BERNARDI QUAEDAM.
Vellum, 7 x 5, ff. 103 + 4, 18 lines to a page. 15th cent., in a large upright hand.
Old stamped leather over boards, clasp gone: principal stamp a six petalled flower.
Donor, T. C. S.
From the abbey of Doesborch.
On flyleaves:
pertinet fratribus in doesborch.
Also, very small:
Willielmus denesson.
Collation: 2 flyleaves, 18 - 138 (wants 8), 2 flyleaves.
At each end is part of a leaf of a 13th cent. Psalter with antiphons, over which neumes are written.
At the beginning is also a fragment, unfinished, of a 15th cent. service book.
Contents:
1. Epistola b. Bernardi ex persona helie ad parentes eius. . . . f. 1
Sola causa qua licet non obedire parentibus (CLXXXII 253)
-in eius amore uiuamus per omnia sec. sec. Amen.
2. Inc. opus insigne b. Bernardi de uerecundia adolescentum
(l.c. v 559) . . . . . . . . . 3b
Hortatur quidem timidam (CLXXXIV 561)
-et flebilis supplexque ora. deo gracias.
Expl. opus S. bernardi de uerecundia adolescentum siue de
morum (!) nouiciorumque institutione.
3. Inc. liber b. Bernardi de consciencia . . . . . . 41
Domus hec in qua habitamus (CLXXXIV 507).
Ends f. 103a: quam terrestrium occupacione (l.c. v 507).