MSS. Lat. th.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. a. 1
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Guardbook, containing a leaf of a Passionale and a leaf of a Gospel.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	12th century
Material	parchment

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 1 (R)
Summary Catalogue no.	30587
Summary of contents	Peter of Poitiers, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, middle
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good miniatures (coloured drawings), initials. A roll. (P&A iii. 429, pl. XXXVII)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 2
Summary Catalogue no.	30588 + later additions: description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Guardbook of miscellaneous fragments, recovered from bindings, including Albertanus of Brescia, De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi (fragment, fol. 48).
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Italian, German, French
Date	11th century - 15th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initial. \|\| Good border, initial (fol. 48). (P&A iii. 748)



Bibliography
Neil R. Ker, Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings with a Survey of Oxford Binding c. 1515-1620 (Oxford Bibliographical Society, n.s. 5, 1951-1952), Oxford, 1954, note to no. 1534 (fol. 14), no. 1159 (fol. 59)

S. J. P. van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 7 vols. in 8, 1957-1960 (unpublished typescript), VI, 121

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 3
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Guardbook of miscellaneous fragments recovered from bindings, including fol. 8, Digestum vetus, Italian, 13th century.
Language	Latin
Origin	German (?), French, Italian, English
Date	12th (or 12th century - 15th century) - 15th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good English miniature (damaged) on fol. 8, 13th century, end, added to an Italian MS. of 13th century. (P&A iii. 490)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 4
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Gregory IX, Decretals with apparatus of Bernard of Parma.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Modena or Bologna
Date	1241
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine miniatures, borders, initials. Historiated penwork borders. Written by Leonardus de Gropis of Modena. (P&A ii. 73, pl. VI)

Provenance	Written by Leonardus de Gropius of Modena in 1241; this MS or its exemplar belonged to Dominus Bertrandus; in Spain, 15th century (?); Richard le Poer-Trench, 2nd earl of Clancarty, his sale, Sotheby's 2 Sept. 1894, lot 95, bought by Leighton for £19 11s.; William Morris (1834-96); Richard Bennett, sale, Sotheby's 7 Dec. 1898, lot 560, bought by Quaritch for £24; T. De Marinis & Co., Florence, sale cat. X, 1909, no. 231, pl. III; bought from Quaritch, cat. 594, no. 16, 1942.


Bibliography
S. Kuttner, Beryl Smalley, 'The 'Glossa Ordinaria' to the Gregorian Decretals', The English Historical Review, 40, 1945, 97-105

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 565, II, pl. 105 (fol. 145v)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 5
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Hugh of St. Cher (Hugo de Sancto Caro), Commentary on Isaiah. Jean de la Rochelle, Postille super Danielem. Commentary on the Apocalypse.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	1455-1456
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine borders, initials. (P&A iii. 1056, pl. XCVIII)

Provenance	Written by Matheus de Moravia of the diocese of Olomouc (Olmütz), p. 827, with a long inscription concerning the price of parchment, writing, decoration, etc.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 4, no. 6, Dec. 1953, 341-2, pl. XIXa,b (pp. 597, 827)

Notable Accessions: Guide to an Exhibition Held in 1958, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1958, no. 21, pl. V

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 566, II, pl. 531 (fol. 525r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 6
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Old Testament books of Kings and Chronicles, with the Glossa ordinaria.
Language	Latin
Origin	English (?)
Date	13th century, middle
Material	parchment
Provenance	Rev. Allan Sinclair, presented to Lord Breadalbane; Rt. Hon. Algernon William Stephen, 5th Earl Temple; sold by his executors at Sotheby's, 16 June 1941, lot 131; J. P. Lyell; bequeathed to N. R. Ker (see Lyell Cat., p. xxvii), and given by him in 1975. Formerly Dep. b. 153.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 7
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Bible.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	13th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	Given by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. b. 154.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 8
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	John of Freiburg, Summa confessorum.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	13th century - 14th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Coloured initials with penwork.

Provenance	Given by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. b. 8.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. b. 9
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Hervaeus de Bourgdieu, Commentary on Isaiah.
Language	Latin
Origin	French (?)
Date	12th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Coloured initials with penwork.

Provenance	'Liber sce maria de Colomba' (fol. 220v); Christie's 1 June 1977, lot 173, bought by Quaritch on behalf of the Bodleian.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 2 (R)
Summary Catalogue no.	30590
Summary of contents	De quinque septenis.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, middle
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good miniatures (coloured drawings). By the same hand as MS. Lat. th. b. 1 (R) and probably originally part of the same roll. (P&A iii. 430, pl. XXXVII)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 3
Summary Catalogue no.	31382 and later additions: description unpublished, only available in Library
Composite	Guardbook, including two leaves from Cambridge, University Library, MS. Ee. 2. 4. (Smaragdus, Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, c. 900)
Origin	English and other
Date	c. 900 - 14th century
Material	parchment

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 4
Summary Catalogue no.	1926*
Summary of contents	Sedulius, Carmen paschale (four leaves), with commentary by Remigius.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Worcester ?
Date	10th century, second half
Material	parchment

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 5
Summary Catalogue no.	32564
Summary of contents	Acts of the Ecclesiastical Councils of Toledo Collectio Hispana.
Language	Latin
Origin	Spanish, Toledo ?
Date	12th century
Material	parchment

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 6
Summary Catalogue no.	32944
Summary of contents	Josephus, Bellum Judaicum; Antiquitates, books XVIII-XX.
Language	Latin
Origin	English or French
Date	12th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initials. (P&A iii. 274)

Provenance	Belonged to the Cistercian abbey of Vauluisant, diocese of Sens: fol. 2, 17th - century number '178' (ex inf. F. Bougard, 1981).

