Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 520: Henricus Wirzeburgensis siue Herbipolensis, De statu curiae Romanae. Petrus Riga, Aurora. Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica (extracts)
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 520 is a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century paper manuscript, probably made in Germany, which once belonged to the Brigittine convent of Elbing (Elblag), near Gdansk. The Elbing collection was donated to Corpus Christi College by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) or by his wife, Mary, whose signature is in many of the books. The contents of MS 520 include the De statu curiae Romanae by Henry of Würzburg (d. 1265), and Aurora by Petrus Riga (d. 1209), a versified version of the Bible, although in the manuscript this is mistakenly attributed to Peter of Corbeil (c. 1150-1222). The final text contains extracts from the Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor (d. c. 1187). The manuscript also contains some notes in German on the foundation of religious orders.
- Contents
- De statu curiae Romanae -- Aurora -- Historia scholastica (extracts on the Gospels and Acts)
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv-xv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hm590sb0146/MS_520.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gv897vv8905/520.pdf
- Contains
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- Henricus Wirzeburgensis, De statu curiae Romanae. 1r-32v
- Author
- Henricus Wirzeburgensis
- Rubric
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(1r) Incipit summa fratris Hinrici de Wirczeburg de ordine minorum
(1r) De electione - Note
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(1r) Questio si omnes velint
In 5 books ending - Rubric
- (22v) de sententia suspensionis
- Explicit
- (22v) audire et non officiare hi hescien (Hostiensis?)
- Rubric
- (22v) Explicit
- Note
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(22v) Notes follow
On ff. 23v-28r are a collection of texts for sermons
(28v) Part of a sermon
ff. 29r-32v blank
(23r) Expositiones Equationum (old list)
- Petrus Riga, Aurora. 33r-114v
- James
- Aurora. 33r-114v
- Author
- Petrus Riga
- Incipit
- (33r) In hoc libro cont. quinque libri moysi, etc. ... a magistro Petro corbulensi parisius stilo metrico depictus
- Rubric
- (33r) Glosule super Genesym
- Incipit
- (33r) Pentateucus dicitur a penta .i. quinque
- Rubric
- (33v) Prologus
- Incipit
- (33v) Frequens sodalium
- Note
- Text
- Incipit
- (34r) Prima facta die
- Note
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Gen. - 4 Reg., Tobit, Daniel, Judith, Hester, Macc.
Evangelium, ending - Explicit
- (105v) Istic dat finem petrus et ipse suum
- Rubric
- (105v) Recapitulationes in Veterus Testamentum sine A, etc.
- Incipit
- (105v) Principio rerum post quinque dies homo primus
- Note
- (108r) Acts
- Incipit
- (108r) Tyberii nono etc.
- Note
- Ending
- Explicit
- (114r) Ense sacrat paulum. pax. lux. urbs dux cruce petrum
- Rubric
- (114r) Explicit Actus Apostolorum finis est liber aurore magistri petri Chorebula
- Note
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Occidit aurora liber iste petri corebula. Vt rosa flos florum flos est liber iste librorum
(114r) Four lines - Rubric
- (114r) de derisione noe
- Note
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A few notes
(114v) Some notes in German on the foundation of religious orders
(114v) Noch gotes geburt iiijc vnd xxx wart gestiftz d' orden Regulares canonici vnder sente Augustini regele ... Noch gotes geburt m. ccc. vnd ix. Jar wart danczk gewunnen der noch in dem neesten Jar kouften di hrn das lant czu pomeren
Occurs again in MS 503. 9
- Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica (extracts on the Gospels and Acts). 115r-180v
- James
- History of the Gospels and Acts from the Historia Scholastica. 115r-180v
- Author
- Petrus Comestor
- Rubric
- (115r) De concepcione precursoris
- Incipit
- (115r) Fuit autem in diebus herodis regis Jude affluxis annis regni eius undetriginta
- Explicit
- (148r) processio translata est ad dominicam diem
- Rubric
- (148r) Explicit hoc
- Note
- (Acts)
- Rubric
- (148v) Quomodo apparuit dominus, etc.
- Incipit
- (148v) Anno nonodecimo imperij tiberii
- Explicit
- (176r) in cathacumbis. finis
- Note
- (176r) Followed by short accounts of the Apostles
- Incipit
- (176r) Petrus et paulus rome sepulti sunt
- Explicit
- (179r) orantibus esse conciues
- Rubric
- (179r) Amen
- Note
- ff. 179v-180v blank
- Henricus Wirzeburgensis, De statu curiae Romanae. 1r-32v
- Elbing
- N. 22
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Location
- MS 520
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