Latin miscellany

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Title

Latin miscellany

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell 51

Associated place

Regensburg

Place of origin

Austrian

Austria (?)

Date

1471

15th century

13th-14th century

1452 and 15th century, middle

1468

Language

Latin

MS. Lyell 51 – Part A (fol. i+1–24)

Jean Gerson Opusculum tripartitum

Fol. 24v is blank.

MS. Lyell 51 – Part B (fol. 25–48)

Jodocus Weiler of Heilbronn Tractatus de usu et modo dictandi

⟨Jodocus Weiler of Heilbronn (?)⟩ De exordiis

Fols. 25–25v, 45–48v are blank.

MS. Lyell 51 – Part C (fol. 49–56)

Notes on Aristotle, Ethics

Fol. 52v–56v are blank.

MS. Lyell 51 – Part D (fol. 57–85)

Treatise on dictamen

MS. Lyell 51 – Part E (fol. 86–128)

1. (fol. 88v) Mauricius Leydis Ars predicandi

Incipit: Communicaturus caritative meis desiderantibus hoc quod de modo predicandi ad populos multos per labores donavit altissimus

(fol. 89r) Rubric: Divisio predicacionum

Rubric: Declaracio. Declaracio paradigmatis de sanctis et primo de prima riga primi semicirculi

(fol. 100r) Rubric: Sequitur nunc de partibus integralibus sermonis

This is preceded (fol. 86v–88) by paradigms expounded in the text:

Rubric: De sanctis

Rubric: (fol. 86v) Prima pars primi paradigmatis

(fol. 87r) Rubric: Secunda pars primi paradigmatis

b. (fol. 86v–87) Rubric: Dyabolus

c. (fol. 88r) Rubric: Secundum paradigma (de tempore)

Giovanni da Capestrano Sermons preached at Regensburg, 1452

a. (fol. 105r) Rubric: Sermo de visitacione virginis benedicte factus Radispone a fratre Iohannis[sic] de Capistrano doctore egregio iuris civilis ac viro devoto ordinis minorum

Followed by a note on the celebration of the feast of the Visitation.

b. (fol. 109r) Rubric: … Et est de ludo

Incipit: Gegimina viperarum quis vobis demonst⟨r⟩abit … Genimina ostendit eos culpabiles

Rubric: Item nota versus et metra de ludo

Rubric: Nota alia metra de eiusdem Ovidius poeta dicta⟨ vit(?) ⟩

(iv). (fol. 109v) Rubric: Ad propositum(?) sermonis

Fol. 110v is blank.

Ars generalis

a. (fol. 111r) Rubric: Sequitur Ars generalis prima figura

Rubric: secunda figura

(fol. 111v) Rubric: figura quarta

(fol. 112r) Rubric: Hec est figura tercia

b. (fol. 112r) Incipit: Bonitas, Differenda, Utrum

c. (fol. 112v) a list of Lull’s nine ‘Dignitates Dei’ or ‘Essencialis Accentualis’

d. (fol. 113r) Incipit: B. Bonitas est ens racion⟨e⟩ cuius bonum agit bonum

Incipit: Utrum querit possibilitatem rei

Examples of the application of the Art using ‘mensa’ and ‘liber’

(i). (fol. 113v) Incipit: Virtutes eius quis sufficit enarrare. Est enim mensa valde bona

(fol. 114r) Rubric: Argumentum

(ii). (fol. 114v) Incipit: Item nota quot decem et octo principia supra dicta et eciam novem questiones supra dicta sunt generalia sive generales ad omne quod est et possunt applicari ad omnem rem et ad omne thema ut iam patuit superius de mensa. Exemplum secundum de libro et dicitur sic. Virtutes eius quis sufficit enarrare. Est liber valde bonus

(fol. 115r) Rubric: Argumentum

Fol. 115v–121v are blank.

4. (fol. 122r) Ars memoratiua

Fol. 128 is blank.

MS. Lyell 51 – Part F (fol. 129–40)

Statutes and customs of the Cathedral Chapter of Bressanone (formerly Brixen), 20 March 1422

1. (fol. 129r) Record of the reading by the Dean, Nicolaus Swarat, to the Canons of Bressanone, of the ‘Statuta et consuetudines dicti Capituli’, and of their approval of them, 20 March 1422.

2. (fol. 129v) Rubric: Tenores Statutorum et consuetudinum de quibus superius facta est mencio secuntur in hec verba

3. (fol. 137r) Record of the approval and sealing of the statutes by the Bishop, Berchtholdus, and of the canons’ solemn oath to observe them

4. (fol. 137v–138) Testimony of the notary, Nicolaus Johannis Clericus Augustensis diocesis

Fol. 138v–140v are blank.

MS. Lyell 51 – Part G (fol. 141–52)

1. (fol. 141r) Elizabeth, dowager Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (?) An exhortation to Frederick King of the Romans (elected 1440, cr. Emperor Frederick III in 1452) and his brother Albert (Albert VI Duke of Styria, d. 1463) to end their quarrel over their lands in Styria, Carinthia and Camiola

2. (fol. 144v–149v) Nicolaus Petschacher of Znoyma (Znaim) Collection (anonymous in this MS.) of Latin poems chiefly about King Albert II of Hungary and Bohemia and the Hussite problem

Fol. 150–2 are blank.

MS. Lyell 51 – Part H (fol. 153–60)

1. (fol. 153r) Johannes Bondi of Aquileia Liber epythetorum

MS. Lyell 51 – Part J (fol. 161–75)

1. (fol. 161r) Treatise on confession

Sermons

a. (fol. 173v, continued on fol. 174r) Rubric: De novo sacerdote

b. (fol. 173v, continued on fol. 174va) Rubric: In cena Domini

MS. Lyell 51 – Part K (fol. 176–83)

Theological notes

Rubric: De x generibus hominum

Incipit: (fol. 183vb) ⟨A⟩ngeli eorum similiter vident faciem patris.

MS. Lyell 51 – Part L (fol. 184–92)

Pope Paul II Bulls against Georgy Podebrad, King of Bohemia, issued on 20 April 1468

1. (fol. 184r) Incipit: Paulus episcopus servus servorum Dei, ad futuram rei memoriam. Licet inscrutabilis superni consilii prudencia

2. (fol. 186r) Incipit: Paulus episcopus servus servorum Dei, ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Regnans in secula sempiternus vivorum et mortuorum Iudex fortis et paciens

Fol. 188v–192v are blank.

Form

codex

Physical extent

i+192 leaves (fol. i, left blank, is part of the first quire)

Binding

15th-cent. monastic binding of wooden boards covered with white leather (probably polished sheepskin) decorated with tooled panels and stamps; sewing strengthened in the middle of the quires with strips of parchment taken from MSS.; traces of a label on the upper cover.

Acquisition

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Provenance

Formerly no. 596 in the library of Admont (see paper label on spine).

Sold by Admont in or after 1934 to L. and A. Brecher of Brünn; see G. Moser-Mersky, Mittelalt. Bibl.kat. Österreichs iii, 1961, p. 9.

Bought by Lyell from Davis and Orioli in April 1938; see their Cat. 79 (Nov. 1937), no. 90.

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948

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