Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 063: Prayers, Meditations, Works on Vices and Virtues, and Documents Pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 063: Prayers, Meditations, Works on Vices and Virtues, and Documents Pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury
Alternate Title:
Opuscula Anselmi etc. Epistolae etc. Cantuarienses. Epistolae Bernardi etc.
Language:
Latin and French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Extent:
ff. 260 + 4
Dimensions:
322 Height (mm) and 236 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1200 - 1399]
Provenance:
From Christ Church, Canterbury, as will appear. On f. ir is a list of contents, of nos. 1-19, headed: Prosologion Anselmi fratris Thome Stoyl. The hand is of cent. xiv early. Thomas Stoyl, admitted monk of Christ Church in 1299, died in 1333 (Searle, Christ Church, Canterbury, p. 178). He owned Lambeth MS. 180.
Table of contents:
  • Oratio 7. Meditatio 3: De redemptione humana. Oratio 1. Meditatio 2: Deploratio uirginitatis male amissae. Meditatio
  • Proslogion
  • De laudibus sanctae Dei genetricis (extract)
  • Texts on confessionMeditationesMeditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis
  • De conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum
  • De miseria humanae conditionis
  • Electuarium
  • De statu interioris hominis
  • Liber mandatorum Dei
  • Summa de septem sacramentis
  • Etymologiae (book 5, chapter 39)
  • Sermons
  • De septem uirtutibus (excerpt)
  • Ars fidei catholicae
  • Itinerarium mentis in Deum
  • Breuiloquium pauperis
  • De officio et ordine missarum
  • Lanfranc's statutes for Christ Church, Canterbury
  • Tituli decretalium
  • Letters and other instruments pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury
  • Epistolae
  • Speculum humanae saluationis
  • Formula uitae honestae
  • De paupertate
  • Meditatio
Description:
CCCC MS 63 is complicated textual compilation, comprising five separate sections. The first, which includes meditative and spiritual works by Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1109), Ralph of London OSB (fl. thirteenth century), and Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), was given to Christ Church, Canterbury, by Thomas Stoyl, who was a monk there, 1299-1333. The second volume includes an anonymous tract on the virtues and vices, and works by Bonaventure OFM (1217/21-74); the third volume contains important documents and letters pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury; the fourth volume is a copy of the letters of Bernard of Clairvaux OCist (1090-1153); and the final volume contains a number of religious texts, including the Formula vitae honestae of Martin of Braga (c. 515-80). These volumes are dated to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. On f. 3 is a copy of the poem Les neuf joies nostre dame, attributed to Rutebeuf (c. 1245-1285).
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