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 7
Summary Catalogue no.	33414
Summary of contents	Psalter. Victor Capuanus, Harmony of Gospels.
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	15th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good penwork initials. (P&A i. 683)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 10, fols. 1-111
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Composite	Guardbook of fragments (9th - 17th centuries, English, German, Italian, French), including: fols. 111a-122b \|\| fol. 113 \|\| fol. 114
Summary of contents	Leaves from the binding of Allen e. 190. \|\| One leaf concerning the errors of Mendicant orders. \|\| Small theological fragment.
Language	Latin
Origin	? \|\| English \|\| English
Date	16th century (?) \|\| 15th century (?) \|\| 12th century (?)
Material	parchment, paper
Provenance	- \|\| Transferred from the Oxfordshire County Record Office, c. 1964 \|\| -


Bibliography
Neil R. Ker, Fragments of Medieval Manuscripts used as Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings with a Survey of Oxford Binding c. 1515-1620 (Oxford Bibliographical Society, n.s. 5, 1951-52), Oxford, 1954, nos. 967 (fols. 4-7), 1606 (fol. 17)

N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, III, 2-3 (fol. 102)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 14
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Honorius Augustodunensis, Commentary on the Song of Songs.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Venice (?)
Date	15th century, beginning
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine border, historiated and other initials. (P&A ii. 447, pl. XLIII)

Provenance	Monogram 'GBR' (?) with cross and 'A 202', 16th century (?); a spine label is covered by a Bodleian label; L. S. Olschki, Venice (bookplate); bought from Sotheran, 1950.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 15
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Bartholomeo de Pisa (Bartholomaeus de Pisis), 'Opus de conformitate beati francisci ad vitam domini Yesu Christi ...’.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Rimini (?)
Date	1465
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red and blue initials (flourished on fols. 98v and 100r).

Provenance	Written by Paulus de Marostica in 1465 (colophon); 'Iste liber est de conventu fratrum minorum de Rimino', 16th century; Franciscan convent at Ferrara, 18th century; Heber, his sale, 1836, pt. XI, lot 319; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 8111, his sale, Sotheby's 27 April 1903 and five following days, lot 484, bought by A. G. Little for £3 18s., and given to the Bodleian in 1940


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 1, no. 11, Oct. 1940, 177

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 567, II, pl. 637 (fol. 44v)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 17
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	William of Auvergne, and Robert Grosseteste, De univero spirituali i-iii, and De cessacione legalium i, with marginal annotations in Grosseteste's hand.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	Roger de Plimp[ton], rector of Enborne, Berkshire, 13th century; Charles Howard (1674-1738; see DNB); 3rd Earl of Carlisle, Naworth Castle, Cumberland, by 1697 (listed in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscripti Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, Oxford, 1697, 2 vols. each in 2 pts., vol. II, pt. I, no. 667, p. 15 ('De universo spirituali et corporali. Fol.'); Earl of Carlisle sale at Sotheby's 28 Oct. 1947, lot 515, bought by the Bodleian.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 2, no. 27, Aug. 1948, 226-227, pls. (fols. 199r, 192v)

Notable Accessions: Guide to an Exhibition Held in 1958, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1958, no. 9, pl. II

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 19
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	William de Montibus, Distinctiones theologicae (fragment).
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fleuronnée initials. (P&A iii. 403)

Provenance	Given by F. E. Norris

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 20
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Bede, Commentary on Luke xxiv, 40-53.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	10th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	J. Tregaskis, cat. 850, Jan. 1922, item 23; C. L. Ricketts, Chicago; Tregaskis, cat. 990, Jan. 1931, item 1, and cat. 1013, 1935, item 1; given by F. E. Norris, 1952.


Bibliography
M. L. W. Laistner and H. H. King, A Hand-list of Bede Manuscripts, Cornell Univ., 1943, listed under C. L. Ricketts, Chicago

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 21
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Pauline epistles, with commentary of Gilbert de la Porrée
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	12th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initials to books left blank. Red and blue initials.

Provenance	Henry Jeffreys Bushby (bookplate), c. 1893; J. Tregaskis, Caxton Head Cat. 822, 1920, item 40; given by F. E. Norris, 1952.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 4, no. 3, Dec. 1952, 173

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 22
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Magister Humbertus, Commentary on the rule of St. Augustine.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	14th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good historiated initial. (P&A ii. 182)

Provenance	Bought at Munich by Eug. Chasser of Grenoble, 1883; bought, 1954.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 23
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Peter Comestor, Historia scholastica; Speculum theologie.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, beginning
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good and other initials. (P&A iii. 310)

Provenance	'Liber sancte Marie Hurl' (Hurley, cell of Westminster Abbey), 13th century; bought at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1957, lot 60

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 24
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Philip Repington, Sermons on the Gospels.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red.

Provenance	'Robertum ap Harry', 'B...dy ap harry', 'Himas (?) ap harry hys boke', 'Hugo Evanne', all 16th century; 'no. 9', '82', '82' (spine); Gwysaney library of Robert Davies, his sale, bought at Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 215.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 26
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Patristic works.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, middle
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	'Liber iste est ecclesie sancti Edmundi regis et martiris. Quem qui defraudaverit sit anathema Ihesu. Amen' 13th century, and pressmark 'J. 16', no. cviiii in the Bury catalogue; J. Anstis sale, 12 Dec. 1768, lot 120; R. Blyke sale, 11 May 1776, lot 23; bequeathed by Andrew Gifford to the Bristol Baptist College, 1784; bought, 1962.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 27
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, prima pars.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, end
Material	parchment

Decoration
Penwork.

Provenance	Bought at Sotheby's 12 June 1963, lot 146

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 28
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Commentary on the Pauline epistles.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red, green and blue initials.

Provenance	Rt. Hon. Lord Tollemache, Helmingham Hall, Suffolk (with shelfmark-label), his sale at Sotheby's 14 June 1965, lot 6, bought by Quaritch for £260; N. R. Ker.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 29
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Vitae sanctorum (Lives of Saints).
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, late - 13th century, early
Material	parchment

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 30
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (fragment).
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century, beginning
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine historiated initials. From the workshop of the Master of the Queen Mary Psalter. (P&A iii. 541)

Provenance	Sir Sydney Cockerell note dated 4 Sept. 1932; Quaritch cat. 841, 1963, no. 241; Mrs. Raymond Lister, Sotheby's 10 July 1967, lot 3; bought and given by J. R. Abbey, 1967.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 31
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Jerome, Letters (Epistolae morales et ad mulieres destinate).
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Padua
Date	c. 1450-1460
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine historiated border, initial. Fine initials. (P&A iii. 1339, pl. CXX)

Provenance	Ex libris of Sta. Giustina, Padua, identifiable in their catalogue; Sir Sydney Cockerell; J. R. Abbey, sale, 7th portion, Sotheby's 1 Dec. 1970, lot 2879; bought, 1971.


Bibliography
J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian manuscripts in the library of Major J. R. Abbey (London, 1969), no. 41, pp. 115-7, pls. LII, LIIIa

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 32
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Series of four quodlibets.
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	14th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fleuronnée initials.

Provenance	'Manuscript no 17', 19th century; 'La Br. de Roserions (?) Lettre', 'Br de Selby'; bought, Christie's 28 June 1972.

