MS. Lat. th. e. 36

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

Theological treatise

(fol.5)

Theological notes on baptism, confirmation, consecrations, celebration of mass and divine office

Incipit: Ne quis vana simplicitate ductus sacramenta ecclesiastica crederet iteranda

Explicit: sicut occasione questus fieri consuevit i.e.c.ii in fi.

(fol.25)

Summa on penitence

Incipit: (prologue)Misericors et miserator dominus cuius miserie non est numerus

Incipit: (text)Quid sit penitencia. Secundum Augustinum penitencia est quedam dolentis vindicta

Explicit: (text)de hiis qui filios ecclesie c fi.de spon.du. c.ii.xxii.q.v.c.i.

The two tracts appear to be part of the same work. The first is largely compiled from the Summa aurea of Hostiensis. Incomplete copies of the second are in Cambridge Peterhouse MS. 217 (III), fol.7 and Worcester Cath. MS. F 124, fol.244.

Fol.23v– 24v and fol.116v– 118v are blank.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: contra quid

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii + 120

Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 140 mm.

Dimensions (written): 150 × 95 mm.

Collation

1(12), 2(8), 3(12)–5(12), 6(12) (slip inserted after 8), 7(12)–9(12), 10(10) (8 canc.)catchwords

Layout

32 – 42 long lines. Frame ruling.

Accompanying Material

Fol.1 – 4 are reject leaves from a 13th cent. MS. of the Codex Justinianus X.25.1–32(31)45.

History

Origin: 14th century ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

[See also the provenance of MS. Lat. th. e. 37, with which this was formerly bound]

'Jan. 1647 C. I. Fairfax ex dono Mri Roberti Todd novae ecclesiae de Leeds fidelis pastoris' (fol. 4v)

'J[ames] Sotheby' (d.1720) (?), late 17th century

C. W. H. Sotheby (?)

Lt.-Col. H. G. Sotheby

Major-General F. E. Sotheby, of Ecton Hall, Northampton, his sale at Sotheby's, 21 Nov. 1955, lot 238, including MS. Lat. th. e. 37, bought.

Record Sources

Typescript description by Bodleian Library staff, provenance revised by Peter Kidd, late 1990s.

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges