Caesarius, of Arles, Saint, ? 470-542 (bishop and Church Father )

Scope and Contents Text entitled Liber de honestate mulierum beati Augustini ('Book on the honour of women by Saint Augustine'), starting on f. 278v with the words 'Nemo dicat fratres quod in temporibus nostris, and ending on f. 279v with 'misericordia plena est terra. Explicit liber de honestate mulierum finitus et completus per me G. B. in L. in vigilia Jacobi Apostoli hora vesperarum vel quinta. Anno 1457,...

Scope and Contents A collection of seventeen sermons. The copyst presents them as addressed to monks and gives the alternative title Speculum monacorum ('Mirror for monks') in his rubric at the beginning of the text. The sermons are all attributed by the copyst to Caesarius (c. 468 - 542) who became Bishop of Arles and one of the most important religious authorities and influent preachers of Merovingian France. The collection contained in this manuscript, however, gather...