Gilbert Stone, canon of Wells — 15th century, first quarter; English | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Gilbert Stone, canon of Wells — 15th century, first quarter; English

John Bromyard — 15th century, first quarter; English

Paschasius Radbertus, Augustine, John Orum, Gregory — 15th century, first quarter; English

Sermons on the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary — 15th century, first quarter; English

Sermons and notes — 15th century, first quarter; English

Untitled work or fragment — c. 1300; English

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 859

Associated place

Oxford

Place of origin

English

Date

15th century, first quarter

c. 1300

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Latin

MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 1 (fols. 1–43)

1. (fol. 1) Gilbert Stone, canon of Wells Letter-book

MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 2 (fols. 44–225)

1. (fol. 44) John Bromyard Distinctiones

Incipit: Ab infancia bene viuens

(fol. 225v) Colophon: Finitus hec breuis compilacio. in festo Sancti Valentini. Anno domini mºCCCC nono

MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 3 (fols. 227–296)

1. (fol. 227) Paschasius Radbertus De corpore et sanguine Domini

(fol. 258) Augustine Epistula ad Consentium de resurrectione (ep. 205)

3. (fol. 261) John Orum Lectura super Apocalipsim in ecclesia Wellensi

4. (fol. 290) Gregory Homiliae in Ezechielem

5. (fol. 292v) Poems on the conflict between the University of Oxford and the City of Oxford in 1355

Incipit: Plangis in gemitu

Incipit: Cilla domat

Incipit: O Rex Anglorum

Incipit: Clerum sponsor odit

Incipit: Urgent ursina

Incipit: Lar demon Nero

MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 4 (fols. 297–310)

1. (fol. 297, cf. fol. 296) Sermons on the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

(fol. 309) Single leaf, containing a letter from Gregory XII to Henry Bowet, archbishop of York, Lucca, 21 May 1408.

On fol. 310v is added a Latin citation by John Orum, chancellor of the University of Oxford, to John Rutteley, 1407 or 1411–12.

MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 5 (fols. 311–331)

1. (fol. 311) Sermons and notes

MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 6 (fols. 332–80)

1. (fols. 332r–379v) Rubric: Pecham super 4m Sententiarum

Form

codex

Physical extent

iv + 391 fols.

Acquisition

Probably acquired by the Bodleian betweeen 1613 and 1620.

Provenance

Exeter Cathedral (?). See below, provenance of parts 1 and 2. MLGB3 accepts the whole volume as an Exeter Cathedral book.

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