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Shelfmark B.15.12
Manuscript Title

John Baconthorpe, Commentary on St John and St Matthew
Alternative Title

Bacunsthorpe [Baconthorpe]. Postillae Super Iohannem et Matthaeum.
James Number 348
Date Cent. xv (1448).
Century 15th
Physical Description

Double columns of 51 lines. In a good and rather unusual upright hand.
Provenance

Given by Thomas Whalley, D.D., Vicemaster 1637.

At the end is this note:Anno xxxvito Henrici 6i Regis was this booke written wch is the space of clxvjtie yeeres since. 7o Maij 1614. vt patet infra in explicatione Postille sec. Matheum.John Thorneton,wth out euill desyres. On the fly-leaf is the xvth cent. press-mark E.19: like the mark of the Hereford Franciscans, or of Bury Abbey. Also the title (xv) Bacunsthorpii Postille. [Ker (1964) rejects Hereford.]
Second Folio remissa
Donor Whalley, Thomas (c1584-1637), Vice-Master Of Trinity
Size (cm) 33 x 23.5
Folio 194 + 5 ff.
Binding Vellum binding spotted with silver stars: clasps gone
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

18-118 1210 | 138-248 | 2 fly-leaves at beginning, 3 atend.
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.15.12/manifest.json
Online Since 10/06/2014

Contents

1. f.1 Inc. postilla notabilis super Iohannem, the rest erased: Bacunsthorpii inserted (xvii)
Ecce intelliget seruus meus exaltabitur et eleuabitur etc.
Ends f.98b recta operacione exercendo que docuit ad dona sempiterna peruenire que dominus ipse promisit ipso adiuuante qui viuit et regnat in sec. sec. Amen.
Explicit.

2. f.99 Inc. postilla mag. Joh. bacunsthorp ordinis fratrum b. marie genitricis dei de monte carmeli. super matheum. Prologus
Matheus etc. Hic prologus diuiditur in quatuor partes.
f.99b In hac postilla per concordanciam propheciarum et miraculorum probatur quod Christus est messias in lege promissus, quod negant iudei
There are 27 agreements.
The exposition of the text begins on f.103.
Ends f.191
sic decet nos. de eius materia habens ὃ ego baptizo in aqua.
Expl. postilla bona super matheum edita a fr. Joh. bacunsthorp doctore in sacra theologia ordinis b. marie genitricis dei de monte Carmeli. In qua ostenditur quod christus est uerus messias per prophecias et eius opera. Ipsi sit gloria in sec. sec. Amen.
Script. per manum fr. Thome zernemouth Anno domini mo cccco xlo viijo ordinis eiusdem.

3. f.191b A Table
Quid sit adoratio.
...
Quod christus meruit in passione septemplicem potestatem, c. 28. h.
Virgo ferens natum . tu thome tolle reatum.
f.194b 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. 338, pl. 248 [dated 1448]

Smalley, B., ‘John Baconthorp's postill on St Matthew’, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, 4 (1958), 91–145

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