Oxford, Oriel College, 42

Oxford, Oriel College, 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, Hoskin, Letters p. 369 and passim treats the letters found in the Oxford manuscripts as a separate collection (his "Collection of William of Malmesbury"), as they not only contain more letters but rearrange the material too, and display variant readings. As 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 False Decretals also containing the relatively rare JK 512.

Quesnel used Oriel College 42 alongside Paris, BnF, lat. 3842A for his edition of the Quesnelliana. Brett called the Oriel manuscript "the latest and worst surviving copy" (cited in Vanspauwen p. 492 n. 15; pace Kéry, p. 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

• Coxe, Catalogus https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028611856&seq=392
• Jasper, Papal letters p. 47 n. 193 cites Chavasse, Sancti Leonis ... Tractatus for an anlysis of this codex
• Aäron 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/.
• Hoskin, Letters, pp. 369-370 and elsewhere

Categories

• manuscript
• stub
• saec. XII
• not digitized
• copy of Collectio Quesnelliana