Contents:f. 1r: A table of contents. f. 2r: Excerpt from St
Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Retractationes (Retractions) (Book 2,
chapter 53), beginning: 'Scripsi duos libros ad illustrem virum
Valerium comitem'. ff. 2r-3r: St Augustine, Epistola ad Volusianum
(Epistle to Volusianus), beginning: 'Epistula Sancti Augustini ad
comitem Valerium. Domino illustri et merito prestantissimo filio
Volusiano'. ff. 3r-45r: St Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia
(On Marriage and Concupiscence), beginning: 'Incipit liber Aurelii
Augustini Ypponensis episcopi ad Valerium comitem de nuptiis et
concupiscentia. Heretici novi dilectissime fili Valeri'; Book 1
(ff. 3r-19v); Book 2 (ff. 19v-45r). ff. 45r-63v: St Augustine, De
perfectione iustitiae hominis (On Man's Perfection in
Righteousness), beginning: 'Incipit liber Aurelii Augustini
Ypponiensis episcopi ad Paulum et Eutropium episcopos de
perfectione iustitie hominis. Sanctis fratribus et coepiscopis
Eutropio et Paulo Augustinus'. ff. 64r-94r: St Augustine, De
catechizandis rudibus (On Instructing the Unlearned), preceded by
an excerpt from the Retractationes (Book II, chapter 14) that is
related to this work (ff. 64r-64v), beginning: 'Est liber unus de
catechizandis rudibus hoc ipso titulo prenotatus'. De catechizandis
rudibus begins on f. 65r: 'Petisti a me frater Deogratias, ut
aliquid ad te de cathecizandis rudibus'. Decoration:A full-page
length initial 'P'(etisti) with interlace, floriated and zoomorphic
decoration in red and blue (f. 65r). A large decorated initial
'I'(nter), with interlace, penwork decoration, and zoomorphic
motifs, in red and green (f. 19v). A large initials with zoomorphic
and anthropomorphic figures and penwork decoration in red, blue and
green (ff. 3r, 45v). Decorated initials with penwork decoration,
including zoomorphic and human figures, in red, green and blue,
some with pen-flourishing (ff. 2r, 24v). Initials with penwork
decoration and/or pen-flourishing in red and green, throughout.
Initials in red or green. A framed incipit with geometric motifs in
green, red and yellow (f. 1r). A large decorated frame with the
title of the work, added in the modern period (f. 64r).
Instructions for the rubricator. Rubrics in red. Quire signatures
in Roman numerals.
