Add MS 35091

MISCELLANE0US TRACTS in prose and verse, chiefly theological, in Latin, viz.

1. "Visiones Tnudali" (so the later title on f. 1 b), beg. "Incipit narracio uisionis de situ Hybernie cap. primum. [H]ybernia insula est in ultimo": the uncondensed version of Tundal's vision (see Cat. of Romances, vol. ii. pp. 416, 746), as in Albrecht Wagner's edition, Erlangen, 1882, but wanting the preface. f. 2.

2. Part of the metrical biblical histories of Petrus Riga of Reims (ob. 1209): the original text, without the additions of Aegidius Parisiensis. f. 20. Of this work short extracts only appear to have been printed (Migne, Patr. Lat. ccxii.). The fullest text is contained in Harl. MS. 747, which distinguishes the additions by marks in the margin. Other copies of the original text are in Royal MS.

2 D. xxxi., Arund. 228, Harl. 4066, etc. A biographical notice of the author is in Sloane MS. 1726. The books in hexameters probably did not form part of the original work entitled Aurora, but they seem to be in the main the work of Petrus, not of Aegidius. The books included are: (a) Song of Solomon, in rhyming hexameters, chiefly taken from St. Jerome's translation of Origen's homilies. Pref. beg. " Solus Origenes cum doctos uicerit omnes," and text "Omni plena bono Salomonis cantica regis." f. 20;-(b) Gospel History in elegiacs. Pref. beg. "Post legem ueterem respira, Petre, refulget," and text "Claruit Herode ius regis agente sacerdos." f. 30 b;-(c) Job, in rhyming hexameters. Pref. beg. here, "Non alius nisi Job hunc librum scripsit et egit," and text "Nomine Iob uir erat simplex et iuris amator." f. 47 b;-(d) Story of Susanna, in elegiacs, extracted from Daniel, beg." Hactenus arrisit Susanne gratia fame." f. 52 b;-(e) Genesis, in elegiacs, preceded by the prose "prologus in Pentateucum Moysi," attributed in Harl. 747 to one Albert of Reims, beg." Omnis scriptura diuinitus inspirata, Paulo attestante" (f. 54), and also by Peter's own prose preface (f. 54 b), beg. "Frequens sodalium meorum petitio." Text beg. "Primo facta die duo celum terra leguntur ends at tile close of Genesis, "remittit eis." f. 55.

3. "Versus Bernhardi de contemptu mundi": the satire in three books, in leonine hexameters, beg. "Hora nouissima tempora pessima sunt vigilemus"; preceded by the brief prologue beg. "Materia auctoris est Christi aduentus," and the dedicatory letter, "Domino et patri suo Petro [Venerabili] dignissimo abbati fratrum [Cluniacensium] Bernhardus eius filius, eorum frater." f. 68. The author of this work, which is the source of several well-known hymns, is difficult to identify with certainty. The 16th cent. table of contents of this MS. (f. 1 b) calls him "prior monasterii Cluniacensis," an identification rejected by the writer of the article in the Hist. Litt. de la France, vol. xii., probably on insufficient grounds. There were two Bernards at this time (c. 1125- 1156) in the mother-monastery of Cluny, both described in charters as uncle to Bernard Le Gros, seigneur of Uxelles (Dept. Jura), viz. Bernard the prior and Bernard de Mileto (al. de Melei). If therefore the 12th cent. MS. Add. 22,287 and others are correct in giving the author's name as Moruallensis, this might well be Morval (Dept. Jura). If on the other hand the reading Morlanensis (Cotton MS. Cleop. A. viii., etc.) is correct, it might be referred to Morlas in Basses-Pyl.6n6es, where there was at one time a small Cluniae Priory of S. Fides. There is nothing to connect Bernard with Morlaix in Brittany, nor is there any good authority for the appellation of Saint, though given by a later hand in the present MS. The poem is said to have been printed in the 15th cent. (Paris, 1483, ace. to Liron, Sing. Hist. iii. 351, see also Hain, nos. 2904-5, 4391, 4393, but these may not be the same poem). It was edited by Flacius (Varia Poemata, 1557, reprinted 1754) and independently by N. Chytraeus (Bremen, 1597, republished Rostock, 1610, Rinteln, 1626, Lüneburg, 1640), and lastly, from three unnamed sources, which seem to be (A) the Cotton MS., (B) another MS., probably the Bodleian, and (P) the Lüneburg edition (but the collation is inaccurate), by T. Wright, Satirical Poems, Rolls Series, 1872, vol. ii. Cf. also Julian, Dict. of Hymnology, p. 533. Other copies are in Ad(]. MSS. 16,895, 22,287, Cotton MS. Cleop. A. viii.; also at the Bodleian, Digby 65, f. 42; at St. Omer, 115; at Toulouse, 162, f. 56; and at Vienna, see Michael Denis, Cat. MSS. Theol. Bibl. Pal. Vind., nos. 293, 614. A peculiar feature in this MS. is that the poem seems to be arranged as a dialogue, the letters s. n. being alternated in the margin throughout this article and the next four. Artt. 4-7 are written continuously with art. 3 in the same hand.

