AUGUSTINUS. CASSIODORIUS
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Skin over flat boards, clasp gone, projections at top and bottom of back,
painted edges.
Title on the 2nd cover near the edge. Aug. de pastorss: below, C.
Donor, T. C. S. Priced 15s.
From Waltham Abbey. On flyleaf: Liber S. Crucis de Waltham.
Collation: 1 flyleaf, 18 – 48 (8 canc.) 58 66 78 – 138 (8 stuck to cover).
The cover is lined with a leaf of a theological MS. of similar date and
style to the rest of the volume.
On f. 1 is an original list of contents.
Contents:
1. Aur. Augustini Doctoris de pastoribus sermo inc. (XXXVIII 270) . f. 2
Spes tota nostra quia in Christo est
-Qui uos cogunt ad unitatem. Expl. Sermo b. Aug.
egregii doctoris de pastoribus.
2. Inc. eiusdem Sermo de ouibus (XXXVIII 295) . . . . 17b
Uerba que cantauimus
-dicit dominus deus noster. Expl. Sermo b. Aug. doct.
de ouibus.
3. Aur. Augustini Doctoris Lib. inc. de cura gerenda pro mortuis
ad Paulinum Ep. (XL 591) . . . . . . . 32
Diu sanctitati tue
-mea responsio defuisset. Expl. lib. S. Aug. de cura
agenda pro mortuis.
4. Inc. lib. S. Augustini de disciplina Christianorum (XL 667) . . 46
Locutus est ad nos sermo dei.
-Ego et pater unum sumus conuersi ad dominum.
5. Inc. lib. S. Augustini de decem cordis (XXXVIII 75) . . . 52
Dominus et deus noster misericors
-ibi inueniamur.
6. Inc. lib. S. Aug. ep. De Simbolo contra Judeos (XLII 1117) . . 63b
Inter pressuras atque angustias.
-Ipse est enim qui ui. et reg. deus per om. sec. sec. Amen.
7. Two pages of diagrams illustrating the cardinal virtues . . 76b
Text begins: Uirtus est animi habitus nature modo atque
rationi consentaneus.
77b blank.
8. Inc. capitula libri Aurelii Cassiodori Magni Senatoris de anima
(LXX 127a) . . . . . . . . . . 78
Text. Cum iam suscepti operis.
Ends 98a: nomen maiestatis tue in eternum.
Expl. Cassiod. de anima.
Item 7, the text ends 'Stabilem comparat auctoritatem'. All definitions of the virtues are taken from Cicero, De inventione, II. 53-4, which is nearly completely quoted.