Bod-Inc: P-183
Petrus Blesensis
Epistolae.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] ‘Tabula capitulorum.’
[b1r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (1-27). PL CCVII 1-96; see Sharpe, Latin Writers, no. 1171. On the development of the letter collection see Lena Wahlgren, The Letter Collections of Peter of Blois: Studies in the Manuscript Tradition, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 58 (Gothenburg, 1993), 9-18, reviewed with additional comments by R. W. Southern, ‘Towards an Edition of Peter of Blois's Letter Collection', EHR 110 (1995), 925-37; see also R. W. Southern, ‘The Necessity for Two Peters of Blois', in Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson, ed. Lesley Smith and Benedicta Ward (London, 1992), 103-18.
[f1r] Rotrodus [de Beaumont-le-roger, de Newburgh], Archiepiscopus Rothomagensis: Epistola (28). PL CCVII 96-8.
[f1v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (29-46). PL CCVII 98-137.
[g5v] Richardus, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (47). PL CCVII 137-41.
[g6v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (48-52). PL CCVII 141-59.
[h3v] Ricardus, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (53). PL CCVII 160-1.
[h4r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (54-7). PL CCVII 161-72.
[h6v] Petrus Blesensis: ‘Cantilena de lucta carnis et spiritus.’ PL CCVII 1107-30. Verse laid out in prose form.
[h6v] Petrus Blesensis: [Contra clericos voluptati deditos]. PL CCVII 1129-36. Verse laid out in prose form.
[h8r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (58-63). PL CCVII 173-86.
[i5r] [Walterus de Constantiis, Archidiaconus Oxoniensis]: Epistola (64). PL CCVII 187-90.
[i5r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (65-6). PL CCVII 190-210.
[i8v] [Rotrodus], Archiepiscopus Rothomagensis: Epistola (67). PL CCVII 210-13.
[k1v] Ricardus, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (68). PL CC 1456-9. Letter 95 in PL.
[k3r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (69-72). PL CCVII 214-24. Letter 72 has a different ending from PL.
[k6r] Ricardus, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (73). PL CCVII 224-7.
[k7r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (74-81). PL CCVII 227-51.
[l7v] [Ricardus], Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (82). PL CCVII 252-5.
[l8v] Walterus de Constantiis, Archidiaconus Oxoniensis: Epistola (83). PL CCVII 255-9.
[m1r] Ricardus, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (84). PL CC 1459-61. Letter 96 in PL.
[m2r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (85-7). PL CCVII 259-75.
[m7v] [Ricardus], Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (88). PL CCVII 276-8.
[m8v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (89-95). PL CCVII 278-302.
[o1r] R[icardus], Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (96). PL CCVII 302-4.
[o1v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistola (97). PL CCVII 304-6.
[o2v] [Ricardus], Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (98). PL CCVII 306-8.
[o3r] Alexander III, Pont. Max.: Epistola (99). ‘Instructio fidei.’ PL CCVII 1069-78, ending imperfectly.
[o5v] Balduinus, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (100). PL CCII 1533-4.
[o6r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (101-22). PL CCVII 308-56. Letters 100-21 in PL.
[q8v] Walter, Hubertus, Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (123). PL CCVII 356-8.
[r1r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (124-8). PL CCVII 358-80. Letters 123-7 in PL.
[r8r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistola (129). [Also known as Canon episcopalis or Tractatus de institutione episcopali.] ‘De instructione episcopalis officii.’ PL CCVII 1097-1112.
[s6v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (130-4). PL CCVII 428-32, 386-403. Letters 143, 131-4 in PL.
[t7r] [Walter, Hubertus], Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis: Epistola (135). PL CCVII 403-4. Letter 135 in PL.
[t7v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistola (136). [Invectiva in depravatorem operum.] ‘Inuectiua in quendam qui sua opera deprauabat.’ PL CCVII 1113-26.
[v4v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (137-43). PL CCVII 405-28, 444-6. Letters 137-42, 152 in PL.
