Language(s): Middle English and Latin
1. 1r
Poem on wine
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1r Aue color vini clari / Dulcis potus non amari / Tua nos inebriari - digneris
potencia
Explicit: 1r Ergo vinis collandemus / Potatores exultemus / Non potantes confundemus - In
eterna supplicia
Poem of 5 stanzas.
2. 1r
Proverb on wordly transcience
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1r Preterit una dies nescitur origo secundi / An labor an requies sic transit
gloria mundi
Full transcription.
3. 1r
Proverb on judgement
Language(s): Latin
Incipit:
1r Nullus in hoc meason dicat quicquam nisi reason / Nam iudex vendra qui cunctis
premia rendra
Full transcription.
4. 1r
Names of the protector saints
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1r Nomina sanctorum sunt hec tibi vigiliarum Jo. Bap. atque Pe. Pal. Jac. Lau.
S[?u]. Barthi. Math. Si sanctorum Andrew Thomeque Natal. / Mathei . Pascha tunc assen.
Pen. trinitatis
Full transcription.
5. 1v
Three medical recipes
Language(s): Middle English recipes with one Latin title
The recipes are for treating fever (‘Contra ffebres’), injuries (‘ffor hym þat is
brosten’), and farcy in
a horse (‘ffor an hors þat hath þe ffasshion’).
eVK2 4774.00
6. 1v
Latin couplet
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 1v Vano pede greditur clamorem demonis atque / Angelicas pennas caput avis
habet
Full transcription.
7. 2r-20r
Alphabet of Proverbs
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 2r Incipit inuentum quod fert prouerbis tentum
Incipit: 2r Ars est arbor amarissima cuius fructus est dulcisssimus et qui abhorret
arboris amaritudinem nunquam gustabis fructus [crossed out: ‘amarit’] dulcedinem
Explicit: 20r viri mites dirimunt lites
8. 2v
Medical recipe against parasites
Language(s): English
Rubric: 2v To geue a dranke for the bottes or wormes
Incipit: 2v Allyger sycetrina
Unfinished. Added in the (?) 16th century.
9. 3r
Religious and moral instruction
Language(s): English
Incipit: 3r Happye his he that sarerve God well in everry commandement And especyall in
three ther be passes all the reste that his for to saye: Love god above all thenge
and Honner thy father and thy
mother and Love thy naybor as thy selfe and thou shalt not doe amis
Full transcription. Added in the 16th century.
10. 20v
Medical recipe for old sores
Language(s): English
11. 20v
Note on the Creation of Fair Mead Park 1542
Language(s): English
Incipit: 20v The xxxiij here of yowre soffryn lord kyng henry the viijth that fayere mede parke was madde be twene medsovmmer and hallomas
Full transcription.
12. 20v
Medical recipe for treating a sore horseback
Language(s): English
13. 21r-23r
Parabolae
Odo of Cheriton
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 21r Hic incipiunt parabole sancti Odonis de Ceritonia ad honorem et laudem
ipsius qui est Alpha et O.
Incipit: 21r [Q]uoniam ut dicit Gregorius plus est verbi dei parabolis
Explicit: 23r qui cum beneficiris illi fforcius insurgit bello mouendi tibi
Unfinished.
14. 23v
Nine Virtues or Points Best Pleasing to God
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 23v Hit was an holy man and that besought god to send hym grace hym to teche
suche vertues for to vse that myght best to lyfe and to soule . And he was answerd
thus .
Incipit: 23v 1. Ȝeve thyn hert to me and a peny to the pore for the love of me and it
shall like me better þen þou yave all thy goodes after thi day
Explicit: 23v 9. Loue me for me and it shall like me better þan þou make a piler
rechyng vp to the heven stykyng full of rasors al thi body to rende ther vpon
Middle English version of the German ‘Neun-Punkte-Lehre’ which accompanied the so-called
‘Alberti-Tafeln’.
For other English copies, see Mooney (1995), p. 105. On the German tradition, see
Auer (1952), 71-75.
Auer (1952), pp. 71-75
15. 24r
Twelve points for purchasers of land to look to
Sir John Fortescue (attributed)
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 24r Who so woll be wise in purse purchesyng Considre the poyntes that be
folowyng
Explicit: 24r And if þu wise purchessour bein x yere day þu shalt agayne þi money
se
IMEV 4148
NIMEV 4148
DIMEV 6640-7
Mooney (1981), pp. 436-437 [edition].
Kuipers, Dulce et Utile (2020), pp. 151-152
16. 24v
Poem on justice
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 24v Hec in Ciuitate Gevennarum in Ecclesia predicatorum super picturam
Judicij
Incipit: 24v Iudicabis iudices Judex generalis His nichil proderit dignitas
papalis
Explicit: 24v Hic non erit codicis locus nec digestis Idem erit dominus Judex actor
testis
17. 24v
Verse prayer for King Henry VIII
Language(s): English
Rubric: 24v Bod safe kyng hare whare he fer he go or ryde sent gorge be hys forman
hovre blyssyd lady be hys gyde
Full transcription, copied by the same hand that entered the next prayer.
IMEV 960.3
NIMEV TM 485
DIMEV 1579-1
Alsop (1983), p. 411
18. 24v
Verse prayer for Rowland and Mary [Rampston]
Language(s): English
Incipit: 24v Bod and hovre blyssed lady safe and kepe Rowland and mare
Full transcription, copied by the same hand that entered the preceding prayer.
19. 25r-26v
Latin verses from the London Charterhouse
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 25r Omnes isti versus scribuntur super diuersa hostia cellarum in claustro
domus Cartusiensis London
Incipit: 25r Bis duo sunt que mestificant me nocte dieque / En moriar sed vbi vel
quomodo nescio quando
Explicit: 26v Sit ibi sella placens pes ter due ad exteriora / Semper vbique tacens
aude lege plange vel ora
Full transcription.
Sargent and Hennessy (2008)
20. 26v
Accounts of Robert Rampston [Ramston] (crossed out)
Language(s): English
Account of items and payments added in the late 15th or 16th century.
21. 27r
Poem against excess in men’s apparel [Variant version, including answer of the gallants
to the
clerics]
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 27r‘Made by prestes ayenst Galantes’ and ‘An Ansuere to þe same by the
Galantes’
Incipit: 27r This prowde Galantes thriftles / Seyth hy Cappis witles / Stuffid
dowblettes and longe pykyd shone / Hath broght this land in grete hevynes
Explicit: 27r And afterward than ye may take in hand / All other to amend and bryng
pese to this land
IMEV 4255
NIMEV 4255
DIMEV 6831-2
Scase (1994)
22. 27v
Account of St Edmund of Canterbuy
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 27v Legitur de sancto Edmundo Cantuarensis Archiepiscopoe
23. 28r
Articles against Henry Standish (b. c. 1475-1535), Franciscan friar and theologian,
concerning his defence
of an Act of Parliament (1512) that restricted the benefit of clergy to those in major
orders
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 28r Articuli versus henrici scandissh fratrem minorem ac sacri theologie
doctorem per Clerum Anglie
Incipit: 28r Primus an licet Judici temporales conuocare Elitum in fero
Judicali
Explicit: 28r Quarto an princeps temporalis potest refreniare [...]
debite modo non castigantes||
The text is defective since the lower half of the page and part of the upper half
has been cut out.
