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Summary Catalogue no.: 27715

Contents

⟨William Jordan OP (?)⟩, ⟨Summa praedicantium, pars II⟩
Incipit: (preface) Tantarum virtutum insignijs prepollet officium predicatoris
Incipit: (text) De Abstinencia. Precepit Deus Ade

A subject index to the Bible in the form of examples or precepts illustrating chiefly moral qualities

The arrangement is: first, an alphabetical division according to the names of the subjects illustrated; secondly, the examples, etc. are arranged under each subject in the order in which they occur in the Bible

Each paragraph throughout the work is marked at the side with 'A,' 'B,' etc. to 'Z,' the first alphabet having 'littera 1' at the top of the pages, the second alphabet having 'littera 2,' and so on to 'littera 55'

The alphabetical index of subjects (fol. 120v) is therefore able to use references such as '11 E' and '25 T'

Final rubric: Explicit tabula super figuras Biblie .. T . K .
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: locis sacre
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 133 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 155 × 100 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 20-22 lines; frame-ruled in plummet; above top line; ruled space c. 100 × 60 mm.

Decoration

Not in Pächt and Alexander.

Initial, fol. 1r

Border, fol. 1r

Gold initials flourished in blue, and blue initials flourished in red.

Binding

17th-century binding.

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

'Liber T... Lefeure [?]' (early 17th century)

'G(erardi) L(angbaine)'

This probably came to the Library in 1723

Record Sources

Description adapted (December 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes and Matthew Holford from the Summary Catalogue (1905), with limited additional description.
Summary Catalogue, vol. 5, p. 348

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-12-26: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1905)