[x7r] A[linora], Queen of England: Epistolae (144-6). PL CCVI 1262-72. Letters 1-3 in PL.
[y3v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (147-52). PL CCVII 434-43, 450. Letters 147-51, 156 in PL.
[y7r] Rotrodus, Archiepiscopus Rothomagensis; Arnulphus, Episcopus Lexoviensis: Epistola (153). PL CCVII 446-8.
[y7v] [Rotrodus], Archiepiscopus Rothomagensis: Epistola (154). PL CCVII 448-9.
[y8r] R[otrodus], Archiepiscopus Rothomagensis: Epistola (155). PL CCVII 449-50.
[y8v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (156-7). PL CCVII 380-1, 450-1. Letters 128, 157.
[z1v] Epistola (158). PL CCVII 460-1. Letter 166 in PL.
[z1v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (159-61). PL CCVII 456-8. Letters 161-3 in PL.
[z2v] Henricus II, King of England: Epistola (162). PL CC 1389-90.
[z3r] B[ ], Duchess of [ ]: Epistola (163). PL CCVII 476. Letter 184 in PL. This letter is addressed to the writer's brother, Theobaldus, seneschal of France: the dedicatee may perhaps be identified with Theobaldus V, Count of Blois (†1191), and the writer with his sister, Agnes, Duchess of Bar; for these see Stokvis II p. 95.
[z3r] ‘Responsio quedam excusatoria.’ PL CCVII 476. Letter 185 in PL.
[z3r] Epistola (164). ‘Commendatio tutele.’ PL CCVII 476. Letter 186 in PL.
[z3r] ‘Responsio.’ PL CCVII 476-7. Letter 187 in PL.
[z3v] Epistola (165). ‘Contra offensores increpatoria.’ PL CCVII 477. Letter 188 in PL.
[z3v] Epistola (166). ‘Correptio excedentis.’ PL CCVII 477. Letter 189 in PL.
[z3v] ‘Responsio.’ PL CCVII 477. Letter 190 in PL.
[z3v] Epistola (167). ‘Repellitur supplicatio mediatoris qui nichil dedit.’ PL CCVII 477. Letter 191 in PL.
[z3v] Epistolae (168-9). PL CCVII 477-8. Letters 192-4 in PL.
[z4r] A[lbertus Vercellensis], Patriarch of Jerusalem; Johannes [de Brienne], King of Jerusalem, and Others: Epistola (170). PL CCVII 478-9. Letter 195 in PL.
[z4v] Honorius III, Pont. Max.: Epistola (171). PL CCVII 479-81. Letter 196 in PL.
[z5v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (172-3). PL CCVII 454-5, 381-3. Letters 159, 129 in PL.
[z6v] Epistola (174). PL CCVII 461-3. Letter 167 in PL.
[z7v] Honorius III, Pont. Max.: Epistola (175-6). PL CCVII 481-3. Letters 197-8 in PL.
[z8r] [Petrus Blesensis]: Epistolae (177-9). PL CCVII 473-4, 483-5. Letters 180, 199-200 in PL.
[A1v] Epistola (180). PL CCVII 463-4. Letter 168 in PL.
[A2r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (181-94, ‘Responsio', 195-9). PL CCVII 485, 464-5, 485-6, 465-7, 486-7, 474-5, 467-8, 487-8, 468-71, 488, 475, 471-2, 475-6, 488-9, 472-3. Letters 201, 169, 202, 170-1, 203-4, 181, 172, 205, 174-6, 206, 182, 177, 183, 207, 178-9 in PL.
[A8v] Rotrodus, Archiepiscopus Rothomagensis: Epistola (200). PL CCVII 468. Letter 173 in PL.
[A8v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistolae (201-3). PL CCVII 452-3, 383-6, 489. Letters 158, 130, 208 in PL.
[B2v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistola (205 [really 204]). [Also known as Liber de confessione sacramentali.] ‘Tractatus . . . de confessione facienda.’ PL CCVII 1077-92.
