Royal MS 1 B V

i B. v BIBLE, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version. Begins imperfectly, a leaf being lost, in the middle of the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus, at the words 'quod ignoras'. The books of the Old Testament are in the usual Vulgate orden A leaf is wanting after f. 145, containing Tob. x.

13~Jud. i. 7, and another after f. 219, containing from Isa. lxiii. 12 nearly to the end of the prologue to Jeremiah. Titles are omitted as far as the end of Isaiah. Jerome's prologues (except that to the Psalter) are prefixed to their respective books, together with the usual prologues to Ecclesiastes and Baruch, but not Wisdom (cf. i A. ii). The second prologue to job is omitted, but the first is lengthened by the addition (without any mark of division) of the genealogical passage from the Syriac which also appears in i A. i. The usual prologue to Hosea ('Temporibus Ozie'), and the first of those to Joel ('Sanctus Joel') ; but the rest of the Minor Prophets have only the short extracts from Jerome's epistle to Paulinus, as in i A. iii. The book of Maccabees has only the third prologue. The New Testament is arranged thus: Gospels, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles, Apocalypse. The apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans is placed after the Epistles to the Thessalonians (f. 36o). The usual prologues are prefixed to the Gospels and Pauline Epistles, and there is a short prologue to the Apocalypse (f. 365b, beg. 'Iohannes apostolus et evangelista," Berger, no. 310). The MS. ends imperfectly with Apoc. xvi. 19. Modern chapters.

Vellum; ff. 368. ii in. x 7.1/4 in. XIII cent Gatherings of 12 leaves. Doublecolumns. Illuminated initial with three figures at the beginning of Genesis; other initials ornamented in red and blue.