Prisciani grammatici viri disertissimi apocrisarii cesariensis urbis Rome constantinopolitane liber primus de arte grammatica incipit : [manuscript]

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  Works by Aegidius Romanus [i.e. Giles of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges] and Nicholas Trevet : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-97v. [Aegidius Romanus] De regimine principum. Incipit: //opera faciamus. Quarto etiam ipsi mores opera diversificare videntur. Explicit: pacem illam habebunt eternam, in qua est summa requies quam deus ipse promisit suis fidelibus qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen. Latin. Begins defectively in Book 1, chapter 2; followed by an alphabetical subject index to the text, on ff. 97v-103v; f. 104r-v is blank. Several early editions; see Glorieux 400q , Zumkeller , n. 54 , and G. Bruni, Le Opere di Egidio Romano (Florence 1936), especially 83-90 for a list of manuscripts, EL 9 H 9 not included. Status of text: Opens defectively. ff. 105-192. [Nicholas Trevet] Incipit: Volens igitur Boecius agere de consolacione philosophica. Explicit: cum acciones vestre sint in conspectu iudicis cernentis cuncta. Qui est dominus noster ihesus christus Cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen. Et sic terminatur liber quintus continens prosas 6 et metra 5 et sunt universaliter in libro toto prose 39 et metra totidem id est 78 capitula. Rubric: Incipit commentum fratris Nicholai Tryvet super quinque libros Boeicii de consolacione philosophie. Latin. Text opens with two prologues("Explanacionem librorum Boeicii de consolacione philosophica aggressurus" and "Consolaciones tue letificaverunt animam meam") and contains the full text of Boethius as well as that of Nicholas Trevet's commentary. See R. J. Dean, "The Life and Works of Nicholas Trevet," unpublished D. Phil. dissertation, Oxford 1938. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 3143 . ff. 192-198v. Incipit: Ad designandas metrorum diversitates utile est scire quia sit tempus et que species temporis et quid pes et cetera dubitalia. Explicit: Dux pars priamides. Ablativus in e correptam desinit ut infra, vexatus tociens rauci theseide cordri [sic]. Nominativus//. Latin. Unidentified. On f. 198v, at the end of the defective break of the text, a note, s. XVII, "desunt caetera.". Status of text: Ends defectively.

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  Liber ruralium commodorum libri XII : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-176v. [Petrus Crescentius] Liber ruralium commondorum. Incipit: //Aer namque si bonus est temperatus et clarus. Explicit: Item post medium mensem optime seruntur caules //. Latin. On ff. 177-179v, table of contents beginning defectively in the chapter list of Book 3. Status of text: Beginning and ending defectively.

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  Summa summarum : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-404v. [William Poul of Pagula] Summa summarum. Incipit: Quot modis dicitur fides et quid sit fides. Dic quod fides dicitur multis modis. Explicit: sicut facit Willelmus durandus in repertorio suo, proponit questionem et remittit sine responsione ad locum de quo [catchword:] questio illa//. Rubric: Hic incipit liber primus. De summa trinitate et fide catholica,. Latin. Text opens with prologue (Ad honorem et laudem nominis ihesu christi quod quando recolo debeo caput inclinare seu flectere genua saltim cordis) and chapter list. Text missing between ff. 301-302 with portions of 5.18-5.19, and between ff. 403-404 with a portion of 5.68; the final gathering, now missing, was probably no more than one bifolium, containing the remainder of 5.69. This manuscript has the impersonal form of "De exposicione misse," for which see L. E. Boyle, "The Oculus Sacerdotis and some other Works of William of Pagula," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, ser. 5, v. 5 (1955) 81-110. For a survey of the known manuscripts (including EL 9 H 3) and the list of rubrics with those of Pagula's own invention signaled by a letter of the alphabet as in this manuscript, see, by the same author, "The Summa Summarum and some other English Works of Canon Law," Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, ed. S. Kuttner and J. J. Ryan (Vatican 1965) 415-456. Status of text: Lacks leaves and text internally and at the end.

