Devon Book 25a

Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History; 12
A history of the book in Devon.
25a. Some medieval Devon private libraries

Three medieval personal libraries of Exeter clerics edited from modern editions of the original manuscripts. Further explanatory notes will be added as time permits.

1. Leofric, Bishop of Exeter. (Died 1080). Source: Bodleian manuscript Auct D.2.16.

1-2	ii myecel Cristes-bec ge-bonede	Two large bound Gospel books, one Bodleian Library manuscript Auct.D.12.6
3-4	ii fulle mæsse-bec	Full missals (missale plenum)
5	i collectaneum
6-7	ii pistel-bec
8-9	ii fulle sang-bec
10	i niht-sang	Nocturnal antiphonal, texts and melodies for night hours of canonical service
11	i ad te levavi	Antiphonal of the mass or gradual
12	i tropere
13-14	ii salteras
15	se þriddan swa man singð on Rome
16-17	ii ymneras
18	i deorwurðe bletsung-boc	one precious benedictional - formulas for episcopal benedictions
19-21	iii oðre	three ordinary benedictionals
22	ðeos Englisce Cristes-boc
23-24	ii sumer ræding-bec
25	i winter ræding boc
26	regula canonicorum	By Chrodegang of Metz (died 766)
27	martyrologium
28	i canon on Leden
29	scrift-boc on Englisc
30	i full spell-boc wintres 7 sumres
31	Boeties boc on Englisc	Alfred the Great's translation of Boethius
32	i mycel Englisc boc be ge-hwilcum þingum on leoðwisan ge-worht
[33-37]	Books he found at the Minster
33	i capitularie
34	i for-ealdod niht-sang
35	i pistl-boc
36-37	ii for-ealdode ræding-bec swiðe wake
38-65	Latin books he gave to Minster
38	liber pastoralis
39	liber dialogorum
40	liber iiii prophetarum
41	liber Boetii de consolatione
42	liber officialis Amalarii	Amalarius of Metz De ecclesiasticis officiis. Trinity College Cambridge Ms B.ii.2
43	isagoge Porphirii de dialectica	Introduction to Aristotelian categories by neoplatonist Porphirius
44	i passionalis	Legends of saints
45	Liber Prosperii	Prosper of Aquitaine, pupil of Augustine
46	Liber Prudentii sicomachie	Psychomachia
47	Prudentii ymnorum
48	Prudentii de martyribus [on anre bec]	The last phrase was not in the original draft. Bodleian Ms Auct. F.3.6 contains all three works of Prudentius subsequently bound together
49	liber Ezechielis prophete	Probably Bodleian Ms Bodl. 707
50	cantica canticorum
51	liber Isaie on sundron	i.e. separately - usually included with four prophets
52	liber Isidori ethimologiarum	Etymologiae
53	liber Isidori de nouo et veteri testamento
54	liber Isidori de miraculis Christi
55	passiones apostolorum
56	expositio Bede super evangelium Luce
57	expositio Bede super apocalipsim	Probably lambeth Palace Ms. 149
58	expositio Bede super vii epistolas canonicas	Probably Bodleian Ms. 849
59	liber Oserii	Perhaps Orosius
60	liber Machabeorum
61	liber Persii	Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus
62	Sedulies boc
63	liber Aratoris
64	liber de sanctis patribus
65	glose Statii

2. Dean Andrew Kilkenny (died 1302). From: The inventory and accounts of the executors of Dean Anrew Kilkenny, 1302-1315. Exeter Cathedral Dean & Chapter Archives 2846. Based on the translation in Death and memory in medieval Exeter, edited by David Lepine and Nicholas Orme (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, new series, vol. 47), 2003, p.173-3.

