Royal MS 4 B XIII

1. BEDA, Expositio Evangelii secundum Marcum; with the prologue, beg. 'In expositione (sic) ewangelii sec. Marcum', and a table of xiv capitula, beg. 'Ysaie testimonio Iohannes angelus'. The commentary beg. 'Initium evangelii, &c.: Conferendum hoc euangelii Marci principium' (Migne, Patr. Lat. xcii. 131). f. I.

2. Commentary on S. Mark, elsewhere falsely asscribed to S. Jerome. Prologue beg. 'Omnis scriba doctus in regno celorum' ; commentary, Initium evangelii, &c. : Catha Marcum euangelium per quod uenit' (Migne, xxx. 589). f. II7.

3. Dialogue between a man and his soul, which appears to him as a woman. The treatise is in imitation of Boethius' De Consolatione, and has verse intermixed with the prose. Beg. 'Incendio domus mea corruerat'. Attributed in 15 A. xxxii, f. 43, to Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans (1097) and Archbishop of Tours (II25-1133), and printed among his works in Migne, clxxi. 989, with the title 'Liber de querimonia carnis et spiritus seu animae' (cf. Hist. Littéraire, xi, P. 359). f. 139. Vellum; ff. 144. 11 1/2 in.x7 3/4 in. Late XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'Lucernam sub modio'. Simple coloured initials. At the end (f.144b) is a copy (13th cent.) of a circular letter from the convent of Christ Church, Canterbury, notifying the receipt of a letter from Pope Urban III, supporting them in their controversy with Archbishop Baldwin [3 Oct. 1187]. The Pope's letter [printed in Stubbs' Epistolae Cantuarienses, Rolls Series, 1865, P. 105, ep. cxxxi] is quoted; but the copy breaks off incomplete. A few notes have been added by J. Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. 59; CMA. 6418.