Pastoral, monastic and hagiographical works

Contents

1. ff. 1r-8v Hugo de Folieto, De medicina animae

f. 1r Incipit prologus authoris Hugo de Folleto in libro de medicina anime. Cogis me frater rainerie ut ea que de medicina anime ad Iohannem medicum scribere ceperam ... f. 1r line 17 Homo microcosmus uel minor mundus appellari ab antiquis solet ... f. 8v ... necesse est ut emplastrum uerecundie fronti superponat [Subscribed in a 15th cent. hand]: 'Explicit de medicina anime hugonis de Sancto Victore'.

Hugo de Folieto was a twelfth-century French cleric, prior of Saint-Nicolas-de-Regny and later Saint-Laurent-au-Bois. His De medicina animae ('On medicine of the soul') is an allegorical text on monastic spirituality. See Irmgard Mueller, 'Hugo de Folieto: De medicina animae. Antike Humoralpathologie in christlicher Deutung', Ärztekunst und Gottvertrauen: Antike und mittelalterliche Schnittpunkte von Christentum und Medizin, ed. Christian Schulze and Sibylle Ihm (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2002), pp. 71-89.

2. ff. 8v-17r Regula brevis Celestinorum

f. 8v Regula brevis clericorum, de uita et honestate clericorum religiose uiuentium quo ad domum Clericus qui christi seruat ecclesie … f. 17r ... que dominus iam in operario suo mundo a uiciis et peccatis spiritu sancto dignabitur demonstrare.

3. ff. 17r-28v Pseudo-Pilate,Gesta divinae Passionis

f. 17r Incipiunt gesta divine passionis que invenit Theodorius magnus in pretorio Pontii Pilati in codicibus publicas.'[F]actum est in anno nonodecimo imperii tyberii cesaris ... f. 28v ... omnia que gesta sunt de ihesu in pretorio meo'.

4. ff. 28v-34r Athanasius Alexandrinus, De miraculis imaginis divini Salvatoris in Beryto

f. 28v line 11 Incipit prefatio sequentis operis. [A]pud cesaream capadocie ... f. 28v line 24 Incipit libellus beati athanasii alexandrine urbis episcopi de miraculis ymaginis diuini saluatoris que crucifixa est a iudis in syria ciuitate. bericho. [D]ilectissimi itaque omnes filii sancte ecclesie ... f. 34r … hoc enim primis sanctis patribus inseruntur.

5. ff. 34r-45v Leboino, De vultu Luccano

f. 34r Incipit prologus leboini diaconi de uultu lucano. Leboinus diaconus suorum christi minimus uniuersis fratribus ... f. 45v ... eiusdem sanctissimi membri particula tangeretur et sanaretur. Ipso adiuuante qui uiuit et regnat in unitate spiritus sancti deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen.

The 'Holy Face of Lucca'was written by an otherwise unknown Leboino in the eleventh or twelfth century. See Diana M. Webb, 'The Holy Face of Lucca', Anglo-Norman Studies IX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1986, ed. R. Allen Brown (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1987), pp. 227-237.

Late 13th century - Mid-14th Century

1 volume 36 ll. 4to. 18 x 13 1/2 cm. On vellum, modern vellum gilt binding. The last 9 leaves slightly cockled; natural flaws in some leaves. Margins cropped in binding. The first 17 leaves are in a small upright angular gothic script 30-31 lines to a page, the remainder in a more rounded gothic, 30 lines to a page. Initials and headings in red.

Purchased at Sotheby's 23/3/1910, Lot 620.

On f. 36v is inscribed in a 14th century hand: 'Iste liber est monasterii Sancti Anthonii celestinorum de Ambiano'.

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).