Royal MS 5 D IX

S. AUGUSTINE, De Civitate Dei; cf. 5 D. vii. Preceded by the section relating to it in the Retractationes; and a later (14th cent.) hand has prefixed a table of chapters. A few notes are added at the end (f. 259).

Vellum; ff. 260. 1 ft. 3 in. x 10.3/4 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end. Double columns. Sec. fol. (text) ' ei sacratis'. Initials of books ornamented in silver and colours. Belonged to Rochester Priory, 'Liber de claustro Roffensi per magistrum Ha[monem?] Kok' (f. 6); no. i in cat. of 1202 (5 B. XII). The lines 'Qui seruare libris', &c., are written and signed by the monk T. Wybarn on ff. 1 and 259, and other notes have been inserted elsewhere by his hand. On the first fly-leaf (f. i) is a letter (16th cent.), signed Clemens Brown, requesting one Henry to receive this book from Thomas Walleys, master of the barge of Grevysend [Gravesend], and send it to the writer at Beame Hall in Oxford. Old Royal -Press-mark 'no. 51' (in cat. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 24); cat. of 1666, f. 4 or 15 b; CMA. 7821.