Royal MS 10 C VII

'POSTILLA super euangelia dominicalia edita a fratre Philippo de Monte Calerio ordinis fratrum minorum tunc [lectore ?] conuentus sacri loci Padue anno domini 1330' (so colophon): the second volume, containing evv. xxviii-lxv, i.e. from Easter to the Sunday before Advent, of a commentary on the Sunday gospels for the year by the Franciscan Philip Moncalieri of Genoa. For a copy of the first volume (evv. i-xxvii) see 4 D. IX. At f. 226 follows an index rerum to the whole work, compiled by the author (it also occurs in 4 D. IX), and at f. 251 b a table of gospels throughout the year. Other copies are at Cambridge, Univ. Libr. Gg. iv. 19, and at Oxford, New Coll. MS. lxxxvii. Beg. 'Maria Magdalena et Matia Iacobi, &c.: Nos uidemus'. Preface to index beg. 'Congregentur aque que sub celo, &c.: Quia propter labilitatem'.

Vellum; ff. 251. 131/2 in. x 9 in. XV cent Gatherings of 8 leaves, lettered on the first four, with catchwords. After z the signatures are et, 9, . ., est, amen, +, and then begin again with a. Double columns. Written in England. Sec. fol. 'non magnitudinem'. One small illuminated initial, others in red and blue. Old Royal pressmark 'no. 1266'; cat. of 1666, f. 2; CMA. 7984.