Add MS 37677

THEOLOGICAL Tracts in Latin and English, viz.:-

1. "Summa Qui bene presunt": the treatise by Richard de Wethershed, al. Grant, al. de Leicester, Archbishop of Canterbury (1229- 1231), preceded by a table of chapters. The text is rather shorter than in most MSS., e.g. Royal 9 A. iii. Imperfect by the loss of one leaf at the end. f. 4.

2. "This sermoun was seid of a worpi clerk maistir Richard Alkartoun at Seint Marie spitel in Eestir woke pe zeer of our Lorde: a pousand fuur honderd and sixe (so colophon): imperfect at the beginning. A Latin copy of this sermon is at Oxford, Trin. Coll.

42. A pencil note suggests that the author may be the same as Richard Ulverston, but this is not probable. The dialect is apparently Midland. Begins "........pis poynt pe lorde him self," aud ends "neper hert thenk it. To whiche ioy our lorde Jesu Crist vs brynge for his endlesse merci amen." f. 57.

3. Translation of part of the Somme Le Roi of Frère Laurent, Confessor to Philip III. of Fiance. The version is distinct, not only from the Ayenbite of Inwit (pp. 14-63 of the E. E. Text Soc. edition represent the corresponding portion of the original), but from the MS. versions in Royal 18 A. x., Add. 17013 and 30944 and from Caxton's Book Royal. It seems most akin to the lastnamed. Beg. "Sent Jon pe Ewangelist in a boke pat he made pat men clepyn pe Apocalips pus seizt pat he say a beste in pe see." Breaks off imperfectly "plesyng and some nozyng and in alle pese," at the foot of the last page of a quire. f. 61 b.

4. "Redde racionem villicacionis tue": sermon on Luke xvi. 2, preached [at Paul's Cross] in 1388 [by Thomas Wimbledon according to Henry Savile's catalogue, Ad(]. MS. 35213, f. 30 b, and the two MSS. mentioned below, and by Richard Wimbledon according to Shirley, Catalogue of Wycliffe's Works, p. 55]. Other copies are in Royal MS. 18 A. xvii., f. 184 b, Harl. MS. 2398, f. 140. Beg. "My dere frendes ze shule understonde pat Crist Jesus auctour and doctour of treupe." f. 84.

5. "Sermo secundus," an anonymous sermon on John vi. 5, beg. "Ememus panes. ze shulle vnderstonde pat by bred in holi writ is vnderstonde," and ending "charyte withouten whom no man may be sauyd." f. 98 b.

6. Sermon, attributed elsewhere to John Wycliffe (see Shirley's Catalogue, p. 42), beg.. "Oure lorde Jesu Crist techep vs to praie euermore for alle nedful pyngis," and ending "as Crist and his apostelis dedyn. amen." f. 101. Later 15th cent. additions are: (a) "Admonicio sancti Augustini ut non solum lingua sed moribus et vita laudetur. deus," printed among the spurious sermons as no. cclii. (Migne, Patr. Lat. xxxix. col. 2210); probably by Caesarius. Beg. "Resurrexio et glorificacio." f. 2;-(b) Theological commonplaces, beg. "Bernardus. Velle scire ut sciamur inanis gloria est." f. 3 b;-(c) A ready reckoning table, beg. "Quadrans per diem vii.s. vii.d. quadrans." f. 106;-(d) Note beg. "Ther be foure maner of Helles." f. 106 b; -(e) A charm, headed "Thy ys pe copy of pe wryt pat pe angyl browzt fro hewin to sent Leo the pope." f. 107;-(f) Eight lines on regimen, beg. "Os humidum calidum capud et uentreni tibi serua." f. 107 b;-(g) "Per opera ista sequencia possit quisque scire uiam sue salutis," four lines, beg. "Primium est uerbum dei ibenter audire." f. 107 b;-(h) "De thesauro," eight lines, beg. "Thesaurus talis preciosus spiritualis." f. 107 b. The flyleaf (f. 1) is part of a 14th cent. service-book, containing the gospel for the Nativity with music. Some 17th cent. scribbling on f. 7 refers to the " champion Dymock." Vellum; ff. 107. 9 in. x 6 in. Early xv. cent. Secundo fol. "cardinales." Original binding (15th cent.) of wooden boards covered with doe-skin (now in a separate case). Belonged to the Library of the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon.