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Alternative title

Hildeberti Epistolae, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 194

Date created

[ca. 1175-1225]

Language

Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)

Material

Vellum

Layout

mostly 29-30 lines to a page

Height (mm)

182

Width (mm)

131

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8)-4(8) 5(4) 6(2) | 7(8) 8(8) | 9(8)-14(8) 15(6) (5 a slip, 6 canc.) 16(8) 17(8) (+1) | 18(10) | 19(8)-25(8) 26(4).

Writing

in various hands

Foliation

ff. a-b + i + 1-194 + c-d

Provenance

From St Mary's Abbey, York. A list of contents on flyleaf (xiv-xv), and the mark In O.9 (twice), cf. nos 181,309.

Summary

The miscellany of seventeen texts in CCCC MS 451, dating from the late twelfth or early thierteenth century, has no apparent unifying them. They include the Epistolae of Hildebert of Lavardin (1056-1133), theological tracts by Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1170) and Achard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1170), the De disciplina clericali of Petrus Alfonsi (fl. early twelfth century), the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri (a text originating in late antiquity), and several sermons on the Virgin Mary, some by Ambrosius Autpertus, Fulbert of Chartres (d. 1029) and Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109). A press mark shows the book to have been in the library of the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York.

Contents

Epistolae -- De eruditione hominis interioris -- De disciplina clericali -- Prophecy of the Sibyls -- Historia Apollonii regis Tyri -- De creatione primi hominis -- Compendium in Iob (fragment) -- De discretione animae, spiritus et mentis -- Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae -- De partu uirginis -- De assumptione beatae Mariae -- De assumptione beatae uirginis Mariae (sermo 3) -- Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae -- Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae (extract) -- Sermo de natiuitate beatae uirginis Mariae (sermo 4) -- Sermo de beata Maria -- Sermo de natiuitate sanctae Mariae

M.R. James Date

xii late and xiii early

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fd688gx5605/MS_451.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hw825bk7038/451.pdf

Contains

• Hildebert of Lavardin, Epistolae. 1r-38v

  Nasmith

  Epistolae Hildeberti Cennomanensis episcopi. 1r-38v

  James

  Epistole Hildeberti Cennomanensis Episcopi. 1r-38v

  Author

  Hildebert of Lavardin

  Rubric

  (1r) Epistole Hildeberti Cennomanensis Episcopi

  Incipit

  (1r) Conuersione et conuersatione tua letatur et exultat anima mea
  (1v) Iustum est ut aduersa communicent
  (2r) Virtuti gratulor cui sub solo rege nostro
  (2r) Pro Willelmo tuo pater sancte

  Note

  no. 54 (Dignitatis gradu amoris intimi affectu) ends

  Explicit

  (35r) Vale, ut in uno sed non solo ualeat uterque

  Note

  Change of hand

  Incipit

  (35r) Dauid futura spiritu prouidens liberauit inquid deus pauperem

  Note

  (Sermo de Christi beneficiis, Bibl. Patr. 305)

  Incipit

  (37r) In regno quidem nullus. in errore autem omnis homo sibi consortem querit

  Note

  (Ep. 51 Bibl. Patr.)
  Ends

  Explicit

  (38v) sanctis pro nobis orantibus ut orent sancti pro uobis

  Note

  Bibl. Patr. Paris, de la Bigne III 223

• Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De eruditione hominis interioris. 39r-54v

  Nasmith

  Expositio moralis in somnium Nabugodonozor. 39r-54v

  James

  Expositio moralis super sompnium Nabugodonosor. 39r-54v

  Author

  Richard of Saint-Victor OSA

  Note

  Large hand

  Incipit

  (39r) Ego nabugodonosor quietus eram ... quid per domum intelligimus nisi conscienciam

  Explicit

  (53v) rex prius filios postea oculos amisit

  Note

  Another hand

  Incipit

  (53v) Nabugodonosor interpretatur sessio in agnitione angustie

  Explicit

  (54r) et uasa templo reddidit cum documenta ecclesie et medicamenta asignauit

  Note

  On f. 54v in beautiful letters drawn as folded scrolls or ribbons: Ihc nazare(nus)

