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Alternative title

Opuscula Anselmi etc. Epistolae etc. Cantuarienses. Epistolae Bernardi etc.

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 260 + 4

Date created

[ca. 1200-1399]

Language

Latin, French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)

Material

Vellum

Layout

five volumes

Height (mm)

322

Width (mm)

236

Collation

a(2) 1(16) (wants 16) 2(12)-6(12) 7(8) | 8(8) 9(8) | 10(12) 11(12) (+2) 12(4) | 13(8)-18(8) | 19 (one) | 19* 20(8) 21(8) | 22(8)-24(8) 25(10) 26 (four) | 27(12) 28(12) b(2).

Writing

In a fine hand

Foliation

ff. a-b + i-ii + 1-260 + iii-iv + c-d

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.

2 fo.

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Summary

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).

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

M.R. James Date

xiii-xiv

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jz203yt6854/MS_63.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nr297wg8453/63.pdf

Contains

• Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Oratio 7. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Meditatio 3 De redemptione humana. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Oratio 1. Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Meditatio 2 Deploratio uirginitatis male amissae. John de Scalis, Meditatio. 1r-25v

  Nasmith

  Orationes quam plures ad redemptorem nostrum et sanctos quarum pleraeque Anselmum Cantuariensem habuerunt auctorem. 1r-25v

  Author

  Anselm of Canterbury OSB

  Anselm of Canterbury OSB

  Anselm of Canterbury OSB

  Anselm of Canterbury OSB

  John de Scalis

  Note

  Prayers
  a.

  Incipit

  (3r) Aue maria saluans seculum

  Note

  b.

  Incipit

  (3r) O mater clementie

  Note

  c.
  French verse

  Incipit

  (3r) Rayne de pite marie en ky deytez pure e clere

  Explicit

  (3v) Od les noef ordres mansiuns nous doynt en cele haute eglise. Amen

  Note

  d.

  Incipit

  (3v) Sancte stephane beate stephane

  Note

  e.

  Rubric

  (4r) Incipiunt orationes seu meditationes edite ab Anselmo Cantuariensis archiepiscopo

  Incipit

  (4v) Dominus Ihesus Christus redempcio mea

  Note

  (P. L. CLVIII 902)
  Ending with

  Rubric

  (14v) Oratio ad Sanctum Benedictum

  Note

  (P. L. CLVIII 1006)

  Explicit

  (15r) gloriemur coram deo. Qui uiuis

  Note

  15v blank
  f.

  Rubric

  (16r) Orationes quamplures ad ipsum redemptorem nostrum

  Incipit

  (16r) Oraciones siue meditaciones que subscripte sunt

  Note

  The first are

  Incipit

  (16r) Deus piissime

  Rubric

  (16r) Meditacio redempcionis nostre

  Incipit

  (16r) Anima Christiana

  Note

  (P. L. CLVIII 762)

  Rubric

  (17v) Ad trinitatem

  Incipit

  (17v) O pater clementissime

  Note

  (P. L. CLVIII 875)

  Rubric

  (17v) Anselmi ad deum patrem

  Incipit

  (17v) Omnipotens deus et misericors

  Note

  After four more prayers to the Father follow prayers at Confession, at Mass, to the Trinity, Angel, Virgin, John Baptist, Andrew, Martin, Patron of Church

  Rubric

  (24r) Deploracio uirginitatis male amisse

  Incipit

  (24r) Anima mea anima erumpnosa

  Note

  (P. L. CLVIII 726)

  Rubric

  (24r) Johannis de Scalis
  (24r) R. Primum et principale principium

  Incipit

  (24r) Interminabilis deus

• Anselm of Canterbury OSB, Proslogion. 25v-29r

  Nasmith

  Prosologion ejusdem Anselmi. 25v-29r

  Author

  Anselm of Canterbury OSB

  Note

  Prologue

  Incipit

  (25v) Postquam opusculum

  Note

  Capitula
  Text

  Incipit

  (26r) Eya nunc

  Note

  (P. L. CLVIII 225)

• Oglerio of Locedio OCist, De laudibus sanctae Dei genetricis (extract). 29r-31r

  Nasmith

  Planctus beati Bernardi, ut dicitur, de dolore Dei et genetricis in morte filii sui. 29r-31r

  Author

  Oglerio of Locedio OCist

  Rubric

  (29r) Planctus beati Bernardi

  Incipit

  (29r) Quis dabit capiti

  Explicit

  (31r) filius eius dominus noster Ihesus Christus. Qui cum deo patre etc.

