GKS 1551 4°: Paulus Helie, miscellanea theologica

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GKS 1551 4°: Paulus Helie, miscellanea theologica

Paper, 62 ff., ca. 20 × 14 cm; Denmark c. 1515-1535

The manuscript contains a series of texts, primarily in Latin prose. It also includes verses and hymns in Danish and a “Scotica cantio”, with neumes. Some texts (by Augustine, pseudo-Ambrose, Erasmus of Rotterdam and others) were copied, others written by the same anonymous person, whose hand was identified as that of the Carmelite theologian Paulus Helie (Poul Helgesen) by Holger Rørdam. The manuscript is not dated, but reflects Helie’s studies, thoughts on and reactions to events and developments in his turbulent times, the decennia preceding the Reformation in Denmark. It must be assumed that it was his loyalty to the Catholic Church that motivated Ellen Jørgensen to include the manuscript in her Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi in spite of the post medieval character and age of the manuscript

Bibl.: Den danske Psalmedigtning, samlet og ordnet af Carl J. Brandt og Ludvig Helweg, I, København 1846, p. XXII-XXVI; & II, København 1847, p. III. - Monumenta historiæ Danicæ. Historiske Kildeskrifter og Bearbejdelser af dansk Historie især fra det 16. aarhundrede, ed. Holger Rørdam, 1, København 1873, p. 8 & 123-132. - Katalog over Det Kongelige Biblioteks permanente Udstilling, København 1908, p. 18 no. 138. - Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Hafniæ 1926, p. 180-182. - Skrifter af Paulus Helie, VI, edd. Marius Kristensen & Hans Ræder, København 1937, p. 151-199 & 312-316; & VII, edd. Marius Kristensen & Niels-Knud Andersen, København 1948, p. 179-187. - Thorkild Lyby Christensen, Scoto-Danish relations in the sixteenth century, Scottish Historical Review, 48, 1969, p. 96. - Denton Fox, A Scoto-Danish stanza, Wyatt, Henryson, and the two mice, Notes and Queries, 1971, 18, p. 203-207. - Franz Römer, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus. Band III, Polen. Anhang: Die skandinavischen Staaten. Dänemark, Finnland, Schweden. Wien 1973, p. 239f.

Erik Petersen