Royal MS 8 F VIII

THEOLOGICAL and liturgical works, in Latin. The MS. agrees rather closely, so far as artt. 2-4 are concerned, with 6 E. II, and may be copied from that ms. Contents.:-

1. Speculum of Adalbert: a collection of extracts from the Moralia of Gregory the Great. Of the date or origin of the compiler nothing seems to be really known, his supposed connexion with Spalding having no foundation. In the prefatory letter to 'Hairmannus presbyter' he calls himself 'humillimus Ieuitarum', but a Paris MS. (Bibl. de l'Arsenal 494) has an epilogue in which he styles himself 'monachus et sacerdos'. The identification with the author of a chronicle of Metz is very doubtful. Divided into 194 chapters. The preface speaks of seven books, but this division does not seem to occur in the MSS. Other copies are in 5 F. V, art. 1, 8 F. X, and at Paris, Bibl. de l'Arsenal

390, 494, and Oxford, Jesus Coll. xlii. Preface (printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. cxxxvi. 1309) beg. 'Reuerentis. simo in Christo . . . Mecum sepius retractans'; text, 'Nonnuili autem ita sunt simplices'. f. 2.

2. 'Incipit Gemma Anime-quam compilauit Honorius' (this title is in two hands, 14th and 16th centt.) : the liturgical treatise called Gemma Animac, generally ascribed to Honorius of Autun, printed in Migne, clxxii.

541 (cf. 6 A. XI, art. 1, 6 E. II, art. 3). In four books, with two introductory letters and preface. Illustrated with drawings in the margin. In this MS., as in 6 E. II, the last chapter of lib. iv of Migne's text is divided off as a separate treatise (see next art.). The first letter beg. 'Agmen in castris eterni regis'; text, 'In primis igitur de missa'. Ends 'morituros cogitent'. f. 72 b.

3. 'Tractatus de obseruacionibus Romane ecclesie', by the same author (lib. iv, cap. xvii in Migne, cf. 6 E. II, art. 4). Beg. 'Iam de officiis'. f. 138.

4. Sermon on Exodus xvii. 8-13. Without title, as in 6 E. II, art. 5. Beg. 'Venit autem Amalech, &c.: Rex iste paganus qui pugnabat contra Israel diabolum significat'. f. 139 b.

5. 'Liber pronosticorum Iuliani Pomerii Toletane urbis episcopi': the Prognostica Futuri Saeculi of S. Julian (cf. 5 A. VII, art. 3, &c.). In three books. Prefixed are the letter to Idalius, 'Sanctissimo, &c. Diem illum' (but not the reply), and the prayer 'Desertum Idumee'. Text beg. 'Peccato primi hominis actum esse'. f. 142.

6. 'Micrologus' (so title in a 16th cent. hand): an historical account of the ceremonial of the Mass, in twenty-two chapters, forming part of the larger work De officiis ecclesiasticis attributed to S. Ivo, Bishop of Chartres (1090-1115), of which there are copies at Lambeth (363, 380), Oxford (All Souls College 28), and Cambridge (Corpus Christi College 68). Migne (cli.

979) prints under the title Micrologus 62 chapters, of which the first 22 agree with the present article. Beg. 'Presbiter se ad missam parans'. f. 162 b.

7. De ortu et obitu patrum: the treatise of S. Isidore Bishop of Seville (Migne, lxxxiii. 131). Imperfect, by loss of a leaf after f. 167, and incomplete at the end. The New Testament portion precedes the Old, and the latter ends with cap. xii. Without title. Beg. 'Zacharias et Elisabeth ante deum iusti'. f. 167.

8. 'Liber Metodi episcopi Paterensis et martiris Christi quem de Hebreo et Greco sermone in Latinum transferre curauit, id est de principio seculi et inter regna gencium et finem seculorum, quem illustris uirorum beatus Ieronimus in oppusculis suis collaudauit': the Latin paraphrase (as in 5 F. xviii, f. 29 b) of the prophecies of the Pseudo-Methodius, printed in Greek in Grynaeus' Monumenta SS. Patrum Orthodoxographa (Basel, 1569), i, P. 99. The Latin version in that collection (cf. La Bigne, Magna Bibliotheca, 1654, xv, p. 611) is not the same. Beg. 'Sciendum namque est nobis, fratres karissimi, quomodo in principio creauit'; ends 'penam patientur, vnde nos dominus eripere dig. netur, qui cum', &c. f. 170.

9. Liber de Antichristo of Adso, Abbot of Montier. enDer, sometimes falsely attributed to S. Augustine, Alcuin, or Rabanus Maurus. Printed thrice in Migne, xl. 1131, ci. 1291, and clvii. 743. The present text belongs to the shorter recension; for the longer see 6 A. XI, art. 9. Without title or author's name. Beg. 'Omnes (sic) de Antichristo scire uolentes primo notabilis est'; ends 'iudicandum esse predixit'. f. 172.

10. Theological commonplaces, including.-(a) Extract of a sermon printed as no. xxiv in the appendix to S. Ambrose, Migne, xvii. 651. Beg. 'Fratres dilectissimi,quem (sic) timendus est ille dies'. f. 173;-(b) Note on the fifteen signs of the Last judgement (cf. 7 D. XVII, art. 23, where it is assigned to S. Jerome). Beg. 'Hec sunt xv signa ante them'. f. 173 b;-(e) Extract from Cassianus, collatio v, capp. 2, 6 (Migne, xlix. 611, 615), on the eight vices. Beg. 'Secundum Serapion uirum sanctum'. f. 173 b;-(d) Distinctiones on the words deuotio and affectus. Beg. 'Deuocio est feruor bone uoluntatis'. f. 173 b.

11. Part of the Liber Anselmi de Morum Qualitate printed in Migne, clix. 605, under the title Liber de Anselmi Similitudinibus and assigned to Eadmer, An. selm's biographer (cf. 5 F. IX, 8 D. VIII). Comprises capp. i-xx. Beg. Voluntas tripliciter intelligitur'; ends 'sine omni imaginacione'. f. 174.

Vellum; ff. 176. 11 in. x 71/4 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (ii11, xv9). Double columns. Sec. fol. 'De uita'. Initials in colours. Art. 2 is illustrated in the margin by five spirited drawings in red and black ink, ff. 84-88b. The second represents a crucifix and the last a church. Belonged to John Theyer. Theyer sale-cat. no. 83; CMA. 8374.