Bonaventura; Jean Gerson; Adam of Dryburgh, etc.

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Title

Bonaventura; Jean Gerson; Adam of Dryburgh, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Lyell 61

Place of origin

Austrian (?)

Date

1452–1453

Language

Latin

Works attributed to Bonaventura

a. (p. 1) Bonaventure Itinerarium mentis in Deum

b. (p. 46) Ps.-Bonaventure De septem gradibus contemplationis

Rubric: Epilogatio premissorum

c. (p. 49) Bonaventure De triplici uia

Jean Gerson Treatises and extracts

a. (p. 73) De libris legendis a monacho

Incipit: Grada et pax. Si inimicos iubemur diligere

Rubric: Incipiunt considerationes ad propositum. Consideratio prima

b. (p. 83) Rubric: Item Epistula eiusdem magistri Iohannis Gerson de religionis perfectione ac moderamine missa ad Carthusiam cuidam monacho quem in seculo noverat eo quod medicus domini Saludarum fuerit

c. (p. 102) Rubric: Sequitur questio predicti magistri, scilicet Gerson, de peccato detractionis utilis valde

d. (p. 111) Rubric: Sequitur tractatulus eiusdem, scilicet Gerson, de meditatione cordis, utilis valde, considerationes habet 17

e. (p. 122) Rubric: Sequitur tractatus eiusdem de simplificatione cordis continens considerationes 23

f. (p. 142) Rubric: Magistri Iohannis Gerson. / Tractatus cuius supra editus in Concilio Constantiensi de oratione et valore eius sub pluribus considerationibus. Prima pars est manuductiva in ipsius considerationes, ostendens proprie pertinere ad monachi vocationem et professionem orationi insistere, in qua qualis esse debeat ipsum instruit

g. (p. 177) Rubric: Sequitur Tractatus eiusdem de preparatione misse. Qui alias intytulatur de pollucionibus nocturnis

h. (p. 203) Rubric: Incipit tractatus eiusdem Reverendi magistri Iohannis cancellarii de cognitione castitatis seu de pollutionibus diurnis seu in vigilia

i. (p. 222) Rubric: Responsio eiusdem magistri scilicet Gerson de modo confessionis et absolutionis sacramentalis super questione sibi facta de statuto ordinis Carthusiensium quo dicitur. Nullus absolvat a mortali certo, sed confitentem remittat ad priorem suum

k. (p. 225) Rubric: Magistralis et brevis distinctio predicti magistri de modis excommunicationum et irregularitatum et absolutionis ab eisdem

Rubric: De iniunctione penitentie

l. (p. 230) Rubric: Sequitur tractatus eiusdem de sollicitudine ecclesiasticorum ad fratres Celestinos scriptus, primo tamen premittuntur dubia sibi de eadem materia proposita

m. (p. 270) Rubric: Ex tractatu eiusdem egregii doctoris de contractibus notabilis sententia ponitur hic, et est pro consolatione religiosorum

n. (p. 273) Rubric: Incipit tractatus predicti doctoris eggregii et cancellarii Parisiensis de theologia mistica, qui alias intitulatur de contemplacione speculative et practice tradita. Et est tractatus multum egregius. Prologus

o. (p. 352) De Mystica Theologia, Tractatus practicus

p. (p. 404) Rubric: Incipit opusculum ad elucidationem scolasticam théologie mistice sub duodecim considerationibus a predicto doctore, scilicet Gerson, compilatum

q. (p. 417) Rubric: Sequitur doctrina eiusdem per modum tractatuli utilis valde pro devotis simplicibus qualiter se in suis exerciciis discrete et caute habeant originaliter per ipsum edita in vulgari gallico, in latinum per alium translata ut apparet (p. 418) ex stilo. De discretione in genere

r. (p. 445) Rubric: Ex eiusdem egregii doctoris tractatu qui intitulatur tractatus conclusionum sequenda sunt exerpta

3. (p. 454) Devotional treatise

4. (p. 476) Adam of Dryburgh Soliloquium de instructione animae

Incipit: In presenti libello continentur infra notata. / Primo Itinerarius[sic] mentis in Deum doctoris seraphici / …

Inside the front binding another hand has written:

On pp. 71–2, which were originally blank, the scribe added some excerpts:

a. (p. 71) Rubric: Quedam notabilia et valde edificatoria

b. (p. 72) Rubric: Materia optima contra superbos

A written leaf has been cut out after p. 72.

The parchment flyleaves (pp. i–ii, 526–7) are two cut-down leaves, possibly consecutive, from a late 13th cent.(?) collection of sermons or notes for sermons. Incipits included are:

a. (p. i) Incipit: Positus est hic in signum, etc. Luc. Solus Christus positus est in ruinam malorum

Incipit: Beatus Iohannes evangelista qui in spiritu Domini vidit secreta celestia

c. (p. ii) Incipit: Post triduum invenerunt eum parentes eius in templo. Luc. Consuetudo fuit apud iudeos

d. (p. 526) Incipit: Nuptie facte sunt in Chana Galee. Debemus scire quod matrimonium tripliciter institutum est

b. (p. 527) Incipit: Et factum est post triduum. Luc. In hoc evangelio tria docemur. Primo quod dolere debemus de Dei amissione.

The front pastedown is a leaf from a 15th-cent. paper MS. It contains notes on the chapter divisions of Maccabees II, on the position of ‘the 8 non-canonical books’ of the O.T., and on the number of chapters in various books of the O.T.

Form

codex

Support

paper, watermarks, scales in circle, or in cartouche, close to Briquet 2467 and 2469

Physical extent

ii+530 pages (p. 141 is double, 453 is treble, pp. i–ii, 526–7 are flyleaves),

Hands

Written, probably in Austria, in 1452–3 (see pp. 45, 82, 525) in a current fere-hybrida

Decoration

Plain red initials.

Binding

Contemporary binding of wooden boards covered with white leather, with one metal clasp (similar to one of those on MS. Lyell 60) on leather strap, fastening to edge of upper cover; sewing strengthened in the middle of the quires with strips of parchment taken from manuscripts; two 15th–16th-cent. parchment labels, with list of contents and shelfmark.

Acquisition

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Provenance

Belonged to the Abbey of Melk in Austria and was probably copied there. On p. 1031s the 15th-cent. note: Tiber iste est monasterii Mellicensis’ and the MS. was no. C. 97 in the 1483 Melk catalogue (Gottlieb, op. cit., p. 187). The parchment label on the front cover with the shelfmark D. 31 possibly derives from Stephan Burchard’s catalogue made between 1507 and 1517, see Gottlieb, p. 139. On p. 1 are the 17th-cent.(?) notes: Monasterii Mellicensis, and lit. D. 31: the second is in the same hand as the similar note in MS. Lyell 60 (fol. 1r). The MS. had the shelfmark B. 23 (probably given it by B. Pez, see Gottlieb, p. 141) by 1721 (see item 4 above). No. 58 (B. 23) in Cat. Codd. MSS’ MeUic. 1, 1889, pp. 109–13.

Bought by Lyell in December 1937 from E. P. Goldschmidt and Co.; see his Cat. 100, no. 1.

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948

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