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  [Ripley (?), alchemical scroll, second half of the 16th century]

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  An alchemical scroll made in the late 16th century and associated with the works of the George Ripley (d. 1490?), Augustinian canon of Bridlington, alchemist and author of The Compound of Alchemy. They summarize in allegorical and emblematic form the process for preparing the philosopher's stone.

  mssHM 30313

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  John Ruskin Collection

  Manuscripts

  This collection contains approximately 175 pieces of correspondence and manuscripts related to English author John Ruskin (1819-1900) that deal chiefly with his career as a writer, professor, and art critic. The earliest item in the collection is a volume titled Practical Geometry, containing problems and exercises, with some additional sketches and notes by Ruskin, dated 1833 (HM 6103). The correspondence series includes: 61 letters, dated 1858-1873, to Louisa Anne De La Poer Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, a Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist. 11 letters to Sarah Corlass (circa 1850-1865) 12 letters to actor Norman Forbes in 1888 26 letters to novelist Margaret Raine Hunt, from 1867 to 1887 6 letters to John Henry Larkin For a detailed list of Ruskin's artwork within the collection, see "A Checklist of Pre-Raphaelite Works of Art in the Huntington Library and Art Collections," Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 1 (Winter, 1992), pp. 225-251.

  mssHM 6097-6129, etc.

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  Pricke of Conscience : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-120v. [Pricke of Conscience]. Incipit: Here bigynnet þe ferst part of þis boke þat speket of mannes wrecchedenes Prima pars, Ferst when god made al þing of nouȝt/ Man of þe foulest mater was wrouȝt. Explicit: Vnto þat same ioye he vs bringe/ þat for oure loue makede al þinge. Amen par charite. English. IMEV 3428 (listing HM 130), but actually IMEV 3429; Southern Recension; corrected throughout by a second hand, over erasures, from a text of a different tradition. R. Morris, ed., The Pricke of Conscience. The Philological Society (Berlin 1863), from London, Brit. Lib., Cotton Galba E.ix. See R. E. Lewis and A. McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the 'Prick of Conscience.' Medium Aevum Monographs n.s. 12 (Oxford 1982) 147-48. HM 130 bears printer's marks first identified by H. C. Schulz,"Manuscript printer's copy for a lost early English book," The Library, 4th ser. (1941) 22:138-44. One of the printed books set from HM 130 was identified independently by A. I. Doyle and W. A. Ringler: pts. 1-3 of the Prick of Conscience constitute NSTC 24228, A New Treatyse, attributed to Miles Hogarde, printed by R. Wyer [1542?]. Doyle had previously recognized pt. 4 of the Prick of Conscience as STC 3360, A little book of Purgatory, printed by R. Wyer, dated"1550?" by STC but revised by K. Pantzer to"before Whitsun 1534" (the unique copy of this book is Huntington Library RB 17065). See H. C. Schulz,"A Middle English Manuscript Used as Printer's Copy," Huntington Library Quarterly 29 (1966) 325-36, with a plate of f. 37v. This manuscript beginning defectively in the prologue ( v. 77:"// Euer to knowe boþ gode and ille/ And þerto ȝaf him witt and wille").

