Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 460: Robert Grosseteste (attrib.), Correctorium totius Bibliae. Alexander Nequam OSA, Corrogationes Promethei. Bartholomew Cotton OSB, Compilationes de libro Britonis
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- The texts by various hands in CCCC MS 460, dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, are primarily aids for the study of the Bible, but with two tracts on the mass at the end. The first category comprises the Correctorium totius Bibliae attributed to Robert Grossesteste (d. 1253), the Corrogationes Promethei by Alexander Nequam OSA (1157-1217), and Bartholomew Cotton OSB (d. 1321/2), Compilationes de libro Britonis, which is based on William Brito OFM (fl. late thirteenth century), Expositiones uocabulorum Bibliae. One of the commentaries on the mass is by Hugh of Saint-Cher OP (c. 1200-63). The book also has the Constitutiones de uita clericorum by John Stratford (d. 1348), archbishop of Canterbury, Ker rejects M. R. James's suggestion that the book might have come from Norwich cathedral priory.
- Contents
- Correctorium totius Bibliae -- Corrogationes Promethei -- Corrogationes Promethei (alphabetical version) -- Tract on accentuation -- Compilationes de libro Britonis -- Excommunication of despoilers of Thetford Priory 1358 -- Constitutiones de uita clericorum -- Exposition prefacionis missae -- Expositio missae siue Speculum ecclesiae
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xiii-xiv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wd411kv1713/MS_460.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hz356jm4138/460.pdf
- Contains
-
- Robert Grosseteste (attrib.), Correctorium totius Bibliae. 1r-24v
- Nasmith
- Alexandri Nequam correctorium Bibliorum. 1r-24v
- Author
- Robert Grosseteste (attrib.)
- Rubric
- (1r) Correctorium biblie [per Alex. Nequam added xvi]
- Incipit
- (1r) Pupplica collegi cupiens prodesse pusillis...Attestante beda dux non onerosa legendo
- Rubric
- (1r) Finito prohemio incipit correctorium
- Incipit
- (1r) Ut igitur de iam propositis aliquid (?) euidencius agatur a prosodia sic ordimur
- Note
- Sections on orthography and 'distinctio' follow. Then (f. 3v)
- Rubric
- (3v) In prologo biblie
- Incipit
- (3v) Pauline frater simplex pausa. Ambrosius etc. Gĺutino. Śubdola. Memph́iticos, etc.
- Note
- Ends with
- Rubric
- (24v) Apocalipsis
- Explicit
- (24v) scintillat ut aurum.Publica qui texit hic correctorius exitSi bene sit sic sic si non quis non maledixit
- Rubric
- (24v) Explicit correctorium super ordinem librorum Biblie
- Alexander Nequam OSA, Corrogationes Promethei. 25r-37v
- Nasmith
- Tractatus ejusdem super Promattheum. 25r-37v
- Author
- Alexander Nequam OSA
- Note
- (25r) Smaller hand
- Rubric
- (25r) Incipit tractatus Alex. Nequam secundum promatheum
- Incipit
- (25r) Quoniam gramatice partes sint ortographia prosodia sunanologia (?) uel sintesis, etc.
- Rubric
- (34r) Hic incipiunt prologi biblie secundum promatheum
- Incipit
- (34r) Antequam ad expositionem partium librorum bibliotece
- Alexander Nequam OSA (attrib.), Corrogationes Promethei (alphabetical version). 37v-68r
- Nasmith
- Ejusdem elucidarium bibliothecae. 37v-68r
- Author
- Alexander Nequam OSA (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (37v) Posthec de singulis libris bibliotece
- Note
- Words explained Abissus-Zelatus est legem .i. zelum doloris et inuidie habuit propter legem suam
- Rubric
- (68r) Explicit compendium super promatheum Alexandri Nequam
- Note
- followed by two short notes, and then a tract on accentuation
- Tract on accentuation. 68r-85v
- Rubric
- (68v) de accentu in mediis sillabis
- Incipit
- (68v) Vocalis ante vocalem in diccionibus latinis corripitur
- Note
- Ends with some general rules
- Explicit
- (85v) ut perlego obaudit
- Bartholomew Cotton OSB, Compilationes de libro Britonis. 86r-152r
- Nasmith
- Optimae compilationes de libro Britonis secundum ordinem Alphabeti per Bartholomeum de Cottune compilatae A. D. 1291. 86r-152r
- Author
- Bartholomew Cotton OSB
- Note
- In the first hand
- Rubric
- (86r) Incipiunt optime compilaciones de libro britonis secundum ordinem alphabeti per bartholomeum de Cottune compilate anno domini mo ducentesimo nonogesimo primo
- Incipit
- (86r) Incipiendum est de a. Et nota quod a est preposicio, etc.
