Royal MS 6 E III

MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS On theological and other subjects, in Latin, viz.:-

1. 'Ieronius (sic, altered to 'Augustinus', but vice versa in the table of contents) de cognicione uite': the dialogue [by Honorius of Autun] between Magister and Fratres, De cognitione verae vitae (see 5 A. i, art. 2, &c.). Beg. 'Sapiencia dei que os mutorum aperit'. Ends, as in Migne's text (Patr. Lat. xl. 1032), not as in 5 A. I, 5 A. iv, 'summum bonum perducat. amen'. Colophon, 'Explicit Ieronimus de cognicione dei'. f. 2.

2. 'Contra clericos curiales' (in margin 'Hec est epistola Petri de Compostellis'); really a letter of Peter of Blois (no. 14 in Migne, ccvii. 42). The text has a large lacuna (ib. 46 D-48 c, 'dicis'-'maxime si'). A different lacuna occurs in the same letter in 14 C. IV and three other MSS. Beg. 'Gracias ago vestre gracie quantas possum'; ends, as in 10 A. xviii and other MSS., 'non est intermissio neque finis. Amen'. f. 7b.

3. 'Ad honorem omnipotentis dei patris et filii et spiritus sancti hic libellus scriptus est': a compilation of apocryphal gospels, viz. (a) Forged letter of Chromaius and Heliodorus and reply of S. Jerome, as in 6 B. x, art. 2 (C, d), where, however, they precede a different tract, and 13 A. xlv, art. 18. Beg. 'Dilectissimo fratri . . . Ortum Marie uirginis'. f. 9;-(b) Pseudo-Matthew, Gospel of the Nativity and Infancy of the Saviour, containing the same matter as the Colbert MS. described by J. C. Thilo and the Vatican MS. printed by Tischendorf, Evangelia Apocrypha, 1853, P. 53 (cf. R. Reinsch, Die Pseudo-Evangelien von Jesu und Marias Kindheit, Halle, 1879). Beg. 'In diebus illis erat uir in Israel nomine Ioachim'; ends resplendebat super eum qui est in secula seculorum'. f. 9b;-(c) Pseudo-Thomas, Gospel of Jesus' Childhood, printed from a Vatican MS. in Tischendorf, pp. 156-169 cf Reinsch, p. 4). Beg. 'Dum facta fuisset conturbacio'. The fourth paragraph is headed 'Tractatus Ysmaeli de operibus Iesu post regressionem eius de Egypto', and begins 'Narracio Thome Hismaelite et apostolorum domini' (cf also the Oxford MS., Merton College, xiii). Ends 'benedictus in secula seculorum. amen'. f. 14 b.

4. ' Epistola Venturini contra temptaciones': probably by the Dominican Venturino of Bergamo (d. I346), but not mentioned by Quetif-Echard (Script. Ord. Praed. , p. 620) among his works. There is a copy at Oxford, St. John's College MS. lxxvii. Beg. 'Fratri Rogero dilecto in Christo frater Venturinus ... Scribo illi quem acio (leg. facie) ignoro sed mente diligo'. f. 16.

5. 'Disputacio inter misericordiam ueritatem iusticiam et pacem de restitucione hominis perditi' : a dialogue of which there are copies in Harley MS. 5235, f. 122, attributed to S. Bernard (early 14th cent.), and Add. MS. 34763, f. 63. Beg. 'Diuina potencia duo fecit palacia a principio'; ends 'nomen erat Ioseph, &c. Amen'. f. 16b.

6. 'Tractatus de reformacione ecclesie Cardinalis Cameracensis': treatise addressed to the Council of Constance [1 Nov. 1416] by Pierre d'Ailly, Bishop of Cambrai 1398-1411, Cardinal-priest 1411-1420. Printed separately 1510(?) and reprinted in Gratius' Fasciculus, I535 (Brown's reprint, 1690, tom. i, p. 406), Durandus, De modo generalis concilii celebrandi (Paris, 1671), app. p. 67, and H. von der Hardt, Constantiense Concilium (Frankfort, 1700), tom. i, pars v, p. 409. Beg. 'De reformacione ecclesie plura dudum per me scripta'. f. 18 b.