4. Verses on the Creed: seventy-three leonine hexameters, preceded by the text "Sapite et intelligite ac nouissima prouidete" [Dent. xxxii. 29]. Beg. "Salue Petre bone, Petrus esto fide ratione," and ends "Ad uerum lumen defigere mentis acumen." f. 112.

5. An elegiac quatrain on the martyrdom [of St. Thomas ?]. Beg. "Quis moritur ? presul. Cur ? pro grege. Qualiter ? ense." f. 113.

6. A metrical version, in nineteen elegiac couplets, of the miraclestory of the rustic and the beehive, cf. ch. i. of bk. i. of Petrus Venerabilis (see above) De Miraculis (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxxix. col. 851) and many other collections. The bread does not here take the form of a child, but the bees build it a shrine. Beg. " Scribimus indoctis indocti nobile signum." f. 113.

7. Verses (twenty-nine elegiac couplets, but one of the hexameters is wanting) on an earthquake at Mainz and a somewhat similar mishap at an unnamed town. Beg. "Quaestio discurrit ueteres apud unde ruinae." f. 113 b.

8. Interpretations of Greek words, chiefly from St. Jerome's prefaces to the biblical books and his other works. Beg. "Homerocentonem uel homerocentra." f 115.

9. "Excerpta de arte predicandi composita a magistro Alano": an abridgment of the Summa de Arte Predicandi of Alan of Lille (the "Doctor Universalis," d. at Cîteaux 1202), printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. ccx. col. 109. Of the introduction, which begins "Vidit Iacob scalam a terra (etc.). Scala ista profectus est uiri catholici," only a few sentences are extracted, but forty-two out of the fortysix model sermons are given in various degrees of fulness. Ends (with the sermon ad Virgines) "Regni eius non erit finis." f. 117 b.

10. A brief note on confession, beg. "[V]erus peccati confessor," with the verse formula "Quis, quid, ubi, quotiens, per quos, cur, quomodo, quando ?" f. 162b.

11. Scribbled on the last two leaves are (a) the first half of the Vision of St. Paul (see Cat. of Romances, vol. ii. p. 405), beg. "Interrogandum est quis primus." f. 162 b;-(b) a recipe for incaustum de gallis." f. 163 b. Vellum ; ff. 163. XIIIth cent. One small ornamental initial (f. 54), others in red, blue and green. Belonged in the 15th cent. (see ff. 2, 162 b) to the Carthusian monastery of St. John in Seyts [Seitz in Styria], and bears (f. 1 b) an old press mark B. 13. On f. 67 is the name of "Antonius a Wolscheck, 1792." Bound in boards covered with white skin, with press-mark O. 1 (?) affixed, on paper, to the under-cover and the number 117 in red on the back. Bought

by Sir T. Phillipps of Thomas Thorpe in 1838 (see Thorpe's catalogue, 1838, pt. vi. no. 33). Phillipps MS. 22,941 (sale-cat., 1896, lot 1251). 5 ¾ X 4 inches.

Theology: Tracts: 13th cent. Lat.

Bindings GERMAN: Oak boards,covered with leather: 13th cent.

Petrus Riga, Augustine canon of Reims: Aurora: 13th cent.: Lat.

includes:

• f. 2 Tundale: Vision of.: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 2 Romances: Vision of Tundale: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 20 Bible. Paraphrases: Petrus Riga's Aurora, and paraphrases of Song of Solomon and Job: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 20 Poetry: Song of Solomon, paraphrased by Petrus Riga: 13th cent.: Lat.
• ff. 20, 47 b Petrus Riga, Augustine canon of Reims: Job and Song of Solomon, paraphrased in verse: 13th cent.: Lat.
• ff. 30 b, 52 b, 54 Poetry: Aurora of Petrus Riga: 13th cent.
• f. 47 b Poetry: Job, paraphrased by Petrus Riga: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 54 Albertus, of Rheims: Preface to Petrus Riga's " Aurorra": 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 68 Bernard: Poem: De contemptu mundi: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 68 Poetry: Bernardus, de contemptu Mundi: 13th cent.
• f. 112 Poetry: On the Creed: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 113 Poetry: Four lines on the martyrdom of S. Thomas: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 113 Poetry: Miracle of the Rustic and the Beehive: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 113 Saint Thomas Becket,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Quatrain on his martyrdom: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 113 Romances: Miracle of the rustic and the beehive: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 113 b Mayence, Germany: Verses on earthquake at: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 113 b Poetry: Verses on earthquakes: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 115 Dictionaries: Interpretations of Greek words: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 117 b Alanus de Insulis, Autissiodorensis [Auxerre] Episcopus: Summa de arte predicandi: 13th cent.: Lat.
• f. 162 b Romances: Vision of St. Paul: 13th cent.: Lat.: Imperf.
• f. 163 b Recipes: Incaustum de gallis: 13th cent.: Lat.