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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 156: Miscellaneous Treatises and Sermons on Indulgences and Confession (Vols. II, III). Petrus Aureoli OFM, Compendium litterale totius scripture (Vol. IV). John of Genoa OP, Catholicon (Vol. V)

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 156: Miscellaneous Treatises and Sermons on Indulgences and Confession (Vols. II, III). Petrus Aureoli OFM, Compendium litterale totius scripture (Vol. IV). John of Genoa OP, Catholicon (Vol. V)

Description

Alternative title
Ioh. Cassianus. Ric. Armachanus etc.
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 74+ 113 + 115 + 99 + 21
Date created
[ca. 1400-1599]
Language
Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material
Paper and vellum
Writing
several volumes in various hands
Height (mm)
300
Width (mm)
210
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-246 + iii-iv.
Codicology
Volume I: Printed material, now bound separately as CCCC Parker Library: SP 322A.
Volume III: Outer and middle sheets vellum: the rest paper. (Water-mark: a ring with pointed bezel.) 42 lines to a page. Cent, xv, the latter part in good clear hand.
Volume IV: Vellum, double columns of 38 lines. Cent, xv, ugly small current hand, ff. 99.
Volume V: Paper and vellum, triple columns. Cent, xv late, in a bad hand, 21 ff.
Collation
Volume III: A(16) (wants 1, 8) B(20) (wants one in 1st half) C(20) (wants 3 at end) D(20)-F(20) G (three).
Volume IV: a(12)-h(12) i (three).
Volume V: a(12) (middle sheet vellum) b(10) (wants 10).

Abstract/Contents

Summary
The miscellany of twenty-four texts in CCCC MS 156 was originally in four separate volumes of differing dates The first is a printed book of the sixteenth century containing the Collations of John Cassian (c. 360-430/35). The other three sections date variously to c. 1400-1450 and c. 1425-1475. Several of the texts are Franciscan and Dominican and perhaps these three sections were compiled for the use of mendicants. They include works on indulgences and confession by François de Meyronnes OFM, Richard FitzRalph (d. 1360) and Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), and letters and sermons by Robert Grossesteste (d. 1253).
Contents
Collationes (excerpt) -- Bull regarding feast days (1467) -- Bull regarding excommunication (1467) -- Ecloga de caluis -- Epistola ad summum pontificem -- Tractatus de proprietate monachorum -- De indulgentiis -- Summa de quaestionibus Armenorum (excerpt de indulgentiis) -- Commentary on the Lombard's Sentences (excerpt from book 4, dist. 45, de indulgentiis) -- De indulgencia -- De potestate ligandi et soluendi -- Quodlibet 14, De indulgentiis -- Utrum principi terrenorum necessaria sit peritia literarum -- De indulgentiis -- De subiectione principatus -- Sermon on the Pardon of Syon -- Epistola ad Constantinum -- De instructione confessoris -- Tractatus de restitutione -- Meditationes (Contemplationes) -- Sermon preached before Innocent IV at Lyon -- Letter to the archdeacon of Canterbury -- Epistola 128 -- Disputatio super potestate praelatis ecclesiae atque principibus terrarum commissa (Disputatio inter clericum et militem) -- Compendium litterale totius scripture -- Catholicon (Alma - Cautela)

