Royal MS 6 A I

'LIBER EXAMERON id est sex dierum sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis episcopi': the Hexaemeron of S. Ambrose (ed. Schenkl, Corpus Script. Eccl. xxxii, p. 3). The text appears to resemble that of a Le Mans MS. used by the Benedictine editors (Migne, Patr. Lat. xiv). Alternative readings are given in the margin. Beg. 'Tantumne opinionis assumpsisse'. At the end (f. 134), in a hand of the same date, is a short article 'De situ Ierusalem', beg. 'Ab oriente est introitus Ierusalem per portam Dauid', ending 'ubi dominum diabolus temptauit. Idus Iulii capta est Ieru. salem a Latinis. Eodem die diuisio apostolorum'. From the 1666 cat. it appears that the MS. then contained a third article, 'Inventio sanctae crucis'. Probably this became detached and was marked first as 8 D. xviii, art. i (falsely supposed by Casley to be lost in the fire) and afterwards 7 A. xi, art. 2, under which number it will be now found. Vellum; ff. 135. 10.3/4 in. x 7.1/4 in. XII cent. Gatherings 8 leaves (vii⁶), numbered. Perhaps in the hand of Humphrey, precentor of Rochester (see above, 5 B. xii). Sec. fol. 'In principio'. Red initials. Belonged to Rochester Priory, 'Liber de claustro Roffensi. Gognosti cantoris' (f. 1). No. 34 of the catalogue or A.D. 1202, in 5 B. xii, and mentioned also in the earlier cat. of the Textus Roffensis (Archaeologia Cantiana, vi, p. 120). Old Royal press-mark 'no. 319' (in cat. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 28); cat. of 1666, f. 16 ; CMA. 7856.