Royal MS 8 C IV

MISCELLANEOUS TREATISES, chiefly in Latin, bound (since the 15th cent.) with a medical collection, viz.:-

1. 'Summa Lincolniensis que vocatur Templum Domini' (so 15th cent. table of contents): the tract of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253 (cf. 7 A. IX, art. 20). Beg. 'Templum domini sanctum est &c.: Sermo iste quamuis'; ends 'intemperancia. Expliciunt distincciones mag. Roberti Grossi Capitis Lincoln. episcopi'. f. 2.

2. 'Ars fidei catholice edita a Nicholao Ambianensi pape Clementi iio. anno dom. 1050' (this description is in the hand of the Burylibrarian whom Dr. M. R. james identifies with Boston of Bury): a treatise really addressed to Clement III (1187-1191) and described by the author, Nicholas of Amiens (see Hauréau in Didot's Biog. Gen., s. n. Nicolas), as divided into five books and 'in modum artis composita', i. e. resembling a or scientific manual, being in fact modelled on Euclid and comprising definitions, axioms and theorems. Other copies are in 10 A. X, art. 3, Harley MS. 2667, f. 161, and at Oxford, Magd. Coll. MS. cxcii. Preface beg. 'Clemens papa cuius rem nominis et uite subiecti', and the 'descriptiones' (definitions) 'Causa autem est per quam aliquid habet esse quod dicitur causatum'. Ends 'puniendi sunt pena. Et sic patet propositum. Expliciunt articuli fidei'. f. 8.

3. Formula Honestae Vitae, by Martin, Bishop of Braga (cf. 8 A. XXI, art. 26). A fragment (one page). Without title and wanting the preface. Beg. 'Quattuor uirtutum species sentenciis multorum', and breaks off sed quid dicat intendito'. f. 13 b. Artt. 1-3 are in three several hands of the end of the 13th cent.: artt. 4 and 5, 6 in two other hands of the same period.

4. Decretal of Boniface VIII for a 'duplex officium' on the festivals of SS. Gregory, Augustine, Ambrose and Jerome (cf. Potthast, Registrum, no. 24188). Without address or date [20 Sept. 1295]. f. 14.

5. Legend of the Trental of S. Gregory, in French prose (see the text printed, from Cambridge MS. Ff. vi. 15, by P. Meyer in Romania, 1886, xv, p. 282, cf. H. Varnhagen in Anglia, 1891, xiii, p. 105). Beg. 'Vn apostoyle fu iadys en Rome'. f. 14 b.

6. Constitution Omnis utriusque sexus of the Fourth Lateran Council [1215]; cf. Decretals of Gregory IX, lib. v, tit. xxxviii, cap. 12. f. 14 b.

7. 'Liber metricus Iohannis de Garlandia qui uocatur Stella Maris' (so table of contents): the collection of miracles of the Virgin in Latin verse (5 x 6 + 9 + 185 x 6 lines) by john de Garland. See Ward, Cat. of Romances ii, p. 699, Hauréau in Not. et Extr. xxvii, Pt. ii, p. 7, and Edwin Habel in Milleitungen der Gesellsch. fur deutsche Erziehungs und Schulgeschtchie, xix (1909). Interlinear glosses and marginal commentary to the first part. In a 13th cent. hand. Preface beg. 'Fecit deus mirus mirum'; text, 'Clerus matrem salutauit'. Commentary beg. 'In principio huius libri facit autor prefacionem ad miracula'. Colophon, 'Explicit liber magistri I. de G. de miraculis beate uirginis'. f. 16.

8. 'Epistole, sed principium et finis desunt' (so Boston?, on an erasure): an abridged text of epistles

ii. 7-iii. 4 of the Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium of L. Annaeus Seneca. In a 13th cent. hand. Imperfect at beginning and end, and by loss of a leaf after f. 25. Beg. ' . . . castrasset. Hic te exitus-'; ends 'Dum tel efficis . . .'. f. 24.

