum quam
credimus hore
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140. 307
Astronomical poem (accompanying the unfinished diagram on p. 306)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
307 Si non directe paries stest adhuc operare
Explicit:
307 Nec plus matura ; sibi vult hec nostra figura. finis
141. 307
Poem on King Edward I
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
307 De Edwardo primo
Incipit:
307 Dum vigint rex ; et valuit tua magna potestas / Fraus latuit pax magna fuit regnauit
honestas
Full transcription.
142. 309
Epitaph
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
309 Epithaphium Agathonis pape
Incipit:
309 Pontificalis apex; virtutum pondere plenis
Explicit:
309 Formula virtutum; cui tua vita fuit
143. 309-310
Epitaph
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
309 Epitaphium deus dedi pape
Incipit:
309 Cur titulata diu; cessarunt iura sepulchri
Explicit:
310 Marmore construxit; munus epitpahij
144. 310
Epitaph of Johannis de Lignano
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
310 Epitaphum Johannis de Ligniano
Incipit:
310 ffrigida mirifici tenet hic lapis ossa Johannis
Explicit:
310 Heu dolor hic mundus; portus et aura iacet
145. 311
Satyrical poem against Pope Lucius III
Hugh Primas
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
311 Epitaphum
Incipit:
311 Lucius est piscis rex et tyrannus aquarum
Explicit:
311 plus racionis habet ; qui racione caret
146. 311
Untitled poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
311 ffelle bonus maculas illeso tolle colore
Explicit:
311 his et lexiua (?) facta deletur amurca
This poem perhaps belongs to the previous poem.
147. 311
Poem on absolution
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
311 Casus in quibus communis sacerdos non potest absoluere
Incipit:
311 Qui facit incestum deflorans aut homicida
Explicit:
311 Pontificem super his semper deuotus adibit
148. 311
Untitled poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
311 Magnus si[n]e paruus bonus et malus atque sinister
Explicit:
311 Ista creant pariter inequalia comparatiua
149. 311
Poem by John Whethamstede
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
311 Contra deprauantes administraciones aliorum
Incipit:
311 Laudis vix vnus vult successor dare munus
Explicit:
311 Immo mihi qualis successor erit tibi talis
The same poem is attributed to John Whethamstede in the Annals of St Albans for the
year 1438; see Riley, (1871), II: p.
202.
Riley, (1871), II: p. 202
150. 311
Verse from the Distichs of Cato
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
311 Cum tibi displiceat rerum fortuna tuarum / Alterius specta quo sis discrimine
peior
Full transcription.
151. 312
Peter of Blois,
Excerpts from Peter of Blois, Compendium in Iob
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
312 Petrus Blesensis super Job . io verbo Offerebat
holocaust
Incipit:
312 Illud pre ceteris michi materiam doloris importat, quod hodie viri religiosi et
sancti ordinis professores de ferculorum numerositate et varietate contendunt
Explicit:
312 non est hoc dicit do per prophetam ieiunium quod elegi etcaetera
152. 312
Prayer to the Seven Archangels
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: Michael Gabriel Raphael Uriel Raguel Thobiel Barachiel
Incipit:
312 Angele qui meus es custos pietate superna
Explicit:
312 ante tribunal Christi me immaculatum valeat presentare. Per Christum
153. 313
List of the sub-categories of vices and virtues
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
313 Species luxurie: voluptas / Immunidicia / Turpiloquium
Explicit:
313 veritas / lex / equitas. Explicit
154. 314
Magical method for establishing how many men have had sexual intercourse with a woman
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
312 Si vis scire quot voro [cypher for "viri"] substrauerunt mulierem mvloiri[m] [cypher
for "mulierem"] scribe hec tria nomina cum in folio morelici cum s1ng4n2 [cypher for
"sanguine"] v2sp2rt3l34n3s [cypher for
"vespertilionis"] .aberis / abeis / asturias. ponatur quando est in summu super pectus.
certum est.
