Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 503: Willelmus Durandus the Elder, Aureum confessorum. Penitential, Decretal, Historical and Spiritual Tracts
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 503: Willelmus Durandus the Elder, Aureum confessorum. Penitential, Decretal, Historical and Spiritual Tracts
- Alternate Title:
- [Untitled]
- Language:
- Latin and German
- Extent:
- ff. 1 + 157
- Dimensions:
- 290 Height (mm) and 217 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 1400 - 1499]
- Provenance:
- The name of Mary Pernham in the cover (ev).
- Table of contents:
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- Aureum confessorum (expanded version by Stephanius of Roudnice)
- Tract on penitence
- Apparatus Decretorum (Decretum abbreviatum)
- Statutes of Arnestus, Archbishop of Prague
- Inhibitiones sacramenti eucharistiae
- Speculum peccatoris
- Auctoritates diuersorum sanctorum doctorum
- Genealogia historiarum
- Map of the Holy Land
- List of Emperors and Popes
- Foundations of religious houses in Gdansk and Marienburg (Malburk)
- Quaestiones in De anima
- Speculum historiale (extract - Historia de Joseph et Aseneth)
- Various notes
- Description:
- MS 503, a miscellany, contains diverse material copied in the period c. 1390-1430 in both Germany and Bohemia. The volume includes copies of Stephan of Roudnices expanded version of Aureum confessorum by Willelmus Durandus the Elder (c. 1237-1296), a tract on penitence, the Apparatus Decretorum by the canon lawyer Iohannes de Deo (c. 1190-1267), the Statutes of Arnestus (Ernest), Archbishop of Prague (or Ernest of Pardubice (1297-1364), Inhibitiones sacramenti eucharistiae, dated 1394, by Iohannes de Missa (Misna), the Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum peccatoris, Peter of Poitiers (c.1130-1215), Genealogia historiarum (illustrated with diagrams and drawings), Quaestiones in De anima by John Buridan (1295-1358), Speculum historiale (extract of the Historia de Joseph et Aseneth) by Vincent of Beauvais (d. c. 1264), a map of the Holy Land, a list of Emperors and Popes, and notes on the foundation of religious houses in Gdansk and Marienburg (Malbork). This volume 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 his wife Mary, whose signature is in several of the books.