Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 173-174
Notes:
This is probably a copy of Fiecht MS 86, pp. 1-576. A note on f. iir reads: Conscripta a F. A. H. p.t. Nov. 1758. Next to this another hand was written the name F. Anselm Hofer, apparently the identity of F. A. H.
Provenance:
Ownership notes: ir [19c] II, 88, corrected to II, 87. [19c] Fiecht 2/1/4. Inside front cover [19c] Bibliothek Fiecht - Hs. 87. [20c] DK 248.122:091/HS 46. In typed catalogue B IV 5.
Physical Issues:
Quarto
Reproduction:
Apply for reproductions to: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 7300, Collegeville, MN, USA. Folio 5v not filmed.
1 col. Variable line count. Framed, some leaves also ruled on one or both sides. Collation uncertain except that ff. i-ii form a bifolium.
Script:
Chancery cursive (cancellaresca)
Number Scribes:
1
Scribe:
F. Anselm Hofer
Support:
Paper
Notes:
First two folia unnumbered, remainder numbered 1-38, 40-332, 343-369, 369, 1-5 in the original hand. a single hand all the way through, but with variations in ink color.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
iir
Supplied Title:
Schripta Ascetica Pro Novitiis Monasterii Sancti Josephi in Fiecht ordinis Sancti Patris Benedicti.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
ir-iv blank, except for ownership marks. iiv blank.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1r-72v
Supplied Title:
Instructio Practica Vitam vere Benedictinam Moresque Religiose instituendi. Pars prima. Monita mox Novitiatum ingresso Religioso perutitlia. Sectio prima. Primo
Incipit:
Dei Ipsius monitum est fili accedens ad servitutem
Explicit:
dole, etc. venalia essenda.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
1r-5r Index.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
72v-131r
Supplied Title:
Tractatus de Mortificatione. Prologium.
Incipit:
Perfectus Religisus censetur ille
Explicit:
nec Dei amorem luctaberis vel consequeris.
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
131r-204v
Supplied Title:
Tractatus de tribus votis. Quaestiones praeliminares ad explicationem 3 votorum Religiosorum iuxta Regulam Sancti Patris Benedicti. Quaestiones primo.
Incipit:
Cur Novitius primum integrum Annum Probetur
Explicit:
U. Virtus pulcherrima.
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
204v-224v
Supplied Title:
Institutiones Practicae ad vitam spiritualem. Pars tertia. De aliis quibusdam tum Pietatis tum Virtutum Exercitiis. Caput primum. Praxis rite confitendi.
Incipit:
Occurit hoc ante omnia prima, cum sit secunda in A
Explicit:
ad Laudem et gloriam Nominis Tui qui es Deus Bened
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
225r-267r
Supplied Title:
Statuta Regularia Pro Monasterio Sancti Josephi ad pedem Montis S. Georgii ordinis Sancti Benedicti.Aucthoritate Celebratissimi ac Reverendissimi Domini Domini Leopoldi Episcopi et Sacri Romani Imperii Principis Brixinensis etc. etc. ex…
Incipit:
Quemadmodum sanctissimus Pater et Legislator Noste
Explicit:
supplicamus precibus.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Actum in Monasterio Sancti Josephi ad Pedem Montis Sancti Georgii die 19 februarii 1751 Lambertus Abbas.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
267v-369v
Supplied Title:
Tractatus Asceticus de Perfectione Religiosa et Charitate. Proemium.
Status Of Text:
Unfinished
Incipit:
Tantum solemus adhibere studium, pro fine aliquo o
Explicit:
et Crucifixio [. . .].
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The text breaks off here, at a place corresponding to p. 576 in Fiecht MS 86. The gap at ff. 309v-310r does not involve any loss of text.
