The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

1. A Sermon by Bp Wren, on Prov. 24. 21.
Feare God my sonne and the King.
Noli aemulari, Frett not thyselfe.
On the first page
Lett this Sermon bee printed.
Charles R.
Twenty-eight pages.
Preached on Sunday 17 Feb. 1627, at Whitehall, and printed by Command, at Cambridge, by Th. and J. Buck, 1627.

2. A Sermon (by Bp Andrewes) on 1 Cor. ii. 16.
Si quis videtur contentiosus esse, etc.
This is no Easter text.
Eighteen leaves.

3. A Sermon (by the same) on John xx. 11-17.
It is Easter Day abroad.
Fourteen leaves.

4. Ordo Consecrationis Sacelli Coll. S. Petri ab Episcopo White.
Twelve leaves.

5. A description of a journey taken by four Oxonians, in verse.
Four Clerkes of Oxford Doctors two and two
y^t would be doctors hauing lesse to do
w^th Austin than w^t Galen ith vacation
changed studies and turnd bookes to recreation.
Ten leaves.
Ends: we are returned but just w^t so much ore
as Ralegh from his voyage and no more.
Non recito cuiquam, etc. (Hor. Serm. 1. Sat. 4; two lines).

6. Rythmi Walteri Mapes qui floruit tempore Henrici Secundi Descripsit Jo. Cozen ex M.S. quodam vetusto.
A Tauro torrida. (The Apocalypsis Goliae.)
Eleven leaves. At the end:
Ex dono Jo. Cozen in artib. Baccalaurei Collegij Cajo-Gonvilensis Alumnj. Jan. 27^o. A^o post Christum natum Millesimo Sexcentesimo decimo quarto.

7. Catalogus Librorum Aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium. J. D.
Aevum sortiti sumus quo plane indoctis nihil turpius.
By Dr Donne. Three leaves.

8. Verses.
Come with oure voices let us warr
and challenge all y^e spheres.
At the end the name Corbett.
A line of music with the name La. Killigreio Lanior. [Both times in the preceding names James has ? above L.]

9. Donne's Invocation to Sleep.
Care-charming Sleep.

10. Militia Hominis Christiani.
Recta probo perversa loquor presentia damno.
Sic ego nec sine me nec mecum vivere possum.
Authore Angligena nomen celare volente.

11. Exhortatio ad militem Christianum et ejusdem alloquium.
Quid vitae incertum et curis ingentibus aegrum.
Signed Dr Ayer.

12. Convivium Ventae Belgarum (Winchester).
Non alio si quid sapimus reditura Novembre.
Pauperis ornamus mensae convivia nostrae.
By Dr Wren.

13. Epitaph of Dr William Butler of Clare.
(Obiit 1617 Jan. 29. Aetatis suae 83.)

14. De repetita Cantabrigia sive de Adventu Regis ad Musas 2^o Liber Licentiatus.
Dauus Dromo in laudem autoris.
Vides ingenium mire profundum.
Adventum pariens Regis secundum.
Venisti Cantabrigia.
ad gloriae fastigia.
One page.
On the last page:
SaMVeL. VVright of LonDon/ 1616.
αναγρ
I grow slothful and mone.
SaMVeL VVrIght LonDInensIs/ 1618.
In luto es, ad nihilum surgens.

Klemp, P. J., '"Betwixt the hammer and the anvill": Lancelot Andrewes's revision techniques in the manuscript of his 1620 Easter sermon', The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 89 (1995), 149-82