Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 202: Symmachus, Epistolae. Glossed Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

Description

Alternative title
Symmachi Epistolae. Parabolae et Ecclesiastes glosati
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 3 + 28 + 71 + 1
Date created
[ca. 1175 - 1299]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
40 lines to a page
Height (mm)
268
Width (mm)
178
Collation
a(4) (wants 4) 1(8) 2(8) 3(12) || A(8) (+1*) B(8)-F(8) G(6) H(8) I(8), 1 flyleaf.
Writing
both well written
Foliation
ff. a-b + i-iii + 1-100 + c-d
2 fo.
his uicibus

Abstract/Contents

Summary
Sections of CCCC MS 202 date from the late twelfth century, and others from the thirteenth. In the first part of the manuscript, the thirteenth-century material includes seven lines of moral notes as well as the provisions of a Church Council relating to monastic affairs. The late twelfth-century material is largely Classical or Late Antique, including introductory material on Sidonius Apollinaris and Fulgentius, and the florilegium of the letters of Symmachus. The second part of the manuscript, possibly thirteenth century, contains a copy of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses.
Contents
Epistolae -- Glossed Proverbs -- Glossed Ecclesiastes

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xii late and xiii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sw712gh9703/MS_202.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:md808xj0161/202.pdf
Contains
  • Symmachus, Epistolae. ir-28v
    James
    Symmachi Epistolae. ir-28v
    Author
    Symmachus
    Note
    (ir) previously covered with paper
    f. iv blank
    (iir) Moral notes, some from Gregory (7 lines)
    (iiv) Provisions of a Council relating to monastic affairs, in two hands (xiii) beginning imperfectly
    Incipit
    (iiv) in sexta feria prime ebdomade .xl. in capitulis a suis prelatis excommunicati publice denuntient ... conspiratores autem omnes uocant qui inter se confederantur ad subuersionem ordinis
    Note
    Ends
    Explicit
    (iiv) ut de melioracione uel deterioracione monasterii reddantur cerciores
    Note
    (iiir) A hand of cent. xii late
    Incipit
    (iiir) Fulgentius afer genere scripsit ad catum
    Explicit
    (iiir) parcium certe bonarum pars magna fulgentius
    Incipit
    (iiir) Sidonius lugdunensis genere facit illius ciuitatis mentionem
    Explicit
    (iiiv) fuerunt anni lx. viiio
    Incipit
    (iiiv) Simmachus genere Romanus tempore Constantini
    Explicit
    (iiiv) et nunc nullo ueterum minor noster simmacus luxuriatur
    Note
    With f. 1r the volume properly begins
    Incipit
    (1r) Ne mihi uicio uertatur intermissio litterarum
    Note
    (Symmachi Epistolae 1 1)
    (1r) Initial in red and green. Subsequent initials in red and green alternately
    Very few addresses of letters are given. There are some on ff. 1r, 2r and others on ff. 17r sqq.
    The last two are Symmachi Epistolae IX 140, 141
    Incipit
    (28v) Prima mihi causa scribendi
    (28v) Postquam de freto ficulo litteras tuas sumpsi
    Note
    ending
    Explicit
    (28v) suffragii tui nisus adiuuerit. Vale
    Note
    This is the Florilegium of the Letters of Symmachus, of which many copies exist. It was used by Vincent (of Beauvais) in the Speculum Historiale. See the edition by Seeck in Mon. Germ. Hist., p. xxviii
  • Glossed Proverbs. 29r-76v
    James
    Parabolae glosatae. 29r-76v
    Note
    1r blank
    (29v) Prologue of Jerome (Jungat epistola) in a small hand
    (30r) The same in large hand. Initial in gold with red, blue and green filling
    Gloss
    Incipit
    (31r) Parabole salomonis affectu patris
    Note
    Text of Proverbs begins on f. 3v
    (31v) Large initial P with pale brown field: gold and colour. In the head of it, blue ground, Salomon (inscription in white capitals) throned holds up a roll and speaks to the young Rehoboam in red seated on R.
    Ends
    Gloss
    Explicit
    (76r) opera que fecit
    Note
    48v blank
  • Glossed Ecclesiastes. 77r-99v
    James
    Ecclesiastes glosatus. 77r-99v
    Note
    (77r) Ecclesiastes glossed
    Gloss
    Incipit
    (77r) Omnia uana canit rutilo sub sole secundus. Cui res est phisicas enumerare labor
    (77r) Omnia que a bono creata sunt
    Note
    (77r) Initial not inserted
    Ends
    Gloss
    Explicit
    (99r) recipiet unusquisque prout gessit
    Note
    (99v) A poem
    Incipit
    (99v) Fas et nephas ambulant pene passu pariProdugus non redimit uicium auariVirtus temperancie quadam singulariHabet medium ad utrumque uicium caute contemplari
    Explicit
    (99v) Si legisse memoras eticam catonisIn qua scriptum legitur 'ambula cum bonis' Cum ad dandi gloriam animum disponisSupra cetera prius hoc considera quis sit dignus donis
    Note
    Not printed
    (100r) The fly-leaf is blank
TJames
293
Stanley
T. 7
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/xq358rn9921
MS 202
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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