MS. Lat. misc. b. 18
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession). Incorporates the former MS. Lat. misc. b. 19.
Guardbook of pastedowns from Oxford bindings, made by Philip Bliss
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Provenance and Acquisition
Philip Bliss; his sale, Sotheby's 21 Sept. 1858, lots 100, 119
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), MS. 18133
Sotheby's 24 April 1911 lot 390
Bought by E. H. Dring.
Given by his son, E. M. Dring, 1964
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 1
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2 cols., 35 lines
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From Queen's College.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 2
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Noted Breviary. Parts of the historia Ezechielis, expositions of the gospels for the 3rd–5th, 24th–25th Sundays after Pentecost. Pastedowns, nos.1736, 1737, 1740.
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2 cols., originally 43 lines
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From St. John's College.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 3
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2 cols., 42+lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 4
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Noted Gradual. Part of litany for fer. II Rogationis beg: Humili prece, Chevalier 8172; the Vigil of the Ascension and part of Ascension Day. Notes on 4-line stave ruled with dry point.
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1 col., 14 lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 5
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2 cols., 38 lines
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Merton College bookplate.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 6
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2 cols., 60, 69 lines
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Merton College bookplate pasted on 9
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 7
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Ps.lxxvii.63–lxxxii.6, cviii.14 – cxiii.12, Exechiel xxix.8–xxxii.29, Daniel vii.8–x.6, xiii.38 – Osee i.8, Michaeas vi. 16 - Habacuc, Prol. With pre-Langtonian capitula, numbered in red arabic numerals. Pastedowns, no.1022, where references are given to 48 more leaves.
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2 cols., originally 60 lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 8
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All leaves from bk. IV except fol. 20 which is from I 43.1–44.1. Pastedowns, no.712 n.3 where other leaves are noted.
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2 cols., 37 lines.
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From Merton College.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 9
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Parts of masses for sabbat. hebd. primae quadrag. and feria quinta in cena domini.
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one col., 18+ long lines
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From Queen's Coll. Q.3.17, Valencii doctoris expo. psalmorum, London, 1481, which belonged to Hugo France.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 10
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In the translation of William of Moerbeke. Two contiguous leaves containing I.9–10, II.1–2 (992a 18 – 994b 10).
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one col., 30+ lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 11
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Unidentified.
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2 cols., 60 lines
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From Merton Coll. Haymo, Cologne, 1536
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 12
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2 cols., 35+ lines
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Rough hand.
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 13
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Parts of Sermo I in Septuag., P.L. 183, col.159A–6A, and of Sermones III and II in Nativ. Domini, P.L. 183, col.125D–126A, 119D–121C.
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2 cols., 34 lines (2 lines cut off)
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‘Liber Guil. Mart. emptus 14o Januarii anno 1567 precium xiiiis xd’ (32)
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 14
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Ed. Venice, 1591, pp.391C–392F. The verso is blank except for an erased inscription (below, provenance).
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2 cols., 50+ lines
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‘Istum librum contulit fr. Symon Dadynton de Custodia Oxon’ librarie studencium Oxon' sicud et — Hec continentur in isto vol. Paris' de sacramentis. Idem de faciebus mundi', Emden, B.R.U.O. i. 532
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 15
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2 cols., 57+ lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 16
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Parts of common of saints and sanctoral, a confessor and abbot to a virgin, St.Remigius to St.Faith, All Saints to St.Theodore.
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2 cols., 33 lines
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From St. John's Coll. O.2.11, Euripides, Gr.-Lat., Basel, 1562
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 17
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V.21–30 (1022b 19 – 1025a 34) in the recension of William of Moerbeke.
II.1–3 (284a 10 – 285b 2) in the translation of William of Moerbeke.
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2 cols., 31–2 lines
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From St. John's Coll.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 18
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III, part of c.12–13, P.L. 77 col.67C–71A.21 other leaves recorded in Pastedowns, no.324.
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2 cols., 55 lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 19
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Pastedowns, nos.713–14 and n. The contents are listed by M.T.d'Alverny, ‘Avicenna latinus V’ in Archives d'hist. doctr. et litt. 40 (1965), 293–6. Parts of the following texts are included:
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2 cols., 60 lines
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From Merton College.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 20
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Parts of bk.II, c.44–5, ed. Venice, 1757–9, i475a–8a. Pastedowns, no. 605 n.
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2 cols., 46 lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 21
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2 cols., 72 lines
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Names of 16th cent. members of the University are scribbled in the margins.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 22
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31 long lines
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From St. John's College, Jac. de Voragine, Sermones, Cologne, c.1510.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 23
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2 cols., 67 lines (gloss)
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From St. John's College, Jac. de Voragine, Legenda sanctorum, Strasbourg, 1496
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 24
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2 cols., 81 lines (gloss)
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From St. John's College, P. Berchorius, Nuremberg, 1499
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 25
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2 cols., 78 lines
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From the same book as fol. 57.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 26
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Lib. XXIII tit.iii c.xxii–xlii, with the glossa ordinaria.
