Royal MS 5 B IX

1. FIRST EPISTLE Of S. JOHN, in Latin, of S. Jerome's version, followed by the ten Sermons on the Epistle by S. Augustine (cf 5 B. vi, art. I). The sermons are preceded by a table of capitula (f. 6), and a prologue (ib.) beg. ' Meminit sanctitas uestra'. The first sermon (f. 6 b) beg. 'Quod erat ab initio, &c. : Quis est qui manibus'. The sermons only carry the commentary as far as ch. v. 3. The quotations are according to the Old Latin version of the Epistle. Printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. xxxv. I977. f. 4.

2. Liber abbatis Aelredi [of Rievaulx 1146-1166] de oneribus Ysaiae' (cf. 2 D. xxxii). Preceded by the introductory 'Epistola Aethelredi abbatis Rieuallis', addressed to Gilbert [Foliotl Bishop of London (beg. 'Dilecto et diligendo). The table of capitula (f. 48b) follows the introductory sermon ('Tempus est, fratres', f. 43 b). f. 43.

3. 'Dialogus Aeldredi abbatis [of Rievaulx] de spirituali amicitia', in three books. Prologue beg. 'Cum adhuc puer essem in scolis'; the dialogue, 'Ecce ego et tu, et spero quod tercius inter nos Christus sit' (Migne, cxcv. 659). f. 137.

4. Ailred of Rievaulx, 'De speculo caritatis', in three books. Preceded by (a)'Epistola Bernardi abbatis Clareuallensis ad Aeldredum abbatem Rieuallensem', beg. 'Est quidem sanctorum uirtus ', generally attributed (cf Leland, Bale, Migne, &c.) to Gervase, Abbot of Louth Park. f. 159;-(b) 'Proemium abbatis Aeldredi in speculum caritatis', beg. 'Vere sanctorum uera et discreta humilitas'. f. 159b;-(c) Capitula to the three books. f. 160 b. The treatise itself (f. 162) beg. 'Extendisti, domine, celum tuum sicud pellem' (Migne, cxcv. 501). f. 159. Vellum; ff. 211. 11 in. x 7 3/4 in. XIII cent. Double columns; in several hands. Sec. fol. lest de quo'. Large coloured initials. On f. 3 b is a table of contents in a large ornamental charter-hand. On f. 211 some moral precepts have been written in a small hand (late 13th cent.).'Liber sancte Marie de Coggeshale'(14th cent.), sc. Coggeshall Abbey, co. Essex (which also, according to Leland, possessed a copy of Ailred's life of David, King of Scotland). On f. 2 a list of Ailred's works, with the first words of most of them, in the handwriting of Patrick Young, identical with that given in Bale's Scriptorum illustrium maioris Britanniae. Catalogus, 1559, p. 208. Belonged to Lord Lumley (f. 4). Cat. of 1666, f. 5b; CMA. 7830 + 7914 + 7915 + 796.