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  • 1400 - 1431
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    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 526: Spiritual and Devotional Tracts
    • De xii gradibus humilitatis || De xii gradibus humilitatis
    • pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB, De mensuratione crucis
    • Speculum consciencie et contemplationis
    • pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, De interiori domo (extract) || Bernhard de contemplacione
    • Gratiarum acciones pro beneficiis
    • Paradisus Spiritualis
    • Henricus Suso OP, Horologium sapientiae || Horologium sapientiae (Henricus Suso)
    • Henricus Suso OP, Cursus de aeterna sapientia || Hours of the Eternal Wisdom: in Latin
    • Prayers at Mass and to the Virgin
    • Caesarius of Arles, Admonitio (fragment of Sermo 7)
    • pseudo-Thomas Aquinas OP, Epistola de modo studendi
    • Exemplar Sancti Bernhardi
    • Jan van Ruusbroec, Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei (transl. by Willem Jordaens)
    • pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, De septem gradibus contemplationis
    • pseudo-Augustine, De essentia divinitatis
    • De preparatoine domus animae
    • Meditations
    • Speculum humanae salvationis (Added texts on Passion and Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin Mary)
    • Hugo de Balma OCarth, Theologia mystica (De triplici via) || De triplici via
    • Jan van Ruusbroec, Epistola super generibus exercitantum || Liber spiritualis vitae by J. Ruysbroeck
    • Thomas Aquinas OP, De perfectione spiritualis uitae
    • Jerome, Epistula ad Rusticum (ep. 125)
    • Jan van Ruusbroec, De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum (transl. by Willem Jordaens)
    • Francesco Petrarca, De uita solitaria || Petrarcha de laude vite solitarie
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  • Summary: This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged completely, save for the front and back cover exteriors, and ff. 1-211v, 250v, 251r. The binding is very tight in parts of the book and for some pages there has been some loss of focus in the deep gutter. CCCC MS 526 is part of the Elbing Collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine monastery at what is now Eblag in Poland by Richard Pernham in the early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many books of the collection. This volume is closely dated by the presence of a scribal colophon recording the year 1431 in one of the items (a letter by Jan van Ruusbroec), which date the rest of the manuscript must more or less share. Among the many devotional and theological texts in the manuscript are Henricus Suso OP (Heinrich Seuse, 1295-1366) Horologium sapientiae and Cursus de aeterna sapientia, Jan van Ruusbroec's (1293-1381) De Calculo (Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei) and De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum, both in the translation of Willem Jordaens, Hugo de Balma OCarth (fl. 1289-1304) Theologia mystica (De triplici uia), Thomas Aquinas OP (c. 1225-74) De perfectione spiritualis uitae and the De uita solitaria of Francesco Petrarca (1304-74). The 'kochemeister' mentioned on the back cover is possibly Michael Kuchmeister (fl. 1414-22) mentioned in Elbing records.


    Contents :


    1r-12v - De xii gradibus humilitatis || De xii gradibus humilitatis

    Note: (Palma spiritualis: old list)

    Note: mutilated at the beginning


    12v-18v - pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB, De mensuratione crucis

    explicit: (18v) ita ut alios eciam possit consolari. Amen


    18v-20v - Speculum consciencie et contemplationis

    rubric: (18v) Incipit Speculum consciencie et contemplationis

    incipit: (18v) Si uis perfectus fieri stude

    explicit: (20v) lugendum et plorandum


    20v-22v - pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, De interiori domo (extract) || Bernhard de contemplacione

    rubric: (20v) De speculo consciencie et contemplacionis Bernhardi vel de contemplacione

    incipit: (20v) Uitam uniuscuiusque non cognoscit

    explicit: (22v) miratus regis potencia


    22v-27v - Gratiarum acciones pro beneficiis

    rubric: (22v) Incipiunt gratiarum acciones pro beneficiis receptis a deo

    incipit: (22v) Sancte sanctorum potentissime

    explicit: (27v) te miserante valeam promereri. Amen


    27v-56r - Paradisus Spiritualis

    rubric: (27v) Incipit liber qui dicitur Paradisus Spiritu(a)lis

    incipit: (27v) Paradisum spiritualem uniuersi describendo ymaginamur pratum

    explicit: (56r) tale edifica in te et ubi habites semper ora. Amen

    rubric: (56r) Explicit liber iste sit laus et gloria tibi Jesu Criste. Amen


    56r-129r - Henricus Suso OP, Horologium sapientiae || Horologium sapientiae (Henricus Suso)

    incipit: (56r) Sentite de domino in bonitate

    explicit: (127r) in decore suo conspicientes I. c. d. n. qui cum, etc.