9. An abridgement from the Scintillae, a collection of patristic excerpts attributed to Defensor of Ligugd (cf. 7 C. IV, 8 B. XVIII, &c.). Without title. In a late 13th cent. hand. Beg. 'Sicut sine uia nullus peruenit'. The order of subjects towards the end is different from the original. Ends 'si fueris paruulus sensu'. f. 28.

10. Mnemonic verses and notes in an early 14th cent. hand, viz.:-(a) On the Computus or science of the Calendar, beg. 'Fert ea dux cor amat gens factor enim coluit bis' (this shows dominical letters for a cycle of 28 years-such cycles began in 1280, 1308, &c.). f. 36.- (b) On the four elements, four seasons, four humours, and four ages of man, including the usual couplets on the humours (Schola Salern., ed. Renzi, ll. 1696-7, 1702-3, 1708-9 and 1714-15). f. 36.

11. Algorismus metricus, the common verse treatise on arithmetic, by Alexander de Villa Dei. Without title. In a 13th cent. hand. The text includes a little more than that printed by Halliwell (Rara Mathematica, 1841, p. 73), but less than that in 12 E. I, art. 1. Beg. 'Eec (for Hec) algorismus ars presens dicitur in qua'; ends 'sibi multiplicato propinqum'. f. 36 b.

12. Massa Compoti, or Tractatus de Computo Ecclesiastico, of Alexander de Villa Dei, a treatise on the Calendar, in verse (about 358 lines in this text). Other copies are in 2 F. X, art. 2, Harley MS. 3902, f. 1, Add. MSS. 15108, f. 70, 17716, f. 16. Preceded by the prose preface and followed by a short note on the embolism. In the same hand as art. 11. Preface beg. 'Licet in fine modo temporum plures constet habere codices'; text, 'Aureus in Iano numerus clauesque nouantur'. Ends 'Mobilis ibo cibos a te liber hebeto coenos'. f. 38.

13. Notes on Latin words and other commonplaces, added in the 14th cent., viz.:-(a) Four hexameters on words relating to the mind, beg. 'Est animus racio sapiencia vita voluntas'. f. 41;-(b) Note on the word res, beg. 'Res nomen polliscenum (sc. ) est'. f. 41;-(c) Note, in Latin verse, of the names of parts of the plough, with an illustrative drawing. In another hand is added a curious Laiin sentence into which are brought all the verbs relating to the cultivation of corn and production of bread, with glosses in Engl. or Fr. Beg. 'Sum stiuarinus (plouman) male nasum munctus (wipen) tiburtis (? for tibiatis, glossed straplis) ad tibias nodatis (knyt)'. f. 41;-(d) The Apostles' Creed in Lat. verse (14 hexameters), beg. 'Credo que (sic) celum terras et cuncta creauit'. f. 41 b;-(e) Six lines on the casus excepti (these are often included in the Templum Domini, cf. art. 1 above, and 5 A. I, f. 100 b), beg. 'Deditus vsure, faciens incendia, falsus'. f. 41 b;-(f) Four lines on the Creation (cf. 8 A. IX, f. 16 b), beg. 'Prima dies celum format, creat altera terram'. f. 41 b; (g) Notes on eclipses, tides and meteorological phenomena. Beg. 'Vnde venit eclisis solis'. f. 41 b;-

(h) Note on the seat of the faculties, 'Intellectus est in fronte'. f. 41 b;-(i) Rhyme about 'due facinatrices' (sc. fasc-), glossed as 'libbers', who milked two cows. f. 41 b;-(k) Note on 'tres celi'. f. 41 b.

