A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Queen's College, Cambridge

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Page 23 - A book of Rates issued by Elizabeth being chiefly an alphabetical list of imports headed Rates for the subsidie or poundage inwards. Abces (ie Alphabets) the gross conto.
Page 15 - When thy hede quakyth: Memento. Then thy lyppys blakyth: Confessio. When thy noose sharpyth: Contricio. Then thy lymmys starkyth: Satisfaccio. When thy brest pantyth: Nosce teipsum. Than thy wynde wantyth: Miserere. When thy nyen hollyth: Libera me domine. Then deth folowyth: Veni ad...
Page 23 - Paper, 12 x 8J, ff. 54. Cent, xvi (cir. 1560), neatly written. A slip of a xivth cent. Law MS. on the binding.
Page 21 - As the wyse man sayeth in the booke of sapience By the Envye of the deuell deth entrede into thys worlde.

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