Add MS 39850

FRAGMENTS of liturgical and theological manuscripts, in Latin, early 12th-13th centt. :-

A. Thirty-four leaves (ten mutilated) from a lectionary, apparently of a church or religious house in the diocese of Beauvais, containing lives of saints, etc. (mostly fragmentary), for the months of Jan., Feb., April-June, Sept.-Dec. The lives, wliich are generally excerpted from the sources given below, appear to be divided into three or nine lessons (see,ff. 13 b, 23-24; yet the numeral X occurs in the Margins of ff. 9 b, 34 b) by a marginal T. or T. Lc. [Terminus lectionis], and include SS. Angadrisma (no. 36) and Justus (no. 37), patrons of Beauvais. Contents:-

(1) St. Antony (17 Jan.). An unidentified fragment. Beg. "... Antonius moraretur : ut ip ...... " ; ends "...... tuens et heremi latam uasti .... " f. 1 ;-

(2) SS. Speusippus, Eleusippus, Meleusippus (17 Jan.). From the Life attributed to Warnaharius of Langres (no. 7829 in the Bollandists' Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, 1898-1901, p. 1133 ; printed in the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum, 3rd ed., 17 Jan., pp. 443, 444). Beg . ".... parabitis : tantum amplius nos de dei gratia confortatis"; ends " ab urbe Lingones - in uico qui uocatur Urbatum." Another hand has inserted f. 3 in continuation of the text which was left incomplete on f. 2b. ff. 2, 3 ;-

(3) " Passio beatorum Martirum Marii et Marthe, Audifas et Abacuc" (19 Jan.). Beg. " Temporibus Claudii uenit quidam uir de Perside " ; ends " furore repletus dixit ; Intimatum vobis est .... " B.H.L. 5543; Acta SS., 19 Jan.,. pp. 580, 582, 583. f. 2 b;-

(4) St. Sebastian (20 Jan.). Beg. "....... consolationibus adquiescerent et uerbera carnificum " ; ends " exclamauit mulier uoce magna ...." B.H.L. 7543; Acta SS., 20 Jan., pp. 629, 630, 632, 633. f. 4;-

(5) St. Vincent (22 Jan.). Beg. " Cvm apvd Cesaraugustam ciuitatem . ut multorum sinceritas " ; ends " Grauiorem autem rebellem qui in comtumelia ...." B.H.L. 8630; Acta SS., 22 Jan., pp. 7, 8. f. 5;-

(6) St. Babylas (24 Jan.). Beg. "....... apud Antiochiam ciuitatem uoluit introire in domum Domini"; ends " Sic quoque et eius ablatum est capud ...... B.H.L. 889; Acta SS., 24 Jan., pp. 185-187. f. 6;-

(7) St. Ignatius (1 Feb.). Beg. "....... ait; Viri Romani qui hoc certamen spectatis " ; ends " in cimiterio ecclesie : quinto decimo Kalendas Ianuarii delate." From the Martyrology of Ado, Archbishop of Vienne (Migne, Patrol. Lat. cxxiii. col. 191 ; Acta SS., 1 Feb., p. 29). f. 7;-

(8) " In Purificatione sancte Marie [2 Feb.], sermo beati Augustini episcopi." Beg. " E[x]vltent uirgines : uirgo peperit Christum ; Nichil in ea " ; ends " per quem occulta reuelabuntur : dicebat ......" Printed, with the same attribution, in Homilie hoc est Conciones populares, etc. (J. Froben, Basel, 1516), pt. ii (De Sanctis), f. 6, and (amongst the collections of Paulus Diaconus) in Patrol. Lat. xcv. 1461, 1462. f. 7;-

(9) St. Vedast (6 Feb.). Beg. " .... sibi glorie largitori appareret .... " ; ends " uisa est nocte quadam clarissime columpna ......" From the Life by Alcuin (B.H.L. 8506-8508; Acta SS., 6 Feb., pp. 804-807). St. Vedast was translated to Beauvais on 2 July 852, returning to Arras on 15 July 893; f. 8;-

