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Collection of 4 devotional works with mystical and didactic tendencies. Work 1 is a version of the work on the six names of
the Eucharist, or body of Christ (Buch von den sechs Namen des Fronleichnams; also known under the Latin title Liber de corde
et sanguine domini) composed by the author known as the Monk of Heilsbronn, who was resident at the Cistercian abbey at Heilsbronn,
in Bavaria, Germany, in the 14th century. Scholarship is inconclusive about the possible identification of the Monk of Heilsbronn
with Konrad von Brundelsheim (Conradus de Brundelsheim), who was the abbot at Heilsbronn in 1303-1306 and 1317-1321. This
manuscript, which contains contemporary corrections throughout, differs from the one published by J.F.L.T. Merzdorf in Der
Mönch von Heilsbronn (pp. 1-68), showing a later spelling, and variations in the text, including the omission of the rhymed
epilogue in which the writer identifies himself as a monk of Heilsbronn. The work begins with a rhymed prologue (f. 1r-3r)
in which the author declares his intentions to cull and explicate wisdom from holy scripture, as well as the writings of Augustine,
Ambrose, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Gregory I, on the subject of the body of Christ (unsers herren leichnamen; f. 1r); and
justifies his choice to proceed in prose rather than in rhyme. In the main body of the text he explicates the six names: 1.
Eucharist (eucharistia, gute genad; f. 3r, 3v), 2. gift (donum, gab; f. 7r), 3. food (cibus, speis; f. 26r), 4. communion
(communio, gemainsam; f. 34r), 5. sacrifice (sacrificium, opfer; f. 44r), and 6. sacrament (sacramentum, heilikait; f. 61v).
He develops the motif known as fons pietatis, i.e. Christ's wounds as a fountain of piety for the faithful (f. 42r, 63v).
Work 2 is a prose tract on the question of how to love God (got mynnen; f. 97r); it begins by calling to mind John 21: 15-17,
in which Jesus asks his disciple Peter whether he loves Jesus (Petre amas me ... Peter mynnestu mich; f. 97r). Work 3, also
in prose, focuses on the Passion of Christ. In the first half, it mainly retells, with interspersed commentary, episodes from
the New Testament, beginning with the story of Jesus washing his disciples' feet (John 13), through his arrest, presentation
before Pilate, flogging and crucifixion; the fons pietatis motif is invoked (f. 180r-180v). The sources cited include Ambrose
(f. 123v), Augustine (f. 126v), Gregory I (f. 125v), and Bernard of Clairvaux (f. 139r, 252r). The second half of the work
is organized under didactic headings that refer to such topics as thanking God (f. 212v), obedience (f. 214r), prayer (f.
218v), and faith (f. 228v). Work 4 is a 12-line prose piece that names obedience, poverty, and chastity as the three virtues
essential to a cleric (geistleichen menschen), and elevates obedience as the noblest one.
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