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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 316: Works by Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Augustine, Alexander of Canterbury OSB, and others

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 316: Works by Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Augustine, Alexander of Canterbury OSB, and others

Description

Alternative title
Hugo super Dionysium. Augustini quaedam. Anselmi quaedam, etc.
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 3 + 216 + 1 + 1
Date created
[ca. 1200 - 1225]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
36 lines to a page
Height (mm)
240
Width (mm)
162
Collation
3 flyleaves, I(8)-XVIII(8) (wants 7, 8) XIX (one) | gap | XXXIV(10) XXXV(12) XXXVI(8) XXXVII(12) (+2) XXXVIII(8) (+2) XXXIX(12) XL(8) (wants 8), 1 flyleaf.
Writing
in a very good regular hand
Foliation
ff. i-iv + 1-216 + v-vi
Provenance
On top of the last flyleaf (f. vr): De communitate conuentus fratrum ordinis predicatorum London. below which is an erasure (cf. MS 299, MS 306).
f. iiir is a bit of a deed of 1515 in the name of Thomas Godsalve, Public Notary of Norwich diocese (cf. MS 166), mentioning Richard (Nykke) Bishop of Norwich. His notarial mark and device Veritas liberabit iustos are on the margin.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
The ex libris inscription of this thirteenth-century manuscript gives it a provenance at the Dominican convent, London. However, on f. ivr is a fragment of a deed, dated to 1515, in the name of the public notary of Norwich diocese, suggesting that the manuscript may have been in Norwich in the early sixteenth century. The manuscript contains Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA (c. 1096-1141) on the Celestial Hierarchy by pseudo-Dionysius, as well as numerous texts by Augustine, pseudo-Augustine, Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), Jerome, Drogo of Laon (fl. c. 1100) and others. The final section of the manuscript is the only extant copy of the first recension of Alexander of Canterbury (fl. 1100-1110), Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi.
Contents
Commentary on pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis -- De sacramentis legis naturalis et scriptae dialogus -- De moribus ecclesiae catholicae -- De moribus manicheorum -- Contra epistulam manichaei -- De opere monachorum -- De fide ad Petrum -- De quatuor uirtutibus caritatis (sermo 106) -- De doctrina christiana -- Sermo ad iuuenes -- Epistola 127 -- Sermo de X chordis (sermo 9) -- Sermo de decem praeceptis et decem plagis Aegypti (sermo 100a) -- De spiritu et anima -- Sermones de poenitentia (sermones 351 and 393) -- De differentiis rerum -- De morum institutione -- De clementia -- De natura et origine animae, book 1 -- De natura et origine animae, book 2 -- De natura et origine animae, book 3 -- De diuersis quaestionibus LXXXIII -- Liber de diuinis officiis -- Formulae spiritualis intelligentiae (excerpt) -- Etymologiae (excerpt on paradise and its rivers from book 14) -- Epistula ad Euangelum presbyterum de Melchisedech (epistola 73) -- Notes from Scripture on the Wisdom of Solomon -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension) -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued -- Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued (De miraculis)

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xiii (early)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xb346mg5177/MS_316.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jc963dd5188/316.pdf
Contains
  • Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, Commentary on pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis. 1r-63v
    Nasmith
    Dyonisius Areopagita de angelica hierarchia cum commentario [Hugonis de Sancto Victore?]. 1r-63v
    James
    Hugo on the Hierarchy of Dionysius. 1r-63v
    Author
    Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA
    Incipit
    (1r) Iudei signa querunt
    Note
    (P. L. CLXXV 923)
    Rubric
    (3v) Liber expositionis primus
    Incipit
    (3v) Primus liber dionisii
    Explicit
    (63v) sanctitas condescendit
  • Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA, De sacramentis legis naturalis et scriptae dialogus. 63v-71r
    Nasmith
    Hugonis de Sancto Victore didascalion. 63v-71r
    Author
    Hugh of Saint-Victor OSA
    Rubric
    (63v) Anima
    Incipit
    (63v) Quid fuit priusquam mundus fieret
    Note
    (P. L. CLXXVI 17)
    Explicit
    (71r) si bene grates
  • Augustine, De moribus ecclesiae catholicae. 71v-81r
    Nasmith
    Aurelii Augustini, oratoris eximii, Hipponensis episcopi de moribus catholicae ecclesiae. 71v-81r
    James
    Extract from Retractations. 71v-81r
    Author
    Augustine
    Note
    Text
    Incipit
    (72r) In aliis libris satis opinor
    Note
    (P. L. XXXII 1309)
  • Augustine, De moribus manicheorum. 81r-90v
    Nasmith
    Liber ejusdem de moribus Manichaeorum. 81r-90v
    James
    De moribus manicheorum (ibid.). 81r-90v
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (81r) Nulli esse arbitror dubium
  • Augustine, Contra epistulam manichaei. 90v-100r
    Nasmith
    Liber ejusdem contra epistolam Manichaei quem vocant fundamentum fidei. 90v-100r
    James
    Extract from Retractations. 90v-100r
    Author
    Augustine
    Note
    Text
    Incipit
    (90v) Unum uerum deum
    Note
    (P. L. XLII 173)
  • Augustine, De opere monachorum. 100r-108v
    Nasmith
    Liber ejusdem de opere monachorum. 100r-108v
    Author
    Augustine
    Note
    (100r) Prologue
    Incipit
    (100r) Ut de opere monachorum
    Note
    (P. L. XL 547)
    Incipit
    (100r) Iussioni tue sancte frater aureli
  • Fulgentius of Ruspe (pseudo-Augustine), De fide ad Petrum. 108v-116v
    Nasmith
    Liber ejusdem de fide ad Petrum. 108v-116v
    Author
    Fulgentius of Ruspe (pseudo-Augustine)
    Incipit
    (108v) Epistolam fili petri
    Note
    (P. L. XL 573)
  • pseudo-Augustine (perhaps Quoduultdeus), De quatuor uirtutibus caritatis (sermo 106). 116v-118v
    Nasmith
    Sermo ejusdem de quatuor virtutibus caritatis. 116v-118v
    Author
    pseudo-Augustine (perhaps Quoduultdeus)
    Incipit
    (116v) Desiderium caritatis
    Note
    (P. L. XLVII 1127)
  • Augustine, De doctrina christiana. 118v-120v
    Nasmith
    Sermo ejusdem de doctrina christianorum. 118v-120v
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (118v) Locutus est ad nos
    Note
    (P. L. XXXIV 15)
  • Augustine, Sermo ad iuuenes. 120v-121v
    Nasmith
    Sermo ejusdem ad juvenes. 120v-121v
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (120v) Ad uos mihi sermo est
    Note
    (P. L. XXXIX 1706)
  • Augustine, Epistola 127. 121v-123r
    Nasmith
    Exortarius Augustini de reddendo voto. 121v-123r
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (122r) Dominis eximiis meritoque
    Note
    (P. L. XXXIII 483)
  • Augustine, Sermo de X chordis (sermo 9). 123r-127v
    Nasmith
    Sermo ejusdem de decem cordis. 123r-127v
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (123r) Dominus et deus noster
    Note
    (P. L. XXXVIII 75)
  • Caesarius of Arles, Sermo de decem praeceptis et decem plagis Aegypti (sermo 100a). 127v-128v
    Nasmith
    De decem plagis. 127v-128v
    Author
    Caesarius of Arles
    Incipit
    (127v) Non sine causa est
    Note
    (P. L. XXXIX 1783)
  • pseudo-Augustine, De spiritu et anima. 128v-129r
    Nasmith
    Sermo Augustini qualiter homo factus est ad imaginem et similitudinem Dei. 128v-129r
    Author
    pseudo-Augustine
    Incipit
    (128v) Tanta dingnitas humane
    Note
    (P. L. XL 1213s)
  • Augustine, Sermones de poenitentia (sermones 351 and 393). 129r-133r
    Nasmith
    Sermo ejusdem de penitentia. 129r-133r
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (129r) Quam sit utilis et necessaria
    Note
    (P. L. XXXIX 1535)
  • Isidore of Seville, De differentiis rerum. 133r-139v
    Nasmith
    Liber Isiodori junioris de differenciis. 133r-139v
    Author
    Isidore of Seville
    Note
    Prologue
    Incipit
    (133r) Nonnulli norunt quod iste
    Note
    (P. L. LXXXIII 69)
    Incipit
    (133r) Inter deum et dominum
  • pseudo-Seneca, De morum institutione. 139v-140v
    Nasmith
    Liber Senecae de institutione morum. 139v-140v
    Author
    pseudo-Seneca
    Incipit
    (139v) Omne peccatum actio est
