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Libra Esoterica

A collection of mainly Franciscan authors

by Saint Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine, de Bononia Bartholomaeus, von Ahlen Bertram, Saint Bonaventure, Giuseppe Canonici, Matteo Luigi Canonici, de Saxonia Conradus, Abbot of Schönau Ekbert, of Rome Giles, of Autun Honorius, of Saint-Victor Hugh, Russell Johannes, Giovanni Perisinotti, of St. Victor Richard, von Biberach Rudolf, Giacomo Soranzo & Gallus Thomas

  • First published:
  • 14th century
  • Languages: German, Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source

A collection of mainly Franciscan authors Composed of seven codicological units.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics.

  • Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “mystical”.

    • mystical· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

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Digital Bodleian digitized manuscript

Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 428 digitized image(s); ff. ii (modern paper) + ii (parchment fragment) + 205 + ii (modern paper).; Parchment (quire 16 mainly paper); Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 52; Soranzo binding. Sewn on four bands laced into pulpboard covered with quarter speckled brown tanned calf and plain undecorated parchment; the spine with gilt filets and a red leather title-piece lettered in gilt capitals ‘S. Augustinus de | cogni veræ vitæ | mag(ist)ri Barth. Bon | de Luce et alior. | Op(uscu)la Cod: membr.’; the edges of the leaves speckled blue.; Space left for initials, not executed. Spaces left for miniatures in art. 12 (fols. 69r–75r), not executed.

14th century, middle or second halfGerman, LatinPublic reader

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Cataloging notes

  • Bodleian shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 52
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: Germany, (South west?)
  • Record origin: Description by Peter Kidd (June 2021), building on work by Francesca Galli and Andrew Dunning. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854).
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