Royal MS 8 E X

'MEDITATIONES Deuotissime' (so the title in a Bury librarian's hand): a theological compilation under sub. jects arranged alphabetically, Amor-Penitencia. Pro-

bably incomplete. The exact nature of the collection, the sources of which seem to be quite miscellaneous, is not very clear. Beg. 'In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti incipit quedam abbreuiacio vtilis tam de tempore quam de sanctis ad diuersas vias (sic, perhaps for materias) in eodem opere contentas'. At the end are:-(a) An alphabetical collection of maxims, with colophon 'prouerbia Salomonis'. Beg. 'Adquisicio que honestati non obuiat est laudanda'. f. 112.-(b) A dictionary of dreams. Beg. 'Ab imperatore se videri osculari g[audium] s[ignificat]'. f. 114 b.

The vellum fly-leaves (ff. 2, 1 in that order) are from a dictaminal book containing:-(a) 'Decem tempora tocius perfeccionis ' (so colophon) : a tract on canon law procedure, perhaps abridged from the tract known as Ut nos minores (11 A. XV, art. 3). Imperfect at beginning. Ends 'C. de fructibus et lit. expensis l. terminato'. f. 2;-(b) Formulae for 'procuratoractoris originalis', dated 9 Mar. 1334/5, to be sealed with seal of the deanery of Cambridge, lproc. ret originalis', 'potestas iudicis commissarii', 'denunciacio excommunicacionis sub mutuo uicissitudinis obtentu' and in the name of the dean of S. Edmund's, and two appeals, the latter in the name of John Tillot, rector of Gedding [co. Suff.], and dated 27 July, 1344. ff. 2 b, 1. On f. 117 b are some scribbled verses, including 'Adam Bernardus Clemens Dionysius Ennok', the first line of a traditional list of names alphabetically arranged (see M. R. James, Cat. of Clare College MSS. p. 28, and for a curious use of the line as signatures of gatherings in a MS. see Charters of Inchaffray, Scott. Hist. Soc., 1908, p. 335). Paper; ff. 117. 9 in. x 6 in. Circ. A. D. 1350. Gatherings of 12 leaves (i⁸, iv², v^1O), with catchwords. Belonged to Bury St. Edmund's Abbey with press-mark M. 12, 'emptus per dom. Iohannem de Brinkele abbatem (1361-1379) in quaternis et per fratrem Robertum de Becles colligatus'. The present binding is modern. Afterwards belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley, whose name on f. 4 is apparently autograph. Lurnley cat. f. 133; perhaps cat. of 1666, f. 18, 'Meditationes 8vo'; omitted in CMA.