Durham University Library Cosin MS V.v.3Sermons
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Manuscript codex containing two collections of Latin sermons written by one scribe in England or France at the end of the 13th century. Some of the authors can be identified, the most frequent in both collections being St. Bonaventure. Internal evidence indicates that it was kept in gatherings in a loose wrapper; the two folios at the end probably serving this purpose. It was used by Franciscans in the earliest part of its history, before passing into the ownership of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds. It was purchased by George Davenport, who gave it to Bishop Cosin's Library around 1670.


Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment, some irregular edges; quires with flesh-side outermost), with some leaves rather shorter, particularly in quire 8 (f.85-96); all edges cropped; flaws in f.26, 42, 158, 175-6, 227, some formerly stitched. Foot of f.266 cut off.

Extent: i+iii+268+ii+i f
Size: 175 mm x 115 mm

Foliation

Pencil foliation 18th/19th century i, 1-268, repeating 71 and 130. Original arabic foliation, 13th/14th century of f.3-109 and 111-266, “1”-“288”, jumping from 189 to 200, and now lacking 48-60 after f.49.


Secundo folio: gaudia
Collation

1-312, 412 wants 12 after f.49, [one quire missing], 5-812, 912 + 3; 1012-1312, 14-2212, [one quire or more missing]

Catchwords: Catchwords at ends of quires 1-3, 5-19 and 20.
Signatures: Some openings numbered in roman or arabic by soft brown in the lower inner margin on both rectos and versos in the first half of quires 1-7.
Layout

Prickings for line-ruling in outer margins, mostly cropped. Written space 110 x 63 mm, or, f.42-266v, 110-120 x 67-82 mm. 27 lines, or, f.42r-111v, 28-32 lines, or, f.112r-266v, 27-28 lines. Line-ruling partly visible on some leaves, in brown lead like the frames.

Script

Written in one practised textura of academic type, hastily or, f.3r-41v and 112r-117v/23 more neatly, with changes of pen and ink and spacing at f.42r, 112r and 117v/23.

Decoration

Scriptural quotations underlined in ink. Unfilled spaces for initials, 2-line, to each sermon, etc., but mostly with marginal guide-letters. Pen-decorated paraph on f.189v.

Corrections and annotation

“Assit principio sancta maria meo”, f.123r head, in anglicana, end of 13th century. but not associable with a change of hand or text. Arabic folio numbers in the top right-hand corners of rectos up to original 100 (now f.88), to 96 by original hand and ink, then by another hand, top centre up to 288 (f.266); “.a.” in top margin, centre up to 96 (f.84); “.b.” on f.14v, 25v, 26v, for indexing by openings: 13th/14th century. Some intratextual and marginal corrections by main hand(s?). A tagged “d” repeatedly in the margins, from f.36 on, by one or more contemporary hand(s), without obvious common purpose, not deletion, perhaps for notable dicta, but not all scriptural quotations. Lengthy small neat Anglicana addition, 14th century, in plummet at the foot of f.88v. At the head of f.123r (not a textual beginning) the common scribal “Assit principio sancta maria meo” preceded by plain “d”, added in Anglicana, 13th/14th century. A few marginal notes in plummet and ink of the end of the 13th century (e.g. f.26r, 220v: bracketed divisiones of Sapientia), 14th century (f.4v-5r, 7r, 11r, 12r, 17r) and 15th century (f.3v, 5v, 6v, 8r, 14r). Large grey lead scratch marks on a few leaves, e.g. f.51r-v, 59v-60r, 83v, presumably for emphasis; brown marks and uncertain words at foot of f.54r. Smeared illegible ink note at foot of f.266v.

Binding

Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over thick wooden boards (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th century). Presumably not integrally bound, 13th/14th century, see notes indicating the whereabouts of individual quires; perhaps still in a wrapper at the end of the 14th century (“quaternus” in the Bury ex-libris). Rows of stitching-holes extending from the gutter to the mid-point of the upper and lower edges of f.2, with a second parallel row largely cropped away at the upper edge, recur with exactly the same minor variations in similar rows on f.268, and show that f.2 and 268, with the latter upside-down, were once together; the stitching perhaps served for a limp wrapper cover. Marks on f.i, formerly pasted down.


Manuscript history
Creation

Written in England or France, end of 13th century.

Provenance

A cropped note, “hic vsque co<...> fueram (?) quat<.. ..>ris”, f.196r margin, perhaps in the main hand. Notes in soft brown, 13th/14th century, apparently record the use of separate quires as exemplars for copying: “Isti duo sermones nondum scribuntur”, f.104r foot (98); “sequentem quaternum habet Frater W de Wynton”, f.111v foot (9ult.); “Frater W de Wynton habet quaternum precedentem”, with a line through it in brown, f.124r top (111), underlying the arabic foliation; “quaternum sequentem habet R Wallop” f.146v foot; “quaternum sequentem habet Frater W de Wynton” with a line through it, f.158v foot. f.11v-2r (illustrated in Wormald & Wright, plate 9). One Richard de Wallop, Franciscan friar of Salisbury, was licensed as a confessor by the bishop of Winchester, February 1321 and February 1326 (information from J. R. H. Moorman). “Quaternus monachorum sancti edmundi de dono domini Roberti de Rokeswell. S.78.”, f.3r head, end of 14th century, in a hand identified by Prof. R. H. Rouse as that of Henry de Kirkestede, librarian of the Benedictine abbey of Bury St Edmunds (died c.1378); the pressmark is typical of those used at Bury at this period. Inscription: “Geo. Davenport. 1664.”, f.iv; “Liber Sermonum”, f.1v, by Davenport. Ex-libris of Bishop Cosin's Library by Rud f.3r.


