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Alternative title

Summa Thomae Salisburiensis

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 1 + 96

Date created

[ca. 1200-1299]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

double columns of 38 lines

Height (mm)

181

Width (mm)

124

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8)-12(8).

Writing

well written

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-96

Additions

The lyleaf is pasted over on both sides. It is irregularly written, of cent. xii or xiii: part of Isa. i is legible on the recto.

2 fo.

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Summary

The main text in CCCC MS 455 is the Summa de arte praedicandi of Thomas of Chobham (d. after 1233), subdean of Salisbury Cathedral and also known as Thomas of Salisbury. This is a treatise on preaching, and it is followed by Thomas's sermon for Palm Sunday (Sermo XXIII). At the end of the manuscript there are antiphons for St Edmund the Martyr with musical notation on a four-line stave, and also a few charms. The book was written in the thirteenth century.

Contents

Summa de arte praedicandi -- Sermo 23 for Palm Sunday -- Antiphons for St Edmund -- Charms

M.R. James Date

xiii

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nj902xx0236/MS_455.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nt103mz1605/455.pdf

Contains

• Thomas of Chobham, Summa de arte praedicandi. 1r-89v

  Author

  Thomas of Chobham

  Rubric

  (1r) Summa de arte predicandi

  Incipit

  (1r) Humane nature conditio secundum geminam sui comp'am triplici subiacet infortunio

  Note

  The sections are numbered in a late hand up to 106: the last is

  Rubric

  (89r) de epilogo philosophi in oratione sua

  Explicit

  (89v) Sicut etiam beatus paulus omnes epistolas suas in oratione conclusit et nos in conclusione presens opuscidum (-culum) concludamus

  Rubric

  (89v) Explicit summa de arte predicandi quam fecit magister thomas de salesbiriensi

  Note

  This copy is mentioned by Tanner. He is uncertain whether the author is the same as Thomas of Chabeham or Cobham, subdean of Sarum and author of a penitential Summa

• Thomas of Chobham, Sermo 23 for Palm Sunday. 89v-96r

  James

  Sermons. 89v-96r

  Author

  Thomas of Chobham

  Incipit

  (89v) Hyems transit ymber abiit, etc. Hec idem dicit gregorius in omelia quod ideo uoluit dominus mori et resurgere in tempore ueris

  Rubric

  (93v) Sermo in ramis palmarum

  Incipit

  (93v) Iam hyems transit et ymber abiit, etc. fratres legitur in ecclesiastico litera talis est ne reuerearis proximum, etc.

  Note

  Another hand

  Rubric

  (94v) Auctoritates

  Incipit

  (94v) Beatus est qui diuinas scripturas legens uerba uertit in opera

  Note

  On f. 96r two paragraphs neatly written
  a.

  Rubric

  (96r) Io. crisostomus

  Incipit

  (96r) Intrantes uiderunt matrem eius et puerum

  Note

  b.

  Rubric

  (96r) Philipus de greue

  Incipit

  (96r) Domine quis habitabit ... prius factum est a moyse tabernaculum

  Note

  (96r) Miscellaneous short notes

• Antiphons for St Edmund. 96v-96v

  Note

  On f. 96v (pasted over)
  a.

  Rubric

  (96v) Antiphone beati edmundi solummodo ubi humatus est. Ad vesp. ant. cantantur (?)

  Incipit

  (96v) Custodi nos in noctibus edmundi precum munere

  Note

  (96v) Music on four-line stave

• Charms. 96v-96v

  James

  Charms. 96v-96v

  Note

  b.
  (96v) Ad dolorem dencium. In nomine patris, etc. + on + on + on, etc.
  (96v) Contra satanam (?) demon. In nomine, etc. oy. loy. iodoloy, etc.
  (96v) Contra uenenum (?)

TJames

258

Stanley

Q. 3

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 455

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