Royal MS 2 D XXVI

CATHOLIC EPISTLES in Latin, of S. Jerome's version, with a marginal and interlinear gloss, viz. James (f. 3), i Peter (f. 16 b), 2 Peter (f. 30), i john (f. 37 b), 2 john (f. 49), 3 john (f. 50 b), and Jude (f. 52). Prefixed to the Epistle of James (f. 1) is the pseudo-Hieronymian prologue, 'Non ita ordo est apud Grecos' (cf Migne, Patr. xxix. 82I; Berger, no. 290), a table of 19 capitula, and another prologue, beg. ' Quia in circumcisions ordinatus erat Iacobus' (Berger, no. 296). The two Epistles of Peter are preceded by the brief arguments ('Discipulos Salvatoris invictos [sic]' and 'Simon Petrus per fidem') which appear in the Glossa Ordinaria of Walafridus Strabo (Migne, cxiv. 679, 689; Berger, nos.

299, 294). The gloss is fuller than the Glossa Ordinaria.

Vellum; ff. 54. 9.1/4 in. x 6.1/4 in. Early XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end. Sec. fol. 'Iacobus dei. Belonged to the church of S. Mary, Worcester [i.e. Worcester Cathedral], according to a note (f. 2 b) by William Thornhill of York, prebendary of the cathedral, dated 16 Dec., 1586 (cf. 2 E. xi, 2 F. i, 3 A. viii). The date 1528 is on f. 3; and on f. 2 is the inscription (16th cent.) 'Thys ys Master Scellarars boke'. Probably no. 158 in the Theyer sale-cat., and CMA. 6456.