(10) Cathedra S. Petri Antiochiae (22 Feb.). Beg." .... uexatos a languoribus et demoniis fatigatos "; ends " credebant sane doctrine que, sanitatum efficacitas affirmabat." From the apocryphal Recognitions of St. Clement translated by Rufinus of Aquileia (B.H.L. 6644; Migne, Patrol. Gr. i. 1452, 1453). Followed by " VII. Lectio sancti euangelii secundum Mattheum [xiii. 15]," with " Omelia Beati Hieronimi presbiteri " : St. Jerome's commentary on this verse (Patrol. Lat. xxvi. 131). f. 10 ;-

-(11) St. Ambrose (4 April). Beg. " .... superatis alterutris ordin .... bili et incredibili concord ...".. ; ends "...... quorum uita uixit in terri[s] .... B.H.L. 377; Patrol. Lat. xiv. 42, 43. f. 11 ;-

(l2) SS. Valerianus, Tiburtius et Maximus (14 April). Beg. "....ad hoc uacabant cotidi[e] ....." ; ends " et illic ad te uenire faciemus purifica[torem] ......" From the Passion of St. Caecilia (B.H.L. 1495, 8482-8486 ; Mombritius, Sanctuarium, ii, ff. 332, 333 (1910 ed., ii, pp. 603-605), and i, ff. 191, 192 (pp. 337-339). f. 11 b;-

-(13) SS. Caesaraugustani (16 April). Beg. " .... ad iuga Christi ; Singulis pauce tribus aut duobus " ; ends " Pectus abscisa patuit papilla Corde sub ipso." From Hymn iv of the Peristephanon of Aurelius Prudentius (B.H.L. 1502; Patrol. Lat. lx. 365-371). f. 13;-

(14) " Passio sancti Vitalis martiris " (28 April). Beg. " Cum fuisset Vitalis cum Paulino iudice suo " ; ends " ita ut in triduo migraret ad Christum." The Passion of SS. Vitalis and Valeria (B.H.L. 8700; Momb., ii, pp. 632, 633) which is an excerpt from the Passion of SS. Gervasius and Protasius (B.H.L. 3514). At the beginning is a marginal note: " [Qu]ere retro passio[nem]

Sancti Marci [25 April] verte [ ] foliorum." f. 13b;-

(15) "Incipit vita sancti Phillippi apostoli" (1 May). Beg. "Post passionem domini saluatoris per annos uiginti"; ends "ita ut hinc uadens nemini. . . . " B.H.L. 6814; Momb ii, p. 385. f. 14 b; -(16) St. Athanasius (2 May). Beg. " .... baptizati dicebantur quid interrogati fuerint " ; ends " Si insurgat in me prelium: in hoc ego sperabo." From the Life excerpted from the continuation by Rufinus of Aquileia of Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica (B.H.L.

728 ; Patrol. Lat. xxi. 487, 488). f. 15 ;-

(17) " Passio sanctorum Alexandri, Euentii et Teodoli martirum " (3 May). Beg. " Sanctum Alexandrum papam iussit sibi Aurelianus exhiberi " ; ends " Sanctum uero Theodolum in alterum locum sepeliuit." B.H.L. 266 ; Acta SS, 3 May, pp. 378, 379. f. 15;-(18) " Inuentio sancte crucis " (3 May). Beg" Hierosolimis : inuentio sancte crucis ab Helena regina:" ; ends "surrexit ut regnaret : iudex uel ...." From Ado's Martyrology (B.H.L. 4168; Patrol. Lat. cxxiii. 256). f. 16 b;-

(19) Urban I, Pope (25 May). Beg. " .... crudelissime ac scorpionibus domino dicebant "; ends "regi superno astitit perpetuo quieturus." B.H.L. 8390; Analecta Bollandiana, viii (1889), p. 165. f. 17 ;-

(20) " Uita sancti Germani episcopi Parisiorum " (28 May). Beg. " Beatus Germanus Parisiorum pontifex "; ends " Preterea longum est dicere . . . . " From the Life by Venantius Fortunatus (B.H.L. 3468; Acta SS., 28 May, pp. 768- 771). f. 17;-

(21) St. Quirinus (4 June). Beg . "..... riparum sinuamina stipato agm[ine] ...... ; ends " .... suscipiunt a[que] ....." Part (ll. 34-end) of Hymn vii of the Peristephanon of Prudentius (B.H.L. 7039; Patrol. Lat. lx. 427-430). f. 18;-

