Dr. Incram—On Medieval Morahzed Tales. 131 
““< Te superbia, et presumptione, et extollentia sui, et humilitate 
et patientia bona.’ 
““*De iracundia et blasphemis et perjuris, et invidia fraterne 
gratie.’ 
‘<< De liberalitate et humanitate et patientia et crudelitate princi- 
pum.’ 
&e., &e. 
‘¢ Under each head curious anecdotes are given, tending to set forth 
the dangers of vice and the advantages of the several virtues or 
graces. The following example occurs (fol 49) in the section headed 
‘De memoria mortis et mundi contemptu.’ I select it chiefly because 
it is short :— 
‘* Fuit quidam nobilis princeps adhuc infidelis, qui cum videret et 
per signa evidentia cognosceret se appropinquare ad mortem, fecit suda- 
rium quo debuit sepeliri explicatum portari per villam. Et clamabat 
preco valenter, Ego cum sim dominus multarum regionum, hoc solum 
porto mecum de tota substantia mea et gloria mundi. Ideo providete 
vobis ut bona opera facta in vita vos inseperabiliter comitentur. Cum 
interierit homo, non sumet omnia, neque descendet cum eo gloria 
ejus.’ 
‘The second part is written in a different hand from the first: it 
is arranged in alphabetical order, and the subjects are illustrated not 
by stories or anecdotes, but by sentences quoted apparently from 
various authors. As a specimen of the contents of this part of the 
work, I transcribe some of the headings :— 
Abstinencia. Ballivus. 
Accidia. Beatitudo. 
Angelus. Bellum. 
Anima. Caritas, 
Advocati. &e., &e. 
Avaricia. | 
‘“‘This part is imperfect, some leaves being lost at the end of the 
volume. It ends with the word J/undus, the illustrations of which 
are impertect on the last page—ending with the word verberabitur. 
“On the upper margin of the first leaf, in a hand of the fifteenth 
century, the title of the book is thus given by some ancient librarian : 
“‘¢Tncipit prima pars Exemplorum in moralibus per narraciones, 
&c. 
‘“«Sequitur secunda pars Exemplorum in moralibus naturali- 
bus. . . . Inferius prope finem.’ 
“On the lower margin are the old library marks— 
sere. e al Derry. 
P2* 
