Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 252: James of Milan OFM, Stimulus amoris. Planctus beatae Mariae uirginis. Bernard Ayglier OSB, Commentary on Regula Sancti Benedicti. Jocelin of Furness OCist, Vita Sanctae Helenae
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 252: James of Milan OFM, Stimulus amoris. Planctus beatae Mariae uirginis. Bernard Ayglier OSB, Commentary on Regula Sancti Benedicti. Jocelin of Furness OCist, Vita Sanctae Helenae
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 252: James of Milan OFM, Stimulus amoris. Planctus beatae Mariae uirginis. Bernard Ayglier OSB, Commentary on Regula Sancti Benedicti. Jocelin of Furness OCist, Vita Sanctae Helenae
Alternate Title:
Stimulus Amoris, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 184 + 1
Dimensions:
287 Height (mm) and 175 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1325]
Provenance:
From Norwich. On f. 183v in a large hand is: Liber fratris iohannis de Reynham monachi Norwici quem ipse in parte scripsit et in parte scribi fecit. cuius anime propicietur deus.
CCCC MS 252, written in the early fourteenth century, which has an inscription of ownership by John de Reynham OSB, a monk of Norwich cathedral priory, contains a compilation of texts, mainly of a devotional nature. The main texts are the Stimulus amoris, written in the second half of the thirteenth century, once ascribed to St Bonaventure OFM, but probably by James of Milan OFM (fl. c. 1296), a commentary on the rule of St Benedict by Bernard Ayglier OSB (d. 1282), and a Life of St Helen by Jocelin of Furness OCist (d. c. 1210).