(22) " [Passio sanctorum] martirum Art[hemii, Candide et Pauline]" (6 June). Beg. " Tu[nc Judex jussit mitti ad Arthemium]"; ends ".... cripte iactan[tes] ......" From the Passion of SS. Marcellinus and Petrus (B.H.L. 5230 or 5231 ; Acta SS., 2 June, pp. 168, 169). f. 18 ;-

(23) " [Vita sancti] Medardi [e]piscopi et confessoris" (8 June). Beg. ".... dicit ad Eleu[therium quemdam puerum] "; ends " Suessionensium urbs tanti muneris premio ditata promeruit." From the Life falsely ascribed to Venantius Fortunatus (B.H.L. 5864; Acta SS, 8 June, pp. 80, 81). f. 18 b;-

(24) "Passio sanctorum Primi et Felitiani martirum " (9 June). Beg. " Rome in monte Celeo " ; ends " ab urbe Roma miliario." Ado's Martyrology (B.H.L. 6922, no. 2 ; Patrol. Lat. cxxiii. 282, 283). f. 19 b ; -(25) " Passio sancti Barnabe apostoli " (11 June). Beg. " Redemptor et saluator noste ";- ends " in cripta que olim fuerat habitacio Iebuseorum iii Idus Iunii." B.H.L. 985 ; Mombr., i, pp. 130, 134, 135. f. 20 b ;-

(26) " Passio sanctorum Nazarii et Celsi Pueri " (12 June [28 July in B.H.L.]).

Beg. "Sanctus Nazarivs secundum seculi dignitatem"; ends "Concide colla eorum id est Nazarii ...." B.H.L. 6042; Anal. Boll., ii (1883), pp. 302, 303, 306. f. 21 ;-

(27) Nativity of St. John Baptist (24 June). Beg. " . . . . religione gloriosius. Quid hac insignius fide ; ends " et in semitas rectas male uiuentium dirigeret prauitatem." From homily lxv of St. Maximus, Bishop of Turin, (Patrol. Lat. lvii. 385, 386). f. 22. At the end (f. 22 b) is a marginal note (14th cent.) : " lectiones de sancto Eligio [his translation, at Noyon in 1155, is celebrated on 25 June] quere In novis quaternis vij^xx et xiiij." An exchange of certain relies of this saint for a relic of St. Angadrisma between the canons of Noyon and the collegiate church of St. Michael in Beauvais is referred to in Acta SS., 14 Oct., p. 543 ;-

(28) " Passio sancti Gallic[ani] " (25 June). Beg. " Diuulgata est fama beati Gallicani " ; ends " in qua exuberant beneficia martiris ex eo et n[unc usque] in secula seculorum amen." From the Life prefixed to the Passion of SS. John and Paul (B.H.L. 3236 ; Mombr., i, p. 571) or Ado's Martyrology (Patrol. Lat. cxxiii.

291, 292). f. 22 b;-

(29) " Passio sanctorum Iohannis et [Pauli] " (26 June). Beg. " Ivlianvs Cesar captus cupiditate"; ends " Nam facultates ac patrimonia auferens Christ[ianis] . . . B.H.L. 3238 ; Mombr., i, p. 571. f. 22 b;-

(30) St. Firmin, Bishop of Amiens (25 Sept.). Beg. "....... et infernorum ; Qui inclinat regna"; ends " cum aromatibus et preciosis linteaminibus sepeliuit." B.H.L. 3002 ; Acta SS., 25 Sept., pp. 49, 50. For an account of the veneration of this saint at Beauvais see Renet, S. Lucien et les SS. du Beauvaisis, iii, p. 51. f. 23;-

(31) " Passio sanctorum martirum Cipriani et Iustine uirginis " (26 Sept.). Beg. "Natale sanctorum martirum Cypriani episcopi et Iustine"; ends "sepeliuit in predio suo; Passi sunt autem vi Kalendas Octobris." Ado's Martyrology (Patrol. Lat. cxxiii. 365-367, and Acta SS., 26 Sept., pp. 180, 181). f. 24;-

(32) " Passio sanctorum Cosme et Damiani " (27 Sept.). Beg. "Temporibus Diocletiani et Maxiniami fuit quedam mulier "; ends "sanctas animas deo reddiderunt suscipientes uictorie palmam." B.H.L. 1970; Acta SS., 27 Sept., pp. 444-446. f. 25 b;-

