Manuscript on paper (heavy, rough) composed of four parts. Part I: Excerpts (divided into three parts) from the Malogranatum of Gallus, abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Koenigssaal, Bohemia. Part II: 3) Thomas a Kempis, Tractatus de imitatione Christi et contemptu omnium vanitatum mundi, Book I only. 4) Unidentified Fasiculus florum or Fasiculus morum. 5) Brief excerpts from Augustine and Jerome. 6) Unidentified excerpts dealing primarily with defects in the performance of the mass. Part III: 7) Unidentified extracts on virtues and vices. 8) Series of exempla of virtues and vices perhaps intended as illustrations for the selections quoted in art. 7. 9) Exemplum of Udo, Abp. of Magdeburg. Part IV (parchment): Unidentified text
Description:
names of authors cited, in red. Notes to
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Liturgy, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Didactic literature, Latin, Exempla, and Manuscripts, Medieval