Royal MS 15 A XIX

'LIBER magistri Petri canonici beati Dionisii Remensis de ueteri et nouo testamento': the metrical bible-historics of Petrus Riga (d. 1209), being the original text without the additions of Aegidius Parisiensis (see Harley MS. 747, where they are distinguished by critical marks). Short extracts only are printed (Migne, Patr. Lat. ccxii). The three books in hexameters, job and Cantica Canticorum (following Maccabees) and the Acts of the Apostles (at the end of the Historia Evangelica), which may be by the same author, but probably do not form a part of the same work, are insertions on separate quires. There is no preface, the poem beginning as in 2 D. XXIII and other MSS. 'Primo facta dic duo celum terra leguntur'. It is just possible, however, that a single leaf now bound up in Royal Appendix 10 (f. 1), although written on smaller vellum, was meant to be inserted at the beginning of this volume. There are a few marginal notes.

Vellum ; ff. 164. 8¹/₂ in. x 5³/₄ in. Late XIII cent. In a very small hand. Gatherings, i-vi⁸, vii, viii¹⁰, ix⁸, x⁴, xi, xii⁸ (numbered i, ii), xiii⁴, xiv^l0, xv-xx⁸, xxi⁴. Sec. fol. 'Doctorum fructus'. Initials in red and blue (on the inserted leaves red and green). If the leaf with the preface was ever part of it, the MS. belonged to Rochester (see under Roy. App. 10), otherwise its origin is unknown. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 900' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 36); cat, of 1666, f. 17 b; CMA. 8242.