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Alternative title

Sermones. Canones, etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 114 + 54

Date created

[ca. 1100-1199]

Language

Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100)

Material

Vellum

Layout

37-40 lines to a page.

Height (mm)

232

Width (mm)

146

Collation

Volume I: 1(8) (wants 1-3) 2(8)-7(8) (+ 1 after 5) 8(8) 9(8) (wants 1) 10(8) (wants 8) 11(8)-15(8) (8 mut.). Volume II: I(8) (2 replaced by a smaller blank leaf) II(8)-VI(8) VII(6).

Writing

in a large clear script

Foliation

ff. a + i-iii + 1-170 + iv-v

Summary

CCCC MS 320 consists of two volumes, probably joined by Matthew Parker, who often had otherwise unrelated material bound together. The first volume contains sermons by Geoffrey Babio du Louroux, archbishop of Bordeaux (1135-58), and others, copied in the twelfth century. The second is an Anglo-Saxon Penitential. It contains two Penitential texts and some related material, including the Libellus responsionum found in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica in which Augustine of Canterbury and Gregory the Great correspond about the requirements of moral behaviour for the newly converted Anglo-Saxons. There are also some miscellaneous notes on things like the length of the Ark, and some added Old English material. T. A. M. Bishop linked this manuscript into a network of material written at St Augustine's, Canterbury in the second half of the tenth century or later.

Contents

Sermons -- Old English exhortations -- Poenitentiale Theodori (incomplete) -- Libellus responsionum -- Poem by Archbishop Theodorenote on alms -- Order of confessionPoenitentiale Sangermanense -- Notes on the chronology of the incarnation and other subjects

M.R. James Date

xii

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tg703mb3943/MS_320.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dk878nj8743/320.pdf

Contains

• Sermons by Geoffrey Babio du Louroux and others. 1r-116v

  Nasmith

  Uberrimam collectionem sermonum seu homeliarum in dies festos, &c. 1r-116v

  Author

  Geoffrey Babio du Louroux

  Note

  Ex S. Augustino precipue
  A collection of Sermons, part of which is also in MS 317 (2), by Geoffrey Babion
  (1r) Begins imperfectly with the doxology of a sermon
  The first complete sermon is the third of the collection as described by Hauréau (Notices et Extraits XXXI 2. 126)

  Incipit

  (1r) Apparuit benignitas

  Rubric

  (2v) De Sancto Stephano

  Incipit

  (2v) Diligite inimicos

  Rubric

  (3v) De Sancto Iohanne

  Incipit

  (3v) Vulpes foueas habent

  Rubric

  (5r) In die Epiphanie

  Incipit

  (5r) Cum natus esset. Cum creator

  Rubric

  (6v) De dominica

  Incipit

  (6v) Cum descendisset Iesus. Quando Christus

  Rubric

  (8r) In purificacione Sancte Marie

  Incipit

  (8r) Postquam impleti. Consuetudo fratres

  Rubric

  (10r) De quadragesima

  Incipit

  (10r) Audi israel mandata uite

  Rubric

  (11v) De quadragesima

  Incipit

  (11v) Si quis diligit me

  Rubric

  (13r) De quadragesima

  Incipit

  (13r) Maria soror moysi peccauit

  Note

  (13r) It is with this sermon that the correspondence with the collection in MS 317 begins

  Rubric

  (15r) In quadragesima

  Incipit

  (15r) Nolite diligere mundum

  Note

  (16v) (De quadragesima)

  Incipit

  (16v) Excutere de puluere

  Rubric

  (18v) Alius sermo

  Incipit

  (18v) Noli emulari

  Rubric

  (20r) Ad palmas

  Incipit

  (20r) Dicite filie Syon

  Rubric

  (22v) Ad palmas

  Incipit

  (22v) Dominus noster Ihesus Christus ut sanctificaret

  Rubric

  (24r) Ad palmas

  Incipit

  (24r) Scitote fratres karissimi quia uetus homo

  Rubric

  (25v) Alius sermo

  Incipit

  (25v) Ecce odor filii mei

  Rubric

  (27r) In cena domini

  Incipit

  (27r) Dominus noster Iesus Christus in qua nocte

  Rubric

  (28v) In cena domini

  Incipit

  (28v) Estote imitatores

  Note

  (30r) (In cena domini)

