0.25 x 7.5 inches, ff. 5 + 74 + 28, double columns, the number
of lines varies. Bound in wooden boards. Presented to the Library in
1618 by Thomas Atkins, merchant, Norwich.
Contains: 1. Anonymous comment on the Apocalypse, with a few very rough
pictures, coloured.
2. The Summa of Richard de Wethersett, Chancellor of Cambridge, called
_Qui bene praesunt_.
BIBLIA HIERONYMI, OR BIBLE OF ST. JEROME. XIIIth Century.
Vellum, 9 2/10 x 7 1/10 inches, double columns of 52-53 lines. The
illuminated initial letters are unfinished. Brown leather binding.
Presented to the Library in 1614 by Bassingbourne Throckmorton.
Contains: Genesis--2 Chron. (imperfect), Proverbs--Ecclus. Then the
prologue to Wisdom and a small piece of the text of Wisdom repeated.
Matthew, 1 leaf of Mark. Philippians, Col. 1, 2 Thess. _Laodiceans_
(apocryphal) 1, 2 Tim. Tit. Phil. Heb. Apoc.
MEDICA. XIIIth century.
Vellum, 7.5 x 5.5 inches, ff. 62, double columns of 40 lines, in a small
clear hand which Dr. James thinks may be South French. Initials in green
and red and blue. There is no binding; the first page is much soiled.
Contains thirteen items: medical tracts, list of materia medica, etc.
MANUALE. XVth century.
Vellum, 9 7/8 x 7.25 inches, ff. 1 + 62 + 1, double columns of 27 lines,
early XVth century, well written.
Original binding, white skin with circuit edge over wooden boards
bevelled at the edges; remains of two strap and pin fastenings.
On the fly-leaf: John Kirkpatrick, Sept. 12, 1704. An old pressmark: 4to
K 147. An illegible (not early) note of price.
The covers are lined with four half-leaves of a folio XVth century Missal
in double columns, with parts of the Offices for St. Thomas of Canterbury
and Sundays after Epiphany. At the end are bound in 7 smaller leaves of
paper on which Kirkpatrick (?) has carefully facsimiled alphabets and
abbreviations, and arranged the latter in alphabetical order.
Contents: The occasional offices to be used by a priest, according to
Sarum use. The first page has a rather rough border in gold, red, and
blue, and an initial of the same. Other like initials head the principal
offices.
BIBLE: GENESIS TO PSALMS. WYCLIFFE'S TRANSLATION. XVth century.
Vellum, 17 2/10 x 12 inches, ff. 208 + 1, double columns of 59 lines.
Original sides of brown leather have been laid down on modern binding;
ornamented in blind with rectangular panel formed by two roll sta
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