Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 397: Peter the Chanter, Distinctiones Abel. Petrus Riga, Aurora. Miscellaneous Theological Texts
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- 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.
- Contents
- De beatae uirginis conceptione ducentorum et sexdecim sanctae matris ecclesiae doctorum -- Distinctiones Abel -- Differentiarum siue de proprietate sermonum (excerpts) -- Aurora -- Tropi
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xvi and xiii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pq897jx8525/MS_397.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ff400mw9251/397.pdf
- Contains
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- Petrus de Vincentia, De beatae uirginis conceptione ducentorum et sexdecim sanctae matris ecclesiae doctorum. 1r-16v
- Nasmith
- De beatae virginis conceptione ducentorum et sexdecim sanctae matris ecclesiae doctorum vera tuta et tenenda sententia [quod contraxit peccatum originale] per Petrum de Vincentia ordinis predicatorum. 1r-16v
- Author
- Petrus de Vincentia
- Peter the Chanter, Distinctiones Abel. 17r-81v
- Nasmith
- Petri cantoris Parisiensis tractatus de distinctionibus. 17r-81v
- Author
- Peter the Chanter
- Note
- At top of f. 1r is the title (xv late) Parisiensis in distinccionibus and also an old press-mark 12˙20, of cent. xv, which I do not recognise
- Incipit
- (17r) Abel dicitur principium ecclesie propter innocenciam
- Note
- Ends
- Rubric
- (81v) Christus
- Explicit
- (81v) Est leo surgendo iouis ales summa petendo
- Rubric
- (81v) Explicit distinccionum tractus cantoris parisiensis
- Note
-
(81v) Note on precious stones
See no. 47
- pseudo-Isidore of Seville, Differentiarum siue de proprietate sermonum (excerpts). 82r-82v
- Note
- In double columns
- Rubric
- (82r) Incipit liber qui inscribitur ars rationis de proprietate seruicii diuersarum rerum
- Incipit
- (82r) Inter polliceri et promittere hoc interest quod promittimus roganti pollicemur ultro
- Note
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(P. L. LXXXIII 1319 Isidore)
Last lines cut off, ends - Explicit
- (82r) Spiritus quo spiramus. Mens qualitas que bona
- Note
- (82v) blank
- Petrus Riga, Aurora. 83r-145v
- Nasmith
- Petri de Riga aurora. 83r-145v
- Author
- Petrus Riga
- Note
- Deesse videntur, liber Hester, Judith, Job, Cantica Canticorum, et magna pars actuum apostolorum
- Rubric
- (83r) Petrus de RigaAurora
- Incipit
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(83r) Omnis scriptura diuinitus inspirata
(83v) Frequens sodalium meorum peticio
(83v) Principum mundi quales ab origine prima - Explicit
- (84r) Hec tibi preponi turba scolaris ama
- Rubric
- (84r) Incipit liber genesis. de operibus sex dierum
- Incipit
- (84r) Primo facta die duo celum terre leguntur
- Note
-
(92r) Exodus
(98r) Leviticus
(102r) Numeri
(105r) Deuteronomium
(106v) Josue
(107v) Iudicum
(109v) Ruth
(109v) I Regum
(117v) Tobias
(119v) Daniel
(123r) Iudith
(124r) Esther
(125r) Macchabeorum - Explicit
- (127r) De patre facturi cesar in aure tua
- Rubric
- (127v) Incipit prologus noui testamenti
- Incipit
- (127v) Post legem ueterem respira petre refulget
- Explicit
- (141v) Dat finem petrus finit et ipse suum
- Rubric
-
(141v) Explicit liber iiiior euangelistarum
(141v) Recapitulatio totius libri sententia (or summa) - Incipit
- (141v) Principio rerum post quinque dies homo primus
- Explicit
- (143v) Barnabas et tytus hii docuere fidem
- Rubric
-
(143v) Explicit
(143v) Incipit actus apostolorum - Incipit
- (143v) Tyberii nono decimo regnantis in anno
- Note
- Ends imperfect
- Explicit
- (145v) Quod tres herodes fuerint iosephus manifestat
- Note
- Other copies are MS 83. MS 217. 13
- William de Montibus, Tropi. 146r-178v
- Nasmith
- Tropi [Mag. Gulielmi de Montibus]. 146r-178v
- Author
- William de Montibus
- Rubric
- (146r) Tropi et phrases scripture (xvi)
- Incipit
- (146r) Dei dona dispensamus pulsantibus claues ostiorum porrigimus
- Explicit
- (146r) postremo de regulis et quibusdam aliis
- Rubric
- (146r) De dictionibus
- Incipit
- (146r) In primis itaque dicimus quod dictio semel posita
- Note
- Ends
- Rubric
- (178r) Transposicio
- Explicit
- (178v) In leccione uero tum ueteris tum noue legis occurrit figura conuersionis et transpositionis
- Note
- Cf. MS 217. 9
- Petrus de Vincentia, De beatae uirginis conceptione ducentorum et sexdecim sanctae matris ecclesiae doctorum. 1r-16v
- TJames
- 395
- Stanley
- Misc. N
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/mq337vq8802
- MS 397
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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