Oxford. Balliol. 213
213 HENRICUS DE GANDAVO 191; 187.g.6 Link
13/14th cent. 190 ff. 14 ¾ x 10 in. 2 cols, of 58 lines. Quires of 12 leaves, with catchwords. Fairly good university hand (probably English), using reddish brown ink. Space left for small capitals, which have never been filled in.
2° fo. eandem quadam or (f. 8) aliorum nec.
- 7-184v. [HENRICUS DE GANDAVO, Quodlibeta i-vii] Querebantur in nostra generali disputacione quasi xlii questiones. . . . Breaks off unfinished in vii, q. 24 (vol. i, f. 423™ of the Venice edn. of 1613): quod aliquis potest eadem voluntarie alteri iterato.
A contemporary list of the quaestiones follows on 185-6; i86v is blank, except for early pencil notes. 5 and 6 were added to take, in a hand like that of the main text, i. q. 9 omitted from its place on 10v; 5 recto was originally blank.
The quaestiones are as given by Glorieux, Quodl. i. 177-88; to his list of MSS in ii. 132 add Cambridge Pembroke Coll. 166 and Oxford Merton Coll. 107.
From the Cistercian abbey of Swineshead (Lines.); at the top of 5 is an erased inscription: Liber Monasterii beate Marie de Swynesheved. Alienated already in the 15th cent., if not earlier. On 5 is a 15th-cent. note of valuation: prec' xiiij s. viij d. (?). On 7 in a Balliol hand: Prima pars Quodlibet' Henr. de Gandavo, and on 6V: Liber domus de Balliolo in Oxon' / ex dono Willelmi Gray Eliensis Episcopi.
1-4 and 187-90 (guard-leaves) are taken from a fine late 12th-cent. copy of vacarius, Liber Pauperum, with copious and early glosses.
The text is written in 2 cols, of 48 lines, with red headings, and capitals in red green and pale blue; the height of a column 10 in. or a little more. The gloss is in one col. in the inner margin and two in the outer. The wormholes show that these leaves have not always stood in MS 213. Other fragments, now mutilated, are used as guard-leaves in MSS 11, 84, and 136. Ff. 187, 188, 1-4, 189, 190 of our MS (a complete quire), followed by MS 136, ff. 1, 2, 185, contained book iv, tit. 15-36 from [tempus statuendum est] non minus x dierum (D. 13. 5. 21) to in solidum [quamquam enim alias] (D. 16. 3. 7). There is then a gap of three leaves, which probably stood in MS 136 after f. 185 as guard-leaves (completing another quire); after which MS 136, ff. 3,4 contain iv, tit. 38-39 from [societate] abeatur (D. 17. 2. 14) to rei suae emp[tio tunc valet] (D. 18. 1. 33). MS 84, ff. 3 + 2 and 4+1 (two leaves folded to make four), and MS 11, ff. 2 and 1, are the second and fourth sheets from a later quire. They contain viii, tit. 49-54 and 60 (de servo corrupto) from [igitur in potes]tate sunt servi (D. 1.6. 1) to sunt enim diversa [maleficia furis] (D. 11. 3. 11); tit. 55-61, omitting 60, from [commo]daverat (D. 47. 2. 69/68) to iniuriam passum [contendit] (D. 47. 10. 7); and tit. 61 onwards from [consilio te] aliquid (c. 9. 35. 5) to the end of the book, the order of the titles being 71, 69, 70 as in the Avranches MS (see the edition by F. de Zulueta, Selden Society xliv, 1927). [1]