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2 cols., 42 lines
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From Merton College, Sententiae Antonii Monachi, Zurich, 1546.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 27
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I d.XXXIV c.1 – 17, d.XXXVI c.2 – XXXVII c.11, with gloss.
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2 cols., 52 lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 28
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25 lines (text), writing below top line.
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 29
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II (here numbered 4), parts of qq. xvii–xix, ed. Venice, 1504, fol.22va–23va.
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2 cols., 60 lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 30
A, fol. 65: Number not used
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 31
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For other leaves see Pastedowns, no.215 n.;
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2 cols., 44 lines.
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 32
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Unidentified text.
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2 cols., 57 lines
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From Merton College.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 33
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Pastedowns, no.443.
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2 cols., 47 lines
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MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 34
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2 cols., 60 lines
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From St. John's College, L. Justinianus, Paris, 1524, bound by N. Spierinck.
MS. Lat. misc. b. 18 – Part 35
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1 col., 38 lines
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 36
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2 cols., 43 lines
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From St. John's College, Dionysius Carthus. in Prophetas, Cologne, 1543, 1549
MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 37
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2 cols., 36 lines
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 38
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2 cols., 58 lines
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Probably from Merton College, Lactantius. Cologne, 1544.
MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 39
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The leaves are palimpsest. The under-text appears to be a 13th cent legal text.
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2 cols., 38 lines
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From St. John's College, Summa Antonini, Nuremberg, 1540, 4 vols.
MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 40
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Parts of the letters Cl-Co, De, Do, Du, Gi-Gr, Ia, Ma-Mo, Pa. Pastedowns, no.716.
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2 cols., 61–2 lines
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 41
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Miscellaneous volume, containing:
For other leaves see Pastedowns, no.225 and the references there given.
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41 long lines
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 42
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2 cols., 45 lines
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 43
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30 long lines
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From Queen's College, Ptolomaeus graece, Basel, 1538.
MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 44
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2 cols., 32 lines
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 45
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Lib.X, lect.4–5, nos. 2008–25.
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2 cols., 59 lines
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From Merton College.
MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 46
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Part of bk.I, c.34–8. For other leaves see Pastedowns, no. 387.
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2 cols., originally 48 lines
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Expert English secretary hand.
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Initials gold flourished with blue, and blue flourished with red.
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 47
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Noted, parts of mass for Palm Sunday, canon of the mass (fol. 41) with verso blank, proper for St.Michael the Archangel to St.Faith.
Other leaves in the books of John Betts at Merton College, for which see Pastedowns, p.viii n.4, and in S.C. 30558 and 30556, fol.105, for which see Pächt and Alexander, III no.808.
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2 cols., 38–9 lines
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Illuminated initials (cf. Pächt and Alexander iii.808, to which this should be added).
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 48
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Parts of lives of SS. Albinus (1 March), Chad, Theophilus, and Gregory the Great (12 March). From a collection similar to that in Lincoln Cathedral, MS.149.
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2 cols., 43 lines
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From St. John's College.
MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 49
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21 lines text.
42 lines gloss.
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In the margins are the characteristic marks of the monk of Christ Church, Canterbury.
Perhaps leaves of no. 173 in the 1501 inventory of Canterbury College, Oxford, which was still there in 1534; see Pantin, Cant. Coll. (Oxford Hist. Soc. N.S. VI), 1946, pp.23, 117.
From St. John's College 0.2.26. P. Lombardus, Sent., Louvain, 1546, ‘Precium iiijs. 1548’. Given by Henry Cole.
MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 50
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19 lines text
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Two of the leaves from Merton College 80 i.33, J. Driedo, De captivitate et redemptione humani generis, Louvain, 1548.
MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 51
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Pr. J.Amundesham, Ann. mon. S.Albani (R.S.) i, pp.276–83. Pastedowns, no. 819. Photocopies of other leaves in MS. Facs. c. 24.
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2 cols., 48 lines
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 52
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c.lxi–lxiii, lxv–lxvi. Pastedowns, no.226.
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2 cols., 72 lines, writing below top line.
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MS.Lat.misc.b.18 – Part 53
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4 cols., 79 lines
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I dist. XIX c.ix–x, XXII c.iv – XXIII c.1, with the same apparatus as is found in Erfurt, Amplon.Q 108, the Glose Oxonienses. Other leaves are Pastedowns, nos.584 and Addenda, no.10.
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.