By Montague Rhodes James
M. R. James (1862-1936) is perhaps top remembered as a author of chilling ghost tales, yet he was once a good pupil of medieval literature and palaeography, who served either as Provost of King's collage, Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and plenty of of his tales mirror his educational history. His certain descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by way of faculties, cathedrals and museums are nonetheless of price to students this present day. This ebook, first released in 1900, lists approximately 600 medieval manuscripts within the library at Lambeth Palace, such a lot of them amassed by means of Archbishop Bancroft (d. 1610). those have been despatched to Cambridge collage Library in the course of Cromwell's Protectorate, and lower back to Lambeth Palace on the recovery. concerning a number of early inventories, James succeeds in tracing the possession of the various manuscripts again to English monastic homes dissolved on the Reformation together with Durham Priory, Lanthony (near Gloucester), and Ely.
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Soc. It contains the picture and arms of a Lady de Quincey: probably executed at Canterbury. At the end are full-page paintings of the Life of St John, the Story of Theophilus, and various saints. 210. Baldewini opera xii, xiii At end : liber sancte marie Joreuallis. Jervaux tio ut res 211. Th. Bekynton Epistolae Wells cessionis cure sue xv late 212. Nic. de Clemangiis xv late Lumley. The fly-leaf is a document. 213. Missal xiv Masses of SS. Finnan, David, Chad, etc. at end. Irish THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS.
Lanthony pecuniam 443. Laurentius Dunelmensis xii quid deus On fly-leaf in pale ink (xiii): Quedam hystorie versificat'. Also: Danielis Rogerii A0 1563. 444. (1) Medica. ' ? Lanthony 2 fo. illegible 445-7. Paper, xvi, xvii. 448. Historia. Eliensis etc. Paper and vellum xv, xvi Arms and epitaph of Robert Stewarde. Ely 449. Decretum etc. xiii Lanthony In hoc. uol. continetur concordia discordancium canonum etc. Also : M. de Kermerd, erased. 450. Laurentius de Savona. Roman hand. xv Waynflete's arms in initial: Letter to him of 1485.
Lanthony ET IOSVE. xv xii, xiii Lantbony xii (in libro) et grex ta est 346. Joh. Cassiani Regula. Original x binding ii On last cover: HYERIVS • ROMANVS • ORATORWill. Antissiodorensis in Sententias Nic. Trevet in Sententias. Lanthony fidem 347. x ™ liberalitatis 38 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 348. Biblia xiii inspexeris Anth. Higgin ex dono M. Nettleton 1592. 349. Genesis glosata. Lanthony Cat. nos. 29, 30. 1 GENESIS on fly-leaf in black. aquas 350. Registrum Brevium xiv Old binding. 351. Decreta: round hand xi ueniatur Interpretationes nominum: Abana.