AUGUSTINE, HUGH OF ST VICTOR; S. XV med., S. XIV med.

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Title

AUGUSTINE, HUGH OF ST VICTOR; S. XV med., S. XIV med.

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 43

Place of origin

England

Date

S. XIV med.

S. XV med.

Language

Anglo-Norman

Latin

fols. i, ii-ivv blank. On fol. iv is a table of contents, s. xv, showing that an ‘Ysagoge philosophie moralis’ is missing after art. 10. An annotator of s. xvi or xvii notes its absence. It may have been ps.-Robert Grosseteste, Summa Philosophiae (Powicke, p. 183; Thomson, Grosseteste, p. 265 n.).

Merton College MS. 43 – Part I

1. (fols. 1–2) Peter of Blois (?) De Tribulatione

2. (fols. 2–3) Ps.-AUGUSTINE De Paenitentia (Serm. 393)

3. (fols. 3–8v) HUGH OF ST VICTOR De Virtute Orandi

4. (fols. 8v–18) Ps.-AUGUSTINE (AMBROSIUS AUTPERTUS) De Conflictu Virtutum et Vitiorum

5. (fols. 18v–19v) Ps.-AUGUSTINE De Creatione Primi Hominis

6. (fols. 19v–20v) HUGH OF ST VICTOR Misc. I, 99

7. (fols. 21–3v) Ps.-AUGUSTINE De Decem Plagis (Serm. app. 21)

8. (fol. 24r–v) Rubric: Augustinus de timore

9. (fol. 25r–v) HUGH OF ST VICTOR Misc. I, 172

10. (fols. 26–52v) Ps.-ROBERT GROSSETESTE (MALACHIAS HIBERNICUS) De Venenis

Merton College MS. 43 – Part II

11. (fol. 53) PETER OF LIMOGES De Oculo Morali

12. (fols. 53–67) ?Remigius of Auxerre De Celebratione Missae

Incipit: Faciam uos fieri piscatores hominum. Nota spiritualiter mundus iste dicatur mare

Followed by a note in French on the ‘dies periculosae’: pr. from a different copy by P. Meyer, ‘Bribes de littérature anglo-normande’, Jahrbuch für roman. u. engl. Literatur7 (1866), 47–51, &c.; Dean & Boulton, no. 379 (citing this MS as 569)

13. (fols. 68–80v; fols. 81–2v blank) Innocent III De Sacro Altaris Mysterio

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

86 leaves (iv + 82) The edges savagely retrimmed, affecting marginalia, and stained red.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on three bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fol. i was a pastedown in an earlier binding.

Provenance

On fol. iv, erased, ‘Liber magistri Thome Gauge quem in parte emit et in parte scripsit’; ‘prec’ vii. s.’ Thomas Gawge (BRUO 749–50), fellow c. 1441–8, canon of York &c., d. 1470.

Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘C. 6, 11’ (canc.) and a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘N. 4. 4. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced by ‘C. 1. 4 (XLIII)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘4’ is inked on the foredge.

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