Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 284: Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Orationes et meditationes

Description

Alternative title
Anselmus, etc.
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 4 + 184
Date created
[ca. 1300-1399]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
25 lines to a page
Height (mm)
258
Width (mm)
173
Collation
a(?6) (wants 3, 4?) 1(8)-19(8) (wants 7) 20(8)-23(8) (wants 8) 24 (two).
Writing
finely written
Foliation
ff. a + i-iv + 1-184 + b
Provenance
The book is doubtless from St Augustine's, Canterbury, but is not identifiable in the old catalogue.
2 fo.
et accende

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Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
  • 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
    ff. ir-iiv blank
    On f. iiir a table of contents beginning imperfectly (?)
    Rubric
    (iiir) Item liber orationum eiusdem diuisus in
    Note
    (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
    (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
    (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
    (135v) Office of the dead
    (135v) Handsome initial and partial border
    Ends with rubric
    Rubric
    (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
    (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
    (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
    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
TJames
108
Stanley
K. 3
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 284

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