Description
Alternative title
Richard Hampole
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 3 + 168
Date created
[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language
Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Material
Vellum
Layout
39 etc. lines to a page
Height (mm)
226
Width (mm)
155
Collation
a(2) b(2) (wants 1) 1(12)-14(12).
Writing
clearly written
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-iii + 1-168 + c-e
Provenance
From Dover Priory: on f. iiiv is: A. Vo.Ex dono Willelmi Warren quondam Maioris Douorrie. It is too late to be in the Catalogue. See Ancient Libraries, p. 523.
Additions
On f. iv an erasure: Iste liber.
Various scribbles (xv) on f. iv: Madaliel. le cesse mercy paster drotur. Si quis furetur hunc librum vituperetur Et condempnetur nisi furti liber habetur. En se va le munde el no sage beuore ky par la ven cauntera curtesy. Auez moun cuer en qe e tout moun foy.
Verses. Notes on the Sacrament. (f. iv)
Notes of the signs given to the three Magi (f. iir):Nota quod Germanus historiographus temporum et teophilus scriptor gestorum Christi tradunt tria miracula facta tribus magis.See Oscar Schade, Narrationes de vita... B. M. V. etc. Königsberg, 1876 and a MS. in Bishop Cosin's Library at Durham V iv 9.
f. iiiv. Verses on the Sacrament: Constat in altari carnem de pane creari.
f. iiv Note on the Ages of the World, ending: Anno ab incarnacione domini mo cccco quadrag. v.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- This book, written c. 1400, contains a collection of the Latin works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349). It was given to the Benedictine priory of Dover by Richard Warren and bears the library pressmark of Dover. The works included are Rolle's commentaries on the Psalter, the Canticles, the nine lessons (Paruum Job) of the Office of the Dead, on Psalm 20, and his tract Liber de amore Dei contra amatores mundi.
- Contents
- Commentary on the Psalms and the Canticles -- Paruum Iob siue Libellus in nouem lectiones mortuorum -- Commentary on Psalm 20 -- Liber de amore Dei contra amatores mundi
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