EPISTLES of St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Anselm, viz.: — 1. "Epistola Anselmi arehiepiscopi ad papam"; Anselm's letter to Pope Paschal II., asking for a clearer declaration of his opinion on Investitures (Migne, Patrologia, vol. clix. col. 110, Ep. iii. 73). Begins (after the salutation), ...
"LIBER Pastoralis Cure beati Gregorii [episcopi] urbis Rome ad Johannem Ravennatem"; with the dedicatory letter, beg. "Pastoralis cure me pondera,"addressed to John, Bishop of Ravenna (Migne, Patrologia, vol. lxxvii.). At the end (f. 61b) is added a letter from Innocent III. to King John of Engl...
ANSELMI Epistolæ ccccxvii.: a transcript of Cotton MS. Claudius A. xi., containing the complete collection of St. Anselm's letters; made in 1670 under the inspection of Sir Roger Twysden, who certifies its correctness in an autograph note at the end. A table of titles of the letters is prefixed....
SHORT HOMILIES on the various virtues and vices, in English. The beginning is wanting; the titles of the paragraphs which now stand first are "Of Sorinesse " [Sorrow] and "Of Asolknesse, Unlust" [Sloth]. Vellum; ff. 49. Early XIIIth cent. With a strongly marked change of hand at f. 39. Bound in ...
DE CORPORE ET SANGUINE DEI: a treatise on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by B[aldwin], brother of the Abbey of Ford [in Devonshire, afterwards Abbot of Ford in 1168, Bishop of Worcester in 1180, and Archbishop of Canterbury 1184-1191], dedicated to B[artholomew], Bishop of Exeter [1159-1172]...
EIGHT SERMONS "de Morte," and eleven "de Passione" Christi, in Latin. A short introduction is prefixed to the first series, beg. "Cum propriam imperitiam," and each sermon begins with the words "Omnes morimur." The second series begins, "Rorantes sanguine lacrimas" (f. 29b). The end of the volum...
" HENCHERIDIOM Magistri Alani [de Insulis] de Conquestione Naturae ": a treatise against immorality, in mixed prose and verse, beg. " In lacrimas risus, in luctus gaudia verto." Printed in Migne, Patrologia, vol. ccx. 429-482. At the end, in a somewhat later hand and on two leaves which original...
"A TRETIS þat suffisiþ to eche cristen man and womman to lyuen þeraftir," beg. "This tretis compilid of a pore caitif," and hence commonly known as "The Poor Caitiff." The authorship has been attributed to Wiclif, but see Shirley, Fasciculi Zizaniorum, 1858, p. xiii. n. 3. The headings of the di...
"DE SACRO Jesu Christi triumpho habito Lauduni adversus daemonem mulierculae corpus agitantem compendiosa historia": a narrative, in Latin, of certain miracles alleged to have occurred at Laon in 1565 and 1566, edited by Jean Boulaese, priest first of Chartres and then of Laon, professor "litera...