Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 518: Spiritual and Theological Tracts

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 518: Spiritual and Theological Tracts
Alternate Title:
[Untitled]
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 1 + 188 + 1
Dimensions:
280 Height (mm) and 209 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1376]
Provenance:
Mary Pernham on f. 1v.
Table of contents:
  • Quaestiones sententiarum Petri Lombardi
  • De diligendo Deo
  • De occultacione uiciorum sub specie uirtutum
  • Soliloquium de arra animae
  • Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus
  • De mensuratione crucis
  • Sermo de spiritu sancto
  • Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus (extracts)
  • De miseria humanae conditionis
  • Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis
  • Proslogion
  • Soliloquia animae ad Deum
  • Sermo de corpore Christi (De odore Christi)
  • Stimulus amoris
  • Paradisus animae
  • Incipits and explicits of various works
  • Tractatus de laude dei
  • Compendium ueritatis theologicae (extracts)
Description:
CCCC MS 518, made in Prague, is part of the Elbing collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine monastery at what is now Elblag near Gdansk Poland by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) in the early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many books of the collection. Like many manuscripts in this collection, this codex consists of a collection of devotional and theological tracts copied in a number of late fourteenth-century hands. These include extracts from the Compendium ueritatis theologicae by Hugo Ripelinus (Hugh of Strasbourg) OP (c. 1200-68), Soliloquium de arra animae by Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 1096–1141), the De occultatione uitiorum sub specie uirtutum and Tractatus de quatuor instinctibus attributed to Heinrich von Friemar (Henricus de Frimaria) OESA (1250-1340), the De miseria humanae conditionis by Innocent III (1160/61-1216), and the Quaestiones sentenciarum by Petrus de Aquila OFM (d. 1361), a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (c. 1095-1160). This last item ends with a note that it was written in Prague in 1376.
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