7. 'Tractatus Cardinalis Camerasensis de potestate ecclesie' : a discourse to the same Council [1 Oct. 1416] printed in von der Hardt, op. cit., tom. vi, P. 15. Beg. 'Christi nomine inuocato, cui data est omnis potestas'. f. 22.

8. 'Tractatus de legibus et sectis contra supersticiOs0s astronomos compilatus a reuerendo in Christo patre et domino Petro Cardinali Camerasensi' : a tract by the same author, based largely on Roger Bacon (Opus Maius, pt. iv), printed along with the Imago Mundi of Ailly (Louvain, 1480). In the edition it bears the date 24 Dec. 1410. Prologue beg. 'Contemplacio conditoris in suis operibuset specialiter in celestibus'; text, 'Sicut narrat Gallorum doctor eximius Guillelmus Parisiensis'. f. 31 b.

9. 'Itinerarium mentis in deum Bonauenture': the tract printed in S. Bonaventura's works (Quaracchi, 1891), tom. v, p. 296. The prologue is absent. Beg. 'Beatus vir cuius est auxilium, &c. [Ps. lxxxiii. 6, 7]: Cum beatitudo nihil aliud est'. f 38 b.

10. 'Parisiensis de gracia' : an unpublished tract of Guillaume d' Auvergne, Bishop of Paris 1228-1249 (see N. Valois, G. d' auvergne, Paris, 1880, P. I77). Another copy is at Oxford, Merton College MS. cxxxvi. Beg. 'Post hec autem graciam stabilire qua post lapsum'; ends 'vocamus graciam'. f. 44.

11 'Liber de sex etatibus hominis et quid homo agere debeat in quilibet (sic) earum' (so colophon): a tract beg. 'Parasceue est preparacio ad sabbatum', and ending 'gaudere in eternum, quod nobis prestare', &c. f. 46.

12. 'Opusculum contra portantes scripturas circa collum': a tract beg. 'Omnibus Christi fidelibus vnum verum et vnum deum', and ending 'in quod vos perducere dignetur Iesus Christus. Amen'. f. 47 b.

13. 'Tractatus beati Ambrosii archiepiscopi de honestis et iustis moribus' : the letter, of uncertain authorship, printed as ep. iv in the appendix to S. Ambrose's works, Migne, xvii. 749. Beg. 'Dilecte fili, dilige lacrimas et noli differre eas'. f. 49.

14. 'Liber Aurelii Theofrasti de nupciis': an extract which is apparently taken directly from S. Jerome adversus Iovinianum, i, cap. 47 (ib. XXiii. 276) and not from the tract of Hugo de Folieto (ib. clxxvi. 1203), although it is nearly all to be found there also. Beg. 'Fertur Aurelius Theofrasti de nupciis'; ends 'vsus relinquere'. f. 49.

15. 'Liber Valerii ad Rufinum ne ducat vxorem': the satirical epistle written under this pseudonym by Walter Map (Archdeacon of Oxford 1197, died circ. 1210), and incorporated subsequently in his book De Nugis Curialium (dist. iv, cap. 3-5, ed. Tho. Wright, Camden Soc., 1850, p. 142). It occurs also attributed to S. Jerome (Migne, xxx. 254) and others (see 8 C. ix, art. 7, 12 D. iii, art. 5). Prologue beg. 'Loqui prohibeor et tacere non possum'; text, 'Prima primi uxor Ade'. f. 49b.

16. 'Epistola beati Bernardi super re familiari gubernanda ad Raymundum graciosum et felicem militem, &c. ' : the tract printed as ep. cclvi of S. Bernard in Migne, clxxxii. 647. The attribution is very improbable, while the ascription to Bernard of Chartres is without any MS. evidence (see Hauréau's Notices et Extraits, i, P. 334, and J. R. Lumby's introduction to his edition of the Scottish version, Bernardus de Cura, &c., E. E. Text Soc., 1870). For a French version see 17 E. iv, art. 3. Beg. 'Gracioso et felici Raymundo domino castri Ambrosii [margin 'sancti Angeli'] salutem. Doceri petistis a nobis de modo et cura'. f. 50.

17. 'Ieronimus de membris domini nostri Iesu Christi' : the tract variously ascribed to SS. Augustine, Jerome, Eucherius, and Bonaventura (see 5 A. xii, art. 6). Beg. 'Omnipotens deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus vnus est atque trinus'; ends 'manifestum demonstrare'. f. 51.