  Incipit

  (30r) Cum intinxisset

  Note

  (32r) (In cena domini)

  Incipit

  (32r) Sciens Iesus quia uenit hora

  Note

  (33v) (In cena domini)

  Incipit

  (33v) Venite filii audite me

  Rubric

  (35r) Sermo de cruce

  Incipit

  (35r) Popule meus quid feci tibi

  Rubric

  (37r) De resurrectione

  Incipit

  (37r) Paulus apostolus ait. Etenim pascha

  Rubric

  (38v) Ad letaniam maiorem

  Incipit

  (38v) Diuina scriptura fratres karissimi

  Rubric

  (39r) Sermo Augustini de Sancto Helia

  Incipit

  (39r) Dominus deus noster nolens aliquem

  Rubric

  (40r) In exaltatione sancte crucis

  Incipit

  (40r) Verbum crucis pereuntibus

  Rubric

  (41r) In rogationibus

  Incipit

  (41r) Quis uestrum habebit amicum

  Rubric

  (42v) Alius sermo

  Incipit

  (42v) Confitemini alterutrum

  Rubric

  (43v) In die asscensionis

  Incipit

  (43v) Eleuatus est sol

  Rubric

  (44v) In pentecosten

  Incipit

  (44v) Verbo dei celi firmati

  Rubric

  (45v) In die pentecosten

  Incipit

  (45v) Dum complerentur dies

  Note

  (47r) (In die pentecosten)

  Incipit

  (47r) Ubi uenit plenitudo

  Note

  (47v) (In die pentecosten)

  Incipit

  (47v) In omnibus fratres karissimi exhibeamus nosmetipsos

  Rubric

  (49v) In die pentecosten

  Incipit

  (49v) Cum egredetur loth

  Note

  (50v) (In die pentecosten)

  Incipit

  (50v) Ecce quam bonum

  Note

  (51r) Here a somewhat smaller leaf is inserted with parts of two sermons, one on

  Incipit

  (51v) Cum descendisset Iesus

  Rubric

  (52v) Ad contemplatiuos

  Incipit

  (52v) Legitur fratres karissimi quod iacob duas uxores

  Rubric

  (54v) Ad contemplatiuos

  Incipit

  (54v) Quesiui dilectum meum

  Note

  The hand changes at f. 55r

  Rubric

  (56v) Alius sermo ad sanctimoniales

  Incipit

  (56v) Omnis gloria eius

  Rubric

  (58r) Sermo per fine mundi uel ecclesie contemnatur (!)

