MS. Bodl. 299
Summary Catalogue no.: 2473
Contents
Preceded by a prologue and list of chapters of the four books and also by the same author's 'Prologus ... in priorem libellum Questionum Casualium' with explanatory note
Followed by 'Paragrofi [sic] summe fratris Raymundi' de Pennaforti, a list of chapters (fol. 276), 'Statuta Summe Confessorum ex Sexto Decretalium addita', with prologue (fol. 287v), and a 'Tabula super Summam', in alphabetical order of subjects, with prologue (fol. 288)
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols
Binding
Brown leather with plain tooling (late 16th century) over older sewing and boards
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine abbey of St Augustine (originally of St Peter and St Paul): (inner front board) 'Summa uel compilacio que uocatur Summa confessorum de hiis que pertinent ad forum animarum fratris Willelmi de Biholte quondam prioris sancti Augustini Cantuarie'. Then after an erased sentence, is the pressmark: 'De librario sancti Augustini Cantuarie ... Distinccione X Gradu I' (s. xiv) (MLGB3); see M. R. James's Ancient Libraries of Canterbury (1903), p. 404, where the catalogue states that there is 'in eodem libro Glossa Hostiensis super Decretales de celinus (?)'
Presented by Sir Walter Cope in 1602. Cope's number "82" is at the head of fol. 1r (MLGB3)
Record Sources
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-01-20: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)