Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 526: Spiritual and Devotional Tracts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 526: Spiritual and Devotional Tracts
Alternate Title:
[Untitled]
Language:
Latin and German
Extent:
ff. 348 + 1
Dimensions:
294 Height (mm) and 215 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1400 - 1431]
Table of contents:
  • De xii gradibus humilitatis
  • De mensuratione crucis
  • Speculum consciencie et contemplationis
  • De interiori domo (extract)
  • Gratiarum acciones pro beneficiis
  • Paradisus Spiritualis
  • Horologium sapientiae
  • Cursus de aeterna sapientia
  • Prayers at Mass and to the Virgin
  • Admonitio (fragment of Sermo 7)
  • Epistola de modo studendi
  • Exemplar Sancti Bernhardi
  • Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei (transl. by Willem Jordaens)
  • De septem gradibus contemplationis
  • De essentia divinitatis
  • De preparatoine domus animae
  • Meditations
  • Speculum humanae salvationis (Added texts on Passion and Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin Mary)
  • Theologia mystica (De triplici via)
  • Epistola super generibus exercitantum
  • De perfectione spiritualis uitae
  • Epistula ad Rusticum (ep. 125)
  • De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum (transl. by Willem Jordaens)
  • De uita solitaria
Description:
This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged completely, save for the front and back cover exteriors, and ff. 1-211v, 250v, 251r. The binding is very tight in parts of the book and for some pages there has been some loss of focus in the deep gutter. CCCC MS 526 is part of the Elbing Collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine monastery at what is now Eblag in Poland by Richard Pernham in the early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many books of the collection. This volume is closely dated by the presence of a scribal colophon recording the year 1431 in one of the items (a letter by Jan van Ruusbroec), which date the rest of the manuscript must more or less share. Among the many devotional and theological texts in the manuscript are Henricus Suso OP (Heinrich Seuse, 1295-1366) Horologium sapientiae and Cursus de aeterna sapientia, Jan van Ruusbroec's (1293-1381) De Calculo (Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei) and De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum, both in the translation of Willem Jordaens, Hugo de Balma OCarth (fl. 1289-1304) Theologia mystica (De triplici uia), Thomas Aquinas OP (c. 1225-74) De perfectione spiritualis uitae and the De uita solitaria of Francesco Petrarca (1304-74). The 'kochemeister' mentioned on the back cover is possibly Michael Kuchmeister (fl. 1414-22) mentioned in Elbing records.
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