https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.9.38/manifest.jsonf.1 has on the recto prognostics of weather.
On f.1b. Decime Abbatis Glas.
Summa obedienciariorum de decima Glaston.
A receipt in English.
1. f.2 (Apocalypsis Goliae)
A tauro torrida lampade sinthii.
Wright, Poems of Walter Mapes, p. 1.
Martis vestigia fecisset lubrica.
Expl. Apocalipsis.
2. f.7 Golias de conjuge non ducenda
Sit deo gloria laus benedictio.
l.c. p.77.
Nec dolor coniugis habet remedium (l. 200 Wright).
Expl. Magister Walterus Mapes de pena coniugii.
3. f.9 De uirtute clauium
Noctis crepusculo brumali tempore.
Pausans in lectu(?)lo mens ausa temere.
Wright, p.187.
Sed mei carminis hec est conclusio.
Valete monachi semper in domino.
Added: Scripsi de monachis partem in genere
quod si quid scripserim vel dixi temere.
O vos qui legitis michi ignoscite.
quod uobis displicet illud corrigite.
The last four lines are not in Wright.
Expl. Materia de uirtute clauium.
4. f.10b De quatuor Raptoribus
Licet mundi vicia cunctis exorare.
Nam in mundo video multos nunc errare.
The four Raptores.
Hi sunt fratres quatuor Robertus et Ricardus,
Gilebertus postea vir valde wandelardus.
Quartus inter alios pater est bastardus.
Galfridus qui piger est et ad bona tardus.
Ends: Et dum sumus validi penitere gratis
Ut possimus alibi gaudere cum beatis. Amen.
Hec materia precedens est de quatuor Raptoribus.
5. f.11b (De Prato Gregorii)
Peccator nimium polluti labii
Possessor lucidi rarus ingenii
Dum cernens deuia suspirans abii
Deueni subito pratum gregorii.
Later.
Pratum Gregorii signat ecclesiam.
It resembles the metamorphosis goliae. The writer meets Orpheus, Tubal and other musicians.
Nunc regem seculi sonet vox hominum
Et omnis spiritus collaudet dominum, amen.
Expl. Materia precedens.
6. f.12b (Contentio inter aquam et uinum)
Dum tenerent omnia medium tumultum.
Wright l.c. p.87.
Terminans in gloria dei patris. Amen. Expl.
7. f.14 (Satyricum quid in abbates. Bonum Latinum)
Quondam fuit factus festus
Et uenerunt ad commestus
Abbas prior de leycestris
Cum totus familia
Abbas est sedere sursum
Et prioris iuxta ipsum
Ego miser stetit dorsum
Inter vascabilia.
In Reliquiae Antiquae I.140, from MS. Harl. 913.
Et reserunt. pregaudiatus
Et totus mutant in bordia. Amen. Explicit.
8. f.16b (De Civitatibus angliae)
London. Hec sunt londonis pira pomaque regia thronus
Chepp. Strepha coklana dolium leo uerbaque uana
lancea cum scutis hec sunt staura ciuitutis.
...
After York, Lincoln, Norwich, Coventry, Bristoll.
Cantuar. A princeps · tumba · bel · brachia · sulsaque plumba
Et syserem potus hec sunt staura ciuitotis.
Rel. Ant. I.178.
9. f.16b A Receipt in English for the flux
10. f.17 A Tryumphe (of K. Henry VI)
And as towchynge tydynges of thys contre The kyng came vnto parys from seynt denys the secunde day of december.
...
And soo forth from the quene he rode streyght vnto Boysvyncent. An ther schall be vn to the day a fore hys Coronacyon that schall be on sonday the · viij · dayes a fore cryste messe day.
11. f.18b Poem on Gardening
Ho so wyl a gardener be
here he may both hyre and se
Three ynchys depe they most sette be
And thus seyde mayster Jon gardener to me.
Expl. hie liber qui vocatur Anglice Mayster Jon Gardener.