24. 28v
Latin verse
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 28v Produc.
Incipit: 28v Dic stratilates fortes validosque quirites
Explicit: 28v Fures stratilates iuxta stratem latitantes
25. 29r
Copy of an indenture
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 29r This endetur made betwene Master Robart Geyton and Master John Stern of
hoos Parte being the partes the wyche I shall re hers to you by name the ffirst of
them is callyd Master James of the
North Countre being of the on[i]e parte and master sherwyne of the other parte ffor
the wyche thees partes being
present should swer that one Robart Wyght and the wyche was master geytons seruant
wer ffallsly for sworne thys master
geyton sung apon them a pargere the were a curised and ther fore wolde thys Master
James wollde in thys mastere geyton
wrongffully ther fore I pray you to se a remedy in thys mattere being in a sho[?n]che
a nessessite and nede thys tyme
- Jhesus Amen
The text is written vertically on the page. Full transcription.
26. 29v
Note about the birth of the first son (the later King Edward V) of Edward IV and Elizabeth
Woodville on 2
November 1470
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 29v The yere of oure lord [crossed out: ‘Ml
CCCClx’] MlCCCClxx the xth yere of kyng Edward the
iiijth then he beyng in fflaunders the ij.de day of
Nouember on all soules day within the abbottes place at Westminster was borne Prince
Edward the syest begoten son of
the seid kyng Edward
Full transcription.
27. 29v
'Devoute and vertuos worde'
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 29v Ther is no man so myghty but som man may hym dere / nor no man so witte
but some man may hym lere / No no man is so variant but som man wil hym leve / Nor
no man is so pacient but som man
may hym greve
Full transcription.
IMEV 3538
NIMEV 3538
DMEV 5584-2
Brown (1939), p. 285
28. 29v
Medical recipe to treat burns
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 29v A good medsovn for bornnyng hor skalddyng
29. 30r
Copy of an indenture
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 30r This Indenture made the xviij . day of September the yere of þe regne of
K. E. the iiijth the xxth betwene John Gare of Seynt Mary Cray
in the Counte of Kent Cordeweuer on þat oon partie and Walter Ryse son of John Ryse
sumtyme of wymelton in the \same/
Counte ffuller on that oþer partie
Explicit: 30r whereof the parties afore seide chauneably haue put there seales the day
and yere aboveseide
30. 30v
Copy of an indenture
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 30v Obligacio - Nouerint vniversi per presentes me W. M. de Bromley in
Comitatu Kant. gent. teneri et firmiter obligari T. S. de Hese in Com predicit. et
G. C. de Sellesden in parochia de
Croydon in eodem Com.
Explicit: 30v In cuius rei testimonium presentibus sigillum meum apposui. dat. tercio
die april. anno r.r. E. iiijti vicesimo
31. 30v
Copy of an indenture
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: Condicio
Incipit: 30v Condicio istius obligacionis talis est quod si willelmus infrabiligat.
steterit et obedierit arbitrio ordinationi et iudicio N. S. gent. et R. B
Explicit: 30v in omni suo robore stet et effectu
32. 31r
Copy of an indenture
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 31r Relaxatio feoffatorum et alium feoffatum
Incipit: 31r Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit R.A. \ar/
Ric Couper T Jurdan et Johannes Jurdan
Explicit: 31r In cuius rei testimonium presentibus sigilla nostra apposuimus datum apud
C predict. xxviijno die Augusti Anno regni regi E iiijti
xxjmo
33. 31r
Copy of an indenture
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 31r Cart.
Incipit: 31r Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Robertus Sybbyng dedi concessi et hac
presenti carta mea confirmaui Johanni ffayreman de Crofton in parochia Orpyngton in
Com. Kanc. laborere omnia illa
terre
Explicit: 31r In cuius rei etcaetera hijs test. et caetera dat. etcaetera
34. 31v
Copy of an indenture
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 31r General acquietans
Incipit:
31v Nouerint vniuersi per presentes me Johannem abelle de lesnes in Com. Kans yoman
remisisse et relax[i]sse Thome West de Eltham in Com. predicto
Explicit: 31v pendentes a principio mundi vsque in diem confeccionis presencium in
cuius rei etcaetera dat. etcaetera
35. 31v
Medical recipe for sick oxen
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 31v De homagis regum Scocie regibus AngliA medssovn for sekke oxssovn
Final rubric: 31v and thys shall helpe them be the gras of god
36. 32r
Copy of an indenture
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 32r Carta cum littera Attornatoria
Incipit: 32r Sciant presentes et futuri quod nos R.A. armiger Ric. C. Robertus S.T.J.
et Johannes Jurdan dedimus concessimus et hac presentis carta nostra confirmauimus
Explicit: 32r In cuius rei et hijs testibus etcaetera dat. apud etcaetera
37. 32v
Note on lands
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 32v Item iij halfe acurs a thys syd the wyllys
Full transcription.
38. 32v
Warnings of disease and death that hang over man (Memento mori text)
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 32v How thov may remember thys that on the hangyth daly thys dessesys that here
folovyth
Incipit: 32v ferste the hed acakyh / the mygrene / the touvth ache
Explicit: 32v than favlyth away thy tethe whan thov canste not fede than falyth away
thy flesshe than son deth and prochyche the nere and nere and remember man what hoffer
thy hed hangyth here
eVK2 2429.00
39. 33r-35v
Historical account concerning English law in Scotland
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 33r De Jure Regis Anglie in Scocia vt repertum est in Cronica Mariani
Soctti
Incipit: 33r Willelmum de Malmesbury Regir de Honden Henrici de Huntyngdon et aliorum
anno gracie DCCCCx Edwardus senior filius aluredy regis subegit sibi reges scottorum
et cumbrorum
Explicit: 35v ideo a occisus est cui succesit Jacobus qui nu[n]c etcaetera
40. 35v-36v
Tract on the legitimacy and right of succession at the end of the fourteenth century,
favoring Edmund
Mortimer as rightful successor to Richard II
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 35v Memorandum that kyng edward the iijd lefully
gate Edward his furst sone prince of Walis
Explicit: 36v the thrid sone of the seid kyng edward the thrid to the wiche edmund the
right and title of the seid corone and lordship by lawe and custume bylonged
41. 36v-37r (lower margin)
Memoranda about the birth of Robert Rampston [Ramston]'s children
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 37r The xvij here of the rayne of kyng hare the viij the xj day of decemer the
san of the r that robard ramston was borne
Explicit: 37r apprell - Item the xxix day of the xxij here of the rayne of kyng hare
the viij that addre \ramston/ was borne
42. 36v
Accounts from Robert Rampston [Ramston] (crossed out)
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 36v Item payd to hare wayte for hys wagys the xix here of the rayne of kynge
hare the viijth saffe xiijs [iiij]d
Explicit: 36v [not transcribed]
43. 37r-38v
On the wreck of the bridge at Gloucester, 1192
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 37r de Ponte Glouc.