• Petrus Alfonsi, De disciplina clericali. 55r-83v

  Nasmith

  Petrus Adelfunsus de disciplina clericali. 55r-83v

  James

  Petrus AdelfunsusDisciplina clericalis. 55r-83v

  Author

  Petrus Alfonsi

  Note

  Hand like that of item 1

  Incipit

  (55r) Dixit petrus adelfunsus seruus Christi Ihesu. compositor huius libri Gratias ago

  Note

  (P. L. CLVII 671)

  Explicit

  (55v) spe credulitatis mee innitor. Amen

  Rubric

  (55v) Explicit prefatio. Incipit liber petri adelfunsi de clericali disciplina

  Incipit

  (55v) In hoc (Enoch) philosophus qui lingua arabica cognominatur edric

  Explicit

  (83v) eterna requie cum suis fidelibus mereamur perfrui in aula celesti prestante domino nostro Ihesu Christo. Cui est honor et gloria cum patre et spiritu sancto per infinita seculorum secula. Amen

• Prophecy of the Sibyls. 83v-87v

  Nasmith

  Tractatus de sibyllis. 83v-87v

  Note

  Change of hand

  Incipit

  (83v) Sibille generaliter omnes femine

  Note

  Ends f. 88v with the acrostic (Judicii signum)

  Explicit

  (87v) ignisque et sulphuris amnis

  Note

  Bede (P. L. XC 1181). Opsopoeus, Sibyllina. Alexandre, Oracula Sibyllina II 290. Cf. MS 404. 1, etc.

• Historia Apollonii regis Tyri. 88r-107v

  Nasmith

  Vita [fabulosa] Appollonii Tirii. 88r-107v

  James

  Historia Apollonii. 88r-107v

  Incipit

  (88r) In ciuitate antiochie Rex fuit antiochus

  Explicit

  (105v) unum in templo diane ephesiorum alium bibliothece sue exposuit

  Note

  Mentioned but not used by Riese in his edition (Teubner 1871, p. vii)
  A paragraph in another hand

  Incipit

  (105v) Si per ignorantiam euenerit quod absit ut missa(m) cantans pauem uel uinum oblitus fuerit

  Note

  ff. 106r-107v are part of an old flyleaf with list of contents (xiii)
  (106v) In isto vol. cont. libelli subscripti videlicet. Epistole diuersorum Patrum. Liber Petri Adelfunsi. Vaticinium Sibille. Narracio apollonii
  f. 107r blank: on f. 107v note on illusio nocturna

• De creatione primi hominis. 108r-125v

  Nasmith

  De creatione primi hominis et ejus lapsu. 108r-125v

  Note

  Hand like that of item 1: more than one change

  Rubric

  (108r) De creacione primi hominis et eius lapsu

  Incipit

  (108r) Quinque modis in anima constat homo factus ad imaginem et similitudinem dei

  Note

  (Sketch of a queen on f. 122v)
  Ends with a paragraph on essencia karitatis

  Explicit

  (124v) affectus operi nomen imponit

  Note

  Paragraph

  Incipit

  (124v) Sciendum quod omne nomen quod de deo dicitur

  Note

  Another hand

  Incipit

  (125r) Sciendum est quod apud grecos sunt hec iiii uocabula in usu. usia. usiosis Ypostasis et prosopa

• Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath, Compendium in Iob (fragment). 126r-131r

  Nasmith

  Fragmentum expositionis Petri Blessensis in Job. 126r-131r

  Author

  Peter of Blois, archdeacon of Bath

  Rubric

  (126r) de expositione Petri Blesensis in Job. finis tantum

  Note

  Begins

  Incipit

  (126r) mandaret. Nichil tibi et iusto illi

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (128v) altissimus altissimi filius Ihesus Christus dominus noster qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et triumphat et regnat per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. Tu autem domine

  Note

  (129r) Smaller hand: headed Secretum meum mihi S. m. m.
  (De quinque sensibus)

  Incipit

  (129r) Cum quiescit uel in primi patris sompno uel in conditi Ioseph loculo uel in florido sponse lectulo

  Explicit

  (131r) perfectionem in quarto

• Achard of Saint-Victor OSA, De discretione animae, spiritus et mentis. 131r-134v

  Nasmith

  Tractatus Magistri Achardi de divisione animae et spiritus. 131r-134v

  Author

  Achard of Saint-Victor OSA

  Rubric

  (131r) Tractatus Magistri Achardi de diuisione anime et spiritus

  Incipit

  (131r) Substancia interior que una cum corpore constituit

  Explicit

  (134r) comprehenduntur superiora aut nomine anime duo interiora

  Note

  Mentioned by Tanner, p. 3
  On f. 134v paragraphs in other hands

• Ambrosius Autpertus, Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae. 135r-143r

