Tenures : [manuscript]

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  Regiment of princes : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-82v. [Thomas Hoccleve]. Regiment of Princes. Incipit: Musyng vpon the restelesse besynesse/ Wyche that this troubly worlde hath ay on honde. . .[f. 32:] Hic incipit prologus de principum regimine, Hy noble and myȝty prince excellent/ my lord the prince o my lorde gracious. Explicit: Hic trattat de principum regimine incipiendo de fide servanda, Now gracious prince agayn that the corone/ honour thou schal with ryal dignite. . .In swyche a cas ys wysdam to schaunge/ good ys your counsell be to your foos straunge//. Latin. IMEV 2229. F. J. Furnivall, ed., Hoccleve's Works. EETS es 72 (London 1897); 1 leaf missing after f. 29 with loss of stanzas 233-240; 4 leaves missing after f. 30 with loss of stanzas 249-280; 1 leaf missing after f. 67 with loss of stanzas 577-584; text ends defectively at the end of stanza 704 with loss of the final 76 stanzas, presumably 9 to 10 folios. Disorder in the text with respect to the printed edition: on f. 39v, in stanza 352, line 2460 precedes line 2458; on f. 76v, stanza 659 is copied between stanzas 654 and 655. That the scribe was copying from his exemplar page by page is shown by the disorder on f. 51: stanzas 421 and 422 were copied in their correct order at the top of f. 48v; they were then repeated after stanza 440 at the top of f. 51 (conjunct to f. 48, in positions 5 and 8 of quire 5); the scribe evidently became aware of his error at the end of stanza 422, because its last line was not copied; the scribe then placed the required stanza 441 in the outer margin, copied stanzas 442 and 443 in the normal text space, but was forced to place stanza 444 in the outer margin to recoup space and catch up with his exemplar for the beginning of f. 51v. For a list of 43 manuscripts, including HM 135, see M. C. Seymour,"The Manuscripts of Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes," Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions 4 pt. 7 (1974) 253-97. ff. 83-86v. [Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life]. Incipit: //Go from me & make the a frere/ Myn age ys now in xl ȝere. Explicit: Wyth outen synne thedyr to wende/ Wyth loue to sen that fayre face. Amen. [space] Here ys wryten how mankynde dothe wende/ Wanne the lyf ys browȝt to the ende. Explicit totum. Latin. IMEV 1259. F. J. Furnivall, ed.,"Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life," Hymns to the Virgin and Christ. EETS os 24 (London 1867) 58-78; with respect to the printed edition, the stanzas in HM 135 are: 39, 41-43, 46-47, 44-45, 35, 54, 52-53, 49, 63, 59, 55-58, 48, 50, 61-62, with a leaf missing after f. 85, 74 (last 2 lines only), 77-81.

  mssHM 135

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  Satires by Persius and Juvenal : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-14v; ff. 15-17v, blank. [Persius] Satires. Incipit: O curas hominum o quantum est in rebus inane. Explicit: Inventus chrysippe tui finitor acervi. Finis. Latin. Prologue begins: Nec fonte labra prolui caballino. W. V. Clausen, ed., A. Persi Flacci et D. Iuni Iuvenalis Saturae (Oxford 1959), the satires of Persius on pp. 1-28. Listed as n. 445 in P. Scarcia-Piacentini, "Saggio di un censimento dei manoscritti contenenti il testo di Persio e gli scoli e i commenti al testo," Studi su Persio e la scoliastica persiana 3.1. Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature straniere, Università di Pisa (Rome 1973). ff. 18-98v. [Juvenal] Satires. Incipit: Semper ego auditor tantum. Explicit: Tanquam homine et ventri indulsit non omne legumen. Rubric: Liber primus Iuvenalis Satyra prima. Latin. Clausen, the satires of Juvenal on pp. 35-175; the 5-book structure indicated by running headlines for Books 1 (Sat. 1-5) and 5 (Sat. 13-16) and by the 3-line space reserved for the initial on f. 38v for the beginning of Book 2 (Sat. 6); Sat. 15 and 16 reversed; on f. 64, Sat. 9.37, the Greek has been entered in a different colored ink; on ff. 67v-68, Sat. 10.48-71 copied twice, and the text on f. 67v marked "vacat.". f. 99; f. 100r-v, blank. [Pseudo Cicero] De proprietate sermonum. Incipit: Inter polliceri et promittere hoc interest quod. Explicit: nemo ad hominem nemo id est qui nec homo. Latin. M. L. Uhlfelder, ed., De proprietate sermonum (Rome 1954) 47, sent. 1 and 2, attributed to Pseudo Cicero and to Pseudo Isidore.