This text is not noticed by M.R. James and has remained unencrypted until now. Words
in the text have been encrypted in
two ways: 1: The words ‘viri’ and ‘mulierem’ have been encoded by swapping their vowels
with their next vowels in
the alphabet (the letter that represents the sound "u" has not been replaced because
it is written as a consonant ‘v’
in the mansucript). 2: The words ‘sanguine’ and ‘vespertilionis’ have been encoded
by replacing their vowels for
numbers. Their numerical values are determined by their respective alphabetical order,
i.e: a=1, e=2, i=3, and o=4.
155. 312
Household recipes for making gum and dyeing hides or skins
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric:
Incipit:
312 Take .iij. vncys of salpetre and an vnce of quyk brymston and an vnce of colys of
salwh or of vyne tre þat is bettyr and braye þem to geder in a morter of bras . and
est optimus pulius pro gumus
Explicit:
312 Ȝif þou wylt make grene skynnys ; dyhte þy skynnys as is seyd by fore with alum .
þanne take a quartrun of sal armonyak an nyh as myche of verdegrees and do þem in
vynegre til þei be dyssolued and þan leye
þat wit a brosche on þy skynnys etcaetera.
156. 315
Letter of Darius to Alexander
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
315 Littera increpatoria darii ad Alexandrum
Incipit:
315 Darius rex regum et dominus dominantium Alexandro famulo meo
Explicit:
315 qui te vinctum atque contumelisoe verberibus affectum; celsitudini nostre
deducent
157. 316
Letter of Alexander to Darius (reply)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
316 Littera responsiua Alexandri
Incipit:
316 Rex alexander dario regi regum et dominantium dicit salutem
Explicit:
316 Ideoque non abhorreas nec tibi durum uideatur tantum regem vt tu te iactas tantisque
uiribus habundantem sub alexandro puero et latrocinante seruiturum
Smits (1987), p. 118
158. 316
Verse
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
316 Dignum sepui gens; tociens aquilam quoque fingens. / Vulpem nuluumque ; faceret qui
viuit vtrumque
Full transcription.
159. 317-318
Marbod of Rennes,
De Ornamentis Verborum
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
317 Versificaturo quedam tibi tradere curo.
Explicit:
318 O hector quondam troum fortissime frustra
This copy only represents only the first six stanzas of the full poem.
162. 319-320
Arithmetical questions in prose and verse
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
319 Item quidam moriens habuit 9 sues quarum prima habuit unum porcellum, secunda duos,
tertia tres, et sic de reliquis excedendo
Explicit:
320 Item sit una quercus que habeat 12 ramos et quilibet ramus 12 apros et quilibet aper
12 strophas, et quelibet strophe 12 porcellos. Questio est quot sunt in numero, qualibetmultitudine.
Respondeo: sunt apri
144, strophe 1728, porcelli 20736.
Galloway (1995), pp. 103-105
163. 321-324
Ralph of Dunstable,
Vita metrica sancti Albani
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
321 Albani celebrem celo terrisque triumphum
Explicit:
324 Hic probat hic cogit clamat hic esse nichil
This is a previously unidentified, unfinished copy of Ralph of Dunstable's metrical
life of St Alban. Three full-text
copies of this work survive in:
Bateson (1885), p. 218 [without this manuscript]
McLeod (1980), pp. 412, 414 fn. 13 [without this manuscript]
164. 324
Untitled poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
324 Mus sine murilego miles sine principe. serus; absque metu domini. plebs sine lege
furit
Full transcription; another copy of this poem occurs in Lincoln, Cathedral Library,
MS 129.
166. 324
Poem, perhaps taken from the Cosmati Pavements at Westminster Abbey
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
324 Si lector posita prudenter cuncta reuolua: hic finem primi mobilis inueniet
Incipit:
324 Cepes trina canes et equos hominesque subaddis. / Ceruos et coruos aquilas et
immania cete / Mundum quodque sequens preeuntem triplicat annos
Full transcription.
167. 324
Poem about death
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
324 Si dolor et lacrime morte reuocare valerent / Cerberus et pluto soli sua regna
tenerent
Full transcription.
