Royal MS 2 D XXX

1. ECCLESIASTICUS AND WISDOM, in Latin, Of S. Jerome's version, with the Glossa Ordinaria in the margin and verbal comments between the lines. ff.9, 57 b.

2. 'Summa magistri Rodberti Blundi in arte grammatica.' Prologue beg. 'Iustas parit petentium preces necessitas'; the work itself, 'Nomen constructionis tripliciter accipitur'. Double columns, written in a small hand, much abbreviated. f. 79. Between ff. 94 and 103 is interpolated part of a treatise on logic, in double columns, but in a different hand. It is preceded by some rhyming verses, beg. 'Recta meludina velut erroris medicina; and the treatise itself beg. 'Meludine professionis ... perfecta et integra in huius operis uolumine consumatur cognitio'.

3. 'Summa magistri Petri Hispani in artem grammaticam.' Beg. 'Absoluta cuiuslibet discipline perfectio duplici comparatur exercicio'. Imperfect. Not found elsewhere among the works of Petrus Hispanus (afterwards Pope john XXI, d. 1277, cf L. Jacob, Bibliotheca Pontificia, p. 137), and more probably by Petrus Helias (see Notices et Extraits, xxii, pp. 2I, 508). An anonymous copy is in 12 F. xix, art. 6, There is considerable difference in the texts. In the same hand as art. 2. f. 106. A sheet (ff. 114-123) belonging to the next article is wrongly bound up in the middle of this treatise, and f. 131 is out of its proper place (apparently it should follow f. 132, but the treatise is not complete).

4. Sermons on the following texts: (i) Deut. xxviii.

12, beg. 'Scriptum est in Ysay c. xxxo, Contaminabis laminas sculptilium', f. 133; (2) Isa. lx. 2, beg. 'Scriptum est in Exodo c. xvi, Ecce pluam uobis panes de celo', f. 134 b; (3) Ps. lxxi. 10, beg. 'Scitis, fratres, quod tres reges stella duce uenerunt', f. 137; (4) Zech. iv. 14 (on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul), beg. 'Scriptum est in Trenis, Paruuli petierunt panem', f. 138; (5) Matt. x. 16, beg. 'Ut legitur in Genesi primo, Locutus est Dominus ad Adam' (a severe censure of the corruption of the monasteries), f. 139; (6) Song of Solomon iv. 7, beg. 'Deficiente uino Dominus precibus matris sue conuertit aquam in uinum', f. 114; (7) 'Sermo de sancta cruce', on the words 'Nos autem gloriari oportet in cruce Domini nostri Iesu Christi' (not in the Vulgate), beg. 'Ut legitur in Apocalipsi, Draco cum cauda traxit se', f. 116; (8) Rev. viii. 3 (On the feast of S. Michael), beg. 'lob xvi, Terra ne aperias [sic] sanguinem meum', f. 117 b; (9) Luke iv. 4, beg. 'Scriptum est in Leuitico vi, Ignis in altari semperardebit', f. 119 b; (10) Eccles. i.

2, beg. 'Ecclesiastes dicit in Parabolis xxviii [xxix], Pauper et creditor o[b]uiauerunt sibi', f. 121; (ii) Ps. xlv. i, beg. 'Legitur in Marco [Matt.] xiii, Vestri autem beati [oculi] quia uident', f. 122. Each sermon is introduced by an 'introitus ad sermonem', from which the above-quoted first lines are taken. Most, if not all, the sermons are addressed to monks, in one case at least (no. 8) to monks of the Cistercian order, and apparently by a cleric of high rank [? Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln]. ff.133-140, 114-123. Vellum; ff. 144. 91 in. x 6.3/4 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end in art. 1. In several different hands. Sec. fol. (f. 9) 'domini et'. The fly-leaves (ff. 1-8, 141-144) are from a 13th cent MS. of civil law, in double columns of unequal width ; other leaves from the same MS. are used as fly-leaves in ic A. xii (q. v.). Belonged to Rochester Priory, the gift of R. (?) de Stokes (f. 9). Old-Royal press-mark no. 317' (in cat. of 1542).