This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a
florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers
written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé,
Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear
glosses. The quires containing the Liber scintillarum have been
bound incorrectly (for the right order see Rhodes, Defensor's Liber
scintillarum (1889)). It is followed by a florilegium entitled
Pauca de vitiis et peccatis (Little on the Vices and Sins) that
includes extracts from Ecclesiasticus and Isidore of Seville (d.
636)'s Sententiae (Sentences). Contents: ff. 1r-100v: Defensor of
Ligugé, Liber scintillarum with interlinear Old English glosses.
ff. 100v-106r: Anonymous, Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect),
including Old English interlinear glosses to the Bible (ff.
100v-102r) and Isidore's Sententiae (ff. 102r-106r) .The manuscript
contains a number of additions:f. iv: An alphabet from 'A' to 'G'
linked to Roman numerals written by an early 15th-century hand. ff.
106v-107r: An extract from the Early Middle English Poema morale
(Moral Poem), lines 17 to 18, 'me is bestolen on er [...] Ne maeg
ic geseo before me [..] for he may se a mows [...]', added in the
12th or 13th century (f. 106v); numerous notes, verses of satirical
poems and pen trials in various hands of the 14th and 15th
centuries; a drawing of a face and of two coat of arms (f. 106v).
An extract from Psalm 48:13 (f. 107r). Decoration:Large initials in
red and green. Rubrics in red. Numerous margins trimmed off.
