MS. Bodl. 247
Summary Catalogue no.: 2443
Contents
Language(s): Latin
With a list of the chapters of the five books on fol. 62v.
On fol. 146v follows a papal bull confirming the Minorite Rule: beg. 'Exiui de Paradiso, dixi Rigabo ortum': after which is 'Expliciunt Constitutiones Clementis V. publicate Oxonie in festo Conuersionis sancti Pauli apostoli . anno Domini M°.CCC° xvii°', the date and place referring to tit. 1 of book 5.
A Franciscan Constitution is at fol. 236.
At fol. 285v follow eight more 'Constituciones Johannis xxii', not glossed, and the titles of some more.
A 14th cent. hand has added notes in several parts of the volume, and on fol. 288v a bull of Benedict XI, Jan. 30, 1336, about the saints in the intermediate state after death, beg. 'Benedictus Deus in donis suis': and a 15th cent. hand on fol. 62 gives a 'forma absoluendi excommunicatum', and on fol. 289v an inscription for a bell (beg. 'Oro Deum verum').
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
By two hands. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 635, pl. LXIV)
Fine and good historiated and other borders.
Fine and good historiated initials.
Fine and good other initials.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by 'Andreas Holes archidiaconus Anglesie', c. 1428-46.
The volume probably reached the Library in 1604.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-11: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.