MS. Auct. F. 5. 6
Summary Catalogue no.: 2195
Schoolbook of Latin verse; England, late 13th century
Contents
Ends, omitting the 12 usual last lines, 'Roboret etatem tribuatque tibi bonitatem'.
After this come the names of Cato and Theodolus in the 15th cent. list of contents on fol. iv r: so that some leaves have probably been lost at this point.
Imperfect at beginning, having lost the first nine fables and eight lines of the 10th: beg. 'Ille sagax tantis'.
With many glosses.
Perhaps by Alexander Neckham: Betty Nye Quinn in Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum 2: 383–408 (no. 2), this ms. at 397.
Here without title or author's name.
Imperfect at end, ending with 'pugiles pro nomine Christi', some leaves being lost.
With many glosses.
T. Hunt, Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England I (1991) 74 n. 96 cites glosses in Anglo-Norman and refers to others in English.
Physical Description
Layout
Art. 8 in 2 cols.
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
Binding
17th century.
Accompanying Material
Fols. ii, 160 are the greater part of a grant from Thomas Bodley (afterwards sir Thomas) of London to Lawrence Bodley of an annuity from his messuage at Chart, next Sutton Valence in Kent, 1598, in English. This was in the binding, no doubt, which is of the 17th cent.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The name of 'magister ... M. Sayndors' (Saunders?) seems to occur among some scribbling on fol. iv, as an owner in the 16th cent.
The volume seems to have been acquired between 1613 and 1620.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-01-15: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.