Shelfmark	MS. lat. th. c. 33
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	John Pecham, Commentary on the Gospel of St. John.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, late -14th century, first half
Material	parchment
Provenance	'Georgii Johnson liber/Ines' (?), 17th century; bought, 1973.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 3, Dec. 1974, 188

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 34
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	15th century
Material	paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	Howell Wills, Florence (with his shelf-mark label pasted to the upper pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's 11 July 1894 and five following days, probably lot 1863, bought by Quaritch for £6; Quaritch cat. 1931, no. 92; given by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. c. 298.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 35
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Gregory, Dialogues
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	12th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Red initials.

Provenance	Item 308 in a bookseller's catalogue, priced £15 15s.; given by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. c. 297.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 36
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Haimo of Halberstadt, Commentary on the Apocalypse.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	12th century - early 13th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Coloured initials with penwork.

Provenance	Chiaravalle della Colomba, near Piacenza, on the evidence of the binding; Paolo Giovio (?) (1483-1552); bought at Christie's, 17 Nov. 1976, lot 375.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 6, Jan. 1978, 358

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. c. 37
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Guardbook, containing two leaves (fols. 1-2) from a commentary on the Pauline Epistles and parts of the commentary on Ephesians and Philippians.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 1
Summary Catalogue no.	29746
Summary of contents	Nicholas Philip, Sermons.
Language	English, Latin
Origin	English
Date	1430-1436
Material	parchment, paper


Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no 568

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 3
Summary Catalogue no.	31383
Summary of contents	Commentary on the Pentateuch.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, North
Date	8th century - 9th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good initials. (P&A ii. 2, pl. I)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 4
Summary Catalogue no.	31384
Summary of contents	Juvencus, Historia evangelica. Cyprian, 29 letters.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	15th century
Material	parchment, paper

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 5
Summary Catalogue no.	31540
Summary of contents	Ambrose and Augustine, De virginitate.
Language	Latin
Origin	French, St. Mary, Aubazine
Date	12th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good initial. By the same hand as MS. Lat. th. e. 31. (P&A i. 487, pl. XXXVIII)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 7
Summary Catalogue no.	2148*
Summary of contents	Gregory the Great, Pastoral Care (Regulae pastoralis liber), two leaves from the former binding of MS. Auct. F. 5. 19, with glosses in Irish.
Language	Latin, Irish
Origin	Irish
Date	11th or 12th century (?)
Material	parchment


Bibliography
Brian Ó Cuív, Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford college libraries. Part I: Descriptions (Dublin, 2001), pp. 311-12 no. 50.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 8
Summary Catalogue no.	32565
Summary of contents	Cyprian, Letters.
Language	Latin
Origin	German (?)
Date	12th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initial. (P&A i. 68)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 9
Summary Catalogue no.	33198
Summary of contents	Hugh of Fleury, Historia ecclesiastica.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, North
Date	c. 1300
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good historiated border, historiated and other initials. (P&A ii. 147)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 10
Summary Catalogue no.	33199
Summary of contents	Twenty-four leaves from a copy of a Latin Register of the papal Court of Appeals in ecclesiastical causes (found in the binding of SC 33198).
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	c. 1370-1376
Material	paper

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 12
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Johannes Calderinus (Giovanni Calderini), Tractatus de ecclesiastico interdicto. Treatise on the Mass attributed to Conrad of Soltau.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	1422
Material	paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	'Marienmunster', 18th century; Leander van Ess (1772-1847) (on whom see Hermann Knaus, 'Die Handschriften des Leander van Eß', Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, vol. 1 (pts. 3/4, 1956), 1958, 331-6; and Milton McC. Gatch, ed., 'so precious a foundation': The Library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, New York, 1996), MS. 182, '182' on spine label; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 566; E. F. Bosanquet (bookplate); bought from P. J. & A. E. Dobell, London booksellers, Oct. 1923.


Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 569 (fols. 33-152), II, pl. 305 (fol. 118r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 13
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Composite	eight parts
Summary of contents	Collection of Carthusian devotional works mainly by Johannes Hagen de Indagine.
Language	Latin
Origin	German, Erfurt (?)
Date	1457-1460, 1468 (fols. 110-171, 186-238)
Material	paper
Provenance	'Cartusiae Erford' on 1st fol. & top edge, 16th century; bought, 1929.


Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 570 (fols. 110-171, 186-238)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 14
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Sermons and theological pieces,
Language	Latin
Origin	German, South
Date	15th century, middle
Material	paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	Bought, 1930.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 16
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Lactantius, De ira Dei.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Florence
Date	c. 1430-1440
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine initials. Humanistic script. (P&A ii. 224)

Provenance	Bequeathed by C. M. Firth, 1931.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 17
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous theological treatises.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, last quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	'William Thompson, John Robinson', 'To my loving friend John Robinson 1573'; bought from E. P. Goldschmidt, cat. 100, no. 83, 1932.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 18
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous theological pieces.
Language	Latin
Origin	German, Erfurt (?)
Date	15th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	Bought, 1932.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 20
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous theological pieces.
Language	Latin
Origin	French, Normandy (?)
Date	Late 11th century, 1091 or later
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red and blue initials.

Provenance	'Tho Lot(?)ha', 17th century; 'A 579', 18th century /19th century; Quaritch; Robinson, bought 1934.


Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 571, II, pl. 34a,b (fols. 44v, 76r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 21
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	William of Auvergne, works.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	15th century
Material	paper, parchment
Provenance	'Iste liber est fratrum domus sancte Barbare in Colonia Ordinis Carthus ...', 15th century; 'Colleg.S.Jesu S.Goar', 18th century; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 549, his sale, Sotheby's, 6-9 June 1910, lot 840, bought by Edwards for £2 19s.; bought, 1936.


Bibliography
Richard Bruce Marks, The Library of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara in Cologne (Analencta Cartusiana, 21-22), Salzburg, 1974, 386-7

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 22
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Franciscan constitutions.
Language	Latin
Origin	French, South
Date	13th century, end
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fleuronée initials. (P&A i. list p. 72)

Provenance	Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 9479 (a trace of this number, '9[...]' survives on a characteristic Phillipps printed paper label on the spine), his sale, Sotheby's 17 May 1897 and three days following, lot 207 (inscribed 'Phillipps MSS \| 207', fol. 1r), bought by Tregaskis for £1 1s.; bought from Tregaskis by A. G. Little in 1898, and given by him to the Bodleian in 1940.


