Royal MS 3 C VI

1. BOOK OF JOB, in Latin, according to S. Jerome's version from the Hebrew; with the Glossa Ordinaria. f. 1.

2. The Sapiential Books (Proverbs, f. 119; Ecclesiastes, f. 172; Song of Solomon, f. 189 b; Wisdom, f. 213; Ecclesiasticus, f. 239), in Latin, of S. Jerome's version; with the Glossa Ordinaria. f. 119. Vellum; ff. 313. 1 ft. 1.3/4 in. x 9.3/4 in. XIII cent. The two articles are written in similar bands, but the ruling of the pages is different; and art. i has no quire-indications (i-vii1O, viii14, ix10), while art. 2 is in gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords. Sec. fol. 'uirtus lob'. Illuminated initials at the beginning of each book, differing in style in the two articles. At the end (ff. 312, 313) are two fly-leaves, on the first of which is the inscription '.B. Luchas, Iohannes, glosatus. De communitate fratrum minorum Cantuarie'. This refers to another MS. with the press-mark B., possibly 4 C. i, below, which corresponds sufficiently nearly in size. On f. 312 b is a note (14th cent.), 'Ista iiiior euangelia emit magister Iohannes de Doadio [Doue] Parisius a Roberto de Cheurose [Chevreuse] precio x libris et vi solidis, co pacto quod si non placerent ei posset reddere infra Pasca'. On the same fly-leaves are also notes of loans, chiefly in the name of 'magister Herbertus Antegavensis'. Belonged to John, Lord Lumley (f. 1, name not autogr.). In the cat. of 1666 and CMA. the two parts probably appear as separate volumes among the various glossed copies of the Scriptures.