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A SELECTION OF
Messrs. Methuen’s
PUBLICATIONS
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This Catalogue contains only a selection of the more important books published by Messrs. Methuen. A complete and illustrated catalogue of their publications may be obtained on application.
Adeney (W. F.), M.A. See Bennett (W.H.).
Baring-Gould (S.). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Illustrated. Second Edition. Wide Royal 8vo. 10s. 6d.
A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG: English Folk Songs with their Traditional Melodies. Collected and arranged by S. Baring-Gould and H. F. Sheppard. Demy 4to. 6s.
Bartholomew (J. G.), F.R.S.E. See Robertson (C. G.).
Bellot (H. H. L.), M.A. See Jones (L. A. A).
Binyon (Laurence). See Blake (William).
Bulley (Miss). See Dilke (Lady).
* Condamine (Robert de la). THE UPPER GARDEN. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. net.
Cooper (C. S.), F.R.H.S. See Westell (W. P.)
Vol. I. 1802-1821.
Vol. II. 1822-1825.
Vol. III. 1826-1830.
Vol. IV. 1830-1831.
Vol. V. 1831-1832.
Vol. VI. 1832-1833.
Edmonds (Major J. E.), R.E.; D. A. Q. M. G. See Wood (W. Birkbeck).
See also Hadfield, R.A.
Vol. I.
—South of the Thames.
Vol. II.—North and South Wales and West Midlands.
THE OPEN ROAD: A Little Book for Wayfarers. Seventeenth Edition. Fcp. 8vo. 5s.; India Paper, 7s. 6d.
Maitland (F. W.), M.A., LL.D. ROMAN CANON LAW IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Royal 8vo. 7s. 6d.
Morton (A. Anderson). See Brodrick (M.).
Vol. I. From the Earliest Kings to XVIth Dynasty. Sixth Edition.
Vol. II. The XVIIth and XVIIIth Dynasties. Fourth Edition.
Vol. III. XIXth to XXXth Dynasties.
Vol. IV. Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty. J. P. Mahaffy, Litt.D.
Vol. V. Egypt under Roman Rule. J. G. Milne, M.A.
Vol. VI. Egypt in the Middle Ages. Stanley Lane-Poole, M.A.
Raven-Hill (L.). See Llewellyn (Owen).
Roberts (M. E.). See Channer (C.C.).
Shakespeare (William).
Folios 2, 3 and 4 are ready.
Sime (John). See Little Books on Art.
THE LIFE OF R. L. STEVENSON. See Balfour (G.).
See also Oxford Biographies.
Vol. I.—The Ring of the Nibelung. Third Edition.
Vol. III.—Tristan and Isolde.
Watt (Francis). See Henderson (T. F.).
Whibley (C.). See Henley (W. E.).
Whitley (Miss). See Dilke (Lady).
i. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and the Portrait of Mr. W. H. ii. The Duchess of Padua. iii. Poems. iv. Lady Windermere’s Fan. v. A Woman of No Importance. vi. An Ideal Husband. vii. The Importance of being Earnest. viii. A House of Pomegranates. ix. Intentions. x. De Profundis and Prison Letters. xi. Essays. xii. Salomé, A Florentine Tragedy, and La Sainte Courtisane.
Wyatt (Kate M.). See Gloag (M. R.).
Young (Filson). See The Complete Series.
Part II.—A Selection of Series.
Ancient Cities.
General Editor, B. C. A. WINDLE, D.Sc., F.R.S.
With Illustrations by E. H. New, and other Artists.
Bristol. By Alfred Harvey, M.B.
Canterbury. By J. C. Cox, LL.D., F.S.A.
Chester. By B. C. A. Windle. D.Sc., F.R.S.
Dublin. By S. A. O. Fitzpatrick.
Edinburgh. By M. G. Williamson, M.A.
Lincoln. By E. Mansel Sympson, M.A.
Shrewsbury. By T. Auden, M.A., F.S.A.
Wells and Glastonbury. By T. S. Holmes.
The main features of these Guides are (1) a handy and charming form; (2) illustrations from photographs and by well-known artists; (3) good plans and maps; (4) an adequate but compact presentation of everything that is interesting in the natural features, history, archæology, and architecture of the town or district treated.
Cambridge and its Colleges. A. H. Thompson. Third Edition, Revised.
English Lakes, The. F. G. Brabant.
Isle of Wight, The. G. Clinch.
Malvern Country, The. B. C. A. Windle.
North Wales. A. T. Story.
Oxford and its Colleges. J. Wells. Ninth Edition.
Shakespeare’s Country. B. C. A. Windle. Third Edition.
St. Paul’s Cathedral. G. Clinch.
Westminster Abbey. G. E. Troutbeck. Second Edition.
Buckinghamshire. E. S. Roscoe.
Cheshire. W. M. Gallichan.
Cornwall. A. L. Salmon.
Derbyshire. J. C. Cox.
Devon. S. Baring-Gould. Second Edition.
