MS 55 Epistulae; Adversus Vigilantium; and De Perpetua virginitate beatae mariae adversus Helvidium
Title
Epistulae; Adversus Vigilantium; and De Perpetua virginitate beatae mariae adversus HelvidiumAuthors
- Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n79124709)
Funders
- Council on Library and Information Resources
Call number
MS 55(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibraryLanguage
Latin; Ancient Greek (to 1453)Origin
- Place
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Southern Germany, perhaps Regensburg
Summary
This is a German manuscript on paper dated 1435. It includes twenty-five letters by St. Jerome, together with three pseudonymous letters by various authors that circulated as Jerome's, and Jerome's treatises, Adversus Vigilantium and De perpetua virginitate Beatae Mariae adversus Helvidium, with formal marginal comments, a subject index, and brief extracts and biographical notes added at the beginning and end of the manuscript. The scribe, Johannes Tyrolf, signed and dated the manuscript repeatedly.
Notes
- Back cover broken off, with subsequent damage to the last three leaves. Fol. 214 with losses barely touching text; fol. 215 with the loss of one quarter of the text; fol. 216 with loss of half of the text.
Watermark
Unidentified watermark, blossom with stem (probably four-petalled), split between pagesExtent
216; 460 x 111 mm bound to 510 x 113 mmFoliation
Modern foliation in pencil top outer corner rectoCollation
1 (14), 2-16 (12), 17 (14), 18 (8)Support
PaperCatchwords
Horizontal catchwords lower inside marginBinding
Original wooden boards, cut flush with the book block, covered with red leather, flat spine with three raised bands, sewn on three double cords, tail bands now missing but the thread once wound around it is extant, impressions from two clasps visible on the upper board, in fragile condition, front cover scuffed and worn at the edges, partially detached (only attached by bottom cord), back cover mostly missing with only a small fragment of the broken board, partially covered in red leather, remaining, early modern paper label added on the bottom of the spine, with "G. 21" written in inkLayout
Decoration
Guide letters visible within many initials, majuscules within text highlighted in red, red running titles including Arabic numerals numbering each text, red paragraph marks and underlining within text, three- to two-line red initials, many with decorative extensions
Script
Colophon
On fol 201r: "Explicit 1435. Hic locus est mete liber explicit ergo ualete/ Non est pro<>us mihi talis scriptura venalis/ Portus adest pondus abest iam remige chris<to>/ libero laus summa deo pennam quia sis<to>."Provenance
- Copied in 1435 by a known scribe, Johannes Tyrolf (who also signed his name "Tyrell"), in Southern Germany, and presumably in Regensburg where Tyrolf lived. The manuscript is signed by the scribe numerous times: fol. 3, upper margin, "Johannes Tyrell propria manus"; fol. 145v, with the date, 1435 on the feast of St. Erasmus (June 2); fol. 159, 1435, on the feast of St. Alban (June 22); fol. 178, 1435, on feast of John and Paul (June 26); and fol. 201, with the date, 1435, and a verse colophon; belonged to the Ritter-Waldauf-Bibliothek; inside front cover, in ink, "Waldaufficae fundationis, 1596"; their stamp, now mostly effaced, fol. 1 (pointed oval stamped in blue ink, outline only remains)
Keywords
- 15th century
- Christian
- Colophon
- Germany
- Church Fathers
- Biblical
- Manicules
Licenses
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Table of contents
- fol. 1v — Hugo de claustro anime in duodecima abusione; incipit: Beatus Job dic[?]; explicit: Explicit ad letam Hieronimi de institutione paule …
- fol. 1v — Registrarum epistalarum s. hieronimi,; incipit: Epistola sancti Jeronimi ad S. Antonini, 1
- fol. 1v — Hugo de claustro anime in duodecima abusione; incipit: Beatus Job dic[?]; explicit: Explicit ad letam Hieronimi de institutione paule …
- fol. 1v — Registrarum epistalarum s. hieronimi,; incipit: Epistola sancti Jeronimi ad S. Antonini, 1
- fol. 2v — Anno domini 420, Beethleem Jeronimus. Nota,; incipit: Anno domini 420 Bethleem Jeronimus presbiter doctor et interpres
- fol. 3r — Epistola gloriosi Ieronimi ad Anthonium monachum; incipit: Dominus noster humilitatis magister disceptantibus de dignitate discipulis
- fol. 3v — Epistola gloriosi Jeronimi ad Rusticum monachum,; incipit: Nichil est christiano felicius cui promittitur
