Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 253: Augustine, Confessiones. Ferrandus, Epistola ad Reginum comitem. Hymn for Augustine, etc
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- This twelfth-century manuscript contains copies of Augustine, Confessiones, and the guide to Christian life for soldiers by Ferrandus, deacon of Carthage (d. 546/7). The works by Augustine are in a fine hand, with exceptional illuminated initials. There is, in a twelfth-century hand, a hymn to St Augustine, with music on a three-line stave. There are some late medieval additions at the end of the manuscript. James suggested that CCCC MS 253 originated in Canterbury or Rochester, but this was rejected by Ker and its provenance remains uncertain.
- Contents
- Retractatio (extract referring to Confessiones) -- Confessiones -- Epistola ad Reginum comitem (epistola 7) -- Hymn for St Augustine -- On the youth of the Virgin Mary
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xi
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fx503gj8940/MS_253.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mj044tv0060/253.pdf
- Contains
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- Augustine, Retractatio (extract referring to Confessiones). 1r-1r
- Author
- Augustine
- Rubric
- (1r) Retractatio in libris confessionum
- Incipit
- (1r) Confessionum mearum libri
- Explicit
- (1r) sic incipit
- Augustine, Confessiones. 1r-132v
- Author
- Augustine
- Rubric
- (1r) Confessionum Aurelii Augustini Incipit liber primus
- Note
- (P. L. XXXII 659)
- Incipit
- (1r) Magnus es domine
- Note
-
(1r) A good drawing forms the initial. Gold has been inserted for the nimbus, etc. but the rest remains in outline. Christ seated in C. blessing. On R. a man in a broad hat, and on L. a bishop with low mitre, crosier and chasuble with gold band hold the ends of a scroll which passes in front of Christ's figure
(8v) Liber II, fine outline initial
(13r) Liber III, initial partly filled with red and green
Subsequent books have also excellent initials, nearly all in outline. Those of Libri VII (f. 44v), X (f. 76r), XI (f. 96r), XII (f. 106v) are perhaps the best
Liber XIII ends - Explicit
- (130v) sic aperietur. Amen
- Rubric
- (130v) Aurelii Augustini Confessionum Liber Tercius decimus explicit
- Note
- f. 131r-132v blank
- Ferrandus, Epistola ad Reginum comitem (epistola 7). 133r-140r
- Author
- Ferrandus
- Note
- In a narrow black hand of cent. xii
- Rubric
- (133r) In nomine Sancti Trinitatis incipit liber ferrandi cartaginiensis ecclesie diaconi de bono duce ad reginum comitem
- Note
- (P. L. LXVII 928)
- Incipit
- (133r) Socialis uite laboribus exercendus
- Explicit
- (140r) dabitur dicitur christianis perpetuus principatus. per dominum nostrum Iesum Christum qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat deus in secula seculorum. Amen
- Hymn for St Augustine, with music. 140v-141r
- Note
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(140v) In a good hand of cent. xii: music on 3-line stave
(140v) Hymn for St Augustine - Incipit
- (140v) Interni festi gaudia nostra sonet armonia
- Explicit
- (141r) det nobis mater gratia. Amen
- On the youth of the Virgin Mary. 141v-141v
- Note
- In a hand of cent. xiv-xv current
- Incipit
- (141v) Cum beata virgo esset trium annorum a parentibus oblata fuit in templo et ibi fuit usque ad annum xiiijmum
- Note
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(141v) Inter alia vero hec continentur. Dum inquid pater meus et mater mea dimiserunt me in templo statim in corde meo posui deum habere in patrem et deuote ac frequenter cogitabam quid possem facerem deo gratum ut mihi dignaretur suam dare gratiam. Et feci mihi dari legem dei mei ac ex omnibus preceptis diuine legis tria precipue seruaui in corde meo s. diliges dominum deum tuum ex toto corde tuo et ex tota anima tua et ex tota mente tua et ex omnibus viribus tuis Item diliges proximum tuum sicut teipsum Jtem odio habebis inimicum tuum Ista seruaui in corde meo et statim omnes virtutes apprehendi que in ipsis continentur. anima autem habere aliquam virtutem non potest
(Evidently medieval and probably from some one's Revelations)
Ends - Explicit
- (141v) septimo petebam ut templum et uniuersum populum ad suum seruicium conseruaret
- Incipit
- (141v) Ieronimus ita scribit de vita ipsius. hanc regulam statuerat
- Explicit
- (141v) in opere dei et amore proficiebat
- Augustine, Retractatio (extract referring to Confessiones). 1r-1r
- TJames
- 137
- Stanley
- L. 17
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/dy778wn8940
- MS 253
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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