Vellum, 7 x 4.75, ff. 101 + 8, 24 lines to a page.  15th cent., well written.

Donor, T. C. S.

On flyleaf:     

Johannes Graunge me possidet.

Collation : a⁴, 1⁸ 2⁸ 3⁴ 4⁸ – 13⁸ 14 (one) b⁴.

On first flyleaf, title, and :

            I pray you restore this booke to St Johns Librarie in Cambridge.

On the flyleaves a poem of 15th cent. against the friars :

                            {TH}ou {th}^t sellest {th}^e worde of god

                            Be {th}ou berfot be {th}ou schod

                                    Cum neuere here

                            In principio erat uerbum

Is {th}^e worde of god all and sum

         Y^t {th}ou sellest lewed frere.

Ends :

                                If it goo for{th}e in {th}is manere

                                It wole done us myche gyle

                                Men schul fynde unne{th}e a frere

                                In englonde wi{th}in a whille.

The margins are covered with 16th cent. scribbles in prose and verse, and these continue on the other flyleaves.

On f. 1 :

                            O pater omnipotens qui verbo cuncta creasti

                            Orat Graungeus des sibi regna poli.

Contents :

         The Pore Caitiff.

            This tretis compilid of a pore caitif and nedi of goostli help         .         f.    1

            The ground of all goodnesse             .               .               .               .               1b

            Ends 101b : in {th}in eendles blis. merciful lord.  Amen.

The flyleaves are covered with verses of xvith cent. and one note in English of cent. xv.

This, according to Reginald Pecock, was written by a mendicant Friar ‘pro defensorio suo.’  It is to be edited by Mr Peake for the E. E. T. S.