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Beinecke MS 356 Germany (Mainz?), s. XVI^^ex
Commentaries on St. Thomas Aquinas, etc.
I. 1. ff. 1r-68r [Heading:] In tertiam partem summae theologicae diui
Thomae Aquinatis. Incepit R. P. Ioannes Leo SS. Theologiae P. 7 Nouembris.
1594. [text:] Prooemij loco quaedam praemittenda sunt et in primis. Quodnam
sit huius tertiae partis subiectum? Respondeo esse christum deum et hominem...
Absoluit R. P. Ioannes Leo 14 Aprilis 1595.
Joannes Leo, Quaestiones I-VI in tertiam partem Summae Theologicae divi
Thomae Aquinatis, dated 1594-95; see C. Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la
compagnie de Jesus (Paris, 1893) v. 4, cols. 1692-93, no. 3A, with
additional manuscript texts.
2. ff. 68r-124r Sequentia dictauit R. P. Henricus Scherenus Quaestio VII. De
gratia Christi prout quidam singularis est homo. Articulus I. Vtrum in Christo
fuerit aliqua gratia habitualis. Conclusio: affirmans...Absoluit 20 Septembris
anno 95. f. 124v blank
Henricus Scherenus, Quaestiones VII-XIX, dated 1595.
II. 3. ff. 125r-151v [Heading:] Tractatus de sacramentis in genere.
[in outer margin:] Incepit hunc tractatum 3^^o Julij R. P. Leonardus Holzerus
anno 1592. [text:] Prooemium. De sacramentis agit Magister Sen. in 4. et
scholastici ibidem...Absoluit hunc tractatum R. P. Leonardus Holzerus 30.
Septem. anno 1592.
Leonardus Holzerus, Quaestiones LX-LXV de sacramentis in genere, dated
1592.
4. ff. 151v-230r [Heading:] De sacramentis in specie. De baptismo. [in
upper margin:] Incepit hunc tractatum R. P. Leonardus Holzerus 6^^o Nouembris
anno 1592. [text:] De baptismo tractatu diuisio. De baptismo sex quaestiones
agit D. Thomas, prima de essentia, secunda de ministro...Absoluit R. in Christo
P. Leonardus Holzerus 28. Iunij anno 1593.
Leonardus Holzerus, Quaestiones LXVI-XC de sacramentis in specie,
concerning baptism, confirmation, communion, and confession, dated 1592-93.
5. ff. 230r-252r [Heading:] In supplementum tertiae partis D. Thomae.
[text:] Quaestio I. De partibus paenitentiae in speciali et primo de
contritione. Articulus I. Vtrum contritio sit dolor de peccatis assumptus cum
proposito confitendi et satisfaciendi. Conclusio: contritio apte definitur
dolor...Absoluit R. P. Leonardus Holzerus 4^^o Septembris Anno 1593.
Leonardus Holzerus, Quaestiones I-XL, concerning confession, extreme
unction, and ordination, dated 1593.
6. ff. 252v-264r [Heading:] De sacramento matrimonii. [text:]
Matrimonium tribus modis considerari potest, primo ut est officium naturae,
secundo vt est sacramentum...Absoluit R. P. Leonardus Holzerus 25. Septembris
anno 1593. f. 264v blank
Leonardus Holzerus, Quaestiones XLI-LXVIII, concerning matrimony, dated
1593.
III. 7. ff. 265r-288v [Heading:] Commentaria in librum prophetae Iob.
[text:] Antequam ad explanationem prophetae Iob accedamus prolegomena quaedam vt
tractatio apertior sit et breuior premittemus. Questio I. sitne liber Iobi
prophetae canonicus, et quam classem...Absoluit R. P. Ioannes Busaeus 30.
Aprilis anno 1593. Finis prophetae Iob.
Jan Buys, Commentaria in librum prophetae Iob, in 42 chapters, dated
1593.
8. ff. 289r-305v [Heading:] In librum iosue. [in outer margin, in red:]
Incepit R. P. Ioannes Busaeus 17 Maij anno 1593. [text:] Antequam ad
explicationem huius historiae veniamus 7 res exponendae sunt, ordo libri,
classis...anno 1594. f. 306r-v blank
Jan Buys, Commentaria in librum Iosue, in 24 chapters, dated 1594.
9. ff. 307r-326v [Heading:] In priorem epistolam diui Pauli ad Corinthios.
[in outer margin:] Incepit hanc priorem epistolam R. P. Ioannes Pernottus 12
Nouem. anno 1593. [text:] Questio I. Quot epistolas ad Corinthios scripserit
S. Paulus. Verior sententia est scriptas esse epistolas a S. Paulo tres...
Absoluit R. P. Ioannes Pernottus hanc priorem epistolam 31. Martij, anno 1594.
Ioannes Pernottus, Commentaria in priorem epistolam divi Pauli ad
Corinthios, in 16 chapters, dated 1593-94. See Sommervogel, op. cit.,
v. 6, cols. 544-45.
