Royal MS 8 F II

EXEGETICAL WORKS, a treatise of Roger Bacon, &c., in Latin, viz. :-

1. Part (Amor-Desperatio) of an alphabetical index rerum to the Moralia in Job of Gregory the Great. A complete copy is in Harley MS. 5426, f. 115 b. Beg. '. . . dum apparet 1. 33 C. 7 e'; ends 'desperare de creatore'. f. 1.

2. Exposition on S. john's Gospel, in a number of lectures or sermons of considerable length and far from complete, covering only the prologues and ch. i. 1-14. Among the authors quoted are Thomas Aquinas and 'Will. Melduluensis de 4 virtutibus cardinalibus beate Marie'. The extract from the latter includes a reference to S. Elizabeth of Schonau. Beg. 'Carissimi, auctores et sanctarum literarum scriptores quilibet libro suo'; breaks off 'id est Iohannes partem gerens . . . '. In the margin are reference marks, apparently the numbered pages and lettered subdivisions. of an archetype, but the letters are gencrally omitted. The last reference is 'a 162'. f. 10.

3. 'Lectura super Ecclesiasten', thirteen lectures. In Theyer's hand is the note 'forte Gulielmus Encurtus author est, qui claruit 1340', but the work of that author exists in Balliol College MS. 27 with a different incipit. Will. Alton, a Dominican, to whom a book of like title is also ascribed by Boston and Bale, is excluded by date, if he really belongs to the 13th cent., as the present article quotes Egidius de Columnis. Beg. 'Ecce vniuersa vanitas, Ecc. primo cap. : Solent homines cum aliquid magnum'; ends 'eternam remuneracionem quod prestare', &c. f. 143.

4. 'Bacun' (colophon 'Explicit hic moralis philosophia Bacun): the first portion (to pt. iii, ch. 5) of the Moralis Philosophia (part vii of the Opus Majus) of Roger Bacon. The rest of the treatise is only known from the Digby MS. used by Bridges (Opus Majus, ii), which is itself imperfect. Beg. 'Manifestaui in precedentibus quod cognitio li[n]guarum'; ends 'eius quod est post se'. f. 167.

The fly-leaves are:-(a) Two leaves from a collection of sermons for festivals(?), written about 1300 in an English charter-hand, including ' Sermo de eodem festo', beg. 'Surge comede, 3 Reg. 19: Sicut homo conponitur', another (imperf. at beg.) on the pains and joys of the Blessed Virgin, quoting two stanzas of the English sequence 'Stond wei moder under rode'(cf. 12 E. I, art. 27), and another 'In festo purificationis', beg. 'Suscepimus deus misericordiam'. f. 179;-(b) Leaf of a 13th cent. lectionary containing lessons (three) for the first seven Sundays after the Octave of Pentecost; initials in colours. f. 181.

Vellum; ff. 181. 11 in. x 8 in. XV cent. Sec. fol. of art. 2 1et ad similitudinem'. Belonged to john Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. 99; CMA . 6509.