Royal MS 2 E XII

'POSTILLE super Genesim, Deuteronomium, Iosue, ludicum, Ruth, Ieremic, [Hosee] et Baruch' (sic, later title), anonymous: commentaries on the books named, sc. Genesis (prologue beg. 'In Exodo legitur xxxvio [xxvii] capitulo. Facies mihi altare'; comment., after sections on the prologues to the book, beg. 'In principio, &c. : Nota in sacra Scripture quatuor attenduntur expositiones'). f. 9.-Deuteronomy (prol. beg. 'Et erit ... sicut excussio' olee' [Isa. xvii. 6]; commentary beg. 'Hec sunt verba, &c.: Notum quod populus'). f. 6i;-Joshua (prol. beg. 'Ego visiones multiplicavi [Hosea xii. 10]; comment., after section on Jerome's prologue, beg. 'Et factum est, &c.: Copulatam coniunctio non indiget'). f. 106 b;-Judges (prol. beg. 'Restituam iudices tuos' [Isa. i. 26]; comment. beg. 'Poslquam [sic] mortem Iosue, &c. : Prius pregustanda est'). f. 130 b;-Ruth (beg. 'In diebus, &c. : In testa parva'). f. 156b;-Jeremiah (beg. 'A, a, a, Domine Deus, &c. : Queritur contra tria'). f. 163;-Lamentations (beg. 'Quomodo sedet, &c. : Ieremias destructionem Ierusalem futuram prophetavit'; breaks off imperfect at ch. iii. 22, the copy from which it was taken being defective, according to a note in the margin, f. 200). f. 188 -Hosea (imperfect, beg. at ch. iv. 13, and follow. ing on the preceding without a break; ends abruptly, at the end of a quire, at ch. ix. 3). f. 20o-Lamentations (second commentary, similar to the first but not identical; beg. 'Ieremias propheta destructionem lerusalem futuram predixit'). f. 212;-Baruch (beg. 'Baruch notarius Ieremie translatus'). f. 227. Preceded by an alphabetical index (ff. 1, 7) and a table of 'notabilia' contained on each page (f. 1 b). On blank pages between certain of the books homilies have been inserted, viz. (i) on Matt. Viii. 23, 24, beg. 'Legitur in Prouerbiis xiiiio , Ambulans recto itinere', f. 59 b; (2) on Matt. XV. 21, 22, beg. 'Legitur in Eccles. xviiio, Ante orationem prepara animam', f. 223 b; (3) on Heb. ix. ii, beg. lost through mutilation, f. 224 b. Vellum; ff. 233. 13 in. x 8 3/4 in. XIII cent. Double columns. Gatherings of 8 leaves (vi12, xii6, xxiv9), with catchwords. Fresh quire-numerations begin with Deuteronomy and Jeremiah, but the old page-numeration (to which the table of 'notabilia' refers) is continuous throughout, and a continuous quire-numeration has also been added. The principal 'notabilia' have been recorded in the upper margins of pages. Sec. fol. (text) 'pecoribus'. At the foot of f. 9 is the note 'Annuale fratris Willelmi de Watford anno primo coronacionis regis E[d]wardi'[III?,A.D.1327]. Themention of Watford perhaps indicates St. Albans Abbey as the home of the MS. Cat. of 1666, f. 6 b; CMA. 8296.