Note on books of Scripture (167r); strophes ‘Ihesu’, ‘Maria’ and ‘Iohannes’ (167r); note on Adam of Dryburgh (d. c. 1212) (167v); Peter of Blois, Compendium in Iob (168r: excerpt, continued from §III, f. 49v); note on Prior Geoffrey of Clairvaux (fl. 12th century) (168r); Anselm of Canterbury, Oratio de spiritu sancto (168v)
Notes on the English Benedictine Chapter, 1421 (193r–194v); letter of King Henry V of England (1413–1422) to the Benedictine Presidents (194v); letter of the Benedictine Presidents (195r–v); King’s Articles, 1421, with criticisms and modifications (196r–212v)
Book of Proverbs (Parabole Salomonis); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis; note on Abbot Macarius; ‘Kentish hymn’; note of the age of the world; 'Kentish Psalm' (Old English paraphrase of Psalm 50); Disticha Catonis (incomplete); hymns for St Augustine of Canterbury and others
Scope & Content:
These folios contain various Biblical texts, notes, and hymns in Latin and Old English. Apart from the additions on ff. 76v–77v, most of this text may have been copied between the middle of the 10th century to 2nd half of the 10th century. These folios include: ff. 2r–37v: Book of Proverbs (Par...