12. f.21 (Of Hawks.) (Rel. Ant. I.27)
Who carpys of byrddys of grete gentrys
The sperhawke me semyth makys moste dysporte.
Then speke here feyre and loke ye plesant be
And then pluk of here bellys and let here fly.
Expl.
13. f.22 Reuertere
Yn a noone hete of somerday.
Printed from MS. Lambeth 853, in Furnivall's Hymns to the Virgin and Christ, p. 91. E. E. T. S.
And ofte to fall yn wykkyd sorte
Then ys the beste Reuertere.
Expl. materia Ista.
14. f.23 Ballad. Who sayth soth he schall be schent
Whoso wyll leue yn ese.
15. f.24 Parce michi domine
By a foreste syde walkynge as y wente.
Ends: God graunte us all to se thy blessyd face
That seyth Parce michi Domine. Expl.
16. f.25b Ballad. And euer more thanke god of all
By a way wandrynge as y went.
17. f.26b Ballad. Hyre and se and say not all
Throwe a towne as y com ryde.
18. f.27 Ballad. Conveyd by lyne ryƺt as a rammys horne
All ryƺtwsnes now doth procede.
19. f.28 Ballad. Beware the blynd ettyth many a fly
Lokyth well a bowte ye that louers be.
20. f.28b Epitaphium D. Josephs six lines
Hic iacet excultus Joseph pater ille sepultus.
21. f.28b Note on Luxuria, Verses on the Chimera (=Lust)
22. f.29 De Symonia et Auaricia
Relatum plurium interdum audio
Infausti symonis infausto cambio.
On f.31 the subject passes to Death, with no more division than a red initial.
quod nequit diuitem per priuilegia
A mortis effere tueri furia
Non potest diuitem nummus eximere
A fati nexibus et mesto funere.
Ends f.36b:
Omnes ad sydera cum mundis manibus
leuemus apicem mentis, et precibus,
Oremus dominum insopibilibus.
Ut nos sidereis coniungat cetibus.
Expl. tract. de Morte.
23. f.37 De Cantu Alma redemptoris mater
Cum mater gracie sui memorum immemor nequaquam excitat.
Miracle of the boy of Toledo.
- deo commendet mentis et uiuet beneficiis: amen.
24. f.39b Verses (12)
In potu primo purgantur guttura limo.
Ho hath good can good a wyse man he ys holde.
4 lines.
2 Latin verses.
25. f.40 Narratio de duobus militibus
Fuerunt olim in anglia duo milites incliti animosi
Victoriosi. One knight married, the other would not.
Ends f.44: frui uita sine termino nobis donet inuictus leo uictor in patibulo. Amen.
26. f.44 Poems to S. Joseph
a. Gaudebit in epiphania
Ihesus loseph et maria
magorum muneribus.
b. Salue pater qui fuisti 44b
Desponsatus matri Christi
Et hunc natum qui uidisti
Sancte Joseph senior.
c. Distich.
Sancte Ioseph bine (i.e. Joseph the spouse of Mary and Joseph of Arimathea) iam cum Christo sine fine
Quesumus orate pro nobis ex pietate.
d. Collect.
D. I. C. qui gloriosissimam virginem matrem tuam beato Joseph seniori... et alterum Joseph decurionem patronum nostrum, etc.
27. f.45 Estas et hiems
Quedam nos lassiuia ualet confortare
Quam uobis si placeat uolo reserare
...
Serui tui turgidi semper induuntur
Clamant et tripudiant modo non utuntur. Expl.
28. f.45b (Praedicatio Goliae ad terrorem omnium)
Tempus acceptabile tempus est salutis
...
In thronos duodecim iudices sedete
Super tribus ysrael regnando quiete. Amen. (Not in Wright.) Wright p.52: he knew no MS. copy, but reprinted the text of Flacius Illyricus (which was taken from a MS. now at Wolfenbüttel).
