Treatises on Superstitions and Indulgences, in Latin [Germany or perhaps Netherlands, c.1450-1500]

308x215mm, paper (watermark close to Briquet no. 11799), i+83+i, apparently COMPLETE (penultimate leaf cancelled), 2 columns, 46 lines, vertical rulings only, written space variable, 230x140, f.19 with a tear; water-staining affecting approximately the upper third of each leaf, lots 43-49 bound uniformly, probably in 1870

PROVENANCE

Ampleforth Abbey, with their purple ink-stamp and shelfmark label ‘M/8/S.S.’ on pastedown and spine; described by Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, II, 1977, p.24.

TEXT

‘Incipit tractatus de supersticionibus. Utrum ydolatrie peccatum sit peccatorum gravissimum arguiter … et sic est finis deo gratias.’ (ff.1r-53r); Nicholas Magni of Jawor, Tractatus de superstitionibus, part II, ‘Questio est hec utrum quis licite possit uti ministerio demonum utpote ad prenunciandum futura … et presupposicione divine voluntatis. Amen’ (ff.53r-75v); a ‘tractatus de indulgenciis editus a fratre Francisco de Maronis fratrum minorum sacre theologie doctore’: ‘[Q]uodcumque ligaveris super terram erit ligatum et in celis … [Mt. 16:19] Beatus Augustinus xxi et xii De ci(vitate) dei duos fines ultimos …’ (f.76r).

The first text is anonymous, unidentified, and apparently unpublished.