168. 324
Poem about God's work
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
324 Vinea culta fuit cultores permia querunt
Explicit:
324 Illi seruire certi de munere sumis
169. 324
Poem on transitoriness
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
324 Quisquis ades qui morte cades . hoc perlege . plore. Sum quod eris, fueramque quod
es, pro me precor ora. Vita breuis casusque leuis, nec spes remeandi. Plura seras
vt plura feras , sit cura
parandi.
Full transcription; the poem was perhaps taken from a funeral monument.
170. 324
Poem on bad teachings
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
324 Tortum rectificant distorquent recta fabules
Explicit:
324 Sic fit pseudo gnato re cresus ore cato
171. 325-330
Model letters
Language(s): Latin
The letters have the following headings: ‘Commissio ad generale consilium’; ‘Littera
licentiatoria pro ordinibus
recipiendis ’; ‘Littera ad citandum vel citatoria; Littera commisasoria ad recipiendam
resignacionem vicarie’
(with other untitled letters).
172. 330
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin with some Middle English
For dropsy and stomach pain: ‘Pro ydropisi et malo stomacho’.
One ingredient is given in Middle English: ‘flour of canell’.
173. 331
Sequence of six prayers to Christ beginning with the letter 'O'
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
331 Omni domine ihesu dulcissime memento quali amicitia
Explicit:
331 et vt habeam cor benevolum ad queque bona paratum. amen
174. 331
Medical recipe
Language(s): Latin instruction with names of herbs in Middle English
Incipit:
331 Recipe semina istarum herbarum . loueache . smalache. waterkersyn
Explicit:
331 galyngal . gynger . peper cloues . quibybys .ana ds vnce . lykorys quarter s. and
ds
vnce
175. 332
Sequence of five prayers to Christ beginning with the letter 'D'
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
332 Domine ihesu Christi rogo te per immensam dilectionem
Explicit:
332 vt per teipsum et in teipso omnia mea sint suppleta coram patre tuo. amen
The same sequence occurs in Lucca, Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, MS 3540, ff.
129v–130r ; Powell, 'Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, ms 3540' (2019), pp. 46-47.
176. 332-333
Sequence of five prayers to Christ beginning with the letter 'O'
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
332 O dulcis ihesu salus et vita anime mee laduo et venior te in omnipotentia tua
incomprehensibili
Explicit:
333 vt possim eternam gehenne . amaritudinem feliciter en adere. amen. Pater [noster].
Aue
179. 335
Sequence of four prayers to the head and heart of Christ beginning with the letter
'S'
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
335 Salue tremendum caput ihesu Christi etcaetera. Salue ihesu salue ihesu salue cor
dulce ihesu dulcissimi
Explicit:
335 in supplementum omnium bonorum que mihi desunt. amen. dulcis ihesu
181. 336
Suffrage to Christ
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
333 Deus qui salutis eterne beate marie virginitate fecunda humano generi premia
prestitisti tribue quaesumus vt ipsam pro nobis intercedere senciamus per quam meruimus
auctorem vite suscipere ihesum
Christum dominum nostrum
Explicit:
336 Concede quaesumus omnipotens deus vt nos vnigeniti tui nova per carnem natiuitas
liberet . quos sub peccati iugo vetusta seruitus tenet. Per eundem Christum.
Full transcription.
182. 336
Ave Maria
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
336 Ave maria gracia plena
Explicit:
336 et benedictus fructus ventris tui jhesus. Amen
183. 336-337
Sequence of prayers for the Five Sorrows of the Virgin Mary
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
336 Gaude maria quia cor tuum lancea nuditatis verecunde et viuperose erat
affixum
Explicit:
337 et consolatrix tuta in angustijs mortis mee. Post partum
184. 337
Suffrage to Christ
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
337 Graciam tuam quaesumus domine mentibus nostris infunde vt qui angelo nunciante
Christi filij tui incarnacionem cognominus
Explicit:
337 Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui humano generi ad imitandum humilitatis exemplum
saluatorem nostrum carnem sumere et crucem subire fecisti concede propicius; vt e
paciem ipsius habere documenta et
resurreccionis consorcia mereamur . per eundem.
