EPISTOLAE HIERONYMI
Vellum, 11.8 x 8.3, ff. 182 + 2, double columns of 37 lines. 15th cent. (1449). Written in the Netherlands.
Donor T. C. S. 2 fo. modum.
At the end, in red:
Explicit liber iste epistolarum b. iheronimi per manus fratis hermanni de bercka
a.d. 1449 scriptus in monte sancti iheronimi. orate pro eo.
On the flyleaf: Henrick van Rentzelaer. 1598 and W. Crashawe 1611.
At top an erased inscription of provenance: Liber congregacionis fratrum in monte sancti Iheronimi prope d.uen...(? Deventer).
Collation: a2 18 – 228 236.
Contents:
Epistolae S. Hieronymi numero quinquaginta.
Table. . . . . . . . . . . f. 1b
ia, iib blank.
Epistola gloriosi iheronimi et eximii doctoris ad marcellam de onaso.
1-17 ad Marcellam, 18 ad Furiam, 19 ad Saluinam, 20 ad Agerun-
chiam, 21 ad Paulam, 22 ad Pammachium, 23 ad matrem et
filiam in Gallia, 24 ad Thesifontem, 25 ad Aletham, 26 ad
Asellam, 27-8 ad Marcellam, 29 ad Theophilum, 30-1 ad
Fabiolam, 32 ad Celaenciam, 33 ad Sonniam et Pretelam, 34 ad
Cyprianum, 35 ad Theodoram, 36 ad Castorinam, 37 ad Prin-
cipiam, 38 ad Marcellam, 39 ad Demetriadem, 40 ad Susannam
lapsam, 41 ad Eustochium, 42 ad virgines Hermonenses, 43 ad
Demetriadem, 44 ad Marcellam, 45-6 ad Helvidiam, 47-48 ad
Algaziam, 49 ad Oceanum, 50 ad Principiam de obitu Marcelle.
There is a very fine initial in the Dutch style at the beginning of
the text, and smaller good ones the other Epistles.
Text ends f. 181a: legentibus placere desiderans.
f. 182 blank.
P.R. Robinson Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c.737-1600 in Cambridge libraries (Cambridge, 1988) vol. I, p. 85, no. 292; vol. II pl. 249 (fol. 2).