Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
September 1886
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/44
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/100 (page 3451)
    in this volume the which bokes Galyen and Ypocras han ymade and other maysters alsz, stout small folio. Karly Knglish Medical Manuscript on Vellum, bound in brown morocco and enclosed in a morocco case, £70. about 1440 The first boke is yclepyd A . . of diuers medicines; Spectacle of Medicines; the Experimentes of Alisaundre; Pomum Ambre that speketh of Oymentes; Experimentes of Galiene, and ate the heved he wille begynne; Experimentes of a wyse man that was yclepid Rusticus, the which experimentes Mayster William Somers proved be fele tymes—at end: this medicine is proved be a nobil man Sire Thomas Veziaunt; Hxperimentes of Parise the Abbote that was sometyme of Seynt Marc; Vertues of the Hgle that is Kynge of alle Fowles ; a book that is clepid Liber Rotuli; Experimentes of Cophon the Leche of Salerne; Secreta Ypocratis; Experimentes of Rusticus. In the possession of “ R. Smyth” about 1520. 35680 PALLADIUS de Rebus Rusticis (translated into English Verse, perhaps by Dan John Lydgate) 4to. Manuscript on Vellum, beautifully written and quite complete, with the exception of the last leaf, bound in rough calf, £50. circa A.D. 1450 An unknown work, yet one of considerable importance in the annals of early English literature, preserving for us an in- finite number of words and phrases which are not to be found in glossaries or elsewhere. It is the same seven-lined metre which was used by Lydgate in his life of St. Edmund, and from the age of the MS. may probably have emanated from the busy _ pen of that industrious writer. There are many archaisms in the language, forms of speech nearly obsolete even in Lydgate’s time, but the difficulty of the subject may account for them. The translation is superior in vigour and regularity to most of Lydgate’s work, at least it is equal to his best; and we need not hesitate to aver that this volume is an English literary monument of exceptional value and interest. 35681 ROLLE (Richard) or Hampoue, Prix or Consciens. Explicit tractatus Stimulus ‘Consciencie ndinat’ Incipit liber Rici Hampole que fect. uni Anachorite, Anglice, 4to. English Manuscript on Vetium, bound in vellum, gilt edges, £638. (1465) These works, both written in English by Richard Rolle Hermit of Hampole, are valuable as specimens of Hnglish versification and prose in the fifteenth century.. The Treatise written for a Hermit, in prose, seems to be very scarce and almost unknown. It begins thus—‘‘ In euereche synful man or womman yt is bounden in dedli synne beth thre wrecchid- nesses.” In the list of Rolle’s works given by Tanner, there