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MS. Bodl. 828

Summary Catalogue no.: 2695

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–210 (in three parts, fols. 1-46, 47-112, 113-210): the three parts written by different hands but contemporary) || B (fols. 211-242) || C (fols. 243-)
Extent: iv + 279 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8.375 × 6.25 in.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Worcester, Worcestershire, Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary the Virgin: Binding leaves (4 at each end) are from a "rental and court-roll of the church of Worcester": this was used for binding purposes in s. xv, as appears from writing of that date, running at right angles to the writing of the rolll and in the same direction as the writing of the MS.: this writing includes the scribble "Permiscione prior ecclesie cathedralis beate Marie Wigornie" (fol. 276r) and a notice in which occur the words "ecclesie nostre Wyg'" (fol. 276v). (MLGB3: evidence from binding or pastedowns and from contents).

Turner, Lat. 19*. (MLGB3)

Probably acquired by the Library between 1605 and 1611.

MS. Bodl. 828 – Part 1

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fol. 1)
William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis
1.
Rubric: Summa que vocatur Prima pars Oculi sacerdotum
Incipit: Cum ecclesie quibus preficiuntur
2. (fol. 47)
Rubric: Dextera pars Oculi sacerdotum
Incipit: Multi sunt sacerdotes
3. (fol. 113)
Incipit: Ignorancia sacerdotum populum decipit

Sinistra pars Oculi, part 3 of the treatise

Addition (fol. 46), satirical Goliardic verses in which prevalent types of vice are described in the persons of Robertus, Richardus, Gilebertus, and Galfridus, cf. fols. 229, 266.

Incipit: Licet mundi cunctis vicia exorare | Nam in mundo video multos nunc errare

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Layout

Fols. 1 seq., 2 cols.; fols. 47 seq., in single column to fol. 65r, then double

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 744

Penwork border, initials.

Marginal sketches and lombards.

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

MS. Bodl. 828 – Part 2

Contents

Language(s): Latin

4. (fol. 211)
Robert Grosseteste, De modo confitendi
Rubric: Modus siue forma confitendi secundum bone memorie Robertum Lincolniensem episcopum
Incipit: Ad primum dicat sacerdos
5. (fol. 215v)
Walter de Cantilupe , De confessione
Incipit: Omnis etas hominis
Final rubric: Explicit hic Omnis etas
Bloomfield 3663
Sharpe, Latin Writers, s.n.
6. (fol. 231)
Robert of Finningham, Summa excommunicationum
Incipit: Quoniam sub pena excommunicacionis
Explicit: pertinet absolucio [catchword 'in hoc casu']||
Bloomfield 2061, 5032
Sharpe, Latin Writers, s.n.

Additions:

(fol. 224v)
A prophecy of the 15 days of the end of the world
Incipit: Prima die eriget se mare
(fol. 225)
William de Montibus, De poenitentia religiosorum
Rubric: Scriptum magistri W. de Montibus, quomodo religiosi monendi sunt ad confitendum
Incipit: Petistis amice ut tibi scribendo
(fol. 227v)
A short chronology from Adam to the Assumption of the Virgin
Rubric: Cronice
Incipit: Adam vixit annos

Some English words occur on fol. 229.

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

MS. Bodl. 828 – Part 3

Contents

Language(s): Latin

7. (fol. 243)
Robert of Finningham, Summa excommunicationum
Rubric: Summe late in corpore Decretalium
Incipit: Excommunicacionem incurrit qui statuta
Rubric: Summe late in corpore Decretorum
Incipit: Excommunicacionem incurrit qui asserendo
Rubric: de casibus in libro vj° Decretalium
Incipit: Excommunicacionem incurrit qui cardinalibus

On Extravagantibus, in Constitutionibus Clementinis de casibus Sedi Apostolice reservatis, Summae provinciales (Anglicae) cum articulis, de summis latis in privilegiis fratrum, and 'Quedam generales note irregularitatis'.

See above art. 6.

Additions:

(fol. 262)

'Articuli contenti in Magna Carta', imperfect, fol. 264b being torn

(fol. 274)

Two forms of absolution

(fol. 276v)

Latin verses on the Decalogue

Incipit: Lex datur in tabulis

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 14th century, second half ; English

MS. Bodl. 828, endleaves (fols. i-iv, 275, 277)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Parts of four leaves from a Latin rental and court-roll of St. Mary's priory at Worcester

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: early 14th cent.

MS. Bodl. 828, endleaves (fol. 276)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Part of one leaf from a Latin record of a lawsuit between the prior and rector of Wotten Wawen in Warwickshire, 14th cent.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 14th century

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) by Matthew Holford from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, III (1973), no. 744
Summary Catalogue (1922)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 497
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 498

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-06: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.