Collection of theological works by Robert Holcot, William Woodford, Franciscus de Mayronis and others : [manuscript]
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Woodford, William, -1397? Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 Franciscus, de Mayronis, approximately 1285-approximately 1328 Holkot, Robertus, -1349. Quaestiones super IV libros Sententiarum Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 27187
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Part 1. ff. 2-113v. [Robert Holcot, Quaestiones super quattuor libros sententiarum Petri Lombardi; first leaf torn away]: Incipit: //esse contingentem et 1am teneor credere esse necessariam si dicatur quod non teneor assentire omnibus equaliter ... Explicit: Ad 11m quando queritur quid appeciit, superius dictum fuit et cetera. Explicit lectura. f. 113v: chapter list of this manuscript, with Bk. 4 preceding Bk. 3 Part 1. f. 114-117: [added in another hand]: chapter list of each questio and its articuli, and an alphabetical subject index with reference to the questiones. Part 1. f. 117v-119v: [added by same hand as chapter list]: ff. 117v-118: a quaestio about the Immaculate Conception; f. 119r-v: a note. Part 2. ff. 120-164v: [William Woodford, De causis condempnacionis articulorum 18 dampnatorum Johannis Wyclif]: Incipit: Venerabili in christo patri ac illustri domino thome cantuariensi archiepiscopo tocius anglie primati et sedis apostolice legato humilis suus servitor frater Willelmus Wydford devotissimum humilitatis et subiectionis famulatum. Reverendissime pater, mandatis vestris obtemperando causas condempnacionis articulorum per vos nuper dampnatorum ... Explicit: si in hiis dictis alicubi recessi a via veritatis et parcere michi velet vestra dominacio quamvis hoc opus non habeat in singulis articulis discussionem plenam quia pro completa discussione tot articulorum tempus quadragesimale per vestram reverenciam taxatum fuit nimis breve. Scripta in castro de framlynham in vigilia pasche per auctoritatem vestram venerabilem atque dominacionem ad catholice fidei defensionem conservet Ihesus christus feliciter per tempora longiora. Amen. Witford minor. Part 2. ff. 164v-165v: [Augustine, Excerpts from his Letter to Casulanus] Rubric: Augustinus de ieiunio sabbati ad casulanum. Incipit: Si nullo modo liceret sabbato ieiunare 40 continuos dies. Explicit: sine ullo scrupulo vel disceptacione facite. Explicit augustinus de ieiunio sabbati ad Casulanum. Amen. [f. 165v blank]. Part 2: ff. 166-168: [Franciscus de Mayronis, Sermon]: Rubric: Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum et cetera. Incipit: Tria sunt preconia quibus mundani principes solent principaliter commendari ... Explicit: in corpore organico et christi corpus in hoc sacramento. Explicit sermo de corpore christi quem composuit frater franciscus de maronis doctor sacre theologie. Ihesus amen. Part 2. ff. 168v-174: [Franciscus de Mayronis, Sermon]: Rubric: Quodcumque ligaveris super terram et cetera. Incipit: Mt. 16, Duos fines ultimos futuros esse in fine seculi describit augustinus 13 libro de civitate dei quorum unus est dampnatorum pena eterna. Explicit: qui solem suum facit oriri super bonos et malos et pluit super iustos et iniustos cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum amen. Explicit sermo fratris francisci de maronis de potestate clavium. Part 2. ff. 174v-182v: Rubric: Utrum per scripturam veteris testamenti poterit probari. Incipit: quod christus in lege promissus iam venit. Arguitur primo quod non quia cum iudei acceptent. Explicit: Tenendum est igitur firma fide christum in carnem venisse propter dicta patriarcharum. Non plus hic de adventu messie. Ihesus amen. f. 182: 12-line note in a contemporary running hand. ff. 180v-182v, blank. Title supplied by cataloger. Composite volume written in England; the first part (Robert Holcot's Quaestiones super quattuor libros sententiarum Petri Lombardi) in the fourteenth century, the second (works by William Woodford, Augustine and Franciscus de Mayronis) at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Part 1. Span folios: ff. 2-119. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1¹²(-1) 2-10¹². Catchwords in lightly sketched frames in the shape of fish, mice or grotesques. Ruled space, 220 x 130 mm; 2 columns of 47 lines ruled in lead with an additional double rule in all 4 margins. Written in a deteriorating littera textualis. Contemporary foliation in arabic numerals, [1]-119. Part 1. Decoration: The remaining lower inner corner of f. 1 shows decoration on the opening page to have consisted of a bar border of colored segments and trefoil leaves. Alternating red and blue 3-line initials with flourishing of the other color; letters of the running headlines and paragraph marks alternating red and blue. Side notes in the hand of the scribe enclosed in the same pen sketches as the catchwords. Part 2. Span folios: ff. 120-182v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-5⁸ 6⁶(through f. 165) 7⁸ 8⁸(-7, 8) 9 (composed of 3 singletons?). Catchwords in the script of the text in the right lower margin. Leaf signatures usually i-iiii, but as ai-aiiii on ff. 166-169. Ruled space, 198 x 125 mm; 43-47 long lines, frame ruled in crayon; pricking in the outer margins of the conjunct leaves, ff. 120 and 127, but not used. Written in a current anglicana script. Contemporary pagination, 1-92 on ff. 120-165v. Part 2. Decoration: Opening initial, f. 120, 5-line, in gold on a particolored blue and pink ground with trailing floral spray of blue, orange and tan spoon leaves and green tendrils, across the inner and upper margins. 3-line blue initials with red flourishing; red paragraph marks. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 9/6/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in 15th century doeskin over wooden boards; sewn on 5 bands; remains of 2 fore edge clasps closing to pins on back. Notes, possibly added at the time of the binding (apparently not in the scribes' hands): f. 1, remaining lower corner, "Sunt//"; f. 119, "hic sunt 10 quaterni"; f. 120, lower margin and f. 180, upper margin, "Sunt 9 quaterni istius opusculi." Badly wormed boards and endleaves. HM 27187. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Theology--Early works to 1800 Miscellanies England 14th century. (aat) Miscellanies England 15th century. (aat) Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
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Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
The 2 parts were together when owned by Robert Rede, O.P., bishop of Chichester (1396-1415): on f. i verso, "Liber magistri Roberti Reede Episcopi Cicestrensis in quo continentur lectura holcote super iiiior libri sententiarum in parte cum tabula eiusdem cum tractatu valde bono magistri W. Whydeford edito contra hereticas opiniones et erroneas positas per magistrum I. Wyclyff." Rede bequeathed his books to the Dominican convent of Kings Langley in Hertford (see Emden, BRUO, 2209 and Ker, MLGB, 105). At some time in the fifteenth century the manuscript may have passed to St. Albans: "De studio abbatis" appears 5 times on ff. ii and iii verso; 10 other St. Albans books bear this note (see R. W. Hunt, "The Library of the Abbey of St. Albans," in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts and Libraries: Essays presented to N. R. Ker, ed. M. B. Parkes and A. G. Watson (London 1978) 251-77, and Ker, MLGB, 164-68). Belonged to James Fairhurst, as part of his collection of mainly sixteenth and early seventeenth century ecclesiastical materials, which he had gathered in an effort to locate lost portions of Matthew Hale's library. "XII" in modern pencil on f. i. Sold through Messrs. Morgan Grenfell and Co. Ltd., Sotheby's, 10 June 1963, lot 162 to the Huntington Library.
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