• Texts on confession. pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Meditationes. pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Meditationes piissimae de cognitione humanae conditionis. 31r-43r

  Nasmith

  De confessione; - de contemplatione cujuslibet horae diei; - meditationes Bernardi et Augustini. 31r-43r

  Author

  pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor

  pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux OCist

  Rubric

  (31r) De confessione utile documentum

  Incipit

  (31r) Do me totum. nichil. dixi captus es et cepisti me

  Explicit

  (31v) eatenus confitere

  Rubric

  (31v) De oratione

  Incipit

  (31v) Oracione que semper confessione sequi debet

  Explicit

  (31v) affectu postulabis

  Rubric

  (31v) De contemplacione cuiuslibet hore diei

  Incipit

  (31v) Nunc quomodo preparandum sit

  Explicit

  (34r) mox futurum

  Rubric

  (34r) De tribus necessariis in peticione

  Incipit

  (34r) Tria uidentur michi esse necessaria

  Rubric

  (34v) Incipit meditacio beati Augustini

  Incipit

  (34v) Domine deus meus da cordi

  Rubric

  (36r) De eodem

  Incipit

  (36r) Inuoco te deus meus

  Rubric

  (36v) De eodem

  Incipit

  (36v) Quid rex meus

  Note

  (37r) Extracts from Bernard, Gregory, Augustine

  Rubric

  (37v) Meditaciones Bernardi

  Note

  (P. L. CLXXXIV 485)

  Incipit

  (37v) Multi multa sciunt

• Ambrosius Autpertus, De conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum. 43v-47r

  Nasmith

  Liber sancti Augustini [Hipponensis] de conflictu vitiorum et virtutum. 43v-47r

  Author

  Ambrosius Autpertus

  Rubric

  (43v) Augustinus de conflictu uitiorum et uirtutum

  Note

  (P. L. XL 1091)

  Incipit

  (43v) Apostolica uox clamat

• Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis), De miseria humanae conditionis. 47r-56v

  Nasmith

  Tractatus Lotarii de contemptu mundi. 47r-56v

  Author

  Innocent III (Lotharius de Segnis)

  Incipit

  (47r) Domino patri karissimo petro
  (47r) Quare de uulua

  Note

  (P. L. CCXVII 701)

• Ralph of London OSB, Electuarium. 57r-83v

  Nasmith

  Electuarium in delectatione et refocillatione animae, de creatione primi hominis et prevaricatione ejus. 57r-83v

  Author

  Ralph of London OSB

  Rubric

  (57r) Incipiunt capitula sequentis opusculi in quo agitur de lapsu et reparacione seu redempcione hominis et dicitur liber iste Electuarium eo quod collectus et electus extractus et confectus sit de uariis libris tractatibus et sermonibus tam auctenticis quam magistralibus

  Note

  (58 Chapters)

  Rubric

  (57v) Incipit Electuarium in delectacione et refocillatione anime

  Incipit

  (57v) Consideranti diligencius quid sit homo

  Note

  By Radulphus de Londonia: another copy in MS. Lambeth 142
  Ends

  Explicit

  (81r) qui transiit ex hoc mundo ad patrem. Cui cum eodem patre et spiritu sancto sit honor et uirtus, laus et gloria per infinita secula seculorum. Amen

  Note

  81v-83v blank

• Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De statu interioris hominis. 84r-98v

  Nasmith

  [Ricardus de Sancto Victore] de statu interioris hominis post lapsum. 84r-98v

  Author

  Richard of Saint-Victor OSA

  Note

  Similar hand but double columns of 52 lines
  (84r) Capitula
  Text

  Incipit

  (84r) Omne capud languidum

  Note

  cf. P. L. CXCVI 1117

  Explicit

  (98v) societate gaudere

• Liber mandatorum Dei. 99r-99v

  Nasmith

  Liber mandatorum Dei sive sylloge theologiae. 99r-99v

  Note

  uno duntaxat constat folio
  In tabular form headed

  Rubric

  (99r) Hic est liber mandatorum dei

  Note

  Notes on Scripture. Division of Sciences, Theology, Penitence, Giving of Thanks
  (99r) This leaf in another hand

• Summa de septem sacramentis. 100r-116v

  Nasmith

  Tractatus de septem sacramentis. 100r-116v

  Note

  In the first hand: head-line

  Rubric

  (100r) Tractatus de Sacramentis
  (100r) Hic incipit primus rotulus

  Incipit

  (100r) Augustinus Sacramentum est inuisibilis gracie uisibilis forma

  Note

  In tabular form. There are three rotuli
  (116v) Ends treating of baptism

• Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (book 5, chapter 39). 116v-118r

  Nasmith

  De seculis et aetatibus sive tabula chronologica a creatione ad decimum annum Recensuithini regis Hispaniarum et mortem Heraclii imperatoris. 116v-118r

  Author

  Isidore of Seville

  Incipit

  (116v) Secula generacionibus consistunt
  (116v) Prima etas in exordio sui continet creacionem mundi

  Explicit

  (118r) usque in presentem gloriosi recenswithin(!) principis annorum xmum qui est era dc. lvi. v. dccc. liii.

