Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 083: Petrus Riga, Aurora. Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The first and last two folios of CCCC MS 83 contain part of a fine, fourteenth-century, glossed copy of Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae. The rest of the manuscript dates from the early thirteenth century, probably datable to 1208-16, and contains Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), Genealogia historiarum (Compendium ueteris testamenti) (also in CCCC MSS 29 and 437), an anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, De duodecim gradibus humilitatis, Alexander of Ashby OSA (d. by 1213), Comprehensio historiarum ueteris et noui testamenti, and Petrus Riga (d. 1209), Aurora, a late-twelfth-century verse commentary on, and summary of, the Bible. The book is notable for its illustrations in tinted drawing, as in the medallions containing Creation scenes and portraits of biblical figures and historical figures in the first text.
- Contents
- Genealogia historiarum -- De duodecim gradibus humilitatis -- Comprehensio historiarum ueteris ac noui testamenti -- Aurora
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dp381bj3437/MS_83.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wf501np1804/83.pdf
- Contains
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- Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum. 1r-7v
- Author
- Peter of Poitiers
- Note
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(1r) treats of the Creation. In the C. is a line of medallions: at the sides paragraphs of Historia, Allegoria, Moralis Sentencia. The medallions contain good drawings in outline washed with green, yellow and red
(1r) At top 1. Mandorla. Christ holds globe and blesses 2. Medallion. Christ seated holds crescent in R. hand, book in L. On L. are sun and cloud 3. Christ seated faces R. and points to cloud above: water beneath on R. 4. Seated: on L. are cloud and trees
(1v) 5. Seated faces R. Sun, moon and stars in sky 6. Seated blessing: birds on L. and water with fishes 7. Standing touches the head and hands of Adam who sits on L.: beasts also on L. 8. Standing creates Eve - Rubric
- (2r) Incipit compendium ueteris testamenti secundum magistrum petrum pictauiensem can(c)ellarium ecclesie parisiensis
- Incipit
- (2r) Considerans hystorie prolixitatem necnon et difficultatem
- Note
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(2r) A genealogy in medallions occupies great part of the page. Some of the medallions contain pictures: usually single figures or busts, viz.
(2r) 1. Adam and Eve, each stands in a conventional bush
(2v) 2. Noe: seated
(3r) 3. Thare
(3r) 4. Abraham, scroll and book
(3r) 5. Ysaac
(3v) 6. Jacob
(4r) 7. Esrom
(4r) 8. Aram
(4r) 9. Naason (half-length: long-nosed, looking up, grotesque)
(4v) 10. Salmon
(4v) 11. Saul rex (after this a gap)
(5r) 12. Amasias
(5v) 13. Josias
(6v) 14. Azor
(7r) 15. Eliud
(7r) 16. Joseph uir Marie
(7r) 17. Julius Cesar, a seated king
(7v) 18. Maria mater domini seated with crown and sceptre
(7v) 19. Christus natus: swaddled in manger
(7v) 20. Christus puer: in tub, between two women; one pours water over His head
(7v) 21. Christus passus: on the Cross
- De duodecim gradibus humilitatis. 8r-8v
- Note
- (8r) has a series of rhyming quatrains on the gradus humilitatis et superbie. The former begins at bottom on L.
- Rubric
- (8r) Incipit prefatio de XII. gradibus humilitatis
- Incipit
- (8r) Nolens tibi quippiam frater denegareCogor de duodecim gradibus tractare
- Note
- (8r) The gradus superbie descend from top, ending with
- Rubric
- (8r) Excusatio autoris super opere
- Explicit
- (8r) Credo tibi stephane uel nunc satisfeciDum et primis gradibus secundos adieciIn quo si quid aliter quam decet effeciFac donari ueniam. tu te donans preci
- Note
- f. 8v is blank
- Alexander of Ashby OSA, Comprehensio historiarum ueteris ac noui testamenti. 9r-25r
- Author
- Alexander of Ashby OSA
- Rubric
- (9r) Incipit proemium in libro compendii qui breuiter scribitur
- Incipit
- (9r) Laborem in ludum conuertit fructus
- Explicit
- (10v) frui colloquio
- Rubric
- (10v) Quomodo historie memoriter debeant retineri uersus sequentes docent
- Incipit
- (10v) Ut autem historie ueteris et noui testamenti etc.
- Note
- (10v) Eight lines: Incipiens ab adam quem plantauit deus etas ... Claudere fulgorem uespera nulla potest
- Rubric
- (10v) Incipit liber compendii. In primo uersus de Genesy. Incipit prima etas
- Incipit
- (11r) Ante dies omnes mundi fuit omnis in uno
- Note
- This epitome ends
- Rubric
- (24v) De cognitione dei et pace ecclesie
- Explicit
- (25r) Huc properemus eo pace fruemur ibi
- Petrus Riga, Aurora. 25r-246v
- James
- Petri de Riga Aurora. 25r-246v
- Author
- Petrus Riga
- Rubric
- (25r) Incipit proemium in libro qui dicitur aurora
- Incipit
- (25r) Frequens sodalium peticio
- Explicit
- (25r) totus refulgurat
- Rubric
- (25v) Incipit liber (proemium) magistri petri Canonici Beati Dionisii Remensis in librum qui intitulatur aurora etc.
- Incipit
- (25v) Primo facta die duo celum terra leguntur
- Note
- The books paraphrased are: Gen. - 4 Reg., Tobit, Esther, Judith, Daniel, 1, 2 Macc., ending
- Explicit
- (156r) cesar in aure tua
- Note
- (156v) Then follows Euuangelica Hystoria
- Incipit
- (156v) Post legem ueterem respira petre refulget
- Note
- ends
- Explicit
- (200r) Petrus finit et ipse suum
- Note
- (200r) Actus
- Incipit
- (200r) Dixi me finisse librum sed rursus in actus
- Note
- ends
- Explicit
- (215v) Denecat obque fidem detur [nobis] iob idem petre metrum
- Rubric
- (215v) Expliciunt actus apostolorum
- Note
- (215v) Iob
- Incipit
- (215v) Librum iob moysi quidam tribuere magistri
- Note
- ends
- Explicit
- (225v) compleuit fine decenti
- Note
- (225v) Cantica
- Incipit
- (225v) Solus origenes cum doctos uicerit omnes
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (246v) ueterum de germine natus
- Rubric
- (246v) Explicit liber in canticis canticorum
- Note
- The lower part of this leaf (f. 246r-246v) is cut off. It doubtless had a mark of ownership
- Peter of Poitiers, Genealogia historiarum. 1r-7v
- TJames
- 43
- Stanley
- E. 1
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/rb715wf5291
- MS 083
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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