Royal MS 8 F V

THEOLOGICAL WORKS of S. Ephraim Syrus and others, in Latin, viz.

1. Story of the unrepentant death of a smith in Bernicia, from Baeda, Hist Eccl. v. 14 (Migne, Patr. Lat. XCV. 254). Beg. 'Noui autem ipse fratrem'. f. 3.

2. Miraculous incidents relating to an image at Caesarea Philippi, a well at Nicopolis in Judaea, and a tree at Hermopolis in the Thebaid. From Cassiodorus, Historia Tripartita, vi. 41, 42 (ib. lxix. 1057). Incomplete, wanting the last two words of cap. 42. Beg. 'Illud quoque miraculum quod sub Iuliano', f. 3 b.

3. 'Effrem' (so title on f. 1 b-in table of contents, f. 2, 'Liber Effrem edificatorius'): seven sermons (the first and second are divided by a coloured initial, but seem to be counted as one tract), printed in Latin in almost the same form by Amerbach at Basel (s.l. et a., Hain, no. 6597), viz.:-(a) Without title or colophon, Amerbach's Liber primus de compunctione cordis, For the Greek see Vatican ed. (1732-1746), i (Gr.), p. 40. Beg. 'Dolor me compeuit et iniquitas'. f. 5b;-(b) Amerbach's Liber secundus de eadem compunctione; without title, but colophon 'Explicit liber primus domini Effrem diaconi'. The text is about half as long again as Amerbach's and about twice as long as the Vatican Grcek, ii, PP. 370-377. Beg. 'Venite, karissimi mei, venite, patres ac fratres, grex saluatoris'; ends 'Nullus de suis uiribus presumat'. f. 28;-(c) lncipit liber secundus beati Effrem diaconi de iudicio dei et de resurrectione et de regno celorum et munditia anime'; Amerbach's Liber de iudicio dei et de resurrectione, &c., printed also in the same Latin in Vatican ed. iii (Gr.), p. 553. Beg. 'Gloria omnipotenti deo, qui os nostrum'. Colophon, 'Explicit liber secundus dom, Effrem diaconi atque abbatis'. f. 37 b;-(d) 'Incipit liber tercius de beatitudine anime'; as in Amerbach, but considerably shorter than the Greek text, Vatican ed. i, p. 292, extending only to p. 298 B. Beg. 'Beatus qui odio habuerit hunc mundum'; ends 'ad patrem luminum peruenire. amen'. f. 43;-(e) 'Incipit liber.iiii. de penitentia'; as in Amerbach, Greek in Vatican ed. i, P. 148. Beg. ' Dominus noster Iesus Christus descendit de sinu'. f. 47 b;-(f) 'Incipit liber v. sancti Effrem diaconi'; as in Amerbach, and also in Latin in Vatican ed. iii (Gr.), p. 537. Beg. 'In luctaminibus huius seculi'. f. 52 b;-(g) 'Incipit liber vi. de dic iudicii'; as in Amerbach, Greek in Vatican ed. ii, p. 50. Beg. 'Venite, dilectissimi fratres, exhortationem meam suscipite'. Colophon, 'Explicit liber sextus dom., Effrem diac. beatissimi atque abbatis'. f. 57.

4. 'Ammonitio sancti Basilii': the Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem attributed to S. Basil (cf. 7 C. I, art. 27, Migne, ciii. 683). Beg. 'Audi, fili, ammonitionem, &c. : Cupio enim te instruere'. Colophon, 'Explicit ammonitio patris nostri Basilii archiepiscopi'. f. 63.

5. 'Sermones sancti Cesarii' (so table of contents) : twenty-four sermons by S. Caesarius, Bishop of Arles (502-,542), all of which are printed in the appendix to S. Augustine's works. The first is app. serm. cccviii (ib. xxxix. 2335) and the last serm. cclxiv (ib. 2233). Deseriptive headings are prefixed, e. g. to the first lncipit ammonitio s. Cesarii per quam ostenduntur tria genera ,elemosinarum quibus peccata redimi possunt'. Beg. 'Pius et misericors dominus' fratres karissimi, multis modis occasiones'. f. 76 b.

6. 'Sentencia Ieronimi' (so table of contents) : an unidentified extract from some theological work. Beg. 'Ieronimus dixit, Scire enim debemus quod diabolus et libido non senescunt'; ends 'diu coluisse aliena'. f. 145 b.

7. Without title: an unidentified epistle. Beg. 'Non est grave, Theodore, cadere luctantem'; ends 'ad amorem illius, qui est super nos et benedictus in secula. amen'. f. 149b.

8. 'Sententia sancti Ysidori' (heading in original hand): an unidentified discourse, beg. 'Occultam malitiam blandi sermones ornant'; ends 'non declines ipso adiuuante, qui uiuit', &c. Colophon, 'Finiunt libri s. Effrem diaconi atque abbatis et s. Cesarii episcopi'. f. 152.

9. Extracts, without title, from the Historia Francorum of Gregory of Tours concerning (a) S. Salvius, Bishop of Albi (circ. 571-584), from lib. vii, cap. i (ib. lxxi.

415). Beg. 'Licet sit studium historiam prosequi'. f. 153 b;-(b) The fall of Antioch, from lib. x, cap. 24 (ib. 555). Beg. 'Quidam episcopus de transmarinis partibus'. f. 156.

10. 'Incipit prologus beati Leontii episcopi de residuis uitc beati Iohannis Alexandrine ciuitatis episcopi, que pretermissa fuerant a Iohanne atque Sopronio viris illustribus': the supplementary life of S. lohannes Eleemosynarius, Patriarch of Alexandria (609-620), written in Greek by his contemporary Leontius, Bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus, translated into Latin by Ana. stasius Bibliothecarius in the 9th cent. (ib. lxxiii. 32). Translator's preface beg. 'Cogitante ac diu tacite solliciteque mecum considerante', and is followed by a table of capitula. Author's preface beg. 'Intentio quidem una est nostra'; text, 'Cum peruenissem Alexandriam ego indignus'. Colophon, 'Explicit vita beati Iohannis patriarche'. f. 157. ii. Tale of a 'prepositus' at the abbey of S. Gregory at Rome, from Ioannes Diaconus, Vita S. Gregorii Magni, iv. 86 (ib. lxxv. 231). Beg. 'Leonis quarti pontificis Romani tempore (847-855), cum Megistus Hostiensis episcopus'. Incomplete, breaking off 'Cum. que fratres de ea'. f. 201b. Vellum; ff 203. 111/4 in. x 8 in. Early XIII cent. Gatherings (beg. f. 5) of 8 leaves, numbered at the end. Sec.fol. 'prouinciales'. Initials in colours. Belonged to the Augustinian Abbey of Bristol, 'Liber sancti Augustini Bristolie' (f. 1 b) ; afterwards to Archbishop Cranmer and [John, Lord] Lumley, whose names (not autograph) are on f. 3. Lumley cat. f. 89; cat. of 1666, f. 4 b ; CMA. 7894, 7921.