Beinecke MS 312               France, s. XV^^med
Pseudo-Augustine, Soliloquia; etc.

1. ff. 1r-172v Incipiunt Soliloquia beati Augustini episcopi.
Cognoscam te domine cognitor meus cognoscam te uirtus anime mee.  Ostende te
michi consolator...Qui es deus benedictus In secula sempiterna.  Amen.
Expliciunt soliloquia beati Augustini episcopi.

     Pseudo-Augustine, Liber soliloquiorum animae ad deum;  PL 40.863-97.

2.  ff. 172v-207r Sequitur sermo deuotus de passione domini nostri Ihesu
christi.  Christus passus est pro nobis vobis relinquens exemplum ut
sequamini uestigia eius.  prima petri secundo.  Si paulus doctor gentium
presens esset et hodie...ad exemplar applicans uniuersos ex eis et
conuincet egyptios et liberabit hebreos.
Explicit sermo de passione domini nostri Ihesu Christi.

3.  ff. 207r-230r Sequitur de hiis que passus est pro nobis isdem dominus
noster Ihesus christi, Augustinus.  Attende et intellige anima mea tempus
beatissime passionis domini nostri Ihesu christi.  Passus est Ihesus meus et
amor meus dulcedo mea spes mea...amare et hiis qui officiunt benefacere hec
crisistomus.

     Selections on the Passion of Christ, from Augustine and John
Chrysostom.

4.  ff. 230v-232v Quare appetenda est humilitas.  Appetenda est humilitas.
Primo quia ordinat hominem...humilitas autem gratiam haurit sicut uas uacuum
et inclinatum.  Hec bernardus.  [f. 233r blank; colophon at bottom of f. 233v:]
Iste libellus est monasterii sancte trinitatis prope medontam ordinis
celestinorum de manu fratris thome bertault scriptus.  sic signatus 168.

     Short discussion on humility, the final portion apparently from Bernard.

     Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 233 + ii (paper), 118 x 73 (66 x 45) mm.
Written in 14 long lines.  Single (double upper horizontal) bounding lines,
full length and full across; ruled in pale red ink.
     I-XXIX^^8  [+ 1 leaf added at end].  Remains of leaf signatures;
catchwords, with decorative flourishes, in center of lower margin.
     Written in neat batarde by a single scribe (see below).
     Plain red and blue initial, 5-line, on f. 1r.  Simple blue initials,
3- and 2-line, on ff. 172v and 207r.  Headings, paragraph marks in red.
     Binding:  s. xix.  Gilt edges.  Brown calf case blind- and
gold-tooled, with white, watered-paper endleaves and pastedowns.  Spine
nearly detached.

Written in France in the middle of the 15th century by Thomas Bertault
(Colophons, v. 5, no. 17859, from this manuscript but listed incorrectly
as Bitault) and was no. 168 in the 15th century library of the Celestines of
Mantes (see art. 4 above) where it probably remained until the French
Revolution.  Belonged to comte Georges de Nedonchel (1813-1901);
his sale (Gand, 3 March 1903, no. 179) to the classicist Franz Cumont, of
Brussels, who presented it to Prof. G. Lincoln Hendrickson of Yale University
(inscription on front flyleaf:  "Amico carissimo Georgio Hendrickson grato
animo D. D. D. Franciscus Cumont Kal. Mart. MCMXXI").  Given to Yale by
Hendrickson in 1962.

secundo folio:  vita beata

Bibliography:  De Ricci, v. 1, p. 175 (while in Hendrickson's collection).

Barbara A. Shailor