Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 337: Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum. Richard of Wetheringsett, Summa Qui bene praesunt. pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Summa uitiorum
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 337, dating to the fourteenth century, contains two main texts. The first is the Liber scintillarum of Defensor of Ligugé (late seventh century), a florilegium of biblical and patristic sayings arranged according to themes. The second is the Summa Qui bene praesunt by Richard of Wetheringsett (fl. c. 1200-30), first recorded chancellor of Cambridge University at some time between 1215 and 1232. This is a guide for preachers structured in the manner of a catechism according to the Creed, the Lord's Prayer etc. It is one of the earliest pastoral texts of this sort which were initiated by the reforms of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Formerly the author of this text was thought to be William de Montibus (d. 1213). The book might have belonged to the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, but that provenance is doubtful.
- Contents
- -- Sermones ad fratres in eremo (sermo 56) -- Liber scintillarum -- Summa Qui bene praesunt -- Summa uitiorum
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dg325yh5266/MS_337.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hv550jv5523/337.pdf
- Contains
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- pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in eremo (sermo 56). 1r-2r
- Nasmith
- Ammonitio Sancti Augustini, qua ostenditur quam bonum sit lectionem divinam legere et quam sit nobis malum ab illa inquisitione desistere. 1r-2r
- Author
- pseudo-Augustine
- Rubric
- (1r) Incipit ammonitio augustini, etc.
- Note
- (P. L. XL 1339)
- Incipit
- (1r) Propitio Christo fratres karissimi ita lectionem diuinam
- Explicit
- (2r) stelle in perpetuas eternitates quod ipse prestare dignetur qui cum patre et spiritu Sancto uiuit et regnat
- Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum. 2r-37v
- Nasmith
- Liber scintillarum venerabilis Bedae presbiteri diversarum scientiarum, ideo sic dictus quia scintillae valent ad parandum incendium, ita sententiae diversorum patrum hic collectae valent et utilissimae sunt ad accendendas mentes fidelium. 2r-37v
- Author
- Defensor of Ligugé
- Rubric
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(2r) Libri subsequentis capitula
(2v) Incipit liber scintillarum venerabilis Bede, etc. - Note
- (P. L. LXXXVIII 597)
- Incipit
- (2v) Dominus dicit in euangelio Maiorem hac dilectionem
- Explicit
- (37r) interior homo nutritur et pascitur
- Rubric
- (37r) Explicit liber scintillarum
- Note
- Paragraphs in another hand
- Rubric
- (37r) Qualiter orationes debent terminari
- Incipit
- (37r) Hec festa subscripta ex toto ferianda sunt per annum (secundum concilium Oxonie)
- Note
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(37r) Translation of S. Thomas has the name erased
(37r) Further notes on feasts and days of blood-letting
f. 37v blank
- Richard of Wetheringsett, Summa Qui bene praesunt. 38r-87v
- Nasmith
- Gulielmi de Montibus summula qui vocatur qui bene presunt. 38r-87v
- Author
- Richard of Wetheringsett
- Rubric
- (38r) Tractatus Magistri Willelmi de Montibus quondam Cancellarij lincoln
- Note
- (title added xv)
- Incipit
- (38r) Qui bene presunt presbiteri
- Explicit
- (86v) hic ergo erit consummatus. Deo gratias
- Rubric
- (86v) Explicit summula que uocatur qui bene presunt
- Note
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(87r) Later notes: Dotes corporis glorificati, Name of Jesus, etc.
87v blank
- pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Summa uitiorum. 88r-207v
- Nasmith
- Liber alius scintillarum. 88r-207v
- Author
- pseudo-Robert Grosseteste
- Rubric
- (88r) Incipit capitula libri Sintillarii
- Note
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(about 80)
(88r) De superbia...de diuersis rebus collectis
Text - Incipit
- (88r) Superbia est elatio uitiosa que inferiorem despiciens
- Note
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This is given by Tanner as the incipit of Grosseteste's Summa de vitiis (from University Library Ll.1.15). It occurs in Laud Misc. 544 (8ff. only) ending: reprehensibiles exhibet clericos: followed by Egredietur virga and other sermons
At top of f. 148r are some lines in English
(148r) Wo so sit at te hale cuppe to kippe. ant ne his nout on haise mit te drie lippe. Þe deuel sal in helle mit his soule wippe
The end of this tract is not clearly marked. It seems to disappear into miscellaneous questiones and sermons, with many exempla
On f. 169v is a heading - Rubric
- (169v) Sermo de beata Maria Magdalene secundum fratrem Walterum
- Incipit
- (169v) Babylon dilecta mea posita es michi in miraculum
- Note
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From about 186r the headings are alphabetical. Adam (f. 186r) - Ignorancia (f. 200v)
On f. 201r the hand changes and we end with a series of stories mainly from the Vitae Patrum
(205v) On the last page the merita visionis corporis Christi in another hand
- pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in eremo (sermo 56). 1r-2r
- TJames
- 119
- Stanley
- K. 14
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/kh542wm7507
- MS 337
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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