The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

I. f.1a has proverbs in verse, in a rather current hand of cent. xv.
Sed pocius gaude si contingat habere.
Est iactura grauis que sunt amittere(?) dampnis
Sunt quedam que ferre decet pacienter amicum etc.
1. f.iiib Theoduli Ecloga
Ethiopum terras ia(m) feruida torruit estas.
Ends f.9b
Desine quod restat ne desperacio ledat.
Expl. liber theodoli deo gracias.
2. f.9b Ovidius de Remedio amoris
Legerat huius amor titulum nomenque libelli.
Ends f.29b
Carmine sanati femina virque meo.
Expl. lib. remedii amoris.

II. First leaf blank.
In a fine close hand of cent. xiii early.
1. f.31 Liber Pictaleon
Non scandent celum liuoris habentia telum.
Ends f.34b
Non est priuatus qui non est retro uocatus.
Expl. Pictaleon.
2. f.35 (Fabula de Urbano papa)
Quo tempore urbanus romane ecclesie auidissimus pontifex beatissimorum corpora martyrum Albini uidelicet et Ruffini romam transferret, galliarum collecta ecclesiis.
It is a very humorous and irreverent satire in prose on the Roman Court under Urban III. 1185-87(?) showing how Grimoald Abp of Toledo obtained the legateship of Aquitaine. SS. Albinus and Ruffinus represent silver and gold respectively.
Ends f.42
Johannes. Humanum est potare. Teucer. Homines sumus. Tu autem domine etc.
3. f.42 Story of the Dancers of Magdeburg(?)
In nocte natalis domini lucifera.
It is told by Theoderic, one of the Dancers.
Ends f.44
Et patriis litteris sunt mandata.
4. f.44b A ghost story
Miraculum quoddam in regno imperatoris alemannorum satis mirabiliter gestum. Of two knights, one of whom died and the other kept a promise made to him, and attended his marriage feast.
Ends f.47b
ad agnitionem ueritatis uenire amen.
5. More closely written.
f.47b Grammatical notes on the words and tenses, with explanations in French
Modus indicatiuus uno modo construitur
...Amaui io amai et io ai ame.
Ends f.48a
Sederam io aueie asis et io esteie asis.
6. f.48 Distinctions of words
Immunis est qui nichil dat, unde oracius. Quem scis inmunem cinare placuisse rapaci.
Ends f.54a on Sorbeo.
Exemplum de utroque Lucanus in iiii^o: unfinished.
ff.54b, 55 blank.

III. In the hand of I.
f.56 Matthaei Vindocinensis Tobias
Ex agro ueteri uirtutum semina morum.
Plantula iusticie pululat ampla seges.
Ends f.115b. Thobiam merita religione sequi.
A kind of monogram follows.

IV. f.116a. Three lines (xiii).
Ecclesie sacre modulans lex metrica seruit.
Cuius in amplexsus humilis pro solida currit.
Pulpita musa petit lectores exitat artem.
In a pointed hand (xiii).
f.116b Contention of Soul and Body
Noctis sub silentio tempore brumali.
Ends 121a
Prauum, et diligere quicquid erat rectum.
See Wright, Poems of Walter Mapes, Camden Soc.
p.102, 1. 198.

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