SENTENTIAE ABBREVIATAE, ETC.
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Contents:
I. 1. On ff. 1, 2, Extracts.
Duo sunt conscientia et fama.
Ueni in ortum meum, etc.
Ieronimus scribens ad marcellum, 2b.
2. In a fine small hand. Libri sententiarum IV (abbreviata)
beginning in the Prologue.
Hic inc. liber magistri petri de rebus et signis . . . f. 3
Gratia dei preuia nobis innotuit sacre pagine tractatum circa
res et signa uersari.
Lib. II, de rerum creatione et formatione corporalium et
spiritualium, etc. . . . . . . . . 17
Lib. III, de incarn. uerbi . . . . . . . 33
Lib. IV, f. 42? ends f. 70: uia duce peruenit. Expl. lib. quartus.
3. In another hand.
Tabernaculum factum est primum, and other extracts.
At bottom of 73b a receipt.
II. 4. Expositio Missae . . . . . . . . 74
Celebratio misse in commemoratione passionis Christi agitur.
Ends f. 86: que in ministerio misse peracta uidentur a domino
esse recepta.
5. Extracts and prayers . . . . . . . . 86
Prayers on 87 and 88a. Exposition of Pater noster, 88b.
Notes and verses on the months, 89.
III. Late 13th cent.
6. Sermones per distinctiones super epistolas . . . . 90
Ad Ro. xiii, Hora est. Cum sit breuis uita nostra.
ff. 123-134 belong to Vol. IV.
Ends f. 140b: in saluatorem expectamus.
Hic expl. serm. per distinct. super epistolas.
IV. 13th cent., double columns
7. Tractatus de anima (?) secundum (?) Joha. blondum (?) . 123
Capitula.
Ut habetur de aristotele. Omnis scientia est ab anima
-ad regimentum utriusque illarum uirtutum.
8. Seneca de remediis fortuitorum. (Extracts) . . . . 155
Mors omnia abscindit
-ergo mala non sunt.
9. Seneca de beneficiis. (Extracts) . . . . . . 165
Beneficia nec dare
-preter subtilitatem.
10. (Ps.-) Boecius de disciplina scolarum. (Extracts) . . . 167b
Diligencia operis cuiuslibet
-cogunt optineri.
11. Boethius de consolatione philosophiae. (Extracts) . . . 168b
Si operam medicantis
iudicis cuncta cernentis.
12. Tullius de amicicia. Extr. . . . . . . 174b
Ego uos hortari tantum posui
-nil amicicia prestabilius putetis.
13. Tullius de senectute. Extr. . . . . . . 176
Senectus est etas
-sic uiuendi modum.
14. Ysaac de diffinitionibus . . . . . . . 178
Quamplures in libris philosophorum
-propter resolucionem ex motu.
15. ? Aristoteles . . . . . . . . . 182
Virtus est animi habitus nature modo atque rationi consentaneus
-in posterius factum perficiat ipsius speciem.
16. Slightly smaller hand . . . . . . . 195b
Queritur de statu anime exute
-infernalia corporalia. sed de hoc infra habebitur.
V. 13th cent. single lines.
17. Various notes and extracts, with one or two inserted slips . . 203
Joel. 1o. Computruerunt iumenta.
18. Verses: De male quesitis non gaudet tercius heres . . . 213b
Nunc lege nunc ora nunc cum feruore labora
Sic erit hora breuis et labor iste leuis.
An inserted slip:
Imperator et pater dedit tunicam talarem et polimitam
intextam. Dimisi tibi ne adicias.
Rex dedit coronam auream insculptam. Ex me tua dignitas.
Propugnator dedit anulum aureum continentem insculptum.
Quid feci. quantum. quare foramen dextre manus.
Mediator pacis dedit anulum secundum insculptum. Diligo te
disce diligere foramen sinistre manus.
Filius regis dedit anulum tercium insculptum. Nunc no.. d effecta
es. dignitatem tuam ne contempnas foramen dextri pedis.
Frater dedit anulum quartum insculptum. Accede ne timeas.
frater sum. foramen sinistri pedis.
Sponsus ffeof(auit?) eam in hereditatem carta signata cum
sigillo insculpto. Nunc coniuncta es. amplius noli errare.
The verses end 215b: Ergo timor sine spe nec spes ualet
absque timore.
A note follows:
On f. 216a in a different (?) hand:
Suce hillertre. Birse Birk. Ulmel Alme. Arabel Mapel. ffou
beche. Eglenter Schuptre. Butuns de Haye idest Schupes.
Aune Hellertre. Geneth Brom. ffugere Brakan. Pubeler
Aubeltre. Syñeles Ha{th}es. Rounce Brere. Mures beries. Noyer
Walnotetre. Trembler Hesp. Cheneuls Welpes. ffru Roke.
Vanel Wype. Ouweroser Redlag. Merel Suswart. Griue
ffeldefare. Buthor Baredrumbel. Bekaz Snype. Cercel Tele.
Prael Bunting. Pinscoun Spink. Columbe ramer Scuscote.
Turtre Turtelduue. Eywal Wodewale. Cucuel Cuccuke.
Sintyces Swanbriddes. Oysouns Geslingges. Grusieler Cas-
berietre. Cormaraunt Scarf. ffilaundre Gossumer. un cerku
aythruthe. Pruneles Sclaes.
Notes and verses follow.
VI. 13th cent., hand of no. 16,
Questio est de bono in genere quid sit . . . . . 217
Ends unfinished, 236b.
VII. Hand of vol. V.
Number of chapters in the Bible and in the Sentences . . 237
Extracts from the Policraticus of John of Salisbury . . . 237b
Negative microfilm in St John's College Library.
Given by John Gent (d. 1651), BA St John's College 1625-6, Rector of Birdbrook, Essex, 1632-51.
D. A. Callus, 'Introduction of Aristotelian learning to Oxford', Proceedings of the British Academy 29 (1943), 229-81.
D. A. Callus, 'The treatise of John Blund On the soul', an offprint from Autour d'Aristote. Recueil d'études de philosophie ancienne et médiévale offert à A. Mansion, Bibliothèque Philosophe de Louvain, 16 (Lovain, 1955).
Fols 182rb-183vb, inc. Virtus est animi habitus nature modo atque rationi consentaneus, ie. Cicero De inventione, II.53. Expl. studio labore diligencia comprobatur, ie. pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herrenium III.24. This treatise on the cardinal virtues is based on several authorities including Cicero, Augustine and Aristotle. See L. Minio-Paluello (ed.), Aristoteles Latinus: codices supplementa altera (Bruges, 1961), no. 2037.
On fol. 216r, P. Acker, 'An Anglo-Norman Middle English glossary of tree and bird names', Medium Aevum 62 (1993).