Oxford. Balliol. 67B
Balliol 67B FRANCISCUS DE MAYRONIS 60; 325.0.9
From Mynors:
Mid 15th cent,, written in Italy and therefore presumably during the donor's residence there, A.D. 1445-53. 216 ff, 16 X 11 1/4 in. 2 cols, of 59 lines. Quires of 10 leaves (wanting 4 blank at the end), with signatures and catchwords; q. xiv is lost. Very clearly written, with very wide margins; the same scribe wrote MSS 68 and 70 (first half), and perhaps MSS 98 and 100 also. No headings; headline (number of book and distinctio) in blue. Each quaestio has a blue capital heavily flourished in red; each distinctio an illuminated initial with a wide part-border of foliage in gold (well burnished) and colour; each book a larger initial of the same kind, and the lost first leaf had a border with Gray's coat of arms—the work is English, not of the first quality, but handsome enough.
The illuminator had some difficulty in knowing where to use his gold and colour, and several times had to erase a flourished capital as best he could, in order to install an initial; occasionally he was corrected by a marginal note — 'gold' (114, 157v), 'glod' (132v), or 'glode' (153). The following are cut out: first leaf of text, border on 28, initials on 185, 186v, 197v, 200v.
[Franciscus de mayronis ofm, in libros i-iv Sententiarum]
- 2-107. [Lib. i, beg. imperfect in q, 1 of prologue] quattuor primo quia modus cuiuslibet rei intelligitur posterior cuius est — alioquin est ad placitum et sic debet intelligi. Et sic est finis. Deo gracias. Explicit editum super primum librum sententiarum Magistri Francisci de Mayronis. Stegmueller, Sent. no. 219; apparently not printed, being replaced in the editions, as in some MSS, by the Conflatus in lib. i Sent. (MS 68).
- 107v - 30v [Lib. ii] Circa principium secundi Sentenciarum quero unam questionem utrum creatio passiva realiter differat a creatura, et videtur quod sic. . . . Breaks off imperfect in D. xxv, q. 1 (f. 155B of the Venice edition of 1520): alterum supendere quia illi incompossibilis (sed potentia ad).
- 131-50v [Lib. iii, beg. imperfect in D. ii, q. 3, f. 162N of the edition] actus beatificus sit perfectior—non videt intuitive verbum Amen. Explicit editum etc.
- 150v-216v. [Lib. iv] Samaritanus etc. Ad evidentiam eorum que dicuntur de sacramentis veteris legis—sed numquam erunt actu infinite. Explicit editum etc. JHC (in blue).
1 (fly-leaf) has on verso: Scriptum Francisci super quatuor libros Sententiarum // Liber domus de Balliolo in Oxon / ex dono Willelmi Gray Eliensis episcopi.
