Royal MS 7 C II

THEOLOGICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.:-

1. 'Pars xii^ma[-xiiii^ma] primi libri sentenciarum Roberti Melundinensisepiscopi Herfordensis': so entitled in the hand of the Bury librarian (15th cent., perhaps Boston, cf. 6 B. x), who adds at the end 'deficiunt de ista summa partes siue libri tres de fine et xi. partes siue libri de principio: vide summam istam plenarie completam in armario claustri in duobus pulcris et magnis voluminibus'. The original rubrics, however, called the three parts here contained 'secunda pars [prime] principalis enumerationis', 'prima pars secunde', and 'secunda pars secunde'. The last is imperfect, breaking off in ch. xxiii, 'obseruari impos'. No complete Copy of the Summa is now known to exist. Robert de Melun was Bishop of Hereford 1163-1167. The S. Victor MS. from which Du Boulay, Mathoud, and Hauréau quote is merely an abridgement; cf. 7 F. XIII, art. 3, where the chapters corresponding to the present fragment are nos. 479-694. Beg. 'Unum uero corum que in principali'. f. 2.

2. 'Allegoric Petri super vetus testamentum' (so the librarian): often attributed to Petrus Comestor, or Petrus Pictaviensis, but rather perhaps by Hugh, or possibly Richard, of S. Victor (cf. 7 B. VI, 8 A. VIII, 8 F. I). The nine books on the Old Testament only, as in 7 C. VII, 8 D. iv. The text, as in most or all of the English MSS., differs somewhat from that printed in Migne, Pair. Lat. clxxxv. 634; e. g. in lib. iii cap. 16 follows cap. 18, in lib. iv capp. 11, 12 follow cap. 13, and

after lib. vii cap. 3 (f. 76) is inserted 'metrum cuiusdam de eodem', i. e. Adam of S. Victor's hymn (Chevalier, Rep. Hymn. no. 17511) 'Rex Salamon fecit templum'. Preface beg. 'In precedentibus premissa descriptione'; text, 'In principio creauit, &c.: Celum significat summa'. f. 58.

3. Thirty sermons, chiefly de tempore (Advent- Trinity), without author's name. Copies of the same collection (alone or with others) in 7 F. x and 12 F. XV are marked by later hands as 'Sermones [Petri] Comestoris', but many MSS. in France (see Hauréau's Not. el Extr. i, p. 216, under Bibl. Nat. 3537) give Petrus Lombardus (Bishop of Paris 1158-1160) as the author. All but five of the sermons are included in the Paris MS. 3537, and all but six are printed by Beaugendre (from anonymous Paris MSS.) among the works of Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans (Migne, clxxi. 343-964). Beg. 'Aspiciebam ego in uisione, &c. [Dan. vii. 13]: Celestibus Daniel flagrans desidedis'. f. 89.

4. 'Omelie sancti Bernardi super Cantica xxv' (so title in later hand): really twenty-eight (or twenty-nine, xxiv appearing in the two forms with different exordia, but the earlier form is marked 'vacat'), being nos. i-xxviii of those printed in Migne, clxxxiii. 786 (cf. 6 C. IX). Imperfect by loss of one leaf at the beginning and of one leaf after f. 137. Beg. (6 lines from end of sermon i) 'annos dico meritorum non temporum'. f. 132. Artt. 5-10 are in a hand of the first half of the 12th cent. Art. 5 appears originally to have followed artt.

6-10, the quires running xx, xxi, xviiii.

5. 'Opusculum de actione missarum', by Drepanius Florus, deacon of Lyon cathedral (ib. cxix. 15). Begins, after the long rubric 'In nomine domini (&c.) incipit opusculum . . . amplectendum', with Migne's § 11 'Primo igitur conuenientibus in unum', §§ 2-10 being absent, as in the earlier printed editions. At the top the Bury librarian notes 'item in B. 265'. f. 166.

6. 'Symbolum apostolorum', text followed by 'expositio eiusdem symboli': a commentary (circ. 9th cent.) on the Apostles' Creed, which occurs also in Add. MS. 24902, f. 62b (there attributed' to S. Augustine), and other MSS. (cf. F. Wiegand, Vorträge der theol Konferenz zu Giessen, 21. Folge, Giessen, 1904, p. 14). It is printed in Mai's Scriptorum Vel. Nova colleciio, ix, P. 384. Beg. 'Quando beatum legimus Paulum apostolum dixisse fidelibus'. f. 185.

7. 'Sanctus Augustinus dicit' (sic): the concluding sentences of art. 10, see below. Beg. 'Pauca quidem sunt uerba'. f. 188 b.

8. 'Expositio dominice orationis': anonymous commentary on the Lord's Prayer, printed by Mai, op. cit., ix, p. 377. Beg. 'Pater noster, &c. : Cum in omni deprecatione'. f. 188b.

9. 'Prephatio dominici; orationis', in Mai, op. cit., prefixed to art. 8. Beg. 'Dominus et saluator noster clementissimus suorum eruditor'. f. 190.

10. 'Item expositio eiusdem symboli another commentary on the Apostles' Creed. Printed in Migne, lii. 865, and Caspari, Kirchenhislotische Anecdota, i, p. 341, as by Nicetas, Bishop of Aquileia, but probably by Nicetas, Bishop of Remesiana (see Burn, Introd. to the Creeds, London, 1899, p. 252, and Nicola of Remesiana, Cambridge, 1905, p. 38). In place of the concluding sentences is a reference, 'ut supra in quinto folio', to art. 7. Beg. 'Qui credit Christo et sequitur cum'. f. 190 b. Art. 11 is an addition in a 13th cent. hand.

11. Three hymns on the Transfiguration, viz.:-(a) 7 x 4 lines, beg. '0 nata lux de lumine / Iesu redemptor seculi' (Chevalier, Rep. Hymn. no. 13297). f. 192;-(b) 5 x 4 lines, beg. '0 sator rerum reparator eui / Christe rex regum metuende censor' (ib. no. 13715). f. 192b; -(c) 2 x 4 lines, incomplete, beg. 'Deus manens primordium / simulque finis omnium' (ib. no. 4457). f. 192 b.

Inserted at the beginning (f. 1) is a narrow slip (121/2 in. x 23/4 in.), in a small 12th cent. hand, containing notes on the calendar (beg- 'Sol ccclxv. diebus et vi. horis') and on dates relating to the history of England and of Bury St. Edmunds Abbey. The latest is 1187.

Vellum; ff. 192. 121/2 in. x 81/2 in. XII (artt. 5-10) and XIII centt. Gatherings, art. 1, i-vii⁸; art.², i-iii⁸, iv⁷;art. 3, i-v, vi³; art.

4, i-iv⁸ (but leaves 1, 8 of i missing), v⁴; artt. 5-10, xviiii⁸, xx⁸, xxi¹¹, (cf. art 5, above). Sec. fol. 'ex quibus'. Elaborate ornamental initials in red and two shades of blue. See pl. 50. Belonged to Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, bearing the press-mark. R. 40 (see M. R. James, Abbey of S. Edmund, p. 73); afterwards (f. 2) to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 114; cat. of 1666, f. 3b; CMA 7867, 7997,7998.