Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 355: John Colet, Epistolae beati Pauli ad Romanos expositio, Geneseos expositio ad Radulphum
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Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans and on Genesis contained in CCCC MS 355 are by John Colet (1467-1519), one of the early humanists in England, who had been to Italy and was influenced by early Renaissance scholarship. The commentary on Romans originated as a lecture in Oxford given in the late 1490s, and was expanded and revised, as in this manuscript copy, addressed to a young man named Edmund. It heralds a departure from the still prevalent scholastic mode of exegesis. It is written in humanist script by Peter Meghen (1466/7-1540), a Brabantine scribe who worked extensively for the English early sixteenth-century humanists. The manuscript was probably made in the first or second decades of the sixteenth century. John Colet seems first to have employed Meghen in 1505, although he continued to work in England into the 1520s. Blank spaces indicate the intention to include miniatures and ornamental intials, but regrettably this work was never carried out.
- Contents
- Epistolae beati Pauli ad Romanos expositio -- Geneseos expositio ad Radulphum
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xvi early
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zr486wf1459/MS_355.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rp745rb5235/355.pdf
- Contains
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- John Colet, Epistolae beati Pauli ad Romanos expositio. 3-194
- James
- John Coletin Romanos. 3-194
- Author
- John Colet
- Note
- (3) Title in red in Bishop Tunstall's hand
- Rubric
- (3) Scripta Ioannis Colett professoris theologie in epistolam diui Pauli ad Romanos
- Note
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(3) Marginal notes by a Parkerian scribe: Hic titulus scriptus erat cum aliis insequentibus manu Cutheberti Dunelm. ep. ut testatur subscriptio eius in fine statutorum eccl. Dunelmensis. et ut probari potest per scriptum suum in libro miscellaneorum E. Pag. 58. Hic liber scriptus manu amanuensis Iohannis Colett, ut videre licet in libro magno duarum translationum Matthaei et Marci script. manu Petri Meghen monoculi teutonis natione Brabantini. Vt ipsemet testatur in fine Marci Euangelistae Anno 1509. 8 Maij
The MS. of Matthew and Mark referred to is in the University Library Dd. 7. 3. It was given by Parker
Text - Incipit
- (3) In epistola quam apostolus Paulus scripsit ad Romanos hominibus illic christiani nominis
- Note
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Spaces are left for illuminated initials
Ends imperfectly - Explicit
- (194) ad honestam et optandam emendationem malorum non
- Note
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(194) Note by Tunstall: Supersunt multa ab eodem Joanne Colet scripta in diuum paulum sed puerorum eius incuria perierunt
A complete copy of the Lectures is in the University Library Gg. 4. 26 from which the text was edited with translation by J. H. Lupton, 1873
- John Colet, Geneseos expositio ad Radulphum. 195-226
- James
- John Coletin Genesim. 195-226
- Author
- John Colet
- Note
- Title by Tunstall
- Rubric
- (195) Scripta Joannis Colet professoris theologie Decani sancti pauli London. In principium geneseos
- Incipit
- (195) Miror sane te optime Radulphe quum voluisti a capite Biblie inchoare
- Explicit
- (199) fac nos te queso participes. Vale
- Incipit
- (199) Parumper de reliquis diebus uti petis in calce Epistole
- Explicit
- (207) me de tedio scribendi paululum leuauerim. Vale
- Incipit
- (207) Tercium nunc deinceps diem aggrediamur
- Explicit
- (222) nos in hiis rebus lucubrasse. Vale
- Incipit
- (222) Salue Radulphe ac cum salute puto te rediisse
- Note
- Ending imperfectly
- Explicit
- (226) facere docet Macrobius in Comentario edito
- Note
- Edited by J. H. Lupton in 1876
- John Colet, Epistolae beati Pauli ad Romanos expositio. 3-194
- TJames
- 308
- Stanley
- 2. 5
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/nn660hx8862
- MS 355
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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