Part 5
(A) 16. Gregorius in pastoralibus Anselmus de 12 beatitudinibus Anselmus de vanitate mundi quidam processus de sacramento altaris Athanasius de ymagine domini Ihesu.
(B) 17. Item gesta Romanorum. 2º fo. _tu es._
(A) 17. gesta Romanorum regula beati Augustini.
(B) 18. Item vite sanctorum. 2º fo. voluminis _Et quod bonum._
(A) 18. narraciones bone exemplace summa magistri J. Belet de officiis ecclesie sermo bonus de libro consciencie compilacio bona de vitis sanctorum item de officiis ecclesie.
(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 Vendôme'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
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