View source for Oxford, Oriel College Library, 42

Oxford, Oriel College Library, 42 (written by William of Malmesbury ca. 1135) is a copy of the [[Collectio Quesnelliana]] "updated" from the [[False Decretals]]. For the letters of Leo I, {{author|Hoskin}}, Letters p. 369 and passim treats the letters found in the Oxford manuscript as a separate collection (his "[[Collection of William of Malmesbury]]"), as it not only contains more letters but rearranges the material too, and displays variant readings. As {{author|Thomson}}, William of Malmesbury pp. 123-124 stressed, William had access to various texts and acutal manuscripts from Reims, including perhaps a copy of the [[Pseudoisidore, False Decretals|False Decretals]] also containing the relatively rare {{JK|512}}.

{{author|Quesnel}} used Oriel College Library 42 alongside [[Paris, BnF, lat. 3842A]] for his edition of the ''Quesnelliana''. {{author|Brett}} called the Oriel manuscript "the latest and worst surviving copy" (cited in {{author|Vanspauwen}} p. 492 n. 15; pace {{author|Kéry}}, p. {{Kéry|27}} who seemed to assert that it was the "latest and most reliable manuscript of the collection").

== Links ==
* Brief description (and some bibliography) https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_14041

== Literature ==
* {{author|Coxe}}, Catalogus https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028611856&seq=392
* {{Author|Jasper}}, Papal letters p. {{Jasper|47}} n. 193 cites Chavasse, Sancti Leonis ... Tractatus for an anlysis of this codex
* Aäron {{Author|Vanspauwen}}, [Review of:] Matthew J. J. Hoskin: The Manuscripts of Leo the Great’s Letters. The Transmission and Reception of Papal Documents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in: Plekos 24 (2023) pp. 587–599; https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/5836/.
* {{Author|Hoskin}}, Letters, pp. 369-370 and elsewhere

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oxford, Oriel College Library, 00042}}

[[Category:Manuscript]]
[[Category:Stub]]
[[Category:Manuscript from England]]
[[Category:Manuscript saec XII]]
[[Category:Manuscript not digitized]]
[[Category:Manuscript of Collectio Quesnelliana]]