Royal MS 6 B IX

THEOLOGICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.

1. ' Omelie beati Eusebii episcopi ad monachos' (so colophon) : seventeen sermons attributed to Eusebius Emesenus, but probably by more than one author. The same collection occurs below, 8 E. xii, art. 5, where the sermons are noticed separately. Beg. 'Quisquis miseriam uite huius pensat'. f. 2.

2. Alphabetical subject-index to art. 3. Brief preface beg. ' Ad euidenciam huius tabule nota quod quilibet numerus', and table 'Abstinencia a communione'. Colophon, 'Actor huius compendii fuit Albertus secundus episcopus Bryxiensis discipulus sancti Thome et eiusdemordinis'.This is presumably Alberto Mandugasino of Brescia, a Dominican (d. 1314, see Quétif-Échard, Scriptores Ord. Praed. i, p. 526), who does not, however, seem to have been a bishop. A fragment of the same index is in 9 A. ix, f. 220. f. 47.

3. ' Liber qui intitulatur Veritas Theologie' : the Compendium Theologicae Veritatis, a treatise in seven books, often assigned to S. Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Bonaventura, or others. Printed repeatedly (Hain, nos. 432-446, &c., and in Peltier's edition of Bona. ventura, viii, p. 61). The most probable author seems to be Hugo Argentoratensis, Prior of the Strassburg Dominicans(d.circ.1300). For another copy see 9A.ix. Preface beg. 'Veritatis theologice sublimitas', and text 'Deum esse multis modis ostenditur'. f. 50 b.

4. ' Liber ornatus spiritualis desponsacionis', from the Flemish of the Augustinian jan van Ruysbrock, Prior of Groenendael (Viridis Vallis) near Brussels 1349-1381, translated into Latin by Cerardus Magnus (Gerard Groote, d. I384), founder of the Brotherhood of the Common Life. Some account of this and the other versions of the book is given by A. von Arnswaldt, Vier Schriften von Johann Rusbroek, Hanover, 1848, p. xxi. First preface of translator beg, ' Incipit liber ornatus sp. d. de Teutonico ydiomate in Latinum translatus' , and second preface of translator' Sequitur tractatus de ornatu spiritualium nupciarum quem prescripsit'. Author's preface beg. 'Ecce sponsus venit, exile obuiam ei: Hec verba scripsit s. Matheus', and text 'Ecce primum punctum vite actiue'. Colophon, 'Explicit translatio mag. Gerardi magni super libro orn. spir. nupc. dom. Iohannis de Rusbroec', &c. f. 141.

5. 'Vita beatissimi confessoris Christi Edwardi gloriosi regis Anglorum': the life of Edward the Confessor by Ethelred, al. Ailred, Abbot of Rievaulx (1146-167), printed (after Twysden, Scriptores Decem) in Migne, Patr. Lat. cxcv. 757. The life, not here divided into books, is preceded by the prologue 'ad gloriosissimum regem Henricum iuniorem' (Hen. II, not the young prince, who was not crowned till 1170) and letter to Laurence, Abbot of Westminster. Prologue beg. 'Multis veterum studio fuisse'; letter, 'Dilecto et diligendo . . . Factus sum insipiens'; and text, 'Gloriosi ac deo dilecti regis'. The last chapter and a half are written in the margin, apparently from lack of room elsewhere. f. 178.

Vellum; ff. 198. 12 in. x 8 1/4 in. XV cent. In several hands. Sec. fol. 'scuto fidei'. Initials in red and blue. On f. 198 are eight English verses (15th cent.) beg. ' Ryht godely fressh flour of womanhode', signed 'quod H. Bowesper (?) ', and on f. 1 b the couplet ' Heu quid agam dum nudus eram iam preterit estas Ad patriam remeare meam sic cogit egestas'. A note on f. 9 seems to be in Patrick Young's hand. Old Royal press-mark ' no, 385' (in cat. Of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 29); cat. of 1666, f. 6b; CMA. 7919,8104-8106.