- fol. 15v — Hieronimus ad Nepotianum presbiterum de institutione clericorum,; incipit: Petus a me Nepotiane carissime litteris transmarinis et crebro petis
- fol. 25v — Hieronimus ad heliodorum; incipit: Quanto amore studio contenderim ut partier in heremo
- fol. 34r — Hieronimus ad paulinum presbiterum de institutione clericorum et monachorum; incipit: Bonus homo de bono thesauro cordis profert
- fol. 41v — Hieronimus ad Oceanum de vita clericorum,; incipit: Sofronius Eusebius Hieronimus Oceano suo salutem. Deprecatus es ut tibi breuiter exponere qualiter clerici
- fol. 46v — Hieronimi ad oceanum de unius <mo?>ris vno. De conuersatione clericorum,; incipit: Numquam filii Oceane fore putabam indulgencia principis
- fol. 58r — Epistola Hieronimum ad Anigam spanum ad humilitatem et patientiam prouocans,; incipit: Quamuis mihi multorum sim conscius peccatorum
- fol. 59r — Hieronimus ad marcellam de decem nominibus quibus apud ebrios deus uocare,; incipit: Nonagesimum psalmi legens in eo loco quo scribitur. Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimus
- fol. 60r — Hieronimo ad Marcellam de muneribus,; incipit: Ut absenciam corporum spiritus confabulationem
- fol. 61v — Prologus in epistolam sequentem,; incipit: Retulit michi quidam frater e gallia
- fol. 62v — Hieronimi epistola ad matrem et filiam,; incipit: Primum quidem scire vos cupio soror et filia me non idcirco scribere quia aliquam sinistram suscipiter
- fol. 68v — Ieronimi epistola consolatoria ad paulam de dormitione filie eius,; incipit: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam et oculis meis fontem lacrimarum et plorabo
- fol. 77v — Hieronimi ad principiam romanam uirginem,; incipit: Scio me principia in chrstio filia a plerisque reprehendi quod interdum scribam
- fol. 79v — Epistola sancti Hieronimi ad Exsuperancium,; incipit: Inter omnia que mihi sancti fratris quintilianie amicitie prestiterunt
- fol. 80v — Hieronimi ad tranquilium quomodo Originem lege debeat,; incipit: Maiora spiritus vincula esse
- fol. 81r — Epistola Pamachii ad gloriosum Ieronimum,; incipit: Pamachiis et Oceanus Hieronimo presbitero salutem. Sanctus aliquis ex fratribus scedulas
- fol. 81v — Epistola Hieronimi presbiteri ad pamachium et Oceanum [modo?] sequitur; incipit: Scedule quas misiscis honorificata me
- fol. 90v — Epistola Hieronimi contra vigilancium presbiterum in quo eius blasphemiam arguit; incipit: Iustum quidem fuerat nequamquam litteris
- fol. 94r — Hieronimus ad Riparium presbiterum contra Vigilantium,; incipit: Acceptis litteris tuis primitus non responde
- fol. 97r — Hieronimus aduersus Vigilantium,; incipit: Multa in orbe monstra generata sunt
- fol. 108v — Hieronimus ad Innocentium presbiterum de muliere septies percussa et mirabiliter preservata,; incipit: Sepe a me innocente karissime postulasti ut de eius miraculo
- fol. 113r — Hieronimus ad Pamachium de optimo genere interpretandi,; incipit: Paulus apostolus presente Agrippa rege de criminibus
- fol. 125v — Incipit liber sancti Hieronimi contra Helvidium de sancte marie virginitate et castitate,; incipit: Nuper rogatus a fratribus ut adversus libellum cuiusdam. Helvidii
- fol. 145v — Incipit liber uigilarum gloriosi Ieronimi,; incipit: Dignum est fratres aptumque prorsus satisque consciens
- fol. 151v — Epistola sancti Hieronmini paule et eustochie ad marcellam exhortatoria de sanctis locis iherusalem,; incipit: Mensuram caritas non habent
- fol. 156r — Epistola sancti hieronimi ad pamaochium et oceanum,; incipit: Qui ethiopem inviat
- fol. 159v — Epistola sancti Jeronimi ad Saninianum [sic] choortatoria ad penitentiam agendam,; incipit: Et Samuel quondam lugebat
- fol. 168r — Incipt liber ad furiam de viduitate seruanda,; incipit: Obsecras litteris et suppliciter
- fol. 178r — Epistula beati Ieronmi ad Excellentiam matronam; incipit: Uetas scripture celebrate sententiam est
- fol. 190v — Epistola sancti Hieronimi ad letam de nutriendis particulis,; incipit: Beatus apostolus Paulus scribens
- fol. 201v — Alphabetical subject index; incipit: Abstinentia, r 30, f 31, r 31, Abrenuntatio seculi, A4
- fol. 212v — Jeronimus ad demetriadem virginem,; incipit: Jeronimum non perfecta virtus sed ceterarum virtutum fundamentum est
Decorations
- Inside front cover — Ownership inscription: Waldaufficae fundationis, 1596
- fol. 1v — Faded stamp of Ritter-Waldauf-Bibliothek
- fol. 1v — Faded stamp of Ritter-Waldauf-Bibliothek
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Section: Hugo de claustro anime in duodecima abusione
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Section: Epistola gloriosi Ieronimi ad Anthonium monachum

