Royal MS 7 D I

THEOLOGICAL TREATISE, poems and exempla, in Latin, viz.

1. 'Elucidarium': the well-known anonymous theological dialogue between Magister and Discipulus, formerly assigned with various degrees of improbability to Lanfranc, Honorius of Autun, Abailard, Guibert of Nogent, S. Anselm, or S. Augustine. Printed by Giles and in Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxii. 1109. For other copies see 5 E. VI, art. 1, 8 C. VIII, art. 1, 11 A. VII, 15 A. xx. Giles' text includes many considerable passages not given by the earlier of these MSS.; e. g. lib. i, cap. xxxii and lib. 11, capp. xi-xiii are not in this MS., the contents of which agree generallywith the late 12th cent. MS. 15 A. xx and with the Welsh version printed in Anecdota Oxoniensia (1894), pt. vi. The division into books is not indicated. Preface beg. 'Sepius rogatus a condiscipulis'; text, 'Gloriose ma. gister, rogo ut ad quesita'. f. 3.

2. Satirical and other verses, viz:-(a) Satire (101 leonine hexameters) on the evils of the times. The first line '0 dolor in magnis nostris in rebus et annis' is repeated at the 26th, 51st, 64th, and 87th lines. f. 40 b;-(b) Prayer (8 leonine hexameters), beg. 'Si fero quod dicor sub ouina pelle lupi cor'. f. 42;-(c) Six lines, of uncertain authorship, on the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard, printed by Hauréau, Mélanges poétiques d'Hildebert, p. 127. Other copies are in 6 B. XI, f. 62 b, 11 B. XV, f. 1 b, and the first two lines in 8 F. I, f. 2. Beg. 'Vinea culta fuit, cultores premia querunt'. f. 42;-(d) Lines (four rhyming hexameters) on repentance, cf. 5 F. IX, f. 38, 8 D. VIII, f. 75 b. Beg. 'Vita breuis casusque leuis nec spes remeandi'. f. 42;-(e) Lines (three elegiac couplets) on the shortness of life. Beg. '0 vos est etas iuuenes quibus apta legendi'. f. 42;-(f) Lines (two couplets) on one Rodbertus. Beg. 'Quidam Rodbertus, nec diues homo nec egenus'. f. 42 b;-(g) Lines (six hexameters, cf. 7 C. VII, art. 4) on uxor, socius, amicus. Beg. 'Rebus in humanis tria sunt dignissima laudis'. f. 42 b;- (h) Satire on monks (28 rhyming hexameters). Beg. 'Aut nos nescimus quid differat amnis ab igne'. f. 42b;-(i) Epigram from Martial, i. 19. Beg. 'Quatuor, ut memini, fuerant tibi, Delia, dentes'. f. 43;-(k) Satire (17 hexameters) beg. 'Cum sodes hominum miserum considero fatum'. f. 43;-(l)Satire on monks (44 lines), attributed in Cotton MSS. Titus D. XXIV, f. 23 b, and Vitell. A. xii, f. 127, to 'Walo, Brito', who is otherwise scarcely known, and in a Phillipps MS. to Nicholaus. The authorship is fully discussed in Neues Archiv der Gesellsch. far ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde, xxii, p. 707, by H. Böhmer, who is inclined to assign it to a canon of Bayeux, whose name may or may not have been Serlo. Printed from Cott. MSS. Vit. A. xii and Titus A. xx by Thomas Wright, Satirical Poets, Rolls Series, ii, p. 201; cf. Flacius Illyricus (ed. 1754), p. 499. Another copy is at Oxford, Digby MS. 65. Beg. 'Sacrilegis monachis emptoribus ecclesiarum'. f. 43 b;-(m) 'De ficta amicicia', four lines beg. 'Falleris et uentum sequeris si

credis amico'. f. 44;-(n) 'Unde malum, the first two lines of the quatrain attributed to Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans (Hauréau, Mélanges Poétiques, p. 52), beg. 'Quid queris [al. Qui petis] vnde malum cum sint bona cuncta creata'. f. 44;-(o) 'De seruo', a distich beg. 'Seruus sis, generosus ens si mens bona fiet'. f. 44.

3. Tale of a 'uir religiosus' who prayed 30 years for the soul of a knight. An insertion in pencil. f. 44 b.

4. Treatise, without title or author's name, on the daily behaviour of a [Cistercian?] monk, quoting frequently from S. Bernard and from the lliber de bonis et malis fratribus' of Hugo, Abbot of Barzelle (dioc. Bourges). This latter work occurs with the same name of author in a Cambridge University MS. (Ff. iv. 8) and is identical with a sermon 'ad religiosos de utilitate et fructu concordie' contained in Harley MS. 5431 (f. 251), where it is assigned to S. Bernard. Hugo does not occur in the list of abbots in Gallia Christiana, but a Hugo is mentioned in the foundation-charter of the abbey there printed (ii, instr. lxxiii, col. 69). The present treatise beg. 'Fili, conserua tempus, omne enim tempus tibi impensum'; ends' deuocior existere studeat'. f. 45.

5. Theological notes on the subject of sin: two paragraphs beg. 'Augustinus contra Faustum' and 'Detcstandum est autem peccatum'. f. 58 b.

6. A collection Of 3I5 church tales (see Ward and Herbert, Cat of Romances, iii, P. 477) partly from Jacques deVitry(cited 30 times), Petrus Venerabilis of Cluny (cited about 23 times, once as 'Petrus Damacensis', f. 61 b), and other stock sources, but containing many tales not in the usual collections and localized in England. Some of these are also found in the Speculum Laicorum and in Harley MS. 2385, but many seem peculiar to the present MS. The frequent mention of Jordanus Saxo, General of the Dominicans 1222-1237, and of the Dominican order, particularly at Cambridge (see ff. 75, 87, 108 b, 137 b), points to the collection having been made by a Dominican at or near Cambridge. The diocese of Norwich also comes in frequently (e. g. f. 139 b, 'Retulit mihi quidam rector cuiusdam ecclesie in episcopatu Norw.'; f. 116b, 'In dioc. Norwicensi memoratur'). On the other hand the Cistercian order and S. Edmund of Canterbury are also frequently mentioned, several tales referring to the time when S. Edmund professed divinity at Oxford (e. g. ff. 74 b, 92, 120 b, see too f. 99 b, 'Retulit mihi quidam mangnus uir et fidedingnus qui fuit multum specialis S. Eadmundi confessoris'). But the frequency of the opening, Retulit mihi quidam uir religiosus' or similar phrases seems to point rather to the itinerant preaching friar than the monk. The dates 1250 (f. 67 b) and I243 (f. 122) occur. Beg. 'Narratur quod quidam clericus circa Trinitatis inuestigacionem', and ends 'ab animalibus trahitur'. f. 61. Vellum; ff. 140. 43/4 in. x 33/4 in. Written in England, end of XIII cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves. Sec. fol. 'in quo uiuimus'. Initials in red and blue. On f. 1 is the name 'Mr Wormstraw' and also John Theyer's note of ownership 'ex dono Sampsoni Evans bibliopoli Wigorn.' Not identified in Theyer sale-r-at. and omitted in CMA.

includes:

• f. 3 Petrus Abailardus: Elucidarium atrrib. to: late 13th cent.