James, M. R.; Hereford Cathedral / Library [Hrsg.]; Bannister, Arthur Thomas [Bearb.]: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the Hereford Cathedral library (Hereford: Wilson & Phillips, 1927)

O.i x.]

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[This and P.8, ii. are our only manuscripts made of mixed
paper and vellum.]
Contents :—
Johannes Ridenail super Ovidii Metamorphoses.
Inc. A veritate quidem auditum avertent ad fabulas,
convertentur autem ad thyma.
Expl. propter te mortificamur tota die.
Explicit opusculum de Deorum ymaginibus et Ovidii
poematibus moralizatum. Amen.

0.1. x. Vellum : 9f x 5|; ff. 3 + 99 : Cent. xii.
Old binding : no title on covers ; at top of fol. 98b the same
inscription as on fol. 89b of 0.1. vi. (Cirencester).
Beautifully written, with several illuminated capital letters.
Double columns of 34 lines.
On three fly-leaves (6 pages), and continued on fol. 99b. in a
bad sixteenth cent, hand, is a treatise beginning :
Nihil enim tarn suave est sicut diligere Christum :
and ending (in the middle of a sentence, a leaf having beenlost):
et de letitia. . . .
Collation :-l3—ll8, 1212 (12 wanting).
[The dialogue ends on fol. 98a. On 98b and 99a are scattered
notes in a sixteenth cent, hand, e.g. : Si Christum amaveris,
regnabis cum illo.]
Contents :—
Gregorii dialogi De vitis patrum Italorum.
Inc. Quadam die nimiis quorundam secularium tumult-
ibus depressus.
Expl. hostia ipsi fuerimus.

0.1. xi. Vellum : 8| x 5|; ff. 180 : Cent. xiv.
Rebound a few years ago. 48 lines (of verse) to the page. In
the re-binding, folios 2-6 have been placed before fol. 1 : so