Bibliography
A. G. Little, 'Decrees of the General Chapters of the Friars Minor, 1260 to 1282', English Historical Review, 13, 1898, 703-8

A. G. Little, 'Provincial Constitutions of the Minorite Order', English Historical Review, 17, 1902, 512-18

Bodleian Library Record, 1, no. 11, Oct. 1940, 177

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 23
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Franciscan documents.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, North (?)
Date	c. 1400
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good border, initials. Rubricated by a German. (P&A ii. 755)

Provenance	St. Stephen's, Fossa Nova, dioc. of Terracina (?); Payne & Foss, 1848; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 12290, his sale, Sotheby's 6-9 June 1910 and three following days, lot 345, bought by Little for £20 10s.; given by A. G. Little, 1940.


Bibliography
A. G. Little, in Collectanea Franciscana, 1, (British Society of Franciscan Studies, 5), 1914, 9-113

Bodleian Library Record, 1, no. 11, Oct. 1940, 177

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 24
Summary Catalogue no.	30591
Summary of contents	Aldhelm, De virginitate (fragment) with 10th-century Kentish (?) glosses.
Language	Latin, Old English
Origin	English, Mercia (?) and Kent (?)
Date	9th century, beginning and 10th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initial. (P&A iii. 9)

Provenance	Fol. 2 given to the Bodleian by H. W. Garrod, 1942. Fol. 1 was formerly MS. Lat. th. f. 2 (P); a part of another bifolium is the wrapper of the printed book Arch A f.131, which formerly had the shelfmark Don. f. 458.


Bibliography
E. A. Lowe, 'Membra disiecta', Revue Bénédictine, 39, 1927, 191-192

Bodleian Library Record, 2, nos. 19-20, April-June 1942, 66

O. Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 3, Oxford, 1973, no. 9 (mistakenly referring to Don f.481 instead of Don f.458 (the latter now re-referenced as Arch A f.131)

Summary Catalogue, no. 30591; for a list of surviving leaves, and further bibliography, see B. A. Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beineke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University, II, Binghampton, New York, 1987, MSS. 401, 401A, at pp. 280-3, and Sotheby's 6 Dec. 1988 lot 33

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 26
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Composite	two parts
Summary of contents	Disputatio inter Catholicum et Patarinum. Sermons. \|\| Exposition on Gospels for the year (incomplete).
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	13th century, late \|\| 14th century, early
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	Luca Conte Gianinni; bought, 1948.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 27
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Collection of pieces relating to mystical theology.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	'Thomas Arden' 16th century; 'Thomas Goodwin' 17th century; bought at Sotheby's 14 March 1949, lot 79.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 3, no. 32, Aug. 1951, 223

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 28
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	St. Zeno, Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, North
Date	15th century, second quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initials. Humanistic script. (P&A ii. 791)

Provenance	Given by Timotheus of Verona (prob. Timoteo Maffei) to the monastery of S. Maria della Carità, Venice, 15th century; erased ex libris of S. Bartolomeo, Vicenza, 15th century, given by Bartolomeus de Carpo 'archipresbiter ecclesie vincentine'; 'No. 17 Derschau de Nuremburg'; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 1291; bought from Maggs, cat. 816, no. 164, 1953.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 29
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Lanfranc, Monastic Constitutions. Collection of extracts and theological 'sententiae'.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain blue, red, green and buff initials.

Provenance	William Brent of Willington, Warwick, 1675, given to Sir William Dugdale; Thorpe catalogue, 1931, no. 4108; W. Shaw Mason; 4th Duke of Newcastle, Sotheby's 6 Dec. 1937, lot 955; Sotheby's 6 Dec. 1954, lot 34; given by A. A. Houghton.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 6, no. 2, Feb. 1958, 443

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 30
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Liber florum (collection of theological extracts).
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, middle
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good initials. (P&A iii. 163)

Provenance	Lord William Howard of Naworth (1563-1640), early 17th century; Earl of Carlisle, Castle Howard, by 1897, sale, Hodgson's, 20 July 1944, lot 230; bought by Lord Kenyon (arms on cover), sale, Sotheby's 26 Jan. 1959, lot 58; bought, 1959.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 31
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Jacobus de Losanna, Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	14th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Borders, initials. (P&A i. 630)

Provenance	'B. A. P. M.' written across the bottom edge of the pages; E. Crawshaw; bought, 1960.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 32
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Decretals of Gregory IX, with Glossa ordinaria.
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	14th century, beginning
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good historiated initials. (P&A i. 580)

Provenance	Ex libris of the Cathedral of Olmütz, Moravia, 17th century; Barrois-Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's 10 June 1901 and four following days, lot 247, bought by Tregaskis for £7 15s.; George Dunn, his sale, First Portion, at Sotheby's 11 Feb. 1913 and three following days, lot 497, bought by Leighton for £20; E. P. Goldschmidt, by 1928.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 33
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Augustine, Enchiridion (fragment of two bifolia).
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Worcester
Date	11th century, end
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine initial. (P&A iii. 56)

Provenance	Other leaves written by the same scribe are MS. Hatton 48, fol. 77, and the pastedowns of St. John's College, Ss.7.2; given by Stanley Morison, 1964.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 34
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Tertullian, Apologeticum. Cassiodorus, De instructione sacerdotis (?). Ambrose, Expositio de Psalmo CXVIII.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, second quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good drawings (sketches) added to a MS. of 12th century, beginning. (P&A iii. 381)

Provenance	'Milburga/Mildburg' 12th century; Joseph Martini, Lugano, c. 1920-1929; William G. Kelso, NY; Stefan Mendl, NY; bought at Sotheby's, 11 July 1966, lot 262.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 35
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Homiliary.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, end
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good initials. (P&A iii. 233)

Provenance	Ex libris of Pipewell Abbey, 15th century; George Brudenell, Deene Park, Northamptonshire; Sotheby's 10 July 1967, lot 46.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 36
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Homiliary (fols. 5-103). Summa on the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, etc. (fols. 104-117).
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	'Batho de Ugstall; Lord Tollemach, Helmingham Hall, MS. 54; Sotheby's 8 July 1970, lot 62; Charles Traylen, Cat. 75, item 107, bought 1971.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 37
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Augustine, De LXXXIII quaestionibus, imperfect.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	J. P. Lyell; bequeathed to N. R. Ker (see Lyell Cat., p. xxvii), and given by him to the Bodleian in 1975. Formerly Dep. d. 237.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 38
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Petrus Riga, Aurora.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	Erased inscriptons on fol. 155v; James Sotheby (d. 1720), signed and dated 1684 (fol. 1r); C. W. H. Sotheby (with his bookplate, inscribed 'Biblia Sacra (in verse)'); H. G. Sotheby, of Ecton Hall; first deposited by, and then given to, the Bodleian by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. d. 238.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 39
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Iohannes de Burgo, Pupilla oculi.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
First initial in gold with pen ornamentation; other initials in blue with penwork in red.

