16 (SC 27667)

Described PA 3:918; Seymour, ‘Properties’ 3:15–17; Singer, 1059 no. xxxiv; R. H. Robbins, ‘Alchemical Texts in Middle English Verse: Corrigenda and Addenda,’ Ambix 13 (1966), 69 (corrections to Singer).

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f. 1a

… [imperfect at start] a litel hurting in be … of membres in be senewes of fel … st greuous for lette of su … es be vertu of feling and of me … principalliche & mooste hastilich il … and armony acordeb oonyng … be body is dissolued and todeled … by errour of kynde in genering of … bres sometyme superfluite of membres … eb to mony and wondurlich yschape …

f. 310vb

… he susteyneb & wibholdeb al binges … is iseide li … capitulo xxxj o & vnite is so ypre-ised among wise men bat many men men meneb bat one & vnite is be soule in noumbres ber comeb of one & of vnite & meneb bat one is bigynnynge of al binge bat is contynual & discrete … [breaks off incomplete]

John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomæus Anglicus’ De Proprietatibus Rerum, beginning imperfectly in chapter 1 of book 5 and breaking off in chapter 116 of book 19. Wells Rev. 10:3599, 3750 [2]; IPMEP 785.

Other texts: cf. IPMEP 785; Wells Rev. 10:3750 [2]; Seymour, Properties, 3:10–26. Other copies of the text have been indexed in earlier IMEP volumes as follows: IMEP 8 Oxf. Magdalen Col lat. 182 [1]–[2]; IMEP 9 BodL Ashmole 1397 [15], 1481 [16]; IMEP 19 CUL Ii.5.41 [1].

MS s. xv 2/4. Purchased from Nathaniel Crynes of St. John's College in 1723; the name ‘Gulihelmum Dethick’ (Sir William Dethick, d.1612) appears on f. 212v.