MS. Lat. th. d. 29

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

A: Lanfranc, Monastic Constitutions. B: Theological extracts and sententiae; both English, 12th century, second half.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii + 80 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 160 mm.

Decoration

Plain blue, red, green and buff initials in both MSS

Additions:

Binding

modern niger morocco binding.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Titles (13th–15th cent.) ‘Consuetudines Lanfranci et excerpta de poenitentiale. Item Seneca ad lucillum’, and press-mark ‘E 25’ (fol. iii)

William Brent of Willington, Warwick , given to Sir William Dugdale , ‘i Oct.1675’ (fol.iii verso)

Thorpe catalogue, 1831, no. 4108

W. Shaw Mason (fol.iii verso)

4th Duke of Newcastle, Sotheby's 6 Dec. 1937, lot 955

André de Coppet , his sale at Sotheby's 6 Dec. 1954, lot 34, bought by Quaritch for £95.

Given by Arthur. A. Houghton .

MS.Lat.th.d.29 – Part 1

(fol.1)

Lanfranc, Monastic Constitutions,

as in the text ed. D.Knowles (Medieval Classics), 1951.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: et incumbentes

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Dimensions (written): 180 × 120 mm.

Collation

1(8)-5(8), 6(4) quires numbered I-VI at the end in green

Layout

28 long lines

MS.Lat.th.d.29 – Part 2

Summary of Contents: Collection of extracts and theological‘sententiae’ including:

Language(s): Latin

(fol.45v)

Seneca, Ad Lucilium,

epp.I.1 §1–3, I.2, I.3§2–end

Language(s): Latin

(fol.46v)

Ivo of Chartres, Epp. 78, 80 (P.L.162 col. 99, 101)

Language(s): Latin

(fol.48v)

Summa on marriage

Pr. H. Weisweiler Das Schrifttum der Schule Anselms (Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos. d. Mittelalters XXXIII, pp.33, 34) and F.Bliemetzrieder (Rech. de théol. anc. et méd. III (1931), pp.274–87, lines 1–235 and 266–74

Incipit: Cum omnia sacramenta post peccatum et propter peccatum… pudicitia coniugalis. Coniugium est secundum Ysidorum

Explicit: adulter uxoris

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: Fides preterea coniugii

Pr.A.Wilmart (Rech. de théol. anc. et med. XI (1939), p.129, the other from the Sententiae Anselmi,

Language(s): Latin

Sententiae Anselmi (extract)

ed. Bliemetzrieder (Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos. d. Mittelalters XVIII 2–3) p.112 lines 22–5

Incipit: Tria bona sunt

Language(s): Latin

(fol.53)

Sentences on penitence

Incipit: Penitencia vera est penitenda non admittere

Rubric: Aug.in sexagesimo libro sermonum

Language(s): Latin

(fol.56v)

Text on almsgiving

Rubric: Incipit de elemosina

Incipit: Due sunt elemosine

Language(s): Latin

(fol.57)

Sententiae Anselmi (extracts)

‘De homicidio’, ed. Bliemetzrieder pp. 96 line 20–97 line 18, (fol.59) ‘De mendacio’, ed. cit. pp. 101 line 11–103 line 16, (fol.60) ‘De votis’, ed.cit.p.102 lines 18–28

Language(s): Latin

(fol.60v)

Rubric: De timore mortis Augustinus

Incipit: Mortem carnis omnis homo timet

Explicit: etiam si noluerimus habebimus

Language(s): Latin

(fol.60v)

Rubric: Sententia Anselmi archiepiscopi de consecratione altaris

Pr. with different beginning and end P.L. 159 col.194 (cf.A.Wilmart La tradition des lettres de S.Anselme, Rev. Bened. XLIII (1931), p.38 n.2)

Incipit: Quod de altari et de ecclesia quesivistis

Explicit: diligentissime expurgetur et denuo consecretur

Language(s): Latin

Patristic extracts

Language(s): Latin

(fol.63v)

Rubric: Magister Hugo Sancti Victoris

Incipit: Cum in omnibus actionibus nostris querendum sit

Explicit: et usum habeat

Language(s): Latin

(fol.66)

Four pieces without heading:

Incipit: Tribus ex causis serviunt homines domino

Explicit: dulcedo permaxima erit

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: Quoniam in presentiarum ubi sine labore

Explicit: ratione potestis

Language(s): Latin

Incipit: Deus non delectatur in nostris afflictionibus

Explicit: ne offense parentur

Language(s): Latin

Eadmer, De beatitudine celesti

Incipit: Cumigitur iusti

Explicit: deus benedictus in omnibus. Amen

Pr. P.L. 159 col.600–606

Language(s): Latin

(fol.72)

Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum

Rubric: Incipit liber Senece de remediis fortuitorum ad Gallionem

pr. Senecae Opera ed. F. Haase vol.III, pp.446–457, omitting the passages marked ‘ADDITIO’ in the text

Language(s): Latin

(fol.76)

Decrees of the Council of Westminster, 1175

Incipit: Ideo in ecclesia dei

Explicit: coniunctio talis toleretur

Pr. Wilkins Concilia vol.I, pp.476–9. Fols.45 and 78 are blank.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: est ut (fol.46)

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Dimensions (written): 175 × 110 mm.

Collation

1(8), 2(8), 3(8)(2 canc.), 4(10)

Layout

29 long lines

Additional Information

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian library staff

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.