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Title

Opuscula varia.

Authors

• Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 96
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915804153503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122383142
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38s4jq5c https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/90/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

circa 1450-1475

Place

Germany

Summary

Collection of works by Jean Gerson (works 1-11; 21-24), together with a few works not by him. The pastedown in the front of the volume lists its contents, but does not include works 21-24 and the subsequent notes (f. 157v-159v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Opuscula et tractatus ipsius magistri Johannis Gerson -- Tractatus de oratione et eius valore -- Dyalogus de perfectione cordis -- Tractatus de sollicitudine ecclesiasticorum -- Regulae morales -- Tractatus de spirituali vita animae -- De audienda confessione -- Tractatus de injugenda poenitentia contra recidivum -- Tractatus de precepta confessione et scientia mortia -- Tractatulus secundus de confessione sacramentali -- Opusculum per conquerenda noticia bene moriendi -- [No title], inc.: Quaestio utrum hoc possit scire -- [No title], inc.: Modus disponendi se ad mortem -- Registrum hystoriarum evangeliorum de libro magistri nicolai organiste -- Speculum mortis sanctae peccatoris beati augustini -- Hiis sequentibus altaris communio est prohibenda -- Brevilogium de malis huius mundi -- Brevilogium de vana huius mundi oblectatione -- Tractatus de incarnatione [Christi] -- Declaratio et expositio arboris consanguinitatis -- Tractatulus ... de confessione mollitiei -- Responsio ... super quaestione sibi facta per vicarium domus carthusiae de statuto ordinis -- De eodem statuto -- Avisamentum per modum confessionis in religionibus in lapsis audiendi.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Quires 10 and 11 (f. 99-120, containing works 7-12 of the present manuscript) were originally a separate codicological unit. Some original folio numbers are extant and indicate that f. 99-120 were originally numbered 1-21. These quires may be slightly earlier in date than the rest of the manuscript. They were added to the rest of the volume when it was bound in the late 15th century.
   
• Folio 159 loose; completely detached from binding.
   
• Many folios show evidence of mildew and mold damage. The following notation in pencil is found inside lower cover: "This MS fumigated to prevent further growth of mold Jan. 1950 after technique of Brit. Mus. W. Spawn." [Willman Spawn was a scholar and codicologist at the University of Pennsylvania.].
   
• Front cover has writing and a label that are hard to read. Spine shows traces of similar labels.
   
• The copies of works 7-12 (f. 99r-120v) may be slightly earlier than the rest of the volume. The copies of works 21-24 and the following notes (f. 157-159v) are slightly later, dating to the end of the 15th century.
   

Watermark

Similar to Piccard, vol. 2: 3, XIII. 587-588 (1463, Lienz, Donauwörth, Öhringen), on ff. 1-98, 123-146, 149-156. Similiar to Piccard, vol. 11: II. 471-524, on f. 99-122. Piccard, vol. 8, IV. 50 (Mainz, 1466), on f. 147-8, 157-159.

Extent

156 leaves : 299 x 214 (207 x 142) mm bound to 306 x 211 mm

Collation

Paper, 156; 1² 2-3¹² 4¹²⁻²(-1, -2) 5-7¹² 8¹²⁻¹(-8) 9-14¹² 15¹; [1-26, 29-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners, [1-314], with pastedowns paginated 1 and 314. References in this record are to modern foliation. Folios 27-28 are missing, and f. 82 is almost completely torn out. Quires 1-14 signed A, a-n in modern pencil, lower right first recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Support

Paper

Binding

15th-century German pigskin over boards, incised and stamped with metal clasps and etiquettes; including a "Maria" banner. Binding in generally good condition, though the leather is peeling and pulling away from the boards in places and from the upper spine. The lower clasp is missing. There are worm holes in the cover boards, particularly at the top and fore edges.

Decoration

Extensive rubrication used for initials, capitals, headings, and underlining; Three consanguinity diagrams (f. 147r, 147v, 148v)

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by several hands, with some marginal notes in additional hands, including 17th-century notations (f. 159v).

Provenance

• Formerly held at the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim (Germany). Three ex libris notations: "Carthusien. in Buxia" (f. 1r); "Carthusianorum Patrum/ Hulae B. V. Mariae in Buxheim" (f. 2r); "Hunc liber dedit dominus Johannes Frank socius divinorum apud Sanctum/ Martinum in Memmingen fratribus ordinis carthusiensis in buchsheim/ oretur pro eo propter deum" (inside lower cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Presb. F. Vallée (ex libris, inside upper cover); Ludwig Rosenthal (Catalogue 120 (1909), no. 127; description, inside upper cover). Also includes a description from an unidentified catalog (inside upper cover).
   
• Purchased, 1949.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Catholic Church
• Discipline
• Catholic Church--Doctrines
• Catholic Church
• Theology--Early works to 1800
• Theology

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Diagrams
• Treatise
• Paper
• Germany
• Theology

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover
• fol. 2r — Owner note, f. 2r
• fol. 6v — Manicule, f. 6v
• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r
• fol. 10r — Manicule, f. 10r
• fol. 12r — Manicule, f. 12r