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B30. Books bequeathed by Prior Nicholas (d. 1392) and others

77 identified entries found.
  • B30.1 (anon.): John of Bromyard OP [†1352]
    Summa praedicantium pr. [Basel, not after 1484] (Goff J260), &c.; Kaeppeli 2236.
  • B30.2: Walter Burley [1275–after 1344]
    DNB; BRUO 270–71; DSB 2. 608–612.
    Commentary on Aristotle's Politica unpr.; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 719–20.
  • B30.3: Walter Burley [1275–after 1344]
    Commentary on Aristotle's Physica pr. Padua 1476 (GW 5774), &c.; pr. Venice 1501 / repr. Hildesheim 1972; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 715–16.
  • B30.4: Robert Cowton OFM [† after 1313]
    Lectura super Sententias largely unpr.; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 531–2; Stegmüller Sent. 732.
  • B30.6: Priscian [fl. 500]
    De constructione (Institutiones grammaticae XVII–XVIII) CPL 1546; GL 3. 105–377.
  • B30.7a (anon.): Thomas Hanney [early 14th cent.]
    Memoriale iuniorum unpr.; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 659–60.
  • B30.7b: Pratum florum, a grammatical treatise, inc. `Gramatice flores presens liber' unpr.; Bursill-Hall, Census, 317, records two copies, CUL MS Hh. 1. 5 (s. xiv/xv), fols. 98–129, and Erfurt, Allgemeinbibliothek, MS Amplon. Q. 68 (s. xiv).
  • B30.†8 (`petagogicum gramatice super quatuor partes gramatice', anon.): Ranulf Higden OSB [†1364]
    Pedagogicum artis grammaticae not known to survive; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 454.
  • B30.10e: Walter de Bibbesworth [fl. 1300]
    Tretiz de langage ed. A. Owen (Paris 1929); ed. W. Rothwell, ANTS Plain Texts 6 (1990); Dean 285.
  • B30.10f: Hymnarium glosatum, used as an instruction-book for novices and often found with school-books pr. Paris 1485 (Goff E154), &c.; pr. London [c. 1496] (STC 16111), &c.; H. Gneuss, Hymnar und Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter (Tübingen 1968), 194–206; Hunt, Teaching Latin, 1. 38–42.
  • B30.10g (`Guido de uero dictamine'): Guido Faba [early 13th cent.]
    E. H. Kantorowicz, `An ``autobiography'' of Guido Faba', MARS 1 (1941–3) 253–80.
    Summa de modo dictaminis, inc. `Quasimodo geniti' ed. A. Gaudenzi in Il Propugnatore new ser. 3/1 (1890) 287–338, ib. 3/2 (1893) 345–93; N. Denholm-Young, Collected Papers (Cardiff 1969), 65, lists copies from England.
  • B30.12 (`sinistra pars'): Willelmus de Pagula [early 14th cent.]
    Oculus sacerdotis unpr.; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 799; Bloomfield 1088, 2499, 3129, 3686.
  • B30.†13 (anon.): Ranulf Higden OSB [†1364]
    Speculum curatorum unpr.; J. Taylor, The Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden (Oxford 1966), 182; Bloomfield 1063.
  • B30.15: Thomas Hibernicus [14th cent.]
    Manipulus florum pr. Piacenza 1483 &c. Discussed by R. H. & M. A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia, and Sermons: Studies on the Manipulus Florum of Thomas of Ireland (Toronto 1979).
  • B30.17: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus [c480–524]
    L. Minio-Paluello in DSB 2. 228–36; bibliography in J. Gruber, `Boethius 1925–1998', Lustrum 39 (1997) 307–383 and 40 (1998) 199–259.
    Philosophiae consolatio CPL 878; ed. L. Bieler, CCSL 94 (19842); ed. C. Moreschini, Teubner (2000).
  • B30.18 (`Dockyn'): Thomas Docking OFM [† after 1269]
    unspecified works
  • B30.19: William of Tournai [late 13th cent.]
