Theology
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Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
MS 116: Ordinatio [incomplete] by John Duns Scotus, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 116
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This manuscript contains the first two books of John Duns Scotus’s Ordinatio or Opus Oxoniense. Duns Scotus (c. 1266 –1308) was Fransciscan and very influential Scholastic philosopher and theologian of the late Middle Ages, famous for his doctrines of the univocity of being and the haecceitas. The Ordinatio or Opus Oxoniense is...
Dates:
14th century
MS 133: Decas Loyca by Leonino of Padua, late 14th century
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Identifier: MS 133
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MS 133 is intriguing, as it seems to be the unique surviving manuscript of Leonini of Padua's Decas Loyca, although it is still only a part of the full text. Augustinian friar Leonino of Padua is first mentioned in 1332, holding a post at an annual meeting of the Augustinian Order in Venice. By 1360 he had become a Doctor of Theology as was teaching in Padua. His Decas Loyca was written probably in the late 1350s, in which he...
Dates:
late 14th century
MS 138: Composite manuscript including seventeen texts, c 1455
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Identifier: MS 138
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MS 138 contains many small texts and fragments bound together, by different hands. This manuscript belonged to the Carthusian monastery at Erfurt, and seems to have been compiled initially in the mid-15th century. The evidence of the inclusion of various texts in different hands indicates that this volume was taken up and added to by different inhabitants of the monastery at Erfurt. The texts are described separately, but are generally quite fragmentary and difficult to...
Dates:
c 1455
MS 139: Composite manuscript including seven texts, early 14th century
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Identifier: MS 139
Contents
Contains seven texts, all in the same hand.ff. 1r-7v: the beginning of the 'Decretum Gratiani,' by Gratianff. 8r-53r: 'Summa introductoria' by Bonaguida de Arezzoff. 53v-54r : A shortened English Kalendar (not Sarum)ff. 56r-67v: 'Practica sive usus dictaminis' by Lawrence of Aquileiaff. 68r-88v: Book VIII of 'Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum' by Guillaume Durandff. 90r-103r: 'Speculum ecclesiae' by Cardinal Hugo de...
Dates:
early 14th century
MS 144: Composite manuscript including two texts, early 14th century
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Identifier: MS 144
Contents
MS 144 contains the texts by early Christian monk and theologian, John Cassian, in the same hand.ff. 1r-45v: 'De institutis coenobiorum', by Johannus Cassianus [John Cassian]ff. 45v-103v: incomplete 'Collationes patrum in scetica eremo', by Johannus Cassianus [John Cassian]The texts are described separately, under MS 144/ff. 1r-45v; MS 144/ff. 45v-103v. Writing Written in a clear Gothic hand. There are...
Dates:
early 14th century
MS 145: Summa summarum sive Speculum iuris canonici, by William of Pagula, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 145
Contents
MS 145 contains one of only thirteen known extant copies of a 14th-century text by William of Pagula [Paull], a theologian, writer, and English parish priest. This massive text containing five books is a manual on canon law and theology, composed sometime in or around 1318-22. The text in nearly complete in MS 145, although the final book, Liber v wants three chapters.f. 1r: Prologue, beginning with the words Incipit Prologus. Ad...
Dates:
14th century
MS 147: Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 147
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This manuscript contains nine main texts in several hands, although the last section itself is made of various notes written by different people. The whole text has been annotated by John of Haghen, Prior of the Carthusians at Erfurt, which could mean this volume was his personal handbook at some point.f. 1r: List of Contents, written by John of Haghen, Prior of the Carthusians at Erfurt.ff. 1v-2v: Tract on the...
Dates:
15th century
MS 150: Composite manuscript containing four texts, 16th century
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Identifier: MS 150
Contents
Contains four texts, all in the same hand. This manuscript was written for the Dominican Convent of Sciennes in Edinburgh.ff. 1r-21r: Gospelsf. 21v: A rubric in Scots, setting out when 'The evangell sall be rede'ff. 22r-23v: a table (ff. 22v-23v left blank) entitled 'Ye Chengyng of Ye Mwne'ff. 24r-52r: 'Constitutiones Sororum Ordinis Predicatorum' (Cconstitutions of the Sisters of the order of the Friar Preachers, or Dominicans)The...
Dates:
16th century
MS 151: Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 151
Contents
Contains nine texts bound together, in different hands.Of note, the endpaper at the beginning of the manuscript is an interesting fragment from an Antiphoner of the 9th or 10th century. The other endpaper is a textual fragment too, although from later that the 9th/10th centuries.ff. 1r-8v: Bull of Pope Honorius III to Saint Francis and the brothers of the Orderff. 9r-13r: Bull of Pope Gregory IXff. 14r-50r: Bull of Pope Nicholas III from 1279,...
Dates:
14th century
MS 153: Composite manuscript containing three texts, 1459
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Identifier: MS 153
Contents
Contains three treatises by John Haghen, written by the scribe John Rössler and annotated by John of Haghen himself.ff. 1r-178r: 'Expositio privilegiorum Ordinis Carthusiensis'ff. 178r-264r: 'Expositio aliorum privilegiorum ejusdem Ordinis'ff. 265r-329v: 'Tractatus de Vita et Regimine Clericorum'The texts are described separately, under the folio headings listed above. Writing A good, uniform...
Dates:
1459