[Epithoma : seu flores in collationes patrum Joh[anni] Cassiani]

Name:

Heinrich, von Friemar, approximately 1245-1340; Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435; Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Middle Ages, 600-1500

Date:

1400

Description:

Collection of excerpts from the De institutis coenobiorum and Collationes patrum XXIV of John Cassian, 5th-century works on monastic life. Followed by a collection of Hebrew Scripture references grouped by their application to the life of Christ and a treatise attributed to Bartholomaeus Carthusiensus addressed to a novice wishing to leave the monastery.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly in the library of the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim (Patrum Cartusianorum B.V. Mariae in Buxheim, f. 1r).; Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalog 12 (1961), no. 23, and catalog 15 (1964), no. 17; sold by Rosenthal (New York), 1964.

Relation:

Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/41

Subject:

Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800; Monastic and religious life; Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Excerpts; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

172 leaves : paper; 158 x 104 mm bound to 166 x 114 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; German Augustinian, author of a number of works on ascetical and mystical spirituality.; Title from title for predominant work in 15th-century note on flyleaf; Zacour-Hirsch supplies the title Flores ex collatione patrum, sive ex collationum Joannis Cassiani libris XXIV.; Table of contents: 1. f.1v-66v: Epithoma / Heinrich von Friemar.; Table of contents: 2. f.67r-83r: Applicationes auctoritatum veteris testamenti ad novum, quantum incarnationis passionisque Christi mysterium.; Table of contents: 3. f.87r-140r: Tractatus ad quendam fratrem novicium ad seculum redire volentem / Bartholomaeus Carthusiensis.; Collation: Paper, i (contemporary flyleaf) + 172; 1¹⁰ 2-4¹² 5-6¹⁴ 7¹² 8¹⁰ 9¹² 10-11¹⁰ 12¹² 13-14¹⁰ 15¹²; [1-172]; modern collation in pencil, upper or lower right recto. Last three gatherings are blank. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: 1st work written in 35-40 long lines, with marginal notes in red ink; 2nd work has marginal Biblical citations in red ink; 3rd work written in 34 long lines, with red letters in the main text corresponding to marginal Biblical citations.; Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.; Decoration: Titles, brackets, and marginal notes in red ink.; Binding: Blind-stamped contemporary calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch); one metal hook and clasp and one metal clasp with hook now missing; paper label at top of spine has remnants of title, including "in collationes patrum ... Cassiani" and paper label at bottom of spine has shelf number 183, in two generations of numbering.; Origin: Written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1061