Incipit: 37r Qualiter pons Glouc. sumpserit inicius sic scribit vera narracio
Explicit: 38v Per pie largicionis elimosinam et merite [crossed out: ‘Beatum’]
Beati Nicholai qui vt dictum est hoc opus iniciauit fiant consortes sannctorum [sic]
amen
44. 38v-39v
Tract about the feudal oaths (homages) of Scottish kings to English kings
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 38v De homagis regum Scocie regibus Anglie
Incipit: 38v Nota uod tempore R. Henrici secundi Willelmus rex scocie de concensu
procrum et regni sui magnatum regi henrico pro se et suis heredibus homagium et legiamentum
fecit
Explicit: 39v Et sic quatuor reges anglie receperunt homagium de iiijor regibus Scottorum ex quo henricus secundus post ipsum regnauerit
45. 39v-40r
Legendary letter of the Sultan of Syria, Emperor of Babylon, to King Henry VI
Language(s): Middle English with a Latin title
Rubric: 39v Littera Soldani de Surrey ad Regem Henricum Sextum
Incipit: 39v Weiting to all cristen men that I am kyng of all kynges lorde of all
lordis sowdam of surre emperour of babilon steward of hell porter of paradis constable
of ierusalem lord of ynd flour
of all the workes and cosyn to crist and I am lord as farre as grasse growith or water
rennythe
Explicit: 40r and I schall make the kyng of Englond an Emperour or els meynteyn ynglond
ayenst all and cristendoum and hethenes
Mooney (1995), p. 106 [other copies]
46. 40r-40v
Letter (response) of King Henry VI to the Sultan of Syria
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 40r Responcio Regis Angli
Incipit: 40r-40v Harry by the grace of gode kyng of ynglond and of ffraunce lord of
Irelond Prince of Walis lord of Gyon and of Gasqwyn Erle of Derby Duke of Cornwal
Erle of Chester duke of Lancester
Conquerour of Scotlond and of his massege I thonk hym and of his sond and of this
I take avysment tyll vnto the date
of our lorde Ml CCCC xlj and then I schall geve and answere to hym
Full transcription.
Mooney (1995), p. 106 [other copies]
47. 40v-41r
Account of the damnation of a certain Pope Benedict
Peter Damian (attributed)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 40v Nota de rapina
Incipit: 40v Benedictus Octauus nacione tuscanus ex patre Gregorio
Explicit: 41r quod Episcopus fideliter explenit et Episcopatui cedens monasterium
intruit et ibi vixit omnibus diebus vice sue
48. 41r
A political prophecy according to the throw of the dice
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 41r When [six] is the best cast of the dyse and [one] berith vp [six] then
ynglond ys paradise
Explicit: 41r The lyon the rede rose and the flouredelyce The loke schall nede vn do
yet {six} schal bere the price And {one} schall help there to
IMEV 734.8
NIMEV 734.8
DIMEV 1215-7
Patterson (2017), p. 46 fn. 110
49. 41r
A political prophecy by the stars
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 41r The blak schall blede the blew schall haue his hed / The white and the
blewe schall torne al to one
Explicit: 41r That after schal it neuer thyng ne keuerAnd Iubiter schall do this dede
at dovere
IMEV 3308.5
NIMEV TM 1203
DIMEV 5213-1
50. 41v
Proclamation concerning relaxation of the Lenten fast (c. 1518-1529)
Thomas Wolsey
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 41v The most reuerend father in god lord Thomas cardynall of yorke legate de
latere of the see apostoliquie primat and chaunceller of England of his goodnes consideryng
the scarsite and derth of
fysshe and other customable vitayles for tyme of lent which hath happened this yere
by thoccascyon of warres of
shyppes perisshed in the see and other misfortunes by the auctorite of our holy father
the pope sufficyenly vnto hym
graunted in that behalfe hath gyuyn lycence to al maner of persones wythin the precynce
of hys legacye that ys to say
all the realme of England wych al other places beynge vnder þe kynges obeysaunce to
vse and eate mylke butter chese
egges and other whytmeatys aswel in thys tyme of lenton as other tymes forbyden without
any scrupul of conscyence
(excepte suche persones as by any expresse vowe or by þe ordre of theyr religyon haue
promysed the contrary) Exhortyng
and enioynynge vnto all and euery of them that wyll vse the benyfyte of thys sayd
licence to say deuoutly euery sonday
of thys yere knelyng on theyr kneees one Pater noster and one Aue maria for the good
prosperous estates of our
souerayne lorde the kyng the quene the Pryncesse and of the sayd lord cardinall Aue
legate
Explicit: 41v
Full transcription of this crossed out text.
51. 42r
Tract on the compotus
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 42r Compotus iste diuiditur in sex partes
Explicit: 42r Et sic annus bisextilis euenit generaliter in 4 anno Et causa quare
annus
eTK 0244D
52. 42v
Three medical recieps
Language(s): Middle English
The recipes provide treatments for the farcy (‘A medsyn for the fassyon’), sore throat
(‘A soferayne medsyn
for the colde horsnes’) and numbnes (‘a good medson for the palset’).
eVK2 4682.00
Mooney (1995), p. 106 [transcriptions]
53. 43r-44v
Historical accounts from the reign of Edward II, dating 1312-1320
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 43r De Guerra Baronum
Incipit: 43r Tempore Edwardi Regis de Carnarvon Anno Domini Ml CCCxjo Petrus de Gauerston decollatus fuit apud Gaueresythe inter kelynworthe
et warwyk
Explicit: 44v Anno domini Ml CCCxx in
parliamento apud London vtlagati sunt hugo le dispenser pater et filius toto clero
et rege consencientibus et [...]
fecerunt statutum in quo||
Unfinished.
54. 44v
Two medical recipes
Language(s): Middle English
Two recipes for treating ague (‘A good medson for \the shakyng/ hagu’) and a wound
from a thorn (‘A good
medssoyn [crossed out: ‘fforf’] ffor the preche of a thorne’) added by two late 15th-
or 16th-century
hands.
