Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 288: Alan of Tewkesbury OSB, Epistolae. Apocryphal Gospels. Prophecies

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 288: Alan of Tewkesbury OSB, Epistolae. Apocryphal Gospels. Prophecies
Alternate Title:
Alani Cantuar. Epistolae. Gesta Salvatoris. Infantia Salvatoris, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 1 + 124 + 1
Dimensions:
250 Height (mm) and 185 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1100 - 1299]
Provenance:
From Christ Church, Canterbury, Ancient Libraries, p. 118. On the flyleaf (xiv): Liber N. de Sandwyco. In quo scilicet(?) hec uolumina continentur. (1) [Epistole Alani Prioris, etc.: added xvi.] (2) Liber de officiis ecclesiasticis. (3) Euangelium Nazareorum. (4) Inffancia Saluatoris. (5) Liber Asenech. (6) Item liber Methodii (over erasure).Other articles added xvi. f. iv blank. N. de Sandwich was Prior 1255-1280.
Table of contents:
  • Epistolae
  • Tractatus de officiis ecclesiasticis
  • De canone missae
  • Evangelium Nicodemi
  • Vindicta Saluatoris
  • De ortu beatae Mariae et infantia saluatoris
  • Gospel of Thomas
  • Historia fabulosae
  • Liber de Asenech (Aseneth)
  • De initio et fine saeculi
  • Letter to the clergy of Cologne
  • De Tartaris
  • Epistolae
  • Gravamina Anglorum adversum potestatem papae
  • Extracts from glosses on Old Testament
Description:
The miscellany of fourteen texts in CCCC MS 288, dating to c. 1200, has no obvious unifying theme. The book opens with a number of letters of Alan of Tewkesbury OSB (d. 1202), followed by an anonymous liturgical tract on church offices and a tract on the Mass by Richard the Premonstratensian (fl. late twelfth century). Parts of the book contain apocrypha of the New Testament such as the Gospel of Nicodemus and the De ortu beatae Mariae et infantia saluatoris. Other parts contain prophetic texts such as some by Hildegard of Bingen OSB (1098-1179) and the De initio et fine saeculi (Revelations) of pseudo-Methodius. The book belonged to N de Sandwico (Sandwich, Kent), a monk of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and can perhaps be identified with an item in the early fourteenth-century library catalogue by Henry of Eastry.
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