Royal MS 5 B XII

S. AUGUSTINE, (i) 'De doctrina Christiana', in four books, preceded by a prologue (Migne, Patr. Lat xxxiv. 15). The prologue beg. 'Sunt precepta quedam tractandarum scripturarum'; the treatise (f. 8), 'Due sunt res quibus innititur'. Prefixed (on the first leaf of the quire on which the work begins) are (a) a table of divisions of doctrine, derived from S. Augustine's work (f. 4), and (b) the passage in the Retractationes relating to it (f. 4 b). f.5s ;-(2) 'De uera religione'; cf. 5 A. iii, art I. f. 102;-(3) ' De poenitentia' [al. De utilitate agendaepoenitentiae]; cf. 5 B. III, art. 3 (a). f. 150.

Vellum;ff.i+166. 10 3/4 in.x6 7/8 in. Late XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (except xii10), numbered at the end. Sec. fol. Incipit prologus'. The fly-leaves (ff. 1-4) contain a table of contents (f. I) and a catalogue (ff. 2, 3) of the library of Rochester Priory, compiled In 1202, by (as stated in a different hand on f. 3) Alexander, ' quondam cantor' of the monastery. The catalogue has been printed by W. B. Rye in Archaeologia Cantiana, iii, 1861, P. 47. The present MS. occurs as no. ii. On f. 4 b is a list of contents (to which is prefixed the number III., cf. 5 B. iv), a note of its belonging to Rochester, and the words 'Memoriale Humfridi precentoris'. On f. 3 b is a note by Thomas Wybarn, monk of Rochester (late 15th cent.), and -others by Patrick Young (cf. f. 166b).On f. 1 is the name of R.Goldston(cf.5 B.iv),and a seal with the device of a ship. Old Royal press-mark ' no. 43' (in cat. Of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 24); CMA. 8646.