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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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