    Flores Bernardi unpr.; Bloomfield 1155.
  • B30.22: Henry Cossey OFM [†?1336]
    Commentary on Revelation unpr.; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 166; Stegmüller Bibl. 3158.
  • B30.23: James of Milan OFM [? late 13th cent.]
    Stimulus amoris pr. Quaracchi 19492; F. Eisermann, Stimulus Amoris. Inhalt, lateinische Überlieferung, deutsche Übersetzungen, Rezeption (Tübingen 2001); Distelbrink 217.
  • B30.24: Euphrasia
  • B30.25: Giles of Rome OESA [c1243–1316], archbishop of Bourges
    DBI 42. 319–41; G. Bruni, `Catalogo critico delle opere di Egidio Romano', Bibliofilia 35 (1933) 7–69, 36 (1934) 78–110, and 37 (1935) 247–306.
    De regimine principum pr. Augsburg 1473 (GW 7217), &c.; pr. Rome 1556 / repr. Frankfurt 1968; Glorieux Rép. 400q; Bloomfield 2051.
  • B30.27 (`quaternus summe Crisostomi cum aliis tractatibus'): John Chrysostom [c347–407], patriarch of Constantinople
    unspecified works
  • B30.29: Albertanus of Brescia, known as Causidicus [c1190–after 1250]
    VL 1. 151–4; DBI 1. 669.
    De doctrina dicendi et tacendi (1245) pr. [Basel c. 1472] (GW 531), &c.; ed. P. Navone, Per Verba 11 (Florence 1998); Bloomfield 4951.
  • B30.†33 (`de origine religionis secundum Ricardum heremitam de Hampole'): Walter Hilton OSA [†1396]
    Epistola ad Adam Horsley de origine et utilitate religionis ed. J. P. H. Clark & C. Taylor, Analecta Cartusiana 124 (1987), 119–72; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 735; Bloomfield 1671.
  • B30.35 (`de statutis Anglie'): Statuta Angliae manuscript collections vary, but most begin with Magna carta; for example, CUL MS Dd. 10. 28 (s. xiv), Baker, English Legal Manuscripts, xxii–xxiv. In print, Magna carta cum statutis, pr. by R. Pynson, London 1508 &c. (STC 9266–73). [See also under Magna carta, Statuta noua.]
  • B30.36: Robert Holcot OP [†1349]
    Commentary on Wisdom pr. [Cologne, not after 1476] (Goff H288), &c.; Kaeppeli 3497; Stegmüller Bibl. 7416.
  • B30.37: H. of Sawtry OCist [12th cent.]
    Tractatus de purgatorio S. Patricii ed. K. Warnke, Das Buch vom Espurgatoire S. Patrice der Marie de France und seine Quellen, Bibliotheca Normannica 9 (Halle/Saale, 1938), 2–166 [first col.]; BHL 6510–12a.
  • B30.42: Bernard Ayglier OSB [†1282], abbot of Monte Cassino
    Commentary on Regula S. Benedicti ed. A. M. Caplet (Monte Cassino 1894).
  • B30.43: Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel [† c830]
    Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti PL 102. 689–932; ed. A. Spannagel & P. Engelbert, Corpus consuetudinum monasticorum 8 (1974).
  • B30.44 (`quaternus de constitucionibus benedictinis'): Benedict XII (Jacques Fournier OCist) [c1285–1342, sedit 1334–1342]
    Constitutiones ad monachos nigros (`Summi magistri') ed. D. Wilkins, Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae (London 1737), 2. 585–613. The declaratory bull `Dudum pro bono' circulates with the constitutions.
  • B30.45: Philosophia monachorum, inc. `Volo sed nondum ualeo' copy in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 137 (s. xiv2, Christ Church), fols. 1–33.
  • B30.47: David of Augsburg OFM [c1200–1272]
    Formula nouiciorum is used as a title for more than one part of De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione pr. Quaracchi 1899; Bloomfield 4155 (Book I), 5676 (Book I part 2), 2655 (Book II).
