Language(s): Latin
(fols. 1ra-55vb)
⟨Michael de Furno⟩,
⟨Super Johannem I-XVII⟩ Incipit: (prologue) Factum est uerbum super Johannem. Luc. 3. secundam naturam uerbum
Explicit: (prologue) in arduis, id est in contemplatione diuinitatis. Ad quam etc.
Incipit: In principio erat verbum etc. Iohannis ewangelista intendit hic principaliter ostendere diuinitatem verbi incarnati. Ideo diuiditur istud ewangelium in 3.[sic] partes. Primo enim insinuat christi diuinitatem. Secundo manifestat eam per ea que christus in carne fecit et dixit in secundo capitulo et die tercia. Circa primum duo facit.
Incipit: (fol. 2ra) Dicit ergo in principium erat verbum. Sicut videtur primum principale est de verbo vbi quinque conclusiones habeo. Prima conclusio est aliud verbum convenit conceptui interiori anime et voci sensibili
Rubric: (fols. 3rb) Leccio secunda
Incipit: Et verbum erat apud deum […] Hic ponitur secunda clausula quam ewangelista ponit in sua narratione, quid enim sit dei verbum et quid sit principium iam prepositum est. Hec ergo que de nouo in secundo clausula, scilicet deum et apud, investigantes diligenter prosequamur. Dicit ergo et verbum erat apud deum. Vbi due conclusiones eliciuntur. Prima est quod deitas et deus differunt, quia deitas signat formam abstracte et absolute
Explicit: per discipulos seu successores eorum
Stegmüller, Bibl. 5625 (this ms. listed); text first identified by T. Kaeppelli, 'Der Johanneskommentar des Michael de Furno', Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 4 (1934) 225–228 (at 227), who described de Furno's work as an abbreviation of Aquinas's commentary on John. The text here differs significantly from the other known manuscript (Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, 183) and seems to represent a longer recension incorporating more of Aquinas's text. (fols. 55vb-85rb)
Thomas Aquinas,
Lectura super Iohannem XVIII-XXI (reportatio of Reginald of Piperno) Incipit: Hec cum dixisset etc. Supra ante passionem preparauit dominus discipulos suos
Explicit: annunciaui et multiplicati sunt super etc.
Colophon: Hec ergo sunt que ego Raynaldus de Piperino ordinis predicatorum ad preces quorundam sociorum et specialiter ad mandatum reuerendi patris prepositi sancti Adomari post fratrem Thomam de Aquino quasi qui colligit racemos post uindemiam utinam non diminute collegi, ubi de bene dictis Deo inspirante laudes, magistro dicenti grates a legentibus, sed de minimis bene dictis michi tantum atribuendum veram labor et impericia impetrent. Caritas uero qua labor assumitur, orationum suffragia merentur.
Final rubric: Explicit super Johannem
Fols. 85v-86v blank except for ruling.
Secundo Folio: tercia. Circa
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 86 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 150 mm.
Foliation: i, 1–86
Layout
Written in two columns, 40 lines. Ruled space 170 × 105 mm.
Hand(s)
Textualis; one hand.
Decoration
Fleuronnée initial. (Pächt and Alexander i. list, p. 72)
Plain initials alternating in red and blue; red or blue paraphs; red underlining; running headings with chapter number in both colours.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Abp. Laud, 1637–1639.
Origin: 14th century, second half ;
German Provenance and Acquisition
Mainz, Charterhouse: identifiable as G.vii.4 in catalogue II (Mainz, SB, Hs I 576, fol. 133v, 'Reynaldus de biperino Super Ioannem', secundo folio 'tercia certa'); not in Mairhofer, Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse. Annotations may provide further evidence of use at the Charterhouse.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
