| Description | Miscellaneous. A quarto book of 87 vellum leaves, containing the following treatises:-
(1.) Summa quae dicitur pars oculi sacerdotum; Dextra oculi sacerdotum; Sinistra pars oculi sacerdotum.
(2.) Tractatus de septem sacramentis ecclesiae, de septem virtutibus, septem peccatis mortalibus, et decem praeceptis.
(3.) Incipiunt institutiones beati Gregorii quo modo venerandi sunt sancti.
At the end is a list of the greater festivals of the Church according to an ordinance of Simon Archbishop of Canterbury, with the consent of all his suffragans. Also the following memorandum of Henry Vth's expedition to France in 1415: "Rex cum magna multitudine navium a port'hantonie usque normaniam adiit et applicuit in port' qui vocatur seyne in vigilia assumptionis et ibi obsedebat villam que vocatur hardfelte"(?) ... On the last leaf is the following note, "Iste liber constat Johanni Germyn"; and "Johanne Richardson dat' iste mihi erat liber per Jack' (sic) xo die decemb Ao gratie ad orandum pro anima Johannis Germyn 1500".
Described in Kerr, Medieval Manuscripts, pp279-80. Written in England. |