Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 470: Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory, Office of the Virgin, Litany, Prayers. Hildebert of Lavardin, De mysterio missae. Lawrence of Durham OSB, Hypognosticon. Osbert of Bawdsey, De expugnatione Lysbonensi. Sermon, Ab oriente uenerunt magi
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- Four separate volumes containing a variety of texts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries have been bound together as CCCC MS 470. The contents includes a Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory, an Office of the Virgin, litany and prayers of uncertain use, Hildebert of Lavardin (1056-1133), De mysterio missae, Lawrence of Durham OSB (d. 1154), Hypognosticon (a work on salvation history covering both the Old and New Testaments), and Osbert of Bawdsey (fl. mid-twelfth century), De expugnatione Lysbonensi, the account of the expulsion of the Muslim garrison from Lisbon in 1147. The book has the press mark of Norwich Cathedral Priory and must have been part of its library.
- Contents
- Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory -- Office of the Virgin, Litany, Prayers -- De mysterio missae -- Hypognosticon -- De expugnatione Lysbonensi -- Sermon, Ab oriente venerunt magi
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xii late and xiii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:mk845fn9308/MS_470.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vf301qj2680/470.pdf
- Contains
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- Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory. 1r-12v
- Nasmith
- Calendarium. 1r-12v
- Note
-
(1r) Kalendar in red and black (xiv early?). Each month occupies a leaf and has elaborate tables of the Cycles. January and February are at the end
(1r) MarchAdrian, Perpetua, Geretrudis, Cuthbert, addedCuthbert is actually in the original hand 24 Passio S. Willelmi, red
(2r) AprilPetri Martyris, added
(3r) May 7 Domiciani, added 11 Engulphi, added 13 Seruacii, added 19 Dunstan, original 20 Ethelbert, original 28, 29, 31 Germanus, Maximus, Petronilla, added
(4r) June 1 Nicodemus (!) = Nicomede, added Bonefacii, Medardi, added 25 Gallicani, added 27 vii dormientes, added Botulph, Alban, Etheldreda, original
(5r) July 19 Wilgefortis, added: in margin Vncumbyr 26 Anna, added 31 Neoti, Germani, original
(6r) AugustOswald, Taurinus, originalClara, added
(7r) September 16 Transl. S. reliquiarum, original 24 Dedic. eccl. norwyc. red with octave
(8r) October 6 Fidei, red 7 Osithe 13 Edwardi, added 17 Transl. S. Etheldrede, original
(9r) November 16 Edmundi C. red 17 added : Anian. Gengoul 20 Emundi reg., red
(11r) January 15 Boniti et maur. orig.: marg. added: Maka, Antony, Martha, Emerenciana, Timothy, Polycarp, Valerius, Radegund
(12r) February 2 Brigide, added 5 Gilberti, added Also Vedast, Helen, Sotheris, Faustinus, Iuliana, and (26) Augustine
The additions seem to betray the hand of a foreigner
- Office of the Virgin, Litany, Prayers. 13r-23v
- Note
- (13r) Daily offices
- Rubric
- (13r) Ante matutinas
- Incipit
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(13r) Ad dominum cum tribularer
(13r) Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui facis mirabilia solus - Rubric
- (13r) Matutinas de Sancta Maria
- Incipit
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(13r) Hymn. Quem terra
(13r) Antiphon. Benedicta tu - Note
- (13v) Lectio I
- Incipit
- (13v) O beata maria quis tibi digne ualeat
- Note
- (13v) Lectio II
- Incipit
- (13v) Admitte piissima
- Note
- (13v) Lectio III
- Incipit
- (13v) Sancta maria succurre
- Note
- (14r) Capitulum in Lauds
- Incipit
- (14r) Sancta et immaculata
- Note
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(14r) Memoriae in Lauds
(14v) Augustine as confessor
(15v) After Prime the Litany
Martyrs: Edmunde, Albane, Wlfade, Dionisi, Maurici, etc.
