Oxford. Balliol. 195

195 MAGISTER SENTENTIARUM 177 (iii); 227-F.10

13th cent. 204 ff. 16 ¼ x 10 ½ in. (written space about 8 ¼ x 4 ¾ in.). 2 cols, of 46 lines.

Collation: 1 leaf, i-ii 12 iii12 (wants 3-10) iv-v12 vi14 vii-x12 xi10 xii11 (lost) xiii6 xiv12 (lost) xv12 xvi-xvii (lost) xviii-xxii12, 1 leaf. Signatures and catchwords. Good black hand (French), with red headings and flourished capitals in red and blue. Illuminated initials on coloured grounds with a little gold, quite good work; those to the capitula contain foliage, book i (4v) has crowned standing figures of Church and Synagogue, ii (68) the creation of Eve, iii (125v) the Nativity, that to iv is lost. At the end of many quires is the note cor(rectus).

20 fo. alia persona.

• 2-203. [petrus lombardus, Libri Sententiarum] Cupientes aliquid— duce pervenit. Explicit liber quartus sententiarum. Cf. MSS 193, 194. Capitula before each book (those of I before the prologue), numbered in red arabic figures. Gaps in the text are 1. xvii. 5-xxii. 4, in. i. 2-xii. 1 and xvii. 2-xxvii. 5, in. xxxix. 3-iv. vi. 6. The very wide margins have early notes in ink and pencil. On iv in a small (English?) hand is an anonymous commentary on the prologue to the Sentences, beg. Liber iste potest dividi in tres partes prohemium tracta-tum et epilogum. In prima parte tria facit: primo reddit auditorem benivolum secundo docilem. . . . Then, in a hand which is prominent in the marginalia: Iste sunt opiniones in quibus Magister Sent, non sustinetur communiter. . . .

On 203v a contemporary hand has added a poem of 104 rhyming hexameters, inspired by an image of the Virgin and Child with a dove and an apple: Qui per me transis ad me te verte Mariam—accepta votum pia Virgo mei miserere.

204 (fly-leaf) has three 14/15th-cent. notes of valuation: prec'. xiii s. iiij d., tres marc' and ijmarc'. Also four notes of pledging, all but the last erased: (a) Caucio (probably magistri Philippi de Wythemere) exposita in nova cista universitatis pro xiijs. . . .; (b) also 14th-cent., illegible; (c) on verso, Caucio magistri Ricardi Bosville (?) exposita in cista Wyenne pro . . . die sabbati proximo post festum Purificacionis beate Marie virginis A.D. m°cccxlii° (or xliv°)\ (d) Caucio magistri Philippi de Wythemere exposita in nova cista universitatis pro tredecim s. die sabati proximo post festum nativitatis sancti Johannis babtiste A.D. millesimo ccc° xlviijo.

On 203 is: Magister Robertus Polan vicarius de Penistane quondam socius Collegii / Ballioli Oxon' dedit hunc librum ad usum sociorum ibidem studencium (cf. MS 50). On iv (guard-leaf): Liber domus de Balliolo Oxon' ex dono /M. Roberti Polane quondam socii predicte domus // Liber Sent'. [1]

See also

• Mynors 1963
• Oxford Balliol MS