Mooney (1995), p. 106 [transcriptions]
55. 45r
Epitaph of King Edward II
Language(s): Latin poem with Middle English heading
Rubric: 45r Thies \be/ som of the versys about the tumbe of kyng richard the secund
which beth at westminster beside seynt edwardes shryne
Incipit: 45r Prudens et mundus Ricards iure secundus
Explicit: 45r Quemuis Regalia qui violauit
The name ‘Thomas Cauendyssh’ has been added by another hand below the verses
56. 45r
Epiptaph of Simon de Langham (1310–1376), Archbishop of Canterbury
Language(s): Latin poem with Middle English heading
Rubric: 45r Thies verses be wreten on a tabyll hangyng at the tumbe of symon langham
sumtyme abbot of westminster in westminster
Incipit: 45r Simon de Langham sub petris hijs tumulatus
Explicit:
45rNuncius ex parte pape transmittitur istuc
57. 45v
Letter from a student to their parents with a request to the father to send books
for learning
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 45v Ryght trust and well belouid ffather and mother I hartely recomende me
vnto you praying you to send me your dayly blessyng ffather the cause of my wrytyng
vnto you at thys tyme is praying
you to sende me your dayly blessyng and for to sende me sum bokes ffor to lern of
in the skole ffor I lake bokes to
contende my lernyg at thys tyme and I haue them not shortely I shall ffor get moch
lernynge
Full transcription. Added in the late 15th or 16th century.
James (1902), p. 172 [transcription]
58. 45v
My loue sche morneth for me (extract)
William Cornysh
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 45v My loue she morns ffor me for me my loue she morns for me
These lines match with the opening lines of the song My loue sche morneth for me that
survives in London, British Library, Add. MS 31922
where it is attributed to William Cornysh (1465-1523). See Siemens (1997), pp. 176-183
IMEV 2261.2
NIMEV 2261.2
DIMEV 3637
Wilson (1952), p. 182
Siemens (2013), pp. 84-85
Siemens (2018), pp. 84-85
59. 45v
Verses on tithes
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 45v Dande sunt decime vini frigum pecudiuque
Explicit: 45v Qui ligat ex proprijs anathematizatio culpis
60. 46r
Birth entries for the Rampston [Ramston] family, 1525-1538
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 46r The xvij yere of the rayne of kyng hare the viijth the xj day of dessember that robard ramston borne anno domini 1525
Explicit: 46r The xxx yere of kyng henry the viijth the vj
day of november that [...] \ramstovn/ was borne
61. 46v
Medical recipe for the farcy
Language(s): Middle English
Another copy of the same recipe, copied by a different hand, occurs on f. 42v
62. 47r
Medical recipe to treat pestilence
Language(s): Middle English recipe with Latin heading
Entitled ‘Contra pestelens’.
eVK2 1507.00
63. 47v
Three medical recipes for colic and fever
Language(s): Middle English
eVK2 4701.00
64. 47v
Recipe for stewing fowl
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 47v Item to [crossed out: ‘seth’] \stew/ w a cokrell
Incipit: 47v parcely rote ffenell rote violettes
Full transcription.
65. 48r
Clericalis disciplina (excerpt)
Petrus Alfonsi
Language(s): Middle English text with Latin heading
Rubric: 48r Petrus alphonsus
Incipit: 48r Ne aggrediaris viam aliquo nisi eium prius cognoueris et si tibi in via
ignotus se associauerit iterque tuum investigauerit dic te longius ire quod disposueris
Full transcription.
66. 48r
Advice to avoid the counsel of one's enemy reconciled
Language(s): Middle English text with Latin heading
Rubric: 48r De vitando consilio illorum qui fuerunt inimici sed postea redierunt in
graciam
Incipit: ||48r ffle the councell of thyne enemy reconsyled thowgh he
speke fayre and go full lowe fforeuer fro the that
Unfinished. Full transcription. Mooney (1995) notes that the text is possibly in verse
but it is not recorded in the
(Digital) Index of Middle English Verse.
67. 48r
Menu for a marriage feast (2 courses) on the first Sunday after Easter
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 48r The ffest at the mariage of G W and M F the sonday next after dominica in
albis
Incipit: 48r Nota the ffirst cours capon broth to potage
Explicit: 48r with wafers ypocras
See Mooney (1995) for a full transcription.
68. 48v
Note on the capture of foreign ships during the siege of Brest, 4 Henry VII [1489]
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 48v Apoun assencioun day the iiijth yere of kyng
herry the vijth was ttakyn iiij shippys of ffraunce with ordinaunce goying to brestward to
rescowe the castell with vecell and xx pipes of gonne powder and xij thousand crownes
in money xxx speres
complete
Explicit: 48v Also the grete ordynaunce is comyn from nauntis to brest to maynetene the
sege and conforme we englissh and john meton is cepteyn theryn
69. 49r-52v
Account of the birth and christening of Arthur, first son of Henry VII, in 1486
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 49r By the prouision of god our lady and the gloriuse marter seynt george on
the xx. day of september . the fest of seynt Eustace the vigill of seynt mathew thappostill
[crossed out: ‘whi’]
wich was on a wendynsday a bowote on of þe cloke in the mornyng was borne at wynchester
arthure þe firste begotyn son
of owre souerayn lorde kyng henri þe vijth wiche was in yere of our lord Ml CCCClxxxvj
Explicit: 52v And þen was borne to the kyng and the quene and had the blessyng of all
myghty god our ladi and seint george and of his fader and mother and in the Churchyard
were set to pypes of wyne that
euery mane myght dreke and the kyng gaue gret largesses Memorandum that þe bisshop
wessed at the fount with couerde
basyns etcaetera
Mooney (1995), p. 107 [other copies]
70. 53r-54r
Prayer attributed to Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, in November 1500
Elizabeth of York
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 53r This devoute prayer made the quenes grace Elizabeth late the wyfe of oure
souereyne the kyng / kyng herry the vijth at Wodestok the xxvijth day of Nouember the xvjth yere of our seid souereigne lord and the yere of
oure lord god .MlD.
Incipit: 53r Jhesu welcome my makes welcome my redemer welcome my Savyour Jhesu Criste
whome I here honour and make knowlege to be god and man in fourme of brede the secund
\ persone / of the
Trynyte
Explicit: 53v-54r and for thy glorious resurreccioun and for thys most mervelous
assencioun for thy blyssid and holy lyveyng and for the love that thowe haddest to
al man kynde when thave woldest
wilfully suffyr passioun for the redempcioun of synnrs haue mercy vpoun me and vpoun
ald Christen soules
Amen
71. 54r
Poem about transitoriness
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 54r Munde vale tibi ve fugiebas dum sequerer te / Nunc tu sequeris me munde
vale tibi ve / Mundus non mundat sed mundus poluit ergo / Qui manet in mundo quomodo
mundus erit
Full transcription.