29. f.46 a. Felix qui poterit. Irato corde tacere, etc.
b. hoo so maky ’t at crystysmas a dogge lardyner
and in march a sowe gardyner, etc. (Rel. Ant. I.233)
30. f.46b a. Mors
Iam nunc in proximo mors stat ad ostium
...
Exora filium deuote dulciter
Ut nobis gaudium det eternaliter. Amen.
Expl. materia precedens.
f.47 b. O mors mordens aspere, þ n gyle yu haste noo pere
31 f.47 . a. hoo that comy ’t to an howse
loke he be noo thynge dangerowse.
f.47 b. Nota nouem proprietates uini (6 lines)
Dat uinum purum ter tria gaudia primum.
32. f.47 De Ingratitudine
Voluenti plurima in cordis speculo
Ingratitudinis occurrit racio
...
Valete grati semper in domino.
Expl. tract. de ingratitudine editus a fratre Stephano Deuerell monacho glaston.
33. f.48b Ballad: What euer thow say avyse the welle
Almighty godde conserve us from care.
Printed by Furnivall, Babees Book, etc. p.356. E. E. T. S.
34. f.49 a. Here begynnyth XVth condycyons that a goode horse should haue
Two Distichs.
b. Omnibus amissis famam seruare memento
qua semel amissa vix postea recuperabis.
c. Cum facis ingressum studeas sic esse modestus
Ut post regressum de te sit rumor honestus.
35. f.49b Tryvytlam de laude Universitatis Oxonie
Ad te nunc habeo uerbum O ciuitas
Que grandi titulo terrain inhabitas.
...
Apponas manus O mater Oxonia
Ut perfruaris perhenni leticia. Amen.
Expl. mat. precedens.
36. f.54b Against the Friars
Quis dabit capiti pelagus aquarum
Ut deducant oculi fontem lacrimarum
Fletus fluant seduli dum uel plangam parum
Status euangelici discrimen animarum
Wyt an O. and an I. instar Jeremie
Trenos tanquam traditos in morte Josye.
Cf. Wright, Political Songs, Rolls Series, p.253.
Ends: Wyt an O and an I hanc litem qui sordet
Christus deus dirimat et clerum concordet. Amen.
Explicet expliceat ludere scriptor eat.
37. f.56 De astantibus crucifixo (17 lines)
Est apud ecclesias autenticus hic modus et mos.
S. Francis compared to a thief.
38. f.56b De supersticione Phariseorum
Ab uno de monachis amatore cleri.
Against the Friars at Oxford.
Et pro digno carmine te deum laudamus. Expl.
39. f.58b Note from Bede
Note in English to find Easter.
40. f.59 Inuectiuum in Norfolciam
Exiit edictum ab Augusto Cesare
...
Aut simul destinat gentem cum patria.
41. f.63 a. Versus de quatuor complexionibus (16 lines)
Sanguineus. Largus amans hilaris ridens rubeique coloris.
b. Epitaphium Petri Comestoris (4 lines).
c. Interpretacio nominis Willelmi.
Vir Validus lustus Largus Liberalis Electus
Lumine Mundatus Virtute Sanctificatus.
f.63b d. On the Eucharist (10 lines)
Nos qui uiuificat panis celi benedicat.
e. On Fortune (8 lines).
O fortuna leuis cui uis scito das bona que uis.
f. On Chrism, etc. (6 lines).
Balsamus et munda cera cum crismatis unda.
g. Sodenly afrayd halfe wakyng halfe slepyng.
Printed in Furnivall, Hymns to the Virgin and Christ. E. E. T. S. p.126.
42. f.64 De Petro de Gauerstone (Wright, Political Songs, p.258)
(a) Vexilla regni prodeunt fulget cometa comitum.
(b) Pange lingua necem Petri.
f.64b Six sets of verses (14 lines in all) in two hands
43. f.65 Historia Tancredi
Tancredus Princeps salernitanus uir mitis quidem ac benigni ingenii.
--in eodem sepulcro sepeliri ambos fecit.
Per Leonardum Aretinum de Italico in latinum translatum.
