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Title

Libellus de speculativa mistice theologie

Authors

• Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429
• Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?

Call number

Ms. Codex 33
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691473503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492269
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1469147

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1450

Place

France

Summary

Contains the text of Gerson's De mystica theologia speculativa (pp. 1-68), De mystica theologia practica (pp. 69-111), and De passionibus animae (pp. 113-156). There is a short bibliographical appendix, Annotacio doctorum aliquorum qui de contemplacione loquti sunt (pp. 111-112). Also contains Pierre D'Ailly's De districtione in nocturnis pollutionibus, in an abridged form (pp. 162-163).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from f. 1r.
   
• This manuscript is of particular interest because it appears to date from Gerson's lifetime and because the text of the Gerson works differs somewhat from that of the printed versions edited in the 1960's.
   
• A detailed historical and textual discussion of this manuscript, written in May 1991 by Prof. Marvin Colker, Dept. of Classics at the University of Virginia, is on file in the Library.
   

Extent

82 leaves : 151 x 109 (105 x 72) mm. bound to 153 x 112 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii + 164 + ii; 1-115 (even numbers supplied), [116-164]; 16th-century arabic pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Contemporary roman numerals appear on f. 35 and f. 62.

Collation

i, I⁴, II-III⁵, IV³, V⁵, VI⁵(+2), VII⁵, VIII-IX⁴, i.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Limp vellum, 20th century.

Layout

Written in 28 long lines.

Decoration

Headings and initials in red. Some initial spaces blank.

Script

Written in a gothic bookhand. The D'Ailly text is written by a different scribe than the Gerson texts.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Carthusian monastery at Castres, France (see inscription, f. 1); Henry Holmes; Ralph Emerson; Joseph Emerson; and Beloit College.
   
• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1993.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1993.
   

Subjects topical

• Theology--Early works to 1800
• Mysticism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Theology
• France
• French

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1 — De speculativa mistice theologie, p. 1
• 69 — De practica contemplationis vel theologie mistice, p. 69
• 111 — Annotacio doctorum aliquorum qui de contemplacione loquti sunt, p. 111
• 113 — De passionibus animae, p. 113
• 162 — De distrecione [sic] in nocturis pollutionibus, p. 162

Decorations

• 1 — Owner note, p. 1
• 33 — Manicule, p. 33
• 37 — Manicule, p. 37
• 78 — Manicule, p. 78
• 79 — Manicule, p. 79
• 94 — Manicule, p. 94
• 110 — Manicule, p. 110
• 157 — Diagram, p. 157