Royal MS 5 F IX

S. ANSELM, theological works and epistles, viz. :-

1. 'Incipit liber Anselmi archiep. Cantuar. de morum qualitate per exemplorum coaptationem', i. e. Eadmer, De similitudinibus Anselmi (cf. 5 E. xiv, art. i), cc. i-i46. f. 3. Ch. 146 is followed (f. 38) by a concluding paragraph ('Hec de humanis moribus per similitudines suo interiectas loco diximus', &c.), and by four lines of verse:-

Vita breuis, casusque leuis, nec spes remeandi. Quanta seres hic, tanta feres, sit cura parandi. Plura seras ut plura feras, ne non seruisse Peniteat, cum nil ualeat iam penituisse.' For another copy of the work, followed by the Same three articles as here, cf. 8 D. viii, artt. 19-22.

2. On the contrariety of good and evil, beg. 'Liquet omnibus etiam simpliciter intelligentibus'. This follows art. I without title. f. 38.

3. Similitudo militis, and Similitudo cellerarii, i. e. cc. 193, 194 of Similitudines, which are sometimes appended to that work, and sometimes, as in 8 D. iv, f. 112, given separately; beg. 'Sicut miles temporalis armis munitus est' (Migne, Patr. Lat. clix. 7o2). f. 40 b.

4. De quattuordecim partibus beatitudinis; beg. 'Queritur inter homines quid sit quam ob rem'. This treatise agrees in substance and arrangement with that printed among the works of Eadmer (Migne, Patr. Lat. clix. 587), but not verbally. Other copies (with some variations) are in 5 A. xiv, art. 7 and 6 D. viii, art. 13. The last leaves of the sheet (ff. 53-56) are occupied by extracts from Augustine (De orando Deo) and Gregory (on job) in different hands. The former occurs also in 8 D. viii, art. 26. f. 45 b.

5. 'De concordia prescientie et predestinationis et gratie Dei cum libero arbitrio'; cf. 5 E. xiv, art. 5(r). f. 57.

6. De processione Spiritus Sancti; cf 5 C. iv, art. i (d). f. 77.

7. De fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi;. preceded by Anselm's letter to Pope Urban, without any break being marked between the letter and the treatise. Cf. 5 E. xiv, art. 5 (k). f. 96.

8. 'Epistolg Anselmi Cantuar. archiep.', viz. nos. i. 2, 6, 8, iv. 120, I. 11, 15, 21, 23, 29, 30, 52, 41 (part), 44, 53, 64, 69, 71, 72 (part), 76, II. 3 (part), 7 (part), 8 (part), 12, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28 (omitting first sentence), 29 (part), 30 (part), 38, 40 (part), 41 (part), 42 (part), 45, 49, III. 7, 12 (part), 13, 30 (part), 31, 33, IV. I09, III. 38, 39, IV. 110 (part), iii. 49 (omitting first two sentences), iv. iii (omitting first two sentences), iiI. 50, IV. 9, II, Ill. 53, 36, 54, 58 (omitting first sentence), iv. 13, III. 59, IV. 14, iii. 61, IV. 113, 17, iii. 65 (part), 66, iv. I26, 20, 21, III. 103, iv. 44 (part), iii. 69, 72 (part), 73, 74, 75, 76 (part), IV. 30 (part), III. 77 (part), IV. 32 (part), III. 78, 79, 82, 84, 85 (part), 87, 88 (omitting first sentence), 89, go, 91, 92, IV. 35, III. 93, 96, 98, IV. 36, 37, 38, 39, III. 100, IV. 114, III. 12, 169, 95, 97, IV. 43 (part), iii. 101 (part), 102, 104, IV. 45, III. 106, IV. 54 (omitting first sentence), III. I07, iv. 55, 56, iii. 171, 108, iv. 57, 58, 62, III. 109 (Omitting first sentence), 110 (part), iv. 65, III. 112, 113 (part), iii (part), 117, iv. 72, III. 118, 119 (part), 120, 122, IV. 73 (part), iii. I23 (omitting first sentence), 124 (part), 125 (part), 126, 127 (omitting first sentence), 128, 129 (part), 130, 131, 132 (part), 133 (part), 137, IV. 89, III. I38 (part), 139, 181 (omitting first sentence), 140, 180, 141, 144, 146, 149, 186 (part), 44, 45, IV. 99, III. 154, IV. 101, III. 155, 134, 135, 136. The last sentences of many of the epistles are omitted. f. 109. On the last page (f. 196 b) is inserted, in a rather later hand, a letter from Hugh, Bishop of Rouen, to Pope Innocent II giving an account of the death of Henry 1 [1 Dec. 1135]. Included in W. of Malrilesbury's Historia Novella (W. Malmesb. Gesta Regum, ed. Stubbs, ii, P. 536).

Vellum; ff. 97 (ff. 2, 97 paper additions). 10.1/8 in. x 6.1/2 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (viii, ix, xvii, xx10). Artt. 1-4 originally formed a separate volume, and a table of contents on f. i includes only artt. 5-8. See. fol. 'ualet quia'. Initials and headings in red. Belonged (according to a note by J. Theyer on f. 1 b) to Sir Thomas More; Theyer's note of ownership, 1647 (ib.). Theyer sale-cat. no. 125; CMA. 6519.