Royal MS 2 E VI

1. COMMENTARY ON S. MATTHEW's GOSPEL as far as ch. xxiv, in Latin, in fifty-six homilies; ordinarily, but falsely, attributed to Chrysostom (cf. 3 B. vii). The prologue beg. 'Referunt Matheum conscribere evangelium'.The first homily beg.'Liber generationis,&c.: Liber quasi apotheca gratiarum'. The order of the homilies is the same as in 3 B. vii (q. v.), with some differences in the divisions of the text. Followed (f. 81) by an alphabetical index of contents in a different hand. Printed in Migne, Patr. Ivi. 611. f. 2.

2. Commentary on the Psalter, anonymous; imperfect, breaking off at Ps. xxix. II. Preceded (f. 87) by a sermon on Rev. xxii. ii. treating of the Psalter in general, beg. 'Beatus qui custodit, &c.: Chrysostomus omelia 38 super Matheum ... dicit'. The commentary beg. 'Beatus vir, &c.: Psalmista in primo sui libri pulcre rationaliter proponit'. In different and inferior hands to that of art. I. f 88.

Vellum; ff. 200. 12 3/4 in. x 9 in. Late XIII (art. 1) and xiv centt. Gatherings of 12 leaves (flesh side outwards). Double columns. Sec. fol. 'non sib!'. The fly-leaves at the beginning (ff. 1, i*) are made up of a grant by Prosper [Colonna], Cardinaldeacon of S. George ' ad velum' (sc. in Velabro), to a person whose name is lost, a member of the community of Preaching [Dominican] Friars at Lyme [Lynn], in the diocese of Norwich, of the position of private chaplain to himself, dated 13 April, 1451. A detached strip of vellum, fastened in at f. 12, gives the title (in a 15th cent. hand) as ' Prosper super 56 omelias Mathei atque eiusdem enarratio super Psalterium'; but the name Prosper is probably derived from the above-mentioned grant. The commentary on the Psalter is on a much larger scale than that of Prosper of Aquitaine (extant only for Ps. c-cl), and no commentary on S. Matthew is assigned either to him or to any other writer of the same name. Coloured initial and partial border on f.2. A few marginal notes in English('loke', 'loke wel', ff. 102, 129 b, 142 &c.). Belonged to the monastery of Worcester (ff. 2, 12). Old Royal press-mark 'no. 701 ' (in cat. Of 1542) ; cat. of 1666, f. 6 ; CMA. 7893.