Royal MS 8 D XXII

SERMONS of S. Peter Chrysologus, Archbishop of Ravenna (433-449), in Latin. Without original title; but 'Sermo de filio prodigo et alii' in a hand of the 13th cent. A cancelled first leaf (f. i) prefixed as a flyleaf has in a 15th cent. librarian's hand 'Augustinus de filio prodigo et quedam alia', and Patrick Young has added (f. 2) the true description ' Petri Chrysologi sermones 76'. The collection comprises the first half (i-lxxvi) of those printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. lii, and is perhaps the first of two volumes. Beg. 'Hodie nobis dominus patrem cum filiis duobus uocauit'. The fly-leaves (ff. i, ii) are from a Registrum Brevium, temp. Edw. I (after the first Statute of Westminster, 1275), comprising the writs from De moderata misericordia to De minis and from De chimino habendo to De medio. A small strip attached to f. ii appears to belong to a tract on pleading of about the same date, in French, the paragraphs being marked alternately 'Encupement' and Defense'. Vellum; ff. ii + 63. 11 in. x 71/2 in. Finely written (pl. 59) in several English hands of the firsthalf of XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, some numbered at the end. Double columns from f. 33 (where there is a marked change of hand) onwards. The hands are of different sizes and at f. 30 b a short passage is in a charter-hand. Good coloured initials in a style resembling the Rievaulx MS. 6 C. VIII, and one illuminated. Belonged to Henry Savile ('Long Harry); see cat., Add. MS. 35713, f. 16 ; cf. 5 E. XXII, 6 C. VIII, &c. The shorthand notes (f. 1) read 'Netlton ' and 'Henry Savil'. On f. 1 is the Royal press-mark of a seal (a ship). Not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8655.