The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

I. 1. f.1 Sermo S. Augustini Ep. de Purificatione sanctae Mariae
Si subtiliter a fidelibus (Fulgentius of Ruspe: P.L. lxv. 838).
2. f.10 (No heading): Eiusdem sermo de Praesentatione Christi
Hodiernus dies magnum nobis contulit gaudium.
3. f.11 D. N. J. C. karissimi fratres qui in eternum est.
4. f.12 Ecce homo erat in hierusalem
5. f.14 Inc. sermo S. Augustini de Natiuitate b. Marie
Mutue dilectionis amore.
6. f.19 Gloriosam sollempnitatem sancte dei genitricis
7. f.20 Natiuitatis gloriose genitricis
8. f.22 Narrat siquidem historia quia die tercio
9. f.26 De Annuntiatione S. Marie (Aug. Sermo App. 144: xxxix, 2104)
Adest nobis dilectissimi optatus dies.
10. f.28 Celebrare karissimi beate atque gloriose
ff.31, 32 are blank.

II. 1. f.33 De Beate Marie vita siue moribus antequam ab angelo salutaretur b. Ambrosii Epistola inc.
Sit igitur uobis tanquam in imagine.
(Odilo of Cluny: cxlii. 1029, Sermo xiv.)
3. f.35 Epistola S. Hieronimi de Assumptione S. Marie ad Paulam et Eustochium (xxx. 122)
Cogitis me o paula.

III f.48 (Lections on the Life of the Virgin)
1. Approbate consuetudinis est apud Christianos sanctorum patrum dies natalicios obseruare.
2. f.51 Sanctorum lingua prophetarum cecinit
Ends: Qui quamuis indignus hec tibi susurro corde et ore. Added: Virgo beata manum salua scriptoris in euum.
3. f.55 Solempnem memoriam sacrosancte
-dies eternus in longitudine dierum. Amen.
(Fulberti Sermo 4: cxli. 320.)
f.57 blank.

IV. 1. f.58 Inc. Liber 1. B. Ambrosii Ep. de Virginitate
Si iuxta celestis sententiam (P.L. xvi. 187).
(Libri v.: lib. iv. f.79, de viduis, l. c. 233: lib. v. de virginibus, f.92b, ib. 265.)
2. f.109b Eiusdem Exhortatio ad Virgines (xvi. 335)
Qui ad convivium magnum.
3. f.122 Sermo S. Ambrosii Ep. de lapsu uirginis consecrate
(Ib. 367)
Audite qui longe estis.
4. f.126b Inc. ad uiolatorem
De te autem quid dicam.
5. f.127 Lamentatio super se
Quis consoletur te.
Ends ff.128b, 129(131) blank.

Barré, H., 'Un plaidoyer monastique par le samedi Marial', Revue Bénédictine 77 (1967), 375-99

Barré, H., 'L'Hymne acathiste en Occident', Marianum 21 (1959), 291-7.

Bishop, T. A. M., 'Notes on Cambridge Manuscripts III', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 2 (1953-8), 192-9, at 198-9.

Bouet, P., and M. Dosdat, ed., Manuscrits enluminures dans le monde normand (Xe-XVe siÃr)cles) (Caen, 1999), p. 123.

Bourne, J., and R. Buckley and J. Story, ed., Leicester Abbey : Medieval History, Archaeology and Manuscript Studies (Leicester, 2006)

Gameson, R., The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford, 1999), nos. 160 and 161 [two parts together by s. xv/xvi; both s. xi ex., provenance Exeter, Leicester]

Gameson, R., The Scribe Speaks? Colophons in Early English Manuscripts, H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lecture 12 (Cambridge, 2002), no. 37 + pl. 8.

Gameson, R., 'English Manuscript Art in the Late Eleventh Century: Canterbury and its Context', in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints and Scholars 1066-1109, ed. R. Eales and R. Sharpe (London, 1995), pp. 95-144, at p. 102(-3) n. 28.

Gneuss, H., Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: a List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Studies 241 (Tempe, AZ, 2001), no. 175.5 [in two parts, both s. xi ex., provenance after 1100 Exeter, Augustinian canons at Leicester]

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

Morgan, N. and Panayatova, S. (eds.) with the assistance of Rebecca Rushforth, Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge : A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part 4, The British Isles, 2 vols. (London, 2013), vol 1. no. 85 and cited no. 84

Webber, T., and A. G. Watson, ed., The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons, Corpus of Medieval Library Catalogues 6 (London, 1998), A20.222 [late 15th-cent. Leicester catalogue]