Royal MS 7 E IV

'SVMMA PREDICANCIVM fratris Iohannis de Bromyard de ordine fratrum predicatorum': a bulky collection of homiletic material, exempla, &c., arranged under headings in alphabetical order, Abiecti-Xps. For the author see 10 C. X. The date is in any case later than 1326, as quotations occur from the commentary of Johannes Andraac on the Clementines. A fuller account of the MS. (from which several exempla are printed in T. Wright's Latin Stories, Percy Soc., 1842) will be found in Ward and Herbert, Cat. of Romances, iii, p. 450. Printed by A. Koberger at Nuremberg in 1485 and several times reprinted (Basel, circ. 1486, Venice, 1586, &c.). In the editions are included many short passages which in this MS. appear as marginal ad. scripts; whether by the author or not there is nothing to show. There are traces of a division into three parts, tables of headings being placed at the end of F and 0. A complete table and rough index have been prefixed. Preface beg. 'Predicancium vita secundum beatum Gregorium'; text, 'Abiecti et depressi sunt

quidam'. Colophon, '[in quo finitur on erasure] summa predicancium fratris Iohannis de Bromyard de ordine fratrum predicatorum. lectores orate pro collectore. gratia domini nostri Iesu cum omnibus vobis. Apoc. ult. Amen'. Vellum; ff. 280. 13 in. x 91/4 in. Latter half of XIV cent Gatherings of 12 leaves, with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. '-bere idem'. Initials in red and blue. 'Liber de claustro Roffensi per fratrem Thomam Horstede precentorem, quem qui alienauerit', &c. (f. 10). For Thomas Horstede see also 4 E. V, 6 D. vIl. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 807' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 34); cat. of 1666, f. 15 b; CMA. 8194.