Royal MS 6 B I

'EXPOSITIO beati Gregorii papae super Iezechielem prophetam': the twenty-two homilies of Gregory the Great on Ezekiel, with prefatory letter (Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxvi. 785). A corrector has altered the title to 'Incipit omelia prima expositionis b. G. super primam partem Ezechiclis prophetae', and the last ten homilies have always been numbered separately as 'In extrema parte', &c., and have their own preface. Preface beg. 'Dilectissimo fratri Marino [altered to Mariniano] ... Omelias que in beato Hezechiele propheta', and hom. i 'Dei omnipotentis aspiratione de Iezechiele'; preface to the second series, 'Quia multis curis prementibus' (f. 64), and text 'In uicesimo et quinto anno, &c. [ch. xl. i ] : Dicturus mistica'. At the end (f. 122) is another homily, imperfect at the end, consisting of an extract from the Quaestiones in Genesim of S. Isidore of Seville (Migne, Pair. Lat. lxxxiii. 243 a-245 a). Beg. 'Apparuit autem Dominus Abrahae, &c. [Gen. xviii. 1-10]: Notandum quippe quod Abraham', and breaks off 'qui natus est de Sarra risus'.

Vellum; ff. i + 123. 12.1/4 in. x 8 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (B and C lettered at the end). Sec. fol. 'non solum'. Initials of interlaced work in colours in a rather curious style (sec PI. 45 c, and cf. 5 B. ii, in pI. 40 a). On f. 123 is scribbled (15th cent.) 'Iohannes Dunster. ob. Dunster prauus. Iohannes Salisbury, id. Salisbury nunquam vigil'. A fetter B on f. 1 is possibly a press-mark. Belonged to Archbishop Cranmer and john, Lord Lumley (names on f. 1 not autograph, cf. Add. MS. 36659, f. 52); cat. of 1666, f. 5; CMA. 7934.