Parts 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 13: Low Countries, southern part?, 14th century - Parts 7, 12: Low Countries, southern part?, 14th century, first half - Parts 1, 3, 6: Low Countries, southern part?, 14th century, second half - Part 5: Low Countries, southern part?, 14th century, last quarter - Part 9: Low Countries, southern part?, 14th/15th century
Language
Latin
French
Title
Composite manuscript, thirteen parts (Latin, French)
Arbor vitiorum
Arbor virtutum
Summa de confessione
Ecloga
Parabolae
Omne punctum
De ventre
Constitutio pro reformatione ordinis Cisterciensis
Statuta ordinis Cisterciensis
Chronica
Dictionarius
Disticha Catonis
Legenda de beata Maria Egyptiaca et eius conversione
Regula beati Francisci
De regimine conservandae sanitatis
Fabulae Aesopicae
Glossae in Theoduli Eclogam
1. (ff. 1-20) Summa de confessione / Berengarius Fredoli. - 2. (ff. 21-57) Ecloga / Theodulus, and other text(s). - And other part(s), BPL 191 C
Content:
Part 1 contains: (f. 1v) Arbor vitiorum (drawing). - (ff. 2r-19v)
Summa de confessione / Berengarius Fredoli. - (f. 20r) Arbor
virtutum (drawing). - (f. 20v) Note on the ten plagues of
Egypt.
Part 2 contains: (ff. 21r-29r) Ecloga / Theodulus. Glossed. - (ff.
29r-43v) Parabolae / Alain de Lille. Glossed. - (ff. 43v-52r) Omne
punctum / Godefidus de Thenis. - (ff. 52v-57v) De ventre /
Pseudo-Ovid.
Part 3 contains: (ff. 58r-93v) Statutes of the Cistercian order /
pope Benedict XII. Incomplete: only the first part. - Also contains
excerpts of other statutes or decretals, and formulae from the
papal curia.
Part 4 contains: (ff. 94r-97r) Omne punctum / Godefridus de Thenis.
Incomplete: only the initial part. With glosses and notes written
partly in French.
Part 5 contains: (ff. 98r-100v) Chronicle / Willem of Vottem.
Excerpt on popes Urban VI and Clement VII.
Part 6 contains: (ff. 101v-108r) Dictionarius / John of Garland.
With commentary in Latin and translations in French. - (f. 108v)
Letter from pope Leo III to Charlemagne. - (f. 108v) Prayer to be
said during the Eucharist.
Part 7 contains: (ff. 109r-117r) Disticha Catonis. Glossed. - (f.
117v) Proverbs in Latin and French.
Part 8 contains: (ff. 118r-128r) Disticha Catonis. Glossed. - (f.
128v-129r) Note on some of Cato's verses. - (f. 129v) Unidentified
verses.
Part 9 contains: (ff. 130r-132v) Vita of St. Mary of Egypt. - (ff.
133r-134r) Rule of St. Francis / Francis of Assisi.
Part 10 contains: (ff. 135r-140v) Excerpts from texts on medicine /
Leonardus Bellarmie. Incomplete.
Part 11 contains: (ff. 141r-154r) De regimine conservandae
sanitatis / Leonardus Bellarmie.
Part 12 contains: (ff. 155r-168v) Moralised version of Aesop's
fables / Walter of England. Incomplete and text mixed up.
Part 13 contains: (ff. 170r-174v) Glosses on Theodulus' Ecloga.
Mutilated in the end. Note:
Foliation: Leaves were numbered by a slightly more recent hand. The
fact that the first folio is numbered 29 indicates that the first
28 leaves are missing. Between ff. 154 and 155 (numbered 186 and
189), two leaves are missing. Between ff. 100 and 101 4 leaves had
already been cut out prior to the time of the foliation. Likewise,
the ms. is incomplete at the end.
Binding: Post-medieval binding.
Textual: (ff. 2r-19v) Usually attributed to Berengarius Fredoli.
Incipit: "Quoniam circa confessiones animarum...". - (ff. 43v-52r)
Didactic poem in which a father addresses his son. - (ff. 52v-57v)
Incipit: "Concilium celebrant humani corporis artus". - (ff.
94r-97r) Text out of order: f. 94 belongs after f. 97. - (ff.
98r-100v) Willem of Vottem (Guilelmus de Votemia) was prior of the
monastery of the Benedictines of St. James, Liège, which owned
this manuscript. - (f. 108v) Claimed to be a letter of Christ which
fell from heaven and was sent to Charlemagne by pope Leo III. - (f.
129v) Incipit: "Ad sacrum pignus nemo veniat nisi dignus...". -
(ff. 130r-132v) Incipit: "In monasterio Palestinorum fuit vir...".
- (ff. 135r-140v) This part is damaged at the end, with consequent
loss of text. - (ff. 155r-168v) This moralised version is
attributed to an unidentified Walter the Englishman.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Geel 1852):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290750
Description (Molhuysen 1912):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3151098
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Also described by BNM, Jonas and MMDC. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
14th century
15th century