Royal MS 2 D XXXVI

PETRUs AUREOLI [al. Aureolusl Compendium Scripturae. The author is commonly said to have been a Franciscan, and to have been archbishop of Aix in Narbonne and a cardinal; but all three statements are denied by Oudin (Comment. de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, 1722, iii. 847), who affirms that he belonged to the order Vallis Scholarium, was a prominent theologian in Paris in 1332, became prior of Troyes, and wrote the present work in 1345. Title: 'Incipit compendium literalis sensus tocius divine scripture editum a fratre P. Aureoli ordinis fratrum minorum; et ponitur primo commendacio sacre scripture in generali.' Beg. 'Venite ascendamus ad montem Domini'. Colophon, 'Explicit compendium Petri Aurioli super bibliam'. At the end (f. 137) are a few theological notes in a small hand. Vellum; ff ii+137. 9 1/2 in.x6 1/2 in. XIV cent., written in a charter-hand. Gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords, lettered and numbered in red on the first four leaves of each. Sec. fol. 'per prophetam'. Initials coloured and flourished. On f. 11 b is the inscription (about contemporary with the writing of the book), 'Liber fratris Thome Wicham [? Wickham] ordinis beate Marie de monte Carmeli'; to which an-other hand has added ' conventui

Londiniarum librarie post decessum' [i. e. presumably, the house of the White Friars in London]. Old Royal press-mark no. 1276'; cat. of 1666, f. 17 b; CMA. 8233.