Manuscript contents
(i)     f.1v
Modern title: Contents list for (1)
Date: [13th/14th century]
Language: Latin

List, headed “Pro d[ie?] 1”, with references to the medieval numbering by openings, of the feasts or, as (1p), audience of all but the last five sermons in (1); five entries have no feast identified but the second of these, i.e. for item (1e) below, has after “s[ermo?] de”,“humilitate pro religiosis” added, 14th/15th century. The list has entries for six complete sermons and part of a seventh lost between f.49 and 50, of which the second, sixth and seventh have no feast identified; the others are Francis, Clare, All Saints and Nativity of B.V.M. The references in the list show that there was more than one page and less than three pages now missing from the end of item (1l) after f.49, and less than one page at the start of item (1m) before f.50. The second half of item (1r), f.57v, is entered separately as “Memoria(?) de spiritu sancto memoria(?) ad religiosos op (?)”. The recto of each opening covered by the list has “.A.” in the centre of the upper margin, in the same hand and ink as the foliation (original 1-96, now 3-84). The feasts named in the list are given below for each sermon.

(1)     f.3r-111v
Modern title: Sermons
Language: Latin

27 sermons, (1l and 1m are defective), for saints' days and some other occasions, by various authors or, (1c-1h and 1k-1r), of yet unidentified authorship. Schneyer lists (1a-1j) and (1r-1aa), as “Sermones Universitatis Parisiensis”.

An inserted half-leaf, f.110, blank on the verso, contains a passage keyed by signs into the text at the turn of f.111r-v.

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1a)     f.3r-19r
Modern title: Sermo de regne Dei
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Simile est regnum celorum homini qui seminauit bono semine in agro suo. Mt. 13.d.[:14]. Detinebant illum ne discederet ab eis scilicet Galilei. quibus ille ait ... [Luc. 4:42-43]. Istud uerbum ultimum scribitur Luc. 13.g. vbi nota quod inter omnia officia hierarchica nobilissimum officium est euangelizare ... uita mea non sufficit. rogemus etc. simile ...
Explicit: In ista tota parabola euangelii hodierni; tria notantur in generali. primum est diuina sapiencia in conditione creaturarum ... ... punienda supplicio. a quo supplicio nos liberatis perducat filius dei ad re. ce. q. nobis prestare dignetur etc.
Language: Latin

Also found in Munich MS CLM 14595

Edited: Bougerol, 189; 209-232
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, i, 626 no 476
(1b)     f.19r-21v
Modern title: John ev.
Author: William de Malliaco
Incipit: In manibus abscondit lucem etc. usque ascendere. Iob 36[:32]. Pridie celebrauimus temporalem regis nostri ortum. Hodie recolit sancta mater ecclesia quomodo amantissimus domini beatus Iohannes ab amico suo ...
Explicit: ... anima deserit uisa luce celesti et deliciis sempiternis gustatis ad huius lucis possessionem perducat nos etc.
Language: Latin

Explicit differs from that given in Schneyer.

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, ii, 490 no. 88
(1c)     f.21v-23r
Original title: dominicalis
Incipit: Non omnis qui dicit mihi ... Mt. 7.[21]. Duo necessaria sunt pertingere uolentibus ad salutem. uidelicet cognicio ueritatis et exercitatio uirtutis ...
Explicit: ... Item in humilitate obedientie; R'.20. Item in stabilitate perseuerancie.
Language: Latin

On St Katharine. Glosses “abire longe de terra. aurel uel oxon uel parisius ad studiun propter scientiam acquirendum”. Orleans, Oford and Paris described as studia. Last 6 lines of page left blank.

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1d)     f.23v-26r
Modern title: Bartholomew
Incipit: Conscidisti saccum meum ... Ps. [29:12]. Notatur in uerbo proposito beati bartholomei acerbitas martirii ibi consci. sac. m. et Iocunditas premii. ibi circumdedisti me letitia ...
Explicit: ... fortiter imitari quod ad eorum presumus beatitudinem peruenire. Ad quam nos perducat etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1e)     f.26r-28v
Modern title: de humilitate ad religiosos
Incipit: Humiliamini sub potenti manu dei ... Pe'. [5:6]. Laudes humilitatis cecinerint qui fuerunt ante legem. qui sub lege. et qui post legem ...
Explicit: ... Ad istam humilitatem ueram perducat nos humilis iesus christus. Amen.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1f)     f.28v-30v
Modern title: Annunciation
Incipit: Ecce ascendet dominus super nubem leuem etc. usque faciem eius. Ysa. 19.[1]. Ps. [77:23]. mandauit nubibus desuper etc. usque panem angelorum mandu. In hiis uerbis ostenditur qualis debet predicator. quia eleuatus per contemplacionem ...
Explicit: ... in passione. et radiorum reflexio: in ascensione.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1g)     f.30v33r
Modern title: Annunciation
Incipit: Ecce ascendet dominus etc. [Is. 19:1]. quoniam cogitatio hominis ... [Ps. 75:11] Hic ostendit propheta quod reliquie diuinorum uerborum non sunt abiciende quoniam diem festum ...
Explicit: ... in cruce suam carnem crucifigens ne caro nostra lasciuiat.
Language: Latin

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1h)     f.33r-35v
Modern title: Angels
Incipit: Angelis suis deus mandauit etc. [Ps. 9:11]. Labia sacerdotis custodiunt scienciam etc. Mal. 2.[7]. In uerbis secundo propositis ostenditur uobis quod hoc est potissimum inter omnia opera ...
Explicit: ... ecce plena possessio ad quam etc.
Language: Latin