Provenance	Maggs, Cat. 687, no. 173; J. P. Lyell; bequethed to N. R. Ker (see Lyell Cat., p. xxvii), and given by him to the Bodleian, 1975. Formerly Dep. d. 240.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 40
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Aelred of Rievaulx, Speculum caritatis.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Haughmond (?)
Date	c. 1200
Material	parchment

Decoration
Penwork initials.

Provenance	'Liber iste est ecclesie sancti Iohannis apostoli et ewangeliste de Hagemon'; Quaritch.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 5, June 1977, 291-2, pl. XXII (fol. 25r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 41
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Bede, Commentary on the Canonical Epistles.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	12th century, late - 13th century, early
Material	parchment

Decoration
Coloured initials with penwork.

Provenance	Ex-libris of the Cistercian monastery of Chiaravalle della Colomba, near Piacenza, 'Liber sancte Maria de Columba'; Paolo Giovio (?) (1483-1552); bought at Christie's 17 Nov. 1976, lot 369.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 6, Jan. 1978, 358

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 42
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Composite	three parts
Summary of contents	Commentary on the Psalms. \|\| Theological Summa in two parts: treatises on Angels and Virtues. \|\| Sermons of Innocent III.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	12th century, late or 13th century, early \|\| 13th century \|\| 13th century, end
Material	parchment

Decoration
Coloured initials with penwork. Penwork drawings.

Provenance	The Cisterican monastery of Chiaravalle della Colomba, near Piacenza, on the evidence of the binding; Paolo Giovio (?) (1483-1552); bought at Christie's 17 Nov. 1976, lot 382.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 6, Jan. 1978, 358-9

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 43
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones per annum for the first half of the Church year. Ps.-Bernard, De contemplatione.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Morimondo (?)
Date	12th century, late - 13th century, early
Material	parchment

Decoration
Red and green initials with penwork.

Provenance	The cistercian monastery of Morimondo, Pavia, on the evidence of the binding; Paolo Giovio (?) (1483-1552); bought at Christie's 17 Nov. 1976, lot 371.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 6, Jan. 1978, 358-9

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 44
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons and Sentences.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	12th century - 13th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Red initials, some with penwork.

Provenance	Ex-libris of Morimondo, 15th century /16th century: 'Liber sancte Marie de Morimundo.N.LXXXXI'; Paolo Giovio (?) (1483-1552); bought at Christie's, 17 Nov. 1976, lot 372.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 6, Jan. 1978, 358-9

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 45
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Commentary on St. Luke's Gospel.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	13th century, early
Material	parchment
Provenance	Ex-libris of Morimondo; Christie's 1 June 1977, lot 159, bought by Quaritch for the Bodleian.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 46
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Augustine, Soliloquia, etc.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Gloucestershire, Winchcombe Abbey
Date	12th century, second quarter
Material	parchment
Provenance	Written at Winchcombe Abbey; Cope family, Bramshill, Hants.; Sir Anthony Cope, Bt., his sale, Sotheby's 4 March 1913, lot 9, bought by Leighton for £7 5s.; Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937); Harmsworth Trust sale at Sotheby's, 15 Oct. 1945, lot 1895, bought by Maggs for £360; Mrs. J. H. Dent-Brocklehurst, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire; given to the Glocester Diocesan Trust, and sold for their benefit at Sotheby's 11 Dec. 1979, lot 46, bought by Quaritch for the Bodleian.


Bibliography
Sotheby's 11 Dec. 1979, lot 46, with pls. of three initials and the binding

Bodleian Library Record, 10, no. 4, Feb. 1981, 254

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. d. 47
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Fragments from three manuscripts, one including Ivo of Chartres, Letters. Recovered from the covers of Vet. D1 f.238 (Valerius Maximus, Strassburg 1524), where they had formed the pads as cartonnage.
Language	Latin
Origin	French (?)
Date	15th century
Material	paper

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 2
Summary Catalogue no.	29806
Summary of contents	Theological treatises.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	15th century, late
Material	paper

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 3
Summary Catalogue no.	29807
Composite	four parts
Summary of contents	Lives of St. Mathias the Apostle. Vita sancti Hugonis Gratianopolitani episcopi. John Chrysostom, Sermons. Jakob van Jüterbogk, Oculus religiosorum (fols. 45-108).
Language	Latin
Origin	German, Lübeck
Date	15th century, second half (fols. 45-108, 1453).
Material	paper


Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 572 (fols. 45-108), II, pl. 506 (fol. 72r).

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 5
Summary Catalogue no.	30071
Summary of contents	Hugh of St. Victor, theological pieces. Etc.
Language	Latin
Origin	German, Bredelar
Date	1238
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initials. Written under Abbot Widekyndus. (P&A i. 123)



Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 573, II, pl. 103 (a,b) (fols. 54v, 85r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 7
Summary Catalogue no.	31831
Summary of contents	John Felton, Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Oxford
Date	1460
Material	parchment


Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 574, II, pl. 573 (fol. 44v)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 8
Summary Catalogue no.	32566
Summary of contents	Speculum spiritalium.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century
Material	parchment, paper

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 9
Summary Catalogue no.	32710
Summary of contents	Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarium. Theological miscellany.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Coloured capitals.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 10 (R)
Summary Catalogue no.	32862
Summary of contents	Papal dispensation, issued by Julius II to the Bishop of Lincoln, granting to William Skevyngton and Anne Digby that their marriage should be accounted valid although they were cousins, dated 11 Dec. 1503.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Rome
Date	1503
Material	parchment

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 11
Summary Catalogue no.	33200
Summary of contents	Salvianus, De gubernatione Dei.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	15th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Illuminated initials.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 12
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous theological treatises.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	14th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red and blue initials.

