MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 52

The text divided into sections by letters a–z in the margins; followed (fols. 3v–4r) by an index in rough alphabetical order (e.g. Anima precedes Amor), each entry citing the relevant marginal letter and folio number..

The heading added by a 15th-century Italian hand, perhaps over an erasure.

Each chapter marked in the margin by a letter, a–z, a–r; followed (fols. 12r–13v) by an index in rough alphabetical order (e.g. Animus precedes Anima).

The text is divided into sections by letters in the margins, restarting at ‘a’ with each new chapter; running headings ‘Prologus c. 1’ – ‘Donum 7 c. 11’; followed (fols. 29r–31r) by an alphabetical index, with references citing section, chapter, and marginal letter, e.g. ‘Convivium amicorum est 7.c.5.b’ refers to Donum 7, cap. 5, marginal letter b.

A series of short numbered passages, with corresponding numbers 1–36 in the adjacent margin. (Cf. Marseille, Bm, MS. 210, fol. 123r; see Catalogue générale des manuscrits, xv (Paris, 1892), p. 74.

Fols. 32v–34v are almost entirely blank except for foliation and a cropped note at the top of fol. 34v.

Running headings provide Iter and Distinctio numbers, e.g. ‘Iter 4 d. 3’; marginal letters of the alphabet divide them into sections.

Pr. S.R.E. Cardinalis Bonaventuræ opera omnia, viii, ed. by A. C. Peltier (Paris 1866), pp. 393–482; repr. with intro. and corrigenda by Margot Schmidt (Stuttgart, 1985).

Stegmüller, Rép. Bibl., no. 7519.

B. Distelbrink, Bonaventurae scripta: authentica, dubia vel spuria critice recensita (Rome, 1975), pp. 124–25 no. 109.

Ending abruptly in the first sermon, despite the ‘tituli operis’ for all 32 sermons.

Variously attributed: formerly pr. among the works of Albertus Magnus, Bonaventura, and others (cf. Glorieux, Maîtres, II, p. 46 no. ‘bx’; Distelbrink, op. cit., p. 185 no. 206, under ‘dubia vel spuria’), but given to Aquinas by Schneyer, Repertorium, V, p. 608 nos. 412–13.

With spaces left for additions; some additions provided by several hands.

Volker Honemann, ‘Das Abstractum-Glossar in der Berliner Handschrift Ms. germ. quart 765 und der Breslauer Handschrift cod. IV. Q. 92: Beschreibung der Handschriften und Edition’, in Äußern und Bedeuten. Festschrift für Eckard Rolf, ed. by J. C. Freienstein, et al. (Tübingen, 2011), pp. 265–80, at 265.

In an Eastern Swabian dialect according to S. Mossmann, ‘Otto von Passau and the literary history of Basel in the later fourteenth century’, in Raum und Medium: Literatur und Kultur in Basel in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, ed. by J. Thali and N. F. Palmer (Berlin, 2020), pp. 107–51 at 133.

Mainly concerning concepts relating to the mind: sensus, ymaginacio, cogitacio, consideracio, meditacio, ingenium, ratio, intellectus, intelligencia, contemplacio, caritas, memoria, etc.

Miscellaneous short notes, including:

blank

with embedded ‘Minnebaumsprüche’

Twenty-seven spaces are left within the columns of text for diagrams or miniatures; next to each are captions in Latin and German.

See J. Theben, Die mystische Lyrik des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts: Untersuchungen – Texte – Repertorium (Berlin, 2010), pp. 47, 252 n. 432, 262, 482.

In an Eastern Swabian dialect according to Mossman, op. cit., 133.

Foliated and divided into uneven sections by letters in the margins, a–t, a–z, a–r, a–y, a–z, a–f.

Followed (fols. 94r–96r) by an alphabetical index, ending ‘Explicit tabula super Ave Maria’.

Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis Fr. Conradi a Saxonia, ed. L. Schmitz (Quaracchi, 1904).

Distelbrink, Bonaventurae scripta, 214; Glorieux Répertoire, ii, no. 305dp; Stegmüller, Rép. Bibl., nos. 2016–17.

Without the preface. Followed (fol. 99r–v) by an alphabetical index headed ‘Incipit tabula super eodem tractatu id est de luce’

Foliated 22–25 (continued from the previous text), and divided into uneven sections by letters in the margins, a–z.

ed. Francesca Galli, Il «De luce» di Bartolomeo da Bologna: Studio e edizione, Micrologus Library, 104 (Florence, 2021)

Glorieux Répertoire, ii, no. 319a (citing only 3 MSS., including the present one, as ‘Canonic. lat. script. eccl. 62[sic]’.

Blank.

Chapter numbers [1]–8 as running headings (often cropped).

Stegmüller, Rép. Bibl., nos. 4919, 5028; Sharpe, Handlist, p. 305, listing only 5 MSS. including the present one.

