Royal MS 8 G II

THEOLOGICAL DISTINCTIONES, in Latin, bound with fragments of the elder Seneca, viz. :-

1. 'Distinctiones Lincoln.' (late title): the work ot William de Monte (cf. 6 B. X, art. 9). The arrangement agrees in the main with 11 A. III, art. 2. In both MSS. articles headed Cena and Manducare occur, apparently out of place, at the end of letter X. A corrector of the table of contents has wrongly ascribed the work to Grosseteste. Beg. 'Arcus dicitur Christus et propiciatio dei'; ends 'imitari Christum et ecclesiam'. Colopholi (15th cent.), 'Expliciunt distincciones Lincolniensis bone et utiles', and in another hand Iuel secundum quosdam Willelmi de Montibus'. f. 2.

2. 'Declamationes' of Annaeus Seneca, with moralizations. The text differs from the common (5th cent. ?) abridgement of the Controversiae as printed in Bursian's edition (Leipzig, i857) and annotated by Nicholas Trevet (see 15 C. XII), but may be only a paraphrase derived from it. Imperfect (by loss of leaves at the beginning), containing only lib. v, decl. 2 to lib. viii, decl. 6. Another imperfect copy (ending v. 5) having the same moralizations is in Add. MS. 16584. The third declamation of lib. v beg. 'Unus pater habuit duos filios' and moralization, 'Iste pater est mundus qui generat'. f. 93. The 14th cent. table of contents on f. i b appears to indicate that the MS. originally contained at the beginning several other works of the two Senecas and others (marked in a 15th cent. hand Inon sunt hic'). Vellum ; ff. 97. 31/2 in. x 91/4 in. Late XIII (art. 1) and XIV centt. Gatherings, art. 1, i-viii⁸, ix, x¹⁰, xi⁷; art. 2, i^5. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'fluent aque'. Art 1 has initials in red and blue. Belonged to Tattershall College, co. Linc., by gift of john Gigur (cf. 9 B. IX, Sloane MS. 1210); noticed by Leland (Roy. App. 69, f. 9). Old Royal press-mark Ino. 1058'; cat of 1666, f. 7; CMA. 8144.