Royal MS 18 B IX

SERMONS, &c., by John Wycliffe, in English. The MS. was only partly collated (as G) for Thomas Arnold's Select English Works of Wyclif, 1869. Contents:-

1. Homilies on the Sunday epistles and Sunday and ferial gospels, beg. with Advent and followed (f. 126) by those for the Commune and (f. 158) Proprium Sanctorum. Printed in a different order by Arnold, op. cit., vols. i, ii. See also art. 5, below. Beg. 'Scientes quia hora est, Rom. xiii. c^o: We taken as bileeue þat epistlis of apostlis ben gospels of Crist'. f. 1.

2. 'Exposicio euangelii Mat. 24⁰ ': further exposition of a chapter already treated of (f. 143 b) in hom. xix of the Commune Sanctorum (Arnold's no. lxxiii). Printed ib. ii, p. 395, as a treatise of mynystris in þe chirche and entitled by Bale De Antichristo. Beg. 'Þis gospel telliþ moche wisdom'; ends 'raueshe þer hope in Crist. Here cenden þe gospels of propre sanctorum'. f. 177.

3. 'Se now of þe chirche of Crist: and of hir membris and of hir gouernaunce' : treatise in ten chapters. Printed ib. iii, p. 338, as The Church and her members and entitled by Bale in his Index (ed. Poole, p. 207) De ecclesia et membris, but in his Catalogue (p. 452) De ecclesiae dominio. Beg. 'Cristis chirche is his spouse þat haþ þre partis'; ends 'þanne in his hi[]est vertu stablid'. f. 185.

4. 'Ve vobis, scribe el pharisei ipocrite, Mathei xxiii.' Printed by Arnold, ii, p. 379, as Vae octuplex. Beg. 'Crist biddiþ vs be war'; ends 'perils þat we han no nede to trete'. f. 191 b.

5. Homily, omitted in its proper place in art. 1 (see contemporary note on f. 14 b), on the epistle for the sixth day after Christmas (ib. i, p. 238). Beg. 'Quanto tempore heres paruulus est, Gal. 4^o: Poul telliþ in þis epistil what fredom'; ends 'dispise alle oþir rulis'. f. 194 b.

Vellum; ff. i + 196. 111/2 in. x 8 in. Early XV cent. Gatherings (beg. f. 1) of 8 leaves (last ⁴), lettered, with catchwords. Sec. fol. 'come to iugement'. Illuminated initials with border-prolongation on ff. 1, 66, 85, 126, 158 ; While others flourished in red and blue. Among scribbling on f. 196 b is a form of permission in a late 15th cent. hand from William Lynne, prior of Dominicans at Dunstable [co. Hertf.], to frater Thomas Dekyn 'cum sosio sibi grato uel seculari ornesto ad trandum (sic) limites videlicet Cantabria, Thetfordia et Noruicia', and also the name of frater Sigerus Byrd. Dekyn's name occurs again disguised as 'frapateper Thopomapas Depekypyn ' on f. 184 b. ' Iste liber constat Iohannis Dekyn' is on f. 196, and 'Dekyn' on f. 114. On f. 189 is scribbled the date 'anno domini m cccc 63 '. Cat. of 1666, f. 12 b; not in CMA.