Gap of line and a half on f.33v

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1i)     f.35v-38r
Modern title: Andrew
Author: Eberhardus de Valle Scholarum
Incipit: Proposito sibi gaudio sustinuit crucem He. xi[i:2]. Duo notantur a quibus .A. commendatur scilicet temporalis iocunditas quam contempsit. et passionis acerbitas ...
Explicit: ... hiis excessit beata uirgo cunctos Prou. ult. multe filio ... es uniuersas.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, ii, 3 no 13; ix, 327 no 4.
(1j)     f.35v-38r
Modern title: Stephen
Author: Innocent V, Pope, approximately 1224-1276
Incipit: Veritas de terra orta est et iustius de celo prospexit [Ps. 84:12]. Due sunt cause hodierne solempnitatis. vna natiuitas saluatoris que natus est temporaliter in mundo. altera natale beati stephani qui prothomartiris ...
Explicit: .. non suscipit vllam commutationem terrenam. valde enim eminet
Language: Latin

Incipit only approximately the same and explicit different to that given in Schneyer. 6 ruled lines left blank.

Citation:Schneyer, iv, 803 no 1
(1k)     f.42r-47v
Modern title: Circumcision
Incipit: In christo iesu neque circumcisio ... noua creatura. Gal. ult.[6:15]. uerbum propositum presenti sollempnitati circumcisioni uidelicet doce mag' ...
Explicit: ... totus homo renouatur. illud uidetur in fide Apo. 21. ecce noua facio omnia.
Language: Latin
(1l)     f.47v-49v
Modern title: Circumcision
Incipit: Propter uerba labiorum tuorum ... uias duras [Ps. 16:4]. In hoc uerbo insinuatur perfectio saluatoris nostri qm ad obedientiam uoluntatis diuine ...
Explicit: ... eligendum est triuium parsimonie pacientie et ...
Language: Latin

Ending lost with one leaf or more.

(1m)     f.50r-52v
Incipit: ... de spiritualibus erudimur. Vnde per curationem morbi corporalis ...
Explicit: ... intus et extra in carne et anima: absorbeatur leticia et excedit.
Language: Latin

Opening missing.

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1n)     f.52v-53v
Modern title: All Saints
Incipit: [B]eati qui habitant in domo tua ... [Ps. 83:5]. Nota hic circa sanctorum sollempnitatem eorum gloriam in beatitudine uel et beatitudinem. et uiam perueniendi ...
Explicit: ... per orationem, domus mea domus orationis etc.
Language: Latin

(1o)     f.53v
Modern title: Circumcision
Incipit: Uocatum est nomen eius iesus [Luc 2:21] id est saluator quia saluat a sex incommodis iuxta quod sortitus est sex nomina quos eim nominat ysa. ...
Explicit: ... salutem
Language: Latin

13 lines only to foot of page, but it does not appear that a leaf has been lost.

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1p)     f.54r-55r
Modern title: ad religiosos
Incipit: Audi filia et uide usque ibi uultum ... diuites plebis [Ps. 44:11-13]. Hec uerba scribuntur in psalmo. et possunt esse saluatoris ad unumquemque fidelem et spiritualiter ad religiosos qui filii sunt christi ...
Explicit: ... ornamentum multiplex. in fimbris aureis circumamicta uarietatibus [Ps. 44:14-15]
Language: Latin

(1q)     f.55r-56r
Modern title: B.V.M.
Incipit: Ego sum radix et genus Dauid stella splendida et matutina. apo. ult. [22:16]. Comparat se uirgo beatissima in hiis uerbis radici et stelle. quasi quereret quis ab ea. ...
Explicit: ... duo habet. obumbrat et irrorat.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1r)     f.56r-64r
Modern title: First Sunday of Lent
Incipit: Ductus est iesus in desertum ... Mt. 4[:1]. Ego uox clamantis ... [Jo. 1:23]. illud uerbum secundo propositum scriptum est Ysa. 40. et in euangelio Mt. 1. et est dictum in persona et pro persona illius magni predicatoris beati Io. bap. ... ... (f. 57v) Notandum quod spiritus sanctus per infusionem ...
Explicit: ... ut sic in temptatione probati et fideles inuenti; amici dei effici mereamur et sic ad regna celestia peruenire prestante etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1s)     f.64r-71*v
Modern title: Angels
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Sermo in festo beati michaelis fratris bone fortune. Vidit iacob scalam in sompnis ... [Gen. 28:12]. difficile estimamus que in terra sunt ... in libro sapientie [9:16]. Magna est sapientia scire defectum suum ...
Explicit: ... originatione yararchiarum dicemus in collatione. Rogabimus dominum etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, i, 620 no 406
(1t)     f.71*v-78r
Modern title: Collatio (2nd Angels)
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Vidit iacob in sompnis scalam. [Gen. 28:12]. suscipe celum ... in genesi. et est dictum ad abraham ...
Explicit: ... consummatio sermonis ipsa est christi gloria et imperium in secula seculorum amen.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, i, 620 no 407
(1u)     f.78r-83r
Modern title: B.V.M.
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Sermo in assumptione beate uirginis fratris bone fortune. Fons paruus creuit ... Hec est Hester [11:10] quam rex cepit in uxorem ... Sicut materialiter uidemus quod corpus humanum ...
Explicit: ... saluificat nostras potentias regitiuas. rogabimus dominum etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, i, 622 no 430

Explicit differs from that given in Schneyer.

