OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY. THE WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Honliott: C. J. CLAY and SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE, (glasgoto: 50, WELLINGTON STREET. %zmS' F. A. BROCKHAUS. i^eto ^orfe: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Bomfaajj attU Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. [A// Rights reserved] THE WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE BY MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, Litt.D., F.B.A. FELLOW OF king's COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE: DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM VOLUME IV CONTAINING PLATES, ADDENDA, CORRIGENDA AND INDEX CAMBRIDGE: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1904 PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. PREFACE. T N sending out the fourth and concluding volume of my Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, I am troubled with many misgivings as to the character of the whole work. The man who undertakes the task of describing a large and heterogeneous mass of books, ranging in date from the seventh or eighth century to the nineteenth, and not restricted to one language or to even three or four subjects, is necessarily giving many hostages to fortune. He is exposing himself to the onslaughts of every future specialist who has recourse to his laboriously compiled volumes. Absence of references to printed editions of texts, failures to detect the identity of a nameless treatise, omissions of what prove to be important details in the description of miniatures, ignorance of famous heraldic bearings, will all merit and perhaps meet with sharp reproof. If the cataloguer writes a bad hand and is, to say the least, an indifferent corrector of printed proofs, he has yet more to fear. To these errors and failings I plead guilty ; but I have deliberately preferred risking mistakes and producing the best catalogue I could within five years, to consulting all the available experts and post- poning publication until the ninth. Misgivings are, therefore, justifiable in my case ; yet it must be said that so far the experts have treated me with great kindness and forbearance. MM. Delisle and Paul Meyer and Dr Liebermann in particular have furnished me with information which I desire to vi PREFACE. acknowledge with cordial thanks. Other scholars who may be kind enough to notify additions and corrections to the Librarian of the College will doubtless earn his gratitude. In the present volume are contained a selection of facsimiles of characteristic scripts and interesting specimens of illuminations from blocks made by Mr Edwin Wilson of Mill Lane, Cambridge. Among those which illustrate writings are included some which show the hand which I believe that Lanfranc introduced at Christ Church, Canterbury. A list of the facsimiles follows this preface. I have, furthermore, given a brief list of the Porson manuscripts in Class C, (not including the numerous printed books containing manuscript notes by him,) and also such corrections of and additions to the first three volumes of this Catalogue as I could collect. No one will suppose that I consider the list complete. A general reference only is given to M. Paul Meyer's invaluable tract on the old French manuscripts in the Library. Last in order follows the Index, which is of my own making. Time will show whether it is good or bad. It was printed off before the rest of the volume was written, and consequently does not include any references to the Addenda or Corrigenda. Having now accomplished what I could for the honour of the Trinity manuscripts, I would desire for them large and valuable accessions to their numbers, and a secure sojourn in their magnificent home for more centuries than the oldest of them has yet seen. M. R. JAMES. DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. PLATE I. B. 10. 5. Specimen of writing traditionally attributed at Durham Priory to Bede. I Cor. xiv. 4-6. Et qui loquitur lingua semet ipsum aedificat — nisi nobis loquar aut in reuelatione aut ; with a few interlinear glosses. 