Miscellaneous theological and moral pieces in Latin, of which there is a full list in the Old Catalogue of 1697 and which cannot be treated summarily. The chief items, which are surrounded by numberless odd notes and memoranda, apparently collected by a monk of St. Mary's abbey at Leicester, are listed below. — c. 1300; England, Leicester Abbey | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Miscellaneous theological and moral pieces in Latin, of which there is a full list in the Old Catalogue of 1697 and which cannot be treated summarily. The chief items, which are surrounded by numberless odd notes and memoranda, apparently collected by a monk of St. Mary's abbey at Leicester, are listed below. — c. 1300; England, Leicester Abbey

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 57

Associated place

Stoughton

Place of origin

England, Leicester Abbey

Date

c. 1300

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Anglo-Norman

Latin

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part A

1. (fol. 1) Lectiones ix de s. Francisco et collecta

2. (fol. 2) ‘Le rule seint Austin’

3. (fol. 4v) Incipit: Gloriuse Dame

4. (fol. 6v) Edmund of Abingdon (?) Prayer

(fols. 11, 20v, 64, 81, 95) Some Latin glosses on Old Testament words.

(fol. 20) ⟨Alanus, ab Insulis⟩ ⟨Rhythmus de incarnatione Christi et de septem artibus⟩

6. (fol. 12) Incipit: In die Cene. Post capitulum indicet prelatus

(fol. 14v) Oratio et vi lectiones de sancto Cedde (Chad), and (fol. 16) Oratio et ix lectiones de sancto Hugone episcopo Lincolniensi.

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part B

8. (fol. 21) The hymn 'Ave maris stella' with a commentary, in Latin. At fol. 26 are some apocryphal stories of the infancy of Jesus: beg. 'Cum esset Ihesus annorum .v. ludebat cum infantibus'.

9. (fol. 28) Rubric: Verba cuiusdam Sapientis

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part C

10. (fol. 53) Incipit: Non te lusisse pudeat

11. (fols. 68v, 89v) Rubric: Versus magistri Baire, de porco uacuo dato

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part D

(fol. 73) Sermons

(fol. 74) Apostles' Creed in verse

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part E

(fol. 84) Sermons and notes

(fol. 90) Proverbia Wiponis

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part F

14. (fol. 91)

(fol. 96) Roger de Wesham Instituta

Incipit: Vven i.o. the rode se | Faste nailed to the tre

15. (fol. 103v) Description of Jerusalem (Innominatus I)

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part G

16. (fol. 105) Ps.-Bernard Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis

17. (fol. 118) Rubric: Opusculum quod est de confessione

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part H

18. (fol. 132) Bonaventura Incendium Amoris

Incipit: Sol descendens per auroram

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part I

(fol. 145) Ps.-Bernard De caritate

Incipit: Mens, affectus, ratio queso conuenite

(fol. 174v) Alexander de Villa Dei Carmen de Algorismo

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part J

20. (fol. 176) Chronicle of England, 1216–1224

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part K

21. (fol. 178)

(fol. 180v) Robert Grosseteste Serm. 84

22. (fol. 182v) Hugh of Fouilloy De claustro animae

MS. Bodl. 57 – Part L

23. (fol. 188) Apocalypsis Goliae episcopi

Incipit: Post incarnatum Verbum de Virgine natum

25. (fol. 192v) William of Conches (?) Moralium dogma philosophorum

MS. Bodl. 57 - endleaves (fols. ii-iii)

Much injured leaves from the older binding containing part of a Goliardic Latin poem, of which the last line is 'Pugnis scalpit scabiem [?] caro dum incendit.

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + 219 leaves

Decoration

Partly with illuminated capitals.

Acquisition

Apparently acquired by purchase from him about 1619–20.

Provenance

Leicester Abbey: evidence of contents.

A nearly erased inscription on fol. a 213v shows that this MS. was owned by Henry Jackson of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, on May 21, 1600.

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