Part 1: German regions, southwestern part, 13th century ;
Language
Latin
Title
Composite manuscript, two parts (Latin): 1 (ff. 1-3) Dialogus miraculorum / Caesarius of Heisterbach. - 2 (ff. 4-172) Summa de penitentia / Burchard of Strasbourg, ABL 19
Form:
1 volume, 172 leaves ; Part 1: ff. 1-3 : drawing ; 180x130 mm; Part
2: ff. 4-172 ; 180x132 mm Content:
Part 1 contains: (ff. 1r-33) Dialogus miraculorum / Caesarius of
Heisterbach. Incomplete (part of an anthology). - (f. 3v) Arbor
consanguinitatis (drawing, added in the 14th century, in
combination with part 2).
Part 2 contains: (ff. 4r-8r) Table of contents. - (ff. 8v-172v)
Summa de penitentia / Burchard of Strasbourg. Note:
The scribe took the last quire of a 13th-century manuscript (German
regions, southwestern part) , an empty sexternio, except for the
first pages (now ff. 1r-3r) and started his own work from f. 4r
onwards.
Illustration: (f. 3v) Full page pen drawing (partly coloured) of a
king, arms spread, showing the "arbor consanguinitatis"
(tree-shaped table indicating the genealogy of a family). Added
later to illustrate the Summa.
Binding: Post-medieval binding
Textual: (ff. 8v-172v) Unpublished treatise, divided in four books.
Incipit (f. 8v) "Symonia dicitur heresis. non quod ipse actus sit
hereticus. sed credere libenter posse emi spiritualia vel eis
anexa. Quid sit symonia? R. Symonia est studiosa voluntas emendi
vel vendendi aliquid spirituale vel spiritualis anexum ...".
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (Boeren 1970):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:121270
Also described by BNM and MMDC.
Acquired as part of the D'Ablaing collection in 1890. Part of:
Ablaing, W.M. d' (1851-1889) Ownership:
Owned by Buxheim Charterhouse, 16th-18th century (notes on ff. 1r,
3r). Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
14th century