18. 'Liber de faciebus mundi editus de W. (for a W. de) Auerna episcopo Parisiensi et continet duos libellos' (so colophon) : an unpublished treatise of the same author as art. 10 (see N. Valois, op. cit., p. 171). There is a copy in the same Merton Coll. MS. Prologue beg. 'Materia principalis omnium sermonum ymmo tota'; text, 'Rerum facies siue libri'. Ends 'qui in mundo vtuntur deo'. Different initia are given by Valois from a Bodley MS. f. 53.

19. 'De adoracione et veneracione ymaginum': an anti-Lollard tract in two (or three) parts, viz. :-(a) Title as above, beg. 'Qui fortiter premit ubera, &c., Prov. 30 [xxx. 33]: Glosa quedam super isto textu'. f. 59;-(b) 'De peregrinacionibus ad loca sancta', beg. 'Secunda materia in qua scripsi fuit'. f. 66b;-(c) 'De oblacionibus fiendis in locis sanctorum', beg. 'Licitum est et merito. rium Christi fidelibus', ending'valeat peruenire. amen'. f. 70. Though separated by the scribe the last seems from the preface to be properly a part of the section de peregrinationibus. The author, who was apparently connected with Oxford University, speaks of the tracts as a revised version of earlier writings of his. Possibly these are to be found in an Oxford MS., Merton College, clxxv, where are two tracts (ff. 273 b, 279 b) bearing the same titles and the name of john Sharpe as author.

20. 'De ymagine ydoly' (or according to the colophon, 'Tractatus de cognicione qui dicitur Inueni ydolum mihi, qui alio nomine dicitur ymago ydoly et est tractatus satis subtilis et fructuosus'). The name of the author, Walter Hilton (cf. art. 35), is added in the margin. Other copies are in Cotton MS. Titus D. xi, f. 42, and at Oxford, Digby MS. 115, both entitled 'De imagine peccati'. Beg. 'Dilecte michi in Christo frater, inter cetera que michi scripsisti'; ends 'honorem nominis sui. amen'. After this and before the colophon (f. 75 b) follows ' De speciebus certis contemplacionis ut infra', an independent tract or extract beg. 'Quatuor enim

sunt contemplacionis species. prima et maxima contemplacio est admiracio maiestatis'; and ends 'eternaliter laudare cui sit honor et gloria et graciarum accio per infinita secula. amen'. f. 72 b.

21. 'Determinacio Parisiensis de pluralitate beneficiorum si fuerit licita' : extracts from Thomas of Cantimpré De Apibus, lib. i, cap. ig, §§ 5-10, cap. 20, § 8, relating to the condemnation of Philippe de Grève (Chancellor of Paris, d. 1237) for opposing Guillaume d'Auvergne in the declaration against pluralities, &c., and from S. Bernard, sermon xxxiii super Cantica (Migne, clxxxiii. 958). Beg. 'Quanti sit periculi et quam contrarium vere saluti'. f. 76.

22. 'Compilacio vniuersitatis Parisiensis et opus Oxoniensis vniuersitatis de vnione in ecclesia fienda tempore scismatis', viz. :-(a) General epistle of the University of Paris, dated 26 Aug. I395, not printed by Du Boulay, but apparently transmitted to Oxford by Richard II in the place of the letter of the same date directly addressed by Paris to Oxford, which he prints (Hist. Univ. Paris. iv, p. 751). Beg. 'Vniversis Christi fidelibus vniuersitas studii Parisiensis . . . Quoniam fideles in Christo nobis dilecti'. f. 77 ;-(b) Letter of Oxford University to Richard II, dated 17 Mar. 1395/6, printed by Du Boulay, iv, p. 776. Beg. 'Christianissimo principi et domino . Illustrissimo (sic) principum et domine serenissime'. f. 80.

