Royal MS 3 B VII

'OMELIE Iohannis Crisostomi patriarche Constantino' politani super Matheum operis imperfecti': fifty-seven homilies on S. Matthew, in Latin, falsely attributed to S. Chrysostom. Prologue beg. 'Sicut referunt quidam Matheum conscribere euangelium'; first homily beg. 'Liber generacionis, &c. : Liber est quasi apoteca graciarum' (Migne, Patrologia Graeca, lvi. 611). Preceded by an alphabetical index of subjects (f. i) and a table of contents (f. 25 b). The order of the homilies in the MS. is disarranged, the following being the correspondence between the numbers there and in Migne (where the total number of homilies is 54): 1-22 in MS.

1-22 in Migne; 23-43 = 32-45 (the homilies being differently divided); 44-48 = 24-28; 49 = 30; 50 (on Matt. xxi. 10, beg. 'Cum ingressus fuisset in templum') is not in Migne; 51-53 = 51-53 (omitting the end of 53); 54 = 31; 55 = 29 (omitting the last section); 56 = 49 (from V. 29, Migne, Col. 918); 57 = 46-49 (to v. 15, Migne, col. 908).

Vellum; ff. 171. 12 in. x 7.3/4 in. XIV cent. Double columns, The index and table of contents are in later hands than the homilies, and have a separate quire-numeration by letters and numbers on

the first four leaves of each gathering (a8, b8, c10). The homilies are in gatherings of 12 leaves, with catchwords. A fresh folio-numeration begins at the first leaf of the homilies, but only continues for 21 leaves. Sec. fol. (text) 'totus pilosus'. Initials flourished in red and blue. On f. 27 (a single inserted leaf, 15th cent.) are theological notes, beg. 'Notandum quod quater accipitur crux' ; and on one of the fly-leaves (f. 170 b) is a prayer in English (late 15th cent.). Old Royal press-mark 'no. 206' (in cat. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 27); cat. of 1666, f. 12 ; CMA. 7851.