Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 441: Miscellaneous Theological, Penitential, Moral and Didactic Tracts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 441: Miscellaneous Theological, Penitential, Moral and Didactic Tracts
Alternate Title:
Miscellanea
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 2 + 96 + 175 + 1
Dimensions:
199 Height (mm) and 133 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Provenance:
The book is from Christ Church, Canterbury and occurs in Eastry's catalogue, no. 1420, Ancient Libraries, p. 120. R. de Weynchepe became Prior of Dover in 1268.
Table of contents:
  • Ars dilatandi sermones
  • De agno paschali
  • De pascha
  • De proprietatibus festivitatum
  • Liber poenitentialis
  • Treatise on Confession
  • De quatuor elementis
  • Tract on Vices and Virtues (extracts from Gregory the Great and Augustine)
  • Tractatus de corpore Domini
  • Tract on the Seven Sacraments
  • Testamenta XII patriarcharum
  • Contra curiales et officiales clericos siue De eruditione praelatorum
  • De morum institutione
  • Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis
  • Formula uitae honestae
  • Instructio nouiciorum secundum ecclesiae Cantuariensis
  • De passione et resurrectione Domini
  • Sermo de sabbato pasche
  • Euangelium Nicodemi
  • De ortu beatae Maria et infantia saluatoris
  • Miracle of the Virgin MaryHistoria sancte Marie de Sardenay
  • De canone missae
  • Questiones de sacramento altaris
  • De dominica oratione
  • Tract on the Apostles' Creed
  • Summa confessorum (extract)
  • Tract on Antichrist
  • Quindecim signa judicii
  • Parabolae
  • Exempla miscellany
  • Verses on seasons, temperament, bloodletting, mortal sins
  • Conflictus inter ducem et philosophum de natura hominis humana
  • Miraculous remedy for wounds (Tres boni fratres)
Description:
CCCC MS 441, made in the middle years of the thirteenth century, is one of the best examples in the Parker collection of a miscellany of short texts, thirty-four in all, which were often assembled for the needs of an individual patron. In this case the texts are penitential, moral, didactic and theological tracts, with some material also relating to sermons. The book belonged to Richard de Weynchepe, a monk, who became prior of the Benedictine priory of Dover in 1268, but the volume seems to have reverted to the library of Dover's mother house, Christ Church, Canterbury; it is listed in the early fourteenth-century catalogue of Christ Church library by Henry of Eastry.
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