10. ff. 327r-337v [Heading:] In posteriorem epistolam ad Corinthios.
Incepit explicationem huius epistolae R. P. Ioannes Busaeus 2 Junij anno domini
1594. Moguntiae. [text:] De argumento epistolae. Scripta est haec epistola
authore Chrysostomo et Theodoreto e Macedonia et quidem Philippis...Absoluit
R. P. Ioannes Busaeus 25 Septembris.
Jan Buys, Commentaria in posteriorem epistolam ad Corinthios, in 13
chapters dated 1594.
11. ff. 338r-349r [Heading:] In epistolam diui Pauli ad Ephesios. Incepit
R. P. Ioannes Busaeus SS. Theologiae doctor 12 Nouembris, anno 1594. [text:]
Antequam aggrediamur explanationem huius epistolae dicemus breuiter de authore
epistolae, stylo, loco, tempore et occasione...Absoluit R. P. Ioannes Busaeus
23 [?] Februarij Anno 1595 et sequentem epistolam incepit 27. Februarij.
Jan Buys, Commentaria in epistolam diui Pauli ad Ephesios, in 6 chapters,
dated 1594-95.
12. ff. 349r-355r [Heading:] In epistolam diui Pauli ad Philippenses.
[text:] Hanc epistolam e vinculis Roma scripsit apostolus anno 4^^o Neronis
Caesaris et Christi...Absoluit R. P. Ioannes Busaeus 17. Aprilis, anno 1595.
Jan Buys, Commentaria in epistolam divi Pauli ad Philippenses, in 4
chapters, dated 1595.
13. ff. 355r-360r [Heading:] In epistolam diui Pauli ad Colossenses.
[text:] Dubium est qui fuerint hi Collosenses ad quos scripsit apostolus hanc
epistolam...Absoluit R. P. Ioannes Busaeus 15 Junij anno 1595.
Jan Buys, Commentaria in epistolam Pauli ad Colossenses, in 4 chapters,
dated 1595.
Articles 14-17 appear to be the work of Jan Buys, although only the last bears
his name and the date.
14. ff. 360r-361r [Heading:] In primam epistolam diui Pauli ad
Thessalonicenses. [text:] Argumentum. Omnium epistolarum quas scripsit
apostolus haec prima est quam Athenis vel vt alij volunt Corintho...nisi habeat
gratiam spiritus sanctus.
[Jan Buys?], Commentaria in primam epistolam Pauli ad Thessalonicenses,
in 5 chapters.
15. ff. 361r-363r [Heading:] In secundam epistolam diui Pauli ad
Thessalonicenses. [text:] Argumentum. Argumentum epistolae est idem cum
superioris epistolae eamque non multo post duabus de causis scripsit
apostolus...vere est otiosorum hominum.
[Jan Buys?], Commentaria in secundam epistolam Pauli ad Thessalonicenses,
in 3 chapters.
16. ff. 363r-368v [Heading:] In primam epistolam diui Pauli ad Timotheum.
[text:] Argumentum epistolae. Hactenus apostolus vt notauit Tertullianus l. s.
contra Martionem doctrinam communem omnibus christianis tradidit...quia nihil
apud illos est certum.
[Jan Buys?], Commentaria in primam epistolam Pauli ad Timotheum, in 6
chapters.
17. ff. 368v-369v [Heading:] In secundam epistolam ad Timotheum. Caput. I.
[text:] A progenitoribus, indicat se a fide maiorum suorum discessisse, pieque
et honeste vixisse...Absoluit R. P. Ioannes Busaeus 25. Septembris 1595.
Jan Buys, Commentaria in secundam epistolam ad Timotheum, in 4 chapters,
dated 1595.
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Written by a single scribe in sloping italic.
Headings in majuscules; otherwise no decoration.
Binding: s. xvi [?]. Rigid vellum case gold- and blind-tooled. Stubs of
green ribbons. Bound upside down. On upper cover "ICA" and "1595"; on lower
cover "Tertia Pars D. Thomae." Written in ink on spine over inscription, now
illegible: "Scripta Theologica" (entered twice) and "E/ 1594." Gauffered
edges.
Written at the end of the 16th century as indicated by the dates 1592-95
throughout, perhaps in Mainz (see art. 10), where Jan Buys (1547-1611) and
Joannes Leo (1540-1609) taught at the university; the texts appear to be
transcriptions of university lectures. Belonged to the Capuchin Friars at
Engelberg-am-Main. (see Lexicon Capuccinum [Rome, 1951] col. 536;
inscription on front flyleaf, s. xvi-xvii: "fratrum Capucinorum Montis
Angelorum"). Acquired from the bookdealer Ifan Kyrle Fletcher (Cat. 6, Feb.
1967) with the James Hosmer Penniman Fund.
Barbara A. Shailor