No.	Value	Item	Notes
1	5 marks	One old Digest	A book of civil law
2	60s.	one Afforciatum	I.e. Inforciatum, a book of civil law
3	53s. 4d	One new Digest	A book of civil law
4	40s.	One Parvum volumen	A book of civil law
5	53s. 4d.	One Codex	Law book
6	7 marks	One fine and good Decretals	Canon law
7	53s. 4d.	A Decreta in old lettering	Canon law
8	26s. 8d.	Another Decreta in old lettering
9	40s.	Another old Decreta
10	40s.	One Decretals with manuals
11	40s.	Summa Innocentii	Innocent IV on Decretals
12	60s.	One new Digest with an old text and a new commentary	Civil law
13	30s.	Liber Institutionum with the Authentica	Institutes of Justinian, civil law
14	30s.	Summa Gaufredi
15	53s. 4d	An old Codex with a new commentary
16	10s.	Summa of Azo	Azo Portius, died c1230, Bologna, writer on law
17	16s.	An old Summa Gaufredi with a certain tractate De ordine iudicario
18	4s.	Summa Raymundi
19	18d.	Summa Egidii
20	10 marks	One Bible
21	10s.	A short compendium De Exposicione Verborum	summula
22	30s.	Liber Sentenciarum
23	13s. 4d.	The Letters of Augustine with the book De spiritu et amina and Liber arbitrium in one volume
24	20s.	Augustine De vivendo Deo
25	26s. 8d	One glossed psalter
26	26s. 8d.	Another glossed psalter
27	12s.	Constitutions of Boniface with a tractate of elections and a repertory of canon law in one volume
28	8s.	A book of Papias
29	30s.	A book of history
30	[50?]s.	A new missal
31	20s.	One antiphoner with a psalter
32	53s. 4d.	One portiforium
33	5s.	One old and worn portiforium
34	20s.	A book that is called Legenda Sanctorum
35	6s. 8d.	One gradual
36	5s.	One troper
37	3s.	Another troper
38	10s.	A good psalter
39	2s.	A Summa that is called Fareta, with other quires written by the deceased
40	2s.	One book of various sermons without boards
41	2s.	Another book of various sermons without boards
42	12d.	A book of various quires, partly written by the deceased
43	12d.	A Summa of John Velet De divinis officiis
44	2s.	One book of sermons with the Testamenta duodecim patriarcharum
45	2s.	Two martyrologies
46	12d.	The History of St Richard and De corpore Christi
47	2s.	Repeticiones in iure ciuili, with many quires written by the deceased
48	12d.	A Summa called Margareta on the commentary of Innocent
49	2s.	The Brocardica of Azo
50	12d.	Four quires of cases of the Decreta
51	4d.	Three small quires of an exposition of the Bible
52	3s.	A certain Summa by John of Spain on the Decreta ls
53	12d.	A Summa of Seneca
54	4s.	History of the English
55	18d.	Expositions on various Decreta ls
56	2d.	Certain Letters of the Blessed Thomas
57	12d.	Statutes of the King and various papal books
58	3s.	History of the Britons
59	6d.	A certain book of various prayers	oracionum
60	2s.	The book of Boethius On the consolation of philosophy
61	12d.	A canon of the mass
62	-	Register of St Sidwell kept back by the exchequer	In margin: note register and portiforium. Kept back by the Cathedral Exchequer.
63	-	One portiforium that ought to be returned to the Chapel of St Theobald	In Colaton Raleigh parish
64	30s.	A Summa Reinfredi with other short compendia in the same volume
Total	£66 11s.	Item

3. Walter de Stapledon (1261-1326), Bishop of Exeter from 1308 to 1326. On 15 October he was murdered in Cheapside, London, by a mob of London insurgents. Inventory of the effects of Walter Stapledon. Edited by George Oliver Lives of the bishops of Exeter, p. 438-42.

