Pastoralia, including Summae of Simon of Hinton and Henry of Wodestone; England, 13th century, second half

Title

Pastoralia, including Summae of Simon of Hinton and Henry of Wodestone; England, 13th century, second half

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 2

Date

13th century, second half (?)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

176 leaves, small quarto

Binding

15th-century binding.

Acquisition

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.

Provenance

Date: 1260s (Andrew Reeves, 'Teaching The Creed And Articles Of Faith In England: 1215–1281' in A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500) (Brill, 2010), pp. 41–72 at 62), late 13th century (Lesley Smith, ‘Friars and the Preparation of Pastoral Aids’, in The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350) (Brill, 2017), pp. 175–92 at 184), early 14th century (Coxe, Quarto Catalogue).

Liber fratris Johannis Stamford, precii xxx d. . Mokry, op. cit. p. 11 and n. 2 suggests an identification with John Stamford, alias Sandford, d. 1294, archbishop of Dublin, on whom see OxfordDNB.

William Laud, by 1633

Title

Theologica

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 2

Summary

Theological treatises

Simon of Hinton , Summa iuniorum

Henry Wodstone (d. c. 1290) (?), Summa de sacramento matrimonii

Date

14th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

176 Leaves

Custodial history

For binding cf. Misc. 330, 513, 657. Manuscript 1803 acquired by the Bodleian Library