MS. Bodl. 302
Summary Catalogue no.: 2086
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'Iste liber pertenet George Hull', 16th cent. (fol. 67): ‘M. 2’ in a library in which no. 2619 was 'M. 1'.
'THo: Allen' gave the book to the Bodleian in 1601.
MS. Bodl. 302 – Part 1
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The latter part of a book of Distinctiones, or notes, with extracts from authors and 'narraciones', on points of moral duty: beg. abruptly, the previous pages being lost, 'ex causa satagere debet': the first heading of a division is 'Contra participantes cum excommunicatis', beg. 'Agnus siue ouis non libenter communicaret lupo', with narrationes: the book ends 'pater sine honore'.
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MS. Bodl. 302 – Part 2
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Combines material from Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum, and Peter Comestor, Historia scholastica: see Hans-Eberhard Hilpert, ‘Geistliche Bildung Und Laienbildung. Zur Überlieferung Der Schulschrift Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (Compendium Veteris Testamenti) Des Petrus von Poitiers (1205) in England’, Journal of Medieval History, 11.4 (1985), 315–31 at 330.
At fol. 59 follow a picture of the camp of the Israelites in the Wilderness, with description; and historical Old Testament notes, chiefly the interpretation of names, lists of kings, etc., in chronological order, divided according to 'aetates' (see foll. 61v, 63); ends, with some leaves lost, 'fortiter iracundus' and catchwords 'Maath. desiderium'.
Identified as follows in Stegmüller:
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2 cols.
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Drawing, fol. 59.
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MS. Bodl. 302 – Part 3
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On fol. 137v is a late 14th cent. copy of a Latin letter from John Thoresby archbp. of York communicating a mandate of Edw. III which orders a public thanksgiving for the victory of Poitiers, Oct. 12. 1356.
A complete added gathering of six leaves, containing copies of pieces chiefly Latin and largely relating to Scottish public affairs, written late in the 14th century, as follows:
A short metrical chronicle of the kings of Scotland to Alexander III, abt. 1250: W. F. Skene, Chronicles of the Picts (1867), 177–82.
An account of kings Edwy and Edgar
A genealogy of John lord Hastings (d. 1313) from Malcolm Canmore
An account of the agreement between William I of Scotland and Rich. I, 1194
A mandate from Edw. I to the abbots of Coventry and Burton that they should insert in their chronicles two agreements with Scotland of 1291 (both here copied out in French), dated July 9. 1291
Followed by seven other similar prophecies, by Gildas, 'Alanus Somniator', 'Sibilina' queen of Egypt and Ethiopia, etc.
An account of the battle of Poitiers, 1356, sent by Bartholomew lord Burghersh to John Beauchamp.
Pr. The Black Prince, ed. H. O. Coxe (1842), 369–70, and Kervyn de Lettenhove, Oeuvres de Froissart (1867–77), V, 489–92
An account of the battle of Durham, usually known as that of Nevill's Cross, in 1346, written by Thomas Samson.
Kervyn de Lettenhove, Oeuvres de Froissart (1867–77), V, 528–9.The first part of a French letter from Edw. III 'a son chiere & fele chiualer Thomas Lucy', 1346, much of it being lost, after fol. 143.
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2 cols.
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Illuminated capitals.
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-05-07: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC.