Thomas à Kempis : his age and book . ma pars libri interne consolacionequi vocatur musica ecclesiastica. With this be ranked (8) The Coventry School MS., described forBernards Catalogue of 1697 by the illustriousHumphrey Wanley. He catalogues it as follows :— This wants a Title page and authors name, whichis not mentioned in it. * It is divided into three parts, which are thuscalled :— 1. Musica ecclesiastica. 2. Admonitiones ad interna trahentes. 3. De interna consolatione. ** It is wrote in parchment, about the time of KingEdw. IV., as I guess by the hand. Wanley makes no suggestion o
Thomas à Kempis : his age and book . ma pars libri interne consolacionequi vocatur musica ecclesiastica. With this be ranked (8) The Coventry School MS., described forBernards Catalogue of 1697 by the illustriousHumphrey Wanley. He catalogues it as follows :— This wants a Title page and authors name, whichis not mentioned in it. * It is divided into three parts, which are thuscalled :— 1. Musica ecclesiastica. 2. Admonitiones ad interna trahentes. 3. De interna consolatione. ** It is wrote in parchment, about the time of KingEdw. IV., as I guess by the hand. Wanley makes no suggestion of authorship, butBernard indexes the MS. under Thomas aKempis at the very date when Obadiah Walkermade his declaration against the authorship of aKempis. We may next notice the Lambeth Palace LibraryMSS. (Numbers 475 and 536). (9) Folios I to 90 b of MS. 475 comprise a work(according to the Catalogue, by Walter Hilton), QuiVocatur Musica Ecclesiastica, in three books. Thisis followed in the Codex by the treatise De Utilitate ^mm. ^1, PART OF THE FIRST CHAPTP:R OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE TREATISE MUSICA ECCLESIASTICA: FROM THE MANUSCRIPT IN THE LIBRARY OF EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE THIS MS. CONSISTS OF THK FIKST THKEK HOOKS OK THE TREATISE OK IMITATIONE CHKISTI. AND IKOBAULY BELONtiS TO THE FIUST OK THE KIFTEENTH CENTURYSECOND MS. AT EMMANUEL CONSISITNCi THE THIRD BOOK; l)NIA THKKE IS A AUTHORSHIP OF THE IMITATION 161 Tribulationis, which has always been recognised asHiltons, and the juxtaposition of the two worksraises a presumption that the Mzcsica was at thedate of transcription considered to be by is the date of transcription ? The cataloguestates that the MS. de Utilitate (in the same hand)is a fourteenth century manuscript, and if this is sothe claims of Thomas a Kempis are finally disposedof. It seems, however, to be the better opinionthat it is a fifteenth century manuscript, and I shouldplace it rather late in that century. On the fly-leaf of t
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