Royal MS 2 E IX

HOMILIAE de epistolis et evangeliis in dominicis': sermons on the epistles and gospels for the whole year, beginning with Advent, by Johannes [Algrinus] de Abbavilla [al. Abbatisvilla, i. e. Abbeville in France] Dean of Amiens, Archbishop of Besancon 1225-1227, Cardinalbishop of Sabina 1227-1237 (cf. Hist. Litt. de la France, xviii, p. 162). In other MSS. called Sermones Dominicales; the title here is in a later hand than the text. Beg. 'Cum sacrosancta mater Ecclesia praemonstrante Sancto Spiritu ... noscatur'. Not printed, but extant in many MS. copies. Vellum; ff. 200 ii in. x 9 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'quarum oculos'. Small coloured initials. Belonged to Bury St. Edmund Abbey; press-mark J. 40 (ff. i b, 2), and inscription 'Hunc librum fecit scribi Guido precentor, quem qui alienaverit a domo Sancti Ædmundi anathema sit' (f. 1 b, cf. M. R. James, Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury, 1895, p. 64 Another book written by order of Guido the precentor is now in the library of Pembroke College, Cambridge (James, Catalogue, 1905, no. 94). Subsequently belonged to john, Lord Lumley (f. 2). Cat. of 1666, f. 5 b; CMA. 8091.