Royal MS 6 E II

THEOLOGICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.

1. 'Incipit prologus sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis archiepiscopi in expositione super Lucam ewangelistam': the ten books of S. Ambrose upon S. Luke (Migne, Patr. Lat. xv. 1527), but differently divided from the printed text. Book vi begins with ch. x of the Gospel, book x with ch. xxii. Prologue beg. 'Scripturi in euangelii libro quem Lucas sanctus'; text, 'Quoniam quidem inquit multi', &c.: Pleraque nostrorum quemadmodum ucterum'. f. 2. Art. 2 is written with different ink, but in a hand of about the same date.

2. 'Omelia beati Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi' (title added in a 12th-13th cent. hand, with note 'ista expositio legatur ad mensam in refectorio die annuntiationis beate Marie'); really a part of two homilies of S. Bernard on Luke i. 26, 27 (ib. clxxxiii. 55). There is a lacuna including the end of hom. i and the beginning of hom. ii (ib. 60 B-62 A), and leaves are lost at the end. Beg. 'Missus est Gabriel, &c.: Quid sibi uoluit euangelista'. f. 105 b.

3. Gemma Animae, the liturgical treatise by Honorius of Autun (cf 6 A. xi, art. i), without title. At the end of bk. iv (ch. cxvi of Migne's text), which has the colophon 'Explicit liber iiii.us de concordia officiorum', a :13th cent. hand has added in the margin 'Explicit liber Amelarii qui intitulatur Gemma anime' (f. 173b). Migne's ch. cxvii is here (and in 8 F. viii and other MSS.) made a separate tract, see next article. Prefatory letters beg. 'Agmen in castris eterni regis'; text, 'Plerosque uesania captos'. f. 109.

4. 'Tractatus de obseruationibus Romane ecclesie': ch. cxvii of Migne's text as above. Beg. 'Iam de officiis que uidebantur'; ends 'in gaudio metant'. f. 173b.

5. Sermon on Exod. xvii. 8-13. Without title. Beg. 'Venit autem Amalech, &c. : Rex iste paganus qui pugnabat'. f. 174b. Artt. 3-5 occur in the same order in 8 F. viii. Art. 6 is an addition in another hand.

6. Eleven lines of verse, viz. :-(a) Five hexameters, often attributed to Hildebert of Le Mans (Migne, clxxi. 1194, cf. 8 B. iv, art. 2, 8 E. xvii, art, 2 a), beg. 'Est ratio quod pars altaris dextera misse';-(b) Four hexameters, similarly attributed (ib. 1280, cf. 8 E. xvii, art. 2 c), beg. 'Tres partes facte de Christi corpore signant';-(c) Elegiac couplet, beg. 'Intus obit qui mente, foris qui peccat in actu'. f. 176 b. Vellum; ff. 176. 16.1/2 in. x ill in. Late XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, the numbers generally cut away. Double columns. In an English hand (?), but with illuminated initials and others in colours (some only outlined) of unusual design and tone, suggesting German work. Sec. fol. 'et ipse'. Belonged to Archbishop Cranmer and [John, Lord] Lumley (f. 2, names not autogr.). Lumley cat. f. 1; cat. of x666, f. 3 ; CMA. 7855.