Dorset. F. R. Heath. Second Edition.
Essex. J. C. Cox.
Hampshire. J. C. Cox.
Hertfordshire. H. W. Tompkins.
Kent. G. Clinch.
Kerry. C. P. Crane.
Middlesex. J. B. Firth.
Monmouthshire. G. W. Wade and J. H. Wade.
Norfolk. W. A. Dutt. Second Edition, Revised.
Northamptonshire. W. Dry.
*Northumberland. J. E. Morris.
Nottinghamshire. L. Guilford.
Oxfordshire. F. G. Brabant.
Somerset. G. W. and J. H. Wade.
*Staffordshire. C. E. Masefield.
Suffolk. W. A. Dutt.
Surrey. F. A. H. Lambert.
Sussex. F. G. Brabant. Third Edition.
*Wiltshire. F. R. Heath.
Yorkshire, The East Riding. J. E. Morris.
Yorkshire, The North Riding. J. E. Morris.
Brittany. S. Baring-Gould.
Normandy. C. Scudamore.
Rome. C. G. Ellaby.
Sicily. F. H. Jackson.
The Little Library.
With Introductions, Notes, and Photogravure Frontispieces.
Anon. A LITTLE BOOK OF ENGLISH LYRICS. Second Edition.
Austen (Jane). PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Two Volumes.
NORTHANGER ABBEY.
Bacon (Francis). THE ESSAYS OF LORD BACON.
Barham (R. H.). THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. Two Volumes.
Barnet (Mrs. P. A.). A LITTLE BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE.
Beckford (William). THE HISTORY OF THE CALIPH VATHEK.
Blake (William). SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM BLAKE.
Borrow (George). LAVENGRO. Two Volumes.
THE ROMANY RYE.
Browning (Robert). SELECTIONS FROM THE EARLY POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING.
Canning (George). SELECTIONS FROM THE ANTI-JACOBIN: with George Canning’s additional Poems.
Cowley (Abraham). THE ESSAYS OF ABRAHAM COWLEY.
Crabbe (George). SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE CRABBE.
Craik (Mrs.). JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. Two Volumes.
Crashaw (Richard). THE ENGLISH POEMS OF RICHARD CRASHAW.
Dante (Alighieri). THE INFERNO OF DANTE. Translated by H. F. Cary.
THE PURGATORIO OF DANTE. Translated by H. F. Cary.
THE PARADISO OF DANTE. Translated by H. F. Cary.
Darley (George). SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF GEORGE DARLEY.
Deane (A. C.). A LITTLE BOOK OF LIGHT VERSE.
Dickens (Charles). CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Two Volumes.
Ferrier (Susan). MARRIAGE. Two Volumes.
THE INHERITANCE. Two Volumes.
Gaskell (Mrs.). CRANFORD.
Hawthorne (Nathaniel). THE SCARLET LETTER.
Henderson (T. F.). A LITTLE BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE.
Keats (John). POEMS.
Kinglake (A. W.). EOTHEN. Second Edition.
Lamb (Charles). ELIA, AND THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA.
Locker (F.). LONDON LYRICS.
Longfellow (H. W.). SELECTIONS FROM LONGFELLOW.
Marvell (Andrew). THE POEMS OF ANDREW MARVELL.
Milton (John). THE MINOR POEMS OF JOHN MILTON.
Moir (D. M.). MANSIE WAUCH.
Nichols (J. B. B.). A LITTLE BOOK OF ENGLISH SONNETS.
Rochefoucauld (La). THE MAXIMS OF LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
Smith (Horace and James). REJECTED ADDRESSES.
Sterne (Laurence). A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY.
Tennyson (Alfred, Lord). THE EARLY POEMS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.
IN MEMORIAM.
THE PRINCESS.
MAUD.
Thackeray (W. M.). VANITY FAIR. Three Volumes.
PENDENNIS. Three Volumes.
ESMOND.
CHRISTMAS BOOKS.
Vaughan (Henry). THE POEMS OF HENRY VAUGHAN.
Walton (Izaak). THE COMPLEAT ANGLER.
Waterhouse (Elizabeth). A LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH. Thirteenth Edition.
Wordsworth (W.). SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH.
Wordsworth (W.) and Coleridge (S. T.). LYRICAL BALLADS.
The Little Quarto Shakespeare.
Edited by W. J. CRAIG. With Introductions and Notes.
Miniature Library.
Gilt top.
The New Library of Medicine.
Drugs and the Drug Habit. By H. Sainsbury.
The New Library of Music.
Hugo Wolf. By Ernest Newman. Illustrated.
Handel. By R. A. Streatfeild. Illustrated. Second Edition.
Oxford Biographies.
Dante Alighieri. By Paget Tonybee, M.A., D. Litt. Third Edition.
Girolamo Savonarola. By E. L. S. Horsburgh, M.A. Second Edition.
John Howard. By E. C. S. Gibson, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester.
Alfred Tennyson. By A. C. Benson, M.A. Second Edition.
