Royal MS 2 C I

PETRUS COMESTOR, Historia Scholastica; with the ' prologus epistolaris', addressed to William [de Champagne], Archbishop of Sens [1168-11]76, afterwards Archbishop of Reims, and Cardinal], beg. 'Reverendo patri et domino suo Guillelmo' (f. 2). The work itself beg. 'Imperatorie maiestatis est tres in palatio habere mansiones', and is complete, including the paraphrase on the Acts of the Apostles commonly found with the Historia Scholastica, but stated (in Stowe MS. 5, f. 166 b) to be the work of Petrus Pictavieiisis [Chancellor of the Cathedral and University of Paris, d. 1205 ?]. Printed in Migne, Patrologia, cxcviii. I053. Glosses are added in the margin of part of the 'Evangelica historia' (ff. 122- 130), and occasionally elsewhere. Chapter-headings are rubricated, with numbers in the margin. Vellum; ff. 166+2. 12 1/2 in.x 8 1/14 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'et ita precedente'. Illuminated initials at the beginning of most books. The fly-leaves (ff. i*, 2*, 162 b-166) are covered with theological notes, in plummet. Presented (according to a 13th cent. note, on f. 1) by Radulphus de Stoke, monk, to the monastery of Rochester, and numbered III. On f. 2* is a record of the book being pledged by Thomas Wybarn, monk of Rochester, for the price of the Sententiae of the 'Doctor Subtilis' [Duns Scotus],

advanced by William Goldwyn, in 1467 ; and on f. 166 a similar record of its being deposited 'in cista de Chichele' by the same Thomas Wybarn, in pledge for 26sh. 8d., 20 Aug., 1468. For the Chichele chest at Oxford, see Anstey, Munimenta Acad. Oxon., Rolls Series, 1868, i p. 291. In the latter entry it is stated to have three ' supplementa ', viz. (1) ' Liber Sexti [pope Sixtus III?] cum Glossa Ordinaria, (2) ' Magister Sententiarum'[Petrus Lombardus], (3) 'Originalia Anselmi'; they were probably not in the same volume, but merely pledged with it. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 814' (cat of 1542); cat. of 1666, f. 3 b or f. 16; CMA. 7979 or 8198.