Royal MS 3 A X

1. CLEMENT OF LLANTHONY, Concordia Evangelistarum: a harmony of the four Gospels, on the same lines as that of Tatian, but different in details, divided into twelve books, and preceded by a prologue and table of capitula. Beg. 'Clemens Lantoniensis, &c.

Huius operis, fili karissime, causam requiris'. No title or colophon. f. 2.

2. Sermons, (i) on Ps. lxxii. 28, beg. 'Michi adherere Deo, &c. : Dominus Iesus laudem a nobis exigit'; (2) on Luke xxii. 15, beg. Desiderio desideravi, &c.: Multa sunt et uaria desideria hominum'. In different hands from the body of the MS. ff. 20 b, 21 b.

3. 'Verbum Abbreuiatum ma[gistri Petri cantoris Parisiensis]'; preceded by a table of capitula. Beg. 'V[erbum] abbreuiatum fecit Dominus super terram' (Migne, Patrologia, ccv. 23). The title is incomplete. The chapter 'De proprietate monachorum', which appears at the end of the printed edition, is not in the MS. f. 22.

4. Treatise on the oblations offered to God by the children of Israel, in 18 chapters; beg. 'Inter oblationes quas Deo obtulerunt filii Israel'. This article follows the preceding in the same hand, and with only a slight interval for the title, which has not been inserted. The beginning of it is repeated on f. 176 b. f. 69 b.

5. Forty-eight sermons, anonymous, in various hands. The first beg. 'Tres adhuc dies, &c.: Ad excitandum deuotionem'. f. 76 b.

6. 'Speculum Confessionis. Venerabilis Stephanus abbas de Stanll. [Stanlaw, co. Chester]': a manual for the confessional, beg. 'Ut confessionem et decorem induas'. The work does not seem to be otherwise known. f. 106.

7. Sermons and scriptural commentaries, 'anonymous; viz. (i) Ten sermons, on miscellaneous texts, the first beg. 'Ego mater pulcre dilectionis. Loquitur Sapientia in libro Sapientie' (cf. f. 80 b). f. 107, 117 b;-

(2) Short comments on passages in the Gospels (including the Lord's Prayer), beg. 'Nuptie facte sunt in Cana, &c. Cana interpretatur'. Printed, but in a different order, among the Allegoriae in Evangelia attributed to Hugo de S. Victore (Migne, clxxv. 751). The comments on the Lord's Prayer (ib. co1. 767), beg. 'Inter omnia que fragilitas' (f. 110 b), are also printed among the works of Abelard (Migne, clxxviii. 611). f. 11O;-(3) Short comments on Ps. i. i-lii. 2, beg. 'Beatus uir, &c.: In uiro duo sunt'. f. 120.

8. The Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse (f. 133 b), and Pauline Epistles (f. I37), in Latin, of S. Jerome's version. f. 130.

9. The Minor Prophets, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version. Imperfect, ending with Zech. xiv. 18. f. 150.

10. Seven sermons, anonymous, including one on the Nativity of S. Benedict (f. 158, beg. 'Via recta orientis tramite ab eius cella in celum tendebatur'), snowing incidentally that the author was a monk of that order. f. 157 b.

11. Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron, in the Latin version of Victor of Capua (Cf. 2 C. IX), frOM § 132 [John ix. 3} to the end. f. 160.

12. Short passages of Gospel narrative harmonistically arranged, but not according to the arrangements of Victor of Capua or Clement of Llanthony; apparently intended as Lections for use in church, each section

being introduced by the formula 'In illo tempore'. Begins with Matt. i. i8; ends with john i. 28 (which follows Matt. xi. 10). Comments have been added in the margins in various hands. f. 164 b.

13. Abstract of Gratian's Decretals, part ii; beg. 'Queritur utrum spiritualia uendere sit peccatum'. f. 171 14. Table of vices, classified. f. 177 b.

15. Collection of proprietates rerum, alphabetically arranged; beg. 'Angelus purus est' (cf. 7 C. v, art. 2). f. 179.

16. Sayings of our Lord, extracted in order from the Concordia Evangelistarum of Clement of Llanthony (cf art. 1); incomplete. Beg. 'Dixit Iesus ad Mariam et losephum, Quid est quod me querebatis'; ends ' Homo quidam nobilis abiit in regionem longinquam accipere sibi regnum'. f. 185. Vellum; ff. 190. 10 3/4 in. x8 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 10 leaves,with catchwords. Written, probably in England, in several hands, mostly very small and neat. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'Iudei secundum'. F. 190 is misplaced, and should follow f. 185. No ornamentation except small coloured initials; in many places blanks have been left for the initials, which have not been filled in. On f. 189 is a memorandum in a 15th cent. hand that the MS. belonged to john Tame, an Augustinian of London, and was pledged by him to Henry Ponsthorp. Old Royal press-mark ' no. 1020'; cat. of 1666, f. 18 b; CMA. 8245, 8247, 8249.

includes:

• f. 110b Petrus Abailardus: Comments on the Lord's Prayer, attrib. to: 13th cent.