Exeter College MS. 20
Petrus Lombardus, Sententiarum libri iv; Joh. Damascenus, De fide orthodoxa; etc.; France, s. xiii¾
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Sewn on five bands. Standard Exeter binding: simple and quite elegant, calf over millboards, the calf bearing blind decoration of a floral type, early 19th century.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Non-matching secundo folio references show that this is not the book bequeathed in 1464–5 by Ralph Morewyll, formerly rector, ‘lego librum vocatum sententia super primam sententiarum, 2º folio Procedit ista (Rector’s Accounts, Boase1, 237, Boase2, 29). As that copy has disappeared the present manuscript is presumably Ecloga, no. 26; CMA, no. 31.
Exeter library identifications are, on the front pastedown, bookplate 3, on which are ‘Q—7 13 Gall’, deleted and replaced by ‘172–E–13’, ‘73’, deleted, and ‘Coxe Cat. no. XX’. ‘13’ is on a round label at the top of the spine.
Exeter College MS. 20 – Part A (fols. 1–140)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
[Capitula]
pr. Venice, 1481, etc. PL 192. 521–962; ed. I. Brady, Sententiae in IV libris distinctae, Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 4–5 (Grottaferrata, 1971–81). Stegmüller, Sent., 32, where the gloss is unidentified. Because of the loss of the original first quire, containing the capitula and text, and the first leaf of the present quire 1, our text begins in bk. 1, dist. 1, ch. 3 (edn. 1. 57/16). The gaps in the text at (1) fol. 87/88 is from bk. 3, dist. 1, ch. 3.2 (ed. 1. 73/2 to 2. 102/21); and (2) fol. 92/93 is from bk. 3, dist. 22, ch. 2 to bk. 3, dist. 38, ch. 1.3 (edn. 2.138/13 to 2. 214/8). The present fol. 1 is a torn and irregularly shaped fragment, maximum size c. 70 × 45 mm, bearing gloss only, on the verso.
Physical Description
Layout
Two columns, 52 lines. Lightly ruled in crayon.
Hand(s)
A good gothic quadrata bookhand for the text, a small gothic cursive for the gloss; both punctuated by low point, punctus elevatus, and a distinctio in the shape of a modern comma.
Decoration
Alexander and Temple, no. 675, ‘French’.
Fine illuminated initials have presumably been lost from the beginning of book I but others survive before the capitula and the beginning of the text of books II–IV. They are in the form of rectangles with a deep blue or brown base colour on which is a letter filled with blue interlace traced with white.
The initial on fol. 45r has a man-beast astride a tendril and that on fol. 95r has two men-beasts wrestling.
Throughout there are 2/4-line red and blue lombards flourished in the other colour; 1-line red and blue initials; rubrics; red-and-blue running book numbers in upper margins and chapter numbers in side margins.
Exeter College MS. 20 – Part B (fols. 141–160)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
The standard index to the following item.
Fol. 141r is blank except for notes in crayon, very hard to read.
tr. by Burgundio Pisanus
ed. E. M. Buytaert (St Bonaventure, NY, 1955). Stegmüller, Sent., 417.
Physical Description
Layout
Two columns, 65 lines. Lightly ruled in crayon.
Hand(s)
An average-quality gothic semiquadrata bookhand, punctuated by low point and punctus elevatus.
Decoration
A 4-line red-and-blue lombard at beginning of text, elsewhere 2-line red and blue initials (longer if with extenders) flourished in the other colour; rubrics; red running numbers, to fol. 146 only; lemmata underlined in red.
Exeter College MS. 20 – Part C (fols. 161–168)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
A numbered list of the capitula in about 80 works of St Augustine, ending with a list of 44 works which lacks details of capitula.
Physical Description
Layout
Four columns, c. 60–63 lines. Lightly ruled in crayon.
Hand(s)
Gothic cursive, punctuated by low point.
Decoration
None.
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact Exeter College Library.
Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College.
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-29: First online publication