Theological miscellany: Alain de Lille, Hugo Argentinensis, Pseudo-Augustine

Uppsala?, 14th century, second half

Paper

116 leaves

220 × 140–145 mm

3 units

Latin

Unit 1

1 (ff. 1ra–49ra) Alain de Lille, De arte praedicatoria

Incipit: [mut.] nec auctoritatem nimis obscuram

Explicit: a qua morte idem ipse christus nos liberare dignetur qui cum patre et filio et spiritu sancto viuit et re⟨g⟩nat per infinita secula seculorum Amen

Note: The first bifolium is missing, and the text begins in the middle of the prologue, after which follows a table of contents; at the end of the quire, the end of ‘De luctu spirituali’ and the beginning of ‘De gaudio spirituali’ are missing. The chapters agree for the most part with those printed by Migne; however, the last chapter, Ad somnolentos, is missing from the manuscript. The manuscript also includes two additional rubrics - ‘Quomodo sit orandum’ and ‘de septem peticionibus et pluribus que inferius continetur vltimo etc’ - the last of which consist of a number of sermons.

Colophon: f. 49ra Explicit summa Magistri Alani de arte predicandi Sub anno domini M^o c^oc^oc^o lxx iiii^o proximo die sabbato post festum Iacobi gloriosi apostoli Amen

Edition: PL, vol. 210, cols. 109–198A.

2 (ff. 49rb–49vb) Hugo Ripelin of Strasburg (Argentinensis), Compendium theologicae veritatis (excerpts)

Incipit: Omnes angelos deus fecit bonos

Explicit: que sunt supra se Noticiam [mut.]

Note: Most often printed under the name of Albertus Magnus. First printed in Nuremberg 1469.

Unit 2

1 (ff. 50r–67rb) Explanations of biblical vocabulary

Incipit: In ewangelio Luci appropinquaret ihesus

Explicit: timor per quem non audemus aliud facere nisi complacet diuine uoluntati

2 (ff. 67va–90rb) Glosses on the Psalms

Incipit: Non resurgunt impii iudicio (Ps. 1:5) scilicet ad misericordiam sed ad dampnacionem

Explicit: per tres quinquagenas iii status ecclesie significantes Amen

Final rubric: Explicit hoc totum et cetera Finito libro sit laus et gloria christo Amen

Note:

Lemmata – underlined in red – and glosses are presented in running text. Neither every psalm nor every verse of the psalms is included.

RB, no. 11084.

3 (ff. 90rb–91vb) Exposition of the Decalogue

Incipit: Si in preceptis meis ambulaueritis (Lev. 26:3) [...] Secuntur decem precepta domini

Explicit: Sodomitis offensoribus clerorum hereticis non confessis AMEN

Note: The exposition ends with a concordance between the ten commandments and the ten plagues of Egypt, and after this a number of tables listing, with their definitions, the ten commandments, the seven cardinal sins, and the works of mercy.

4 (ff. 92va–93vb) Episcopales et papales casus

Incipit: Sciendum est breuiter pro quibus culpis siue casibus ac penitenciis sit penitens ad episcopum remittendus

Explicit: suprascriptos casus scire debet et de uerbo ad uerbum intelligere debet et cetera et cetera (?)

Final rubric: Nota episcopales et papales articulos siue casus

Note:

A brief treatise on penance and episcopal and papal absolution with excerpts from Gratian's Decretals.

f. 92r: blank.

Unit 3

1 (ff. 94r–110v) Pseudo-Augustine, Liber soliloquiorum animae ad deum

Incipit: Congnoscam te domine cognitorem meum

Explicit: et reuiuiscere facis ut aquille canos meos et cetera

Final rubric: Sic est finis Soliloquiorum anime ad deum de ineffabili dulcedine beati Augustini et cetera

Note: After the text follows a chapter list.

Edition: PL, vol. 40, cols. 863–898.

