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Alternative title

Th. Walden Doctrinale Ecclesiae

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 304 + 1

Date created

[ca. 1400-1499]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

double columns of 49 and 50 lines

Height (mm)

396

Width (mm)

270

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8)-38(8).

Writing

in two very clear regular hands, probably foreign

Foliation

ff. a + i + 1-304 + b

Provenance

(iv) A note on Th. Walden on the flyleaf xvi. Walden gave many books to the London Carmelites. This may perhaps be one of them. Parker gave another copy to the University Library: now Dd. 8. 16, 17.

2 fo.

sistam a longe

Summary

CCCC MS 90 contains books one to four of the Doctrinale antiquitatum fidei by Thomas Netter of Walden OCarm (c. 1370 - 1430) and dates to around 1427. It has been suggested that this manuscript may have been one of the books Netter gave to the London Carmelites. The work forms part of Thomas Netter's refutation of Lollard teachings. Netter was, himself, a Carmelite friar who served as the prior provincial of the Carmelite order in England, as confessor to both Henry V and Henry VI of England, and as Henry V's envoy to King Władisław of Poland and Michael Küchmeister, grand master of the Teutonic knights.

Contents

Doctrinale antiquitatum fidei

M.R. James Date

xv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sv440sm0305/MS_90.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gb538yw8736/90.pdf

Contains

• Thomas Netter of Walden OCarm, Doctrinale antiquitatum fidei. 1r-304v

  Author

  Thomas Netter of Walden OCarm

  Incipit

  (1r) Martino benignissimo pape (lined through) quinto uniuersi gregis Carmelitarum etc.

  Note

  (1r) Beautiful initial and partial border in the English style: executed with a very rare degree of delicacy. The gold is very fine

  Explicit

  (2v) et exitum tuum ex hoc nunc et usque in seculum

  Rubric

  (2v) Prologus primus in doctrinale ecclesie contra blasfemias Wycliff

  Incipit

  (2v) Mea doctrina non est mea

  Note

  (Printed at Paris in 1532 etc.)
  Ends

  Explicit

  (8r) sed eius qui misit me

  Rubric

  (8v) Liber primus de capita ecclesie Ihesu Christo in naturis suis disparibus, prologus

  Incipit

  (8v) Exurgat deus et dissipentur etc.

  Note

  (8v) Here is an initial: red ground with gold flourishing. In C. a Pope in blue seated blessing. Walden in white Carmelite habit kneels and presents his book. On L. two figures, on R. three (cardinals and doctors). Partial border again of very fine work
  (9r) Articuli against Wycliff follow
  (9v) Cap. I begins

  Incipit

  (9v) In omni disputacione quam fecit noster iohannes memorie ter dampnate

  Note

  On ff. 50v, 63v (in Lib. I) are fine initials
  (73r) Prologus libri II with fine initial
  (74v) Text with fine initial
  (224r) Prologus libri III with fine initial
  (260r) Capitula of Liber IV
  (260v) Text with fine initial
  (304v) This Book ends imperfectly in ch. xlii

  Explicit

  (304v) Oportet clericos specialiter

TJames

142

Stanley

M. 3

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 090

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