Beinecke MS 15(olim Z109.150)                                      England, s. XV^^1/4
Prosper Aquitanus; Johannes Shepey

     1. f. 1r    [Preface:] Iste Prosper fuit equitaneus vir eruditissimus
     omniumque arcium dogmate...vel quid si maxime vitent siderium celi
     cupiunt qui scandere regnum.

     2. ff. 1r-30r    Dum sacris mentem placet exercere loquelis/
     Celestique...[text:] Innocencia dei vera est que nec sibi nec alteri
     nocet...sed mens. quoque nobis. Vna sit atque duos spiritus vnus alat.
     Amen. Explicit prosper de verbis sancti doctoris Augustini quod [?] I.
     C. Da gloriam deo. f. 30v blank

          Prosper Aquitanus, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti
          Augustini; PL
     51. 497-532. The manuscript follows the text in PL up to f. 27v, but
     concludes with additional unidentified material as printed by
     Christopher Plantin (Antwerp, 1560) p. 114.

     3. ff. 31r-107v    Johannes Shepey, Sermones (no title). The sermons
     are listed here according to numbers assigned by Schneyer (v. 3, pp.
     765-68): 1, ff. 31r-33r; 2, ff. 33r-34v; 3, ff. 34v-36v; 4, ff. 36v-
     38v; 5, ff. 38v-40r; unlisted sermon on Psalm 97 for Christmas, ff.
     40r-44v (De Nativitate domini. Cantate domino canticam...Verba ista
     scripta sunt in psalmo et sunt verba spiritus sancti inuitantis nos ad
     sacrosanctam ecclesiam...dei perfecta sunt opera. Rogemus et cetera.);
     6, ff. 44v-46v; 7, ff. 46v-49r; 8, ff. 49v-51v; 9, ff. 52r-56r; 10, ff.
     56r-59v; 11, ff. 59v-61r; 12, ff. 61r-63r; 13, ff. 63r-65v; 14, ff.
     65v-67v; 15; ff. 67v-69v; 16, ff. 69v-71v; 17, missing; 18, ff. 71v-
     74r; 19, ff. 74r-75v; 20, ff. 75v-78r; 21, ff. 78r-80r; 22, ff. 80v-
     83r; 23, missing; unlisted sermon for Psalm Sunday, ff. 83r-87v
     (Dominica in ramis palmarum. Ecce Rex tuus venit tibi mansuetus...[Mat.
     21.5]. Verba ista scripta sunt in euuangelio hodierno in quibus verbis
     tria possunt notari scilicet christi dignitas cum dicit...viuet in
     eternum ad hanc vitam nos perducat. Amen.); unlisted sermon for Easter,
     ff. 87v-99r (In die pasche. Mortuus erat et reuixit legimus in quadam
     historia scilicet hester 1 quod rex assuerus...in corde crucem et
     passionem christi rogemus ergo deum vt det nos clauem crucis per quem
     possimus venire ad requiem...Amen.; on f. 90r in the middle of the
     sermon there is a brief English quotation of a stanza from Augustine's
     Candet nudatum pectus; see IMEV, 4088); 24, ff. 99r-100v; 25, ff. 100v-
     103r; 26, ff. 103r-104v; 27, ff. 104v-105v; 28, ff. 105v-107r; 29, f.
     107r-v (ends imperfectly on verso).

          Parchment, ff. ii (paper) + 107 + ii (paper), 176 x 122 (122 x 80)
     mm. Written in 24-29 long lines; frame-ruled in lead, ink, or hard
     point; prickings at corner of written space.
          I^^12, II^^16, III-V^^12, VI^^12 (+1 leaf after 10, f. 75),
     VII-VIII^^12, IX^^6. Catchwords, enclosed in rectangle, only appear on
     verso of ff. 6-12.
          Written in various styles of Anglicana, with some portions in
	gothic bookhand, by four scribes. Scribe 1: ff. 1r-10r; Scribe 2: ff.
	10v-30r; Scribe 3: ff. 31r-107v; Scribe 4: f. 75r to the top of 76r
	(perhaps to supply text missing from the exemplar).
          Blue initials with elaborate red, blue, and black penwork borders
     that almost totally encompass the written space on ff. 1r and 31r
     (trimmed along upper and outer edges); similar initials in blue with
     red penwork designs extending entire length of folio introduce each new
     section of text.
          Binding: s. xix. Brown sheepskin, blind- and gold-tooled.
     Rebacked.

          Written in England in the first quarter of the 15th century;
     belonged ca. 1640 to Thomas Fairfax (signature on f. 1r); sale of the
     Fairfax library from Leeds Castle (London, 1831; has not been
     identified in the catalogue). Sold by Thorpe (Cat. 1836, no. 163) to
     Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9520 inside front cover); his sale (London,
     1898, no. 481) to Sotheran. Given in 1926 by Leonard Bacon and Susan
     Bacon Keith in memory of their father Nathaniel Terry Bacon.

     secundo folio: Uera eternitas

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 165, no. 15.

Barbara A. Shailor