Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 155: Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Miscellaneous Works

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 155: Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Miscellaneous Works
Alternate Title:
Anselmi quaedam
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 284 + 4
Dimensions:
295 Height (mm) and 205 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1325]
Provenance:
On f. 1r at top is a fairly old press-mark lined through, B. 44(?). I have conjecturally assigned these late but pre-Parkerian press-marks to Norwich. Omnes libri Anselmi in vno volumine.
Table of contents:
  • Monologion
  • Proslogion
  • Contra insipientem
  • De ueritate
  • De libertate arbitrii
  • De casu diaboli
  • De incarnatione Verbi
  • Cur Deus homo
  • De conceptu uirginali et de originali peccato
  • De processione spiritus sancti
  • De sacrificio azymi et fermentati
  • Epistola de sacramentis ecclesiae
  • Meditatio 3 de redemptione humana
  • De concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis
  • Orationes et meditationes
  • Deploratio uirginitatis male amissae
  • De grammatico
  • Oratio ad accipiendum corpus Domini et sanguinem
  • De similitudinibus
Description:
CCCC MS 155 is an early fourteenth-century manuscript containing many of the works of Anselm of Canterbury OSB (d. 1109), including his Proslogion, Monologion and Cur Deus homo. The manuscript is in a fine hand, with two illuminated historiated and many ornamental initials. The initial on the first folio, in gold and colour, contains a depiction of Anselm. James tentatively suggested a Norwich provenance, but this has been rejected by Ker. The book has fore-edge painting of heraldic shields, and is one of the best examples of this in the collection.
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