MS. Auct. F. 3. 10
Summary Catalogue no.: 2582
Physical Description
Decoration
Coloured capitals.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Stafford, Augustinian priory of St Thomas the Martyr: 'Iste liber constat de domo Sancti Thome martiris iuxta Staffordiam' (s. xiv) (fol. 209v, cp. fols. iii, iij v) (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).
'Richard Mychel' (s. xv). (MLGB3)
On fol. 117v an English note about lands at 'Brocton' (Broughton, near Manchester) (early 16th cent. ?)
The MS. first appears in Bodleian lists about 1655.
MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part A
Contents
Language(s): Latin
With prologue: the treatise ascribed to Thomas Aquinas and others. The hand changes on fol. 94 to a less trained one, which carries the treatise from the 32nd chapter of the 6th book to the end of the 7th, and adds a list of chapters. This second hand writes the colophon.
There are theological notes at fols. 117, 206v (de poenitentia):
Physical Description
Hand(s)
For the scribe William of Beverley see also Cambridge, Peterhouse MS. 14 (where M. R. James read 'bene' for 'Dene' in the colophon).
History
MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part B
Contents
Language(s): Latin
A series of Quaestiones (et Responsiones) chiefly on physical matters: the first three are:
Foll. 148-49 are insititious leaves in a 13th cent. hand containing similar physical Quaestiones et Responsiones. A second series in a new hand occupy foll. 154-61.
On fol. 161v are hexameter verses on lucky and unlucky days in the twelve months, in red ink.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
History
MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part C
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Latin translation
With marginal notes, bks. i-iii and part of bk. iv (ends in cap. 4 'alia quidem sunt contingentia moueri per se ut partes'): a few words more are on a fragmentary leaf, fol. 177b.
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History
MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part D
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Imperfect at beginning and in several other parts: the first complete line is 'Nam & in ueteri Testamento inuenitur dixisse Angelus Danieli prophete'
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols.
History
MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part E
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Some canons of the 14th General Council of Lyons (A.D. 1274) with papal preface, imperfect at beginning.
Five letters from the emperor Michael Palaeologus to pope Gregory X, also of 1274 (?)
Six stained leaves (two damaged), perhaps (as Langbaine suggests) part of a Latin commentary on the 4th book of the Sentences.
Physical Description
History
MS. Auct. F. 3. 10, endleaves (fols. iii, iv)
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Foll. iii, iv are part of a cartulary roll of the Austin priory of St. Thomas the martyr, Stafford.
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Additional Information
Record Sources
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-01: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.