Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 424: Astronomical Tracts. Liber de Joseph et Aseneth
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 424 is comprised of a number of disparate elements, with six volumes bound together containing material from different centuries. The manuscript begins with three printed pamphlets, an epitome of Galen by Christopher Heyll, an account of the marriage of Philip of Spain and Mary I of England and of a speech given by the Cardinal of Lorraine in 1561. The manuscript material proper is a jumble of medical, astrological and spiritual treatises such as the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253), De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione and Thomas de Frakaham OSA (fl. c. 1200) Speculum spiritalis amicitiae copied in various hands between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. In addition the codex includes an earlier twelfth-century copy of the legend of Aseneth in a Latin translation from the Greek.
- Contents
- Treatise on the Astrolabe -- Kalendarium -- De prognosticationibus aegritudinum secundum motum lunae (transl. byWilliam of Moerbeke) -- De electione situs lune in exibendis farmacis -- De secretis philosophorum -- De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione -- Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (Flos medicinae scholae Salerni) -- Antidotarium Nicholai in English -- Liber de Joseph et Aseneth -- Speculum spiritalis amicitiae -- Speculum humilitatis
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xvi, xv, xii?, xiii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sz429gp8540/MS_424.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yf490gf0856/424.pdf
- Contains
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- Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe. 1r-4r
- Nasmith
- A treatise of the astrolabe made English by Chaucer for the use of his son Lewis. 1r-4r
- Author
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Note
- Begins imperfectly
- Incipit
- (1r) vnderstond well þt þe zodiake is departyd in 2 halfe circles
- Note
-
(Part II § 16)
Ends - Rubric
- (4r) Explicit tractatus astrolabii secundum Chaunsers factus filio suo lodowyco
- Note
- Skeat, The Astrolabe, E.E.T.S. extra series 1872, p. xi, describes this copy
- Kalendarium. 4r-6v
- Nasmith
- Bona improbatio Kalendarii nostri et correctio ejusdem plane. 4r-6v
- Incipit
- (4r) Sciendum est quod kalendarium quo utimur
- Explicit
- (6v) benedictus in secula. Amen
- Rubric
- (6v) Explicit bona improbacio kalendarii nostri. Et correctio eiusdem plane
- pseudo-Hippocrates, De prognosticationibus aegritudinum secundum motum lunae (transl. byWilliam of Moerbeke). 7r-9v
- Nasmith
- Prognosticatio Hippocratis infirmitatum. 7r-9v
- Author
- pseudo-Hippocrates
- Incipit
- (7r) Sapientissimus ypocras et medicorum optimus ait
- Explicit
- (9v) dabit cum labore et difficultate
- Rubric
- (9v) Explicit pronosticacio ypocratis infirmitatum
- Arnold of Villanova (attrib.), De electione situs lune in exibendis farmacis. 9v-10r
- Nasmith
- Compendium de existentia lunae in signis. 9v-10r
- Author
- Arnold of Villanova (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (9v) Quoniam medicus practicans non semper potest habere certa loca planetarum
- Explicit
- (10r) luna est in piscibus ubi est impedita
- Rubric
- (10r) Explicit compendium de existencia lune in signis
- Albumasar (Abu Ma'shar Ja'far) (attrib.), De secretis philosophorum. 10v-20v
- Nasmith
- Flores Albumazar de secretis philosophorum. 10v-20v
- Author
- Albumasar (Abu Ma'shar Ja'far) (attrib.)
- Incipit
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(10v) In nomine dei misericordie et pietatis. hic est liber quem collegit Albumazar de floribus philosophorum, etc.