  Nasmith

  Sermones ex diversis autoribus de beata virgine. 135r-143r

  James

  Sancti Ansberti Episcopi sermo de assumptione. 135r-143r

  Author

  Ambrosius Autpertus

  Note

  Larger hand of earlier type for items 9-17 at bottom of f. 135r (xiv) In hoc libro cont. Sermones de assumpcione. Tractatus Mag. Achardi de diuisione anime et spiritus
  (pseudo-Augustine P. L. XXXIX 2130)

  Incipit

  (135r) Adest nobis dilectissimi fratres dies ualde uenerabilis

  Note

  MS 332. 5

• pseudo-Paschasius Radbertus, De partu uirginis. 143r-159v

  Author

  pseudo-Paschasius Radbertus

  Rubric

  (143r) Sermo beati Jeronimi presbiteri de assumptione

  Note

  (P. L. XCVI 235)
  (Feria iiii, lectio 1)

  Incipit

  (143r) Quotienscunque dilectissime nobis aliquid

  Note

  MS 332. 10

• pseudo-Augustine, De assumptione beatae Mariae. 159v-166v

  Author

  pseudo-Augustine

  Rubric

  (159v) Item sermo de assumptione

  Note

  (P. L. XL 1143)

  Incipit

  (159v) Quia profundissime et sua dignitate altissime

  Note

  MS 332. 6

• Paschasius Radbertus, De assumptione beatae uirginis Mariae (sermo 3). 166v-171v

  Author

  Paschasius Radbertus

  Rubric

  (166v) Item sermo de assumptione

  Note

  (P. L. XCVI 254)

  Incipit

  (166v) Adest nobis dilectissimi fratres hodierna festiuitas beata maria

  Note

  MS 332. 8

• pseudo-Ildefonsus of Toledo, Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae. 172r-173v

  Author

  pseudo-Ildefonsus of Toledo

  Incipit

  (172r) Fratres dilectissimi cum aliquid pro amore creatoris

  Note

  (P. L. XCVI 258)
  MS 332. 9 (Jerome)

• pseudo-Ildefonsus of Toledo, Sermo de assumptione beatae Mariae (extract). 173v-176r

  Author

  pseudo-Ildefonsus of Toledo

  Incipit

  (173v) Creator omnium et auctor uite

  Note

  P. L. XCVI 279, Hildefonsus
  MS 332. 13 (Ambrose)

• Fulbert of Chartres (pseudo-Ambrose), Sermo de natiuitate beatae uirginis Mariae (sermo 4). 176r-185v

  Author

  Fulbert of Chartres (pseudo-Ambrose)

  Rubric

  (176r) Sermo beati Ambrosii ... de natiuitate Sancte dei genitricis Marie

  Incipit

  (176r) Natiuitas gloriose genitricis

  Note

  MS 332. 12

• pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Sermo de beata Maria. 185v-189r

  Author

  pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB

  Rubric

  (185v) Sermo sancti Anselmi archiepiscopi de Sancta Maria

  Incipit

  (185v) Omnium sanctorum dilectissimi laus et exultatio

• Fulbert of Chartres (attrib.), Sermo de natiuitate sanctae Mariae. 189r-194v

  Author

  Fulbert of Chartres (attrib.)

  Rubric

  (189r) Sermo domini Fulberti Carnotensis episcopi de natiuate Sancte Marie

  Incipit

  (189r) Approbate consuetudinis est apud Christianos

  Note

  (P. L. CXLI 320)
  Ends

  Explicit

  (194r) recuperare et habere perpetuam gratiam filii tui Ihesu Christo domino nostro qui cum patre et spiritu sancto unus deus uiuit in eternum. Amen

  Note

  On f. 194v in a later hand a charm in French and Latin for sheep.
  (194v) primes deit lem meitere tuz les berbiz en une meisun. ... Saint filiol sur le ile de la mer sist... aat dampnedeu li suruint et lui demanda et dit filiol que(fa)is tu ici. sire io garde mes berbiz de la uerole et del cloufic, etc.

TJames

292

Stanley

T. 9

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 451

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