Harley MS 5431, ff 127r-270v

These folios contain a variety of theological writings, copied between the second half of the 13th century and the 15th century and bound together with the earlier folios in the medieval period. These texts include:

ff. 127r-172v: Bernard of Clairvaux's De praecepto et dispensatione, copied in the late 13th or early 14th century;

There is an unfoliated, blank leaf between ff. 172 and 173;

ff. 173r-232r: Guillelmus or Willelmus Peraldus, De professione monachorum, copied in the late 13th or early 14th century;

ff. 232v-250v: Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia to Abbot William, copied in the late 13th or early 14th century;

ff. 251r-260v: Hugh of Barzelles' De cohabitatione fratrum beginning 'Ecce quam bonum...', with a title misattributing it as '[S]ermo beati Bernardi ad regiliosos [sic]', copied in the late 13th or early 14th century;

ff. 261r-264v: excerpts on faith from Robert Kilwardby's quaestiones on Peter Lombard's Sentences, beginning 'Quid fides...', copied in the late 13th or early 14th century;

f. 265r: blank;

ff. 265v-267v: Jerome's Tractatus de oboedientia, mislabelled in this manuscript as 'Aug[ustinus], De tenenda obed[ent]ia', beginning '[N]ichil ita placet...', copied in the 15th century;

ff. 268r- 269r: Hugh of St Victor's De oblivione praeteritorum, copied in the late 13th or early 14th century;

ff. 269r-270r: Hugh of St Victor's De quinque statibus humanae vitae, copied in the late 13th or early 14th century;

f. 270v: blank.

Decorations: initials in red and blue with penwork (throughout ff. 127r-264v); highlights in blue (ff. 127v, 141r, 151r); manicula (130r-v, 132v, 140r, 153r, 240v, 241r); sketch of a face in the margin (f. 135v, 240v, 257v); sketch of a bird (f. 136v); sketch of a pointing figure in the margin (ff. 165r, 201v, 246v, 247r, 249v); highlights in red and blue (throughout ff. 173r-270v); initials in red (ff. 265v-270v).