    Note: Table of chapters to 98: then the note

    Note: (129r) Hyr ist nicht me. Amen

    rubric: (129r) Explicit horlogium sapientie fratris A. ordinis predicatorum. E.


    129r-131r - Henricus Suso OP, Cursus de aeterna sapientia || Hours of the Eternal Wisdom: in Latin

    rubric: (129r) Quicunque desiderat sapienciam eternam familiarem sibi sponsam habere debet ei has horas cottidie deuote ... gere

    rubric: (131r) Explicit cursus sapiencie que est Ihesus Christus


    131r-146v - Prayers at Mass and to the Virgin

    Note: Three prayers

    Note: a.

    Note: (131r) At Mass. In presencia sanctissimi corporis

    Note: b.

    Note: To the Virgin. O sanctissima et gloriosissima

    Note: c.

    Note: (131v) To the Virgin. O gloriosissima et sublimis

    Note: ff. 133r-146v blank


    147r-147r - Caesarius of Arles, Admonitio (fragment of Sermo 7)

    Note: End of

    explicit: (147r) Amonicio S. Augustini per quam ostendit quam bonum sit leccionem diuinam legere

    Note: (a little over a column)


    147r-147r - pseudo-Thomas Aquinas OP, Epistola de modo studendi

    rubric: (147r) Sequitur exemplar S. Thome de Aquino missum cuidam fratri interroganti qualiter studio ac thesauro sciencie intendendum sit ad profectum

    incipit: (147r) Quia quesiuisti qualiter oporteat in thesauro sciencie

    explicit: (147r) attingere poteris quod affectas. Amen

    rubric: (147r) Sequitur aliud


    147v-147v - Exemplar Sancti Bernhardi

    rubric: (147v) Exemplar S. Bernhardi. ... quemadmodum se habere debeant dum diuinis laudibus assistunt

    incipit: (147v) Vos ammoneo dilectissimi pure ac strenue


    147v-155v - Jan van Ruusbroec, Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei (transl. by Willem Jordaens)

    rubric: (147v) Incipit tractatus de perfeccione filiorum dei

    incipit: (147v) Quicunque wlt venire in perfectissimo statu

    explicit: (155v) unum cum eo fiemus uti sum superius utcunque profatus ut nobis prestare dignetur trinus et unus. Amen

    rubric: (155v) Explicit tractatus de perfeccione filiorum dei


    155v-157r - pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, De septem gradibus contemplationis

    rubric: (155v) Incipit tractatus de gradibus contemplacionis editus a fr. Bonaventura de ordine minorum

    incipit: (155v) Contemplatiuorum aquilinos obtutus

    explicit: (157r) manibus eburneis cont(r)ectauit S[otoyi, dominum nostrum I. C. qui est bened. in secula seculorum Amen

    rubric: (157r) Explicit tractatus, etc.


    157r-160r - pseudo-Augustine, De essentia divinitatis

    rubric: (157r) Incipit Jeronimus de membrorum Christi significacione

    incipit: (157r) Omnipotens pater et filius et spiritus Sanctus unus ac trinus

    explicit: (160r) videbimus eum sicut est. Tu autem domine, etc.

    rubric: (160r) Explicit liber beati Jeronimi de membrorum Christi significacione

    Note: (160r) Scribbles in col. 2


    160v-211r - De preparatoine domus animae

    Note: (160v) Prologus

    rubric: (160v) Domine dilexi decorem domus tue et locum habitacionis glorie tue

    incipit: (160v) Glosa dicit hic .i. dilexi me facere decorem

    explicit: (160v) erexi humiliter et distinxi

    Note: (160v) Registrum

    Note: (160v) De preparacione aree domus anime .1....De tectis anime .31.

