Royal MS 8 F VI

SERMONS and Exempla chiefly in Latin, with some English notes, &c., viz.-

1. Note on the doctrine of the resurrection of the body. Beg. 'Resurreccio corporum generalis probari potest'. f. 1.

2. Homilies on the gospels, Advent-Whitsunday. They consist mainly of exempla taken from various sources, the Vitae Patrum, Legenda Aurea, Miracletales, &c. A few stories are placed in England, including:-Aa) A woman of Cambridge, who carried the Host in a kerchief. f. 8;-(b) A demoniac at 'Rysinge iuxta Lamam' [Castle-Rising, near Lynn, co. Norf. ?]. f. 14;-(c) A heretic woman, whom Bishop Robert Grosseteste tried to burn. f. 18 b. In the well-known tale of the Nun who saw the world (Ward and Herbert, Cat. of Romances, ii. p. 659, iii, p. 680), an invocation to the Virgin in English occurs (f. 21). On a blank page in the middle (f. 13 b) are inserted a tale of a hermit and the letters COR, in which the words 'rota bige' are rendered 'a carte phwel', and an extract from S. Gregory on S. Matthew. Sermon i beg. 'Cum appropinquasset Iesus, &c.: Fratres karissimi, bis in anno hoc euangelium legitur'. f i.

3. Miracle-story, how at Rome in time of Pope Zephi. rinus (A.D. 202-218) a clerk (elsewhere called of Pisa) was dissuaded from marriage by the Virgin (Cat. of Rom. ii, p. 671, iii, pp. 529, 680). Beg. 'Legimus de beata virgine Maria quod, postquam celos ascendit'. f. 22 b.

4. 'Quicurnque wlt scire de penis inferni legat scripta sequentia': the Vision of S. Paul (Cat. of Rom. ii, p. 407, cf. 8 B. X, art. 2). Beg. 'Dies dominicus dies letus'; ends 'dominum deum nostrum, vt viuamus cum ipso in sua gloria in secula seculorum. amen f. 23.

5. 'Quicumque wlt scire quomodo debet custodire diem dominicam respiciat sequentia': an apocryphal epistle of Christ [to S. Peter, or according to others to Peter, Bishop of Gaza] against those who profane Sunday. Printed by Prof. Priebsch in An Engl. Miscellany presented to Dr. Furnivall (Oxford, 1901), p. 400. For another copy with better text see 11 B. X, art. 7. Beg. 'Incipit epistola de Christo filio dei et de sancto die dominico quem nescitis tenere et custodire'. The 'epistola' ends 'auferam a vobis', and is followed by two paragraphs beg. 'Si quis sacerdos istam epistolam non legerit' and ' In die dominico creata sunt omnia'. f. 24.

6. Five miracles of the Virgin (Cat. of Rom. iii, p. 680), the first beg. 'Fuit quedam mulier bona'. f. 24 b.

7. A double interpretation, in English verse, of the image in Nebuchadnezzar's vision. Between each couplet the matter of the interpretation is illustrated by a number of sentences in Latin from the Fathers, &c. The heading of the page is 'Sugget'. The verse beg. 'The hed of the ymage ys stedfast fayth', and the Latin 'De fide dicitur in simbolo Anasthasii'. f. 25b.

8. Thcological commonplaces in Latin and English. Beg. 'Augustinus. Nullus sanctus et iustus'. f. 27 b.

9. Miracle story in English how a curate saw the Devil dancing on a woman's neck who made an imperfect confession (Cat. of Rom. iii, p. 681). f. 28 b.

10. Medical recipes in English. Beg. 'Take sowfyStyll'. ff. 29 b-3o b. ii. Formulae:-(a) For return to mandates of the archdeacon in the diocese of Lincoln, in the name of H. M., curate of H[oughton] Conquest [co. Bedf.]. f. 30;-(b) For certificate of banns of marriage, dated is Mar. 1463/4. f. 30 b.

12. List of fees for probate, imperfect. f. 30 b.

13. Gesta Romanorum, in Latin. Without title. A form of the Anglo-Latin recension (Cat. of Rom. iii, p. 226). Imperfect at end, containing 27 chapters. Beg. 'Exemplum de vno rege'; ends 'sic vitam emendare quod poterimus ad eternam vitam peruenire. [Pollemius imperator]'. f. 31. The scribe of art. 13 repeatedly inserts his name'quod Thomas Brewse', 'quod Thomas Brewse litteratum' (f. 32), 'Brewse de Kenforde [Kentford, co. Suff. ?] cum sinistra manu' (f. 34), 'Bruus' (f. 41). Paper; ff. 44. 11 in. x 8 in. XV cent. Leaves mounted on guards. Sec. fol. 'set cum diabolus'. Belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 124 cat. of 1666, f. 6 (?); CMA. 8116 (?).