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Fragments which may come from a single volume, a poetic anthology. See A. G. Rigg, ‘Medieval Latin Poetic Anthologies (I)’, Mediaeval Studies 39 (1977), pp. 281-330, at p. 283. The authorship of many items is uncertain: attributions are discussed in the notes to individual items. The leaves were cut at the top, bottom or at the outer margin and show signs of having once been used as pastedowns. As a result, significant portions of the texts are now missing. The old foliation, running from 1 to 16, was rearranged in accordance with J. H. Mozley, 'Some Notes on Lat. misc. d. 15', Bodleian Quarterly Record 7 (1932), pp. 133-138 and now runs in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11v-11r, 16, 7, 8, 5, 6, 12, 13v-13r, 14, 15. The following description refers to the old foliation. — 13th century, first half; England or France

MS. Lat. misc. d. 15

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Fragments which may come from a single volume, a poetic anthology. See A. G. Rigg, ‘Medieval Latin Poetic Anthologies (I)’, Mediaeval Studies 39 (1977), pp. 281-330, at p. 283. The authorship of many items is uncertain: attributions are discussed in the notes to individual items. The leaves were cut at the top, bottom or at the outer margin and show signs of having once been used as pastedowns. As a result, significant portions of the texts are now missing. The old foliation, running from 1 to 16, was rearranged in accordance with J. H. Mozley, 'Some Notes on Lat. misc. d. 15', Bodleian Quarterly Record 7 (1932), pp. 133-138 and now runs in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11v-11r, 16, 7, 8, 5, 6, 12, 13v-13r, 14, 15. The following description refers to the old foliation. — 13th century, first half; England or France

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. misc. d. 15

Place of origin

England or France

Date

13th century, first half

Language

Latin

Contents

1 . (fol. 1r col. a – col. b line 18) Incipit: ||Nec sterilis fraudet\fraudat/ semina messe labor
2. (fols. 1r col. b line 19 – 4v col. a line 34) Guilelmus Blesensis Alda
3. (fols. 4v col. a line 35 – 4v col. b) Accusations of a husband against his wife
4. (fol. 9r col. a lines 1–21) Rubric: ... cleri.
5. (fol. 9r col. a lines 22– 9v col. b line 27) Rubric: Patre, ⟨Pro⟩ filio
6. (fol. 9v col. b lines 28–37) Rubric: Epitaphium
7. (fols. 9v col. b line 38 – 10r col. a line 24) De tribus hominis mansionibus
8. (fol. 10r col. a line 25 – col. b line 4) De Anglia et eius principe
9. (fols. 10r col. b line 5 – 10v col. b line 6) De excidio Troiae versus
10. (fol. 10v col. b line 7 – 11v col. a line 20) Rubric: Item de Troia
11. (fol. 11v col. a line 21 – fol. 11r col. b line 8) Poem on the fall of Troy
12. (fols. 11r col. b line 9 – 16v col. b (end)) Causa Aiacis et Ulixis II
13. (fol. 7r col. a – col. b line 14) Miles gloriosus
14. (fols. 7r col. b line 15 – 8v col. a line 3) Petrus Riga (attrib.) Rubric: Uersus de sancta susanna
15. (fol. 8v col. a line 4 – fol. 5r col. b line 4) Petrus Riga Passio sanctae Agnetis
16. (fol. 5r col. b line 5 – fol. 6v (end)) Marbode, Bishop of Rennes Life of St Lawrence
17. (fol. 12r col. a lines 2–25) Incipit: || nature contenta bonis non arte decorem
18. (fol. 12r col. a line 26 – col. b line 13) Rubric: monachi conquestio
19. (fol. 12r col. b line 14 – fol. 12v col. a line 10) Rubric: de ... (imperfect; Mozley suggests 'de ⟨gallia⟩')
20. (fol. 12v col. a line 11 – fol. 12v col. b) Altercatio araneae et muscae
21. (fol. 13v col. a – fol. 13v col. b line 19) Matthew, of Vendôme Ars versificatoria (extract: 1.57-58)
22. (fol. 13v col. b line 20–35) Matthew, of Vendôme Ars versificatoria (extract: 1.111)
23. (fol. 13v col.b line 36 – fol. 13r col. a line 2) Rubric: hec sunt officia laterne
24. (fol. 13r col. a lines 3–4) Incipit: Paupere ditato grauius nichil esse putato / Paupere nil peius dum sors res ampliat eius.
25. (fol. 13r col. a lines 5–26) Matthew, of Vendôme Ars versificatoria (extract: 1.107-108, verses only).
26. (fol. 13r col. a line 27 – col. b) Incipit: In dominos dominatur amor, domat omnia, fortes
27. (fol. 14r col. a, line 1 – col. b line 6) Incipit: ||si taceam, fidei sunt fracta repagula, regnant
28. (fol. 14r col. b line 7 – fol. 14v (end of col. b)) An altercation between Grammar and logic (?) (poem)
29. (fol. 15r col. a – col. b line 6) Matthew, of Vendôme Ars versificatoria (extract: 1. 50).
30. (fol. 15r col. b line 6 – fol. 15v col. a line 12) Matthew, of Vendôme, approximately 1130- Ars versificatoria (1.51).
31. (fol. 15v col. a line 13 – fol. 15v col. b line 32) Matthew of Vendôme Ars versificatoria (1.52).
32. (fol. 15v col. b lines 33–39) Matthew of Vendôme Ars versificatoria (1.53, verses 1-7)

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

: ii + 16 leaves + ii (paper fly leaves) Measured from fol. 7, which has incurred less significant trimming than the other leaves; significant portions of most leaves were cut at the top, bottom or outer margins.

Hands

Northern textualis: 'excellent bookhand of the thirteenth century' (Mozley (1932)).

Decoration

Blue and red two-line painted initials, some with penwork (red initials with blue penwork and blue initials with red penwork). Some guide letters (for example, fols. 10r and 11v).

Binding

19th-century Bodleian library binding. On the spine: 'Fragmenta poetica (Gul. Blesensis Alda &c.)'

Provenance

Removed from unidentified binding(s).

Part of a series of unreferenced fragments arranged as palaeographical specimens, which was broken up in 1895: see Summary Catalogue no. 30479.

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