  Incipit

  (58r) Dicit apostolus paulus. Non est potestas

  Rubric

  (60r) Sermo ad sacerdotes et ad omnes seruos domini

  Incipit

  (60r) Homo quidam peregre

  Rubric

  (61v) Sermo ad sacerdotes et ad omnes illos qui uendunt sacramenta ecclesie

  Incipit

  (61v) Locutus est dominus ad moysen

  Rubric

  (63r) Sermo in sinodo ad sacerdotes communis

  Incipit

  (63r) Posuit moyses labrum

  Rubric

  (64r) Alius sermo ad pastores ecclesie

  Incipit

  (64r) Designauit dominus et alios

  Rubric

  (65r) Alius ad pastores domini

  Incipit

  (65r) Ue pastoribus

  Rubric

  (66r) Alius ad pastores domini

  Incipit

  (66r) Factum est uerbum dominus ad ezechielem

  Rubric

  (67v) Alius sermo ad sacerdotes

  Incipit

  (67v) Deus stetit in sinagoga
  (69r) Dicit dominus per ieremiam

  Note

  First hand resumes at f. 70r

  Rubric

  (71v) De episcopis et sacerdotibus gregorius constantinopolitanus

  Incipit

  (71v) Valde pertimesco

  Rubric

  (74v) Alius sermo

  Incipit

  (74v) Fecit deus duo magna luminaria

  Rubric

  (77v) In die dedicatione ecclesie

  Incipit

  (77v) Facta sunt encenia

  Rubric

  (79v) In die dedicatione ecclesie

  Incipit

  (79v) Fundamenta eius

  Rubric

  (81r) In die dedicatione ecclesie

  Incipit

  (81r) Salomon edificauit

  Rubric

  (91v) De decimis

  Incipit

  (91v) Filii hominum usquequo graui corde

  Rubric

  (93r) De excommunicatis

  Incipit

  (93r) Surge qui dormis

  Rubric

  (94r) De superbia Gregorius Iohanni Episcopo constantinopolitano

  Incipit

  (94r) Diabolus despectis angelorum

  Rubric

  (95r) Sermo Augustini de penitentia

  Incipit

  (95r) Penitentes penitentes

  Note

  P. L. XXXIX 1713
  (96r) Sermo Augustini de confessione peccatorum

  Incipit

  (96r) In omnibus scripturis

  Rubric

  (98r) Sermo de uersu psalmi xlix ubi ait sedens

  Incipit

  (98v) Sedens aduersus fratrem

  Rubric

  (101r) Incipit sermo Sancti Augustini

  Incipit

  (101r) Beatus uir qui post aurum

  Rubric

  (102r) Incipit sermo Sancti Augustini Redimite tempus
  (104r) Ammonitio Sancti Augustini ad eos qui dicunt ex peccato ad modicum uerto me
  (105r) Augustinus de periculo sacerdotis (de diuite, etc.)

  Incipit

  (111v) Prima sacerdotis statio ad dexteram altaris
  (111v) Clemens romanus pontifex hanc parabolam inuenit in canonibus quod dominus dixit ad beatum petrum magistrum meum de duodecim diebus ueneris quos omnes christiani debent ieiunare

  Explicit

  (112r) Et hoc sciatis quod isti xii dies ueneris in pane et aqua sunt obseruandi

  Note

  (cf. Mercati, Studi e Testi 5. 1901, p. 81, 240)

  Incipit

  (112r) Dixit pater noster arsenius de quodam sene qui erat magnus in hac uita simplex autem in fide

  Note

  (112v) Extracts from Augustine

  Incipit

  (115r) In die illa erunt v ciuitates in terra egipti loquentes lingua chanaan

  Note

  (115v) Letter of Pilate to Claudius (cf. Tischendorf, Evangelia Apocrypha, p. 413)

  Incipit

  (115v) Pontius pilatusregio claudio suo salutem. Nuper accidit

  Explicit

  (115v) Cumque hec claudius suscepisset ... Iste iesus per te faciet uindictam de inimicis suis

  Note

  (115v) Immediately followed by a few lines on Sanctus Genesius partly cut off

  Explicit

  (116r) quasi per ludum baptizatus martir effectus est

  Note

  Lower part of f. 114r-114v cut off: verso blank
  The contents including the miscellaneous extracts at the end correspond very closely with those of St John's College MS. K. 23

• Old English exhortations. 117r-117v

  Note

  (117r) The first leaf is written in a small neat regular hand in Anglo-Saxon:

  Incipit

  (117r) Gelyfst ðu on god ælfmihtine 7 on þone sunu 7 on (ð)one halgan gast ... Ic bidde þe ærest for godes lufon 7 for his ege þæt þu þin lif mid rihte lybbe 7 þinum drihtne mid eaðmedum hyre, etc.

