Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 526: Spiritual and Devotional Tracts
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Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- This book is in an extremely fragile condition and it has not been possible for it to be imaged completely, save for the front and back cover exteriors, and ff. 1-211v, 250v, 251r. The binding is very tight in parts of the book and for some pages there has been some loss of focus in the deep gutter. CCCC MS 526 is part of the Elbing Collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine monastery at what is now Eblag in Poland by Richard Pernham in the early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many books of the collection. This volume is closely dated by the presence of a scribal colophon recording the year 1431 in one of the items (a letter by Jan van Ruusbroec), which date the rest of the manuscript must more or less share. Among the many devotional and theological texts in the manuscript are Henricus Suso OP (Heinrich Seuse, 1295-1366) Horologium sapientiae and Cursus de aeterna sapientia, Jan van Ruusbroec's (1293-1381) De Calculo (Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei) and De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum, both in the translation of Willem Jordaens, Hugo de Balma OCarth (fl. 1289-1304) Theologia mystica (De triplici uia), Thomas Aquinas OP (c. 1225-74) De perfectione spiritualis uitae and the De uita solitaria of Francesco Petrarca (1304-74). The 'kochemeister' mentioned on the back cover is possibly Michael Kuchmeister (fl. 1414-22) mentioned in Elbing records.
- Contents
- De xii gradibus humilitatis -- De mensuratione crucis -- Speculum consciencie et contemplationis -- De interiori domo (extract) -- Gratiarum acciones pro beneficiis -- Paradisus Spiritualis -- Horologium sapientiae -- Cursus de aeterna sapientia -- Prayers at Mass and to the Virgin -- Admonitio (fragment of Sermo 7) -- Epistola de modo studendi -- Exemplar Sancti Bernhardi -- Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei (transl. by Willem Jordaens) -- De septem gradibus contemplationis -- De essentia divinitatis -- De preparatoine domus animae -- Meditations -- Speculum humanae salvationis (Added texts on Passion and Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin Mary) -- Theologia mystica (De triplici via) -- Epistola super generibus exercitantum -- De perfectione spiritualis uitae -- Epistula ad Rusticum (ep. 125) -- De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum (transl. by Willem Jordaens) -- De uita solitaria
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xv (1431), etc.
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zw683hy4652/MS_526.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ns009ct1070/526.pdf
- Contains
-
- De xii gradibus humilitatis. 1r-12v
- James
- De xii gradibus humilitatis. 1r-12v
- Note
-
(Palma spiritualis: old list)
mutilated at the beginning
- pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB, De mensuratione crucis. 12v-18v
- Author
- pseudo-Anselm of Canterbury OSB
- Explicit
- (18v) ita ut alios eciam possit consolari. Amen
- Speculum consciencie et contemplationis. 18v-20v
- Rubric
- (18v) Incipit Speculum consciencie et contemplationis
- Incipit
- (18v) Si uis perfectus fieri stude
- Explicit
- (20v) lugendum et plorandum
- pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, De interiori domo (extract). 20v-22v
- James
- Bernhard de contemplacione. 20v-22v
- Author
- pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist
- Rubric
- (20v) De speculo consciencie et contemplacionis Bernhardi vel de contemplacione
- Incipit
- (20v) Uitam uniuscuiusque non cognoscit
- Explicit
- (22v) miratus regis potencia
- Gratiarum acciones pro beneficiis. 22v-27v
- Rubric
- (22v) Incipiunt gratiarum acciones pro beneficiis receptis a deo
- Incipit
- (22v) Sancte sanctorum potentissime
- Explicit
- (27v) te miserante valeam promereri. Amen
- Paradisus Spiritualis. 27v-56r
- Rubric
- (27v) Incipit liber qui dicitur Paradisus Spiritu(a)lis
- Incipit
- (27v) Paradisum spiritualem uniuersi describendo ymaginamur pratum
- Explicit
- (56r) tale edifica in te et ubi habites semper ora. Amen
- Rubric
- (56r) Explicit liber iste sit laus et gloria tibi Jesu Criste. Amen
- Henricus Suso OP, Horologium sapientiae. 56r-129r
- James
- Horologium sapientiae (Henricus Suso). 56r-129r
- Author
- Henricus Suso OP
- Incipit
- (56r) Sentite de domino in bonitate
- Explicit
- (127r) in decore suo conspicientes I. c. d. n. qui cum, etc.
- Note
-
Table of chapters to 98: then the note
(129r) Hyr ist nicht me. Amen - Rubric
- (129r) Explicit horlogium sapientie fratris A. ordinis predicatorum. E.