  • B30.48: Nigel Witeker OSB [† after 1206]
    Speculum stultorum ed. T. Wright, Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets, RS 59/1 (1872), 3–10 (prose preface), 11–145 (verse); ed. J. H. Mozley & R. Raymo (Berkeley, CA, 1960) (verse only); WIC 18944; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 401.
  • B30.53: Walter Map [c1140–1210]
    Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum ne ducat uxorem PL 30. 254–61 (as Jerome); ed. R. Hanna & T. Lawler, Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wives (Athens, GA, 1997), 122–47; CPL 633 ep. 36. Also incorporated in Map's De nugis curialium, IV 3–5: ed. M. R. James, C. N. L. Brooke & R. A. B. Mynors, OMT (1983), 288–312.
  • B30.†55a: `Dares Phrygius'
    De excidio Troiae historia ed. F. Meister, Teubner (1873).
  • B30.†55b: Q. Curtius Rufus [1st cent.]
    Historia Alexandri pr. [Venice c. 1471] (GW 7871), &c.; ed. K. Müller & H. Schönfeld (Munich 1954). [For anonymous entries, see also Historia Alexandri magni.]
  • B30.57: Odoricus of Pordenone [c1286–1331]
    Itinerarium various texts listed, BHL 6303–313.
  • B30.58 (anon.): Ranulf Higden OSB [†1364]
    Polychronicon ed. C. Babington & J. R. Lumby, RS 41 (1865–86); J. Taylor, The Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden (Oxford 1966).
  • B30.†59: `Dares Phrygius'
    De excidio Troiae historia ed. F. Meister, Teubner (1873).
  • B30.†60: `Dares Phrygius'
    De excidio Troiae historia ed. F. Meister, Teubner (1873).
  • B30.61: Martin of Troppau OP [†1278]
    Chronica pontificum et imperatorum ed. L. Weiland, MGH Scriptores 22 (1872), 377–482; Kaeppeli 2974; A. D. von den Brincken in Deutsches Archiv 41 (1985) 460–531. [On the work's reception in England see W. V. Ikas in EHR 116 (2001) 327-41 and at greater length, Fortsetzungen zur Papst- und Kaiserchronik Martins von Troppau aus England, MGH (Hannover 2004).]
  • B30.66 (anon.): Palladius [4th cent.]
    De agricultura pr. in Scriptores rei rusticae, Venice 1472 (Goff S346), &c.; ed. R. H. Rodgers, Teubner (1975).
  • B30.67 (anon.): Martin of Braga [†580], bishop of Braga
    Formula uitae honestae CPL 1080; Diaz 27; Bloomfield 4457.
  • B30.68: Secretum secretorum (ps. Aristotle), Latin tr. from Arabic by Philippus Tripolitanus ed. R. Steele, Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi (Oxford 1909–40), 5. 1–175; S. J. Williams, The Secret of Secrets. The scholarly career of a pseudo-Aristotelian text in the Latin middle ages (Ann Arbor, MI, 2003), 360–63 (translator's prologue), 388–413 (list of manuscripts); PAL 54–75 (no. 81B). [See also John of Seville, for an excerpt translated in the 12th cent., and Aristotle ps., Epistola Aristotelis ad Alexandrum for other possible copies.]
  • B30.69a (`mort de Arthor cum sankreal'): La Mort le roi Artu ed. J. Frappier (Geneva 19643). The text is often accompanied by Queste del Saint Graal: ed. A. Pauphilet (Paris 1923).
  • B30.69b (`sankreal'): Queste del Saint Graal ed. A. Pauphilet (Paris 1923). [The text often accompanies La mort le roi Artu.]
  • B30.†69b (`sankreal'): Robert de Boron [13th cent.]
    Roman de l'estoire dou Graal ed. W. A. Nitze (Paris 1927).
  • B30.71 (anon.): Gossuin de Metz [fl. 1250]
    Le image del mounde, a version of Honorius's Imago mundi that exists in three recensions and more than seventy manuscripts unpr.; Bossuat 2906–14; Dean 326.
