Royal MS 6 B XI

THEOLOGICAL and historical works, in Latin. The sheet-signatures show that the order has been perturbed, and the volume consists of two parts originally arranged somewhat as follows: (a) Artt. 3-11, 14, 13, 15, 19, 1, 2, 16-18, 12 in that order, gatherings of twelve (except vi4, vii⁷, viii imperf., x⁴ xi imperf., xiiii⁸) numbered i-xiii;-

(b) Artt. 20-22, gatherings of twelve except iiiiii6) numbered iiii-iiiiiiiiiiii. Art. 23 is a fragment which may belong to either part. Contents :-

1. ' Liber domini Bernardi abbatis Clareuallensis de precepto et dispensacione' (so colophon): the tract of S. Bernard (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxxii. 859). Cf. 5 F. vii, art. 4, 8 F. xiv, art. 15, 8 F. xv, artt. 8, 9. Preface beg. 'Domino abbati Columbensi . . . Rescriptum meum ad epistolas duorum Carnothensium'; and text, 'Qua mente iam docebo uel tacebo'. f. 1.

2. 'Sermo sancti Bernardi abbatis' (colophon, 'Ex. plicit epistola b. Bernardi abbatis'): a sermon beg. 'Vos qui transituri estis Iordanem'; ends ' inebriatam suscipiat qui uiuit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. amen'. f. 9.

3. 'Liber Bernardi Clareuallensis abbatis de consideracione ad Eugenium papam': the five books printed ib. clxxxii. 727. Preface beg. 'Subit animum dictare aliquid'; text, 'Unde iam ergo incipiam'. f. 13.

4. ' B[ernardus] ad fratres de monte' (the title perhaps belongs to the next article): a short extract De uia miserationis, possibly from S. Bernard. Beg. 'Misericors et miserator dominus de uia plena miserie'; ends progredientes sanctificat, egredientes glorificat'. f. 35.

5. Without title. The Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei of Wigo, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse, often wrongly assigned to S. Bernard and printed in the appendix to his works, ib. clxxxiv. 309. The first two books only. Preface beg. 'Dominis et fratribus H. priori et [al. &c.] W. sabatum delicatum. Pene inpudenter et plusquam decet' ; lib. i beg. 'Fratribus de Monte Dei orientale lumen', and ends 'secretum meum mihi. amen'. f. 35 b.

6. 'Incipiunt epistole Augustini ad nepotem suum infirmum': the two books De Visitatione Infirmorum, of uncertain authorship, printed in the appendix to S. Augustine's works, ib. xl. 1147. Beg. 'Visitationis gratia nepoti meo karissimo'. f. 50.

7. 'Biblia in uersibus' (so the later colophon): poem in about 682 elegiac couplets containing Bible history and allegoriae. Brief prose preface 'Ut historic ueteris et noui testamenti postquam eas didisceris memorie tue firmius inhereant . . hoc metricum tibi mitto compendium in quo tamquam in speculo historias breuiter comprehensas inspicere poteris'. Beg. 'Ante dies omnes mundi fuit omnis in uno'; ends 'absque labore quies et sine nocte dies ',f.54 b.

8. Miscellaneous theological and gnomic verses in several hands, including (a) Lines on repentance (cf. 7 D. 1, f. 42) beg. 'Vita breuis casusque leuis nec spes remeandi';-(b) 'De beata uirgine uersus retrogradi, beg. 'Es decor ecclesie decores me uirgo sophie ';-(c) Three couplets (cf. 7 D. i, f. 42) on the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard (printed by Hauréau, Mélanges Poétiques Hildebert, p. 127), beg. 'Vinca culta fuit cultores premia querunt'. ff. 62, 62 b.

9. 'Incipiunt meditaciones beati Bernardi abbatis

Clareuallis de interiore homine quomodo inuenit deum': the work, of uncertain authorship, variously inscribed as Meditationes S. Bernardi or Hugonis de S. Victore Liber de, Anima (Migne, clxxxiv. 485, cf clxxvii. 165). In the 14th cent. table of incipits [by Tho. de Palmerstown?] in 7 C. III, fr. 200 b, 201 b, meditations with this initium are ascribed to both Bernard and Hugo, but in the latter case with a different ending. Beg. Multi multa sciunt et semetipsos nesciunt'. f. 63.

10. 'Ad R. nepotem suum a Clareualle ad Cluniacum fugientem': ep. i of S. Bernard (ib. clxxxii. 67). Beg. ' Bernardus abbas Roberto adolescenti. Satis et plus. quam satis'. f. 69. At the end (f. 71) are six verses in the same hand as some of those in art. 8.

