Royal MS 10 A VII

THEOLOGICAL DISTINCTIONES, notes and commonplaces, sermons, and a moralized Bestiary, in Latin, viz. - 1. 'Distinctiones theologice a magistro Willelmo Lincolniensis ecclesie canceilario collecte' (cf. 6 B. X, art. 9). The arrangement under the letters A-C seems to be less systematic and therefore possibly carlier than in the other MSS. (6 B. X, 8 G. II, 11 A. III), but from N onwards the work looks like a selection only of the original articles. Blank spaces left at the end of the letters have been filled partly with articles similar to those in the text, partly with sermons or notes for sermons (cf. art. 2). The original hands of the text seem to be of carly 13th cent. date. Beg. 'Arcus dicitur Christus et propiciatio dei'; ends 'sicut et cognitus sum'. f. 1.

2. Sermons, chiefly de tempore, and notes like the inserted parts of the preceding article. These continue also interspersed with the following articles. f. 115.

3. 'Epistola Yuonis episcopi Carnotensis ad sanctimoniales', letter of S. Ivo, Bishop of Chartres (1090- 1115), to the nuns of S. Avitus at Chateaudun (cp. x of the collected letters, Migne, Patr. Lat. clxii. 21). Beg. 'Iuo dei gratia . . . Gloriosum nomen uirginitatis', f. 141.

4. 'Libellus cuiusdam ad Ramerum (Rainerum?) conuersum cognomine corde benignum': the De avibus or first of the four books of the Bestiary printed ib. clxxvii. 14. It is generally attributed to Hugo de Folieto (Fouilloy in the department of Somme), Prior of S. Laurence at Heilly (1153-1174). Differs from the printed text by omission of several chapters (31, 43, 44, 50-53, 56-58) and transposition and, abridgement of others (35- 37). Illustrated by pen drawings. See also below, art. io, and another version in Add. MS. 22041, f. 298. Prologue beg. 'Desiderii tui, karissime'; text, 'Si dormiatis inter medios'. f. 150.

5. A second alphabetical arrangement of theological commonplaces (from Activa to Via), being chiefly homi- Ietic notes on single texts. ff. 167-180. After f. 190 the notes are similar, but not alphabetical, the following articles being interspersed. f. 193. includes extracts from Hugo de Folieto, De Claustro Animo, Book IV.

6. Distinctions on single verses from the Psalms. Beg. 'Beatus vir qui, &c.: Est introitus interior et exterior'. f 197.

7. Epigrams (197 hexameters, single pentameters or elegiacs, in sets of from one to seven lines, mostly leonine) on scriptural or moral themes, very much in the style of the collections printed as Hildebert's (Migne, clxxi. 1381-1442), or that of Baudri, Bishop of Dol (Romania, i, p. 23). One distich, 'Non deus est uel homo presens quam cernis ymago, / Set deus est et homo presens quem signat yniago', is common to all three. Beg. 'Mestum mane foret cui uicinus malus heret'; ends (f. 200) 'En monumenta monent mentem mortis reminisci'. f. 199.

8. Theological quaestiones, beg. 'Esto quod duo uelint suspendere aliquem'. f. 205.

9. Fragment (one page, containing the definitions, postulates, and axioms) of the translation of Euclid, book i, by Adelardus (Athelhard) of Bath. See below, 15 A. XXVII. f. 213.

10. Further selections from the moralized Bestiary, chiefly of animals (cf. art. 4). They are mainly based on the Physiologus, but seem to be taken from one of the common compilations such as the two printed in Migne, clxxvii, as books ii and iii. Beg. 'Est animal quod Grece dicitur elephas'. f. 215. Vellum; ff. i + 218. 91/2 in. x 7 in. XIII cent. (several hands). Gatherings of 8 leaves (last ⁶). Double columns. Sec. fol. 'est gratia. Initials in red and green. Belonged to Bardney Abbey, co. Linc., and noticed by Leland (Roy. App. 69). Old Royal pressmark 'no. 278' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 28); cat.of 1666, f. 13b; CMA. 8282.