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MS. Lat. th. e. 23

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

A Augustine, Ps.-Augustine, etc.; printed book [Speyer, c. 1472]. B Devotional and theological treatises; Germany (Regensberg), 1473

Physical Description

Composite: two parts: fols. 1–28 (printed book) || fols. 29–98
Secundo Folio: sed audiat
Form: codex
Extent: i + 99 (28 + 71) + i leaves
Foliation: i, 1–100, in 20th-century pencil

Binding

Modern sewing; bound in German(?) dark gray patterned paper over pasteboards; the flat spine blank except for the shelfmark.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

The two parts were presumably bound together from the beginning, as Part A has rubrics by Johannes Tüchler, who wrote Part B.

Perhaps belonged to the hospital of St Katherine in Regensburg, as suggested by Bod-Inc and MEI.

Probably identifiable as Sotheby's, 30 May 1840 ('... rare and curious books ... consigned from Germany'), lot 47.

Purchased by the Bodeian for 10 shillings (Books Purchased (1840), 3). Former Bodleian shelfmarks: ‘VII. Q. 4. 44.’ (front pastedown), i.e. printed book Auct. 7Q 4.44; handed over to the Department of Western Manuscripts and accessioned with the current shelfmark on ‘15.iv.[19]41.’ (fol. 1r). Cf. ‘Notable Accessions’, BLR, 1 no. 15 (1941), 255–58.

MS. Lat. th. e. 23 – Part A (fols. 1–28)

Contents

Augustine and Pseudo-Augustine, De fuga mulierum, De continentia, De contemptu mundi, etc.

Printed at Speyer c. 1472. Cf. GKW, no. 2956; ISTC ia01280000; MEI 00212060; Bod-Inc A-577

Rubrics in the hand of Johannes Tüchler, for whom see below.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: c. 1472; Germany, Speyer

MS. Lat. th. e. 23 – Part B (fols. 29–99)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

(fols. 29r–39r)
Jean Gerson, De pollutione nocturna et praeparatione ad missam
Rubric: Tractatus magistri Iohanis Gerson Cancellarii Parisiensis de pollucione
Incipit: Dubitatum est apud me frequenter et diu
Explicit: Et hoc est omnis homo deo gratiarum digne super reddat acciones. Amen.
Colophon: : Explicit tractatulus … de trepidantibus celebrare et de pollutionibus &c per me Johanem tüchler tunc temporis socium diuinorum Ratisbone in hospitali in pede pontis die Martis xx Iulij anno lxxiij
Jean Gerson, Œuvres complètes, ed. Glorieux, 9 (Paris, 1973), no. 425 pp. 35–50
(fols. 39v–42r)
Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Formula honestae uitae
Rubric: Incipit speculum beati Bernhardi abbatis de honestate vite
Incipit: Petis a me fili et frater quod nunquam et nusquam aliquem a suo prouisore audiui petisse
Explicit: et in eternum non peccabis &c
Final rubric: Explicit speculum beati Bernhardi de honestate vite

Pr. PL 184 col. 1167–1170D

(fols. 42r–46v)
Arnulfus de Boeriis (Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux), Octo puncta perfectionis assequendae
Rubric: Incipiunt octo puncta mediante quibus peruenitur ad perfeccionem vite spiritualis cuiusdam scilicet Bernhardi
Incipit: Hec octo si bene excolueris
Explicit: esto cautus contra insidias diaboli ne te abducat ab eis.
Final rubric: Expliciunt octo puncta beato Bernhardi ad discipulum suum …

Pr. PL 184 col. 1181–1186

(fols. 47r-52v)
Sermon on the Assumption
Rubric: De assumpcione Marie virginis sermo bonus
Incipit: Que est ista que ascendit de deserto […] Cant VI. Hec verba locutus est salomon in persona supernorum
Explicit: ad eternam vitam. Ad quam nos perducere dignetur pater et filius et spiritus sanctus. Amen

Unidentified.

