Royal MS 12 C I

THEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS in Latin: a volume closely allied to 7 A. III (a Bardney book), which is possibly copied from it. Allowing for loss of a leaf after f. 197, artt. 1-3, 5-9 of the present MS. will be found identical with artt. 1-8 of the Bardney MS. Contents:

1. 'De peccatore qui desperat et de ratione que peccatorem ne desperet confortat': the dialogue by 'Rodolfus monachus' (7 A. III, art. I). Initium as in that MS. f. 2 b.

2. 'Quod sint octo que obseruantes monachi', &c.

(7 A. III, art. 2, 8 E. XVII, art. 7). Beg. 'Octo sunt que si diligenter'. f. 61 b.

3. 'Fides exposita de ueritate corporis et sanguinis domini' (7 A. III, art. 3). Initium as there given. f. 66.

4. 'De perpetua uirginitate sancte Marie et de ueritate corporis et sanguinis domini, et quomodo idem corpus et sanguis a singulis comeditur et bibitur' : an article not included in 7 A. III. There is a copy of the tract at Oxford (St. John's Coll. MS. 130, f. 109b). Beg. 'De nostra domina sancta Maria dulcissima matre'.

5. 'Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide, et quia multa que secundum fidem credimus etiam secundum rationem intelligimus' (7 A. III, art. 4, and cf. the St. John's MS., f. 36 b). Initium as in 7 A. III. f. 74 b.

6. 'Fides exposita quomodo creditur unus deus trinitas et trinitas unus deus' (7 A. III, art. 5). Init. as there given. f. 104.

7. 'Incipit liber Guimundi Auersani episcopi de corpore et sanguine domini': the dialogue by Guitmundus, Bishop of Aversa (7 A. III, art. 6, 7 B. II, art. I). Init. as in 7 A. III. At f. 173 b is a marginal annotation, apparently the work of the author, headed 'glosa est hoc non de libro', which does not appear in the other MSS. or in Migne. f. 113.

8. 'Annei Senece prouerbia incipiunt': the compilation from Publilius Syrus and Pseudo-Seneca as in 7 A. III, art. 7. Imperfect by loss of a leaf after f. 197. The lacuna is filled by 7 A. III. Init. as there given. f. 190.

9. 'Martiani Minei Felicis Capelle, de litteris': the extract on the pronunciation of the alphabet as in 7 A. III, art. 8. Init. as there given. f. 198. Vellum; ff. 198. 8³/₄ in. x 5¹/₂ in. XII cent. Gatherings, i², iiixiv⁸, xv⁷, xvi-xxii⁸, xxiii⁶, xxiv⁸, xxv⁷, xxvii⁸, xxvii¹, numbered at the end. Sec. fol. in text '-sum te iniusticias'. Initials in colours. 'Liber de claustro Roffensi. B. camerarii' (f. 3). Mentioned in the catalogue of Rochester books in the Textus Roffensis (pr. in Archaeologia Cantiana, vi, P. 127) as well as in the 1202, catalogue printed from 5 B. XII by Rye (no. 99). On f. 1 is the old Royal library mark of a seal with device of a ship. Old Royal pressmark 'no. 750' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 34); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8665.