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MS. Auct. F. 3. 10

Summary Catalogue no.: 2582

Physical Description

five parts
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iii + 225 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.625 × 6.5 in.

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

1. (fol. 1)
Hugo Ripelinus, Compendium ueritatis theologicae
Rubric: Compendium theologice veritatis
Colophon: Willelmi manibus de Beurle scribitur iste | Codex perficitur Dene pro te, laus tibi Christe | Est in principio Ihesus omnia munere dio | Sunt bene scripta, pia sis nobis fine Maria (fol. 114v)

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):

Incipit: Cum omnis etas hominis
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

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

Origin: 14th century, second half ; England

MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part B

Contents

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 118)
Quaestiones Salernitanae

A series of Quaestiones (et Responsiones) chiefly on physical matters: the first three are:

Incipit: Queritur quare Deus factus fuerit homo
Incipit: Queritur quid sit homo
Incipit: Queritur cur anima dignior sit corpore

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.

Ed. from this manuscript: B. Lawn, The Prose Salernitan Questions (1979)

On fol. 161v are hexameter verses on lucky and unlucky days in the twelve months, in red ink.

Incipit: Jani prima dies et septima fine timetur

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part C

Contents

Language(s): Latin

3. (fol. 162)
Aristotle, Physica

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.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part D

Contents

Language(s): Latin

4. (fol. 177bv)
Expositio missae
Rubric: Exposicio Misse
Explicit: a Domino esse recepta

Imperfect at beginning and in several other parts: the first complete line is 'Nam & in ueteri Testamento inuenitur dixisse Angelus Danieli prophete'

Explicit: a Domino esse recepta
(fol. 185)
Rubric: De Collectis, qualiter dicendum est in fine illarum
Incipit: Oracionum siue collectarum quedam diriguntur ad Patrem

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Layout

2 cols.

History

Origin: 13th century

MS. Auct. F. 3. 10 - part E

Contents

Language(s): Latin

5. (fol. 210)
Canons of the Council of Lyons, 1274

Some canons of the 14th General Council of Lyons (A.D. 1274) with papal preface, imperfect at beginning.

(fol. 214)

Five letters from the emperor Michael Palaeologus to pope Gregory X, also of 1274 (?)

(fols. 218–23)
Commentary on Peter Lombard, Sentences (?)
Incipit: ||presens & super corpori recipienti sacramentum

Six stained leaves (two damaged), perhaps (as Langbaine suggests) part of a Latin commentary on the 4th book of the Sentences.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 13th century ; England

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.

Physical Description

Form: roll
Support: parchment

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) from the Summary Catalogue (1922).

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2025-01: Description revised to incorporate all information from Summary Catalogue.