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Alternative title

Prosper, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 2 + 40 + 20 + 63 + 1

Date created

[ca. 900 CE-999 CE]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

20 lines to a page

Height (mm)

183

Width (mm)

133

Collation

a(2), 1(8)-5(8) | paper 20 ff. | 6(8)-13(8) (misbound: 8 canc.) 1 flyleaf.

Writing

for the most part in a fine upright insular minuscule: very regular and beautiful

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-40 + 40a-t + 41-103 + iii + c-d

Provenance

f. ir blank: on f. iiv in a hand of cent. xiii: In hoc uolumine continentur libri isti. Epigramata prosperi. Synonima ysidori. Versus sibille. De opusculis prudencii. De septem miraculis manu factis. et liber columbani. The handwriting of this list of contents suggests Glastonbury to me, but possibly the book is from Winchester (see on the last page f. 103v).

2 fo.

et aliud est

Summary

CCCC MS 448 is a tenth-century manuscript, probably from Worcester, with later provenance at Winchester. It illustrates the way in which Parker made use of his collections to argue some of his strongly-held beliefs. Among other texts it contains a poem from a certain Prosper to his wife; Parker identified this Prosper with a bishop of that name, and therefore took it as evidence for married bishops in the late antique or early medieval church. He had the text printed with a translation, and this is now bound into the manuscript after f. 40, where it seems to be the unique surviving copy. Parker married his wife, Margaret, before it became legal for priests to marry in England; there is a story that they had both long before vowed never to marry another. They had a happy and fruitful marriage, and Parker never recovered from her death in 1570, five years before his.

Contents

Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini -- Poema coniugis ad uxorem -- Prosper his meditation with his wife -- Synonyma -- Sybilline prophecies -- Physiologus (only the lion, unicorn, and panther) -- Sententiae ex operibus S. Augustini -- Poem Ve homini illi -- Peristephanon (prologue only) -- Dittochaeon -- Septem miracula mundi

M.R. James Date

x ?

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fk968dg7955/MS_448.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rk328rj8384/448.pdf

Contains

• Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini. 1r-36r

  Nasmith

  Epigrammata Prosperi viri eruditissimi Augustini deflorata. 1r-36r

  Author

  Prosper of Aquitaine

  Note

  Heading in red capitals

  Rubric

  (1r) In nomine dei S... (erased)

  Incipit

  (1r) Haec augustini ex sacris epigramata dictisDulcisono rethor componens karmine prosper, etc.

  Explicit

  (1r) cupiunt qui scandere regnum

  Note

  In capitals

  Rubric

  (1r) Incipiunt epigramata Prosperi viri eruditissimi Augustini deflorata libro

  Note

  (P. L. LI 497)

  Incipit

  (1r) Dum sacris mentem placet exercere loquelis

  Note

  (P. L. LI 498)
  (1r) Initial surrounded by dots
  Ends

  Explicit

  (36r) Crescere non cupiens perdit adepta tepens

  Rubric

  (36r) Expliciunt epigramata Prosperi

• Prosper of Aquitaine (attrib.), Poema coniugis ad uxorem. 36r-40v

  Author

  Prosper of Aquitaine (attrib.)

  Rubric

  (36r) Versus Prosperi ad coniugem suam

  Note

  (P. L. LI 611, 737)

  Incipit

  (36r) Age iam precor mearum comes inremota rerum

  Note

  Ending

  Explicit

  (39r) Vna sit atque duos spiritus unus alat

  Note

  39v-40v blank

• Prosper his meditation with his wife [printed book]. 40ar-40tv

  Nasmith

  Prosper his meditation with his wife, as it is advouched by an auncient written copie in olde Saxon carecters, where as the printed works have dissembled the same, newly translated into Englyshe verse, printed according to order by Richard Watkins. 40ar-40tv

  Author

  Prosper

  Note

  Title as given by Nasmith. The MS. alluded to is doubtless the one before us
  This item is printed material on paper.

• Isidore of Seville, Synonyma. 41r-86v

  Nasmith

  Synonima Isidori Hispalensis urbis episcopi. 41r-86v

  Author

  Isidore of Seville

  Note

  Title in red capitals

  Rubric

  (41r) In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi Incipit prologus in libro synonimae Bedae (sic) Ysidoris spalensis urbis episcopi

  Note

  (P. L. LXXXIII 825)

  Incipit

  (41r) In subsequenti hoc libro qui nuncupatur synonima

  Explicit

  (41v) et regnat deus in secula seculorum. Amen

  Rubric

  (41v) Incipit Synonima

  Incipit

  (41v) Anima mea in angustiis est

  Note

  (61r) Liber II

  Explicit

  (86v) tu mihi supra uitam meam placeas

  Rubric

  (86v) Explicit synonima Ysidori episcopi

  Note

  Initials are filled in with red. At each paragraph is the letter K in the margin. (Cf. Trin. Coll. O. 1. 18, O. 2. 31) There are a good many interlinear glosses, but I have seen none that are not in Latin

• Sybilline prophecies. 87r-87v

  Nasmith

  Versus Sybillae. 87r-87v

  Note

  In a larger round straggling hand, not of English complexion. Title in red capitals

  Rubric

  (87r) In nomine domini Incipiunt versus de die iudicii sibille antiqui poetae

  Note

  (P. L. XC 1186)

  Incipit

  (87r) Iudicii signum tellus sudore madescet

  Explicit

  (87v) et sulphuris amnis

  Incipit

  (87v) Hec de christi natiuitate
  (87v) Et si quis in greco horum uersuum capita discernere uoluerit
  (87v) Excepto quinto (v) nono (viiii) octauo decimo (xviii) et nono decimo (xviiii) uersu inueniet iesus cristos

  Explicit

  (87v) dei filius saluator

  Note

  Capitals

  Rubric

  (87v) Hos uersus Sanctus Augustinus ex greco in Latinum transtulit

• Physiologus (only the lion, unicorn, and panther). 88r-89v

  Nasmith

  De trimoda leonis natura. 88r-89v

  Rubric

  (88r) Incipit de trimoda leonis natura

  Incipit

  (88r) Leo tres naturas habet. Quarum prima est. Nam cum ambulet

  Explicit

  (88r) suscitauit a mortuis

  Rubric

  (88r) De unicornis natura

  Incipit

  (88r) Unicornis animal est pulchrum

  Rubric

  (88v) De panthera

  Incipit

  (88v) Propheta dicit. Factus sum sicut leo

  Explicit

  (89r) diabolo inimicus factus est

  Note

  pseudo-Vergil, Nocte pluit tota

  Rubric

  (89r) Uersus Maronis poete

  Incipit

  (89r) Nocte pluit tota

  Explicit

  (89r) fertis oues

  Note

  Note on the languages of the world

  Incipit

  (89r) Quot sunt lingue in mundo .lxxii. cur non plures uel pauciores. propter tres filios noe sem cham et iafeth. Sem habuit filios xxti viitem cham xxxta iafeth uero xv. His simul iunctis fiunt lxxii

• Prosper of Aquitaine, Sententiae ex operibus S. Augustini, no. 390. 89v-90r

  Nasmith

  Sancti Augustini salubris admonitio. 89v-90r

  Author

  Prosper of Aquitaine

  Rubric

  (89v) Sancti Augustini salubris ammonitio ad compescendam superbiam

  Incipit

  (89v) Diuitiis et floribus et maiorum nobilitate te iactas

  Explicit

  (90r) Memor autem eris si te ipsum respexeris

• Poem Ve homini illi. 90r-90r

  Nasmith

  Terribilis ad negligentes invectio. 90r-90r

  Rubric

  (90r) Terribilis ad neglegentes inuectio

  Note

  i.

  Incipit

  (90r) Ve homini illi homini hominem amantiEt deum uerum se diligentem non diligenti

  Note

  vii.

  Explicit

  (90r) Ve illi homini mundanos amico(s) habentiEt angelorum amicitiam non facienti

• Prudentius, Peristephanon (prologue only). 90v-91r

  Nasmith

  Versus seu hymni Prudentii de historia veteris et novi testamenti. 90v-91r

  Author

  Prudentius

  Rubric

  (90v) Incipit de opusculis suis Prudentius Immolat patri deo

  Note

  (Peristeph. prol.)

  Incipit

  (90v) Pius fidelis innocens pudicus

  Explicit

  (91r) personasse christum. quo regente uiuimus

• Prudentius, Dittochaeon. 91r-98r

  Author

  Prudentius

  Rubric

  (91r) Adam et Eua

  Incipit

  (91r) Eua columba fuit tunc candida nigra deinde

  Note

  (Dittochaeon)
  After f. 96v should follow 99r-101v, then 97r-98r: ending 98r

  Explicit

  (98r) Et septem potuit signacula pandere solus

  Note

  There are many glosses

• Septem miracula mundi. 98v-103v

  Nasmith

  Septem miracula mundi. 98v-103v

  Rubric

  (98v) De septem miraculis manu factis
  (98v) Incipiunt septem miracula grandia mundi. Mirari poterit quisquis ea legerit

  Incipit

  (98v) Primum ac maximum est miraculum. Nam capitolium saluum rome habetur quod tutius est quam ciuitas quelibet

  Note

  Continues f. 102r

  Rubric

  (102r) ii

  Note

  (102r) Pharus Alexandrina

  Rubric

  (102r) iii

  Note

  (102r) Colosi imago in insula rodo

  Rubric

  (102v) iv

  Note

  (102v) Bello proprium nomen rofontis simulacrum ferreum cum equo suo in smirna

  Rubric

  (102v) v

  Note

  (102v) Theatrum in heraclea urbe

  Rubric

  (103r) vi

  Note

  (103r) Balneum apud taneos

  Rubric

  (103r) vii

  Note

  (103r) Templum dianae

  Explicit

  (103v) Et super lxta iiii arcus c. xxti et viiito columne finem faciunt tam mirabilis aedificii

  Rubric

  (103v) Expliciunt septem miracula grandia mundi

  Note

  This text seems akin to that printed from the Charleville MS. 220 (of cent. xii) in Cat. Gén. des MSS. des Dépts, 4to, vol. V p. 647
  (103v) Lectorem prudentem obsecro humiliterUt hoc corrigere dignetur benigniterUix hoc sic scriptor poterat scriberequia rectum exemplum non ualuit adquirere
  (103v) Among other scribbles and pen-trials on the last page is: Henr. dei gratia Wint. ecclesie minister Rich. archidiacono suo sal

TJames

195

Stanley

N. 33

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 448

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