Royal MS 10 B XV

WORKS of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator, viz.:-

1. 'Liber variarum formularum Magni Aurelii Cassiodori' (so title on outside leaf, f. 1). Described in the prolegomena to Mommsens edition (Mon. Germ. Hist., Auctores Antiquissimi, xii, 1894), p. lxxxii, being of the same type as 10 B. IV, art. 9, and several other English MSS. Omits lib. iv, epp. xl-end, and the whole of libb. v-vii, numbering the ensuing books (libb. viii-xii) libb. v-ix. Beg. 'Cum disertorum gratiam'. f. 2.

2. 'Liber Magni Aur. Cassiodori Senatoris de institutionibus diuinarum litterarum': lib. i of the Institutiones divinarum et humanarum litterarum (Migne, Patr. Lat. lxx. 11O5; Cf. 5 B. VIII, art. 6) preceded by prologue and table of capitula. At the end is the note 'Deest liber secundus eiusdem de institutione secularium litterarum'. Prologue beg. 'Cum studia secularium litterarum'; text, 'Primus scripturarum diuinarum codex'. f. 135. On the fly-leaves are:-(a) Note, in Latin, on the question of voluntary action during sleep, with anecdote of a somnarnbulant English clerk who committed homicide at Paris. f. 157 b;-(b) The first four lines of the French poem [by Robert de Gretham, called Miroir or Les Evangiles des Domées] contained in a Cambridge MS. (Univ. Libr. Gg. i. i) and partly printed by P. Meyer in Romania, XV, p. 296. An imperfect copy is also in Add. MS. 26773. Beg. 'A sa trechere dame dame Alyne'. f 187b;-(c) Fragment of a sermon, beg. 'Recolamus quomodo nati sumus'. f. 158;-(d) Theological commonplaces, in Lat., in prose and verse. f. 158b;-(e) Medical verses, eleven lines on the cure of fevers. Beg. 'Expertum capit antidotum pro cotidiana'. f. 159;-(9 Lines from the Schola Salernitana (ed. Renzi, v, 11. 6-10, 359-362, 13, 1795-8). f. 159;-(g) Two stories of Abbas Pastor and Abbas Johannes from the Apophthegmata Patrum, vi. 4, capp. 9 and 10 (Migne, lxxiii. 1016). f. 159. Vellum; ff. 159. 111/4 in x 8 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'me uiderem'. Initials flourished in red, blue, and green. A 16th cent. library mark (T or TC ?, with the number 8) as in many Royal MSS., especially St. Albans books. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 919'; cat. of 1666, f. 20; CMA. 8466.