    Note
    (Hase III 462)
    Explicit
    (140v) socios tue beatitudinis
  • Seneca, De clementia. 140v-143v
    Nasmith
    Liber ejusdem de clementia ad Neronem. 140v-143v
    Author
    Seneca
    Incipit
    (140v) Scribere de clementia nero cesar
    Explicit
    (142r) inter feras similitudo morum
    Rubric
    (142r) Explicit liber secundus lucii annei senece de clementia ad neronem
    (142v) Incipit eiusdem ad eundem de eadem re
    Incipit
    (142v) Ut de clementia scriberem nero cesar una me uox tua
    Note
    Ends imperfectly
    Explicit
    (142v) Quam si quis a sapiente exigit prope est
    Note
    f. 143r-143v blank
  • Augustine, De natura et origine animae, book 1. 144r-149v
    Nasmith
    Liber Augustini de natura et origine animae ad Renatum. 144r-149v
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (144r) Sinceritatem tuam
    Note
    (P. L. XLIV 475)
  • Augustine, De natura et origine animae, book 2. 149v-154r
    Nasmith
    Liber ejusdem ad Petrum presbiterum de eadem re. 149v-154r
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (149v) Domino dilectissimo fratri
  • Augustine, De natura et origine animae, book 3. 154r-165v
    Nasmith
    Liber ejusdem ad Vincentium Victorem de eadem re. 154r-165v
    Author
    Augustine
    Incipit
    (154r) Quod mihi ad te scribendum
    Note
    (P. L. XLIV 509)
    (158r) Liber II
    Explicit
    (165v) remotis plausibus alienis
  • Augustine, De diuersis quaestionibus LXXXIII. 166r-187v
    Nasmith
    Retractatio de diversis questionibus LXXXIII. 166r-187v
    Author
    Augustine
    Rubric
    (166r) Retractatio
    Note
    Text
    Incipit
    (167r) Utrum anima a se ipsa
    Note
    (P. L. XL 11)
  • Drogo of Laon, Liber de diuinis officiis. 188r-189v
    Nasmith
    De nocturnis vigiliis et horis diei. 188r-189v
    Author
    Drogo of Laon
    Incipit
    (188r) Dominus filios israel de dura seruitute
    Note
    (Ivo Carnotensis P. L. CLXVI 1557)
    Explicit
    (189r) ubi obdormiscere eum collocauerat
    Note
    (189r) Extracts on the penitence of Solomon
    Rubric
    (189r) Augustinus
    (189r) Jeronimus in xo viiio super Ezechielem
    (189r) Ambrosius
    (189v) Item Ambrosius in apologia David
    Note
    last
    Rubric
    (189v) Aiunt libri Hebrei
    Incipit
    (189v) Salomonem quinquies tractum
  • Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, Formulae spiritualis intelligentiae (excerpt). 189v-191r
    Nasmith
    Sermo beati Hieronimi presbiteri de essentia et invisibilitate et immensitate Dei. 189v-191r
    Author
    Eucherius, bishop of Lyon
    Incipit
    (189v) Omnipotens deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus unus atque trinus
    Note
    (XI 138 actually P. L. L 729, Vallarsi)
  • Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt on paradise and its rivers from book 14). 191r-191v
    Nasmith
    Isidorus de paradiso et ejus fluviis ex libro XIV etimologiarum. 191r-191v
    Author
    Isidore of Seville
    Incipit
    (191r) Paradisus est locus in orientis partibus
  • Jerome, Epistula ad Euangelum presbyterum de Melchisedech (epistola 73). 191v-192v
    Nasmith
    Sententia beati Hieronimi presbiteri de Melchisedech. 191v-192v
    Author
    Jerome
    Incipit
    (191v) Misisti mihi uolumen
    Note
    (P. L. XXII 676)
  • Notes from Scripture on the Wisdom of Solomon. 192v-194v
    Nasmith
    Expositio quarundam authoritatum sanctorum. 192v-194v
    Note
    (192v) Notes on Wisdom, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes etc. including mulier fortis (193r)
    Incipit
    (192v) Benignus est spiritus sapientie
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension). 194v-196v
    Nasmith
    Sermo Anselmi archiepiscopi de dedicatione ecclesiae. 194v-196v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
    Incipit
    (194v) Quia sancta sollemnia dedicationis
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 196v-198v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
    Note
    James Item 28a
    Incipit
    (196v) Nichil requirit deus a nobis nisi bonitatem
    Rubric
    (197r) Qualiter subditi debent uiuere ut cum proximis prelatis et deo pacem et concordiam habeant
