Royal MS 2 D XXVIII

COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS, in Latin, without title or author's name. The prologue beg. 'Magna spiritualis iocunditatis suavitas illabitur mentibus'; the commentary, 'Beatus vir, scilicet Christus qui vir dicitur vel propter excellentiam virtutum'. Attributed in MSS. cxcv of St. John's Coll. and cxciii of Corp. Chr. Coil., Oxford, and elsewhere to Richard Rolle of Hampole, and printed under his name at Cologne in 1536. Followed (f. 138 b) by comments on some of the Old Testament Canticles, viz. Isa. xii. i, xxxviii. 10, i Sam. ii. i, Exod. xv. i, Habakkuk iii. i, Deut. xxxii. i (printed, as above,). Vellum; ff. 148. 8.3/4 in. x 6in. XV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves, with catchwords, and lettered and numbered with a plummet on the first 6 leaves of each. Sec. fol. 'doctores non'. Initials flourished in red and blue, Presented to 'the moste noble Lady Mary' [daughter of Henry VIII] by Henry Parker, Lord Morley, with a dedicatory epistle (f. i b). On f. 8 b are two short marginal notes in English, and on £ 85 the partially effaced direction 'To sir john(?) . . . this boke be delyvered'. Probably cat. of 1666, 16 b; CMA. 8208.