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)

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0.4. xiii. Vellum : 11| x 8|: ft. 134 : Cent. xiv.
Old binding (red skin over boards) with one clasp left.
Double columns of 50 or 51 lines, with no ornament : capitals
in simple blue. There is nothing to indicate provenance.
Collation :-l8 (1 pasted on to cover, 2 blank) 28—168, 178
(7 and 8 blank).
Contents•
Ps-Chrysostomus Super Mattheum. (P.G. 56, 611).
Fifty-seven homilies, with a short prologue, and
detailed index of 14 pages.
Inc. (prol.) Sicut referunt Mattheum conscribere
evangelium causa.

0.4. xiv. Vellum : 12| x 8|: ff. 224 : Cent. xiv.
Carefully rebound (at the British Museum in 1868).
Two volumes bound together.
I. In an Italian hand, with good ornament, and several
illuminated pages.
At end: Nomen scriptoris wli servus amoris.
Double columns of 56 lines.
II. In an English hand, with no ornament. Double columns
of 49 lines.
On the fly-leaves (and sometimes on the margins) there are
various verses scribbled in Latin and English, of fifteenth
century date. Of these the following are specimens :—
Prima dies celum format, creat altera lucem,
Prebet aquam pelago, tercia gramen humo.
Sub quarta lumen, sub quinta pisces avesque,
Sub sexta fit Adam, septima complet opus.
Jhesus that he bred brae, To hys diciplys there he sat,
In hys holy sene, Blesse now owre mete,
And alle that thereof ete, and schylde from sorwe and
tene.