  mssEL 34 B 6

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  Statutes and other legal writings : [manuscript]

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  ff. 6-15v, 16-89v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. On ff. 1-5v, preliminary matter. ff. 15v-16. Sententia lata super cartas. Incipit: En le noun del pier del fyz e del seynt espiryt amen. Cum nostre seignur le Roi al honur de deu e de seynt eglise e al comun profist de sun Reaum a touz lours les choses desus escrytes, Nous Roberd Erceveske de Canterbyry et primas de tut Engletere amovescoms un foyz deus foyz e troys foyz puys que la brefte del temps plus loynge demure. Explicit: e de touz les sacramentes de seynt eglise enseveroms fiat fiat amen. Rubric: Incipit sentencia lata super cartas. French. ff. 89v-100. Judicium essoniorum. Incipit: Primum capitulum de difficultate essoniorum circa viros et mulieres sive circa plures tenentes pro indiviso. Explicit: et sic procedere debent alia placita iuxta eorum discrecionem. Explicit Iudicium Essoniorum. Rubric: Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Latin. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 116-42. ff. 100-107. Modus componendi brevia. Incipit: Cum sit necessarium conquerentibus in Curia domini Regis ut sibi in suis casibus congruum exibeatur remedium. Explicit: Licet antecessor conquerentis de pastura illa fuerit disseysitus. Explicit modus componendi Brevia. Rubric: Modus componendi Brevia. Latin. Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, 143-59, here ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. ff. 107-113v. Summa de bastardia. Incipit: Nota quod si bastardus se clamando legitimum heredem. Explicit: quamvis uxor infantis obierit dum fuerit in custodia. Nota si un hom claym par meyme la descent par bref de possessioun l'autre mette encuntre ly q'il est bastard qe unkes sun pier esposa sa mere l'enqueste deyt estre prys en la curt le Roi. Explicit Bastardia. Rubric: Sequitur Summa de Bastardia. Latin. See Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, 1 and n. 3. ff. 113v-125v; ff. 125v-127v blank. Hengham Parva. Incipit: Notandum quod quinque sunt essonia. Prima de ultra mare, Secundum de terra sancta. Explicit: Quia nichil tam naturale est quam unumquisque dissolvi eo genere quo est ligatum. Explicit parvum hyngham. Rubric: Sequitur parvum hyngham. Latin. On ff. 125v-126, added material. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 51-71; for the passage that begins"Homagium est iuris vinculum" see G. E. Woodbine, ed., Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, trans. and with notes by S. E. Thorne (Harvard University Press and the Selden Society 1968-77) 2:228. ff. 128-195v. [Register of writs]. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right, dated 20 Edward [I], 1291/92, with names of persons by initial only.

