Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 248-253
Notes:
Volume formed from two distinct MSS with some added gatherings at the end.254 ff, 166-182 foliated 1-17. ff 62-72 may have been blank; not listed in table of contents.
Provenance:
Ownership notes on fol. 1r: Montis Sancti Georgii 1652; and fol. 264v: Ad Bibliothecam Monasterii Montis Sancti Georgii 1659.
Physical Issues:
Folio
Reproduction:
Apply for reproductions to: Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 7300, Collegeville, MN, USA. Folio 265v not filmed.
Foliated 1-61 in medieval hand. 5 gatherings of 6 bifolia. Last leaf stands alone.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1r-24r
Author:
Tyrannius Rufinus Aquileiensis
Supplied Title:
Historia Monachorum
Rubric:
Incipiunt capitula de vita sanctorum patrum.
Incipit:
Primum igitur tamquam vere fundamentum nostri oper
Explicit:
gratias agentes deo nostro qui nos de periculis ta
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
BHL 6524. Based on a Greek original, ed & trans into French by Festugiere in Subsidia Hagiographica 53 (1971). Latin sources disagree re the order of the chapters. PL 21 387-462 is close but not identical.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
26r-52v
Supplied Title:
Verba seniorum
Rubric:
Incipit Liber secundus de vita sanctorum patrum.
Incipit:
Vera mundum quis dubitet stare meritis sanctorum h
Explicit:
tamquam altero iussu es cenobio fratres. Explicit
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
BHL 6525. 24r-26r Chapter headings for the text on ff. 26r-52v The chapters are in the same order as in the Migne edition, PL 73, 739-810, except that chapters 112-143 and 216 (second half) - 220 are missing.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
f. 53r-61v
Supplied Title:
Narrationes excerptae ex scriptis Sulpitii Severi et Cassiani
Rubric:
Liber quartus.
Incipit:
Frequenter ac sepius a me fratres . . . De quadam
Explicit:
ab eo avertere voluit ipse sibi constituit.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
f. 52v-53r, chapter headings for text on ff 53r-61v. The text consists of chapters 1-44 of the Migne ed., PL 73, 813-842. 62r-72v missing.
Manuscript Part II
Folio:
ff. 73-204
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
2 col. Variable line count. Framed
Script:
Cursive hand (bastarda)
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
A few Lombard initials, but most not executed following f. 76r.
Notes:
11 gatherings of 6 bifolia. Foliated in medieval hand 73-265, Roman numerals to f. 200, arabics after.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
73r-135r
Author:
Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604. (Gregory the Great)
Supplied Title:
Dialogorum libri quattuor
Rubric:
Incipit liber Dyalogorum Gregory liber primus. Prologus.
Incipit:
Quadam die nimiis quorumdam secularium tumultibus
Explicit:
si ante mortem deo hostia ipsi fuerimus.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
CPL 1713.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
135v-165v
Supplied Title:
Exempla
Status Of Text:
Break in text, f. 158r
Incipit:
Legitur de sancto Oswaldo
Explicit:
quemadmodum fluxus eius ita eciam illusio conquies
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Though exempla having to do with the monastic life seem to be concentrated toward the end, in general there does not seem to be any order in the arrangement.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
165v-182v
Author:
Bonaventura OM
Supplied Title:
Soliloquium de quatuor mentalibus exercitiis
Rubric:
Incipit liber qui dicitur qmago vite per modum dyalogi conpilatus. In quo anima interrogat homo rspondet etc.
Incipit:
Flecto genua mea ad patrem domini nostri Ihesu chr
Explicit:
donec intrem in gaudium dei mei qui est trinus et
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Bloomfield 2150. Published in the Quaracchi ed., vol. 8 (1898) 28-67. Some marginal notes. Though ff. 167-182 have a second numbering (1-17), these ff. are in the same hand as the previous texts and do not appear to bea second MS.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
182v-211v
Author:
David ab Augusta
Supplied Title:
De spetem processibus religiosorum, cap. 1-56
Rubric:
Incipit libellus de profectu religionis intitulatus medulla virtutum. In nomine Ihesu Christi.
