Skip to content
1882
Volume 14, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2034-3515
  • E-ISSN: 2034-3523

Abstract

Abstract

The recently identified second copy of the Franciscan () collection in the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (ULB) Bonn represents a much fuller version of the original thirteenth-century collection than the fragmentary copy held by the Durham Cathedral Library (DCL) that has been the subject of scholarly attention to date. This article compares the two extant copies of the , the incomplete fourteenth-century copy in DCL MS B.IV.19 and the more complete version in ULB Bonn MS S 361, copied in the fifteenth century. This study examines the differences between these copies of the by focusing on their manuscripts, provenance, and textual variations.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1484/J.JMMS.5.150993
2025-01-01
2025-12-06

Metrics

Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Manuscripts and Archival Sources
    Bonn, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, MS S 361
  2. Durham, Durham Cathedral Library, MS B.II.19. Available at Durham Priory Library Recreated <https://iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?manifest=t2mmp48sc81d> [accessed 20 March 2025]
  3. ———, MS B.II.20. Available at Durham Priory Library Recreated <https://iiif.durham.ac.uk/index.html?manifest=t2mxg94hp73p> [accessed 20 March 2025]
  4. ———, MS B.III.19
  5. ———, MS B.IV.19
  6. Primary Sources
    Anselm, Meditatio 5: ‘Unde Vivat Anima, et Unde Vivat Caro: et de Gloria Bonae Animae, et de Infelicitate Malae Animae, Quando Exeunt de Corpore’, Sancti Anselmi Liber Meditationum et Orationum, ed. by Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus: series latina, 158 (Paris: Garnier, 1853), cols 710–1016
  7. Friars’ Tales: Thirteenth-Century Exempla from the British Isles, ed. and trans. by David Jones (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011)
  8. Gerald of Wales, Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, ed. by J. S. Brewer, James F. Dimock, and George F. Warner, 8 vols (London: Longman, 1861–1877), ii, Gemma Ecclesiastica, ed. by J. S. Brewer (London: Longman, 1862)
  9. Liber Exemplorum ad Usum Praedicantium Saeculo XII Compositus a quodam Fratre Minore Anglico de Provincia Hiberniae, ed. by Andrew George Little (Aberdeen: Typis Academicis, 1908)
  10. Pseudo-Chrysostom, Opus Imperfectum in Matthaeum, ed. by Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia cursus completus: series graeca, 56 (Paris: Garnier, 1859), cols 611–945
  11. The Coming of the Friars Minor to England & Germany: Being the Chronicles of Brother Thomas of Eccleston and Brother Jordan of Giano: Translated from the Critical Editions of A.G. Little and H. Boehmer, trans. by Emma Gurney Salter (London: J.M. Dent, 1926)
  12. Secondary Works
    Berlioz, Jacques, and Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu, ‘Les Prologues des Recueils d’Exempla’, in Les Prologues Médiévaux: Actes du Colloque International Organisé par l’Academia Belgica et l’École Française de Rome avec le Concorus de la F.I.D.E.M. (Rome, 26–28 Mars, 1998) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), pp. 275–321
  13. Breen, Aidan, ‘Malachias Hibernicus’, Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009) <https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.005405.v1>
  14. Brösch, Marco, ‘Die Klosterbibliothek von Eberhardsklausen und ihre Bestände: Von den Anfängen bis ins 16. Jahrhundert’ (PhD Thesis, Universität Trier, 2010)
  15. Campbell, William Hopkins, ‘Franciscan Preaching in Thirteenth-Century England: Sources, Problems, Possibilities’ (License in Medieval Studies Thesis, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 2012) <https://www.academia.edu/2112875/Franciscan_Preaching_in_Thirteenth_Century_England_Sources_Problems_Possibilities> [accessed 18 June 2024]
  16. Caspers, Charles, Daniela Müller, and Judith Keßler, ‘In the Eyes of Others. The Modern Devotion in Germany and the Netherlands: Influencing and Appropriating’, Church History and Religious Culture, 93 (2013), 489503
    [Google Scholar]
  17. Catalogi Veteres Librorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm (London: J.B. Nichols, 1838)
  18. Coates, Alan, ‘The Library of Durham College, Oxford’, Library History, 8.1 (1988), 12531
    [Google Scholar]
  19. Cotter, Francis J., The Friars Minor in Ireland: From Their Arrival to 1400 (New York: Franciscan Institute, 1994)
