Vellum, 6.5 x 4.75, ff. 196 + 2, several volumes, all well written.

13th, 12th, 11th-12th cent.

    Stamped leather over boards, clasps gone: stamp of four-petalled flowers.

    Donor, T. C. S.: priced 15^s.                                                 2 fo. adulterans.

    The name Chaunterell (xvi) at top of f. 2.

    Collation: 2 flyleaves, 1¹² 2¹² 3¹⁰ 4⁸ | 5¹² - 8¹² 9¹⁰ | 10¹⁰ 11⁶ | 12⁸ - 19⁸ | 20⁸ 21¹⁰ (4 and 8 canc.: 10 stuck to cover).            

    The flyleaves are part of a leaf of a 13th cent. MS.: a gloss on some versified grammatical tract.

    Contents:

    I.           13th cent., 36 lines to a page.

           1.    Retractacio S. Augustini Ep. de libro quem composuit de   

                     sermone domini in monte     .         .         .         .         .         .        f.  1

                  De sermone domini.

                  Inc. lib. Aug. doctoris de sermone domini in monte habito      .           2b

                  Sermonem quem locutus est. (XXXIV 1229.)

                        -edificari super petram.

           2.    In another hand.

                  Some Gospels.  Notes for Sermons .  Extracts from Physiologus

                     (Pantera, Formica, Aspidochelon, etc.)      .         .         .         .          40

   II.           13th cent., double columns of 30 lines. 

           3.    Vocabularius Iuris (?)      .         .         .         .         .         .         .          43

                  Populator agrorum nocturnus potest ex(tra)hi ab ecclesia. 

                  Ends on Usura: sicut heres raptoris.  Quere raptor. quere heres.

                  List of tituli in four divisions  .         .         .         .         .         .             100 

 III.            Early 13th cent., 30 lines to a page.

           4.    Inc. epistole Simachi   .          .         .         .         .         .         .              101   

                  Ne mihi uicio uertatur intermissio litterarum.

                  Ends imperfectly in Ep. 87 (Interpello occupationes tuas):

                  gratulor amicicias tuas.

   IV.          12th (?) cent., 33 lines to a page.

           5.    Petrus Alphonsus contra Iudaeos      .         .         .         .         .         .   117

                  Uni et eterno primo, etc. (CLVII 535).

                  Dixit operis sequentis compositor

                        -cicius in illis inueniat.

                  List of Tituli (12)           .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .    117b

                  A tenera igitur pueritie etate.

                  A diagram of the habitable areas of the earth and its

                  division into 7 climata on 122.

                  A diagram of the movement of the sun relative to the

                  earth on 122b.

                  A diagram of the letters of the tetragrammaton

                  symbolizing the Trinity on 153b.

                        -meliorem quam principium tibi prestet.

                  In other hands.  Names and meanings of Hebrew letters           .              180b

                  Charm (?) to expel thieves.

    V.          11th-12th cent., 36 lines to a page.

           6.    "Plato" (i.e. the Timaeus in the version of Chalcidius)    .          .             181

                  (I)socrates in exortacionibus suis

                        -fiduciam.

                  (U)nus. duo. tres. quartum enumero

                        -ex leui amonicione prospsicuo (!).

                  Diagram       .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .             192

                  Notes on Clotho. Numerus. Coturnus. Oratio        .         .         .              192b

                  Diagram (Diatessaron.  Diapente)       .          .          .        .         .            193

                  Notes, rhetorical.

                  Notes, theological, 193b.  Extract from Sibyl's prophecy, In

                     illo tempore surget princeps iniquitatis de tribu dan, etc.            .           194

                  Other very miscellaneous theological notes.

                  On last page Johannes Bryon (xv, xvi).