Cibus anime

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Vellum, 10 ¹/2 x 7 ¹/8, ff. 87 + 5, 30 lines to a page.

Cent. xv, written in England, in a fine hand.

Belonged to Robert Hare, whose name is at each end.

Binding, blue morocco of cent. xviii (?) over the old boards, marks of

2 clasps traceable. Inside the cover is pasted a remarkable label, once

no doubt on the outside. It is inscribed in large letters, the first in red,

the rest in gold on a flourished ground, Cibus anime.

Collation:

a² (+ 1) 1 stuck to cover 1⁸-11⁸ 12⁴ (+ 1) b² 2 stuck to cover.

In the cover are two leaves of a xivth cent. Law treatise beginning :

Cum humani iuris condicio semper in in… decurrat.

Contents:

1. Cibus animae (without title) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   f. 1
Dominus in euuangelio. Qui ex deo est uerba dei audit.

In 52 chapters ending: stultorum infinitus est numerus.

Expl. quoddam scriptum salutiferum de dei mandatis breuiter tractatum.

2. Inc. quedam exortacio bona quam (?) timor et spes faciunt pro salute

humana. De Consciencia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Cauenda est consciencia nimis larga.

In 62 chapters ending: uel separati a mundo ut sunt religiosi.

3. Contra supersticiosam intelligenciam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Jeronimus. Beatus est qui diuinas scripturas legens.

Ecce nunc domine habes ante bonum et malum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Septem uirtutes cardinales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 b

De quinque sensibus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  88

Notes from Jerome, Bernard, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Pater noster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 b

This worde that we Pater calle /Askes of us his chylder alle /

Luf and drede and obedyence /Seruyce honour and reuerence.

Theis are gostely ryches and virtuse of the soule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  88 b

De sortilegiis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  89
Que diuinacio sit prohibita

—sec. thomam in quadam questione de quolibet. Deo gratias.

In red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 b

Orate pro animabus / Roberti et Thome / Et pro anima Henrici (Garton)

Peccata Britonum et causa deposicionis eorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 b

Negligencia prelatorum etc. (2 ¹/2 lines).

Two ladders, those of Heaven and Hell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Anima christiana ante peccatum ualde pulcra est etc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 b

(Aug. in quadam oracione.)

Now yf thu couet to know how it standes with thi sowle etc. . . . . . . . . . 92 b

Liber Roberti Hare precium xx^d primo die Junii a. d. mill^mo quingentesimo

sexagesimo (92 b, 93 blank).

One page of English beginning and ending abruptly.

pinge be hym self alone bot alle the holy trinite wyrkes thee same.

On f. 94. 3 lines:

Inter baptists que tai natalia Christe

Quodquod apostolicum sit ieiunabile festum

Ad libitum reliqua sunt ieiunanda tenenda.

© N.J.R. James