A Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts Belonging to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn

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Spottiswoode & Company, 1869 - Manuscripts - 22 pages
 

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Page 13 - Homilies of the 10th century, on parchment. A folio volume (paper) containing a miscellaneous collection in writing of the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century. It contains amongst other things : — " The order of the Coronation of our late Kynge of famous memory e, Kynge Henrye the eyghte, who was crowned the 23rd of June 1509.
Page 22 - MS. Milan : Ambrosiana R. 47 sup., f. 43 (sec. xiii).1 72. De sacrae scripturae profundis misteriis authore Rogero Bacon. MS. London : Gray's Inn 17 (sec. xv) ; the title is in a later hand. The work consists of an alphabetical arrangement of certain words occurring in the Scriptures with their symbolical meanings. The first two leaves of the first quire are wanting, and the text begins : ' id est secretorum sacre scripture profunda misteria,' the word commented on being Abissus.
Page 15 - MS. of the 14th century, on 111 leaves of parchment. On the fly-leaf, at the beginning, the contents are thus given, in writing of the beginning of the 17th century: — In hoc volumine — 1.
Page 21 - MS. of the 15th century, on 72 leaves of parchment. The initial letter of each commandment is ornamented with gold and colours.
Page 13 - The chronicle ends on 146 a,1 after describing the battle of Shrewsbury and the execution of some of the rebels. . . . There is nothing to show the ancient owner of this volume.' It is remarkable that Horwood, his interest once aroused, did not track down his text to the extracts which had been published some twenty years earlier. It is even more remarkable that he failed to discover its provenance, which appears...
Page 13 - Contains 34 beautiful miniature drawings in colour, heightened with gold, each about...
Page 15 - Quonia/m dictum est mihi ut meipsum cognoscam, sustinere non possum ut me habeam incognitum.

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