Physical description

Vellum. 170 x 130mm. 170 ff. Collation: 1⁸-8⁸, 9⁶, 10⁸-13⁸, 14¹² (wants 2), 15⁸-17⁸, 18¹⁰, 19⁸, 20⁸, 21⁸ (wants 6). Written in two clear hands. Binding: 19th century vellum, endpapers with watermark dated 1823.

Contents

1. ff.1r-7r 'Incipit opusculum magistri Jo. gerson de indulgenciis'.
2. ff.7r-15r 'Incipit tractatus eiusdem utilis pro confessoribus'.
3. ff.15v-19v 'Incipit tractatus eiusdem de remediis contra recidiuum peccandi dandis a confessoribus'.
4. ff.19v-27r 'Declaratio compendiosa que ueritates de necessitate salutis credende que de sola probilitate tenende que de pietate fidei et que sint impertinentes iudicande ...'.
5. ff.27r-40v 'Incipit tractatus magistri Johannis gerson de remediis contra pusillanimitatem et scrupulositatem et deceptorias inimici consolationes'.
6. ff.41r-57v 'Sequuntur documenta pro deuotis simplicibus qualiter se discrete in suis exerciciis habere debeant per magistrum Jo. gerson ...'.
7. ff.57v-67r 'Responsiua magistri Jo. gerson ... super quatuor questionibus patentibus in processu infra quarum prima est ...'.
8. ff.67v-78r 'Incipit epistola magistri Jo. gerson quondam missa prouinciali celestinorum'.
9. ff.78v-85r 'Incipit epistola magistri Jo. gerson de libro fratris Johannis Ruysbroeck qui intitulatur de ornatu spiritualium nupciarum'.
10. ff.85r-107v 'Incipit libellus fratris Johannis de Scoenhouia in quo nititur defendere quedam dicta fratris Jo. Ruysbroeck contra ... Johannem gerson ...'.
11. ff.108r-113v 'Rescripta magistri Johannis gerson super excusatione facta per fratrem Johannem de Scoenhouia qui nisus est uelle saluare quedam dicta per Jo. Ruysbroeck posita in 3^a parte libri sui de ornatu spiritualium nupciarum'.
12. (Change of hand) ff.114r-147v 'Crisostomus de reparatione lapsi'. (f.147v 'Explicit Epistola beati Johannis Crisostomi ad Amanticum lapsum De reparacione eiusdem utilis multum ad conuersionem peccatoris ac desperantis consolacionem.1459.')
13. ff.148r-168v 'Prefatio super septem psalmos penitentiales edita a magistro petro de Alyaco Episcopo quondam Cameracensi' (f.168v: 'Explicit libellus de vii gradibus penitentialibus a domino petro de Alyaco episcopo Cameracensi compilatus')
14. f.169 Begins: 'iudica ne ut discernas merita que michi erunt uite uel mortis causa ...' Ends: '... animalis homo a quo me separare nequeo de quo alibi'.

Date

1459 according to the note on f.147v.

Provenance

'Pertinet m[onasterio] bethleem p[ro]pe louaniu[m] liber iste' at bottom of f.168v i.e. from the convent of Bethleem near Louvain, founded 1407. Also 'Bet[ ]em' on f.1r.
Bequeathed by George Udny Yule in 1951 (label inside front cover).

Bibliography

R. Beadle, 'Dated and datable manuscripts in Cambridge libraries', English manuscript studies 1100-1700 3 (1992), 244.
I.C. Cunningham & A.G. Watson (eds.), Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries by N.R. Ker. V Indexes and Addenda (Oxford, 2002) no. 118.