Royal MS 5 C III

THEOLOGICAL EXCERPTS and miscellanies, VIZ.

1. Anonymous treatise, without title, on the art of learning; in 16 chapters, the first entitled 'De modo docendi'. Beg. 'In doctors requiritur pericia uel in. dustria'. A table of contents is appended. f. 1.

2. Table of chapters of the treatise De regimine principum, by Cardinal Egidio Colonna, followed by an alphabetical index of contents. Colophon (f. 17), 'Explicit tabula super Gylys de regimine principum'. f. 11.

3. 'Tabula sentencialis super afforismos Ursonis'; beg. 'Acetum: liquor ex aceto et sanguine hircino'. A work entitled 'Ursonis Aphorismorum liber' is at New College, Oxford (MS. clxxi, art. 3). f. 17 b.

4. 'Liber Egidii de regimine principum'; beg. 'Oportet vt latitudo sermonis'. In three books; followed (f. 37) by a table of chapters. In a different hand from art. 2. CC 4 D. iv, art. 4. f. 22.

5. Propositions extracted from the principal works of Aristotle, viz. the Metaphysics (f. 38), Physics (f. 40 b), De Anima (f. 42 b), Ethics (f. 44 b), Politics (f. 48), Rhetoric (f. 49), Poetics (f. 50); and from Seneca ad Lucilium (ib.). Followed (f. 50 b) by an alphabetical index of contents.

6. Treatise on preaching, anonymous; the first title is 'prohemium de informacione predicatorum', but it is not clear whether this applies to the preface only or to the whole work. The treatise is a collection of materials and texts under various heads. Beg. 'Quanta pollet excellencia predicacionis'. Followed (f. 80b) by an alphabetical index of contents. f. 52b.

7. 'Liber sentenciarum Prosperi [Prosper of Aquitaine] de opusculis Augustini collectus'; beg. 'Innocencia vera est que nec sibi' (Migne, Patr. Lat. li. 427). The number of sections as here given is 374. Followed by a table of contents. f. 82b.

8. Propositions extracted from the works of S. Augustine, viz. : De Trinitate (f. 97 b), De beata vita (f. 108), De vera religione (f. 108 b), De doctrina Christiana (f. 110), De libero arbitrio(f. 112), Epistola ad Honoratum (f. 113 b), Enchiridion (ib.), Soliloquia (f. 115), De bono coniugali (f. 116), De sancta virginitate (f. 117), Ad inquisitiones Ianuarii (f. 117b), De predestinatione sanctorum (f. 118b), De perseverantia (f. 119), De correctione et gratia (f. 120 b), De natura boni (f. 122), Epistola ad Volusianum (f. 122b), De videndo Deo (f. 123), De quantitate animae (f. 124), De immortalitate animae (f. 125), De fide et operibus (f. 125 b); and, after a blank interval of a column and a half, the Liber super Genesim ad litteram (f. 128), and De disciplina Christiana (f. 135 b). Beg. 'Notat Augustinus co ordine'. f. 97 b.

9. 'Compendium Theologie'[al. Liber veritatis Theologiae]; here attributed in the colophon to Thomas Aquinas ('quod sanctus Thomas de Aquino composuit'), in the Hist. Litt. de la France (xxi, p. 157) to Hugues de Strasbourg. Beg. 'Veritatis thcologice sublimitas'. In seven books; followed (f.182b) by a table of chapters. Printed anonymously at Nuremberg circ. 1473, at Venice in 1476 among the works of Albertus Magnus, and often subsequently in the i6th and 17th centuries. f. 136.

10. 'Dicta Lincolniensis vtiliora et magis edificatiua', i. e. the Dictamina of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln. The order here is not the usual one (cf. 6 E. V, art. I). Beg. 'Exemplum esto fidelium in verbo'(no.

35 in the usual order). On f. 238 b is a table of the chapters in their present order, with references to the usual numbering; and the usual no. I ('Amor multipliciter videtur dici') follows on f. 239. f. 184.

11. ' Notabilia excerpta de epistolis domini Roberti Crostet (sc. Grosseteste) episcopi Lincolniensis'; beg. 'In secunda epistola scriptum est, Ubi est thesaurus tuus'. This art. follows immediately on the preceding, without interval. f. 259.

12. 'Lincolniensis de cessacione legalium', an abbreviation of the complete work, printed at London, 1658; beg. 'Fuerunt in primitiua ecclesia'. f. 264.

13. 'Boicius (sic) de consolacione philosophie', abbreviated; beg. 'Intencio auctoris in hoc libro est tractare'. f. 267 b.

14. 'Extractum a quodam libro Augustini quem vocat Speculum Peccatorum'; it does not appear, however, to have anything in common with the Speculum Peccatoris printed among the supposititious works of S. Augustine (Migne, xl. 983). Beg. ' Fratres karissimi, aperta sententia est'. f. 279.

15. 'Meditaciones fratris Bonaventure cardinalis Albanensis', consisting of (a) extracts from the Breviloquium and Soliloquium, beg. 'Flecto genua mea, &c.: Paulus apostolus vas eteme eleccionis'. f. 281 ;-(b) extracts from the Stimulus Amoris, part ii, cc. i, 6, 7, 9, 10, II, 15, 17, part iii, cc. 4, 8-12, beg. 'Ista decem que sequntur'. f. 283;-(c) Decem gradus humilitatis, beg. 'Humilitatis perfecte decem sunt gradus'. f. 287;-(d) De studio religionis, beg. 'Studium cuiuslibet religiosi'. f. 287 b.

