Royal MS 14 C IV

WORKS of Hethoum, Peter of Blois, Hildebert of Le Mans, &c., in Latin, viz.:

1. Hayto [al. Hethoum], Flos Historiarum (cf 13 C. XII, art. 3). The title here is the same. f. 1.

2. Iohannes de Rupella, De viribus anime. No title. Beg. 'Si ignoras te, O pulcherrima mulicrum'. Colophon, 'Hec de uiribus anime ad presens sufficiant secundum fratrem Ioh. de Rupella', sc. J. de la Rochelle, a Franciscan (d.1245). Not printed (see Hist. litt. de la France, xix, p. 171). f. 23.

3. Colleccio epistolarum mag. Petri Blesensis, Bathon. archidiaconi': letters (153) of Peter of Blois, Archdeacon ofBath(cf. 10 A. XVIII, art. 4). Beg. 'Henrico Dei gratia, &c.: Rogatus a vobis epistolas'. Printed by Migne, Patr. Lat. ccvii. i. The order in the MS. is different, and the following letters printed in Migne are omitted: nos. 37, 129, 139-142, 144-149, 151, 152, 154, 157, 158, 160-162, 164-172, 174-215, 217-243. Three treatises in epistolary form are included, viz. :-(a) Instructio fidei catholicae ab Alexandro III pontifice Romano ad Soldanum Iconii missa (Migne, 1069). f. 100 b;-(b) De institutione episcopi (ib. 1097). f. 120;-(c) Invectiva in depravatorem (ib. 1113). f. 130 b. Colophon, 'Scriptum compleui, da mihi quod merui'. f. 57.

4. 'Expositio mag. Petri Blesensis ... super Iob.' Beg. 'Henrico Dei gratia, &c.: Gratias ago gratie largitori'. Printed ib. 795. f. 157.

5. The same, De conversione sancti Pauli. No title. Beg. 'Recolenda est cum exultacione'. Printed ib. 791. f. 165 b.

6. 'Epistole beati Bernardi' [Clarevallensis], &c. The following 84 letters are included (according to the numeration in Migne, clxxxii. 67): nos. 78, 254, 11, 115, 87, 319, 42, 126, 124, 188, 338, 337, 189, 194, 12, 1, 174, 144, 145, 164, 168, 213, 179, 109, 110, 146, 48, 53, 198, 197, 207, 212, 108, 211, 205, 350, 206, 201, 208, 214, 209, 210, 217, 199, 228, 202, 203, 215, 187, 231, 219, 218, 195, 204, 230, 219, 232, 220, 401, 227, 221, 18, 64, 411, 200, 358, 316, 355, 216, 95, 96, 313, 94, 346, 347, 235, 238, 239, 236, 353, 360, 320, 321, 363. With these are included, (a) 'Ad filios suos Clareuallenses monachos sermo', beg. 'Rex diues et prepotens Deus' (Parabola i, Migne, clxxxiii. 757). f. 179b;-(b) Apologia ad Gulielmum, Sancti Theoderici abbatem (without title), capp. 1-4, beg. 'Usque modo si qua me scriptitare' (ib. clxxxii.

898-904). f. 206. f. 167.

7. 'Epistole Hyldeberti Cenomanensis episcopi': letters (51) of Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans (1097-1125, Archbishop of Tours 1125). The following are included (according to the numeration in Migne, clxxi. 141): i. 1, iii. 22, ii. 12, iii. 16, 6, ii. 10, 2, i. 2, ii. 4, iii. 11, i. 20, ii. 5, 6, 48, i. 7, 9, ii. 1, 32, 8, iii. 2, ii. 9, 50, iii. 7, i. 3, iii. 8, 23, 10, 5, ii. 52, i. 10, iii. 13, i. 16, ii. 14, 3, i.

21, 22, ii. 25, 17, 18, iii. 24, i. 6, ii. 26, iii. 12, ii. 19, 16, 51, i. 8, ii. 27, 7, 28, 23. With these are included two of the sermons attributed to Hildebert, viz.:-(a) Serm.

141, beg. 'Dauid futura spiritu preuidens' (ib. 947). f. 222 b;-(b) Serm. 97, beg. 'Spiritu Sancto Ysayas odoctus' (ib. 786). f. 225. f. 207b.

On a blank leaf at the end of art. 1 (f. 22) has been written with a plummet a table of eclipses of the sun between 1368 and 1386.

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