ROUSE MS 96
TABULA SEPTEM CUSTODIARUM (BIFOLIUM AND A HALF). ENGLAND
(OXFORD), 1315–30 |
A bifolium and a half from a draft of the Tabula septem custodiarum
or Table of the Seven Custodies (the seven administrative units of
the English Franciscan province); this was a concordance to incidental
exegetical passages in the works of the Church Fathers arranged in
the order of the Bible, compiled by the Oxford Franciscans between
1315 and 1330. This draft represents the preliminary stage, namely,
the task of finding and copying out exegetical passages in the writings
of the Fathers, work by work. In the second stage these extracts were
reorganized by book and chapter of the Bible, and listed by author
in chronological order. Superseded by the completed concordance, the
drafts were then recycled as binding scrap. This fragment documents
how the Oxford Franciscan worked collectively, to produce a major
reference work which survives in ten copies for the use of the Order
in England. It serves as a reminder that autograph working drafts
do survive from the Middle Ages. Kindly given to us by Ralph Hanna
III.
R.H. & M.A. Rouse MS 96
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