Royal MS 19 C V

COMMENTARY ON PSALMS LI-C, in French: mainly a much-expanded version of that of Petrus Lombardus (Migne, Patr. Lat. cxci. 493). In a short account of the MS. given by S. Berger in La Bible française au Moyen Âge, Paris, 1884, p. 391, it is inaccurately described as 'Commentaire de Saint Augustin sur le Psautier', but see also P. Meyer in Romania, xvii, p. 131. On ff. 150 b, 157 are two verses without commentary, a space being left for its insertion. Beg. 'Quid gloriaris in malitia qui potens es in iniquitate. Le title de ceste psalme est pris del regum en tel manere'; ends 'illumilabit abscondita cordis nostri Iesus Christus filius dei deus et dominus noster Iesus Christus qui cum patre . . . secula seculorum. Amen'.

Vellum; ff. i + 223. 121/2 in. x 83/4 in. Written in England. Early XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (last⁶), numbered at the end, with catchwords. Double columns. The text is written larger, with blank lines between. Sec. fol. 'desplout lui'. Illuminated initials to Pss. li, lii, lxviii, lxxx, xcvii; others in red and blue, well executed. At the end (f. 222) is the following (erased) in a 14th-cent. hand 'Liber iste liber est ecclesie de Lexyngtona [? Laxton, co. Notts.] et qui eum alienaverit anathema sit'. 'Lexhinton' is also written-on a fly-leaf (f. i b) at the beginning. On f. 1 is the erased inscription (15th cent. ?) 'Predicatorum Exon.' of the Dominican friars of Exeter and the press-mark F. 1. On f. 223 b is scribbled the name Steuen Speccot. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 678' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 19); cat. of 1666, f. 13 b; not in CMA.