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv and xvi
Augmented James Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hy454wh6609/156.pdf
Original James Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wk912gd1370/MS_156.pdf
Contains
  • Volume I
    Contains
    <ul class="mods_display_nested_related_items"> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">John Cassian, Collationes (excerpt)
    Nasmith
    Fragmentum collationum Iohannis Cassiani, liber impressus
    Author
    John Cassian
    Note
    Incipit capitula
    diffinitionem
    Ends with
    Explicit
    secunda collatio abbatis sereni de principatibus
    Note
    Printed by the Fratres vitae communis: Proctor 9935, Campbell 399, Hain 4561
    Digitization
    Since the M. R. James catalogue this printed book has been bound separately as CCCC Parker Library SP 322A and it has therefore not been imaged
    </li> </ul>
  • Volume II
    Contains
    <ul class="mods_display_nested_related_items"> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Paul II, Bull regarding feast days (1467). 1r-1v
    Nasmith
    Bulla Pauli papae II de observantia dierum festorum dat. 1467
    Author
    Paul II
    Incipit
    Perniciosa consuetudo
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Paul II, Bull regarding excommunication (1467). 1v-4v
    Nasmith
    Bulla ejusdem papae denuntians sententiam excommunicationis. contra omnes hereticos et cetera data kalendis Aprilis 1467
    Author
    Paul II
    Incipit
    Consueuerunt Romani pontifices
    Note
    Fol. 3r-3v has been misbound; it should follow fol. 4v and is part of the next item
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Hucbald of Saint-Amand OSB, Ecloga de caluis. 3r-6v
    Nasmith
    Versus Hu(c)baldi de laude calvorum
    Author
    Hucbald of Saint-Amand OSB
    Note
    The text begins on fol. 4v, continues on fol. 3r-3v and then fol. 5r-6r. Fol. 6v is blank
    Rubric
    Incipit versus hubaldi de laude caluorum quos G. compleuit
    Incipit
    Carmina clarisone caluis cantate camene
    Note
    (P. L. CXXXII 1042, 3)
    Explicit
    Clausula completur commendans carmine caluos. / Amen. Alleluya. / Ter quinquagenos cecinit dauid ordine psalmos / Ostendit caluos opus hoc tot versibus almos
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Thomas Bourchier, Epistola ad summum pontificem. 7r-7v
    Author
    Thomas Bourchier
    Rubric
    Subscripcio literarum dni Thome Cardinalis Cant. Archiep. ad summum pontificem
    Incipit
    Subscripcio literarum eiusdem ad cardinalem
    Explicit
    ad alium cardinalem
    Rubric
    Principium literarum regis. Princip. litt. cardinalis
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Henricus de Langensttin (Hassia), Tractatus deproprietate monachorum. 8r-8v
    Nasmith
    Expositio regulae S.Benedicti de peculio monachorum
    Author
    Henricus de Langensttin (Hassia)
    Incipit
    In nomine etc. Pro salute eorum qui vicia fugere cupiunt
    Note
    A proof that 'monacho nec proprium licet habere nec peculium excepta causa administracionis'
    Five blank leaves follow
    The above is a quire of 16 leaves: three are cut out
    </li> </ul>
  • Volume III
    Contains
    <ul class="mods_display_nested_related_items"> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">François de Meyronnes OFM, De indulgentiis. 14r-21v
    Nasmith
    Sermo fratris Francisci de Maronis de indulgentiis in presentia D. papae et cardinalium tempore indulgentiarum
    Author
    François de Meyronnes OFM
    Incipit
    Quodcunque ligaueris etc. / Duos fines ultimos esse futuros
    Note
    f. 21r-21v blank
    Also in MS 107, MS 151
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Richard FitzRalph, Summa de quaestionibus Armenorum (excerpt de indulgentiis). 22r-25v
    Nasmith
    Excerptum ex libro Ricardi Radulphi [Fitz-Ralph] de questionibus Armenorum Lib. xiii. cap. 19 de indulgentiis
    Author
    Richard FitzRalph
    Rubric
    Ricardus Radulphus Archiepiscopus Armacanus hibernie primas de questionibus Armenorum li(o) 13 c(o) 19 || Colonie in biblia fratrum minorum
    Note
    Extracts
    ff. 24v-25v blank
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Richard Fishacre OP, Commentary on the Lombard's Sentences (excerpt from book 4, dist. 45, de indulgentiis). 26r-28r
    Nasmith
