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[Sacramental handbook].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 750
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- German
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Sermons.
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
- Catholic Church--Sermons--Early works to 1800.
- Carthusians.
- Catholic Church.
- Ten commandments--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Ten commandments.
- Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Confession--Early works to 1800.
- Confession.
- Penance--Early works to 1800.
- Sacraments--Early works to 1800.
- Sacraments.
- Purgatory--Early works to 1800.
- Purgatory.
- Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800.
- Religious poetry, Latin--Early works to 1800.
- Zodiac--Early works to 1800.
- Astrology--Early works to 1800.
- Astrology.
- Medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Zodiac.
- Religious poetry, Latin.
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
- Death--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Penance.
- Confession--Catholic Church.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- manuals (instructional materials)
- poems
- sermons
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Sermons.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly in the library of the Carthusian monastery at Buxheim (f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by Johannes Wigg, parishioner of the village of Buxheim, donor to the Buxheim monastery library, and monk at Buxheim (inscription, Iste liber est domini Johannis Wigg, rectoris ecclesiae in Witenowe[?], f. 254v).
- Sold in the collection of J. W. Six (bookplate, inside lower cover) at auction at J. B. J. Kerling, 16 Nov. 1925.
- Sold at auction at J. L. Beijers, 21 April 1959, lot 39.
- Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1959.
- Physical Description:
- 306 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 211 x 144 mm bound to 226 x 145 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Germany], [between 1370 and 1499]
- Language Note:
- Latin, with a few lines in German.
- Summary:
- Collection of sermons, religious treatises and handbooks, and poems.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-18r: Summa confessorum / Johannes von Freiburg.
- 2. f.18r: Aures versifice [verse in hexameters].
- 3. f.18v: Versus de facetia mensae.
- 4. f.21r-37r: Modus confitendi / Andreas de Escobar.
- 5. f.37r-v: Two poems, Primus est docere ignorantem [on seven works of charity] and O homo qui velox es ad mensam.
- 6. f.37v-39v: Queritur utrum pena mortis diminuat.
- 7. f.39v-43r: Sex documenta homini morituro multum necessaria et utilia in fine vitae.
- 8. f.43v-44r: Vocavit multos [unidentified text].
- 9. f.45r-52r: Speculum manuale sacerdotum / Hermannus de Schildiz.
- 10. f.53r-82r: Tractatus de sacramentis.
- 11. f.84r-123r: Summa poenitentialis / Berengarius.
- 12. f.124r-133r: Speculum manuale sacerdotum / Hermannus de Schildiz [different section from 9. and in another hand].
- 13. f.135r-143r: Sermones de B. Maria.
- 14. f.144r-146r: De mensibus anni.
- 15. f.147r-188r: Sermones de praecipuis festivitatibus collecti.
- 16. f.189r-211r: De decem preceptis.
- 17. f.211r-v: Preambula communicationis.
- 18. f.211v-214v: De VI signorum.
- 19. f.214v-217v: Sompniales Danielis prophetes.
- 20. f.217v-218r: Infans si natus fuerit in die dominico [and other days of the week].
- 21. f.218r-254v: Sermones varii et exempla.
- 22. f.255r-264v: Fundamentum puerorum / [Thomas von Erfurt?].
- 23. f.265r-278v: Compotus ecclesiasticus.
- 24. f.279r-288r: Sermones, incipit: Venit rex in templum [Dan. 14:9]. In principio huius sermonis.
- 25. f.289r-291r: Questio, incipit: Queritur utrum pena puragtorii infligatur animalibus ... per ministerium daemonem.
- 26. f.292v-295v: Prayers, miscellany.
- 27. f.296r-306r: Notabilia varia et sermones.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- 4th work, attribution (f. 21r): Magister Andreas Hyspanus.
- 9th work (f. 45r): Incipit speculum manuale sacerdotum a fratre Hermanno De almannia de Scildis sacrae theologiae professor ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini.
- 10th work, incipit (f. 53r): Quaeritur primum quid sit signum.
- 11th work, incipit (f. 85r): In primis debet interrogare sacerdos penitentem ... (f. 123r) Sicut Moyses Amalech non armis sed orationibus expugnavit. Explicit Summa Berengharii.
- 13th work, incipit (f. 135r): Que est ista ... [Cant. 6:9]. Hec est vox[sermons on the assumption, annunciation, purification].
- 14th work, incipit (f. 144r): Hic narrat primo de mense qui Januarius appellatur.
- 15th work, incipit (f. 147r): Considera quod hodie.
- 16th work, incipit (f. 189r): Sacra scriptura continet de esse [recte, decem] precepta.
- 17th work, incipit (f. 211r): Qui digne vult communicari.
- 18th work, incipit (f. 211v): In inter cetera medici [on medicine related to the signs of Zodiac].
- 19th work, incipit (f. 214v): Quot fecit in Babylonia.
- 21st work, incipit (f. 218r): De dedicatione. Salus huic domui [Luc. 19:9] Solempnitas hodierne dedicationis.
- 22nd work (f. 255r): Eusebius scribit ... Incipit fundamentum puerorum a magistro Thoma Erfordie compilatum ... (f. 264v) me scribebat Ulricus nomen.
- 23rd work, incipit (f. 265r): Puer natus est nobis [Is. 9:6]. Sed hoc tempus ... (f. 278v) ut in hac parte terminatum libellus. Cui me scribebat Johannes [commentary by a student at Paris?].
- 26th work, incipit (f. 292v): Ego aurem ad iura a domino perseverabo in confessione.
- Foliation: Paper, i + 306; [1-20], 1-24, [45-306]; contemporary or near contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
- Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by several hands.
- Decoration: Some sections rubricated, with some initials in red, illustration of the constellations of the zodiac (f. 264v).
- Binding: Contemporary half pigskin over boards; guards are parchment manuscript leaves, one in German, one a leaf from a missal.
- Origin: Written in Germany from the 14th to the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). Dates in the manuscript include 1423 (f. 43v) and 1372 (f. 295v).
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 26-27 (Ms. Latin 118).
- For works 1, 9, and 11, see Schulte, Joh. Friedrich von. Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, (Stuttgart, 1875-1880), II, 421, 431, and 531, n. 45
- For work 3, see Walther, Hans. Initia carminum ac versum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum, 7497
- For work 14, see Thorndike, Lynn. A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin (Cambridge, Mass., 1963) col. 623. Incipit for work 18 does not appear in Thorndike.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 750
- Contains:
- Aures versifice.
- De facetia mensae.
- Primus est docere ignorantem.
- O homo qui velox es ad mansam.
- Queritur utrum pena mortis diminuat.
- Vocavit multos.
- Tractatus de sacramentis.
- De mensibus anni.
- De decem preceptis.
- Preambula communicationis.
- Sompniales Danielis prophetes.
- OCLC:
- 155985550
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