  20. Dukelow, Natasha, ‘A Second Copy of the Liber Exemplorum ad Usum Praedicantium in the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn MS. S 361’, Scriptorium, 76.1–2 (2022), 225–31
  21. ‘Durham Cathedral Library Manuscript Books’, Durham Cathedral Library Special Collections Catalogue <https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/s1f1881k965.xml> [accessed 07 July 2022]
  22. Esposito, Mario, ‘Friar Malachy of Ireland’, English Historical Review, 33.131 (1918), 35966
    [Google Scholar]
  23. Gameson, Richard, The Medieval Manuscripts of Durham Cathedral: A Descriptive Catalogue (forthcoming)
  24. Gatterman, Gunter, and Heinz Finger, eds, Handschriftencensus Rheinland: Erfassung mittelalterlicher Handschriften im rheinischen Landesteil von Nordrhein-Westfalen mit einem Inventar, 3 vols (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1993)
  25. Geiß, Jürgen, Katalog der mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015)
  26. Heyen, Franz-Josef, ‘Domus Beatae Mariae in Insula Proper Confluentiam (Niederwerth)’, in Monasticon Windeshemense II: Deutsches Sprachgebiet, ed. by Klaus Scholz (Brüssels: Archives et Bibliothèques, 1977), pp. 314–18
  27. Holtz, Louis, Donat et la Tradition de l’Enseignement Grammatical: Étude sur l’Ars Donati et sa Diffusion (IVe–IXe siècle) et Édition Critique (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 1981)
  28. Hughes, Hubert David, A History of Durham Cathedral Library (Durham: Durham County Advertiser, 1925)
  29. Jakobi-Mirwald, Christine, ‘Flourish and Blotts or How We Name Salient Ornament Features in Manuscripts’, in El Lenguaje del Arte: Evolución de la Terminología Específica de Manuscritos y Textos, ed. by Ana Gómez Rabal, Jacqueline Hamesse, and Marta Pavón Ramírez (Basel: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, 2019), pp. 183–206
  30. Kirchberger, Clare, ed. The Goad of Love: An Unpublished Translation of the Stimulus Amoris, Formerly Attributed to St Bonaventura, trans. by Walter Hilton (London: Faber and Faber, 1952)
  31. Knowles, David, and Neville R. Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales, 2nd edn (London: Longmans and Green, 1971)
  32. Klette, Anton, Catalogi Chirographorum in Bibliotheca Academica Bonnensi Servatorum (Bonn: Litteris Caroli Georgii, 1858)
  33. Lachance, Paul, ‘James of Milan and the Stimulus Amoris’, in Her Bright Merits: Essays Honoring Ingrid J. Peterson, ed. by Mary Walsh Meany and Felicity Dorsett (New York: The Franciscan Institute, 2012), pp. 193–206
  34. ‘TC0021, Liber Exemplorum Ad Usum Praedicantium [Little, 1908]’, Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi <https://thema.huma-num.fr/collections/TC0021> [accessed 9 July 2024]
  35. Little, Andrew George, Greyfriars in Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892)
  36. Louis, Nicolas, ‘Entre vérité et efficacité: les stratégies de rédaction dans le Liber Exemplorum ad Usum Praedicantium (ca 1275–1279)’, Revue Mabillon, 19 (2008), 12355
    [Google Scholar]
  37. de Meijer, Alberic, ‘Adrianus de Appeltern: The Only Augustinian Suffragan of Utrecht 1502–ca. 1507’, Augustiniana, 49.3–4 (1999), 287–321
  38. Meyer, Paul, ‘Notices sur un Recueil d’Exempla Renfermé dans le MS. B. IV. 19 de la Bibliothèque Capitulaire de Durham’, Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et autres Bibliothèque, 34.1 (1891), 400–39
  39. Ó Clabaigh, Colmán, ‘The Church, 1050–1460’, in The Cambridge History of Ireland. Volume 1: 600–1550, ed. by Brendan Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 355–84
  40. ———, The Friars in Ireland, 1224–1540 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2012)
  41. Ó Riain-Raedel, Dagmar, ‘Cashel and Germany: The Documentary Evidence’, in Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century: Reform and Renewal, ed. by Damian Bracken and Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel (Dublin: Four Courts, 2006), pp. 176–217
  42. ———, ‘Cork and Europe: The Medieval Connection’, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 110 (2005), 312
    [Google Scholar]
  43. ———, ‘The Travels of the Irish Manuscripts: From the Continent to Ireland’, in ‘A Miracle of Learning’: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning. Essays in Honour of William O’Sullivan, ed. by Toby Barnard, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, and Katherine Simms (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 52–67
