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- 1100-1300 (James identifies items 5) - 9) and 13) as of 13C date.) (Creation)
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1 volume 8+ x 6 in., 137 ff.; varying numbers of lines to a page vellum
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From Rievaulx Abbey, marked "Liber sce Marie Rieuall:" (f. 7v) and similarly elsewhere twice more; given by Thomas Man, 1685.
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Miscellaneous tracts; M. R. James's no. 34. Contains: 1) a catalogue of Rievaulx library, in two lists the second being approximately a shorter replica of the first [James transcribes both]; 2) Introductiones in Theologiam; 3) Fallacie [incipit: Fallacia apud logicos dicitur]; 4) Loci [incipit: Locus argumenti est sedes argumenti]; 5) Summa de diuersa uocabulorum significacione edita a mag. Will. De monte (called at the end Tropi theologici); 6) notes on vices; 7) Excerpta moralia [incipit: Ad edificacionem animarum et morum informacionem]; 8) Sermons without heading (incipits: Hora est iam uos de sompno surgere; Excitare volens apostolus; Deus manifeste veniet deus noster non silebit]; 9) Aelredi Abbatis Rievallensis oracio pastoralis, with an extract from a letter by Aelred and his dying words; 10) Consuetudines Cisterciensium, ending with the Privilege of pope Innocent in a different hand; 11) Letter by "Stephanus cisterciensis ecclesie servus" [Stephen Harding] to T. abbot of Sherborne; 12) Bernardi Antiphonarium sive liber de musica, and Tonale, ending with verses on the numbers of chapters in each book of the Bible; 13) Bernardi silvestris liber de creatione rerum, interspersed with verses after the manner of Boethius and Martianus Capella; 14) Lines on prosody with interlinear notes [incipit: Regula splendescit quia sillaba longa patescit].
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Microfilm available (2 copies).
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The library catalogue is transcribed in full by James; he notes that it also appears in Wright and Halliwell's Relquiae Antiquae (vol. 2, pp. 180-189) and in Edward Edward's Memoirs of Libraries (vol. 1, pp. 333-341)