Royal MS 15 C VI

EUTROPIUS and Paulus Diaconus and other historical works, &c. For the contents of artt. 5-8 cf. 12 C. IV, artt. 4-7. Contents: 1. List of popes with the length of their pontificates, from S. Peter to the death of Honorius II (Innocent II- Eugenius III added in another hand). Beg. 'Beatus Petrus natione Galileus sedit annos xxv. menses ii. dies xii.'; ends 'Honorius sedit annos v. menses ii. anni dom. milleni c.xxx. indict. viii'. f. 1 b.

2. 'Incipit liber primus (-decimus) Romane historie'. Colophon, 'Explicit liber x. Hucusque hystoriam Eutropius composuit, cui tamen aliqua Paulus diaconus addidit' (cf. 15 B. XVI, art. 1). f. 4.

3. 'Incipit liber xi (-xvi)': Paulus Diaconus, the text of the same type as 15 B. XVI, art. 2. Colophon, 'Explicit liber xvi'. f. 34 b.

4. 'Imperatores Rome uel Constantinopolim regnantes' (cf. 15 B. XVI, art. 3). f. 49.

5. 'Incipiunt capitula libri primi hystorie gentis Longobardorum': the six books of Paulus Diaconus, Historia Longobardorum, with a table of capitula prefixed to each book (cf. 12 C. IV, art. 4). The MS. is D. 6 of Bethmann and Waitz, Mon. Germ. Hist., Scriptores Rerum Langobardicarum, &c., 1878. Beg. 'Septemtrionalis plaga quanto magis ab estu'. f. 51.

6. 'Incipiunt capitula de ortu et uita et gestis Alexandri regis magni Macedonum': the abridgement of Julius Valerius, cf. 12 C. IV, art. 5, with the same note and epitaph appended (see Ward, Cat. of Romances, i, p. 110). The table of chapters (not in 12 C. IV) agrees with 13 A. I. Text beg. 'Egipti sapientes fati (sic) genere diuino'. f. 102 b.

7. Epigram on Alexander, as in 12 C. IV, art. 6. f. 116.

8. 'Incipit epistola Alexandri regis magni Macedonum ad magistrum suum Aristotelem'. Begins and ends as in 12 C. IV, art. 7. f. 116.

9. 'Alexandri magni regis Macedonum et Dindimi regis Bragmanorum de philosophia per litteras facta collatio': the five supposititious letters of Alexander and Dindimus (see Cat. of Rom., l. c., cf. 13 A. I, f. 78 b). The two MSS. are akin, but apparently not derived one from the other. Both have marginal emendations in the hand of Patrick Young. Ep. i beg. 'Sepius ad aures nostras fando peruenit'; cp. v ends 'a meliori prestentur'. f. 124.

10. 'Parua recapitulatio de eodem Alexandro et suis', see Cat. of Rom., l. c., and cf. 13 A. I, f. 94 b (wants fifteen lines at the end), and Cotton MS. Cleop. D. v. Beg. 'Tempore quo hic Alexander natus legitur'; ends 'Carentinis (sic) bellum habuisse et egregic uicisse narratur'. f. 129 b.

Vellum ; ff. 130. 11³/₄ in. x 7¹/₂ in. XII cent. (art. 1 A. D. 1130- 1143 ?). Gatherings usually of 8 leaves. Double columns. Sec. fol. '-guam in Palatino'. Ornamental initials in red and green. Probably belonged to some East Anglian religious house, perhaps Bury (see no. lxi of the old catalogue printed by M. R. james, Abbey of S. Edmund, 1895, p. 26). A note on f. 1 refers to a rent of £ 10 in Chipley [in Poslingford ?], co. Suff. Afterwards belonged (see ff. 1, 130 b) to Augustine Styward [Mayor of Norwich 4532, 1546, and 1556] and to Sir Robert Cotton (f. 4), forming part of the same exchange of books with Patrick Young as 15 B. VII (q.v.). Royal press-mark of a seal (a ship); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8602.