72. 54r
Two recipes for making rat poison
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 54r A medssovn for to kylle rattys
Mooney (1995), p. 108 [other copies]
73. 54v
The burn is this world blind [Christ's complaint from the Cross]
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 54v Come ouer the borne besse
Incipit: 54v The borne is this word blynde And besse ys mankynde
Explicit: 54v And petyr refusyd My fryndes me abusyd||
Incomplete version of the poem on ff. 55r-56r, crossed out.
IMEV 3318.4
NIMEV TM 1505
DIMEV 5227-3
Wright (1836), p. 25 [extract only]
74. 54v
Medical recipe to treat ague
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 54v A good medycyne to help a man fro the ague
75. 55r-56r
The burn is this world blind [Christ's complaint from the Cross]
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 55r Come ouer the borne besse
Incipit: 55r The borne is this word blynde And besse ys mankynde
Explicit: 56r The water hit fallyth And Crist stondyth and callyth Come ouer the borne
besse
Complete version of the aborted and crossed out poem on f. 54v. As Kuipers (2020)
notes, this is a moralised version of a popular drinking song.
IMEV 3318.4
NIMEV TM 1505
DIMEV 5227-3
Wright (1836), p. 25 [extract only]
76. 56v
Accounts of Rowland Rampston [Ramston]
Language(s): English
Incipit: 56v the xviij yere of the rayne of kyng hare the viijth Memorandum that I rowland ramston hathe delyford to Jhon torkyn for the hole yere
rente
Explicit: 56v the xviij yere of the rayne of kyng hare the viij Item delyford to John
st[...]don for the lordys rente [...] half [...] xvijs xd
[...]
Most of the accounts have been crossed out but are partially legible.
77. 57r-58r
Youth lust reaches or manhood [An Exhortation to God's Service]
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 57r When all ys don and all ys sayd / God must be [crossed out: ‘louyd’]
known seruyd and obeid
Incipit: 57r Yougth luste Reches or Manhod / Trustyth in any of thes godes
forbed
Explicit: 58r ye se but few \pore/ pepull appere / maters of a moneth is not sped in a
[crossed out: ‘here’] yere / When all ys doon
IMEV 4285
NIMEV TM 2044
DIMEV 6886-1
Greene (1977), pp. 224-225
78. 58v
Accounts of Rowland Rampston [Ramston]
Language(s): English
Incipit: 58v the xvij yere of the rayne - Memorandum that I rowland ramston hathe
takkyng on to farme sovers the farme of master pempys
Explicit: 58v as yr hosbond did make [crossed out: ‘make’] takyn of hyr the xviij
yere of the rayne
Crossed out but largely legible.
79. 58v-59r
Two medical recipes to treat and prevent sickness in sheep
Language(s): Middle English
The recipes, entitled: ‘A medssovn for seke shepe’ and ‘for the rote to safe sechepe
for j here’ have been
copied by the hand of Rowland Rampston [Ramston].
eVK2 1286.00
80. 59r
Medical recipe for treating colic and the stone
Language(s): Middle English
Mooney (1995), p. 108 [other copies]
81. 59r
Heart be true and do not amiss [‘Remember me’ poem]
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 59r Harte be true and don not amys and thynk one them that gaue you this and
euer among remember me
IMEV 1176.5
NIMEV TM 567
DIMEV 1921-1
Robbins (1965), p. 46.
82. 59v
Three medical recipes
Language(s): Middle English
The medical recipes are for treating itch, colic and the stone, and to clean teeth.
eVK2 1650.00
83. 60r
Medieval mnemonic verses to distinguish Latin homonyms by the quantity of the penultimate
syllable
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 60r Deferencie
Incipit: 60r Silua tenet leporem sapientis ligua leporem / set verbis lepidus aliquis
factis que facetus / Discurrunt culices hominem turbando quietem
Full transcription.
84. 60r
Proverbs
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 60r Lens lendis capiti lens lentis conuenit ori / Lens mordet per d mordetur
si capit t / Lens animal lendis lens pro legumine lentis
Full transcription.
85. 60r
Verses (4 lines)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 60r Mutuo vult dantem set mutuor accipientem
Explicit: 60r Mons est [crossed out: ‘garnanus’] garganus sed garganus incola
montis
86. 60r
Verse couplet
Language(s): Middle French
Incipit: 60r A moun primere commenseant / Soit dieu le piere omnipotent
87. 60r
Cato Major [Stanza 131 only]
Benedict Burgh
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 60r Enforce thy wyttes for to lere / Aquaynt the wyth connyng for it is sure /
Yf fortune chaunge and pouerte a pere / He that ys connynge ys lyke to recure
IMEV 854
NIMEV 854
DIMEV 1418-11
Person (1962), p. 49
88. 60r
Titles of Thomas Wolsey
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 60r Stilus Magistri Thome Wolsey Ebor. Archiepiscopi
Incipit: 60r Reuerendissimum in Christo \pater/ Thomas miseracione diuina sancte Romane
ecclesie presbiter cardinalis Eboraci Archiepiscopus Angliae primas et apostolice
sedis legatus Cancellarius
Angliae
Full transcription.
89. 60v
Theological poem
Bernard of Clairvaux (attributed)
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 60v Barnardus ad Eugenium
Incipit: 60v Miror de clericis cuius ordinis sunt in ornamentis ut milites
Explicit: 60v Sed sempiternus horror inhabitans
Another copy of this poem appears to occur in Lincoln, Cathedral Chapter Library,
MS 108 f. 4r.
90. 60v
Theological tract
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 60v De Omeliaro doctoris festo Trinitatis capitulo secundo dicitur
Incipit: 60v Omnis anima racionalis etate congrua distat fidem catholicam maxime populi
predicatores Christiani et ecclesiarum dei doctores
Explicit: 60v Nec sciens sit docere quod nouit
91. 61r
Poem on temptation
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 61r In nomine patris et filij spiritus sancti Amen
Incipit: 61r Si tu tempteris si demonis arte moveris
Explicit: 61r Cessa condono pugna iuuo vince corono
92. 61v-62r
Household notes on the purchase of sheep
Rowland Rampston [Ramston]
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: ||61v Item for the shepe I hafe solde to robard lambe for xs viijd and therof a batyd xxd for
hys wagyes for I toke hym xxd hom with hym and that makethe iijs iiijd [...]
The text continues on the upper half of f. 62r which has been cut out of the
manuscript.
