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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P.3, i. Vellum : 10 x 7 : ff. 163 : Cent. xiii.
Old binding. Double columns of 49 lines. Initials fairly
ornamented throughout.
On fly-leaf :
Liber sancti Edmundi regis et martiris.
And press-mark : J 47.
On cover :
Iste liber constat domino Johanni Bolt abas Barton
canonico beate Marie de Ashby canonicorum,
Lincoln : dioc :
[The book must, therefore, have belonged both to
Bury St. Edmund’s and to Canon’s Ashby,
before coming to Hereford.]
Collation :-l12 28—ll8 1210 || 138—198 206 (6 cancelled).
Contents :—
(1) Speculum ecclesie compositum a magistro Johanne
Betleth. (P.L. 202, 13). fol. 1.
Inc. In primitiva ecclesia prohibitum erat.
(2) Liber de scintillis sanctarum scripturarum aliter
vocatus Liber scintillarum.
(P.L. 88, 597). fol. 46.
Inc. Dominus dicit in evangelic majorem caritatem
nemo habet.
(3) De nequitia mulieris. fol. 79.
Inc. Omnis plaga tristicia cordis est et omnis malicia
mulieris.
Expl. que superbiens prave admisit.
(4) De infancia sancti /Edmundi [Galfridi de
Fontibus.] fol. 81b.
Inc. Regiis excubiis a puero insistenti domino et
patri Ordingo abbati.
[Printed from this, the oldest MS., by Lord Francis
Hervey in Corolla S. Eadmundi. 1907, p. 134.]
(5) Liber qui vocatur Elucidarium [Anselmi], fol. 83b.
Inc. Sepius rogatus a discipulis quasdam questiunculas.
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