- Henricus Suso OP, Cursus de aeterna sapientia. 129r-131r
- James
- Hours of the Eternal Wisdom: in Latin. 129r-131r
- Author
- Henricus Suso OP
- Rubric
-
(129r) Quicunque desiderat sapienciam eternam familiarem sibi sponsam habere debet ei has horas cottidie deuote ... gere
(131r) Explicit cursus sapiencie que est Ihesus Christus
- Prayers at Mass and to the Virgin. 131r-146v
- Note
-
Three prayers
a.
(131r) At Mass. In presencia sanctissimi corporis
b.
To the Virgin. O sanctissima et gloriosissima
c.
(131v) To the Virgin. O gloriosissima et sublimis
ff. 133r-146v blank
- Caesarius of Arles, Admonitio (fragment of Sermo 7). 147r-147r
- Author
- Caesarius of Arles
- Note
- End of
- Explicit
- (147r) Amonicio S. Augustini per quam ostendit quam bonum sit leccionem diuinam legere
- Note
- (a little over a column)
- pseudo-Thomas Aquinas OP, Epistola de modo studendi. 147r-147r
- Author
- pseudo-Thomas Aquinas OP
- Rubric
- (147r) Sequitur exemplar S. Thome de Aquino missum cuidam fratri interroganti qualiter studio ac thesauro sciencie intendendum sit ad profectum
- Incipit
- (147r) Quia quesiuisti qualiter oporteat in thesauro sciencie
- Explicit
- (147r) attingere poteris quod affectas. Amen
- Rubric
- (147r) Sequitur aliud
- Exemplar Sancti Bernhardi. 147v-147v
- Rubric
- (147v) Exemplar S. Bernhardi. ... quemadmodum se habere debeant dum diuinis laudibus assistunt
- Incipit
- (147v) Vos ammoneo dilectissimi pure ac strenue
- Jan van Ruusbroec, Tractatus de perfectione filiorum Dei (transl. by Willem Jordaens). 147v-155v
- Author
- Jan van Ruusbroec
- Rubric
- (147v) Incipit tractatus de perfeccione filiorum dei
- Incipit
- (147v) Quicunque wlt venire in perfectissimo statu
- Explicit
- (155v) unum cum eo fiemus uti sum superius utcunque profatus ut nobis prestare dignetur trinus et unus. Amen
- Rubric
- (155v) Explicit tractatus de perfeccione filiorum dei
- pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, De septem gradibus contemplationis. 155v-157r
- Author
- pseudo-Bonaventure OFM
- Rubric
- (155v) Incipit tractatus de gradibus contemplacionis editus a fr. Bonaventura de ordine minorum
- Incipit
- (155v) Contemplatiuorum aquilinos obtutus
- Explicit
- (157r) manibus eburneis cont(r)ectauit S[otoyi, dominum nostrum I. C. qui est bened. in secula seculorum Amen
- Rubric
- (157r) Explicit tractatus, etc.
- pseudo-Augustine, De essentia divinitatis. 157r-160r
- Author
- pseudo-Augustine
- Rubric
- (157r) Incipit Jeronimus de membrorum Christi significacione
- Incipit
- (157r) Omnipotens pater et filius et spiritus Sanctus unus ac trinus
- Explicit
- (160r) videbimus eum sicut est. Tu autem domine, etc.
- Rubric
- (160r) Explicit liber beati Jeronimi de membrorum Christi significacione
- Note
- (160r) Scribbles in col. 2
- De preparatoine domus animae. 160v-211r
- Note
- (160v) Prologus
- Rubric
- (160v) Domine dilexi decorem domus tue et locum habitacionis glorie tue
- Incipit
- (160v) Glosa dicit hic .i. dilexi me facere decorem
- Explicit
- (160v) erexi humiliter et distinxi
- Note
-
(160v) Registrum
(160v) De preparacione aree domus anime .1....De tectis anime .31.
