Royal MS 5 A VIII

1. LIBER sancti Augustini de Spiritu et Anima; cf 5 A. i. The present copy similarly ends at ch. 33. f. I.

2. 'Epistola Ysidori Hispalensis archiepiscopi de diuersitate canonum': the letter of Isidore of Seville to Massona, Bishop of Merida, printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxxiii. 899. Beg. 'Veniens ad nos famulus uester Nicetius'. f. 17 b.

3. Isidore of Seville, Sententiae ; in three books, preceded by tables of chapters. Title, 'Ysodorus (sic) de summo bono'; colophon, 'Explicit liber tercius sententiarum Ysidori Hispalensis archiepiscopi'. Beg. 'Sum. mum bonum Deus est qui incommutabilis est' (Migne, lxxxiii. 557). f. 19.

4. 'Innocentius de miseria condicionis humane' (the title is a later addition), otherwise entitled, De contemptu mundi. CL 4 B. viii, art. 9. f. 87.

5. 'Meditationes beati Bernardi abbatis' (the attribution to S. Bernard is disallowed by Mabillon). Beg. ' Multi multa sciunt et semetipsos nesciunt' (Migne, clxxxiv. 485). f. 108 b.

6. 'Tractatus de viciis [et virtutibus]', without title (except a later addition) or author's name. Beg. 'Sunt plura per que adquiritur humilitas'. The treatment of vices and virtues isfollowed by chapters on miscellaneous theological subjects, which may possibly form a different work. f. 122.

7. Miracles of the Virgin, with title 'Incipiunt quedam miracula de beata Dei genitrice Maria', following immediately on the preceding article without break. Twenty-nine stories (see Ward, Catalogue of Romances, iii, p. 650). Followed (f. 152), without break, by paragraphs on several of the saints and festivals of the Church, and other theological matter, intended as commonplaces for sermons. f. 144 b.

8. ' Liber Scintillarum ': an abridgement of the work in 6 D. v and other MSS. with some additional matter at the end. Beg. 'Initium sapientie timor Domini'. Colophon (f. 255)'Explicit hoc carmen'. f. 248b. Vellum; ff. vi+ 255. 9 2/3 in. x 6 3/8 in. XIII cent., in various hands. Gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords (except in art. 1, which consists of two gatherings of i2 and 4 leaves respectively). Double columns.Sec.fol.'materia'.Initials slightly ornamented. Preceded by (i) two fly-leaves (14th cent.) from the 'Bonum universale de apibus' of Thomas de Cantimpré, bk. ii, cc. 25, 26 (ff. i, ii); (2) a table of contents, 15th cent. (f. iii); (3) an alphabetical index (f. iiib). Belonged to the monastery of Bury St. Edmunds, whose press-mark ('Liber monachorum sancti Edmundi, A. 52') is on ff. iii and i (M. R. james, Abbey of S. Edmund, P. 43). The same hand apparently has supplied the foliation throughout the book. Belonged subsequently to Lord Lumley (f. 1); cat. of 1666, f. 3; CMA. 7816 + 7882 + 7865 + 7866 (?).