Royal MS 5 B XVI

1. ' CONFESSIONUM Aurelii Augustini libri tredecim preceded by the section in the Retractationes relating to the work. CL 5 B. xiv. A beginning is made on f. i, but it is then broken off, and a fresh beginning is made on f. 2 b.

2. 'Liber Aurelii Augustini de diversis heresibus' [al. Ad Quodvultdeum de heresibus] but without the prefatory matter; beg. 'Symoniaci a Symone mago'. Cf. 5 B. viii, art 4. f. 166. Vellum; ff. 188. 11 in. x 6.7/8 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end. Sec. fol. 'Magnus es'. Ornamental coloured initials. Miscellaneous notes have been written at the end (ff. 184 b-188). On f. 187 (reversed) is a 12th cent. list of names, including the sovereigns of England from William I to Matilda, archbishops of Canterbury from Lanfranc to Ralph [1114- 1122], bishops Gundulf and Ernulf of Rochester, bishop Odo [of Bayeux], abbots Gilbert [? of Caen, 1079-1101, Baldwin [? of Bury St. Edmunds, 1065-1097], Symeon [? of Auchy, 1127-1131], Paul [? of St. Albans, 1077-1097], Gilbert [? of Westminster, 1082-1117] William of Fécamp [1082-1107], Henry [?of Battle, 1096-1102], Helgot [? of St. Ouen, 1092-1112], Herluin [? of Bec], Arnulfus prior of Glastonbury, 1102-1126], and Ralph 'abbas Deb-' [?de bello Battle, 1107-1124], Odo and Richard 'Bæcci' [Bec], Arnulfus prior [of Rochester, 1089-1096], and 154 others (two of whom have the title 'abbas' subsequently attached to them, viz. Ivo. and Hugo [? of Reading, 1123-1164]), presumably persons commemorated in Rochester Priory, to which this MS. belonged, by the gift of Peter the precentor (f. 2). The number .R. (4) is prefixed to the Rochester inscription. No. 21 in the Rochester cat. of 1202 (5 B. xii). On f. 1 is a seal with the device of a ship. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 44' (in cat. Of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 24); CMA. 8648.