Henry the Sixth : $b a reprint of John Blacman's memoir, with translation and notesBlakman, John
History
Henry the Sixth : $b a reprint of John Blacman's memoir, with translation and notes
Blakman, John
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461; Henry VI, King of England, 1421-1471
(B) 19. Item tabula Petri Blesensis. 2º fo. voluminis _hospita signa
bonos._
(A) 19. reportorium poeticum
lapidarius cum tractatu herbarum
tabula epistolarum 163 Blesensis
exposicio notabilis super Boecium de consolacione
ars conficiendi colores.
(B) 20. Item meditaciones beati Bernardi. 2º fo. voluminis _de hiis._
(A) 20. moralia dicta originalia bona
meditaciones sancti Bernardi 13
Anselmus de passione Christi 3
Anselmus de amore dei 42
Augustinus de vera innocencia 56
Augustinus de laude psalmorum 100.
_dulcis Ihesu memoria._
(B) 21. Item Boecius de consolacione philosophie. 2º fo. _segetem
necant._
(A) 21. Boecius de consolacione philosophie
Galfridus in noua poetria
canon tabularum Rede.
(B) 22. Item librum vocatum pharetra, 2º fo. _idem de coniugiis._
(A) 22. pharetra
quindenarius Gregorianus.
(B) 23. Item repertorium diuersorum. 2º fo. voluminis _Incipiens
guerras._
(A) 23. Commentaciones prophetiales
liber facescie communis.
_Ex agro veteri_ (i.e. _Matthew of Vendome's poem on Tobit_)
a chartuary aftre penkarr
tractatus de armis in anglicis
disputacio inter corpus et animam
processus de mundi vanitate
quedam commendacio artium liberalium
utilis tractatus rethorice.
Cirillus de transitu beati Jeronimi
12. capitula Hampol
Bernardus ad Eugenium papam
disputacio inter graciam et intellectum.
(B) 24. _alia manu._ Item Lucidarium cum aliis. 2º fo. _Illa itaque._
(A) 24. _alia manu._ Lucidari
tractatus Petri Alfonsi clericalis disciplina
tractatus de penitencia Roberti Grostest
tractatus inquirendi peccata in foro penitenciali
diuersa notabilia de canone juris.
Another MS which does not occur in the above list is Lambeth 436,
Horologium Sapientiae, of cent. XV, which has in it: Liber cartusie de
Witham. Orate pro Johanne Blacman.
MS. 182 at S. John's College, Oxford, containing lives of saints,
formerly belonged to William and John Blacman.
In Laud Misc. 152, no. 2 in the list, dated 1463, are these doggerel
lines:
Me dedit albus homo John Blacman ipse vocatus
In presente domo qui redditus est graduatus
Extitit Oxonie vir in artibus iste magister,
Cantor et Etonie dignus dum rege minister
Pro quo defuncto seu viuo queso precare
P............ quicumque solet celebrare
Ut deus hunc Hominem Nigrum cognomine dictum
Post vite finem det sumere lucis amictum.
Amen.
In list B the catalogue of books is followed by a short note of
vestments given by Blacman to Witham. The last item is interesting:
Item circa diuersas reparaciones factas in uita sancti Hugonis (_the
founder of the house_) in ecclesia de-laffrery sumptus fert non exiguos.
Footnotes:
[48] Morgan was dean of Windsor 1484-96; bp of S. David's 1496-1504
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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