| Summary: | Description: Codex membranaceus, in 4to minori, following 62, sec. xv., quondam Joh. Manyngham. 1. "Here begynith a litill shorte tretis that tellith how there were six maisters assemblid togedir and echon asked othir what thynge myght thai best spek of that myght plese God and were most prophytable to the people, and alle thei weare accordit to spek of Tribulacion," [by Adamus Carthusianus]. fol. 4. Printed at London, in 4to, 1530; 2. De patientia infirmitatis, fol. 4 b. Incip. "Si sciret homo quantum."; 3. "The xij. prophetis and euuangelistes of tribulacion," with a prologue, [by Adamus Carthusianus]. fol. 5 b. Printed at London, with art. 1; 4. "The boke of the crafte of deyinge." [by Rich. Rolle, of Hampole.] with prologue. fol. 24 b. Prol. beg. "For als moch as the passage of deth." Book beg. "Though bodely deth be moste dredefull."; 5. "A tretis of gostely bataile," [by the same.] fol. 42. Beg. "Brother or sustre that desiriste to com." At the end, "Deo gracias." On the fly-leaves are fragments of a roll of household and various expenses, containing payments of labourers and other wages, [of some manor in Somersetshire?] On fol. 3 b. is the note following, "This boke was appertaininge to Marye Dennis, some tymes Ladie Abbesse of a certen nunnery in Glocestershyre. She dyed in Bristowe 1593, a good olde maide verie vertuose and godlye, and is buried in the churche of the Gauntes ane the grene.".
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