23. 'Tractatus magistri R. Vlsington pro reformacione ecclesie' (in colophon, 'tractatus de reformacione ecclesie militantis editus a magistro Ricardo Vlsiston doctore in sacra theologia vniuersitatis Oxon. anno domini mo. cccc. octauo'). The author is doubtless identical with Ricardus de Ullerston Lancastriensis [of Ulverston, co. Lanc. ?], whose works are enumerated by Bale, Index Brit. Script., ed. Poole, p. 361. Beg. 'Peticionem vnam paruulam ego deprecor a te, 3. Reg. 2. cap. Reuerendi in Christo patres et domini, quia post miscionem'; ends 'quam intendimus, quam nobis concedat qui uiuit', &c. f. 83 b.

24. 'Liber Cypriani de contemptu mundi': S. Cyprian de Mortalitate (cf 6 B. xv, art. 6). Beg. 'Etsi apud plurimos'. f. 90.

25. 'Ciprianus de elemosinis' (cf. 6 B. xv, art. 7). Beg. 'Multa et magna sunt, fratres karissimi, beneficia'. f. 92.

26. 'Libellus Cipriani de bono paciencie'(cf. 6 B. xv, art. 9). Beg. 'De paciencia loquturus '. f. 94 b.

27. 'Incipit prefacio super septem psalmos penitenciales a domino Petro de Alliaco episcopo Cameracensi et postmodo (?) cardinali' ; by the same author as artt.

6-8. Printed at Strassburg, 1490. Preface beg. 'Vera penitencia velut scala quedam est'; meditations, 'Do. mine Iesu Christe, future iudex seculi'. f. 96 b.

28. 'Omelia Origenis super Maria stabat': the spurious sermon De Maria Magdalena, printed in Jacques Merlin's edition (Paris, 1519), iii, f. 129. The text, as in Burney MS. 300, f. 143, and Egerton MS. 673, f. 53 b, differs from the edition by the omission of a sentence or two at the beginning. Beg. 'In illo tempore Maria slabalad monumentum foris plorans: Audiuimus, fratres, Mariam'. f. 103 b.

29. 'Speculum peccatoris beati Bernardi abbatis' the tract, of uncertain authorship, printed in the appendix to S. Augustine's works, Migne, xl. 983. It is also attributed to Aegidius Romanus and to Richard Rolle (cf. 7 F. xi, art. 2). The present copy seems to be taken from an imperfect archetype, since it begins in the middle of a sentence in ch. ii, 'Meditacio. fetentis putei Ihehenne consideracio'. Colophon, 'Explicit speculum peccatoris beati Bernardi abbatis omni auro preciosius'. f. 105 b.

30. 'Monita de verbis beati Ysidiory': extracts from lib. ii of S. Isidore's Synonyma (ib. lxxxiii. 845sqq.). Printed by Machlinia in his edition of Speculum Christiani (London, 1480 ?). Beg. 'Hec sunt monita de verbis beati Ysidori extracta'. f. 107.

31. 'Ammonicio beati Augustini ad populum': a sermon of which other copies are in Harley MS. 3068, f. 62 b (longer), Egerton MS. 673, f. 59 b, and at Oxford, Merton College MS. cciv, f. 181. The style has more resemblance to the sermons of Caesarius. Beg. 'Rogo vos, fratres karissimi, quociens ad ecclesiam dei conuenitis'; ends 'conuiuia cum suis dilectis, qui viuit', &c. f. 109.

32. 'Liber beati Effrem diaconi de die iudicii': the tract of S. Ephraim Syrus (Greek in the Vatican edition, ii, p. 50), in the Latin translation as printed in Amerbach's edition (Hain, no. 6597), cf. 8 F. v, art. 3 (g). Beg. 'Venite, dilectissimi fratres, exhortacionem meam suscipite'. f. 110.

33. 'Epistola Dindimi de secta Bragmannorum ad regem Alexandrum': abstract of the supposed correspondence of Alexander and Dindimus, followed by an account (abridged from Palladius de Gentibus Indiae) of their interviews (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, P. 138, and cf. 7 A. I, art. 6). Beg. 'Cum igitur vltimum orientalem (sic) occeani litus'; ends 'Alexander abscessit'. Marginal notes in the hand of Patrick Young, f. 111 b.

34. 'Inuenciones (sic) deuote beati Ieronimi facte fratribus suis monachis quorum abbas ipse extiterat, quando preuentus erat mortis doloribus antequam spiritum suum exalauit'. an abridged paraphrase of art. 53 below. Beg. 'Monebat ut luxuriam fugerent'. f. 112 b.

