Extracts from undated letters and Latin verses by Richard James

Title

Extracts from undated letters and Latin verses by Richard James

Shelfmark

MS. James 13

Summary

1. (p. 1) Extracts from undated letters without arrangement written by Richard James to his friends and relatives, as named below (being chiefly members of his own college of Corpus Christi):

Dr. Sebastian Benfield

Thomas Jackson

Nicholas Baylie

Robert Diot

His cousin John Fleming

Matthew Colmar

Bryan Twine

Henry Parry

Joseph Aisgill

John Seller

Anthony White

His cousin Dr. Francis James

His uncle Edward James

Amidaeus Benfield

Thomas Andrews

John Minne

John Streeting

William Neville

See Iter Lancastrense, edited by the rev. William Corser for the Chetham Society (1845), pp. lxvii-lxxiii. Table of contents (p. v) by (?) William Smith of University college.

2. (p. 62) Similar extracts, unaddressed, being chiefly:

P. 62. comments upon texts in the Bible and fathers followed by verses 'in mortem optimi avunculi doctoris Edwardi James nepotis carmen funebre'

Beg. 'Visceribus fecere tuis quid saxa petrarum' (p. 130)

P. 138. an epitaph on Thomas Andrews, M.A., 'cum quo electus fui in societatem C.C.C.'

P. 145. an academical exercise by James as regent master, 'Oratio habita pro more cum primum in Academia inciperem moderari in Augustinensibus' (cp. Clark, Wood's Life and Times, iv. 143)

Followed at p. 151 by a letter to dr. R. Corbet

P. 153. theological notes and comments upon the Fathers

P. 195. a letter to mr. Anthony White

3:

P. 210. Latin verses by Richard James of which the principal are addressed to mr. Thomas Jackson, hence printed in Iter Lanc., p. lxviii, 'ad fratrem suum Guillelmum Gardinerum cum ei dono mitteret Mornaeum de veritate Christianae religionis' (p. 217) and 'in sortes amicarum die Valentini A.D. 1618 in civitate Moscua' (p. 236)

P. 237. an English poem, 'ad capitaneum Davidem Gilbertum Scotum, cum una navigaremus in Dwina flumine', beg. 'Good worthy captaine if I weare so fraught', with other travel notes (1618-19) of James's Russian journey

P. 251. an epitaph upon dr. John Fleming 'qui obit ex consumptione cordis', hence printed in Iter Lanc., p. lxx, followed by English lines 'To mr. Daniel Clutterbooke uppon occasion, keepinge himself a ship boarde in the haven of Archangell in Russia in a Hamborow ship'

P. 256. the degree exercise of Richard James headed 'oppositio in schola theologica, responsore magistro Fortune Cambrobryt' and lines addressed 'ad amicum suum Robertum Tailerum qui nobis miserit picturam Roberti hominis turpissimi'

Date

Written partly in 1618-1619, by Richard James

Language

Latin

English

Physical facet

On paper

Physical extent

318 pages