Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 523: Devotional and Theological Tracts
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged, save for two images of its exterior front and back - the boards do not survive. The paper is disintegrating and cannot be stabilised, so it has not even been possible to foliate the manuscript throughout. The writing has disappeared from many of the pages. The texts included in CCCC MS 523, probably made in Bohemia, are devotional and theological tracts, and a text on preaching, the 'Liber de arte predicationis' by Conrad Waldhauser, a preacher of Prague. Another text which has been identified is the 'De conscientia et ratione' of Matthew of Krakow (c. 1330/35- 1410). The manuscript dates to the late fourteenth century and is part of the Elbing collection; a group of manuscripts which belonged to a Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or by his wife, Mary, whose signature is in many of the books.
Description
| Alternative title | [Untitled] |
|---|---|
| Type of resource | mixed material |
| Extent | ff. cir. 150 |
| Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1399] |
| Language | Latin |
| Material | Paper |
| Layout | double columns of 43 etc. lines |
| Height (mm) | 292 |
| Width (mm) | 220 |
| Writing | in two hands |
| Collation | impracticable. The whole book is very tender, the R. portions of many leaves at the beginning are gone, and the writing has disappeared in many places. |
| Additions | The old list gives the contents thus: Liber de arte predicationis per Dm Kunradum Predicat. Praga; Albertus Ord. Predicat. super missam; Dialogus Rationis et Conscientiae; Summa Fr. Alberti Ord. Predicat. Episc. quondam Ratisponensis de corpore domini; Variae Collationes; Concordantiae doctorum collectae per Joan. Byssol Cantorem Aquensem; Tract. de Eccles. Iurisdict. Joan. Caldrini; Tract. de articulis Fidei et de 7 Sacramentis. |
| Binding | Binding gone. |
| Foliation | Too fragile to be foliated at all. Partially imaged: front exterior and back exterior only - the boards do not survive. |
Bibliographic information
| M.R. James Date | xiv late |
|---|---|
| Augmented James Record | |
| Original James Record | |
| Elbing | N.25 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nz247ys3717 |
| Location | MS 523 |
| Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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- Use and reproduction
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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