ANSELM, BERNARD ; S. XIII ex.

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Title

ANSELM, BERNARD ; S. XIII ex.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 40

Place of origin

England (?)

France (?)

Date

S. XIII ex.

Language

Latin

Merton College MS. 40 – Part I

fol. iii blank. fols. iiiv–ixv are filled with notes, extracts and medical recipes, mostly in a single anglicana hand, c. 1300. On fol. ix is an early table of contents, citing the foliation.

1. (fols. 1–9) Anselm De Concordia Praescientiae et Praedestinationis

2. (fols. 9–13v) Anselm De Incarnatione Verbi

3. (fols. 14–17v) Anselm De Libertate Arbitrii

4. (fols. 18–27v) De Similitudinibus

5. (fols. 27v–31) Anselm Proslogion

6. (fols. 31v–43v) Anselm Monologion

7. (fols. 44–57v) Anselm Cur Deus Homo

8. (fols. 58–65) Anselm De Processione Spiritus Sancti

9. (fols. 65–71) Anselm De Conceptu Virginali

10. (fols. 71–8) Anselm De Casu Diaboli

11. (fols. 78–82) Anselm De Veritate

12. (fols. 82–9) Ps.-BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (WILLIAM OF SAINT-THIERRY) De Natura et Dignitate Amoris

13. (fols. 89–91v) Cicero De Amicitia

14. (fols. 91v–6v) Bernard of Clairvaux Epist. 42

15. (fol. 96v) Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux Epist. 462

16. (fols. 97–108v) William of St Thierry Epistola ad Fratres de Monte Dei

17. (fols. 109–16v) Bernard of Clairvaux De Praecepto et Dispensatione

18. (fols. 116v–22) Sententiae

Incipit: Quatuor sunt iudicia secundum prescientiam secundum causam secundum operacionem secundum tribulacionem

Incipit: Quis ascendit in monte Dei? Ascendit quidem semel Christus

Merton College MS. 40 – Part II

19. (fols. 123–30v) Ps.-BASIL Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

141 leaves (ix + 132)The edges heavily retrimmed with loss of marginalia and spattered with red.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on four bands; chained from the usual position. fols. i-ii, 131–2 are paper binding leaves, the outermost from a larger printed commentary on Terence, s. xv or xvi. An earlier binding had a central strap. fol. iii was a pastedown in an earlier binding.

Provenance

Evidently belonging early on to a house of friars, perhaps the Oxford Franciscans, a latecomer to the College. On fol. ix is ‘Precii viii marcas’, s. xiv, and a partly-erased 2-line inscription ‘Per fratrem Willelmum de ?Fr ch magum pro cuius anima Deum roget qui usum huius libri habuerit’, s. xv. An early 2-line inscription has been partly erased from fol. ixv, then written over, s. xv: ‘[ de Cerigtone fra us de Stauntone’ can be read. The second name might have been that of Hugh de Staunton OFM (BRUO 1768), warden of the Oxford custody in 1320.

In the lower margins of fols. 16v-18, upside down, are notes of expenditure, s. xvi, including ‘for my battelles v l. x s’, with the name ‘Thomas Belcher’.

On fol. ii is ‘N. 4. 1. Art:’ and a table of contents, s. xvii. Inside the front board is ‘N. 4. 1. Art:’again, modern ‘C. 1. 18 (XL)’ and ‘E. 1. 4’ in red, both canc. and replaced with ‘P. 1. 8’. ‘1’ is inked on the foredge. The College bookplate.

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