[474] MS. 587 Bodl.

[475] Leland³, 463; Leland, iii. 13; Einstein, 23, 54-5; C.A.S., 8vo ser., No. 32 (1899), 13.

[476] E. H. R., xxv. 449.

[477] Rymer, Foedera, xii. 214, 216; E. H. R., xxv. 450.

[478] Now MS. li. 4, 16, at Cambridge University Library.

[479] On Shirwood’s books see E. H. R., xxv. 449-53.

[480] Leiden, Voss. MSS. Graec., 56.

[481] On this group see Harris, Jas. Rendel, The Leicester Codex.

[482] E. H. R., xxv. 446-7; James.

[483] Literae Cant. (Rolls Ser.), iii. 239; cf. Campbell, Matls for Hist. of H. VII., ii. 85, 114, 224.

[484] Leland³, 482. The Obit in Christ Church MS. D. 12 refers to Selling as “Sacrae Theologiae Doctor. Hic in divinis agendis multum devotus et lingua Graeca et Latina valde eruditus.”—Gasquet², 24.

[485] Gasquet², 24; James, li.

[486] Homer and Euripides are in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; the others are in Trinity College, Cambridge.—James¹⁶, 9; Gasquet², 30.

[487] Gasquet², 37.

[488] The point is disputed; cf. Einstein, 32; Lyte, 386; Camb. Lit., iii. 5, 6; Rashdall and Rait, New. Coll., 93; Dr. Sandys does not mention Vitelli.

[489] Rashdall, ii. 343.

[490] Biblio. Soc. Monogr. x. (S. Gibson), 43-6.

[491] Ibid., p. 1; O.H.S., 29; Madan, 267, contains long list of references.

[492] O. H. S., 27, Boase, xxxvi.

[493] Cf. Grace B. Δ ix, xlii, xliii.; O.H.S., 29, Madan, Early Oxf. Press, 266; Mun. Acad., 532, 544, 579.

[494] Mun. Acad., 52.

[495] Ibid., 174, 346.

[496] Ibid., xxxviii.

[497] Mun. Acad., xl.-xlii.

[498] Ibid., 253.

[499] Mun. Acad., 383-7.

[500] Ibid., 233-4.

[501] R. de B., 205.

[502] Mun. Acad., 550.

[503] Bodl. MS. Rawlinson, 34, fo. 21, Stat. Coll. S. Mariae pro Oseney: De Libraria.

[504] Cooper, i. 57, 104, 141, 262; cf. Biblio. Soc. Monogr. 13, p. 1-6.

[505] 3 H. vii., cap. 9, 10, Stat. of the Realm, ii. 518.

[506] Donnée des comptes des Roys de France, au 14^e siècle (1852), 227; Putnam, i. 312; Library, v. 3-4.

[507] Gairdner, Paston letters, v. 1-4, where the whole bill is transcribed.

[508] Cited in Gasquet², 17.

[509] Martène, Thesaurus, i. 511.

[510] Opera, fo. 1523. Fo. xlvii. 7, Doctrinale juvenum, c. v.

[511] Ibid., c. iv.

[512] Maitland, 200.

[513] Surtees Soc., vii. 80.

[514] V. Catalogues in Becker; James (M. R.); Bateson; Surtees Soc., vii.; etc.

[515] Sandys, i. 638; and see Jerome, Ep. xxii., ed. 1734, i. 114.

[516] Sandys i. 618.

[517] Comparetti, Vergil in the M. A., 77.

[518] Taylor, Classical Heritage, 37.

[519] Sandys, i. 638-39; see what is said about use of Ovid at Canterbury.

[520] On the use of classics in the Middle Ages see Sandys, i. 630 (Plautus and Terence), 631 (Lucretius), 633 (Catullus and Virgil), 635 (Horace), 638 (Ovid), 641 (Lucan), 642 (Statius), 643 (Martial), 644 (Juvenal), 645 (Persius), 648 (Cicero), 653 (Seneca), 654 (Pliny), 655 (Quintilian), etc.

[521] Rashdall, i. 42.

[522] Lyte, 88-89; Einstein, 180.

[523] Bacon, Op. ined., 84, 148.