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  Piers Plowman : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-106v; ff. 107-108v blank. [William Langland] Piers Plowman. Incipit: In a somer sesoun whan softe was þe sonne/ y shope me into shroudes as y a shep were. Explicit: And seende me hap and hele til y haue Peres plouhman/ And sethe he gradde aftur grace tyl y gan awake. English. IMEV 1459; C text, i group; ff. 60 and 61 reversed in binding. R. W. Chambers, "The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman in the Huntington Library and their Value for Fixing the Text of the Poem," HLB 8 (1935) 1-25; Piers Plowman: The Huntington Library MX (HM 143) reproduced in Photostat with Introduction by R. W. Chambers and Technical Examination by R. B. Haselden and H. C. Schulz (Huntington Library 1936); D. Pearsall, ed., Piers Plowman by William Langland: An Edition of the C-text (London 1978) from this manuscript with variant readings from others. ff. ii-iii verso. [Geoffrey Chaucer] Troilus and Criseyde. Incipit: //So whan thys Calkas knewe by kalkulynge/ And eke by onswere of this Appollo. Explicit: Of other sekenesse lest men of hym wende/ That the hoote fir of loue hym brende//. English. Two non-continuous leaves representing leaves 2 and 7 of a gathering of 8 leaves of a lost manuscript, and containing 20 stanzas: f. ii recto-verso: //So whan thys Calkas knewe by kalkulynge/ And eke by onswere of this Appollo . . . And under efte gan hem whielen bothe/ After hire cours ay whil that they were wrothe//; f. iii recto-verso: // And to the god of loue thus sayde he/ With pitous vois o lord now youres is . . . Of other sekenesse lest men of hym wende/ That the hoote fir of loue hym brende//. IMEV 3327; R. K. Root, ed., The Book of Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (Princeton 1926) 1:71-140 and 1:421-490; M. B. Parkes and R. Beadle, Geoffrey Chaucer, Poetical Works: a facsimile of Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27 (Cambridge 1980-81) 3:65 note 94 referring to this manuscript. Assigned Date: s. XVin.

  mssHM 143

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  Historical miscellany : [manuscript]

