MS. Laud Misc. 2

Summary Catalogue no.: 501

Pastoralia, including Summae of Simon of Hinton and Henry of Wodestone; England, 13th century, second half

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 2)

On the seven deadly sins

Later hand.

2. (fol. 5)

Moral verses

Incipit: Est caro nostra lutum, vas feteus, servus et hostis

3. (fol. 9)

Moralitates

Incipit: Mores adversus tyrannos et de oppressoribus pauperum

4. (fol. 33)

Quaestiones theologicae

Incipit: Utrum homo potest scire mentes hominum vel demones

5. (fol. 52)

Quaestiones de fornicatione

Incipit: Queritur utrum simpliciter fornicacio sit mortale peccatum

Simon of Hinton, Summa iuniorum

6. (fol. 65)

Incipit: Ad instruccionem iuniorum

7. (fol. 74v)

Incipit: Sequitur tractatus parvulus

8. (fol. 119)

Incipit: Nunc aliqua transeunt

9. (fol. 132)

Henry of Wodestone (d. c. 1290), Summa de sacramentis

Rubric: De matrimonio

Incipit: Sequitur de sacramento matrimonii quod est legitima conjunctio maris et femine

Final rubric: Explicit summa quam composuit frater Henricus Lector, Oxoniensis, Fratrum Minorum, anno Domini m.cc.lxi.

Robert J. Mokry, ‘The Summa de sacramentis of Henry of Wodestone, OMin: a critical edition’, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 94 (2001), 3–84

10. (fol. 168)

Theological notes (de errore conjugii; de poenis inferni; peccati; etc.), partly verse, partly prose

Incipit: In conjugio errant simplices

11. (fol. 175)

Sermon on St John Baptist

Incipit: Multi in natu ejus etc. Magnum est testimonium

William de Montibus, Sermo 86 (?); cf. J. Goering, William de Montibus (c. 1140-1213): the schools and the literature of pastoral care (1992), p. 549.

12. (fol. 176)

De SS. Petro et Paulo

Incipit: Spiritus Sanctus revelatione

Followed by epitaph for Peter Comester: ‘Petrus eram quem petra tegit, dictusque Comestor, | Nunc comedor vivus dotus nec cesso docere, | Mortuus ut discat, qui me videt incinoratum’

13. (fol. 177v)

On payment of tithes

Incipit: In decimis errant

14. (fol. 178v)

Whether found items may be kept

Incipit: In invento errant

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 176 leaves, small quarto

Binding

15th-century binding.

Accompanying Material

The front and back flyleaves are from a work of scholastic theology (saec. xiii/ xiv)

History

Origin: 13th century, second half (?) ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Date: 1260s (Andrew Reeves, 'Teaching The Creed And Articles Of Faith In England: 1215–1281' in A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500) (Brill, 2010), pp. 41–72 at 62), late 13th century (Lesley Smith, ‘Friars and the Preparation of Pastoral Aids’, in The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350) (Brill, 2017), pp. 175–92 at 184), early 14th century (Coxe, Quarto Catalogue).

‘Liber fratris Johannis Stamford’, ‘precii xxx d.’. Mokry, op. cit. p. 11 and n. 2 suggests an identification with John Stamford, alias Sandford, d. 1294, archbishop of Dublin, on whom see OxfordDNB.

William Laud, by 1633

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Nov. 2022) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885), with additional reference to published literature as cited.

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 55–6

Quarto Catalogue, col. 57

Quarto Catalogue, p. 543

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 25