The Grey Friars in OxfordLittle, A. G. (Andrew George)
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The Grey Friars in Oxford
Little, A. G. (Andrew George)
Franciscans -- Great Britain
A book formerly belonging to Roger Conway is preserved among the MSS. of
Gray’s Inn; Codex 1, formerly 17 (= 1584 in Bernard)--
‘_Joannes Cassianus de Institutis Egyptiorum Coenobiorum._ Cui haec
notula apponitur: “Iste est liber Fratris Rogeri de Coneway[1512]”.’
_Defensio Religionis Mendicantium_, against Armachanus, or _De
confessionibus per regulares audiendis contra informationes Armachani_;
known also by the opening words of the treatise (preface): ‘Confessio et
pulchritudo.’
MSS. Oxford:--Bodl. sup. A I, art. 95; also Corpus Christi Coll. 182,
fol. 37 (sec. xv).
Cambridge:--Public Library Ii. iv. 5. fol. 15 (sec. xv); also Corpus
Christi Coll. 333 (sec. xv).
Paris:--Bibl. Nationale 3221, fol. 206-46 (see. xv); and 3222, fol.
117, under the title: ‘Quedam informacio contra intentionem domini
Ricardi Archiepiscopi Armachani super decretali _Vas electionis_,
edita a ffratre Rogero Conewey magistro in Theologia de ordine fratrum
minorum.’
Vienna:--Bibl. Palat. 4127, f. 221 (sec. xv).
Printed at Lyons 1496; Paris 1511 (among the works of Armachanus); and
in Goldast, _Monarchia_ II, p. 1410, (under the name ‘Chonoe’).
_Intellectus fratrum de constitutione Vas electionis quo ad Negativam
ibidem definitam._ _Inc._ ‘Verumptamen quia iste dominus Reverendus dicit
quod intellectus fratrum est erroneus.’
MS. Paris:--Bibl. Nat. 3222, fol. 133{b}-158{b}: it is anonymous in
this MS., but is attributed to Roger Conway by Bale, MS. Seld. sup.
64, fol. 157{b}, and Tanner, Bibl. 197. The same MS. contains the
_Replicationes_ of Armachanus against this work, ff. 159 sqq.
_Quaestiones tres de Christi paupertate et dominio temporali._ _Inc._
‘Questio est hic de mendicitate;’ or ‘Utrum Christus hominum
perfectissimus.’
MS. Vienna:--Bibl. Palat. 4127, f. 249-269 (sec. xv).
Wadding (_Script._ p. 212) gives the second _incipit_ and says: ‘Habeo
MSS.’ These may be now in some Italian library; perhaps in the
Franciscan Convent at Rome, or MS. Vatican 3740, ‘Tractatus diversorum
super quaestione de paupertate Christi et Apostolorum’ (Montfaucon, p.
110).
=Simon Tunstede=, =de Tunstude=, or =Donstede=, is said by Bale to have
entered the Order at Norwich, where, according to Blomefield, he
afterwards became Warden of the Franciscan Convent[1513]. He was Regent
Master of the Friars Minors at Oxford in 1351[1514], and according to
contemporary evidence was ‘skilled in music and in the seven liberal
arts[1515].’ He wrote on the Meteorics of Aristotle[1516], and made some
alterations in the horologe called _Albion_, invented in 1326 by Richard
of Wallingford, Abbat of St. Albans, and in the book which the Abbat wrote
about his invention[1517]. He became twenty-third Provincial Minister in
succession to Roger Conway about 1360[1518]. He was buried among the Poor
Clares of Brusyard in Suffolk[1519]; Bale and Pits mention 1369 as the
year of his death.
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