Description
Alternative title
Anselmi quaedam
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 284 + 4
Date created
[ca. 1300 - 1325]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 36 lines
Height (mm)
295
Width (mm)
205
Collation
a(4) 1(12)-24(12) (wants 7-9, 12).
Writing
in a fine hand
Foliation
ff. i-v + 1-285 + vi
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.
Research
Is this Bale's Opuscula Anselmi Cantuar. xx, in the list of his MSS. (Scriptt. Britt., p. 165)?
Additions
On f. iiv at top is: liber ad-se. us precii xxxs.
Decoration
The fore-edges are painted with shields. At top (a) lion rampant gules, (b) an effaced bearing, (c) lion rampant sable.On the front (a) fleur-de-lys apparently arg. on vert, (b) leopards, gules, (c) double-headed eagle displayed, sable. At bottom (a) arg. 3 chevrons gu., (b) cheeky of or(?) or arg. and vert, (c) quarterly arg. and gules a bend sable.
The decorative work is exceedingly good. Each tract has a large and fine initial in excellent English style in gold and colour: the partial borders are of very fine design.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- 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.
- 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
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