Sir Walter Raleigh. By I. A. Taylor.
Erasmus. By E. F. H. Capey.
The Young Pretender. By C. S. Terry.
Robert Burns. By T. F. Henderson.
Chatham. By A. S. M’Dowall.
Francis of Assisi. By Anna M. Stoddart.
Canning. By W. Alison Phillips.
Beaconsfield. By Walter Sichel.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe. By H. G. Atkins.
François Fenelon. By Viscount St. Cyres.
Romantic History.
A series of attractive volumes in which the periods and personalities selected are such as afford romantic human interest, in addition to their historical importance.
Handbooks of Theology.
The Westminster Commentaries.
General Editor, WALTER LOCK, D.D., Warden of Keble College.
Dean Ireland’s Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford.
Part III.—A Selection of Works of Fiction
Cotes (Mrs. Everard). See Duncan (Sara Jeannette).
Duncan (Sara Jeannette) (Mrs. Everard Cotes).
Notes
36 The following, among others, are still on the Continent: Gospels of Willibrord (Bibl. Nat. Lat. 9389, 739), Gospel of St. John (Cod. 60 St. Gall c. 750-800); Book of Fragments (No. 1395, St. Gall, c. 750-800); The Golden Gospels (Royal library, Stockholm, 871); Gospels of St. Arnoul, Metz (Nuremberg Museum, 7th c.).—Cp. Maclean, 207-8; Hyde, 267.
37 Adamnan, 365n.
38 Hyde, 220; Stokes (M.), 10, “Connachtach, an Abbot of Iona who died in 802, is called in the Irish annals ‘a scribe most choice.’”—Trenholme, Iona, 32.
39 Tech-screptra; domus scripturarum.
40 Leabhar coimedach. Adamnan, 359, note m.
42 At vero hoc audiens Colcius tempus et horam in tabula describens.—Adamnan, 66. Columba is said to have blessed one hundred pólaires or tablets (Leabhar Breac, fo. 16-60; Stokes (M.), 51). The boy Benen, who followed Patrick, bore tablets on his back (folaire, corrupt for pólaire).—Stokes (W.), T. L., 47. Patrick gave to Fiacc a case containing a tablet. Ib. 344. An example of a waxed tablet, with a case for it, is in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. The case is a wooden cover, divided into hollowed-out compartments for holding the styles. This specimen dates from the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Slates and pencils were also in use for temporary purposes.—Joyce, i. 483.
43 See Thompson, 236, where Irish calligraphy is fully dealt with; Camb. Lit., i. 13.
45 Stokes (W.), T. L., 75. The terms used for satchels are sacculi (Lat.), and tiag, or tiag liubhair or teig liubair (Ir.). There has been some confusion between pólaire and tiag, the former being regarded as a leather case for a single book, the latter a satchel for several books. This distinction is made in connection with the ancient Irish life of Columba, which is therefore made to read that the saint used to make cases and satchels for books (pólaire ocus tiaga), v. Adamnan, 115. Cf. Petrie, Round Towers, 336-7. But the late Dr. Whitley Stokes makes pólaire or pōlire, or the corruption folaire, derive from pugillares = writing tablets.—Stokes (W.), T. L., cliii. and 655. This interpretation of the word gives us the much more likely reading that Columba made tablets, and satchels for books.
48 Mr. Allen, in his admirable volume on Celtic Art, p. 208, in this series, says cumdachs were peculiar to Ireland. But they were made and used elsewhere, and were variously known as capsae, librorum coopertoria (e.g.... librorumque coopertoria; quædam horum nuda, quædam vero alia auro atque argento gemmisque pretiosis circumtecta.—Acta SS., Aug. iii. 659c), and thecae. Some of these cases were no doubt as beautifully decorated as the Irish cumdachs. William of Malmesbury asserts that twenty pounds and sixty marks of gold were used to make the coopertoria librorum Evangelii for King Ina’s chapel. At the Abbey of St. Riquier was an “Evangelium auro Scriptum unum, cum capsa argentea gemmis et lapidibus fabricata. Aliae capsae evangeliorum duae ex auro et argento paratae.”—Maitland, 212. In 1295 St. Paul’s Cathedral possessed a copy of the Gospels in a case (capsa) adorned with gilding and relics.—Putnam, i. 105-6.
53 Acta SS. Ap., iii. 581c.
56 Hist. mon. S. Augustini, Cant., 96-99, “Et haec sunt primitiae librorum totius ecclesiae Anglicanae,” 99.
60 B. M. Reg. I. E. vi. may be a part of the Gregorian Bible, or the second copy of the Gospels mentioned above, if this second copy is not Corpus Christi, Camb. 286. Corpus C. 286 is a seventh century book, certainly from St. Augustine’s; it was probably brought to England in the time of Theodore, and though it may be one of the books referred to above, is, therefore, not Augustinian. The Psalter bearing the silver images is “most likely” Cott. Vesp. A. 1, an eighth century manuscript; it is, therefore, not Augustinian, although it may be a copy of the original Psalter given by Gregory.—James, lxvi.
