Vellum, 10.25 x 7, ff. 408 + 1, double columns of 48 lines.  13th cent., in a good English hand.

Donor, Carolus Hotham, A. M. Soc. 1689.

Collation :  1⁴ 2¹² – 34¹² 35⁸, 1 flyleaf.

Contents:

Prologues.  a.  Frater Ambrosius.  b.  Desiderii mei.

Kalendar in red, blue, green and black, four months on a page.  .         f.    3b

Genesis (f. 5) – 2 Chron.  Proll. to Jos., Reg., Chron.

Ezra-Neh., Tob., Judith, Esther, Job (proll.).

Psalter, Gallican.  Prol.:  Psalterium Rome dudum.

Prov. (prol.) – Ecclus.  Oratio Salomonis.

Isa. – Dan. (proll.).  Baruch.

Hosea (prol.) – Malachi.

1, 2 Macc.  Argument.

Evv. (proll.).  Acts (prol.) ends: per quem incipiet totus mundus

    iudicari.

Cath. Epp. (prol.).  Paul. Epp. (arguments).  Apoc. (prol. Iohannes

    apostolus).  Expl. lib. apoc. extremus liber biblioteche.

On f. 380b, left blank, was a full-page pencil drawing of the

    Crucifixion, with the Virgin and St John, which has been mostly

    rubbed out.

Proper Prefaces and Canon, etc., of the Mass    .               .               .               381

Offices for the year, forming what may be called an abbreviated

    Missal    .               .               .               .               .               .               .               382

Interpretationes nominum in quadruple columns               .               .               389

Aaz, etc., ending imperfectly in T. (Tholmai).

The initials are usually in gold with curious green flourishing.

In the Kalendar:

Jan.    17.           Speusippi, Eleusippi, Meleusippi, MM.

Feb.    4.            Gileberti Conf., in blue.

Mar.   1.            Albini ep. C.

Ap.      11.           Guthlac.

May    7.             Johannis ep. C. de Beuerlaco, in red.

June   8.            Willelmi archiep.  in red.

Sept.   19.           Sequani Abb.

Oct.     12.           Wilfridi Ep. c.

            13.           Transl. S. Gileberti C., in red.

Nov.    17.           Hugonis Ep. Lincoln, in blue.

Among the Masses at the end are one for St Gilbert, and one for the Translation of St Thomas of Canterbury.

The book evidently belonged to a Gilbertine house.

On the flyleaf at end   are these notes:

Anno domini m^o cc^o quadragessimo peruenit ad nos hec scriptura. apparuit manus scribens hec uerba.  Cedrus alta libani succidetur, etc.

Prophetia Ioachim.

            Cum fuerint anni completi mille ducenti

            Et decies seni post partum uirginis alme

            Tunc Antichristus nascetur demone plenus.

Ioachim in maiori uolumine de concordanciis

            Anno dominice incarnationis m^o cc^o l. corruent nobiles et principes, etc.

               -anno lxv.  Redibit tota grecia ad obedientiam Romane ecclesie, etc.,

with other less interesting notes on the order of the Books, etc.