Royal MS 5 F XVII

NICOLAUS AB AQUAEVILLA, Sermones dominicales in Evangelia; beg. 'Dicite filie Syon, &c.: Verba ista sumpta sunt a Zacharia propheta'. The title here runs 'Hic incipiunt sancti sermones de temporali quos compilauit scripsit ac predicauit sanctus ac venerabilis Beda in vita sua'; but the collection is a well-known one, of which many copies exist (e. g. 8 A. x and 8 F. iv in this collection), cf. Hist. Litt. de la France, xxxi, pp. 95-100. Printed at Paris at the end of the 15th cent. and often subsequently. In the ed. Of 15I9 (where the false ascription to Bede is mentioned) the order of the first two sermons is inverted. Sermons 6-8 of the printed ed. are omitted in the MS.; and between the sermons for the 12th and '3th Sundays after Trinity the MS. has a short section on Christ's writing on the ground, which is not in the printed ed. At the end, after the 'Explicit', is added in the same hand a sermon 'De dedicacione', beg. 'Domus mea domus oracionis, &c. : Quamdiu homo est in hac vita' (f. 191). Vellum; ff. i + 199. 10.1/4 in. x 7.1/8 in. XV cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, lettered and numbered on the first four of each, with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. '-uites sicut'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Preceded and followed on fly-leaves by miscellaneous theological notes, including notes on various saints (ff. 1, 194, 195b), an 'Expositio salutacionis angelice' (f. 193), a short treatise on the Eucharist (f. 196), &c. At the end (f. 199) is the note 'Orate pro anima Patricii qui hunc librum contulit domino Thome Eggerton canonico ecclesie de Ledes' [Leeds Priory, co. Kent]. On f. 192 b is the name of E. Banister (16th cent.), and on f. 197 b that of 'Master Thomas Daie' (late 16th cent.). Belonged to john, Lord Lumley (f. 4, name not autogr.).