Royal MS 6 D VIII

WORKS of S. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury 1093-1109, viz. :-

1. 'Incipit epistola Anselmi archiepiscopi ad Lanfrancum archiepiscopum in monologio': dedicatory letter (lib. iv, ep. 103 in Migne, Patr. Lat. clix. 252), followed by preface and text of the Monologion (ib. clviii. 141). Letter beg. 'Reuenendo et amando suo domino . . . Quoniam agenda sunt omnia concilio'; preface, 'Quidam fratres sepe me studioseque'; text, 'Si quis vnam naturam summam'. f. 5.

2. 'L[iber] Prosol[ogion]' (so headline): the Proslogion of Anselm (ib. 225). Prologue beg. 'Postquam opusculum quoddam uelud exemplum', followed by table of capitula; text beg. 'Eya nunc homunccio fuge paulum'. f. 19 b. Art. 3 follows without title or fresh headline.

3. Liber Pro Insipiente, a tract in criticism of part of the Proslogion, by Gaunilo, a monk of Marmoutiers, with Anselm's answer (ib. 241, 247). Beg. 'Dubitanti utrum sit uel neganti quod sit'; answer beg. 'Quoniam non me reprehendit'. ff. 24, 25.

4. 'Incipit liber beati Anselmi archiepiscopi de processione spiritus sancti' (ib. 285). Beg. 'Negatur a Grecis quod spiritus sanctus de filio'. f. 27.

5. 'Liber de incarnatione verbi dei' (so colophon); ib. 261. Wants the first preface. Beg. 'Domino et patri uniuerse ecclesie ... Quoniam diuina prouidencia uestram elegit sanctitatem'. f. 36.

6. 'Incipit prohemium beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Cantuariensis in libro Cur deus homo': the treatise in two books (ib. 359). Table of capitula to each book. Prologue beg. 'Opus subditum propter quosdam'; treatise, 'Sepe et studiosissime a multis'. f. 42.

7. 'Liber de conceptu uirginali'; called also De Conceptu Virginali et Originali Peccato (ib. 43I). Preceded by a table of capitula. Beg. 'Cum in omnibus religiose tue uoluntati'. f. 59 b.

8. 'Tractatus de ueritate' (ib. 467). Prologue beg. 'Tres tractatus pertinentes ad studium sacre scripture'. followed by a table of capitula. Text beg. 'Quoniam deum ueritatem esse credimus'. f. 66 b.

9. 'Tractatus de libertate arbi[t]rii editus ab archiepiscopo Anselmo Cantuariensi' (ib. 489). Preceded by a table of capitula. Beg. 'Quoniam liberum arbitrium uidetur repugnare gratie'. f. 71.

10. ' Liber Anselmi Cantuar. archiep. de concordia presciencie et predestinacionis et uere (sic, leg. gratic) dei cum libero arbitrio' (ib. 507). Beg. 'De tribus illis questionibus'. f. 74b.

11. 'Tractatus Anselmi de casu dyboli' (ib. 325). Preceded by a table of capitula. Beg. 'Ilud apostoli Quid habes quod non accepisti'. f. 82 b.

12. 'Liber beati Anselmi de similitudinibus': the compilation [by Eadmer?] sometimes called Liber Apologeticus (cf. 6 A. iii, art. 10). Beg. 'Voluntas tripliciter intelligitur', and ends 'in quantum volunt'. f. gob.

13. 'Liber de septem beatitudinibus': a treatise on the fourteen 'partes beatitudinis' (cf 5 F. ix, art. 4, 8 D. viii, art. 22). It is not identical with either of those printed in Migne, clix. 587 627 (cf. also 8 C. vii, art. 24). Beg. 'Queritur inter homines quid sit quam. obrem', and ends 'qui deum diligunt. Cui gloria et imperium, &c. amen. Explicit Anselmus dc vii. beatitudinibus'. f. 112 b.

14. 'Incipiunt meditaciones': portions of the two collections printed in Anselm's works, ib. clviii. 709, 855, as Meditationes and Orationes (cf. 7 A. vi, artt.

15, 17). Some of them occur also in the Pseudo. Augustinian Liber Meditationum (ib. xl). Contents: Prologus meditationum, or. xx, l-lii, lxiii, lxvii, lxviii, lxiv, lxv, lxix, lxxi (ad S. Martinum, siue ad S. Nicholaum et ad quemlibet sanctum mutato nomine), lxxii (communis oratio ad S. Benedictum et S. Augustinum), lxxv, lxxiv, med. xi, ii, iii. Prologue beg. 'Oraciones siue meditaciones que subscripte sunt'; text, 'Domine Iesu Christe, redempcio mea'. f. 115 b. The fly-leaves (ff. 2-4) are from an unfinished MS. of part of the Summa Theologiae of S. Thomas Aquinas, containing the beginning of the Secunda Secundae ending in art. 5 of quaest. ii, 'ergo etiam `non tenetur'. Beg. 'Post communem consideracionem de uirtutibus et uiciis'. The table of contents (f. 1 b) includes at the end several tracts not now in the volume, viz. 'Sex libri Ricardi [de S. Victore] de trinitate, duo tractatus Egidii [de Columna?], videlicet de consecracione hostie et de originali peccato, tractatus Thome [de Aquino] de perfectione spiritualis vite'. Vellum; ff. i + 132. 15.1/2 in. x 10.1/4 in. XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves, with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'distinccio' or (art. 1) 'multis modis'. Initials in red and blue. Belonged to Spalding Priory, co. Lincoln (f. 5). Old Royal press-mark ;no. 607' (Westminster inventory of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 17) cat. of 1666, f. 16 b; CMA. 7876.