  44. Parkes, Malcom Beckwith, ‘The Provision of Books’, in The History of the University of Oxford: Volume ii: Late Medieval Oxford, ed. by Jeremy I. Catto and T. A. R. Evans (Oxford: Oxford Academic, 1992), pp. 406–83
  45. Piccard, Gerhard, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart (Main State Archives Stuttgart, Inventory J 340), Bestand J 340: Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard (Piccard Watermark Index). Online version <http://www.piccard-online.de/start.php> [accessed 20 May 2023]
  46. Piper, Alan John, ‘The Libraries of the Monks of Durham’, in Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts & Libraries: Essay presented to N.R. Ker, ed. by Malcom B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson (London: Scolar, 1978), pp. 213–49
  47. ———, ‘Dr Thomas Swalwell, Monk of Durham, Archivist and Bibliophile (d. 1539)’, in Books and Collectors 1200–1700, ed. by James P. Carley and Colin G. C. Tite (London: British Library, 1997), pp. 71–100
  48. ———, ‘Swalwell, Thomas’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) <https://doi.org/ [accessed 20 May 2025] [Crossref]
  49. Post, Regnerus Richardus, The Modern Devotion: Confrontation with Reformation and Humanism (Leiden: Brill, 1968)
  50. Robson, Michael, The Franciscans in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2006)
  51. ———, ‘The Network of Franciscan Schools in England: From the Local Scholae to the Studia Generalia’, in Early Thirteenth-Century Franciscan English Thought, ed. by Lydia Schumacher (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 23–57
  52. Rud, Thomas, and James Raine, Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis Catalogus Classicus (Durham: Andrews, 1825)
  53. Scott, A. B., ‘Latin Learning and Literature in Ireland, 1169–1500’, in A New History of Ireland. Volume 1: Prehistoric and Early Ireland, ed. by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 934–95
  54. Şenocak, Neslihan, ‘Circulation of Books in the Medieval Franciscan Order: Attitude, Methods, and Critics’, The Journal of Religious History, 28.2 (2004), 14661
    [Google Scholar]
  55. ———, ‘The Franciscan Studium Generale: A New Interpretation’, in Philosophy and Theology in the ‘Studia’ of the Religious Orders and at the Papal Royal Courts: Acts of the XVth Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale University of Notre Dame, 8–10 October 2008, ed. by Kent Emery, Jr., William J. Courtenay, and Stephen M. Metzger (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), pp. 221–36
  56. Thayer, Anne T., ‘Ministry in the Margins: Thomas Swalwell, OSB, and His Marginal Notes for Preaching on the Clergy’, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 47.3 (2016), 599627
    [Google Scholar]
  57. Tritz, Sylvie, “… Uns Schatze im Himmel zu Sammeln”: Die Stiftungen des Nikolaus Von Kues (Quellen und Abhandlungen zur Mittelrheinischen Kirchengeschichte) (Mainz: Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, 2008)
  58. Walsh, Katherine, ‘Malachy (fl. 1279)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) <https://doi.org/ [accessed 20 May 2025] [Crossref]
  59. Watanabe, Morimichi, ‘St Nicholas Hospital at Kues as a Spiritual Legacy of Nicholas of Cusa’, in Nicholas of Cusa and His Age: Intellect and Spirituality: Essays Dedicate to the Memory of F. Edward Cranz, Thomas P. McTighe, and Charles Trinkahus, ed. by Thomas M. Izbicki and Christopher M. Bellitto (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp. 217–35
  60. Watanabe, Morimichi, Nicholas of Cusa – A Companion to His Life and Times (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011)
  61. Wispelwey, Berend, ed., Biographical Index of the Middle Ages (Munich: Saur, 2008)
  62. Wood, Anthony, Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford, ed. by Andrew Clark, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889–1899), vol. ii (1891)
/content/journals/10.1484/J.JMMS.5.150993
Loading
/content/journals/10.1484/J.JMMS.5.150993
Loading

Data & Media loading...

  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): England; exempla, preaching; Franciscan; Germany; Liber Exemplorum, Ireland; manuscripts
This is a required field.
Please enter a valid email address.
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An error occurred.
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error:
Please enter a valid_number test
aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYnJlcG9sc29ubGluZS5uZXQv