MS. Auct. D. 5. 5
Summary Catalogue no.: 27875
A Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St-Thierry, etc.; England or France, 13th century, second half. B Gospel of Matthew with glossa ordinaria, Germany (?), 12th century
Physical Description
Binding
17th- or 18th-century binding of leather over pasteboard; sewn on three double bands.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'14' in medieval arabic numbers at the top of fol. vii, the first endleaf: perhaps a pressmark.
It is not certain when the two parts of the volume came together. Part A shows evidence of an earlier binding with rust stains at the beginning from a clasp; but 14th-century (?) annotation on p. 64 of part A resembles annotation on the final page (446) of part B.
Given to the Bodleian on 7 Oct. 1760 by James Fletcher, bookseller, of Oxford (-1795) (inscription, p. x).
MS. Auct. D. 5. 5 – Part A (pp. 1-350)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Followed (p. 130) by:
On p. 131 is a table of 'gradus', cf. J. Leclercq, ‘Pour l’histoire des traités de S. Bernard’, Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, 15 (1959), 56–78 at 67–69.
Also in BnF Latin 1727 fols. 152v-157r, with rubric 'Incipit liber de gradibus caritatis' and final rubric 'Expliciunt tractatus sancti Bernardi abbatis Clar.' (Cf. István P. Bejczy, 'De origine virtutum et vitiorum: An Anonymous Treatise of Moral Psychology (c. 1200-1230)', Archives d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du Moyen Age 72/1 (2005), 120.) Describes nine 'gradus', each noted with a marginal rubric.
For other copies (including BnF Latin 1727 fols. 123r-124r, also attributed to Bernard) see Bejczy, 120.
Extract from Paulinus of Aquileia, Liber exhortationis (PL 40.1047-8; CPPM II.3078).
A collection comprising both full letters and centos of extracts, in parts closely resembling the collection in BnF Latin 1727. Rubrics not filled in but guides for most survive in the lower margin.
Ep. 2.1-10 (to 'ieiunam deserit mentem', followed by Ep. 4.2-3 (beg. 'at ego inquies')
Extracts from epp. 8, 11, 12, 18.
Epp. 23-4, extracts
Begins as ep. 26, ends as ep. 82; includes passage from (at least) epp. 27, 32, 34, 65, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 78.
Begins as ep. 83, ends part through ep. 96
Begins as ep. 102, ends part through ep. 103.
Begins as ep. 104, ends part through ep. 106.
Begins as ep. 108, ends part through ep. 129.
Additions on previously blank leaves in an anglicana hand probably of the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century:
Draft sermon for the inception of a bachelor of theology; begins on p. 263, continues at the bottom of p. 262, apparently ends on the bottom on p. 261, where the text is largely illegible.
Draft sermon on virginity (?).
Capitula; note in the upper margin of p. 274: ‘Deest prologus’
Further additions on previously blank leaves by the same hand as pp. 261-4, faded and often illegible, including (p. 347), text on prayer, commenting on 'Multum valet de precacio iusti assidua'; (p. 348) a letter, followed by notes on 'Qui ex deo est verba dei audit'; (p. 350) another letter.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled in plummet for 2 columns of 44 lines. Ruled space 140 × 100-5 mm.
Hand(s)
Gothic bookhand (northern textualis), apparently by one scribe. Leaves marked 'W. de B' in the bottom left corner at the beginning of most quires and on some other folios.
Decoration
Spaces left for initials not filled in; rubrication not completed.
History
Provenance
In England at an early date, with extensive signs of use: marginalia, maniculae, added running heads, and an abortive attempt on pp. 1-5 to prepare the text for indexing by numbering the columns (1-10) and dividing each page horizontally with the letters a-l at 4-line intervals in the space between the columns.
Perhaps Oxford (?) or Cambridge (?), possibly Dominicans or Franciscans (?). Additions (late thirteenth or early fourteenth century) include a draft sermon for the inception of a bachelor of theology in religious orders, apparently a friar as he is said to have read 'cursorily' on the Bible and the Sentences both ‘here’ and (?) at Lynn and Northampton (‘hic cursorie tam sententias quam bibliam leg(it) etiam Lenn’ et Norhampton’ ...’[illegible], p. 262)
(pp. 236-7) 16th-century pen-trials in English including: ‘Memorandum that I have’, ‘rey ey wyd’ (?), ‘in feather beds in xxx pere of shetts’, ‘george’ (?)
MS. Auct. D. 5. 5 – Part B (pp. 351-446)
Contents
The gloss begins with a collection of several prefatory glosses (pp. 351-4). These are followed by a series of lettered glosses in sequences of varying length (A to R, A to P, etc.) linked to letters in the text at the relevant points; the sequence of lettering running across chapter divisions. The lettering ends at the top of p. 372.
p. 446 blank except for pen-trials and mostly illegible notes.
The prefatory glosses are as follows:
Also in MS. Laud Misc. 87, fols. 65vb-66ra
The marginal gloss proper begins and ends:
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
27 lines of Biblical text, ruled space for the Biblical text 135 × 62 mm.
Variable lines of gloss, ruled ad hoc, usually in the outer column, but on pp. 351-372 also filling the upper and lower margins.
Ruling in plummet, both text and gloss above top line.
Hand(s)
Protogothic book script, text and gloss apparently by one hand; frequent ligatures, particularly in the gloss (ns, nt, us); na, ma in ligature below the line; insular form of the 'post' abbreviation; 'Italianate' abbreviation for final '-us'.
Decoration
5-line vegetal initial 'M', p. 351; initial 'L' in the form of a bird, p. 352. (Pächt and Alexander i. 67)
History
Provenance
In England by the late 13th or early 14th century, as witnessed by annotations in anglicana script on p. 444 and elsewhere.
(p. 414): 'frater Johannes de Rempna(m)' [Remenham, Berkshire?], early 14th century (?)
Erased / illegible texts or notes on p. 448.
MS. Auct. D. 5. 5 - endleaves (pp. vii-x)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Most of one leaf, bound in sideways to form a bifolium.
1.1.1-2 (= X.1.1.1-2, ending at 'mater est et magistra') followed by 2.1.1 (= X.1.3.24), breaking off at 'mandato tibi forsitan', the text beginning on p. x, continuing on p. vii, ix, viii.
E. Friedberg, Quinque compilationes antiquae (Leipzig 1882), 135Physical Description
Layout
Ruled in plummet for 2 cols. of c. 49 lines; width of the ruled space c. 100mm., with 10mm. between columns.
Hand(s)
Early Gothic bookhand (northern textualis).
Decoration
Initials in blue with penwork decoration in red.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-07: Description fully revised for digitization.