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This particular manuscript has been chosen because, as determined by Mary and Richard Rouse (Preachers, florilegia, and sermons: Studies on the "Manipulus florum" of Thomas of Ireland, Toronto, 1979, pp.139-45), it was extensively used as an intermediate source by Thomas of Ireland in compiling his very influential florilegium Manipulus florum (1306), which I have edited for The Electronic Manipulus florum Project. An example of Thomas' reception of Liber exceptionum is provided in the fons/fontes apparatus file for the entry Relinquere b in Manipulus florum, which shows that textual variants from the original source were due to the agency of Guillaume de Montaigu or his source manuscript.
A sample of the intended resource was developed in Summer 2026 prior to the submission of an application for major external funding. This sample provides a portion of the quotations attributed to Augustine, Gregory and Jerome.
Index page for the edition-in-progress
An important early result of the seed grant project occurs in the fifth quotation attributed to the first book of Jerome's commentary on Isaiah, which includes both a genuine line from that text and another line (indicated by red font) that has not been found in any digitized Latin text:
Omnes diligunt munera. amicicie gracia post iungende sunt quam amore pecunie. quia nec est uera que redimi potest nec os considerant amicorum sed manus. et eos sancta iudicant quorum exhauriunt marsupium. (fol. 76vb)
It seems likely that the line "amicicie...potest" was a marginal commentary that was mistaken as a correction in Montaigu's source manuscript at Clairvaux or in the textual tradition leading to it. While this particular anomaly was not transmitted to the Manipulus florum, it suggests that more anomalies of this kind may exist in Liber exceptionum that were perpetuated in Thomas of Ireland's florilegium and were thus disseminated in other Latin texts.
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