[B8v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistola (205). [Also known as De poenitentia vel satisfactione a sacerdote iniugenda.] ‘Tractatus . . . de penitentia iniugenda.’ PL CCVII 1091-8.
[C2v] Petrus Blesensis: Epistola (207 [really 206]). PL CCVII 455-6. Letter 160 in PL.
[C3r] Petrus Blesensis: Epistola (207). [Also known as De Hierosolymitana peregrinatione.] ‘Conquestio super dilatione itineris Iherosolimitani.’ PL CCVII 1057-70.
Imprint
Imprint: [Brussels: Fratres Vitae Communis, between 1479 and 9 June 1481]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–z A–C8].
References
ISTC: ip00456000
Hain: HC (+ Addenda) 3240;
Goff: Goff P‑456;
BMC: BMC IX 174;
Proctor: Pr 9338;
Others: Campbell 1403; CIBN P‑220; Hillard 1564; HPT II 496; ILC 1744; Oates 3860; Rhodes 1371; Sheppard 7185-6.
LCN: 14491375, 14491395
Copies
Copy number: P-183(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
Leaf [k5r], col. 2, last 4 lines: ‘ . . . quodcūƺ malo cōmittitur Ipſi diſ | . . .'; last line: ‘Illud aūt michi ad votū gratanter | ‘; [k5v], col. 1: ‘gratanter accedit . . .'; [x1r], col. 1, l. 5: ‘ . . . ſacerdotio. et offerre . . .'; [x3r], col. 1, l. 4: ‘ . . . illic iter eſt quo on̄dit̃ ſalutare dei / | . . .'; [x8v], col. 1, l. 12: ‘ . . . ſaluberrima moderatione . . .’
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; bound for the Bodleian Library.
Size: 282 × 211 × 45 mm.
Size of leaf: 270 × 196 mm.
Provenance: Louvain, Brabant, Jesuits; inscription on [a2r] in a seventeenth-century(?) hand: ‘Societatis Jesu Lovanii'; various numbers on [a2r], presumably shelfmarks: ‘M B S 5', ‘Q 30', and ‘S 2'. Benjamin Heywood Bright (1788-1843); sale (3 Mar. 1845), lot 4372. Purchased for £2. 3. 0; see Books Purchased (1845), 24.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.6.
Copy number: P-183(2)
Leaf [k5r], col. 2, last 4 lines: ‘ . . . quodcūƺ malo committitur. Ipſi | . . .'; last line: ‘uitur. Illud autem michi ad votum |'; [k5v], col. 1: ‘gratanter accedit . . .'; [x1r], col. 1, l. 5: ‘ . . . ſacerdotio. [et] offerre . . .'; [x3r], col. 1, l. 4: ‘ . . . illic intereſt quo on̄dit̃ ſalutare dei | . . .'; [x8v], col. 1, l. 12: ‘ . . . ſaluberrima moderatioē . . .’ Sheet [x3.6] is differently set from copy 1. Between [a1] and [a2] is an eighteenth-century(?) engraving of a brother of the Common Life, entitled ‘Frère de la Vie Commune', on which a note has been written in pencil ‘This is taken from [Pierre] Lambinet'; it has not proved possible to verify this claim.
Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century tree calf; triple gold fillets on each cover; gold-tooled spine; marbled pastedowns; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Scar of an index tab on [a2r].
Size: 295 × 215 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 288 × 198 mm.
Early marginal ‘nota' marks.
Two- and three-line initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red.
Provenance: Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale (1830), lot 208. Possibly Payne and Foss, Catalogue (1830), no. 7489, described as ‘Russia, gilt leaves', priced at £10. 10. 0, and, if purchased from them, possibly bought at a discount. Purchased for £8. 8. 0; see Books Purchased (1830), 18, and Library Bills (1829-32), no. 190-1, item no. 20.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 1.20.
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