  • B30.76 (`Iohannes de Sacro bosco'): Iohannes de Sacro Bosco [early 13th cent.]
    Tractatus de sphaera ed. L. Thorndike (Chicago, IL, 1949); Thorndike/Kibre 1577, 1524. [In almost all cases anonymous.]
  • B30.†80 (`de mirabilibus mundi', anon.): Solinus [3rd cent.]
    Collectanea rerum mirabilium pr. Venice 1473 (Goff S615), &c.; ed. T. Mommsen (Berlin 1895).
  • B30.81: Martin of Troppau OP [†1278]
    Margarita Decreti pr. [Cologne] 1481 (CIBN M177), &c.; Kaeppeli 2973.
  • B30.82 (`Iohannes Androw'): Iohannes Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea) [c1270–1348]
    unspecified works
  • B30.83: Constitutiones Clementinae, collecting the constitutions of Clement V, promulgated by John XXII in 1317 ed. E. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, 2. 1129–1200; Schulte, 2. 45–50. [The ordinary gloss on the Clementines is that of Iohannes Andreae; others include Jean le Moine, Guido de Baysio, Jesselin de Cassagnes, Paulus de Liazariis, and William of Mont Lauzun.]
  • B30.84 (`concordia discordantium'): Gratian [† by c1160]
    Decretum PL 187; ed. E. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, vol. 1 (1879). [The ordinary gloss on the Decretum is that of Iohannes Teutonicus, revised in the mid 13th cent. by Bartholomew of Brescia: pr. Venice 1605; Kuttner, 103–115.] [`Paleae' are canons added to Gratian's original recension in the second, vulgate version.]
  • B30.85 (2 copies): Gregory IX (Ugolino da Segni) [c1148–1241, sedit 1227–1241]
    Decretales ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, 2. 1–928; Schulte, 2. 3–25, 412. [The ordinary gloss on the Decretals is that by Bernard of Parma: pr. Strassburg 1468/71 (GW 11450), &c.; pr. Venice 1605; Schulte, 2. 115.] [Entries for Decretales ueteres are more likely to refer to one of the older decretal compilations; entered under Bernard of Pavia.]
  • B30.86: Henricus de Segusio, known as Hostiensis [c1200–1271]
    Summa super titulis Decretalium pr. Rome 1473 (GW 12231), &c.; Schulte, 2. 125–7. [F. Soetermeer, `Summa archiepiscopi alias Summa Copiosa: some remarks on the medieval editions of the Summa Hostiensis', Ius commune 26 (1999) 1–25.]
  • B30.87a: Iohannes Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea) [c1270–1348]
    Apparatus ad Sextum pr. with Liber sextus, Mainz 1465 &c. (GW 4848–87); standard edition is Corpus iuris canonici 3/3 (Rome 1582); Schulte, 2. 213–14. [See also under Liber Sextus.]
  • B30.87b: Iohannes Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea) [c1270–1348]
    Apparatus ad Clementinas pr. with Constitutiones Clementinae, Mainz 1460 (GW 7077), &c.; Schulte, 2. 217. [See also under Constitutiones Clementinae.]
  • B30.88: Justinian [†565]
    Institutiones ed. P. Krüger, Corpus iuris ciuilis 1/1 (Berlin 1868). [The ordinary gloss is that of Accursius.]
  • B30.†90 (`bromyart'): John of Bromyard OP [†1352]
    Opus triuium siue Tractatus iuris ciuilis et canonici ad moralem materiam applicati pr. [Cologne not after 1473] (Goff J258), &c.; Kaeppeli 2235. This work was commonly referred to as Bromyard's Distinctiones, but such copies are usually indistinguishable from Kaeppeli 2237.
  • B30.92: Gregory IX (Ugolino da Segni) [c1148–1241, sedit 1227–1241]
    Decretales ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, 2. 1–928; Schulte, 2. 3–25, 412. [The ordinary gloss on the Decretals is that by Bernard of Parma: pr. Strassburg 1468/71 (GW 11450), &c.; pr. Venice 1605; Schulte, 2. 115.] [Entries for Decretales ueteres are more likely to refer to one of the older decretal compilations; entered under Bernard of Pavia.]
