Vellum, 9.375 x 6.5, ff. 108 + 4, double columns of 50 lines.  Early 13th

cent., well written.

    Old binding, skin over flat boards: on 2nd cover 175.  Petrus in

aurora (xiv?). 

    Donor, T. C. S.

    Collation: 2 flyleaves, 1⁸ - 3⁸ (+ slip) 4¹⁰ 5⁸ -  9⁸ 10¹⁰ (2 canc.) 11¹⁰ (3 canc.)

12⁸ | 13^? (three) 14⁶ (5 canc.), 2 flyleaves.

    Two flyleaves at each end are from a medical manuscript in a beautiful

small minuscule of the 11th cent.? probably Italian.  On f. iia we have:

                                       Inc. prol. Galieni de pulsu et urinis.

                                       De intelligentia et specie urinarum, etc.

    At top of f. 1, as on the cover, is ‘175’; not unlike marks I have seen in books from Holmcultram.

    Contents:

         1.  De S. Agnete: Elegiac poem     .         .         .         .         .         .         .        f. 1

              Agnes sacra sui pennam scriptoris inauret.  (CLXXI 1307,

                 CCIII 1387.)

              Ends f. 2b: Agnum qui mundi peccatum sustulit istis

                                Virtutum titulis uendicat agna sibi.

              Expl. versus de S. Agnete.

         2.  Dirige (Erige) Clio stilum cultum sermonis inaura (CLXXI 1235.)       .         2b 

              Os resperge meum nectaris imbre tui

                                          . . . 

              Hic studeo. sum totus in his. oculos decor. aures

              Cantus. odor nares. allicit ora sapor.

              Four verses de somniis, etc.

              On 3b at top in pencil:

              Hunc librum emit fr. Joh. de West. (or Wess. or Well.) a fr.

                 magistro Joh. peticard. magistro.

         3.  Verses.

              Quid significat quod dominus prius fecit celum postea fir-

                 manentum        .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .       4

              Celum factum firmamentum mistica res est.

              Short sections in verse on O. T. and N. T. events.

              The last.  Excusacio inuitatorum ad cenam.

              Villa boues uxor, etc.

              Four lines: Piscator pater est mare mundus filius hamus.

              Verses on the meaning of the Mass, unfinished:

                   Mundiciam munda designat corporis alba      .         .         .         .         .        6b

                                               . . .

                   Misticat assensum prestat gradale secutum.

              f. 7 blank.

              Prol. Fraterne caritatis quasi quandam sapit dulcedinem          .         .         .        8

                   -ut comodius fiat.

              Versus cuiusdam canonici de S. Mariano autisiodorensis pre-

                 monstrensis ordinis de laude libri.

                   Stringere pauca libet bona carminis huius et ipsum

                                               . . .

                   Intima declinat noxia uana fugat.

              Prol. Omnis scriptura diuinitus inspirata                .         .         .         .         .        8

                   -ad sequentia transeamus.

              Inc. genesis           .         .         .          .        .         .         .         .         .         .        8b

              Inicium mundi quales ab origine prima.

              The Old Testament ends 65b: de patre facturi cesar in aure tua.

              Expl. uel. test.

              Bibliotheca interpretatur librorum repositio          .         .         .         .         .         66

                   -ad hebreos una.

              Verses: Sit tibi potus aqua. cibus aridus aspera uestis.

              Also on Tres infelices, and the Evangelistic symbols.  66b blank.

              Prol. super nouum testamentum         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         67

              Post legem ueterem respira petre refulget.

              Ends 89b: Hic finit liber et consummat linea metrum.

              Expl. uet. et nou. test.

              Inc. recapitulationes ueteris testamenti        .         .         .         .         .         .          89b

              Hec de lege noua ueterique uolumina compleui.

              (Verses ‘sine a, sine b,’ etc.)

              Recapitulationes super nouum testamentum          .         .         .         .         .          92

              Supplementary matter on the N. T. and on the Mass.

                   Omnibus in factis bene ceptis siue peractis              .         .         .         .            96b

                                             . . .

                   Sicque redemptus homo it quo suus auctor abiuit.

                                            Expl. lib.

              100b blank.

              Supplement to N. T. 101.  103b blank.

         4.  Inc. commendationes apostolorum et primo de Iohanne baptista f. 104       

              Iohannes baptista filius zacharie ex tribu leui.

              A short prose section on each apostle chiefly taken from

                 “Abdias.”

              That on Matthew ends: In iudea predicauit et in ea requieuit.

              ff. 105-107 are of paper.

              Prose conclusion, ending: ipsis orantibus esse conciues.  Amen.

                 Expl.

              Verses on the same 107b.  De S. Ioh. bapt.

              Ierusalem natus baptista propheta uocatus.

              Ends: Et iudea tuo letatur corpore scancto.

              Four lines.

              Dat septem cui wlt  karismata spiritus almus.

              Verses on the months     .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .               .         107b

              Ian.  Prima dies mensis, etc.

              Inc. compotus breuis et dicitur a computando.

                   Annus bissextilis erit per iiii^or equa

                                             . . .

                   Linquit olens abies coluit colus escula galle.

              108b is occupied by a table containing memorial verses

                 connected with compotus.