Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 534: Willelmus Peraldus OP, Summa de uitiis. Sermons by various authors
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC 534 contains a collection of late fourteenth-century material, principally sermons, which can be associated with Charles University in Prague. It includes on ff. 148r-237v a collection of sermons and speeches given at the law faculty of the university c. 1377-93, including recommendations of rectors and graduation speeches. An identical collection of material is found in Prague, Metropolitan Chapter Library MS E.83. Other texts in the volume include Willelmus Peraldus OP (c. 1200-71), Summa de uitiis, an important penitential text written in the middle years of the thirteenth century, and the Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Speculum peccatoris. The book retains its original binding but it was extensively restored in the twentieth century. This volume is part of the Elbing collection, a group of manuscripts associated with the Brigittine convent at Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk which was founded in 1458 and deserted in 1521. Almost all the Elbing manuscripts contain the ownership inscription of Mary Pernham, wife of Richard Pernham (d. 1628), Fellow of the college and pastor Anglicus of St Marien church in Elbing from 1618-24.
- Contents
- Summa de uitiis et uirtutibus (extract) -- Sermons
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tj626wv2056/MS_534.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fb498ty3218/534.pdf
- Contains
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- Willelmus Peraldus OP, Summa de uitiis et uirtutibus (extract). 1r-25v
- Author
- Willelmus Peraldus OP
- Rubric
- (1r) Tractatus quidam de viciis capitalibus
- Note
- (by Gul. Peraldus)
- Incipit
- (1r) Dicturi de singulis viciis cum oportunitas se offeret
- Note
- ends unfinished
- Explicit
- (24v) facit ad detestacionem
- Note
- f. 25r-25v blank
- Sermons by various authors. 26r-300v
- Note
- (26r) List of Sermons and other notes
- Rubric
- (27v) Sermo Johannis damasceni de assumptione beate virginis
- Incipit
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(27v) Est quidem hominum nullus qui secundum dignitatem matris dei sacram discessionem bene laudare poterit
(29r) De venerabili dei genitrice maria multi pertransierunt prophete - Rubric
- (30r) Sermo Johannis damasceni de natiuitate beate virginis
- Incipit
- (29v) Venite omnes gentes
- Rubric
- (31v) Speculum peccatorum
- Incipit
- (31v) Quoniam fratres karissimi in via
- Explicit
- (33v) vitam possideas, etc.
- Rubric
- (34r) De ascensione domini
- Incipit
- (34r) Ascendit super occasum dominus
- Note
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ff. 36r-37v blank
Here begin the sermons of which there is a list on f. 26r
1. - Rubric
- (38r) de assumpcione Marie
- Incipit
- (38r) Progreditur quasi aurora ... Nunquid post ortum tuum precepisti diluculo
- Note
- 2.
- Rubric
- (41r) de omnibus sanctis dni ffortunensis generalis ministri minorum postea Cardinalis
- Incipit
- (41r) In plenitudine sanctorum detencio mea
- Note
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(Eccl. xxiiii)
3. - Rubric
- (42v) Sermo synodalis
- Incipit
- (42v) Videntes autem turbe timuerunt
- Note
- 4.
- Rubric
- (45r) de Sancto Francisco Magistri Mathei de aurelia archiepiscopi
- Incipit
- (45r) Michi mundus crucifixus est
- Note
- 5.
- Rubric
- (48r) de Resurrectione domini fratris Wilhelmi generalis ministri postea Cardinalis
- Incipit
- (48r) Mane sancto surrexit
- Note
- 6.
- Rubric
- (50v) De Sancto Anthonio
- Note
- 7.
- Rubric
- (54r) Magistri Landolfi ordinis minorum de aduentu
- Note
- 8.
- Rubric
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(56r) In vigilia nativitatis domini per dominum Cardinalem de Turri
(63v) de concepcione virginis gloriose per landolfum magistrum ordinis
(65r) Domini ffabrensis Magistri in theologia summi penitenciarii de Nativitate Marie
(66v) in cena domini factus per dominum papam Clementem 6m
(69v) de passione Christi domini Cardinalis et summi penitenciam florentini
(84v) in vigilia pasche Magistri Jacobi de Esculo - Note
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(104r) de apostolis domini pape Innocencii
Many of those not noted are by a magister in theologia
Changes of hand occur after f. 120v: former hand resumes at f. 136r
Another collection, some of which are called Arengae, begins - Rubric
- (148r) Arenga pro commendacione noui Rectoris alme uniuersitatis studii pragensis canonistarum
- Incipit
- (148r) Cantemus domino gloriose ... filii israel post transitum maris rubri
- Rubric
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(150v) hic deficit thema elegi dauid seruum meum, etc. cum introduccione et sequitur (?), valeat in quantum potest
(153v) Alia arenga de eodem - Incipit
- (153v) Redde uxorem viro suo
- Note
- Others follow
- Rubric
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(165r) Arenga facta in studio perusino per petrum urbe ueteranum episcopum pro licenciando ad doctoratum dominum franciscum angli ciuitatis eiusdem (?) perusine
(193r) Collacio Synodalis facta per Ciuisionem (or Cnusionem) de wylicz decretorum doctorem In die luce in ecclesia pragensi - Note
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(200v) At the end of it is the date A. d. millesimo tricentesimo septuagesimo septimo
This collection, which appears to relate mainly to the University of Prague, ends f. 237v
On ff. 238r-243v are sermons de Nativitate Marie
(244r) a prettier hand begins
(244r) Sermones ad clerum, in Advent
Then - Rubric
- (260r) Incipit sermo factus in Capella domini pape vrbani quinti per magistrum Radulphum de Castello ordinis Sancti Augustini magistrum in theologia 2a dominica xlme de anno domini mo ccco lxvo
- Note
- followed by
- Rubric
- (263v) Sermo de nativitate beate Virginis factus per eundem
- Note
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f. 266r-266v blank
After this are various hands
A tract or sermon on - Incipit
- (267r) Lucernam ponunt super candelabrum ... de sanctis quatuor doctoribus
- Note
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(271v) Two sermons de sacerdotibus follow
(273v) A long tract - Rubric
- (273v) de Assumpcione
- Incipit
- (273v) Quasi cedrus exaltata sum ... legitur in ecclesia communiter ad laudem genitricis dei
- Note
- Ending
- Rubric
- (286v) De trinitate
- Incipit
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(286v) Non est similis tui in diis domine
(292r) Stabat iuxta crucem
(295v) Propter nomen tuum dux - Note
- followed by two other sermons
- Willelmus Peraldus OP, Summa de uitiis et uirtutibus (extract). 1r-25v
- Elbing
- N. 36
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/mn559yn9322
- MS 534
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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