Royal MS 8 A XIX

IVLIANI PROGNOSTICA Futuri Saeculi, with two sequences, &c., viz. :-

1. 'Liber pronosticorum Iuliani episcopi de futuro seculo' : the eschatological treatise by S. Julian, Bishop of Toledo (Migne, Patr. Lat. xcvi. 453, cf. 5 A. VIII, art. 3, 6 E. III, art. 41, 8 F. VIII, art. 5, 12 C. XXIII, art. i). In three books, preceded by a table of chapters, a letter to Idalius, beg. 'Sanctissimo ac pre ceteris, &c. Diem illum', and a prayer 'Desertum Idumee cecus'. Text beg. 'Peccato primi hominis actum esse'. At the end of the text is here placed (f. 66) the response of Idalius, beg. 'Sanctissimo, &c. Recordatione mcorum peccaminum'. f. 2. Between the table of chapters and the prefatory letter art. 2 is inserted in a 13th cent. hand.

2. Sequence (10 x 6 + 2 X 8 + 10 lines) on the Resurrection [by Adam de S. Victorel printed in Migne, cxcvi. 1437 (cf. Chevalier, Rep. Hymn. no. 22256). With musical notes. Beg. 'Zima uetus expurgetur / ut sincere celebretur / noua resurrectio'. f. 6.

3. The prosa or prayer to the Trinity (204 lines) by Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans (1097), Archbishop of Tours (1125-1133), printed in Migne, clxxi. 1411 (cf. Chevalier, Rep. Hymn. no. 925). Beg. 'Alpha et w, magne deus, Heli heli, deus meus'. f. 68b.

4. Sequence (2 + 2 x 6 + 10 + 4 + 6 + 4 lines), of unknown authorship, for a festival of the Virgin, printed in Gautier's edition of Adam de S. Victore, ii, p. 484 (cf. Chev. no. 1879). With musical notes. Beg. 'Ave, Maria, gratia plena, / Dominus tecum, uirgo serena'. f. 70 b.

5. The Apostles' Creed, with the author assigned to each clause (cf. 8 D. II, f. 2). Beg. 'Simbolum. Petrus. Credo in deum'. f. 71 b. On the fly-leaves are:-(a) Some fragments of hymns in a hand of circ. 1300, beg. 'Generosi germims / de radice uirginis' and 'Maria uirgo concipiens / filium intacta pariens'. f. 1;-(b) A medical recipe,' For the schote or akyn in the bak', in a late 14th cent. hand, f. 1;-(c) Some theological notes. ff. 1 b, 72 b. Vellum; ff. 73. 73/4 in.X 43/4 in. Late XII cent. Gatherings, ff. 1-8 uncertain, from f. 9 (art. 1) i-viii8, numbered, except the last, at the end. Sec. fol. 'dei aliquando' or '-cia hinc' or 'auidius'. Initials in colours. Probably Theyer sale-cat. no. 233; CMA. 6480.