Chapter LIX: Appendix: II

MANUSCRIPTS OF THE DE SECRETIS MULIERUM

Amplon. Quarto 15, early 13th and beginning and middle of
14th century, partly from Italy, partly from Münster,
and partly from Erfurt, fols. 72-83, Libellus Alberti
de secretis mulierum, “Dilectissimo in Christo socio et
amico R. de tali loco B. talis loci rector. Cum vestra
favorabilitas....”

Amplon. Quarto 234, first half 14th century, fols. 41-53,
Libellus domini Alberti de secretis mulierum, “Dilecto
sibi socio et amico G. de tali loco clerico camerario loci
litteraliter rector salutem....”

Amplon. Octavo 79, 1341-1350 A. D., fols. 1-12, de secretis
mulierum Alberti Magni. “Dilecto sibi in Christo socio et
amico clerico Erphordie Io. de Villa Parisiensi.” V. Rose
comments on this last, “Ioh. Parisiensis ist bekanntlich
ein Mädchen für alles!”

Amplon. Quarto 157, early 15th century, fols. 213-6,
libellus de secretis mulierum; fols. 227-68, Commentarius
de hoc libello scriptus. The former opens, “Dilectissimo
amico et clerico de tali loco Iohannes sanctorum talis
loci. Cum vestra favorabilitas.”

Amplon. Quarto 299, end of 14th century, #7, Commentary of
Jean Buridan on the De secretis mulierum.

Amplon. Quarto 342, late 14th century, fols. 14-15,
Abbrevacio de secretis mulierum.

BN 7148, 15th century, fol. 1r-, “Incipit liber de secretis
mulierum secundum Albertum magnum. Precordialissimo sibi
in Christo socio et amico er. clerico erfordensi n.
scolaris Parisius vere sapiencie necnon huius mundane
continua incrementum. Cum tua favorabilitas.”

Berlin 976, 1419-1420 A. D., fol. 218-, “Dilecto sibi in
Christo socio et amico renoldo dilecto de tali loco
Albertus scholaris(?) talis loci vere sciencie et vite(?)
presentis mundane in Christo ieshu continua incrementa(?).
Cum vestra favorabilis ac gratuita rogavit societas
ut quedam vobis de hiis que apud mulierum naturam et
condicionem sunt occulta et secreta librum manifestem
preclarius.”

Berlin cod. lat. quarto 385.

Wolfenbüttel 698, 14th century (1382, 1391 A. D.), fols.
12-13.

Vienna 2466, 14th century, fols. 150r-158v.

Vienna 3287, 15th century, fols. 77-87, cum commento.

Vienna 5315, 1436-1444 A. D., fols. 147-206.

Vienna 5500, 15th century, fols. 1-37v, a commentary on the
De secretis mulierum.

Bodleian Library, Bernard 2063, contains an “Expositio libri
Alberti Magni de secretis mulierum.”

CLM 8484, 15th century, fol. 159-.

CLM 14170, 15th century, fols. 60-96.

CLM 14654, 15th century, fols. 95-142, cum commento.

CLM 21107, 15th century, fols. 46-71, cum commento.

CLM 22297, 14th century, fol. 22-, “Secreta mulierum
completa Herfordie anno 1320,” fol. 43-, laudatur Alberti
tractatus de menstruis mulierum.

CLM 22300, 13th century, fols. 61-76, de secretis mulierum,
vel Liber generationis.

CLM 23789, 15th century, fols. 94-143, Liber de secretis
mulierum ad Nicolaum clericum Erfordiensem directus, cum
commentario.

CLM 14574, 15th century, fols. 1-40, Aristoteles de secretis
mulierum cum praefatione Philippi interpretis ad Guidonem
de Valencia, is presumably the pseudo-Aristotelian Secret
of Secrets and not the De secretis mulierum at all.

CLM 444, 14-15th century, fol. 208-, Alberti de ornatu
mulierum secundum totum corpus, is possibly our treatise,
although it may be the work of that title by Arnald of
Villanova.