Robert Grosseteste, Dicta, sermones; etc.; Oxford?, England, s. xv1

Title

Robert Grosseteste, Dicta, sermones; etc.; Oxford?, England, s. xv1

Shelfmark

Exeter College MS. 21

Place of origin

Oxford?, England

Date

s. xv1

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment FHHF

Physical extent

107 leaves preceded by two 18th-century paper flyleaves and followed by one medieval membrane flyleaf and two 18th-century paper flyleaves.

Hands

Fols. 1r–12v, text hand; some punctuation added in 15th century. Fols. 13–36vb/27, text hand; occasional punctuation by virgula. Fols. 36va/28 to end of page, bastard anglicana, with occasional punctuation by double virgula; fols. 37r–107v, anglicana, unpunctuated. For a comment on the standard achieved by the scribe of fols. 13r–107v see note to item 4(i) 1 above.

Decoration

3/4-line blue lombards flourished red at beginning of each item. Red and blue paraphs. In the sermons the lombards do not always succeed in guiding the reader through the text of item 4, since the scribe left spaces for them at the wrong places.

Binding

Sewn on four bands. Standard Exeter binding: simple and quite elegant, calf over millboards, the calf bearing blind decoration of a floral type, early 19th century.

Provenance

Probably written in Oxford.

After having the additional material added to its nucleus (see item *13) the book came to Exeter in 1418 as part of the estate of M. Thomas Plymiswode, donor of MSS 23 and 43 (Rector’s Accounts, winter 1418; Boase1, 10–11, Boase2, 22).

Probably Ecloga, no. 24, CMA, no. 33, (‘Grosthed … Tractatus de Mandatis—De cura Pastorali’).

On fol. iv are two notes in 19th-century hands on the loss of leaves from the book.

Exeter library identifications are: on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, and on it ‘Q8—1 Gall’, deleted and replaced by ‘172–G–1’, and ‘Coxe xxi’ on it; and on fol. iv Coxe Cat. no. xvi’. ‘1’ is on a round paper label at the top of the spine.