Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 135: Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Letters and related works
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 135 is a collection of the letters of Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109) with other related works. It may be the collection made by Anselm of Bury OSB (d. 1148), the saint's nephew, since it has certain provenance at Bury St Edmunds. It has been suggested that it was made for the younger Anselm at Canterbury, but a Bury origin seems more likely since it shares a scribe with several manuscripts from Bury, including Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R. 7. 28 (scribe 2). It seems to have come into the hands of the historian John Bale (1495-1563) and thence to Parker.
- Contents
- Epistolae -- De beatitudine caelestis patriae -- Provincial Council under Anselm of Canterbury OSB, 1102 -- Letter of Gerald, Archbishop of York, to Anselm of Canterbury OSB -- Verses in praise of Anselm of Canterbury OSB -- Tractatus de uirtute corporis Christi
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xz642jc1350/MS_135.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kt952fn3204/135.pdf
- Contains
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- Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Epistolae. 1r-147r
- Nasmith
- Anselmi archiepiscopi epistolae CCCLXVII. 1r-147r
- Author
- Anselm of Canterbury OSB
- Note
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Each hundred of the Epistles is separately numbered
After 101v are inserted two leaves of a smaller (9 x 6) and perhaps older MS. containing two letters
1. MCI. Henrico regi Angl. - Incipit
- (101ar) Legationis tue uerba
- Explicit
- (101av) sullimatione disponat
- Note
- 2. Henrico
- Incipit
- (101br) In litteris uestre celsitudinis
- Note
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(Ep. 233 in this collection.)
3. Verses (28) - Incipit
- (101bv) Petre supra petram nec inaniter edificasti Illic et turres quibus itur ad astra locasti
- Explicit
- (101bv) Presul in exilio mortalia nostra professus Ora pro nobis ad celica regna regressus
- Note
- Epistola (3) 67 (Thome electo archiepiscopi eboracensi) ends
- Explicit
- (146v) concedo ut officio sacerdotali quod iam suscepisti utaris
- Note
- Extract on Freewill
- Incipit
- (146v) Est considerandum quia uolumus aliquando ita ut si possumus faciamus ut sit quod uolumus
- Explicit
- (147r) aut quia non uult eam uiolari. quod est in quarto modo
- Note
- (147r) Confessio. P. L. CLVIII 685
- Incipit
- (147r) Letaris quod in fide Christiana moreris? Respondeat Etiam
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (147r) dicat infirmus ter. In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum
- Note
- See also MS 299. 4
- Eadmer of Canterbury OSB, De beatitudine caelestis patriae. 147r-160v
- Nasmith
- Meditatio ejusdem de eterna beatitudine. 147r-160v
- Author
- Eadmer of Canterbury OSB
- Incipit
- (147r) Multi homines quibus non nunquam boni mores
- Note
- P. L. CLIX 587
- Explicit
- a diabolo precipitati depereunt
- Incipit
- (154r) Quattuor modis dicimus aliquid
- Explicit
- (155v) alia facit per presentiam alia per absentiam
- Incipit
- (155v) Discipulus. Plura sunt de quibus tuam diu desidero responsionem. Ex quibus sunt potestas et inpotentia
- Explicit
- (160r) ut illi sunt aliquando beati
- Rubric
- (160r) Hec ad predicta pertinent
- Incipit
- (160r) Discipulus. Video plane. M. hec quidem exempla de causis efficientibus
- Explicit
- (160v) auferendo arma cum potest
- Incipit
- (160v) Quamuis post apostolos sancti patres et doctores nostri
- Explicit
- (160v) id aliis libenter aperio quatinus quid secure tenere debeam alieno discam iudicio