35. 'Epistola magistri Walteri de Hylton quondam canonici regularis in Thurgarton ad quemdam seculo renunciare volentem' (so colophon); by Walter Hilton, Austin canon of Thurgarton, co. Nott. A marginal note in a late 15th cent. hand gives the date of the author's death 'anno domini 1395[6] in vigilia annunciacionis beate Marie'. According to Bale (Index Brit. Script., p. 105) the tract was addressed to mag. Ioannes Thorpe. Beg. 'Dilecto in Christo fratri spiritum concilii et fortitudinis. Ineffabilis misericordia redemptoris'. f. 113b.

36. 'Alia epistola eiusdem ad quemdam solitarium de leccione intencione oracione meditacione et aliis'. Beg. ' Dilecte in Christo frater, obsecro te in visceribus lesu Christi ut digne ambules'. f. 120.

37. 'Epistola ad quemdam religiosum', by the same; more fully described in the colophon, 'Explicit epistola Walteri Hylton quondam canonici in Thurgarton ad Adam Horslay monachum ordinis Cartusie in Bella Valle in comitatu Notynghamie'. From an Oxford MS. (Merton College, xlvii) it seems that Horsley, who was about to enter Beauvale, was an official of the Exchequer. Other copies are in 8 A. vii, art. I, Harley MS. 3852, f. 157, and at Oxford, Digby MS. 33. Beg. 'Dilecto in Christo fratri salutem et spiritus sancti graciam.Qui auero ex tenore cuiusdam littere'.f. 123.

38. 'Ambrosius de tribus difficillimis Salomonis libri': the sermon, of doubtful authorship, printed as serm. xlvi in the appendix to S. Ambrose's works, Migne, xvii. 693. Beg. 'Mirum satis est, fratres dilectissimi, quod in hoc capitulo'. f. 128 b.

39. 'Disputacio inter militem et clericum super potestate commissa prelatis ecclesiarum atque principibus terrarum': the dialogue printed in Goldast's Monarchia (1611), i, p. 13, and formerly attributed to William of Ockham, but really, as shown by Riezler (Literarische Widersacher der Päpste, Leipzig, 1874, P. 145), by a French royal official, perhaps Pierre du Bois, advocate of Coutances (d. 1308). An English translation by John Trevisa is in Add. MS. 24194 and was printed by Berthelet (1540). Beg, 'Primo proponit clericus iuramentum dictum quodammodo sub hac forma. Clericus. Miror, optime miles'. f. 130.

40. 'Disputacio Abutalib Sarraceni et Samuel Iudei que fides precellat, an Christianorum an Sarracenorum uel Iudeorum, translata per fratrem Alfonsum de Arabico in Latinum': translation by the I4th cent. Spanish Dominican Alphonsus Bonihominis (Buenhombre) of a work by Samuel, a Jew of Fez, converted in Io87. Another copy was noticed by Bernard among Dr. William Payne's books (Cat. MSS. Angl., no. 8715). Another work of the same author and translator is in 8 F. xi, art. i. Preface beg. 'Ego frater Alfonsus Yspanus libellum hunc antiquissimum'; the first letter, 'Conseruet te deus, amice karissime'. f. 132 b.

41. 'Liber pronosticon Iuliani episcopi de futuro seculo': the Prognostica Futuri Saeculi of S. Julian, Bishop of Toledo 680-690 in three books (Migne, xcvi.

458). Prefixed is the letter to Idalius, 'Sanctissimo ac pre ceteris ... Diem illum clara redemptore'(but not the Responsio), with the prayer 'Desertum Ydumee cecus'. Lib. i beg. 'Peccatum (sic) primi hominis actum esse'. f. 138.

42. 'Dyalogus Ieronimi et Augustini de racione anime'; of uncertain authorship, printed in the appendix to S. Jerome's works as ep. xxxvii, Migne, XXX. 261 (cf. 6 C. xI, f. 55, &c.). Beg. 'Cum apud uos celestis eloquencia'. f. 153 b.

