JEAN GERSON, JOHANNES DE SCOENHOVIA, ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM, PIERRE D'AILLY
Physical description
Vellum. 170 x 130mm. 170 ff. Collation: 18-88, 96, 108-138, 1412 (wants 2), 158-178, 1810, 198, 208, 218 (wants 6). Written in two clear hands. Binding: 19th century vellum, endpapers with watermark dated 1823.
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DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI
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Four leaves of paper, the remainder vellum. 150 x 115mm. 164 ff. Collation: i6 (wants 6), 18-208. The first five chapters, and the opening sentences of chapter six, are supplied in a 17th century hand on paper. Binding: 17th century mottled calf with gilt spine; gilt spine label reads 'De imitatione Christi libri quatuo manuscript'; marbled endpapers.
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COMMENTARY ON PASSAGES FROM THE GOSPELS, DE IMITATIONE CHRISTI, ETC.
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Paper. 310 x 220mm. 375 ff. Collation: 112-2212, 2312 (wants 12). Has suffered from damp. Binding: half pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasp and catch.
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JEAN GERSON, DE MYSTICA THEOLOGICA
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Theologia mystica speculativa (fols.3r-25r), Theologia mystica practica (fols.26r-42r), Annotatio doctorum qui de contemplacione locuti sunt (fols.42v-43r), preceding the colophon.
See A. Combes, Ioannis Carlerii de Gerson De Mystica Theologia, Thesaurus Mundi, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Latinorum Mediae et Recentoris Aetatis (Lugano, 1958). This manuscript was unknown to Combes. It represents an early copy of the first version of the text, issued by Gerson in the spring of 1408.
LITURGICAL OFFICES
Liturgical offices bound with Psalterium cum hymnis secundum usum et consuetudinum Sarum et Eboracensis (Paris: Franz Birckman, 1516).
Physical description
Paper. 210 x 140mm. 82 fols. Binding: 19th century blind-tooled; gilt spine label reads 'Psalterium 1516'; leaf from 13th century MS (Aristotle, Sophistici elenci etc.), used as pastedown in original binding, preserved among endpapers. Initials in red, rubrics.
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