Jesus College Q.B.1

Described James Jesus College, 18; Thomson II:25–6.

[1]

f. 159v

Remembyr remembir that I owe you for iij d obol for lace goldingham

A note written in a blank space in a manuscript of Latin legal documents for the use of a monastic house

MS s. xv. Donor: Thomas Man (c. 1655–90), from 1676 a Fellow of the College, 21 January 1685. The manuscript had belonged to the Abbot of Bury (James, Jesus College, p. 19), according to a note on f. 1.

Jesus College Q.B.10

Described James Jesus College, 27.

[A5]

[1]

f. 2v

Fyrst sede þe herbis as þey be wrytyne in lyk porcion and þen putt theym in a gret vessel and whassh hem and take out the pyth of the rotis and þen put them in a led and seth them tyll they begyne to drawe to the botome of the lede and then wythdraw the fyer and let hem soke and þan cleue him thorowe a canvas …

f. 3

… and putt hytt in a diuerse vessell tyll hytt be colde and þen putt barme aboue and do be yt as þu wold do be ale

Medical recipe added after a fifteenth-century list of herbs recorded in [A5], in a twelfthcentury manuscript containing works of Ambrose and Jerome including Jerome's Adversus Jovinianum.

MS s. xv. At the end of the text in a fifteenth-century hand is written a note in Latin and English including the names ‘Walterus’ and ‘Johannes’. On f. 4v, is written ‘lib[er] magistri andree doket rectoris sancti botolfi cantabr’. He was the first master of Queens’ College (1448–84).

Jesus College Q.B.13

Described James Jesus College, 30; FM, I, p. lvi (MS 122). [1]

f. 18

[M]atheu þat was of iudea as he is set first in ordir of þe gospelleres so he wrete first þe gospel in iudee and fro þe office of a tolgaderer he was clepid to god whan þis matheu hadde prechid first þe gospel in iudee and wolde go to heþen men he wrote first þe gospel in ebreu and lefte it to mynde to cristen men of iewes …