(160v) Text - Incipit
- (160v) Diligenter exerce agrum tuum
- Explicit
- (211r) uerus pacificus sit in secula benedictus. Amen
- Meditations. 211r-212v
- Note
- (211r) Meditations on
- Incipit
-
(211r) Natus est nobis hodie saluator
(212r) Verbum caro factum est
- Speculum humanae salvationis (Added texts on Passion and Joys and Sorrows of the Virgin Mary). 213r-219v
- Note
- (213r) The end of the Speculum Humane Saluationis
- Incipit
- (213r) In precedenti capitulo de intollerabili pena dampnatorum
- Note
- Ending f. 216v (ff. 217r-219v blank)
- Hugo de Balma OCarth, Theologia mystica (De triplici via). 220r-250r
- James
- De triplici via. 220r-250r
- Author
- Hugo de Balma OCarth
- Rubric
- (220r) Vie Syon lugent eo quod non sit qui vadit ... licet hoc uerbum dixit Jeremias propheta
- Incipit
- (220r) Triplex est igitur via ista
- Note
- Change of hand at f. 249r. Apparently ends f. 250r
- Jan van Ruusbroec, Epistola super generibus exercitantum. 250v-251r
- James
- Liber spiritualis vitae by J. Ruysbroeck. 250v-251r
- Author
- Jan van Ruusbroec
- Incipit
- (250v) Conflue ... jocunditate in dulcissimi
- Explicit
- (251r) filios vestras et filias in domino I. C. Amen
- Note
-
Johannes de Rustbrot [Ruscbrot] prior in viride valle totus vester in domino
Capp. XVIII
- Thomas Aquinas OP, De perfectione spiritualis uitae. 251r-266v
- Author
- Thomas Aquinas OP
- Rubric
- (251r) Incipit liber spiritualis vite perfeccionem et statum declarans quid sit auctoris intencio. Cap. I
- Incipit
- (251r) Quoniam quidam perfeccionis ignari
- Note
- Ends (cap. XXII)
- Explicit
- (266v) vicem eius agens qui est mediator dei et hominum homo Christus Ihesus qui est fons omnis perfeccionis Cui est gloria in secula seculorum. Amen
- Rubric
- (266v) Explicit libellus Thome de Aquino spiritualis vite perfeccionem et statum declarans
- Jerome, Epistula ad Rusticum (ep. 125). 266v-278v
- Author
- Jerome
- Rubric
- (266v) Sequitur ergo alius liber videlicet Epistola beati Jeronimi presbiteri ad Rusticum monachum Incipitur ergo iste
- Incipit
- (266v) Nichil est christiano felicius
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (271r) magna sunt premia. Amen
- Rubric
- (271r) Explicit epistola, etc.
- Note
- ff. 271v-278v blank
- Jan van Ruusbroec, De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarum (transl. by Willem Jordaens). 279r-312v
- Author
- Jan van Ruusbroec
- Rubric
- (279r) Incipit Epistola domini Johannis (Ruysbroeck) primi prioris vallis (viridis) ad fratres Carthosienses de Capella Rolamdi (Rosamundi: old list) in flandria super interpretacione libri sequentis
- Incipit
- (279r) Flagitastis fratres karissimi literis humilibus
- Explicit
- (279r) adoranciam obfecisse
- Rubric
-
(279r) Liber iste dicitur de ornatu spiritualium nupciarum et fundatur in verbis domini viz. Ecce sponsus venit exite obviam ei
(279v) Incipit prologus liber de ornatu spiritualium nupciarum - Incipit
- (279v) Ecce sponsus venit, etc. Expergiscemini prudentes virgines...Christus igitur dei virtus et sapiencia
- Note
-
Text much injured
Ends - Rubric
- (305v) Explicit ... us libri de ornatu spir. nup. et fundatur in verbis domini videlicet (?). Ecce-obuiam ei. Anno Milles. cccco Tricesimo primo
- Note
- ff. 306r-312v blank
- Francesco Petrarca, De uita solitaria. 313r-347r
- James
- Petrarcha de laude vite solitarie. 313r-347r
- Author
- Francesco Petrarca
- Note
- Prologus
- Incipit
- (313r) Paucos homines noui quibus opusculorum
- Explicit
- (313v) totam frontem serene tranquilleque rnentis aspicias
- Note
- Secundus prologus
- Incipit
- (314r) Credo generosum (?)
- Explicit
- (314v) et quod in illis vides in cunctis (?) estima
- Note
- (314v) Qualiter diues surgit media nocte
- Incipit
- (314v) Surgit occupatus infelix habitator urbium
- Note
- Qualiter solitarius surgit
- Incipit
- (314v) Surgit solitarius felix atque ociosus
- Note
-
(325v) Liber I ends
(346v) Liber II ends
(347r) Incomplete list of capitula
348r-348v and vellum flyleaf blank
- De xii gradibus humilitatis. 1r-12v
- Elbing
- N. 28
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
- Location
- MS 526
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