The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.15.11
Manuscript Title

William Woodford, Against the Trialogus of John Wycliffe, Simon de Boraston,

Alternative Title

W. Woodford Contra Wiclevum

James Number 347
Date 1430
Century 15th
Physical Description

Double columns of 52 lines. In a small ugly current hand.

Provenance

Given by ? Belonged to John Courteys of Exeter College, Oxford. Written in or about 1430 by Cornelius Oesterwik in the Dominican Convent at Oxford.

Second Folio post consecrationem
Religious House Oxford, Dominican Convent
Size (cm) 32 x 22
Folio 146 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

l12-412 | 512-1212: two fly-leaves.

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Contents

There is an old table of contents on the fly-leaf, of which the first line has been erased.
liber fratris johannis courteys.... regentis.
f.1 Woodefford contra trialogum Wyclyffe
f.43 Item palmer de translatione scripture sacre in linguam Anglicanam (above barbaricam)
f.49(45) boraston de vnione eccleslastice potestatis
f.56 boraston de ordine Judiciario circa crimina corrigenda
f.69 boraston de mutabilitate mundi
f.71 vincencius belvacensis de instruccione puerorum nobilium
f.35 jus regis Anglie in normandiam andegauiam et iberniam

At the top of the fly-leaf and of f.1 is < Jhc >.

1. f.1 Will. Woodford contra Trialogum Wiclevi
Uenerabili in christo patri... thome cantuariensi episcopo (sic) archiepiscopo totius anglie primati... humilis suus seruitor ffrater Will mus Wodeford.
Ends f.42
post quadragesimale per vestram reuerenciam taxata fuit nimis bene. Scripta in castro de (blank).

2. f.42b A list of the Articles against the Trialogus

3. f.42b Palmer de translatione scripture sacre in linguam barbaricam
Utrum sacra scriptura in linguam anglicanam uel in aliam barbaricam sit transferenda.
Ends f.47b ut alia difficilia ibidem contenta . ad honorem dei qui est benedictus in secula. Amen. deo gratias.
f.48 is blank.

4. f.49 Boraston de unione ecclesiastice veritatis
Fiet unum ouile et unus pastor Jo. xo. c. Hanc unitatem in pastoribus declarat glosa.
Ends f.54b
errorem meum si in quem incidi reuocare.
Expl. tract, de vnitate et ordine ecclesiastice potestatis finitus per manus cornelii oesterwic anno domini m. ccccxxx in uniuersitate oxon. ad mandatum ffr. Joh. Courteys sacre theol. professoris ordinis predicatorum et conuentus exon. tunc regentis vniuersitatis predicte.

5. f.55 Ius Regis Angliae in Normandiam et Andegauiam
(Transcriptus S. L. A.D. 1702.)
Sciendum est quod anno domini m. c. xxxvio wills dux aquitanie... hereditas est ad regem anglie deuoluta.
(Ius Regis anglie in Hiberniam) 55
Anno domini m. cliiii Nicholaus ep. Albanensis nacione
anglicus de vrbe verolamie.
Ends. Absit quod moderni reges nostri permittant terram
illam liberam submitti alicui extranee seruituti etc.

6. f.56 Boraston de ordine Iudiciario circa crimina corrigenda
Corripiet me iustus in misericordia et increpabit me psalmo centesimo quinquagesimo sicut habetur.
Ends f.69b que proferunt meruisse creduntur. Completa est hec compilacio in domo fratrum predicatorum oxonie a.d.m. ccc xxxviij (sic) mense augusti ad honorem d.n. I.C.
Si quis scire voluerit quis hoc breue opusculum compilauit coniungat ordinate ad inuicem litteras miniatas et inuenire poterit qualitatem operis et nomen cum cognomine compilantis.
Compilacio fratris simonis borastona.
Expl. compilacio ord. Jud. circa crimina corrigenda.

7. f.69b Idem de mutabilitate mundi
Cum omnibus mobilibus mobilior sit sapiencia sicut dicitur in libro sapiencie 7 co.
The tract enumerates the changes of kingdoms and English bishoprics.
Ends f.71
Oraciones atque missarum solempnia tam pro viuis quam pro defunctis frequentius celebrantur.
Explicit.

8. f.71 Vincentius Beluacensis de instructione puerorum nobilium
Clarissimis ac religiosissimis in christo viris... lodowyco dei gracia regi ffrancie ac theobaldo eiusdem fauente clementia regi nauarre et comiti campanie frater vincencius beluacensis.
Liber i ends f.92b and is followed by a list of the 27 chapters.
f.93 Liber ii
Deuotissime... regine margarete fr. vincencius de ordine predicatorum.
Ends f.144b mementote nostri cum in uobis incepiet uirginitas
honorari.
Explicit.
ff.145, 146 are blank.

Bibliography

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964)

Robinson, P., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988), no. 337, pl. 218 [ff. 49-54; dated 1430, written at Oxford]

Schneider, R. J., and R. H. Rouse, 'The medieval circulation of the De morali principis institutione of Vincent of Beauvais', Viator 22 (1991), 189-227

Ullmann, W., 'On the Influence of Geoffrey of Monmouth in English History', in Speculum Historiale, ed. L. Bauer et al. (Fribourg, 1965), pp. 257-76

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