Royal MS 6 A XII

THEOLOGICAL WORKS by S. John Chrysostom, Fulbert of Chartres, Alcuin, &c., viz. :-

1. 'Liber Iohannis Constantinopolitane urbis episcopi de reparatione lapsi' : the tract Ad Theodorum lapsum (Migne, Patr. Gr. xlvii. 277). The translation printed separately (Cologne, 1470?) and with De Compunctione Cordis (1500?). The Basel edition Of 1547 gives a different version. Beg. 'Quis dabit capiti, &c. : Opportunius multo a me nunc'. f. 1.

2. 'Liber primus de compunctione' (book ii, 'incipit de eadem re'): the two books De Compunctione Cordis (Migne, Patr. Gr. xlvii. 393, translation in the early editions, including the Basel edition Of 1547, v. 566). Beg. 'Dum [al. Cum] te intueor beate Demetri frequenter insistentem'. f. 29 b.

3. 'Cuius supra liber primus incipit de psalmo quinquagesimo (Explicit liber primus incipit secundus)': the two spurious homilies (Migne, Patr. Gr. lv. 565, translation in the carly editions, e. g. Basel 1547, i. 723). Beg. 'Pictores imitantur arte naturam et colores coloribus permiscentes'. f. 55.

4. 'Cuius supra de co quod nemo leditur nisi a semet ipso' (Migne, Patr. Gr. Iii. 459, translation in early editions, e. g. Basel I547, v. 750). Beg. 'Scio quod crassioribus quibusque'. f. 77 b.

5. 'Cuius supra cum de expulsione eius ageretur' (Migne, Patr. Gr. Iii. 427*, translation in Basel edition, v. 953). Beg. 'Multi quidem fluctus et undo; immanes'. f. 94.

6. 'Eiusdem sermo quando de Asia regressus est Constantinopolim ipse Iohannes' (Basel ed., v. 957, and Migne, Patr. Gr. Iii. 421, Latin only) Beg. 'Moyses magnus ille dei famulus'. f. 97 b.

7. 'Cuius supra sermo de proditione Iudae' (Migne, Patr. Gr. xlix. 373, transl. in Basel ed., v. 816). Beg. 'Paucis hodie necessarium est'. f. ioo b.

8. 'De cruce et latrone' (Migne, Patr. Gr. xlix. 399, transl. in Basel ed., v. 826). Beg. 'Hodierna die noster dominus'. f. 107.

9. 'Cuius supra de cruce': a spurious work (Migne, Patr. Gr. 1. 815, transl. in Basel ed., v. 836). Beg. 'Quid dicam? quid loquar? quod uobis nomen imponam'. f. 113.

10. 'Cuius supra sermo de ascensione domini' (Migne, Patr. Gr. 1. 441, transl. in Basel ed., v. 865). Beg. 'Quanda de cruce nostra processit oratio'. f. 116 b.

11. 'Sermo beati Augustini de symbolo': sermon ccxv (Migne, Patr. Lat. xxxviii. 1072). Beg. 'Sacrosancti misterii symbolum'. f. 123.

12. 'Eiusdem de oratione dominica': sermon lvi (ibid.

377). Beg. ' Beatus apostolus tempora ista'. f. 126.

13. 'De quodam miraculo beati Martini quod contigit in festiuitate translationis eius': narrative in form of a dialogue between Hugo, an archdeacon, and Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres 1007-1029, how at the dedication of S. Martin at Tours, refounded by Hervé (carly 11th cent.), there was great disappointment at seeing no great miracle, until the founder, who had come in spite of great weakness due to his ascetic life, reproved them for desiring physical cure's iii presence of so great a 'spoliatio inferni' in the spiritual world, and how he was induced by a religious fraud on the part of a brother present to divulge how this had been revealed to him. Printed in Mabillon's Vetera Analecta, P. 213. Beg. 'Fulberto amico ex dilectis ... Speciosa morurn disciplina', and ends 'redemptionem eternaliter'. f. 132 b.

14. 'Quoddam scriptum Fulberti de eo quod tria maxime necessaria sunt ad perfeccionem Christiane religionis': letter to Deodatus (cf s E. v, art. 3 a), cp. v of Migne, Patr. Lat. cxli. 196. Beg. 'Venerabili patri et domino . . . Vnde inter hesterna et secreta colloquia'. f. 138 b.

15. 'Cuius supra de quadam consuetudine hostie quam accepit sacerdos quando ordinatur ab episcopo': letter to Einard (cf. 5 E. v, art. 3 b), ep. iii of Migne, Patr. Lat. cxli. 192. Beg. 'Domino suo Einardo ... Nouit et uere nouit'. f. 144. At the end (f. 146 b) is the grammatical note 'Lamento lamentas et huiusmodi plura secundum antiquos in hoc libro reperiuntur'. Artt. 1-15 are in the hand of Humphrey, precentor of Rochester (cf 5 B. xii, &c.); art. 16 in a rougher 12th cent. hand (f. 181 in a third hand).

16. 'Epistola Alchuini ad Karolum imperatorem missa pro libris examinandis quos de sancta trinitate composuit': the three books of Alcuin, De Fide S. Trinitatis, with prefatory letter and verses (cf. 6 B. viii, art. 4, Migne, Patr. Lat. ci. ii). Letter beg. 'Domino gloriosissimo Karolo . . . Dum dignitas imperialis' (ep. 191 in Dummler's Mon. Alc.); verses, '0 rex augusto clarissime dignus honore'; and text, 'Quamuis enim in huius exilii'. f. 147.

17. Part of art. ii repeated. Ends 'materia concluditur'. f. 181.

Vellum; ff. 181. 11 1/2 in. x 7.3/4 in. XII cent. (see above). Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered down to xviii at the top of the first page. Sec. fol. 'in profundum'. Initials in colours (very little ornament). Belonged to Rochester Priory, 'Liber de claustro Roffensi. Asketilli monachi'. No. 76 in cat. of 1202, in 5 B. XII, and also included in the earlier Textus Roffensis cat. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 418' (in cat. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 30); cat. of 1666, f. 2; CMA. 7849 and 7923.