(10v) Ilixit Albumazar oportet te scire - Explicit
- (20v) ipse est auxiliator. Amen
- Rubric
- (20v) Expliciunt flores Albumasar de secretis philosophorum
- Robert Grosseteste, De impressionibus aeris siue De prognosticatione. 20v-21r
- Nasmith
- Robertus Grostest Lincolniensis de prognosticatione aeris. 20v-21r
- Author
- Robert Grosseteste
- Incipit
- (20v) Cum circa(?) disposicionem aeris ad aliquod certum tempus
- Explicit
- (21r) tempus fore humidum
- Rubric
- (21r) Hec lincolniensis de pronosticacione aeris
- Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (Flos medicinae scholae Salerni). 21r-34v
- Nasmith
- Flos medicinae seu versus Salerni. 21r-34v
- Incipit
- (21r) Anglorum regi scripsit scola tota salerni
- Explicit
- (34v) que super renes pecten des fitque iuuamen
- Rubric
- (34v) Expliciunt versus Salerni
- Note
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See Dr N. Moore, Schola Salernitana (Finlayson Lecture), Glasgow 1908, p. 27
(34v) Verses on signa conceptus
(34v) Receipt for ptisana
- Antidotarium Nicholai in English. 35r-41v
- Nasmith
- A treatise of medicine or dispensatory by Nycolas. 35r-41v
- Author
- Nicholai
- Incipit
- (35r) I nycolas y prevyd of some men and felawes of practyce
- Note
- The antidotarium of Nicholaus in English, ending imperfectly in Electuarium leticia galieni
- Liber de Joseph et Aseneth. 42r-59v
- Nasmith
- De Asenath filia Potipharis sacerdotis et quo ordine accepit eam Joseph in uxorem. 42r-59v
- Note
- (42r) Title in red capitals
- Rubric
- (42r) Incipit de Asenech filia Putifaris sacerdotis et quo ordine accepit eam Ioseph in uxorem
- Incipit
- (42r) Et factum est in primo anno septem annorum
- Note
-
(42r) Purple initial
The edges have been much cropped, carrying away the upper or lower line in part - Explicit
- (59v) nuncupatus est pater eius in terra Egypti
- Note
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This text is printed in Batiffol, Studia Patristica I 1889, pp. 89-115: collated with the text of no. 288
This is the oldest copy of the text I have seen. If it is really of cent. xii, as seems likely, it is impossible that Robert Grosseteste should (as I have always been inclined to believe) have had a hand in the translation of the text from Greek into Latin
- Thomas de Frakaham OSA, Speculum spiritalis amicitiae. 60r-68v
- Nasmith
- Speculum spiritualis amicitiae. 60r-68v
- Author
- Thomas de Frakaham OSA
- Rubric
- (60r) Incipit liber qui dicitur speculum spiritualis amicitie
- Incipit
- (60r) Primum quid sit amicicia arbitror disserendum
- Explicit
- (68v) apud iustum et misericordem iudicem intercedat
- Rubric
- (68v) Explicit liber IIIus de spirituali amicicia. hanc compilacionem fecit dominus Thomas de frakaham canonicus de lesnes. compilauit autem hec de libris aluredi abbatis Reuallis, i. de speculo caritatis et de libro spiritualis amicicie
- Note
- Lesnes (or Westwood) was an Augustinian priory near Woolwich
- pseudo-Aelred of Rievaulx OCist, Speculum humilitatis. 68v-70v
- Author
- pseudo-Aelred of Rievaulx OCist
- Rubric
- (68v) Incipit liber qui dicitur speculum humilitatis
- Incipit
- (68v) Dominus noster Ihesu Christus dicit discipulis suis in ewangelio. Nolite in sublime tolli
- Explicit
- (70v) humilitatem exhibuit. beatus saluator Christus Ihesus qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen
- Note
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This tract is noticed in Bale's Index, pp. 470,480. In the former place it is ascribed to a monk of Syon. It occurs in the Syon Catalogue under S.43
(ir) The flyleaf is from a beautifully written xiith cent. copy of the Gospels containing part of Matt. xvi., xvii
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe. 1r-4r
- TJames
- 194
- Stanley
- N. 32
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/pm493kf4162
- MS 424
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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