2 (ff. 110v–115r) Prayers

Incipit: Rogo te immensa pietas deus pater omnipotens ne perdas me creaturam tuam ad tui similitudinem

Explicit: et irrigat uniuersos accedentes fideliter ac deuote

Final rubric: Et sic est finis orationum et ceterorum Amen

Note: The first three prayers derive from Peter Damian, PL, vol. 145, cols. 917D–924A.

Physical Description

Secundo folio

mundum domini qui conditor

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, RCI

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 220 × 140 mm

Unit 1

Locus: ff. 1–49

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 220 × 145 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 11–22,

Motif: Bow and arrow.

Note: Similar to Piccard IX:2, 10, no. 1817.

Watermark 2

Locus: ff. 1–10/23A–33,

Motif: Tulip; one flower with stem and no leaves.

Watermark 3

Locus: ff. 23A–49,

Motif: Bridge.

Note: Similar to Briquet online.

Watermark 4

Locus: ff. Locus: pp. 1–10/34–49,

Motif: Pear.

Note: Similar to Piccard XIV, 2, 290.

Unit 2

Locus: ff. 50–93

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 220 × 145 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 50–61/86–93,

Motif: Tulip; one flower with stem and no leaves.

Watermark 2

Locus: ff. 74–85,

Motif: Bridge.

Note: Similar to Briquet online.

Watermark 3

Locus: ff. 50–61/62–73/86–93,

Motif: Pear.

Note: Similar to Piccard XIV, 2, 290.

Unit 3

Locus: ff. 94–115

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 220 × 145 mm

Watermark 1

Locus: ff. 94–115,

Motif: Unidentified watermark.

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, 1-23A, 23B-115. ff. 85–115: older modern foliation, ‘89-119’, struck out.

Collation

Formula: 1(12, lacks 1 and 12), 2-3(12), 4(16), 5-7(12), 8(8), 9(14), 10(8)

Note: VisColl collation Note: Parchment guards.

Signatures: The manuscript exhibits at least three types of contemporary quire signatures, the first two of which make up two separate number series, and the third of which is superimposed on the previous two, revealing that the different units of the manuscript were collected and bound together already in the middle ages. Unit 1 covers quires 1-4, with the signatures each rendered in a slightly different way. (The last leaf – and hence the quire signature – of quire 1 is missing; quire 2, is marked with an abbreviated ‘secundus’ inside a square frame in red ink (f. 22v); quire 3 is marked with ‘tertius’ written out (f. 33v), and quire 4 with ‘iiii^us ’ written on the first folio of the quire (f. 34r), and possibly also on its last folio (f. 49v). The hands of at least quire 3 and 4 appear to be different.) Unit 2 comprises quires 5-8: the first layer of quire signatures consists of Roman ordinal numerals, ‘I^us ’ to ‘IIII^us ’, in red ink (f. 61v (partially erased), f. 73v, f. 85v, f. 93v), which reveals that these quires once made up a separate unit. To these signatures a second, contemporary hand has added a ‘v’ in brown ink in front of the original number, so that the original ‘I’ has become ‘VI ’ etc. (‘IIII^us ’ is crossed out and ‘IX^us ’ added instead). Together with the fact that the last text of Unit 1 is incomplete, this indicates that the last quire of Unit 1 is missing. Quire 9, beginning Unit 3, has only the number ‘XI ’ in the same hand as the second layer of 5-8 (f. 107v). A quire bearing the number X is thus missing, indicating that another full quire has been lost here. The texts which bracket this missing quire are, however, complete.

Condition

Unit 1

Water damage to upper outer corner of both CU1 and 2, from about f. 21 to f. 90. Edges trimmed, with some loss of marginal annotations. Some leaves patched or reinforced with paper patches (e.g. f. 1).

Unit 2

Water damage to upper outer corner of both CU1 and 2, from about f. 21 to f. 90. Edges trimmed, with some loss of marginal annotations. Some stains from liquid spills smudging the text (e.g. f. 93).