Incipit:
Profectus religiosi septem processionibus distingw
Explicit:
licet creatura non valeat infinite diligere et gau
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
From Liber 3 of the author's De exterioris et Interioris hominis composione, in the Quaracci ed. (1899), pp. 161-316. This MS was consulted for that ed., see p. XXIII. Bloomfield 4283.
Manuscript Part III
Folio:
ff. 205-265
Country:
Austria
Date:
15th century
Layout:
2 cols. Variable line count. Framed. Some horizontal catchwords.
Script:
Cursive
Number Scribes:
several.
Support:
Paper
Other Decoration:
Plain Lombard initials
Notes:
5 gatherings of 6 bifolia plus one leaf at end. FF 205r-215r in same hand as section II, 215v-216r, 217r-246v, 247r-265r, in other hands
Manuscript Text
Folio:
212r-215r
Author:
Pseudo-Paphnutius
Supplied Title:
Vita sancti Onuphrii eremitae
Incipit:
Beati igitur Onufrii vitam inter grecorum commenta
Explicit:
Onufrius obiit mense Iunio die xi tercio Idus. Ibi
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
BHL 6336. The text is presented as a translation of a work by Paphnutius, and it somewhat resembles BHG 1378. But there are many variant forms of the Greek (BHG 1379-1379g), and Latin text (BHL 6334), that it is difficult to tell which is based on what.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
215v-216r
Author:
Pseudo-Bernardus
Supplied Title:
Rhythmica oratio ad membra Christi
Incipit:
Salve mundi salutare salve ihesu salve care cruci
Explicit:
temetipsum tunc ostende in cruce salutiferea. Amen
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The remainder of the folio is cut out, immediately below the last line of text. See PL 184, 1319-1324. Glorieux, Pour revaloriser Migne, Melanges de science religieuse 9 (lille 1952), p. 74. Walther 17126. Chevalier 18073. 216v blank.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
217r-218v
Author:
Eckbertus Schonaugiensiss
Supplied Title:
Soliloquium seu Meditationes
Rubric:
In nomine domini amen. Incipit contemplaciones beati Bernhardi.
Incipit:
Aerbum [scil: Verbum] michi est ad te [4 Reg 9:5]
Explicit:
inviolabile decus et regnum solidum permanens in
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
PL 195, 105-114. The text is also attributed to Psedo-Bernardus, as here,a nd to Psedo-Augustinus and Psedo-Anselmus (PL 158, 773-779)
Manuscript Text
Folio:
218v-224r
Author:
Joannes Fiscamnensis
Supplied Title:
ex Libello de scripturis et verbis patrum ad eorum praesertim utilitatem qui contemplativae vitae sunt amatores
Rubric:
Incipiunt consequenter suspiria beati Augustini Episcopi yponensis et ecclesie doctoris.
Incipit:
Summa trinitas virtus una et indiscreta deus noste
Explicit:
quia tu es pastor meus et salus ema eterna jhesu c
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
First part is published PL 147, 457-458, and much of the middle material, which occurs in different order in a work of Ps-Augustinus in PL 40, ch 12, col 909. J Leclerq, "Ecrits spirituels" Studia Anselmiana 20 (1948) 91-114, edited the last chapter.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
224r-225r
Author:
Petrus Blesensis
Supplied Title:
Epistola 79 ad R. amicum suum
Rubric:
Incipit Epistola Petri Blesensis ad Bachonensis Arcidiaconum quem redarguit quod uxorem duxit describens incomoda coniugatoris.
Incipit:
Dilecto amico suo N. Bachonensis Arcidiaconis Petr
Explicit:
Vale celo et negociare consultius etc. Explicit Ep
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
225r-226r
Author:
Pseudo-Ildefonsus
Supplied Title:
Sermo in diem sanctae Mariae
Rubric:
Incipit tractatus sancti Augustini de virginitate Marie virginis gloriose.