  mssHM 130

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  Devotional miscellany : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-26v. [Thomas Wimbledon] Sermon Redde Rationem Villicationis Tue. Incipit: My dere frendis ȝe schullen vnderstonde þat crist ihesu autour & doctor of truþe. Explicit: þenne schulle þilke false seruauntis goo [catchword:] wiþ þe deuel//. Rubric: Redde racionen [sic] villicacionis tue luc. Xvi. English. I. K. Knight, ed., Wimbledon's Sermon Redde Rationem Villicationis Tue: A Middle English Sermon of the Fourteenth Century. Duquesne Studies, Philological Series 9 (Pittsburgh 1967), collating this manuscript as Hu; see description of HM 502 on pp. 10-11. See also N. H. Owen,"Thomas Wimbledon's Sermon: 'Redde racionem villicacionis tue'," Mediaeval Studies 28 (1966) 176-97 for another edition, collating this manuscript as HN, and for a fuller list of known manuscripts. HM 502 lacks a leaf after f. 3 and one after f. 7 with loss of text (Knight, lines 117-153, 302-339) and a quire at the end (Knight, lines 1043-1102, and the beginning of the second text). ff. 27-34. [Richard Rolle] Form of Living. Incipit: //he putteþ in vs oure hertis þat bote ȝef we ete wel & drynke & slepe wel. Explicit: he makeþ no sorowe for his synne as he schulde do & disposeþ hym. English. H. E. Allen, ed.,"The Form of Living" in English Writings of Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole (Oxford 1931) 91-99, here beginning defectively, but presumably left incomplete by the scribe. See also H. E. Allen,"Form of Living" in Writings ascribed to Richard Rolle, Hermit of Hampole (New York 1927) 256-62, 268 with a list of manuscripts including HM 502. f. 34v. [Letter to parents]. Incipit: Ryght welbelouede father and mother I haue me recommendede unto yow dessyereng youe to Sende me yower dayly blessyng, ye wyshe Is batter to me than all ye wordly godes. I praye youe to send me a grote for to paye my quarterege & I pray youe to send me a payer of shoues & soues & I praye yow to send me a cape & a gerdelle & I paray yow to send me a purese. English. This letter was added, s. XV exeunte or XVI ineunte, on an otherwise blank leaf; it is followed by two verses: He that In youthe no vertue wyll Use/ In age all honour wyll haym refues so be it (IMEV 1151); he that may thyse & vill not (Hanna,"Addenda," n. 71). ff. 35-60v. þe Lyfe of Soule. Incipit: Broþer as seiþ seynt poule we han no cite here þat is dwellynge. Explicit: riȝt so seruauntis of þe same vertues schulen be parteneris of þat same blisse amen. English. Jolliffe H. 4(c). H. M. Moon, þe Lyfe of Soule: an Edition with Commentary. Salzburg Studies in English Literature. Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies 75 (Salzburg 1978) based on Oxford, Bod. Lib., Laud Misc. 210, collated against London, Brit. Lib., Arundel 286 and HM 502. ff. 60v-74. [Edmund of Abingdon] Mirror of Holy Church. Incipit: I seeþ ȝoure clepynge, þis word of þe apostel biloungeþ to ȝou men & wymmen of cristes religioun. Explicit: & swatte so harde þat þe dropes of blod droppeden of his face to þe erþe. Rubric: Now here bigynneþ þe sermoun of seynt Edmond of poyunteney þat was yclepid myrrour of holy chirche. English. A translation of the Speculum ecclesiae of St. Edmund of Abingdon different from the 2 printed by C. Horstman, ed., Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole (London 1895) 1:219-41 and 241-58 (but similar to his pp. 241-45, 254-58 for the 2 blocks of text in HM 502, ff. 60-68v and 68v-74, separated only by a 2-line initial) and different from a third printed in H. W. Robbins,"An English Version of St. Edmund's Speculum ascribed to Richard Rolle," PMLA 40 (1925) 240-51, with a list of manuscripts, HM 502 not recorded. HM 502 is the version in London, Westminster School MS 3, London, Brit. Lib., Add. 10053 and Oxford, Bod. Lib., Bodley 416. ff. 74-87. [John Wyclif?] Pater noster. Incipit: Seþþen þe pater noster is þe beste preyer þat is. Explicit: þat we mowe come to wone wiþ hym in ioie & blisse wiþouten ende amen. English. T. Arnold, ed.,"þe Pater Noster" in Select English Works of John Wyclif (Oxford 1871) 3:98-110. For a list of manuscripts, see Wells, Manual, III. 14 (Severs, vol. 2, p. 524) and A. Hudson,"Contributions to a Bibliography of Wycliffite Writings," Notes and Queries 218 (1973) 451, n. 14. ff. 87-90v. Seven Deadly Sins. Incipit: Pryde wraþþe & envie ben synnes of þe fend, coueitise & auarice ben synnes of þe world. Explicit: pardoners by whiche blynde ordenaunce god þe cheef lord [catchword:] is greetly//. English. Jolliffe F.21, this manuscript unrecorded.

