Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 335: Tracts on the Saracens and Miscellaneous Texts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 335: Tracts on the Saracens and Miscellaneous Texts
Alternate Title:
Tractatus de Mahometo, etc.
Language:
Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Extent:
ff. 1 + 153
Dimensions:
218 Height (mm) and 148 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Provenance:
I believe that the Ely cross which marks the Priory books has been torn out of the edge of f. 1r. The flyleaf is of vellum and is the end of a deed (xiv early?) concerning the Priory (of Ely ?) and the Hospitallers (?). It has the handsome notarial mark of Will.de Beluero clericus Lincoln.dioc. Names of witnesses are given. Also a list of contents. At the end of the volume, low down on the page, in large letters, is: Iste liber pertinet ecclesie eliensi (erased and revived).
Table of contents:
  • Epistola ad Christianum
  • Response of a Christian to the letters of the Saracen
  • Epistola ad Bernardum Claravallensem de impia secta Muhamet
  • Summa totius haeresis Sarracenorum
  • Chronica mendosa Sarracenorum (transl. by Hermann of Carinthia)
  • De generatione Mahumet et nutritura eius
  • De doctrina Mahumet
  • Preface to the Liber legis Saracenorum quem Alchoran uocant
  • Libellus contra legem Sarracenorum
  • Speculum historiale (extract from book 25, 118-45)
  • Tractatus de dungionibus diaboli
  • Sermo de modo uiuendi
  • Sermons
  • Treatise on birds, fish, marvels and animals
  • Orthographia gallica
  • De septem signis in Christi natiuitate
  • De duodecim lapidibus civitatis Dei
  • Regula fratrum minorum (extract)
  • Tracts on diet in French and Latin (Prognostications)
  • Documents relating to Roger Raude of Kenynghale and Robert Longham
Description:
The greater part of the material in CCCC MS 335 is concerned with Christian attitudes to Islam. It contains fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century copies of texts that were the result of Peter the Venerable's (c. 1092-1156) travels in Muslim Spain and which were frequently transmitted together. These include Peter's own Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153), Robert of Ketton (d. after 1157) Chronica mendosa Sarracenorum, De generatione Mahumet and De doctrina Mahumet sometimes attributed to Hermann of Carinthia (Hermann Dalmatin, c. 1100-c. 1160), Riccoldus de Monte Crucis OP (1242-1320) Libellus contra legem Sarracenorum and the Letter of a Saracen and Christian Response, the translation by Peter of Toledo (fl. c. 1142-3) and Peter of Poitiers (c. 1130-1205) of the Apologia (Risala) attributed to al-Kindi. In addition the manuscript contains a number of minor texts, including an Orthographia Gallica, medical recipes and prognostications. The manuscript was once at the cathedral priory of Ely, according to an inscription at the end of the book.
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