No.	Item	Value
No.	Item	Value
1	Decretals (Gration's) with cases and histories in the marginItem	10 marks
2	Another copy of the Decretals	1l. 6s. 8d.
3	The first part of Rosarius super Decreta	6 marks
4	The second part of ditto	6 marks
5	Apparatus Hugonis super Decreta	5 marks
6	Lecture [--] super Decreta	10s.
7	Lecture Petri de Salmis super Decreta	13 s. 4d.
8	A fine copy of the Decretals	10 marks
9	Another fine copy of ditto	8 marks
10	A copy of ditto bound in leather	5 marks
11-12	Copies, one the property of the late treasurer of Exeter, the other of the rector of Manaton	each 4 marks, 8 marks
13	The first part of the Lecture Hostien, on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th books of the Decretals	6 marks	Henricus de Segusio, died 1271
14	The second part of Hostien, on 3rd and 4th books of the Decretals	4 marks
15	The 1st part of Apparatus Hostien, on the 1st and 2nd books of ditto	6 marks
16	The 2nd part Apparatus Hostien, on 3rd, 4th, and 5th books of ditto	4 marks
17	The abridgment of Hostien cum glossa Compostolani	2l.
18	Apparatus Innocenti	4 marks	Innocent IV, died 1254
19	Summa copiosa	6 marks
20	Alia summa copiosa	3l.
21	Speculum judiciale	5½ marks
22	Summa Gaufredi	13s. 4d.
22*	Alia Summa Gaufredi	6s. 8d.
23	Apparatus Gaufredi super Decretalia	1l.
24	Summa Tancredi	6s. 8d.
25	Questiones Bartholomei, in parvo volumine	2s.
26	Summa Johannis Andree, super 4to libro Decretalium	5s.
27	Sextus liber Decretalium novus cum glosis Johannis Monachi et Johannis Andree, scriptis ad modum commenti et glosa Gwydonis per se, et glosa Domini Digni super regulas juris, in uno volumine	10 marks
28	Sextus liber Decretalium cum tribus glosis	4 marks
29	Sextus liber decretalium cum glosis Johannis Monachi et Johannis Andree cum tractatu de Mandeo, in uno volumine	2l. 6s. 8d.
30	Apparatus Gwydonis super textum Decretalium	13s. 4d.
31	Glosa Gydonis et Dni. Digni super regulas juris	13s. 4d.
32	Constitutiones Viennenses	6s. 8d.
33	Digestum vetus pulchrum	10 marks
34	Aliud Digestum pulchrum	10 marks
35	Parvum volumen	5l.
36	Digestum novum emptum Oxon	6 marks
37	Codex	8 marks
38	Alius Codex	5½ marks
39	Digestum vetus	3l.
40	Parvum volumen	4 marks
41	Casus inforciatus in septem peciis	5s.
42	Lecture super Institutum in sex peciis	3s.
43	Una Biblia bone litere	10 marks
44	Secunda Biblia	13s. 4d.
45	Tertia Biblia	1l.
46	Liber Sententiarum	2l.
47	A copy of the Sentences, but with the boards broken [cum asseribus fractis]
48	Concordia supr Bibliam	10 marks
49	Evangelia glossata	6s. 8d.
50	Evangelia Marci et Matthei glossata	2l. 10s.
51	Tertius et quartus Liber Sententiarum cum quibusdam aliis	5s.
52	Psalterium glossatum	20s.
53	Psalterium Jeronimi glossatum per fratrem Nicolaum Trivet	2l.	Nicolas Trivet, 1258-1328
54	Sermones Gwidonis	1l 6s. 8d	Guido Aretino c.990-1050
55	Sermones Dominicales Dni. Jacobi de Ravenna	13s. 4d
56	Sermones Festivales ejusdem Jacobi	13s. 4d.
57	Sermones ejusdem ad omnes status	1l.
58	Sermones Cancellarii Parisiensis	1l.
59	Sermones ejusdem Cancellarii	1l 6s. 8d.
60	Distinctiones Fratris Nicholai	10s.
61	Distinctiones in alio volumine	10s.
62	Manipulus Florum, sine asseribus	13s. 4d.
63	Manipulus Florum, cum asseribus	2l.
64	Veritas Theologie	10s.
65	Sermones Bernardi super Cantica et Flores ejusdem	2l.	Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153
66	Rationale Divinorum Officiorum	4 marks
67	Legenda Sanctorum	1l. 6s. 8d.
68	Liber de Servitutibus	13s. 4d.
69	Summa de Vitiis	10s.
70	Pastorale Gregorii, sine asseribus	5s.
71	Dialogus Gregorii	[?]
72	Dialogus Gregorii	1s.
73	Summa dictantis	4s.
74	Alius Summa ejusdem	4s.
75	Epistole Frederici que dicantur Dictatoria Petri de Vencis	6s. 8d.
76	Chronica Martini de Summis Pontificibus et Imperatoribus	2s.	Martinus Polonus
77	Diversa quedam cum commentacionibus, questionibus, et aliis notabilibus	1s.
78	Oratio Dominicalis, cum Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo Gallice, de compilacione Walteri Exoniensis Episcopi	1s. 6d.
79	Duo libri de Regimine Principum	6s. 8d.
80	Quaternio de Feodis in Comitatibus Devonie et Cornubie	2s.
81	Speculum Naturale in duobus voluminibus	2l. 10s.	Vincent de Beauvais
82	Speculum Historiale in duobus voluminibus	10 marks
83	Postilla super Johannem; literalis expositio super Job, Cantica Canticorum, super Ecclesiastem, et Apocalipsim, in uno volumine	1l.
84	[?]	[?]	Item omitted by Oliver
85	Psalterium, quod fuit Thome Episcopi Exon	1l.	Thomas Bitton
86	Unum Gradale novum	1l.
87	Unum parvum Processionale, sine asseribus	2s.
88	Unum Portiforium solemne, quod fuit Rectoris de Stoke	10 marks
89	Statuta Regis, ligata in nigro corio et piloso	6s. 8d.
90	Liber qui vocatur Aaron	6s. 8d.
[Total]	[All items]	187l. 10s. 6d.	Average 2l. 1s. 8d.
Item	Duo coffini pro libris infra cariandis	1s.

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