Royal MS 10 B II

THEOLOGICAL TREATISES, in Latin, viz.:-

1. 'Summa de uirtutibus', by the Dominican Guillelmus Peraldus (Guillaume Pdrault of Lyons, d. 1275), printed many times (Basel, 1473, 1495, Antwerp, 1587, &c., see Hist. Litt. de la France, xix, p. 310), Without author's name. Other copies are in 11 B. III, art. 5, and Add. MSS. 15123, f. 2, 26040, f. 2, the last two being abbreviated versions. In five parts, preceded by a table of capitula, which beg. 'Presens opus habet quinque partes', Preface beg. 'Cum circa utilia studere debea, mus'; text, 'Si separaueris preciosum a uili'. Ends 'celestem hereditatem. Tractatus uirtutum explicit. Benedictus dominus uirtutum qui incepit et perfecit. amen'. f. 5.

2. Summa on the commandments, sins, sacraments, and articles of the faith. Beg. 'Signaculum apostolatus mei, &c. [1 Con ix. 2]: Hoc debet quilibet prelatus'. The last section is taken in part from' Lincolniensis', in part from Richard Fishacre. f. 141 b.

3. Notes, probably from more than one source, on the Lord's Prayen Beg. 'Pater noster, &c.: Hec oratio priuilegiata est'. f. 147 b. Art. 4 is inserted on a blank page in a 14th cent. hand.

4. Sermon on Matt. vii. 20. Beg. 'Ex fructibus eorum, &c. : In evangelio hodierno. Quia non vitatur malum'. f. 148b.

5. 'Summa magistri Ricardi de Montibus': the work probably of Richard de Leicester al. de Wether. shed, Archbishop of Canterbury (cf. 4 B. VIII, art. 7, 7 A. IX, art. 2, &c.). The text somewhat resembles 7 A. IX. Beg. 'Qui bene presunt'. f. 149. Art. 6 is in the same hand as the preceding.

6. Metrical penitentiary, attributed in one MS. to Magister Thomas and also ascribed to John de Garlandia, and printed among the works of Peter de Blois (Migne, Patr. Lat. ccvii. 1153). The prose commentary is the same as in 9 A. XIV, art. 26. Beg. 'Peniteat cito peccator cum sit miserator ... Sperate in eo omnis'. Incomplete, breaking off at sit uelox ad miserandum f. 172. Art. 7 is inserted in a 14th cent. hand.

7. Part of a sermon on Eph. V. 2. Beg. 'Ambulate in dilectione in hodierna epistola: Ista uerba dupliciter possunt exponi'. f. 173.

8. Brief treatise on the seven sins, ten commandments, plagues of Egypt, seven sacraments, virtues, works, gifts, petitions, and twelve or fourteen articles of the faith. Innocent III is quoted, and numerous mnemonic verses, gencrally different from those in art. 5, are used. Beg. 'Scienda sunt ut caueantur vii. mortalia'; ends 'uiuos et mortuos'. f. 173b. At the end is added (f. 174 b) the couplet 'Si uis sanari, pransus soleas spaciari, / i quod sis fessus uel centum perfice gressus'. On the fly-leaves are:-(a) Scribbled accompts (servants' wages, provisions, sales of crops, &c.), probably of Rochester Priory, 13th-14th

cent. ff. 1 b, 3;-(b) Sermons and notes, including discourses on 1 Cor. xi. 28, Matt iv. 10, Luke xi. 14, and Ezek. xviii. 30, and on the heavenly city. The first beg.'Prohei se ipsum homo, &c.: Hec verba sunt beati Pauli apostoli ad Cor, et diriguntur illis', and the last, 'Aggrediamur iter uite et reuertamur'. ff. 2-4;-(c) List of contents of the volume. f. 4 b;-(d) Note, 'Memorialc domini Ricardi de Bleburi pro legenda sanctorum facit scribi extra villam et habet . . . pecias soluit xii. d.' f. 4 b. The name J. de Bleburi is scribbled on f. 172 b. Vellum ; ff. 175. 11 in. x 8 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (i⁴, last³). Sec fol. in text 'seu meditacione'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Belonged to Rochester Priory, 'Liber de claustro Roffensi ver fratrem Henr. de Mepeham'. Old Royal press-mark Ino. 812 (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 34); cat. of 1666, f. 3 b; CMA. 7999, 8000.

includes:

• ff. 1b, 3 Accounts: Scribbled accounts of Rochester Priory (?): 13th-14th cent.