Royal MS 8 A IX

THEOLOGICAL WORKS, &c., in Latin, in prose and verse, viz.:-

1. Ecclesiae Speculum, a poem on the ceremonial of the Mass in about 530 rhyming hexameters, with prose commentary. Dedicated to Maurinus, Archbishop of Narbonne (1263-1272), to whom the anonymous author states that he has already dedicated two other works, viz. 'Liber de iiii virtutibus' and 'De enigmatibus Aristotelis'. By the latter are doubtless intended the Pythagorean maxims, a commentary on which by Robert Holcot exists in Bordeaux MS. no. 267 and elsewhere, but Holcot was not a contemporary of Maurinus. Pre-

face beg. 'Ecctesic speculum personas ecclesiales'; text, 'Armatura cleri fugat insidias inimici'. Ends 'que preit acta bona faciens et concomitatur'. Colophon, 'Explicit liber eclesiasticus'. f. 1.

2. Further theological notes in the same hand, in prose and verse, viz. :-(a) Eight lines beg. 'Per dominum dicas cum patri presbiter oras';-(b) Note on orders, &c., beg. 'Quicunque uult ad sacros ordines promoueri';-

(c) Verses on the Lord's Prayer, Beatitudes, &c., beg. 'A timet et pauper regnat perit inde superbus'. f. 10 b.

3. Two commentaries on the Lord's Prayer, viz.:-(a) That of Hugo de S. Victore, printed as ch. ii of the Allegoriae on the New Testament in Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxv. 767 (cf. 8 D. XV, art. 3), but without the intro-

ductory paragraph. An abridgement of it is in 8 C. VII, art. 10. Beg. 'Pater noster qui es in celis s. n. t.: Ecce, fratres karissimi, singulis fere diebus'. f. 11;-(b) An unidentified comment beg. 'Paternoster: Informauit nos sic orabitis'. Ends 'aduersitas eis erit'. f. 12.

4. 'Expositio cimboli' (so colophon): an explanation of the Apostles' Creed, beg. 'Credo in deum: Aliud est credere deo et aliud deum et aliud in deum'. Ends 'nec animalia'. Followed (f. 13 b) by an assignment of the clauses to their authors, and a note on the 'sex gradus' in Ave Maria. f. 13.

5. Three hymns, viz.:-(a) On the Seven joys [by Philippe de Gréve], 22 x 6 lines (Chevalier, Rep. Hymn. no. 21899, printed in Mone's Latein. Hymn. ii, p. 165). Beg. 'Virgo, templum trinitatis, / deus summe bonitatis' f. 14;-(b) On the Salve Regina, 44 x 4 lines, identical in plan and first line, but otherwise quite distinct from that of S. Bonaventura (Chev. no. 18318). Beg. 'Salue uirgo uirginum, stella matutina, / Tu uera lux luminum, morbi medicina'. f. 14 b;-(c) A similar quasi-acrostic

on the Salutatio angelica, 12 x 4 lines, attributed to Robert [Grosseteste?l Bishop of Lincoln (Chev. no. 1761, Mone, ii, p. 100). Beg. 'Aue, dei genitrix et immaculata'. f. 15b. Followed by a few commonplaces in prose and verse.

6. Commonplaces, including extracts from a bestiary, Constantinus medicus, a commentary by Hug[olinus?] on Gratian's Decretum, &c. In two hands, occupying the last leaf of the quire. f. 16.

7. Theological commonplaces. Beg. 'Gregorius. Incassum laborat exterius lingua'. f. 17. At the head of the quire containing artt. 8-11 is the scribe's couplet :-

'0 bone rex Christe, placeat tibi quod libor iste Sit bene completus dictis uerisque repletus.' 8. 'Incipit summa in foro penitenciali breuis et utilis et ualde nessessaria (sic) maxime sacerdotibus super hiis noticiam non habentibus': a treatise attributed in Arun' del MS. 491, f. 49, and a Vienna MS. (no. 4926) to Berengarius Fredoli, Cardinal-bishop of Frascati 1309- 1323 (cf. Schulte, Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts, ii, p. 533). Beg. 'In primis debet interrogare sacerdos penitentem utrum sciat Pater noster'; ends 'oracionibus expugnauit. deo gracias'. f. 25.

