Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
Spritual treatises
Contents:
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De reformatione virium animae, first part
author:Zerbolt, Gerard
extent:ff. 1r-24v
rubric:
Incipit deuotus tractatus de reformationum uirium anime
incipit:
homo quidam descendit de iherusalem in iherico hiis uerbis mistice
explicit:
non possumus Item ut
decoration:Six line red and blue initial with red infill and red and gold marginal flourishes on f. 1r with alternating red and blue two line initials beginning each chapter thereafter.
note:The text breaks off suddenly and is continued on f. 33r.
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Exercitatorium monachorum
author:Heinrich Egher von Kalkar
extent:ff. 25r-32v
rubric:
Incipit exercicium ⁊ breue
incipit:
Uolens purgari a peccatis
explicit:
et inquirere talia
decoration:Five line red and blue initial with gold infill and purple and gold marginal flourishes on f. 25r with alternating red and blue 2-line initials beginning each chapter thereafter.
note:The text ends abruptly at the end of the fourth gathering with the final 3 and a half chapters of the treatise missing.
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De reformatione virium animae, continuation
author:Zerbolt, Gerhard
extent:ff. 33r-41v
incipit:
[Hu]gonem de lio bene tractantem
explicit:
beatitudinis inueniaris. amen. Explicit deuotus tractatus de reformatione trium uirium animae
decoration:Alternating red and blue two line initials begin each chapter.
Date of origin:First half of the fifteenth century.
Place of origin:Netherlands
Support:
Parchment codex
Foliation:
Numbered in lead in a modern hand in the upper right hand corner of each leaf.
Dimensions:123 mm x 89mm (leaves), 92mm x 55mm (ruled space)
Collation:1-48 510 (-10).
Script:Written in a neat late semi-gothic bookhand by one, or possibly two, scribes.
Binding:Bound in green velvet.
Additions:Later notes or exlibris written and rubbed out on ff. 21v, 26v, 27r, and a pattern in the same hand on ff. 28v and 29r.
Provenance: The manuscript is jointly owned with the Newberry Library and shelved at the Newberry as MS. 165.
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