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Latin poems chiefly of the Goliardic type composed in the 12th and 13th centuries. The longer ones are: — 15th century, middle; English

MS. Bodl. 496

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Title

Latin poems chiefly of the Goliardic type composed in the 12th and 13th centuries. The longer ones are: — 15th century, middle; English

Augustine (?) — 15th century, second half

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 496

Place of origin

English

Date

15th century, second half

15th century, middle

Language

Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin

Contents

MS. Bodl. 496 – Part 1
1. (fol. 25) Quilichinus de Spoleto Historia Alexandri magni
2. (fol. 137) Apocalypsis Goliae
3. (fol. 146) Nigel Witeker Speculum stultorum
4. (fol. 192v) Walter the Englishman Fabulae
5. (fol. 207) Roger of Caen (?) De professione monachorum
6. 6 (fol. 216) Hymns
7. (fol. 225) John Stone (d. 1434–5) Metrificatio super uersus Ricardi Flemyng
8. (fol. 13, etc.) Poems
Incipit: Ad se nos dominus
Incipit: Cum essem parvulus
Incipit: Cum silens sedeo
Incipit: Cum tenerent
Incipit: Ex se pro meritis
Incipit: Heu mea peccatis
Incipit: Lector, ave, referam
Incipit: Nota recepta tibi
Incipit: Ordo sacerdotum
Incipit: O Scacci camera
Incipit: O tunc Legistae
Incipit: Quod das, da laete
Incipit: Sit Deo gloria
Incipit: Spinas in capite
Incipit: Surge miser
Incipit: Tempora si fuerint
Incipit: Tempus acceptabile
Incipit: Tot vidi gentes
9. (fol. 12, etc.) Among the Latin miscellanea are:
(*fol. 12), a note on English measures of length and surface
Incipit: In quacunque domo
Incipit: En ego qui totum
(fol. 215v) an arithmetical puzzle in verse about so arranging a mixed crew of thirty Christians and pagans, that when every tenth man was thrown overboard all the pagans perished first
(fol. 224v) 'Acta regis Henrici quinti', a short chronology, 1412–22
Incipit: Siccum et frigidum
(fol. 241v) Excerpts from 'Galfridus Anglicus in Papa stupor mundi', i.e. from the Poetria nova of Galfridus de Vino Salvo
Incipit: Plaude puella pia pariendo pudica Maria
MS. Bodl. 496 – Part 2
1. (fol. 255) Augustine (?) Commentary on Psalms xxv-xxxii

Physical extent

'349' leaves (really 283 leaves for fols. 24, 73–136 are wanting)

Acquisition

Presented by sir George More in 1604.

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People associated with this object

  • Walter, of England, Archbishop of Palermo, active 1177

  • Stone, John, monk of Sheen (d. 1434/5)

  • Graunt, T., 15th century

  • Matthew, John, O.S.B., monk of Glastonbury, 15th cent.

  • Roger of Caen, O.S.B. (d. 1095)

  • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

  • Wireker, Nigellus, approximately 1130-approximately 1200

  • Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, active 1200

  • More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632

  • Quilichino, da Spoleto, active 1236

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