Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 314: Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Commentary on pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis. pseudo-Dionysius, Various Works. Thomas Gallus OSA, Commentaries
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 314: Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Commentary on pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis. pseudo-Dionysius, Various Works. Thomas Gallus OSA, Commentaries
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 314: Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Commentary on pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis. pseudo-Dionysius, Various Works. Thomas Gallus OSA, Commentaries
Alternate Title:
Dionysius Areopagita, etc.
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 2 + 195
Dimensions:
240 Height (mm) and 170 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1275 - 1325]
Provenance:
From St Augustine's, Canterbury. No mark remains, but the 2nd folio agrees.
Commentary on pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis
Carmina
De caelesti hierarchia
De diuinis nominibus
De mystica theologia
Epistulae
Extractio super quatuor libris Dionysii
Commentary on the Song of Songs
Commentary on the sequence Ad celebres rex celice
Commentary on Oleum effusum
Description:
CCCC MS 314 contains a number of texts pertaining to the mystical theology of pseudo-Dionysius, including Latin translations of his works on the Celestial Hierarchy and the Divine Names. The manuscript also contains commentaries on pseudo-Dionysius by Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 1096-1141) and Thomas Gallus (Vercellensis) OSA (d. 1246), as well as a number of other commentaries by Gallus, including one on the Song of Songs. The Latin translation of pseudo-Dionysius, De caelesti hierarchia is that by John Scotus Eriugena (9th century); the text also includes two poems by Eriugena, but they are textually corrupt and were not used for Herren's edition. The manuscript is of late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century date, and is from the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury.