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.5, ii. Vellum : 12 x 8|; ff. 158 : Cent. xv.
Old binding, battered, little left save the boards. Double-
columns of 44-49 lines : initials slightly ornamented. Be-
ginning and end of the work lost, and many leaves missing..
No marks of provenance.
Collation :-[The whole of the first quire is apparently missing].'
I8 (1 wanting) 28 38 48 (4 and 5 wanting) 58 68 (6 wanting);
78 138 148 (4 and 5 wanting) 158 18® 198 (2 and 3 wanting);
208 21® (7 and 8 wanting) [a quire or more is missing at,
the end of the volume].
Contents :—
Sermones dierum dominicalium.
[There were three sermons for each Sunday in the year..
The volume, as we have it, begins nearly at the end
of the second sermon for Advent Sunday : and ends,
with the first sermon for the 23rd Sunday after
Trinity.]
Inc. ibi immundi deformitate sue concupiscencie.
Expl. dans nobis exempluin ut nos eadem similiter
faciamus.

P.5, iii. Vellum : 13 x 9 : ff. 166 : Cent. xii.
Old binding, with title on back : Aug. de Trinitate. Double-
columns of 33-35 lines. A well-drawn portrait of
St. Augustine, in full canonicals, on folio 158, and a well-
ornamented V on folio 144. Other initials plain in red and
blue.
On first fly-leaf :
Liber sancte Marie de Cirecestre abbatis primi Serlonis
tempore scriptus per manus canonicorum D.
Ade postea abbatis et Fulconis postremo prioris
sub Gilberto tunc Cantore primo. [Serio, the
first abbot, held office 1131-1147.]