    Sententia venerabilis doctoris Ricardi Fysschakyr de indulgentiis super 4tum librum sententiarum. dist. 45
    Author
    Richard Fishacre OP
    Incipit
    Hec que subscribuntur sunt dicta fratris Ricardi ffyschakyr ord. predicatorum super 4(m) lib. sententiarum dist. 45 de indulgenciis
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Parisiensis (? Willelmus Peraldus OP), De indulgencia. 28v-34v
    Nasmith
    Parisiensis de eadem re
    Author
    Parisiensis (? Willelmus Peraldus OP)
    Rubric
    Parisiensis
    Incipit
    Quia vero de indulgencia fit sermo ideo primo videamus
    Note
    ff. 30v-34v blank
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De potestate ligandi et soluendi. 35r-42v
    Nasmith
    Libellus venerabilis Ricardi de Sancto Victore de potestate clavium sacerdotalium
    Author
    Richard of Saint-Victor OSA
    Rubric
    Hec que subsequuntur sunt venerabilis Ricardi de Sancto Victore de potestate clauium sacerdotalium
    Incipit
    Quodcunque ligaueris etc. Queritis a me utrum hec ligandi
    Note
    (P. L. CXCVI 1159)
    Explicit
    non imputauit dominus peccatum etc.
    Rubric
    Explicit libelus venerabilis Ricardi etc.
    Note
    f. 42r-42v blank
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Henry of Gent, Quodlibet 14, De indulgentiis. 43r-51r
    Nasmith
    Questio decima-quarta quodlibeti Magistri Henrici de Gandavo de indulgentiis
    Author
    Henry of Gent
    Rubric
    Questio 14(a) quodlibeti 5(mi) Henrici de Gandauo de Indulgenciis hic subsequitur
    Incipit
    Circa 2(m) articulum quod indulgencie
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Utrum principi terrenorum necessaria sit peritia literarum. 51r-52v
    Nasmith
    Utrum principi terrenorum necessaria sit peritia literarum
    Incipit
    Utrum principi etc. Quod non quia saul electus fuit cum esset ydeota et simplex
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">De indulgentiis. 53r-53v
    Nasmith
    Notabilia doctoris subtilis de indulgentiis
    Note
    Three paragraphs
    53v blank
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">François de Meyronnes OFM, De subiectione principatus. 54r-60r
    Nasmith
    Utrum iste qui principatur secundum jurisdictionem universalem tanquam monarcha debeat de jure naturali subjacere illi qui principatur secundum plenitudinem potestatis in spiritualibus quoad omnia, qui dicitur ierarcha
    Author
    François de Meyronnes OFM
    Incipit
    Utrum ... secundum jurisdictionem universalem etc.
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Sermon on the Pardon of Syon. 60v-62v
    Rubric
    Here begynnyth a sermon of pardon and specially of the pardon of Syon
    Incipit
    Tibi dabo claues regni celorum m(t)as in euangelio huius festiuitatis et pro themate hodierno
    The gospell of this fest tellith howe oure lord askede of his disciples etc.
    Note
    (18 lines only)
    ff. 61r-62v blank
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Mansuetus, Epistola ad Constantinum. 63r-63v
    Nasmith
    Epistola incompleta Mansueti Medicanensis episcopi ad Constantem imperatorem
    Author
    Mansuetus
    Writing
    In a bad hand
    Rubric
    Script. fratris Iohannis Henffeld monachi
    Epistola incompleta etc.
    Incipit
    Quicquid (?) Augustinus omni sapientia clarus siue ambrosius
    Explicit
    non erit finis. Quod videre nos faciat J. C. Amen
    Note
    Mansuetus Abp of Milan (for Medicanensis read Mediolanensis) wrote the Epistle to Constantine Pogonatus in 679. It is prefixed to the Acts of the Sixth Council (A. D. 680)
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Antoninus Florentinus (Antonino Pierozzi) OP, De instructione confessoris. 64r-102v
    Nasmith
    De potestate confessorum
    Author
    Antoninus Florentinus (Antonino Pierozzi) OP
    Writing
    In a good regular hand
    Incipit
    Defecerunt scrutantes scrutineo ait psalmista
    Explicit
    in aliis doctoribus et tanguntur in summa maystracia
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Antoninus Florentinus (Antonino Pierozzi) OP, Tractatus de restitutione. 103r-108v
    Nasmith
    De restitutione
    Author
    Antoninus Florentinus (Antonino Pierozzi) OP
    Incipit
    Circa materiam restitucionis seu satisfactionis notandum
    Explicit
    quando ista non fiunt ex odio
    Rubric
    finis de restitucione fienda
