MS. Bodl. 293

Summary Catalogue no.: 2448

William of Pagula, Summa summarum

Rubric: Incipit Speculum luris Canonici ac Reportorium & vocatur Summa Summarum

Incipit: (prol.) Ad honorem & laudem nominis Ihesu Christi quod quando recolo

Incipit: Quot modis dicitur fides et quid sit fides

Final rubric: ... Speculum conpendij ac Rep⟨e⟩rtorium Juris canonici & vocatur Summa Summarum

With notes, in five books: a list of the chapters is part of the prologue.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i + 250 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 15.625 × 9.875 in.

Layout

2 cols.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 657, pl. LXV:

Good borders.

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

Binding

Stamped white leather (about 1602) on older sewing and boards, worn.

History

Origin: 14th century, third quarter ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Exeter, Devon, Cathedral church of St Peter: annotations by Bishop John Grandisson (fols. 167r, 168r, 234v); usual chain-staple visible in outline on the back board (in unusual position); identifiable in the catalogue of 1506 (CBMLC, forthcoming, SC 35.341) (MLGB3: evidence of dicta probatoria, usually a secundo folio).

Pres. by Dean and Chapter of Exeter, 1602.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922), with additional reference to published literature as cited. Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 369

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 370