MS. Auct. F. 5. 23
Summary Catalogue no.: 2674
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2 cols.
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With illuminated or coloured capitals, etc.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
14th and 15th cent. lists of contents are at fols. 217 and vi v. The 14th cent. list of contents on fol. 217 shows that some leaves are missing after fol. 6, containing 'Tractatus de vicijs barbarismi & solocismi & figuris secundum Donatum. Item tractatus de orthographia & incipit Quoniam grammatice. Item tractatus de accentu & incipit Post hec de accentu'. Three leaves are also missing after fol. 109 containing 'Tractatus de coloribus pictorum & eorum factura ... & incipit viride terestre'.
Coventry, Warwickshire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin: evidence of contents, see arts. 2, 3, 5.
'Rychard Byrd' is scribbled on foll. 19v, 20r, 23r, (late 15th cent.).
This appears to be the only volume corresponding to the 'Scripta diuersa philosophica et medica vno volumine 4to' given by sir George More in 1604: there are some indications however that the volume was not referenced till nearly 1620.
MS. Auct. F. 5. 23 – Part 1
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Some Latin philosophical notes are at foll. 5v, 6v.
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MS. Auct. F. 5. 23 – Part 2
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Language(s): Latin
Some satirical verses follow, apparently of about A.D. 1300.
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Penwork.
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Provenance
On fol. 86 is 'ex dono fratris Roberti Euerdone', 15th cent.
MS. Auct. F. 5. 23 – Part 3
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The Latin translation of Philippus Tripolitanus, with various prologues, as in S.C. 2136 and 2140.
At the foot of the page is an erased inscription 'Istum librum concessit [?] huic ecclesie frater Robertus Euerdone', see above.
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MS. Auct. F. 5. 23 – Part 4
Contents
Added, 14th century.
Added, 14th century.
Some Latin verses against lawyers, etc.
Added, 14th century.
With a list of chapters preceding each book.
In 39 chapters.
Apparently the interpolated version, as in MS. Rawl. G. 62: cf. K. W. Gransden, 'The Interpolated Text of the Vitruvian Epitome', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 20, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Dec., 1957), 370-372
Medical description of a 'propsiletrum' against noxious humours
With a list of about 32 volumes. A similar list is printed from MS. Digby 104, fol. 171, in Hearne's History of Glastonbury (Oxford, 1722) at p. 291.
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MS. Auct. F. 5. 23 – Part 5
Contents
Language(s): Latin
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MS. Auct. F. 5. 23 – Part 6
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Examples of different kinds of mediaeval metres, rhyming and other; added, 14th century, same hand as fol. 110v.
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MS. Auct. F. 5. 23 – Part 7
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Ends in the 17th chapter of the 4th part with the words 'alius expanditur circa ipsum'.
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MS. Auct. F. 5. 23 – Part 8
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Some calculations about the price of corn, and baking bread, 1267 (?).
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MS. Auct. F. 5. 23, endleaves (fols. ii, vii, 215-218)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
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MS. Auct. F. 5. 23, endleaves (fols. v-vi)
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Language(s): Latin
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-01: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.