Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 2v)
Miracles of the Virgin Incipit: Quedam mangna domina cum duas ancillas haberet
Fol. 6, concerning Julian Apostate.
2. (fol. 7)
Summa de uirtutibus 'Postquam' Incipit: Postquam dictum est de morbis ipsius anime, id est, de peccatis, addendum est de remediis
S. Wenzel, 'The source for the 'Remedia' of the "Parson's Tale"', Traditio 27 (1971) (listed, ms. L).
3. (fol. 49v)
Sermons Incipit: Sic currite ut comprehendatis Hec verba scripta sunt ad Cor. 9 et duo tangit apostolus
5. (fol. 82v)
Augustine,
Sermo 59 Incipit: Reddidi quid credatis ; audite quid oretis
H. R. Drobner, ‘Newly Identified Augustinian and Pseudo-Augustinian Texts in Manuscripts of Bodleian Library, Oxford’, Augustinianum, 55.2 (2015), pp. 513–41 at 522-3. Followed by other short sermons.
6. (fol. 85v)
Gilbert Crispin,
De monachatu siue epistula ad fratrem R. de uita monastica Incipit: Quesivit a me dilectio vestra, quid sit monachatus an prosit et ad que prosit
The Works of Gilbert Crispin ..., ed. A. S. Abulafia and G. R. Evans (1986), pp. 89-94, with variants from the present manuscript ('LL'): 'the text is inferior with many omissions' (p. xvi); the work is discussed ibid., p. xxv. Followed by two exempla (1) a clerk possessed by a demon (2) a religious widow.
7. (fol. 88)
Glosses on Romans and I Corinthians Incipit: Paulus servus ... Augustinus in Enchiridion ; servitus quia servitur justitiae
Explicit: [xi.27] Item, qui indevote, id est, irreverenter vel negligenter accedat||
8. (fol. 116)
Sermon (?) Incipit: Hoc est corpus meum ... Decessurus quis ab amicis suis facit eis festum, sicut dominus Lucas, Desiderio desi- deravi. Sicut si quis peregre profectus traderet amico optimum electuarium in pixide
10. (fol. 133)
Exhortatio Firmati monachi Incipit: Fratribus qui sunt in valle Christi, Sacer Firmatus flores salutaris scientie et inestimabilem fructum ligni vite clara et nullo unquam marcescens tempore sapiencia Deum in plateis clamitans
Final rubric: Explicit exhortatio Firmati monachi ...
Firmatus identified by J. Leclerq as Guillaume Firmat, 11th century.
ed. J. Leclerq, 'L'Exhortation de Guillaume Firmat', Analecta Monastica 2nd. ser. = Studia Anselmiana fasc. 31 (1953), pp. 28-44; only this ms. cited. 14. (fol. 140v)
Homily on the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Incipit: Inquirendum est, fratres karissimi, et explanandum per ordinem
Adapted from a Latin redaction of the apocryphal Protevangelium Jacobi (BHL 5333m–t); ed. Jean-Daniel Kaestli, 'Le Protévangile de Jacques latin dans l’homélie Inquirendum est pour la fête de la Nativité de Marie', Apocrypha 12 (2001), 99–153
Here divided into nine lessons.
15. (fol. 141v)
Augustine,
De civitate dei (extract on the virtue of humility) Incipit: Augustinus in primo libro de civitate Dei, Scio quibus viribus opus sit, ut persuadeatur
Followed by two exempla on the virtues of confession.
17. (fol. 148)
Four short sermons Incipit: Cum ignoremus quid agere debeamus ; etc. Verba ista, karissimi, merito possum
Incipit: Tibi dabo claves regni celorum Hodie karissimi beatus Petrus divina auctoritate curam assumpsit
Perhaps to be identified (as Sharpe, Latin Writers, s.n.) with William of Cornwall, OFM (for whom Emden, BRUO, I. 491).
18. (fol. 157)
Commentary on the Lord's Prayer Incipit: Pater noster; etc. Hec dominica oratio privilegiata est in tribus, in dignitate, in brevitate, in fecunditate
Identified by Bloomfield 8354, 8927, as Ps.-Bonaventure, De oratione dominica (Opera (Quaracchi) VII (1895), 652-655) but the text apparently differs after the opening sentences.
19. (fol. 159-162r)
Commentary on Ave Maria Incipit: In ista salutacione Virginem in quatuor et a quatuor commendabilem denunciat
20. (fol. 162v)
Cyprian of Carthage,
De dominica oratione Incipit: Euangelica precepta fratres
Final rubric: Explicit sermo Cipriani de oratione Dominica
Followed by acrotics on the names of Jesus and Maria, and by seven 'urbanitates' and seven ''rusticitates'.
Origin: 13th century, end ;
England Provenance and Acquisition
'Thomas Gurney hoes thes boke ... ', mid 16th century, fol. 167v.
William Laud, by 1633.
Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.
