Royal MS 11 B I

Two THEOLOGICAL TRACTS in Latin agreeing with those in two MSS. at Oxford (Ball. Coll. cxcii, Linc. Coll., Latin, xxxvi), the table by Partridge occurring in all. Other examples of his hand are at Oxford, e. g. Digby MS. 98. Contents:-

1. Abbreviation by [Richard] Snedisham of the commentary of the Oxford Franciscan Robert Cowton (who applied for licence as confessor in 1300) on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus. Book i beg. 'Vtrum habitus theologie sit forma', and has the colophon (f. 47), 'Ex. plicit scriptum fr. Roberti Cowton inceptoris sacre theologie ordinis fratrum minorum super primum Senten. ciarum'. The colophons of the other books are similar, but that of bk. ii (f. 76) adds 'abbreviatum per Snedisham'. The abbreviator is presumably the Richard Snedisham who was Chancellor of the University in 1414. At the end of bk. iv (f. 100 b) are the name (ap. parently as scribe) 'quod Partrich' and distich '0 scriptor, cessa, quia manus est tibi fessa. / Explicit iste liber, sit scriptor crimine liber'. On f. 101 is a tabula to the whole work 'a Petro Partrich compilata'. For another copy see 11 B. VI, and for a list of MSS. of the abridged or complete text see Little, Grey Friars at Oxford, p. 222, adding Magd. Coll. Oxon. MS. xcix. f. 5.

2. Quaestiones Quodlibetales of Joannes Duns Scotus (cf. 8 G. VIII, art. 2). Without title, At the end is a tabula, apparently in Partridge's hand. The text is probably an abridgement, attributed in the Balliol MS. to john Scharp (cf. 12 B. XIX, art. 8). Qu. i beg. 'Vtrum in diuinis essentialia' as in that MS., without the preface contained in the printed text and in 8 G. VIII. f. 106. Two fly-leaves (ff. 3, 1, in that order) are from a 15th cent. MS. of physical quaestiones, perhaps connected with Aristotle's Meteorologica. Two chapters begin 'Consequenter queritur utrum stella comata sit de natura celi' and 'Conssquenter queritur utrum stella comata sit vapor'. On f. 2 are theological notes in Partridge's band, and in another a list of some of the titular epithets of the schoolmen, beg. 'Doctor antiqus Robertus Halis quia primo scripsit disputative'. Vellum; ff. 161. 10 in. x 63/4 in. Early XV cent. Gatherings (beg. f. 5, incl. blank leaves), i-iii¹², iv, v⁸, vi-viii¹², ix¹⁴, x¹⁰, xixiv¹². Sec.fol. '-ciata respectu'. Initials in blue. Belonged (ff. 4 b, 161 b) to Lincoln Cathedral, 'Liber communis librarie ecclesie Lincoln. ex dono mag. Petri Partrich eiusdem cancellarii' (1424- 1451). The MS. occurs in the 15th cent cat. printed by Canon A. R. Maddison, Assoc. Architeciural Soc. Reports, xxiii (1896), p. 350, and was noticed by Leland at Lincoln (Roy. App. 69, f. 2). and acquired for the king's library. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 214' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 27); cat. of 1666, f. 6 or 6 b; CMA. 8080 or 8209.