Royal MS 11 C VI

JOHANNES BACON, al. Baconthorpe, Quaestiones on the Sententiae, libb. i-iii, of Petrus Lombardus. For two copies of lib. iv, cf. 9 C. VII, 11 B. XII. Printed, except lib. ii, by Louis Martineau, at Paris, 1484-1485, and the whole at Milan, 1510, &c. The MSS. exhibit considerable variety in readings and arrangement. In several hands. Lib. i, prologue, has the colophon (f. 19) 'Explicit prologus super sentencias doctoris Bacunthorp Carmelite scriptus per fratrem Ricardum Hadley eiusdem ordinis', the table of tituli and text of lib. i following in different hands, with an erased colophon at the end. Lib. ii (f. 170) has a colophon (f. 276) 'Explicit liber secundus sentenciarum reuerendi et egregii doctoris uniuersitatis Parysiensis gloriosissime. Scriptus tempore uacacionis per fratrem Ricardum Tenet ex ordinacione, &c.', before which is placed a part of dist. 28 omitted in its proper place, and after the colophon are other appendices, apparently additions to the original text. The table to lib. ii (f. 281) is in a later hand. Lib. iii is one hand, different from all that precedes. It has a table of tituli at the end. Prologue to lib. i beg. 'Vtrum ad habendam cognicionem super. naturalem de deo'.

Vellum; ff. 346. 141/2 in. x 10 in. Circ. 1400. Gatherings, i, ii¹⁰, iii⁹, iv-xxi¹⁰, xxii⁹, xxiii, xxiv¹⁰, xxv¹¹, xxvi-xxix¹⁰, xxx-xxxiii⁸, xxxiv⁹, xxxv-xxxvii⁸. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'concedi hoc addentes'. Lib.iii has one illuminated border-initial (f. 282) representing Baconthorpe lecturing ; other initials flourished in red and blue. In cat. of 1666, f. 17, apparently joined with 9 C. VII as 'Baconthorpus in librum Sententiarum, vol. 2 fol.'; CMA. 8294.