Piers Plowman : [manuscript]

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

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  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

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  [Piers Plowman; Mandeville; Troilus; etc., middle of the 15th century]

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  Collection of Middle English texts, comprised of Langland's Piers Plowman in the B-text with substantial readings from A and C; a defective version, subgroup B, of Mandeville's Travels; the Middle English poem Susannah; "The legend of the Three Kings" an excerpt from John of Hildesheim's Historia Trium Regum; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; and a translation of Peter Ceffons' Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros.

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  Chronicles : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-2. [Isidore] [Etymologies]. Incipit: Prima etas in exordio [sui] continet creacionem mundi. Explicit: Residuum sexte etatis tempus deo soli est cognitum. Rubric: Incipit liber v Rubrica de discripcione temporum ysidorus. Latin. Isidore, Etymologies, Bk. 5, ch. 39, PL 82:224-228. f. 2v. [Divisiones episcopatum yspanie tempore Regis Vambe = Dioceses in Spain]. Incipit: Theodosius fuit rex catholicus et fecit celebrare concilium in gallecia apud Lucensem urbem et divisit omnes dioceses inter omnes episcopos gallecie sicut hic scriptum est. Ad kathedram bracarensem dedit ecclesias. Explicit: postea divisit sedes narbonem et sunt ix sed non curavi hic ponere nomina eorum. Rubric: Divisiones episcopatum yspanie tempore Regis Vambe. Latin. ff. 2v-3v. [Ista sunt concilia que facta fuerunt in yspania Councils of the church of Spain]. Incipit: Concilium primum fuit yspania Elibertanum xviii episcoporum temporibus constantini gestum eodem tempore quo enicena [sic] sinodus habita est. Explicit: petrus elborensis, aloarius ubi est modo civitatem caliabriensem [sic]. Expliciunt concilia id est numerus conciliorum yspanie prout inveni in libro canonum. Rubric: Ista sunt concilia que facta fuerunt in yspania. Latin. Resumé of the headings and lists of bishops from Isidore, Concilia Hispaniae, PL 84:301-626. ff. 3v-6. [Incipit istoria gotica edita a Roderico toletane ecclesie sacerdote Chapter list of histoires of R. Jiménez de Rada]. Incipit: i, De Europa et generacione Iaphet. Explicit: ccciiii, De monarchia yuceh citra mare et ultra mare. Explicit. Rubric: Incipit istoria gotica edita a Roderico toletane ecclesie sacerdote. Latin. Chapter list to the histories of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, archbishop of Toledo, contained in this manuscript. f. 6r-v. [Noticia sedium cathedralium hispanie = List of the dioceses of Spain]. Incipit: Tolleto metropoli, Oreto. Explicit: Dominus philippus Fater [sic] domini regis Ramundus. Hic fuit primus loco prelati in ecclesia hispalensis ex quo modo fuit capta per christianos. Explicit. Rubric: Noticia sedium cathedralium hispanie. Latin. Includes a reference to"Gundisalvus qui nunc est"; his dates are 1280-99?. ff. 6v-8v.[Hic qui secuntur fuerunt regis gothorum = Kings of Spain]. Incipit: Era ccc lxxxi, Regnavit athanaricus primus Rex gothorum xiiii annis. Explicit: et fuit primus rex in navarra. Rubric: Hic qui secuntur fuerunt regis gothorum. Latin. Includes a reference to"Alfonsus qui nunc est quem deus dirigat" (his dates are 1252-1284), to"Dionisius [1279-1325] qui nunc est" (his dates are 1279-1325) and to James"qui habet regnum maioricorum" (his dates are 1276-1311). ff. 9-75v. [Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada] Historia gothica. Incipit: Ut veritas genesis attestatur quam moyses scripsit. Explicit: et multa alia quorum esset narrare. Hoc opusculum ut scivi et potui consumavi anno incarnationis domini M cc xliii Era MCC lxxxi Anno xxvi regni fernandi regis v feria pridie kalendas aprilis anno pontificatus nostri xxxiii Sede apostolica adhuc vacante anno uno mensibus viii diebus x gregorio papa ix viam universe carnis ingresso. Rubric: Incipit hystoria Gothica edita a Roderico Tolletane ecclesie sacerdote. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Gothica in A. Schott, ed., Hispania Illustrata (Frankfurt 1603) 2:26-148. M. C. Diaz y Diaz, Index Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Aevi Hispanorum (Salamanca 1958-59) 1241. Here preceded by a dedication and a prologue. ff. 75v-78v. [Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada] Historia romanorum. Incipit: Principium autem regum lacii istud fuit. Explicit: et variorum presidium tiranide lacerata. Rubric: De regibus lacii, ccxxi. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Romanorum in Schott, 2:186-95. Diaz y Diaz 1245. ff. 78v-83. [Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada] Historia hunnorum. Incipit: Hugnorum origo ut reffert antiquitas ita cepit. Explicit: gallia gothica in hyspaniam transtulerunt. Rubric: De origine hugnorum. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Hunnorum in Schott, 2:151-59. Diaz y Diaz 1243. ff. 83-84v. [Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada] Historia ostrogothorum et visigothorum. Incipit: Mortuo athilla Walamen rex astrogothorum et albaricus rex gepidarum. Explicit: qui in hispaniis et gallia gothica regnaverunt. Rubric: De Regibus astrogothorum et actibus theodorici, ccxlix,. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Ostrogothorum et Visigothorum in Schott, 2: 148-51. Diaz y Diaz 1242. ff. 84v-97. [Rodrgo Jiménez de Rada] Historia arabum. Incipit: Anno leovigildi regis gothorum ix Era de prima. Explicit: sed quia de adventu eorum in hystoria Gothica fuimus prosecuti hic nolumus iterare. Explicit Era M CC et lxxiiii. Laus tibi sit christe quoniam liber explicit iste. Rubric: Incipit historiam [sic] arabum de origine et exordio Mahometi, cclvi. Latin. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Historia Arabum in Schott, 2:162-86. Diaz y Diaz 1244. f. 97r-v. [Hugh of St. Cher] Speculum ecclesie. Incipit: Dicit apostolus ad ephesios vi. Induite vos armatura dei ut possitis stare adverssus insidias diaboli. Hec armatura est vestis sacerdotalis significativa septemplicis virtutis. Explicit: mentis amaritudo in speculis mulierum. Rubric: Incipit speculum ecclesie. Incipit tractatus domini Hugonis cardinalis de ordine misse et sacerdotalium indumentorum signifficatione. Latin. Hugh of St. Cher, Speculum ecclesie, short extract containing the first and part of the second chapter; cf. Hain 8977-8992. ff. 97v-145. [Martinus Oppaviensis] Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum. Incipit: Sicut dicit Orosius ad beatum augustinum scribens a mundi creacione. Explicit: Nicholaus iii Nacione Rome anno domini M cc lxxvii sedit. Amen. Hic finit ystoria romanorum pontificum usque ad tempora nostra. Rubric: Incipit Cronica fratris Martini penetenciarii domini pape et capellani . . . De quatuor regnis maioribus. Latin. Kaeppeli, SOPMA 2974. L. Weiland, ed., Martini Oppaviensis Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum (Hannover 1872) MGH Scriptores 22:397-474, here conflating the pope and emperor lists; Weiland's recension C, as it extends to Nicholas II (1277) and includes the narration on the 4 reigns after the prologue, the section on Pope Joan (f. 131) and numerous other interpolations. ff. 145-152v. Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. Incipit: Fuit quidam rex anthiocus nomine a quo ipsa civitas. Explicit: unum in templo ephesiorum alterum blibiotece [sic] sue. Expliciunt gesta piissimi regis appolloni tyri. Rubric: Et incipit quedam ystoria satis apposito nostro remota est tamen in se admirabilis et sic proponere eam hic voluimus qualiter contigit de quodam rege antiochie qui antiochus vocabatur,. Latin. G. A. A. Kortekaas, ed., Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (Groningen 1984); listed p. 20. ff. 152v-158v. [Dares Phrygius] De excidio Troiae historia. Incipit: Pleyas rex ypolopense [sic] fratrem habuit hesonem. Explicit: palemonem ephistrophum et Scedium. Explicit ystoria troyanorum. Rubric: Hic incipit alia ystoria grecorum et troyanorum de rege pleya et iason filio hesonis fratre eius. Latin. F. Meister, ed., Daretis Phrygii De excidio Troiae historia (Leipzig 1873), with introductory epistle and the 2 supplementary sections on the casualties of the Greeks and the Trojans. ff. 159-178v. [Saba Malaspina] Rerum sicularum historia. Incipit: Tempore autem domini innocencii vi Rex Karolus regnum posolimitanum [sic] ex concessione cuiusdam domicelle. Explicit: Sique dum ad domum tamen dicti henrici cathalani vota sua convertunt et illuc dirigunt manus armatas paucos [catchword:] gallicos//. Rubric: Hic incipit ystoria de hiis que contigerunt in sicilia tempore regis karoli. Latin. Saba Malaspina, Rerum sicularum historia, Bk. 6, ch. 5-Bk. 10, chap. 5 (breaking defectively) in G. del Re, ed., Cronistie scrittori sincroni della dominazione normanna (Naples 1845-68) 2:307-80; listed in A. Nitschke,"Untersuchungen zu Saba Malaspina," Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 12 (1956) 160 n. 1.