Incipit:
Exhortatur nos dominus deus noster pariter et admo
Explicit:
filia divinitatis mater humanitatis, Verbum caro f
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
CPL 1251.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
226r-227r
Author:
Caesarius Arelatensis
Supplied Title:
Sermo 41 De indigna familiaritate extranearum mulierum et de martyrio
Incipit:
Nemo dicat fratres quod temporiibus nostris martyr
Explicit:
quoniam ipse evellet de laqueo pedes [Ps 24: 15]
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Ed. In CC 103, 179-184.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
227r-228v
Author:
Pseudo-Caesarius
Supplied Title:
Sermon, De contemptu mundi ad Clericos
Rubric:
Incipit liber eiusdem de contemptu mundi clericorum.
Incipit:
Audite fratres Karissimi salutiferam patris doctri
Explicit:
de suis beneficiis sibi perhennes reddamus gratias
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The work is also attributed to Pseudo-Augustinus, see CC 104, 957. Bloomfield 0548. Ed. PL 40, 1215-1218.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
228v-230r
Author:
Pseudo-Eusebius Gallicanus,
Supplied Title:
Sermo 23
Rubric:
Incipit liber beati Augustini Episcopi de beato latrone.
Incipit:
Deus erat in christo mundum reconcilians sibi [2 C
Explicit:
nos quoque cum latrone iugiter proclamenus ad domi
Domine deus noster miserator et misericors longani
Explicit:
Quod hic desideramus ibi inveniamus etc.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
CPL 284, sermo 9. Ed. CC 41, 105-151.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
232v-236v
Author:
Pseudo-Augustinus
Supplied Title:
De visitatione infirmorum libri duo
Rubric:
Incipit liber Beati Augustini de visitacione infirmorum.
Incipit:
Visitacionis gratia nepoti meo karissimo morienti
Explicit:
ut ascendas ad deum iustificatus ab ipso qui vivit
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Ed. PL 40, 1147-1158
Manuscript Text
Folio:
236v-246r
Author:
Fulgentius Ruspensis
Supplied Title:
De fide ad Petrum
Rubric:
Incipit epistula Beati Augustini Episcopi yponensis de fide ad Petrum dyaconum.
Incipit:
Epistolam fili petre tue caritatis accepi . . . Ve
Explicit:
et si quid aliter sapit hoc illi quoque deus revel
Notes To Text:
CPL 826. Ed. CC 91 A, 711-760. Bloomfield 1926.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
246r-252v
Author:
Pseudo-Augustinus
Supplied Title:
De diligendo deo liber unus
Rubric:
Incipiunt meditaciones beati Augustini.
Incipit:
Vigili cura mente sollicita [the next letter is cr
Explicit:
etsi diversibus meritis ab invicem distabunt etc.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Ed. PL 40, 847-864.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
253r-259v
Author:
Pelagius Britannus
Supplied Title:
Liber de vita christiana
Rubric:
Incipit liber beati Augustini de vita christiana ad unam viduam etc.
Incipit:
Ego Augustinus primus peccator et ultimus insipien
Explicit:
ut quod tibi presentes prestare non possumus confe
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
CPL 730. Bloomfield 1883, 6195. Ed. As a work of Ps-Augustinus in PL 40, 1031-1046, and as a work of Fastidius Britannorum Episcopus in PL 50, 383-402. See PLS 1, 1103-1105 for ascription to Pelagius.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
260r-265r
Author:
Thomas de Hybernia,
Supplied Title:
ex Manipulo florum appendix bibliographicus
Incipit:
Notandum quod libros originalium sanctorum et doct
Explicit:
Boecius de disciplina scolarium libri iii, princip
Language(s):
German
Notes To Text:
The text breaks off at the end of the section on Boethius, ommitting the final section on Seneca (which may have been written on f. 265v). Ed. R. and M. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and sermons (Toronto 1979) 251-298.