(33) " In dedicatione sancti Michahelis archangeli " (29 Sept.). Beg. " Inter ceteras sanctorum utriusque sexsus sollempnitates " ; ends "ut in eterna leticia de eorum societate gaudere mereamur prestante Domino nostro Ihesu Christo qui cum patre," etc. Part (ff. 27 b, 28) appears to be excerpted from St. Gregory's Hom. xxxiv in Evangelia (Patrol. Lat. lxxvi. 1249-1255). f. 26 b;-

(34) " Vita sancti Hieronimi presbiteri " (30 Sept.). Beg. " Hieronimus noster ab oppido Stridonis ends " Quadrienno itaque dedicate penitentie exacto. ad Bethleem. . . ." From the Life wrongly ascribed to Gennadius of Marseilles (B.H.L. 3869; Patrol. Lat. xxii. 175-

180). f.30;-

(35) St. Veiiantius,Abbot of Tours (13 Oct.). Beg. .... [as]sistentes quasi prestolantes aduentum eius"; ends "Cuius beatum sepulchrum miraculorum inlustrium effectu. plerumque redditur gloriosum." Front the Life by St. Gregory of Tours (B.H.L. 8526; Patrol. Lat. lxxi. 1076, 1077). f. 31 (36) " Vita sancte Angadrisme uirginis " (14 Oct.). Beg. " Quidam illustris Robertus nomine " ; ends " caritatis obsequio . elemosinarumque largitionibus habun[dantissime] . . . ." From a recension of the interpolated "Vita sancti Ansberti " (Renet, op. cit., iii, p. 667, 11. 4-34) and the anonymous additions (Ibid., p. 672, 11. 19-31). f. 31 ;-

(37) St. Justus (18 Oct.). Beg. "...... est in seruum. Quam r[em] .... annorum numerositas i[ta] . . . ." ; ends " .... carnificum potuit latere qui ...... B.H.L. 4591 ; Acta SS., 18 Oct., pp. 340, 341, and Renet, op. cit., iii, pp. 458-461. f. 32 :-

(38) St. Chrysogonus (24 Nov.). Beg "....... in possessionem [sic] que dicitur ad Saltus inuentum est "; ends " Passus est autem beatus Grisogonus viii Kalendas Decembris et v Kalendas eiusdem mensis conditus." The concluding passage in Ado's Martyrology (Patrol. Lat. cxxiii. 401). f. 33;-

(39) " Sermo Gregorii Turonensis sanctorum Agricole et Uitalis " (4 or 27 Nov.). Beg. " Agricola et Uitalis apud Bononiam"; ends " his illustratam pignoribus dedicauit." Cap. xliv of Gregory's Gloria Martyrum in Patrol. Lat. lxxi. 745, 746 (B.H.L. 8694). f. 33 ;-

(40) " Lectio sancti euangelii secundum lohannem." Doubtless the text (Joh. i. 35, 36) of a lost sermon on St. Andrew (30 Nov.). f. 33 b;-

(41) St. Nicholas (6 Dec.). Beg "....... a Deo concesso; Quid multis moror " ; ends " cum Christo triumphare perhenniter qui uiuit," etc. Apparently an excerpt from the Life by John the Deacon (cf. Mombr., ii, pp. 299, 300). Followed by the miracle of the healing oil which issued from St. Nicholas's tomb. Beg. "Igitur postquam beatissimus Nicholaus ex hoc mundo migrauit " ; ends "qui post eum successit. . . ." Probably B.H.L. 6160. f. 34. Ff. 34. 12 in. x 8 in. Early XII cent. Single columns, chiefly of 29 lines. Initials red and green. B. Four leaves (two fragmentary) from the Latin commentary on the New Testament extracted from the works of St. Gregory the Great by Alulphus, Librarian of St. Martin's, Tournay (d. 1144), viz. the preface (imperf.), the short preface to St. Matthew's Gospel and cap. i-xii of the commentary (Patrol. Lat. lxxix. 1139-1144). Between the two prefaces is a list of ninety-eight chapters (not in Patrol. Lat.) headed " Incipiunt exceptiones ex opusculis beati Gregorii pape in subiectis capitulis de euangelio secundum Matheum." Ff. 35-38. 12 in. x 9 1/2 in. XII-XIII centt. Double columns of 35 lines. Coloured initials.

