Inside spine is fragment of antiphoner (twelfth century?) with unheighted German neumes; office of St. Henry.
Bibliography:
Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 205-208
Notes:
According to the ex libris on the front pastedown, this MS was bought by Abbot Kaspar Augsburger in 1472. The date 15 August 1463 occurs in the colophon on f. 53r, but it is an addition by a different hand.
Provenance:
5r original coat of arms cut out. Front pastedown Liber monasterii montis S. georgii quem dominus gaspar abbas comparavit anno 1472. 6r, 89v Ad Bibliothecam Monasterii Montis S. Georgii 1659.
Physical Issues:
Octavo
Reproduction:
Apply for reproductions to: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 7300, Collegeville, MN, USA.
1 col. Variable line count. Framed. Gatherings of 5 bifolia, except 1 gathering of 2 at the beginning (ff. 1-4) and one of 3 at the end (ff. 85-90).
Script:
Cursive (notula)
Number Scribes:
2
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Lombard initials with penwork infilling on f. 5r-5v; drawn outlines, never painted in, ff. 42v, 43v, 62r. Other initials never executed.
Notes:
Foliated in a modern hand. On ff. 5-22 a medieval foliation (arabic) running 1-18. A second hand (with much humanistic influence) has added the list of contents inside front cover.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1r
Supplied Title:
Alphabetic proverb
Incipit:
Gaza frequens libicos duzit Carthago triumphos
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
When spelled correctly (not as here) this sentence includes all the letters of the alphabet. Walther Prov 10259.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1v-2r
Author:
Alanus, de Insulis, d. 1202
Supplied Title:
De incarnatione Christi rhythmus perelegans
Rubric:
Versus de septem scientis liberalibus
Incipit:
Septem sunt artes liberales, sencias quae sint et
Explicit:
In effectu dans perfectum Lumen in caligine.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Walther 6042.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
2r
Author:
Hildebert, Archbishop of Tours, 1056?-1133
Supplied Title:
Versus de horis cottidianus
Rubric:
De septem horis canonicis quare sint instituta.
Incipit:
In matutino dampnatur tempore christus
Explicit:
Cristus bis sena custodia ponitur hora.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Walther 8988. Edited by A. Brian Scott in Hildeberti Cenomannensis Episcopi Carmina Minora (leipzig 1969), 54.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
2v-3r
Author:
Pseudo-Ignatius
Supplied Title:
Epistolae supposititiae and S. Joannem apostolum et ad B. Mariam Virginem
Rubric:
Epistola sancti ignacii ad sanctam mariam matrem ihesu
Incipit:
Cristiffere marie suus ignacius. Me neophitum ioha
Explicit:
Bonepraeceptor propera me iubeas et vale.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
These are the four letters published in PG 5, 941-946, but with the two to the Blessed Virgin Mary first, followed by the two to St. John.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
5r-42r
Author:
Petrus Candidus Decembrius
Supplied Title:
Grammaticon
Rubric:
Petri candidi gramaticon liber inciit primus foelicibus acbonis auspiciis. P. Candidi Grammaticon liber secundus explicit de proprietate verborum latinorum deo gracias.
Incipit:
Qui amico detrahit ut alteri sufficiat guarneri qu
Explicit:
Vix cum labore et vix statim designat etc.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
For bibliography see Cosenza vol. 2, p. 1196, card 7. Vittorio Zaccaria, "Sulle opere di Pier Candido Decembrio," Rinascimento 7 (1956) 13-74, especially p. 20.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
42v-43r
Supplied Title:
List of chapter headings for the text on ff. 43v-53r
Incipit:
Explicatis hiis que de Cosmographia genituraque ho
Explicit:
De lupercalibus.
