SWARBY (?) SUPER GENESIM ET EXODUM
Paper, 7.625 x 5.5, ff. 72, 38 lines to page. 15th cent. late, fairly well written. Bound like F. 22.
Vellum wrapper.
In large
flourished letters on back: ihc
Donor, T.C.S. Priced 10s.
Collation : 18 – 98.
In cover :
Sum domini Richardi Smythe et amicorum ex
dono Johannis horris (or Norris) anno 1523
Liber 24 in registro. Numerus fo sequent.
Contents:
1. Compilatio
super genesim. Heading in a later hand:
‘Authore Gulielmo Swarbye’
In principio, etc. Hic agit legislator moyses de creacione
-se resurrecturum cum Christo ibidem cui est honor et
gl. in sec. sec. Amen.
Expl. breuis compilacio super
genesim sec. sentenciam doctoris
de lyra et magistri historiarum. (Gul.) Hec. Swarby.
Notes on the genealogies, and
ages of the world: from
Josephus, etc. . . . . . . f. 39
2. Super
Exodum . . . . . . 41
Inc historia Exodi de opere et
seruitute filiorum israel.
Ends 69b. Ad prestandum beneficium
lucis.
Et finitur lib. Exodi. (Author Guil. Swarby.)
Below. Smythe ricardus.
On 70b the badly written beginning of an inventory of the
goods of ‘Sir welyem Merbryys,’ 18 Nov. 1505.
Fol. 31r, foot: 'wynstanle' (cropped) in bright blue ink. This is also used for decoration in the text, e.g. 'Capitulum 32', fol. 27v.
Fol. 71v 'John Sadelere' is in the same hand as the inventory.