- Note
- See also MS 34. 2, MS 154. 48, MS 332. 14
- Provincial Council under Anselm of Canterbury OSB, 1102. 161r-162r
- Nasmith
- Concilium provinciale celebratum sub Anselmo A. D. 1102. 161r-162r
- Incipit
- (161r) Anno dominice incarnationis millesimo centesimo secundo quarto autem presulatus Pascalis
- Explicit
- (162r) concubine cum rebus suis uelut adultere
- Note
- Wilkins' Concilia I. 382
- Letter of Gerald, Archbishop of York, to Anselm of Canterbury OSB. 162v-163r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Girardi archiepiscopi Eboracensi ad Anselmum. 162v-163r
- Author
- Gerald, Archbishop of York
- Incipit
- (162v) Patri et domino uere dilecto ... Ceruus sitiens
- Explicit
- (163r) ipsi quoque peccatores accedant
- Note
- Copied in MS 101. 35, MS 111. 137, 117. 2. 3
- Verses in praise of Anselm of Canterbury OSB. 163r-165v
- Nasmith
- Versus in laudem Anselmi. 163r-165v
- Rubric
- (163r) Versus ad laudem domini Anselmi archiepiscopi
- Incipit
- (163r) Haud dubiture (habiture) parem sumas pater alme salutemQuam mea disparibus musa uelut pedibus
- Note
- (P. L. CLVIII 135)
- Explicit
- (164r) Unica scala poli nec ruitura. Vale
- Rubric
- (164r) Item uersus de eodem
- Incipit
- (164r) Presulis Anselmi quem nuper obisse dolemusLaudibus aptari littera nostra cupit
- Note
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(P. L. CLVIII 137)
Ends - Explicit
- (165v) Cantica letitie nullo tibi tempore desuntEt (sine) fine canis gloria deo magna (sic). Amen
- Note
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Followed by
(165v) Omnia maiorem retinent sua dicta saporemQuam que dixerunt qui postue priusue fueruntHic cognoscetis qui talia picta uidetisQua spe uixit hugo uel sit opertus humoNobilis et diues fortisque per omnia milesFortior ut senuit. hic iuga sancta tulitDumque plebi uia. lustrat sidera celi (sic)Quod bene proposuit fortior exibuitMox aeris solem recipit sol perdit hugonemCui sol iusticie fulgeat in requie
An erasure of a line follows
- Anselm of Canterbury OSB (attrib.)Tractatus de uirtute corporis Christi. iiir-ivv
- Nasmith
- Anselmi tractatus de virtute corporis Christi. iiir-ivv
- Author
- Anselm of Canterbury OSB (attrib.)
- Note
- f. iiir-iiiv is from another book (xiii-xiv). At top is the end of a table to some treatise
- Rubric
- (iiir) Tractatus beati Anselmi de uirtute corporis christi
- Incipit
- (iiir) Quia de sacramento altaris persepe sermo incidit
- Explicit
- (iiiv) et gustus noster dissimulare non potest
- Note
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On f. ivr are scribbles: many numbers of Epistles noted: a pencil scribble: Ven. patri etc. Abbati Glastoniensi ffr. W. (dominus prior?) et precentor ecclesie Elyensis Salutem
On f. ivv two extracts (xii): a. Caue frater illud quod multi stulti faciunt qui quanto diutius uiuunt tanto maiorem sibi spem uiuendi nutriunt etc. b. De elemosina. Si quis eorum qui habent substantiam mundi
A note (xv): de sorte Iohannis wickam monachi monasterii S. Edmundi de buree actualiter scolatisantis Oxon. et permansuri ibi dum modo sit deputatus et legit(ime) electus per capitulum
A few scribbles on the next leaf: 'ad festum S. eadmundi' is one. Another seems to be in Bale's hand.
I notice that Bale in a list of MSS. that had belonged to him (Scriptores Britanniae, p. 165, Basle edition) includes: Anselmi archiep. ccclxvij Epistolae Eius meditatio de aeterna beatitudine which corresponds strikingly with the contents of this MS
- Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Epistolae. 1r-147r
- TJames
- 129
- Stanley
- L. 8
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/gc974js8368
- MS 135
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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