Royal MS 6 D VI

WORKS Of, or attributed to, S. Jerome, viz.:-

1. Gospels of SS. Matthew and Mark, in S. Jerome's version, the passages commented on in artt. 2, 3 being underlined in red. A leaf is lost after f. 4 and another after f. 14. f. 2.

2. Commentary on S. Matthew (Migne, Patr. Lat. xxvi. 15). Prologue beg. 'Plures fuisse qui euangelia'; and text, 'Liber generationis, &c. : In Ysaia legimus Generationem eius'. f. 32.

3. Commentary on S. Mark, spurious (appendix to S. Jerome, ib. xxx. 589). Prologue beg. 'Omnis scriba doctus', and is followed by two arguments, 'Marcus euangelista dei Petri discipulus'(BergerPro'aces, no. 225) and 'Quatuor sunt qualitates de quibus sanctae uangelia'. Text beg. 'Initium sancti euangelii, &c. : Sicut scriptum est in Ysaia propheta'. f. 121 b.

4. 'Cathalogus beati Ieronimi presbiteri de catholicis scriptoribus': the Liber de illustribus viris (cf 5 B. viii, art. i). The MS. (wrongly referred to as 8 D. vi) is cited as K. in E. C. Richardson's edition (Texte und Untersuchungen, Leipzig, 1896, Bd. xiv, Heft i). Prologue beg. 'Hortaris, Dexter, ut Tranquillum sequens'; text, 'Simon Petrus filius Iohannis'. f. 141[ b.

5. 'Ieronimus de decem temptationibus': the brief spurious tract Decem temtationes populi Israel (appendix to S. Jerome, Migne, xxiii. 1319). Beg. 'Hec sunt uerba que loculus, &c. [Deut. i. 1, 2]: Hec sunt uerba quibus corripuit'. f. 157 b. Vellum; ff. 159. 15.1/4 in. x 11 in. Early XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, the first four unnumbered, with catchwords, the rest (beg. with art. 2) numbered (i-xv⁸, xvi⁷), with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'erat locuste'. Initials in red, blue and green, of rather unusual style. Probably written at Coggeshall Abbey, co. Essex (cf. 5 B. ix). On f. i b in the bold hand of the 13th cent. Coggeshall librarian, 'Liber sancte Marie de Coggeshall. In hoc uolumine continentur', &c. Belonged in 1650 (f. 35 b) to John Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. 10; CMA. 6388.