61 Known as Codex E, or the Laudian Acts (Laud. Gr. 35). Bede refers to a Greek manuscript of the Acts in his Retractationes; possibly this is the actual copy. The last page of the book bears the signature “Theodore”; did Archbishop Theodore bring the volume to England? “It is at least safe to say that the presence of such a book in England in Bede’s time can hardly be entirely independent of the influence of Theodore or of Abbot Hadrian.”—James (M. R.), xxiii.
62 H. E., iv. 2, tr. Sellar.
65 This copy was still at Malmesbury in the twelfth century.—W. of Malmesbury, Ang. Sacr., ii. 21.
68 These foundations were regarded as one house, the inmates being bound together by “a common and perpetual affection and intimacy.”
72 Ceolfrid, Benedict Biscop’s successor, added a number of books to the library, among them three copies of the Vulgate, and one of the older version. One copy of the Vulgate Ceolfrid took with him to Rome (716) to give to the Pope. He died on the way. The codex did not go to Rome; now, it is in the Laurentian Library, Florence, where it is known as the Codex Amiatinus. The writing is Italian, or at any rate foreign, so it must have been imported, or written at Jarrow by foreign scribes. This volume is the chief authority for the text of Jerome’s translation of the Scriptures.
74 Bede frequently quotes Cicero, Virgil, and Horace; usually selecting some telling phrase, e.g. “caeco carpitur igni” (H. E. ii. 12). In his De Natura rerum he owes a good deal to Pliny and Isidore. In his commentaries on the Scriptures he displays an extent of reading which we have no space to give any idea of. His chronologies were based on Jerome’s edition of Eusebius, on Augustine and Isidore. In his H. E. he uses “Pliny, Solinus, Orosius, Eutropius, Marcellinus Comes, Gildas, probably the Historia Brittonum, a Passion of St. Alban, and the Life of Germanus of Auxerre by Constantius”; while he refers to lives of St. Fursa, St. Ethelburg, and to Adamnan’s work on the Holy Places. Cf. Sandys, i. 468; Camb. Lit., i. 80-81. Bede also got first-hand knowledge: the Lindisfarne records provided him with material on Cuthbert; information came to him from Canterbury about Southern affairs and from Lastingham about Mercian affairs. Nothelm got material from the archives at Rome for him.
77 Tr. in King’s Letters, ed. Steele (1903), 1. Cf. Bodl. MS. Hatton, 20; Cott. MS. Otho B 2; Corpus C. C., Camb. MS. 12.
78 MS. Cott. Tib. B xi.—a copy of Alfred’s version of the Cura, or what is left of it—has been connected with Archbishop Plegmund, the evidence being a Saxon inscription on the manuscript. Wanley, however, doubted the conclusiveness of this evidence, which, together with most of the text, was lost in the fire of 1731.—James, xxiii-iv.
81 Strutt, Saxon Antiq., i. 105, pl. xviii. The picture is in a large volume containing part of a grammar and certain other pieces used at Glastonbury.—MS. Auct. F. iv. 32. Over the picture is the inscription: Pictura et scriptura hujus paginae subtus visa est de propria manu Sci. Dunstani.
87 Hook, Archbishops, i. 453 (1st ed.).
90 Most old English poems are preserved in unique manuscripts, sometimes not complete, but in fragments; two fragments, for example, were found in the bindings of other books.—Warton, ii. 7. In 1248, only four books in English were at Glastonbury, and they are described as old and useless.—John of G., 435; Ritson, i. 43. About fifty years later only seventeen such books were in the big library at Canterbury.—James (M. R.), 51. A striking illustration of the disuse of the vernacular among the religious is found in an Anglo-Saxon Gregory’s Pastoral Care, which is copiously glossed in Latin, in two or three hands. This manuscript, now in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, No. 12, came from Worcester Priory.—James17, 33.
92 In an eleventh century manuscript in Trinity College Library, Cambridge (MS. B. 16, 44), is an inscription, perhaps by Lanfranc himself, recording that he brought it from Bec and gave it to Christ Church.
93 At the end of the manuscript of Cassian is written: “Hucusque ego Lanfrancus correxi.”—Hist. Litt. de la France, vii. 117. At the end of the Ambrose (Hexaemeron) the note reads, “Lanfrancus ego correxi.”
96 Library of Ste. Geneviève, Paris, MS. E. l. 17, in 40, fol. 61. The note reads: Quia autem apud Bequefort victualium copia erat, scriptores etiam ibi habebantur quorum opera ad nos in Normaniam mittebantur.—Library, v. 2 (1893).
104 James, and James1.
105 In the fine MS. Cott. Claud. E. iv. (Gesta Abbatum) is a series of portrait miniatures of the abbots, and in most cases they are represented as reading or carrying books, or with books about them.
