10. Item, in qwayers, a Boke _de Sapiencia_ . . . . . . wherin the ij.
parson is liknyd to Sapi[ence] . . . . .
11. Item, a Boke de Othea,[66-3] text and glose, valet . . . . . . in
quayers.
* * *
Memorandum,[66-4] myn olde Boke off Blasonyngs off a[rms].
Item, the nywe Boke portrayed and blasoned.
Item, a copy off Blasonyngs off armys and th . . . names to be fownde by
letter.
Item, a Boke with armys portrayed in paper . . . . .
Memorandum, my Boke of Knyghthod and the man[er] off makyng off Knyghts,
off Justs, off Tor[neaments] ffyghtyng in lystys, paces holden by
so[ldiers] . . . . . and chalenges, statuts off weer, and de _Regim[ine
Principum]_, valet . . . . . . . . .
Item, a Boke off nyw Statuts ffrom Edward the iiij.
[Footnote 65-2: [From Fenn, ii. 300.] This is a catalogue of the
books either of John Paston the younger or of John Paston, Knight,
most probably the former, drawn up in the reign of Edward IV., but
owing to the decay of the original MS. we cannot tell in what
year. It certainly could not have been earlier than 1475, when
_The Game and Play of the Chess_ was first printed by Caxton. It
is in itself a remarkable thing that the expression ‘in print’
should have got into use even during the reign of Edward IV.; but
one may suppose that such an expression could hardly have been
current for at least a year or two after the first printed book
appeared. We therefore, without deciding the year, place the paper
at the end of King Edward’s reign.]
[Footnote 66-1: _Quære_, if Cypio is not a mistake from ‘Somnium
Scipionis,’ a piece which is usually printed with the ‘de
Amicitia,’ and probably accompanied it in this manuscript.--F.]
[Footnote 66-2: It is a curious circumstance that this book should
be here mentioned as left with William Worcester, who with the
assistance of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, and John Phrea or
Free, a monk of Bristol, translated it.--F.]
[Footnote 66-3: _See_ vol. v. p. 3, Note 1.]
[Footnote 66-4: These further memoranda seem to have been added at
a later period, probably in the reign of Henry VII., as the last
entry is of ‘a book of new statutes from Edward IV.’]
[Transcriber’s Note:
In the lists of book titles, all commas are editorial (Gairdner)
but the titles are separately underlined in the MS.]
[[3. _... the Greene / Knyght_; valet,--
_“valet” printed in italic type: corrected to match MS_
5. _... saunce Mercye_, _the Parlement off ..._
_comma missing_
_... Marchaunts_, _the Lyffe of Seynt Cry[stofer]_
_text has “Marehaunts”: corrected from Fenn and MS_]]
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