  Explicit

  (117v) God ælfmihtig gefultumige us þæt ƿe moton 7 magon godes miltse begytan ða hƿile þe ƿe on þisum earman life beon moton

  Note

  Not noticed by Wanley
  Extracts from Cameron nos. B1.9.6 and B11.10.2

• Poenitentiale Theodori (incomplete). 117v-141r

  Nasmith

  Corpus canonum Anglicanorum, Theodori ut videtur libri ii. quorum rubricas ectoris in gratiam apposui. 117v-141r

  Author

  Theodori

  Note

  Liber primus. I. De crapula et ebrietate. II. De fornicatione. III. De avaritia furtiva. IV. De occisione hominum. V. De his qui per heresin decipiuntur. VI. De perjurio. VII. De multis et diversis malis et quae non nocent necessaria. VIII. De diverso lapsu servorum Dei. IX. De his qui degraduntur vel ordinari non possunt. X. De baptizatis bis qualiter peniteant. XI. De his qui damnant dominicam et indicta jejunia ecclesiae Dei. XII. De communione eucharistiae vel sacrificio. XIII. De reconciliatione. XIV. De penitentia nubentium specialiter. XV. De cultura idolorum. Liber secundus. I. De ecclesiae ministerio. II. De tribus gradibus ecclesiae principalibus. III. De ordinatione diversorum. IV. De baptismate et confirmatione. V. De missa defunctorum. VI. De abbatibus et monachis vel monasterio. VII. De ritu mulierum vel ministerio in ecclesia. VIII. De moribus Graecorum et Romanorum. IX. De communione Scottorum et Britonum qui in pascha et tonsura catholici non sunt. X. De vexatis a diabolo. XI. De usu vel abjectione animalium. XII. De questibus conjugiorum. XIII. De servis et ancillis. XIV. De diversis questionibus.
  (117v) On the lower part of the verso in a later hand is a list of the contents of this part of the volume: perhaps written in cent. xi:
  (117v) Canon Theodori. de Ratione penitencie. de diuersis questionibus. augustini questiones. gregorii responsiones. penitentiale. de trina domini incarnatione. de annis domini. de Ierosolima et rebus in ea gestis
  (118r) The next leaf is rather smaller in size and replaces a lost leaf which contained the beginning of the preface. It is ruled but blank and has on the verso a copy in red capitals of the rubric on the verso of the next leaf:

  Rubric

  (118v) Incipit liber primus de crapula et ebrietate

  Note

  (118v) and below this the initial S
  (119r) With the next leaf (the third) the text begins imperfectly in the preface:

  Incipit

  (119r) singularis scientie hominem

  Note

  (Haddan and Stubbs III 177)

  Explicit

  (119r) Credo enim hec eos bono

  Note

  Here the recto ends
  (119v) The last line and a half at top of verso are erased. Then follows the rubric given above
  Text

  Incipit

  (119v) Si quis episcopus

  Note

  (130v) Liber II

  Rubric

  (130v) Incipit liber secundus de ecclesiae ministerio et re aedificatione eius

  Incipit

  (130v) Aeclesiam licet ponere in alium locum

  Note

  (Haddan and Stubbs, p. 190)
  Ends

  Explicit

  (141r) quando desiderant uel possunt. si oportune non possunt finit

  Note

  This MS. is taken as the base of their text by Haddan and Stubbs (III 176)
  The missing portions of the preface are supplied from other copies. See also Wasserschleben (Bussordnungen, p. 182)

• Gregory the Great, Libellus responsionum. 141r-154r

  Nasmith

  X. Interrogationes beati Augustini episcopi Cantuariorum ecclesiae cum responsionibus sancti Gregorii papae urbis Romae. 141r-154r

  Author

  Gregory the Great

  Rubric

  (141r) Interrogatio Beati Agustini Episcopi Cantuariorum aecclesiae

  Incipit

  (141r) De episcopis qualiter cum suis clericis

  Note

  On p. 55 is the question about the relics of St Sixtus which is considered to be spurious (Haddan and Stubbs, p. 203 note)
  Ends

  Explicit

  (154r) ex dilectione quam portat inuitus

• Poem by Archbishop Theodore, note on alms. 154v-154v

  Nasmith

  Pretium redimendi penitentiam unius diei vel anni, cum hac rubrica, Te nunc sancte speculator verbi Dei digni dator Hæddi pie presul precor pontificum ditum decor pro me tuo peregrino preces funde Theodoro. 154v-154v