106 Fecit etiam scribi libros plurimos, quos longum esset enarrare.
107 Some of the books were restored, others were resold to the abbey.
108 A lot of forty-nine, with prices attached, is given in Annales a J. Amund., ii. 268 et seq.
109 Gloucester House, now Worcester College.
111 For St. Albans see Gesta Abbatum, i. 58, 70, 94, 106, 179, 184; ii. 200, 306, 363; iii. 389, 393.
115 These works would be Latin translations based upon Arabic versions. Opus Majus, iii. 66; Camb. Lit., i. 199; Gasquet3, 156.
116 Close roll, 10 Hen. III, m. 6 (3rd Sep.); Trivet, Annales, 243; Mon. Fr., i. 185; Stevenson, 76; O. H. S., Little, 57.
126 For date see Stow (Kingsford’s ed.), i. 108; i. 318; Mon. Fr. i. 519.
129 The catalogue is edited by Dr. M. R. James in Fasciculus Ioanni Willis Clark dicatus, 2-96.
133 But see O. H. S., Little, 56; Mon. Fr., ii. 91—Libri fratrum decedentium....
139 Gasquet3, 140, q.v. for full description of these Correctoria.
144 Whitaker, Hist. of Craven, (1805), 330; another computus, discovered later, does not refer to books (ed. 1878).
155 A few volumes escaped: a copy of Basil’s Commentary on Isaiah, presumably in Greek, and some others. “Among them must in all probability be reckoned the first copy of Homer whose presence can be definitely traced in England since the days of Theodore of Tarsus.”—Camb. Mod. Hist., i. 598. Cp. James, li.
157 Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johann Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees, by Bale, 1549. Cf. Strype, Parker (1711), 528.
158 Accounts of John Scudamore (kings receiver), detailing proceeds of sale of goods from Bordesley Abbey, and other monasteries.—Cam. Soc., xxvi. 269, 271, 275.
161 C. A. S. 8vo. Publ., No. 33 (1900), Dr. James on MSS. in the Library of Lambeth Palace, pp. 1, 2, 6.
166 Leland, Itinerary (1907), i. xxxviii.
170 James (M. R.), Sources of Archbishop Parker’s MSS. (Camb. Antiq. Soc.).
172 James (M. R.)1, 42; ibid. xciv. But later Dr. James was less certain of some of his identifications. See James (M. R.)10, viii.
173 Robinson.
174 See also Macray’s Annals of the Bodleian.
184 Cp. Du Cange, Gloss. art. Scriptores; citation from Const. of Carthusians.
188 From the Porkington MS.; this treatise has been printed in Early English Miscellanies, ed. J. O. Halliwell, for the Warton Club (1855), p. 72. Other treatises are in Mrs. Merrifield’s Arts of Painting (1849).
198 Du Cange, Gloss., art., Scriptorium.
202 Customary of St. A. (H. Brads. Soc.), i. 401. These tablets were called ceratae tabellae, tabellae cerae, or simply cerae. The name of a book, caudex, codex, was first given to these tabellae when they were strung together to form a square “book.”—V. Antiquary, xii. 277.
208 Stevenson, Suppl. to Bentham’s Ch. of Ely.
211 O. H. S., Little, 135; best account of Adam in this book.
212 C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo ser. vii. 187 (1909). The story of the connexion between Chesterton and Vercelli is most interesting. A list of the books is in Lampugnani, Sulla Vita di Guala Bicchieri, Vercelli (1842), 125 et seq.; but I have not been able to see the book. See further Bekynton’s Correspondence, ii. 344 (Rolls Ser.); and Kennedy, Poems of Cynewulf (1910), 6.
213 O. H. S., 27 Boase, xxxvii n.
214 Sandys, i. 486-489, q.v. for other interesting facts about this abbot.
216 Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 153. A list of the precentor’s rents, applied to expenses of the writing-room and the organ, will be found in ii. 328.
218 Stewart, Ely Cath., 280; Surtees Soc., lxix. 15-20; Robinson, I.
227 Cam. Soc., Bury Wills (1850), 105. Many of the gifts to Syon monastery came from priests.—Bateson, xxiii-xxvii. Cf. also lists of donors in James (M. R.), 535 et seq.
228 Cf. James (M. R.), lxxii n.
230 Surtees Soc. xv., Durham Rites, 70-71. The library would be that built by Wessington in 1446.
235 Chron. mon. de Melsa, iii. lxxxiii.
238 MS. Arundel 57, Brit. Mus. See James (M. R.), lxxvii. “This boc is dan Michelis of Northgate, y-write an englis of his ozene hand. thet hatte: Ayenbyte of Inwyt. And is of the bochouse of Saynt Austines of Canterberi. mid the letters CC.” “Ymende, thet this boc is volveld ine the eve of the holy apostles Symon an Judas, of ane brother of the cloystre of Sauynt Austin of Canterberi, ine the yeare of oure lhordes beringe (birth) 1340.”
240 C. 1429-45. Most likely over the cloister. The books seem to have been arranged flat on sloping desks, to which they were chained.—James (M. R.)1, 41.
