Royal MS 1 A VII

i A. vii BIBLE, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version; preceded by the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1). The order of the books of the Old Testament differs from the usual arrangement, the books of Kings being followed by Tobit, Judith, Esther, Job, Chronicles, 1 and 2 Esdras [ = Ezra and Nehemiah]. The third book of Esdras is omitted, and also the Psalms. The apocryphal portions of Esther are given separately at the end of the 0. T. (f. 398 b). The titles of books are omitted. Jerome's prologues are generally given; but those to Joshua and Ecclesiastes are omitted, and the prologues to Judith, Esther, and job are not placed before these books, but at the end of the 0. T. (ff. 397 b, 398). The prologue to Ecclesiasticus by Jesus, son of Sirach, is also omitted in its proper place and inserted (imperfectly) on f. 400 b, under the erroneous title of 'prologus in euangelium Matthei'. The prologue to Chronicles (f. 190 b) is that prefixed by Jerome to his revision of the Old Latin version by means of the LXX (addressed to Domnio and Rogatianus, Migne, Patr. xxix. 4OI, beg. 'Quo. modo Graecorum historias', Berger, no. 37), which elsewhere appears either as a second prologue or (oftener) as a prologue tO 2 Chronicles, The prologues to the first six of the Minor Prophets are inserted after the end of Malachi (ff. 471 b-472 b); the rest are prefixed to their respective books. All are identical with those

given in i A. ii, but that to Nahum is longer (f. 36i b, beg. 'Naum prophetam', ends 'futurus est dominus'). The last seven also have the short prefaces from Jerome's epistle to Paulinus (cf. i A. iii). The prologues to Maccabees are omitted. The apocryphal Epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans is inserted between the 0. T. and N, T. (f. 4oo). The books of the New Testament are arranged thus: Gospels, Acts, Pauline Epistles, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse, with the usual prologues, except that Acts has an additional prologue, beg. 'Lucas medicus Antiochensis greci sermonis', and the Epistle to the Romans has the prologue of Primasius, with some variations from the text given in Migne, lxviii. 413 (f. 466, beg. 'Primum intelligere nos oportet', ends 'manentem substantiam'), followed by a short pro. logue, beg. 'Romani qui in' urbe Roma' (Berger, nos, 262,256). The Apocalypse has the prologue of Pseudo- Isidore, beg. 'Iohannes apostolus et euangelista' (Berger, no. 310). Modern chapters. At the end are: (a) Interpretations of Hebrew names, shorter than the glossary of Remigius of Auxerre, beg. 'Aaron, mons fortis vel mons fortitudinis', with a list of idols, entitled 'Hec nomina non inveniuntur in interpretationibus' (Cf. 2 D. iv, art. i), f. 5I3; (b) in a later hand, a calendar of Epistles and Gospels, and a table of contents, ff. 525, 528.

Vellum ; ff. i + 528. 6.25 in. x 4.25 in. XIII cent. Gatherings generally of 16 leaves, numbered with the plummet. Written in a very small hand, in double columns. Sec. fol. 'in misterio'. Initials ornamented in red and blue, with delicate filigree work. Probably belonged to the Theyer collection (sale-cat, no. 241 ; CMA. 6545). On a fly-leaf (f. i b) is the name ' Anna' [? Anna Theyer, cf. i A. viii].