43. 'Incipit Ambrosii Camaldulensis prefacio ad reuerendissimum virum Petrum Donatum Patauinum episcopum. lege feliciter in domino': three books of S. Athanasius translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari, General of the order of Camaldoli 1431-1439, with prefatory letter (in which two only are mentioned) to Pietro Donato, Bishop of Padua 1428-1448, beg. 'Domino dilectissimo . . . Libellos duos sancti Athanasii' (f. 156), not among the letters and prefaces printed in Martène and Durand, tom. iii. The books are: (a) 'Athanasii Alexandrini episcopi contra gentiles liber primus incipit. lege feliciter', printed in Athanasii Opera, Paris, 1519 (Greek in Migne, Patr. Gr. xxv. 4). Beg. 'Vere ac diuine religionis pietatisque cognicio'. f. 156 b;-(b) 'Eiusdem de incarnacione verbi eiusque ad nos per corpus aduentu liber secundus' (Migne, xxv.

96, translation in the 1519 ed.). Beg. 'Satis quidem in hiis que premisimus de execrabili errore'. f. 166 b;-(c) Eiusdem contra gentiles liber tercius. lege feliciter et me ama': the spurious Disputatio contra Arium (ib. xxviii. 440). The work is not contained in the 1519 ed., and the ed. of Vicenza, 1482, gives a different version. Beg. 'Vberam per dei prouidenciam profectus cum amantissimis fratribus '. f. 177 b.

44. 'Inuectiua contra Iudeos'; by Iacobus de Theramo, canonicus Aprutinus [Giacomo Palladini, al. de Ancharano, al. Tranensis, b. circ. 1350, canon of Teramo, afterwards Archdeacon of Aversa near Naples, Bishop of Spoleto 1410-1417]. For another work of the same author see 8 C. xi. Beg. 'Omnibus Israelitis inter Christicolas dispersis'; ends 'super omnem carnem. quod vobis prestare', &c., followed by an epilogue, dated 18 Apr. 1388. f. 179 b.

45. 'Epistola egregii doctoris Bernardi pro intrantibus religionem ' : cp. cxi of S. Bernard, written in the person of a monk (called elsewhere Elias) to his parents (Migne, Patr. Lat Clxxxii. 253). Beg. 'Sola causa qua non liceat obedire'. f. 197 b.

46. 'Formula honeste uite beati Bernardi ad fratrem suum': one of the two tracts with this title falsely attributed to S. Bernard. Printed in the appendix to Mabillon's edition, v, P. 794 (ib. clxxxiv. 1167). Beg. Petis a me, mi frater carissime, quod nunquam'. The tract is here a column longer than in most of the MSS.

(13 E. x, f. 270, Harley MSS. 3077, f. 92 b, 5398, f. 165, Add. MSS. 11420, f. 10b, 22349, f. 162b), which end corona in domino'; but the conclusion is not that printed in Mabillon. Ends 'nunquam impediat boni operis diligenciam'. f. 198.

47. ' Sermo beati Ambrosii episcopi ad uirginem que corrupcionem passa est ' : the tract De lapsu uirginis consecratae (Migne, xvi. 367). The text is defective both at the beginning and end. Beg. 'Tu domine (sic) qui longe estis et qui prope' (cap. 1, § 2); ends with cap. viii, 'ab ipso quere remedium. amen'. f. 199.

48. 'Conflictus racionis et consciencie de sumendo et abstinendo a corpore Christi editus per magistrum Mathiam [al. Matthaeum] de Cracouia doctorem theologiae' (the colophon adds 'quondam familiarem beate Birgitte'); by Matthew of Krakow, Bishop of Worms 1405-1410, Cardinal 1408-141O. Printed repeatedly (Hain, 5803-5808). For another work of the same author see 10 B. IV, art. 84. Beg. 'Multorum querela non modica'. f. 200 b.

49. 'Tractatus bonus contra malas cogitaciones': a meditation on Psalm xli. 12, called in 7 B. VII, art. 5, 'Epistolacontradesperationem'. The latter part of the tract differs in the two MSS. Beg. 'Quare Irislis es anima mea el quare conturbas me: Quare sic indissolubili dolore'; ends 'in aduersitate deuotus'. f. 206 b.

50. 'Liber ad insignem omnique laude prestantissimum uirum Gerardum cardinalem Camanum [Gerardo Landriani, Bishop of Como 1437-1445] Poggi Florentini de nobilitate': the tract of Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, printed at Antwerp, 1489/90 and in his works (Basel, 1538), p. 64. Beg. 'Non dubito, prestantissime pater, nonnullos esse futuros'. f. 208.

