MS. Lyell 50
Theological quaestiones ; Gilbert Crispin; Honorius Augustodunensis
Physical Description
Binding
Archaizing binding of second half of 15th cent. (not later than 1488), in wooden boards covered with rough white skin, with parchment pastedowns and original place marker of string. Original central leather strap and metal clasp fastening to pin on the upper cover – compare the clasp of MS. Lat. misc. d. 68, also from Admont. On the front cover is a parchment label with the title (15th cent.) ‘Lucidarius de peccato originali’.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria: ‘no. 563’ on spine of binding and inside front cover remains of MS. description (only surviving words: Nº 563) as found in other Admont MSS. Listed in the 1380 catalogue: ‘Item questio cuiusdam de originali peccato, incipit ‘Queritur’; in eodem lucidarius’; see G. Möser-Mersky, Mittelalt. Bibl.kat. Österreichs iii (1961), p. 56 l. 14–15.
Bought by Lyell in October 1936 from E.P. Goldschmidt and Co.; see his Cat. 44, no. 10 (fol. 18).
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
MS. Lyell 50 – Part A, fols. 1–40
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Five quaestiones on original sin begin after an erasure of which only the initial ‘P’ is legible.
Pr. H. Weisweiler, ‘Le recueil des sentences “Deus de cuius principio” et son remaniement’, in RTAM 5 (1933): 254–68, chiefly from Munich clm. 23440.
Also in the Munich MS. cit., see Weisweiler, ‘L’École d’Anselme de Laon et de Guillaume de Champeaux’ in R.T.A.M. 4 (1932), 245.
In the Liber Pancrisis it is attributed to Anselm of Laon. Pr. O. Lottin, Pyschologie et Morale V, 1959, p. 40, no. 44.
The first of a series of six questions also found in the Munich MS. cit., fol. 84v-86v, pr. Lottin, ‘Nouveaux fragments théologiques de l’école d’Anselme de Laon’ in R.T.A.M. 13 (1946), 219–20, nos. 322–7.
Also in the Munich MS. cit., fol. 86v. In Paris, BnF, lat. 18113 (destroyed in 1914) it was attributed to William of Champeaux: see Weisweiler, L’École, cit., p. 246. Pr. Lottin, Psychologie v, p. 307, no. 462; our MS. contains a slightly fuller version.
Two sentences also found in the Munich MS. cit., fol. 86v–87
The text in our MS. appears to be slightly different from that in the Munich MS.; see Weisweiler, L’École, cit., p. 246.
Part of the letter of Hugh of Rouen on the soul, written to Gravion d’Angers, P.L. 166 col. 835A8–836C9. Lottin printed part of this extract, also found in the Munich MS. cit., fols. 88v-89, as two sentences in R.T.A.M. 13 (1946), 221, nos. 328–9.
Part of the unpublished preface to the commentary on Matthew from the school of Anselm of Laon (Geoffroy Babion?), pr. P.L. 162. See MSS. Lyell 66, fol. 2va, 1. 33; Laud Misc. 87, fol. irb 1. 45
Pr. B. Blumenkranz, Gisleberti Crispini Disputatio Iudei et Christiani (Stromata Patristica et Medievalia, Fasc. hi), Utrecht and Antwerp, 1956. The text of our MS. is not obviously related to any one of the groups of MSS. used for this edition and it has many variants not found in the MSS. used.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
2 cols, of 27 lines ruled with a hard point.
Hand(s)
Written in a large rounded minuscule
Decoration
Fine initials of vinescroll type drawn in the ink of the text and rubrics, apparently before the text was written, on fol. 1, 18.
Initial on fol. 18v with figure of Christ blessing. (Pächt and Alexander i. 65)
History
MS. Lyell 50 – Part B, fols. 41–63
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Bk. II beg. fol. 48; Bk. III beg. fol. 56.
Pr. Y. Lefèvre, ‘L’Elucidarium et les Lucidaires’, Bibl. des écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 180 (1954), 359–477. Belongs to his family A, having all the early additions common to that family, including those only found in the group MAH, see op. cit., pp. 72–8; 232–42. The scribe has accidentally omitted Bk. 1 Q. 9–20 (fol. 41v, 1. 3–4) and Bk. 1 Q. 71a-most of 86 (fol. 43, 1. 32). In both cases the text continues without a break. The text is written without any division into Questions and Answers.
After the text of the Elucidarius, the scribe has written in red capitals: Auscultate pie prescriptę uerba sophyę. Auribus audite cordeque diligite.
Various later additions on fol. 63v.
" |Diues mendicus deus infernus paradysus |Pascit deposcit conpensat torquet amenat"WIC 4624
" |Te diligo pre ceteris, a nexu pie Veneris me soluere dignare. |Nam solam te desidero, spem puram ad te defero quam nollem euitare"
"✠ Esyppus ✠ Speusippus ✠ Melesyppus ✠ Caspar ✠ Melchior ✠ Balthasar"
See W. Wattenbach, Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter, 3rd ed., Leipzig, 1896, p. 231.
On the verso of a strip of parchment used in the binding, on which is written another charm (13th cent.), mostly illegible (beg. : ‘✠ In nomine patris’, ends: ‘protectio huic N. famulo dei ✠’) is written ‘Casperus Mulhoff’ (15th cent.?); on the front and end pastedowns are also written the letters ‘C.M.’ and on the end pastedown are ‘1488. K [or R] Petri’ and the line: ‘Ante dei uultum n⟨il⟩ unquam transit inultum’. There are annotations in the hand of this last note, which may be a hand used in one of the other notes, throughout the Elucidarius; and on fol. 4–4v of the first MS. this hand has supplied words cropped by the binder.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
35 long lines, ruled in crayon, mostly erased. Written above top line.
Hand(s)
Written on thick parchment in a small close-packed hand in the late 12th or early 13th cent.
Decoration
Plain red initials.
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-12-16: Andrew Dunning Revised from description by Albinia de la Mare.