Royal MS 15 A X

1. Alexandreis, in ten books (5,388 hexameters); see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 94, and cf. 8 B. IV, art. 4. Beg. 'Gesta ducis Macedum totum digesta per orhem'; ends 'Gloria Willelmi nullum moritura per euum'. Table of capitula on a separate quire at the beginning. f. 2.

2. 'Marci Tullii Ciceronis liber ad Atticum de amicicia.' The text differs considerably from 15 A. VIII, art. 1, but does not belong to Halm's BSV group. Marginal commentary beg. 'In hoc prologo se commendat'. f. 91.

Art. 2 is in a 12th cent. hand, with initials in colours.

3. Tract on liturgical symbolism. This (although the last words differ) is probably the work noticed by Hauréau, Hugues de S. Victor, Paris, 1886, p. 201, as Liber Quare (Speculum Ecclesiae or other titles). The authorship is quite unknown. Beg. 'Quare septuagesima celebratur'; ends 'esse in perpetua leticia'. f. 114.

4. 'De arte compoti editiuncula' (so described in text): a brief tract on the Calendar. Beg. 'Succincta breuitate ac moderata'; ends 'rationes epactarum mentiri'. f. 128.

Artt. 3,4 are in hands of the beginning of the 13th cent. Artt.5, 6. are in a smaller 13th cent. hand.

5. De sex alis cherubim: an abridged form of the tract [by Alanus de Insulis?] printed by Migne, Patr. Lat. ccx. 273 (cf. 11 B. III, art. 28). Beg. 'Sub umbra alarum, &c. [Ps. xvi. 8, 9]: Prima ala est confessio non laudis'. f. 132.

6. Sermons and commonplaces, viz.:-(a) Sermon [for Advent Sunday ?], beg. 'Benignus Iesus, fratres karissimi, benigne semper'. f. 132;-(b) Sermon on confession, beg. 'Confitemini domino, &c.: Verbis istis monemur et instruimur'. f. 133;-(c) Sermon xlvii of S. Bernard (Migne, clxxiii. 670), beg. 'Aue Maria, gratia plena, bene plena quia deo'; ends 'operatur in anima f. 134;-(d) Notes beg. 'Sunt multi qui intrant ecclesiam et strepunt in oratione'. f. 134;-(e) 'De natali dic domini', sermon beg. 'H[olocaustum] e[t] p[ro] p[eccato], &c. [Ps. xxxix. 7, 8]: Omne opus domini quantumlibet paruum'. f. 134b;-(f) 'Infra quaciragesimale tempus', sermon [by Petrus Comestor] printed by Beaugendre among those of Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans, no. xx (Migne, clxxi. 428). Beg. 'Dispone domui, &c. [Is. xxxviii. i]: Familiaris fuit hec ammonicio'. f. 134b;-(g) 'De eodem', sermon beg. 'Quomodo sedel sola, &c. [Lam. i. 1]: Vt personam non respiciatis'. f. 135;-(h) 'In die Pasce', sermon beg. 'De agno non comedes, &c. [Exod. xii. 9]: Iste agnus est qui abstulit'. f. 135 b;-(i) Note beg. 'Eleazarus uti ueredica'. f. 136;-(k) 'In die sancti Andree apostoli' sermon beg. 'Ambulans Iesus iuxta, &c. [Matth. iv. 18]. Celistis (sic) artifex'. f. 136 b;-(l) 'De sancta Maria', sermon beg. 'Gaudeamus omnes in domino: Si gaudendum'. f. 137b;-(m) Anonymous epistle beg. 'Dilectis in Christo filiis suis sacerdotibus salutem que est Christus . . . Quia testante propheta prope est dominus'. f. 137 b;-(n) Note beg. 'Ezechieli in uisione sua liber'. f. 138; -(o) 'De aduentu domini', sermon beg. 'Dauid ftitura spiritu preuidens Liberauit inquid, &c. [Ps. lxxi.

12]. Non omnium est scientia'. This is the first half of one of the sermons printed by Beaugendre as Hildebert's, no. cxli (Migne, clxxi. 947), and one of the few among them that may actually be his. f. 138;-

(p) 'In dic parasceue domini nostri', sermon beg. 'Ante diem festum, &c. [John xiii. 1]: Iohannes euangelista ait de Christo'. f. 138 b;-(q) 'In dic sancti Iohannis' sermon beg. 'Audite insule, &c. [Is. xlix. 1]: Hec est festiuitas in qua beati Iohannis Baptiste'. f. 139;-(r) Miscellaneous notes beg. 'Iubilum dicitur ineffabile'. f. 139 b.

Art. 7 consists of four leaves in a late 13th cent. hand.

7. Commonplaces of theology, &c. Beg. 'Nam Petrus et Iacobus significant Iudeos'. f. 140. Art. 8 (ff. 143-145), formerly part of the binding of the volume, has now been taken out and is kept separately.