11. Extracts from some tract relating to the rule of S. Benedict. Beg. 'Itaque, ut sencio ego, regula sancti Benedicti omni homini proponitur, imponitur nulli'. f. 71 b.

12. Chronicle of Popes and Emperors by Martin of Troppau in Bohemia (called usually Polonus), a Dominican, Papal Penitentiary (and at his death in I278 Arch. bishop-elect of Gnesen), with later continuations. The text is of the type designated B by Weiland (Mon. Germ. Hist., Scriptores, xxii, P. 377). For a different type see 10 C. xi, art. 3. The,popes are on the left, the emperors on the right-hand pages, and the years are allotted one line each. The emperors end in 1270 'ueniens est de. functus'. The papal part has a change of ink in 1272, after the words 'Gregorius nacione Lombardus de ciuitate Placentina sedit', but the same hand continues to 1284, 'detinere presumpserunt'. Another hand then gives the rest of the continuation printed by Weiland down to 1285, 'negocia prosequenda'. Preface beg. 'Quoniam scire tempora summorum pontificum'. f. 74. By way of further continuation are added, in the same hand as the last part, (a) Narrative of the resignation of the papacy in 1294 by Celestine V, from the same source as the passage in Bartholomew Cotton's Hist. Anglicana (ed. Luard, Rolls Series, 1895, p. 256). Beg. 'Memorandum quod anno domini mo.cc.nonogesimo quarto'; ends 'bullate non scripte'. f. 102b;-

(b) Continuations of Martin's chronicle of the popes, 1288-1305, compiled apparently by English Franciscans perhaps in the diocese of Worcester. Printed in Mon. Germ. Hist., Scriptores, xxiv, p. 253, from this MS., with the kindred continuation in Cotton MS. Calig. A. xvi. Beg. 'Nicholaus quartus sedit anno domini mo.cco.lxxxviii'; ends 'priuatos restituit'. f. 103. The two quires containing artt. 13, 14 have been misbound together since the 15th cent.

13. Brief chronicle of English history, 1066-1268. Down to 1248 it is a much abridged recension of the Tewkesbury Annals (Cotton MS. Cleop. A. vii, ff. 9-46 b, Annales Monastici, Rolls Series, 1864, i, P. 43), though occasionally more precise in its dates; but from 1246 (the Cotton MS. is imperfect 1244-1246) it appears to be independent, though still dealing specially with the Welsh marches, Cardiff and Llandaff. The whole is in one hand of about the beginning of the 14th cent. Beg. 'Mlxvi. Obiit Edwardus rex Anglie xvi Kal Maii'; ends 'nec scitur ueraciter numerus occisorum'. ff. 105- 108, 112.

14. 'Liber prouincialis' (so colophon): the Provinciale Romanum, or list of dioceses throughout the world, roughly equivalent to the list as given in Liber Cancellariae (ed. G. Erler, Leipzig, 1888), pp. 19-42, and considerably different from that in Matthew Paris (Chronica Majora, ed, Luard, Rolls Series, vi, p. 446. Beg. 'De subiectis immediate Romane ecclesie'. The list ends 'Colocensis qui dicitur Rodo', after which follow (a) 'Iste sunt prouincie sub Romano pontifice constitute et eidem subiecte', being a statement of the rule governing the frequency of visits of prelates to Rome (cf. 13 E. x, f. 19 b, &c.);-(b) List of emperors and kings (cf. Add. MSS. 24057, f. 61, 34758, f. 72). The kings of Ireland are here given as follows: 'Catholicus, D. et M., Reges Minanie, Reges Ulton., Reges Colens., Nanne Clatishlin';-(c) Totals, vi-v. 'Summa prouinciarum 39, summa archiepiscoporum 99, summa episcoporum So'. ff. 109-111.

15. Extracts from the chronicle of Marianus Scotus relating to the chronology of the Christian era, &c., including (a) Part of the letter of Dionysius Exiguus to Petronius (Migne, lxvii. ig), cf. Nero C. v, f. 31 b, and Marianus-Florence in Add. MS. 35168, f. 8. Beg. 'Papa Theophilus centum annorum'. f. 113;-(b) 'De cap. xix. secundi libri eiusdem' (Nero C. v, f. 82, Add. 35168, f. 45), beg. 'Augustus 'ergo secundum has cronicas'. f. 113;-(c) 'De cap. iiii. tertii libri eiusdem' (Nero C. v, f. 109, Add. 35168,£ 64 b), beg. 'Cronice uero perhibent'. f. 113;-(d)'Octauum capitulum cronicarum primi libri Mariani Scotti' (Nero C. v, f. 35 b, Add. 35168, f. 11 b), beg. 'Cum constanter sanctus Beda'. f. 113 b;-

(e) 'Recapitulatio primi uoluminis cronicarum Mariani', a brief account of the nine ages, beg. 'Prima mundi etas cepit'. f. 114. From the general agreement of these and the other shorter passages with the MSS. referred to it is probable that the text used is either of the type of Nero C. v or a MS. of Florence of Worcester, who incorporated that text, but as the pure Marianus text of the early part of the work has never been printed (see Waitz, Mon. Germ. Hist., Scriptores, v) it is not possible to speak certainly.