(1v)     f.83r-88v
Modern title: Nativity of B.V.M.
Author: Latinus ‎ Malabranca, 1235-1294‏
Incipit: Sermo in natiuitate uirginis gloriose fratris latini. Lux orta ... [Ps. 96:11]. qui elucidant ... [Ecci. 24:31]. Beata uirgo maria in uerbis sermo propositis que ex persona eius recitantur ...
Explicit: ... accessibilis est nobis per misericordiam et gratiam. ut in futuro perueniamus ad uitam eternam. quam nobis prestare dignetur etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, iv, 11 no 3
(1w)     f.88v-95r
Original title: Sermo de sancto Nicholao.
Author: William, de la Mare, -approximately 1290‏
Incipit: Ab infancia ... Iob 31[:18]. Verbum propositum conuenienter assumi potest in commendationem beati nicholai ...
Explicit: ... currebas cum eo et ita existimasti usque (?) quod ero cui similis etc.
Language: Latin

Explicits differ from those given in Schneyer.

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, ii, 493
(1x)     f.95r-101r
Original title: Iohannes est nomen eius.
Author: Johannes de S. Angelo O.P.
Incipit: uerba ista scriptum est in euangelio quod heri lectum est in missa et sunt sumpta de Luca [1:63] ...
Explicit: ... gratia saluati estis per fidem et gratia dei est uita eterna. quam nobis prestare dignetur etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, iii, 721 no 3.
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1y)     f.101r-104r
Original title: Collatio. Iohannes est nomen eius.
Author: Johannes de S. Angelo O.P.
Incipit: Dicit saluator oportet semper orare nunquam deficere ...
Explicit: ... et ideo hereditas dabitur. Ad istam hereditatem nos perducat etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, iii, 721 no 4.
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
(1z)     f.104r-109v
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Lauit nos ... apo. 1[:5]. uerbum propositum continet in se satis expresse redemptionis beneficium ...
Explicit: ... non fatigatur. quousque perueniat ad montem dei Oreb. ad quem nos etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, i, 622 no 441
(1aa)     f.109v-111r
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Intrantes domum inuenerunt puerum ... Mt. 2[:11]. In hoc uerbo describitur materia presentis sollempnitatis epiphanie que fuit quedam apparacio ...
Explicit: ... Iob 8[:13] spes ypocrite ... clausura disciplino. De qua Ecc. 51[:31 ?] Appropinquante etc.
Language: Latin

Explicits differ from those given in Schneyer.

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 55-56
Citation:Schneyer, i, 601 no 125/126
(2)     f.112r-266v
Modern title: Sermons
Language: Latin

41 sermons, with (2e, 2g, 2i, 2k, 2m, 2o, 2q, 2s, 2u, 2w, 2y, 2ad, 2af, 2ag) groups of themata having in common a particular word, which also in almost all cases forms a principal topic of the preceding sermon; the word is given at the start of (2k) only, but can be readily supplied. A verbal concordance to the Bible was no doubt employed. Closely associated with that part of the item in which the groups of themata occur, and here commonly alternating with them, are fourteen sermons (2d, 2h, 2j, 2n, 2p, 2r, 2t, 2v, 2x, 2z, 2aa, 2ac, 2ae, 2ai) also found in Naples MS Naz.VIII.A.30 f.39v et seq., a collection of Lenten sermons that forms a part of the larger collection compiled (?) by an unidentified Thomas (alias “Omnibene”) found in Vatican MS Borghese 80.

(2a)     f.112r-127v
Incipit: Parasti in conspectu meo ... Ps. [22:5-6] et est thema in cena domini et triduo sequenti. Nam in istis tribus uersiculis describit nobis sacer propheta dauid triplex beneficium a christo ...
Explicit: ... spiritus ait meus mel dulcis et hereditas mea super mel et fauum. ad quam hereditatem nostram perducat etc.
Language: Latin
(2b)     f.127v-131r
Incipit: Quasi stella matutina in medio nebule ... Ecci. 50[:6] vel idem Iob. 34 [recte 38:32] numquid producis luciferum ... Vtrumque uerbum potesse thema in natiuitate beati Io. baptiste et quicquid dicitur sub uno; potest dici sub altero. licet enim ...
Explicit: .. sed iam uenisse monstrauit inquiens ecce agnus dei q. d. ecce quem debetis imitari.
Language: Latin
(2c)     f.131r-142v
Incipit: Mulier amicta sole et lune ... apo. 12[:1]. speciosus forma pre filiis hominum homo christus sponsus fidelium animarum cum ipse sit splendor glorie ... ... Ecci. 45[:14].
Explicit: ... Si ergo sanctitatis gloria honoris et opus fortitudinis. Istam coronam nobis conferat etc.
Language: Latin
(2d)     f.143r-148v
Incipit: [L]ucas servus. Lucas interpretatur ipse consurgens. ad consurgendum autem habemus causam compellentem mundialem miseriam. et causam expedientem spiritualem mundiciam. ...
Explicit: ... et in ornamentum ad intrandum curiam gloria. primum est ibi induere fortitudine secundum ibi induere uestimentis glorie tue [Is. 52:1] ad quam gloriam nos perducat etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 577 no 348
(2e)     f.148v-149r
Modern title: [Consurgo]
Incipit: Orietur stella ex iacob ... in 40a [I] Paral. 22[:19] prebere corda nostra. ut supra in pascha uel in tempore pascali. col. 4 [recte 3:1] si consurrexistis cum cristo. In ascensione [II] paral. 6[:41]. ... ... Prothema. ... ys. 64[:7]. non est qui inuocet nomen domini
Explicit: ... aut potest thema esse in tempore necessitatis.
Language: Latin
(2f)     f.149r-151r
Incipit: Erit enim magnus coram domino. luc. 1[:15]. a sublimitate status uiatici commendatur in hoc uerbo precursor domini. Et quoniam ad optinendum statum huiusmodi: erigitur concensus uite eximie ...
Explicit: ... gen. 15[:1]. Ego protector tuus sum et merces tua magna nimis. hanc mercedem concedit nobis qui uiuit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum amen.
Language: Latin
(2g)     f.151r
Modern title: [Magnus]
Incipit: Thema in festiuitate unius martiris. Ecci. 46[:1] ...
Explicit: ... et Iob 1[:1]. ut supra. In festiuitate Magdalene tren. 2[:13]. Magna est uelut mare.
Language: Latin
(2h)     f.151r-156r
Incipit: Spiritu sancto replebitur adhuc in utero matris sue. luc.1[:15]. Hiis uerbis angelicis et euangelicis. angelicis propter angeli denunciationem euangelicis propter euangeliste descriptionem; laudes beati Iohannis <euangeliste>[crossed out] baptiste exprimit ...
Explicit: ... in multis et magnis deitatis influenciis. et in requie sua sua replebitur bonis id est in animi quietacione et tranquillitate.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 577 no 350
(2i)     f.156r-156v
Modern title: [Repletus]
Incipit: Thema in ramis palmarum. ruth 1[:20]: non uocetis me neemi id est pulcram ... Sumi enim potest hoc ex christi persona qui est dei uirtus et dei sapientia. Christus enim secundum humanam naturam fuit repletus in conceptione. ysa. 9 [recte 11:2]: requiescet super sum spiritus domini. fuit tam repletus ignominia et illusione ...
Explicit: ... In unius doctoris. prou. 24[:4]. In doctrina replebuntur cellaria uniuersa ... illud potest esse prothema et Ecci. 2[:19] diligunt eum replebuntur lege ipsius.
Language: Latin
(2j)     f.156v-158v
Incipit: Benedictus fructus uentris tui. Luc. 1[:42]. Fructus iste christus ipse. vnde sicut huius uerbi continencia aperit: hunc fructum esse eximium ostendit refectio sancta ...
Explicit: ... quia ipse anime beatificabuntur respiciente domino. aut quia ipse respicientes domini; quietabuntur in eo.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 577 no 351
(2k)     f.158v
Modern title: Fructus
Incipit: Thema in annunciatione domini et in aduentu domini et in natiuitate domini. et benedictus fructus uentris tui et in Ps. 53 [recte 84:13] ... et Zach. 8[:12]. ... Prothema. Ysa. 57[:19] ...
Explicit: ... et Iaco. 5[:18]. celum dedit pluuiam et terra dedit fructum suum.
Language: Latin
(2l)     f.159r-162r
Incipit: Fecit mihi magna qui potens est. Luc. 1[:49]. quoniam collata alicui beneficia liquet esse ualde magnificata propter conferentem liberalem ...
Explicit: ... et ut interpretes eius orationis suffragium: non deseras conuersacionis exemplum. quod nobis concedat etc.
Language: Latin

