Royal MS 8 F IX

THEOLOGICAL TRACTS, in Latin, and, bound with them, part of the French metrical romance of Guy of Warwick, viz.:-

1. 'Interpretaciones nominum Ebreorum': the extensive dictionary of Hebrew proper names printed in Bedae Opera (Cologne, 1688), iii, p. 371, and also attributed (less improbably) to Remigius of Auxerre. For other copies see 1 B. X, f. 526, 3 B. III, f. 382. An abridged form is in 8 F. XIV, art. 22. Slightly incomplete at the end. Beg. 'Aaz apprehendens uel apprehensus'; ends 'Zauad dotatio uel dotatus'. f. 2.

2. Three sermons, viz.:-(a) At a visitation of a monastery by a bishop. Beg. 'Vide et uisita uineam istam, Ps. septuagesimo nono. Videant et recogileni et intelligant, Vs. quadragesimo primo. Huius admonicionis'. f. 73;-(b) On Joh. xvi. 13, 'Docebit vosemnem ueritatem, Joh. xvi, capo b: Secundum philosophum perfeccio anime'. f. 93b;-(c) Discourse [on Whitsunday?] by a bishop [of Lichfield] announcing that for the sake of peace he has abandoned his scheme for creating further prebendal churches. Internal evidence seems insufficient to determine whether this is Walter Langton (1296-1321)oranearlierbishop. Beg.'Donum et pax est electis eius: Verba ista libro Sap. cap. iii sunt scripta, in quibus de spiritus sancti'. f. 97.

3. Guy of Warwick: part of the French metrical romance, continuing (and partly overlapping) the portion contained in Harley MS. 3775 and corresponding to pp. 35-308 of the English version in Zupitza's edition, E. E. Text Soc., 1875. Without title. For full description see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 485. Beg. '[O]re sen va Gui del estur'; ends 'Qen sa gloric pussum venir, Amen'. Colophon, 'Qui scripsit carmen / sit benedictus. Amen'. f. 105. On fly-leaves, &c., are:-(a) Fragment of the end of an historical poem in rhyming verse, 19 lines,on the fall of Jerusalem, beg. 'Adeptam post uictoriam et ciuitatem dirutam'. Ends 'Iam finis crit operi legenti ne sit honeri (sc. oneri)'. f. 1 b;-(b) Ten hexameters on the destruction of the Temple. Beg. 'Annus erat millesimus et centesimusatque'. Both these are in the same late 12th cent. hand. f. 1 b; -(c) Hymn or hymns, 9 x 3 lines, beg. 'Aue uirgo ueneranda, / potens mater deprecanda, / nos exaudi petimus'. f. 77;-(d) Fragment, beg. '[Aue pa]rens dei mei'. £. 78 b.,-(e) Hymn, zx6 lines, beg. 'Xue simdl iubilemus'. f. 79;-(f) Hymn, 3 x 6 lines, beg. 'Aue uirgo, nos attende'. f. 79 b;-(g) Hymn, 2 x 6 lines, beg. 'Aue mater, exultasti'. f. 83 b;-(h) Hymn, 2 x 6 lines 'Aue uirgo, confidimus'. f. 84;-(i) Hymn, 2 x 6 lines, beg. 'Aue mater magnifica'. f. 84 b. These seven, apparently original, compositions, and other fragments, in pencil in the margins. ff. 72-87;-(k) Magic square, consisting of the line 'Natas areda tedet adera Satan'. In pencil. f. 90 b;-(I) Draft or copy of a letter from William de Egennont to Tho. de Jorz?], Prior provincial of the Dominicans, saying that the writer had been 33 years in the convent at York. In pencil. Imperfect. f. 99 b;-(m) Draft, partly illegible, of a letter from frater Hugo de Leycestria to Thomas [de Jorz,], Cardinal tit. s. Sabinae (1305-1310, previously, 1296-1303, Prior provincial),

Apparently relating to the election of a prior provincial of the English Dominicans. f. 104.

Vellum; ff. 159. 11 in. x 73/4 in. Circ. A.D. 1300. Gatherings, art. 1, i-v12, vi11; art. 2, i, ii12, iii8; art. 3, i8, ii10, iii-vi8, vii5. three artt. are in very different hands; 1 and 3 in double columns. Sec. fol. 'Abigal pater'. Initials in red and blue to art. 1 and the latter part of art. 3; blanks left elsewhere. Art 1 belonged to S. Werburg's Abbey, Chester, 'ex monasterio Cestrie' (f. 2); the provenance of artt. 2, 3 may be different. Old Royal pressmark 'no. 1165'; cat. of 1666, f. 17 b ; not in CMA.