Mossman, op. cit., at pp. 132–135, and 140; part of fol. 101va is pr. in ibid. p. 134, and fol. 110vb at p. 135. See also B. Smalley, ‘John Russell, O.F.M.’, RTAM, 23 (1956), 277–320, briefly describing the present MS. at p. 285.

ed. H. B. Feiss & P. Sicard, L’œuvre de Hugues de Saint-Victor, i (Turnhout, 1997)

Listed among about 100 MSS. by R. Goy, Die Überlieferung der Werke Hugos von St. Viktor (Stuttgart, 1976), pp. 253–67, at 262.

Note on the love of God

Continued on fol. 143v, as indicated by a note on fol. 126v: ‘p(roximo?) folio 18 … signum┌.’

ed. J. Barbet, Commentaires du Cantique des cantiques, Textes philosophiques du moyen âge, 14 (1967), pp. 107–232.

Stegmüller, Rép. Bibl., no. 8201.

Preceded by a corresponding symbol ‘┌.’ and note, ‘require in secundo folio prioris sexterni per rem precedentem’.

ed. Peltier, Bonaventurae Opera Omnia, xii (1868), pp. 183–86.

Distelbrink, Bonaventurae scripta, p. 123 no. 107; Glorieux, Répertoire, i, p. 273 no. 116g.

Much of fol. 169v is blank; the rest of the quire has added texts written in a single column.

Variously titled in other MSS. e.g. Torneamentum monachorum, Torneamentum religiosorum.

Pr. Serapeum: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswissenschaft, Handschriftenkunde und ältere Literatur, 17 (1856), 285–87.

Chevalier 4075 citing only the present MS.; WIC 3634.

Ending before the end of Soliloquy I as pr. (among the works of Richard of Saint-Victor) in PL, cxcv, 105–07 (cf. PL, clviii, 773–79, in which it is treated as the beginning of Anselm’s Meditatio XIII); on the authorship see A. Wilmart, ‘La tradition des prières de Saint Anselme: Tables et notes’, Rev. bénéd., xxxvi (1924), at 59–60.

Cf. fols. 197r–198r below. Also present in MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 13, fol. 108r

Fols. 171v–172v blank

Without the prologue.

ed. Sancti Thomae Aquinatis Doctoris Angelici ordinis praedicatorum Opera omnia, xiv: Expositio in aliquot libros veteris testamenti (Parma, 1863), pp. 389–426.

Glorieux, Répertoire des maîtres, ii, p. 303 no. 400aw (and unde Thomas Aquinas, op. cit., i, pp. 101–02 no. 14eq ); Stegmüller, Rép. Bibl., 911 (citing the present MS.).

Brief added note listing the lengths of the first five Ages of the World (from Adam to Christ)

Fols. 186r–188v are blank.

Ed. A. Beccarisi, Texte aus der Zeit Meisters Eckhart, I: Bertram von Ahlen, Opera (Hamburg, 2004), pp. 9–42, compared to which the present MS. lacks the short salutation at the beginning of the prologue (‘Reverendo patri sacrae theologiae magistro fratri Gerardo ministro Coloniensi frater Bertramus de Alen …’); chapter I runs straight on from, and is treated as a continuation of the prologue (MS. line 13, edn. line 20); and ends near the end of Gradus II, chapter VII (edn. p. 42 l. 15), thus lacking ch. 8–15.

ed. P. Sicard, CCCM, 176 (2001), pp. 55–85.

PL, cxcv, 105–14; cf. fol. 170r above for further references.

The second column of fol. 198v blank.

Item added in an Italian humanist cursive hand. Most of the page is blank.

List of contents

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• Liber beati Augustini de cognitione vere vite, folio primo
• Liber de spiritu et anima beati Augustini, folio quarto
• Liber siue tractatus de septem donis spiritus sancti, folio 14º
• Sermo de conceptione beate virginis bonus, folio 33º
• Liber sive tractatus de itineribus eternitatis, folio 37º
• Inceptio tractatus de corpore Christi, folio 65º
• Vocabularium parvum, 66 folio
• Expositio arboris Danielis spiritualis, 73º folio
• Expositio super Ave Maria que dicitur viridarium uirginis, 79º
• Tractatus magistri Bartholomei de luce. Ego sum lux mundi, 100º
• Expositio bona et subtilis super Cantica, 105º
• Item Expositio Vercellensis super Cantica, folio 131º
• Tractatus de laudibus caritatis, 129º
• Tractatus Richardi de 12 patriarchis vel de contemplatione, 147º
• Tractatus de 7 gradibus contemplationibus brevis, 166º
• Soliloquium Hugonis, folio 167º
• Iuibilus monachorum, 173º
• Sermo dominica 5ª post Pascham petite etc., 173º
• Postilla super Cantica fratris Egidii, 176º
• Soliloquium Richardi

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Opening example also in Oxford, Lincoln College, MS. 130.

Non-consecutive leaves. Most of fol. iv recto, and all of the verso, blank.