93. 62v
Medical recipe for treating burns and scalds
Language(s): Middle English
eVK2 1650.00
94. 63r
Medical recipe to treat mange in dogs
Language(s): Middle English
eVK2 1650.00
95. 63v
Recipe for making rat poison
Language(s): Middle English
eVK2 1650.00
96. 64r
Medical recipe to treat 'heat in the liver'
The recipe is entitled: ‘for a tysen for an \hete/ in the lyuer per Magistrum Ricardum
phisioun’.
eVK2 1650.00
97. 64r
Account of payment
Rowland Rampston [Ramston]
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 64r
Incipit: 64r The xxxij here of the Rayne of yow soffryn lord kyng henry the viij th the xx da of febreore payd to Wyllym corddell for xv thattyn gatheras of the same
mony
for vacar. of medow lyyng yn chenkford march a pene a uacar vd and a jd for the grovnd and the howse at chenkford lane end called oodherne
Full transcription.
99. 64v
Recipe for making rat poison
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 64v To kyll Rattes
100. 65r
Poem about the English
Pietro Carmeliano of Brescio
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 65r Petri Darmeliani [sic for ‘Carmeliani’] scribe angli Carmen
Responsum
Incipit: 65r Conueniunt gallos crebris conuentibus angli / Et pacem iusta condicione
petunt
Explicit: 65r Angle petis pacem frustra nil amplius instes
Edwards (1937), p. 432
101. 65r
Poem against the English
Robert Gaguin
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 65r Gaguinus Orator Gallus contra Anglos
Incipit: 65r Siccine tam crebris frustra conuentibus Anglos / Querimus et dubie pacis
obimus iter?
Explicit: 65r Tot vigiles curas sanctum mentibus amorem / Pedere defunctis regibus .
Angle . potes
Edwards (1937), p. 432
102. 65v
Poem to the Kingdom of England
'Egidius'
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 65v Ad regem Anglie
Incipit: 65v Sis licet ingratus nec quid sit gratia cures / Exul ope nostra victor ad
arva redis
Explicit: 65v Abcessi nunquam sum quos amplexus amore / Sed semper socios federe suo
meos
Edwards (1937), p. 432
103. 65v
Verse response to the French
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 65v Rex Anglie ad Gallum
Incipit: 65v Non tua sed mea sunt que dicis arma iuuare / A me que proavi detinuere
tui: / Hinc male dicis ope me superasse tua / Quod deus ipse velit faciam vel pace
vel armis / Iouis sub clipeo
singula ferre peto
Full transcription.
Edwards (1937), p. 432
104. 66r
Suffrage to St Katherine of Alexandria
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 66r Ad loca stellata duc nos katerina beata
Explicit: 66r Monte sepulta syna bendicat nos katerina
105. 66r
Against swearing and blaspheming Christ in the use of oaths
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 66r How darest thow swere or be so bold also To blasfeme hym that is very rote
and rynde
Explicit: 66r Thow shuldest be drawe and hangyd by þe chynAs a Traytour horrybill thogh
þu were next of his kyn
IMEV 1255
NIMEV TM 610
DIMEV 2079-1
Brie (1907), p. 32
Lloyd (1929), p. 303
Henderson (1931), p. 143
Person (1962), p. 126
106. 66r
Veni Creator Spiritus (hymn)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 66r Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum visita
Explicit: 66r atque filium te vtriusque spiritum credamus omni tempore sit
laus
107. 66v
Poem on the Seven Ages of Mankind
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 66v Septem etates - Infans inde puer adolesccens post iuuenis vir Inde senex
fiat post \ea/ decrepitus
Incipit: 66v Infans - In pannis iaceo viuo cum lacte papillo / lamentando fleo michi
dum desit ille licor
Explicit: 66v Decrepitus - Suffultus baculo iam tendo tripus quasi factus / In
tum[u]lum currio caput inclinare coactus
108. 66v
Poem in praise of baldness
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 66v iiijor magni fuerant in vertice calui / Julius
et paulus heleseus et ipse Iohannes
Explicit: 66v Tot fiant calui quot cupiunt hijs similari / vel crimes habeant dum rebeu
omine fiant
Robbins (1969), p. 68 fn. 7
109. 67r
A Farewell to the World
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 67r ffare well this world I take my leve for euer / I am arested to apere at
goddes face
Explicit: 67r But at the last he yeveth hem a bable / when his peynted Cloth
[...]
Ends imperfectly.
IMEV 769
NIMEV TM 407
DIMEV 1271-2
Brown (1939), pp. 236-237
Davies (1963), pp. 206-7
Stevick (1964), pp. 133-134
Gray (1975), p. 93
Gray (1985), pp. 170-171
110. 67v
Verses for the feast of St Katherine of Alexandria
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 67v De Sancta Katerina
Incipit: 67v Disputando vicit virgo quinquaginta retores
Explicit: 67v Nam qui eius passionem habet in memoria
Final rubric: 67v Sanus liberabitur
For the same text from other sources, see Kim Kwang-Hwy, 'The Responsory Prosula in England' (Unpublished
disseration, University of London, 1986), p. 158.
111. 67v
Hymn for Ascensio Domini
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 67v Eterne Rex altissime redemptor et fidelium quo mors soluta deperit datur
triumphus gratiae
Explicit: 67v Gloria tibi domine qui scandis supra sidera cum patre et sancto spiritu
in sempiterna secula Amen
112. 68r-69r
Meditation
Language(s): Middle English and Latin
Incipit: ||68r sodenly for ther defaute and spared and forborn me in my
grete trespace and synn whiche haue do myche more then euer \they/ dyd then thowe
punysshed by grete trowbyls
prisonement by opyn disclawnder bakbytynges blyndnesse madnesse and suche oþer and
me vnkynd wreche þu callyst by
scorge of softe and ese chatysyng of sykenesse somtyme by dethe of \my/ ffrendes
Explicit: 69r And all we to gedyr thank the lord for thy yeftys of fortune laudamus te
. and for thy yeftys of kynd benedicamus te for the yeftys of grace adoramus te and
for thy mercyfull preseruynges and
ware in this lyfe glorificamus te and for thy grete mercy done and shewed to me for
my last reward gracias agimus tibi
propter magnam gloriam tuam mercy lord of my grete trespace and euer gramercy of all
thy grace
Begins imperfectly.
Whiteford (2000), passim [edition]
113. 69r
Note on confession
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 69r Confessio est [...]
Full transcription attempted. The text has been crossed out. According to the Digital Index of
Middle English Verse, this text is a heading for the next item in this catalogue record (Appeal of Christ
to
mankind by the pains of his Passion in Middle English verse) copied in the same hand.
However, it seems more likely to
the cataloguer that this line is a separate item and has no connection with the poem.
