Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows.

Date:
1896
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Credit: Collectanea. Third series / edited by Montagu Burrows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^ This volume of Henry of Ghent may be that now in the Chapter Library : cf. Cat. Vet. pp. 74, 207. * I owe the words ita quod in tilts and veteris logice to Mr. F. Madan’s skill in deciphering the illegible. * Possibly still existing (ibid. pp. 72, 205-6). ® I conjecture expo I siciones R. de Grays] tayns : he wrote ‘ Super sen- tentias, libri iv,’ a MS. of which Leland saw in the library of the Carmelites at Oxford (Tanner, Bibl. Brit.-Hib. 340). ® Cat. Vet. p. 53. Mauricius Anglus, a Dominican friar, c. 1290, wrote Distinctiones (a sort of Concordance) ‘ ad praedicandum utiles,’ part of which work was printed at Venice in 1603. '' Almost certainly the valuable MS. of the time of Bishop William of St. Carileph, still in the Chapter Library (Cat. Vet. pp. 63, 216). * ‘A pair of Institutes indexed.’ ® Cat. Vet. p. 71. The excellent monk who continued the Durham Chronicle from 1214 to 1333, in which year he was elected (and actually consecrated and installed) Bishop of Durham, but was set aside by Edward III in favour of his old tutor, Richard de Bury (Hist. Dun. pp. 120-2). “ Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 1235-1253. ** Cat. Vet. p. 78; but there is no mention there of Algazel. Two or three words are unfortunately illegible. “ The books were frequently pledged in this way, e. g. Comp. 1401. Item lxxij®viij‘^ pro uno libro alias iinpignorato et extracto de impig- noracione. Item pro uno libro iacente in cista in aula Martonis c® Comp. 1402. Item de Cista Oxon. pro impignoracione librorum vii^*. vj* xiij'*. Comp. 1485. Item pro redempcione unius libri Decretalium xxij® viij'*. Probably a work by Hugo de Vienna, still existing (Cat. Vet. PP- SL 193)- c. Libri Missi Oxoniam, c. 1400. (This document and the next (Cat. Vet. iv and v) are reprinted here for the sake of comparison with the previous list of books. The letter prefixed to each entry ‘ is generally inscribed upon a fly-leaf or the first written page ; and the words or syllables are those which stand first on the second leaf.’ The ‘ Spendement ’ (pay- office) was a name given locally to the Chancery of Durham Abbey, a room in the west cloister divided only by an iron grating from the Treasury, where the records were long preserved (Cat. Vet. pp. v, vi, and Rites of Durham, p. 71)- Of the twenty-one entries in this list, sixteen (which I have marked with an asterisk) are mentioned in the Catalogue of the Spendement books in 1391 (Cat. Vet. II and III) with the note ‘ mittitur Oxon.’ in a later hand; also in the fuller catalogue of the same collection in 1416, with the note ‘Oxon.’ (Cat. Vet. x). One book, the ‘ Prima Pars Summae Thomae,’ is marked ‘ Oxon ’ in the list of Cloister books in 1395 (Cat. Vet. vii) : the other four cannot be identified in the Durham lists. It would appear that the books were sent to Oxford after 1395, and were still there in 1416. One book in the list of 1391, ‘Prima Pars Moralium Gregorii,’ is marked ‘ habetur Oxon ’.)