Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 380: Robert of Cricklade OSA, Speculum fidei

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 380: Robert of Cricklade OSA, Speculum fidei

Alternate Title:

Rob. Krikeladensis Speculum fidei

Language:

Latin

Extent:

ff. 2 + 133

Dimensions:

212 Height (mm) and 154 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1175 - 1199]

Provenance:

Perhaps from Malmesbury. Leland (Collectanea IV I 57) saw a copy of it there.

Table of contents:

Speculum fidei

Description:

This manuscript, CCCC MS 380, is the unique copy of Robert of Cricklade OSA (d. after 1188), Speculum fidei, which was written after 1170. Robert was prior of St Frideswide's, Oxford, and this work is in the form of a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). It has fine historiated and ornamental initials by the Simon Master, an illuminator who worked for St Albans Abbey and may have been a layman. This manuscript, however, is not in St Albans script and seems to have been made elsewhere. A copy of this text was seen by John Leland (1506-52) at Malmesbury and M. R. James suggested this might be that book, but Ker has rejected this theory.