A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Bodl. 548

Summary Catalogue no.: 2296

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Sermons

Seventy-six anonymous Latin sermons, preceded (fol. ii) by a 14th cent. list, which shows that they are a miscellaneous collection adapted for saints' days, sundays, classes of clergy, and general use. The first three are:

(fol. 1)
Rubric: De potestate prelatorum
Incipit: Dicit apostolus Paulus, Non est potestas nisi a Deo ... Audite fratres carissimi, quid apostolus
(fol. 3)
Rubric: Ad pastores ecclesie.
Incipit: Fecit Deus duo magna luminaria ... Sic uoluit Deus, fratres karissimi
(fol. 5)
Rubric: Item ad sacerdotes
Incipit: Labia sacerdotis ... Andite fratres dilectissimi quantum thesaurum

Two (foll. 26v, 145) are attributed to Ivo Carnotensis, by added notes. Foll. 87, 122, 123 have the outer margin cut off, fol. 164 is torn.

According to Schneyer (IV.876) there is a sermon by Praepositanus of Cremona on fol. 3, and sermons by Geoffrey Babion (II.158)

At the end of the list of sermons in the same (14th cent.) hand is a note of the duties of novices, perhaps at Kenilworth, to which Salford Prior's (see below) belonged.

Incipit: Doceantur Nouicii. Maioribus & maxime prelato reuerenciam exibere

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 167 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.75 × 6.5 in.

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 272)

Binding

Old boards and sewing, re-covered at Oxford about 1602.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

'Sum Henrici Joliffe' (on fol. ii, 15th cent.)

Presented by sir Walter Cope in 1602.

MS. Bodl. 548, endleaves (fol. i)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Part of a leaf, of which the verso contains two (13th cent.) Sanctus, with later musical notes, and the recto a (14th cent.) troped Benedicamus Domino with musical notes for three voices.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Musical Notation:

Notation, partly polyphonic.

History

Origin: 13th-14th centuries

MS. Bodl. 548, endleaves (fols. 165-7)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 165) part of a 'Compotus Henrici Byschop balliui ...', Mich. 1394-Mich. 1395, accounts relating to 'Saltford' (Salford Prior's, or Abbot's, in Warwickshire): on the verso are 'John Braben' (15th cent.), 'Joh: Lychfeld' (16th cent.): (fol. 166), amid much scribbling is a worn late 14th cent. Latin note on the old nunnery of Coventry 'quod J. R.', repeated on fol. 167.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 1394-5

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2024-10: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.