Oxford. Balliol. 196

196 ANON. IN SENTENTIAS 178; 369.K.9

13th cent, (last quarter, see f. 162). 295 ff. 7 ½ x 5 ¾ in. 27 or 29 lines. Quires of 12 leaves, with catchwords; 3 extra leaves at the beginning and 4 at the end. Several good English hands (that of 160v-210v is the best), without ornament.

2° fo. doc\toris que est.

[anon., Notulae in Sententias]

• 4-86. Lib. i. Toti operi libri sentenciarum premittit magister prologum suum ubi primo ponit causas allicientes eum ad scribendum. . . . Veteris ac nove legis etc. Magister aggrediens intentum quod primo preparat sibi subiectum—consequenter epilogat et patet Que ad misterium etc.
• 86v—158. Lib. ii. Que ad misterium etc. cap. 1 postquam determinavit magister de fruibilibus in hoc secundo libro determinat de usibilibus etc. Quibus verbis refert scriptura in uno principio a deo creatore mundum esse factum—cum ipse precipiat ut in malis nulli potestati obediamus. *158-210v. Lib. iii. Iam nunc hiis intelligendis. Magister in hoc tercio libro acturus de statu hominis post peccatum reparato primo premittit prohemium—dat intencionem respectu tractandorum in quarto libro. Explicit.
• 220-89. Lib. iiii. Libro quarto D. prima. Ostenso in principio effectu sacramentorum in genere scilicet quod sunt remedia contra vulnera originalis peccati. . . . Breaks off unfinished at the foot of the page, in dist. 50, cap. 2 nec corporali luce privantur. Et hoc confirmat.

Stegmuller, Sent. no. 724. A. G. Little in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum xix (1926) 844 suggested that this is the Paris commentary of Richard Rufus OFM (cf. MS 62); the donor's will names it 'Boicius super sentencias'. The divisions between book i/ii and ii/iii are not clearly marked, except by a change of book-number in the upper margin, and have been emphasized by a I5th-cent. hand. There are many contemporary corrections in ii-iv, especially in the lemmata. 289v-9i are covered with minute writing (theological?), which is possibly a little earlier than the text, and intended to be erased and replaced by it. Other leaves not required for the text, 2iov-19v and 291v-4v, were early used for preachers' notes—distinctiones, excerpts from the Fathers, Latin verses etc.; at the foot of 215 are some English glosses (e.g. fast haldand: fortiter tenens), and on 291v verses in Anglo-Norman (Je suy celuy ki suy tray par fol amur / chetif ke fray certes ne say alas dolur / Bon est amur a consecer (?) en semble decur / Mes est amur misaunt a quer a chef du tour / Je suy batu et ay sentu de tel langur / Ha sire Jesu par ta vertu me fetes succur). Under the text on 162 is the erased pencil draft of a letter, beginning: Viro venerabili et discreto et in Christo sibi dilecto domino Egidio de garderoba domini regis. . . . Karissime domine de negocio illo. . . . The writer's name is concealed by the overlying text; for the addressee Mr. R. W. Southern has suggested Giles of Oudenarde, who appears as clerk of the Great Wardrobe a.d. 1274-82 in T. F. Tout, Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England vi (Manchester, 1933) 35, and passim.

There are contemporary or early pencil notes on 87v Frater Nicholaus de Glovernia . . . 3 pecias sequentes; 88 Wypeboc totum precedens Vincencii; 162 pro qualibet libra dimissa unum d(enarium). On 173 a later name.

1-3 are fly-leaves. On 1v is: Summa xxx d. Notule Sentenciarum II erasure // Ani a bello de Lewys xliii / Ani a bello de Ewysham xlii (indicating a.d. 1307)» and another inscription at foot. On 3V in a long erasure: . . . prec' . . . fratri Thome G (?) . . . liber . . . usualis (the last word might be custodialis, which would indicate Franciscan ownership). Probably next in order of date is (295) Liber Willelmi Marche capellani. Then (3v): Jste liber constat fratri Johanni Kekelly / ex dono fratris Johannis Mnscham, and: Liber domus de Balliolo ex dono / Magistri Roberti Roke. [1]

See also

• Mynors 1963
• Oxford Balliol MS