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Iohannes de Turrecremata (Juan de Torquemada) OP, Meditationes (Contemplationes). 109r-117v
    Nasmith
    Orationes
    Author
    Iohannes de Turrecremata (Juan de Torquemada) OP
    Note
    A series of meditations
    Incipit
    Quando deus creauit celum et terram et omnia que in eis sunt
    O admiranda et laudanda tue dispensacionis gratia
    Note
    After one 'De S. Trinitate', follows (f. 116v)
    Rubric
    Arbor predicatorum
    Incipit
    S. Dominicus, Innocencius papa 5(us), S. Thomas, Raymundus, S. Petrus martir, Durandus, Benedictus papa xi(us), Albertus, Vlricus, S. Vincencius, Herueus
    Explicit
    Petrus de palu
    Incipit
    Felix vitis de cuius surculo
    Explicit
    Oratio autoris Iohannis de turre cremata cardinalis S. Sixti [qui obiit circa a. d. 1465]: these words marked 'vacat'
    Incipit
    Gloriosus certe et mirabilis in S. Sixto
    Note
    The last is on 'Commemoratio animarum'
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Robert Grosseteste, Sermon preached before Innocent IV at Lyon. 117v-121v
    Nasmith
    Sermo D. Roberti episcopi Lincoln, quem predicavit coram dom. Innocentio papae iv. et cardinalibus apud Lugdunum
    Author
    Robert Grosseteste
    Incipit
    Dominus noster Ihesus Christus eternus eterni dei patris filius de secretissimo sinu patris
    Explicit
    a me peccatorum extreme est attemptatum
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Innocent IV, Letter to the archdeacon of Canterbury. 121v-122r
    Nasmith
    Literae Innocentii iv. ad archidiaconum Cant. et Innocentium collectorem suum in Anglia, ut nepotem suum Fredericum de Lavania in canonicatum in ecclesia Lincoln, proximo vacaturum, inducant
    Author
    Innocent IV
    Note
    See Luard, Rob. Grosseteste Epp. (Rolls), p. 432 note
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Robert Grosseteste, Epistola 128. 122r-123r
    Nasmith
    Responsio episcopi Lincoln, in qua probat talem provisionem esse contra voluntatem et cultum Dei, ideoque negat se concessurum
    Author
    Robert Grosseteste
    Incipit
    Nouerit discrecio uestra quod mandatis apostolicis
    Note
    on f. 122v
    Explicit
    et non pater domini mei Ihesu Christi qui est in celis
    Note
    (Luard, l.c.)
    Incipit
    Cum hec epistola ad noticiam pape peruenisset
    Note
    notice of death of Grosseteste and signs accompanying it
    Explicit
    confidenter tamen dico quia plus deo placuerunt virtutes quam displicuerunt excessus. quod nunc per miracula ad tumbam eius manifestatur coruscantia
    </li> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">William of Ockham OFM (attrib.), Disputatio super potestate praelatis ecclesiae atque principibus terrarum commissa (Disputatio inter clericum et militem)
    Nasmith
    Disputatio inter clericum et militem super potestate commissa prelatis ecclesiasticis atque principibus terrarum
    Author
    William of Ockham OFM (attrib.)
    Incipit
    Primo proponit clericus iuramentum dictum quodammodo sub hac forma. Clericus. Miror optime miles paucis diebus
    Explicit
    unxitque loadam pontifex
    Rubric
    Explicit
    </li> </ul>
  • Volume IV
    Contains
    <ul class="mods_display_nested_related_items"> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">Petrus Aureoli OFM, Compendium litterale totius scripture. 127r-225v
    Nasmith
    Tractatus totius bibliae expositorius, compendiose editus a Mag. Petro de Aureolis fratre minore et doctore sacrae theologiae Parisiensi
    Author
    Petrus Aureoli OFM
    Incipit
    Venite ascendamus ad montem domini etc. Gregorius 23 libro moralium exponens
    Explicit
    mirre et thuris et uniuersi pulueris pigmentarii
    Note
    224v-225v blank
    Often printed: e.g. Paris 1508, 1565, 1613. Venice 1571 etc.
    </li> </ul>
  • Volume V
    Contains
    <ul class="mods_display_nested_related_items"> <li class="mods_display_nested_related_item open">John of Genoa OP, Catholicon (Alma - Cautela). 226r-246v
    Nasmith
    Lexicon Latinum, imperfectum
    Author
    John of Genoa OP
    Incipit
    A Alma interpretatur virgo abscondita vel absconsio virginitatis
    Note
    Ends unfinished
    Explicit
    Cautela iuracio obseruacio
    Note
    242v-246v blank
    </li> </ul>
TJames
250
Stanley
P. 21
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 156

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