  mssHM 502

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  Works : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-223v. [Cyprian] [Cecili Cypriani Episcopi Cartaginensis Epistolarum Liber Incipit = Letters]. Incipit: Bene ammones Donate karissime Nam et promisisse me memini. Rubric: Cecili Cypriani Episcopi Cartaginensis Epistolarum Liber Incipit. Latin. For the breakdown into the individual letters and for the bibliographic citation, please see the full descriptions of this manuscript in C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). ff. 223v-229. [Incipit vita sancti Cipriani Life of St. Cyprian]. Incipit: Ciprianus religiosus antistes ac testis dei gloriosus. Explicit: Currebant undique versum omnes ad spectaculum vobis [sic] pro devotione fidei gloriosum gentibus et dolendum. Rubric: Incipit vita sancti Cipriani. Latin. Attributed to the deacon Pontius; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) XC-XCII; ending in this manuscript as in Vatican, Reg. lat. 118. ff. 229-230. [Incipit de martirio eiusdem et cetera Martyrdom of St. Cyprian]. Incipit: Ex die qua Ciprianus martirium tulit ordo martirii eius hac lectione monstratur et declaratur. Cum Cyprianus sanctus martir electus a deo de curtibitana civitate. Explicit: que sunt in via mappaliensi iuxta piscinas cum voto et triumpho magno regnante domino nostro ihesu christo cui est honor et gloria imperium et potestas in secula seculorum Amen. Rubric: Incipit de martirio eiusdem et cetera. Latin. From the Acta Proconsularia; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) CXI-CXIII; beginning in this manuscript as in Vatican, Reg. lat. 118. ff. 230-233. [Pseudo-Cyprian]. [Exhortatio de penitentia]. Incipit: Per penitentiam posse omnia peccata dimitti ei. Explicit: Item in Apocalipsi. Memento unde cecideris et age penitentiam. Sin autem tibi [sic] cito et candelabrum de loco suo movebo. Rubric: Incipit exhortatio eiusdem de penitentia. Latin. Spuriously attributed to Cyprian; PL 4:863-868. ff. 233-240. [Duodecim Abusiones]. Incipit: Sapiens sine operibus bonis. Explicit: ne sine nobis christus esse incipiat in futuro. Amen. Explicit opus Sancti Cipriani per me Bartholomeum de Schianchis clericum parmensem in Urbe 24 februarii 1456 [the year traced over in black ink] Anno [followed by an erasure which may read"per O__?___"]. Rubric: Incipiunt duodecim Abusiones Cipriani Episcopi et martiris. Latin. Spuriously attributed to Cyprian, CPL 1106; W. Hartel, ed., CSEL 3 (1868) Appendix, 152-73. f. 240. [Jerome] [Letter]. Incipit: Tertulianus crebris [sic] est in sententiis sed difficilis in loquendo. Beatus Ciprianus instar fontis purissimi dulcis incedit. Explicit: et a lectione sempliciorum fratrum procul est. Hec Ieronimus in epistola LIX scribens ad paulinum presbiterum de institutione clericorum et monacorum que incipit bonus homo et cetera. Latin. Jerome, Ep. 59, PL 22:585. Added in a different hand. f. 240v. [Lactantius] [Divinae institutiones]. Incipit: Unus igitur precipuus et clarus extitit Ciprianus. Explicit: ad revincendum habere potuerunt. Et reliqua que sequuntur. Rubric: Lactantius Libro quinto institutionum de iustitia capitulo primo sic inquit in laudem cipriani. Latin. Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones, PL 6:551-552. Added by the same hand as the preceding text.

