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A Bonaventure, Breviloqium, England, 13th-14th centuries; B Henry Cossey on Apocalypse, England, 14th century

MS. Rawl. C. 16

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Title

A Bonaventure, Breviloqium, England, 13th-14th centuries; B Henry Cossey on Apocalypse, England, 14th century

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. C. 16

Associated place

Oxford

Date

14th century, first half

13th century, middle (fols. 1r-104v); 14th century (fols. 105r-119r)

Language

Latin

Contents

MS. Rawl. C. 16 - part A (fols. 1-130)
1. (fols. ii verso – iii verso) Texts added by Nicholas Cantelow (see above, Provenance): fol. ii verso, text mostly erased; fol. iii recto, six prayres; fol. iii verso, Walther 11235 ('Mors cur non faris ... iuuabit pacificatus').
1. (fols. 1r–119r) Bonaventure Breviloquium
(fol. 123r) Memorandum of books and other items received by sir John Cryse in 1513 from Magister Poxwyll. For two Oxford men called John Cryse see Emden, BRUO 1501-1540, p. 155; for John Poxwell of Merton College see Emden, BRUO, III.1511
MS. Rawl. C. 16 - part B (fols. 131-225)
2. (fols. 131r–220v) Henry Cossey Commentary on Revelation
(fols. 220v–225r) Originally blank, partly filled by added texts:
Texts added by Nicholas Cantelow: (fol. 220v) calculation on the age of the Carmelite order, followed by verses; (fol. 221r) verses including extracts from the Speculum stultorum; (fol. 224r) a prayer; (fol. 224v) notes on swearing an oath on the Bible; (fol. 225r) verses including 'Querela unius monachi Lewes de superbo priore ibidem' (four lines), and three lines against Adam Orleton ('Trigamus est ...').
Other additions: (fol. 221v) alphabet and erased line; (fol. 222v) six verses ('In uncem dentes ...') , as in Cambridge, St John's College MS. G. 16 fol. iii, signed, 'quod Willelmus Adams';

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (paper of the date of the binding) + 2 (medieval endleaves) + 217 + 2 (medieval endleaves) + i (paper of the date of the binding)

Binding

19th-century binding for the Bodleian.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian in 1755

Provenance

Nicholas Cantelow or Cantelupe OCarm. (d. 1441) (on whom see R. Copsey, Biographical Register of Carmelites in England and Wales 1240-1540 (2020), 256-8), who assembled the volume and added texts. Signed 'Cantelowe', fols. 1r, 131r, 224v; 'de Cantelupo Nicholai' in a verse, fol. 220v, cf. fol. 221r 'Cantelowe Nicholaum'; his added texs include short notes on the Carmelite order (fols. 220v-221r).

Probably at Oxford in 1513 (fol. 123r, see below)

'Willelmus Adams', fol. 222v, 15th/16th century

'William Prichard', fol. 127v, 16th century

'William Archbold 172', fol. 223v, 16th/17th century

Francis Pole: no. 1349 in the auction catalogue of his library (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mus. Bibl. III. 8o 51(11)), 9 March 1752

'563' in an earlier (?) collection (fol. ii recto)

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755, purchased at the Pole sale.

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Title

Bonaventure, Breviloquium; Henry Cossey, Commentary on Revelation; Verses and miscellanea

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. C. 16

Date

13th-14th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 item

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Collection contents

Rawlinson Manuscripts

Rawlinson C: History, Theology

Bonaventure, Breviloquium; Henry Cossey, Commentary on Revelation; Verses and miscellanea

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  • Willelmus Adams
  • William Prichard
  • William Archbold
  • Pole, Francis, of Park Hall, Chesterfield, –1750

  • Henricus, de Cossey, -1336

  • Rawlinson, Richard, 1690-1755

  • Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274

  • Cantalupus, Nicolaus, -1441

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