MS. Lat. th. e. 18
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Miscellaneous theological tracts; Germany, first half 15th century
Contents
including:-
The metrical penitentiary (Walther, Alphab. Verzeichnis 13564), pr. P.L. 207 col. 1154-5 with a different commentary from those found in the printed editions. In the prologue (fol.4v) the author is (wrongly) said to be John of Garland.
Pr. Opp. ed. L.E. du Pin, Antwerp 1706, tom.1 col.427–450.
Pr. Opp. tom. II col. 406–411.
Pr. Opp. tom. II col.457–9.
With a shorter text than that of the printed editions and a different prologue.
Pr. Opp. tom. II col.415, 416
Another text, more abbreviated and altered than at fol. 118 above.
Draft of a begging letter in German followed by two sentences in Latin.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
25–35 long lines.
Hand(s)
Written in several hands.
Decoration
Plain red initials.
Binding
Contemporary limp skin binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Liber domus sancte Barbare in Colonia ordinis Carthusiensis', 15th century (fol. 1).
Note referring to the revenues of ‘domus Duckelhuysel’ (Tückelhausen, a Carthusian cell near Würzburg) 15th cent. (fol.142).
'Iste liber est concessus Georgio Effrem ... colonia', 'I xlix' (front inside cover, partly scored out).
Leander van Ess (1772-1847), MS. 302 (see Hermann Knaus, 'Die Handschriften des Leander van Eß', Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, vol. 1 (pts. 3/4, 1956), 1958, 331-6, and Milton McC. Gatch, ed., 'so precious a foundation': The Library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, New York, 1996).
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), MS. 686, his sale at Sotheby's, 1910, lot 382.
Bought, 1930.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.