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  Part 1. ff. 1-25v. [Geoffrey of Monmouth] Historia regum Britanniae. Incipit: //deinde hortabatur Britones ad insequendum festinatum triumphum promittens. Explicit: cum non habeant illum librum Britannici sermonis quem Walterus Oxonfordensis archidiaconus ex Britannia advexit quem de historia eorum veraciter editum in honore predictorum principum hoc modo in latinum sermonem transferre curavi. Latin. A. Griscom, ed., The Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth (London 1929) 321-536, Bk. 4, 13-Bk. 11; present manuscript noted on pp. 571, 584. Part 1. f. 25v. Hec sunt nomina Regum Anglie et tempora regni illorum Kings of Britain. Incipit: Primus rex Anglie hyne vocabatur, hic regnavit xxxviii annis. Explicit: henricus vitus filius eius. Rubric: Hec sunt nomina Regum Anglie et tempora regni illorum. Latin. List of the kings of Britain from Ine to Henry VI (1421-71) with the lengths of their reigns; the last seven, Edward I-Henry VI, added to the original list in a different colored ink. Part 1. f. 26r-v. D[e Re]gibus Anglie post conquestum Kings of Britain. Incipit: Sanctus Edwardus confessor Rex Anglorum quia filium nec filiam fratrem vel sororem habuit. Explicit: duxit in uxorem Isabellam filiam Regis francie//. Rubric: D[e Re]gibus Anglie post conquestum. Latin. To Edward II and Edward III; lower edge of sheet destroyed. Part 1.ff. 27-28v. Prophetia de Rege Edwardo iiio et de sequela sua Prophecy. Incipit: Tunc suscitabit dominus in Britannia aprum in foresta ventosa et erit iuvenis in tempore suo coronam saxonum portabit in vita patris sui. Explicit: usque ad tempus portabit et post illud tempus cessabunt Reges esse quasi ubique et erit novum seculum. Rubric: Prophetia de Rege Edwardo iiio et de sequela sua. Latin. Political prophecy on Edward III as the boar; other figures are "foresta ventosa" (Windsor), "in mari mortuo" (Roger Mortimer), "retrogradus cancer" (King Philip of France), "lilium" (France), "Aquila" (?), "porcellus" (the Black Prince), "flores deliciarum" (England?), "gens sine capite" (?); notes in the margins in the hand of the scribe are "Bellum de hog[? cropped]" (? Sluys, 1340), "Bellum de Cressy" (1346), "Obsidio calesie" (1348), "Pestilencia magna" (1348-50), "Captatio Regis Francorum" (1356). Part 1. ff. 29-37; f. 37v, blank. Incipit prologus fratris Nicholai Trevet de ordine predicatorum in Annales Regum Anglie qui a Comitibus Andegavensibus suam traxerunt originem secundum lineam masculinam. Incipit: Ut autem comodius iuxta nostram intencionem. Explicit: concessum est eis ut si vacantes ecclesie eos vocarent earum fierent presules. Mortuo Ricardo episcopo Londoniensi//. Rubric: Incipit prologus fratris Nicholai Trevet de ordine predicatorum in Annales Regum Anglie qui a Comitibus Andegavensibus suam traxerunt originem secundum lineam masculinam. Latin. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 3149. T. Hog, ed., Fratris Nicholai Triveti Annales. English Historical Society 9 (London 1845) 1-54, ending unfinished at the year 1163. Part 2. ff. 38-45v; f. 46 blank. Treatise on Chess. Incipit: Seignurs une poy entendez/ vous qi les gius d'eches amez/ Et ieo une partis vous dirray/ Selonc ce j'apris ay. Explicit: et plus pres de son Roc et issi la suyera d'eques ac mat. French. Treatise on the game of chess, in verse alternating with 10 prose sections, and 12 diagrams in red and black of model moves. See description by Warner and Gilson of London, Brit. Lib., Roy. 13.A.XVIII. A. Långfors, Les Incipit des poèmes français antérieurs au XVIe siècle (Paris [1917]) p. 383. Part 2. ff. 46v-54v. [Petrus Alphonsi] De disciplina clericali. Incipit: Ennok philosophus qui lingua arabica cognominatur edric filio suo dixit. Explicit: laminam vidit mar//. Latin. PL 157:671-705, here with all 32 tales complete and in the order described by Ward, Cat. of Romances 2:235-47; the lower margin of the last leaf badly deteriorated with loss of text, leaving only enough to show that this copy originally ended with the Epitaph in the Cemetery.

  mssEL 34 C 9 (EL 1121)

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  Confessio amantis : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-169v; ff. 170-172v, blank. [John Gower] Confessio Amantis. Incipit: //As forto speke of any sped/ So wiste I me non oþer red. Explicit: Wher restiþ loue and alle pes/ Oure ioie mai ben endeles. English; Latin. Final colophons: Explicit iste liber qui transiat obsecro liber/ Ut sine livore vigeat lectoris in ore/ Qui sedet in scannis celi det ut ista Iohannis/ Perpetuis annis stet pagina grata Britannis/ Derbeie Comiti recolunt quem laude periti/ Vade liber purus sub eo que recumbe futurus. [f. 169v:] Epistola super huius opusculi sui complementum Iohanni Gower a quodam philosopho transmissa. [space] Quam cinxere freta Gower tua carmina leta/ Per loca discreta canit Anglia laude repleta/ Carminis athleta Satirus tibi sive poeta/ Sit laus completa quo gloria stat sine meta. IMEV 2662; second recension with added passages in Books 5 and 7, the revised dedication to Henry, the revised conclusion on the state of England and the 6-line explicit dedicated to Henry; f. 50, a substitute, presents readings from the unrevised first recension. G. C. Macaulay, ed., The English Works of John Gower. EETS es 81-82 (London 1900-01), who prints from this manuscript passages designated by the letter S (for Stafford). See J. H. Fisher, John Gower, Moral Philosopher and Friend of Chaucer (New York 1964) 303-07 for a list and classification of the manuscripts, including EL 26 A 17. Status of text: Defective initially, and then internally at 10 points.

  mssEL 26 A 17