Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.494.

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f. 10

For þe propirtees of þingis folewen þe substaunce þerfor þe ordre and þe distinccioun of propirtees schal be ordeynede to þe ordre and distinccioun of þe substaunce þerof þerfor bi þe help of god i haue compilid þis werk to me and perauenture to oþere whiche knowen not þe kyndes and þe propirtees of þingis …

f. 344v

… þe ʒeer of my lordes age sir thomas lord of berklei which made me to make þis translacioun seuene and fourty these ben þe auctoris and þe doctouris þat ben aleggid in þese bookis augustinus … (followed by a long list of names).

John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's De Proprietatibus Rerum; paraphrased version. The title is given on f. 1 (set out by a s. xvi hand as a title-page) ‘liber bartholomei angeli de proprietatibus rerum’. IPMEP 785; Wells Rev. 10:3750–2 [2]. The text is preceded on f. 10 by the translator's verse prologue (24 lines; Wells Rev. 10: 3752 [3]), and on ff. 2–9 by a table of contents.

Other texts: Wells Rev. lists 15 MSS and 3 early printed editions.

s. xv in. LALME I:68 localizes Hand B (ff. 10v–69v) to Huntingdonshire, LP 461, and noting that the language is almost identical with that of Durham Cathedral Library A.iv.22, comments that though the scripts are different the texts may be by the same hand.