    Incipit
    (197r) Licet noueritis domini et fratres qualiter uiuere debeatis
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 198v-198v
    Nasmith
    Quomodo bonus homo de omnibus hominibus bonis et malis lucratur. 198v-198v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
    Incipit
    (198v) Bonus homo de omnibus bonis et malis
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 198v-200v
    Nasmith
    De XIIII partibus eternae beatudinis sive commoditatis quarum VII sunt quae corpori aptantur et VII quae animae ascribuntur quas si acquirit quisquis bonus efficitur. 198v-200v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
    Incipit
    (198v) Superius enunciatum esse meminimus que sunt habenda in edificatione bonitatis
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 200v-201r
    Nasmith
    Quomodo dicitur bonus homo quadratus lapis. 200v-201r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
    Incipit
    (200v) Quadrato lapidi operatur uir iustus
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 201r-201r
    Nasmith
    Quot modis sentitur Deus. 201r-201r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 201r-201v
    Nasmith
    De trina divisione studiorum omnium hominum. 201r-201v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 201v-202r
    Nasmith
    Quot genera virtutum sunt. 201v-202r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 202r-202r
    Nasmith
    Quot causis vivant homines. 202r-202r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 202r-203r
    Nasmith
    Qualiter quis ad perfectionem tendat et in pace vivat. 202r-203r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 203r-203r
    Nasmith
    Quatuor sunt modi precipiendi et quatuor obediendi. 203r-203r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 203r-203v
    Nasmith
    De pace facienda. 203r-203v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 203v-205r
    Nasmith
    De septem gradibus montis humilitatis. 203v-205r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 205r-205v
    Nasmith
    Quid sit detractio. 205r-205v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 205v-206r
    Nasmith
    Quae sunt habenda ut bonus efficiatur. 205v-206r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 206r-207r
    Nasmith
    Quod bonitas cujusque fidelis omnibus hominibus sit utilis et insensibili - angelis atque Deo et mala malis. 206r-207r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
    Note
    Items 28a (28.1) - 42 are surely one treatise
    Perhaps ending
    Explicit
    (207r) et quod deus dederit de alia in sequentibus dicatur
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 207r-207v
    Nasmith
    Dicta Anselmi archiepiscopi. 207r-207v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
    Rubric
    (207r) Dicta Anselmi archiepiscopi
    Incipit
    (207r) Omnis actio laudabilis siue reprehensibilis
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 207v-208r
    Nasmith
    De tribus naturis animae ac tribus delectationibus et quanta anima sit legitima vel formatrix. 207v-208r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 208r-208r
    Nasmith
    De appetitu cui ratio dominatur. 208r-208r
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued. 208r-208v
    Nasmith
    De sedibus humilitatis quas superbia non nunquam invadit. 208r-208v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
  • Alexander of Canterbury OSB, Liber ex dictis beati Anselmi (first recension), continued (De miraculis). 208v-216v
    Nasmith
    Quare delectatur Deus potius in jejuniis vigiliis et afflictionibus hominum quam in satietate et quiete. 208v-216v
    Author
    Alexander of Canterbury OSB
    Note
    On ff. 208v-214v are stories told by or of Anselm
    (214r) AnselmusHugoni incluso
    (214v) Anselm to Prior Baldric of Bec
    (215v) Dicta sapientum
    Incipit
    (215v) Nulle sunt occultiores insidie quam hee que latent in similitudine officii Cicero
    Note
    Ending
    Explicit
    (216v) Qualis uulgus erit talia corda gerit
    Note
    (vr) There are scribbled notes on the flyleaf (f. vr-vv)
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