Royal MS 2 D VI

1. FLORES PSALTERII, in Latin [by Letbert, Abbot of S. Ruf, in Dauphiné, d. circ. iiii]. Without the preface of Walter, Bishop of Maguelonne, prologue, or title. Beg. 'Beatus vir, &c. De domino nostro Iesu Christo accipiendum est'. The commentary on PS. I [=li] is imperfect, and is followed by four blank leaves; and to the comment on Ps. li [= Iii] is prefixed (f. 65) the title, ' Incipit pars secunda de floribus psalterii.' Written partly in single columns, partly in double. Imperfect, ending at PS. lxxvii. [lxxviii] 20. CL 2 F. xi for a perfect copy. f. i.

2. Theological categories, in Latin, apparently imperfect at both ends. f. 98.

3. 'De situ terre Agarenorum et de Saladino et Saphadino et filiis eius': book iii, cc. 1-15 of the Historia Orientalis of Jacobus de Vitriaco [J. de Vitry, Bishop of Acre 1216, Cardinal 1228, d. 1240] as printed by Martène and Durand, Thesaurus Novus Anecdotorum, 1717, iii. 269-279. Beg. 'Dominus papa Innocentius bone memorie volens mores scire terrarum'. f 135.

4. 'Expositio libri filii Achab': a prophecy of the fall of Mahometanism. The author is described as 'phisicus et philosophus, et edidit certificationem planetarum et stellarum et astronomie'. Beg. 'Hec est expositio libri filii Achab'. f. 139 b.

5. Treatise on the Compotus, in Latin, with tables. Beg. 'Antequam principale propositum aggrediamur'. f. 141.

6. 'Vita gloriosi confessoris Eadmundi archiepiscopi Cantuariensis ecclesie [Edmund Rich, d. 1240] apud Pontiniacum edita et magistro R. de Abendonia transmissa.' Beg. 'Beatus Eadmundus Cant. archiep. ex piis parentibus Abendonia genitus'. This life is found also in Roy, MS. 8 F. xiv, and Cotton MS. Julius D. vi, ff. 161 b-182, and is an abridgement of the life in Julius D. vi, ff. 123-157, which has been identified by W. Wallace (Life of S. Edmund of Canterbury, 1893, PP. 7 seqq.) as the work of the monk Eustace of Canterbury. The unabridged life is printed by Wallace (ib. p. 543). The present narrative (as in 8 F. xiv) breaks off at the third day of the translation of the saint's body (p. 58100 in the unabridged text), and is followed (after a blank interval) by the letter of the abbot and convent of Pontigny to Pope Innocent IV [printed by Martène and Durand, Thesaurus Novus, iii, col. 1902, addressed 'ad R. Cardinalem'] 'beg. 'Sanctissimo patri, &c. Non sunt tacenda opera' (f. 165 b). The letter is written in a charter-hand, and is followed (f. 167 b) by a paragraph in the same hand as the Life, beg. 'Modum vero quo vir iste beatissimus cilicio utebatur'; ends 'odoris faceret holochaustum'. In Cotton MS. Julius D. vi, ff. 161 b-182, these additional sections follow the main biography in the same hand, without break. f. 151.

7. Short meditations or homilies on Biblical texts; beg. 'Cum appropinquasset, &c. Nota, duplex est Christi adventus'. Imperfect at the end. f. 170.

8. [Speculum Ecclesiae, by Hugo de Sancto Victore, d. 1142.] The prologue beg. 'De sacramentis ecclesiasticis ut tractarem'; the work, 'Ecclesia igitur in qua populus convenit' (Migne, Patrologia, clxxvii.

335). Ends imperfectly, 'licet non omnes sint prophetae. In or' (ib. col. 374). At the end (f. 244) a chronological note has been inserted in a different hand (13th cent.), giving the ages of the world and the durations of the reigns of English kings from William the Conqueror, ending in the reign of Henry II. f. 232.

9. Prayer to the Virgin, in French, mutilated. f. 244 b. Vellum; ff 246. 8 in. x 6 in. XIII cent. Gatherings irregular. Each article is in a distinct hand or hands from the rest. ff. 223- 245 are considerably damaged by damp. Theological notes on fly-leaves at the end. Belonged to Rochester Priory, 'per G. de Strattone monachum'. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 696' (cat. of 1542); cat. of 1666, f. 18.