Volume Vi Part 16 (1/2)
saunce Mercye_, _the Parlement off Byrd[es_, _the Temple of] Gla.s.se_, _Palatyse and Scitacus_, _the Me[ditations of ... . ] the Greene Knyght_; valet,--
4. Item, a Boke in preente off the Pleye off the [Chess].
5. Item, a Boke lent Midelton, and therin is _Bele Da[me sans] Mercy_, _the Parlement of Byrds_, _Balade ... ... off Guy and Colbronde_, _off the Goos th ... . . _, _the Dysputson bytwyen Hope and Dyspeyr_, ... ... _Marchaunts_, _the Lyffe of Seynt Cry[stofer]_.
6. A reede Boke that Percyvall Robsart gaff m[e] ... ... . . _off the medis off the Ma.s.se_, _the Lamentacion ... ... . . off Chylde Ypotis_, _a Preyer to the Vernyclr_ ... ... . . callyd _the Abbeye off the Holy Goost_, ... ... . .
7. Item, in quayers:--Tully _de Senectute_ in ... ... ... .
wheroff ther is no mor cleer wretyn ... ... .
8. Item, in quayers:--Tully, or Cypio,[66-1] _de Ami[citia]_[66-2]
leffte with William Worcester; valet ... ...
9. Item, in qwayers, a Boke of the Polecye of In ... . .
10. Item, in qwayers, a Boke _de Sapiencia_ ... ... wherin the ij.
parson is liknyd to Sapi[ence] ... . .
11. Item, a Boke de Othea,[66-3] text and glose, valet ... ... in quayers.
Memorandum,[66-4] myn olde Boke off Blasonyngs off a[rms].
Item, the nywe Boke portrayed and blasoned.
Item, a copy off Blasonyngs off armys and th ... names to be fownde by letter.
Item, a Boke with armys portrayed in paper ... . .
Memorandum, my Boke of Knyghthod and the man[er] off makyng off Knyghts, off Justs, off Tor[neaments] ffyghtyng in lystys, paces holden by so[ldiers] ... . . and chalenges, statuts off weer, and de _Regim[ine Principum]_, valet ... ... ...
Item, a Boke off nyw Statuts ffrom Edward the iiij.
[Footnote 65-2: [From Fenn, ii. 300.] This is a catalogue of the books either of John Paston the younger or of John Paston, Knight, most probably the former, drawn up in the reign of Edward IV., but owing to the decay of the original MS. we cannot tell in what year. It certainly could not have been earlier than 1475, when _The Game and Play of the Chess_ was first printed by Caxton. It is in itself a remarkable thing that the expression 'in print'
should have got into use even during the reign of Edward IV.; but one may suppose that such an expression could hardly have been current for at least a year or two after the first printed book appeared. We therefore, without deciding the year, place the paper at the end of King Edward's reign.]
[Footnote 66-1: _Quaere_, if Cypio is not a mistake from 'Somnium Scipionis,' a piece which is usually printed with the 'de Amicitia,' and probably accompanied it in this ma.n.u.script.--F.]
[Footnote 66-2: It is a curious circ.u.mstance that this book should be here mentioned as left with William Worcester, who with the a.s.sistance of John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, and John Phrea or Free, a monk of Bristol, translated it.--F.]
[Footnote 66-3: _See_ vol. v. p. 3, Note 1.]
[Footnote 66-4: These further memoranda seem to have been added at a later period, probably in the reign of Henry VII., as the last entry is of 'a book of new statutes from Edward IV.']
[Transcriber's Note: In the lists of book t.i.tles, all commas are editorial (Gairdner) but the t.i.tles are separately underlined in the MS.]
[[3. _... the Greene / Knyght_; valet,-- _”valet” printed in italic type: corrected to match MS_
5. _... saunce Mercye_, _the Parlement off ..._ _comma missing_