Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 112: Ramón Lull (attrib.), Miscellaneous Works
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 112 is a manuscript that reflects Parker's interest in alchemy, a subject of great interest to many of his contemporaries. The codex, written in the second half of the fifteenth century, contains a number of texts attributed to Ramón Lull (1232?-1315), though in practice many of these cannot be shown to have been written by him. It is illustrated by large drawings greater and smaller than half-page of alchemical instruments and furnaces. Similar but much smaller drawings occur in some margins. It is not known how this manuscript came to be in Parker's collection.
- Contents
- Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum -- Compendium animae transmutationis metallorum juxta Anglicanum exemplar -- Additamentum libro quintae essentiae -- Testamentum -- Practica super lapide philosophico -- Codicillus -- Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia -- Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum -- Liber lapidarii -- Epistola accurtationis -- Practica sermocinalis -- Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia (Dialogus cum monacho. Liber III)
- Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum -- Compendium animae transmutationis metallorum juxta Anglicanum exemplar -- Additamentum libro quintae essentiae -- Testamentum -- Practica super lapide philosophico -- Codicillus -- Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia -- Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum -- Liber lapidarii -- Epistola accurtationis -- Practica sermocinalis -- Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia (Dialogus cum monacho. Liber III)
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xv late or xvi early
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rx013hs1336/MS_112.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gs436pd9420/112.pdf
- Contains
-
- pseudo-Ramón Lull, Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum. 1-21
- Nasmith
- Anima artis transmutatoriae. 1-21
- Author
- pseudo-Ramón Lull
- Incipit
- (1) Fulgeat regis diadema Roberti
- Note
- Both items 1 and 2 have rough diagrams
- Ramón Lull (attrib.), Compendium animae transmutationis metallorum juxta Anglicanum exemplar. 22-38
- Nasmith
- Idem tractatus juxta Anglicanum exemplar. 22-38
- Author
- Ramón Lull (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (22) Fulgeat regis diadema Roberti
- Note
-
Both items 1 and 2 have rough diagrams
p. 38 blank
- Additamentum libro quintae essentiae. 39-84
- Nasmith
- Additamentum libro quintae essentiae de disputatione inter Monaldum monachum cum Reymundo magno, anno Christi 1319. 39-84
- Note
- Ad finem, Finitur hic quantum habere potui de libro quintae essentiae transcriptum non parvis expensis de bibliotheca ... [blank] ... episcopi ... [blank] ... de regno Portingaliae michi et alteri amico meo inde transmissum
- Incipit
- (39) Cumque Reymundus libro super quo rogatus fuerat
- Note
-
After transmissum the writer adds
(46) Et subsequenter addo terciam et quartam distinctionem prout reperi eas in Anglia sub forma qua tradebantur regi Eduuardo nec cuiquam videatur sic me fecisse superfluum quoniam una[m] do aperit alteram et inter eas quantum (?) ad multa est clariositas immo excedencia mutua. deo gracias. (Raymundus Lully claudens pia dogmata nulli)
pp. 47-48 blank, 49 has diagram. 50-84 blank
- Ramón Lull (attrib.), Testamentum. 85-260
- Nasmith
- Testamentum Raymundi. 85-260
- Author
- Ramón Lull (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (85) Deus qui gloriose omnipotens existis
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (252) in omnibus suis elementis
- Rubric
- (252) Et sic finitur prima pars testamenti magni Raymundi litteratissimi viri qui pro confessionis et predicationis nominis Ihesu Christi glorioso per Saracenos meruit coronari martirio et sepulchrum eius est in insula maioricarum
- Note
-
pp. 253-259 blank
A table on p. 260
- Ramón Lull (attrib.), Practica super lapide philosophico. 261-372
- Nasmith
- Practica Raymundi sive secunda pars testamenti. 261-372
- Author
- Ramón Lull (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (261) Alkimia est una pars celata philosophie
- Note
-
After p. 306 a slip of vellum (pp. 306a-307a)
Ends - Explicit
- (358) cum cantelena que sequitur
- Rubric
- (358) Explicit Testamentum
- Incipit
- (358) Translatum fuit presens testamentum etc.
- Note
- (360) Cantilena
- Incipit
- (360) Amor nos facit etc.
- Note
- Afforismi (40)
- Incipit
- (363) Anima philosophorum est lapis tactu rarus
- Note
- Verses
- Incipit
- (366) Due mitamend' etc.
- Rubric
- (367) Alphabetum theorice
- Incipit
- (367) A significat deum
- Note
- followed by other alphabets and tables
- Ramón Lull (attrib.), Codicillus. 373-460
- Nasmith
- Codicillus sive vade mecum. 373-460
- Author
- Ramón Lull (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (373) Deus in virtute trinitatis que unitas
- Note
- Ends
- Explicit
- (456) tamen intelligas magisterium
- Note
- 457-460 blank
- Ramón Lull (attrib.), Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia. 461-568
- Nasmith
- Liber quintae essentiae sive de metallorum transmutatione cum prologo Monaldi consolatorio. 461-568
- Author
- Ramón Lull (attrib.)
- Note
- Prologue
- Incipit
- (461) Contristatus erat vehementer Reymundus
- Note
- Text
- Incipit
- (462) Deus cum tue sublimis bonitas
- Note
- pp. 557-558 on vellum with a volvel in seven layers
- pseudo-Ramón Lull, Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum. 569-582
- Nasmith
- Lapidarium sive anima artis transmutatoriae. 569-582
- Author
- pseudo-Ramón Lull
- Note
- A defective copy of item 1
- Ramón Lull (attrib.), Liber lapidarii. 582-596
- Nasmith
- Opus margaritarum et lapidum pretiosorum. 582-596
- Author
- Ramón Lull (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (582) Deus in virtute trinitatis sancte incipio tractare
- pseudo-Ramón Lull, Epistola accurtationis. 597-602
- Nasmith
- Epistola accurtationis lapidis philosophorum ad regem Robertum. 597-602
- Author
- pseudo-Ramón Lull
- Incipit
- (597) Fili Palagius (?) generat ... per artem
- Practica sermocinalis. 603-662
- Nasmith
- Practica sermocinalis, quae dicitur ars brevis seu practica operis minoris. 603-662
- Incipit
- (603) Diximus de modo et doctrina
- Ramón Lull (attrib.), Liber de secretis naturae seu de quinta essentia (Dialogus cum monacho. Liber III). 663-702
- Nasmith
- Tractatus arboris philosophicalis. 663-702
- Author
- Ramón Lull (attrib.)
- Incipit
- (663) Deus cum tua magnitudine
- Note
-
pp. 685-686 on vellum with two diagrams
Ends - Explicit
- (699) artista maximus in opere alkimico
- Rubric
- (699) Explicit liber
- Note
- pp. 701, 702 smaller: in English: a leaf of an alchemical book written in cent. xvi
- pseudo-Ramón Lull, Anima transmutatoriae artis metallorum. 1-21
- TJames
- 392
- Stanley
- Misc. Z
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/zv805ch0969
- MS 112
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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