Oxford. Balliol. 207

207 WILLELMUS ALVERNENSIS 184; 166.h.1

Mid 15th cent. 306 ff. 18 ½ x 12 ¾ in. 2 cols, of 58-59 lines, with very wide margins. Quires of 8 leaves (except xxx4), with signatures and catchwords; the first leaf, and blanks after 47 and 272, cut out. Same hand and ornament as MS 174, with running titles but no headings; the lost first leaf had a border with a large shield of Gray's arms at foot, as appears from the offset on 1v.

• 2- 199v. (1) [willelmus alvernensis op, De Universo, beg. imperfect with Ia Iae, Book i, c. 3] Revertar igitur nunc iuxta promissum ad destruendam istam vanissimam falsitatem—deo attribuas cum actionibus graciarum Amen. Explicit.

For other MSS and editions of this see Glorieux i, no. 141 w (add, besides this copy, Cambridge Univ. Lib. Add. 6171 and Oxford BL Lat. th. c. 17). Ia Iae Books ii and iii begin on 14 (no initial) and 31v; at end is Conpletus est tractatus s'i primi sapiencialis ac divinalis magisterii pars prima. IIa Iae and IIIa Ia are omitted. Ia IIae begins on 48; at end is Explicit liber primus de universo spirituali. Incipit liber secundus. IIa IIae on 69, divided into two books on 115v, at c. 77 of the edition, with Explicit liber primus de universo etc. as before, but with continuous chapter-numbering; at end is Sequitur liber tertius. IIIa IIae on 165v. The running title Secunda Pars continues right through. Chapter-division differs somewhat from that of the Venice edition of 1591, and about ff. 71-82 there appears to be some dislocation. 201

• 200-16v. (2) [idem, De Bono et Malo] Quoniam in nonodecimo Mt. et xviii Luce dicit et ipsa Veritas—affluencior et numerosior. Cited as B in the edition by J. R. O'Donnell; see MS 287.
• 216v-33. (3) [id., De Paupertate spirituali] Quoniam in alio tractatu videlicet quern de bono et malo scripsimus declaravimus malum — inquisitorum et inventoris. Explicit tractatus de bono et malo. 233v-5v are blank.
  • Both here and in MS 287, the title 'De bono et malo' seems intended to cover this and the preceding together; the running title is actually de Bo. in art. 2 and de Ma. in art. 3. 'De paupertate' is due to N. Valois.
• 236-55. (4) [AEGIDIUS ROMANUS OESA, De Exemptionibus] Incipiunt capitula operis sequentis contra exempciones (list of 26 chapters). Augustinus 7o de ci. dei c° 30 ait quod deus sic itaque administrat omnia—quod exempti delinquendo quantum ad ea que sunt.
• 255v-9v are blank. Cf. Glorieux I, no. 141ah; ii, no. 400bd.
• 260-5. (5) [WILLELMUS ALVERNENSIS, De Claustro animae] Ortus conclusus soror mea sponsa mea. Ortus conclusus istud ad universalem ecclesiam ad unumquemque claustralium—officium ianitoris. Explicit tractatus de claustro animae.
• 265v-7v are blank. Glorieux i, no. 1410 (add this MS and Lincoln Cathedral 221).
• 268-71. (6) [anon.] De Potenciis anime. Potencia quedam habet obiectum sive materiam diversam a se quedam non—licet sancti aliter in parte ordinaverunt. Explicit tractatus de potencia anime. This is also found in Lincoln Cathedral 221, which contains in a different order our art. 5-10, and in Worcester Cathedral F 57, and has been printed by D. A. Callus OP in Recherches xix (1952) 131-70.
• 271v-4v are blank.
• 275-82v. (7) [WILLELMUS ALVERNENSIS] De Prebendis. Behemoth sicut scriptum est in 40 Job umbre protegunt—dubitari non potest. (List of 14 chapters.) Dicemus igitur primo puritatem vocacionis—maiora maioribus relinquentes. Explicit tractatus de prebendis.
  • Glorieux i, no. 141r (add, besides this and the Lincoln MS, Cambridge Univ. Lib. Kk. 4. 4, Peterhouse 263, London BM Cotton Vitellius C. XVII; it formerly stood also in Eton 19 and Oxford Merton Coll. 136),
• 283-7v. (8) De Immortalitate. Nosse debes ex aliis quod (quia written over) quattuor modis humanis consulitur erronbus—vita in apprehen-sionibus et affeccionibus totaliter consistit. Explicit Parisiensis de immortalitate anime.
  • Glorieux i, no. 1412 (add, besides this copy, Lincoln 207 and 221 and Oxford Merton Coll. 50).
• 288-97v. (9) Cur Deus Homo. Ponam ad hoc quattuor radices primam virtutem—gaudium et acceptissimum famulatum. Explicit Parisiensis cur deus homo.
  • Glorieux i, no. 141& (add, besides this and the two Lincoln MSS, Oxford BL Rawlinson C 398). A list of 8 chapters of the next art. follows, with title: Incipit tractatus de gracia Parisiensis cur deus homo.
• 298-9V. (10) De Gracia. Post hoc autem graciam stabilire qua post lapsum peccatorum—ad gloriam promerendam. Explicit Parisiensis de gracia.
  • Glorieux i, no. l41k; also in the two Lincoln MSS and in Vatican lat. 848. Ours is a better text than that of the excerpts printed by A. Landgraf in Specidum v (1930)168-80.
• 300-6v. (11) De Faciebus mundi. Veritas evangelica predicatoribus in quibusdam est commissa—qui mundo utuntur. Explicit liber secundus de faciebus mundi.
  • Glorieux i, nos. 6el and 141f (add, besides this copy, Edinburgh Univ. Lib.115 and Lincoln Cathedral 207); H. Caplan, Mediaeval Artes Praedicandi (Ithaca, N.Y., 1934 and 1936) no. 180.

I (fly-leaf) has on verso: Parisiensis // Secunda pars summe Parisiensis / De bono / De malo / De exemptis / etc. (as above) // Liber domus de Balliolo in Oxon' / ex dono Willelmi Gray Eliensis episcopi. [1]

See also

• Mynors 1963
• Oxford Balliol MS