The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

I.
1. ff. i, 2 are of cent, xvi, and very neatly written by a Parkerian scribe.
They contain the Prefaces in Latin and Anglo-Saxon.
Ego Ælfricus ...... subiiciendus est.
Ic Ælfric ...... gerihtan.
The original hand begins on f. 3 in black capitals, rubricated. Partes orationis sunt octo • sehta dælas synd leden spræce. Ends f. 44b
oðre syndon englisce interiectiones.
[Partes orationis finiunt.]
Followed by another grammatical extract:
Secundum Donatum omnis uox aut articulata est aut confusa.
—sƿasƿa þa quinque uocales ⁊ þa six.

2. f.45 Catonis Disticha Saxonice: without heading
Ne beo þu to slaepor ne to idel.
Ends 48a
scufan ðeah simle ðone hlaford beforan.
Ac scs agustinus saede sƿiðe sƿutul bispell.
Ends 48b
ðeah he monigne fot haebbe.

II.
An inscription gone at the top of f. I (48*).

1. f.48 Philobiblon Ricardi de Bury
Uniuersis Christi fidelibus ad quos tenor presentis scripture
peruenerit Ricardus de Bury miseracione diuina dunelmensis Ep.
f.35 Philobiblon ends f.65
perpetuum fruibilis faciei conspectio.Amen.
Expl. philobiblon d. Ricardi [dunelmensis episcopi] cogno-minati de Bury quondam episcopi dunelmensis. compilatus est autem tractatus iste in manerio nostro de aukeland 24'° die January a.d. 1344. etatis nostre 58. precise completo • pontificates vero nostri vero (sic) anno iindo finite ad laudem dei feliciter.

2. f.65 Alanus de planctu Naturae
Begins
In lacrimas risus in luctus gaudia verto. Wright, Satirical poets of the xiith Century, II. 429. Ends imperfectly (71 b)
ut in ea velut in speculo ipsius mundi scripta natura compareat.(Wright, p. 451.)

III.
At the top of f.1 (72) in red Iste liber continet litteras romanas

Epistles of Alexander III.
f.72 Alexander (III.) to P. Bp of Paris
The last two are
Andrensi Ep. and S. Ep°.
—canonicam exerceas ultionem (96a). On 96b, 97 (a slip) are notes of cent. xiii. Further letters of Alexander III.
f.98 Alexander papa III Cassinensi Abbati Ex litteris tuis ad nos.
The original hand stops with f. 123 Maguntinensi Archiep°. One not much later continues
f.124 Alexander ep. —comitisse Trecensi
Ending 129b
Uuigorniensi ep°
—apostolico se conspectui representent. On this page is a note (xiii) on the life of the elder Pliny, quoting Tranquillus in cathalogo virorum illustrium.

Two fly-leaves follow, one is a printed statute (5 Eliz. 4, § 15).
The other household accounts (for towels etc.) of cent. xvi.

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