Royal MS 1 C II

I C. ii BIBLE, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version; preceded by the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1). The books of the 0. T. follow the usual Vulgate order, except that the Prayer of Manasses follows. Chronicles, and 3 Esdras is inserted after Jeremiah. Gallican Psalter. Jerome's prologues (the second prol to Chronicles is placed before 2 Chron.) except to the Psalter; and the additional prologues are identical with those in i A. ii. At the end of the 0. T. several leaves are lost, con. taining 2 Macc. 13-Matt. xix. 13. The books of the N. T. are arranged thus: Gospels, Pauline Epistles, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse, with the usual prologues to the Gospels, Pauline Epistles (short), Acts and Catholic Epistles (collectively), and the prologue of Gilbertus Pictaviensis to the Apocalypse (f. 404 b, 'Omnes qui pie uolunt . . . et parabole Salamonis'). Modern chapters. At the end (f. 410) are 'Interpretationes [Nominum] Hebraicorum' [by Remigius of Auxerre]; imperfect. Vellum; ff. 443. 14.1/2 in. x 91 in. Late XIII cent. Gatherings of 16 leaves (except xiii10). Finely written in double columns, in France. Sec.fol.'-dit eunuchus'. Initial letters of books illuminated,

containing well-executed miniatures on diapered grounds; other initials ornamented in red and blue. On f. 423 is a note in English, in a 16th cent. hand. On f. 1 is inscribed the name of B[ulstrode] Whitelocke [Commissioner of the Great Seal, d. 1676, Commonwealth Librarian 1649-1660], with the date Jan. 1654[5], and another name, also written by him, has been erased, apparently that of Hugh Farr, or Parr, 'chiliarch', sc. colonel, in the case perhaps the same as Hugh Farr, corporal of horse (cf. Peacock's Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, p. 64).