Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 194: Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, De conuersione Sancti Pauli. Scala mundi. Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum. Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum etc
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 194 is a miscellany of texts of various periods 'diuersis temporibus et a diuersis scriptoribus exaratus' but mostly copied in the mid-fifteenth century. It contains a copy of Peter of Blois (d. 1212), De conuersione beati Pauli, an extract from the pseudo-Augustinian De spiritu et anima (De creatione primi hominis), the profusely illustrated anonymous Scala mundi chronicle, Martin of Troppau OP (d. 1278), Chronica pontificum et imperatorum and Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum of Peter of Ickham OSB (d. 1295). The Scala mundi contains a well-known early image of Stonehenge, and the historical nature of much of the material in this manuscript surely explains Parker's interest in it. A shelf mark reveals that this manuscript was once in the library of the Hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, London, though how it came to be in Parker's collection is unknown.
- Contents
- De conuersione Sancti Pauli -- De creatione primi hominis (ch. 35 of pseudo-Augustine, De spiritu et anima) -- Meditatio breuissima -- Scala mundi -- Chronica pontificum et imperatorum -- Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum -- Triginta duo gradus scalae
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv (and xv)
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rc887jz7150/MS_194.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hn126hm1233/194.pdf
- Contains
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- Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, De conuersione Sancti Pauli. 1v-3r
- Nasmith
- Tractatus Petri Blessensis de conversione sancti Pauli. 1v-3r
- Author
- Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath
- Note
- Cent. xv. 40 lines to a page
- Incipit
- (1v) Recolenda est cum exultacione
- Note
- (P. L. CCVII 791)
- Explicit
- (3r) ad reuelacionem glorie domini nostri Ihesu Christi cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen
- Rubric
- (3r) Explicit paruus tractatus de conuersione Sancti Pauli apostoli secundum Petram Blesencem quod R. E.
- pseudo-Augustine, De creatione primi hominis (ch. 35 of pseudo-Augustine, De spiritu et anima). 3v-3v
- Nasmith
- Augustinus de creatione primi hominis. 3v-3v
- Author
- pseudo-Augustine
- Note
- Small hand, cent. xv
- Rubric
- (3v) Augustini de creacione primi hominis liber incipit
- Note
- (P. L. XL 1213, CLXI 967)
- Incipit
- (3v) Tanta dignitas humane condicionis
- Explicit
- (3v) mirabilius in secundo reformauit
- Rubric
- (3v) Explicit
- Richard Rolle of Hampole (attrib.), Meditatio breuissima. 4r-4r
- Nasmith
- Meditatio brevissima Ricardi Hampole. 4r-4r
- Author
- Richard Rolle of Hampole (attrib.)
- Rubric
- (4r) Beatus Ricardus hermita
- Note
- (xv)
- Incipit
- (4r) Amicam autem adamaui
- Explicit
- (4r) consilium continue concupisco
- Note
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Si tuam animam vis saluare consocia hominum quantum potes deuitare. quod Corf. Et memorare nouissima tua et in eternum non peccabis
Ergo quid sis quid fueris quid eris semper mediteris
- Scala mundi. 4v-79v
- Nasmith
- Scala mundi, sive tabulae chronologicae genealogicae et historicae. 4v-79v
- Note
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First main volume of cent. xiv early in annalistic form with fifty years to a page. Illustrated with small pictures in good style
Continuantur eadem manu ad annum 1340, et dehinc alia ad annum 1450: pars vero chronologica deducitur usque ad annum 1619, nitidissime scripta, nonnullisque delineationibus templorum, &c. ornata - Rubric
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(4v) Hic incipit liber qui vocatur Scala Mundi
(4v) De creatione mundi et opere prime diei - Note
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A band of small rectangular pictures goes down the L. side of text 1 (top). God creates angels: they fall. A sphere on R. full of heads of angels. A single row at the top remain steadfast. A mass below is falling 2. Creation of firmament. A sphere with band across it 3. Of trees 4. Of sun, moon and stars 5. Of birds and fish 6. In four small compartments, creation of beasts, of Adam, of Eve. Expulsion 7. God resting. Angels on R. and L.
