HUGO, IOH. WALLENSIS, ETC.

MRJ number
170
College classmark
G.2

   Vellum, 8.75 x 6, ff. 147 + 6, 47, 38 etc. lines to a page.  14th, 15th cent., fairly well written.

   Given by J. Holt.

   From Bury St Edmunds.

   On flyleaf:

  H. 56.   Liber monachorum S. Edmundi. quem scribi fecit H(enricus) de k(irkstede).

   On f. 1: H. 56

   At the end:

 

  Frater h. de k. soluit pro scriptura istius libri viiis v(i)d.  pro pergameno iis viijd pro

legacione viiid summa xis xd.

 

   Collation:  Six flyleaves, 112 212 38 412 512 68 (wants 8) 78 (wants 8) | 88 118 | 124 | 1312 -1512 166 (wants 6).

   The six flyleaves are from a MS. of Isidore de summo bono, unfinished:

Summum bonum deus est.

 

   Contents:

         1.    Libellus Hugonis Canonici parisiensis s. victoris de institucione

                   nouiciorum         .               .               .               .               .               .         f.    2

                Quia largiente domino de uana conuersacione huius seculi

                   (CLXXVI 925)

                    -Bonitatem uero orate ut det nobis deus.  Amen (11b).

                f. 12 blank.

         2.    Inc. ordinarium uite religiose secundum alphabetum (by Joh.

                   Wallensis)          .               .               .               .               .               .               13

                Numquid nosti ordinem celi.

                Inc dietarium.  Quoniam omni negocio est tempus

                    -manus leuet.  Et in hoc sit finis istius colleccionis.

                Deo gratias.

         3.    Inc. Forma uite regularis et primo de uigiliis matutinis   .               45

                Fili conserua tempus

                    -et arcius stringit et uehementius afficit (?).

                (? unfinished : last chapter De temerario iudicio.)

         4.    In another hand    .               .               .               .               .               .               64

                Capitula and Inuentorium or Table to the following treatise,

                   ending 70a.  70b blank.  The former hand resumes.

                Inc. liber qui dicitur fformula nouiciorum (by David ab

                   Augusta ?).

                Primo considerare debes quare ueneris (CLXXXIV 1189).

                Ends 145b: acceptis uel promissis que nobis concedat deus

                   qui ui. et reg. in sec. sec.  Amen,

                f.146 blank,  f.147 reversed is a waste leaf of a similar treatise.

Manuscript extra information

 

Item 4 is a complete (3 book) text of David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (often known by the title of the first book as Formula novitiorum). It also seems to be related to the version of De ... compositione from which the Middle English translation was made. See P. S. Jolliffe, Mediaeval Studies 36 (1974), 259-77. The full Latin text is also to be found in Corpus Christi College MS. 256 and in Durham Cathedral MS. B.IV.42.
M. G. Sargent, 'Bonaventura English: a Survey of the Middle English Prose Translations of Early Franciscan Literature', Analecta Cartusiana 106:2 (1984), 168-9.
R.H. Rouse & M.A. Rouse (eds.), Henry of Kirkestede, Catalogus de Libris Autenticis et Apocrifis, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 11 (London, 2004) pp. xxxviii, lxxv, 243 (K244.16), 340 (K337.5), 519 (K666.21).