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  Arcadia : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-180; f. 180v blank. [Philip Sidney] Arcadia. Incipit: //To maike so great thoughe vndeserued judgmente of me. And even so. Explicit: may awake some other spirit, to exercise his penn in that, wherwith myne ys already dulled. Finis. The Last booke or Acte. English. J. Robertson, ed., Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia) (Oxford 1973) 14-417, here lacking the first 6 leaves; HM 162 mentioned by Robertson, p. xliv, and cited in the critical apparatus as As. See also B. Dobell, "Sidney's Arcadia" in the Athenaeum, 7 September 1907, p. 272, where this manuscript is first identified as the Old Arcadia. B. Dobell, "New Light upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia," Quarterly Review 211 (1909) 74-100, esp. p. 80. R. W. Zandvoort, Sidney's Arcadia: A Comparison between the Two Versions (Amsterdam 1929), this manuscript described on p. 13, with a plate of f. 122 as frontispiece. W. A. Ringler, Jr., "Master Drant's Rules," Philological Quarterly 29 (1950) 70-74 (call number given erroneously as HM 116). W. A. Ringler, Jr., ed., The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney (Oxford 1962), this manuscript with details of the text described on p. 528.

  mssHM 162

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  De animalibus : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-98v. [Aristotle] [De animalibus]. Incipit: Quedam partes corporum animalium dicuntur non composite et sunt partes que. Explicit: que accidunt non ex necessitate sed propter aliquid et propter causam finalem et propter causam moventem. Explicit liber aristotilis de naturis animalium. Sed intitulatus est et distinctus secundum novam translationem et sunt in hoc volumine 18 lib[ri, x] de hystoriis animalium, 3 de partibus animalium et v de generatione animalium, vii de progressu animalium hic deficit cum quo essent xix. Rubric: Incipit liber primus aristotilis de naturis animalium quem transtulit magister michael scotus de greco in latinum et habet in se x libros. Rubrica. Latin. Aristotle, De naturis animalium, De partibus animalium, De generatione animalium, trans. Michael Scot, completed by 1220; text not printed in full. See AL 80-81 and 245 where this manuscript is described. The text here is complete: the scribe erroneously repeated the rubric of Book VII on f. 26, thus his calculations at the end of the manuscript were off by one. Marginalia and nota marks by various readers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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