Royal MS 5 C VIII

S. AUGUSTINE, Sermons, viz.:(a) twenty-three on S. Matthew's Gospel. f. 3;- (b) fourteen on S. Luke. f. 65;-(c) twenty-seven on S. John. f. 90;-(d) one 'de ueteribus scripturis ac nouis de Trinitate contra Arrianos'. f. 159 b;-(e) twenty-five (really 26, see below) on the Pauline Epistles. f. 160 b. The contents and arrangement are the same as in 5 C. II, except that the sermon on 2 Cor. v. 10, which there follows the sermons on S. Luke, here stands second in the sermons on S. Paul (after serm. 131), though it is not included in the numeration of the sermons; and instead of the two sermons of uncertain authorship at the end of that MS., sermons 151 and 152 stand here, with a marginal note (f. 242 b) '[Ad hunc] sermonem et ad eum qui sequitur defuit [exemp]lar corrigendi'.

Vellum; ff. 250. 1 ft. 1.17/8 in. x 10.1/4 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end. Double columns. In a fine, bold hand. Sec. fol. 'Sermo eiusdem'. Elaborate ornamental initials in red, green, and brown on ff. 3, 65, 160 b; elsewhere a large coloured initial to each sermon. Belonged to Rochester Priory, 'Liber de claustro Roffensi' (f. 1) ; probably no. 5 in cat. of 1202, (5 B. xii). The lines 'Qui seruare libris', &c., appear (f. 250) in a corrupt form 'Qui seruare librum nescit sibi honorem, Illius a manibus procull sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]' (cf. 4 A. xv, 4 B. vii, &c.). Old Royal press-mark 'no. 809' (in cat. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 34); cat. of 1666, f. 4 b; CMA. 7822 or 7826.