Royal MS 10 C III

THEOLOGICAL DISTINCTIONES, noteson canon law, &c., in Latin. Table of contents in a contemporar-y hand on f. 2, from which the titles of artt. 2-8 are given below, the articles having no heading.

1. Prologue to a commentary on the Minor Prophets. Beg. 'Legi Mosayce prophetia recte'; ends 'prologUS sic incipit Non idem ordo'. f. 3.

2. 'Distinctiones decretorum' : tabular analysis of Gratian's Decretum. Beg. 'Ius naturale est: Ordo quidam'. f. 4.

3. 'Quedam distinctiones theologie': tabular arrangement of metaphorical senses of words in Scripture, beg. with Area, platea, thesaurus, &c., and ending with talentum, argentum, aes. Beg. 'Area: ecclesia; hinc de domino'. f. 49.

4. 'Quedam exposicio super oracionem dominicam et canonem misse'; both taken from the treatise of Pope Innocent III, De sacro altaris mysterio (Migne, Patr. Lat. ccxvii), viz.:-(a) Lib. v, capp. 16-27, beg. 'Pater noster, &c. : Hec oracio multis ex causis', ending censuit recitari. amen'. f. 60;-(b) Lib. iii, cap. 4, lib. ii, cap. lxii (col. 838 A end), lib. iii, capp. 1-3, 5-12 (col. 851 c), beg. 'Porro tria sunt ecclesie sacrificia que significata sunt', ending 'hic est sanguis meus'. f. 62 b.

5. 'Alie distincciones diuerse de theologia'; more miscellaneous than art. 3 and ending with longer thco. logical extracts. The first headings are Plenitudo, Principium, Christus, Exaudire, &c. Beg. 'Plenitudo: numerositas'. f. 67.

6. 'Quidam tractatus de amicicia': an abridgement taken from the De spirituali amicitia of Æthelred of Rievaulx (ib. cxcv. 662, cf. 8 F. I, art. 1). Another similar abridgement is printed in the appendix to S. Augustine (ib. xl. 831). Beg. 'Primum quid sit amicicia iustum arbitramur'. f. 78 b.

7. 'Alius de diuersis scripturis theologie'; arranged like the Numerale of William de Monte (cf. 11 A. III, art. 1) under the number (two to seven) of different senses distinguished, but the present collection is a much larger work. Beg. 'Due sunt claues ecclesic que dantur per ministerium episcopi'. f. 81 b.

8. 'Quidam tractatus super cantica canticorum'. Beg. 'Tria esse gencra amoris'. Incomplete, ending ch. i. 6. f. 155.

9. Commonplaces: two extracts beg. (a) 'Potest mouere quod dictum est si generaliter intelligatur, scilicet penes caritatem parem esse par meritum'. f. 168; -(b) 'Tria sunt hominum genera per tres uiros illos designata, scilicet Abraham, Ysaac et Iacob'. f. 168 b.

10. Sermon on Zach. xiii. 1, beg. 'Erit fons patens, &c., siue iuxta aliam translationem in transmulationem et aspersionem: Fratres karissimi, uerba hec'. f. 172 b.

11. 'Hic incipiunt meditaciones beati Bernardi abbatis Clarauallensis': the work (cf. 6 B. XI, art. 9, &c.) variously ascribed to S. Bernard and Hugo de S. Victore. Imperfect, a few lines only. Beg. 'Multi multasciunt'. f. 174b. On the fly-leaf (f. 1 b) are a few mnemonic verses upon points of canon law. Vellum; ff. 174. 131/2 in. x 9 in. XIII cent. Gatherings (beg. f. 3), i-iv¹⁰, v⁶, vi¹⁰, vii⁸, viii-xvii¹⁰, xviii⁸. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'Ordo quidam'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Belonged (f. 1 b) to Reading Abbey, 'Hic est liber sancte Marie de Rading. quem qui celauerit uel alienauerit uel fraudem de eo fecerit, anathema sit'. In another hand is the press-mark 'De claustro'. Not to be identified in the catalogue in Lord Fingall's chartulary (Engl. Hist. Rev. iii, p. 117), which is perhaps of earlier date. Cat. of 1666, f. 3; CMA . 8019, 8020.