14. 'Postille super Genesim et Exodum' (so table of contents): an incomplete anonymous commentary, in a late 13th cent. hand. The writer, who professes his ignorance of Hebrew, quotes Petrus Comestor, Huguccio, Strabus, and others. Genesis (ends in cap. xvii) beg. 'In principio id est in verbo suo quod est principium causale'. Exodus (ends cap. vii) beg. 'Hec sunt nomina filiorum Israel: Iste liber Hebraice elesmath'. ff. 42, 69. Between the two books is inserted (f. 66) a prophecy for the years 1250-1265, entitled 'Prophecie Ioachim in maiori libro de concordanciis'. The passage does not seem to occur in the genuine Concordia Novi ac Veteris Testamenti of Joachim, Abbot of Fiore in Calabria (d.1202), as printed at Venice in isig. Beg. 'Anno incarnacionis moccolo corruent nobiles et principes'.

15. 'Questiones super secundum librum sentenciarum' (so table of contents): on the Sententiae of Petrus Lombardus, lib. ii, distt. i-viii. In a very minute late '3th cent. hand. Beg. 'Creacioni rerum, &c.: A principio dictum est a magistro'. f. 77.

16. Quaestiones, in the same hand, on other subjects, viz. :-(a) 'De resurrectione'. f. 96 b;- (b) 'De ueritate humane nature'. f. 100;-(c) 'De aureola uirginum et martyrum'. f. 103b.

17. 'Moralis Philosophia quam Augustinus speculum nominauit secundum Cassiodorum libro de institutione divinarum litterarum, rubrica de virtute scripture divine, capitulum Intuemini in vta columpna' (so title by the librarian): the compilation of extracts from the classical moralists attributed to Hildebert and others, but really (see above, 8 A. XIII, art. 1) by Guillaume de Conches. In a 14th cent. hand. The name of the person to whom it is dedicated [Prince Henry of England] is omitted. Beg. 'Moralium dogma philosophorum per multa dispersum uolumina'. Imperfect by loss of leaves at the end, wanting all after (Migne, clxxi. 1048) 'Ista paupertas, illa uero non est'. f. 112.

18. Lives of saints (from the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine) for 23-27 Jan., viz.:-(a) S. Johannes Elemosynarius, imperfect at beginning. f. 124;-(b) Idonversion of S. Paul, imperfect at end. f. 124 b;-(c) S. Paula, imperf at beginning. f. 125;-(d) S. Julian, incomplete. f. 125. In a 14th cent. hand. Besides the leaves lost at the beginning one is wanting after f. 124. Beg. '. . . Iohanni detulit' (Graesse's edition, p. 131); ends 'scilicet Iulianus apostate' (ib. p. 143).

19. 'Postille super primum nocturnum psalterii' (so table of contents): commentary on Ps. i-xvii. In a 14th cent. hand. Imperfect at end. The author quotes S. Bernard and others. Prefatory discourse on Is. xxi.

5, beg. 'Ysaias Pone mensam, &c.: Nomine mense

intelligitur'; commentary, 'Beatus uir, &c. : Per tria uerba hic posita tria distinguntur peccata'. f. 127. In the margin are many pencil-notes, including (f. 132) three lines (cf. 8 B. IV, art. 2) beg. 'Vicit Adam ueterem'. Artt. 20-24 form a separate quire in one (14th cent.) hand.

20.'Speculum ecclesie': the tract on the Mass, canonical hours, &c., by Hugo de Sancto Charo, Cardinal-priest (d. 1263). Printed (Paris 1480 ?), &c. as Speculum Missae. Beg. 'Dicit apostolus ad Eph. vi. [11], Induite uos armatura dei'. f. 151.

21. Notes and quaestiones on liturgical and other matters, viz..-(a) Note beg. 'Sciendum est modo generaliter quod matutinis'. f. 154b;-(b) Quaestiones beg. 'Cum in oracione Sarracenorum'. f. '54b;-(c) Further quaestiones, beg. 'Primo queritur quare campane non pulsantur in tenebris'. f. 155.

22. Theological definitions, beg. 'Deus est substancia spiritualis'. f. 155 b.

23. 'Incipit confessio generalis': a confessional for. mula beg. 'Primo debet confitcri de vii. peccatis'. f. 155 b.

24. Commentary on the Lord's Prayer. Beg. 'Pater noster qui es in celis: Vnusquisque homo qui clamat ad deum'. f. 156 b. The medical tracts, artt. 25-30, in hands of circ. 1300, origirally formed a volume with separate Bury pressmark and inscription (see below), though incorporated with the rest before the 15th cent. table of contents was completed.

25. 'Glosae super pronostica Ypocratis': an anonymous commentary on the Prognostica of Hippocrates, using probably the same translation which is contained in 12 B. XII, art. 23. Preface beg. 'Materia Ypocratis in hoc opere sunt signa pronostica'; commentary, 'Ypocras tractaturus de signis pronosticis'. f. 157 b.

26. 'Glose super Theophilum de urinis': an anonymous commentary on the treatise 'De urinarum differentia a uocc Theophili', i. e. compiled (by Stephanus) , from the teaching of the Greek physician Theophilus Protospatharius. For another commentary see 12 D. XIII, art. 7. Preface beg. 'Sex requiruntur in principio huius operis'; commentary, 'Theophilus tractaturus de urina'. f. 163.

27. 'Glose super Philaretum de pulsibus': an anonymous commentary on the treatise De Pulsibus of the Greek writer Philaretus. Another copy appears to be at Oxford, Ashmole MS. 1475; f. 77. Preface beg. 'Humana corpora tribus subiacent'; commentary, 'Intenclonem habemus, &c. : More recte scribentium'. f. 166.

28. 'Glosae pronostica Ypocratis': another commentary on the Prognostica. Preface beg. 'Quoniam humana corpora assidueinterius'; commentary, 'Omnis qui medicine, &c. : Ut in singulis ualitudinibus f. 168 b.

29. 'Glosae super Theophilum de urinis': another commentary on the same work as art. 26. Preface beg. 'Sicut in humano corpore non simpliciter'; commentary,

'De utinarwm differenfia, &c. Ypocras Chous a Choa insula'. f. 177b.

30. 'Glosc super afforismos Ypocratis': a commentary on the Aphorismi of Hippocrates. Another copy is in the Oxford MS. Ashmole 1475, f. 183, and a fragment in Harley MS. 2399, f. 69. Preface beg. 'Temporibus Ipocratis doctissimi uiri'; commentary, 'Morem recte scribentium sequens'. f. 186. On fly-leaves and blank spaces are:-(a)' Questio est quare aqua fontana calida est in hieme et frigida in estate', and some theological commonplaces, in a 13th cent' hand. f. 7 b;-(b) List of seven impossibilities (cf. 8 A. VI, f. 24 b). Written in pencil, end of the 13th cent. This and the verses on the humours (see art. 10) are also repeated in a 14th cent. hand. Beg. 'Septem. vita (in the 14th cent. hand, wrongly, vitia) sine morte'. f. 7 b;-(c) An erased table of contents, including articles not now in the volume, among them 'Boethius de disciplina scolarium' and ' Egidius de verbis Latinis'. f. 41 b;-(d) Copy of a charter, granting rents to Amicia de -, in pencil. f. 66 b;-(e) Draft of a letter in French from one Sclateir to Thomas de Fanttoner, asking for the loan of a horse, circ. 1300. f. 210 b. Vellum; ff. 210. 9 in. x 61/4in. XIII-XIVcentt. Sec. fol. 'In hoc ergo'; of the medical part (f. 158) '-dencia aures'. Initials in red and blue. Belonged to Bury St. Edmunds Abbey. Pressmarks, artt. 1-24, R. 42; artt. 25-30, M. 35 (see catalogue, M. R. James, On the Abbey of S.Edmund at Bury, p.73). To the latter part applies the note on f. 157 'Iste liber pertinet ad cenobium S. Ed- Mundi et traditus fuit Ade de Hakefoid per dominum Iohannem de Waxingam monacum'. Afterwards belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 86; cat. of 1666, f. 4; CMA. 8001, 8002, 8487, 8488, 8499, and 8528.