Unit 3

The last part of the manuscript is missing; dummy-quires have been added for support. Lower half of f. 115 and lower quarter of f. 114 torn off. Edges trimmed, with some loss of marginal annotations. Some stains from liquid spills (e.g. ff. 105–106).

Layout

Unit 1

Locus: ff. 1r–49v

Columns: 2

Written lines: 44–57

Written area: 175/180 × 110/115 mm

Note: Guidelines in ink.

Unit 2

Locus: ff. 50–93

Columns: 2

Written lines: 44–57

Written area: 175/180 × 110/115 mm

Note: Guidelines in ink.

Unit 3

Locus: ff. 94r–115r

Columns: 1

Written lines: 40–47

Note: Guidelines in ink.

Script

Unit 1

Hand 1

(ff. 1ra–7vb) Cursiva antiquior.

Hand 2

(ff. 8ra–49vb) Cursiva antiquior.

Unit 2

Hand 3

(ff. 50ra–90vb) Cursiva antiquior.

Hand 4

(ff. 90vb–93vb) Cursiva antiquior.

Unit 3

Hand 5

(ff. 94r–115r) Late cursiva antiquior.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top left corner, in black ink over 2 lines by an early modern hand: ‘N^o 195 Brocmanni’; top centre, in Brocman's hand in black ink over 11 lines: a list of contents; centre right, in black ink in Brocman's hand: a note dating the manuscript to 1360; bottom centre, also in Brocman's hand: ‘cf. Serm. Amici in 4^o Bas. 1495’; bottom left margin, in pencil by a modern hand: the current signum; bottom right corner: National Library book label with the current signum.

Unit 1

(f. 1r) Top of page, in black ink in Brocman's hand: ‘Summa magistri Alani de arte predicandi’.

(ff. 1r–4r) The names of the authorities in red in the margin by a contemporary cursive hand.

(ff. 3r–49v) Brief marginal additions by different medieval hands, one of which in black ink in a later cursiva antiquior (e.g. f. 10v), e.g. corrections, often in the scribal hand (e.g. f. 10r), nota marks, and references to authorities (e.g. f. 3r, f. 8v, f. 20r).

(f. 11r) Mid upper margin, drawn in green outline: a Maltese cross.

Unit 2

(f. 50r) Top of page, in black ink in Brocman's hand: ‘Explicatio vocum in Brev⟨iarium⟩ Ups⟨alense⟩ occurr⟨entium⟩ maxime difficilium’.

(ff. 50rb–67ra) Numerous nota marks touched in red.

(f. 53r) Biblical references in red in the margin in Gothic textualis.

(f. 67r) Top of page, in black ink in Brocman's hand: ‘Idiotica Scriptorum Sacrorum’.

(f. 67v) Top of page, in black ink in Brocman's hand: ‘Explicatio Psalmorum Davidis’.

(f. 90r) Mid outer margin, in black ink in Brocman's hand: ‘Explicatio Decalogi’.

(f. 92r) Top of page, in black ink in Brocman's hand: ‘Episcopales et Papales Casus’.

Unit 3

(f. 94r) Top of page, in ink by a contemporary cursive hand: ‘Soliloquia Augustini liber (?)’.

(ff. 99v–115r) Brief marginal additions by different medieval hands, one of which in black ink in a later cursiva antiquior (e.g. f. 102r, ff. 104r–105r ), e.g. corrections, often in the scribal hand (e.g. f. 115r ), nota marks and instructions (e.g. f. 102r).

(ff. 94v–109v) Chapter numbers corresponding to the chapter list ( f. 110v ) in ink in the margin by a contemporary hand; some lost due to trimming.

(f. 115v) In black ink in a later Gothic cursive hand: Cisiojanus for January, February, March, and April, incomplete due to torn leaf. Traces of text visible at the top edge, smudged.

