MS. Bodl. 859
Summary Catalogue no.: 2722
Physical Description
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Exeter Cathedral (?). See below, provenance of parts 1 and 2. MLGB3 accepts the whole volume as an Exeter Cathedral book.
Probably acquired by the Bodleian betweeen 1613 and 1620.
MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 1 (fols. 1–43)
Contents
Some theological notes on fols. iii verso, 42av, 226v, 260v, 310.
Physical Description
History
Provenance
Edmund Lacy, bishop of Exeter, -1455: ‘Hunc librum dederunt Executores Edmundi Lacy Episcopi Exoniensis Ecclesie Cathedralis Exoniensis. Cathenandum in magna libraria ibidem’ (fol. iv verso)
Exeter Cathedral (?) (see above; not in the 1506 Exeter inventory, but marks from a chain-staple (?) on fols. iii and iv.
MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 2 (fols. 44–225)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Preceded by an alphabetical index of subjects.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., c. 40–55 lines, written space c. 220–35 × 145–60 mm.
Decoration
Coloured initials.
History
Provenance
Edmund Lacy, bishop of Exeter: ‘Hunc librum dederunt Executores Edmundi Lacy Episcopi Exoniensis Ecclesie Cathedralis Exoniensis. Cathenandum in magna libraria ibidem’ (fol. 225v)
Exeter Cathedral (?) (see above; not in the 1506 Exeter inventory).
MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 3 (fols. 227–296)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Followed by 23 separate chapters, as in Eton College MS. 83, , from which this copy probably derives (Ker, MMBL, II.698–9). The 23rd chapter is:
Poems on the conflict between the University of Oxford and the City of Oxford in 1355
ed. Collectanea III, Oxford Historical Society, 1896.
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 4 (fols. 297–310)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Seven sermons, first beg.:
Listed by S. Wenzel, Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England (2005), p. 425.
Single leaf, containing a letter from Gregory XII to Henry Bowet, archbishop of York, Lucca, 21 May 1408.
On fol. 310v is added a Latin citation by John Orum, chancellor of the University of Oxford, to John Rutteley, 1407 or 1411–12.
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 5 (fols. 311–331)
Contents
Sermons listed by S. Wenzel, Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England (2005), pp. 425–6.
Physical Description
History
MS. Bodl. 859 – Part 6 (fols. 332–80)
Contents
Sometimes treated as a work by Ps.-John Pecham, Quaestio est de sacrificiis; but identified as a collection of various quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Hales (or in some cases perhaps to Stephen of Poligny), including material from Hales's Quaestiones disputatae antequam esset frater and Quaestiones disputatae postquam fuit frater. For identification of contents see Magistri Alexandri de Hales Quaestiones disputatae antequam esset frater I (Quaracchi, 1960) 11*-12* and Doctoris irrefragabilis Alexandri de Hales Ordinis minorum Summa theologica IV (Quaracchi, 1948), cxli, with A. Horowski in Verum, pulchrum et bonum: miscellanea di studi offerti a Servus Gieben in occasione del suo 80 compleanno (Rome, 2006), esp. p. 340–1.
Physical Description
Decoration
Penwork (Pächt and Alexander, addenda).
History
Provenance
‘precium .iiij. solidos’, fol. 380v.
Additional Information
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-03-28: Revised to incorporate all information in Watson, SC and Pächt and Alexander.