Lawrence Somercote — c. 1300; English | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Lawrence Somercote — c. 1300; English

Guido Faba — c. 1300; English

Manual of questions to be asked by a priest at confession — c. 1300; English

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 490

Place of origin

English

Date

c. 1300

Language

Anglo-Norman

Latin

On foll. 132, 132v are added four hexameters about health, beg. 'Si vis post cenam' (15th cent.): a copy of 'the Answer of the Deanry of Cycestre' (Chichester) in 1535 to a demand for a money contribution granted by Convocation to the king: five sets of humorous verses, one being the story of four Oxford scholars invited to write an epigram on a pair of buckets in a well.

MS. Bodl. 490 – Part 1

1. (fol. 1) Treatise on the Mass

2. (fol. 6v) Lawrence Somercote Summa de formis electionum episcoporum faciendarum

On fols. 86v-88a are added in a late 14th cent. hand lists of 'numeri cardinales, ordinales, dispertiti, ponderales, aduerbiales, singulares', in words and Roman and Arabic figures.

MS. Bodl. 490 – Part 2

(fols. 86r–96r) Ars dictandi

(fols. 96r–100r) Form letters of nobles and prelates.

(fols. 100v–117ra) Guido Faba Exordia

MS. Bodl. 490 – Part 3

1. (fol. 118) Manual of questions to be asked by a priest at confession

Physical extent

vi + 135 leaves

Decoration

Coloured capitals.

Binding

Old boards and sewing, partly repaired.

Acquisition

Acquired not later than 1602.

Provenance

Unidentified church or religious house: 'Hunc librum donauit frater ...... ecclesie ... Si quis ... fraudem fecerit anathema sit', 14th cent.

'W. Robynson est possessor. tanti valet quanti vendi potest', 15th cent.

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