Royal MS 2 C VIII

COMMENTARIES on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Daniel, the Minor Prophets, and Proverbs, with shorter notes on the historical books and the Gospel narrative, in Latin, by Petrus Cantor (?).

1. Commentary on Genesis, beg. with the prologues of Jerome; beg. 'Principium verborum tuorum veritas'. f. i. Colophon (f. 40), 'Explicit Genesis'.

2. Conclusion of another commentary on Genesis (f. 41), and commentary on Exodus, beg. 'In tabernaculo Domini erant tabule in quibus erant anuli' (f. 47 b). Ends with a half leaf (f. 65). This section is on leaves of a smaller size than the rest of the volume, and in different hands.

3. Commentary on Leviticus; beg. '[E]zechiel parietem fodit'. f. 66.

4. Commentary on Deuteronomy; beg. '[F]asciculus mirre dilectus mihi'. f. 109. A column is left blank on f. 114.

5. Summary of the historical books of the Old Testament and of the Gospel narrative. f. 123 b.

6. Commentary on Isaiah; beg. '[H]abemus propheticum sermonem'. f. 132.

7. Commentary on Jeremiah; beg. 'Vidit Daniel virum indutum lineis'. f. 145.

8. Commentary on Lamentations; beg. with a quotation from Rabanus Maurus (Expositio super Ieremiam, bk. xvii, Migne, cxi. 1181), 'Nabuchodonosor vastavit Iudeam'. f. I74. Colophon (f. 185), 'Gillebertus Autisiodorensis ecclesie diaconus [Gilbert of Auxerre, Bishop of London 1128-1136] expositiones Lamentationum Ieremie ordinavit. Expliciunt glose Lamentationum'. This appears to be the work of which another

copy is mentioned in Hist. Litt. de la France, xi. 240, as being at Angers.

9. Commentary on Daniel; beg. '[I]n templo Domini tabule quibus sustentabantur cortine'. f. 186.

10. Commentaries on the Minor Prophets; beg. '[T]riplex funis qui non de facili rumpitur'. f. 194. Colophon (f. 232), 'Explicit Malachias cum xii pro-

phetis'.

11. Commentary on Proverbs; beg. '[T]ribus nominibus Salomonem fuisse vocatum' (the first words of Jerome's commentary on Ecclesiastes); the commentary itself beg. 'Parabole Salomonis secundum ebraicam veritatem translate sunt'. f. 233. The authorship of these commentaries is doubtful. Those on Lamentations, Daniel, the Minor Prophets and Proverbs are attributed in the MS. to Petrus Cantor [Pierre le Chantre, of Paris, d. 1197]; but the attributions

are all in later hands. The commentary on Leviticus seems to be identical with that mentioned (after john Bunderius) in Migne, ccv. 14, as being attributed to Petrus Cantor; but those on Genesis and Exodus are different from those mentioned in that list. The commentary on Deuteronomy is apparently not the same as that at. tributed to Petrus Cantor in Balliol College MS. xxiii, though the first two words are identical. The commentary on Proverbs appears to be identical with that which Sixtus Senensis (ap. Migne, ccv. 14) states that he saw attributed to Petrus Cantor in a MS. at Lyons. It is doubtful, however, whether any of the Biblical commentaries attributed to Petrus Cantor were really written by him (cf Hist. Litt. de la France, xv. 299). Vellum; ff. 247. 13.3/4 in. x 10.1/4 in XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords. Double columns; in several hands. Sec. fol. 'byssum purpuram'. Spaces left' for coloured initials at beginnings of books, but not filled up. Notes (ff. 185, &c.) in the hand of john Theyer; CMA. 6430.