Royal MS 8 F X

THEOLOGICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.:-

1. Sententiae of S. Isidore, Bishop of Seville (cf. 6 B. V, art. 2, Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxxiii. 537), in three books. Without title; colophon, 'Explicit liber tercius beati Ysidori de uirtutibus'. The table of contents (f. 1 b) calls the work 'Isidorus de summo bono'. Prefixed (as in 5 E. IV, 5 E. XVIII) is the letter (cp. iv, Migne, ib.

899) to Massianus [al. Maso], Bishop [of Merida, circ.

573-606], dated 28 Feb. in the third year of King Wittericus [605 or 606]. Letter beg. 'Veniente ad nos famulo'; text, 'Summum bonum deus est'. f. 3.

2. 'Liber qui uocatur speculum' (so colophon): the Speculum of Adalbert, a compilation from the Moralia of S. Gregory (cf. 8 F. VIII, art. 1). Prefixed is the letter 'Haimanno Adalbertus', beg. 'Reuerentissimo in Christo patri H. presbitero A. humillimus Ieuitarum' followed by table of 194 chapters. Text beg. 'No nulli namque ita sunt simplices'. f. 45.

3. 'Stephanus Cantuariensis super lob' (so table of contents): an abridgement of S. Gregory's Moralia, which may or may not be the work of Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (1207-1228), but apparently contains no original matter. The same attribution, however, occurs in a MS. from St. Andrew's, Northampton, now at Oxford (Oriel College lv). Beg. 'Vir erat in terra Us: Licet cum malis valde laudabile'; ends 'fides ligat'. f. 116. On fly-leaves, &c., are an extract from Isidore's Sententiae, lib. ii, cap. 17 (f. 2), and other theological notes in hands of the end of the 13th cent. (f. 42 b and, partly in verse, f. 190 b). At. f. 44, written with a lead point, is a partial table of chapters to Paschasius Radbertus de Corpore et Sanguine Domini. At f. 2 is a list of books, viz. 'Biblioteca Roberti de Dauentria, Diadema Monachorum Iohannis Abbatis [perh. Joh. Lupus 1266-1269, see below], Crisostomus super epistolas Pauli, Ysidorus de summo bono Ranulfi abbatis (the present volume), Regula S. Benedicti Iohannis abbatis, Decreta W. C . . . bes, Decretales Iohannis abbatis, Casus decretalium, Ieronimus ad Demetriam virginem, Orationes et meditationes . . ., Summa aurea . . ., Unum ex quatuor Martini(?)', against the whole list being the name (as the borrower?) of Joh. de Haliwell. Vellum; ff. 190. 111/4 in. x 8 in. Latter half of XIII cent. In good hands (art. 3 a very small hand). Gatherings of 12 leaves (iv6, xll, xvi16). Double columns. Sec. fol. 'de collatione'. Initials chiefly in colours or flourished in red and blue ; two small illuminated miniature initials, S. Isidore (f. 3) and Job and his wife (f. 116). See pl. 61. If, as seems most probable, St. James' Abbey, Northampton, is the monastery to which the MS. belonged, the inscription 'Liber Ranulphi abbatis ' on f. 1 b refers to Ralph de Heyham, 1274-1298. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 404' (Westm. invent. Of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 12); cat. of 1666, f. 5 b; CMA. 7924, 8057.