CONTROVERSIAL THEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, temp. Hen. VIII, chiefly in Latin. The two volumes are traditionally known as Archbishop Cranmer's commonplace-books, and, although neither the archbishop's own hand nor that of Ralph Morice, his principal secretary, occurs in them, a comparison with Cranmer's copies of some of the works quoted (e. g. Ricardus de Media Villa super Sententias, now in the Museum, cf. 7 B. XII, f. 222 b) confirms the connexion. With small exceptions (7 B. XI, ff. 56-77, 7 ...
THEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, in Latin, viz.:- 1. 'Excepciones ex libris 23 auctorum': an anonymous compilation of passages arranged in the order in which they occur in the authors. The list of these begins with SS. Augustine, Gregory, and Jerome, and ends with Baeda, Prosper, Petrus Ravennas, Boet...
SPECVLVM SPIRITALIVM': parts i-iv ofthe anonymous theological compilation called Speculum Spiritualium, apparently the work of an Englishman, since he often quotes Walter Hilton (d. 1396) and incorporates (end of pt. ii, f. 83) a long English passage from Richard Rolle's Form of Living (he uses ...
THEOLOGICAL TREATISES and moralized tales, viz. 1. 'Tractatus de oculo morali' (so colophon): the tract variously assigned to Robert Grosseteste, John Peckham, Pierre de Limoges, and others (cf. 6 E. v, art. 14). Followed by a table of chapters. Beg. 'Si diligenter voluerimus in lege domini me...
THEOLOGICAL WORKS, in Latin, viz.:- 1. 'Pars xiima[-xiiiima] primi libri sentenciarum Roberti Melundinensisepiscopi Herfordensis': so entitled in the hand of the Bury librarian (15th cent., perhaps Boston, cf. 6 B. x), who adds at the end 'deficiunt de ista summa partes siue libri tres de fine...
TABULA ORIGINALIUM Siue Manipulus Florum secundum ordinem alphabeti extracta a libris xxxvi. auctorum edita a magistro Thoma Ybernico' [i. e. Thomas of Palmerstown, co. Kildare, a fellow of the Sorbonne at Paris, fl. 1306.-1312]: a collection of passages under headings arranged alphabetically, A...
LIBER PRIMUS [-sextus, the seventh is wanting] celestium revelacionum Dei beate Brigide principisse Nericie de regno Swecie diuinitus reuelatus': the revelations of S. Bridget, princess of Nerike in Sweden (d. 1373), in Latin, with the preface of Mathias, canon of Linköping. Printed, Lülbeck, 14...
DISTINCTIONES, &c., in Latin, viz. 1. Classified collection in sixteen books of diverse senses of words used in Scripture. Without original title. A 16th cent. hand has given the title 'Caelestium et terrestrium quorum in scripturis fit mentio moralizatio incerti'. Other compilations of a ...