Found in Naples MS Naz.VIII.A.30 and Vatican MS Borghese 80.

Citation:Schneyer, vii, 359 no 150
(2m)     f.162r
Modern title: [Magnus]
Incipit: Thema in annunciationem beate marie Mt. 15[:28] o mulier magna est fides tua & c.. In dicto etiam festo et in aduentu. Agg. 2[:8]. ut supra ...
Explicit: ... In assumptione. Iudith 16:27. In quolibet festo eius. Luc. 2. [recte 1:49]. fecit nihil [sic] magna qui potens est.
Language: Latin
(2n)     f.162r-166r
Incipit: Memorari testamenti sui sancti [Luc. 1:72]. Memor debet esse homo delictorum ad corrigendum sacrorum ad credendum beneficiorum ad regratiandum. Iuditorum ad formidandum. ...
Explicit: ... de mane uigilabo ad te [Is. 26:9]. eiusdem 62[:6-7]: qui reminiscimini ... laudem in terra.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 577 no 353
(2o)     f.166r-166v
Modern title: [Memoria]
Incipit: Thema in 40. apo. 2[:5]. Memor esto vnde excideris etc. ut supra. in dominica in passione. et in ramis palmarum et in tota ebdomada ...
Explicit: ... In unius pontificis. ecci. 49[:1]. memoria Iosie in compositione odoris. Iosias interpretatur in quo est sacrificium.
Language: Latin
(2p)     f.166v-171v
Incipit: De manu omnium [inimicorum] liberati seruiamus illi. Luc. 1[:74]. Seruire debet homo deo sancte. iuste. simpliciter. perseueranter. Sancte, ut sit in exercitatione sinceritas. ...
Explicit: ... ut inueniamus eum promouentem. in deuotione; ut inueniamus cum reficientem.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 577 no 354
(2q)     f.171v
Modern title: [Servitium]
Incipit: Thema in pluribus diebus dominicis. [I] Reg. 2 [recte 7:3]. preparate corda uestra domino et seruite illi soli. ... In festo sancti iohannis euangeliste uel unius doctoris. Ysa. 52[:13]. intelliget seruus meus ...
Explicit: ... vbi commendatur beatus iohannes euangelista a sanctitate uite. seruus meus a claritate intelligencie ibi intelliget a sublimitate doctrine. ibi et exaltabitur etc.
Language: Latin
(2r)     f.171v-173v
Incipit: Pastores erant in regione eadem ... [Luc. 2:8] Vigilandum est in regione prelationis. in amaritudine compunctionis. in certamine temptacionis. In sollicitudine meliorationis. ...
Explicit: ... non horaria in duratione. primum est ibi mutuam. 2m. ibi in uobismet ipsis. 3m ibi continuam.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 577 no 355
(2s)     f.173v
Modern title: [Vigilacio]
Incipit: Thema in synodis. [II] Thi. 4[:5]. tu uero vigila in omnibus labora et omni. In festo sancti nicholai uel alterius etiam confessoris. ecci. 31 [recte 39:6]. cor suum tradet ad vigilandum etc.
Explicit: Ecci. 38[:31]. cor suum dabit in confirmacionem etc. et etiam hoc posset esse themata in sanctorum francisci et antonii.
Language: Latin
(2t)     f.173v-178v
Incipit: Natus est uobis hodie saluator mundi. Luc. 2[:11]. in hoc uerbo angelico et euangelico: angelico propter angelum nunciantem. euangelico propter euangelistam narrantem: natiuitas domini ...
Explicit: ... princeps pacis in eterne beatitudinis quietatione quam nobis concedat.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 577-8 no 356
(2u)     f.178v
Modern title: [Nativitas domini]
Incipit: Thema in uigilia natiuitatis domini et in annunciatione dominica [Mt. 1:20]: quod enim in ea natum est de spiritu sancto. Ps. 86:5. homo natus est in ea. in natiuitate domini [Mt. 1:16].
Explicit: natus est iesus Mt. 1[:16] et Luc. 2[:11]. natus est nobis hodie saluator mundi.
Language: Latin
(2v)     f.178v-181v
Incipit: Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis marie etc. Luc. 2[:22] Purgatur purgabile: per potacionem. ut sit sanius sicut patet in egro per scopationem: ut sit decencius: sicut patet in domo ...
Explicit: ... huic purgationem e conuenire potest. quod dicitur num. 31[:23]. Omne quod potest transire per flammas igne purgabitur.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 578 no 357
(2w)     f.181v
Modern title: [Purgacio]
Incipit: Thema in festo purificationis. Luc. 2[:22].In passione aut in ascensione He. 1[:3]. cum sit splendor glorie ...
Explicit: ... In .xl. [Mal. 3:3]. sedebit conflans etc. ut supra in festo magdal. ecci. 58 [recte ? 47:13]. spiritus purgauit peccata illius.
Language: Latin
(2x)     f.181v-189v
Incipit: Postquam impleti sunt dies purgacionis marie tulerint illum in ierusalem ... Luc. 2[:22]. Sicut pandit continenciam huius uerbi explicans nobis nobilem rationem hodierni festi. ...
