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Franciscan Institute Manuscripts. Pre-1600

Franciscan Institute ms. 1
[Miscellany]
Contents: Jacobus Mediolanensis / Stimulus amoris (2r‑25v).--Bonaventure, Saint / Arbor crucis    (26r‑35v).--Bonaventure, Saint / De triplici via (35v‑42r).--Richard, of Saint Victor / De contemplatione [excerpts] (42r‑43v).--De laude et mysterio cellae [exerpt from: Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei] (43v‑44r).--Definitiones vitiorum et virtutum. Incipit:  Septem dicuntur capitalia oratio quae lectionem interumpat... (44r‑49v).-- Wigo, of Chartreuse / De vita solitaria [Books 1‑2 of Epistola ad fratres de monte dei] (50v‑70v).--Hugh, of St. Victor / Meditationes [excerpt] (70v‑79v)  
15th century
79 leaves (22.5 x 16.5 cm.); Parchment, double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 409

Franciscan Institute ms. 2
[Miscellany]
Contents: Walter Burley / Expositio libri de sex principiis (1r‑22r).—Tractatus de speculi (23r‑27v).—Tractatus de unitate generis et speciei secundum Giadunum. Incipit:  Ad honorem Dei...volo disputara... (28r‑39r).--Quaestio de elementis notabilis (40r‑42r).—Galen / De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis et facultatibus (43r‑71v).--Tractatus septimus de simplicibus farmaciis (72r‑93v)  
15th Century
97 leaves (32.5 x 21.5 cm.); Paper, double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 409-10

Franciscan Institute ms. 3
Ramon Llull, d. 1315
Contents: Ars brevis (2r‑28r)
Arbor philosophiae desideratae (29r‑63r)
15th Century
63 leaves (21 X 14.5 cm.); Parchment
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 410

Franciscan Institute ms. 4
Ramon Llull, d. 1315
Contents: Ars demonstrativa (1r‑85r)
Liber propositionum secundum artem demonstrativam compilatus (85r‑118v)
Liber catholici et infidelis [spurious and doubtful] (119r‑146r)
15th Century
146 leaves (26.5 x 18 cm.); Parchment
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 410

Franciscan Institute ms. 5
Bartholomew, of Pisa
Vita et arbor B. M. Virginis sive Opus conformitatum B. Mariae cum Christo  
15th Century (middle)
2 vols. (1: 170 leaves, 2:145 leaves); Parchment, double columns
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 410

Franciscan Institute ms. 6
Nikolaus, von Dinkelsbuhl, ca. 1360‑1433
Commentarium in IV libros sententiarum, I: I‑XVII
15th Century (late)
241 leaves (30 x 20.5 cm); Paper
Bibliography: DeRicci Suppl. 410

Franciscan Institute ms. 7
[Miscellany]
Contents: Augustine, Saint / Retractationes (1r‑25v).—Fulgenzio, di Ruspe [Pseudo-Augustine] /       De fide sancte Trinitatis ad Petrum (25v‑33v).-- Fulgenzio, di Ruspe [Pseudo-Augustine] / De fide sancte Trinitatis (f. 34r‑45r).—Augustine, Saint / Soliloquiorum (45r‑58v).—Augustine, Saint / De haeresibus (59r‑71r).—Augustine, Saint / De cura pro mortuis agenda (71r-77r)
15th Century (?)
77 leaves (30 x 21.5 cm.); Paper, double columns

Franciscan Institute ms. 11 [101]
Hugo Rupelin, of Strasbourg
Compendium theologicae veritatis
1450(?)
237 leaves (22 x 14 cm.); Paper

Franciscan Institute ms. 12 [102]
Albert of Saxony
Contents: Logica (1r-32r) [incomplete]
In Periherminias (51v-70v) [incomplete]
16th century
Spain
70 leaves (22.5 x 15 cm.); Parchment & paper

Franciscan Institute ms. 13 [103]
Nicolaus, of Lyra
Quaestiones de fide catholica perfidiam iudaicam improbantes
15th Century (?)
11 leaves (21.5 x 15 cm.); Paper

Franciscan Institute ms. 14 [104]
William, of Ockham
Summulae in libros Physicorum
1450  
64 leaves (22 x 14.5 cm.); Parchment and paper

Franciscan Institute ms. 15 [105]
Bonaventure, Saint
Regula de novitii
87 leaves (21.5 x 14.5 cm.); Parchment

Franciscan Institute ms. 16 [106]
Catholic Church
Psalter (Benedictine)
1400(?)
101 leaves (21.5 x 15 cm.); Parchment

Franciscan Institute ms. 17 [107]
Petrus, de Aquila
Compedium super librum Sententiarum
1370
117 leaves (17.5 x 11.7 cm.); Paper

Franciscan Institute ms. 33 [123]
[Miscellany]
Contents: Tractatus de usura (1r‑69v).--Tractatus de copula coniugali (70r‑72v).--Bernardine, of Siena / Restitutiones sub compendio redactae (73r‑112v).--Bartholomew, of Pisa / Declarationes conformitatum super regulam Fratrum Minorum (114r‑135r).—John, of  Capistran, Saint / Tractatus de matrimonio (136r‑196v).—Bartolo, da Sassoferrato / Tractatus de Alimentis (197r-198v).—[blank] (199).—Franciscus, de Platea / De restitutionibus (200r‑249r, 251r-254v).--Tractatus de vectigalium … (249v‑250v).—John, of Capistran, Saint / Quaestiones circa dotes mulierum [extracts] (249v‑258r)    
15th Century (late) or 16th Century (early)
258 leaves (19 x 14 cm.); Paper, double columns

Franciscan Institute ms. 34 [201]
[Miscellany]
Contents: David, von Augsburg / De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (1r-21v).—[varia et brevia documenta] (22r-40v).—[exempla] (41r-48v)    
15th Century
48 leaves (16 x 11.5 cm.); Paper

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