Beinecke MS 157                                 Belgium, s. XIII/XIV, XIV^2
Aelred of Rievaulx, De amicitia, etc.

     I.1. ff. 1r-6r    Incipit liber beati augustini de amicicia.
	Cum essem adhuc puer in scolis et sociorum meorum me gratia
	plurimum...Ita a sancto illo amore quo amplectitur amicum ad
	illum conscendens quo amplectitur christum spiritualem amicicie
	fructum capit. Explicit liber de amicicia.

          Aelred of Rievaulx, De amicitia. The treatise, an
     abridged compendium of the De spirituali amicitia which
     circulated from the 13th century as the De amicitia of St.
     Augustine, is printed with spurious works attributed to him
     in PL 40. 831-44. (See A. Hoste, Bibliotheca Aelrediana in
     Instrumenta Patristica (Steenbrugg, 1962) p. 70; idem, "Le
     traite pseudo-augustinien De amicitia," Revue des etudes
     augustiniennes 6 (1960) p. 157.

     II.2. ff. 6v-7r    Liber siue Sermo sancti Augustinj de
     humilitate et obediencia. Nichil deo sic placet quomodo
     obediencia. Cayn maledictus fuit et post multa secula
     manet...qui habet aures audiendi audiat in christo ihesu
     domino nostro. Amen.

          PL 40. 1221-24. This work may perhaps be attributed to
     Geoffrey of Bath; see J. P. Bonnes, "Une des plus grands
     predicateurs du XII^^e siecle," Revue Beneictine 56 (1945) p.
     175 ff.

     III.3. ff. 7v-22v    Tulij Ciceronis Lelius. Uel de amicicia
     liber incipit. Quintus mucius augur multa narrare de G. lelio
     socero suo memoriter et vicunde [sic] solebat...amicicia esse
     non potest ut ea excerpta nichil amicicia prestabilius
     putetis. Finit liber ciceronis de amicicia.

          Cicero, Laelius de amicitia; K. Simbeck, ed., Teubner
     (1917) v. 14, 46c-86c.

          Composed of three distinct sections, all of thick
     parchment ca. 203 x 147 mm.
          I: ff. 1r-6r (151 x 112) mm. 42 long lines; single
     vertical and double upper horizontal bounding lines. Ruled in
     lead; prickings visible in all margins except inner. Written
     in informal gothic bookhand by one scribe who signed the
     first sheets of the gathering with Roman numerals, in red.
     Small initial, 4-line, blue with red penwork (beading) on f.
     1r; other plain initials, alternating red and blue. Rubrics
     throughout; many letters stroked with red.
          II: ff. 6v-7r (151 x 105) mm. 2 columns of 42 lines;
     single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines full
     across. Ruled in crayon, same arrangement of prickings as in
     Part I. Neat gothic bookhand, with simple initial and rubric
     at beginning of text; first initial of each sentence stroked
     with red.
          III: ff. 7v-22v (140 x 95) mm. Written in 31 long lines;
     frame-ruled in ink; remains of prickings on ff. 7-12 (as
     established for gathering by first scribe). Gothic bookhand
     by a third person who made marginal notations underlined in
     red.
          I^^12, II^^10. Catchword (of third scribe) along lower
     edge near gutter.
          Binding: s. xx. Red velvet case.

          Written in Belgium in three stages: Part I at the end of
	the 13th or beginning of the 14th century; Parts II and III
	were copied in the second half of the 14th century by or for
	someone who already owned one treatise on friendship and who
	wanted two additional works on the same subject.
     Belonged to Guglielmo Libri; his sale (London, 28 March 1859,
     no. 106) to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 16244; note on f. 1r);
     his sale (London, 1897, no. 197) to Tregaskis. Collection of
     Walter A. Copinger, Manchester (bookplate); sale by Sotheby's
     (2 Aug. 1929, no. 1526) to Last. David Wagstaff (bookplate);
     presented to Yale in 1944 by Mrs. David Wagstaff.

     secundo folio: inde suscipiunt

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 1901, no. 2; Faye and Bond,
     p. 36, no. 157.

     Barbara A. Shailor