Summa de poenitentia. (Robbins Ms. 33)

[Summa de poenitentia] ; [Excerpts from the works of Augustine of Hippo and Prosper Aquitanus].

Secundo folio: p[ro] redim[e]nda vexat[i]one

[England], [between 1230 and 1325]

153 leaves : parchment ; 132 x 95 (95 x 65) mm bound to 140 x 100 mm
1 microfilm reel : negative (MN 99-6) and positive (Robbins MS 33)

This manuscript is a compilation of Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de poenitentia; and exceprts from the work of Augustine of Hippo, including the Confessiones, De diversis quaestionibus, De doctrina christiana, De agone christiano, and several sermons; excerpts from three other sermons; excerpts from Augustine's De quanitate animae; and excerpts from Prosper Aquitanus's Liber sententiarum. It represents the work of several scribes over a period of time. There are also notes and additions in the margins, some of these by a later hand (possibly mid 14th century). Annotations and inscriptions throughout, including "Dartmouth the Kingdom of England" on fol. 65v; "Lawier quod amor vincit omnia" on fol. 90v (in a later script imitating early Gothic bookhand); "This indenture III made this 3d day" on fol. 100r; "This indenture made on the third day of March one thousand seven hundred and fifty seven and in the thirty seven years of the reign of our Sovering [sic] lord King George fra[.] and J.W." on fol. 150v. On fol. 151r a former owner composed a 4-line poem: "A fu darfu ei derfyn / A fydo adderfyddo ddyn / Rhaid i beran anrhydedu / Myn fy ngrhed fyned i bed." Its small format, and the fact that it looks heavily used, suggests that it could have been written for the daily use of priests. Although the modern foliation is wrong, the manuscript could not be refoliated, due to the extreme fragility and ubiquitous mold spots.

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (the title may have appeared in the opening rubric, but it is now too faded to be legible).
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (modern paper) + 153 + iii (modern paper); 1¹² (-1, -2) 2 ¹⁴ 3-4¹⁶ 5² 6¹² (-4) 7-10¹⁴·¹² 11¹⁴ (-1, -9, -10, -11) 12¹² (-11, -12) 13¹². Modern foliation in pencil, in the upper margin; this foliation counts both missing and cut folios. Folios that had been cut away include: 64, 125, 133-135, 147-148.
Layout: Written mostly in two columns, 41-42 lines for each column. Fol. 146r-150r, written in up to 30 long lines. Running titles on the upper margins, both on recto and verso. Ruled in lead and dry point. Written above and below top line.
Script: Written in a textualis libraria; textualis currens; and anglicana.
Decoration: Alternating 4-line pen flourishing initials throughout the text. Red rubrics, red paragraph signs. Alternating red and blue running titles in the upper margin.
Origin: Written in England between 1230 and 1325.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 33.

In Latin.

Provenance: John Roberts who signed it in several places in English, Welsh, Greek, and Latin (fol. 10r, "John Robert's booke" and "John Roberts ywgwiv berehenog y llufi hun 17[?]3"; fol. 81r; 124r, "John Roberts tou bibilou" (in Greek); fol. 124v, "John Roberts ejus manu anno Domini;" fol. 130r "); Sarah Laughton, William Eastfield Laughton, and Frederick Augustus Laughton (upper pastedown, "Mrs. Sarah Laughton, Tickhill. Late the property of William Eastfield Laughton, Esq. Eastfield House, Tickhill, 1780 anno Domini." and "Now the property of Fred. Aug. Laughton, grandson of the above Wm. Eastfield Laughton, Feb. 7th 1850" and an inscription in red ink on fol. 122v); Maurice Jones (signature fol. 88v).

Bound in late 18th-century, blind-tooled brown calf-skin over pasteboard. Modern flyleaves. Kept in modern, brown, cloth-covered box.

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. USE POSITIVE MICROFILM COPY ONLY: Use of original only by permission. Inquiries concerning this item should be directed, in writing, to the reference librarian for The Robbins Collection.

Robbins MS 33

Latin