[524] Mullinger, 211.

[525] Rashdall, i. 77-8.

[526] Becker, 244.

[527] Cf. Becker, index.

[528] On Michael, see Bacon, Op. maj., 36, 37; Dante, Inferno, xx. 116; Boccaccio, 8 day, 9 novel; Scott, Lay, II. xi.; Brown, Life and Legend of M. S. (1897).

[529] Bacon, Op. ined., Comp. stud., 472 (Rolls Series).

[530] In Peterhouse Library, Cambridge, is a manuscript of Aristotle’s Metaphysica, with Latin translations from the Arabic and the Greek in parallel columns: the one being called the old translation, the other the new. The manuscript is of the thirteenth or fourteenth century.—James³, 43.

[531] Gasquet³, 143-44; see other instances, Camb. Mod. Hist., i. 588.

[532] Jourdain, Recherches ... traductions Latines d’A., 187; Gasquet³, 148.

[533] Paris, Chron. Maj., iv. 232-3; cp. Bacon, Op. ined., 91, 434.

[534] Stevenson, 224, 227; Camb. Mod. Hist., i. 586; James, lxxxvi.

[535] MS. Ff. i. 24; Paris, C.M. iv. 232; cf. v. 285.

[536] Sandys, i. 576.

[537] Now Canon. gr. 35 Bodleian; James, lxxxvi. This may be the Liber grecorum in the list of books repaired in 1508.—James, lxxxvi., 163.

[538] James¹⁶, 10.

[539] Op. Maj., 46.

[540] Op. Tertium, p. 55, 56.

[541] James (M. R.), lxxiv.

[542] Mun. Acad., 86, 430, 444; cf. Lyte, 235. Donatus came to be regarded as a synonymous term for grammar. In Piers Plowman a grammatical lesson or text-book is called “Donet.” A Greek grammar was called a “Donatus Graecorum.”

[543] Mun. Acad., 441.

[544] In the right-hand doorway of the west front of Chartres Cathedral are figures of the Seven Arts, Grammar being associated with Priscian, Logic with Aristotle, Rhetoric with Cicero, Music with Pythagoras, Arithmetic with Nicomachus, Geometry with Euclid, and Astronomy with Ptolemy. Cf. Marriage, Sculp. of Chartres Cath., 71-73 (1909).

[545] On medieval studies see further Mun. Acad., 34, 242-43, 285, 412-13; Sandys, i. 670.

[546] Oxford Stat., c. 21.

[547] Toxophilus, Arber’s ed., p. 19.

[548] Camb. Eng. Lit., iii. 364.

[549] Cf. Warton, ii. 95.

[550] By Jehan de Tuim, c. 1240.

[551] Wace or Layamon.

[552] Amadas et Idoine, an anonymous Norman French poem of the twelfth century.

[553] Sir Beves of Hamtoun (Fr. 13 cent., Eng. 14 cent.).

[554] Character in romance of Tristrem, by Thomas the Rymer.

[555] Haveloke. For other metrical catalogues see first and second prologues to Richard Cœur de Lion.—Ritson, Anc,. Eng. Metr. Romances, i. 55.

[556] Gladly, blithely.

[557] From beginning of Handlyng Synne, by Robert Mannying of Brunne.

[558] Bateson x.; Gasquet⁴, 30-31; James (M.R.), 148.

[559] Written at the end of the manuscript, which is in the Douce collection.—Warton, i. 182-83.

[560] MS. Burney, 11; James (M.R.), 515.

[561] B.M. MS. Reg., 9 B ix. 1.

[562] Lyte, 135.

[563] Mun. Acad., 665. Cf. p. 661.

[564] Mun. Acad., ci.

[565] Mun. Acad., lxxvii.

[566] Lyte, 93.

[567] Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, ii. 265.

[568] Wife of Bath’s Prologue, ll. 673-81.

[569] E. H. R., xxv. 453.

[570] Camb. Lit., i. 262.

[571] Piers Plowman, 186.

[572] “Quendam libru’ meu’ de Cant^rbury Tales.”—N. & Q., 11 ser. ii. 26.

[573] Camb. Lit., i. 262.

[574] Jusserand, Piers, 13.