Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 407: Simon Simeonis OFM, Itinerarium. Willelmus de Rubruk, Itinerarium. Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium. Secretum secretorum
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 407 contains two distinct types of material, but all copied in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. The first is a series of travelogues including Simon Simeonis OFM (d. after 1322) Itinerarium in terram sanctam, Willelmus de Rubruk OFM (c. 1215-c. 1270) Itinerarium ad partes orientales and the Itinerarium of Odoricus of Pordenone (c. 1286-1331). The second type of material, written in a different hand, includes the Arabic version of the Secretum secretorum translated by Philip of Tripoli (fl. c. 1243) and another broadly medical treatise, De complexione humana. This volume was owned by, and quite probably copied for, Simon Bozoun OSB (d. 1352), prior of Norwich Cathedral Priory, as revealed by an inscription on the first folio. The manuscript was almost certainly acquired by Parker from Norwich.
- Contents
- Itinerarium in terram sanctam -- Itinerarium ad partes orientales -- Itinerarium -- Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis -- Secretum secretorum -- De complexione humana
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vw160zw2064/MS_407.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fh001yk5028/407.pdf
- Contains
-
- Simon Simeonis OFM, Itinerarium in terram sanctam. 1r-36v
- Nasmith
- Itinerarium fratrum Symonis Semeonis et Hugonis illuminatoris, ordinis fratrum minorum professorum, ad terram sanctam A.D. 1322. 1r-36v
- James
- Itinerarium Symeonis Semeonis et Hugonis illuminatoris. 1r-36v
- Author
- Simon Simeonis OFM
- Note
- (1r) (No title)
- Incipit
- (1r) Culmine honoris spreto
- Note
-
Ed. by Nasmith, Cambridge 1778, with William of Worcester
It is unfinished, ending - Explicit
- (33v) ad quam nullum christianum permittunt accedere
- Note
-
See an article on this Itinerary by Mario Esposito Hermathena 1911, p. 264
ff. 34r-36v blank
- Willelmus de Rubruk OFM, Itinerarium ad partes orientales. 37r-68v
- Nasmith
- Itinerarium fratris Willelmi de Rubruk de ordine fratrum minorum anno gratiae MCCLIII ad partes orientales. 37r-68v
- Author
- Willelmus de Rubruk OFM
- Note
- Desunt multa ad finem
- Rubric
- (37r) Itinerarium fratris Willelmi de Rubruk de ordine fratrum minorum anno gratie millo cco liij ad partes orientales
- Incipit
- (37r) Excellentissimo domino ...Lodowyco ...W. de Rubruc. etc. Scriptum est in ecclesiastico de sapiente
- Note
- Ends imperfect
- Explicit
- (66r) In ista terra sunt multe prouincie quarum plures adhuc non obediunt moallis et inter
- Note
-
(66r) Marginalia: hic deficit multum. vide apud Sanctum Edmundum residuum
Cf. no. 66. 10, no. 181. art. 9. Ed. by d'Avezac, 1839
ff. 66v-68v blank
The words apud S. Edmundum may very probably refer to the copy of Rubruc in no. 66 which is a Bury MS. On the text of this and of MS 66 see C. R. Beazley, Carpini and Rubruquis, Hakluyt Society 1903
- Odoricus of Pordenone, Itinerarium. 69r-92v
- Nasmith
- Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium Tartarorum. 69r-92v
- Author
- Odoricus of Pordenone
- Rubric
- (69r) Incipit Itinerarium fratris Odorici ordinis fratrum minorum de mirabilibus orientalium tartarorum
- Incipit
- (69r) Licet multa et uaria de ritibus et condicionibus huius mundi
- Explicit
- (91r) sed non de omnibus quia sunt innumerabilia et michi difficilia ad scribendum
- Note
-
ff. 91v-92v blank
See no. 275. Printed Acta SS. 1 Jan. 986 (should be 992), 1 Apr. 52: Wadding III sub ann. 1331
- Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis. 93r-128v
- Nasmith
- Liber de terrae partibus et diversis provinciis. 93r-128v
- Note
-
Regiones ordine alphabetico describuntur: desiderantur quaedam ad finem
Another hand - Rubric
- (93r) Incipit hic liber de terre partibus et diuersis prouinciis
- Incipit
- (93r) De terre autem partibus et diuersis prouinciis per quas orbis generaliter est diuisus pauca huic operi sunt adiuuante domino breuiter inserenda, etc.
- Rubric
- (93r) De orbe in generali
- Incipit
- (93r) Orbis ut dicit ysidorus li. xv tripharie est diuisus
- Note
- The places described are in alphabetical order beginning with Asya. They go down to Sicilia (the rubric says wrongly de Surtes) in which the text ends imperfectly
- Explicit
- (128v) fistulis penetrabilis uentis et sulphure plena
- Secretum secretorum. 129r-176r
- Nasmith
- Liber secreti secretorum sive de regimine principum et dominorum ad instantiam Alexandri magni ab Aristotele editus. 129r-176r
- Note
- Another hand, headed
- Rubric
-
(129r) De Regimine dominorum
(129r) Incipit liber secreti secretorum ad instanciam Alexandri magni ab aristotile editus - Incipit
- (129r) Domino suo excellentissimo ... Wydoni ... Philippus
- Explicit
- (130r) feliciter peruenire
- Rubric
-
(130r) Tituli maioris huius operis
(131r) Prologus cuiusdam doctoris de commendacione aristotilis - Incipit
- (131r) Deus omnipotens custodiat
- Explicit
- (131v) ob hac forma
- Rubric
- (131v) Epistola Alex. ad Aristot.
- Incipit
- (131v) Doctor egregie rector iusticie
- Explicit
- (131v) omnes alienaciones
- Rubric
- (131v) Prol. Joh. translatoris huius libri
- Incipit
- (131v) Iohannes qui transtulit
- Explicit
- (132r) sub hac forma
- Rubric
- (132r) Incipit liber primus. Epistola ad Alexandrum
- Incipit
- (132r) O fili gloriosissime
- Explicit
- (176v) ad meliorem et probabiliorem partem. Completus est tractatus de signis et moribus naturalibus hominum ad regem magnificum Alexandrum directus qui dominatus fuit toti orbi terrarum dictus monarcha in septemtrione
- Rubric
- (176v) Explicit liber Aristotilis qui intitulatur de secretis secretorum siue de regimine principum et dominorum
- De complexione humana. 176v-178v
- Nasmith
- Aliud documentum de complexione humana. 176v-178v
- Rubric
- (176v) Aliud documentum de complexione humana
- Incipit
- (176v) Caput nostrum commissuras habet v
- Note
-
(177r) Hand changes
Ends - Explicit
- (178v) Colera rubea estate ab viii Idus Maii usque ad viii Idus augusti et sunt dies nonaginta
- Simon Simeonis OFM, Itinerarium in terram sanctam. 1r-36v
- TJames
- 72
- Stanley
- G. 6
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/mj309qh4224
- MS 407
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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