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

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On fly-leaf (above a table of contents) :
Liber sancte Marie de Cirencestre, D. Andree, abbatis
secundi, tempore scriptus per manum D.
Serlonis, canonici, D. Gilleberto primo tunc
cantore.
(Andrew, the second abbot, ruled the abbey from 1147
to 1176.)
Collation: I8—208.
Contents :—
Cassian: Collaciones xiv Patrum. (P.L. 49, 847).
Inc. (pref.) Cum virtutem perfectionis vestre.
(Collacio abbatis cheremonis) Cum in cenobio Syrie
consistentes, post prima fidei rudimenta.

0.5. xi. Vellum : 11 x 7 : fl. 148 : Cent. xii.
Old binding, faded title on back. 36 lines to the page ; a
beautifully executed initial M on fol. 1 and other good
initials throughout. At the end, a very fine full-page drawing
—Our Lord in a vesica, enthroned with two angels, two
seraphims, and below, St. Chrysostom, with mitre and crosier:
at bottom two tonsured men with books, looking up.
Inside the cover, in a 16th century hand, is a short table of
contents.
Collation:-!8—168, 1710, 1810.
Contents :—
(1) Chrysostom : Exposicio super epistolam Pauli
apostoli ad Hebreos. (P.Q. 63, 237). fol. 1.
Inc. Vere, ubi abundavit delictum, superabundavit
et gracia.
(2) The translation, by Anianus, of Chrysostom’s seven
homilies In laudem Pauli Apostoli.
(P.G. 50, 472). fol. 117b.
Inc. (prol.) Recenti experiment© didici, quam sint
utilia.
Domino sancto evangelic presbiter Anianus.