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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.

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

M.R. James Date

xv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tc165bh7648/MS_365.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mh869gd8715/365.pdf

Contains

• Richard Rolle of Hampole, Commentary on the Psalms and the Canticles. 1r-113v

  Nasmith

  Varia opera Latina Richardi Hampole hermitae, viz. 1r-113v

  Author

  Richard Rolle of Hampole

  Note

  1. Commentarium in psalterium.2. In canticum Ysaie, cap. 12.3. In canticum Ezechie, Ysaie, 38.4. In canticum I. Reg. 2.5. In canticum Moisis, Exod. 15.6. In canticum Abakuk, cap. 3.7. In canticum Moisis, Deut. 32.
  Items 1-7 headed:

  Rubric

  (1r) Diuinum flamen opus istud compleat amen. Assit principio, etc.

  Note

  Note: James conflates Nasmith's items 1-7 into a single description

  Incipit

  (1r) Magna spiritualis iocunditatis vanitas

  Explicit

  (1r) Stetit non sedit

  Rubric

  (1r) Incipit Hampol super psalterium

  Incipit

  (1r) Beatus vir. Scilicet christus qui vir dicitur

  Note

  The gloss on the Psalter and Cantica ends:

  Explicit

  (113v) misericors erit terre populi sui id est ecclesie que constat ex populo suo

  Rubric

  (113v) Explicit textus psalterii cum glosa secundum Ricardum Ampule heremitam, etc. Deo dicamus gracias

  Note

  Ed. Cologne, 1536. See Horstmann, Richard Rolle of Hampole II, p. xxxvii

• Richard Rolle of Hampole, Paruum Iob siue Libellus in nouem lectiones mortuorum. 114r-144v

  Nasmith

  In novem lectiones mortuorum. 114r-144v

  Author

  Richard Rolle of Hampole

  Note

  Another hand

  Incipit

  (114r) Parce mihi domine, etc. Exprimitur autem in hiis verbis humane conditionis instabilitas

  Explicit

  (143v) a quo christus nos liberet qui cum patre et spiritum Sanctum regnat in eternum Amen

  Rubric

  (143v) Explicit expositio Ricardi heremite super nouem lectiones mortuorum

  Note

  Printed by Rembolt, Paris 1500 and at Cologne in 1536. Horstmann, Richard Rolle of Hampole II, p. xxxvii
  Note

  Incipit

  (143v) Latria est honor soli deo debitus

  Explicit

  (144v) et secundarie cruci representante crucifixum

• Richard Rolle of Hampole, Commentary on Psalm 20. 145r-152v

  Nasmith

  In psalmum vicesimum. 145r-152v

  Author

  Richard Rolle of Hampole

  Rubric

  (145r) Glosa psalmi vicesimi Ricardi hampol super psalmum vicesimum

  Incipit

  (145r) Domine in virtute tua ... Cum omnes psalmi dulces sunt

  Note

  (145r) Gold initial

  Explicit

  (152v) laudemus in ipso gloriemur in secula seculorum. Amen

  Note

  Printed, Cologne 1536. Horstmann, Richard Rolle of Hampole II, p. xxxvii

• Richard Rolle of Hampole, Liber de amore Dei contra amatores mundi. 152v-168v

  Nasmith

  De amore Dei contra amatores mundi. 152v-168v

  Author

  Richard Rolle of Hampole

  Rubric

  (152v) Incipit liber de amore dei contra amatores mundi Ricardi hampol

  Incipit

  (152v) Quoniam mundanorum infamia gaudium putat eterni amoris

  Explicit

  (168v) in tua dulcedine te mecum et meis commendo sine fine Amen

  Note

  Horstmann, Richard Rolle of Hampole II, p. xxxvii. Other copies are Corpus Christi Oxford 293. Balliol Oxford 224. St John's Oxford 127

TJames

313

Stanley

3. 3

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 365

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