Decorations

Unit 1

Description:

Main text in dark ink; rubrics in red; capitals touched in red.

Initials:

ff. 1va–49ra: plain initials over 3-4 lines in red ink; guide letters occasionally visible.

Unit 2

Description:

Main text in dark ink; rubrics in red; capitals touched in red, and on ff. 67va–90ra all in red; pilcrow marks in red or touched in red; lemmata underlined in red, but on ff. 50ra–67rb struck through in red and in textualis.

Initials:

ff. 50ra–90rb: plain initials over 3-4 lines in red ink; guide letters occasionally visible.

ff. 92va–93rb: plain initials over 2 lines touched in red.

Unit 3

Description:

Main text in dark ink; capitals touched in red.

Initials:

f. 94r: plain opening initial ‘C’ over 3 lines in red ink.

ff. 94v–112v: plain initials over 2 lines in red ink; guide letters occasionally visible.

Binding

Description:

Medieval binding. Brown leather over bevelled wooden boards. 5 double raised bands and endbands. Hooked clasps and leather straps. Spine, in black ink: ‘ ⟨1⟩95 ’; stamped in gold: ‘A 106’.

Binding dimensions: 220 × 155 × 55 mm

Condition: Leather worn, the top half of LCO especially. One clasp missing and half of the second clasp. The leather straps are dry and stiff.

Contemporary: Yes

History

Origin

Uppsala? 14th century, second half. The script used in the first two codicological units, cursiva antiquior, is mainly seen in Austria, Bohemia, Germany and Scandinavia. It does not occur before the second quarter of the 14th century and few examples exist after the beginning of the 15th century (Derolez (2006), p. 134). The mix of double- and single-compartment ‘a’ seen in the last part of the manuscript identifies this as a late variant of the script. The colophon on f. 49r gives the year 1374 for the completion of this section, and Brocman, in a note on LCI, dates the manuscript to 1360 based on the type of paper. Brocman's identification of the contents of ff. 50ra–67rb as explanations of difficult words in the Breviarium Upsalense would seem to indicate Uppsala as the origin.

Provenance

Previously no. 195 in the collection of Nils Reinhold Brocman, book collector and librarian at the Royal Library and Antiquities Archive. Upon his death in 1770, a large part of his book collection was donated to the Antiquities Archive.

Acquisition

Transferred to the National Library from the Antiquities Archive.

Bibliography

RB, no. 11084.
Leclercq (1950), p. 126.
Odenius (1959).
Hedlund (1980), p. 13.

Metadata

Statement of Responsibility

Main cataloguer: Annika Ekman

Editor: Patrik Granholm

Sponsors: Medieval Latin Manuscripts in the National Library: Cataloguing and Digitization, National Library of Sweden

Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond – The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences

External Identifiers

Libris ID: br5fgsnt8xtqsxcb

Regina ID: 004845373

Internal Identifiers

Permalink: https://www.manuscripta.se/ms/101113

XML: https://www.manuscripta.se/ms/101113.xml

IIIF Manifest:

https://www.manuscripta.se/iiif/101113/manifest.json

License

Description: CC BY 4.0

Images: Public Domain

Last revision

2026-10-13

National Library of Sweden, A 106

Theological miscellany: Alain de Lille, Hugo Argentinensis, Pseudo-Augustine

Contents

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Physical Description

Secundo folio

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Unit 1

Watermark 1

Watermark 2

Watermark 3

Watermark 4

Unit 2

Watermark 1

Watermark 2

Watermark 3

Unit 3

Watermark 1

Foliation

Collation

Condition

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Layout

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Script

Unit 1

Hand 1

Hand 2

Unit 2

Hand 3

Hand 4

Unit 3

Hand 5

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Decorations

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 3

Binding

History

Origin

Provenance

Acquisition

Bibliography

Metadata

Statement of Responsibility

External Identifiers

Internal Identifiers

License

Last revision