Composite manuscript (Miscellanea Franciscana), second half of the 15th century

This is a composite manuscripts containing several texts, many incomplete, written in the Netherlands in the second half of the 15th century.

ff. 1-8: A dialogue between Inimicus and Zelator.

ff. 8^rv: For the congregation at Fontenay le Comte in 1457.

ff. 9-20^v, 64-115^v: John Pecham, De paupertate.

ff. 116-122: Apparently notes on the rule of St. Francis.

ff. 21-7: Questiones per magistrum Iacobum hane(?) deterninate.

ff. 27^r: Questio per magistrum dyonisium carthusien’ determinata.

ff. 27^v-28^v, 127^rv, 29-30: "Soluciones quorundam obiectorum contra sacram obseruanciam".

ff. 127-128^v: Two leaves of Jan Brugman’s Speculum imperfectionis.

ff. 31-32^v: Epistola sancte memorie cardinalis domini bonauenture quondam generalis ordinis minorum.

ff. 33-34^v: "Epistola beati bernardini quorundam dubiorum declaratiua".

ff. 35^rv: Exemplum sancti Iohannis [altered to "Egidii"] de bonauentura.

ff. 35^v-36^v: Incipit modus psallendi secundum bernardum et augustinum et antiquiores deuotiores et sapientiores ordinis nostri.

ff. 36^v-37^v: Item quomodo homo seipsum in x gradibus humiliare debet.

ff. 38-39^v, 43^rv: [begins imperfectly] iheronimus(?) dictus [...]is magister petrus de candea...

ff. 43^rv: Noua lux prouincias hesterno ... 7^tem sunt etates mundi ... transiunt ad gaudia. Amen.

ff. 40^rv: a discussion of questions on "communitas rerum" and "usus rerum". f. 40^rv Probably from the same piece.

ff. 41: the end of Bonaventura’s commentary on the rule of St. Francis.

ff. 41^rv: Notes, the first from a quodlibet of Henry of Ghent.

ff. 44-46^v: "[...] a sanctis patribus ordinis nostri collecta ad sciendum que sunt precepta in eadem. In primocapitulo sunt tria precepta. Regula et vita fratrum minorum..." The precepts in each of the twelve chapters of the rule.

ff. 47-60: Sequuntur quedam pro responsione ad ea quibus fratrum minorum de obseruancia vulgariter nuncupatorum status et vita ab emulis suis potissime impugnatur.

ff. 61-62: Incipit declaracio domini Gregorii pape ix super regulam beati francisci.

ff. 62^v: an "exemplum humilitatis" and five precepts.

ff. 129^rv: Queritur utrum religiosi si promoueantur in episcopos teneantur ad obseruancias ...

ff. 130^rv, 63^rv: Bernardinus Senensis, De praeceptis regulae.

For a fuller description of the manuscript, see the bibiography note in "Additional description".