MS. Lyell 59

The text is divided into about 230 short sections, with headings. This is the metrical version of the Summa of St. Raymundus de Penafort, generally known as the ‘Summula Raimundi’ or ‘Summula pauperum’, found here without its prologue. A number of MSS. attribute it to ‘Adam’; see bibliography in Mittelalt. Hss. der Univ. Basel Abt. B. (Theologie), 1, 1960, pp. 628–9; further MSS. listed by WIC 9117. The author was probably Adam of Aldersbach; see F. Vails Tabemer, ‘La Summula Pauperum de Adam de Aldersbach’, Spanische Forschungen der Görresgesellschaft Reihe 1, Bd. 7 (1938), 69–71. Munich clm. 2633, 14th cent., from Aldersbach, fol. 83, has the title ‘Adami magistri Alderspacensis summa Raimundi’. This MS. (see A. Franz, Die Messe im deutschen Mittelalter, Freiburg im B., 1902, p. 484 n. 2), Munich clm. 14104, St. Emmeran, 15th cent., and Paris B.N. lat. 14927, 13th cent, (see Hauréau, N.E. 11 (1891), 210), have the two extra lines on Adam at the end, as in our MS.

Editions discussed by Vails Tabemer, op. cit., pp. 78–82. The closest to our MS. in order and content are probably those by Quentell, Cologne, 1495–1508, though they show considerable differences, especially at the end. After the 3 lines beg.: Virgo si rapitur (MS., fol. 22v; ed. of 1508, fol. cxxxvv) the edition is quite different, including many verses not in our MS. and omitting several which are in it.