Exeter College MS. 21

Thomson, Grosseteste, 24–32. Mostly unprinted but nos. 130 (fol. 25^r), 141 (fols. 31^v–2^v) and 142 (fols. 32^rv) are printed by E. Brown, Fasciculus rerum expetendarum et fugiendarum, 2 vols. (London, 1690), ii. 295–6, 288–90, 292–3, respectively. Because of the loss of leaves much text is lacking: fol. 1^r begins in Dictum 51 and the loss of a quire after fol. 12, which ends in Dictum 72, causes a gap until (fol. 13^r) Dictum 93; fol. 24^v ends in Dictum 107, and resumes (fol. 25^r) in Dictum 123. On Grosseteste see Sharpe, Latin Writers.

Unidentified; probably Grosseteste. Continuing from a missing page, it begins immediately after item 1 in a different hand, and was continued on a page which is now also lacking.

For Grosseteste’s sermons references are to Thomson, Grosseteste, 164, and Schneyer, 5. 177 et seq.

Items 4(ii–vii) following are parts of the dossier relating to the occasion of Grosseteste’s visit to the curia and his denunciation of ecclesiastical customs. Our collection lacks the Parabola (Gieben, 370–2). The text of our manuscript (his E) is described by Gieben as being ‘sorely astray'. There are countless omissions which indicate that the scribe must have been pressed for time and consequendy decided to stick to the essentials. Often he does not care about the ending of a word or about its correct spelling … Noteworthy are his errors by metathesis, which sometimes creates odd variants like strangulari/transgulari. Nevertheless, some correct readings and even a few larger omissions are preserved only in this manuscript.’

An unidentified sermon on Ps. 71. 16.

An unidentified sermon.

An unidentified sermon.

A fragment of an unidentified sermon, beginning abruptly because of the loss of the preceding quire and ending abruptly because of the loss of the second leaf of quire 10. The text is probably Grosseteste or Ps.-Grosseteste.

pr. Bonaventura, Opera, vii (Rome, 1596), 104–5, our text beginning at 104b/9. ‘Sermo 37’, Thomson, 177; also Spurium 24, ibid. 250–1, q.v. for the various attributions.

ed. R. C. Dales and E. B. King, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 10 (1987) (MS ‘Ex’), who comment that chapters 3–4 and many quotations are omitted. Our text ends in IX. 10, edn. 89/19; Thomson, Grosseteste, 131–2.

Added later.

[At top, ‘Iste liber valet xx^s. emi pro xvj^s. x^d. posterius feci scribi sermones in eo et sic valet xxxv^s.’ Below this, in another hand of s. xv, is a contents list.]

The original part of the volume is presumably item 1. The contents list follows the order of much of this volume but with curious extras. It lists our sermons 2, 3(iii–vii), 4(ii–vii), 6(i), 6(iii)?, 7, 9(i–ii) but also includes six sermons between our sermons 2 and 3(iii) which can never have been in this volume, at least at that point, since the existing text is continuous: they are Schneyer nos. 5, 6, 11, 12 = Thomson nos. 4, 5, 9, 10. It further includes ‘Sermo in colla. ^siue^ ordinacione’ and ‘alius de episcopis’; one of which might be our 3(ii). The verso is blank and was once pasted down.