Explicit: ... ad tam gloriose messionis messem per marie tam pie matris merita et intercessionem perducat nos dominus iesus christus etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 578 no 358
(2y)     f.189v
Modern title: [B.V.M.]
Incipit: Thema in conceptione beate marie. Luc. 2 [recte 1:30]. ne timeas maria ... Item in purificatione Luc. 2:22. ...
Explicit: ... Item in assumptione Luc. 10:42. Maria optimam partem elegit etc.
Language: Latin
(2z)     f.189v-190v
Incipit: Nunc dimittis ... [Luc. 2:29]. Dimittuntur a deo optimati dampnose: ad consequendum suam concupiscentiam. conuersi fructuose: ad agendum hic penitenciam. ...
Explicit: ... sed tu domine singulariter in spe constituisti me.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 578 no 360
(2aa)     f.190v-192r
Incipit: Lumen ad reuelationem gencium. Luc. 2[:32] pretercessit uenustate congruentie. communicabilitate circumfulgentie. utilitate efficacie. mulcebritate apparencie. ...
Explicit: ... et quanta delectatio in eo qui fecit delectabilia?
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 578 no 361
(2ab)     f.192r-193r
Incipit: [I]lluminare ierusalem quia uenit lumen tuum. Ysa. xl. [recte 60:1]. Aduentu luminis: exprimitur hoc uerbo aduentus christi ad illuminacionem gentis. Io. 1[:7]. Hic uenit in testimonium etc. hoc lumen illustratus Symeon iustus hodierno die. ...
Explicit: ... designatiua est iusti hominis qui habet lumen ueri solum in mente et prebet splendorem honestatis in conuersacione.
Language: Latin
(2ac)     f.193r-194v
Incipit: Cum factus esset annorum 12. Luc. 2[:42]. factus est nobis iesus in uehiculum exaltationis assumendo carnis substantiam in speculum imitationis. ...
Explicit: ... Hebre. 5[:9]. factus est omnibus sibi obtemperantibus causa salutis eterne. quam nobis concedat etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 578 no 363
(2ad)     f.194v-195r
Modern title: [Humiliatio]
Incipit: Thema in natiuitate domini [Jo. 1:14]. uerbum caro facta est. In circumcisione et natiuitate et purificatione ... Item thema in ramis palmarum. Phil. 2[:8].humiliauit semetipsum etc. et etiam in passione. apo. 6[:12]. sol factus est niger ...
Explicit: ... Prothema. Io. 16.f. [recte Jer. 15:16]. factum est uerbum tuum in gaudium mihi et in letitia cordis mei.
Language: Latin
(2ae)     f.195r-201r
Incipit: Stupebant omnes qui ipsum audiebant super prudencia etc. Luc. 2[:47]. Est prudencia uera et prudencia vana. prima est prudencia secundum spiritum. 2a est prudencia secundum mundum. ...
Explicit: ... Ysa. 5[:21]. Ve qui sapientes estis in oculis uestris et coram uobismet ipsis prudentes et cor'. 1[:19]. perdam sapientiam sapientium etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, v, 578 no 364
(2af)     f.201r-202r
Modern title: [Prudentia]
Incipit: Thema in festo unius martiris. [II Reg 4:29] dedit deus sapientiam ... cordis latitudo est caritas aut fortitudo. In festo plurimum martirum aut apostolorum. Mt. 10[:16]. estote prudentes ... et potest inde predicari in festo beate Katerine procedendo hoc modo filia prudens etc. Hoc uerbum competit presenti negocio tum ad implorationem diuine gratie. tum ad commendationem beate Katerine ...
Explicit: ... siquidem de sepulcro eius fons olei indeficienter emanat. In plurimum uirginum. Mt. 25[:4]. prudentes uirgines ... Prothema Prou. 2[:2]. inclina cor tuum ad cognoscendam prudentiam. Prou. 19[:8]. custos prudencie inueniet bonum.
Language: Latin
(2ag)     f.202r-204v
Incipit: Lumen uere ut ratio percipit et auctoritas construit est aspectibus in blandimentum vegetabilibus in fomentum. operationibus instrumentum. coloribus in ornamentum. et dominus iesus christus est lumen fratrinatale ...
Explicit: ... quod faciendo apparet amictus lumine sicut uestimento Ps. 103[:2].
Language: Latin
(2ah)     f.204v
Modern title: [Lumen]
Incipit: Thema in natali domini Ps. [111:4]. exortum est in tenebris lumen rectis corde. ...
Explicit: ... fideles hodie representant cum lumina in manibus portant etc. Item thema in purificacione et annunciacione beate marae [sic]. Am. 8[:9]. tenebrescere faciam terram in die illius.
Language: Latin
(2ai)     f.204v-218v
Incipit: Dolentes querebamus te. Luc. 2[:48]. Quoniam ad Christi debitam questioni necesse est concurrere. dolorem amorem. et rectam intentionem: dolorem: ut instigantem amorem: ut inuestigantem ...
Explicit: ... ad pacem et osculum perfectissime fruitionis. perducat nos ipse christus pro impetranda pace et osculo tanta passus cui sit honor etc.
Language: Latin