  Note

  From Isidore Etymologiae V xxxviii sqq.

• Sermons. 118v-129v

  Nasmith

  Sermones varii de Christo, angelorum ordinibus, &c. 118v-129v

  Incipit

  (118v) Habitantibus in regione umbre mortis lux orta est eis

  Note

  Frater bone fortune (Bonaventura) is quoted
  Change of hand

  Incipit

  (125v) Ascendit super cherubin

  Note

  On the Ascension

  Explicit

  (128r) de ista gloriosa solempnitate ascensionis

  Note

  128v-129v blank

• De septem uirtutibus (excerpt). 130r-141v

  Nasmith

  De septem virtutibus, de oratione dominica, de septem vitiis capitalibus, de septem sacramentis. 130r-141v

  Incipit

  (130r) Gratia expellit morbum peccati

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (141v) alter sit iudeus alia patent

  Note

  (141v) A good sketch of two heads in pencil

• Nicholas of Amiens, Ars fidei catholicae. 142r-145v

  Nasmith

  Libellus qui dicitur ars fidei. 142r-145v

  Author

  Nicholas of Amiens

  Incipit

  (142r) Clemens papa cuius rem nominis

  Note

  (P. L. CCX 595)

  Explicit

  (144v) sic patet propositum

  Rubric

  (144v) Explicit ars fidei catholice a clemente papa auctorizata

  Note

  (144v) A Distinctio follows
  f. 145r+145v blank

• Bonaventure OFM, Itinerarium mentis in Deum. 146r-151v

  Nasmith

  Itinerarium mentis euntis ad Deum secundum fratrem bonae fortunae [Bonaventuram]. 146r-151v

  Author

  Bonaventure OFM

  Rubric

  (146r) Incipit prologus generalis ministri minorum in Itinerarium mentis in deum

  Incipit

  (146r) In principio primum principium

  Rubric

  (146r) Incipit itinerarium mentis euntis ad deum secundum fratrem bone fortune

  Incipit

  (146r) Beatus uir cuius est auxilium abs te

  Explicit

  (151v) dicet omnis populus fiat fiat Amen

  Rubric

  (151v) Explicit etc.

• Bonaventure OFM, Breuiloquium pauperis. 151v-176r

  Nasmith

  Ejusdem breviarium, libri VI. 151v-176r

  Author

  Bonaventure OFM

  Rubric

  (151v) Incipit prohemium in libro qui dicitur breuiarium magistri bonefortune ordinis minorum ministri generalis

  Incipit

  (151v) Flecto genua
  (154r) Liber I. In principio intelligendum est

  Note

  Hand gets smaller towards the end
  Ends

  Explicit

  (176r) Excita te nunc anima mea

• De officio et ordine missarum. 176v-177v

  Nasmith

  De officio et ordine missarum, quod unusquisque papa addidit a tempore beati Petri usque ad papam Clementem tertium. 176v-177v

  Note

  In double columns

  Incipit

  (176v) De officio et ordine misse tractaturi

  Explicit

  (177r) pro posse disseruimus

  Note

  177v blank

• Lanfranc's statutes for Christ Church, Canterbury. 178r-188v

  Nasmith

  Statuta praescripta priori et conventui Christi Cantuariensi per Lanfrancum archiepiscopum Cantuariensem. 178r-188v

  Author

  Lanfranc

  Note

  a.

  Incipit

  (178r) Vt nulli hominum liceat hanc paginam

  Note

  f. 178r-178v contains Papal confirmations ending imperfectly. A gap after it
  b.

  Incipit

  (179r) Lanfrancus indignus sancte Dorobernensis ecclesie antistes

  Explicit

  (179r) clementer absoluat. Amen

  Incipit

  (179r) Abbas cum eligitur

  Explicit

  (188v) in congregacione defuncto fieri solent

  Note

  (Opera, 1648, p. 253), cf. MS 462. 5

• Tituli decretalium. 189r-195v

  Nasmith

  Tituli decretalium, digestorum, veterum et novorum, codicis, inforciati, autenticorum. 189r-195v

  Note

  In triple columns: hand resembles that of vol. I

• Letters and other instruments pertaining to Christ Church, Canterbury. 195v-198v

  Nasmith

  Epistolae et alia instrumenta ad monasterium Christi Cantuariensem pertinentia. 195v-198v

