Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Manuscript codex copy of William Peraldus, Summa de vitiis written in the mid 14th century of unknown provenance although in England in medieval period, Given by George Davenport to Bishop Cosin's Library around 1670.
Parchment, wavy, second-rate with many follicle markings; some natural flaws; quires with flesh side outermost.
foliated i, 1-152
endleaves (1 modern paper, 1 17th century paper, 2 stubs of coarse medieval parchment flyleaves, 1-312, 412 wants 7 after f.42, 5-1212, 1312 wants 10-12 (blank?) after f.152.
No sign of pricking visible. Written space c. 216 or (quires 9-11) c. 210 x 138 mm.; ruling in soft brown. Two columns, 49-51 lines, with several ruled lines left blank below written space for all hands, in some cases extending down to the edge of the leaf (e.g. f.7v).
Written in anglicana formata of university type, in two sizes, by at least four similar hands: (i) f.1-83v (quires 1-7), 122r/b37-131v and 144r-152v (quire 13), (ii) f.84r-119v (quires 8-10), (iii) f.120r-122r/b36, (iv) f.132r-143v (quire 12); descenders of bottom line and ascenders of top line extended and elaborated by (i).
Chapter headings, etc., written larger and underlined in red. Paraphs, in red or blue, alternating. Initials: (i) to chapters, etc., (f.1r-8v), 2 line, blue, with red infilling and flourishing; (ii) to tracts, 3 or 4 line, as (i); (iii) to opening, 4 line, in blue decorated with red, with red infilling, flourishing and foliate extensions and a J-border down left edge of text block, the inner plain blue and the outer composed of alternately red and blue sections 20-35 mm high each with a projecting stemmed blob between two half diamonds.
Omissions supplied over erasures (e.g. f.7r), by interlineation (e.g. f.7r) and in margins, by original or contemporary hands (e.g. f.4v-5r), sub-punction and cancellation. Further corrections by a later early 15th century hand, e.g. f.11v-12r. Marginal apparatus in a few places, perhaps in the main hand, with coloured paraphs, e.g. against “crachier” in text is “gallice. anglice spittyn” f.135v. Some annotation, 14th/15th century, frequently “Nota bene”; distinctive hand pointers, f.42v, 80v.
Bound in Durham, 17th century, boards covered with calf bearing Hugh Hutchinson's rolls A, D (on edges) E (?) and tool no. 1. Spine replaced late 20th century; 19th century endpapers and clasp.
Written in England ?, mid 14th century.
Inscription: “Geo. Davenport | 1663.”, visible on earlier pastedown through window cut in later pastedown; his note of content, f.iv. Ex-libris and shelf-numbers by Thomas Rud on f.1r.
William Peraldus, Summa de vitiis. Subdivisions vary from those in the 1668 Paris edition. Between f.42v and 43r the edition vol.2, p.110 col b “constituerent: sed longe” - 113 col b “nobis Dominus Joan 2” is lacking from the section on simony (within avarice), approximately the amount occupying one folio.
1. Nota diuersas etates hominis | Infancia durat vsque ad vij annum Puericia ... Senectus: vsque ad lxxm uel lxxxm annum exinde Senium: quod dicitur labor et dolor. Six ages of man.
2. Vicium sodomiticum est peccatum contra naturam et est ignominiosum ... semen emiserit aliter quam naturaliter cum uxore. Condemnation of sodomy.
3. Sex sunt generaciones mundi prima ab adam vsque ad noe ... ad finem seculi. 4or sunt generaciones numerorum prima que incipit ab vno et durat vsque ad .x. ... ex imperfectis est reperire alios diminutos alios habundantes. Ends with the four classes of numbers.
Bloomfield, Morton W., Guyot, Bertrand-Georges, Howard, Donald R. and Kabealo, Thyra B., Incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices, 1100-1500 A.D. Including a section of incipits of works on the Pater noster 
(Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1979)
Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiae cathedralis
dunelm. Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at
various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution, including
catalogues of the library of the abbey of Hulne, and of the mss.
,
Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).
Guillelmi Peraldi, ordinis praedicat. ss. theolog. profess. ac episcopi Lugdunensis, Summae virtutum ac vitiorum tomus primus[-secundus]: cum indicibus locupletissimis (Lugduni: Apud Petrum Compagnon & Robertum Taillandier, in vico Mercatorio, ad insigne Cordis boni, 1668)
Newhauser, R. and Bejzcy, I., A supplement to Morton W. Bloomfield et al. Incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices, 1100-1500 A.D. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008)