Identifier:

170/529.

Scope and content:

1) ff. 1-8, 9-10 blank, save for possession notes and added miscellaneous notes, ff. 8v, 10v-16v: Notes on philosophy in Greek and Latin in quasi-dictionary form.

2) ff. 17-41: Philosophical florilegium in Greek and Latin organized by Latin headings in intermittently alphabetical order from Aberra to Veritas; f. 41v, the Greek equivalents of 3 Latin words.

3) ff. 42-47v: Sentences and notes on geographical names in Latin, Greek, and Italian, ff. 48-52 blank.

4) ff. 52v-53v: Geographical names with explanations in Greek, ff. 54-55v blank.

5) ff. 56-58: Excerpts from Pausanias, in Greek.

6) ff. 58v-59: Notes in Latin and English with dates 1553, 1554, 1560 (but written at one time), ff. 59v-59^bis blank.

7) ff. 60-72: Notes in Latin, Greek, and English on chronology, astrology, history, etc., with dates 1560 (f. 160v) and 1518 (f. 62); includes on f. 63v Bibliothecae celebres: Romae Vaticana seu pontificia, Florentiae Medicum, Bononiae S. Salvatoris, Venetiis Bessarionis, S. Ioannis et Pauli et aliae, Diegi Hurtadi. ff. 72v-79v blank.

8) ff. 80-116: Latin-Greek dictionary from A to Ingratus, f. 116v blank.

9) ff. 117-120: Notes on geometry in Italian (f. 119r-v blank), ff. 120v-122v blank.

10) ff. 123r-v: List of kings of England to Henry III. ff. 124-135 blank.

11) f. 135v: Index to ff. 136-212, which bear separate foliation 1-6 and 1-72 (the number 59 omitted).

12) ff. 136-184v: A transcription of the Quadripartitus from Holkham Hall MS 228 (ff.141v-142, 146v-147, 179v-180 blank), ff. 185-187 blank.

13) ff. 187v-192v: [Laws of William the Conqueror in Anglo-Norman copied from the Croyland Chronicle of “Ingulph”] Inveni in quodam Croilandiae chronico Ingulphum abbatem eiusdem detulisse secum a Londino domum usque has leges sequentes . . . quae ut ipse testatur hoc ipso idiomate scriptae fuerunt. (f. 188) Ces sunt les leis e les custumes . . . les vilains en ferme plege. [Added:] Sequuntur vide infra fol. 65 [= f. 205v].

This part of the chronicle has not been edited in the original. Cf. Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland, translated by Henry T. Riley (London, 1854) pp.175-184, sections 1-29, followed by a misplaced section 22.

14) ff. 193-199: [Laws of William the Conqueror in Latin] Haec quae sequuntur in Gulielmi legibus ascribuntur quae in maiori libro omittuntur . . . ferrum triplicis Deiiudicii ponderet 3 libras. [Added:] Interponenda sunt fol. precedens: Quod sinecessitas . . . nisi rex ei patriam indulserit.

15) f. 199v: Charta H. 3 . . . toforenseid; and pet [with catchword] aelc. ff. 200-205 blank.

The first half of Henry III's proclamation of 1258 in Middle English issued for Oxfordshire; ed. W.W. Skeat, “The Oxford Manuscript of the Only English Proclamation of Henry III,” Transactions of the Philological Society 1880-1881 app. 6pp. 169*-177*, to the middle of line 6 (Skeat p.173*).

16) ff. 205v-207: Addenda legibus Gulihelmi gallice conscriptis post capitulum de streward. Si il que custinent la terr ne deit lome ... sil ne poit envers le voy lamende e il soil utlage. ff. 207v-209v blank.

The completion of the laws extracted from the Croyland chronicle (cf. item 13 above); cf. Riley, sections 30-53, pp.184-188.

17) f. 210: Ex legibus [Alfredi, corr. to:] Edgari regis quibus titulus est Her gebirađ nu to Eadgares gerædnesse be gehadodra liffadunge. We lærađ pæt godes peowas beon heora woruld lafordurn eac hold 7 getrywe. And we lærađ pæt preost ne beo hunta ne hafecere ne tæflere ac plegge on his bocum swa his hade gebryađ. Liber est Matthaei Cantuar. Archiep. 1571. W[illelmus] L[ambardus].

Two excerpts from the so-called Canons of Edgar: Roger Fowler, ed., Wulfstan's Canons of Edgar, EETS no.266 (London, 1972) pp.2 and 14. Copied from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Manuscript 201 which belonged to Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury.

18) f. 211: Ex libro 3° Willelmi Malmesbyrie de regibus, ubi has quae sequuntur legibus Willelmi regis magni ascribit. Regem Angliae singulari maiestate . . . molimine semper infrendit. ff. 211v-274v blank.

William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum anglorum book 3; ed. Thomas D. Hardy, vol.2 (London 1840, reproduced 1964) 473n-474n.

Acquisition information:

Written in England between ca. 1560 and ca. 1567 by Laurence Nowell (d. ca. 1570); his signature, f. 2; concerning Nowell's dates and identity see now Carl T. Berkout, “The Pedigree of Laurence Nowell the Antiquary,” English Language Notes vol.23, no.2 (1985) pp.15-26. Belonged to Nowell's friend William Lambarde (1536-1601) who wrote additional material between ca. 1567 and ca. 1571; his signature also on f. 2. On ff. 2, 118, 210, 274, forgeries of various Shakespeare signatures: f.2, “William Shakspere 1590” (almost obliterated with pen strokes); f. 118, “William Shaksp(e)r(e), Oxforde” (copy of the second signature in Shakespeare's will of 1616); f. 210, “William Shaksp(ere) 1590” (copy of the third signature in the will of 1616); f. 274, initials “W.S.”; for facsimiles of forged autographs of Shakespeare see S.A. Tannenbaum, Problems in Shakespeare's Penmanship, Including a Study of the Poet's Will (New York, 1927) plates 39-42; the present forgeries possibly date from the twentieth century. Sold by Hodgson (19 June 1924, lot 512) to Myers Company, London. Belonged to C.K. Ogden (1889-1957); his bookplate, inside the front cover. Acquired by UCLA with the Ogden library in 1958.

Physical description:

Paper ( , not found in Briquet), ff. 276 (includes unnumbered leaf after f. 59, and f. 242bis); 155 × 105 mm. Varying numbers of lines; unruled, except for occasional bounding lines in lead point. Written in several tiny Elizabethan scripts mainly by Laurence Nowell, except for items in the hand of William Lambarde: ff. 135v, 199v, 187v-192v, 205v-207, 210.

Bound in contemporary limp parchment, title along the spine erased; parchment strips from a twelfth-century manuscript used as reinforcement for the spine.

Note:

1. We are grateful to Carl T. Berkout for identifying a number of the contents of this manuscript and especially for distinguishing the hands of Nowell and Lambarde

A copy of this book is UCLA Negative Microfilm no.05428.

Figs. 28-30

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