Royal MS 9 A III

THEOLOGICAL TRACTS, &c., in Latin (much damaged by the fire of 1731), viz.:-

1. Liturgical fragments, viz.:-(a) Part of a Mass for the Name of Jesus, including the sequences 'Dulcis Iesus Nazarenus' (Chevalier, Rep. Hymn. 4909) and tractus 'Dulce nomen Iesu Christi' (ib. 4881). f. 1;-

(b) Prose 'Gaude, virgo, mater Christi' (ib. 7017) and prayers relating to the Gaudia of the Virgin. f. 3 b;-

(c) Confessional formula and prayers. f. 4. The above is in a 14th cent. hand. At the end (f. 7) is a table of numbers of chapters in the books of the Old and New Testaments. Art. 2 is in double columns, in an extremely minute hand of the latter half of the 13th cent.

2. Summa 'Qui bene praesunt', or treatise on the Faith, Sacraments, and Commandments, by Richard de Wethershed, al. de Leicester, al. Grant, Archbishop of Canterbury (cf. 4 B. VIII, art. 7, 6 A. III, art. 1, &c.). The later heading, now partly burnt, seems to have given as the author's name Ricardus de Montibus (probably a confusion with William de Monte, another Chancellor of Lincoln, who is quoted in the treatise), and to have ascribed to him some connexion with Cambridge (cf. Tanner, Biblioth. Brit.-Hib., under Gul. de Montibus), but this again is probably a misreading of Cantuar. or cancellarius. The text is free from the interpolations of 9 A. XIV and the peculiarities of 13 A. XIV and Harley MS. 3244. Imperfect by loss of a leaf at the end. Beg. '[Qui bene] presunt presbyteri duplici honore'. f. 8. Artt. 3-6 are in small 14th cent. hands.

3. Summa, called Templum Domini, of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253 (cf. 5 F. XV, art. 5, 8 D. IV, art. 10). Without heading. Beg. 'Templum dei sanctum est, &c. [i Cor. iii. 71: Sermo iste quamuis'. Written for the most part in a tabular shape across both pages. Incomplete. f. 47.

4. 'Sermo s. Augustini episc. de oracione dominica'. sermon lvi, Migne, Patr. Lat. xxxviii. 377. Beg. Beatus apostolus tempora ista'. f. 59b.

5. 'Summa super historiam veteris testamenti' (so colophon): a brief summary of Old Testament history. Beg. 'Confusio quatuor elementorum ante procreationem'; ends 'ultimus rex Hebreorum'. f. 67 b.

6. 'Summa breuiata super historias quatuor cuangeliorum': a similar work on the Gospels. Beg. 'Fuit in diebus Herodis regis Zacharias de vice Abia'; ends 'esse prefixit'. After the first page the scribe changes from double to single column arrangement. f. 92.

Artt. 7, 8 are in double columns, in a late 13th cent. hand smaller than artt. 3-6, but larger than art. 2.

7. Quaestiones on the third book of Sententiae of Petrus Lombardus. Beg. 'Utrum diuina natura potuerit uniri cum humana ... Licet secundum Hylarium comparacio'. Much of the inner columns is burnt. f. 108.

8. Fragment of a list of grievances or complaints against the clergy, numbered to fifty or more. Partly in double, partly in single columns. f. 157.

9. Extracts, nearly destroyed, from some work of Hugo de Sancto Victore. f. 159.

10. Exhortatio Athanasii ad monachos: the pseud- Athanasian work printed in Migne, xviii. 71. Nearly destroyed. Beg. '[Et si quid gloriari] in Christo licet'. Partly in single, partly in double columns. f. 161.

Vellum; ff. 166. Circ. 5 in. x 4 in. (as mounted, 7 in. x 51/2 in.). XIII, XIV centt. Initials (artt. 2, 7) flourished in red and blue. On f. 46b is scribbled 'Mille tricente (sic) simul octauoque manente / Patricii festo Jon Strang est natus onesto'. Theyer sale-cat. no.280; CMA. 6664.