(fols. 53r–62r)
‘Liber caritatis’

Consisting mainly of a series of prayers, in three parts

Rubric: Incipit liber caritatis seu tractatulus caritatis beati Dominici predicatoris eximii
Rubric: Liber caritiatis seu tractatulus caritatis
Incipit: (prologue) Legimus in libro de vita sancti dominici predicatoris eximii quod requisitus de predicationum sublimitate
Rubric: Incipit prima pars
Incipit: (text) O sapiencia eterna, splendor glorie et figura substancie
Explicit: (text) nec ulla fortune sors separet sed permaneat morte fortior noster amor in evum. Amen
Final rubric: Explicit liber caritatis beati Dominici predicatoris eximii.

Cf. Mainz, StaatsBibl., Hs I 154, fols. 198v–199r, and Munich, BSB, Clm 544, fols. 151v–161v.

Fols. 63v–64v are blank, fol. 65 is the start of a new quire

(fols. 65r–70v)
Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum peccatoris
Rubric: Speculum mortis beati Augustini
Rubric: Incipit speculum mortis Augustini
Incipit: Quoniam karissimi. In via huius vite fugientis sumus Nostri dies sicut umbra pretereunt
Explicit: et cum domino nostro Ihesu Christo vitam eternam possideatis. Amen. Qui cum patre … secula seculorum Amen
Final rubric: Explicit speculum mortis beati Augustini episcopi memorijs hominum intime commendandum

Pr. PL 40 cols. 983–992; Stegmüller, RB, II, no. 1481

(fols. 70v–75v)
Norma uiuendi
Rubric: Epistola sew libellus honorabilis Ysidori de norma vite ad quendam adolescentem
Incipit: Age fili ut oportet, age ut decet, age ut dignum est
Explicit: Vide deinceps ne quod bonum quod cepisti despicias
Final rubric: Explicit libellus honorabilis Ysidori de norma vite &c.

Pr. PL 83 cols. 1247–1252

(fols. 76r–80v)
Patrick of Dublin, De tribus habitaculis animae
Rubric: Incipit libellus Augustini de tribus tabernaculis
Rubric: Augustini libellus de tribus tabernaculis
Incipit: Tria sunt sub omnipotentis dei manu habitacula Primum, ijmum, et medium
Explicit: benigum et misericordem Cui est honor et gloria et nunc et semper per omnia secula seculorum Amen
Final rubric: Explicit libellus Augustini Aurelii de tribus tabernaculis 1473

Ed. A. Gwynn, Script. Lat. Hibern. 1, pp.106–124; PL 40 cols. 991–998

(fols. 81r–98v)
Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis
Rubric: Bernhardus
Incipit: Multi multa sciunt et se ipsos nesciunt
Explicit: unum eumdemque dominum glorie qui vivit et regnat per infinita secula. Amen.
Final rubric: Explicit meditacio sancti Bernhardi abbatis de custodia sui quam misit ad amicum suum &c.

Pr. PL 184 cols. 485–508

Language(s): Latin
(fol. 98v)
Colophon: In vigilia xj milium virginum [20 Oct.] per me Johannem Tüchler de Saltendorff tunc temporis indignum presbiterum in hospitali in Ratispone in pede pontis extra muros civitatis Anno MºCCCCºlxxiiiº

Fols. 99–100 blank.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper, with a narrow parchment MS. waste reinforcement strip at the centre of each quire; apparently one watermark (clearest on fols. 63 and 99), bull's head with crown and seven-petalled flower, type Piccard Ochsenkopf XV.358.
Extent: 71 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130–50 × 100–110 mm.

Collation

1(12)–3(12) (fols. 29–64), 4(12)-5(12) (fols. 65–88), 6(12–1) (fols. 89–99: last blank presumably cancelled)

Layout

No ruling visible, written with 26–29 long lines per page

Hand(s)

Gothic cursive, the hand of Johannes Tüchler.

Decoration

Plain red initials

History

Origin: 1473 ; German, Regensburg, Spitalkirche St Katharina

Provenance

Written by Johannes Tüchler of Saltendorff, of the Spitalkirche St Katharina, next to the Steinerne Brücke, Regensburg, in 1473: with his colophons dated 20 July 1473 (fol. 39r), 1473 (fol. 80v), and 20 Oct. 1473 (fol. 98v).

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description by Peter Kidd (March 2021), edited by Matthew Holford. Previously described in unpublished typescript by Bodleian Library staff, n.d.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-03-25: Revised description for Polonsky German digitization project.