Royal MS 2 F I

I. EPISTLES OF S. PAUL, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version, with a marginal gloss, on a considerably larger scale than the Glossa Ordinaria. The names of the authors from whom the gloss is derived (principally Ambrose and Augustine, but in part also Jerome and Haymo) are entered in the margins. The gloss beg. 'Sicut prophete post legem, sic et apostoli post euangclium'. f. 5.

2. Theological treatise, anonymous, preceded by tables of capitula, entitled 'Incipiunt capitula prime partis secundi libri' and 'secunde partis secundi libri'. The first part contains 115 chapters, the first entitled 'Quod Vetus et Nouum Testamentum in medicinam data sunt homini contra duplicem morbum'; the second part contains 213 chapters, the first entitled 'Quod merito Nouum Testamentum a misterio incarnationis

sumpsit exordium'. The treatise itself beg. 'Quoniam homo pecando tam uoluntate quam opere suum offendit conditorem'. The chapters are indicated in the margin, but the second part contains only 196 of the 213 included in the table. f. 180 b. For a shorter recension of the same work see 7 F. xiii, art. 4. Vellum; ff. 241. 13 3/4 in. x 9 3/4 in. Early XIII cent Double columns. Gatherings of 8 leaves (beg. at f. 5), numbered at the end. A fresh quire-numeration begins with art. 2, but the hands of both articles are very similar. Sec. fol. (art. 1) 'qui predestinatus'. Large initials, red and blue, at the beginning of each Epistle and of art. 2 (ff. 5, 42 b, 78 b, 9,5 b, 108 b, 119b, 124b, 125, 129 b, 130, 133, 135 b, 136, 146, 150 b, 153 b, 154 b, 184). Flyleaves at the beginning from a commentary on Gratian's Decretale, part ii, in a very minute hand (ff. 1-4). Notes and ' distinctiones' have been written with a pencil or plummet on the lower margins of many pages in art. i, and on the blank leaves between the two articles (ff. 178-180). Belonged to Worcester Cathedral, according to a note by William Thornhill on f. 241 b [circ. 1586, cf 2 D. xxvil. Subsequently in the Theyer library, notes in the hand of john Theyer being written on ff. 5 b, 134, 205, &c. (sale-cat. no. 21); apparently CMA. 6403.