44. f.69 Christmas Carol
Parit virgo filium regali stirpe Dauid
...
Puer natus in bethlem ) christus illuminauit.
Unde gaudet Jerusalem )
45. f.69b Against swearing by the Mass
a. Y concell yow both more and lesse
Beware of swerynge by the mass.
b. Si tibi pulcra domus si splendida mensa quid inde.
7 lines. (Rel. Ant. I.57.)
f.70 c. Proverbs in English
Solomon seyth ther is none accorde
Ther euery man could be a lorde.
f.70b d. Quod anima potest esse in inferno et cruciatus inferni non sentire
46. f.70b De S. Hilda
Prologue six lines.
Iam me[r]a Clio sona iam sis ad carmina prona.
f.71 Text
Me iuuat ut pandam vitam cunctis venerandam
Hilde preclare que Christum duxit amare
Ends f.77b
Grandis vindicta fuit a bega benedicta
Istis conflicta sic est sua cura relicta.
47. f.77b Notes
a. Sacrista percipit singulis diebus per annum duas iustas conuentualis ceruisie, etc.
b. Cent. xvi. On colours.
The lover trew
In colour blew
hymme self he dothe adorne, etc.
Finis Quod R. Jax.
48. f.78 a. Letter of Nicholas Abbot of Glastonbury to ... and Richard Busard
Carissimis confratribus suis ......
et Ricardo Busard monachis monasterii G(laston.).
Nota quod omnes barones et nobiles Bohemie
et marchionatus Morauie nuper post pascha.
It is on the proceedings of the Council of Basle, 1433, and was written "apud Coloniam in die Primi et Feliciani. Per Abb. Nicholaum Glaston."
f.79b b. Hec sunt nomina Cardinalium residencium in consilio
Two later notes. The 2nd of 2 o Elizabeth.
49. f.80 Inc. Historia de (Sancta Cruce)
Postquam Adam expulsus est
- in salutem omnium cred(entium) cui sit honor et gloria in sec. sec.
A xvith cent. rhyme in English (1538).
50. f.83b Historia de Pilato
(Fuit quidam) Rex nomine Tiries
ebullire uidentur.
See Legenda Aurea.
51. f.85b Historia de Juda Iscariota
(Legitur in quadam histo)ria quod quidam uir fuit
-cum demonibus sociaretur.
l.c.
52. f.86b a. quod domus sapiencie dicitur claustrum
b. Cent. xvi.
Questio.
When shall yor cruell stormes be past
Shall not my truthe yor rigor slake etc.
53. f.87 Oratio ad [S. Vritham]
Cotidiane lux di(ei)
Protulit ad laud(em) de(i)./ (Vrithe preconia?)
Hec pudica et formosa,
Sua vita virtuosa. / hic p....
Holocaustum deo gratum,
Virgo nouit celebratum / se in etate ten(era).
etc.
Gaudet quia falcatorum, martirium susti(nuit).
Falce prato iniquorum /
Ends. Nunc gaudet tota patria, Innocens V.
Quod sue nouerce odia. /
O villa Chitelhamptonia,
letare cum deuonia. / quod tal.
Ora pro nobis etc.
Oracio. Omnipotens sempiterne deus q(ui beatam) Vritham et virginitatis et ma(rtirii) etc.
This conveys new knowledge about St Urith to whom the Church of Chittlehampton is dedicated. Camden in the Britannia calls her a woman-saint. Later writers have imagined her to be a man. The Oratio implies that, like St Sidwell of Exeter, she was hated by her stepmother and beheaded by haymakers. See a paper by the present writer in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proceedings for 1901-2.
54. f.87 Notes of cent. xvi, including names of Kings of England to Elizabeth
f.88 Epitaphium (macaronic) mutilated
f.88 Respons(i)o Ry. Shenii ad ep(itaphium)
illi adscriptum ut aduersus....
f.88b Receipts etc.
f.90b Note in older hand on St Kenelm
