Royal MS 8 E XII

HOMLIETIC and rhetorical tracts and models, in Latin, viz. :-

1. 'Formularium predicandi': a treatise on preaching, in two parts. Imperfect at the beginning. Wants all part i except a few lines beg. '. . . ad inuicem ita quod pro aliqua parte' and ending 'consueuerunt auditores respondere amen. Hec igitur de theorica arte artis predicandi quantum potui breuius iuxta materie condicionem perstrinxi, et sic finitur prima pars huius opusculi'. Part ii comprises themata for Sundays in Advent, beg, 'Ecce rex luus, Matt. xxi [s]: Quantum fuerat desiderium' ; ends 'videbitur expedire'. f. 1. ff. 1-12 were formerly misplaced in 8 B. XIV.

2. Another treatise on preaching. Beg. 'Ad quare. per. propter. notat. in similantque gerundi. . . . In predictis versibus continentur dicciones'; ends 'recipient felicitatem. amen'. f. 53.

3. 'Incipit liber primus de seculo et religione editus a Colucio Pieri cancellario Florentano (sic) ad fratrem Ieronimum de Vzano ordinis Camalduensis (rubric of lib. ii adds 'in monasterio S. Marie de Angelis') de Florentia': the two books by Lino Collucio di Pierio Salutato, Papal secretary 1368, Chancellor of Florence 1375, d. 1406. 'Prohemium' beg. 'Memor semper fui, venerabilis et karissime frater'; text, 'Hec igitur tantisper exordiendo'. f. 61.

4. 'Declamaciones quedam Colucii Pieri cancellarii Florentani' : two rhetorical exercises, viz. :-(a) Lucretia;-(b) 'Coram decemviris', on the law 'de his qui fecerunt carmen famosum contra aliquem', &c. Beg. 'Lucretia Spurii Lucretii filia . Noli te afflictare'. f. 154.

5. 'Incipit prima omelia beati Eusebii [for Eusebii Emeseni, cf. 8 B. XIV A, &c.] ad monachos': seventeen sermons (cf. 6 B. IX, art. 1) of doubtful authorship and probably not from a single source, viz.:-(a, b) Two in honour of S. Pancras, beg. 'Quisquis miseriam vite huius pensat'and 'Nos infelices ariste'. As the latter refers to Charles the Great, it must be at least as late as the 9th cent. ff. I59, i66b;-(c-k) Eight sermons printed as i-viii of S. Eucherius (Migne, Patr. Lat. l. 833). Of these (e) Euch. iii is identical with sermon vii of S. Faustus (ib. lviii. 883), and (f-h) Euch. iv, v, vi appear also as vi, viii, ix of S. Caesarius (ib. lxvii. 1056). Beg. 'Exhortatur nos sermo diuinus'. f. 175 b;-(l) Sermon printed as no. xxvi of S. Caesarius in La Bigne, Maxima Bibliotheca, viii, p. 845, in Migne (xxxix. 2317) among the spurious sermons of S. Augustine, no. ccxcix. Beg. 'Inter reliquas beatitudines'. f. 196 b;-(m) Migne's no. vii of S. Caesarius and no. i of S. Faustus (lxvii. 1059, lviii. 869). Beg. 'Ad locum hunc, karissimi'. f. 199;-(n) Migne's Eucherius ix, Caesarius x (l. 855, lxvii. 1067). Beg. 'Videte vocacionem vestram'. f. 203 b;-(o) Migne's Caes. xi, Faust. ii. (lxvii. 1069, lviii. 872). Beg. Quod supplicante et admodum'. f. 205;-(p) La Bigne's Caes. xviii; cf. 8 D. VIII, art.

18 (b), where it seems to be addressed to monks of Blangy-en-Ternois, a monastery founded in 686. Beg. 'Sanctus ac venerabilis pater uester religiosa quidem humilitate'. f. 207b;-(q) La Bigne's Caesxxv. Beg. Miror, fratres dilectissimi, dominum patrem'. f. 211; -(r) La Bigne's Caes. xxxvi. Beg. 'Sanctus ac venera, bilis pater uester dum se ut cum venia dictum sit'. f. 214.

6. 'De membrorum thematis subdiuisionibus': a short tract beg. 'Notandum est quod tot modis contingit fieri subdiuisio'. Added in another hand. f. 216 b. Vellum; ff. 218. 9 in. x 6 in. XV cent. Gatherings (a-c missing) i, ii¹², iii, iv^1O, v-xxv⁸, xxii⁶, with catchwords, generally lettered on the first 4-6 leaves. Initials in red and blue. On f. 218, 'Liber mag. T. Stevynson ex dono mag. T. Gray, militis et executoris mag. Willelmi Gray, nuper episcopi Eliensis'. For Bishop grey (d. 1478) and his donations to Balliol College Library, see 7 F. XII. On the same page is the note 'For custodys and the byndynges xiii d.'. Some scribbling on ff. 135 b, 154 b contains the name Richard Midwinter and date 1597. Afterwards belonged to John Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. 211 ; CMA. 6616.