  • B30.93: Innocent IV (Sinibaldo Fieschi) [sedit 1243–1254]
    Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium pr. Strassburg 1478 (Goff I95), &c.; Schulte, 2. 91–4.
  • B30.94 (`Ioh'ann in addicionibus'): Iohannes Andreae (Giovanni d'Andrea) [c1270–1348]
    Additiones ad Durantis Speculum iudiciale pr. [Strassburg 1475] (GW 1675); Schulte, 2. 221–3.
  • B30.95 (`cum iij glosis'): Liber sextus Decretalium, continuing the Decretals from Gregory IX (1234) to Boniface VIII (1298) pr. Strassburg 1465 (GW 4848), &c.; ed. E. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, 2. 933–1124; Schulte, 2. 34–44. [The ordinary gloss on the Sext is that of Iohannes Andreae; at Paris that of Iohannes Monachus was preferred; the triple gloss also contained Guido de Baysio.]
  • B30.96: Dinus de Mugello [†1298]
    De Regulis iuris pr. Rome 1472 (GW 8354), &c.; Schulte, 2. 177. [The Regulae iuris is the last title in Liber Sextus Decretalium.]
  • B30.97: Constitutiones Clementinae, collecting the constitutions of Clement V, promulgated by John XXII in 1317 ed. E. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, 2. 1129–1200; Schulte, 2. 45–50. [The ordinary gloss on the Clementines is that of Iohannes Andreae; others include Jean le Moine, Guido de Baysio, Jesselin de Cassagnes, Paulus de Liazariis, and William of Mont Lauzun.]
  • B30.98: Willelmus de Pagula [early 14th cent.]
    Summa summarum unpr.; excerpts ed. L. E. Boyle, Proceedings of Second Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Vatican City 1965), 415–56; Bloomfield 0234; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 800.
  • B30.†99 (anon.): John of Freiburg OP [†1314]
    Summa confessorum pr. Augsburg 1476 (Goff J316), &c.; Schulte, 2. 421–2; Bloomfield 5256; Kaeppeli 2344. [Published in 1298; anonymous copies often indistinguishable from the earlier work by Thomas of Chobham.]
  • B30.†100 (anon.): Ranulf Higden OSB [†1364]
    Speculum curatorum unpr.; J. Taylor, The Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden (Oxford 1966), 182; Bloomfield 1063.
  • B30.101: Gregory IX (Ugolino da Segni) [c1148–1241, sedit 1227–1241]
    Decretales ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, 2. 1–928; Schulte, 2. 3–25, 412. [The ordinary gloss on the Decretals is that by Bernard of Parma: pr. Strassburg 1468/71 (GW 11450), &c.; pr. Venice 1605; Schulte, 2. 115.] [Entries for Decretales ueteres are more likely to refer to one of the older decretal compilations; entered under Bernard of Pavia.]
  • B30.103: John of Genoa OP [† after 1286]
    Catholicon pr. [Mainz ?1460] (GW 3182), Augsburg 1469 (GW 3183), &c.; Kaeppeli 2199. [Usually anonymous in lists.]
  • B30.105: Isidore of Seville [†636], bishop of Seville
    Sententiae CPL 1199; pr. Nuremberg [not after April 1470] (Goff I192), &c.; ed. P. Cazier, CCSL 111 (1998); Diaz 111.
  • B30.107 (anon.): Willelmus de Pagula [early 14th cent.]
    Oculus sacerdotis unpr.; Sharpe, Latin Writers, 799; Bloomfield 1088, 2499, 3129, 3686.
  • B30.108 (`lumen laycorum'): Peter d'Abernon of Fetcham [†1293]
    La Lumere as lais ed. G. Hesketh, ANTS 54–8 (1996–2000); Dean 630.

77 identified entries found.

All data was derived from the List of Identifications by Professor Richard Sharpe.
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