185. 337
Mnemonic for an unfinished sequence of prayers to the Five Joys Virgin Mary
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: ||
337 Gaude virgo
Explicit:
337 Gaude quod post ipsum - Ubi fructu||
186. 337-338
Prayer to God
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
338 Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui duina gabrielis salutacione et sancta filij tui
natiuitate et gloriosa et admirandi eiusdem ascensione et veneranda ipsius genitricis
sue assumpcione sancte marie matris
tue gaudia contulisti presta quaesumus; vt pro eius amore ab omni specie doloris liberemur
et sempiternis gaudiis perfrui
mereamur. Per eundem [Christum dominum nostrum]
Full transcription.
187. 388
Mnemonic for a sequence of prayers to the Seven Celestial Joys of the Virgin Mary
[sometimes attributed to
Thomas of Canterbury]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
388 Gaude flore virginali honoreque speciali transcendens splendiferum angelorum
principatum et sanctorum decoratum dignitate munerum
Explicit:
388 Gaude virgo mater pura||
188. 338
Prayer to the Virgin Mary
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
338 O sponsa dei electa mater domini nostri ihesu Christi benedicta esto nobis via recta
ad eterna gaudia vbi pax est et gloria et nos semper aure pia dulcissima atque piissima
exaudi virgo maria
Full transcription; this prayer belongs to the sequence of prayers to the Seven Celestial
Joys of the Virgin Mary
[previous item].
189. 338
Prayer to Christ [Dulcissime domine Ihesu]
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
338 Dulcissime domine Ihesu Christe qui beatissimam dei genitricem tuam gloriosam
virginem Mariam perpetuis et felicibus gaudiis in celo letificasti concede propicius;
vt eius meritis et precibus continuis
salutem et prosperitatem mentis et corporis consequamur et ad gaudia tua et eius eterna
feliciter perueniamus. Qui viuis
[et regnas deus. Per omnis secula seculorum]
Full transcription.
191. 339
Suffrage to Christ
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
339 Preces nostras quaesumus domine apud clemenciam tuam dei genitricis commendet oracio
. quam iccirco de presenti seculo transtulisti . vt pro peccatis nostris apud de fiducialiter
intercedat
Explicit:
339 Concede quaesumus omnipotens deus vt qui vnigenitum tuum redemptorem noftrum ad
celos ascendisse credimus . ipsi quoque mentem in celestibus habitemus per eundem
Full transcription.
192. 339
Suffrage to Christ
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
339 Preces nostras quaesumus domine apud clemenciam tuam dei genitricis commendet oracio
. quam iccirco de presenti seculo transtulisti . vt pro peccatis nostris apud de fiducialiter
intercedat
Explicit:
339 Concede quaesumus omnipotens deus vt qui vnigenitum tuum redemptorem noftrum ad
celos ascendisse credimus . ipsi quoque mentem in celestibus habitemus per eundem
Full transcription.
193. 340-342
Sequence of fifteen prayers on the virtues of the Virgin Mary all beginning with "Salve
maria mater ihesu
virgo"
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
340 Salue maria mater ihesu virgo dulcissima in amore seraphico quo deum per omni
creatura dilexisti
Explicit:
342 propter plagas ishesu Christ quas cruentas flens vidisti pro nostra miseria . fac
me
dignum te videre et videndo te gaudere ; in perhenni gloria nostra esto aduocata.
et et ad regna duc beata per ihesum tuum
filium. amen. Aue maria
194. 342
The hymn Stella celi extirpavit presented as a prayer against the plague
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
342 Antiphona approbata pro pestilencia
Incipit:
342 Stella celi extirpauit que lactauit dominum mortis pesttem quam plantauit primus
parens hominum . Ipsa stella nunc dignetur sydera compescere ; quorum bella plebem
cedunt dire mortis vlcere . versiculus.
post partum . oracio. Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui gloriose virginis et matris etcatera
Full transcription.
195. 342
Model letter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: A littera manumissoria - Johannes vinfray filius Ricardi vinfray de [sic]
196. 342
Model letter
Language(s): Latin
Rubric:
342 ?Walden abbatis: Anno xijo
Rubric only: the text is missing with the subsequent leaf.
