Royal MS 2 F X

1. PSALTER, in Latin, of S. Jerome's Gallican version; with commentary [by Petrus Lombardus]. See descriptions Of 2 E. ii and 2 F. viii. The first leaf is missing. Notes and' distinctiones' have been inserted in many of the margins. f. i. At the end (f. 156 b) are the lines :-

'Finito libro sit laus et gloria Christo: Sit laus doctori, sit gloria compositori.' 2. Verses on the Calendar, beg. 'Aureus in Iano numerus clauesque nouantur', without title, being the 'Massa Compoti' attributed to Alexander de Villa Dei (cf. 8 C. iv, art. 12) ; preceded by a prose prologue, beg. 'Licet modo in fine temporum plures constet habere codices'. Imperfect, ending 'Septembris trina lux Mercurii decet [ista]'. f. 156 b.

3. Definitions of vices, beg. 'Elacio. Hec est animi tumor'. f. 159 b. Vellum; ff. i + 160. 14 in. x 9 1/4 in. Late XIII cent. Gatherings of 10 leaves, except i-iv and xii, which have 8. Double columns. Sec, fol. (f. i) 'Johannes in Apocalipsy'. Initials flourished in red and blue. On the first fly-leaf. i b) is a note of the purchase of the MS. on 5 Feb. 594[5] for x (altered to lx) shillings, also an anathema against the stealer of the book, signed with a name which has been erased, that of Edmond Cecill being substituted in a I7th cent. hand. The name of William Rogers, of Painswick, co. Gloucester, and of Lincoln's Inn, London, has also been written in several places (ff. 1 b, 156 b, 16o, &c.), once (f. 160) with the date 166 8/9 (cf. Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714, p. 1277).