Provenance	Pawn note in Hebrew characters mentioning Santa Maria della Servi; 'Iste liber est Sci. Petri', 16th century; bought from Messrs. Bull & Auvache, December 1902, for £3 13s. 6d., by Paget Toynbee, and given by him to the Bodleian, July 1916.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 13
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Johannes de Gamundia (attrib.), sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	15th century, late
Material	paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	'S. Augustini Conventus Gammundiae' 17th century; 'Mrs Stephens'; bought by the Bodleian from G. H. Last, Bromley bookseller, cat. 58, item 706, 1916.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 15
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Collection of theological treatises.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	14th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	E. Crawshaw (bookplate); Robert Steele (bookplate); bought, 1928.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 16
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	13th century, last quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Red and blue penwork initials.

Provenance	Robert Mackenzie Beverley (bookplate); John Grant, Edinburgh bookseller, catalogue, June (?) 1928, item 1138, priced £10 10s. (with MS. Lat. th. e. 17).

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 17
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	13th century, last quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Red and blue penwork initials.

Provenance	Robert Mackenzie Beverley (bookplate); John Grant, Edinburgh bookseller, catalogue, 1928 (?), item 1138, priced £10 10s. (with MS. Lat. th. e. 16).

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 18
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Theological tracts.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	15th century, first half
Material	paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	'Liber domus sancte Barbare in Colonia ordinis Carthusiensis', 15th century; '... Georgio Effrem ... colonia', 'I xlix'; Leander van Ess (1772-1847) (on whom see Hermann Knaus, 'Die Handschriften des Leander van Eß', Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, vol. 1 (pts. 3/4, 1956), 1958, 331-6; and Milton McC. Gatch, ed., 'so precious a foundation': The Library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, New York, 1996), MS. 302; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 686, his sale at Sotheby's, 1910, lot 382; bought, 1930.


Bibliography
Richard Bruce Marks, The Library of the Charterhouse of St. Barbara in Cologne (Analencta Cartusiana, 21-22), Salzburg, 1974, 387-8

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 19
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous theological tracts.
Language	Latin
Origin	German
Date	15th century, middle
Material	paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	Bequeathed by F. P. Barnard (bookplate), 1931.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 20
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Michael de Bononia, Tabula super libros magistri sentenciarum.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	15th century, first half
Material	parchment
Provenance	Bought from Capt. G. E. Redway R. N. 1932.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 21
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Composite	three parts: fols. 1-77 \|\| fols. 78-93 \|\| fols. 94-123
Summary of contents	Alexander the Minorite, Commentary on the Apocalypse. \|\| The Visions of Tondal and of St. Paul. \|\| Alanus de Insulis, De arte praedicandi.
Language	Latin
Origin	German \|\| German \|\| German / Yugoslavian, Maribor
Date	13th century \|\| 14th century, first half \|\| 1326
Material	paper

Decoration
Plain red and blue initials. \|\| - \|\| Plain red initials.

Provenance	Dietrich-Stein library, no. 382 in sale cat., '382' inside cover; bought from E. P. Goldschmidt, Ltd., Bond St. 1934.


Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 575 (fols. 94-123), II, pl. 168 (fol. 110r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 22
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Collection of sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	German, Erfurt (?)
Date	1392
Material	paper, parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	'Iste liber est cartusien. prope Erfford', 15th cent.; perhaps in the Salvatorberg charterhouse catalogue, 15th century; bought 1935.


Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 576, II, pl. 230 (fol. 10v)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 23
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Composite	two parts: fols. 1-28 \|\| fols. 29-98
Summary of contents	Printed book: Ps-Augustine, De fuga mulierum. \|\| Devotional and theological treatises.
Language	Latin
Origin	German, Speyer \|\| German, Regensburg
Date	c. 1472 \|\| 1473
Material	paper

Decoration
- \|\| Plain red initials.

Provenance	Acquired early 19th century; kept as (pr. bk.) Auct VII.Q.4.44; transferred to the Department of Western MSS. in 1944.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 1, no. 15, June 1941, 255-6

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 577 (fols. 29-98), II, pl. 716 (fol. 39v)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 24
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Collection of sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, last quarter
Material	parchment
Provenance	Devereux Viscount Hereford (bookplate); 'Johannes Dillon 7' (cf. MS. Lat. th. e. 44); E. van Dam, bookseller, sold to A. G. Little, bequeathed by him to the Bodleian in 1946.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 2, no. 25, June 1947, 169

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 25
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	William Yve, Four lectiones. Johannes Consobrina de Portingalia, Tractatus de usuris.
Language	Latin
Origin	English, Oxford; London
Date	c. 1464-1465
Material	parchment
Provenance	Written by John Hychcok; 'W. Shaw Mason, [18]44'; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 7282; bought, 1947.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 26
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Mystical works mainly by Walter Hilton, including Scala perfectionis.
Language	English, Latin
Origin	English, Sheen
Date	15th century, second quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fine borders, initials. Written by Johannes Feriby, monk of Sheen (recorded in 1440), fol. 145v. (P&A iii. 935, pl. LXXXIX)

Provenance	Written by Johannes Feriby, monk of Sheen; Sheen Charterhouse, Surrey; 'Christopher Tootell', late 16th century; Lawrence Reyner, prior of Dieulouard (1624-9, 1653-7), 17th century; 'Datum huic monasterio sanctissime Trinitatis Celestinorum de Marcoussiaco [Marcoussis], 1691', and 'Ex dono Abelis de Sainte Marthe domini de Corbeuilli in suprema vectigalium curia senatoris'; bought, 1947.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 2, no. 27, Aug. 1948, 227-8

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 29
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Devotional treatises.
Language	Latin
Origin	Dutch
Date	15th century, end
Material	paper

Decoration
Good decorative initial. (P&A i. 251)

Provenance	Front pastedown a document issued by the archdeacon of Antwerp, 15th century; bought, 1948.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 30
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Roger Dymmok, Contra duodecim haereses et errores Lollardorum.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	c. 1400
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good border. (P&A iii. 778)

Provenance	'Liber magistri [Iohannis] Arnold ex emptione anno Christi 1439'; Nathaniel Cholmley (bookplate) (d. 1827); bought, 1949.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 3, no. 32, Aug. 1951, 223

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 31
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Augustine, Confessions.
Language	Latin
Origin	Fench, South-west (?)
Date	12th century, middle
Material	parchment

Decoration
One fine, other good initials. (P&A i. 481, pl. XXXVIII)

Provenance	George Dunn (bookplate), his sale (first portion) Sotheby's 11 Feb. 1913 and three following days, lot 383, bought by Tregaskis for £14 10s.; given by F. E. Norris, 1952.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 4, no. 3, Dec. 1952, 173

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 32
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Robert Grosseteste, Templum domini; Tract on Penance.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	C. Inglis (bookplate), his sale at Sotheby's, ('... formed by the late J. B. Inglis ... ') 11 June 1900 and three following days, lot 328, bought by Leighton for £1 5s.; George Dunn (bookplate), his sale (first portion), at Sotheby's, 11 Feb. 1913 and three following days, lot 504, bought by Payne for 14s; 'G. B. Lowe, 1931'; bought, 1953.


