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CLARE COLLEGE LIBRARY.
45
It is headed by a miniature of excellent style. The ground on
L. is red, on R. blue. On L. stands a speaker in cap, blue
cloak, and light red robe. On R. a group of six: a seated
man, two men standing, two women and a young girl. The
men all wear long outer cloaks with sleeves which are empty.
The poem ends on f. 22 a :
Cest doctrinal deit hum escriure e retenir
Kar de bons enseignemenz oir e detenir
Put hum ceu chose aprendre. dunt u» p«rra ioir.
Most of f. 22 a and all 22 b and 23 are blank.
5. Galfridi Monumetensis Historia Britonum . . . . f. 24
(See Ward’s Catalogue, l.c. p. 203.)
Cum mecum multa et de multis sepius animo reuoluens.
—interno gratulatur affectu.
Britannia insularum optima ....... 24
Eneas post troianum bellum, etc. . . . . . 24 b
The initial to the prologue represents a king with crown and
sceptre in red mantle over blue, seated full face. It is of
excellent style. On the lower margin of f. 36 a is a most
excellent large drawing in outline. It represents Con-
uuenna, the mother of Belinus and Brennius, greeting the
latter when he had come to fight his brother. On the
extreme L. is Brennius’s horse: shield, sword, and crowned
helmet on the ground. Then Brennius in mail and surcoat
embraced by his mother (who is crowned), while with one
arm she bares her breast. Belinus in mail advances from R.:
shield, sword and crowned helmet lie behind him. On R. he
is seen again in helmet on horseback, another horseman by him.
The lower margin of f. 53, which probably had a picture, has
been cut off.
On 56 b are the prologues to the Prophecies of Merlin.
The Prophecies begin on f. 57.
Ends on f. 75/: : in latinum transferee curaui.
Then follows a note on the duration of the reigns of English
kings from Alfred to Henry III., whose length of reign is
left blank.
Then a couplet (xiv, xv):
Vxores trine domui sunt causa ruine
Tollantur bine sunt ad mala mox resupine.
An erased couplet follows.
On the last flyleaf are two rough late scribbles in English: no
proper names occur.
28. Gelasius Cyzicenus. Kk. 5. 4 ?
Paper, 16J x u|, ff. 2 + 52, 33 lines to a page. Cent, xvi, very-
well written, in a large sloping hand.
CLARE COLLEGE LIBRARY.
45
It is headed by a miniature of excellent style. The ground on
L. is red, on R. blue. On L. stands a speaker in cap, blue
cloak, and light red robe. On R. a group of six: a seated
man, two men standing, two women and a young girl. The
men all wear long outer cloaks with sleeves which are empty.
The poem ends on f. 22 a :
Cest doctrinal deit hum escriure e retenir
Kar de bons enseignemenz oir e detenir
Put hum ceu chose aprendre. dunt u» p«rra ioir.
Most of f. 22 a and all 22 b and 23 are blank.
5. Galfridi Monumetensis Historia Britonum . . . . f. 24
(See Ward’s Catalogue, l.c. p. 203.)
Cum mecum multa et de multis sepius animo reuoluens.
—interno gratulatur affectu.
Britannia insularum optima ....... 24
Eneas post troianum bellum, etc. . . . . . 24 b
The initial to the prologue represents a king with crown and
sceptre in red mantle over blue, seated full face. It is of
excellent style. On the lower margin of f. 36 a is a most
excellent large drawing in outline. It represents Con-
uuenna, the mother of Belinus and Brennius, greeting the
latter when he had come to fight his brother. On the
extreme L. is Brennius’s horse: shield, sword, and crowned
helmet on the ground. Then Brennius in mail and surcoat
embraced by his mother (who is crowned), while with one
arm she bares her breast. Belinus in mail advances from R.:
shield, sword and crowned helmet lie behind him. On R. he
is seen again in helmet on horseback, another horseman by him.
The lower margin of f. 53, which probably had a picture, has
been cut off.
On 56 b are the prologues to the Prophecies of Merlin.
The Prophecies begin on f. 57.
Ends on f. 75/: : in latinum transferee curaui.
Then follows a note on the duration of the reigns of English
kings from Alfred to Henry III., whose length of reign is
left blank.
Then a couplet (xiv, xv):
Vxores trine domui sunt causa ruine
Tollantur bine sunt ad mala mox resupine.
An erased couplet follows.
On the last flyleaf are two rough late scribbles in English: no
proper names occur.
28. Gelasius Cyzicenus. Kk. 5. 4 ?
Paper, 16J x u|, ff. 2 + 52, 33 lines to a page. Cent, xvi, very-
well written, in a large sloping hand.