Royal MS 8 A VIII

'ALLEGORIE magistri Petri Manducatoris' de veteri et novo testamento : the treatises on the Old Testament and Gospels printed among the works of Hugo de Sancto Victore, Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxv. 633. Elsewhere attributed to Petrus Comestor (here and in 5 A. IX, cf. 10 A. IV, Harley MSS. 104 and 1298, and two MSS. at Cambridge), Petrus Pictaviensis, Alexander Neckam, and Ricardus de S. Victore. Hauréau, who formerly supported the claims of Richard (see 8 F. 1),

decided in his later edition for Hugh (Hugues de S. Victor, 1886, p. 40). He shows that the work is a sequel to the Excerptiones Priores printed in Migne, clxxvii. 191-284. Most or all of the English MSS. differ greatly from the printed text. In the Old Testament (see 7 C. II, art. 2) the differences are less important, consisting of minor transpositions. In the New Testament they adopt a totally different arrangement of the matter and agree also in omitting all after Migne's lib. iv. They differ, however, among themselves, particularly in the exposition of the Lord's Prayer, which in the present MS. is entirely omitted, and in the parable of the Corn of Wheat (lib. i, cap. 10), which is here replaced by the words 'omnibus est manifestum de grano frumenti'. The Gospel portion is not divided into books. Beg. 'In precedentibus premissa descriptione'; ends 'conseruatur et non peribit'. Imperfect, ten leaves being lost after f. 97. At the end (f. 104 b) are a few theological commonplaces. Vellum; ff. 105. 71/4 in. x 5 in. First half of XIII cent. Gatherings, i-viii⁸, ix-xi¹⁰, xii missing, xiii⁸, with catchwords. Sec. fol. ' debent quantum'. Initials in red. On f. 105 is the note ' Anno domini 1246, 15 Kal. Iun. hunc librum emit magister Iohannes de Stok. a domino Roberto diacono in capella s. Thome prope Hosnee [Hoxne, co. Suff.?], presentibus magistro Iohanne de Param [Parham, co. Suff.?], fratre magistri Alexandri de eadem uilla, et Roberto Trussewarok, qui nomine eiusdem magistri soluit dicto Roberto 28 d.', and on f. 2 in a 15th-16th cent hand 'Jhon Marshall priste oweth this booke', repeated in Latin on f. 1 b. From the Theyer library. Theyer sale-cat. no. 248 ; CMA. 6654.