16. 'Questio determinata per magistrum Nicholaum dictum Tryuet de ordine predicatorum': a discussion by the chronicler Nicholas Trivet (d. 1328) of the difficulties of paschal chronology, which he solves like Marianus by the hypothesis of an omission of 22 years in the records of the Roman emperors and a consequent error of the same amount in the date of the Christian era. Beg. 'Queritur vtrum omnia sint admittenda que tradit ecclesia'. f. 116.

17. 'Epistola de libro Bede de gestis Anglorum accepta super terminis Pasche': part of the letter of Ceolfrid, Abbot of Jarrow, to Naytonus (Nechtan), King of the Picts (Baeda, Hist. Eccl. v, cap. 21, Migne, XCV. 271-277c). Beg. 'Domino excellentissimo . . . Catholicam sancti pasche obseruanciam'; ends 'habundare probastis'. f. 117.

18. 'Beda de gestis Anglorum lib. v': Hist. Eccl. v, cap. 12, the history of the Northumbrian monk who rose from the dead (Migne, xcv. 247-250 D). Imperfect at end. Beg. 'Hiis temporibus miraculum memorabile et antiquorum simile'; breaks off 'qui tamen omnes'. f. 119 b.

19. Extracts from the life of S. Anselm by Eadmer (ib. clviii. 66, &c.). Beg. 'Venit ad beatum Anselmum quadam vice quidam ex seculari vita'. f. 121. Included is also (without heading) part of the letter of Anselm to Lanzo, lib. i, cp. 29 (ib. 1095), beg. 'Ingressus es, karissime, professusque miliciam'. f. 123.

20. 'Dicta collecta exdictis memorialibus antiquorum philosophorum illustrium ac exemplis mirabilibus eorundem que sunt rari flores ex dictis eorundem illustrium philosophorum' (so 15th cent. title at foot of page): the Floriloquium or Compendiloquium (the former is the title given here in the preface, where the printed text reads Compendiloquium) of John le Walleys (one of several writers known as Johannes Gallensis), a Franciscan, who seems to have professed at Worcester and taught at Oxford (d. circ. 1303). Printed (Summa Ioannis Valensis de regimine, &c., fol. 167) Venice, 1496, and elsewhere. Preface beg. 'Cum debeamus apes imitari'; book i, 'Cum ex vita honesta gentilium'. f. 126.

21. 'Breuiloquium de philosophia sanctorum', by the same (cf. 5 A. xii, art. 2). Printed ib. fol. 233. There are, according to a 15th cent. note on f. i52 b, two other Breuiloquia by the same author, viz. De virtutibus theologicis and De virtutibus cardinalibus. For the latter see 10 A. ix, art. 4. Beg. 'Cum vani sint omnes homines in quibus non est scientia dei'. Imperfect at end, breaking off (ed., fol. 239 T) 'affectant ueritatem et affectando'. f. 152 b, 22. 'Summa Collectionum', by the same, also called Communeloquium (15th cent. hand on f. 155). Printed Strassburg 1489, Venice (as above, fol. i) 1496, Paris 1518, &c. Table of chapters beg. 'Cum collectionis huius que potest dici summa collectionum'; preface, ' Cum doctor siue predicator ewangelicus'; text, 'Et quoniam respublica, ut dictum est'. Imperfect at end, breaking off (pt. vii, dist. i, cap. 4 or 5, Venice edition, fol. 160A) 'vos estote parati quia'. f. 155.

23. Tract or letter (imperfect at the beginning) addressed by a Cluniac or Cistercian to 'frater Ogerus', on abuses in his order, luxury in food and clothes, paintings, grotesques ,&c. Ends'Hoc non est detractio sed attractio, quod ut nobis a uobis semper flat omnino precor et supplico. Valete'. f. 227. Vellum; ff. iii+ 228. 12 in.x 8 1/4 in. Beginning of XIV cent. Sec. fol. 'aut eos'. Initials in red (artt. 12, 20-22 red and blue). Perhaps belonged (see art. 13) to Cardiff or some other Welsh cell of Tewkesbury Abbey; afterwards to john Theyer. Theyer sale? cat. no. 48 ; CMA. 6383.