Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 356: Richard of Wetheringsett, Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Petrus Comestor, Remigius of Auxerre and Glossarium
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The miscellany of texts in CCCC MS 356 are in three separate parts of various dates probably bound together in the sixteenth century or later. The first, dating from the second half of the thirteenth century, is the Summa Qui bene praesunt by Richard of Wetheringsett (fl. c. 1200-30), first recorded chancellor of Cambridge University at some time between 1215 and 1232. This text is also contained in CCCC MS 337. The second part, also of the thirteenth century, contains several texts including Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1141), De institutione nouiciorum, the De sex alis cherubim by Alain of Lille (d. 1202), but also attributed to Clement of Llanthony OSA (d. after 1169), and treatises on baptism and the mass. The third part is of the late tenth century and contains a Glossary of Latin words. In the margin of f. 20r in this section is a Sanctus with neumes.
- Contents
- Summa Qui bene praesunt -- De institutione nouiciorum -- De sex alis cherubim -- Sententiae de sacramentis -- Expositio missae (interpolated) -- Glossarium (Vocabularium)
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sb784qf8626/MS_356.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vz451cw6063/356.pdf
- Contains
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- Richard of Wetheringsett, Summa Qui bene praesunt. 1r-79v
- Nasmith
- Tractatus magistri R. [Ricardi Wetherseti] cancellarii de Cantebruge qui dicitur numerale. 1r-79v
- Author
- Richard of Wetheringsett
- Rubric
- (1r) Incipit tractatus magistri R. cancellarii de cantebruge qui dicitur numerale
- Incipit
- (1r) Qui bene presunt presbiteri duplici honore digni habeantur
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (79v) Hic ergo erit consummatus
- Rubric
- (79v) Explicit summa magistri Ricardi cancellarii de cantebruge que numerale dicitur
- Note
- Ascribed in MS 337. 5 to William de Montibus
- Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De institutione nouiciorum. 80r-87r
- Nasmith
- Tractatus magistri Hugonis de Sancto Victore de disciplina. 80r-87r
- Author
- Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA
- Rubric
- (80r) Incipit tractatus magistri hugonis de sancto uictore de disciplina
- Incipit
- (80r) Quia fratres largiente domino de uana conuersatione
- Note
- (P. L. CLXXVI 925)
- Explicit
- (87r) interim nos diximus bonitatem uero orate ut uobis det deus amen
- Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), De sex alis cherubim. 87r-88v
- James
- Alanus de Insula or Clement of Lanthony de sex alis cherubim. 87r-88v
- Author
- Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille)
- Rubric
- (87r) De vi alis quibus anima uolat ad deum, etc.
- Incipit
- (87r) Prima ala est confessio non laudis
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (88v) eternaque fruens beatitudine. Amen
- Note
- Often printed
- Petrus Comestor, Sententiae de sacramentis. 88v-102r
- Author
- Petrus Comestor
- Note
- In the second hand
- Rubric
- (88v) De sacramento baptismi
- Incipit
- (88v) Tractaturi de sacramentis uideamus quid sit sacramentum
- Note
- Ends
- Rubric
- (102r) de usu clauium
- Explicit
- (102r) ligandi et soluendi quia ueros non habet sacerdotes
- Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio missae (interpolated). 102r-109v
- Nasmith
- Expositio in celebratione missae a Remigio Altisiodorensi edita et sanctorum patrum summis et autoritate comfirmata. 102r-109v
- Author
- Remigius of Auxerre
- Rubric
- (102r) Incipit e(x)positio in celebratione misse a Remigio altisiodorensi edita et sanctorum patrum sententiis et auctoritate confirmata
- Incipit
- (102v) Celebratio misse in commemorationem passionis
- Explicit
- (109v) ecce agnus dei ecce qui tollit peccata mundi
- Note
- A short erasure follows
- Glossarium (Vocabularium). 110r-151r
- Nasmith
- Dictionarium quoddam seu explicatio vocum Latinarum difficiliorum. 110r-151r
- Note
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Haec excipit manu-Normanno-Saxonica scriptum
Glossary.I have not succeeded in identifying this text. - Incipit
- (110r) Abba Pater Ab iiulius mensis Ab augustus mensis Abdico alieno. respuo
- Note
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(110r) Fine initial in outline with patches of blue: interlaced lines discontinued at the intersections
A few early additions, and some in a hand of cent. xii. One such addition (in letter I - f. 125r) is Ymera. dies secundum vlvricum. Sperma semen
(128r) The hand seems to change near the beginning of M
In the lower margin of f. 20r in a hand of cent. xi (?) is the Sanctus with neumes
Initial to letter N in green (f. 130v). O in blue with a face (f. 131v)
In P is a break
(137r) Presagi diuini presciui futurorum Pressant premunt (added) Pubes barba iuvenum - Rubric
- (137r) GLOSAE
- Note
- (large red capitals)
- Incipit
- (137r) Actis factis Alumnis dilectis famulis uel seruis Attonitis intentis Ammonet rogat commonet
- Note
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(Col. 2)
(137r) Abagreca ethimologia a uescendo uocabulum sumpsit quasi fuga. fage enim grece dicitur comedere Adhibens consentiens prestans Albanum sucus de ferola
P is then resumed
(137r) Prescelides armillas pedum mulierum The insertion occupies two half-columns
The vellum of the 4-leaved quires (d, e, f) is very thick
Ends, col. 1 - Explicit
- (151r) Zografia pictura uel pictor Zós uita Zonarim cingulum Zelotipia dicitur foror cum rancore mentis accensus fuerit
- Note
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Col. 2
(151r) (A)leph mille uel doctrina ... (T)au mata dona concede ris ene prope o liuore uulnere (C)onsulere percunctare (U)surpat usu inlicita habet
On 42v in a sloping hand, a receipt
(151v) Ad omnes tumores. uentris. renium (?). lumborum. coxarum, etc. ... Dicitur autem glutis taurina
Added (xi, xii):
(151v) Sancte Caterine festum vacat et S. Andree et omnium apostolorum et ante omnes omnia S. Marie festa et S. Nicholai
- Richard of Wetheringsett, Summa Qui bene praesunt. 1r-79v
- TJames
- 311
- Stanley
- 3. 13
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Location
- MS 356
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