At top of f. 5r a picture. An angel in air in C. hands two tunics to Adam with spade and Eve with distaff
Genealogical lines are carried down the pages
(7r) Picture of Ciuitas enoch
(21v) Ark
(23v) Tower of Babel
(25r) Nineveh
(30v) Red Sea
Many pictures of cities
(46v) Annunciation. Two figures, ground of red and green
(47v) Crucifixion with the Virgin and John. Purple ground
(55r) Boy with two bodies born at Emaus about 395 A.D.
(57r) Stonehenge. Michael and dragon
58r sqq. are folding leaves showing the lines of Saxon kings
(59r) Boy with four legs. Merman
(66r) Woman with two bodies
(71r) St Dominic and another Dominican. Green ground. St Francis (in white) preaching to birds. Yellow ground. Crucifix seen in air at Dunstable. Red ground
The last entry in the original hand seems to be at f. 74r: 1338Lodowicus iiiius
The years are carried on to 1619 by the original hand. Later hands make some few entries, some concerning the Franciscan order, e.g., Martyrdom of Will. Walden, f. 74r
The latest is the death of (Ayscough) the Bishop of Sarum et eodem anno communis fuit insurrexio populi in anglia
Ends f. 79v
- Martin of Troppau OP, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum. 80r-132r
- Nasmith
- Chronicon Martini Poloni papae penitentiarii, sive historia et successio imperatorum et pontificum Romanorum a Christo nato ad annum 1306, et continuata ad annum 1342. 80r-132r
- Author
- Martin of Troppau OP
- Note
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Recognita et per ipsum auctius reddita quam in codicibus impressis. Inter Leonem V. et Benedictum IIII. interseritur Ioanna papissa
f. 80r blank, except a xvith cent. title
Chronicon Martini begins f. 80v. Pontifices and Imperatores, as usual, occupying alternate pages - Rubric
- (80v) Pontifices
- Incipit
- (80v) Anno xliio octouiani augusti natus est Ihesus Christus in bethleem
- Rubric
- (81r) Imperatores
- Incipit
- (81r) Post natiuitatem domini nostri Ihesu Christi octouiani augusti imperauit
- Note
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Cent. xiv, 41 lines to a page
Some hands which appear in vol. I as annotators appear here also
(131v) A note on John XXII, and notices of Benedict XII and Clement V, are added later
(132r) Imperatores end (vacante imperio. temp. martini III) - Explicit
- misericorditer a domino largiuntur. et qui scripsit hec uidit ea
- Note
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(miracles at death of Martin III)
ff. 132v, 134r-134v blank; ff. 133r-133v missing
- Peter of Ickham OSB, Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum. 135r-181v
- Nasmith
- Petri de Yckham compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum ex Bruto Beda et aliis auctoribus a prima antiquitate ad annum 1265, et alia manu ad annum 1283. 135r-181v
- Author
- Peter of Ickham OSB
- Note
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Ad finem desunt nonnulla
Same hand as item 5 - Rubric
- (135r) Compilacio de gestis britonum et anglorum
- Incipit
- (135r) Non solum audiendis scripture sacre uerbis
- Note
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The attribution of this to P. de Yckham rests on very little. Dr Caius (de antiq. Cant. 61) names Robert Remington as the author
Hand changes on f. 168r (1264) and again on f. 170v
(181v) Ends imperfectly in 1283: et ibi adiudicatus est morti
There is a gap in the foliation: 182-216 are gone
Hardy III 165, 221, 271
- Triginta duo gradus scalae. 217r-221r
- Nasmith
- Triginta duo gradus scalae. 217r-221r
- Note
- Hand of cent. xv: ugly
- Incipit
- (217r) Primus gradus huius sacratissime scale est fides
- Note
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A pencilled name, possibly Hall, erased in lower margin
Ends - Explicit
- (221r) ascendere valeatis amen, hec (?) Augustinus
- Note
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f. 221v blank. An erased inscription (xvi): This boke to be IIs... and againe till Candlemas next. By me (? Stephanus) batema(n?)
On f. 222r in large hand (xv-xvi): Hospicium beate / Marie extra / bisshopsgate hunc / Vendicat librum / In smaller hand: ano dni. mlio quingentesimo / vices (struck through) tricesimo ijo dus willmus / maior prior ano R. regis h. viiii / vicesimo xxiiijto / per me Johannem Stones
- Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, De conuersione Sancti Pauli. 1v-3r
- TJames
- 50
- Stanley
- E. 8
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/cn679rn6130
- MS 194
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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