The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark B.16.2
Manuscript Title

John Wyclif, Tracts and Sermons including De universalibus, De tempore (analysis), De composicione hominis, De dominio divino, De benedicta incarnacione, De mandatis and De statu innocencie

Alternative Title

Joh. Wycliffe. Opera Latina.

James Number 378
Century 14th
Physical Description

Double columns of 70 lines. Good though rough initials and borders.

Provenance

Given by Nevile.

Second Folio infirma et
Donor Neville [Nevile], Thomas (c. 1548–1615), College Head and Dean of Canterbury
Size (cm) 34.5 x 26
Folio 408 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

112 2? (two left) | 312 412 (wants 1) 510 612 (wants 1 blank) 712 812 914 (wants 4-6) 1012 1112 126 (wants 6 blank) 1312 148 (wants 8 blank) || 1512-3012 3114 (wants 14 blank) || 3212 (wants 8-12 blank: 7 a slip) | 3312-3912. Two fly-leaves.

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Contents

[Note that the drop-down menu follows the printed foliation but James' references follow the pencilled pagination]

On the fly-leaf is an old table of contents, as follows:
Liber primus (de ente in communi erased) continet sex tractatus, quorum

1. Primus de ente in communi cont. 4 capitula.
2. Secdus de ente primo cont. 6 capitula.
3. Tercius de ueritatibus in communi cont. 4 capitula.
4. Quartus de vniversalibus incompletus cont. 5 capitula.
5. Quintus de vniversalibus completus cont. 15 capitula.
6. Sextus de tempore incompletus cont. 13 capitula.
Liber secundus continet sex tractatus, quorum
1. Primus de intelleccione dei continet 5 capitula.
2. Primus de sciencia dei continet 12 capitula.
3. Primus de uoluntate dei continet 18 capitula.
4. Primus de personarum distinccione continet 17 capitula.
5. Primus de ydeis continet 5 capitula.
6. Primus de potencia productiua dei ad extra continet 16 capitula.
vbi in 5 capp. ultimis tractatur de adnichilacione.
Item de sermonibus tam dominicalibus quam de sanctorum
festiuitatibus.
Et diuiditur in 4 tuor partes, quarum
1. Prima de sermonibus dominicalibus super euangelia
continet S. 57
2. Prima de serm. sanctorum super euangelia continet 64
3. Tercia pars de epistolis dominicalibus continet 59
4. Quarta de epistolis in sanctorum festiuitatibus cum aliis diuersis serm. continet sermones 64
Numerus sermonum ccxliiijor.

Item 4 or libri de sermone domini in monte, quorum
1. Primus liber continet 62 capitula.
2. continet 64 capitula.
3. Tercius liber deantichristo continet 72 capitula.
4. Quartus liber incompletus continet 14 capitula.>

I. p.1 [f.1r] [De ente uniuersali]
Tract. 1 de ente in communi.
In primis supponatur ens esse.
p.13 Tract. 2
p.21 Tract. 3
p.28 Tract. 4, wanting a leaf, and unfinished
p.33 Tract. 5. Tract. de vniuersalibus cont. 15 cim capitula
Text. In purgando errores.
Ends p.73. p.74 blank.
p.75 Tract. 6, unfinished

II. p.93 [f.47r] Tract. 1, de intelleccione dei
p.107 Tract. 2
p.141 Tract. 3
Expl. tract. compilatus a. m. J. W. de volucione dei etc.
p.193 Tract. 4
p.237 Tract. 5
Expl. tract. compilatus de ydeis secundum m. Johannem
W. etc.
Tract. 6. Before this are nearly 4 columns of the end of another treatise, beginning quire 13, and marked vacat to show that they are not wanted here. Tract. 6 begins on p.252.
Expl. tract. mag. J. W. de potencia dei.
Half of p.283 and all p.284 are blank.

III. [f.142r] Sermons, in another hand.
Pars I. Cum appropinquasset ihesus -oliueti etc. Mt. xxjo.
Constat ex euangelio quod tribus uicibus christus aduenit.
No. 57 is Cum subleuasset oculos Ihesus.
Pars II. 1. p.364 Exiit edictum etc. Continuando sermones sanctorum cum sermonibus dominicalibus
64. Facta sunt encennia in ierusalem.
p.478 blank.
Pars III. p.471 1. Hora est iam nos etc. Omnes xiiij libri apostoli et septem epistole canonice
54. Videte quomodo caute ambuletis.
Pars IV. 1. Nolumus vos ignorare de dormientibus etc.
Consuetude gentilis superstitum.
64. Qui non intrat per ostium in ouile.
p.680 is blank.
Then follow sermons 55-59 of Pars III. No. 59 is
Ecce dies ueniunt dicit dominus etc. iere. 23 o.

IV. p.693 [f.373r] De sermone domini in monte Liber I.
Licet totum euangelium anuatim deferat sua spiritualia vellera.
Liber II. p.705 Sequitur in textu euang. Attendite ne iustitiam
uestram
Expl. tract. de sermone domini in monte diuisus in duos libros ad similitudinem scripti quod super isto edidit augustinus secundus tractatus.
Liber III. p.751 Completo tractatu primo euangelii
Expl. liber tercius de antechristo.

Liber IV. p.805 [f.432r] Dictum est superius quod tercius tractatus euangelii stat in sermone quem fecit dominus valedicendo suis discipulis
Ends p.816 set differre poenis Disputator . hec augustinus.
Autoris uita finitur et hoc opus ita.

Bibliography

Breck, A., 'The Manuscripts of John Wyclif's De Trinitate', Medievalia et Humanistica, 7 (1952), 56-70

Hudson, A., Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot, 2008)

Loserth, J., ed., Iohannis Wyclif Sermones, Wyclif Society, 4 vols. (London, 1887-90)

Loserth, J., ed., Iohannis Wyclif Opus Evangelicum, Wyclif Society, 4 vols. in 2 (London, 1895-6)

Roberts, P. B., Thomas Becket in the Medieval Latin Tradition: an Inventory of Sermons about St Thomas Becket c. 1170-1400, Instrumenta Patristica 25 (Steenbrugge, 1992)

Willoughby, J., and Catto, J (eds.), Books and Bookmen in Early Modern Britain: Essays Presented to James P. Carley (Toronto, 2018), p. 170-1

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