16. 'Meditaciones quas Cardinalis Bonaventura scripsit de passione Iesu Christi'; being the portion of the Meditationes Vitae Christi, attributed to S. Bonaventura, relating to the Passion. Beg. 'Adueniente iam et imminente tempore'. In a different hand from the preceding article. f. 288.

17. 'Extracta de quadam compilacione vocata Horelogium diuine sapiencie', i. e. the Horologium eternae sapientiae of S. Amandus. Beg. 'Heu modemis temporibus'. The complete work was printed circ. 1470 and subsequently. f. 297.

18. 'Meditacio sancte recordacionis dom. Simonis de Gandauo quondam Sarisburiensis episcopi [Simon of Ghent, Bishop of Salisbury 1297-13I5] . . . de statu prelati'; beg. 'Solus aliquociens sedens'. f 301.

19. 'Carta Roggeri Freton [Dean of Chichester] de inplemento decanatus', 24 Aug. 1374; with the confirmations of the bishop and chapter, I, 2 Oct 1375. f. 301 b.

20. Licence from Pope Boniface IX to King Richard II to alienate the possessions of French orders in England, for the purpose of founding a college of ecclesiastics, 28 April, 1391. Beg. 'Clare et sincere devocionis' (Bliss and Twemlow, Calendar of Papal Letters, iv, P. 391). f. 302b.

21. 'Meditatio Bonaventure Albanensis', called in the colophon 'Speculum Peccatorum secundum Bonauenturam. Beg. 'Anima, Dei insignita ymagine'. Follows immediately on art. 20, in the middle of a line. f. 302b.

22. 'Tractatus de Elemosina, et est abreuiatus et vocatur Speculum Elemosinarii'; attributed in the margin to Ockham. Beg. 'Sciendum est quod illi soli debetur'. f. 303.

23. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Incendium Amoris; beg. 'Admirabar amplius quam enuncio' (cf. Bale, Index Brit. Script. p. 348). The treatise printed under this title in La Bigne, Maxima Bibliotheca, xxvi, p. 629, is ch. 16 of the complete work. Ff. 317-328 are misplaced before ff. 329-340. Colophon (f. 317), 'Explicit incendium Amoris sancti Ricardi heremite de hampole'. For other MSS. of the work, cf Harley MS. 275, f. 12b, and Add. MS. 24661, f. 14b; in the latter some of the chapters are differently arranged. f. 305.

24. 'Forma predicandi', without author's name; beg. Predicacio est thematis assumpcio'. In the same hand as art. 23. f. 317.

25. Short homiletic paragraphs, without titles, in the same hand as artt. 23 and 24. Beg. 'Videte vocacionem vestram: Ista verba apostoli'. f. 317b.

26. [Bernard of Clairvaux], Sermons on the Song of Solomon (the first 32 sermons only); beg. 'Vobis, fratres, alia quam aliis'. CL 2 D. xxvii. Ends imperf. at f. 373, the three following leaves having been cut out. f. 321 (ff. 329~34o belong to art. 23, q. v.

27. Four epistles of S. Jerome, viz. epp. 119 (Migne, Patr. Lat. xxii, imperfect at beginning and end), 97 (a few lines lost at the beginning), So and 22. f. 374. Followed (f. 380) by four other letters which are not among those of S. Jerome, viz. (a) beg. 'Referam tibi historiam mee infelicitatis', (b) beg. 'Auaricie tibi quod uitandum est', (c) beg. 'Vidi nuper, taceo nomen', (d) beg. 'Quidam ex fratribus parcior'; ends imperfectly. Vellum; ff. 381. 1 1/4. in.x 9 in. XV cent. A composite volume, composed of several works originally separate, viz. art. I (one sheet of 10 leaves), artt. 2, and 3 (one sheet of 8, with 3 additional leaves), art. 4 (two sheets of 8), artt. 5-8 (10 sheets of 8, one of 10, and one of 8, with catchwords), art. 9 (six sheets of 8, with catchwords), artt. 10 and 11 (10 sheets of 8, with catchwords, lettered a-k and numbered in the upper right-hand comer of each leaf), artt. 12-15 (3 sheets of 8, lettered b-d and numbered in red in the lower right-hand corner of the first four leaves in each), art. 16 (one sheet of 8, with an additional leaf), artt. 17-22 (one sheet of 8, lettered a. 1-4 on the first four leaves in red, evidently intended to precede artt. 12-14), artt. 23-26 (6 sheets of 12, with s catchwords, lettered and numbered with the plummet in the lower right-hand corner of the first six leaves in each, but irregularly, the letters running a, e, b, f, c, d, though the only misplacement is i the second and third, v. supr.), and art. 27 (one sheet of 10, with three leaves missing). Double columns, except in art. 16. Sec. fol. 'sed quia'. Initials flourished in red and blue in artt. 23-26. Belonged to Archbishop Cranmer, and to John, Lord Lumley (f. 1). Casley quotes an inscription at the end, now lost: 'Liber T. Eyburhale, emptus a Iohanne Pye pro 27s. 6d. Do Henrico Mosie, quondam scolari meo, si contingat eum presbyterari; aliter erit Liber Domini lohannis Sory, sic quod non vendatur, sed transeat inter cognatos meos, si fuerint aliqui inventi; sin autem, ab uno presbytero ad alium'.