Content:
Part 1 contains, in Latin: (ff. 1r-2r) Epistula ad Cornelium Hoen /
Cornelius Aurelius. - (f. 3v) Apologema dialogicum libri ad autorem
/ Cornelius Aurelius. - (f. 4r-v), Epistulae mutuae / Judocus
Visicampius, Cornelius Aurelius. - (ff. 5r-7r) Author libri ad
civitatem Traiectensem, in praeconiam Hadriani VI, summi
pontificis. - (f. 7r) Prosopopeia libri ad Hadrianum VI. - (f. 7v)
Epistula ad Hadranianum Leontium Gaudanum). - Empty: ff. 2v-3r,
8r-9v.
Part 2 contains: (ff. 10r-40r) Apocalipsis et visio mirabilis super
misrabili statu matris ecclesiae / Cornelius Aurelius. - (ff.
40v-41v) Carmina de Hadriano VI / Cornelius Aurelius. - Empty: f.
42r-v.
Part 3 contains: (ff. 43r-45r) Epistula consolatoria ad Cornelium
Hoen / Cornelius Aurelius. - (ff. 45r-57v) De patientia / Cornelius
Aurelius. - (ff. 57v-65v) Epistula exhortatoria ad Cornelium Hoen /
Cornelius Aurelius. - (ff. 65v-71v) Vita et passio summi et
martyris Christi Cornelii / Cornelius Aurelius. - (ff. 72r-v)
Carmina sapphica de septem dominici sanguinis effusionibus" /
Cornelius Aurelius.
Part 4 contains: (ff. 73r-126v) Poems on the life and passion of
various saints (Latin) / Cornelius Aurelius.
Part 5 contains: (ff. 127r-131r, 134r-v) Poems on the death of Jan
II van Wassenaer / Cornelius Aurelius. - (ff. 131r-134r) Epistula
ad Florentium de IJsselstein / Cornelis Aurelius. Note:
Date: Considering the contents (e.g. the carmen on pope Adrian VI),
the manuscript can probably be dated c. 1520-1525. - (ff. 1-9) Most
of the letters date from c. 1522-1524, when Aurelius stayed
temporarily in the monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Michael
(In den Hem/Sint-Maartensdonk), Schoonhoven.
According to Molhuysen 1910, the manuscript consists of 4 parts
(2-5) and later added leaves (ff. 1-8).
Script: Based on a note on f. 2 written by Cornelius Aurelius in
the monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Michael (In den
Hem/Sint-Maartensdonk), Schoonhoven. It's not clear whether the
whole manuscript is autograph.
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Parchment cover, no
boards, with fore-edge flap (rectangular, closing back to front);
tacketed. Limp binding. - With table of contents on the inside of
the front cover: "Continentur in hoc volumine ...".
Textual: (ff. 74r-126v) According to Tilmans 1988, also contains a
prayer to St. Mary and a dialogue "...duarum sororem ex uno patro
deo progenitarum Gratiae et Naturae". - (ff. 127r-134r) "De
egregiis illustris domini de wassenair facinoribus quae egit apud
phrysios. Prosopopeia phrisiae sub tipo cuiusdam magnae dominae
vementis nocturna visione ad nobilem dominum ac principem dominum
Johannem de Wassenair petentisque ab eo auxilium pro suis".
Transcription, translation and commentary (in Dutch) by Felix
Jacobs in Van Wassenaer 2022, p. 285-318.
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Senguerdius & 1716):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
Description (Molhuysen 1910):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3151050
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Also described by BNM and MMDC. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
16th century