114. 69r
O mankind / Have in thy mind [Appeal of Christ to mankind by the pains of his Passion]
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 69r O man vnkynde / Haue thow yn mynde / My passyon smert / Thow shall me
fynde / To the full kynde / Lo here my hert
Full transcription.
IMEV 2507
NIMEV 2507
DIMEV 3987-2
Person (1962), p. 11
Stevick (1964), p. 161
Oliver (1970), p. 24
115. 69v
The ABC of Aristotle
Language(s): Middle English and Latin
Incipit: 69v To auenturous to amerous ne anger the not to moche / To bolde ne to besy
ne borde þu not to lange
Explicit: 69v To wylde to wrathfull and wade nat to depe / ffor a mesurable mene is
best for vs all to kepe
Final rubric: 69v Tene medium si non vis perdere modum
IMEV 3793
NIMEV 3793
DIMEV 178.5
116. 70r
Poem on the evils of women
John Chrysostom (attributed)
Language(s): La
Rubric: 70r O maliciosum et acutissimum telum diaboli
Incipit: 70r Per mulierum adam ab inicio a paradiso prostrauit
Explicit: 70r Et per mulierem mundi lucernam Johannem baptiftam capite
detruncauit
Final rubric: 70r Hec Crisosthomus
117. 70r
Thou gracious Lord grant me memory [Poem on the Passion]
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: 70r Thowe gracious lord graunt me memory Euer on thy passion to cry and
call
Explicit: 70r Be thowe defence and my mynd encreceThy kyndnesse to remembre and neuer
to cese
IMEV 3672
NIMEV TM 1685
DIMEV 5825-1
Person (1962), pp. 8-9
118. 70v
Prayer to Christ
Language(s): Latin
Rubric: 70v Oracio
Incipit:
70v Saluator mundi saluum me fac domine deus omnipotens et miserecors qui solus
saluare potes Da michi scire velle et posse operare et perficere ea que tibi placita
sunt et michi expediunt
Explicit: 70v in affectu sanitas in consciencia humilitas in prosperitate perseuerancia
bona vsque in finem prestante te . domine Jhesu Christe . Qui cum deo patre et spirit
sancto viuis et regnas deus per
omnia saecula saeculorum Amen
119. 70v
Indulgenced prayer to the Cross
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 70v O nuda humanitas O magnum martirium / O profunda vulnera O virtus
sanguinis / O mortis acerbitas O diuina dulcedo / Adiuua nos ad eternam felicitatem
- Amen
Final rubric: 70v Summa Indulgenciarum iijMl Annorum coram
crucifixo concessus est orationem precedentem dicenti
Full transcription. For other versions see Morse (2014) and (2024).
Morse (2014), p. 209
Morse (2024), p. 125
120. 71r
Instructions for tuning a harp
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: 71r To set a harpe factur per j stowell
Incipit: 71r ffirst ye shall begyn to set youre harpe at the iiijth strynge and let hym stond still for your chef tenor and set all the harpe to hym
Explicit: 71rand \so/ to the next ebenethe till ye come to the end and than shall youre
harpe be well set amen
121. 71v
Copies of two indentures for Johanna Chamberlain, widow of William Chamberlain of
Steeple Barton [Great
Barton or Barton St John], concerning lands in Oxfordshire and London
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 71v Oxon. Nouerint vniversi per presente me Johannam Chamberleyn nuper vxorem
Willelmi Chamberleyn armiger defuncti recepisse et habuisse die confectionis presencium
de Ricardo Chamberleyn ffimare
manerij de Barton alias BartonseyntJohn in Com. Oxon
Explicit: 71v per presentes sigillo meo signat. dat. etcaetera
122. 71v
Memento mori poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 71v Sis testis Christe quod non iacet hic lapis iste / Corpus vt ornetur sed
spiritus vt memoretur
The poem is commonly found in epitaphs.
123. 71v
Prayer of praise to the Archangle Gabriel
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 71v Et benedictus sit ille gabriell qui tibi et toto generi humano fuit eterne
salutis [...]
Partly legible due to smudging. Full transcription attempted.
124. 72r
Verse couplet on the Abuses of the Age (I)
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
Rubric: 72r vulgus
Incipit: 72r Etas ridetur . Mulier pulsatur . Amore / Diues laudatur . Paupuer adheret
humo
Explicit: 72r Oldmen ben scornyd Women arn wowed / Richemen arn glosed and pouere men
bowed
IMEV 906
NIMEV 906
DIMEV 1506-6
Robbins (1959), pp. 143-144, 326-7
Kuipers, 'Field Knowledge' (2020), p. 168 [transcription]
Kuipers, 'Dulce et Utile' (2020), pp. 158-159 [transcription]
125. 72r
Verse couplet on the Abuses of the Age (II)
Language(s): Latin and Middle English
Rubric: 72r vulgus
Incipit: 72r Prudentes ceci cognati degenere sunt / Mortuus ignotus nullus amicus
[crossedo ut: ‘adh’] adest
Explicit: 72r Wysemen arn blynde [crossed out: ‘kynesby’] kynesmen beth vnkynde /
The dede is out of mynd and ffrendes may noone fynde
IMEV 906
NIMEV 906
DIMEV 1506-6
Robbins (1959), pp. 143-144, 326-327
Kuipers, 'Field Knowledge' (2020), p. 168 [transcription]
Kuipers, 'Dulce et Utile' (2020), pp. 158-159 [transcription]
126. 72r
Verse couplet on the Abuses of the Age (III)
Language(s): Latin and Greek with interlinear Middle English glosses
Incipit: 72r Dum dolor est pragma [plee] mea dragma [peny] fit inde malagma [plaster] / Sit tibi sintagma multum
valet inde caragma [print of þe peny]
Full transcription with added English glosses written above Latin words in square
brackets.
Kuipers, 'Field Knowledge' (2020), p. 168 [transcription]
Kuipers, 'Dulce et Utile' (2020), pp. 158-159 [transcription]
127. 72r
Poem on the Signs of Death
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 72r Whan thyne heed shaketh memento / Whan thi lippes quakyth
Confessio
Explicit: 72r Whan thi eighen holoweth libera me amen / Than deth foloweth venite ad
iudicium
IMEV 4035
NIMEV 4035
DIMEV 6461-5
Person (1962), pp. 19-20
128. 72r
Verse couplet
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 72r Christe tuos tua te gratis suscepimus a te / Ergo meos mea me merito nunc
[crossed out: ‘egigis’] \exigis/ aue
129. 72v
Mnemonic verse for months of less than 31 days
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 72v Ap. Se. Ju. No triginta dato. reliquis manis [sic: magis?] vno / Ni sit
bissextus ffebrius minor esto duobus
Full transcription.
