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032-002034552

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Title:

A collection of theological, scientific and legal texts, including the Ars Moriendi

Scope & Content:

Contents: A collection of treatises:

f. 1r: A text in cursive, incipit 'Sui in exordio...Suffragium vestigium aut consorcium';

ff. 1v-14v: A Liturgical calendar and astrological tables (ff. 13v-14v);

ff. 15r-42r: The Ars Moriendi, in the shorter version, known as the 'Quamvis secundum ars moriendi', incipit 'Quamvis secundum philosophum tercio ethcorum', explicit, 'Ineffabilem bonitatem eternatur. Amen' (printed edition: Jeffrey Campbell, 'The Ars Moriendi: An Examination, Translation and Collation of the Manuscirpts of the Shorter Latin Version' (University of Ottawa: unpublished PhD thesis, 1995);

ff. 42v-49r: A confessional interrogatory, 'Confessionale bonum pro religiosis', incipit, 'Ego reus et culpabilis', explicit, 'com verbis et factis hoc ora pro me frater';

ff. 49v-50v: The Essential vows, 'De ordinis essentialibus votis', incipit, 'Venerabilis pater ego confiteor omnia peccata mea', explicit, 'condicionis et vite';

ff. 51r-56v: A form of confession, 'Allus modus confitendi', incipit, 'Si sprevisti aliquem in corde tuo propter paupertatem', explicit, 'caveat sibi a iudeo et [...];

ff. 57r-69r: Tracts on sin and penance, incipit, 'Fili accedens ad servitutem', explicit, 'bona eius tollunt'; with an additional verse, 'Et sequitur stella clericorum propter defectum [...] inchoate';

ff. 69v-95v: ?Laurence of Dacia, 'Stella clericorum', incipit, 'Quasi stella matutina in medio nebule', explicit, 'et ministici. Amen', with an additional verse on Fortuna (printed edition: Stella clericorum:edited from Wavreumont (Stavelot) Monastere St-Remacle, MS s.n., ed. by Eric H. Reiter, (Toronto; Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 1997);

ff. 96r-104r: Extracts from the Decretals, incipit, 'Nota quod ipse Johannes docet in sua summa et demonstrate illud' explicit, 'et semper. Amen';

ff. 104v-110v: Astrological notes on the planets and signs of the zodiac in Latin and German, incipit, 'Dye sonne bedudet den lichten', explicit, 'futurum xiii ?Jun signo';

ff. 111r-112v: Treatise on the Seven Hours of the Passion, incipit, 'Recogita quattuor dominus noster', explicit, 'per eternam gloriam in celis sine fine. Amen', with an additional verse beginning, 'Sequitur pictura quomodo pater ...';

ff. 113r-197v: Meditations and Prayers in Latin and German, 'Meditaciones et oraciones de passione domini nostri Jesu Christi valde utiles religiosie', incipit, 'Egressus ihesus cum discipulis';

ff. 198r-205r: Instructions of Aristotle to Alexander, 'Documenta Aristotilis ad Alexandrum', incipit, 'Cela secretum loquere pauca', explicit, 'fecit qui per osculum [perfecit] perpetravit homicidium' (Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum: Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Versanfänge mittellateinischer Dichtungen, unter Benützung der Vorarbeiten Alfons Hilkas, ed. by Hans Walther (Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1959), no 2589);

Decoration: Red initials and entries in the calendar (ff. 2v-14v). Initials in red or black, some with pen-flourishing. Highlighting, underlining and paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

Parchment and paper codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

German
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment and paper.

Dimensions: 120 x 80mm (text space 95/75 x 60/45mm).

Foliation: ff. 205 (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves and 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning + 3 unfoliated paper leaves following f. 110 and 6 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end).

Collation: i-ii⁸ (ff. 1-16), iii-iv¹⁴(ff. 17-44); v-viii¹²(ff. 45-92), ix^10-1 (ff. 93-101), x-xv¹²(ff. 102-170), xvi¹⁴ (ff. 171-184), xvii¹²(ff. 185-196), xviii^12-1 (ff. 197-205). Catchwords on ff. 80v, 92v, 170v and 196v. and quire numbering.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Brown leather with gold tooling and marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Germany.

Provenance:

Marginal notes and rubrics by the main scribe, showing that he probably copied this collection for his own use.

Baron de Saint Victor, his sale, Sothebys, 20 July 1857, lot 19, bought for £10 by Messrs Boone for the British Museum.

Publications:

The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), pp. 585-86.

Mary Catherine O'Connor, The Art of Dying Well: The Development of the Ars Moriendi (New York, 1942) [on the text, ff. 15-42].

Jeffrey Campbell, 'The Ars Moriendi: An Examination, Translation and Collation of the Manuscripts of the Shorter Latin Version' (University of Ottawa: unpublished PhD thesis, 1995), online at https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/10313/1/MM07840.PDF [accessed 24.10.18] [on the text, ff. 15-42].

Callandra Mae Horobin, 'Description and Essay: London British Library MS Additional 22086 (University College London: unpublished MA research, 2017).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)