Royal MS 14 C XI

GODEFRIDUS VITERBIENSIS, Pantheon; preceded by a table of contents, divided into 19 'particulae'. Prologue (f. 10), addressed to Pope Urban III (whose name, however, is not given), beg. 'Summo et vniversali pape, &c.: Dum sacrosancte matris nostre'; it is longer than that given in the printed text, and is followed by 'rithmi quibus auctor benignos postulat auditores', beg. 'O vos qui me legitis uiri litterati'. The work itself beg. 'Principium rerum primeuaque gesta dierum'. Printed by B. J. Herold, Basel, i559; partsxvi-xx by Migne, Patr. Lat. cxcviii. 875. See also Monum. Germ. Hist., Scriptores, xxii, p. 107. This MS. is there said (p. i8) to be of the second recension, but Waitz, Neues Archiv, iv, -1879, p. 345, states in correction that it is of the first. The place of part xix ('de regalibus insigniis'), however, is taken by a 'Historia de lege et natura Saracenorum, et de uita et origine et lege Machometh prophete eorum', beg, 'Saraceni se putant esse ex Sarra' (f I59). This is followed by (a) the Epistle of Alexander to Aristotle, beg. 'Semper memor tui'. f. 161 b;-(b) 'Libellus qui dicitur Vmago mundi', here attributed to Honorius of Autun, lib. i, capp. 1-137 (Migne, clxxii. 119). Prefatory epistle of Honorius beg. 'Sapientie alumpno abdita'; text, 'Mundus dicitur quasi undique motus'. The prefatory epistle of Christianus is added in the margin in a later hand, beg. 'Henrico (sic). Septiformi Spiritu in trina fide'. f. 165 b;-(c) 'Chronographia tripertita beati Nicephiri Constantinopolitani episcopi ab Adam usque ad imperatorem Fridericum', corresponding in general with the catalogues of kings printed in Herold, coll. 638-653, as a portion of part xx of the Pantheon, but with differences in arrangement and details; in the last paragraph Godefridus claims the authorship of it, sc. 'Ego Gotifridus istius modi librum composui et conscripsi', &c. f. 172 b;-(d) 'Cathalogus omnium pontificum Romanoruin et omnium imperatorum' sc. Herold, coll. 654-673, with continuation from Urban III (1185-1187) to Innocent III (1198- 1216). f. 177 b.

Vellum; ff. 181. 1 ft. 2 in. x 8³/₄ in. XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (last¹¹), with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'Maledictio'. Initials flourished in red, blue,and green. Belonged to Markeby Priory, co. Lincoln ('Liber Panteon ecclesie conuentualis S. Petri de Markeby', f. 8 b, cf. f. 1); and noted there by Leland (Roy. App. 69, f. 7). Old Royal press-mark 'no. 1278'; cat. of 1666, f. 17; CMA. 8227.