Vellum, 7 x 5, ff. 103 + 4, 18 lines to a page.  15th cent., in a large upright hand.

    Old stamped leather over boards, clasp gone: principal stamp a six petalled flower.

    Donor, T. C. S.

    From the abbey of Doesborch.

    On flyleaves: 

                                            pertinet fratribus in doesborch.

    Also, very small:

                                                 Willielmus denesson.

    Collation: 2 flyleaves, 1⁸ - 13⁸ (wants 8), 2 flyleaves.

    At each end is part of a leaf of a 13th cent. Psalter with antiphons, over which neumes are written.

    At the beginning is also a fragment, unfinished, of a 15th cent. service book.

Contents:

    1.    Epistola b. Bernardi ex persona helie ad parentes eius.     .         .         .     f. 1

           Sola causa qua licet non obedire parentibus (CLXXXII 253)

                 -in eius amore uiuamus per omnia sec. sec.  Amen.

    2.    Inc. opus insigne b. Bernardi de uerecundia adolescentum

             (l.c. v 559)            .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .       3b

           Hortatur quidem timidam (CLXXXIV 561)

                 -et flebilis supplexque ora. deo gracias.

           Expl. opus S. bernardi de uerecundia adolescentum siue de

             morum (!) nouiciorumque institutione.

    3.    Inc. liber b. Bernardi de consciencia    .         .         .         .         .         .        41

           Domus hec in qua habitamus (CLXXXIV 507).

           Ends f. 103a: quam terrestrium occupacione (l.c. v 507).