51. 'Liber de consciencia secundum Hugonem de sancto Victore' : the Speculum Conscientiae of uncertain authorship, also attributed to S. Bernard, S. Anselm and others (cf. 6 B. v, art. 4, Migne, clxxxiv.

507). The present copy ends in the middle of ch. xxii (ib. 531). Beg. 'Domus hec in qua habitamus ex omni parte'; ends 'iustis accionibus. Ergo in presenti iudicemus nosmetipsos ut in futuro pacem habeamus et cum deo sine fine regnemus. amen'. A marginal note, 'deficit multum'. f 214.

52. 'Moralitates fratris Roberti Holcoth de ordine fratrum predicatorum': Holcot's collection of exempla or Moralitates, printed 1507, &c. (see description in Ward and Herbert, Cat. of Romances, iii, p. 114). Beg. 'Theodosius de uita Alexandri. Rex Cicilie Alexandrum ad conuiuiuminuitauit'; ends 'infernitormentorum'. f. 218 b. Artt. 1-52 are in one hand, but a subject-index (f. 229) appended to art. 52 is in another hand and begins a new quire. Beg. 'De accidia moralitate 47'. Artt.

53-57 are in a third hand.

53. 'Epistola beati Eusebii ad beatum Damasum Portuensem episcopum et ad Christianissimum Theodonium senatorem Romanorum de morte gloriosissimi Ieronimi presbiteri doctoris eximii': the forged epistle of Eusebius [of Cremona], printed in Migne, xxii. 239 (cf. art. 34 above). Beg. 'Patri reuerendissimo Damaso . . . Multipharie multisque modis olim deus'. f. 229 b.

54. 'Epistola venerabilis doctoris Augustini episcopi ad beatum Cyrillum secundum Iherosolomitanum pontificem de magnificenciis eximii doctoris Iheronimi': a similar forgery (ib. 28I). The word 'secundum' is apparently meant to disguise the blunder in chronology. Beg. 'Gloriosissime Christiane fidei adhlete'. f. 238 b.

55. 'Epistola sancti Cirilli secundi Iherosolimitani episcopi ad beatum Augustinum Yponensem episcopum doctorem eximium de miraculis beati Ieronimi doctoris gloriosissimi': a similar forgery (ib. 289). Preface beg. 'Venerabili viro episcoporum eximio'; narrative, 'Post obitum gloriosi Ieronimi quedam heresis'. f. 240.

56. 'Defensorium Anne': a tract on the descent of the Virgin Mary. The name of the author is contained in the epilogue 'Ego frater Iohannes ordinis predicatorum lector exiguus', i. e. probably Iohannes de Friburgo, the canonist (d. 1314), whose Summa Confessorum is in 8 G. V, 8 G. XI. Bale would seem to have seen (at Brasenose College, Oxford, if his reference is right) this or some similar MS. and to have wrongly referred this tract to the author of art. 57 (see Index Brit. Script., under Herbert de Bosham, p. 168). Beg. 'Errorum veterum inuentores inter cetera fabularum', f. 248 b.

57. Extract on the same subject, from Herbert de Bosham, without title, but with colophon 'Hec Her. bertus secretarius sancti Thome Cantuariensis archiepiscopi in quadam epistola ad Henricum comitem Tricensem super hoc nomen Salome'. The letter is

not in Giles' edition (Migne, cxc). Beg. 'Et ne inter verborum pugnas'. f. 250 b. Vellum; ff. ii + 251. 161/4 in. x 111/4 in. Latter half of the XV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves, with catchwords, the first six leaves of each lettered and numbered. Double columns. Sec. fol. bonorumlucida'. Initials in red and blue. Belonged to [Magdalen College, Oxford], having on the old label (f. i) 'ex dono magistri Ricardi Lagharun quondam socii istius collegii' (cf. in Coxe's Catalogue Magd. Coll. MSS. lxxxi, cxiv, St. John's Coll. MS. clxix). The two latter MSS. are dated 1468. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1360'; cat. of 1666, f. 7; CMA. 7814, 7850, 7858, 7868, 7904, 8154.