  Note

  (1) Epistola prioris et conventus de Tynterna ad capitulum ecclesiae Cantuariensis,- se mutuo amicitiae vinculo esse astrictos, negotiaque ecclesiae Cantuariensis, a Willelmo Wake commonacho suo Romanae ecclesiae capellano et penitentiario inchoata, eidem optato fine concludenda commendasse.(2) Epistola A. prioris ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ad subpriorem et capitulum ejusdem, quod dominus Portuensis concessit ei ut presentarent Galfridum de I. ad ecclesiam de Aldermane-Cherche in London. per resignationem Lamberti ejusdem domini clerici et nepotis jam in curia vacantem, cujus collatio ratione statuti de beneficiis in curia vacantibus ad dictum dominum pertinebat, orat igitur ut dictam presentationem acceptantes omnia quae restant facienda fideliter exequantur(3) Epistola W. de la Cornere papae capellani ad suppriorem ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ut latori plenam velit adhibere fiduciam(4) Obligatio prioris et capituli ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis ad solvendum dominae Katerinae Lovell LXXVIII marcas ab eadem domina mutuo acceptas, dat. 1268 mense aprili(5) Epistola A. prioris et electi Cantuariensis ad suppriorem et capitulum ejusdem, quod acta super confirmatione Roberti de Withampton electi Sarisburiensis ab aliquibus advocatis correcta, eis confirmanda misit(6) Confirmatio electionis ejusdem Roberti per capitulum Cantuariensem 1270(7) Forma epistolae supplicatoriae ut preces fiant pro anima defuncti 7. There are erasures of several lines (8) Quaedam de lite inter episcopos suffraganeos et capitulum Cantuariensis circa electionem officialis curiae Cantuariensis sede vacante 8. Refers to the bishops of London, Winchester, Worcester (9) Forma epistolae a monacho ad priorem de morte amici(10) Procuratorium capituli Cantuariensis(11) Epistola scholaris cujusdam Oxoniis ad quendam monachum de ratione studiorum suorum et aliis negotiis11. The student is hearing the Digest: mentions Johannes de Ludham: commends Adam de Nortoft: has written a tract de electionibus prelatorum (12) Epistola capituli ecclesiae Sarum ad capitulum ecclesiae Cantuariensis. - obnixe rogant ut, cum ecclesia Sarum multas passa sit injurias pro reverentia quam tempore vacationis exhibuit ecclesiae Cantuariensis non negent tuicionem appellationis propter alicujus curiae vel curialis potentiam(13) Epistola capituli Cantuariensis ad omnia monasteria ordinis Sancti Benedicti de lite orta inter eos et archiepiscopum suum(14) Donatio annuae pensionis x marcarum facta magistro W. de la Cornere per capitulum Cantuariensem
  In double columns: charter-like hand

• Bernard of Clairvaux OCist, Epistolae. 199r-236v

  Nasmith

  Epistolae CIII Bernardi Claraevallensis. 199r-236v

  Author

  Bernard of Clairvaux OCist

  Note

  1.

  Rubric

  (199r) Ad Robertum nepotem

  Note

  (P. L. CLXXXII 67)

  Incipit

  (199r) Satis et plusquam satis sustinui

  Note

  103.

  Incipit

  (236r) Odor in flore

  Note

  (Epistola 125)

  Explicit

  (236r) non esse dampnosum

  Note

  (unfinished)

• Speculum humanae saluationis. 237r-258r

  Nasmith

  Speculum humanae salvationis, versibus Latinis rythmicis. 237r-258r

  Note

  On f. 237r a xvith cent. note: vide Prints or Drawings 3/2 N. 20.
  (237r) Table to the Speculum

  Rubric

  (237v) Incipit prohemium cuiusdam noue compilationis

  Explicit

  (258r) Qui cum patre et spiritu sancto est in eternum benedictus. amen

  Rubric

  (258r) Explicit tractatus dictus speculum saluacionis humanis quod. G. C.

• Martin of Braga, Formula uitae honestae. 258r-259v

  Nasmith

  Seneca de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus. 258r-259v

  Author

  Martin of Braga

  Incipit

  (258r) Quatuor uirtutum species

  Explicit

  (259v) contempnat ignauiam

  Rubric

  (259v) Explicit sentencia de quatuor uirtutibus cardinalibus

  Note

  Spicilegium Liberianum 564 etc.

• pseudo-Seneca, De paupertate. 259v-260r

  Nasmith

  Idem de paupertate honesta. 259v-260r

  Author

  pseudo-Seneca

  Incipit

  (259v) Honesta inquit epicurus

  Explicit

  (260r) dant diuicie insolenciam

  Rubric

  (260r) Explicit Ceneca de paupertate honesta

• pseudo-Bonaventure OFM, Meditatio. 260r-260r

  Nasmith

  Brevis et valida meditatio de beneficiis Dei ejusdem Bonaventurae. 260r-260r

  Author

  pseudo-Bonaventure OFM

  Incipit

  (260r) Non paruum estimo beneficium

  Explicit

  (260v) ostendere se peccatorem non esse

  Rubric

  (260v) Explicit meditatio. Cuius supra etc.

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Repository

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Location

MS 063

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