Manuscript 6 (MS6) – Super Quatuor Libros Sententiarum by Robert Cowton, abbreviated by Richard Snettisham
Snettisham’s abbreviation of Cowton on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. The manuscript is formed of four books, and the first page of each is ornamented on the margins with gold and colours.
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A small quarto manuscript from the fifteenth century, on 151 leaves. It includes a table of Questiones and an alphabetical index. It is written in Latin by several small cursive gothic hands and includes two pages with illuminated borders. Robert Cowton, the author, was a fourteenth century Franciscan theologian.
The manuscript is bound in seventeenth century calf. It is rebacked and there is a modern chain attached which has small links.
More information can be found in A Catalogue of the Ancient Manuscripts Belonging to the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn by Alfred Horwood, published 1869.
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