Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 137: Theological and Devotional Tracts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 137: Theological and Devotional Tracts
Alternate Title:
Philosophia Monachorum etc.
Language:
Latin and English, Middle (1100-1500)
Extent:
ff. 144 + 4
Dimensions:
312 Height (mm) and 211 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Provenance:
From Christ Church, Canterbury. On f. ir at top erased: de claustro ecclesie Christi Cant. and: Philosophia monachorum eccl. Chr. Cant., A similar erased inscription on f. 2r and, not erased, on f. 82 (83). On f. iiv: Qui me renouauit. Altissimus eum benedicat. JS, and On f. 2r Parker has written: Canterbery (?) King. The book does not occur in the extant catalogues.
Table of contents:
  • Commentary on Regula Sancti Benedicti
  • Stimulus amoris
  • Speculum peccatoris
  • De institutione nouiciorum
  • Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De conscientia
  • Homiliae ad monachos
Description:
CCCC MS 137 is a fourteenth-century manuscript which contains a miscellany of theological and spiritual tracts, some containing rules for the behaviour of monks and novices, suggesting that the compilation was intended for monastic use. The book belonged to the Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and might be identifiable with a book transferred to Evesham Abbey in the late fourteenth century. The last item, the homily of Origen on the lament of Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Christ, was a text which Chaucer was later to translate into English.
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