130. 72v
List of abbreviated months of the year
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 72v Ja. ffe. Mar. Ap. \May/ Juin. Juil Av. Sep. Octo. Neuem. De.
Full transcription.
131. 72v
Notes about the number of days and weeks in a year and quarter year
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 72v Nota quod fuit dies in anno CCClxv - Et nota \quod/ quodlibet quarterium
anni continet in se iiijxx xj dies - Qui faciunt xiij septimanas
Full transcription.
132. 72v
Notes on the four seasons
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 72v Primum quarterium anni incipit xxxma die
September et finit super xxixa diem December
Explicit: 72v Quartum quarterium anni incipit primo Julij et finit super xxixa diem September
133. 72v
Notes relating to the lands of Isabella de Fortibus [Forz] (1237–1293) from the parliamentary
rolls
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 72v In Rotulo iiijto Regis Edwardi primi in res
wiltes r.r. Carta quam Isabella de ffortibus fecit ade de Stratton de manerijs de
Seuenhampton
Explicit:
72v In Rotuloa xjmo Regis Henrici tercij de firma
alloc. ville de Grymmesby
Isabella de Fortibus [Forz] (1237–1293), daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon,
and wife of William de
Fortibus [Forz], Earl of Aumale, who inherited her husband's estates at his death
in 1260 and those of her brother,
Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, when he died childless in 1262.
135. 73r
Memento mori poem
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Non homo leteris tibi copia si fluat erit / Hic non semper eris memor esto quod
moreris / Et manebit quod habes alter habebit / Corpus putrebit quod agis tecum remanebit
Full transcription. The exact same verses can be found on a painted scroll below a
'Hand of Meditation' on
15th-century woodwork, later incorported into a pew, found in the parish church in
Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire. see
Jean Michel Massing, 'Writing on Hands', Print Quarterly, 20:4 (2003), 415-418 (p.
417) [= Review of Claire Richter Sherman and Peter M. Lukehart, Writing on Hands:
Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (exhibition catalogue)].
136. 73r
Maxims
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Munus sit iudex fraus est mercator in vrbe / Jngenium dolus est et Gula festa dies
/
Ludus rustica est seca amor omnis voluptas
Full transcription.
137. 73r
Instructions for the Jesus Psalter (c. 1500)
Language(s): Middle English
Rubric: The Psalter of Jhesu is to sey on the first pater noster thies wordys folowying
Incipit: Ihesu mercy and graunt mercy / Ihesu for thy mekyll mercy / As tow art rote and well
of mercy / So mercyfull Ihesu haue mercy on me
Explicit: and on euery aue maria till ye come \to the/ next pater noster . Jhesu mercy and
so
on euery pater noster as it is above and ther for is grauntyd of pardon a Ml yere [crossed
out: ‘of pardon’]
NIMEV 1730
IMEV 1730
DIMEV 2872-1
Person (1962), p. 8
138. 73v-74v
All is vanity save good deeds
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: What helpeth it man to be unstable / To sett his present lust on worldly
vanyte
Explicit: Save dedys good and badd payn or blysse / It shall not noy þe ofte to thynk on
this
IMEV 3905
NIMEV TM 1820
DIMEV 6230-1
Person (1962), p. 49
139. 73v
Poem on transience of worldly things
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 73v Si tibi pulcra domus et splendida mensa / Si tibi sponsa decus et proles
magna / Si [crossed out: ‘tibi sp’] superes socios in qualibet arte / Si Rota fortune
te ducet ad astra / Tam
cito preteriunt hec omnia nichil - quid inde?
Full transcription.
140. 73v
Poem about possessions
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 73v Quondam res ui necnon et / Prestando tribui res possessas ad / Orans inde
fui precibus pro rebus / Querere non potui perdebam res et amicum
Full transcription.
"Pulchra domus (A e A+)" on MIRABILE Archivio digitale della cultura medievale Digital Archives for Medieval Culture
141. 73v
Proverb about wealth and praise
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 73v Dum mea bursa sonat populus me laude coronat / laus est quassata dum bursa
sit vacuta
Full transcription.
142. 73v
Poem about women
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 73v Dum loculus durat omnis te femina curat / Dum cessas mulier tunc cessit
amare / Nec cras nec heri nunquam credas mulieri
Full transcription.
143. 74r
Verse predictions based on the weather on St Paul's Day (fragmentary)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: || Clara dies pauli bona tempera [...] / Si nix vel pluvia designat
te[...] / Si fuerint nebule pereunt an[...] / Si fuerint venti designat prae[...]
The text is defective because half of the page has been vertically torn off. Full
transcription attempted.
144. 74r
Poem about justice (fragmentary)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: ||74r Lex iuris moritur fraus regnat [...] / lex est defuncta
quia iudicis e[...] / propter et vnguentum ius est in [...]
The text is defective because half of the page has been vertically torn off. Full
transcription attempted.
145. 74r
A Remembrance of Mortality [perhaps a translated extract from the Prick of Conscience]
(fragmentary)
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: ||74r Who so hym by thowght [...] / How harde it is to flitt
fro [...] / ffrom pitt vnto payne þat [...] / He wold not do a synn[...]
The text is defective because half of the page has been vertically torn off. Full
transcription attempted.
IMEV 4129
NIMEV 4129
DIMEV 6610-5
Hargreaves (1969), p. 152
146. 74r
Verses admonishing the reader to trust in God (fragmentary)
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: ||74r With wrong or noy ȝef [...] / Or fortune hath geven þe a
[...]
Explicit: 74r Teche not thy lord what he do [...] / He knoweth what
thynges [...]||
The text is defective because half of the page has been vertically torn off.
IMEV 4212
NIMEV TM 2012
DIMEV 6763-1
147. 74v
Scribal colophon (fragmentary)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: ||74r [...] est mea fessa / [...] me si male scripsi /
[...]auit secula pomo / [...]s Adrifex
The text is defective because half of the page has been vertically torn off. Full
transcription attempted.
The fragment appears to match exactly with a scribal colophon from the Latin life
of Adam and Eve.
148. 74v
Verse couplet about time and money (fragmentary)
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: ||74r [...] septima valebit / [...] annus habebit
The text is defective because half of the page has been vertically torn off. Full
transcription attempted.
150. 74v
Fragmentary opening line of an 8-line fragment, apparently attacking extreme fashions
in dress by appeal to
Christ ‘vpon the rode’
Language(s): Middle English
Incipit: ||74r [...]thely lokys / [...] your bokys / [...] in torne
clothis / [..] hat many men hym lothis
Explicit: 74r [...]s many men doth fynde / [...]fere be
hynde||
The text is defective because half of the page has been vertically torn off.
DIMEV 3513.1
