AUGUSTINI QUAEDAM
Vellum, 11.75 x 9.125, ff. 146, double columns of 57 lines. Late 13th cent., well written. Formerly bound with A. 17.
Donor, T. C. S. 2 fo. nollemus cito.
Collation: 1 paper flyleaf, 112 - 612 (2 canc.?) 712 - 912 (wants 1) 1012 - 1212 138
(four).
A very curious little bust of a 'predicator' on f. 18b.
Contents:
1. Inc. liber Aug. Aurelii de doctrina christiana (XXXIV 15) . f. 1
Libros de doctrina
Sunt precepta quedam
-facultate disserui. Aur. aug. doctoris eximii lib. IIII de
doctr. Christ. expl.
2. Sermo beati Cesarii Ep. . . . . . . 22b
Ait quodam loco sermo diuinus (XXXIX 2229, L 857)
-sine fine durarent.
3. Inc. lib. Aug. de spiritu et anima (XL 779) . . . 23b
Quoniam dictum est mihi.
Capitula added in lower margin
-aliud quam racio.
4. Liber Aug. contra 5 hereses (XLII 1101) . . . 29b
Debitor sum fratres mei
-custodiat in sec. sec. Amen.
5. Inc. Aug. de disciplina christiana (XL 667) . . . 34b
Locutus est ad nos sermo
-conueni ad dominum. Amen.
6. Inc. admonicio S. Aug. [quod] non solum lingua sed et moribus
et opere laudetur deus, etc., et de purgatoriis penis (S.App.252). 36b
Resurreccio et clarificacio
-meritis comparemus.
7. Capitula (unfinished and space left) . . . . 37
Questinones B. Augustini (XL II) . . . . 37b
Omne uerum
-si fideles ambo essent. Expl. Aug. de octoginta tribus
questionibus.
8. Aug. in lib. primo Retract. In eadem urbe scripsi . . 58
Inc. lib. Aug. de anime quantitate (XXXII 1035) . . . 58
Adeodatus. Quoniam uideo te abundare ocio
Capitula added below.
-oportuniorem reseruabo.
9. Inc. lib. Aug. de magistro (XXXII 1193) . . . . 69
Quid tibi uidemur efficere
-uerbis asserebatur.
10. Augustinus soliloquiorum (XXXIV 121) . . . . 74b
Scripsi eciam duo uolumina
Uoluenti michi multa . . . . . . . 75
Lib. II, f. 78. Ends f. 83: fiat ut speceamus (!)
11. Sermo S. Aug. qualiter homo factus sit ad ymaginem et simili-
tudinem dei (XL 1213) . . . . . . 83
Tanta dignitas
-in secundo reformatur. Amen.
12. Inc. prol. S. Aug. in libro retractationum (XXXII 583) . . 83b
Iam dudum facere cogito
Capitula. Text. Cum ergo reliquissem . . . . . 84
Lib. II, f. 94b.
-retractare cepissem. Expl. lib. sec. Aur. Aug. retract.
13. Inc. prol. b. Aug. ep. de mirabilibus noui et ueteris testamenti
(XXXV 2149) . . . . . . . . 99b
Uenerantissimis urbium
Capitula. Text. Cum omnipotentis dei auxilio . . . 100
-exemplo huius castigarentur.
14. Aur. Aug. Ep. yponensis lib. inc. qui appellatur Unde malum . 116
Dic michi queso te (XXXII 1221).
Capitula added below.
-libentissime adiungo. aur. aug. ep. lib. unde malum expl.
15. Inc. de libero arbitrio uoluntatis lib. I (l.c.) . . . . 120
Iam si fieri potest explica
Capitula below.
Lib. II, f. 127b. -aliquando compellit. aur. aug. ep. de lib.
arb. uolunt. lib. sec. expl.
16. Aur. Aug. de uita beata ad theodorum uirum magnificum lib. inc.
(XXXII 959) . . . . . . . . . 137
Si ad philosophie portum
Capitula below.
-fine discessimus.
17. Meditacio Augustini (XL 901) . . . . . . . 141b
Domine deus meus da cordi meo
-per I. C. saluatorem meum. Qui, etc., deus per omnia
sec. sec. Amen.
18. Inc. lib. Aug. de uisitatione infirmorum (XL 1147) . . . . 143b
Uisitacionis gratia nepoti meo.
Ends f. 146b : iustificatur ab ipso. Qui, etc., per omn. sec. sec. Amen.
This MS has the marginal signs of Robert Grosseteste. See also MS A.17 (17).
S. Gieben, ‘Das Abkürzungszeichen f des Robert Grosseteste: quomodo philosophia accipienda sit a nobis’, Miscellanca Mediaevalia, vol. 2 (1963), 522-34.
This manuscript is referred to in C.H. Lawrence (ed.) The letters of Adam Marsh vol. 1 (Oxford, 2006) p. xviii: ‘A Franciscan manuscript of St Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana has analytical chapter headings in the margins which bear the name of Adam Marsh, and the concluding note is unmistakeably in Adam’s style and probably in his hand. (St John’s College, Cambridge, MS 47, fo. 1v; cited by Callus, Grosseteste, p.125 and n.).’