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
43v-53r
Author:
Petrus Candidus Decembrius
Supplied Title:
De romanorum muneribus ex libro tertio Historiae Peregrinae
Incipit:
Urbem romam ut inquit Gasparus Condidere citius ha
Explicit:
ac procreant ludos autem celebrantes lupercos dict
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
P. Candidi liber tertius finit [the following words are added in a different hand] in aniso haustrie anno 1463 in festo assumpcionis beate virginis marie. See Zaccaria, pp. 18-20
Manuscript Text
Folio:
53v-55v
Author:
Pseudo-c. Sallustius Crispus
Other Associated Name:
Cicero
Supplied Title:
In M. Tullium Ciceronem invectiva
Rubric:
Invectiva salustii crispi in marcum ciceronem.
Incipit:
Graviter et iniquo in pacienti animo maledicta tua
Explicit:
neque in hac neque in illa parte fidem habens.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Explicit invectiva Crispi Salusti in Ciceronem. The text is edited by A. Kufress in Appendix Sallustiana (Leipzig 1962) 1-8.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
55v-61r
Author:
M. Tullius Cicero (Pseudo)
Supplied Title:
In C. Sallustium Crispum invectiva
Rubric:
Invectiva marci tulii ciceronis in salustium crispum foeliciter incipit.
Incipit:
E a demum magna voluptas tibi est Crispe Salusti e
Explicit:
Explicit invectiva Marcii Tuli Ciceronis in Salust
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The text is edited by A. Kurfess in Appendix Sallustiana 9-21.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
61v
Supplied Title:
Nota de 9 musis
Incipit:
Euterpe prima musarum, tibie rectrix, interpretatu
Explicit:
alium studio apraehendere velit.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
For a similar and possibly related text, see Freiburg UB MS 159, f. 4r (cat. Hagenmaier 133).
Manuscript Text
Folio:
62r-64r
Author:
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Supplied Title:
Ex Epitoma rei militaris
Rubric:
De nominibus officioorum romane urbis
Incipit:
Tffibunus [scil. Tribunus] maior per epistolam sac
Explicit:
Munifices vocati quod haec munera faciunt anthoniu
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The excerpts are from Book 2, chapters 7-19. See the edition of C. Lang (Stuttgart 1872, reprinted 1967) 40-54. A similar group of excerpts is found in Klosterneuburg MS 740 (HMML 5716), ff. 209v-212v.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
64r-64v
Supplied Title:
Note on the sources of Roman and Canon Law
Incipit:
Nota quod a primo quo roma fuit semper aliquo lege
Explicit:
quod contra illa non dispensatur a papa videlicet
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Like the preceding text, this text is found in Klosterneuburg 740 (HMML 5716) ff. 212v-213v. A second hand has added subtitles in the margins of the Fiecht MS.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
65r-75r
Author:
Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374.
Supplied Title:
Epistolae Seniles 17, 3
Rubric:
Francisci petrarce translacio in historiam iohannis cuiusdam amici sui, de fide coniugali
Incipit:
Librum tuum quem nostro materno eloquio ut opinor
Explicit:
pro suo mortali coniuge rustica haec muliercula pa
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
In this MS there is no break between the prologue and the beginning of the actual text. The title, supplied in another hand, refers to the fact that this is a Latin translation of the Decamerone 10, 10 of GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
Manuscript Text
Folio:
75v-84v
Author:
Guilelmus Blesensis
Supplied Title:
Aldae Comoedia
Rubric:
Comedia Ulfi
Incipit:
Dum parit alda perit ulfus pro conjuge natam
Explicit:
quamvis affirmet ille quod illa negat.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The text ends abruptly at line 538. Walther 3705, 4914. Ed. Carl Friedrich Lohmeyer (Leipzig 1892). See also Manitius 3, 1021-1023. 85r blank. 85v Chronologies of the Kingdoms of the second age.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
86r-87v
Supplied Title:
Chronology of Roman Kings, consuls, and emperors
Incipit:
Tempore achas romam conditur, romulus senatum inst
Explicit:
Postumius [sic] x annis in gallia regnans occiditu
