University College MS. 4

William Burgenoun, Fragmentum folio I & II

Language(s): Latin ; Middle English

Dialogus de arte moriendi

An order for the visitation of the sick, with exhortations to the sick person

Language(s): English (Bedfordshire dialect)

Conturbacio animæ in extremis

Exhortatio de modo vivendi concorditer in anima et corpore

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, pseudo; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091–1153, pseudo, Speculum peccatoris

Sermons (fragments)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: vellum

Binding

Contemporary white leather over wooden boards

History

Origin: 15th century ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

"Once belonged to a monk of Warden, Bedfordshire. Dialect Bedfordshire." (OT, p. 102) Possibly once used at the Cistercian Abbey at Old Warden/Wardon, Bedfordshire.

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 1

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (ed.), The Index of Middle English Prose VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Cambridge, 1991), p. 102

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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