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A leaf from a Carolingian folio of a major patristic text.

Portions of chapters 99-100, 107-108, 112-113, 117 and 119. These leaves discuss Saints James the Greater, Christopher, Germanus, Eusebius, Stephen, Dominic, and Lawrence, and the Assumption of the Virgin.

A bifolio parchment (31 x 22 cm.) bound at a later date to protect it. 36 lines per page, Italian library gothic script in brown ink. Ample margins, with a blank space for the first capital of canto IX. Included is five pages of research from Antiquariato Librario Radaeli.

• 1. fol. 1r-5v: "[rubr.] De anima et copore tractatus. [text] Noctis sub silencio tempore brumali quodammodo sompno spiritali ... [Corpus respondit] A sensato quolibet hoc non ignoratur Tu scis per optime hoc non ignoratur."

• 2. fol. 6r-7r: "[rubr.] De sancto Patricio episcopo et eius purgatorio. [text] Patricius dum Scotorum regi praedicaret de Christi passione stans autem ... Et post .xxx. dies feliciter abdormiuit etcet. Et sic est finis de sancto patricio."

• 3. fol. 7r-7v, 9r-10v, 8r-8v: "[rubr.] Epistula beati Bernhardi de guberacione familie ad Raymundum dominum castri sancti Ambrosii. [text] Gracioso militi et felici Raymundo domino castri sancti Ambrosii Bernhardus in senium ductus ... ad quem eam perducant merita sue dampnabilis senectutis." [Note that the folios are bound in the wrong order. Folios 9-10 should have followed after f.
• 7. F. 8 contains the final paragraph of this section, and the beginning of the subsequent text.]

• 4. fol. 8r: "[rubr.] Seneca. Mulier quid sit. [text] Quid est mulier nisi hominis confusio, insatiabilis bestia, continua sollicitudo ..."

• 5. fol. 8r-8v, 11r-12v: "[text] Cvmque Molekeus ad vindictam properararet [sic] Prudencia, uxor illius occurrens ei prius cognitis que ordinata fuerant ... Casta matrona parendo viro imperat, et qui docte seruit partem dominatus tenet."

• 6. fol. 12v: "[text] Prima quia mulier de costa viri ... mulier ab angelo salutata quam[?] aliquis vir. [rubr.] Et sic est finis Et cet."

• 7. fol. 12v: "[text] Humilitas fecit religionem ... Nam per cras cras cras consumitur etas."

• 8. fol. 13r-20v: "[rubr.] Tractatus de corpore Christi et de preparacione hominis ad ydem corpus sumendum. [text] Ad laudem et gloriam benedicte ac indiuidue trinitatis patris et filii et spiritus sancti ... Quod nobis et mihi concedere dignetur. Qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen."

• 9. fol. 20v-27r: "[rubr.] Item exposicio missi. [text] Item primo inclinacio sacerdotis est dei humilitas. Introitus est desiderium prophetarum. Psalmus est certitudo desideriorum ... Semper recolo si magnum dominum in tua domo mteriali recepisses etcet. Celi et terre dominum recepisti etcet."

• 10. fol. 27r-31r: "[rubr.] Nota quaestiones de confessione que secuntur. [text] Qveritur primo si sacerdos habet aliquos subdito surdos ... quarum tanto est magis arduum et difficile quanto anima maior est corpore."

• 11. fol 31r-36v: "[rubr.] Confessio bona et utilis."

• 12. fol 37r-47v: "[text] vnumquemque Dei paciencia sustentari, quamdiu nondum peccatorum suorum terminum finemque repleuerit, quo consumato eum ilico percuti, nec illi iam ullam veniam reseruari ... Et cum fueris talis, nostri memento, qui te tantum diligimus ut quod presentes prestare non possumus, conferamus absentes, faciendo hec, quisque vitam obtinebit eternam. Amen."

Miscellany of moralising, theological, devotional, and confessional texts, probably copied as a personal handbook for a member of the clergy. It includes influential literary works, such as Albert of Brexia's tale of Melibee, and the Visio Philiberti, a versified debate between body and soul. It also contains treatises on penance and the Mass. A number of the texts are related to the theme of family life and the position of women.

A collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the medieval church. Text complete.