9. 'Incipit liber de trinitate ', better described in the colophon 'Explicit summula super diuersis bonis et utilibus composita, quorum rubrice patent in principiis ipsorum capitulorum superius compositorum. Deo gracias et uirgini gloriose et toti collegio beatorum'. a general theological handbook in 28 chapters. There is apparently a copy in an Oxford MS. Canonici Misc.

335. Beg. 'De trinitate hoc tenendum est quod in vna substancia'; ends 'pro salute humani generis'. f. 51 b.

10. Mnemonic verses and other theological commonplaces. Beg. 'Fer, fuge, fac, gusta, tu credas, indue, nutri'. f. 62.

11. Canon law collections relating to casus excepti, penitential canons, irregularity, restitution, &c. The first rubric is 'Isti sunt casus in quibus sententia excommunicationis maior fertur a iure, compositi per dominum Berengarium episcopum Tusculanensem', being an abridgement of the tract of Berengarius Fredoli contained in 8 A. xviii, art. 9. Beg. 'Primo cum quis incidit in heresim'. f. 62 b. At the end of art. II (f. 71) the rubricator has added a list of all the rubrics in the three artt. 8, 9, 11 above; followed (f. 72) by the ten lines of Petrus Comestor on the Virgin (cf. 7 A. VI, art 10) beg. 'Si fieri posset quod arene puluis et unde'. On f. 72 b are theological commonplaces in another hand.

12. 'Comp[ilaci]o elucidans compotum manualem Iohannis de Pulcro Riuo' (so colophon): one of the earlier forms of those treatises on the calendar which are based on the use of the knuckles, &c., of the hand and on mnemonic verses beg. 'Filius esto dei celum bonus accipe gratis'. Of the author nothing seems known beyond his own statement that he wrote the work at Paris in 1289 at the request of certain friends. Beg.

'Ad habendum ciclum solarem secundum Gerlandum'. In the margin is a gloss, composed probably between 1311 and 1324, beg. 'Nota quod causa efficiens huius operis sit magister Iohannes de Pulcro Riuo'. This gloss (in whole or in part) is ascribed by another annotator on f. 73 b to 'magister Guillelmus de Cazis'. f. 73.

13. Commentary on the same treatise, composed in 1305. Beg. 'Ad habendum ciclum solarem, &c., secundum sentenciam Platonis'; ends'tiiuersitatem terrarum, et in hoc terminatur'. Several marginal notes. f. 76. At the end (f. 81 b) are miscellaneous notes on chronological matters, including one as follows, 'Anno domini mocccox. decostitit carto (cf. Ducange, s.v.) frumenti Tholose xi libris et quatuor solidis Turonencium paruorum'.

14. A cisiojanus or set of mnemonic verses for the hagiological calendar. The saints correspond to Toulouse (Germerius, 1 May, Saturninus episcopus Tholose, 29 Nov.), but do not include S. Louis (canonized 1317). Beg. 'Cisio Ianus epi. sibi. pau. dicat. yl. fe. bo. mar. ton.' f. 82.

15. 'Liber iste dicitur liber ympnorum', with colophon 'Laus tibi sit, Christe, quoniam liber explicit iste; / facto fine pia, te laudo, uirgo Maria. Isti hymni sunt Petri Valriaci clerici, qui compleuit ipsos Tholose in die sancti Urbani anno domini mocccoxi., et sunt in isto libro octoginta septem hymni': a collection of hymns by S. Gregory, S. Ambrose, Prudentius, Sedulius, Fortunatus, Rabanus, Odo of Cluny, and others, with commentary. Other copies, more or less imperfect, are in Harley MSS. 683, f. 55, 4967, f. 78. Preface beg. 'Ympnus est laus dei facta cum cantico'; text, 'Primo dierum omnium, &c. : Materia huius ymni est commendacio diei dominice'. f. 83. Vellum ; ff. 126. 71/4 in. x 5 in. Written in S. France by several hands, circa 1305-1317. Gatherings, i-viii⁸, ix⁶, x², xi¹⁰, xii-xvi⁸, xvii4. Sec.fol.'aduentus'. Initials in red and blue. Cat. of 1666, f. 5b; CMA. 8059-8061.

includes:

• f. 11 Petrus Abailardus: Comments on the Lord's Prayer, attrib. to: early 14th cent.