I PATRISTICA, II GROSSETESTE; S. XIV 1, XIII

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Title

I PATRISTICA, II GROSSETESTE; S. XIV 1, XIII

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 14

Place of origin

England

Date

S XIV1

S. XIII2

Language

Latin

The former front pastedown is now fragment Q. 3. 10 (7) below.

fol. irv is a waste leaf of art. 35, containing the beginning of Robert Grosseteste, Summa on Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea: ‘⟨O⟩mnis ars et omnis doctrina ...; Primum capitulum de eo quod est aliquis finis perfectissimus omnium bonorum ... (ending unfinished in 3. 13) contra omnes communes minus’. Thomson, Grosseteste, no. 31; pr. Venice 1483, Lyons 1542. Written space 290 × 170 mm., ruled in 2 cols of 73 lines, in a small gothic rotunda bookhand (probably the same as art. 35), lacking decoration. An informal table of contents, s. xiv, occupies fol. iv col. b, using the foliation, and indicating that an item, ‘Libri ethice decem’, is missing before the present art. 1. This presumably refers to Aristotle, Ethics, and perhaps to art. 35.

On fol. 330v is a table of contents, s. xiv ex., to the complete volume except for the original art. 1, and arts 34–5. Art. 1, and perhaps 34–5 if then at the front of the book, might have been cropped by the binder.

Merton College MS. 14 – Part I

1. (fols. 1–16v) Jerome Contra Iouinianum

2. (fols. 16v–24) Augustine De Symbolo ad Catechumenos Tractatus IV

3. (fols. 24–5v) Ps.-AUGUSTINE (Quodvultdeus) De Cantico Nouo

4. (fols. 25v, 25v–34) Augustine De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia

Rubric: Epistola Augustini ad Valerium comitem de nuptiis et concupiscentia

Rubric: Incipit liber Augustini de nupciis et concupiscentia ad Valerium comitem

5. (fols. 34–6v) Augustine De Vtilitate Agendae Paenitentiae I (Serm. 351)

6. (fol. 36v) Ps.-AUGUSTINE De Paenitentibus (Serm. 393)

7. (fols. 37–40v) Augustine De Pastoribus (Serm. 46)

8. (fols. 40v–4) Augustine De Ovibus (Serm. 47)

9. (fols. 44–65v) Augustine De Baptismo contra Donatistas

10. (fols. 65v–6, 66–77v) Augustine De Peccatorum Meritis

11. (fols. 77v–86) Augustine Contra Achademicos

12. (fols. 86rv) Augustine Sermo 215

13. (fols. 87–98) Augustine Contra Epistolam Parmeniani

14. (fols. 98rv) Ps.-AUGUSTINE (NICETAS) De Psalmodiae Bono

15. (fols. 99–100v) BASIL Serm. on Deut. 15: 9

16. (fols. 100v–10) Augustine Correspondence with JEROME

17. (fols. 110–11v) Augustine De Vrbis Excidio

18. (fols. fol. 111v) Ps.-AUGUSTINE De Creatione Primi Hominis

19. (fols. 111v–25v) Augustine 26 Sermons

Rubric: Sermo eiusdem de glorioso martire Vincentio

Rubric: Vnde supra

Rubric: Sermo beati Augustini de oratione dominica

Rubric: Sermo Augustini de caritate

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de fide

Rubric: De timore Dei

Rubric: Vnde supra

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de fide

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de elemosina

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de periurio

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de prouerbiis Salomonis ab eo loco ubi dicit Mulierem fortem quis inueniet ...

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de aduentu Domini

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de natali Domini

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de sancto sabbato Pasche

Rubric: Vnde supra

Rubric: Incipit eiusdem de pascha

Rubric: Vnde supra

19.19. (fols. ) Rubric: Vnde supra

Rubric: Vnde supra

Incipit: Hoc quod uidetis in altare Dei etiam transacta nocte uidistis

20. (fols. 125v–9) John Chrysostom Quod Nemo Laeditur nisi a Seipso

21. (fols. 129rv) John Chrysostom Cum de Eius Expulsione Ageretur

22. (fols. 129v–30) John Chrysostom Post Exilii Prioris Reditum

23. (fols. 130rv) John Chrysostom Quando de Asia Regressus Est Constantinopolim

24. (fols. 130v–8) Jerome De Interpretatione Nominum Hebraicorum

25. (fols. 138–235) Jerome 112 letters

26. (fols. 235–8v) ORIGEN Homilies on the Song of Songs

27. (fols. 239–46) Augustine De Diuersis Quaestionibus ad Simplicianum

28. (fols. 246–7v) Augustine Aduersus Iudaeos

29. (fols. 247v–9) Augustine Ad Orosium contra Priscillianistas et Origenistas

30. (fols. 249–54) Augustine Contra Felicem Manichaeum

31. (fols. 254–61v) Augustine De Gratia Christi et Peccato Originali

32. (fols. 261v–72v) Augustine Adnotationes in Iob

33. (fols. 273–319v) Augustine Tractatus in Iohannis Euangelium

Merton College MS. 14 – Part II

(fols. 321–5v) Robert Grosseteste Notulae in Ethica Nicomachea et in Commentatores Graecos in eadem

35. (fols. 326–9v; 330 blank) Robert Grosseteste Summa on Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

331 leaves (i + 330), now lacking Coxe’s fol. 2. The edges heavily retrimmed and stained yellow.

Binding

c. 1500, heavily restored by Maltby; reverse-bevelled oak boards with slightly projecting squares, bared and backed with modern vellum; sewn on five bands; blue and plain endbands. The boards had two straps (not recessed) from the front to catches at the back, and chain-staples at the foredges, near the foot on the front board, near the head on the rear.

Provenance

On fol. 330v: s. xiv ‘Liber domus scolar’ de Merton’ Oxon’ ex legato M. Willelmi Bernel’; s. xv ‘Istum librum reparauit M. Iohannes Burbache sacre pagine professor’. Burnell (BRUO 316–17) was canon of Wells from 1284, dean 1292–5, d. 1304. He gave another six books. UO47. 225, ‘in libraria’, valued at 40s. For Burbage see MS 3.

On 23 Dec. 1489 the book was lent (‘extracta erat a libraria’) to the abbot of Abingdon ‘pro copia quorundam tractatuum’ (Registrum, p. 128). It was returned on 24 Feb. 1490.

At the head of fol. 1 is the James no. ‘262’, s. xvii in. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with the contents, s. xvii, and ‘N. 2. 2. Art:’, canc. and replaced with ‘A. 3. 2. (XIV)’ in red. ‘2’ is inked on the foredge.

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