The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

The fly-leaves are from a service book in a very large hand (xiv early), 17 lines to a page. Those at the beginning contain
Missa de S. Trinitate.
Missa de Sancto Spiritu.
Those at the end begin in the Lauda Sion.
Sub diuersis speciebus
from the Missa de corpore et sanguine Christi, followed by
De S. cruce.

1. f.1 Incipiunt lecciones proprie in commemoracionibus beate marie per totum annum pro illis septimanis in quibus plenum seruicium semel fit de eadem in ecclesia exoniensi iuxta ordinale Episcopi Johannis de Grandissono
Prima ebdomada in aduentu domini de tractatu b. Bernardi super Missus est gabriel.
Lect. 1^a. Missus est angelus gabriel a deo: non arbitror hunc angelum de minoribus esse.
Ending on f.75b
Expliciunt lecciones de S. Maria.

2. f.75b Ordo leccionum legendarum in commem. b. Marie per totum annum

3. f.77b Proemium in uitam Regis et Martyris Æthelberti a Giraldo digestā
Siquis deliciarum orti et paradisi celestis plena perpetuaque felicitate perfrui desiderat.
In nineteen chapters, the last
De milite Sanctum Aethelbertum blasfemante diuinitus extincto.
Manebat in confinio loci eiusdem.
Ends
Uitam sancti Aethelberti cum miraculis antiquis. longis ambagibus ante indigno sermone congestam. concanonicorum nostrorum instancia breuius admodum et lucidius explanauimus. noua miracula nostrisque diebus propinquiora per sancti eiusdem merita in herefordensi ecclesia deo auctore patrata. cum a testibus fide dignis nobis oblata fuerint domino propiciante tractaturi.
Some of these miracles are printed in Acta SS. from Vitell. E. vii. (now destroyed): but the present MS. is not known to Hardy (i. 496).
Three blank pages follow.

4. f.104 Lecciones de Sancto Thoma per octauas eiusdem
Leccio prima,
Inscrutabilis diuine sapiencie plenitude volens
humano generi misericordie ianuam aperire.
It is practically a collection of the miracles of St Thomas of Hereford. The latest in date (not the last) is of 1301.
Ends f.127b
multis astantibus et videntibus una cum custodibus tumuli memorati.
There is another copy (xivth cent.) of these miracles in a MS. at Exeter Coll. Oxford (158), the only one known to Hardy (iii. 219).

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

Dalton, J.N., ed., Ordinale Exon.: Exeter Chapter MS. 3502 collated with Parker MS. 93: with two appendices from Trinity College, Cambridge MS. B.11.16 and Exeter Chapter MS. 3625, Henry Bradshaw Society 37, 38, 63, 79, 4 vols. (London, 1909-40)