  Author

  Archbishop Theodore

  Note

  Hinc patet codicem exaratum fuisse inter annum 690 quo decessit Theodorus, et annum 704, quo mortuus est Hædda episcopus Winton.
  At top of p. 71 in red capitals, and written as if it were the title to what follows, is

  Rubric

  (154v) Te nunc sancte speculator uerbi dei digni dator Hæddipie presul precor pontificum ditum decor pro me tuoperegrino preces funde Theodoro

  Note

  Then follows:

  Incipit

  (154v) Unius diei praetium de pane et aqua unus denarius

  Note

  Ending in a smaller script:

  Explicit

  (154v) Item in alio loco indicatur c psalmos inuerno

• Order of confession and Poenitentiale Sangermanense. 155r-166v

  Nasmith

  Ordo ad dandam penitentiam, qualiter episcopi vel presbiteri penitentes suscipere debeant. 155r-166v

  Rubric

  (155r) Incipit ordo ad dandam paenitentiam qualiter episcopi uel presbiteri penitentes suscipere debeant

  Incipit

  (155r) Quotiens cumque christiani ad penitentiam accedunt ieiunia eis inponimus

  Note

  (P. L. CV 693, 717)
  The last section (de fornicatione) ends 95

  Explicit

  (166v) Constituimus eos decenni tempore secundum gradus quaest. constituta pent.

• Notes on the chronology of the incarnation and other subjects. 166v-170r

  Rubric

  (166v) De trina incarnatione Christi

  Note

  (in green capitals)

  Incipit

  (166v) Dominus noster Iesus Christus ter carnaliter huic mundo ortus est

  Explicit

  (166v) xiiii die lune passus regnante tyberio caesare

  Rubric

  (166v) De annis domini

  Incipit

  (166v) Sunt ergo anni domini nostri Ihesu Christi in corpore conuersantis xxxiii

  Explicit

  (167r) Ex qua autem die baptizatus est dominus usque in diem passionis sue recepti sunt dies iuxta seriem

  Incipit

  (167r) Prima aetas fuit ab adam usque ad noe anni ii milia ccxlii

  Note

  ending with the ages of man:

  Explicit

  (168r) Senium nullo certo annorum numero finitur

  Incipit

  (168r) Ossa hominis sunt numero ccxviiii. numerus uenarum ccclxv. dentium numerus in perfecta aetate xxxii
  (168v) Christianus historicus dicit longitudinem mundi xii milium latitudo vii miliarum
  (168v) Longitudo templi lx cubitos

  Note

  (168v) Tabernacle. Church of St Peter. Stair of St Peter. Tower. Ark of Noah. Books of O. and N.T. Verses in Psalter. Measures of length; ending

  Explicit

  (169r) xii-pertice arripinam faciunt. xii arripine uige (sic) faciunt

  Incipit

  (169r) In principio creauit

  Note

  (Works of the Days of Creation)

  Rubric

  (169r) De hierosolima et rebus in ea gestis

  Incipit

  (169r) In monte excelso hierusalem posita est. et in media illa ciuitate

  Explicit

  (169v) et de illo sanguine fuit terra purgata et sanctificata. et adam redemptus de inferno

  Note

  This group of paragraphs from de trina incarnatione occurs in no. 183. I have transcribed the greatest part of them in my description of that MS. Some of the same matter is in Julius A. 2 in Anglo-Saxon
  (170r) Admonition about Ember days (not in the hand of the first leaf)

  Incipit

  (170r) Scylt te ƿið ða eahta heahsynna þe se deofun þe ƿile mid besƿican þæt is morðor

  Explicit

  (170r) healh xii: ymren dagas þe on xii monþum beoð 7 beorh þe geornne ƿið þas halgan tid 7 ƿið þa ymdren dagas 7 ƿið

  Note

  (unfinished)
  Cameron B11.1.2

TJames

282

Stanley

T. 1

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UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 320

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