Royal MS 7 A V

'DE CLAVSTRO ANIME': the four books on monastic life by Hugo [de Folieto, i. e. of Fouilloy, dept. Somme], Prior of the canons of S. Laurent d'Heilly, 'Sancti Laurentii in pago Ambianensi' (so colophon). Printed in the appendix to Hugo de S. Victore, Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxvi. 1017 (cf also 7 C. III, f. 201 b), but the attribution is doubtless wrong. Prologue beg. 'Rogasti nos, frater amantissime' ; text, 'Incipientibus edificare querendus est locus'.

The fly-leaf (f. 151) is part of two leaves of a 13th cent. MS., in two columns, containing (a) Old Testament parallels, tropologies, and allegories to New Testament history, from Christ's temptation to the raising of Lazarus, in prose, imperfect at both ends;-(b) New Testament parallels to Old Testament history, in verse, imperfect at both ends, e. g. 'Qui circumcisus puer est sub nomine risus / Christum signauit qui ve vetus adnichilauit'.

Vellum; ff. 152. 10 in.x 61 in. Late XIII cent. Gatherings irregular (i, ii¹², iii⁸, iv¹², v, vi¹⁰, vii-xi¹², x-xiii¹⁰, xiv⁶). '-sone uilitate'. Initials in red and blue. Belonged to Rochester Priory with press-mark 'III. Liber de claustro [Roffen. replaced anime] fratris Iohannis de Sottone' (f. 2, anathema f. lb). It is perhaps another copy of the same work which occurs in the Rochester catalogue in 5 B. XII, f. 2 b, where the insertion seems to be in an carly 13th cent. hand. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 379' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 29); cat of 1666, f. 17; CMA. 8217.