[Clermont] Jean Gaspar Decurio Pastor de Clermont (1st half 17th century)

Manuscript, on nearly 300 leaves written on both sides mostly in Latin and occ. French numbered 1-297, here and there dated from 1639 to 1646, occ. small illustrations in pen and (later) written sheets inlaid/ mounted along margin, contemporary leather/ vellum, folio.

First quire loose and gnawed in corners. Numbering omits a number here and there. Binding worn/ gnawed and missing ties. Verso of leaf 281 and of leaf 282 contains a poem, with the first letters of each sentence together forming the name of the author, as is explained above the poem: "Anagramma. Magister Ioannes Gaspar Decurio Pastor De Clermont." (bottom left leaf 282 "(...) Lamberti 1639"). Ioannes Gaspar, parson at Clermont, is suspected to be the author of the entire work. The back board contains a dated reference to the famous monastery at Cluny: "1639. Sactissi Patri Benedict Cluni Monastior." Below a short text in French dated 1646. The manuscript has been compiled from a large number of annotations, possibly intended as Mass texts, incl. bible extracts from Luke, Matthew, Corinthians, Job etc. At the top and between the paragraphs a form of chapter titles or starting phrases have been written here and there, such as Pax nobis, Prima pax nostra, O misericordia dei, De oratione, Spiritus veritatis, Pax et animi tranquilitatis, De morte bonorum, De la vraye humilités, Des afflictions, La penitance, Pastor bonus, Eucharistia, Socratis (leaf 59), Visitatio virginis, Cantique, Naym, De sancto Paulo and Passio Xi.