Sermon outlines and themata; Guillaume de Conches, ‘Moralium dogma philosophorum’

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Title

Sermon outlines and themata; Guillaume de Conches, ‘Moralium dogma philosophorum’

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 203

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xiii/xiv and xiv

s. xiv1 or a little later

s. xiv in.

s. xiii/xiv

Language

Latin

Manuscript 1 = Fols. 1–10

A commonplace book: notes, distinctiones, sermon divisions. Fol. 10v has a contents table for the following material, a list of the themata, at the end ‘omnes ⟨hos?⟩ sermones sunt in quaterno sequenti’.

Manuscript 2 = Fols. 11–24

2. Fols. 11–24v: a series of at least twenty-two sermon outlines or themata

Manuscript 3 = Fols. 25–225

A contents table, added later, in the concluding quire, fols. 220va–3ra ‘Iste collationes subscripte continentur superius in libro isto’, numbers the contents to 153 items (a marginal numeration imposed on the contents at that time). Most, but not all, are sermons, with a few short bits which appear to be exempla. None appear to be in Schneyer; incipits of the first five items are: (i) Fol. 25: ‘Videte quomodo caute ambuletis etc. Effesii 5. Scitis quod visus duo facit discernit […] ’ (ii) Fols. 25v–9: ‘Oculi sapientis in capite eius Ecclesiastice 7. In hiis illis 4. occurunt consideranda […] ’ (iii) Fols. 29–35v: ‘Numquid produces luciferum in tempore suo Iob 30. In his verbis prout competunt predicatori […] ’ A boundary with another text may have occurred on the lost leaf following fol. 32. (iv) Fols. 36–7: ‘Pater tenere diligit eum genesis 44. secundum Tullium amor est motus animi […] ’ (v) Fols. 37v–8v: ‘Exi a me quia homo peccator sum domine Luce 5. tanguntur 3a. potencie diuine confessio domine confitentis […] ’ At the end, fol. 223v is blank. The final leaves (fols. 224–5) are probably extraneous to the remainder, of s. xiv in. and covered with theological notes of various sorts, beginning with a fragment of a sermon, ‘Lingnum vite est hijs qui apprehenderunt eam ⟨..⟩ 3a. sunt per quem sermocinantes frequenter animos attendunt […] ’ This scribe also adds material on blank leaves at the end of the next MS.

Manuscript 4 = Fols. 226–47

4. Fols. 226–38: GUILLAUME DE CONCHES Moralium dogma philosophorum

Form

codex

Support

all on vellum (the first two HSOS/HFFH, the last two FSOS/FHHF)

Physical extent

Fols. iii + 247+ iii (numbered fols. iv–vi).

Binding

A modern rebinding. Sewn on four thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf (dated ‘1838’ on the verso) and two modern paper flyleaves; at the rear, two modern paper flyleaves and another marbled paper leaf (iv–vi).

Acquisition

‘Iohannes White de Suthwyke in Comitatu Sutht armiger dedit hunc librum Thome White [milit ]de london’ milit’ ad vsum Colegij per ipsum de nouo erecti in oxon Anno 1555’ ( fol. 25, lower margin).

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