Beinecke MS 224                                                    Germany, s. XV^^med
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea, etc.

     1. front pastedown:    Prima die eriget se mare xl cubitus super
     altitudinem moncium...hec signa scripsit ysidorus xv.

          Brief description of the 15 days before judgment; Stegmueller, v.
     7, no. 10333.

     I. 2. ff. 1r-52r     Aduentus domini per quatuor septimanas agitur ad
     significandum...Mox se terra aperuit et cunctos illos degluttiuit
     Reliqui uero ad eum sunt conuersi.

          T. Graesse, ed., Jacobi a Voragine Legenda aurea (Leipzig, 1846).
     The legends in Beinecke MS 224 occur in the following order (with
     numbers corresponding to chapters in Graesse): 1-11, 21-23, 28, 37, 45.

     3. ff. 52r-54v    Castissimum marie virginis vterum clausum ventris
     sponse cubiculum signatum pudorem cenaculum plenissime...saluatoris
     domini nostri ihesu christi qui cum deo patre viuit et regnat...Amen.
     [followed by a short note beginning: Balthasar fuit etatum annorum
     centum et xvj annos. Melchior...]ff. 55r-59v blank

          Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de annuntiatione beatae virginis
          mariae;
     PL 39. 2107-10. This is perhaps the work of Ambrosius Autpertus (see L.
     Scheffczyk, Das Mariengeheimnis in Frommigkeit und Lehre der
     Karolingerzeit [Erfurt-Leipzig, 1959] pp. 48-53).

     4. f. 60r-v    In diebus rogacionum. [H]elyas orauit ut non plueret
     super terram in die beati marci letania mayor peragitur...laudate
     peregit etc. in christo quieuit [ends imperfectly?].

          A similar selection on the litany appears in Munich, Universitaets
     bibliothek 2^^o Cod. MS 128, f. 154.

     II.5. ff. 61r-182v     [no heading] De septem donis spiritus sancti de
     quibus prius scire debes...Ad que inerrabilia bona eterne glorie
     perducat dominus noster...seculorum secula. Amen.

          Unidentified treatise, begins imperfectly? Includes the rubrics:
     De statu ecclesie, De penitencia, De discipulo inobediente, De tribus
     hostibus nostris, Ambidexter, De pace, De amore violento, De vita
     contemplativa, De deo et efficibus eius, De purgatorio.

     6. ff. 182v-186r    [Alphabetical index to preceding treatise:]
     Accessus hominis ad deum. 2^^o/ Abusio, de abusionibus.
     7./...Christifideles et maxime Religiosi in vno statu permanere non
     possunt 29. et ultra.

     7. ff. 186v-192v    Uidens pijssimus et misericordissimus deus hominem
     quem ad sui ipsius fruicionem formauerat...Eterna gaudia et inferni
     eterna supplicia valent ad resurrectendis peccatis.

          This work (entitled elsewhere Tractatus de reparatione hominis
     lapsi) also occurs in Klosterneuberg MS 205 (see H. Pfeiffer and B.
     Cernik, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui in bibliotheca
     canonicorum regularium S. Augustini Claustroneoburgi asservantur
     [Vindobonae, 1922] v. 1).

     8. back pastedown    A bifolium from an unidentified 15th century
     German manuscript on paper, beginning: Zu dem raben dw solt mir chwnden
     vnd sagen wo hestu den herren werleichen...[one leaf: 148 x 103 (93 x
     60) mm., written in 14-15 long lines].

          Composed of two distinct sections:
          I. Paper (watermarks: unidentified bull's head), ff. 60, 207 x 147
     (152 x 109) mm. 2 columns of ca. 30 lines; frame-ruled in lead; remains
     of prickings. I-V^^12. Written in a neat running script by three
     scribes: 1: ff. 1r-52r; 2: ff. 52r-54v; 3: f. 60r-v. Small, crude
     initials in red, some with simple penwork designs; initials strokes, in
     red.
          II. Paper (sturdy; watermarks buried in gutter), ff. 132
     (contemporary foliation: 1-132; modern foliation: 61-192), 208 x 146
     (165 x 105) mm. Folios 61r-182r: written in ca. 32 long lines; ff.
     182v-192v: 2 columns of ca. 33 lines. Frame-ruled in ink; remains of
     prickings. I-XI^^12. Quire signatures (primus, secundus, etc.) in center
     of lower margin, on verso. Written by a single scribe in an elegant
     running script. Portions of the marginal notes by original scribe have
     been lost due to trimming. Headings, paragraph marks, and initial
     strokes, in red, throughout.
          Binding: s. xv-xvi. Original sewing on three thick, double,
     vegetable fiber cords laced and pegged in grooves in wooden boards. The
     grooves for the endband cores, which are also vegetable fiber, start on
     the spine edge of the boards. The spine of the bookblock is cut off at
     an angle at head and tail so the braided endbands extend very little
     beyond the edges. The spine is square and lined all along with tawed
     skin which extends to the inside of the boards. Covered in tawed skin,
     originally pink, with two labels at the head of the upper board; on the
     first, "Passionale ad aduentum domini usque ad festum mathie sancte [?]
     sermonum collectio [?]," on the second, "G.27". Five round bosses on
     each board and two strap and pin fastenings, the pins on the upper one.
     Lower board detached, bosses and fastenings wanting.

          Written in Germany in the middle of the 15th century; early
     provenance unknown (see remarks on binding). Unidentified label on
     spine and notation on f. 1r: "252/P5". Stamp of the Kingsley Trust
     Association (f. 1r) which presented it to Yale in 1951.

     secundo folio: ire parum

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 42, no. 224.

     Barbara A. Shailor