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Shelfmark B.15.20
Manuscript Title

Robert Grosseteste, Dicta etc
Alternative Title

Opera Quaedam Lincolniensis etc
James Number 356
Century 14th
Physical Description

Double columns of 54 lines. Roughly written in two hands at least.
Provenance

Given by ? May have been exchanged by Sir Robert Cotton for what is now Cotton Tiberius D.ix; Cotton had close links with Northampton and acquired some of his manuscripts.

On the lower margin of f.1 is the name H. Northampton. This is Henry Howard, son of the Earl of Surrey, cr. 1606, d. 1614. On the fly-leaf is a note signed E. B. (= Edward Brown) warning the reader that the second copy of the Dicta Lincolniensis is 'supra quam dici potest mendosum.' Previously owned by John Dee and Henry Savile of Banke.
Second Folio podagram
Size (cm) 29 x 21
Folio 338 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

112-1512 1610 176 1812-1912 2012 (slip between 8 and 9) 2212-2812 298 (wants 6 and 7) + 1 (glued to 8).
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.15.20/manifest.json
Online Since 21/06/2019

Contents

There is an old table of contents:
In hoc volumine hec singula continentur.
f.1a Primo dicta Lyncolniensis et continent 164 capitula
f.487e Secundo quidam tractatus eiusdem qui dicitur templum dei
f.508b Tercio Jdem de confessione et de diffinicione eukaristie
f.527a Quarto Jdem de cessacione legalium
f.672 Quinto Jdem de decem preceptis

1. f.1 Dicta Lincolniensis
Amor multipliciter videtur dici.
c.166 is
spiritus sanctus per os Salomonis.
ending: pre filiis hominum filio speciosissimo.

2. col.487 Templum dei sanctum est
Ends col.508 -nascitur accidia.

3. In a better but later hand.
col.508 Hic inc. tract. S. Roberti lincoln. Ep. de confessione
Quoniam cogitacio hominis.
Ends col.519
potenciam confitendi.
col.519 Diffinicio Eukaristie sec. S. Robertum Ep. Linc.
Eukaristia dicitur ab eu quod est bonum.
-per potenciam per essenciam.
col.520 Versus de corpore d. n. I. C.
Panis mutatur specie remanente priore.
col.520 Epistola Rob. Linc. ad Innocentium 4
(So says a note by Ed. Brown Ap. 5 (16)88.)
Nouerit discrecio uestra.
Ends col.522.
qui est in cells.
Cols.523-526 are blank.

4. col.527 De cessacione legalium
Querunt (l. Fuerunt) plurimi in primitiua ecclesia.
Ends col.674.
Expl. tract. linc. de cessacione legalium.

5. De decem preceptis 674
Sicut dicit apostolus plenitude legis.
Ends col.742.

6. col.742 De confessione
Quoniam cogitacio. See no.3.
Ends f.189b. potenciam confitendi.

7. f.189b Sermones
1. Egredietur virga.
2. Unguentum effusum.
3. S. Spiritus per os Salomonis.
4. D. N. Iesus eternus eterni.
5. Erunt signa in sole.
6. Conuenitis ex consuetudine.
7. Exiit edictum.
8. Pauper et inops.
9. Beati pauperes.
10. Expoliantes ueterem hominem.
11. Eleuatus est sol.

8. f.210b The Dicta over again in a shorter text
Amor multipliciter.
The last is
147. Ut ait ysodorus aqua.
ends: iusticie et misericordie.
Expl. dicta Rob. grost. Ep. linc. quorum quedam sunt breuia verba que dum in scolis morabatur scripsit breuiter et incomposito sermone quedam vero sunt sermones quos eodem tempore ad clerum fecit.

9. f.321 Notabilis excerpta de epistolis de. Roberti grostet linc. ep. et. non de omnibus sed in quibus placuit extrahenti.
Extracts, the first from Ep. 2.
The last from Ep. 89.

10. f.328b Tabula operis precedentis
Abicere -Zelator.

11. f.337 Inc. liber Egidii de regimine principum
Ex. Regia ac. sanctissima prosapia.
Has a pretty initial and partial border.
Only a fragment, ending with f.338b inc. iii.
magestatem implorare dei.

Bibliography

Gieben, S., 'Robert Grosseteste at the Papal Curia, Lyons 1250: Editions of the Documents', Collectanea Franciscana, 42 (1971), 240-93

Goering, J., 'The Diffinicio Eucaristie Formerly Attributed to Robert Grosseteste', The Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 37 (1986), 91-104

King, E. B., and R. C. Dales, 'The MSS of Robert Grosseteste's De cessatione legalium', Manuscripta, 28 (1984), 3-15

Purday, K. M., 'The 'Diffinicio Eucaristie' of Robert Grosseteste', The Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 27 (1976), 382-90

Roberts, J., and A. G. Watson, ed., John Dee's Library Catalogue (London, 1990) M63

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