Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 397: Peter the Chanter, Distinctiones Abel. Petrus Riga, Aurora. Miscellaneous Theological Texts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 397: Peter the Chanter, Distinctiones Abel. Petrus Riga, Aurora. Miscellaneous Theological Texts
Alternate Title:
P. Cantor. P. de Riga Aurora, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 16 + 66 + 63 + 33 and 16 leaves
Dimensions:
212 Height (mm) and 159 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1500 - 1599]; [ca. 1200 - 1299]
Table of contents:
  • De beatae uirginis conceptione ducentorum et sexdecim sanctae matris ecclesiae doctorum
  • Distinctiones Abel
  • Differentiarum siue de proprietate sermonum (excerpts)
  • Aurora
  • Tropi
Description:
This manuscript consists of four volumes, the first of which is a sixteenth-century printed tract, De beatae uirginis conceptione by Petrus de Vincentia. The remainder of the manuscript, dating from the thirteenth century, includes: the Distinctiones Abel of Peter the Chanter (d. 1197), a biblical commentary in which words are explained in alphabetical order; the versified biblical paraphrase, the Aurora of Petrus Riga (d. 1209); and the Tropi of William de Montibus (d. 1213), a work on technical terms of grammar, logic and rhetoric in regard to biblical exegesis.
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