PENITENTIAL WORKS, HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS, &c. ; S. XIII, XIV 1/4

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Title

PENITENTIAL WORKS, HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS, &c. ; S. XIII, XIV 1/4

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 44

Place of origin

Script of English appearance.

England

Script of probably Italian appearance.

Date

s. xiv

S. XIII

S. XIV 1/4

s. xiv in.

Language

Anglo-Norman

Latin

fols. i-iiv blank.

Merton College MS. 44 - fragment (fol. 1)

(fol. 1) Quaestio

Merton College MS. 44 – Part I

1. (fols. 2–4v) Distinctiones

2. (fols. 4v–9v) Robert Grosseteste Templum Domini

Merton College MS. 44 – Part II

3. (fols. 10–46) Ralph of London OSB Electuarium in Delectatione et Refocillatione Animae

4. (fols. 46–51v) Sermon

5. (fols. 52–84) Berengar Fredoli Summula in Foro Penitentiali

6. (fols. 84–8v) Raymond de Pennafort Summa de Casibus Poenitentiae

Merton College MS. 44 - fragment (fol. 89)

The half-leaf fol. 89 was reused from an account roll. The original text on fol. 89v, sideways to the present book, is accounts of food (cod, ling, mackerel, whelks, herrings, salmon, stockfish, lampreys, ginger, galingale, rice, mustard), drink and household items purchased at Salisbury, in Latin and French. One entry ends ‘per Rogerum clericum’.

On the originally blank remainder of fols. 88v and 89 (formerly the dorse of the roll) an index of the chapters of arts 3, 5–6 was added in an anglicana hand.

Merton College MS. 44 – Part III

7. (fols. 90–165v; 166–7v blank) Simon of Ghent De Vita Solitaria

Merton College MS. 44 – Part IV

8. (fols. 168–79v) Honorius Augustodunensis Elucidarius

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

183 leaves (ii + 181) The edges retrimmed and spattered with red.

Binding

Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on five bands; formerly chained from the usual position; fols. 180–1 are blank paper binding leaves. fol. i, formerly pasted down in an earlier binding, has the mark of a brass chain-staple at the foredge near the foot.

Provenance

II was at the College by 1556: UO65. 183.

At the head of fol. 166 is a smudged and erased inscription: ‘[?Pertinet ad magistrum ... Chynnge]’. Perhaps John Chynnge (BRUO 421), recorded as MA in 1449.

It is not clear when the rest of the book came to the College, prior to s. xvii in. Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with a table of contents s. xvii, and ‘N. 4. 5. Art:’, canc. in red. The College bookplate. ‘5’ is inked on the foredge.

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