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Citation:Schneyer, v, 578 no 365
(2aj)     f.218v-220v
Incipit: Nota quod in deo et in sanctis eius uaria lauda est sapiencia. in cuius rei euidenciam similitudinariam: nota quod sapiencia humana in uariis officiis est laudanda ...
Explicit: ... uermis non moritur et ignis non extinguitur ex hiis duobus oritur desperatio. Ex hiis nos defendat etc.
Language: Latin
(2ak)     f.220v-225v
Incipit: Sapientia hominum innotescit ex efficacia regendi familiam. augendi substantiam: contrahendi amiciciam. euincendi maliciam. precauendi molestiam ...
Explicit: .. per hoc deo digne ordinante qui hic reges fuerunt uiuendo in gloria Par.[recte Prov.] 3.g.[:35] gloriam sapientes possidebunt. Ad quam nos perducat etc.
Language: Latin
(2al)     f.225v-227r
Incipit: Vigilate in orationibus. Pe.13 [recte 4:7]. In hoc uerbo hortatur nos apostolus ad uigilancium. non quamcumque sed spiritualem. que quidem est in oratione. Vnde duo insinuantur in uerbo proposito. Exhortacio cum dicitur. Vigilate. ...
Explicit: ... sublimos excedencia. largos perseuerancia tua plenos fac gratia diuina condescencia.
Language: Latin

Also found in Munich MS CLM 14832

Citation:Schneyer, vii, 323 no 133
(2am)     f.227r-227v
Incipit: Sanguis christi qui per spiritum sanctum etc. [Heb. 9:14]. Nota quod sanguis christi 4r consideratur scilicet effusus in cruce. oblatus in altari cotidie. impressus in corde. expressus per imitationem in opere. primo modo lauat peccati maculam. ...
Explicit: ... ualent cetera ad imitandum in opere immo necessarius.
Language: Latin

Also found in Bamberg MS misc.th.173.

(2an)     f.227v-228v
Incipit: Surrexit non est hic [Mk 16:6]. Nota quod christi resurrecio est nostre resurrectionis principium. exemplum. et argumentum. nam eam conuincit esse futuram ordo diuine iusticie que habet reddere unicuique secundum merita. ...
Explicit: ... non solum in corde per compassionem sed etiam in corpore per mortificationis imitationem sentit.
Language: Latin
(2ao)     f.228v-230r
Incipit: Manifestauit se .iii. discipulis suis etc. [cf. Io. 21:1]. In di[ui]na scriptura per mare intelligitur tribulacio et angustia cordis uel corporis ...
Explicit: ... Ab uberibus consolationis etc. Can. 7[:7]. statura tua etc.
Language: Latin
(2ap)     f.230r-230v
Incipit: Vbi eras cum me laudarent astra matutina ... Iob.38[:7]. In hiis uerbis commendantur beatissimi spiritus angelici a tribus. videlicet ab actu laudandi. cognoscendi. et iubilandi ...
Explicit: ... De opulencia retributoris. Iob 8[:21]. donec impleatur risu ostuum et labia tua iubilo.
Language: Latin

