Royal MS 6 D V

THEOLOGICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.

1. 'Prosperi libri tres de vita contemplativa et activa': the work better assigned to Julianus Pomerius (see 5 C. vi, art. 7). Prologue beg. 'Diu multumque renisus sum'; and text, 'contemplativa vita est in qua creatura'.

2. 'Liber scintillarum': the work (probably) of Defensor, a monk of Ligugé in Poitou in the eighth century (Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxxviii. 597). It occurs also ascribed to Cassiodorus (see 8 B. xviii, art. i), Isidore, Baeda and others (Hauréau's Not. et Extr. ii, p. 75). A leaf is lost after f. 112. The prologue which contains Defensor's name is here, as in most MSS., absent. The chapter De doctoribus, omitted in Migne, is present. Beg. (after table of chapters) 'Dominus dicit in euangelio Maiorem caritatem nemo habet'. f. 46.

3. Appendix of excerpts from Ecclesiasticus and S. Isidore, as in the Canterbury MS. 7 C. iv, art. 2 (c£ also 8 A. xxi, art. 16), but incomplete, breaking off (Isid. Sent. ii. ig) 'Quod ait propheta indurasti'. Beg. 'Omnis plaga tristitia cordis est'. f. 113.

4. 'Liber primus (- tertius) de uitiis uirtutibusque anime' (colophon, 'Explicit liber tertius sancti Odonis abbatis'): the Collationes of Odo, Abbot of Cluny 926-943 (Migne, cxxxiii- 517). After the colophon is an extract from a chronicle (probably that of Sigebertus Gemblacensis, anno 992, cf ib. clx. 197) 'de auctore huius libri', wrongly identifying him with Odilo, who became abbot that year. Prologue beg. 'Domno et patri ter pio [al. Turpioni] pontifici . . . Recolitis, domine mi, quid dudum'; and text, 'Auctor igitur et iudex hominum deus'. f. 116. Vellum; ff. 187. 14 in. x 9.1/2 in. Late XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the end (i-vi⁸, viii, viii-xiv⁸, xv⁴) ; a new series begins with art. 4 (i-viii⁸, ix⁷). Artt. i, 4 are in one hand, artt. 2, 3 in another. Sec. fol. 'etenim uita'. Initials in colours. Belonged to Rochester Priory by gift (?) of Archbishop Hubert Walter (1193-1205), 'Liber de claustro Roffensi quem qui alienauerit alienatum celauerit uel hunc titulum deleuerit anathema sit. amen', and in another hand, Huberti archiepiscopi' (14th cent., f. 1). No. 57 in the cat. of 1202 printed by Rye from 5 B. xii; not in the Textus Roffensis catalogue. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 638' (Westminster inventory of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 22) ; cat. of 1666, £ 7 b; CMA. 7891, 8135, 8136.