Anon. IN APOCALYPSIN. XIIIth century.
Vellum, 10.25 x 7.5 inches, ff. 5 + 74 + 28, double columns, the number
of lines varies. Bound in wooden boards. Presented to the Library in
1618 by Thomas Atkins, merchant, Norwich.
Contains: 1. Anonymous comment on the Apocalypse, with a few very rough
pictures, coloured.
2. The Summa of Richard de Wethersett, Chancellor of Cambridge, called
_Qui bene praesunt_.
BIBLIA HIERONYMI, OR BIBLE OF ST. JEROME. XIIIth Century.
Vellum, 9 2/10 x 7 1/10 inches, double columns of 52-53 lines. The
illuminated initial letters are unfinished. Brown leather binding.
Presented to the Library in 1614 by Bassingbourne Throckmorton.
Contains: Genesis--2 Chron. (imperfect), Proverbs--Ecclus. Then the
prologue to Wisdom and a small piece of the text of Wisdom repeated.
Matthew, 1 leaf of Mark. Philippians, Col. 1, 2 Thess. _Laodiceans_
(apocryphal) 1, 2 Tim. Tit. Phil. Heb. Apoc.
MEDICA. XIIIth century.
Vellum, 7.5 x 5.5 inches, ff. 62, double columns of 40 lines, in a small
clear hand which Dr. James thinks may be South French. Initials in green
and red and blue. There is no binding; the first page is much soiled.
Contains thirteen items: medical tracts, list of materia medica, etc.
MANUALE. XVth century.
Vellum, 9 7/8 x 7.25 inches, ff. 1 + 62 + 1, double columns of 27 lines,
early XVth century, well written.
Original binding, white skin with circuit edge over wooden boards
bevelled at the edges; remains of two strap and pin fastenings.
On the fly-leaf: John Kirkpatrick, Sept. 12, 1704. An old pressmark: 4to
K 147. An illegible (not early) note of price.
The covers are lined with four half-leaves of a folio XVth century Missal
in double columns, with parts of the Offices for St. Thomas of Canterbury
and Sundays after Epiphany. At the end are bound in 7 smaller leaves of
paper on which Kirkpatrick (?) has carefully facsimiled alphabets and
abbreviations, and arranged the latter in alphabetical order.
Contents: The occasional offices to be used by a priest, according to
Sarum use. The first page has a rather rough border in gold, red, and
blue, and an initial of the same. Other like initials head the principal
offices.
BIBLE: GENESIS TO PSALMS. WYCLIFFE'S TRANSLATION. XVth century.
Vellum, 17 2/10 x 12 inches, ff. 208 + 1, double columns of 59 lines.
Original sides of brown leather have been laid down on modern binding;
ornamented in blind with rectangular panel formed by two roll stamps,
enclosing another panel formed by the same stamps. Illuminated page at
beginning of each book.
It belonged to Sir James Boleyn of Blickling Hall, who died in 1561, and
was presented to the Library in 1692 by Richard Ireland.
ASTROLOGICAL TRACTATES. XVth century.
Paper, 5 3/4 x 4.5 inches, ff. 120, 32 lines to a page. In three hands;
clearly written.
Original binding, wrapper of skin lined with linen. Contains thirteen
items: astrological treatises, tables, etc.
PRECEDENTIA TEMPORE REGNI HEN. VIII. Circa 1500.
Vellum, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, ff. 124 (imperfect, commences at f. 10), 37
lines to a page. Rough calf binding.
Book of Precedents of Royal Writs.
SEARCH BOKE FOR LYNN, SWAFFHAM, WALSYNGHAM, AND FAKENHAM. XVIIth
century.
Paper, 11 x 7.5 inches, ff. 81. Vellum binding.
Alphabetical index of offenders at various sessions courts held at
Fakenham, Walsingham, Lynn and Swaffham, from 1651 to 1669.
The early printed books in the Library include no less than twenty-eight
incunabula, four of these being from English presses, and two, the 1483
"Scriptum super logica," printed at St. Albans, and the 1497 "Expositio
Hymnorum et Sequentiarum," printed by Pynson, are of great rarity.
Several of the incunabula are imperfect, but Mr. Alfred W. Pollard, M.A.,
the Hon. Secretary of the Bibliographical Society and an eminent
authority on early printed books, very kindly identified them, and he
also undertook to edit the list of incunabula. To Mr. Pollard the
writer's thanks are tendered for the following annotated list, arranged
chronologically, and giving the place of printing and the name of the
printer:--