Confessors: Remigi, Audoene, Germane, Iuliane, Aug. cum soc., Cuthberte, Ceadda, Swithune, Benedicte, Jeronime, Leonarde, Egidi
Virgins: none English
Wlfadus was honoured at Peterborough
(17v) Tierce
(19r) After Compline: - Rubric
- (19r) Oratio in parasceue ante crucem
- Incipit
- (19r) Domine Ihesu Christe fili dei uiui qui precepto patris nostre carnis infirma suscipiens
- Rubric
- (20v) Oratio Anselmi Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis
- Incipit
- (20v) Omnipotens deus et misericors pater
- Rubric
- (20v) Oratio Sancti Augustinni ante lectionem uel predicationem
- Incipit
- (20v) Deus lux mentium expelle a me stulticie noctem
- Rubric
- (21r) Oratio Sancti Ambrosii
- Incipit
- (21r) Christe pater misericordiarum
- Rubric
- (21r) Oratio uenerabilis Bede presbyteri
- Incipit
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(21r) Domine deus qui es uera et eterna
(21v) Omnipotens sempiterne deus respice propicius preces ecclesie tue - Note
- ff. 22r-23v blank
- Hildebert of Lavardin, De mysterio missae. 24r-35v
- Nasmith
- Hildebertus, de missa. 24r-35v
- Author
- Hildebert of Lavardin
- Note
- (24r) Hildebertus super missam. A smaller hand
- Incipit
- (24r) Scribere proposui quid mistica sacra priorum
- Note
- (P. L. CLXXI 1177)
- Explicit
- (35r) Cum pater ad dextram cedit. et explet opus
- Rubric
- (35r) Explicit
- Note
- (35v) blank
- Lawrence of Durham OSB, Hypognosticon. 36r-124v
- Nasmith
- Laurentii Dunelmensis hypognosticon ad Gervasium. 36r-124v
- Author
- Lawrence of Durham OSB
- Rubric
- (36r) Yponosticonlaurencii du(ne)lmensis de ueteri et nouo testa- mentis. Incipit liber primus
- Incipit
- (36r) Principium rerum sine tempore tempora formans
- Note
- (124v) Liber IX ends
- Explicit
- (124v) Noster et iste liber qui primum cepit ab ipso. Completus per eum desinat hic in eo
- Rubric
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(124v) Explicit iste liber sit laus tibi summe magister
(124v) Explicit liber laurencii dunelmensis - Note
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The prologue and some excerpts were edited with other works of Laurence's for the Surtees Society in 1880 by J. Raine
On the last few leaves of it are many grammatical verses and notes in various hands
(124v) note on Alleluia
Grammatical verses
- Osbert of Bawdsey, De expugnatione Lysbonensi. 125r-146v
- Nasmith
- Expeditio Francorum Anglorum et variarum nationum ad obsidendum Ulissipona in Portugallia, tempore Hildefonsi regis per Osbernum. 125r-146v
- James
- Osbernusde expugnatione Lyxbonensi. 125r-146v
- Author
- Osbert of Bawdsey
- Incipit
- (125r) Osbernus de Baldreseie R. salutem. Qualiter circa nos habeatur
- Explicit
- (146r) luctus eorum in gaudium. ut cognoscant te solum deum uiuum et uerum et quem misisti Ihesum Christum filium tuum qui uiuis et regnas per omnia secula seculorum. Amen
- Note
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Printed from this, the only extant copy, perhaps the author's autograph, by Stubbs Memorials of Richard I, I cxlii-clxxxii
(146v) blank
- Sermon, Ab oriente venerunt magi. 147r-149v
- Note
- (147r) A sermon in another good hand
- Rubric
- (147r) Ab oriente uenerunt magi in bethleem adorare deum
- Incipit
- (147r) Dominus nobiscum sit et deducat nos per uias rectas
- Note
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(149r) Note from Gregory's Pastoralis and another
(149v) blank
- Kalendar of Norwich Cathedral Priory. 1r-12v
- TJames
- 74
- Stanley
- G. 13
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/sg012cr8689
- MS 470
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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