Summary
An 18th-century note on the first leaf identifies the volume as "pars secunda". The manuscript indeed forms a set with manuscript 148, bearing a close similarity with regard to content, date and style. This volume contains 78 letters, all of which (unlike the previous manuscript) were written by Saint Jerome. The manuscript is produced in a typical Cistercian style: the text is organized in two columns per page, with no decoration other than initials in red and green ink. The initial of each letter is executed more elaborately, written in either red or green ink and filled with decorations in the other colour. The beautifully executed initial of the first letter, on fol. 2r, diverges from this trend, as it has a red-blue colour scheme. Throughout the text glosses, marginalia and other additions are found, many in the text hand. Greek words have their Latin transliteration written above (e.g. on fol. 17r). According to Lieftinck, this manuscript might have been produced in the scriptoria of Ten Duinen or Ter Doest, roughly around the year 1200. In any case the book was intended from the outset to have been in the possession of Ter Doest, as is evident from the anathema on the final leaf: "Liber sancte Marie de Thosan, Si quis eum maliciose abstulerit, anathema sit." The volume was transferred to the library of Ten Duinen following the incorporation of Ter Doest: the cross-shaped stamp of Ten Duinen is found on the first and final leaves. The manuscript is bound in a seventeenth-century binding of the 'Campmans' type. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer]
Note
Pars secunda. Bevat: inhoudstafel (f. 1v); 62 brieven (ff. 2r-133v): Ad Damasum de filio prodigo, Ad Praesidium de cereo paschali, Ad Paulinum super Danielem, Ad Paul. de institutione clericorum, Ad Amandum de diversis quaestionibus, Ad Oceanum de vita clericorum, Ad Ocean. de unius uxoris viro, Ad Evangelium super diaconum, Ad Evang. de Melchisedech, Ad Marcum presbyterum Chalcide, Ad Innocentium de septies percussa, Ad Vitalem de Salomone et Achaz, Ad Susannam lapsam, Ad virgines Emonensas, Ad Marcellam de Ofaz et Tharsis, Ad Dardanum de terra repromissionis, De tribus virtutibus, Ad Desiderium, Ad Lucinum, Ad Tyrasium de dormitione filie, Ubi Vigilantium blasphemum arguit, Ad Riparium de vigilantio, Ad Magnum oratorem, Ad Rufinum de iudicio Salomonis, Ad Florentium de ortu amicitie, Idem, Ad Abigaum Hyspanum, Ad Castricianum, De honoran disparentibus, Ad Sabianum diaconum lapsum, Ad Iulianum diaconum Aquileie, Ad Niceam Yppodiaconum Aquileie, Ad Paulum senem, Ad Chromatium etc, Ad Chrysogomam, Ad Ammonium [= Antoninum], Ad Theodosium, Ad Alexandrum et Minervium, Ad Iulianum exhortatoria, Ad Pammachium et Marcellam, Ad Exuperantium, Ad Rusticum, Ad Algasiam, Ad Marcellam de v quaestionibus Novi Testamenti, Ad Marc. de onaso, Ad Marc. de peregrinis nominibus etc, Ad Marc. de x nominibus etc, Ad Marc. de fide et dogmate, Ad Marc. de blaphemia, Ad Marc. de detractoribus suis, Ad Marc. de muneribus [= munusculis], Ad Marc. de urbe secendendum, Ad Marc. de egrotatione Blesille, Ad Marc. de Ephod et Teraphim, Ad Marc. de quibusdam quaestionibus psalmi cxxvi, Ad Marc. excusatoria, Ad Marc. de diaplasmate [= diapsalmate], Ad Marc. de excitu Leae, Ad Marc. de vita Asellae, Ad Ageruchiam, Ad Castorinum materteram, Ad Furium, Ad Salvinam, Ad Fabiolam, Ad matrem et filiam in Galliis commorantes, Ad easdem, Ad Aletam [= Laetam], Ad Theodorum Spanam de dormitione Lucini, Ad Asellam, Ad Theophilum, Ad Principiam de vita Marcellae, Ad Hebidiam, Exhortatoria ad Cellantiam, Ad Marcella de conexionibus etc, Ad Somniam et Fretelam, Altercatio Luciferiam et orthodoxi, Ad Demedriadem (Cfr. Bernard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta (Instrumenta patristica 4), Steenbrugge, 1969)