Religious miscellany: Bernard, Augustine, Aquinas etc.

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Title

Religious miscellany: Bernard, Augustine, Aquinas etc.

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 173

Place of origin

England

Date

s. xvi1

Language

Latin

Middle English (1100-1500)

1. Fol. 1 Incipit: || et eo noctibus a toto tempore huius seculi quod per quadragenarium numerum designatus

2. Fols. 9–26v: A series of exempla, ending with two paragraphs on theological subjects (the nature of ‘voluntas’).

3. Fols. 27–8: Rubric: Incipit secreta Meditacio beati HIERONIMI

4. Fol. 28rv: Rubric: BERNARDUS de ingratitudine

5. Fols. 29–31: AUGUSTINE Sermo 350

6. Fols. 31–3v: AUGUSTINE Rubric: Quedam ammonicio sancti AUGUSTINI quod debemus frequenter diuinam leccionem legere

7. Fols. 33–4v: Incipit: Be it knowen to good crysten peple that desyren to come to euerlastyng lyf dyligently to kepe thyse v. poyntes

8. Fols. 35–9: PSEUDO-BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX Scala spiritualis

9. Fols. 39–45v: Rubric: Incipit epylogus de quadruplici exercicio spirituali editus a predicto PETRO DE ALLYACO

10. Fols. 45v–8: DAVID OF AUGSBURG ‘Formula de interioris hominis reformatione’

11. Fols. 48–50: WILLIAM OF ST THIERRY De triplici statu religiosorum

12. Fol. 50rv: Rubric: De reformacione racionis

13. Fols. 51–3: PS.-PETER OF BLOIS 'Tractatus de beatitudine claustrali'

14. Fols. 53–8: PS.-AUGUSTINE 'de contemptu mundi'

15. Fol. 58rv: THOMAS AQUINAS ‘Epistola exhortatoria de modo studendi ad Fratrem Ioannem’

16. Fols. 59–75v: Incipit: Memoriam fecit mirabilium […] Esca ista de qua loquitur hic psalmus non inconuenienter intelligitur esca sacramentalis

17. Fols. 75v–82: THOMAS AQUINAS Exposicio misse

18. Fols. 85–131v: PS.-AUGUSTINE ‘Regula secunda’ (the rule of Augustinian canons)

19. Fols. 133–43v: Rubric: The xv. degrees of charite

20. Fols. 144–52: JACOBUS DE VORAGINE sermo de tempore, no. 140

21. Fols. 152–71v: DAVID OF AUGSBURG Rubric: Sequitur Speculum religiosorum

Form

codex

Support

Vellum (FSOS/FHHF).

Physical extent

Fols. i + 172+ i (numbered fol. ii).

Hands

Written in secretary(a major change of duct from fol. 144 to the end), the hand of John Coleman, brother of St Mark’s Hospital, Bristol; for him, see A. I. Doyle, ‘Book Production by the Monastic Orders in England’, in Linda Brownrigg (ed.), Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence(Los Altos Hills, Calif: Anderson–Lovelace, 1990), 1–19, at 13 ; and A. C. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (Oxford: Clarendon, 1971), 105–7 (describing MS Lyell 38 ) and her plates vii (a, the monogram) and (c, the style of hand as here). (See Provenance) Punctuation by point and double point .

Decoration

At the head of longer texts, 3-line champes with bud sprays.

Otherwise at incipits and internal boundaries, 2- and 3-line blue lombards on red flourishing.

Headings usually in text ink but written in decorative textura.

Some texts broken with red paraphs and 1-line red lombards.

Frequent ochre-slashed capitals.

See AT, no. 632 (62).

Binding

A modern replacement. Sewn on five thongs. At the front, a marbled paper leaf at the rear, another marbled paper leaf (ii).

Acquisition

‘Liber Collegij Divi Ioanni Baptistae Oxon’ Ex dono Magistri Martini Okins Sacrae Theologiae Bacchalaurei ejusdemque Socij Anno Domini 161 ’ (fol. 2).

Provenance

The monogram IC, with motto ‘delectare in domino’ and the couplet: ‘Qui legit emendet scriptorem non reprehendat Iohannem ColmanCui deus alta tradat’ (in the blank between items 9 and 10 on fol. 45v).

‘Liber sancti Marci iuxta bristol’ al’ dict’ le q missus cuidam viro nomine pynson in flytt strete london’ manenti’ (fol. 1) (Ker, MLGB13, 231) . In addition to our MS, Coleman wrote and donated BodL, MSS Bodley 618 (part only) and Lyell 38.

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