Royal MS 2 D XXXII

I. 'TRACTATUS Elredi abbatis Rievallensis de oneribus Ysaie': a treatise by Ailred [al. Ethelred] Abbot of Rievaulx [d. 1166], upon Isaiah xiii seqq.; with introductory epistle to G[ilbert Foliot] Bishop of London, beg. 'Dilecto et diligendo et cum omni devotionis dulcedine amplectendo', and table of capitula. The treatise (f. 5) consists of an introductory sermon on the 'burdens' of Isaiah, beg. 'Tempus est, fratres carissimi, ut misericordiam et iudicium cantemus Domino', and thirty-one sermons on the several burdens in detail. The introductory sermon is printed in Migne, Pair. clxxxiv. 817 (included among the supposititious works of S. Bernard), and the rest of the work in Migne, cxcv.

361. Another copy is in 5 B. ix, below. f. 3.

2. 'Tractatus Gileberti Londoniensis episcopi' [apparently Gilbert Foliot, d. 1187, though such a work is not elsewhere attributed to him; possibly Gilbert the Universal, Bishop of London 1128-1134]. The treatise consists of a prefatory epistle (beg. 'Habes, frater, quod optasti', printed in Giles' edition of Foliot's letters, Patres Ecclesiae Anglicanae, ep. 329) and nine homilies on the subject of S. Peter and S. Paul, on the text Rev. xi. 4 (beg. 'Isti sunt due olive et candelabra lucencia ante Dominum', f. 139). f. 138 b. Vellum; ff. 168. 9.1/2 in. x 7 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves. Sec. fol. 'amoris exigere'. A few coloured initials. Press-mark (f. i) 'D[istinctio] iia, gra[dus] xiius', of Christ Church, Canterbury (see cat. in Cotton MS. Galba E iv, ff. 129 b, 130, and M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury, pp. 25, 506); and on f. 3 is an old mark '.SS.'. Notes by john Theyer sen. on ff. 3, 138 b, and by john Theyer jun. (?) on ff. 2-7. Theyer salecat. no. 146; CMA. 6533.