Royal MS 2 C III

HOMILIAE (121) de tempore [only from Septuagesima to Easter Eve] et de sanctis, in Latin, chiefly by SS. Jerome, Augustine, Leo, Gregory, Maximus and Beda. The initial words are given in the Index. At the end are added in a 12th cent. hand, two pieces in verse, viz. (a) Forty-two lconine hexameters, entitled 'De Corpore et Sanguine Domini'; beg. 'Mysterio magno legali vescimur agno'.f. 170b;-(b)Thirty. one rhyming and leonine hexameters, entitled 'Crimina deploret sua sic peccator et oret'; beg. 'Quo p us et pietas Deus a te pulsus abibo'. f. 171.

Vellum; ff. 176. 13 in. x 9 1/2 in. Late XI cent. Gatherings of 8 to 12 a leaves, numbered at the end. Written in at least two hinds, in double columns. Sec.fol.'-uissimo autem'.At the end(f. 172) is an imperfect index. With fly-leaves (ff. 1-4, 173-176) from a 13th cent. MS. of the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor, Genesis § 99, 'Invaluit fames in Egypto'-Exod. § 34, ' tribuit vobis Dominus die sexto' (Migne, cxcviii. 1134-116o); ff. 3, 4 should follow f. 176. 'Liber'de claustro Roffensi quem qui alienauerit alienatum celauerit uel hunc titulum in fraudem deleuerit anathema sit. Amen' (f. 172, early 14th cent.); a similar inscription, 15th cent., on f. 5. Perhaps one of the two ' Omeliaria' mentioned in catalogue of Rochester monastery library in 1202,in 5 B. xii, f. 2. Old Royal press-mark (f. 5) 'no. 383' (cat. of 1542); probably the 'Sermones de Tempore'in cat. of 1666, f. 3 b, and CMA. 7908.