Royal MS 8 F III

'SERMONES CATHOLICORVM': a collection of sermons, originally sevcnty-six (but four are lost), taken chiefly from the collection noticed above, 8 A. xi, art. ii, and 8 B. XIII, of which Geoffrey Babion seems to be the author. Most of these are printed in Beaugendre's edition of Hildebert (Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxi), to which references are given below. The authorship of most of the rest seems unknown. A table of the texts is prefixed at f. i. Contents :-

1. Beaugendre's no. 98. Beg. 'Dicit apostolus Paulus Non est potestas nisi a deo, &c. [Rom. xiii. il: Audite, ,fratres karissirni, quid apostolus nobis clamet'. f. 2.

2-9. Beaugendre, nos. 84, 83, 87, 22, 106, 28, 1, 131. ff. 4b-3ob.

10. Sermon, printed in Migne, cxlvii. 227, as the fourth of lncerti auctoris sermones sex ad populum', but probably by Babion (cf. 8 A. xi, f. 121 b). Beg. 'Labia sacerdotis cusiodiunt scientiam, &c. [Mal. ii. 7]: Audite, fratres dilectissimi, quantum thesaurum'. f. 33b.

11. Sermon beg. 'Locutus est dominus ad Moysen cum murmurassent filii Israel ... Quecumque, fratres karissimi, scripta sunt'. f. 37.

12. Sermon, printed as no. 5 of the six sermons in Migne, cxlvii. (cf. art. 10) 230, probably by Babion. Beg. 'Qui descendunt mare, &c. [PS. cvi. 23-27]: Conqueritur dominus'. f. 41 b.

13. Sermon, by Babion, on Ps. lxxxi. 1 as in 8 B. XIII, art. 45. f. 45b.

14-17. Beaugendre, nos. 110, 26, 91, 96. ff. 49-56b. i8. Sermon for Advent. Beg. 'Consolamini, consolamini, &c. [Is. xl. 1-4]: Ante aduentum redemptoris'. f. .58 b.

19-25. Beaugendre, nos. 82, 118, 71, 47, 51, 95, 16. ff. 6I-74 b.

26. Sermon, by Babion, on Eph. v. 14 as in 8 B. XIII, art. 58. f. 76.

27. Sermon, probably by Babion, on the parable of the tares; the last sermon in 8 A. XI. Beg. 'Simile est regnum, &c. [Matth. xiii. 24-30]: Dominus Iesus Christus', fratres karissimi, inter homines habitans', f. 78.

28. Sermon on Jer. i. 13, 14. Beg. 'Factum est uerbum domini ad Ieremiam, &c.: Visio ista, fratres'. f. 79.

29.Sermon on jer. v.23-2g. Beg. 'Dicit dominus ad populum Ierusalem per Ieremiam prophetam Populo huic, &c.: Fratres karissimi, ideo leguntur'. f. 82.

30. Sermon on judges xi. Beg. 'Cum exiret Iepte ad pugnam'. f. 85.

31-39. Beaugendre, nos. 126, 18, 56, 124, 31, 52, 123, 48, 49. ff. 89b-110.

40. Sermon for Pentecost. Beg. 'Dies Pentecostes sacratus est in lege et in euangelio'. f. 112.

41. Sermon for Easter. Beg. 'Cumcetere, festiuitates in recordatione'. f. 113.

42-48. Beaugendre, nos. 37, 128, 94, 108, 30, 120, 113. ff. 114-129 b. Nos. 49-56 are ordination sermons, viz.:-

49. 'Ad eos qui promouendi, sunt ad sacros ordines'. Beg. 'In magna domo, &c. [2.Tim.ii. 20, 21]: Audite, fr. kar., quanta consideratione'. f. 131 b.

50. 'De hostiariis'. Beg. 'Accedite ad deum et illuminamini, &c. [Ps. xxxiii. 6]: Audite, fr. kar., quomodo ad se'. f. 133 b.

51. 'De lectoribus'. Beg. 'Clama, ne cesses, quasi tuba, &c. [Is. lviii. 1]: Quanto maioris ordo meriti'. f. 134 b.

52. 'De exorcistis'. Beg. 'Conuocatis Iesus xii discipulis, &c. [Luke ix. 1]: Ecce, fr. kar., ordinem'. f. 135.

53. 'De acolitis'. Beg. 'Sint lucernf ardentes in manibus uestris [Luke xii. 35], Nemo accendit &c. [Matt. v. 15]: Habuit, fr. kar., et iste ordo'. f. 135 b.

54. 'De subdiaconibus'. Beg. 'Mundamini qui fetvis uasa domini [Is. Iii. ii): Quia ad ordines qui sacri'. f. 136 b.

55. 'De diaconibus'. Beg. ' Dominus dixit ad Aaron Ego dedi, &c. [Num. xviii. 6, 7]: Ordo iste, fratres karissimi'. f. 137.

56. 'In ordinatione presbiterorum', Beaugendre, no, 132. f. 138.

57-63. Beaugendre, nos. 92, 116, 46, 40, 27, 41, 65. ff. 140 b-152.

64. Sermon on Luke vii. 36-38. Beg. 'Rogabat Iesum quidam Phariseus &c.: Multis modis, fratres karissimi'. f. 153 b.

65. Sermon for the Annunciation. Beg. 'Gaudeamus in domino, fratres dilectissimi, et licet non quantas debemus'. f. 155.

66, 67. Beaugendre, nos. 38, 34. ff. 157, 159.

68. Sermon for Septuagesima. Beg. 'Scientes, fr. dilect., quod quamdiu'. f. 161 b.

69, 70. Beaugendre, nos. II, 79. The latter is imperfect by loss of leaves after f. 165 b, the gap containing also sermon 71 (Beaugendre, no. 81) and a part of the following article. ff. 163, 165.

71. Sermon (no. 72), imperf. at beg., on Is. xli. 18, 'Locutus est dominus per Ysaiam dicens Ponam deser- Ium in stagna'. Ends 'sine fine mansuri, ipso adiuuante', &c. f. 166.

72. Sermon (no. 73), beg. 'Inter alias descriptiones menbrorum ecclesie'. Breaks off, by loss of leaves at the end, 'ad lucrum terrenum reducit'. f. 166 b. The initia of the three sermons lost at the end are given in the table of contents, viz. no. 74, 'Arborem fici habebat quidam plantatam in uinea sua'; no. 75, 'Conuertimini, inquit dominus, et agite penitentiam'; and no. 76, 'In omnibus scripturis, fr. dilect., utiliter ac salu' briter ammonemur', &c. The last is perhaps the same as 8 B. XIII, art. 61. The fly-leaves (ff. i, ii) contain, in a 14th cent. hand, the delectus of moral verses known as Catonis Disticha (Bihrens, Poetae Lat. Minores, iii, p. 205), incomplete, ending with couplet iz of bk. iv. Beg. 'Si deus est animus nobis ut carmina dicunt'. On f. ii b, in a hand of the same cent., are tweive English lines beg. 'Woman is wordi war and wys / mylde and meke of mod'. Vellum; ff. ii.+ 167. 11 in. x 7 in. XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (i⁶, xi⁷, xxii²), numbered at the end as far as viii. Sec. fol. 'Nolite' or 'legem de!'. Initials in colours. Belonged in 1666 to William Rogers, of Painswick, co. Glouc., and shortly afterwards to John Theyer (d. 1673). Theyer sale-cat. no. 91; CMA. 6534.