Biblical principles relating to ethics and worship

1 volume<br/>381 pages, [401] folios (last blank). 4to. 20 1/2 x ; 15 cm Original half-vellum binding over wooden boards: clasp wanting. Ff. 178, 179, 336-357, 388, 389, 399, 400 and a leaf at the end are missing: foleave 155 is damaged, with a 15th century repair using vellum slips. Ffolio 280-299 have been dropped in the foliation.  Written by several different hands, some sections in double column. Some capitals and paragraph marks in red. Pasted on the outside of the upper cover is an original vellum label-about a third of which has been torn away-containing a list of the contents of the volume.

Volume of tracts from a Carthusian Library, containing theological works, sermons, etc (Miscellanea IV).

1 volume<br/>355 leaves 4to 21 1/2 x ; 14 cm Original sheep-skin binding over wooden boards, with leather and brass clasp. Leaves are wanting after folios 1, 18, 128, 141, 229, 267, 354: the greater part of foleave 141 has been cut out. Margins slightly cropped in binding. The last leaf pasted down on to the lower cover.   Written by several 15th century German hands, a few initials, headings, paragraph marks and underlinings in red. A foliation in pencil has now been added. Pasted down on the inside of the upper cover is a contemporary and abbreviated table of contents.

Collection of short tracts, mainly on theology and canon law, with some medical treatises (Miscellanea VI).

1 volume<br/>188 folios 4to 20 1/2 x ; 15 cm Original monastic binding in vellum over wooden boards: clasp wanting. Some margins frayed, text faded and rubbed on a few leaves. A foliation in pencil has been added, and leaves are probably wanting after folios 17, 23, 149, 153, 188. According to the List of Contents on the verso of the last leaf, some tracts are missing from the beginning of the volume. Written by several hands at a German monastery. Written by a number of different semi-current contemporary hands: some capitals, headings and underlinings in red.

Collection of short theological tracts, sermons, lives of Saints, exempla and copies of legal ecclesiastical documents and letters, etc.: with five short medical works, and notes on the Calendar, etc., in Latin. (Miscellanea VII).

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Volume of tracts from a Carthusian Library, containing theological works, sermons, etc (Miscellanea IV).

Collection of short tracts, mainly on theology and canon law, with some medical treatises (Miscellanea VI).

Collection of short theological tracts, sermons, lives of Saints, exempla and copies of legal ecclesiastical documents and letters, etc.: with five short medical works, and notes on the Calendar, etc., in Latin. (Miscellanea VII).

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Volume of tracts from a Carthusian Library, containing theological works, sermons, etc (Miscellanea IV).

Collection of short tracts, mainly on theology and canon law, with some medical treatises (Miscellanea VI).

Collection of short theological tracts, sermons, lives of Saints, exempla and copies of legal ecclesiastical documents and letters, etc.: with five short medical works, and notes on the Calendar, etc., in Latin. (Miscellanea VII).

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