Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 312: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Works on St Augustine of Canterbury
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 312 is what might be termed a "Libellus Sancti Augustini", a book of hagiographical material concerning St Augustine of Canterbury, predominantly by Goscelin of Canterbury OSB (d. after 1114), formerly a monk of St Bertin. Goscelin came to England either shortly before or shortly after the Norman Conquest, later becoming a monk of St Augustine's Canterbury, and had a flourishing career as a hagiographer, especially of native English saints. He wrote a number of works for the translations of major Canterbury saints in 1091, including these St Augustine texts. This manuscript was written in the mid-twelfth century, and includes liturgical material with music. Like CCCC MS 50 it seems to have been owned by someone called Bachon, who wrote his name in it accompanied by a little flower, before it came into the hands of Parker.
- Contents
- Historia maior de aduentu Sancti Augustini -- Historia maior de miraculis Sancti Augustini -- Sermo in festiuitate Sancti Augustini -- Historia minor de aduentu Sancti Augustini -- Historia minor de miraculis Sancti Augustini -- Lections and prayers for the feast of St Augustine
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xi-xii
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cm308vw7971/MS_312.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qc344wb5323/312.pdf
- Contains
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- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Historia maior de aduentu Sancti Augustini. 1-104
- Nasmith
- Gocelini historia major de vita et virtutibus S. Augustini Anglorum apostoli, et de adventu ipsius sociorumque ejus in Britanniam. 1-104
- Author
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin
- Note
-
(1) At top in Parker's red chalk: Historia maior
(1) Title in red capitals - Rubric
- (1) Incipit Epistola in vitam Sancti Augustini anglorum apostoli
- Note
- (1) In green and red capitals
- Incipit
- (1) Dominis karissimis et paterne dilectionis filiis ecclesie Sancti Augustini cum suo reuerendo monasteriarcha
- Note
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(1) In margin added in cent. xii, in red letters in a blue frame, Epistola magistri Gocelini
(3) Five lines of f. 2 (p. 3) are re-written in cent. xii-xiii - Explicit
- (4) et seruicii deuoti quamuis ingrati
- Rubric
- (4) Explicit epistola
- Note
- (4) Capitula, partly re-written (xii-xiii)
- Rubric
- (9) Incipit libellus de vita et uirtutibus Sancti Augustini anglorum apostoli et de aduentu ipsius sociorumque eius in Brittanniam
- Incipit
- (9) Potentissimus triumphator mundialis tiranni
- Note
- Acta SS., May 26. Mabillon, Acta SS. O.S.B. I 485. Migne, P.L. LXXX 43
- Explicit
- (104) sequens libellus enarrabit. qui per omnia secula regnans semper in sanctis se mirabilem ostendit
- Rubric
- (104) Explicit vita Sancti Augustini Anglorum apostoli
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Historia maior de miraculis Sancti Augustini. 104-187
- Nasmith
- Ejusdem historia major de miraculis S. Augustini. 104-187
- Author
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin
- Rubric
- (104) Incipit capitula miraculorum Sancti Augustini (xxix)
- Incipit
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(104) I. De raptore pallii etc.
(107) Cum Danorum adhuc exercitus paganorum Doroberniam obsideret - Explicit
- (187) cuius tam ueracia ostendit uaticinia. Benedicta domini gloria in sancto suo ubique operantis mirabilia
- Rubric
- (187) Explicit liber miraculorum Sancti Augustini
- Note
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(187) [Pencilled in lower margin: Bachon (or Bachoun, followed by a little flower).]
Mabillon, l. c. 521. Acta SS., May 26, p. 397
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Sermo in festiuitate Sancti Augustini. 187-212
- Nasmith
- Ejusdem sermo in festivitate S. Augustini Anglorum apostoli. 187-212
- Author
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin
- Rubric
- (187) Sermo in festiuitate Sancti Augustini Anglorum apostoli
- Incipit
- (188) Preclara diei presentis solemnitas fratres karissimi immensa nobis
- Explicit
- (212) electorum societate perpetuo regnatura. qui cum patre et spiritu sancto uiuit et regnat deus per omnia secula seculorum. Amen
- Note
- Hardy I, p. 200. Also in Vesp. B. xx.
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Historia minor de aduentu Sancti Augustini. 212-255
- Nasmith
- Ejusdem historia minor de adventu beatissimi Anglorum apostoli Augustini sociorumque ejus in Britanniam et de ipsius virtutibus. 212-255
- Author
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin
- Rubric
- (212) Incipit prephatio sequentis operis
- Note
- (xii)
- Rubric
-
(213) Historia minor (Parker)
(213) Prephatio domini Gocelini - Note
- (xii)
- Incipit
- (213) Omnibus piis ecclesiarum anglie patribus quidam infimus
- Explicit
- (214) contra improbos studeant celebrare
- Rubric
-
(214) Explicit prefatio
(214) Capitula (41)
(217) Incipit libellus de aduentu Beatissimi anglorum apostoli Augustini sociorumque eius in britanniam et de ipsius uirtutibus - Note
- (xiii)
- Incipit
- (217) Fortem armatum cuius atrium mundus
- Note
- Wharton, Anglia Sacra II 51
- Explicit
- (255) solariter prelucerent
- Rubric
- (255) Explicit uita Sancti Augustini Anglorum apostoli
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Historia minor de miraculis Sancti Augustini. 255-271
- Nasmith
- Ejusdem historia minor de miraculis S. Augustini. 255-271
- Author
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin
- Rubric
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(255) Incipit capitula miraculorum Sancti Augustini (23)
(257) Incipit miracula Sancti Augustini post eius sidereum triumphum declarata - Incipit
- (257) Ab exercitu danorum fugatis omnibus
- Explicit
- (271) quo animal suum tutaretur deliberauit
- Note
- Hardy I 197
- Lections and prayers for the feast of St Augustine. 272-300
- Nasmith
- Lectiones et preces in festis S. Augustini. 272-300
- Rubric
- (272) In natali Sancti Augustini anglorum apostoli (lectio prima)
- Incipit
- (272) Anno ab incarnatione domini quingentesimo octogesimo secundo mauricius ab augusto
- Explicit
- (277) auxiliante domino qui uiuit et regnat per omnia secula seculorum
- Note
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(277) Die II-VI lectiones 3
(284) Dominica infra octavas. lectt. 8
(288) Ultima octauorum lectt. 8 - Explicit
- (293) ubi in eterna memoria celestis regni depositum thesaurizauit
- Note
- (294) Responses etc. with music on four-line stave
- Incipit
- (294) Regnas augustine augustis seculi sullimior
- Note
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These lections etc. occur also in MS. Lambeth 159
(296) In another hand (xii) - Rubric
- (296) In vigilia Sancti Augustini oratio
- Incipit
- (296) Concede...uenturam beati augustini confessoris tui
- Rubric
- (296) In die oratio
- Incipit
- (296) Deus qui nos ueneranda festiuitatis hodierne solennia
- Note
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Five other collects follow
pp. 298-300 blank
on p. 300 is pasted a slip inscribed (xv)
(300) Anglis et apostole presulAugustine pater pie presul apostole noster | Augustine pater meritis nos protege semperLaus tibi pro meritis auxiliare tuis | Sub pietatis ope pie pastor ouile tuere
(300) There is also the name Suorder (xvi)
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Historia maior de aduentu Sancti Augustini. 1-104
- TJames
- 90
- Stanley
- H. 10
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/tr552jm2166
- MS 312
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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