Details

Subjects:

Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
Hussites.
Lollards.
Asceticism -- Early works to 1800.
Asceticism.
Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law.
Heresy -- Early works to 1800.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
Heresy.
Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- Church history.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Sermons.
Decrees.
Finding tabs.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Summary:

Miscellany bound in the late 15th century, with contemporary table of contents for the second half of the text (f. 257v), and paper index tabs on outer margins to locate works. Many works include dates but are probably later copies.

Contents:

1. f.2r-124r: Sermones XXII de avaritia / Johannes Goldner, 1470.
2. f.124r-143r: Von dem Ubel der aigenschafft du man hatt in den clostern / Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl.
3. f.143v-144r: In summa de pietate / Augustinus de Ancona.
4. f.145r-v: Letter (in Czech) to Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia from Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 4 Dec. 1418 (dated Vienna 1419).
5. f.146r-159v: De religione Christiana, 1421 / Thomas Hibernicus (dated 1421).
6. f.160-162r: De cura domestica, epistola 14, 1417 / Pseudo-Bernardus.
7. f.162r-164v: Compendium (ascetic writings).
8. f.164v-167r: Contra quosdam asserentes qui debeant seu opporteant populum[?] sub utraque specie sacramentali per doctores sacrae theologiae in sacro concilio Constantiensi, 1417.
9. f.167r-168r: Determinatio super quibusdam erroneis articulis, 7 Feb. 1418 / Prague University.

10. f.170r-193r: Epistola contra Wiclefistas et Husitas.
11. f.193r: Two poems: Dum de fide loquimur (6 lines) and Praga, modo doleas (2 lines).
12. f.193v-194v: Remedia pro casibus contingentibus in divino officio (canon law).
13. f.195r-210r: Collecta decreti / Gratian (excerpts, canon law).
14. f.210v-256v: Tractatus contra articulos huscitorum et errores Johannis Wickleph, 1420 / Stanislaus de Znoyma.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Scribe for first work "per Johannem de prawnec" [i.e., Brauneck] at Donauwörth, 1470 (f. 124r).
(1st work): Expliciunt sermones de avaritia sive usuris per...Johannes Goldner decretorum doctorem...(f. 124r).
(2nd work): Explicit sermo...magistri Nicolai Dinkelspuhel (f. 143r); Sermon published from other manuscripts by H. Menhardt.
(5th work): Incipiunt tres puncti essenciales religionis Xristianae...(f. 146r).
(10th work): attributed to Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl (Zacour-Hirsch).
(14th work): Explicit tractatus cum registro suo continenti xlv articulos erroreos sive heretices Johannis Wickleph. Editus per [?] doctorem sacrae theologiae magistrum Stansilaum felicis [?] de Znoyma.
Collation: Paper, 257; 1-12¹², 13¹⁴ (-14), 14-16¹², 17-20¹⁶; [1-145], 1-23, [i], 24-32, 34-63, 63-109, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 27-37 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a German Gothic script by several hands.
Decoration: Decorated initials in black and red (f. 170r, 193v); rubricated headings, capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and manicules.
Binding: Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards, with remains of clasp.
Origin: Written in Bohemia in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
"Elisabeth sancte in claustro me bibliotheca possideat" (inside lower cover).

Penn Provenance:

Provenance: Poor Clares at Brixen (Tyrol), "Liber iste Cenobii est Clarissarum Brixine commorancium" (inside upper cover).
Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1956.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 20 (Ms. Latin 92).
For authorship of 6th work, see B. Hauréau, Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins (Paris, 1890), I, pp. 334-337.
For von Dinkelsbühl sermon, H. Menhardt, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 73 (1954), pp. 1-39, 268-291.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 740.

Contains:

Goldner, Johannes.
Johannes, de Brauneck, scribe.
Nicholaus, von Dinkelsbühl, approximately 1360-1433.
Augustinus, de Ancona, -1328.
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, 1368-1437.
Wenceslas, King of Germany, 1361-1419.
Palmer, Thomas, Hibernicus.
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153, attributed name.
Stanislaus, de Znoyma.
Council of Constance (1414-1418 : Konstanz, Germany)
Dum de fide loquimur, non sumus semper sophiste.
Praga, modo doleas nunquam caritura dolore.

OCLC:

212144386

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