0. 2. 30. Specimen of writing from the Rule of St Benedict. The manuscript seems to have belonged to St Mary Overie's ( = St Saviour's, South wark). B. 4. 27. Specimen of hand on f. 100. Formerly in the Library of Christ Church, Canterbury. PLATE IL B. 14. 3. First page of the Historia ApostoUca of Arator. From Christ Church, Canterbury. Two forms of press-marks of that Library occur on it. The first (RR) dates from cent, xii, the other (Distinctio ii^ gradus xiii'^^) is of cent. xiii. See my A7tcient Libraries of Canterbury. PLATE IIL 0. 2. 31. Initial and specimen of writing from the Disticha Catonis^ very probably from Christ Churchy Canterbury. Compare the Arator (PI. Ii). B. 11. 2. Initial and specimen of writing from a copy of Amalarius de ecclesiasticis officiis presented by Leofric (1028) to the Church of Exeter. PLATE IV. B. 2. 3. Beda super Lucam. Written at Christ Church, Canterbury, in cent, xii, in the hand characteristic of Christ Church books of that period, which I conjecturally connect with the influence of Archbishop Lanfranc. B. 2. 34. Initial and specimen of writing from Jerome de distantiis locorum. From Christ Church, Canterbury, in the characteristic hand. viii DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. PLATE V. 0. 4. 7. Initial and specimen of writing from Jerome de nominibus Hebrai- cis^ written at Christ Church, Canterbury, for Rochester Priory, in cent. xii. In the initial is a man teaching a bear to say the alphabet. PLATE VL B. 14. 33. A page of the Isagoge in theologiam by a certain Odo. Cent. xii. It gives the beginning of the Ten Commandments. The introductory clause is transliterated into Roman letters, and a Hteral Latin version is added. PLATE VII, VIII (i). 0. 4. 10, 11. Specimens from two manuscripts of Juvenal, both formerly in the Library of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. See on them J. D. Duff's Juvenal. 0. 4. 10. Sat. II. 41 — 52. Haec emis — fora uestra mouemus. 0. 4. 11. Sat. IV. 135 — 142. Tempore iam figuH — deprehendere morsu. With "Tironian" signs referring to the marginal scholia. PLATE VIII (2). R. 4. 4. Specimen of writing from a copy of Livy once the property of St Thomas of Canterbury, and bequeathed by him to Christ Church, Canterbury. PLATE IX. 0. 7. 7. Specimen from the Ibis of Ovid, of which this is the best copy known, with marginal scholia. Cf. the edition by Professor Robinson Ellis. 0. 3. 9. Specimen of writing from the Lexicon of Photius, cent. xi. PLATE X. 0. 3. 7. From Boethius de consolatione philosophiae^ formerly in the Library of St Augustine's, Canterbury. The drawing, of English execution (cent, x-xi), represents Philosophy. PLATE XI. B. 15. 34. Frontispiece to a collection of Anglo-Saxon Homilies, cent. xi. Drawing of English execution, representing Christ in glory. DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. ix PLATE XII. 0. 9. 22. Frontispiece to the Enchiridion of Augustine, written perhaps in Flanders in cent. x. The drawing seems to have been copied from a good model by an unskilled artist. It represents : above, Christ in glory with censing angels and a kneeling abbot : below, Augustine in the centre with kneeling suppliant, and an ecclesiastic approaching from R. : on L. Michael and the dragon. PLATE XIIL B. 5. 3. Part of the initial to St Matthew's Gospel. A figure with the heads of the four evangehstic creatures holds a scroll and writes. The MS. is of cent, xii-xiii. PLATE XIV. B. 3. 11. Initial to the Book of Joel, written at Christ Church, Canterbury, in cent. xii. The white lion-like animals which appear in this are frequently found in the decoration of the Christ Church books of this period. B. 4. 1. Initial to the Epistle to Titus, from a copy of the Pauline Epistles glossed, of cent, xii late, presented to St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, by WiUiam de Wylminton. It represents Paul and Silas in the stocks at Phihppi. Initial to the Epistle to Philemon. Paul is emptying a purse of money into the fire. Philemon looks on. PLATE XV. 0. 