MS. Bodl. 400

Summary Catalogue no.: 2231

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 1)

Petrus Aureoli, de decem praeceptis

Rubric: Tractatus de decem preceptis secundum Petrum de Auriolis

Incipit: Non habebis Deos ... In hoc primo mandato

2. (fol. 50)

William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis

Rubric: Tractatus qui uocatur Dieta Salutis

Incipit: Hec est via ... Magnam misericordiam facit

At fol. 108 follow:

A short analysis of the work in partitions of subjects

Incipit: Misericordia est, cecos ad domum dirigere

A chapter on detraction

Incipit: Detractor dicitur immundus

3. (fol. 114).

Nicholas de Byard, Summa de abstinentia

Rubric: Distinctiones Parisiensis

Incipit: Duplex est Abstinencia

In 134 chapters, of which a list is at fol. 232v.

Theological treatises

(fol. 233v)

Sermon themata

Rubric: Diuisiones

Incipit: Abiciamus opera tenebrarum

(fol. 236)

Similar 'themata' for Sunday sermons on the Gospels

Incipit: Ecce rex tuus venit

(fol. 239)

A short summary of the Bible

Rubric: Extractus omnium librorum Biblie, quid tractatur in quolibet eorum

Incipit: Requiris a me, fili karissime

(fol. 243)

An extract from the 119th Lectio of Robert Holkot.

5. (fol. 244)

Ps.-Augustine, De uera et falsa poenitentia

Incipit: Quantum sit appetenda gratia penitencie

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii + 255 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 10.5 × 7.875 in.

Layout

In double columns.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 822:

Good border.

Good initial.

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

‘Sum Gulielmi Adeni & amicorum’, 16th cent.

This volume seems to be the only one which corresponds to 'Partitiones quædam theologicæ ab incerto authore. 4º. MS.' given by William Ballow of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1604: but the identification is doubtful: it certainly came to the Library not later than 1605.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Oct. 2022) from the following sources:

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, III (1973), no. 822

Summary Catalogue (1922)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 271

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-10: Description revised to include all information in printed catalogues.

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