Royal MS 8 C XII

SERMONS of Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1292-1298), compiler of the Legenda Aurea, followed by a collection of miracles, in Latin, viz.

1. 'Opus quadragesimale fratris Iacobi Ianuensis', &c. (so colophon): a collection of 98 Lenten sermons. Not the work printed (Augsburg, 1485) as Quadragesimale Iacobi de Foragine, but the same as 8 D. xi, art. i, below. Beg. 'Filia populi mei induere cilicio, &c., Jere.

6: Quamuis solempnitas'. At the end of the colophon is the scribe's note 'quod W. de K (or R)'. f. 5. Art. 2 is in a somewhat later hand.

2. Miracles of the Virgin (cf. lib. ii of Cotton MS. Cleop. C. x, and Ward, Cat. of Romances, ii, p. 678). Incomplete at the end. Prologue beg. 'Ad omnipotentis dei laudem cum sepe recitent'; text, 'Fuit in Tolletana vrbe'. Breaks off in the seventh tale (foot of col. i of f. 158) Ibracium eius arcius'. f. 154 b. Copious scribbling on the fly-leaves (ff. 1 b, 2), partly in the hand of John Brystow (see below), in English and Latin includes:-(a) A quatrain, 'Fayrnes and yong blood / Mony folke and muche good / Fordothe ofte that þow ne kan / Know what thyng Pat ys a man', and verses on friendship;-(b) Mythical Statistics of England, as in 7 D. xxi, f. 2 b, &c.;-(c) The prologue to the English verse life of S. Erasmus (cf. Harley MSS. 2382, f. 109, 1671, f. 1*). Beg. 'Alle Crystyn men lystenyt and hyre / of an holy byschope and a martyr'. Written as prose. Vellum; ft. 158. 91/2 in. x 61/2 in. Early XV cent. Gatherings (beg. f. 5) of 12 leaves (xiii and last¹⁰). Sec. fol. 'peccata quandoque'. Illuminated border-initial of poor execution on f. 5. Belonged (ff. 2, 154) to 'dompnus Iohannes Brystow quondam monachus de Hayles [co. Glouc.], vicarius de Roburne Chanewe [Rodbourne Cheyney, co. Wilts.]', to whom it was given by 'dompnus Ioh. Stockburge'. On f. 3 b is a list of parishes in the deanery of Cricklade, co. Wilts. (including Rodbourne). Theyer sale-cat. no. 164; CMA. 6646.