Royal MS 5 F X

1. 'OMELIE beati Cesarii episcopi ad monachos', viz. (a) 'Dominis sanctis ... in Blagiacensi monasterio constitutis. Sanctus ac uenarabilis pater uester religiosa' (cf 5 E. ix, f. 61). f. 2;-(b) 'Ad locum hunc, karissimi, non ad quictem' (cf. ib. f. 63b). f. 5 b;- c) 'Quod supplicante et quemadmodum' (cf. ib. f. 65). 7 b;-

(d) 'Miror, fratres dilectissimi, dominum meum', not among the works of Caesarius in Migne, but in La Bigne, Maxima Bibliotheca, viii. 845. f. 10;-(e) 'Sanctus ac uenarabilis pater uester' (La Bigne, ib. 855). f. 13 b; -(f) 'Vereor, uenerabiles in Christo filii'=epistola ii Caesarii ad Caesariam abbatissam et eius congregationem, but here addressed to a male audience, and with an additional passage of about a page just before the end; printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. lxvii. 1128. f. 15;-

(g) 'Inter reliquas beatitudines quas in euangelio', printed as no. xxvi of Caesarius in La Bigne, ib. 845, also among the supposititious sermons of Augustine, Migne, Patr. Lat. xxxix. 2317. f. 23;-(h) 'Tria sunt sub omnipotentis Dei manu' (cf 5 E. ix, f. 81 b), by S. Patrick (?). f. 26;-(i) 'Quis quod potest uoueat et reddat', not among the works of Caesarius in Migne or La Bigne. f. 32;-(k) 'Ait quodam loco sermo diuinus', printed in Migne among the works of Eucherius, 1. 857, in La Bigne among those of Caesarius, viii. 819. At end, 'Explicit omelia decima'. f. 34b.

2. 'Omeliae Eusebii [Emeseni] ad monachos'; the same as in 5 E. ix, art. 5, a-h (q. v.). At end, 'Explicit omelia octava'. f. 37.

3. Guitmund, Archbishop of Aversa, Confessio de sancta Trinitate, preceded by a prologue, addressed to 'frater R[oberte]'. The prologue beg. 'Quotiens Deum cogitare'; the treatise, 'Credo sacrosancte diuinitatis eternam unitatem' (Migne, Patr. Lat. cxlix. 1495). f 59b.

4. 'Admonitio beati Cesarii episcopi ad sororem suam'. beg. 'Ut ego peccator et ultimus' (Migne, Pair. Lat. 1. 383, as the work of Fastidius, to whom it is assigned in a Monte Cassino MS.). f. 65.

5. 'Monita sancti patris nostri Basilii Capadocie episcopi' [al. Admonitio ad filium spiritualem]; cf 5 E. iv, art. 4. f. 80 b.

6. S. Ephraem Syrus, six treatises, the first headed 'Incipit liber primus beati Effrem diaconi'; cf. 5 E. iii, art. i. f. 94.

7. S. Augustine (?), De duodecim abusivis huius seculi; preceded by a table of the twelve 'abusive'. Cf. 5 C. v, art. 5 (n). f. 140 b.

8. Gennadius Massiliensis, De ecclesiasticis dogmatibus; beg. 'Credimus unum esse Dominum, Patreni et Filium et Spiritum Sanctum'. Cf. 5 B. iii, art. 4. Breaks off in the middle of ch. 7, 'anima in corpore'. f. 151.

Vellum; ff. 155. 10 in. x 61 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (viii1O, xviii18). Artt. 7 and 8 are in a different hand from the rest of the MS., and appear to have been added to complete the sheet. Sec. fol. 'congaudeat'. Ornamental initials in red and green (ff. 2, 37). On f. 153 b is a list of churches and lands in the neighbourhood of Wallingford, co. Oxon. (evidently the possessions of Wallingford Priory, cf. Dugdale, Monasticon, iii, p. 281), and a grant of land by Nicholas, Prior of Wallingford [to 1182]. Hence the volume probably belonged to Wallingford Priory. old Royal press-mark 'no. 374' (in cat. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 29; cat. of 1666, f. 16 b; CMA. 7895 + 7920 + 7945 + 7820.