243 Chron. mon. de Abingd., ii. 371; Customary of St. August., Cant. (H. Brads. Soc.), introd.
245 Panni, camisiae librorum.
247 MS. Lat. 12296, Bibl. Nat., Paris.
256 Hist. MSS., 6th Rept. 296b.
261 Hist. MSS. 6th Rept. 296a.
265 James (M. R.), xlv, 502-503; Camb. Univ. Lib. MS., Ff. 4. 40, last fol.
272 Bateson, 202. Ut scilicet prima particula de numero et perfecta voluminum cognicione loci precentorem informet, secunda ad solicitam leccionis frequenciam ffratres studiosos provocet, et tercia de singulorum tractatuum repercione festina scolaribus itinera manifestet.—James, 407.
273 James (M. R.), 410. For further information on monastic catalogues consult Surtees Soc., vii; Becker; James (M. R.); Bateson; Zentralblatt; Gottlieb.
276 Cf. Register of S. Osmund, ii. 127. Textus unus aureus magnus continens saphiros xx., et smaragdos [emeralds] vi., et thopasios viii., et alemandinas [? carbuncle or ruby] xviii., et gernettas [garnets] viii., et perlas xii. Also i. 276; ii. 43. Jerome, Ad Eustoch, Ep. 18.
279 MS. Bodl., Auct. D. 2. 16 fo. 1ª; Dugdale, ii. 527; Oxford Philol. Soc. Trans., 1881-83, p. 2.
282 Ego I. de G. Exon., do Eccle. Exon librum istum cum pari suo, in festo Annuntiationis Dominice. Manu mea, anno consecrationis mee xxxix.—Oliver, Lives of the Bps., 85.
284 In 1329 he wrote to Richard de Ratforde from Chudleigh: “Regraciamur vobis quod Librum Sermonum Beati Augustini pro nobis, prout Magister Ricardus filius Radulphi, ex parte nostra, vos rogavit, retinuistis, nobisque et condiciones ejusdem significastis et precium. Et, quia ipsum Librum habere volumus, lx solidos sterlingorum Magistro Johanni de Sovenaisshe [Sevenashe], Magistro Scolarum nostre Civitatis Exoniensis, pro ipso Libro tradi fecimus, ut nobis eundem, quamcicius nuncii securitas affuerit, transmittatis. Libros, eciam, Theologicos Originales, veteres saltem et raros, ac Sermones antiquos, eciam sine Divisionibus Thematum, pro nostris usibus exploretis; scribentes nobis condiciones et precium eorundem.”—O.H.S., 27 Boase, 2.
288 Between 1385 and 1425 the bishops giving books to Exeter College, Oxford.
290 List in Oliver, Lives, 376; C. A. S. (N.S.), iv. 306 (8vo. ser.).
293 I have to thank my friend Mr. Tapley Soper, F.R.Hist.S., for his willing help in sending me information about this library.
Our account of church libraries will appear inadequate if it is not borne in mind that we do not propose to go beyond the manuscript age. An excellent account of modern church libraries is given in English Church Furniture, in this series. Also see Clark, 257.
294 Reliquary, vii. 11 (Floyer).
295 Reliquary, vii. 14 (Floyer).
297 The best account of Worcester Cathedral Library is in Reliquary, vii. 11, by the Rev. J. K. Floyer, M.A.
305 Hist. MSS., 9th Rept., App. 46a.
306 Ep., 126; Creighton, Papacy, iii. 53n.
313 In the fifteenth century the bishops of Wells were good friends of learning: Skirlaw gave books to University College, Oxford; Bowet left a large library; Stafford gave books; Bekynton was the companion of the most cultivated men of his time. Dean Gunthorpe is well known as a pilgrim to Italy, who returned laden with manuscripts (see p. 192).
314 Hist. MSS. Rept. 3, App. 363a.
317 L. A. R., viii. 372; Canon Church’s account of the library, in Archaeologia, lvii. pt. 2, is very full and interesting.
326 Vict. Hist. Warwickshire, ii. 127 b.
327 Ibid., ii. 128 a.
328 Johannes Rous, capellanus Cantariae de Guy-Cliffe, qui super porticum australem librariam construxit, et libris ornavit.—Gentleman’s Magazine (N.S.), xxv. 37. The chapel of Guy’s Cliffe was erected by Richard Beauchamp for the repose of the soul of his “ancestor,” Guy of Warwick, the hero of romance.
329 Mr. W. T. Carter of the Warwick Public Library, has kindly given me much information about St. Mary’s Church library.
330 Arch. Inst. City of York (1846), 10-11; Surtees Soc., iv. 102-103, 196; xlv. 57-59, 159, 171, 220-222, 221n.; xxvi. 2-3; xxx. 219, 275; Cox and Harvey, English Church Furniture, 331; Mun. Acad., 648-649; Library, i. 411; Cam. Soc., Bury Wills, 253.
