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

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Collection of short tracts, mainly on theology and canon law, with some medical treatisesContents1. f. 1r Jean Gerson, De confessione, extract, incomplete2. ff. 2r-10v Johannes Nider, De auditione confessionum, extract3. ff. 11r-14v Jean Gerson, De vita animae, extract4. ff. 15r-20r John of Freiburg, De confessione, extract5. ff. 20v-27v Johannes Nider, De restitutione, extractf. 28r De constitutionef. 28v De restitutione6. ff. 29r-30r Thomas Ebendorfer, De confessione, extractf. 30v blank7. f. 31r-v Anonymous, De peccato mortale8. ff. 32r-60r Johannes Nider, De lepra morali, De decem preceptis, etc.9. ff. 60v-63r Jean Gerson, Regulae de sacramentisf. 63v blank10. ff. 64r-80v Johannes Nider, De scrupulosa conscientia11. ff. 81r-104r Pseudo-Eusebius of Cremona, Epistola ad Damasium de morte sancti Hieronymif. 81r Incipit epistola Eusebii ad Damasium ... f. 104r Explicit epistola beati Eusebii ad sanctum Damasium Portuensem episcopum et ad Christianissimum Theodoricum romanorum renatorem ... 12. ff. 104r-108r Pseudo-Augustine, Epistola ad Cyrillum de excellentia ac laude sancti Hieronymif. 104r Incipit epistola beati Augustini episcopi ad Cyrillum de excellencia et laude gloriosi Jeronimi ... f. 108r Explicit epistola beati Augustini episcopi ad beatum Cyrillum Ierusalemitanum episcopum de magnificencia beati Jerominif. 108v blank, saved erased explicit of EUSEBIUS13. ff. 109r-128r Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria, Epistola ad Augustinum de vita et miraculis beati Hieronymif, 109r Sequitur epistola Cyrilli episcopi Ierusalemitani ad Augustinum de vita et miraculis beati Jeronimi ... f. 128r Explicit epistola Cyrilli Ierusalomitani ad beatum Augustinum episcopum comproponnensem' de miraculis gloriosi Jeronimi sancti. Amore Ihesu Christi orate prescriptione: cuius non sit in libro vite ame' sancti.f. 128v blank14. ff. 129r-148v Conrad von Eistedt, Compendium de regimine sanitatisf. 129r Incipit compendium de regimine sanitatis traditum a multis. Sicut scribitus ab auicenna primi canonis capitulo de causis sanitatis ... f. 148v interficit cena gulosa quasi gladius concurrens [?] est finis. Explicit compendium de regimine sanitatis editum a multis.The attribution of No. 14 to Conrad von Eistedt is based on Thorndike's Catalogue of Incipits, Col. 688. In this work a leaf after fol. 141 has been cut out as previously noted, and the text on the verso of this leaf has been obliterated in ink, possibly because it dealt with sexual topics.15. ff. 149r-150v Andreas Reichlin von Meldegg, Regimen tempore pestilentiaef. 149r Sequitur nunc regimen tempore pestilencie doctoris andree de ueberlingen. Bysz dich in den louffen der pestilentz also halten und bewaren Zu den ersten die weil du gesunt bist ... f. 150r Dissen raut soll man oft und dick ueberlesen wenn ich besseres nit waisz und verstanden [?]. A variant version of this plague tract has been printed in Sudhoff's Archiv f?r Geschichte der Medizin, vol.16, pp. 31-33, with a note on the Author, a 'Doctor artium et medicinae', who practised at Constance until 1455 when he moved to ?berlingen where he died in 1477. There are also obliterations on fol. 150v; under these entries is a note 'Hec supra notata recepi et rapui ex quodam notabili libro in constancia/videlicet ex libro magistri Johannis pollin qui erat tempore consilii prolocutor totius consilii constanciae'. The Council of Constance lasted from 1414 to 1418.16. ff. 151r-156r Thomas of Cantimpre, De septem regionibus aeris, from De natura rerumf. 151r In nomine domini Amen Sequitur tractatus generalis de vii regionibus aeris. Primo generaliter dicendum est de septem regionibus aeris et earum humoribus ... f. 156r ... et non mixtum si inveniatur quod vix umquam aut raro fit.17. ff. 156v-165r Thomas of Cantimpre, De septem planetis, from De natura rerumf. 156v De septem planetis. Generaliter primo dicendum est de spera et motu eius ... f. 165r ... de hiis ad presens supersedendis melius iudicamus.18. ff. 165v-171r Thomas of Cantimpre, De passionibus aeris, from De natura rerumf. 165v De passionibus ['aeris' on next leaf]. Generaliter prius de passionibus aeris videamus qui quomode ... f. 171r ... non videbitur in nubibus et hec de aere et eius passionibus dicta sufficiant. deo gracias.19. ff. 171v-180r Thomas of Cantimpre, De quatuor elementis, from De natura rerumf. 171v De quatuor ['elementis' on next page]. Primo generaliter dicendum est de iiiior elementis Equiden distinguendum est qualis et quid sit mundus ... f. 180r ... Ignis volat nobilis voluitur rotabilis machina speralis etc.f. 180v blank20. ff. 181r-184v Blasius of Parma, Quaestiones circa Sphaeram Johannis de Sacroboscof. 181r Exerpta [sic] spere materialis. Circa tractatum spere materialis magistri Johannis de sacro busto. Queritur primo quid sit subiectum in isto ... f. 184v ... in alteruto punctorum equinoxialium vel proprie habentur.ff. 185r-189v blank21. ff. 190r-197r Francesco Accolti, De matrimonio, ends imperfectlyf. 190r Tractatus doctori Francisci ... f. 197r ... preposito ... ff. 197v-200v blank 22. ff. 201r-202r Pseudo-Augustine, Excerpta ex Epistola ad Volusianumf. 201r Ex epistola de Augustini ad Volusianum ... f. 202r ... non fuisse.f. 202v blank23. ff. 203r-220r Tituli psalmorum, in Germanff. 220v-224v blank24. ff. 225r-229v Excerpta ex Decretalibus, etc.25. ff. 230r-237r Descriptiones titulorum Decretaliumff. 237v-241v blank26. ff. 242r-243v Tituli librorum Decretalium27. ff. 244r-250r Tituli Digesti28. ff. 250v-261v Tituli Codicis29. ff. 262r-263v Tituli Institutorum30. ff. 264r-265v Tituli Authenticorum31. ff. 266r-355r Commentaries, notes and extracts from the Decretals

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1475?

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1 volume
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.

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On f. 265r is a note 'Nouerint uniuersi et singuli quod magistro pangracio sartoris plebano in tauerstat discretus et honestus vir Jacobus guderman ciuis erffordiae sua peccata legitime confessus est'.

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In Latin, German.

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In the lower margin of f. 1r in red ink, 'Cartusiae Ecclesiae in Buxheim', by a 16th century hand. The monastery in Buxheim, Bavaria was donated to the Carthusians in 1402.

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