- Note
- Ends with verses written over erasure
- Explicit
- (151r) Hic ego doctorum compegi uerba sacrorum ...Te precor almorum comitem me fac monachorumSorte beatorum quod sim uelut unus eorum
- Note
- Cf. MS 479
- Rubric
- (151r) Explicit compilacio de libro britonis [per Bartholomeum de Cottune xvi]
- Note
-
(151v) some short notes in another hand
(152r) Then in a similar hand, formulae relating to banns of marriage, etc.
- Excommunication of despoilers of Thetford Priory 1358. 152v-153r
- Nasmith
- Sententia excommunicationis lata a Roberto de Totebrygge episcopi Norwicensis commissario in eos qui monasterium de Thetford spoliaverunt, 2 Feb. 1358. 152v-153r
- Note
- (152v) In the same hand
- Incipit
- (152v) Robertus de Totebrigge Rector ecclesie de Thoreswey venerabilis patris domini Thome dei gratia Norwicensis episcopi corector et comissarius generalis decanus de blakeborne Bokeland et theford (to the clergy)
- Note
- The Prior and Convent of Thetford have complained of a trespass, vessels stolen from the kitchen, fish caught, plants damaged
- Explicit
- (153r) Dat. apud thefford xxii die febr. anno domini mo ccco lviiio
- John Stratford, Constitutiones de uita clericorum. 153v-164v
- Nasmith
- Constitutiones quaedam ecclesiasticae. 153v-164v
- Author
- John Stratford
- Note
- (153v) Constitutions
- Incipit
- (153v) Constituimus et voluimus quod in cunctis ecclesiis parochialibus per archidiaconos constitutis uniformis sit peticio decimarum
- Note
-
(154v) blank
The inserted leaves in a somewhat earlier hand - Rubric
- (155r) De vita et honestate clericorum rubrica
- Incipit
- (155r) Exterior habitus mores et condiciones intrinsecas personarum frequenter ostendit
- Note
-
(162r) Continued in the hand of 5
(164v) ending unfinished or imperfect
- Exposition prefacionis missae. 165r-172v
- Nasmith
- Expositio praefationis missae. 165r-172v
- Note
- Double columns
- Rubric
- (165r) Exposicio prefacionis Misse
- Incipit
- (165r) Te igitur post prefacionem significantem (?) ea que precesserunt christi passionem
- Note
- Ends imperfectly in the exposition of the Lord's Prayer (in celis)
- Hugh of Saint-Cher OP, Expositio missae siue Speculum ecclesiae. 173r-182v
- Nasmith
- Speculum ecclesie. 173r-182v
- Author
- Hugh of Saint-Cher OP
- Note
- A larger hand, double columns
- Rubric
- (173r) Incipit speculum ecclesie et primo de uestibus
- Incipit
- (173r) Dicit apostolus ad epheseos. Induite uos armatura dei
- Explicit
- (182v) oratio misericordiam dei significat que precedit et subsequitur hominem in bonis operibus
- Rubric
- (182v) Explicit tractatus misse
- Note
- By Hugo de S. Caro. Attributed to John Peckham
- Robert Grosseteste (attrib.), Correctorium totius Bibliae. 1r-24v
- TJames
- 262
- Stanley
- Q. 10
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/zq372jc6704
- MS 460
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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