331 Cox, J. C., and Hope, W. H. St. John, Chronicles of the Colleg. Ch. of All Saints, Derby (1881), 175-177.
334 Stow, i. 194. Leland, iv. 48, has a note of four MSS. “in bibliotheca Petrina Londini.” Possibly this library was formed by Rector Hugh Damlet, who was a learned man, and gave several books to Pembroke College, Cambridge.—James10, 184.
338 N. Bishop’s Collectanea, now at Cambridge; Wood, Hist. and Antiq. U. of O., ed. Gutch, 17962, vol. ii. pt. 2, 910.
340 Clark, 144; Pietas O., 5; Lyte, 97; Oriel document.
346 Ibid., 261 et seq.
347 After the Black Death, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, possibly Corpus Christi, Cambridge, Canterbury College and New College, Oxford, were founded, and University (Clare) Hall, Cambridge, was enlarged, partly, at any rate, to repair the ravages the plague had made among the clergy.—Camb. Lit., ii. 354; cf. Hist. MSS., 5th Rep., 450.
349 Ibid., 266; O. H. S. 35-36, Ansley, 222, 229, 279, 313, 373, 382, 397.
351 The indenture in which the books are catalogued mentions nine books received before: possibly these were the gift of 1435.—Mun. Acad., 758; O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 177.
359 See lists of Gloucester’s books in Mun. Acad., 758-65; O. H. S., Anstey, 179, 183, 232.
360 He also owned some French manuscripts: what he gave to Oxford formed part of a much larger private library.
366 The plan resembled that of the old library built by Adam de Brome. For notes on the architectural history of this library, see Pietas O.
373 O. H. S. 32, Collect., iii. 225; cf. Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., App. 135a; Walcott, W. of Wykeham, 285.
374 Hist. MSS. 9th Rep., i. 46; Reg. Abp. Whittlesey, fo. 122, cited by Lyte, 181.
377 See the gifts to Exeter College, O. H. S. 27, Boase, passim.
379 Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., 140a.
381 Brantingham gave £20 towards the building; More, £10. Account of building expenses, amounting to £57, 13s. 5½d., is given in O. H. S., 27, Boase, 345; see p. liii.
382 O. H. S. 27, Boase, xlviii. In 1392 “iiiis pro ligacione septem librorum et Id pro cervisia in eisdem ligatoribus, VId erario pro labore suo circa eosdem libros, et IId Johanni Lokyer pro impositione eorundem librorum in descis.”
384 The building, which is still standing as a part of Trinity College, cost £42; fittings, £6, 16s. 8d. Blakiston, Trin. Coll., 26.
388 Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., 141a
389 O. H. S. 27, Boase; O. H. S. 5, Collect., 62. At C. C., Christ Church, and St. John’s Colleges the least useful books could be sold if the libraries became too large.—Oxford Stat.
392 I.e. for practically nothing, a mere song.
394 With Bodley’s noble work this book has no concern. The story has been told briefly in Mr. Nicholson’s Pietas Oxoniensis, and with more detail in Dr. Macray’s Annals of the Bodleian.
408 Ibid., iii. 25-26n.
427 MS. 232, in the library, contains his will, a list of his books with their prices, another catalogue, and a register of the borrowers of the books from 1440 to 1516.
431 In winter 1382 “viid. ob pro ligatura cuiusdam textus philosophie de eleccione Johannis Mattecote.” Winter 1405, “id. ob pro pergameno empto pro novo registro faciendo pro eleccione librorum”; winter 1457, “iiiid. More stacionario pro labore suo duobus diebus appreciando libros collegii qui traduntur in eleccionibus sociorum.” Autumn 1488, “iis. id. pro redempcione librorum quondam eleccionis domini Ricardi Symon.”—O. H. S. 27, Boase, xlix.
433 See further, Documents relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge (3v. 1852); Statutes of the College of Oxford (3v. 1853), especially i. 54, 97; ii. 60, 89; and Mun. Acad. Cf. Willis, Camb., iii. 387.
437 Piers Plowman.
446 James (M. R.), lxxii.; this number is probably correct, but owing to confusion between three Abbots of this name it is not certainly right.
452 “R. de Bury... qui ipsum episcopatum et omnia sua beneficia prius habita per preces magnatum et ambitionis vitium adquisivit, et ideo toto tempore suo inopia laboravit et prodigus exstitit in expensis.”—Murimuth, 171.
457 Legend of Good Women, prol. 30ff.
458 Valerie: possibly Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum de uxore non ducenda, attributed to Walter Mapes; it is a short treatise of about eight folios; it is printed in Cam. Soc. xvi. 77. Theofraste: Aureolus liber de Nuptiis, by one Theophrastus.
461 It seems to be Chaucer’s own; only about a third of the poem comes from Boccaccio’s Filostrato. Chaucer had a copy of Thebais of Statius.—Troilus, v. l. 1484.
