Royal MS 8 B VIII

THEOLOGICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.:-

l. 'Stimulus Amoris' (in colophon, 'meditaciones cuiusdam simplicis', &c., as in 7 A. I, art. 7): the work commonly ascribed to S. Bonaventura and printed in Peltier's edition of his works, xii, p. 632. Argument beg. 'Libellus iste qui stimulus'; text, 'Currite gentes undique'. The prologue and prayer and the last two chapters of part iii in the printed text are omitted. f. 3.

2. 'Tractatus beati Bernardi abbatis de lamentacione et compassione gloriosissime uirginis in passione filii sui': the work, of uncertain authorship, of which a copy, imperfect at the beginning, is printed in Migne, Pair. Lat. clxxxii. 1133 (cf. 7 A. VI, art. 16, 8 C. VII, art. 20). Beg. 'Quis dabit capiti meo aquam et oculis meis ymbrem ut possim flere'. f. 76.

3. 'Incipiunt meditaciones Bonauenture': a short tract of which there is a copy in Burney MS. 359, f. 51, and an abridgement in 5 C. III, f. 302 b. Beg. 'Anima dei insignita ymagine saluatoris pio cruore redempta'; ends 'quia amore langueo'. f. 81.

4. 'Tractatus eiusdem de contemplacione': the treatise printed (Bonaventurae Opera, Quaracchi, 1898, viii, p. 1) as De Triplici Via. For other titles see 7 C. 1, art. 8. No prologue. Beg. 'Ecce descripsi, &c., Prov. xxii: Cum omnis sciencia'. f. 84 b.

5. Meditaciones sancti Bernardi': the work, of uncertain authorship, sometimes called Hugonis de S. Victore Liber de Anima (Migne, clxxxiv. 485). For other Copies see 6 B. XI, art. 9. The text in the present MS. includes at the end several paragraphs which are similarly placed in 8 D. III, art. 20, but which probably have no real connexion with the text, viz. :-(a) The fragment, noticed below, 8 C. VII, art. 23, which beg. 'Perfectissima atque plenissima' and ends 'amabilis appareas'. f. 109;-(b) 'De rege nobili et filiabus eius': an exemplum, of doubtful authorship, printed ib. clxxxiii.

770, as parabola v among the works of S. Bernard. Beg. 'Rex nobilis tres habuit filias, Fidem, Spem, Caritatem'. f. 110;-(c) 'De Ethiopissa quam filius regis duxit in vxorem': another exemplum, beg. 'Filius regis supercelestis'. f. 111 b;-(d) 'De continua pugna inter Ierusalem et Babilonem', parab. ii, ib. 761. Beg. 'Inter Babilonem et Ierusalem nulla est pax. f. 114 b. The text, after a table of rubrics, beg. 'Multi multa sciunt et semetipsos nesciunt'. At the end is the scribe's signature 'quod K.' f. 94. Vellum; ff. 116. 81/4 in. x 51/2 in. Late XIV cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords in ornamental frames. Sec. fol. 'humani generis'. Illuminated border-initials. Belonged to john Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. 195; CMA. 6611.