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CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
[200
4. In another hand, single leaves.
Letter of Zano of Castiglione, Bp of Bayeux 1432-59, to Duke
Humphrey, on the lamentable state of Normandy . . 64
Humfredo duci Gloucestr. Non sum nescius—in annalibus
nostris legitis.
Printed from MS. 211 in Bekynlon s Correspondence (Rolls,
ed. Williams), II. 289.
On 65 <5are only scribbles.
II. Cent, x, in a very beautiful black minuscule, 32 lines to a
page.
f. 66 a blank: on 66 b (xiv): cxxx al(marioli) ca(nonicorum),
the Waltham Abbey pressmark. Also some scribbled music.
On 67 (xiv) : Aldelmus de virginitate dor(mitorii) pri(oris) and
scribbles of words (gaballus, etc.) : 67 b, 6% a blank.
On 68 b at top (xi) : liber de conceptu uirginali.
5. Aldhelmus de virginitate : the prose treatise.
The prologue has a beautiful outline initial with convolutions
and heads of beasts: first line in green capitals, second
in red.
Reuerentissimis Christi virginibus
—prosperitatis salutem.
The prologue is followed by the well-known drawing of
Aidhelm seated, offering his book to the foremost of a group
of nine nuns, the last of whom (on 7?.) holds another book.
This is his prose treatise, which they already have : he now
gives them the book in verse. Such is Ehwald’s interpreta-
tion ; if it is correct, this picture, as he says, must have been
designed for a copy of the versified treatise. There is another,
showing our book in MS. Bodl. 577.
The drawing is reproduced as a frontispiece to Todd’s Catalogue
and also by Ehwald. See also Pal. Soc. ser. 11. pl. 191. The
MS. Bodl. 577 (27645) containing De Virginitate and De
Octo Vitiis might possibly be a sister volume or first part of
this. It contains two drawings of similar character but is a
smaller book (8f x 6).
f. 69 a. Title page with broad square frame consisting of four
angle panels and four side panels divided by strong black
lines and filled with ornament in outline. The angle panels
have, conventional foliage, the others plaited work. The
initial is in admirable outline. The text in alternate lines of
green and red capitals.
lamdudum/ad pontificale/...—allata,
The first line of each section of text is in green capitals and the
initial in fine black outline. These form a most remarkable
series.
Text ends ma: et caelestis patriae participes.
in b—113 (formerly stuck to the binding) blank.
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
[200
4. In another hand, single leaves.
Letter of Zano of Castiglione, Bp of Bayeux 1432-59, to Duke
Humphrey, on the lamentable state of Normandy . . 64
Humfredo duci Gloucestr. Non sum nescius—in annalibus
nostris legitis.
Printed from MS. 211 in Bekynlon s Correspondence (Rolls,
ed. Williams), II. 289.
On 65 <5are only scribbles.
II. Cent, x, in a very beautiful black minuscule, 32 lines to a
page.
f. 66 a blank: on 66 b (xiv): cxxx al(marioli) ca(nonicorum),
the Waltham Abbey pressmark. Also some scribbled music.
On 67 (xiv) : Aldelmus de virginitate dor(mitorii) pri(oris) and
scribbles of words (gaballus, etc.) : 67 b, 6% a blank.
On 68 b at top (xi) : liber de conceptu uirginali.
5. Aldhelmus de virginitate : the prose treatise.
The prologue has a beautiful outline initial with convolutions
and heads of beasts: first line in green capitals, second
in red.
Reuerentissimis Christi virginibus
—prosperitatis salutem.
The prologue is followed by the well-known drawing of
Aidhelm seated, offering his book to the foremost of a group
of nine nuns, the last of whom (on 7?.) holds another book.
This is his prose treatise, which they already have : he now
gives them the book in verse. Such is Ehwald’s interpreta-
tion ; if it is correct, this picture, as he says, must have been
designed for a copy of the versified treatise. There is another,
showing our book in MS. Bodl. 577.
The drawing is reproduced as a frontispiece to Todd’s Catalogue
and also by Ehwald. See also Pal. Soc. ser. 11. pl. 191. The
MS. Bodl. 577 (27645) containing De Virginitate and De
Octo Vitiis might possibly be a sister volume or first part of
this. It contains two drawings of similar character but is a
smaller book (8f x 6).
f. 69 a. Title page with broad square frame consisting of four
angle panels and four side panels divided by strong black
lines and filled with ornament in outline. The angle panels
have, conventional foliage, the others plaited work. The
initial is in admirable outline. The text in alternate lines of
green and red capitals.
lamdudum/ad pontificale/...—allata,
The first line of each section of text is in green capitals and the
initial in fine black outline. These form a most remarkable
series.
Text ends ma: et caelestis patriae participes.
in b—113 (formerly stuck to the binding) blank.