Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 284: Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Orationes et meditationes
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The main text in CCCC MS 284, dating to c. 1400-25, is the Prayers and Meditations of Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109), decorated with fine illuminated initials. The remainder of the book consists of a miscellany of liturgical texts: Office of the Dead, Penitential and Gradual psalms, a Sarum litany, an unidentified Benedictine litany and a litany of the abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury. The book cannot be identified in the library catalogue of the abbey, and the presence of its litany, given the disparate liturgical content, is not sufficient to provide any firm evidence that it belonged to St Augustine's.
- Contents
- Orationes et meditationes -- Office of the Dead, Penitential and Gradual Psalms -- Psalter of St Jerome -- Litany of St Augustine's, Canterbury
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zf134vs9729/MS_284.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fr968tx8806/284.pdf
- Contains
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- Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Orationes et meditationes. 1r-135r
- Nasmith
- Liber orationum sive meditationum Beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Cantuariensis. 1r-135r
- Author
- Anselm of Canterbury OSB
- Note
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ff. ir-iiv blank
On f. iiir a table of contents beginning imperfectly (?) - Rubric
- (iiir) Item liber orationum eiusdem diuisus in
- Note
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(iiir) i ad deum patrem pro uenia et virtutibus etc. xlvii ad deum et ad omnes sanctos coniunctim. Item xiii orationes pertinentes specialiter ad sacerdotes qui habent missas celebrare
f. ivv blank - Rubric
- (1r) Prologus beati Anselmi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi in libro oracionum siue meditacionum suarum
- Incipit
- (1r) Oraciones siue meditaciones
- Explicit
- (1r) pietatis affectum
- Rubric
- (1r) Oracio ad deum patrem pro uenia et uirtutibus optinendis
- Note
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(1r) Handsome decorative initials on burnished gold; and border in gold and colour: a shield is cut out in lower margin and another piece of ornament in upper margin
Ends - Explicit
- (119v) in eterna felicitate uobiscum sine fine gaudere. Amen
- Rubric
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(119v) Iste oraciones sequentes pertinent ad sacerdotes etc.
(119v) Oratio beati Anselmi cum sacerdos multum timet etc. - Incipit
- (119v) Dulcissime et benignissime domine Ihesu Christe
- Note
- The last is of Anselm
- Rubric
- (134v) Item oratio eiusdem ante percepcionem corporis Christi
- Incipit
- (134v) Domine Ihesu Christe fili dei uiui qui ex uoluntate
- Explicit
- (135r) et consolacione letari. qui uiuis et regnas
- Office of the Dead, Penitential and Gradual Psalms. 135v-167v
- Nasmith
- Antiphona secundum ecclesiam Romanam. 135v-167v
- Note
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(135v) Office of the dead
(135v) Handsome initial and partial border
Ends with rubric - Rubric
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(156v) Numquam enim dicatur alia comendacio in ecclesia sarum quam ista predicta siue corpus presens fuerit siue non
(157r) Hic incipiunt septem psalmi penitenciales cum antiphonis - Note
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(160v) The Psalms of Degrees
(164r) Litany (Sarum)
167v blank
- Psalter of St Jerome. 168r-179r
- Nasmith
- Psalterium Beati Hieronimi abbreviatum. 168r-179r
- Author
- St Jerome
- Rubric
- (168r) Incipit psalterium beati Jeronimi presbiteri abreuiatum
- Incipit
- (168r) Suscipere digneris etc.
- Rubric
- (168r) De primo Nocturno
- Incipit
- (168r) Uerba mea auribus
- Note
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(174r) Litany
It is longer than the next item, and of English origin, but not highly distinctive
(174v) Martyrs: Thoma, Albane, Edmunde rex, Oswalde rex, Kenelme rex, Edwarde rex
(176r) Confessors: Willelme, Hugo, Thoma, Ricarde
(176v) Virgins: Milburga, Etheldreda, Sexburgis, ffredeswitha, Editha
- Litany of St Augustine's, Canterbury. 179r-184v
- Nasmith
- Litania secundum usum monasterii Sancti Augustini. 179r-184v
- Note
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In a later hand
(179v) Apostles: Marcialis
(180r) Martyrs: Albane, Elphege, Thoma, Osuualde, Edmunde, Eduuarde ... Georgi II, Pancrati, Pantaleon, Liuine
(180v) Confessors: Gregori, Augustine II, Laurenti, Mellite, Iuste, Honori, Deusdedit, Theodore, Letharde, Jamberte II, Brithwalde, Nothelme, Tathwyne, Pauline, Dunstane, Edmunde, Richarde ... Audoene, Cuthberte, Swithune, Aldelme, Wulstane, Egwyne, Benedicte II, Petre, Adriane II, Ethelberte, Edwarde, Maure, Wandregisile...
(181r) Virgins: Mildreda II, Anna ... Etheldreda, Ethelburga, Milburga ... Brigida, Barbara, Ursula
- Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Orationes et meditationes. 1r-135r
- TJames
- 108
- Stanley
- K. 3
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/gf460xj6913
- MS 284
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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