463 From schedule of the possessions of the Guildhall College, July 24, 1549.—L. A. R., x. 381.
466 Hist. MSS., 8th Rept., pt. 1, 268a.
467 Gasquet2, 20; Sandys, ii. 220; Legrand, Bibliographie Hellénique, i. (1885) xxiv., where the date is 1405-6.
469 “Cest livre est a moy Homfrey Duc de Glocestre, lequel je fis translater de Grec en Latin par un de mes secretaires, Antoyne de Beccariane de Verone.”—Cam. Soc. 1843, Ellis, Letters, 357.
472 “Messer Andrea Ols” in Italian authority; identified by Dr. Sandys.
474 MS. 587 Bodl.
475 Leland3, 463; Leland, iii. 13; Einstein, 23, 54-5; C.A.S., 8vo ser., No. 32 (1899), 13.
478 Now MS. li. 4, 16, at Cambridge University Library.
481 On this group see Harris, Jas. Rendel, The Leicester Codex.
482 E. H. R., xxv. 446-7; James.
483 Literae Cant. (Rolls Ser.), iii. 239; cf. Campbell, Matls for Hist. of H. VII., ii. 85, 114, 224.
484 Leland3, 482. The Obit in Christ Church MS. D. 12 refers to Selling as “Sacrae Theologiae Doctor. Hic in divinis agendis multum devotus et lingua Graeca et Latina valde eruditus.”—Gasquet2, 24.
486 Homer and Euripides are in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; the others are in Trinity College, Cambridge.—James16, 9; Gasquet2, 30.
488 The point is disputed; cf. Einstein, 32; Lyte, 386; Camb. Lit., iii. 5, 6; Rashdall and Rait, New. Coll., 93; Dr. Sandys does not mention Vitelli.
491 Ibid., p. 1; O.H.S., 29; Madan, 267, contains long list of references.
493 Cf. Grace B. Δ ix, xlii, xliii.; O.H.S., 29, Madan, Early Oxf. Press, 266; Mun. Acad., 532, 544, 579.
496 Ibid., xxxviii.
503 Bodl. MS. Rawlinson, 34, fo. 21, Stat. Coll. S. Mariae pro Oseney: De Libraria.
506 Donnée des comptes des Roys de France, au 14e siècle (1852), 227; Putnam, i. 312; Library, v. 3-4.
507 Gairdner, Paston letters, v. 1-4, where the whole bill is transcribed.
514 V. Catalogues in Becker; James (M. R.); Bateson; Surtees Soc., vii.; etc.
519 Sandys, i. 638-39; see what is said about use of Ovid at Canterbury.
520 On the use of classics in the Middle Ages see Sandys, i. 630 (Plautus and Terence), 631 (Lucretius), 633 (Catullus and Virgil), 635 (Horace), 638 (Ovid), 641 (Lucan), 642 (Statius), 643 (Martial), 644 (Juvenal), 645 (Persius), 648 (Cicero), 653 (Seneca), 654 (Pliny), 655 (Quintilian), etc.
527 Cf. Becker, index.
528 On Michael, see Bacon, Op. maj., 36, 37; Dante, Inferno, xx. 116; Boccaccio, 8 day, 9 novel; Scott, Lay, II. xi.; Brown, Life and Legend of M. S. (1897).
529 Bacon, Op. ined., Comp. stud., 472 (Rolls Series).
530 In Peterhouse Library, Cambridge, is a manuscript of Aristotle’s Metaphysica, with Latin translations from the Arabic and the Greek in parallel columns: the one being called the old translation, the other the new. The manuscript is of the thirteenth or fourteenth century.—James3, 43.
537 Now Canon. gr. 35 Bodleian; James, lxxxvi. This may be the Liber grecorum in the list of books repaired in 1508.—James, lxxxvi., 163.
542 Mun. Acad., 86, 430, 444; cf. Lyte, 235. Donatus came to be regarded as a synonymous term for grammar. In Piers Plowman a grammatical lesson or text-book is called “Donet.” A Greek grammar was called a “Donatus Graecorum.”
544 In the right-hand doorway of the west front of Chartres Cathedral are figures of the Seven Arts, Grammar being associated with Priscian, Logic with Aristotle, Rhetoric with Cicero, Music with Pythagoras, Arithmetic with Nicomachus, Geometry with Euclid, and Astronomy with Ptolemy. Cf. Marriage, Sculp. of Chartres Cath., 71-73 (1909).
545 On medieval studies see further Mun. Acad., 34, 242-43, 285, 412-13; Sandys, i. 670.
551 Wace or Layamon.
552 Amadas et Idoine, an anonymous Norman French poem of the twelfth century.
553 Sir Beves of Hamtoun (Fr. 13 cent., Eng. 14 cent.).
554 Character in romance of Tristrem, by Thomas the Rymer.
555 Haveloke. For other metrical catalogues see first and second prologues to Richard Cœur de Lion.—Ritson, Anc,. Eng. Metr. Romances, i. 55.
556 Gladly, blithely.
557 From beginning of Handlyng Synne, by Robert Mannying of Brunne.
559 Written at the end of the manuscript, which is in the Douce collection.—Warton, i. 182-83.