Physical description

Paper. 310 x 220mm. 375 ff. Collation: 1¹²-22¹², 23¹² (wants 12). Has suffered from damp. Binding: half pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasp and catch.

Contents

1. ff.1r-204v Commentary on passages from the Gospels. Begins: 'Rogatus aquibusdam Sociis ut dominicalia et festorum ab abuentu domini ...' Ends: '... absolucio sacerdotis non ualeat qui est in peccato'.
2. ff.205r-216v 'De imitacione Christi et contemptu omnium uanitatum mundi'. Book 1.
3. ff.216v-224r Book 2.
4. ff.224r-254r Book 3.
5. ff.254r-266r Book 4 (f.266r: 'Et sic est finis de uenerabilissimo eucharistio sacramento Tractatus Scriptus per me fridricum hertzog de ysnina Anno domini m^o cccc^o xlviiii).
6. ff.266v-268v 'Explicit tractus de officio misse editus a ... Thome deaquino ...'.
7. ff.268v-274r '... hic incipit alius tractatus deofficio misse editus per ... Bonauentura ...'.
8. ff.274v-275r Begins: 'Quicumque ieiunauit uigiliam autem aliud iuxta confessoris ...' Ends: '... Qui uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum Amen'.

Date

1449 according to the note on f.266r.

Provenance

'Cartusianorum in Buxheim' appears at the head of f.1r. i.e. the Carthusian Monastery at Buxheim, Germany.
Signature of 'Eadmd Waterton' inside front cover (19th century).
Purchased from Sotheby's in 1923 by Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth (Sotheby's catalogue entry of 4 June 1923 enclosed).
Purchased by George Udny Yule at the Harmsworth sale, Sotheby's 15 October 1945, lot 1888 (see enclosed letter to Yule from H. Clifford Maggs, dated 6 October 1945).
Bequeathed by 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. 116.