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  Liber Uricrisiarum : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-134v. [Henry Daniel] Liber Uricrisiarum. Incipit: Uryne is as mekyll for to sayne in Anglish as on in þe reynes Reyns freynsh Renes latyn lendis in Anglish. Explicit: and fordone prowe exces of the malis of þe matere and of the maladye. Explicit liber uricrisiarum et cetera. [S]ic ergo cunctorum tradidi doctrinas eorum/ Quos reperivi vel quos reperire petivi . . . Laus tibi unigenite qui labor [sic] explicit iste/ Tu qui eterne manes hunc conservare digneris. Explicit liber uricrisiarum ex ex [sic] latino in vulgare editus a Fratre I [rubric left incomplete?]. English. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 1747. Thorndike and Kibre, col. 1608. Henry Daniel, Liber Uricrisiarum or Dome of Urines, an English compilation based on the Latin of Constantinus Africanus, itself a translation of Isaac Judaeus; see R. H. Robbins, "Medical Manuscripts in Middle English," Speculum 45 (1970) 399 footnote 14. The text in HM 505 has the Latin prologue, Bk. 1 (4 chapters), Bk. 2 (said in the prologue to comprise 17 chapters, but with 18 in the manuscript, numbered 1-12, 10, 7, 77-79, 81), Bk. 3 (said in the prologue to comprise 20 chapters, but with 30 in the manuscript, numbered 1-21, 23-24, 26-30, 32-33); the Latin verse epilogue gives the date of composition as 1379. Within the text are 2 English poems: in Bk. 2, chapter 6, f. 60v, "Tred eke the kennyth/ Sonday whate letter on rennyth . . . While þou lyuist in erthe. Nascitur proprie [?] Nos et Garlandus," for which see Schuler, n. 553 and Hanna, "Addenda," n. 62; the second English poem, in Bk. 2, chapter 7, f. 75v, "As holy wrytt wytnesse and telle/ There [sic] thingis shull neuer ben full felle . . . Sely is he that this evill fleen/ For the peyne of hell shall he not sene," for which see Hanna, "Addenda," n. 2. Author and title information in the rubric of the prologue: "Hic incipit prologus in librum uricrisiarum Ricardi Dodd, Dilecto socio in christo Magistro Waltero de Ketene Frater Henricus Daniell Ordinis Fratrum predicatorum servulus Ihesu christi et virginis matris eius. Amantissime socie pluries et instanter rogasti me ut de iudiciis urinarum saltem manipulum unum florum tibi carpam atque vel breviter tibi scribam et hoc ydiomate in vulgari . . . ".

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  Johannes Hispanus Flos decretorum ; Martin of Troppau Margarita Decreti ; and other titles : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-18. [Johannes Hispanus] Flos decretorum. Incipit: Humanum genus duobus modis regitur. Tractaturus magister Gracianus de iure canonico incipiens a capite. Explicit: quia nolebat ad novum proferre de hac materia in qua non solum verborum sed eciam novitas sentenciarum est prophana. Explicit summa numcupata flos decretorum. Rubric: Incipit flos decretorum. Latin. Schulte, 2:107-08. f. 18v; ff. 19-21v blank. Scribal colophon. Incipit: Ad honorem dei et gloriose virginis Marie et beati Petri apostolorum principis et omnium sanctorum Simon de Wederore de Trenge frater domus de Assherugge ordinis sancti Augustini Lincolniensis diocesis hunc librum scripsit. . . tertio kalendas Iulii littera dominicali .a. Anno domini Millesimo CCCmo lxviiimo. Explicit: atque in extremo examine districte subiacet ulcioni. Fiat fiat. Amen. Latin. A note below the colophon in the hand of the scribe, perhaps referring to Ps. 126, 1: nisi et cetera. H. C. Schulz, "The Monastic Library and Scriptorium at Ashridge," HLQ 1 (1938) 305-11, with the colophon printed in full. ff. 22-23. [Gregory IX] [Chapter list of Book I of the Decretals]. Incipit: De summa trinitate et fide catholica 1, De constitucionibus 2. Explicit: De verborum significacionibus 40, De regulis iuris 41. Expliciunt rubrice sive tituli decretalium. Rubric: Incipiunt tituli libri primi decretalium a domino Gregorio papa IXno compilatarum. Latin. ff. 32-277v; ff. 278v-296v blank. [Martin of Troppau] Margarita Decreti. Incipit: Aaron. Quod aaron sacerdocium approbatur dis. xxii. Sacro sancta. Item suo sacerdotio. Explicit: Quod sinenda sunt utraque crescere usque ad messem iudicii extremi et tunc angeli colligent zizaniam in fasciculos ad comburendum xxiii questio 1 paragrapho 1 ante fi. Quod zizaniam inimicus homo superseminare dicitur quando diabolus inter cardinales discordiam facit. Extravagantes 1 titulus vi de electione Licet. Amen Amen. Explicit alphabetum decreti et decretalium quod martiniana numccupatur. Deo gracias. Rubric: Incipit tabula martiniana decreti et decretalium secundum ordinem alphabeti compilata. Latin. On ff. 23v-31v, alphabetical chapter list; on ff. 227v-278, the same colophon as in Text 2. Schulte, 2:137-38. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 2973.

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  Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem : [manuscript]

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  ff. i, 1-128v. [Valerius Maximus] Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem. Incipit: Maiores nostri statas solennesque cerimonias pontificium scientia . . . [Rubric within the ruled space, and with decorated initial:] Incipit narrare suum propositum cum exemplis, Tantum autem studium antiquis non solum servande. Explicit: clementer [sic] imperio imminens iusto impendere supplicio coegit. Maximi vallerii viri clarissimi nonus et ultimus liber explicit. Deo gratias Amen. Rubric: De religione capitulum primum narrat. Latin. C. Kempf, ed., Valerii Maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem (Leipzig 1898) 1-587; see also D. M. Schullian, "A Revised List of Manuscripts of Valerius Maximus," in Miscellanea Augusto Campana. Medioevo e Umanesimo 44, 45 (Padua 1981) 695-728, including HM 1026 on p. 720. Text is preceded by a chapter list and a prologue.

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