MS. Douce 101
Summary Catalogue no.: 21675
Contents
A selection of fifty tales from the Gesta Romanorum, with moralizations
Breaks off abruptly in chapter 50 with the words 'Falco, cum hoc vidisset, cum suis alis magnum sonitum fecit, ut leporarium a sompno excitaret'
A selection of twenty-one fables
In the second fable an English proverb is introduced: 'quia dicitur in communi proverbio, Sylden ys the later Prophete the better'; cf. fol. 84
Ends the last fable about a sinner asking a just man to pray to God for him with 'et odii et aliquem momaris'
Physical Description
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Henry Spelman (?): 'There is reason for supposing that this MS... . belonged to Sir Henry . Spelman', Douce's note
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09-21: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897) and other printed sources