Royal MS 11 A V

THEOLOGICAL TRACTS and collections, in Latin, viz.:-

i. Notes headed (a) IDe ecclesiastica correctione', beg. 'Ecclesiastica corectio que fit per excomunionem in tribus uersatur'; ends 'intelligat se ligatum'. f. 1; -(b) 'De bonitate dei, beg. 'Bonitas dei idem est quod diuina substantia'. f. 1 b;-(c) Without heading, short miscellaneous notes, beg. 'Adhesit os meum carmi mee id est fortes'. f. 2 b.

2. A treatise or set of sententiae analogous to the work of Petrus Lombardus, and possibly an earlier pro. duction of the Paris schools (cf. also in Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxi. 1067, the Tractatus Theologicus assigned to Hildebert or to Hugo de S. Victore). For other copies cf. 5 E. V, art. 5, 5 E. VIII, art. 2, and cf. 11 B. II, art. 2, but how far the work is homogeneous and at what exact point it ends is difficult, owing to the imperfections of the MSS., to determine. The subjects treated of are Divina natura, Creatio, Angeli, Lapsus, Peccatum, Fides, Spes, Charitas, Lex naturalis, Lex vetus, Precepta, Permissa, Timor (ends 'transeat a me calix, &c.'-to this point the text agrees roughly with 5 E. v), Superbia et Invidia, Temptatio (5 E. V, f. 48), Delectatio et Con' sensus (ib.), Bona voluntas, Temptatio Christi, Coniugium (also in 11 B. II, ff. 47-49b), Velle scire and other

short notes, Remedium originalis peccati, Lex, Incarnatio, Sacramenta, Baptismus, Confirmatio, Sacramentum altaris (ends 'Quid autem tres partes significent alias'-this seems to refer to a paragraph contained in 5 E. V, f. 44). Beg. 'Principium et causa omnium deus'. f. 3.

3. Miscellaneous paragraphs, possibly in continuation of art. 2, but perhaps mere commonplaces. The chief subjects are:-(a) 'De exoomunicatione', beg. 'Excommunicatio fuit in ueteri lege'. f. 29;-(b) 'De missa, papa Alexander': the decretal of Alexander II, 'Sufficit sacerdoti', perhaps from Ivo, Decretum, ii. 81, or Gratian, De Cons. i. 53. f. 29;-(c) The seven Gifts. f. 29;-

(d) Explanation of the symbolism of the Mass, &c. Beg. 'Ecclesia dicitur fidelium conuentus'. Imperfect at end. f. 30.

4. 'Expositio Isidori episcopi super quinque libris Moysi': the Expositio in Genesin et Exodum of S. Isidore (Migne, lxxxiii. 207, cf. 2 C. XII, art. 2, &c.). With preface and table of capitula. Incomplete, breaking off at the end of Exodus, cap. xlviii, 'meis panibus'. There is a blank space on f. 48, the two quires having apparently been written independently or simultancously. f. 33.

5. A collection of moral apophthegms from S.Jeromo. Beg. 'Studio legendi quasi cotidiano cibo alitur et pinguescit oratio'; ends 'quod si negauerit terra consumptum est'. f. 69.

6. 'Pars libri Petri Abaelardi qui liber uocatur Sic et Non Sie': a portion of the theological treatise Sic et Non of Pierre Abailard (ib. clxxviii. 1329, and edition by Henke and Lindenkohl, Marburg, 1851). Besides the accidental misplacement of the first two quires (the rubric title is misplaced on the present f. 73) the text has suffered either from extensive transpositions and omissions of paragraphs and sentences or else belongs to a recension different from those enumerated by Deutsch (Peter Abälard, Leipzig, 1883, p. 456). It is imperfect at the beginiiing ('non pluraliter' in ch. viii) and incomplete (ending with ch. lxxvii 'refragari'). f. 73.

7. 'Pars disputationis inter Christianum et philosophum quam composuit Petrus Abaelardus': part of the Dialogus inter Philosophum Iudaeum et Christianum (Migne, ib. 1611). This is also an incomplete fragment, beg. 'Haec signa requirere' (col. i637D) and ending 'prophetae qui illud dixit quam ex...' (col. 1670). f. 99.

8. 'Bernardus abbas de Clareuallis': fourteen ex. cerpts, chiefly on the religious life. One of these is the third of the 'Parabolae quinque' printed by Mabillon, i, p. 1250 (ib. clxxxiii. 765, cf. 5 C. II, f. 182 b), beg. 'Inter Ierusalem et Babiloniam ordinate sunt acies'; the others do not seem discoverable among S. Bernard's works. Beg. 'Voluntarie sacrificabo tibi : Pater filium habet egrotum'. f. 110. Vellum; ff. i + 112. 71 in.x5 in. Late XII-XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (ix⁴, xi⁴, xvi⁴, xvii³). Artt. 1-6 in double columns. Sec. fol. 'ut propter ipsum'. Initials red and green. Belonged to Merton Priory, co. Surrey 'Liber sancte Marie Mirton.' It has also the book-mark (initial T ?) found in 2 D. XXXIII, 6 E. V, &c. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1080'; cat. of 1666, f. 16 b; CMA. 8205, 8206.

includes:

• f. 73 Petrus Abailardus: Sic et Non: 12th cent.
• f. 99 Petrus Abailardus: Disputatio inter Christianus et Philosophum: 12th cent.: Imperf.