Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 215-217
Notes:
Four manuscripts bound in one volume. List of contents written on paper slip inside front cover. Flyleaves prob. Parchment. Ff numbered I-II, 1-215 in a recent hand; unnumbered leaves and inserts follow ff. 180, 181, 184 (3 leaves), 185, 188, 202, 215.
Provenance:
1r Ad Bibliothecam Monasterii Montis S. Georgii 1659. IIr (18c) III, 141. Paper slip pasted inside front cover (19c) Bibliothek Fiecht Hs. 141. Iir (20c) DK 17:091/HS 20. DK 12. DK 262.24.
Physical Issues:
Octavo
Reproduction:
Apply for reproductions to: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 7300, Collegeville, MN, USA.
Variable line count framed; 1 col. 10 gatherings. Parchment center strips.
Script:
Bastarda
Number Scribes:
2
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Lombard initials.
Notes:
The original MS, ff. 1-105, was completed in 1408 according to the colophon on f. 103v. Text on ff. 103v-105v in a later more cursive bastarda.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1r-97v
Author:
Pseudo Aristotele
Supplied Title:
Secretum secretorum .
Rubric:
Modus subtiliter componendi litterars: Secreta secretorum, de regimine principium, de regimine principium, de regimine dominorum, regum, vel principium, qui eciam liber alio nomine vocatur secretum secretorum.
Incipit:
Filii gloriosissime imperator iustissime, confirme
Explicit:
ad meliorem et probatiorem partem. Explicit liber
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
cf. G. Lacombe, Aristoteles Latinus 1 (Bruges 1957) 93.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
97v-103v
Author:
Pseudo Aristotle
Supplied Title:
German summary of Secretum secretorum.
Rubric:
Aristotiles gab dy ler Chunig Alexandro ob er lang wolt leben, so scholt er sich dar nach halte alz her nach geschriben stet und ob er auch vil chranchait wolt uber haben sein.
Incipit:
Aristotiles sprach zu Alexandro, wan du auf stest
Explicit:
daz daz hercz icht erstikch von der speis. Explici
Language(s):
German
Manuscript Text
Folio:
103v-105v
Supplied Title:
Notations
Incipit:
Item Anno 1435 2o mensis marcii frater egregius do
Explicit:
super literam et listis.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The text has the character of notes; it appears to begin on 104r and overflow onto 103v. The material is dated 1435, but may have been written later.
Manuscript Part II
Folio:
ff. 106-(180)
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
17 lines; ruled and framed; 1 col. 4 gatherings of 6 bifolia. Horizontal catchwords, parchment center strips visible in some gatherings.
Script:
Bastarda
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Lombard initials; f. 106r, initial divided with penwork extensions.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
106r-180r
Author:
Alanus, de Insulis, d. 1202
Supplied Title:
Liber de planctu naturae.
Status Of Text:
Last folio mutiliated and unnumbered.
Rubric:
Deplangit hic statum mundi et nature.
Incipit:
In lacrimas risus in luctus gaudia verto
Explicit:
prior mistice apparicionis dereliquit aspectus. Ex
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Walther 8957. PL 210, 431-482. The entire text is set up for interlinear and marginal glosses, but these peter out after f. 118v.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
180r
Supplied Title:
Epitaphium Alani
Incipit:
Alanum brevis hora brevi tumulo sepelivit
Explicit:
vel retinere nequivit. Walther 727. PL 210, 11
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
180v-180r
Supplied Title:
Bible verses
Incipit:
Corrumpunt bonos mores colloquia prava, 1 ad chori
Explicit:
Sapiencia. Stabunt iusti in magna constancia adver
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
180v blank, except for rulings.
Manuscript Part III
Folio:
ff. 181-205
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
Variable line count and number of columns; some ff. appear entirely unruled. One gathering of 5 bifolia followed by one gathering of 7 (center strips visible) not counting the various inserted leaves.
Script:
Bastarda
Number Scribes:
1
Support:
Paper
Water Mark:
oxhead watermark visible on inserted paper which was foliated as f. 194.
Other Decoration:
f. 181r, Lombard initial.
Notes:
Additional parchment strip visible after f. 205. Mutilated folio after f. 184 not numbered; 7 pieces of paper have been inserted after ff. 181, 184, 185, 188, 202, most left unnumbered.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
181r-205v
Author:
Magister Iovis
Supplied Title:
Ars conscribendi
Incipit:
Si dictare velis et iungere scema loquelis
Explicit:
N. prepositus wyennensis neconon canonicus patavie
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Walther 17707. The poem itself is accompanied by copious marginal glosses, and considerable material added at the end and on additional sheets of paper.
Manuscript Part IV
Folio:
ff. 206-215
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
Variable line count; left and right margins ruled; 1 col. Single gathering of 5 bifolia.
Script:
Bastarda
Number Scribes:
1
Support:
Paper
Notes:
Text added in the margin on f. 215v is in another bastarda hand.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
206r-215v
Author:
Gregory IX, Pope, ca. 1170-1241
Supplied Title:
Quinque libri decretalium, poetice resumpti.
Rubric:
Ratio de Summa Trinitate et fide katholica.
Incipit:
Reddet cuique secundum opera sua [cf. Mt 16:27] ta
Explicit:
Plus 3 expresse contradicere que nunc consentire [
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The poem breaks off here at the end of the folio, at a place corresponding to titulus 43 of the third book of the Decretals. Richter-Friedberg 648-649. Material added to f. 215v is dated 1435, but may have been written later.
