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Alternative title

Augustini Confessiones. Ferrandus

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 142

Date created

[ca. 1000 - 1099]

Language

Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)

Material

Vellum

Layout

32 and 38 lines to a page

Height (mm)

275

Width (mm)

185

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8)-16(8) 17 (four) || 18(10).

Writing

in the pointed hand characteristic of Christ Church, Canterbury

Foliation

ff. a-c + i + 1-142 + d-f

Provenance

I have little doubt that this book belonged to Canterbury or Rochester, but I cannot trace it in the catalogues.

Additions

On f. 1r in large capitals: AUG DE CONF'.

On the last leaf f. (142r) (xvi): Take heede whome thow trustiste Be suretie for no man and Euer paye debte Seldome make debte Neuer be suertie for debte

2 fo.

funderis

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

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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

• 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

  (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

  (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

TJames

137

Stanley

L. 17

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 253

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