Trinity Hall : Doctrinale ecclesie contra blasfemias Wiclef

Netter, Thomas, approximately 1375-1430

Trinity Hall

<p style='text-align: justify;'>This manuscript contains a letter from Thomas Netter to Pope Martin V, as well as books one to four of his <i>Doctrinale antiquitatum fidei</i> with prologues and capitula lists. Thomas Netter of Walden (c. 1374-1430) was a Carmelite friar. He wrote the <i>Doctrinale</i> in the 1420s and presented it to Pope Martin V to whom he was confessor. The friars were the main opponents of Lollardy and Netter’s <i>Doctrinale</i> contained a major section against the heresies of John Wycliffe. Netter played a prominent role in heresy debates and trials, refuting Wycliffe, Hus, and their adherents by preaching against Lollardy.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The Trinity Hall manuscript was copied at the Carmelite convent in Ghent, dated 16 September 1500, and signed by the scribe, Livinus de Preestere (colophon, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(390);return false;'>fol. 190v</a>). The manuscript was given to Trinity Hall by Robert Hare, 1551 (d. 1611). It has <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(24);return false;'>one illumination</a> of the Virgin holding the infant Jesus, with Netter kneeling at Mary’s feet.</p>

Doctrinale ecclesie contra blasfemias Wiclef (MS 3)

This manuscript contains a letter from Thomas Netter to Pope Martin V, as well as books one to four of his Doctrinale antiquitatum fidei with prologues and capitula lists. Thomas Netter of Walden (c. 1374-1430) was a Carmelite friar. He wrote the Doctrinale in the 1420s and presented it to Pope Martin V to whom he was confessor. The friars were the main opponents of Lollardy and Netter’s Doctrinale contained a major section against the heresies of John Wycliffe. Netter played a prominent role in heresy debates and trials, refuting Wycliffe, Hus, and their adherents by preaching against Lollardy.

The Trinity Hall manuscript was copied at the Carmelite convent in Ghent, dated 16 September 1500, and signed by the scribe, Livinus de Preestere (colophon, fol. 190v). The manuscript was given to Trinity Hall by Robert Hare, 1551 (d. 1611). It has one illumination of the Virgin holding the infant Jesus, with Netter kneeling at Mary’s feet.

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Physical Location: Trinity Hall Library
Classmark: MS 3
Subject(s): Lollards
Author(s): Netter, Thomas, approximately 1375-1430
Scribe(s): Livinus de Preestere
Origin Place: Flanders, Ghent
Date of Creation: 1500
Language(s): Latin
Donor(s): Hare, Robert
Associated Name(s): Wycliffe, John, -1384
Extent: ff.191 + 1
Collation:
1 flyleaf, 1⁸-24⁸ (7 canc.).
Material: Parchment
Format: Codex
Layout:
Double columns of 54 lines
Decoration:
One illumination of the Virgin holding the infant Jesus, with Netter kneeling at Mary’s feet
Provenance:
Written at Ghent. On the flyleaf:
Iste liber est (erasure) viri D. Roberti Hare Angli.
Also on f. I, Roberti Hare 1551.
Data Source(s): Description draws on James, M. R. (1907). A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Trinity Hall.
Bibliography:
Binski, P. &, S. Panayotova. (2005). The Cambridge illuminations : Ten centuries of book production in the medieval west. London: Harvey Miller. 2005, pp. 222-23
du Bouveret, Bénédictins, Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle, 6 vols (Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1964-1982), IV (1979), p. 62 no. 12596.
James, M. R. (1907). A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Trinity Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 5-6.
Robinson, Pamela. (1988). Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c.737-1600 in Cambridge libraries. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer., no. 392, pl. 348.

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Physical Location: Trinity Hall Library
Classmark: MS 3
Subject(s): Lollards
Author(s): Netter, Thomas, approximately 1375-1430
Scribe(s): Livinus de Preestere
Origin Place: Flanders, Ghent
Date of Creation: 1500
Language(s): Latin
Donor(s): Hare, Robert
Associated Name(s): Wycliffe, John, -1384
Extent: ff.191 + 1
Collation:
1 flyleaf, 1⁸-24⁸ (7 canc.).
Material: Parchment
Format: Codex
Layout:
Double columns of 54 lines
Decoration:
One illumination of the Virgin holding the infant Jesus, with Netter kneeling at Mary’s feet
Provenance:
Written at Ghent. On the flyleaf:
Iste liber est (erasure) viri D. Roberti Hare Angli.
Also on f. I, Roberti Hare 1551.
Data Source(s): Description draws on James, M. R. (1907). A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Trinity Hall.
Bibliography:
Binski, P. &, S. Panayotova. (2005). The Cambridge illuminations : Ten centuries of book production in the medieval west. London: Harvey Miller. 2005, pp. 222-23
du Bouveret, Bénédictins, Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle, 6 vols (Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1964-1982), IV (1979), p. 62 no. 12596.
James, M. R. (1907). A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Trinity Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 5-6.
Robinson, Pamela. (1988). Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c.737-1600 in Cambridge libraries. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer., no. 392, pl. 348.