Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 177: Jacobus de Cessolis OP, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scaccorum. Miscellany of Moral, Devotional, Theological, Historical and Medical Tracts
- Title:
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 177: Jacobus de Cessolis OP, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scaccorum. Miscellany of Moral, Devotional, Theological, Historical and Medical Tracts
- Alternate Title:
- Iac. de Cessolis. Miscellanea
- Language:
- Latin
- Extent:
- ff. 1 + 191
- Dimensions:
- 292 Height (mm) and 203 Width (mm)
- Approximate Date:
- [ca. 1400 - 1499]
- Table of contents:
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- Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scaccorum
- Index of Liber de moribus hominum
- Modus et scientia ludi scaccorum
- Communiloquium sive Summa collationum ad omne genus hominum (extract)
- Epistola 256
- De dispensatione domus
- Narrationes devotae (some from Gregory the Great, Dialogi)
- Formula uitae honestae
- De morum institutione
- Historia Griseldis
- Epistola de moribus et honesta uita
- Meditatio unde uiuit anima et unde uiuit caro (medit. 5)
- Meditationes
- Aduersus Iouinianum (excerpt)
- Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum ne ducat uxorem (De nugis curialium, dist. 4, 3-5)
- De ebrietate
- Epistulae morales (83, 16)
- Sermo de honestate mulierum
- De XII abusiuis saeculi (De duodecim abusionum gradibus)
- De claustro animae (excerpt)
- Vita Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis
- Miracle of St Augustine of Canterbury
- Breuiloquium de uirtutibus antiquorum principum et philosophorum
- Epistula de transitu sancti Hieronymi (ep. 18)
- Epistula ad Augustinum de transitu sancti Hieronymi
- Compendium in Iob
- De officio militari
- De transfiguratione Domini
- De conuersione Sancti Pauli
- Commentary on Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum
- De schismatibus
- Dialogus inter uinum et aquam
- Verses on biblical names (Historia biblica)
- Defensio fratrum mendicantium
- Crux est denarii potens in saeculo
- Conflictus corporis et animae
- Fabulae
- Historia regum Britanniae (extract)
- Chronica bona et compendiosa de regibus Angliae
- Catalogus pontificum Romanorum
- Catalogue of royal saints of England
- List of persons who assisted William the Conqueror in the invasion of England
- Thomus (extract)
- De sacramentis legis naturalis et scriptae dialogus
- De corpore et sanguine Domini
- Elucidarius
- De nominibus apostolorum
- Cur mundus militat sub vana gloria
- Disputatio inter cor et oculum
- Verses on Death
- Speculum miseriarum senectutis
- De aetatibus hominis
- Speculum peccatoris
- De regimine sanitatis
- Medical note on gradus
- Liber de conseruatione corporis humani (transl. by Arnold of Villanova)
- Commentum super regimen Salernitanum
- Description:
- CCCC MS 177 is a miscellany of over fifty moral and other tracts copied in the second half of the fifteenth century. The material ranges from the pseudo-Senecan Formula uitae honestae, now commonly attributed to Martin of Braga (c. 515-80), a group of Aesop's Fables, poems once attributed to Walter Map (c. 1140-1210 such as Disputatio inter cor et oculum, and a Latin translation of Abu al-Malik ibn Ali al-Ala Ibn Zuhr's De regimine sanitatis. Walter Map's Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum ne uxorem ducat is accompanied in this manuscript by a Commentary on the Epistola by John Ridewall OFM (d. after 1340). It has been conjectured that this manuscript was once in the possession of the historian John Bale (1495-1563), from whom it may have passed to Parker, but this is not certainly established.