Royal MS 8 B X

THEOLOGICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.:-

1. 'Stimulus amoris diuini' (in colophon, 'meditaciones cuiusdam simplicis', &c., as in 7 A. I and 8 B. VIII): the work commonly ascribed to S. Bonaventura (ed. Peltier, xii, p. 631). The argument and text are given as in 7 A. I and 8 B. VIII, but prefixed are some paragraphs which seem to belong to a different recension of the text, viz.:-(a) The preface contained in Peltier's ed., p. 632 (cf. 7 A. I, f. 110), beg. 'Ad te leuaui, &c. [Ps. xxiv]: Confisus de tua liberalissima pietate'. f. 1;-(b) The prayer beg. 'Transfige, dulcissime domine Iesu' (ib., cf. Add. MS. 16608, f. 106). f. 1 b;-(c) Another copy of pt. ii, chap. ii of the text, with slight variations. f. 2. Argument (f. 5b) beg. 'Liber iste qui stimulus'; text, 'Currite gentes vndique'. f. 6.

2. Vision of S. Paul, derived from an apocryphal Greek work of the 4th century (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, ii, P. 397, cf. P. Meyer in Romania, xxiv, p. 357). Beg. 'Dies dominicus est dies leticie'. Incomplete, ending with the words 'mediam partem frigus consumpsit', which are followed by the next article without a break. f. 82.

3. Fragment of the Visions of S. Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373): Revelationes, lib. vii, cap. 15 (cap. 14 in Munich ed. 1671, p. 597). Beg. 'Hanc reuelacionem habuit sancta Briggida . . . Filius loquebatur sponce' (sic). f. 83.

4. 'Ante missam': a description of the ceremonial of the mass. Beg. 'Sacerdos celebraturus missarum sollempnia dicit quinque psalmos'; ends' cum oracione Deus qui tribus pueris'. f. 84.

5. Interrogationes septem peccatorum mortalium: a formulary for the confessional, attributed in some MSS. (8 C. VII, art. 15, 11 B. III, art. 20) to Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (1235-1253) ; butthe text differs much in different copies (see 8 A. XV, art. 2). No title. Beg. 'Si scienter peccauerit, magna est superbia'; ends 'illuc alios duxerit, et si qua sunt similia,' f. 85 b.

Vellum; ff. 87. 81/4 in. x 51/2 in. XV cent. Gatherings of 8 or 12 leaves. Sec. fol. 'et delectacione'. Belonged to John Theyer. Theyersale-cat. no. 203; CMA. 6608.