    Note: (160v) Text

    incipit: (160v) Diligenter exerce agrum tuum

    explicit: (211r) uerus pacificus sit in secula benedictus. Amen


    211r-212v - Meditations

    Note: (211r) Meditations on

    incipit: (211r) Natus est nobis hodie saluator

    incipit: (212r) Verbum caro factum est


    213r-219v - Speculum humanae salvationis (Added texts on Passion and Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin Mary)

    Note: (213r) The end of the Speculum Humane Saluationis

    incipit: (213r) In precedenti capitulo de intollerabili pena dampnatorum

    Note: Ending f. 216v (ff. 217r-219v blank)


    220r-250r - Hugo de Balma OCarth, Theologia mystica (De triplici via) || De triplici via

    rubric: (220r) Vie Syon lugent eo quod non sit qui vadit ... licet hoc uerbum dixit Jeremias propheta

    incipit: (220r) Triplex est igitur via ista

    Note: Change of hand at f. 249r. Apparently ends f. 250r


    250v-251r - Jan van Ruusbroec, Epistola super generibus exercitantum || Liber spiritualis vitae by J. Ruysbroeck

    incipit: (250v) Conflue ... jocunditate in dulcissimi

    explicit: (251r) filios vestras et filias in domino I. C. Amen

    Note: Johannes de Rustbrot [Ruscbrot] prior in viride valle totus vester in domino

    Note: Capp. XVIII


    251r-266v - Thomas Aquinas OP, De perfectione spiritualis uitae

    rubric: (251r) Incipit liber spiritualis vite perfeccionem et statum declarans quid sit auctoris intencio. Cap. I

    incipit: (251r) Quoniam quidam perfeccionis ignari

    Note: Ends (cap. XXII)

    explicit: (266v) vicem eius agens qui est mediator dei et hominum homo Christus Ihesus qui est fons omnis perfeccionis Cui est gloria in secula seculorum. Amen

    rubric: (266v) Explicit libellus Thome de Aquino spiritualis vite perfeccionem et statum declarans


    266v-278v - Jerome, Epistula ad Rusticum (ep. 125)

    rubric: (266v) Sequitur ergo alius liber videlicet Epistola beati Jeronimi presbiteri ad Rusticum monachum Incipitur ergo iste

    incipit: (266v) Nichil est christiano felicius

    Note: Ends

    explicit: (271r) magna sunt premia. Amen

    rubric: (271r) Explicit epistola, etc.

    Note: ff. 271v-278v blank


    279r-312v - Jan van Ruusbroec, De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum (transl. by Willem Jordaens)

    rubric: (279r) Incipit Epistola domini Johannis (Ruysbroeck) primi prioris vallis (viridis) ad fratres Carthosienses de Capella Rolamdi (Rosamundi: old list) in flandria super interpretacione libri sequentis

    incipit: (279r) Flagitastis fratres karissimi literis humilibus

    explicit: (279r) adoranciam obfecisse

    rubric: (279r) Liber iste dicitur de ornatu spiritualium nupciarum et fundatur in verbis domini viz. Ecce sponsus venit exite obviam ei

    rubric: (279v) Incipit prologus liber de ornatu spiritualium nupciarum

    incipit: (279v) Ecce sponsus venit, etc. Expergiscemini prudentes virgines...Christus igitur dei virtus et sapiencia

    Note: Text much injured

    Note: Ends

    rubric: (305v) Explicit ... us libri de ornatu spir. nup. et fundatur in verbis domini videlicet (?). Ecce-obuiam ei. Anno Milles. cccco Tricesimo primo

    Note: ff. 306r-312v blank


    313r-347r - Francesco Petrarca, De uita solitaria || Petrarcha de laude vite solitarie

    Note: Prologus

    incipit: (313r) Paucos homines noui quibus opusculorum

    explicit: (313v) totam frontem serene tranquilleque rnentis aspicias

    Note: Secundus prologus

    incipit: (314r) Credo generosum (?)

    explicit: (314v) et quod in illis vides in cunctis (?) estima

    Note: (314v) Qualiter diues surgit media nocte

    incipit: (314v) Surgit occupatus infelix habitator urbium

    Note: Qualiter solitarius surgit

    incipit: (314v) Surgit solitarius felix atque ociosus

    Note: (325v) Liber I ends

    Note: (346v) Liber II ends

    Note: (347r) Incomplete list of capitula

    Note: 348r-348v and vellum flyleaf blank

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