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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 253: Augustine, Confessiones. Ferrandus, Epistola ad Reginum comitem. Hymn for Augustine, etc

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 253: Augustine, Confessiones. Ferrandus, Epistola ad Reginum comitem. Hymn for Augustine, etc

Description

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

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
  • 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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