  mssHM 1040

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  Prick of conscience ; Piers Plowman ; and other works : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  Part 1. ff. 1-16v, 25-32v, 17-24v, 33-94; f. 94v, blank. Pricke of Conscience. Incipit: The ferste part of þis book is soþnesse/ ys ymad of manny wrecchidnesse ffor whan god al þyng had mad of nought/ than of þe foulest matere man was wrought. Explicit: To þe which he vs brynge/ that for our loue maked all þynge. Amen. Here endet þ prikke of conscience. Rubric: Here bigynneþ þe ferste part of þis book þat telleþ of mannys wrecchidnesse. English. Text preceded by a prologue ("Here bugynneþ þe prologe on the Prikke of consciencie þat ferst telleþ of goddes power, The myght of the fadur of heuene/ the wyt of the sone wyth hys ȝyftes seuene"). IMEV 3429; Southern Recension; R. Morris, ed., The Pricke of Conscience. The Philological Society (Berlin 1863), from London, Brit. Lib., Cotton Galba E. ix; see also Stacy Waters,"The Pricke of Conscience: The Southern Recension, Book V," unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1976; Allen, Writings, 373, n. and 539-40; R. E. Lewis and A. McIntosh, A Descriptive Guide to the Manuscripts of the 'Prick of Conscience.' Medium Aevum monographs n.s. 12 (Oxford 1982) 146-47. Two quires bound out of order. Part 1. ff. 96r-v, 95; f. 95v blank. [William Langland] Piers Plowman. Incipit: //than drede went wyȝtly and warnede fals/ and badde hym fle for fere and his felawes alle. Explicit: Or togreden after goddes men. Whan ȝe delen doles/ In aduenture ȝe hauen ȝoure hire here. And ȝoure heuene als/ Nesciat sinistra manus quid faciat dextra. English. Fragment of Piers Plowman, B-text, ii, 208-iii, 72. IMEV 1459. Leaves rejected by scribe and order reversed; see R. B. Haselden,"The Fragment of Piers Plowman in Ashburnham No. CXXX," Modern Philology 29 (1932) 391-94, and pl. of ff. 96, 121. Part 1. ff. 97-112v. Incipit: Istam sequenciam cantat ecclesia dominica prima adventus domini quia in ea memoria agitur de adventu. Salus fidei generis est integritas corporis. Et dicitur de hoc sal. Explicit: Sed certe debet vocari ita et non eta, ut ipsi greci testantur. Et scribitur hoc nomen IHC cum tribus literis propter misterium ternarii numeri. Rubric: Dominica prima adventus domini sequencia, Salus eterna. Latin. An exposition of sequences which presents some similarities to the printed text, Expositio sequentiarum secundum usum Sarum [Cologne: H. Quentell, 1495]; Copinger 2386. Part 1. ff. 113-205. [William Langland] Piers Plowman. Incipit: In a someres seysoun whan set was the sunne/ y schoop me into shrowdes as y a sheep were. Explicit: and sende me hap and hele tyl y haue peris þe ploghman/ and siþ he gradde after grace tyl y gan awake. Explicit visio petri ploughman. English. Corrections in the hand of the scribe over erasures; text on ff. 156-161v disordered. IMEV 1459; W. W. Skeat, ed., The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, by William Langland. EETS os 38 (London 1869) particularly xxi-xxiii for description of HM 128; G. Kane and E. T. Donaldson, eds., Piers Plowman: The B Version (London 1975), from Cambridge, Trinity College B.15.17, with variants also from this manuscript; see pp. 9-10 for description of HM 128. See also R. W. Chambers,"The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman in the Huntington Library and their Value for Fixing the Text of the Poem," Huntington Library Bulletin 8 (1935) 1-25. Part 1. ff. 205-216. [Siege of Jerusalem]. Incipit: Here begynneth þe seege of ierusaleem & how it was destroyed, In tyberyes tyme the trewe emperowr/ Sere cesar hym seluen seysyd in rome. Explicit: Wente synggyng awey & lefte woo there/ And hool reedyn to rome yblessyd be god almyȝty. Amen. English. IMEV 1583; E. Kölbing and M. Day, eds., The Siege of Jerusalem. EETS os 188 (London 1932), from Oxford, Bod. Lib., Laud misc. 656, with variants also from this manuscript; see pp. viii-ix for description of HM 128. G. Guddat-Figge, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Middle English Romances (Munich 1976) 303-04. Part 1. ff. 216v-219. How the Good Wife Taught her Daughter. Incipit: The goode wif taught hir doughter fele tyme & ofte gode woman for to be, Doughter ȝif þou wilt ben a wif & wiseliche werch/ Loke þat þou loue well god & holy cherch. Explicit: Her blessyng mote þou haue & wele mote þou thryue. Wele is þe childe þat thryue may my der childe. Explicit expliciat ludere scriptor eat. English. IMEV 671; T. F. Mustanoja, ed., The Good Wife Taught her Daughter; The Good Wyfe wold a Pylgremage; The Thewis of Gud Women (Helsinki 1948), with Cambridge, Emmanuel College, MS I.4.31 as the basis; HM 126 also edited in full. Also printed from this manuscript by F. Madden, ed., How the Goode Wif thaught hir Doughter (London 1838); by W. C. Hazlitt, Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England (London 1864) 1:180-92; by C. Hindley, The Old Book Collector's Miscellany (London 1872; reprint of Madden) 2:1. Part 2. ff. 1-2v. [John of Salisbury]. [Letters]. Incipit: //penitencia et satisfactione substiterit in finibus istis. Explicit: Cum ergo hiis angustiis//. Latin. The incipit and explicit of the pastedown in the back of the book are: //pius ihesus quam ipsum pro pace vel gratia hominis. . .responderes id quod etsi imperitis rerum videatur//. John of Salisbury, Letters, ed. W. J. Millor and C. N. L. Brooke (Oxford 1979) v. 2, p. 104 line 18 to p. 110 line 4 and p. 200 line 9 to p. 206 line 4. Layout: 2 columns of 42+ lines, each column 81 mm. wide, ruled in lead. This part formed of the two pastedowns. Assigned Date: s. XIVex.

  mssHM 128