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THEOLOGICAL TRACTS, etc., in Latin:-

1. On the Decalogue, beg.: " Si vis ad vitam ingredi." f. 3.

2. " Privilegia diei Veneris ": list of events in sacred history said to have occurred on Friday. f. 24.

3. On the Lord's Prayer, beg.: " Legitur quod dominus noster." f. 24.

4. On the Apostles' Creed, beg.. [C]redo in deum hec doctrina apostolica vacatur simbolum." f 26.

5. St. Patrick's Purgatory: an abridged version. f. 28. See Cat. of Romances, vol. ii. p. 465.

6. " Speculum Sancti Edmundi ": the Speculum Ecclesiæ of St. Edmund of Pontigny (printed in La Bigne, Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. v., 1600, col. 983). f. 30 b.

7. " Tractatus beati Roberti [Grosseteste] Lincolniensis episcopi de penis purgatorij." f. 44 b.

8. " Libellus de miseria condicionis humane ": the treatise by Innocent III., entitled De Contemptu Mundi, sive de Miseria Conditionis llumanæ (Migne, Pair. Lat., ccxvii. col. 701). f. 51.

9. " Tractatus qui dicitur speculum siue lumen laycorum ": a collection of tales arranged under subjects in alphabetical order, the first heading being Abstinentia, the last Usurarii. The authorship has been assigned by Bale and others to Johannes de Hoveden. The introduction beg.: " [I]n Christo sibi dilecto quondam scolari "; and the work itself: " Abstinencie triplex est species." f. 73 b.

10. " Hic incipit alius liber qui vocatur Ancelmus [or Ancelinus?] de morte ": a sermon on the Passion. f. 219. Many of the spaces at the beginnings and endings of these tracts are filled with short theological notes. At the end of art. 7 (f. 50 b) the scribe has added " Amen quod dominus Johannes Ardyslay." Paper and vellum; ff. 224. xvth cent. The fly-leaves (ff. 1, 224) contain fragments of a 14th-cent. copy of the Vita S. Thomæ by Herbert of Boseham (Materials for Hist. of Abp. Thomas Becket, Rolls Series, iii. pp. 253-5). Octavo.