Royal MS 2 F VII

1. NICOLAUS DE HANAPIS [Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem 1288-1291] 'Liber de exemplis sacre Scripture' (so in 'Explicit') or 'Liber qui dicitur Exemplum sacre Scripture tam contra uicia quam pro uirtutibus' (so in table of contents). In 132 chapters. Beg. 'Creacio rerum fuit ita mirabilis'. Printed at Basle, 1555, under the title Virtutum et vitiorum Nicolai Hanapi Patriarchae Hierosolymitani ad vitam Christianam recte instituendam liber. Followed by an alphabetical index. f. 2.

2. 'Liber mag. Roberti Holcot super librum Sapientie abbreuiatus, et hoc per modum alphabeti' (see table of contents): a digest of Holcot's commentary on the book of Wisdom (for which CL 2 D. iv, art. 3), arranged by subjects in alphabetical order. Beg. 'Abrahe triplex est beneficium'. Another copy is in the library of Merton Coll., Oxford, no. clxxxvi. f. 79.

3. '[Liber] doctoris [Thomae] Ryngstede [Bishop of Bangor 1357-1366] super Parabolas Salamonis, abbreuiatus per modum alphabeti': a digest of Ringstede's commentary on Proverbs, arranged by subjects in alphabetical order. Follows art. 2 without title (the title given above being taken from the table of contents on f. 1 b), but with a somewhat larger initial than usual. Beg. 'Narrat Possidonius in libro de Romanorum superstitionibus'. f. 165 b.

4. 'Po[s]tilla mag. Willelmi Kyngushome Anglici fratrum predicatorum super [vi] capitula libri Ecclesiastici, morte autem preuentus residuum non compleuit' (so colophon). In the table of contents on f. 1 b the author's name is wrongly written 'Kyngestoun'. Beg. 'Omnis sapientia, &c. : Beatus Augustinus [libro] quarto de doctrina Christiana . . . approbat'. Ends with the comment on ch. vii. 7. Another copy is in 3 A. xiv, and is followed by the same colophon, in which, however, the name 'Willelmi Kyngushome' is written over an erasure containing a shorter name, apparently that of Robert Holcot, who is stated by Bale to have died of the plague in I349 'in lectione septimi capitis in Ecclesiasticum'. f. 231.

Vellum; ff. 326. XV cent. (1420-1440). 131 in. x 8.1/4 in. Gatherings of 12 leaves, with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'et dilectam'. Illuminated initials and borders on ff. 1 b, 2, 79, 231. Belonged to St. Albans Abbey, as appears from a well-written and illuminated note on f. 1 b, 'Hunc librum fieri fecit Dompnus Iohannes Beauer, Monachus Monasterii sancti Albani. Quem librum ex licencia venerabilis magistri Iohannis Whathamstede [al. Whethamstede] sacre theologie professoris eiusdemque Monasterii Abbatis [1420-1440] contulit deo beate Marie et ecclesie sancti Albani'. The rest of the note contains an anathema and table of contents, followed in a smaller hand by the lines 'Thurifices Christo, qui codice cernis in isto I Ut precis incensum: bene uiuat factor in euum'. The illuminated initial on f. 2 contains the arms of St. Albans (az., a saltire or), surrounded by the words 'Beauer ab aduersis Albon tueatur in armis', and the initials of art, 2, 4 contain the letters I.B. Old Royal press-mark no. 1102' ; cat. of 1666, f. 17 b; CMA. 8230-8232.