Bibliography
R. W. Hunt, 'A Dismembered Manuscript: Bodleian MS. Lat. th. e. 32 and British Museum Add. MS. 17376', Bodleian Library Record, 7, no. 5, July 1966, 271-5

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 33
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Thomas Gascoigne, Notebook.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, 1456 in part
Material	parchment
Provenance	'Rowland George eius liber emit' 18th century; Franciscans at Abergavenny (?); St. Michaels Benedictine Abbey, Belmont (bookplate), 19th century., bought at Sotheby's 20 July 1954, part of lot 404.


Bibliography
Notable Accessions: Guide to an Exhibition Held in 1958, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1958, no. 18, pl. III

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 34
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Johannes de Ripa, Lectura super primo sententiarum abbreviata per Paulum de Venetiis.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Padua
Date	1402
Material	parchment, paper
Provenance	R. R. Howlett, 1917; bought at Sotheby's, 6 Dec. 1954, lot 20.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 5, no. 5, May 1956, 275

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 578, II, pl. 247 (fol. 10r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 35
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous theological tracts.
Language	Latin
Origin	European, North
Date	15th century
Material	paper

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	Chatten, given to Thomas Martin; Francis Blomefield (bookplate); bought from Dobell, cat. 141, no. 421, 1955

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 36
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Theological tracts.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	'Jan. 1647 C. I. Fairfax ex dono Mri Todd novae ecclesiae de Leeds fidelis pastoris'; James Sotheby (?) (d.1720), late 17th century; C. W. H. Sotheby (?); Lt.-Col. H. G. Sotheby; Major-General F. E. Sotheby, of Ecton Hall, Northampton, his sale at Sotheby's, 21 Nov. 1955, lot 238, including MS. Lat. th. e. 37, bought.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 37
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Theological tracts.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	'Ecclesie de Spofford' 15th century [i.e. Spofford, Co. Yorks]; James Sotheby of Ecton Hall, sale, Sotheby's 21 Nov. 1955, lot 238, bought with MS. Lat. th. e. 36.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 38
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Augustine, Sermons. Miscellaneous theological tracts.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initials. (P&A iii. 275)

Provenance	'Bibliotheca Swaniana 1792'; Richard Howlett, 1889 (bookplate); Sotheby's 26 Jan. 1959, lot 53, bought.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 39
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Composite	three parts
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous theological treatises. \|\| Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the De causis. \|\| Johannes de Rupella, Summa de anima.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Flourished red and blue initials. \|\| - \|\| Spaces left for rubricator.

Provenance	'De comunitate fratrum minorum Sarum', and pressmark 'I.32', 15th century; 'Richardus Normecot ... 14 Junii 1570 12 Elizabethe'; 'Guilelmus Derbeus 18 Marcii 1638'; bought at Sotheby's 15 June 1959, lot 191.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 6, no. 6, Sept. 1961, 662

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 40
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Theological treatises.
Language	Latin
Origin	French, North
Date	13th century, third quarter
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good historiated initials. Directions to the illuminator survive. Colophon in French of the scribe Gichars, fol. 101v. (P&A i. 533)

Provenance	Presented to the Society of Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh (arms on binding), by J. Macfarquhar, 1814; Sotheby's 1 Nov. 1960, lot 2411; bought from Quaritch, 1961.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 41
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Nicholas de Gorran, Sermons for Sundays and Saints' days.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good borders, initials. (P&A iii. 629)

Provenance	Sir Ashton Lever (bookplate); bought, 1961.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 42
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Lucas de Bitonto, Sermons for Sundays throughout the year.
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	13th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Fleuronnée initials.

Provenance	'207' (fol. 1), spine label: 'Traité de Morale M 22', 17th century; bought, 1961.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 44
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Gaufridus Babion, et al., Collection of sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	'Joannes Dillon 8', identifiable in John Dillon's sale, by Barclay and Skirving, Trongate, Glasgow, Nov. 1831, lot 697; R. C. Jenkins; given to Rev. Charles Deacon, 29 Dec. 1953; given by N. R. Ker, 1964.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 46
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous theological works.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century, first quarter
Material	parchment, paper

Decoration
Red initials.

Provenance	'Ric', 'Edwardus' 15th century; 'Liber Richardi Wood et amicorum', 16th-17th century; 'De la biblothèque de la Chevaliere D'Eon', sale, Sotheby's, 22 May 1793 and three days following, lot 641, bought by Joy for 7s/6d; Sotheby's 11 Dec. 1972, lot 37, bought.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 47
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Bonaventure, Nicholas of Lyra, et al., Theological tracts.
Language	Latin
Origin	Flemish (?), Ghent (?)
Date	15th century
Material	paper, parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	Original (?) pressmark; Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex, 6th son of George III, with his bookplate inscribed with the shelfmark 'VI \| H. i. y', perhaps the MS. described in Thomas Joseph Pettigrew Bibliotheca Sussexiana. A Descriptive Catalogue, accompanied by Historical and Biographical Notices, of the Manuscripts and Printed Books contained in the Library of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, K.G., D.C.L., &c. &c. &c. &c. in Kensington Palace., London, 1827, vol. I, pt. I, no. 87, pp. cli-clii [Bod. 259 d. 40], his sale, part II, by Evans, 31 July 1844 and three following days, perhaps lot 32 [Bod. Mus. bibl. III 8^o 483a]; various booksellers' cuttings; Henderson (bookplate with motto 'Sola virtus nobilitat'); given by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. e. 93.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 48
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Odo of Morimondo, Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	12th century, late - 13th century, early
Material	parchment

Decoration
Red initials with penwork.

