[Questiones Quodlibeticæ cum Glossis]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Questiones Quodlibeticæ cum Glossis]
Other titles: Quodlibeta
Classmark: BC MS 20
Creator(s): Duns Scotus, John (1266-1308)(Author)
Publication city: [England]
Date(s): [1400-1450]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (i, 177, i leaves) (1 column, ca. 30 lines)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/js24v77r
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/396906
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Slips with additions have been inserted within the main text block.
The volume is richly glossed throughout.
Decoration: incipit initial 'A' in blue and red, with red pen-ornament. 2-line initials in blue with red ornament extending into the margins at beginning of numbered sections. A large initial 'Q' in blue in the head margin of each verso throughout the manuscript.
Written in hybrida.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-174v Quodlibeta; ff. 174v-175v 15th-century verses in Latin; f. 176r contents list of the twenty-one quodlibets included; f. 177v 15th-century verses in Latin.
From the library of Lord Brotherton.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) pp. 56-57. See also: J. A. Symington, The Brotherton Collection: a Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collected by Edward Allen Baron Brotherton of Wakefield (Leeds, 1931), pp. 31-32.
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Bindings
19th-century red morocco binding, with a gilt crest and a motto 'Nobilis Ira' on the front cover.
Provenance
Erased name on f. 174v, possibly the name of the scribe or an early owner. Ker suggests, 'Wyllelmus Sampton'. Belonged to William Stuart of Aldenham Abbey and Tempsford Hall (bookplate from Tempsford Hall Library, Case C, Shelf 3). 19th-century sale catalogue cuttings inside the front board.
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