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Scope and Contents This section contains 'Stimulus Amoris beati Bernardi', 'The Pricking of Love by Blessed Bernard'. This text has falsely been attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux and Anselm of Canterbury, but is in reality a treaty on Christ's Passion written by Eckbert of Schönau (d 1184). It starts with the words 'Jhesum Nazarenum a judeis innocenter condempnatum', and ends with 'honor et imperium in sec. sec. Amen....

Contents This section seems to contain a fragment of the Stimulus Amoris (The Sting of Love). This text was originally believed to have been written by Saint Bonaventura, but was probably written by James of Milan in the 13th century.It starts on f. 240r with the words Ave Maria gratia plena. Tibi domine deus noster. It ends on f. 242v with dum alloquitur dominam...

Contents This section is titled Tractatus Egregii Doctoris Henrici de Vrimaria de septem gradibus amoris, which suggests that it is a tract on The Seven Steps of Love, by Henry of Freimar. Henry of Freimar was a German Augustinian theologian writing in the 14th century.This section starts on f. 46r with a prayer beginning Beatus vir cujus est auxilium. The text itself also starts on that folio with the words ...