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Brasenose College MS. 14

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 3)
John de Burgo, Pupilla oculi
Incipit: Humane condicio
Final rubric: Explicit pupilla oculi.
(fol. 132)
Libellus de visitatione infirmorum
Incipit: In visitacione infirmorum facienda talibus alloquatur egris sermonibus
Constitutions of English church councils, etc.
(fol. 135)
Ottonis Cardinalis Constitutiones
Incipit: Quoniam decet domum Domini
(fol. 138v)
Ottoboni Constitutiones, anno Domini 1268, cum glossa Johannis de Athona, etc.
Incipit: (gloss) Mandata Dei
(fol. 149b)

Constitutio provincialis Steph. Langton.

Incipit: Statutum felicis
(fol. 150)

Bonifacii de interdicto faciendo

Incipit: Proinde attendentes
(fol. 150v)

Decretum domin. Roberti et Walteri Quæ parochiani tenentur invenire

Incipit: Inter cetera
(fol. 151)

Joh. Stratford, editæ 1343.

Incipit: Sponsam Christi
(fol. 155v)

Rob. Winchelsey apud Merton editæ.

Incipit: Quoniam propter
(fol. 156)

Concilium Oxon. per Stephanum [Langton] celebratum A. D. 1216, [1222.]

Incipit: Ex auctoritate Dei
(fol. 160v)
Constitutiones Jo. Peckham apud Redyng celebratæ, 1279.
Incipit: Audistis, fratres
(fol.. 162v)
Ejusdem Constitutiones apud Lambeth; 1281.
Incipit: Ab exordio ecclesie
(fol. 169)

Simonis Mepham apud S. Paulum London. mense Februarii anno 1323 editæ.

Incipit: Zelari oportet
(fol. 170v)

Roberti de Winchelsey, anno 1305 editæ.

Incipit: Presbiteri stipendiarii
(fol. 171)

Johannis Peckham constitutio de decimis et oblationibus edita London. 1280.

Incipit: De insolucione
( fol. 172)

Bonifacii edita apud Lambeth, 1261.

Incipit: Universis sancte
(fol. 176)

Statuta edita apud Merton per eundem de materia decimarum.

Incipit: Quoniam propter

Sequitur declaratio regis Edwardi I. supra articulos Bonifacii de libertate ecclesiæ.

(fol. 180v)

Simonis Islip de festis.

Incipit: Ex scripturis
(fol. 181v)

Johannis Stratford, 1344 editæ.

Incipit: Quoniam sit inhonestum
(fol. 188)

Ejusdem sententia super chartas lata A. D. 1273.

(fol. 188)

Bartholi a Saxoferrato tractatus super materia famæ, et est glossa ejusdem super C. Plurimum in L. de minore, ff. de quæstionibus.

Incipit: Venio ad materiam fame
(fol. 191)

Ejusdem tractatus super materia denunciationis, et est glossa ejusdem super L. Dyvus, ff. de custodia reorum.

Incipit: Pro materia denunciationis

Sequuntur, man. sec., (a) Constitutio Rob. Walden, super indictione festorum SS. David et Cedde et Wenefrede, et S. Thomæ Becket. (b.) Roberti ep. Lich. et Cov. Promulgatio Simonis, ep. London. constitutionis de diebus festivis observandis.

Bound with printed incunable, Bernardus de Parentis, Expositio officij missae (Strasbourg, 1487), catalogued on SOLO. MS marginalia in printed item in later hand.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment;
Extent: 194 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 202 mm.

Layout

Written space 230 × 150 mm. , double column, written in brown ink, 56 lines.

Decoration

One 8-line illuminated initial (fol. 5r).

Full-page illuminated border with red and blue decoration (fol. 5r)

3-line decorative initials in blue ink with red decorative extensions, paragraph markers in red and blue.

Binding

18th century calf over boards with blind tooled panel design.

History

Origin: 15th century ; England? or France?

Provenance and Acquisition

Manuscript inscription on slip of parchment tipped in: "Liber Mri Attewater emptus Lo[n]donijs p[er] Willm Menyman Colleg Whityngton Soc". William Menyman, fellow of Whittington College and editor of a homily on Mary Magdalene [?1505]. Atwater's books came to Brasenose through John Longland. Inscription on printed work reads "Thomas Lewis est possessor huius libri".

Record Sources

Description by Sophie Floate; cf. H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur, II (1852) [sections separately paginated], Brasenose, p. 5

Bibliography

    D. E. Rhodes, 'Bibliographical Notes: William Menyman and William Faques', The Library, s5-XXXI, Issue 1, March 1976, Pages 74–76

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2023: First online publication.