9. 34. From the Romance of Alexander, very probably written at St Albans. In the picture on L. Darius offers a reward to one of his knights to kill Alexander. In the other, the knight disguises himself in the armour of a dead Greek, and, when disguised, smites Alexander in the back. PLATE XVI. 0. 1. 20. From a collection of surgical treatises of cent, xiii early. The drawing represents on L. a doctor visiting a patient : on a dispensary with two assistants compounding prescriptions. 0. 7. 27. From a copy of Statutes of cent. xiv. The initial shows a pillory. PLATE XVII. B. 11. 32. Page from the Hours of Anne of Austria. French work of cent. XV. The picture represents St Vincent in the stocks in a dungeon. The background is of gold and colour. ADDENDA TO THE MANUSCRIPTS. PoRSON Manuscripts in Class C. 1. Miscellanea Critica, folio. Obtained from Porson's executors in 1809 with the exception of the Eton School exercises which were given by T. L'Estrange Ewen, Esq., in 1851. They were arranged and bound in 1859. These facts are noted by Dr Luard. There are 124 leaves of various sizes. A full Index is prefixed. 2. The Morning Chronicle, Thursday, Oct. 6, 1808, with an account of Porson's funeral. 3. Aristophanica Homerica, etc. 4to, ff. 102, with Index by Dr Luard. 4. Photii Lexicon, 4to, fif. 108, exquisitely transcribed from the Gale MS. by Porson. 5. Lettered; " Porsoniana, Barker," 4to, various sizes. Purchased in 1857 London. 6. Correspondence of Professor Porson, printed (with one excep- tion — a collation by Coray) by Dr Luard for the Camb. Ant. Soc. 1867. 7. Porson's Eton Farce, Out of the frying-pan into the fire. Presented by Ed. Maltby, Bishop of Durham, in 1850. 8. Adversaria, mostly published, with Index by Dr Luard. 9. Sale Catalogue of Porson's books and other papers relating thereto. 10. Another copy of the Sale Catalogue. xii ADDENDA TO THE MANUSCRIPTS. 11. Transcript of the Lexicon known as ^ hX^d^rjro^ or 'AvTLaTTtKi(TTr](; made by J. C. Banks for Porson. Printed in Bekker, Anecdota Graeca i, 18 14. 12. Hampshire Hogs, or a New Catechism for the use of the Natives of Hampshire. (By R. Porson.) Presented by A. J. Butler, M.A., formerly Fellow, May 9, 1903. In Class O. Patent of the appointment of George Denman, Serjeant-at- Law, to be a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, 17 Oct. 36 Victoria. Presented by Arthur Denman, M.A., Trinity College. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. Vol. I, p. xiii, col. i, for 368, R. 3. 20 read R. 3. 19. 379, R. 3. 19 „ R. 3. 20. p. xiv, col. iii, 568 ? B. 11. 20, add note or O. 3. 10, given by Gale in 1668, and correct p. xviii, col. ii, and p. 363, accordingly, p. XV, col. iii, 677-680, for R. 7. 23 read R. 7. 23*. ibid., note || add. Possibly among the volumes marked R. i6. 6-19. p. XX, col. i, Canterbury, Christ Church, B. 14. 36. This cannot be from Christ Church, where there was no Abbot, but may be from St Augustine's, p. XX, coL ii, Pantocrator, B. 7. 2 ? dele the note of interrogation, p. xxii, Nevile, add B. i. 21 and B. 16. 11. p. xxiii, col. i, Stanhope, add B. 16. 43. col. ii, Whitgift, dele B. i. 21 and B. 16. 11?. add B. 4. 26. p. 47, 4th line from bottom, add see R. 15. 18. 2nd ,, add Johannis de Bridlington (ed. Wright, Political Poems ^ Rolls Series, p. 123). p. 80 (B. 2. 23), add ref. to Leyser's Hist. Poematum medii aevi where many of the shorter poems are printed, p. 112, 5th line from bottom, for Bosham's read Radulfus Remensis'. p. 188, B. 5. 4 and p. 195, B. 5. 6. The greater part of the prologues have been printed from these MSS- by M. L. Delisle in the Journal des Savants for 1900. p. 229, B. 7. 2, add From the Monastery of Pantocrator. p. 268, B. 9. 7. On this see Wallis in Journal of Theol. Studies 1902, p. 254. p. 287, B. 10. 4. See facsimiles in New Palaeographical Society. p. 312, last two lines, read formerly in the possession of etc., and add now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, p. 325, last line but one, D.D. = dono dedit. p. 435, 1. 18, From Canterbury? r^^ai^^perhaps from St Augustine's, Canterbury, p. 445, 11. 14, 15, add These lines should be read pastorum rumpas pasture reprime metas iudice celorum rumpetur (/. petur for petrus) turma malorum. They occur in Gonv. and Caius MS. 418. On the French pieces in this MS. (B. 14. 39, 40) see the elaborate account by M. Paul Meyer, MSS. Fran^ais de Cambridge in Romania, 1903. p. 506, 1. 2, for Griffiths read Griffith. p. 513, B. 16. 2. The Sermons (lii.) and Opus Evangelicum (iv.) have been printed from this MS. (and others) by the Wyclif Society. A facsimile of some lines of this MS, is in Vol. I. of the Sermons. xiv ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. Vol. I, ' p. 521, 7th line from bottom, for Whitgift? read Nevile. p. 539, B. 16. 43. Given by Sir Edward Stanhope, p. 540, B. 16. 44, read cent, xi for cent. xii. The letters to Lanfranc in this MS. have been printed by F. Liebermann in The- English Historical Review for 1901. Vol. II, p. xviii, No. 97. Apparently now in the Bodleian, MS. Selden 16. p. xxviii, col. ,ii, last line, for R. 51 read R. 5. p. 34, R. 2. 36, read Given by Professor W. W. Skeat, Litt.D. {for D.D.). p. 39, R. 1. 47, for Prince Consort read Duke of Northumberland, p. 44, R. 2. 88, for W. Cayley read A. Cayley. p. 58, 1. 6, for 1663 read 1863. p. 77, No. 28, published by Meon, Nouv. rec. de fabliaux il. 416. See Hist. Litt. de la France xxiii. 688. p. 77, last line, for oremour read cremour. p. 104, R. 3. 29. On Alanus see Hist. Litt. xvi. 414. p. 109, R. 3. 32, Art. I. Really a recension of the Chanson de Roland. Extracts were published by M. Paul Meyer, Recueil d'anciens textes, p. 209 sqq. and the whole poem by Prof. Forster of Bonn, p. 117, R. 3. 46. A full account with copious extracts has since been published by M. Paul Meyer in Notices et Extraits. p. 137, R. 4. 8. Cf. Memoires pour servir h Vhistoire de France, Michaud et Poujoulat, XI. 105. p. 192, dele 11. I, 2. The Latin words which end p. 191 refer, as Dr Liebermann says, to the original^ not to this particular copy. See Sweet's edition E. E. T. S., p. xiv. p. 196, R. 5. 32 and 229, R. 7. 14. The various redactions of this chronicle have been classified by M. Paul Meyer in Bulletin de la Soc. des Anc. Textes Fr. 1878. p. 210, R. 5. 42. Dr Liebermann kindly writes: ''The colophon on Popultoun is mentioned in Wright and Halliwell, Rel. Ant. il. 245, who print from the Colbert MS. The MS. (R. 5. 42) belongs to the large class of those Huntingdon codices which interpolate — in the middle of Cnut's history — the long Law- book Instituta Cnuti. This interpolation appears always in those MSS. which contain the legal Appendix (which in R. 5. 42 breaks off in Will. Art.)', cf. Trans. R. Hist. Soc. N. S. vii. (1893), p. 105 last line." p. 217, 1. 23, cy'cy'. Dr Liebermann suggests Chich (S. Osyth's, in Essex). p. 218 (Art. 3). Cf. the tracts edited by Dr Liebermann in Die Heiligen Englands (1889). p. 239, R. 7. 28 (i). See Stevenson's recent edition of Asser. p. 252, R. 9. 8. Dr Liebermann suggests that this is probably copied from the Royal MS. in the British Museum which also has the mistake puerzli for pueri. p. 259, R. 9. 18, 19, No. 5. See Walz, Rhet. Gr. 11. No. 7, by Planudes. No. 8 occurs also in Univ. Libr. Dd. 1154. p. 263, No. 8. Printed by Edelestand du Meril, Poesies du inoyen dge, p. 310. p. 283, R. 13. 74, for Lady read Mrs. ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. XV Vol. II, p. 305, 1. 6, add Haureau, Melanges poetiques d' Hildebert etc. 1882, p. 207. ibid., 1. ro. Anglia terra ferax. By Richard de Bury. See P. Meyer, Debat des Herauts d''armes {Soc, d''anc. textes Fr.), 1877, p. xiv. p. 315, No. 3. Pomum ambre. See Bist. Litt. xxxii. 595. p. 336,- R. 14. 50. This is "Galeni Passionarius." Cf. Peterhouse 231. P* 353' ^* See W. H. Frere, Bibliotheca Musico Liturgica. p. 369, R. 16. 2. On these illustrated Apocalypses see the publication by MM. Delisle and Meyer, V Apocalypse en Fran^ais au xiii^ Siecle {Soc. d'anc. textes Fr.), 1901. Also facsimiles from this MS. in New Palaeo- graphical Society. p. 395, R. 16. 