Royal MS 7 D XXI

THEOLOGICAL TRACTS, in Latin, viz.:-

1. 'Liber de contemptu mundi et miseria hominis compositus ab Innocentio papa iii': the Liber de Contemptu Mundi of Lotharius, Cardinal-deacon, afterwards

Pope Innocent III (cf. 7 D. XVII, art. 5, with which this agrees in arrangement of chapters). Prologue beg. Domino patri karissimo Petro . . . Modicum ocii'; text, 'Quare de uulua, &c. : Si talia de se'. f. 4.

2. 'Summa magistri Iohannis de s. Eadmundo de virtutibus et claustro anime', &c. : a treatise in two books, of which there is another copy at Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College MS. 85. Of the author nothing is known. Tanner identifies him with a rector of Semer, co. Suff., in 1313. Leland and Pits mention an Ipswich Carmelite of the same name as author of a commentary on S. Luke. Prologue beg. 'In primis discurrat religiosus'; table of capitula, 'Primo sumitur occasio'; lib. i, 'In exitu Israel, &c. [Ps. cxiii. i] : Exitus Israelis'. f. 40.

3. 'De articulis fidei': an account of the three Creeds, with explanation of the Apostles' Creed. Beg. 'Sunt articuli modice partes fidei'. f. 98.

4. Three sermons, beg. (a) 'Ite et vos in vineam meam, &c. [Matt. xx. 4]: Vinea multipliciter accipitur'. f. 103;-(b) 'Vnus est introitus omnibus, &c.: In hiis uerbis, que scripta sunt Sap. 7 [vii. 6], totalitatem'. f. 118;-(c) 'Multum valet deprecacio iusti assidua [Jac. v.

16]: Qui salutem tam spiritualem'. f. 127.

5. 'Incipiunt ammoniciones beati Basilii': the Ad. monitio ad Filium Spiritualem attributed to S. Basil (cf. 7 C. I, art. 27, Migne, Patr. Lat. ciii. 683). Beg, 'Audi fili; &c. : Cupio te instruere'. f. 133 b.

6. A compilation from S. Bernard and earlierwriters, in three parts, (a) [De futuro iudicio] (b) 'De penis inferni', (c) 'De futura mercede iustorum'. Beg. 'Quasi a facie colubri fuge peccatum'. f. 151.

7. 'De fraterna correctione': a brief tract beg. 'Non omnibus vna eademque doctrina'. f. 157 b.

8. Homily [for the second Sunday in Lent], beg. 'Sic ambuletis, Ad Thess. cap. 4to [iv. il et inepistola hodierna. Karissirni scitis quod viatores'. f. 159.

9. A short account of the Duodecim gradus Superbiae, abridged from the tract of S. Bernard (Migne, clxxxii 957). Beg. 'Notandum quod.xii. sunt gradus'. f. 170 b.

On the fly-leaves are.-(a) Mythical statistics of the number of parishes, &c., in England, 'atable copies of which occur in many MSS., e. g. 8 B. XV, f. iii b, 8 C. XII, f. 1 b, 8 D. IV, f. 114, 17 B. XLVII, f. 59 b, Cotton MSS. Tib. B. IV, f. 212, Claud. E. VIII, f. 267 b, &c,; cf. Higden, Polychronicon, i, cap. xlix. Beg. 'Sunt in Anglia ecclesie'. cf. 2 b;-(b) Theological commonplaces from S. Gregory, S. Bernard, Innocent III, &c. In the same hand as art. 1. Beg. 'Notandum quod sunt quedam peccata que a iustis'. f. 39;-(c) Interpretation of names of patriarchs. Beg. 'Ruben uisionis filius in quo timor pene'. f. 174;-(d) Explanation of the Arabic notation. Beg. '1. 2. 3. (&c.). Hee sunt omnes figure algorismi'. f. 174 b. Vellum; ff. 174. 63/4 in. x 4 in. First half of XIV cent. Gatherings irregular (i-iii¹², iv¹⁰, v-viii¹², ix⁸, x⁸, xi-xiii¹⁰, viv⁸, xv⁶, xvi¹⁶). Sec. fol. 'fetet'. Initials in red: green, and blue. 'Iste liber constat fratri Thome Champney monacho Westmonasterii' (f. 2 b). Afterwards belonged to John Theyer, having his monogram with the number 23. Theyer sale-cat. no. 261 ; CMA. 6596.