Add MS 41618

41418. RELIGIOUS TRACTS in Latin collected for Carthusian use and mainly of Carthusian origin, viz.:-

(1) 'Incipit Tractatus de quinque floribus mundi', beg. 'Quicumque voluerit esse amicus huius mundi ... Tot sunt negocia huius mundi'; ends 'Ad quam nos peruenire faciat Jhesus cristus dei filius qui viuit', etc. ff. 2-12.

(2) 'Sequitur Speculum peccatorum', beg. 'Utinam saperent et intelligerent... Quoniam in via huius vite fugientis'. Printed in Migne, Patr. Lat., xl, 983, among the spurious works of St Augustine, but attributed also to St Bernard, Aegidius Romanus, Richard Rolle, etc. For other MSS. see Cat. of Royal MSS., i, 1921, p. 205, under 7 F. xi. ff. 12-19b.

(3) 'Sequitur cordiale de quatuor nouissimis tractans', beg. 'Memorare nouissima tua... Sicut dicit Augustinus'. Variously attributed to Gerardus de Vliederhoven, Henricus de Hassia, and Gerson. For early printed editions see Hain, Repertorium, nos. 5691-5718. ff. 19b-71.

(4) 'Sequitur Tractatus deuotus de contemptu mundi', beg. 'Nolite diligere mundum... 0 vita mundi, non vita sed mors'; ends 'Quod nobis omnibus prestare dignetur Jhesus Cristus dei filius qui cum', etc. Its Carthusian origin is evident from the specific mention of the Order on f. 89. ff. 71-92 b.

(5) 'Sequitur vocatorium ad Christi refectorium.' beg. 'Venite ad me... Mundus clamat ego defitiam'; ends 'Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis et onerati estis et ego reficiam vos qui cum', etc. ff. 92b-109b.

(6) 'Sequitur Opusculum Epistolare magistri Johannis Gerson Cancellarii parisiensis de religionis perfectione et moderamine ad instanciam cuiusdam cartusiensis editum et compilatum', beg. 'Gracia uobis et pax'. Written for Guillielmus Minaudi in 1422, see P. Glorieux in Arch. d'hist. doctrinale et litt. du M.A., xviii, 1950-1951, p. 186. Colophon: 'Explicit opusculum Johannis Gerson... quod tanquam epistolarem responsionem misit domino Guillermo monacho domus cartusie maioris-olim domini Saluciarum medico sibi familiari instanti pro hoc et pro serenacione consciencie sue literatorie petenti'. Printed by L. E. Du Pin, J. Gersonii Opera Omnia, Antwerp, 1706, ii, coll. 682-692. ff. 109b-120.

(7) 'Nota secundum Bernardum de excellentia religionis', beg. 'Recordemur, fratres carissimi, quod hoc seculum' (f. 120), followed by another extract from Bernard, beg. 'Fratres bonum est nos hic esse' (f. 120b), and a third from Jerome against delaying of penance, beg. 'Inter centum milia hominum' (f. 120b).

(8) 'Sequitur Tractatus de uanitate seculi', beg. 'Videte quomodo caute anibuletis ... Apostolus Paulus conscius consiliorum dei'. Ascribed to Jacobus Carthusiensis (cf. art. 10 below) in Breslau University MS. I. F. 280 (cf. J. Fijalek, Mistrz Jakób z Paradyza, ii, 1900, p. 329). ff. 120b-129b.

(9) 'Incipit tractatus de Inquisicione hereticorum eiusdem magistri Johiannis Gerson' with special reference to the Waldenses or Pauperes of Lyons; beg. 'Fides catholica fundamentum est omnis boni', ends 'Et sic heretici deinceps crunt securiores ad nocendum ardenciores, etc.' Not in Du Pin's edition of Gerson's works. ff. 133-149.

(10) 'Incipit Colloquium hominis ad animam suam', beg. 'Verbum secretum michi est a te, 0 sponsa'. This and the remaining tracts in the volume are by Jacobus Carthusiensis (cf. Fijatek, op. cit., ii, p. 278), identified as Jacobus de Iunterbuick al. Jüterbogk in T. Petreius, Bibliotheca Cartusiana, 1609, p. 151, but by Fijalek, op.- cit., ii, pp. 134-163, as Jacobus de Paradiso al. de Clusa. Both were inmates of the Carthusian house at Erfurt. ff. 149- 165b.

(11) 'Incipit Igniculus deuocionis', beg. 'Dormitauit anima mea... Intimari in (? sic for 'Intranti mihi) ortulum'. The colophon runs: 'Explicit igniculus deuocionis fratris Jacobi Carthusiensis sacre pagine egregii doctoris.' For other MSS. see Fijalek, op. Cit., ii, pp. 277, 278. ff. 165b-186.

(12) 'De septem statibus mundi tractatus bonus', beg. 'Nunc enim principalissima ecclesie membra'. Cf. Fijalek, op. cit., ii, p. 235. ff. 186-203 b.

(13) 'De septem statibus in apocalypsi descriptis', beg. 'Libet praeter ea que dicta sunt speculari (? sic for dicenda sunt speculariter)'; ends 'principalem sibi vendicat nominacionem': the beginning only of the tract of that title printed by E. Brown in his Appendix (pp. 102-112) to 0. Gratius, Fasciculus Rerum Expetendarum et Fugiendarum, published as vol. ii of that work in I690. For other editions see Fijalek, op. cit., ii, p. 172. ff. 204-206b.

(14) 'Super concertacione cruoris in Welsenaco [Wilsnack]', beg. 'In materiam hostiarum transformatarum'. Cf. Fijalek, op. cit., ii, pp. 285-294, where extracts are printed. For the miraculous host at Wilsnack in Brandenburg see E. Breest, 'Das Wunderblut von Wilsnack (1383-1552)', in Märkische Forschungen, xvi, 1881, pp. 133-301. ff. 206b-210. Paper; ff. ii+216 (of which ff. 130-132, 211-216 are blank). 8 3/8in. x 5 5/8 in. XV cent. (A.D. 1469 from f. 133.) Gatherings of 12 leaves; up to f. 132 numbered at the end (I-XI), and the leaves numbered to the centre of the gathering a 1-l 6; after f. 132 the gatherings are unnumbered but the leaves numbered a 1-h 6. Sec. fol. of text 'qui florem'. Binding of buckskin over beech boards, and remains of metal clasps wrought with the name 'Maria'. The insides of the boards are covered with a set-off from leaves of a liturgical book. Belonged to the Carthusian house of the B.M.V. at Buxheim in Swabia, as appears from the contemporary note on f. 1 b after the list of contents: 'Liber Cartusiensium In Buchshaim prope Memmingen proueniens a confratre nostro domino Hilprando Brandenburg de Bibraco / donato sacerdote / continens Opera prescripta / Oretur pro eo / et pro quibus desiderauit', and from the later note on f. 2: 'Cartusianorum (D in Buxheim'. The MS. is numbered 114 On f. 1, also on a label on the back partly overlaid by another label with the number 292 in red ink. Another paper label on the back, much faded, appears to give a list of authors, among which the names of Augustine and Bernard can be distinguished. On f. 216b is noted in pencil 'lot 1607'. Lot 2527 in the sale of the Buxheim library in Munich, 1883 (Bibliothek des ehem. Carthäuserklosters Buxheim aus dem Besitze des H. Hugo Grafen von Waldbott-Bassenheim. XXX. Carl Förster'sche Kunstauction, Abt. ii, Bibliotheca Buxiana, 1883).