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Section: Hieronimus ad Nepotianum presbiterum de institutione clericorum,

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Section: Hieronimus ad paulinum presbiterum de institutione clericorum et monachorum

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Section: Hieronimus ad Oceanum de vita clericorum,

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Section: Epistola Hieronimum ad Anigam spanum ad humilitatem et patientiam prouocans,

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Section: Hieronimus ad marcellam de decem nominibus quibus apud ebrios deus uocare,

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Section: Hieronimo ad Marcellam de muneribus,

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Section: Prologus in epistolam sequentem,

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Section: Hieronimi epistola ad matrem et filiam,

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Section: Ieronimi epistola consolatoria ad paulam de dormitione filie eius,

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Section: Hieronimi ad principiam romanam uirginem,

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Section: Epistola sancti Hieronimi ad Exsuperancium,

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Section: Hieronimi ad tranquilium quomodo Originem lege debeat,

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Section: Epistola Pamachii ad gloriosum Ieronimum,

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Section: Epistola Hieronimi presbiteri ad pamachium et Oceanum [modo?] sequitur

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Section: Epistola Hieronimi contra vigilancium presbiterum in quo eius blasphemiam arguit

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Section: Hieronimus ad Riparium presbiterum contra Vigilantium,

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Section: Hieronimus aduersus Vigilantium,

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Section: Hieronimus ad Innocentium presbiterum de muliere septies percussa et mirabiliter preservata,

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Section: Hieronimus ad Pamachium de optimo genere interpretandi,

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Section: Incipit liber sancti Hieronimi contra Helvidium de sancte marie virginitate et castitate,

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Section: Incipit liber uigilarum gloriosi Ieronimi,

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Section: Epistola sancti Hieronmini paule et eustochie ad marcellam exhortatoria de sanctis locis iherusalem,

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Section: Epistola sancti hieronimi ad pamaochium et oceanum,

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Section: Epistola sancti Jeronimi ad Saninianum [sic] choortatoria ad penitentiam agendam,

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Section: Incipt liber ad furiam de viduitate seruanda,

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Section: Epistula beati Ieronmi ad Excellentiam matronam

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Section: Epistola sancti Hieronimi ad letam de nutriendis particulis,

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Section: Alphabetical subject index

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Section: Jeronimus ad demetriadem virginem,