https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.15.42/manifest.json1. f.1 Tract on the Sacraments, beginning imperfectly.
churche comaundeth to euery cristen woman̅ to fore trauayle of chylde
The next section is:
Modus et forma baptizandi in periculo.
Also the holy cherche comaundith and techith that a mydwyf.
f.2 The last is on Sextum sacramentum
The syxte sacrament is ordre.
...no ’t to be a schemyd to bere his merke and croune that bar for...
Evidently from an imperfect copy.
2. Assit principio sancta maria meo.
f.2 Perfeccio vitae
The comaundment of God is that we loue oure lorde.
In the margin are five rough pictures of bleeding wounds.
Ends: to that ioye ye holi trinite brynge vs. Amen.
Expl. breuis tract, perfeccio uite uocitatus.
3. f.5 Life of the Virgin and of Christ in English (no title)
In the first sections are marginal references to the Revelations of St Bridget and St Elizabeth, and also to Jerome and Richard of St Victor.
Seint Jerom seith that Anne and Emerya were sustres.
Ends imperfectly f.42b in a section beginning:
Off the mooste principal sorowes of oure lady etc. we
fynde in the reuelacions of Seynt Birgitte.
Ending: ffor you sche dide alle hure besynesse.
4. f.43 This schorte pystell yt folowithe is diuidid in diuers maters Euery mater by hit selfe. And titlis as the kalendir schewiþe etc.
A (1). Whi euery man schulde desire to loue god.
Z (24). What man and wymmen of symple cunnynge mow thinke or pray in her bygynnynge.
In the bygynnynge and endinge of alle goodnes.
Ends with a Meditation on the Passion (f.59b) which closes f.60b:
to make the acceptabull to god whos mercy vs nedeþ in alle tyme.
f.61, originally blank, has two xvi, xviith cent. tables of Sunday letters etc., one running from 1539 to 2017, the other from 1616 to 2074.
5. f.62 "Tractatus de Purgatorio scriptus A.D. 1196"
(The Vision of the Monk of Eynesham) with the preface of Adam, Prior of Eynesham.
Usu notissimum habetur quod diem sole post tenebras noctium reportante paulatim vmbrarum densitas lumine succidente atteretur.
In quodam igitur cenobio erat juuenis quidam nuper ad monasticam uitam etc.
Text ends f.86: percantatas fuisse estimabam.
Epilogue. Hec ego vobis que mihi in corpore.
...dominam quoque meam sanctam mariam in euum merear intueri. Amen.
6. f.86b Inc. Speculum peccatoris et regula moriendi
Quoniam karissimi in via huius vite.
omne quod est nichil est preter amare deum.
7. f.91 Vision of Tundal
Anno domini millesimo centesimo et quadragesimo nono.
-quamuis b. bernardus in quodam sermone de omnibus sanctis contrarium innuere videatur.
8. f.93 Miscellaneous extracts from the Sentences. Bede, Hugo, Augustine, etc.
9. f.96b Exposition of the Lord's Prayer
Deus pater quando misit filium.
10. f.98b Of the Conception of the Virgin
Ad dei omnipotentis laudem cum sepe recitentur sanctorum miracula.
11. On the seven deadly sins 101
Dominus per prophetam. Si separaueris preciosum a vili.
Each of the sins has a distich or quatrain in English.
Superbia.
I boste y bragge euer wt þe beste
To maynteyne synne . y am ful preste.
ends, qua perditur vita eterna.
Two extracts follow.
12. f.103 De x mandatis
Cogitatum habe in preceptis dei.
Only the first 4 are treated, each has an English quatrain.
f.103a is a slip: signature on verso "Tho. Leventhorp 1581"
13. f.104 In another hand
Donatus. Denote.
Prol. Evangelica clamat hysteria sine intermissione orate.
-capitula sua tribuendo. Expl. prol.
Cap. 1. Partes oracionis quot sunt? Octo.
A leaf or two of cap. 2 is gone.
f.109 Pars secunda
Lacrima quid est? Pars oracionis.
Ends imperfectly in c. 2.
cum descendit in nos spiritus adop...
It is of course a parody of Donatus de Partibus orationis.