C. Fragments of homilies (De Tempore) on the Gospels, in Latin :-

(1) St. Gregory I, on Luke xix. 41-47, for 10th Sun. after Trin. Beg . "...... expulsos latrones a templo " ; ends " Peruersa etenim. . . ." Patrol. Lat. lxxvi. 1295-1297. f. 39 ;-

(2) Bede, on Luke xviii. 9-14, for 11th Sun. after Trin. Beg. "....... [confite]tur peccata sua "; ends " districtione pensetur ignoro." Patrol. Lat. xciv.

290, and (as his commentary on the passage) xcii. 553. f. 40;-

(3) " Omelia venerabili [sic] Bede presbiteri," for " Dominica tercia decima [post Pentecosten]." Beg. " Decapolis est ut ipso nomine probatur " ; ends " quia genus humanum . . . ." Bede's commentary on Mark vii. 31-33 (Patrol. Lat. xcii. 203, 204). f.40;-

(4) " Omelia venerabili [sic] Bede presbiteri " on Luke xvii. 11-19, for 14th Sun. after Trin. Beg. " [L]eprosi non absurde intelligi possunt " ; ends " At contra de ascensore equi. id est ...." Patrol. Lat. xciv. 296, 297, and xcii. 542, 543. f. 41 ;-

(5) On Matth. vi.

24-34, for 15th Sun. after Trin. Beg. "...... [li]lia agri. Posita sunt enim " ; ends " Scilicet ut in ipso euangelio ...." A sermon ascribed in Harl. MS. 1246, f. 86 b to St. Augustine, and in Homeliae .... praestantissimorum ecclesie doctorum .... digeste per Alchuinum leuitam, Cologne, 1525, f. cl b, to St. Ambrose. Printed (amongst the collections of Paul the Deacon) in Patrol. Lat. xcv. 1404-1406. f. 42 ;-

(6) Bede, on Luke xiv. 1-15, for 17th Sun. after Trin. Beg. "....... se membris fidei gratia coniunxerit " ; ends "in nuptiis acubitus queri uetat congruit." An abbreviated version of the sermon (cf. Harl. MSS. 1246, f. 93; 1918, f. 96 b). Patrol. Lat. xciv. 301, 302, and xcii. 512, 513. f. 43;-

(7) "Omelia venerabilis Bede presbiteri," on Mark ix. 16-28, for "Feria quarta in mense septimo " [Ember Wedn. in Sept.]. Beg. " Factum est autem in sequenti die," etc. [Luke ix. 37, 38]. " Loca rebus congruunt " ; ends " aliis descendere non desinit. Nam terre- ......." From Bede's sermon for this day (Patrol. Lat. xciv. 312), or his commentary on the passage (xcii. 221). f. 43 b;-

(8) St. Gregory I, on Luke vii.

36-50, for Ember Frid. in Sept. Beg. "...... agnoscat. Nam sic Phariseu[s] ; ends " Apparuit conditor et redemptor noster in carne ...." Patrol. Lat. lxxvi. 1243, 1244. f. 44. Ff. 39-44. 12 1/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. XIII cent. Double columns of 32 lines. D. Six leaves (two mutilated) from the Life of St. Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Edward Grim, in Latin (Bibl. Hag. Lat. no. 8182). The text corresponds with J. C. Robertson's Materials for Hist. of T. Becket, Rolls Ser., ii (1876), p. 377, 1. 32-p. 387, 1. 17. Ff. 45-50. 9 3/8 in. x 6 3/8 in. Early XIII cent. 25 lines to a page. Initials in red and green. E. Fragment of the Latin commentary (apparently unprinted) on the Acts of the Apostles by Petrus Cantor (d. 1197), containing xviii.

18 - xx. 29; xxvii. 7-end (cf. Royal MS. 10 C. v, ff. 389-390, col. i, 392 b-end). Ff. 51, 52. 12 1/2 in. x 8 5/8 in. xiii cent. Double columns of 54 lines.

Vellum (exc. f. i) ; ff. i + 52. Most of the leaves were used in the arrondissement of Arras, Dép. Pas-de-Calais, as covers for official registers, circ. 1821-1823, and are inscribed in French. Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS. 29192, cf. f. 28 b), sale-cat., 24-27 June, 1919, lot 680.