Possibly also found in Vatican MS Vat.lat.1262

Citation:Schneyer, vi, 624 no 60
(2aq)     f.230v-232r
Incipit: Qui legit intelligat. Mt. 24.c.[:15]. ad euidenciam eius quod hic dicitur: videamus duo. materiam lectionis et dispositionem legentis. Materia lectionis ergo multiplex. iste mundus christus. antichristus ...
Explicit: ... aliis legere et lecta exponere. iuxta illud act.1[:1] cepit facere et docere.
Language: Latin
(2ar)     f.232r
Incipit: Non sunt condigne passiones huius temporis etc. [Rom. 8:18]. nota quod maximus doctor spiritus sanctus septiformi consideratione inducit nos ad toleranciam passionum et primo ex consideracione magnitudinis premii. ...
Explicit: ... ex degustatione diuni promissi [II] Cor. [1:5] sicut habundant passiones christi in nobis ita et per christum habundet consolatio nostra.
Language: Latin
(2as)     f.232r-232v
Incipit: Maledictus homo qui opus dei fecerit negligenter [recte? fraudulenter]. Iere. [48:10]. Totus defectus uirorum spiritualium proueniunt potissime ex negligencia que est uel in extirpatione uitiorum uel circa sollicitudinem agendorum ...
Explicit: ... In concupiscibili per diffidenciam contra s. s. cui bonitas.
Language: Latin
(2at)     f.232v-233v
Incipit: Ego enim stigmata iesu in corpore meo porto [Gal. 6:17]. hec uerba ueriori modo dicuntur de beato francisco quam de beato paulo. et ideo uidetur quod per sanctum spiritum ad honorem beati francisci ista epistola fuerit edita. potuit namque in suo principio ...
Explicit: ... foris per humanitatem. intus per diuinitatem. Can. [8:6]. pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum.
Language: Latin
(2au)     f.233v-235v
Incipit: Fons paruus creuit in fluuium ... in aquas plurimas redundauit. Hest. x[:6]. Verba hec sumpta sunt de libro Hester et sunt uerba quoddammodo methaforice dicta et adimpleta de ipsa Hester tempore gaudii ...
Explicit: ... quia fructuosa sub methafora aque multiplicis bene ergo describit eam scilicet in uerbo predicto. cum dicit. in lucem ... in aquas plurimas redundauit.
Language: Latin
(2av)     f.235v-241v
Modern title: [Feast of the B.V.M]
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: [S]icut sol oriens in mundo ... ornamentum domus sue. ecci. 26[:21]. tanta est excellencia uirginis gloriose ut ab eius narratione et laude deficiunt omnes lingue ...
Explicit: ... ad complementum premii eterni per adiutorium uirginis et donum beatissime trinitatis. cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum amen.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, i, 620 no 434
(2aw)     f.241v-244r
Modern title: [Feast of the B.V.M]
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Sicut sol oriens in mundo ... ornamentum domus sue. [Ecci. 26:21]. Consideranti mihi excellenciam uirginis gloriose respectu uniuersalis ecclesie nulla occurrit similitudo nobilior ...
Explicit: ... uirgo comparatur soli orienti in mundo in altissimis dei. benedicta igitur et uenerabilis sit uirgo maria in eternum. amen.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, i, 622 no 435
(2ax)     f.244r-246r
Modern title: [Feast of the B.V.M]
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Lux orta est iusto et rectis corde leticia [Ps. 96:11] In uerbo proposito quod sumitur de psalmo: describitur beate marie natiuitas ut nobilis. ut utilis. ut delectabilis. ...
Explicit: ... uiderit sibi ostendi et fieri porta celi. û. n. est hoc ad ni. do. di. et per ce.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, i, 622 no 433
(2ay)     f.246r-247r
Modern title: [Feast of the B.V.M]
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Fons ascendebat de terra irrigans uniuersa superficiem terre. gen. 2[:6]. In hoc uerbo commendatur ortus uirginis Marie sub methafora fontis ascendentis et irrigantis. ...
Explicit: ... fiet in eo fons aque salientis. In uitam eternam Ps. [35:10] apud te est fons uite.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, i, 622 no 439
(2az)     f.247r-249r
Modern title: [Feast of the B.V.M]
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Vt perficerent omnia secundum legem domini. Luc. 2[:39]. Describens beatus Lucas sollempnitatem purificationis beate uirginis post plenitudinem narrationis ...
Explicit: ... et occidit uitulum saginatum. Iuxta illud. Io. x[:9] siquis per me introierit saluabitur.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, i, 621 no 417
(2ba)     f.249r-255r
Modern title: [Feast of the B.V.M]
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Statim ueniet ad templum ... Mal. 3[:1]. Promittit propheta aduentum ad templum de propinquo futurum secundum quod hodie fuit impletum. ...
Explicit: ... quia simile est ibi gratiarum actio et uox laudis propter quam finaliter facti sumus. ad quam nos perducat etc.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, i, 621 no 418
(2bb)     f.255r-261v
Modern title: [Feast of the B.V.M]
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Aue gratia plena ... Verbum illud scribitur luc. 1[:28]. et est uerbum celestis nuncii quo annunciauit illud excellentissimum sacramentum. In cuius memoriam hodie sollempnizat ecclesia. ...
Explicit: ... possidebunt terram id est uirginem mariam. que fuit terra benedicta. quia cum ipsa sit mitis: prestabit omnia.
Language: Latin
Citation:Schneyer, i, 621 no 425
(2bc)     f.261v-266v
Modern title: [Feast of the B.V.M]
Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
Incipit: Ecce uirgo concipiet. Ysa. 7[:14]. uerbum illud secundum litteralem intellectum con[s]pecit uirgini marie. continet enim expresse misterium conceptionis ...
Explicit: ... christus super animam sanctam sibi pulatam. vnde beda. christus de uirgine natus est ...
Language: Latin

Ending lost.

Citation:Schneyer, i, 621 no 421
(3)     f.267
Language: Latin

Argumenta of commentary (?) on the Epistle to the Romans, caps 8-14 (defect.). Each entry ends with a chapter-reference and indexing letter. In front of each entry is an added point, as if to mark it off after indexing. A cut down and folded leaf from a larger manuscript. Written space originally over 210 x 180 mm; ruled in sharp grey. 2 columns; over 52 lines. Written proficiently in a small fere-textura in England, 14th century. Paraphs in red.

(4)     f.268
Language: Latin

Table of Psalm initia and tituli in 6 columns: col.a almost all cut away;(c, d) Opening words of Pss [5-28], 55-78 and 105-128; (cols. b, e) Tituli, with summaries of content, of Pss 5-28 and 55-78. Cut down and folded sheet from another manuscript. Written space originally at least 500 x 285 mm; ruled in sharp grey. Originally 6 columns, and at least 100 lines, 2 per psalm, on one side of sheet. Written in a very small notula, mid 13th century (like that of the contents list), with some arabic numeration. Badly rubbed in places with adhesive damage.


Microfilm
Microfilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham University Library.

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