Provenance	The Cistercian monastery of Morimondo, Pavia (?), as suggested by the text and later provenance; Paolo Giovio (?) (1483-1552); Christie's 17 Nov. 1976, lot 380.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 6, Jan. 1978, 358-9

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 49
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Thomas of Vaucelles, Commentary on the Song of Songs. Beltramus de Reoldis, monk and treasurer of Morimondo, Added tabula.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Morimondo
Date	12th century, late - 13th century, early; 1310 (fols. 1-9)
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	The Cistercian monastery of Morimondo, Pavia; the added tabula has the inscription, 'Tabula anno domini MCCCX composita a dono [sic] Beltramo de Reoldis monacho et thessaurio Morimundi Mediolanensis ...' (this monk also copied California, Berkeley, MS. 49, at Morimondo in 1288); ? Paolo Giovio (1483-1552); Christie's 26 Nov. 1976, lot 381.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 9, no. 6, Jan. 1978, 358-9

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 579 (fols. 1-9), II, pl. 152 (fol. 3r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 50
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Hugo de Prato florido, Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, Parma, Dominican convent
Date	1439
Material	parchment, paper

Decoration
Illuminated initials. Historiated initial on fol. 1.

Provenance	Written by Johannes Bellus of Ferrara, who records the circumstances of its production in a poem on fol. 228r-v (pr. in BLR, 10, 130-1; fol. 228r ill. in Maggs Bros. catalogue, see below); various 15th-century ownership inscriptions; Giovio library (?), Como; Christie's 17 Nov. 1976, lot 376; Maggs, Catalogue 990 (Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, No. 18), Jan. 1979, item 173, pl. II.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 10, no. 2, Dec. 1979, 128-31, pl. IV (fol. 1r)

A. C. de la Mare, 'Further Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library', in La miniatura italiana tra gotico e Rinascimento, E. Sesti (ed.), I, 1985, no. 20, p. 138

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 580, II, pl. 383 (fol. 12r)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. e. 51
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Guerric of Igny, Sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	European, North
Date	15th century, late - 16th century, early
Material	paper
Provenance	Swann Gallery, New York, 11 Oct. 1979, lot 240; bought by Quaritch for the Bodleian.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 3
Summary Catalogue no.	31096
Summary of contents	Bede, Commentary on Proverbs.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, second half
Material	parchment

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 4
Summary Catalogue no.	31097
Summary of contents	Planctus et dolor Virginis Marie, attrib. St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	15th century
Material	paper

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 5
Summary Catalogue no.	31541
Summary of contents	Book of directions for the conduct of a Cistercian abbot. Part of a book of formulae epistolarum for the use of an abbot and monastery.
Language	Latin
Date	13th century, second half
Material	paper

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 6
Summary Catalogue no.	33090
Summary of contents	Gerard of Liège, De doctrina cordis.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century, beginning
Material	parchment

Decoration
Good fleuronnée borders, initials. (P&A iii. 560)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 7
Summary Catalogue no.	33201
Summary of contents	Isaac Syrus, De contemptu mundi.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian, North
Date	14th century, beginning
Material	parchment

Decoration
Border, historiated initial. Written by Albertinus de Pontecello, notary. (P&A ii. 156) Historiated initial pasted in (fol. ii), French, 16th centruy, early. (P&A iii. 1329)

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 8
Summary Catalogue no.	34476
Summary of contents	Ecclesiastical Constitutions of the province of Canterbury.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, second half
Material	parchment

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 10
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Thomas à Kempis, miscellaneous works.
Language	Latin
Origin	Dutch
Date	15th century, second half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Border, initials. (P&A i. 238)

Provenance	Probably written in a monastery of the Windesheim congregation; Walter Long (bookplate); E. P. Goldschmidt, cat. 39, no. 151, 1936.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 15
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	St. Bernard, De praecepto et dispensatione.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	12th century, middle
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials.

Provenance	'Ex libris Ronaldi Asshetonii Coates from the Dunn library sold at Sotheby's Feb. vi 1914', but not in the Sotheby catalogue of the Dunn sale for this year; bought from Quaritch, cat. 582, no. 340, 1940.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 1, no. 13, Feb. 1941, 222

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 17
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Breviarium veteris et novi testamenti. Mirabilia. Alphabetical collection.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red.

Provenance	Bought, 1950.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 18
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Guibert of Tournai, Sermons (Sermones de festis).
Language	Latin
Origin	French
Date	13th century - 14th century
Material	parchment
Provenance	Charles Adrien Picard, 19th century; J. (?) M. Dolan, 1854; bought, 1951.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 4, no. 4, April 1953, 227

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 19
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous collection of theological pieces, perhaps put together by the scribe.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	14th century, first half
Material	parchment

Decoration
Initials. Written by frater Johannes Wysbeche, fol. 24. (P&A iii. 620)

Provenance	F. C. Brooke; bought, 1957.


Bibliography
Bodleian Library Record, 6, no. 6, Sept. 1961, 663

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 20
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Miscellaneous devotional pieces.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	15th century, early
Material	parchment

Decoration
Red and blue flourished and plain initials.

Provenance	Syon monastery, in the 16th century cat. (Content & sec. fol.); J. T. Brockett, his sale, Sotheby's 18 June 1843, lot 659; 'J. Raine, York, Jan. 1862'; Sotheby's 15 March 1907 and following day, lot 350, bought by Leighton for £3 8s.; William Greenwell; Wilfred Merton (1889-1957); bought from Breslauer, 1958.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 21
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): description unpublished, only available in Library
Summary of contents	Collection of sermons.
Language	Latin
Origin	English
Date	13th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Red and blue flourished initials.

Provenance	Sotheby's 26 Jan. 1959, lot 54.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 23
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Bonaventure, Breviloquium de fide catholica.
Language	Latin
Origin	French, Paris/Soissons
Date	1405
Material	parchment
Provenance	Signed, dated, colophon: 'Explicit breuiloquium de fide catholica. editum a bonauentura cordigero. exellenti doctore: scriptum a fratre andrea de vaylico suessionum diocesis. anno domini MCCCV. finitum mense ianuario. pro fratre henrico pistoris plebano et bachalario in sacra pagina'; early pressmark of St.-Victoire, Paris, etc.; Charles W. Reynell, by descent to his great-nephew, C. H. Reynell, of Memphis, Tenessee, his sale at Sotheby's 26 July 1937 lot 153; Maggs, cat. 713 (1942) no. 391; given by N. R. Ker, 1975. Formerly Dep. f. 29.

Shelfmark	MS. Lat. th. f. 24
Summary Catalogue no.	Not in SC (late accession): no description available
Summary of contents	Sermons on the Gospels for the Church year.
Language	Latin
Origin	Italian
Date	15th century
Material	parchment

Decoration
Plain red initials. Illuminated initial cut out on fol. 1r.

Provenance	Swann Gallery, New York, 11 Oct. 1979, lot 255, bought by Quaritch for the Bodleian.

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