33. Formerly belonged to Bp Moore. A transcript of it made by Joshua Barnes is at Emmanuel College (III. i. 18). p. 398, 1. i4sqq. Noticed by M. Delisle in Journal des Savants. p. 419, R. 17. 14-32 (1. 1), for Weston read Overton. See Sinker, Biogr. Notices of the Librarians of Trin. Coll., Camb. Ant. Soc. 1897, p. 65. Hoyle was Librarian of the College 1803-4. The date of his death is given on his tombstone as 15 Nov. Vol. Ill, p. X, 1. 4, No. 6177. 343. This is now Egerton MS. 889 in the British Museum: purchased of Rodd in 1841, formerly Halliwell's (Bib. Halliwell. No. 66). It was given in 1426 to Peterhouse by John Ilolbrook, Master, and is No. 210 in the Old Catalogue (p. 5 of my edition, prefixed to my Catalogue of the Peterhouse MSS.). ibid.. No. 6179. 345. This is the Cotton MS. Vespasian B. xxvi., which had come into Gale's possession and was returned by him in 1683. p. xxxii, col. i, Deir, for 4o(?) read 7. p. 17, O. T. 17, No. 5 is Galfridus Monumetensis, lib. viii. p. 18, No. 9, Gesta Alexandri, abridged version of Julius Valerius, printed by Zacher. So also O. 7. 7 (p. 350), No. 13. ibid.. No. 13. Plainte d'amour. See Romania xiil. 507, xv. 292, xxix. 4. p. 19, No. 14. Story of the Cross. Romania xv. 326. No. 15. Speculum S. Edmundi (Spec, ecclesie). Ro?nania xxix. 53. p. 24, O. I. 20. A new work begins on f. 24 II avient que le chief. It is a translation of Roger of Parma's (or of Salerno's) Chirurgia : another translation begins on f. 238, and the Latin on f. 297. p. 38, O. I. 34. This is by Albertus Magnus, p. 41, O. 1. 36, 8th line from bottom, for Td^rjs read Pct^Tys. p. 99, O. 2. 14, No. II. I. The heading is wrong : it is really the poem of the Passion of Christ, of which there are many MSS. p. 113, O. 2. 21. The memoranda of the More family were first noticed by W. Aldis Wright M.A., Vice-Master, and published by him in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. (1868) III. 190. p. 114 (III. I). Walter de Biblesworth. See. i?^/. Ant. ll. 78 and list of MSS. in Romania xiil. 500. p. 120, O. 2. 27 (i). "Galeni Passionarius." p. 191, 1. I (O. 3. 9. Photii Lexicon), for Porson read Dobree. p. 193 (O. 3. 10). The following historiated initials occur in the Psalter: Beatus uir. David plays harp. Dove on R. xvi ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. Vol. Ill, Do7ninus illmninatio. He kneels at altar pointing to his eye: Divine Hand above. Dixi custodiam. With staff, he walks among trees. Quid gloriaris. Two men stab each other. Dixit insipiens. Fool stabs himself : he holds club at which a dog jumps up. Salvum me fac. David nude plunged in stormy water. Exult ate. He sits ringing two bells. Cantate. A monk and two surpliced clerks sing at desk. Dixit dominus. Two crowned kings in tunics sit on one seat and converse, p. 197, O. 3. 14 (1. 2 of description). The scribe of the Leicester Codex, as I have recently discovered, was named Emmanuel of Constantinople: he worked for George Neville, Abp of York. See Journal of Theol. Studies, 1904. p. 220, O. 3. 38 (1. 5 of description), yj7r Breuiarium Beniamin. p. 260, O. 4. II (1. 12 of description), quire vi is M^anting : see Duff's Juvenal, 1898. P- 393» 0. 8. 6 (1. 5 of description), /i?;' First 1. read Fuit D. p. 492, O. 9. 35. On this see M. L. Delisle in Journal des Savants, 1903, p. 120. p. 493, 7th line from bottom, /i?;' Hispabensis read Hispalensis. p. 519, O. 10. 31 (1. 2 of description), O. i. 28 read O. 10. 28. N.B. Accounts of the following manuscripts by M. Paul Meyer will be found in his memoir Les manuscrits Fran^ais de Cambridge {Romania XXXII. 1903): B. 14. 39, 40 O. 2. 5 R. 3. 20 O. 2. 14 R. 3- 56 O. 2. 45 O. I. 17 O. 5. 32, O. I. 20 and also references to other old French MSS. in this collection. See also Corrigenda at the beginning of each Volume. Plate I. Plate III. nmm 'ADVERTEREM OCCOTl * ^ mtrocqone- |2»$oclTnor Plate IV. Plate V. Plate VI. Plate VII. ■i ■I ■s Mi z - Plate VIII. iillllllllSlllllllllllllllliiiill^ j^^imx^^ timitrte foxmtie tmmtin mlitn! JbJn^ Plate IX. < vut ccr.- v-*',V- -^^^X >0-^V^' % r;«t-tix 'j.^?^ ttaU m>*^ .in--- ' its: cctnic ^J-i On Srr^C