Royal MS 5 E VII

1. HOMILIAE de tempore (for the whole year) et de sanctis (cf. 2 C. iii), the authors, as given in the MS., being chiefly S. Gregory and Beda. f. 1. A table of contents, giving the text and the initial words of each homily, is prefixed (ff. ii, iii). The first, 'omelia beati Bede', for Septuagesima, on Matt. xx. i, begins 'Re. gnum celorum in hoc loco'. The last (97), in Nat. Virginum, on Matt. xiii. 47, is S. Gregory's Hom. in Evang. xi (Migne, lxxvi. 1114), beg. 'Celorum regnum, fratres karissimi'. The first words of all the homilies are given in the Index of Initia. At the end, 'Finito libro reddatur cena magistro' (f. 93).

2. Homilies, without author's name or title; texts and incipits as follows:-

(a) Luke vii. 36: ' Multis modis, fr. kar., uoluit Dominus'. f. 94. (b) Matt. viii. 1 . 'Quando Christus, fr. kar., uoluit inter homines . (c) John iv. 46: 'Sancti euangelii lectionem caritati uestre'. f. 95 b. (d) Psal. xxxiii. 12: ' Audite, fr. kar., quam dulci uoce'. f. 97 b. (e) James v. 16: 'Cum in aliis, fr. kar., diebus ad confessionem'.

98b. (f) Ezek, xviii. 30: 'Audite, fr. kar., quante misericordie ' . f. 99. (g) Psal. cxxxii 1: 'Adgratulatur, dilectissimi, David'. f. 100. (h) Matt. xv. 21: 'Tunc egressus est Iesus quando pro redim[en]dis peccatoribus . f. 100 b. (i) No text: 'Queri a quibusdam solet, unde sumpta fuerit antiphona'. f. 101. Ends imperf. 'et arma' at the bottom of f. 101 b.

3. [Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter (d. 1184), Liber pastoralis sive poenitentialisl for the instruction of priests, consisting of extracts from the canons of Councils, papal letters, and decretals, &c. ; in 136 chapters, a table of which is prefixed (f. 102 b). Cf. 7 E. i, 8 D. iii, art. 2. Beg. 'Numquam nimis docetur aut scitur'. f. 104. Vellum; ff. iii+146. 8 5/8 in.x6 in. XIII cent Gatheringsof 8 leaves(ii6,iii10),with catchwords. Each article begins a fresh sheet, and is in a different hand; art. i is in double columns. Sec. fol. (art. 1) '-bat humorem'. The fly-leaf at the beginning (f. i) is from a Gradual (10th cent.) with neums; that at the end (f. 146) contains part ot a lection, Matt. xxvii. 27-35 (13th cent.). On f. 104 b is a 13th cent. note, ' Hic liber est ecclesie sancti Dionisii iuxta Sudhanton [Priory of S. Denis, Southampton]. Quem qui ab ca abstulerit, aut fraudem commiserit quo minus eiusdem ecclesie sit, seu qui titulum hunc dolo deleuerit, Anathema sit'. Subsequently in the Theyer collection (sale-cat. no. 213?); CMA. 6508.